Magical girl? She got tricked into this!

As the vines grew and squirmed, more and more magic power in the blood moon was absorbed and assimilated, and finally turned into blood flowers emitting crystal light that bloomed in various parts of the vines. It was beautiful but with a hint of bloody weirdness.

The full moon that originally emitted a bloody light became dim and deflated like a deflated balloon.

The blood wolf was pulled to the ground by gravity, and the second arrow with even stronger momentum followed. It was a red lotus blasting arrow emitting a fanatical red light.

boom

The explosion of the Crimson Lotus Explosive Arrow ignited the vines, and the violent fire magic, after coming into contact with the blooming magic flower, ignited the magic hidden within it, causing more explosions.

There were continuous crackling sounds like fireworks during the New Year, and the entire sky was illuminated by the orange and red light caused by the explosion.

After more than ten seconds, the explosion finally stopped completely, and the dark clouds covering the sky dissipated in an instant. A creature covered with wounds and burned beyond recognition fell from the collapsing blood moon. This person was Sparta.

It lost, even though it used its strongest weapon, Yue Kuang, it still lost.

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 142: The Demons Evacuate

Sparta suddenly opened his eyes and saw that he was in his tent, lying on his bed.

"What's going on? Didn't I already... Is this all an illusion?" The last scene in Sparta's mind was when he was enveloped by countless explosions and flames.

Logically speaking, he should have been dead, but why did he appear here again? Could it be that what just happened to him was just an illusion, a dream?

It coughed twice, and felt a strange dryness in its throat as if it had been burned by fire. It roared, "Someone, someone, bring me some water!"

As if they heard its call, two werewolves walked in from outside the door. One of them had black hair and the other had white hair. They were the werewolves who were on guard on the top of the city wall and had just changed shifts but were unfortunately attacked by Anten Meiko.

The white-haired werewolf was holding a whole pot of water in his hand. He walked to the bedside and was about to pour it for Sparta, but the latter snatched it away and drank it in a few gulps.

Sparta felt a little better when his dry throat was filled with moisture. He touched the water stuck on the hair around his mouth and threw the kettle aside casually.

"What happened? Shouldn't I be outside fighting with others? Why am I lying here?"

"Lord Sparta, this is what happened." The black-haired werewolf trembled as he recounted everything that happened that day in detail without any interference.

It turned out that in the battle that day, Meiko Anten won the final victory. Sparta used his strongest weapon, Yue Kuang, but his flaw was still discovered and he was defeated miserably.

It had its magic power drained away by the blood moon, was covered in wounds by the explosion, and was burned black all over, almost dying on the spot.

However, at this moment, Meiko Anten rescued it and used the bubble magic copied from the field to heal its injuries.

Sparta's body was not an etheric body, so the bubble magic had very limited healing effect on it and could not remedy this fatal injury. Therefore, she cast a total of three bubble magic spells before finally saving its life and allowing its body to actively mobilize blood to repair itself.

After hearing this, Sparta fell into complete silence. The two werewolves with black and white hair stood aside and didn't dare to speak.

After a long moment, Sparta finally let out a long breath. "I never thought I'd really lose. That adventurer... Magical Girl Ruby is truly formidable."

"Sir... do we really have to give up this city?" The white-haired werewolf raised his head slightly and looked at Sparta with fear.

This issue was discussed when Sparta went out of the city for the first time to meet with Anten Meiko. After returning, the former did not hide it from his subordinates but told them the truth.

Therefore, they all knew what the victory or defeat of this battle meant. One side would sacrifice themselves, and the other side would sacrifice the city. It can be said that both sides had reasons not to lose.

The result was that An Teng Meizi's aggressiveness forced Sparta to use Yue Kuang, but An Teng Meizi's combat experience and talent were amazing. She grasped Yue Kuang's weaknesses and flaws after only a few confrontations.

Not only that, she also pretended not to notice and continued to release magic towards the Blood Blade Storm. In this way, she forced Sparta to continue to inject magic into the Blood Blade Storm while weakening its vigilance, so that she could succeed in one go.

