A Demon's Journey

Roger House's Mansion.

Steven Roger, the Head of the Roger Dukedom, was having a fierce discussion with Shun.

"Why do you insist on hiring certain organizations to fight the Radiant Church, Inquisitor Fox? If word got out that the Roger Dukedom needed their support to survive, our reputation would be tarnished forever!" Steven Roger yelled.

Currently, Shun had just given a proposal for Steven Roger to hire the Nemesis Order, the Spectral Squad, and the Phantom Assembly to assist the Roger Dukedom in their battle against the Radiant Church.

Each one of these organizations was extremely famous within the Sinyalian Kingdom. Although their prestige wasn't at the level of the Silent Death Organization, it wasn't much less compared to it.

Both the Nemesis Order and the Spectral Squad were led by 6 Star Warriors, respectively.

However, just as Steven had spoken, if word got out that the Roger Dukedom required the support of these organizations to defeat the Radiant Church, their prestige would inevitably drop.

Shun appeared to have expected Steven Roger to be completely against his idea. He responded calmly, "Including you, there are three 6 Star Warriors within the Roger Dukedom. If even I know this without you telling me, then the Radiant Church should also be aware of it. Yet, they confidently stated they could deal with you. They actually declared it publicly. What do you think it means?"

"It wouldn't take a genius to figure out that they have some special means to deal with the 6 Star Warriors of the Roger Dukedom. As for how they will deal with them. It could be a Holy Pill, a Holy Weapon, an Array, or even the assistance of some warriors," Shun's voice was extremely harsh towards the end.

Steven understood what Shun wanted to say. In fact, he knew about it ever without Shun mentioning it.

He had already lost to the Radiant Church in terms of information warfare. They had some information about his trump cards, while he had no idea about their hidden aces.

"I believe it would be time for you to set your priorities straight. Do you want your Dukedom to survive or just your prestige?"

Shun cut off the connection between them after saying that.

He wasn't really angry at Steven, though. A man who led this Great Dukedom was bound to hesitate to take decisions that would harm his Noble House's prestige.

Currently, Steven was roaming on the streets of Rashire City without hiding his face.  Fortunately, this was the Northern Part of the Sinyalian Kingdom, and nobody recognized him here.

Even Steven Roger wasn't aware that Shun was strolling in Rashire City.

The reason for Shun to be strolling around in Rashire City was very simple. It was to gather information regarding the Radiant Church.

He knew that information would play a key role between the Roger Dukedom and the Radiant Church.

As a result, he came to obtain the least information to quickly update Steven Roger and avoid any delays on their end.

He also wanted to find out just who would be supporting the Radiant Church.

If he could figure out the identity of the warriors coming to support the Radiant Church, he could think of some countermeasures to nullify their abilities.

Shun bribed a few people who went to a place near the Radiant Church. After bribing them, he asked them a few questions regarding the Radiant Church. Like whether someone had visited them in the recent days or not.

After questioning 10 or so people, there was finally someone who could answer his questions.

It was a teenage boy at around 14 years of age. He spoke, "It was right after the Radiant Church announced that the Roger Dukedom had attacked and destroyed one of their churches in Kresa Town, killing everyone inside. My friends and I went to the Radiant Church to offer up our services to them."

Shun's expression turned grave. He had always known that the people believed a lot in the Radiant Church, but he had never expected their faith to be so strong.

Just because the Radiant Church had declared one of their churches was destroyed by the Roger Dukedom, the people believed them without any suspicion.

It had to be known that the Roger Dukedom had publicly denied any accusations by the Radiant Church. However, it didn't seem to matter to these people.

Shun didn't cut him off, though. He continued to listen to the boy, "At that time, we weren't allowed to enter the Radiant Church. The deacon mentioned that it was because the Pope was meeting someone important. So we had to return."

"When we came outside, we saw that a carriage with the Walsh Dukedom's symbol stood on the side."

