The people were fighting to take the shelters that Lh and Edith had provided. There were too many people and so few ces, and nobody wanted to give their spots to those who already got theirs. They didn''t care about older people, kids, or women, they only cared for themselves.


    Since there weren''t that many soldiers in New York, they couldn''t contain or calm the people. Their instructions were ignored, and even if they used force, nobody would care and keep fighting.


    "Look at those people. They dirtied and vandalized our buildings, and yet here they are, using our facilities with no shame," Lh said as she looked out at the street inside the car. "Once this is over, we can finally make this whole continent ours. There will be no one that can stop us now," Lh continued.


    "Isn''t the continent too big for all of us? What are we going to do with it?" Edith asked as she drove the car.


    "Who knows? Mykel is the one who nned to create an empire here, so I think he has something in mind," Lh answered and checked the short sword in her hands. "I might not be able to help much, so you''re going to handle everything. You take the lead and I''ll follow," Lh said.


    "But Miss Lh, don''t you have that skill? I think you can handle everything by yourself if you used it," Edith pointed out and looked at Lh.


    "I could, but there are too many eyes. Using it might stir problems and they would think that I''m not human," Lh said as she put the sword in the backseat. "They will be suspicious of me, and I don''t want that," Lh added and fixed her hair.


    "Well then, I''ll dly take the lead. It has been a while for me as well, but since these demons belong to Amaryllis, we won''t be taking it seriously. She had warned us and she personally told us that we will be fine," Edith pointed out.


    They had arrived at the highway, and it was crowded with people trying to enter New York. Those people would only die since they could see the hordes of demons in the distance.


    Lh and Edith decided to stay in the car and wait until most of the people died. They didn''t need more people in their city since it was already crowded with refugees.


    "Here theye," Lh said and saw cars flying in the distance from getting attacked by demons.


    They could see people screaming in fear and panic as they tried to enter the city on foot. It only took the demons a few minutes until most of the people on the highway died. After that, Lh and Edith walked out of the car with their weapons ready in their hands.


    Edith dashed forward and swung her daggers on the road, creating a massive projectile attack that was enough to separate the road and made a huge crevasse. The demons who were flying and walking there got cut in half or destroyed into pieces.


    The demons changed their direction and decided to fight those two rather than pursue the people. The demons wore heavy armor, and they were three meters tall with ck bat wings on their backs. Bullets wouldn''t be able to prate the armor, and des couldn''t even scratch them as Richard warned.N?v(el)B\\jnn


    A few people decided to stop running and watch their saviors fight the demons. They were surprised when they saw Lh''s and Edith''s faces because they never thought those two could fight.


    Edith jumped from one demon to another as she decapitated them or cut them in half. She even bounced from one demon to another who was in the air as if gravity didn''t work on her. She looked like dancing because not a single attack hit her even though she was surrounded by demons.


    Lh also did the same thing, but her movements looked a bit stiff and unnatural, unlike Edith. Although she was like that, she killed as many as Edith and she started to get used to her old powers after so long she hadn''t used them.


    It had been confirmed there were at least twenty thousand demons and only a few dozen that they managed to kill. It was shocking that those two killed more than the whole country could ever do, even James and the other Awakeners had trouble killing one of the demons.


    The battlested a whole day for those two topletely exterminate all the demons that tried to enter New York. They both looked at all the mess they had created, but at the same time, they both felt refreshed. When they were about to leave, so many people were watching them in the distance.


    "Looks like we are going to be viral. They''re recording everything," Lh said as she sheathed her sword. "Let''s head back. I''m tired," Lh said as she wiped off the demon blood on her right cheek with the back of her right hand.


    "I don''t think anyone would have the time to check the inte since everyone around the world will be busy fighting the demons," Edith said as she chuckled and put her daggers on her waist. "Let me clean you up, first. I can use Magic," Edith continued and create a water ball in her hands.


    After Edith cleaned Lh and herself, they both left and went straight to their headquarters. Everyone knew what had happened they were cheering them on for protecting the city, but little did they know that their peaceful time would be over.


    Some of the people were suspicious that Lh and Edith didn''t go to Montana to prevent the disaster from happening. They started to assume that it was Mykel''s order all along since he stated that he wouldn''t care if people died. They realized that if that was the case, the Rebirth Guildmitted genocide indirectly, and they were furious because of it.


    Lh and Edith had changed to their office attire, and they were sitting in the meeting room with Richard. They both were staring at Richard who looked suspicious, disappointed, and furious because he had the same thoughts as those people.


    "We have taken care of the demons. Everything is fine now," Lh said as she leaned and crossed her legs.


    "If you have the power to stop the demons, why didn''t youe and help us?" Richard asked as he stared at them and held down his anger.


    "Have you forgotten about what Mykel said back then in Norway? He had stated that we, the Rebirth Guild won''t care about your struggle against demons. Isn''t that what this is all about? You''re lucky that you came here because this ce is our empire, and we both are protecting it from demons," Lh said as she leaned forward and rested her arms that were crossed on the table. "But now, the threat isn''t just demons for the Rebirth Guild. Humans are also a threat," Lh added and stared Richard in the eye.


    Richard''s heart skipped a beat when he heard that, and he realized that he had nobody else to protect him. It could be said that the United States didn''t exist anymore because there wasn''t a single power left. The only one who still held power was the Rebirth Guild, and now that it hade to that, they had no reason to keep him alive.


    "I can see that you understand the situation you''re in right now. You realize that it''s over for you and the remaining survivors in this country. Your time is over, Richard, and your fate is now in my hand," Lh said.


    Richard was thinking of running away, but he realized that Edith was no longer there next to Lh. Suddenly a dagger was right under his chin and ready to cut his throat open. He started to sweat and breathe heavily out of fear, and he tried too hard to find a way out a safe one.


    "Is this what Mykel has been nning to do? To take over the whole nation for himself?" Richard asked in a trembling voice.


    "Of course. He has nned this from the beginning, long before you found us," Lh answered with a mischievous smile.


    "Do you even realize what you guys did? You killed innocent lives just so you can take their home andnd," Richard asked.


    "Please, you worked for the Redshield family," Lh scoffed. "You manipted the world economy and killed more people than we do. You made people suffer as you be richer and richer," Lh pointed out as she stared Richard in the eye.


    Lh suddenly stood up and slowly walked toward Richard as she scraped the table with her nails.


    "Enough with the meaningless talk, and you can''t leave this ce no matter what you''re going to offer. We don''t need you, we never do," Lh said as she stood right next to Richard. "Goodbye, Richard. You were quite useful for us," Lh continued.


    Edith slit Richard''s throat and let him bleed to death. She and Lh watched him struggle and tried to stop the bleeding by putting his hands on his neck. Edith didn''t cut his throat widely so he would suffer and struggle as long as he could.


    It took him three minutes until he finally stopped moving and bathed his body in his blood. He died with his eyes and mouth wide open, and then Edith cleaned all the mess up with magic, including burning Richard''s body into ashes.


    "It''s finally done. Now we proceed on the next step," Lh said as she looked at the crowds on the streets.