I originally thought that this person was a power-type magic warrior, but I didn't expect that she changed her weapon to a bow, and I didn't expect that the arrows she shot were different magic spells one after another.

The more Sparta recalled the battle process and details, the more he admired Anten Meiko as a person. It can be said that she was calculating from beginning to end.

Thousands of words were finally uttered, and Sparta could only exhale a breath. The resentment, entanglement, and shame in his heart condensed into one word: "Retreat."

The black-haired werewolf and the white-haired werewolf's hearts tightened suddenly when they heard this. They turned their heads towards each other, looked at each other in bewilderment.

A day later, Anten Yazi stood in front of the gate of Daba City and watched Sparta slowly walk out of the city. Its back was hunched and it limped when it walked. In the sunlight, it looked particularly depressed.

The man and the werewolf stood three meters apart, staring at each other. An Teng Meizi was the first to speak, breaking the silence: "How is your injury?"

"Thanks to you, it's getting better."

After these two sentences, the two fell silent again. Finally, Sparta sighed softly and said without further delay: "You win. According to the agreement, Daba City and the people inside are all yours. We will all evacuate today."

"You're quite trustworthy. Well, I'll wait for you here for a while."

"Don't you want to come in and take a look?" Sparta glanced at Anten Meiko leisurely, without much emotion or feeling in his eyes.

"Well, in that case, I'll come and take a look."

Sparta didn't say anything more, turned around and took Anten Yazi into the city of Daba. A group of soldiers gathered at the door and watched Anten Yazi slowly walk in. Their eyes were filled with anger, but they did not take action because of Sparta's intimidation.

Many demons have already started packing up in the city. A large amount of goods have been placed on the trucks, and it seems that they are ready to leave.

After that, Anten Meiko didn't say another word to the demons. She stood quietly on the city gate and watched the demons pack up their things and start to evacuate through the back door.

Sparta was the last one to leave. Before he completely walked out of Daba City, he looked back at An Teng Meizi who was standing at the front gate, then turned around and walked out of Daba City completely.

"City, City Lord... what should we do?"

As soon as Anten Meiko jumped down from the city wall, a human living in the city came over and respectfully asked Anten Meiko whether he wanted to stay or go.

He was the spokesperson for the human race in the city, so he was the only human to witness the earth-shattering battle. Naturally, he also knew about the promises made by the former city lord Sparta and the adventurer girl.

An Teng Meizi glanced at him and asked, "How many humans are there in the city?"

"There are more than six hundred."

Hearing his answer, An Teng Meizi couldn't help but feel a little surprised: "So many?"

This Daba City was rebuilt based on the ruins. Its overall size is one twentieth of the Holy City, which is the size of a large town. It is absolutely incredible that it can accommodate more than 600 humans while so many demons are stationed there.

As for why the demons would not take these humans away, Anten Meiko already had the answer in her heart.

Volume 7: Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 143: Making a Deal

In this world, no matter how good the demons are to humans, or vice versa, there is always a difference between the two. This difference is not only in physical difference and strength difference, but also in spiritual difference.

Because hundreds of years ago, whether it was the demon race or the human race, as soon as they were born, they were instilled with the position that humans and demons cannot coexist by their clansmen, so the human race or the demon race is almost an absolute opposite.

Only when one's status reaches a certain level will one be able to see the reasons clearly and put aside most of their hostility towards the other party. Some high-level officials will even adopt a conciliatory approach towards the human race after capturing them.

This method allowed more civilians to gradually see that the nature of the demons was not bad at all, and was not as outrageous as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandfathers had said.

The concepts that were once deeply rooted in people's minds have gradually faded, and more humans are angry and contemptuous of the superpowers' invasion of the demon race and the open war they launched.

Because this generation of Demon King is kind-hearted and wants the two races to coexist peacefully, the relationship between the two races could have been less bad, but the superpower does not want to see this.

Because there are no foreign wars, countries will engage in various economic internal frictions, and small countries may even start wars against each other.

