The Runic Alchemist

Over seventeen thousand had died. The number of demons dead was unknown. But it had to be two times, or even four times, that of the alliance soldiers. The remaining ones who had surrendered were around twenty thousand.

The alliance soldiers had taken all their weapons and buried all the dead, from both sides. The enormous dragon’s rotting dead body was looking quite ugly—well, not that the crater-filled land looked any better.

Damian incinerated the dragon’s body to ashes, not letting anyone get an idea about using it later. Once it was done, the alliance army moved forward. There were still some demons here and there, in fortresses and on the wall they had built around the nearest city. There was no order left in the cities after they saw the human army marching towards them, with no sign of their own anywhere.

Damian remembered Reaize was also supposed to be here. Was she still in Malveria, or had she left the place?

Damian flew along with all the transcendants, helping those who couldn’t do so—going from city to city to get an ID of the local tree to open a waygate back to the alliance army. The alliance army and backup from Eldoris and the Empire through the waygate had taken control of the cities, squashing any crowd who tried to stop them. But the main priority and job of theirs was to stop anyone doing violence and wrong acts in the absence of law.

In each major city or big town, Damian let one transcendent remain there to show the overwhelming difference in power and nip any rogue ideas in the bud. The demons had not spread much into the villages and smaller towns yet, remaining mostly in the cities. Still, those that were away from big places were brought to the cities.

He would have to bring forth his world tour plans to find some land to place them. Damian was not planning to keep them here though, even for the short time when he found them a new home. After seeing the emperor lose control—it was clear the empire’s people could not control their emotions when it came to demons. For them, they were not just beings of myth but real evil villains who had killed their loved ones in front of them.

It was a bit more work, but he could send them all back to their own island for the time being. Once Damian had visited the whole old Empire, all the cities and places the demons had made their home for the past decade—now they only had to send them. The order had returned, but keeping it that way for a long time would not work. This had to be done now.

At the last harbor city of the empire, Damian said to the seven beside him,

“Let’s go to the island.”

“Right now?” the spellsword guard of the emperor spoke up.

The Emperor, the Queen of Eldoris, and their captains of the king’s and queen’s guards, with Sam and Mindseer, were the only ones who had remained with him till now.

“It won’t take long, and it will be better if we shift all the demons from this land back to their own home. Will give me more time to find a good faraway place. You guys can move your people back here in a week,” Damian said.

Even though he had worded it like the empire was getting a better benefit, the emperor himself was clearly one who understood his underlying meaning. Keeping them under the control of human soldiers was not good. After looking at him for a while, the emperor nodded.

“That is for the best. Not the prisoners though.”

“They did surrender—better to use them for hard labour than to kill them,” Sam added.

The emperor and his captain looked at him. Before, they might have called him out for speaking out of turn, but after seeing the guy control the whole sky and burn the demons alive with enormous lightning bolts, they wouldn’t offend him for no reason.

Till now, all thought only Damian and his runic inventions and mana generators were the threat they would have to look out for. But after witnessing what Sam and Lucian had done on the battlefield, along with the destruction Vidalia—a transcendent with a mana cube—had unleashed, both rulers had gone through a noticeable change. Now Sanctuary was much more than just a difficult-to-deal-with threat.

Especially after realizing that Damian himself was not just a clever rune shaper or alchemist. The combo of Chaos Dragon and the ancient demon king, that not even five transcendants together could deal with after an hours-long fight—he had done that in minutes. And with a brand new spell at that, which he learned on the battlefield.

The elf queen had truly shifted more to ‘part of the family’ mode from ‘a foreign friendly power’ mode. Even her own captain and Vidalia rolled their eyes at times when she acted all familiar with Damian.

“It’s the alliance’s decision,” the elf queen said.

“A valid suggestion though,” the emperor added. Sam just nodded.

Much like him, the guy barely cared about subtle trivialities. It was doubtful whether Sam could even notice them.

“Better if you go alone and bring us afterwards,” the emperor said, grown too lazy to fly after seeing the convenient waygates. Damian eyed him. The guy just smiled shamelessly.

“Keep gathering everyone in the cities,” Damian said to everyone, then turned towards Sam and added, “Keep visiting all the cities, see if everything is happening as it should.”

Sam nodded. It was Sam’s own suggestion, relocating the demon civilians. He understood why that was necessary.

They had gotten the location of the island from one of the demons easily—Damian ascended into the sky and shot through the clouds at sound-barrier-breaking speed, using wormholes to travel kilometers at once. For the demons going 20–30 km/hr on their wooden ships, it took some month and a half to reach the human land. Thousands of kilometers on ships, and even that with a monster-infested ocean, with underwater dungeons spreading monsters in the water.

Indeed, the demons who agreed to do this journey had truly considered themselves dead the second they climbed on the ship.

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