"[The Warlock] and [The Prophet]." Agatha said ign Rossie's idea about dealing with them.

  Elizabeth artial to Rossie's answer, so far she hadn't found ahat roblem after being killed or removed out of existenot that she had dohat much, but she was ready to support her girlfriend's life choices.

  How could she not? Rossie was cute! And as we all knew, cute was Justice.

  "Well, let's start easy." Agatha said summoning the photograph of the blue-skinned demon-looking guy to the front, he seemed to be looking straight at the camera an possing for the picture that was about to be taken even, "[The Warlock], older brother to [The Prophet]. No known liviives, unknown age and nationality."

  Why was that even important? Most of the members of the [ars] and their previous iteration [The Twelve] had been like that too.

  "He is a magic caster of the tracted type. Most of his power es from his tract with otherworldly entities that he made throughout his life. As such he is both one of the weakest and most dangerous members of the [ars]." Agatha said bringing pictures of him in multiple situations, sometimes he stood behind mohat looked like demons, and in others he himself was the demon iion having his features morphed more and more into that of creatures that looked as if they had crawled out of the abyss.

  "How he simultaneously be the weakest and among the most dangerous?" Rossie asked, fused, "Wouldn't a simple exorcism spell be enough to deal with him? or a banishment spell."

  Rossie knew how to exorcise? That sounded kind of hot.

  "That would work if he was an average tracted caster, and even then you would o overpower his mana to finish the e ahe inal creature back to his inal pne," Agatha said shaking her head, "That is not the case on this case. Most tract-type casters aren't popur because, on the same level, it is easier for their oppos to forcefully finish the tract."

  That sounded abht for Elizabeth; she would do the same if she found a maher into the abyss fueling his enemy's power.

  "That is not the case with [The Warlock]." Agatha said summoning a video, how many clips did these people have?!?!? Weren't they supposed to be cagey about their powers? What were they doing broadcasting them to the masses?!?!?!?

  "Case in point, among the most popur clips of [The Warlock] is of his enter against a Divine Caster that attempted to do what Rossaline said," Agatha said and she let the clip roll.

  "Yn of terror will e to an end, you [Demon Worshiping] scum!" Said a man wearing white robes adorned with gold finish, he was brandishing a goldeer and each time he spoke spit flowed everywhere.

  "You are aware I'm a [Herht?" [The Warlock] said while waving at the camera, then turning back to the man wearing white, "It is on my job description to end reigns of terrors. Not make new ones."

  Elizabeth didn't have any memory of meeting [The Warlock], but the image that presented on the video seemed...wrong.

  Elizabeth turo Agatha and as she was about to ask what was the deal with this...skit. Agatha answered her question before she even said it.

  "Wait for it, this is the one version with less useless chatter." Agatha said pointing at the video.

  Elizabeth decided to ask her questiohen and turned her attention back to the video iion, she did want to see what this was going to be about after all.

  If she somehow ended up fighting against these people, then this would be valuable. She still didn't know why her Mother had asked her to be wary of Italian people after all.

  "Behold the power of [Good] and [Justice]...I summon thy by our tract [Dawn Bde of Justid Good]!" The white-robed man said as a manda with way too much gold and crosses started weaving itself in the air. Elizabeth couldn't help but think that it was overly plex and the weird letters made it ineffit.

  "What's with the nguage?" Rossie said from the side, "I know some of those symbols are there to reinforce the [Holy Mana], but they have a weird resoh the letters."

  "That is [Eno]," Agatha answered from the side summoning a book from behind her, "It is allegedly angel script, the nguage of the angels. One subtype of humans who are more aligned with [Divine Mana] and [Diviies], they are usually servants or human souls who are suffused with [Divine Mana] and in turied to their [Gods]."

  ...They needed an script to do that? Why not just use [Idea]?

  Elizabeth turo look at the video once more and the white-robed man had fiheir t and from within the magic circle a creature that was... also wearing a white robe, only this one had more sharp angles and their clothes seemed to be more metallic than of fabric.

  The style seemed oddly familiar; it looked close to what her outfit had been as [Stardust Weaver]... only this thing didn't look cute. Also didn't seem to be human.

  This thing's hands were floating and separated from the body. It had feet but didn't seem to have tights ected to said feet. And more importantly.

  "What's with the face?" [The Warlock] poi the thing's face, or where it should have a face, instead of a face had a triah nine eyes and tws floating around the triangle head with eyes all around the ring's surface. Bot on the inside and the outside of the ring.

  So many eyes.

  "Ew," Rena said at her side, vocalizing Elizabeth's feelings.

  "Those [Angels] don't look too...[Holy] looking to me right now," Elizabeth said turning to Rossie and Agatha, sihey were the ones who knew more about that side of magic.

  "Well...there isn't a sensus on how they look," Agatha said pausing the video.

  "Most people seem to think that they should look like handsome or beautiful humans, others think they shouldn't look like us. And instead should look more eldtrichly, and there are a few who think they should look like a couple of wheels with eyes all around their body." Rossie said with a shrug, "To be ho I never summoned or attempted to summon them, I don't do well with their type. Sihey are heavily afflicted by their summoner."