They intensified their aggression against the demons under various pretexts, forcing the demons to fight for self-preservation. The relationship between the demons and humans once again reached a stalemate.

Given the situation in each country, Sparta was unable to take away the more than 600 people in the city, so it could only leave them all here to obey the orders of the current city lord, Ando Meiko.

"Don't worry, people from the Church will come to help you soon. Just follow their arrangements then." Meiko Ando comforted.

It is time for the people in Daba City to be self-sufficient through agriculture and animal husbandry. The Theocracy will not leave an ancient relic with a magic circle unattended. No matter how unwilling the people in the city are, they will definitely send people to take over.

Meiko Ando reached a deal with the Pope. Although her methods were somewhat dishonorable, her mission has been accomplished. Now it is time for the Church to show its sincerity.

The Church wouldn't go back on its word just because it had used a ruined city that had been repaired by the demons and still had a complete ancient magic circle, right?

Meiko Ando took out a pair of headphones from the storage space and put them on her ears: "Hey, hey, hey, do you hear me?"

"Ruby, you did it. That's great. You actually did it within a month." A girl's excited shout immediately came from the other end of the headset.

This headset does not belong to Beth and the others, but to Melinda, the contact person. A few days ago, before Ando Meiko was about to go out to prepare for the last few days, she gave this headset to her and told her how to use it.

"Okay, okay, please help me tell the cardinal about this. Also remember to ask the Pope to bring the two stone balls in exchange in advance, otherwise I will not give up Daba City so easily." Ando Meiko gave the instructions.

It was not known whether it was because Melinda acted quickly or because the Theocracy attached great importance to this city, but less than half a day after she spoke with the former, the Theocracy's army had already arrived at the city gates.

The army was led by a sturdy man riding a strong earth dragon, carrying a huge sickle on his back, with his upper body bare and the flag of the Celestial God Cult printed on his back.

The burly man immediately spotted Ando Meiko standing outside the tightly closed city gates. He shouted expressionlessly, "The Pope has ordered me to come and reclaim Daba City."

His voice was loud and his calm tone revealed an unyielding threatening attitude, without giving Ando Meiko any face at all.

Ando Meiko had seen this kind of person many times. Facing the other party's deliberate threat, she was not panicked or afraid at all. She said in a calm tone: "You can accept it. According to the agreement between me and His Holiness the Pope, you should exchange the two stone balls from the temple with me."

"How dare you! How can a villain like you get your hands on the things in the temple? Get out of the way quickly. If you don't want to die, give up Daba City!" This time he shouted sternly, and there was no intention to hide his threatening words.

This made Ando Meiko frown slightly. What did this muscle-brained idiot in front of her mean? Didn't he know about the deal he had made with the Pope? Why was he still saying this?

Is this a test from the Pope or is he just acting on his own?

While pondering this in her mind, Ando Meiko sneered and immediately retorted, "How shameless! This is a deal that His Holiness the Pope personally promised me. Who do you think you are to question His Holiness the Pope?"

The person in front of her had bad intentions and was obviously trying to make things difficult for her. Since that was the case, there was no need for Ando Meiko to be nice to him.

Since the believers value their Pope so much, the result of Ando Meiko using the Pope as a gun will naturally be outstanding. This sentence made the strong man unable to utter any rebuttal.

Indeed, this was a deal reached between the Pope and Meiko Ando. Although it was only verbal, the Celestial God Church naturally has its own rules. Lies and deception are not allowed in the temple, and once something is said, it must be done.

Even the most powerful Pope cannot be an exception to this rule. Otherwise, how can he make these believers submit?

Seeing that the girl was not afraid of him at all and left him speechless with just one sentence, the strong man had a gloomy face and could only clap his hands helplessly.

Suddenly, a believer in a green robe came over carrying a box. He stood two meters in front of Ando Meiko, put the box down and then opened it. Two stone balls lay quietly on the soft couch in the box.

Ando Meiko stretched out her right hand and with a thought, a suction force surged from her palm, driving the two stone balls into her control.

