Chapter 148

"I-I actually still can't help you deal with the Demon King Army!"

The Lich lady, her face red, stated her other major problem.

"What's going on?"

Aqua frowned at Wiz; although she looked down on this Lich somewhat, if this Lich truly had a record of storming the Demon King's Castle and retreating unscathed as the stories she told claimed, then she would definitely be able to play some role when they subjugated the Demon King later.

She just didn't expect that before she could even play this idea, the Lich before her preemptively vetoed it, so Aqua naturally had to understand what was going on.

"Because I am currently one of the Eight Great Generals of the Demon King Army."

Wiz self-exposed her current real identity.

"What?"

Darkness was greatly shocked, drawing her Knight's Sword.

"As expected, the Undead are evil!"

Aqua even took out her Flower Bud Staff, readying Purification again.

"So, is there a problem with this identity?"

Broly was baffled; he had no concept of the Demon King Army, only knowing that Aqua seemed to dislike those guys quite a bit.

"Broly, the Demon King Army is the existence causing chaos in this world, and also the enemy our Goddesses often send Isekai Heroes to specifically deal with."

Aqua explained in one sentence, and she completely lacked self-awareness that besides the Demon King Army, the various Cheat Abilities and Equipment brought by the Isekai Heroes she had sent over were also one of the chief culprits, and might even be the main cause of the current chaos in this world.

"In other words, this guy is our enemy, step aside, my Purification is ready, I can solve her right now."

"Ah, Aqua-sama, please wait a moment, although I am an Executive of the Demon King Army, the work I am mainly responsible for is just helping maintain the Magic Barrier of the Demon King's Castle, I myself do not fight for the Demon King Army."

Wiz hurriedly explained; she didn't want to die for this kind of reason.

"In fact, the Demon King's Castle often suffers attacks from the Red Demon Clan; to prevent the situation of suddenly being smashed in the face by Advanced Magic in one's sleep, the Demon King was troubled wanting to find a Mage proficient in Magic Barriers.

And I, who tore the Demon King's Castle's original Defensive Barrier, was coveted by the Demon King; he contacted me through Mr. Vanir, with the price of not pursuing the Demon King Army's attack on the Demon King's Castle incident, requesting me to go to the Demon King's Castle side to help build a Protective Barrier."

"But aren't you still working for the Demon King Army?"

Aqua crossed her arms, quite dissatisfied.

"Can't be helped, I'm not good at refusing old people's requests, plus the other party was willing to agree to the conditions I proposed, so I agreed."

"What conditions?"

"If I join the Demon King Army, help build a Magic Barrier at the Demon King's Castle side that prevents the Red Demon Clan from disturbing it.

Then the Demon King is willing to bind the Demon King Army in his own name, not to attack people other than Adventurers and Knights and other Combatants, such as civilians and Neutral Parties."

After Wiz joined the Demon King Army, the Demon King Army no longer launched large-scale attacks on human villages outside the city.

Of course, whether they kept their promise or still secretly attacked in private is unknown.

In short, after Wiz joined, the battles between this world's Demon King Army and the various human Kingdoms indeed rarely affected civilians.

"And according to the Contract content, I also cannot take the initiative against the Demon King Army, unless the Demon King Army itself destroys its promise."

After hearing Wiz finish explaining the situation, Aqua and Darkness temporarily put down their weapons.

"If that's the case, you can't be completely regarded as one of the Demon King Army's people."

The fact that Wiz has no bounty on the human side is the best proof; after becoming a Lich and joining the Demon King Army, she did not do anything harmful to this world's humans, so she has no notoriety either.

If not for the self-exposure, perhaps no one would know that a Magic Tool Shopkeeper who gets poorer the more business she does would be a Demon King Army Executive, albeit a nominal one.

"Alright, I've learned of this matter; seeing that you indeed haven't harmed humans, consider it you passing; you must take good care of my Disciple from now on."

Aqua waved her hand and said.

"Eh, someone with this identity who can't even help, you still want me?"

Wiz was surprised again; she thought revealing her Demon King Army Executive identity would get her abandoned.

"Although you might not be able to help in dealing with the Demon King Army, we actually don't need you to help; my cute Disciple is very strong, I think once he grows up he'll definitely be able to solve the Demon King Army, and before that, you just help take good care of him, serve him; but if you do a bad job, hmph hmph!"

