Chapter 15 - Petty Silver & Arrogant Red

The place Argent went to is a town near the previous port city. The port city is currently inhabited by demons.

Guy's demons seem to be having fun. I heard from him that he does this regularly. It shouldn't cause trouble to interfere a bit right?

This is a type of resistance from the human side anyway. The type of development and progress that he would want. To keep them unified.

He gathered information in the town. It has become a place filled with soldiers and mercenaries. It looked like it was renovated to look more like a fort or a border city that protects the nation.

The info gathered was; the demons just attacked about two weeks ago; the port fell about five days ago; the people decided to abandon the port and made the next town a stronghold until reinforcement arrived.

Argent informed the people in charge of the town, about his contract with the king. After this, he left to eliminate the demons and let the others take care of the aftermath.

Argent flew above the port. He could see the demons all over the place. Greater demons and lesser demons form most of the population. However, there were archdemons mixed in the crowd.

He targeted the archdemons first. He dropped straight to the strongest one that he deemed the most threatening. Albeit, still relatively weak for someone like Argent.

He took the demon by the head and cast magic that burned the demon's head.

The other demons noticed him and started to gather around and ganged up on him.

He received them all with a smile on his face. He materialized the sword that he once used to fight noir. And started slashing and stabbing the demons with his sword coated with Battlewill.

After about more than an hour of killing demons. The port became quiet, all of the living beings aside from Argent were now dead.

That was until he came.

"And here I thought a savior(Saint) class person appeared. It's just you Argent." smiled the red-haired demon.

"Good to see you too guy." said Argent. "Sorry but, the contract wanted me to remove the demons attacking the borders."

"Hoh~ does that include me?" Guy grinned.

"That depends, will you leave quietly?" Argent also grinned.

"Well aren't cha getting arrogant here? Hmm, you seem more like us primordial for some reason. Is it because of that?"

"Maybe or maybe not."

"Well let's see your improvement in fighting. Don't worry I'll hold back." Guy raised his hand and cast a large magic circle above him.

"Well then, let me show you!"

The Magic attack that guy cast was blocked by Argent's barriers. The attack instead hit the port.

Ahh. That's not good.

Argent cast multiple magics toward the guy as well. While flying around him.
In truth, the reason for this tactic is to change location and not damage the port as much as possible.

Guy, knowing Argent's planned followed suit. The two then fought casting magic attacks at each other until they were above the ocean between the frozen continent and the central continent.

"As I thought, it's impossible to beat you. Even though, your holding back." complained Argent.

"Of course, it would be embarrassing to be defeated by you in this state after all hahaha." replied Guy.
"well that's enough magic for now."

Guy materialize a sword. No he took out a sword from his Spatial storage. It takes the appearance of a long curved single-edged blade. It's grade level was mythical.

"Hey! Hey! What is that!? Isn't that unfair? That looks much stronger than any weapon I've ever seen."

"Oh this?" pointed guy. "it was given to me by Veldanava. Something about, since I never actually received payment for being a mediator so he gave me this as a reward."

"What about my weapon...." grumbled Argent to himself. The weapon Veldanava promised him wasn't given because of his death.

Using Argent's own sword. The two had a sword fight in the air above the ocean. The fight was pure Swordsmanship, no magic was used to attack the other.

They continued to slash at each other for several minutes. In those minutes, Argent's sword had repeatedly been broken. And, he would continue to create new swords to fight.

Unlike Guy's appearance, Argent is completely covered in slash wounds all over his body.

And then, Argent steeled himself and for the last time rushed to guy with all his strength.

"-and that's the reason for the missing arm here." said Argent to the others. Pointing his limbless right arm.

"Well, that was reckless of you Ar-chi." replied Rain.

"Indeed, fighting Guy-sama was beyond reckless." added Misery.

"By the way, what about your contract with the nation?" asked Velzard.

"Ah, don't worry, guy retreated his demons when we started to fight. So, I accomplished my goal in the end of stopping the demon attack. I informed the nation, that the demons have been taken care off." reassured Argent.

The four of them are talking in the balcony of the castle in the frozen continent. They are sitting on a round circle with tea in front of each.

"There, you're all good now." said Misery, who has been healing Argent's arm.

"Thanks misery."

"No problem"

"Ar-chi! Let's have another cook off like before. I won't lose to you now unlike before!" said Rain, she probably waited for when Argent got his arm back before challenging him.

"Ohh? That sounds interesting!" Guy who just came said.

"Indeed, your food has always been delicious Argent." agreed Velzard.

"The three of us will be your judge." even Misery was looking forward to the food.

It was common knowledge to everyone, that Argent's food is the best food anyone could ever taste.

He was the mentor of Rain and misery in cooking and is still to this moment undefeated in cooking.

"Well, I don't mind. But what about the ingredients?" asked Argent.

"Don't worry, I've already ordered my subordinates to gather the ingredients." said Rain.

And so, the two started making dishes that would make sure of them winning. Here is what they made:

Rain:
Black tiger stew
Golden peach sherbet

Argent:
Archdragon meat steak
Chocolate truffle cheesecake

"Hey! I never heard of that dessert before!" complained Rain.

"Of course not, I just discovered it from an Otherworlder when I was working at twilight's facility."

"But you're always inside that place. When did you have the time to learn that?" asked Rain.

