Eleanora quickly began to sort out everything in her mind. Since her master acquired the books from Cassandra that she had learned quite a lot about her experiments and a mysterious cult that had given her everything she needed to accomplish her goals.
It was a cult that gave her everything and in exchange, she would marry a noble using her charming magic and slowly seep her influence and that of the cult into the nobles of this Kingdom. The process of this mission was still on going and on an early stage, and it was promptly ruined when Blake and Ellergest defeated Cassandra.
However, how did Eleanora guessed that such a cult was behind this, when there could be many different cults of demons doing this? this world was vast and there was no real reason why not there wouldn't be many competing cults that adored demons and used them to gain power and seek enlightenment.
However, she recognized them due to their mark, a mark that resembled a red moon with bat-like wings at each side and a ring with a magic circle in the middle of the moon. This mark she had seen tattooed in the neck of Cassandra's corpse and was also found through the various documents Blake got from her.
Of course, so the church could continue the investigation themselves, such documents were later on given to them after Blake extracted all the info he could, only taking a single day in doing so.
The documents had appeared in the church magically after that, but nobody could find who brought them there nonetheless, Ellergest has been investigating them this entire time and the church alongside the knights had come out with various conclusions themselves, which Blake had also overheard on the days he worked with Ellergest and his group of priests.
"The Red Moon Mark is here as well, in the gates!" She thought, quickly connecting the dots to realize something big was going on in this forest. This gate was purposedly put in here for some reason, and it had been bringing more and more demons over time.
However, Eleanora saw the quantity of demons there were and realized that if they went towards the village right now, they could easily overturn it completely and… kill everybody easily.
But why haven't they done this yet? They had months to do this, years maybe. But they had simply been preparing even more without a hurry of starting something yet. It was rather clear that whoever was that gold-horned gray Oni, he was working for the humans behind them and has been preparing this entire army of demons for a planned invasion to the village.
And now that she was seeing them prepare for the last things… their invasion could be tomorrow, or past tomorrow.
Or worse, as close as… today.
"This is bad." Thought Eleanora. "I must tell this to my Lord immediately…!"
Eleanora ran through the treetops at fast speed, jumping through while being undetected. However, she quickly heard the voice of various humans a kilometer away to the east, where the village of the humans were. She ran there to look what was in there, and she found over 40 Knights, 100 Soldiers, and twenty Priests being led by Ellergest engaging in a battle against hundreds of demons!
"It already started?!" She thought, quickly sending all the info towards Blake through their telepathy. She noticed that the demons were circling down the group of soldiers, knights, and priests. Their numbers were way higher, the duke had not prepared enough for such an enormous army of demons to be hidden in the depths of the forest this entire time!
And to make things worse, the humans seemed to be losing. They were the last stand before the entire village was overrun by demons, if they lost, everything else would be lost as well.
However, before Eleanora could go back to Blake, the presence of an immensely strong demon was lurking behind her! She never realized it right until now. Eleanora quickly looked behind her, finding less than twenty meters away from her the same Gray Oni with holden horns… Running straight towards her and glancing at her! When did he realized she was lurking around? He never made it obvious!
Eleanora's mind ran with many thoughts. As someone who had lived for thousands of years, her mind was calm, composed, and cold as her heart. She began to calculate, and if she ran towards Blake, she would end up bringing the demon towards him… Perhaps Blake would survive running away, but the children… they would surely be crushed with ease.
Eleanora armed herself with determination and quickly began circling the village right after realizing the Gray Oni was following her. The demon quickly realized she noticed him by now, and began to rapidly run, chasing her. his enormous aura exuded the power of a Rare Breed of Demons, and one even above Adult Oni. This was a demon that could be called…
"This guy is… a Demon General! To think that this Gate has been here for so long for a demon to have devoured over a hundred human souls and evolve into a Demon General…" Thought Eleanora. She knew the thresholds that demons required to evolve.
The more souls they ate, the more they could evolve, and only those who have devoured over a hundred human souls could become Demon Generals, strong enough to be capable of commanding thousands of weaker demons and enhance their strength through powerful Magic.
"You've already noticed me, haven't you? Running is futile!"
The Gray Oni quickly began to talk back to Eleanora, as she gritted her teeth. The only thing she could do now was confronting him and buying as much time as possible for Blake to get to where the knights and priests were and somehow find a way to defeat this absolute monster!
However… Eleanora had other plans aside from that. She looked into the village, which was being mostly emptied of demons by now with only the General left… and then she looked into the Demon Gate.
"You got a very pretty toy right there, mind if I look at it?"
"Tch! Where are you going?!"
Eleanora ran straight towards the village, easily destroying the barrier erected around it with sheer strength and moving towards the Demon Gate!