Aqua didn't continue, just shook the Purification light on her staff, the threatening meaning self-evident.

"Wuu wuu wuu..."

What else could Wiz do; just like when she was human she was powerless against the Demon King Army, now as a Lich against a Goddess she is equally hard-countered, she could only choose to surrender under the might of Aqua's Purification.

"Right, the mess at the Cemetery on this side was caused by you, so you're responsible for cleaning it up properly, don't make things difficult for me." Seeing the Lich was fairly sensible, Aqua incidentally handed the spirit-cleansing work to her.

And those purified Ghosts didn't disappear, but were sent to the world after death.

The ones sent by Aqua's Purification even went directly before Eris.

Just as Aqua acted as a Slacking Shopkeeper, taking Broly back to Marian's home to sleep, Eris in the heavens was busy crazy.

Ghost knows why, with an Angel helping handle the deceased's affairs, so many dead souls would suddenly surge in here.

"We suffered an attack from a terrifying Priest; that guy indiscriminately shouted we were Evil Spirits, and threw Purification at our heads, not giving us a single word to argue, wuu wuu wuu, Eris-sama, you can uphold justice for us pitiful dead souls!"

"Yeah, yeah, the other kid following that Priest, I just scared him a bit and he directly dispersed me, wuu wuu wuu, I still wanted to wait for Elena to confess to me at my grave?"

"Damn, where's your confidence coming from, delusional Ghost really gross!"

The noisy situation in the Afterlife Space gave Eris a massive headache.

The next day, after sleeping her fill, Aqua took Broly running to the Cemetery to inspect the Lich lady's spirit-pacifying results from a night of hard work.

After confirming most Ghosts in the Cemetery were indeed purified clean, Aqua went to the Adventurer's Guild side to settle the Quest.

"Truly worthy of Aqua-san, easily solving the Cemetery haunting problem."

"Of course, just look at who I, Aqua, am!"

Facing the Quest Board girl's praise, Aqua unceremoniously claimed the credit for herself.

Clearly last night, she only used Purification for a while when first entering the Cemetery; the rest was basically all left to Wiz.

"Right, where's your Disciple Broly, he didn't come to the Guild with you?"

Miss Luna suddenly asked, she also knew who was the one carrying in Aqua's party.

"Him, ah, he met a new friend last night, and ran off to go curry favor with them this morning."

Mentioning Broly, Aqua pursed her lips.

"Eh, not taking quests today?"

"Taking a day off first."

The quest board girl was a bit disappointed, she still wanted Aqua's party to put in more effort and subjugate the magic monkey herd in the forest along the way.

"Miss Wiz, I've come to play with you."

At the magic tool shop's front door, Broly knocked on the door, holding some bread bought from the bakery in his arms; Broly felt that if someone brought him food when looking for him, he would definitely be happy.

And he came over to refresh the happiness value of the new capture target, Lich Miss Wiz.

However, Broly knocked for a long time and no one came out to open the door, making one suspect whether the owner inside had packed up and fled overnight.

But Broly could feel a faint cold breath inside this magic tool shop, that was precisely Wiz's breath.

Thinking it over, Broly knocked on the door again, only increasing the knocking force, speaking the lines that began to surface in his mind.

"Miss Wiz, don't hide inside without a sound, I know you're home, you had the guts to agree to become my wife, how come you don't have the guts to open the door? Open the door!"

"Creak~"

The thick magic tool shop door was slapped through by Broly.

"Uh~"

This also counts as an alternative way of opening the door, right? "Excuse me!"

Broly opened the door for himself and walked in.

Inside the magic tool shop it was deathly quiet, the windows weren't open and the curtains weren't drawn, making it seem somewhat dim.

Various strange tools were placed on the surrounding shelves, Broly only glanced twice before retracting his gaze, walking toward the only room in the shop with a cold breath.

Pushing the door and entering inside, this was a junk room, and in the corner of the room a single bed was placed, Lich Miss Wiz lay on top of it.

Her condition wasn't good, she seemed to have fallen into a coma, her expression somewhat pained, her figure then appearing in an illusory state.

(Chapter End)