The Reincarnation Room
Devourer City

Although Shana leaves Ryan's apartment, she doesn't go very far. Shana is sitting on the roof of a building not far from Ryan's apartment. He also chose a building with a position that makes it easy to see firsthand the room Ryan Apartment.

Shortly after, Alastor's voice came out from the pendant that Shana was wearing. “This is not like you normally are. You who usually will not be this emotional in humans, let alone care about it”

Right, the usual Shana won't be this emotional. 

Although Shana uses reason to protect Reiji Maigo from the Crimson Denizen, deep down, she only wants to protect Ryan. It's just, Shana doesn't want to be honest about this.

Seeing Ryan cooking a pack of instant noodles to fill her stomach, Shana could only stare at Ryan full of hatred. Moments later, he muttered, “I really hate him so much.”

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The next day, Ryan very early left his room and went out of the apartment building.

On the rooftop of the building close to Ryan's Apartment, Shana stood tall in the middle of the morning breeze. He continued to stare at Ryan's figure who was walking slowly on the pedestrian path. A look full of upheaval appeared in Shana's eyes.

Perhaps, to others, Ryan seemed to be just walking around enjoying the morning air.

However, Shana can see that Ryan is not just taking a aimless walk. Very hidden and fast, a flash of light resembling a crescent moon came out.

These flashes of light always come out when Ryan runs into people who have somewhat lethargic facial expressions.

Those people are Torch that will be extinguished in less than three days.

Every time Ryan goes through one or two Torchs simultaneously, Ryan's hands will seem a little shaky. This is because Ryan has done a high-speed slash to cut the death line Torch nearby.

Shortly thereafter, the Torch that had cut off its death line was instantly burnt to ashes and disappeared in midair.

Ryan kept doing this kind of work and kept killing the Torch he saw in Misaki City.

"The person ..." Shana groaned in a low voice, "What do you want to achieve by doing such a thing?"

“Yesterday, the guy seemed to say that if he got rid of all the Torch Hunter created, then Hunter would come out by itself.” Alastor replied, “Maybe that's the reason that guy killed a lot of Torch today.”

“But, why killing the Torch that Friagne made will lure him out?” ask Shana.

The existence of the Torch was originally intended to prevent the death of a large number of humans causing distortions in this world.

However, this was a matter that only the Flame Haze needed to worry about. If the Crimson Denizen cared about this matter, then they would not have come from the Crimson Realm to the human world.

Therefore, Crimson Denizen had no reason to worry about the Torch problem. They would only leave some residue after swallowing the Power of Existence and making it into a Torch to avoid distorting the world that would attract the arrival of the Flame Haze.

In other words, the Flame Haze and Crimson Denizen would both create a Torch with the remnants of the Power of Existence with different purposes. The Flame Haze made it to maintain the balance of the world, whereas the Crimson Denizen made it to dodge the pursuit of the Flame Haze.

However, the two entities did not care at all about Torch's survival.

But Friagne was obsessed with Torch, and it was very strange. This means that the Torch-Torch has a use for Friagne.

Therefore, when Ryan eliminated Torch earlier, Friagne not only sent Rinne in large numbers to investigate, but he also came directly to the location.

Based on Ryan's actions the previous day that proved successful, Ryan's action the day could be considered a natural thing.

“But, what exactly is the purpose of Hunter using the Torch-Torch?” whispered Shana to herself.

Suddenly, Alastor spoke. "A long time ago, in the western border region, there was once an extremely powerful Crimson Lord. The Crimson Lord engulfed the humans and left behind many Torch. In the Torch he created, he left an invisible magic seal."

Alastor's overly sudden explanation, made Shana a little surprised.

However, regardless of Shana Alastor's expression, he continued his words. 

"The role of such a magic seal is to control all Torch that has a seal and turn it into Power of Existence simultaneously."

"All Torch?" Shana immediately reacted and said with a face full of astonishment. "Don't if it was done, it would create a huge distortion?"

Although Torch's role is to defuse conflict and slow down distortions of the world, but if a large number of Torch lose their form at the same time and transform into the Power of Existence, then the effect would be the same as the humans that had been swallowed by the Crimson Denizen.

This will cause distortions of the world. And if the number of Torch like this is very large and spread throughout the city, then …

"It would make the entire city like a giant snowball made entirely of immense and pure Power of Existence."

Alastor with a heavy tone of voice, gave such a statement.

"We call this Mantra the City Devourer."

The City of Devourer was a Secret Infinite Spell that could transform an entire townspeople into a Power of Existence with high purity.

"If this Secret Infinite Spell is successfully performed in this city, then not only will the city of Misaki be lost forever, but there will also be great distortions in this world."

"In addition, the Crimson Lord who managed to consume all of those Power of Existence would naturally become extremely powerful" explained Alastor.

Shana then asked, "What happened to Crimson Denizen who used City Devourer before?"

"At that time, there were many Flame Haze and even Crimson Lord, joining together against him. It took us a long time to defeat him." Alastor said, "Right then, he had absorbed all the Power of Existence from the entire city. He was the strongest Crimson Denizen at the time."

"If there aren't many Crimson Lords involved in that great battle, I can't imagine what will happen to this world …"

"Then ..." Shana asked directly, "Will Hunter do the same?"

"I can't be sure yet. But for sure, Friagne needs a large number of Torch. And judging from his madness yesterday when he wanted to take Reiji Maigo, there is no doubt that Hunter's plan requires a lot of Power of Existence" explained Alastor.

Although Reiji Maigo can only recover his owner's Power of Existence every midnight, but this simple effect has no upper limit at all.

That means, if the owner has a very large Power of Existence, then Reiji Maigo will also recover that much Power of Existence.

If Friagne really needed a lot of Power of Existence, then Reiji Maigo was definitely a shortcut to achieving his goal.

"So that's it." Shana nodded. "If that's the case, then Friagne's behavior in making many Torch can be explained."

"If it were just that, I wouldn't care." Alastor's tone of voice became serious. "If the City Devourer were to really happen, then the distortion caused would be extremely serious. Therefore, we must not let it succeed!"

"Yes .." Shana replied, "Of course. I'm not gonna let that happen."