  "You would end up summoning demons," Rena said with a smirk from the side.

  "Probably," Agatha said shaking her head as she sighed.

  "Rossie would summoest [Angel]!" Elizabeth said defending her girlfriend's honor.

  "...No, I did summon a [Demon]." Rossie said sheepishly, "And a couple [ Fallen Angels]."

  "...And I'm sure they were cute!" Elizabeth didn't let that affect her opinion of Rossie.

  "...they were succubi weren't they?" Rena said with a knowing smile.

  "...yes." Rossie said while blushing, "They were quite useful...for a few days anyway."

  "?" Elizabeth tilted her head to the side, unsure of why that was something to blush over. Hadn't Rossie's [Race] ged to Succubus or something? No wait, she was a [Night Temptress] right?

  Elizabeth had read some of their traits, and it was mentiohat they were evolved versions of normal succubi. So what was the problem with Rossie summoning more of her kind?

  "Anyway, let's tih the video first," Agatha said pointing at the holoprojector.

  The video turo focus on [The Warlock] as he seemed to gauge his summon, "That is one ugly motherfucker." Was all [The Warlock] said as the air started to be supercharged with golden motes of light.

  The image of the [Warlock] then merely looked as the angelic creature charged at him with a spear raised, he didn't move or even attempt to dodge, instead all that he did was raise his right arm, the ohat seemed to be demoni nature.

  "It doesn't hurt at all," [The Warlock] said as he grabbed the point of the holy-looking spear and then, with the flick of his fingers he destroyed it, "But it is quite weak, if I was a real demon worshiper you would be so dead right now..."

  The white-robed man didn't seem to be-

  "HOW?!?!? HOW DID YOU BREAK OUR HOLY RELIC! THAT IS THE SACRED SPEAR OF LONGINUS!" Never mind, he was actually quite infuriated.

  Actually…” Isn't the Longinus spear thing this one?" Elizabeth said, flig her hand and summoning a bident from her armory.

  She had used one of these not that long ago.

  "Yes, Eli-Eli, that is ihe actual Spear of Longinus," Rossie smiled from the side.

  "...Elizabeth? Why do you have a sacred relic that is said to have fell the son of a god?" Agatha asked from the side.

  "Two things," Elizabeth said, raising one finger, "It isn't a problem when the crazed cultists use it? And two, I found it."

  "Well, he summoned an angelic being, who then in turn summoned an imitation. He 't actually summon the real thing," Agatha answered the first question, "And sed, you 't just…find these things. If the church saw it, they would attempt to take it from you!"

  Elizabeth dismissed the spear away with a flick of her mind, "Well, I did find it…engraved within [Akasha], and that is how I got it, my skill lets me summon things engraved there." Elizabeth didn't quite uand how that thing worked, since she hadn't it for long.

  And worst of all, it was of Akira before, so god knows how that thing actually worked, from the description Akira had amassed these things that were supposed to be used by an actual army of heroes, and instead kept them for himself.

  Elizabeth hadn't dived that far into the armory; she didn't want to find weird things…Actually…

  "Reginald? When you make a list of the things within the armory, make sure nothing weird is there." Elizabeth sent the and to her loyal minion.

  He was in charge of the thing after they found that fragment of Aetheria, so he probably would be the best to do it…If she offered it to Rossie or Rena they may be willing to do it, but she didn't want them to awake sad memories from Akira.

  The st time that one of them awoke old trauma they spent two months rec from it.

  "...I don't even wanna think about how you got that, what is your Mother even thinking..or was it your father the one who gave that to you?" Agatha groaned as the video kept reprodug.

  "Eli, I think the important bit is about to show, we batha ter." Rena said from the side, bringitention to the video.

  It seemed as if [The Warlock] had tinued rambling about things or whatnot, and at some point, he had destroyed the angelic being.

  "Well, that was fun and all, but we are running out of the time I set up for this so I'll go ahead and bring your demise," [The Warlock] said to the white-robed man, who at this point was merely frothing at the mouth, that couldn't be healthy, "By the accord signed uhe De'Medicci blood, I summon thy. Keeper of the gates of hell, arbiter of death and the spirits that haunt on the night…e…Daughter of Hell…e forth…■■■■■■■!"

  Uhe Warlock] 's feet, a circle with way too many pointy ends formed; at the middle of it entagram spinning, and from it, shadowy hands seemed to try to escape from within, which looked oddly familiar.

  Hadn't the souls trapped within [The Shadow Tide] look like that?

  "What did he summon?" Rossie asked from the side, "I only heard static."

  "He used the True Name of that thing, only those uhe tract hear it." Agatha answered, "That was what I was going to teach you girls at the start of this year, summoning and means to proteeself from them."

  As they spoke a lithe figure started emerging from within the circle, at first it was as if the figure of a girl covered in inky sludge-like material, but as her body pierced the circle more and more her figure started showing.