"Easy, the Otherworlder is one of the people we experimented on. In exchange for his safety, I bargained for him to teach me everything he knew about cooking. It seems he was something called a pastry chef? before coming to this world."

"That's unfair! Judges! He's cheating!"

"I don't see how that is cheating? Isn't the competition about who can cook better? So, all you have to do is cook something better."

"But, but! The chocolate thing! I've never even heard of that before!" Rain kept complaining.

In the end, the winner was obviously Argent. He stopped her whining by giving her a larger portion of the dessert.

And, the rest savored their food.

".... Hey I've been keeping quiet but... I feel like my portion is smaller than the others. Specifically around one third smaller." complained guy.

"What are you implying guy? You must be imaging things, I gave you all equal portions." replied Argent looking hurt by his comment.

"No, no no! Look at there's from mine! Is this because of earlier?! Is this suppose to be revenge? That's petty of you!" guy kept complaining about his small portion of the food.

"Guy you shouldn't act that way." said Velzard. "your imaging it, it's probably because you ate it fast that is why it looked smaller."

"Well... That may be true... It was very delicious maybe- Hey! Why does Velzard get another portion. Hey did you get bribed?!"

The dessert that Argent was slipping to Velzard was caught. Velzard clicked her tongue similarly Argent as well.

"Tsk, that's how you wanna play it." whispered guy. "Argent-kun, I heard you got killed by Velgrynd."

Argent glared at guy.

And guy grinned at Argent.

"From what I've heard it was quite the fight! Why don't you tell everyone the details in how you fought magnificently with the scorch dragon Velgrynd!" Guy mockingly said. "Oh wait! Since you got revive, did you lost perhaps? I mean of course you would. But I wanna know, what kind of life or death situation was there when you were about to die. Was it a trump card of Velgrynd or a sneak attack because you were a troublesome opponent."

"Guy.. From what I hear you seem to be picking a fight?" asked Argent with a smile.

"Oh my, are you sure? You just got revive didn't you? Don't push yourself too much." Guy smiled back at Argent.

"Of course not, I wouldn't even think myself capable of winning a fight with you. However-" with a snap of a finger from Argent.

"Ahhh!!! You bastard! Where'd my food go!?!" the food In front of Guy disappeared.

"What's wrong? I thought you hated it? So I disposed of it. You should be thanking me, because since you don't like my cooking. I won't cook anymore for you." Argent replied with a face of triumph.

His face says "there's more than one way to win a fight"

"Bastard... Alright fine I give. Bring it back." guy raised his hand showing his defeat.

"There it wasn't that hard right? I'll even give you another portion since you admitted it." said Argent. "as humiliating as my death was, I'll make sure next time I'll be defeated under better circumstances."

Argent stayed for a few days in the frozen continent with the others. He taught rain and misery new dishes. However, he kept the chocolate dessert for himself as leverage for guy.

Once he left, he went to the facility of Twilight. He still had some years left from the contract.

Once he was in the entrance, he went inside even without permission.

He was approached by the inhabitants of the facility.

"Argi-kun~!!! Welcome back~ seriously I was worried about you." Twilight practically jumped to Argent. In which, he dodged by moving to the side.

"I still have a few years here, I won't just ran away from that." Argent said matter-of-factly.

The others greeted Argent as well and everything went back to normal.

"So Luminas, how was it here when I was gone. Can you update me on anything knew." Argent was currently walking side by side with Luminas to finish the checking of the spirits in the capsules.

Luminas kept silent the entire time until they reached a door in the hallway.

She grabbed Argent by his arm and pulled him in the room with her. Argent was surprised by Luminas action.

Once inside, she locked the door and pushed him to the wall and with both hands in Argent's clothing near the collar she pushed the collar aside and bit his neck.

The magicules were leaving Argent's body and going to Luminas. Normally if this suddenly happened, Argent would have pushed her.

"I guess you missed me huh? Luminas" he patted her head as she continues to bite his neck.

Well it has been a long time since our last session like this.

She opened her eyes and glared at him.

"I'm sorry, I mean Lumi"

She closed her eyes and focused on taking his magicules.

Unknown to everyone in the facility. When they let Luminas drink from Argent's magicules. She got addicted to the taste, she would occasionally do stunts like this.

Like dragging Argent to a room and take some magicules from him. He has already gotten used to it.

She let go of his neck and looked him in the eyes. Her eyes glowed both blue and red as they looked at Argent in the eyes.

"Next time you get killed like that, I'll kill you myself got it?" said Luminas angrily. She then let go of Argent's clothes and walked out of the room.

Argent sighed and followed her like nothing happened. And that's how the everyday life in the facility continued like normal.

A/N: another week another chapter. There really wasn't anything new about this chapter but tying some loose ends to make sure Argent can move around freely after this.

By that I mean, he'll be leaving the Facility either next chapter or the one after. Either way after that he'll go to Veldanava to get his upgrades and weapon.

The rematch will take time to happen. Because Argent won't just suddenly become strong to defeat Velgrynd. I don't like sudden power ups without proper foreshadowing or reason/explanation of the origin.

Veldanava giving power ups is okay.

timeskip and suddenly Argent is true demon lord level is a big no.

I added some lore in what happens inside the facility. 😉 A bit late for valentines day. (lol get it? Valentines? Cause you know... Luminas is.. Haha.. 🕳️🚶‍♂️I'll see myself out)