Jephar was quite bewildered.

“Uhuh wait a moment, wait! It seems like we’re meeting for the first time, but you’re too aggressive for a fellow demon?”

Jephar, who had taken the position of a highranking demon in a short time despite being recently born, had excellent combat skills and a remarkable intellect.

He had never felt much fear when facing anyone, except for the Devil Baal and the highestranking demons.

It was nonsense that he, of all people, would feel fear towards a specter of the past, whiling away time in the east.

‘It must have been a misunderstanding.’

Thinking that the energy he had felt a while ago was certainly a misunderstanding, Jephar tried to relax his tense body.

Having justified his thoughts, his courage began to surge again.

Jephar summoned his energy and twisted his wrist.

“Do you know how much blood was shed in the central power struggle while you were peacefully sleeping in the east?”

“…….”

“Perhaps, if you hadn’t run away to the east, you would be at the top of the hierarchy now. The standards of that era and this era are different.”

That’s right, look at him, he can’t even respond.

Originally, stories became legends as time went on.

It was clear that the demon in front of him was one of those cases.

If all his fame was true, if the fact that he was strong was without a single lie, why wouldn’t he have sought the position of the Devil King? The position everyone desired.

The name of the ruler of the east, although his ability was unknown, was a name that could suppress the demon world and still be left over.

‘If I defeat him, I can gain fame in one fell swoop.’

Jephar, who had come to this thought, gave a sly smile.

However.

Snap.

In the quiet snowy field filled with the sound of falling snow, the clear sound of a bone breaking echoed.

The ruler of the Eastern Demon World was standing still without a single movement, and there was a slight time gap before Jephar realized that the sound came from his leg.

In that instant, without a single hand gesture, how the hell?!

“Ah!!”

Just as a scream was about to burst from the unsuspecting Jephar’s mouth,

A heavy demonic power emitted by Ageres blocked his throat.

Soon, a heavy energy choked Jephar’s neck and lifted him into the air.

From Jephar’s mouth, wide open in pain, only a wheezing sound of suffocation leaked out.

“I thought I told you to be quiet. Was that difficult?”

Agares tilted his head as if displeased.

Agares, who had been looking down at his small friend in his arms in case she had woken up at the short scream, confirmed that she was sleeping soundly and slowly approached Jephar, who was flailing in the air.

All the while firmly holding Evelia with one arm.

“Cough!”

A darkness, deeper than before, wound around him like a noose.

It wasn’t just the pain of not being able to breathe.

It was the feeling of an incompatible energy filling deep into his lungs.

“Ugh…!!”

Agares, watching Jephar struggling painfully, his eyes dangerously narrowed.

“How dare you, hurt my possession.”

A severe pain rushed in from his right arm.

Still, the scream could not escape from his mouth.

“You made this little one tremble so much.”

This time, he heard the sound of a bone breaking in his left leg.

However, due to the pain in his right arm and leg, he couldn’t even discern where the new fracture was.

“And you made her cry.”

An even stronger energy came rushing in.

It was too much to bear, his insides turned upside down. Blood oozed out from the corners of his mouth.

Compared to the droplets of blood that Evelia had shed, an enormous amount of blood gushed out, staining the snow.

“What should I do?”

The soft whispering voice in his ear pierced more bitterly than the blustering snowstorm.

Suddenly, Evelia in his arms shivered.

The fur cloak that had been lost somewhere and the dress torn in places couldn’t function as cold protection.

‘Damn it.’

Agares wrapped the arm holding Evelia with his wing.

Feeling somewhat warmer, she rubbed her cheek against his wing, her movements akin to a small animal.

Still, Agares, who was somewhat uneasy, waved his hand, summoning a chasmlike magic.

Then, as if to expel an intruder unfamiliar with the human world, the swirling snowstorm suddenly stopped.

Hanging in the air just as it was.

Seeing this, Jephar’s pupils dilated.

‘How could that…!’

This was not the demon realm, but the realm of humans.

A world where demons inevitably faced restrictions in using their power.

The fact that the blizzard, fueled by this world’s energy, stopped at a mere wave of the hand indicated that the human realm was no different than submitting to the power of a single demon.

How is this possible. How?

‘How could a single demon dare to make a world submit?’

“Surprised, huh?”

The corner of the demon’s mouth curled up into a smirk. No, the ‘ruler’ now seemed to be a lofty being beyond Zepar’s reach.

This was not something Zepar could withstand with mere courage or audacity. It wasn’t that kind of opponent.