Sophia Demiurge

Chapter 104: Recycled Strategy

[3rd Person POV]

The day had already started, yet the sun still did not reveal its majesty as if still urging people to sleep so that they could replenish as much energy as possible for another hustle and bustle, in a certain convenience store near the periphery of the city of Heimdall, near the adjacent forest.

The store owner was sleeping on the counter, snoring loudly, he had been busy all day and wanted to catch up on some rest, so he did not go upstairs to his bed but instead just slept in the nearest spot his tired body could reach.

Suddenly, as the man was snoring he heard a seemingly ethereal whisper.

"Wake up..."

The man's eyebrows knitted as he opened his eyes, alongside the obvious annoyed gesture, his nails started to morph as his pupils into a vertical slit, and at the same time his canine teeth elongated, that's right, the "owner" of the convenience store is a devil, a devil sneaked in by Hebi and designated to one of her core subordinates, Flou. This is an arrangement so that Flou can prepare against any intruder from the base designated to Flou, the other 3 subordinates also have such arrangements.

"What do you wish to be done, Flou?"

Even though they have a different standing, because of Flou's rather casual bearing, the people under him are used to calling him by his name, some say that the ambiance of Flou's team is better than the other three people under Hebi.

The man looked at his side, and there he saw a shadow that was thicker than it should have been, indicating Flou's arrival, the man who already confirmed that something serious might have happened was further confirmed when he saw the vice-captain of the operation personally visit him, he immediately asked, his voice full of seriousness and concern.

"What happened?"

Flou replied, his tone still plain.

"I was attacked by Sophia's subordinate without a single one of you alarming me, are you doing your job properly?"

The man suddenly shuddered, that is because he was acting like a genuine convenience store owner that he could not observe at night, well the man is known to be quite rash, to the point that even his devil-level stamina cannot catch up to him sometimes, good thing is that, as what he can see, the attack failed.

Just as he was about to sigh a long one because of relief, he suddenly heard his vice-captain, Flou chuckle, unknowingly, the man broke off in cold sweat.

"Because of all of you, they succeeded, and unfortunately, I want to show off to my master and use this opportunity to be given more important missions..."

Flou then suddenly went outside of the shadow, his eyes shining and his teeth could be seen because of his smile, his teeth had a rattling faint glow on them similar to his eyes, the man wanted to run, but the moment he saw the eyes of his former vice-captain that is now a grey colored walking corpse, he lost control of his body, he can only freeze in fear as Flou whispered on his ear.

"Die."

The man's heartbeat started to slow down, slower and slower until finally, he breathed his last breath without even having the chance to spout his last words. Flou sighed and then went out of the convenience store as he continued the mission given to him, for the sake of his rank and ultimately, for the sake of his new lady.

[Sophia's POV]

Hello, Sophia here, it is the 5th day of delaying.

I was looking at the sky that had just seen its first light on the fifth day of my appearance in Heimdall, I could not help but think hard about the way I had to scrap my plan, well of course, even though I scrapped the plan, my plot is still going smoothly. You see, my previous plan was to run away with the relic in advance with space magic, that way, the relic could safely go back to its rightful place while I distracted Hebi into thinking that I was fighting her for the possession of the relic, when in truth I was just using her to practice dark and space magic.