After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King

"Just to be clear, although we've brought Yila here, neither Jaiil nor I will be helping out. Yila, you need to think this through... You want to know how to get to the Spirit Realm, there must be more convenient ways. Perhaps the Starlight Body knows."

Wenresa said this, looking at the human woman nodding her head, and at the one sitting next to her with glasses... it seemed that Youyou didn't understand what was happening, looking utterly puzzled.

*Youyou thought: Hmm? I'm still doing the population count... So, why did they call me here?*

Wenresa didn't even spare a glance at Leonard, who kept coughing.

The man in the trench coat looked pale, and during a break in his coughing, he greeted Yila and said, "Hello, welcome... I deeply apologize for attempting to kill you with Raphael earlier."

Yet, Yila had no idea this had happened...

"..."

Yila fell silent for a moment, unsure why, despite being outsiders, this Leonard felt so different from Wenresa and the human woman.

Leonard always looked exhausted, as if he needed every chance to seek help for his so-called "help," which seemed really... pitiful.

"Hello, I am Yila Elkaras... If you mean helping to kill the Evil God's Followers, I suppose I can give it a try. I hope you can fulfill your promise afterward."

Yila said this, then looked at Wenresa, who wore a slightly disdainful expression, and asked, "If even outsiders can only barely manage, just how strong are these Evil God's Followers?"

"..."

"Very weak, at least weaker than you imagine... According to Main Plane standards, the weakest of the Evil God's Followers are only at the Swordmaster level, and the strongest are still not worth mentioning to us outsiders."

Leonard explained, sighing helplessly, and then said, "But, they are numerous, and attacks involving Mana are ineffective against them... You'll understand when you see it later."

Leonard showed his throwing knives and the sword at his waist, saying, "This means that even as an outsider, I can't kill a lot of the Evil God's Followers at once; we just need more manpower."

Because even as outsiders, without using Mana, few could quickly perform wide-scale damage... Outsiders could get exhausted too and could only carry out tasks like "decapitation operations."

"The hunting teams, many are only legends, right? Some aren't even legends... Are outsiders just an emergency measure?"

Yila asked, looking at Wenresa, suddenly recalling what the woman from the World Tree said, then looked at Leonard and asked, "If given command of ten outsiders, how long would it take you to eliminate the calamity of the Evil God's Followers?"

The self-proclaimed goddess serpent woman had said...

"In fact, those calamities aren't too difficult to handle... Do you know the Evil God's Followers? Just three outsiders leading hunting teams have firmly kept them outside the Main Plane."

"Although it wasn't the calamity itself, and maybe the calamity had been resolved from the start... Hmm, you'll understand what it means later."

"But at least it proves that as long as the outsiders unite, any calamity can be easily solved. The children of those 'gods' have already grown up."

"What a pity..."

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"..."

At this, Leonard thought for a moment, then said helplessly, "If they are outsiders proficient in non-Mana methods... within three months? The Evil God's Followers could be completely eradicated."

This timeframe was much shorter than Yila had imagined, but... it was just a hypothesis.

"But, the Evil God's Followers... they look disgusting and are really dirty~ We don't want to help with that."

The human woman said this, shrugging and signaling Wenresa to leave. She gave Yila a thumbs-up and said, "If you want to return to the Main Plane later, just call our names!"

With that, the human woman and Wenresa took a step back, merged into the door made of air ripples, and disappeared.

"Dirty..."

Youyou repeated the human woman's words, not knowing what to say. She once was a Ghost Maid... possibly one of the Demon King Territory's most unafraid of dirt.

Because her sensitivity and diligence towards money gradually made her the financial manager of the Demon King Territory, she had once been at the bottom; she would clean the Demon King Territory's toilets and float into the sky to clean corners only reachable by flying Succubus Maids.

But even after reaching a high position, Youyou never considered anything to be dirty... Even with her current status, no longer at the bottom, she remained the same.

"Outsiders are so finicky... Luckily, there are still outsiders willing to protect the world."

Youyou commented, and Leonard only smiled wryly. Yila shook his head and said, "Perhaps it's not like that, maybe that person just fears filth... Most outsiders likely find it tedious?"

Leonard looked at Yila's speculation, slightly surprised that Yila discovered the truth quickly... Yila was right; the main reason outsiders weren't interested in helping was that it was too boring.

Day after day staying in this world... tedious and nerve-wracking.

"Alright, if you want to go to the Spirit Realm, you need a ghost as an anchor, venturing into the ghost's 'inside,' where each soul's corresponding home in the Spirit Realm is hidden."

Leonard explained complexly, confusing many... like Youyou, who looked puzzled at her own body, not understanding why there would be a 'home' inside herself or what 'inside' meant.

But Yila understood; after all, he was a legitimate Mage from the Pure White Tower.

"In simple terms, it's easy for a ghost to enter the Spirit Realm, but for other races... living beings to enter the Spirit Realm, they need to use the ghost's inside to temporarily qualify their body. This process must be done in the independence of the Spirit Realm's 'home'?"

Yila said this, and Leonard nodded, saying, "Yes, in other words, you need to leave your Mana inside this ghost... the Mana that symbolizes your soul."

Youyou: Guh?!!!

"..."

Yes, as Youyou misunderstood, genetic material could also be used, but usually, Mages would choose something else.

Yila saw Youyou's shocked face, knowing her magic level wasn't very high, he nodded and said, "I understand, bodily fluids are the soul's symbol, blood is the soul's token."

Youyou: ...

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Youyou: How terrifying!!