Date- 13 April 2321

Time- 9:49

Location- Southern Region, Southern Capital

After a lot of consideration Ann at the risk of disagreeing with Wyatt decided to retreat to the safety of the Timeless array formation covering the Southern royal palace grounds. 

The rampage of the six devils and the damage to the Southern capital was unavoidable, right now the only thing that mattered was to protect Dalton Wyatt at all costs from any that wished to harm him. 

Ann suddenly remembered the conversation she had with her mother this morning regarding Wyatt’s protection detail. 

‘Ann, honey, your preparations for Wyatt’s protection detail are enough but there will come a time when you will have to act to protect Wyatt from himself. Do you understand what I am saying?’ 

Ann did not understand what her mother was trying to hint at back then but now watching Wyatt recklessly hover in the air despite the city being surrounded by six devils and their demon army not to mention the unknown number of enemies hiding in the dark Ann understood what her mother was trying to say with words, ‘Saving Wyatt from himself.’

Right now, Ann felt as if Wyatt did not know fear. As she could not see the slightest hint of fear in his eyes. Instead, she found pure excitement in them. Yes, Wyatt appeared to be excited witnessing the arrival of six devils. 

Ann could not help but wonder when did Wyatt develop suicidal tendencies? Was it when he faked his death? 

Regardless if he cared or did not care for his life, she did. Not just because of her feelings for him but because his life represented the life of billions of people across the world. His well-being represented the well-being of billions of people across the southern region and beyond. Every breath he took was not just for him but for the people of this world. He had to live so the people of this world could live a life worth living. 

Resolving her mind, Ann decisively came to a decision that regardless of what Wyatt thought she was going to retreat him to the safety of the royal palace grounds. However, just when she was planning to order him and the team to retreat while the other teams covered them a deafening outcry interrupted her— 

“Dalton Wyatt, I have returned to collect your soul!” 

Listening to the devil’s shout Ann, Jill, and the 15 demigod teams were all shocked. Their eyes moved to the source of the sound, only to find a grey-skinned humanoid giant with a mohawk and boar tusk sticking out of its mouth carrying a huge wooden hourglass containing golden sand on it’s back. 

Looking at the devil, Ann quickly began to bark orders, “Team four to team fifteen, form a group of six and deal with the six devils and their demon army with the support of the turrets. Teams two and three cover our backs from hostiles while team one guards our retreat back to the Southern Royal Palace grounds.” 

“Affirmative, Your Highness Southern Emperor,” all teams responded in unison. 

Ann flashed next to Wyatt, grabbing his hand she pulled shouting, “Let’s go!” 

However, the next second Ann found that she was only holding Wyatt’s detached arm, not the entire Wyatt. He had sacrificed his hand to escape her grasp. Considering his incredible regeneration prowess Ann was not worried by this but she frowned seeing Wyatt not cooperate with her. So she yelled at him in frustration, “Wyatt, what are you doing? I am in charge of your security detail, you do as I say. Get back here, we are retreating to the royal palace grounds this instant.” 

“What’s the rush Ann, the party just got interesting. Stick around, today we tell the world, Dalton Wyatt is nobody’s property,” Wyatt yelled as he looked at the hourglass devil with his soul pupils feeling a similar demonic energy from it.

The humanoid figure in black suddenly moved, alerting teams one, two, and three. However, seeing it was heading toward the devil and not Wyatt they did not act but decided to wait and watch. 

“Devil Merchant Ezra, this is not what we agreed on. Pick a vessel you like, possess it, kill the rest, and leave,” nearing the hourglass devil the corpse puppet ordered it using its true name. 

“And who might you be to tell me what to do?” Devil Merchant Ezra questioned the corpse puppet with a deep frown. 

“It doesn’t matter who I am, just follow the summon contract and we are golden,” The corpse puppet, unlike Ada, did not care about addressing the devil with politeness and humbleness just to satisfy the devil’s ego. But acted blandly as if this was just another deal. 

“Oh,” Devil Merchant Ezra looked at the corpse puppt in disgust and threw a punch at it saying, “I’m tired of this charade. I don’t care about the summoning contract.” 

Seeing the incoming giant fist the corpse puppet released a noise while preparing to dodge the fist but before it could react it was blown to smithereens. 

Destroying the corpse puppet to bits with a single fist the devil slowly retracted its fist and with a deafeningly loud voice it announced, “I don’t care about the rest of you, I am here for Dalton Wyatt’s soul and anyone who comes in my way be prepared to meet your end.” 

The demigods from the fifteen teams of the Southern royal family were dumbstruck seeing the devil merchant Ezra kill the humanoid figure in black with a single punch. What’s shocking about this was that none of them saw the devil’s first hit the humanoid figure in black. Yet, it was blown to smithereens before any one of them could react. 

The humanoid figure in black was not an ordinary opponent, it was able to destroy the city array, dodge thousands of soul energy projectiles aimed at it effortlessly and enter the ‘one with the world’ state physically. It was so strong that the entire team two had to think twice before engaging it in a decisive battle. 

Someone of that caliber was defeated by the hourglass devil merchant Ezra with a single punch which they did not even manage to see connect with its target. All of the pits of their body were sweating a river with just the thought of going against such an opponent. 

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