41 Two Mage's

"So no shot huh?"

"Sadly no kid, it's not even made of anything special and the fact that I can't open it even with a spell makes it useless for me"

Sighing Hyme took the pocket watch from the merchant and placed it back in his pocket, he honestly expected to sell it to be merchant after waiting a week but to find out that it was worth nothing made him sigh in defeat.

"Maybe I can try to find a mage to get this thing open..."

"That could be your best bet kid, but barely anyone goes to this village other than merchants like me."

"Well thanks for appraising this either way mister, even if it's worth nothing."

"Anytime kid."

Walking away Hyme started to make his way to the small market the village had, it wasn't because he was gonna buy anything but it was because he was gonna look for some jobs to do.

It was because he only acted as a teacher for 4 days of the week, specifically Monday until Thursday other than that he had to work around the village to make an income. And when not teaching his main source of income was taking jobs from the shopkeepers in the market.

Suddenly at the corner of his eye, Hyme saw two individuals one was an elf with silver white like hair while the other seemed to be a normal human girl with purple hair.

For Hyme who had lived in the village for a year he was well acquainted with the people of the village so it was easy to figure out these two were travelers.

"Lady Frieren is this the village you were talking about?"

(A/N: Remember in their world they aren't speaking japanese, so anything japanese related will be turned to their English equivalent to fit the fantasy setting)

Not wanting to bother or eavesdrop on their conversation Hyme began walking pass them but as he did he felt someone grab his right arm stopping him from moving, he turned to see the elf had grabbed his arm with a tight grip.

"Come with me."

"H-Heh?"

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Since someone guessed the franchise of where the 'Pocket watch' came from I might as well say some things, the Chameleon Arch normally changes the biology of a timelord into anything they desire while placing the original biology and consciousness inside the pocket watch looking mechanism.

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"Say ahh."

"Ahh?"

"Please forgive Lady Frieren's antic's..."

Right now Fern had an apologetic look towards Hyme who was being thoroughly examined by Frieren and it was because of one reason, his Mana.

It wasn't because it was abundant, far from it if Frieren stated that his Mana pool was equivalent to a barrel of water. But the reason Frieren was examining him both physically and magically was because his Mana was very powerful.

"Tell me, where are you from?"

"I-I don't know-"

"Don't know?"

"I-I appeared in the middle of the forest a year ago with amnesia..."

Hearing Hyme's reply Frieren couldn't help but have a questioning look, and the reason for that was simple.

'Exactly one year ago a huge amount of Demonic Energy appeared, and ever since then Demon activity has been frequent...'

Ever since a huge burst of Demonic Mana appeared over a year ago remnants of the Demon Kings army had been quite active, and demonic monsters were also frequently attacking both old and new. One of the newer variants of Demonic Monsters were bug-like in nature which caused scholars all over the world to be frightened as they believe the monsters were somehow evolving.

"This was the only thing with me when I appeared in the forest..."

Hyme reached for his pocket and took out the only thing linking to his past, Frieren took a look at it and in a glance found nothing magical about the item. But the elf couldn't help but be curious about it's design so she took it from Hyme's hand and looked at it closely.

"Nothing magical about it..."

"Really?"

Hyme was of course disappointed he finally met two mages hoping that his pocket watch was something similar to a magical item yet Frieren's words just proved him otherwise, yet he was still confused how a non magical item could resist the tools of a blacksmith when it was trying to be opened.

"Uhm Mister Hyme was it?"

This time it was was Fern who called for him, unlike Frieren she was more polite even calling Hyme mister which made the young man in question quite sigh as he couldn't correct her about calling him sit as he himself didn't know his age.

"Fern was it?"

"Ah yes, well you maybe wondering why two mages would visit this place but you see Lady Frieren and I are actually here for the demon that was sealed here."

Hyme knew about the Demon that was sealed in the village, he even heard how the Hero Himmel would visit the village even until he was old. He never saw the hero but apparently despite his old age he could still handle a dragon on his own they say aside from a few wrinkles and his white hair he still looked the same back in his prime.

(A/N: Other than the joke that Himmel became a short old man like the cliche there's a theory that it was the dragon horn that caused him to become so small age terribly)

"I was wondering if you could show us where he currently resides?, since apparently lady Frieren here..."

"I forgot..."

"She forgot where he was sealed."

Hyme didn't know what two random mages were going to do with the sealed demon general but he could guess they were going to check up on the seal, as either of the two could defeat a demon single handedly.

That's what Hyme believed.

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There's gonna be some difference's in this version FBJE, but mostly the same but don't worry even if it's a big change I believe all you DMC fans will like it.

