The legendary warrior

Ryland only agreed to lead Ricky to the Short Devil tribe's strongholds because the other man promised he would set him and his companions free right after. However, Ricky's favor was another story. He figured that he shouldn't think about it, at least, for the time being.

"Thank you, man! I'll remember this,"

Ricky responded gratefully as soon as Ryland agreed.

Ryland then led the three of them to one of the Short Devil tribe's strongholds, and they arrived at their destination after about half a day's travel. Unfortunately, Ricky couldn't detect Claire's aura in this stronghold, which meant that she and her companions must be in a different stronghold.

"It looks like they aren't here,"

Ricky muttered with blatant disappointment. He had hoped to find them here, but they came to the wrong place.

And since they went to a dud, all they could do was wait for news from Ryland's companions, hoping that one of them would have better news.

Thankfully, Ricky finally received good news from one of his Shadowy Replications after an hour. It reported that they had detected Claire's aura in another stronghold.

"Thank you for bringing us here, Ryland. Now, just as I promised, the five of you are free from now on," Ricky declared with a smile. "But you must make a Martial Arts Oath before you leave, as the others must not find out we are here. You five need to promise to keep this a secret."

"I understand,"

Ryland agreed, nodding.

Under their agreement, Ricky let them go once Ryland made the Martial Arts Oath.

With that taken care of, Ricky took Mordechai and Ella to the Massacring Zone, and they headed to where the Shadowy Replication found Claire. Once they arrived, he deactivated the Shadowy Replication that was waiting for him there.

Ricky's space and the Shadowy Replication's space were linked to each other.

In that way, the Shadowy Replication's space served as Ricky's safety net. It could take him away from dangerous situations, and it could also serve as his hiding spot.

'Perhaps, in the future, I should hide some Shadowy Replications in concealed places. When my Shadowy Replications reach maturity and could produce Flesh Replications, I can use them to hide and even escape in times of trouble, ' Ricky thought with much foresight.

stronghold was a black castle located in a deep valley. Black figures appeared one after another around the

Devil tribe. Since the creatures from the Short Devil tribe specialized in casting weapons, they couldn't fight well, and they had to rely on other tribes

other two cautiously hid in his

Ricky? Can you tell

Mordechai eagerly asked the other

their

Ricky affirmatively.

moment, he drove the space

inside, following Claire's aura, until they arrived

three of them found what

surrounded Claire, Peter, and the other four, while the halo itself was enveloped in a profound

knowledge about this golden halo. He only knew that it came from the Sacred

sacred weapon could release

the illusory space's strength depended on the user's realm and

Claire and her companions stood inside, joined by

incredibly old, and he had just reached the Emperor Level. In fact, this

devils from the

attack the people inside. The short

our old chief go! If you release him and hand over our casting heritage, we will let you live," said the Short Devil tribe's current

are these devils?" asked Mordechai out

our current strength, only one devil can pose a

grin. "That's not much, so we can probably take them. However, I'm afraid that stronger reinforcements

located far away from each other, so we'll have plenty of time to get away from here. Plus, we have enough in our ranks. Every upper spiritual emperor of the devil race has a creature from the

it, Claire and her companions picked a good hostage. The Short Devil tribe in this stronghold seems to care a great deal for their old chief. That or they just care about the casting inheritance.

and Peter. They managed to take the Short Devil tribe's casting heritage,"

bring them in?" asked Mordechai, thinking that

I can do that since nothing is blocking me here. However, wouldn't that be a waste? We are already here. We can't just save them.

don't want to let this chance go. I want to kill every devil here whose strength

that's so, what are we waiting for? Let's kill all of them." answered Mordechai playfully, laughing in amusement. They seemed to be two peas in a pod. After all, he wanted to