"Walsh Dukedom?" When Shun heard that it was someone from Walsh Dukedom, he wasn't worried or anxious. In fact, he appeared to be extremely happy.

His deduction was correct!

The Walsh Dukedom was truly involved in this matter. And now, they were probably trying to join hands with the Radiant Church.

But this wasn't the only thing he had deduced.

This was because he had deduced that Edwin Rhodes was the Dark Shadow. A 5 Star Array Master who had assigned many Noble Families.

He managed to deduce the truth regarding the Dark Shadow's identity by personally visiting Kloras Town just a month ago.

A month ago, Shun had also heard about the appearance of a mysterious array master who would help Noble Families.

A few investigators were sent to find the identity of this Mysterious Array Master named Dark Shadow.

However, no matter how well they investigated, they came up with nothing. One of the investigators was Shun's good friend, and he asked for Shun's help.

Even after Shun's advice, his friend and his group could not find anything related to Dark Shadow's True Identity.

This made Shun quite curious about this Dark Shadow. He had already asked his friend's group to check out the suspicious locations, but they found nothing.

At that moment, he recalled the detail that Edwin Rhodes was a reincarnated Demon God, and he was also an Array Master. Perhaps even an Array Grandmaster.

Once he recalled that detail, he asked them to investigate which arrays he worked on and how they worked.

Shun personally requested the King to send a few Array Masters to investigate those arrays.

The 5 Star Array Masters in the nearby area around those Noble Families paid a visit to check out those arrays.

Each one of them was full of praise regarding the arrays. Whether it was the concept, the ability, and effectiveness, it had reached a level beyond their understanding.

In fact, a few of these array masters even experienced enlightenment, and their abilities were enhanced after analyzing those arrays.

Once Shun heard them, he was 40% sure of his guess. To be more than 70% sure, he had to check out Kloras Town.

According to what he knew, Dark Shadow was last spotted in the Sutton House nearly 2 days ago.

This meant that no matter how quick Edwin was, he couldn't complete his task in Sutton Noble House within 2 days and reach Kloras Town before Shun.

The distance between the Sutton House's territory and Kloras Town was larger than between Kloras Town and Vanta City.

Thus, Shun immediately departed for Kloras Town.

It took him just a bit more than a week to reach Kloras Town. And after reaching Kloras Town, he was delighted to see that his guess was turning out to be correct.

Edwin Rhodes wasn't in Kloras Town.

In fact, as he asked in Town, it seemed as though he hadn't made a public appearance within the last few months, which coincided with the arrival and works of Dark Shadow.

Now, Shun was nearly 70% sure of his guess.

A week or so later, he found out that a Radiant Church's branch in Kresa Town had been destroyed, and it was the Roger Dukedom who did it.

Shun immediately contacted his Inquisitor friends and asked them to check whether or not the Roger Dukedom or the Radiant Church was looking for a 5 Star Array Master recently.

Nearly half a day later, his friends contacted him and informed him that neither of the two was actually looking for a 5 Star Array Master. In reality, it was the Walsh Dukedom that was looking for a 5 Star Array Master.

Once Shun heard about it, he understood the situation and knew Dark Shadow's current location. It was the Walsh Dukedom!

And now, after the information that the Walsh Dukedom had joined hands with the Radiant Church to attack the Roger Dukedom, he was utterly sure of his guess.

Although he didn't perfectly understand why Edwin would attack the Roger Dukedom, that was no longer the main point. Perhaps that Demon God merely wanted to weaken the Sinyalian Kingdom.

If that was the case, then he couldn't allow the Roger Dukedom to lose this battle.

Shun immediately contacted Steven Roger and informed him that the Walsh Dukedom had joined hands with the Radiant Church.

They were going to launch a coordinated attack at the Roger Dukedom.

Now, this information was more than enough for Steven Roger to let go of his pride and hire the organizations mentioned by Shun.

Since the Roger Dukedom was outnumbered against the Walsh Dukedom and the Radiant Church, they had to balance the scales by adding more parties.