If the 'Memory lost' part of the story is pissing you off I'm sorry, but trust the process I will cook.

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Looking at the sealed Demon Hyme couldn't help but feel some sort of connection with it, but he brushed that feeling off and began watching as the mage duo steadily approached it.

"The seals fading..."

Frieren looked at the crumbling patch of stone with boredom but for Hyme hearing the seal was about to break was something that terrified him

"W-Wait shouldn't we run then!?"

Hyme was being logical it was the right decision to run when you hear a powerful demon was about to break from it's seal, but instead Fern held her staff tightly and Frieren took a step back readying hers.

"W-Well I'm gonna go-"

"Not so fast worm."

Suddenly Hyme felt dread, he turned towards the voice and saw that the one speaking was the Elder Sage of Corruption Qual.

"It's been a long time Frieren, how many years have passed?"

Qual still keeping his eyes on Hyme asked.

"Eighty."

"And the demon king?"

"We killed him."

Frieren quickly replied, Qual on the other hand paused before the air surrounding him became tensed and heavy.

"I see."

Frieren quickly ordered Fern to use a defensive spell while Hyme on the other hand tried to run away, but his legs couldn't move out of fear since unlike Fern or Frieren he couldn't do anything sure he had never gotten sick or injured in the whole year he was in the village but he was far from strong or capable especially fighting someone considered one of the strongest demons ever.

Qual raised both his hands and two orbs of Mana started to churning and spinning around before pointing them at Frieren and Fern.

"Zoltraak!"

FVMMMMM!!!!

Both beams of chaotic Mana started to approach Frieren and Fern and as the second beam was about to approach them it split and made this way to Hyme, Frieren didn't expect this and quickly tried to cast a defensive spell at Hyme while Fern was more focused on protecting herself.

But sadly for Frieren even if she was stronger than before Qual was still a very powerful demon and his spell had already made it's way a few feet from Hyme, Frieren believed the young man was dead.

"Caw!"

Suddenly a loud caw made it's ears to everyone present and a Large Raven formed Infront of Hyme, it was being enveloped in pink lightning before it spread out providing a shield for Hyme.

KAK-

BZZZZZZZT!!!!

"Hey V buddy!, the hell is going on Who's the frea-"

The Raven looked far from a normal one his eyes had three golden pupils each, and his beak is unique in that it is several beaks in a mandible configuration, but as he looked at Hyme he stopped his sentence before looking s thim closely again.

"Nero is that you!?"

"N-Nero?"

Hyme was confused just a few seconds ago he was about to die and now he was talking to a monster that had called him Nero.

"Ah crap don't tell me you forgot didn't you!?"

"U-Uhm..."

"Jesus Chris, You did!"

Watching the two bicker Wual couldn't help but be annoyed but then he turned to Fern and Frieren to see that they had blocked his spell.

"You were able to block Zoltraak, I can understand since that thing could protect the boy but I'm surprised a puny human like you was able to do so."

"Lady Frieren what's going on..."

Fern looked at Frieren who only glaced at her before staying focus on Qual.

"That was ordinary offensive magic."

Frieren began explaining everything to Qual on how humans specifically scholar's overtime studied Qual's magic to the point that after eighty years that it was no considered Ordinary Offensive Magic, but during this explanation Qual would glance at Hyme and the Raven.

"You, what are you bird?"

"Jeez I just woke up to not only find out that the kid's lost his memories but now I'm being called just a bird!?"

'The hell is going!?'

"The names Griffon bub, and I ain't letting you kill the kid since apparently I went from being linked to his daddy to being linked to him so can't have him dying on me!"

Griffon began charging up Demonic Lightning before releasing it towards Qual in an arc, the demon was fascinated with Griffons abilities never seeing such pure and chaotic mana being so effortlessly used.

"Gotta hand it to you Nero, I don't know whatever happened to you but good to know you got more magic than your daddy when he was turned into a demon!"

"W-Whats happening!?"

"Ah shut it!, hey tuts mind helping me take out this freak!?"

Griffon yelled at Frieren earning a nod as a reply, and with glee started to fly towards Qual with arcs of lightning surrounding him.

"Insolent creature!"

Qual raised his hand forming another Zoltraak, but instead of dodging Griffon faced the attack head on protected by a coat of lightning the disrupted the spell. While Frieren started to float up into the air before a magic circle started to form at the tip of her staff.

"Comin' at ya baby!"

Like a projectile Griffon landed a strike at Quals eyes blinding him, while Frieren had finished casting the magic circle and with a monotone voice called out the name of the spell.

"Zoltraak."

FVVVVMMMMMM!!!

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