  "See how [The Warlock] is standing iop of the pentagram but within a sedary magic circle? That keeps him safe from any attempt from the summon he called upon." Agatha expined and zoomed into the [Warlock] 's feet, "Even though he should have a good retionship with his summon since he isn't paying anything…at least quite yet."

  The figure of the Girl became more clear, it was a young girl that looked roughly the same age as Elizabeth, she had blonde(Almost silver) hair and was wearing a white suit that matched her white skiie was as bck as the night and for some reason her eyes sclera was yellow with red pupils and atop her head stood two bck horns.

  "She looks kind of cute," Rena was the first oo speak.

  "Beg you pardon?" Agatha asked aghast.

  "I mean…she looks kind of cute. Right Rossie? Eli?" Rena said, turning to both girls with a slight blush on her face.

  "I guess?" Elizabeth said, unsure of what to think; she…was aware that her tastes had ged somewhat to aodate her newfound i in cute girls, ohat some people may think was nurtured by the slow cooking that Rossie had done.

  But…that demonic Girl? She was kind of pin. She didn't had a cute bossom like Rossie, nreat assets as Rena.

  Her skin ale white, and the best thing she had going or her was the silver(Blonde-ish) hair. But besides that? Nothing.

  "If you think she is cute, then she is cute," Rossie went for the safe answer.

  "But…Look! She has the best traits!" Rena said, pointing desperately at the s, "She has horns(Handles), a tail(leash), and great hair!"

  Elizabeth… hadn't thought about horns and the tail like that.

  "Handles and leash huh…." Rossie said with an impish smile.

  ht, Rossie had horns and tail… Elizabeth would test that use ter……this year.

  "...please don't brandish your meal in front of a starving woman." Agatha whispered in a low enough tohat Elizabeth barely caught on to it, but before she could say anything Agatha said aloud, "That is enough, now look what a tracted demon is capable of."

  The three girls focused once more into the holos, "You summon me again for these kinds of things?" They could hear the annoyed, high-pitched voice of the demonic Girl, definitely not what Elizabeth expected, at least.

  "Cut me some sck, look at him, he looks to be some high-ranking something-something within his anization," [The Warlock] said shrugging, "He attacked me with holy ons! I could have died!"

  Elizabeth could see the fake ag from this side, the man retending, pretending to be someone else, something else.

  "Whatever, what would you have me do? tractor." The Girl asked grumbling, "Better be something good after you are usio repce your tract with ■■■■■■■."

  Elizabeth was a those, she was already annoyed before when the whole 'sored' arted showing up, and was more annoyed now that they showed up again.

  " we do something about those bck characters?" Elizabeth asked, "They annoy me,"

  "Not unless you breach our reality into the ohey e from," Agatha said shaking her head, "They aren't meaningless, they are a way to make sure the demons aren't further tied to other beings, for creatures made up of mana. Their [True Name] is both a signature and a way to be tied down."

  Elizabeth grumbled about the injusti this world and turo look at the s.

  There the silver-haired Girl grew horns ahery wings on her back. Turning to the right Elizabeth could see Rena lig her lips, so that was really her type huh.

  To the left she found Rossie merely narrowing her eyes, and while the pink-haired Girl didn't lick her lips, Elizabeth did notice a flicker of pink going to her eyes.

  So both girls found that oo her tastes?

  Elizabeth could not see what they saw on the silvery-yellow Girl with horns, leathery wings and a tail. But she would respect their tastes nontheless, perhaps after dealing with [The Warlock] Elizabeth could attempt to vihe Girl to join their group?

  She could use the help to maerra Nexus.

  Either way, she had some degree of power, as Elizabeth saw her summoniacles from magical circles that went and first restraihe white-robed man, thehat was dohese started draining him of his mana, and when that was dohese turned into mao keep him restrained.

  "See? If I was the horrible being you think you would be dead, or sacrificed to those evil gods you cim I serve," [The Warlock] said turning to the demon girl.

  "Not to me you won't, you know I don't accept souls as payments. Only Mana." The Girl said, earnira points on Elizabeth's mind, she was better than [The Warlock] already.

  "Right, thanks for ing, princess," [The Warlock] said as the Girl sank into the ground as if she was in a liquid.

  Agatha didn't wait a sed and ehe video rec, "And that is [The Warlock]. As you see, not only is he powerful, but he and will summon demons to aid him. Besides this one, he was a fallen angel soldier, a demonic spider, gargoyles, imps, and a couple extras around. Besides the inal tract that made him this powerful, he hasn't summohe st one since [Advent]. But we don't know if that is because it is no longer worth it for him..."

  "Or he broke his tract," Rossie said from the side, "Maybe he did something during [Advent] that made him either break his tract... or the demon broke his tract wheempted to do something."

  Now that was an iing take, what the hell was [The Warlock] doing during [The Advent] that made him or his tracted demon sour their retionship. Elizabeth would o check if she could find that out; if she could, that could be useful to their ends.