Modern World Warlock

While Dante and Astaroth demolished the cathedral with their encounter, Megan and Zac were outside facing Sabelio.

The redhead moved back to stay close to the doctor, afraid that a demon would try to incapacitate him, and his hunch was correct.

As he stood beside Dr. Sylva, he sensed a couple of shadow demons approaching, materializing from his shade with their claws ready to strike.

However, Zac skillfully deflected their attacks and slammed his bat against the demon's faces—one by one.

Sabelio noticed Zac's skills, comparing them to Megan's and deducing that the redhead was a dark warrior, as his moves were more explosive than the brunette's, which were faster and held more bloodlust in them.

The old man felt slightly frustrated, as Megan and Zac were the perfect examples of the type of soldiers he wanted for the Blood Dragons.

In a fit of anger and bitterness, Sabelio extended both of his arms, displaying his demon heart widely and generating two arcane pentagrams behind him.

"Shadow bolt!" Sabelio shouted, making the two arcane circles produce a couple of shadowy projectiles that flew straight toward Megan.

She bolted forward and avoided the first shadow bolt. With the second coming straight to her face, Megan raised her dagger and made her blade slightly touch the old man's magic, waving it to the side and deflecting it to the ground.

As Sabelio's projectile shattered the platform, the old man charged another wave of attacks but felt a sudden sense of danger that made him duck.

*Shink!* Sabelio heard the sound of a blade behind him, realizing that he had avoided an invisible slice that cut the scaffolding at his back.

Looking back at Megan, he noticed that the woman had waved her dagger horizontally from a little over five meters away.

'This girl… She is using the umbra to shoot out her dagger slices!' Sabelio thought, a mix of admiration and frustration.

The old man couldn't help mentioning that if Megan had been the head of the family twenty years ago, he wouldn't have felt the need to betray the Jade Dragons.

Sabelio felt cornered back then, as Megan's grandfather didn't want to tap into the forbidden power—leading to his betrayal, as Sabelio believed they would be wiped out by the other mafia families.

However, after all that, Megan ended up using umbra to fight against him, which Sabelio found ironic.

"No…" Megan replied.

"I wouldn't have summoned any demons… Much less sacrifice others to do it," she continued, her cold glare locked on the old man.

"You say that because you are not aware of the danger…" Sabelio replied, changing his stance and getting ready for another advance.

"I'll focus on the danger ahead of me first," Megan said, rushing towards Sabelio for another onslaught of attacks.

While the pair exchanged blows, Zac kept fighting off the shadow demons and fiends that were trying to catch Dr. Sylva, who sat against the tree with a mortified expression.

*Bam, bam, pow!* Zac smacked three more demons out of his sight as trails of sweat came down his face.

When the redhead turned his head to the half-destroyed obelisk in the center, he spotted the banshee sitting on top of it, posing her chin on her palm with utter boredom.

"Hey…!" *bam!* "Miss…!" *bam, bam!* Zac tried calling the woman while striking the demons around him.

The banshee, Saris, looked like a human while sitting on the obelisk, completely different from how she showed herself to Zac for the first time.

Still, knowing that the demon was friends with Dante made him think that she would be willing to lend a hand.

Nevertheless, Saris didn't show a speck of interest in their encounter, yawning and looking away.

"Hey, Miss Banshee!!" Zac roared, unintentionally making his voice echo loudly in the entire plaza.

Even the people at the skyscraper had to take off their earpieces momentarily as his shout startled them all.

"You are loud, kid. What!?" The banshee asked with annoyance.

'Oh, I'm the one who is loud!?' Zac thought, hitting another fiend in the face.

"I was just thinking… Can you, uhh—give us a hand?" Zac asked the demon.

"Huh? Why would I do that?" Saris replied with a frown of disdain.

"Besides, you broke my ribs earlier… hmph!" she continued, turning her head with a scoff.

"You started it. I could have died!" Zac said, still fighting off the demons rushing at him.

"Meh…" Saris shrugged off his words, irking the redhead.

"I'm sure Dante will be thankful if he knows you helped us…" Zac muttered, making the cold, bitchy demon widen her eyes with full attention.

"Really?" Saris asked.

"Yeah, we are his team, you know?" Zac replied, feeling a little guilty since he didn't think that Dante would be thankful at all.

Saris seemed impressed and shocked for a brief moment. 'Dante's team…' she thought, standing up at the top of the obelisk with a proud pose.

"Hmph! It seems there is no other option… If it's Dante's team, then I suppose I could lend a hand," the banshee commented.

'A tsundere banshee… God save us all,' Zac thought.

Suddenly, Saris went down to Zac's level and turned to look at a pack of tens of demons rushing towards them, making the redhead and the doctor instantly shut their ears.

After the banshee inhaled, she screamed and let out a powerful sound wave that blasted away the extremities of the demons and pushed them off the plaza.

Seeing the trail of destruction, Zac pondered aloud why she hadn't used such an attack against him, to which Saris responded with a cold glare.

"I did…" The banshee said.

'Huh!? I took that attack head-on?' Zac pondered, surprised that his body didn't implode like the demons.

When Zac requested Saris to defend Dr. Sylva, she agreed and waved her hand with disinterest, allowing the redhead to support Megan, who was fighting Sabelio on the other side of the plaza.

Camille pondered if it was okay to leave the doctor with Saris, but Lilith reassured her that the banshee wouldn't stand against Dante, no matter what happened.