A stream of magical power was then injected into the stone ball, and he felt as if the magical power had sunk into the ocean, so he put the stone ball into the storage space.

After being placed together with the other three stone balls, the two stone balls emitted a soft light as if they were in resonance. Only then did Ando Meiko finally feel relieved and confirmed that the stone ball was genuine.

At her command, the civilians who had been prepared immediately opened the city gates.

"I will now hand over Daba City and its six hundred-plus human inhabitants to you. However, I cannot do anything about the magic circle within. This concludes our deal."

After saying that, Ando Meiko slowly walked forward and out of the city gate, and walked towards the Holy City on her own. Now that her goal had been achieved, it was time for her to go back and pick up Beth and others.

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 144: What do you do for a living?

"Adventurer Ruby, don't be in such a hurry to leave." At this time, an old man came out on horseback from a road that had been cleared by the army. He was wearing a red robe and was one of the two red cardinals beside the Pope.

The green-clad cultist who had just given Ando Meiko the box containing the stone balls was standing next to him.

"I wonder if His Excellency the Cardinal has anything else to say?"

Meiko Andeng knew that the Church was not a place where she could stay for a long time. Now that she had completed her mission, the most urgent thing was to take Beth and the others away.

But now she was still under the watchful eyes of the army, and her deal with the Pope had been successfully completed. She no longer had any means to control this group of people, so even if the strong man attacked her the next moment, she would not be surprised at all.

She is not afraid of trouble. If trouble comes to her, she can also fight it back with her own brutal means. However, trouble is not a good thing. No one is willing to wade into muddy water if they can suffer less.

More importantly, Beth and the others were still in the Holy City, so Anten Meiko stopped to avoid complications.

"The Pope will be here soon. Since you, Ruby, have already received the goods and feel our sincerity, why not wait a while until the Pope arrives to inspect the goods?"

An Teng Meizi shook her head and refused: "I have driven away the demons, and I have handed the city over to you. I have also left the people in the city intact. What's the point of inspecting a city? I can't possibly change the city in half a day, right?"

"Well, that's not the case. It's just that the Pope wanted to make things difficult for you, so he gave you the impossible task of taking Daba City. But you completed it, and the result far exceeded our expectations. Therefore, the Pope wanted to meet you in person and give you an even more generous reward."

"Then please tell the Pope that I don't need any extra rewards." Meiko Anten refused again.

Meiko Anten is not a fool. Since the Pope has the means to block her extraordinary detection magic, his strength must be quite strong. If he comes here, it will not be easy for her to leave.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Although our deal is complete, please give me a chance to thank you properly."

At this moment, an old voice full of majesty was heard, which made Anten Meizi's face darken. She knew that the Pope had arrived.

Sure enough, a luxury car pulled by three earth dragons slowly drove over, and the Pope was sitting in the car, who had just arrived.

When the Pope spoke personally and in such a tone, Meiko Anten knew that she could not leave, so she could only nod and follow the cardinal.

The strong man went in first to investigate the situation, followed by the Cardinal and Meiko Anten, and then the Pope and a group of soldiers.

Because they only brought a few hundred people with them, the city would not feel crowded even if they all poured into it. Except for some who could not walk, almost everyone came to meet the Pope under the order of the human leader, so there were already more than 500 people standing respectfully inside the city gate.

"Hello, Ruby." As a familiar voice came, Anten Meizi looked back and found that another green-robed man who was accompanying her had walked up to her and greeted her.

"Melinda? Why are you here... What are you doing..."

"Shh, keep your voice down. I asked the Cardinal to let me come here in disguise. It cost me a lot of money."

An Teng Meizi couldn't help but feel curious: "Oh? What are you doing here?"

"Of course I've broadened my horizons. You've finally captured the city that has troubled the Theocracy for so long. As a close friend, how could I not come and see it?"

"When did I become your best friend?" Meiko Anten said seriously.

Her relationship with Melinda could only be considered ordinary friends with a cooperative relationship. Although they had been together for three months and had experienced life and death together several times, there was still a big gap between them and close friends.