27 Saparate

The small, wet pebbles that lined the beach sparkled in the lingering light of sunset. The water was almost still, small waves occasionally hitting the beach with little force.

The tiny body of a boy looks stranded on the white sand, the destroyed wooden boat's components were scattered around him, towering coconut trees shaded his body from the sunlight.

"Ugh..." the little boy slowly regain his consciousness.

He held his head which was still throbbing from the crashing waves which made him stranded here. Opened his eyes, he gingerly turned his head from side to side.

"Where I am?"

His mind twisted back to the moment of the incident he had experienced a while ago before he was stranded.

For a moment their boat almost reached Galuna Island, none of them would have expected that the boat they were sailing received sudden surprise attacks from nowhere.

If only an ordinary attack, Nathan and Mystogan can easily anticipate it. However, the attacks assaulted in a barrage, coupled with the impact of big waves that suddenly crashed into their boats.

No matter how strong Nathan and Mystogan. To protect themselves from insane attacks and big waves is not trivial things, while he also needs to protect Bobo who is just an ordinary 'human'. Unfortunately, the boat they were sailing in could not resist the attacks any longer and resulted in destruction.

In the end, he ended up stranded in this place, the boat he was sailing was destroyed. Even though he can remake the boat, he can't sail it.

Nathan did not see anyone but himself, it seemed he was separated from Mystogan. As for Bobo, from the beginning, he was a native of the island so he didn't need to worry about him.

He got up, patting off the white sand attached to his clothes,

"This is truly unexpected, sigh..." He sighed.

Truthfully, he had anticipated precisely the appearance of a big wave, but not for the surprise attacks, and the attacks were not the weak ones.

Then he looked up at the sun as he furrowed his eyes, "...South of the island", determining the direction of using the sun's position at midday is very easy for him as he already learned a lot at the palace's library.

After he finished calculating his current position, he immediately walked into the forest, "I hope Mystogan has arrived in the village!" worrying Mystogan's situation was something futile, he was very strong to begin with.

Throughout the forest, he saw nothing but trees. He was a little bit wonder at the absence of animals that should be around the forest, such as rabbits, snakes and so on.

Suddenly the sound of a giant foot pounding made the ground tremble slightly. Nathan stared at a giant monster who gradually approaching toward him.

That giant monster possesses rodent-like features, a giant rat. It appears in a feminine manner or rather it was a female rat. She is wearing a suit like a human woman, and she also has turquoise fur and a huge tail that propels.

"What is it called again... hmm... Angelica?"

Pusshh

Angelica unhesitantly spurts out a foul-smelling breath toward Nathan. However, it seemed that her ambush was in vain, Nathan's body was protected by an invisible barrier. That kind of foul smell doesn't affect him.

"[Prostrate]!"

Boom

Angelica immediately prostrated before Nathan, the wind slammed down from below it.

"Good, good girl... now listen to me!..."

As Nathan gave her an order, Angelica immediately lifted Nathan's petite body and stood up, then she walked to somewhere place.

...

An hour later, Angelica's giant body arrived at an ancient temple. The temple was already in ruins, leaving only stone walls bearing the name of this ancient temple, "Temple of Moon".

"Angelica!"

A sudden voice rang out from behind Angelica as she immediately turned around and saw a pink-haired young woman waving her hand toward Angelica, as it hinting her to approach the pink-haired young woman.

Without hesitation, Angelica approached the young woman and behave like a good pet.

"Good girl, where have you been?" the pink-haired young woman caressed this giant rat's hair, the expression on her face was filled with 'love'.

"Buhr... Buhr..." Angelica voiced out excitedly as it answering that she played in the forest.

Although Angelica can't speak, as the owner, at least the pink-haired young woman understands much what her favorite pet says.

The pink-haired young woman chuckled," Alright, let's come in!" the two of them immediately entered the ruins of the Temple of Moon.

...

When the two of them entered the temple, they heard voices from inside. One of them belongs to a man with thick eyebrows and blue spiked hair, and the other to a dog man.

"There no one here, Reitei-sama is overthinking it!" the man with thick eyebrows said.

"Oooon" the dog man responds.

"It can't be helped Yuuka-san, Toby-san, recently Reitei-sama feels a lot of foreign presence on this island".

Suddenly a sweet voice rang and intercepting their conversation from behind them.

"Sherry!"

They both welcomed the arrival of this pink-haired young woman and behind her was followed by a giant rat, Angelica.

"Reitei-sama said that we need to be more careful because there will be a possibility that our Moon Drip ritual will be intercepted by something unexpected"

"Something unexpected?" Yuuka frowned, as far as he knows, Reitei-sama is the strongest mage on the island. With the exception that someone who monitors this ritual plan, there is no one stronger than Reitei-sama.

"I don't know... me too, feeling anxious recently... maybe because "love" Sherry put her hand on the chest.

"Huh..." Yuuka feels something's severely wrong about her, "Intruder...eh"

"Moonlight will gather soon... but how sad this is...we must not allow intruders saw Deliora, otherwise, our plan to resurrect Deliora from his eternal sleep will fail, for Reitei-sama's sake ... no, for "Love".

"I agree" Yuuka nodded in agreement.

"Oooon... "love" is shit!"

...

Soon, they returned to their base and intended to consult the situation with their leader. But none of them realized that the green-haired little boy came down from Angelica's giant body who followed them behind.

Seeing the group leaving the temple, Nathan approached a large object, its size even bigger than Angelica's body. A massive monster, its entire body covered with ice.

"This is Deliora!" Nathan slightly amazed with this frozen demon.

Deliora is a demon that roamed around the continent, destroying different cities and towns. This demon was very terrifying one as it also had an immortal body. If it's not sealed in ice, maybe it's still alive today.

"Deliora...?"

Suddenly an ancient voice came from inside Nathan's bag as it snuck out its own body from the bag.

"Lullaby... do you know Deliora?"

Literally, Lullaby and Deliora are two entities of the same origin, They are demon born from Zeref's book. They were made completely of Ethernano and were thus dubbed by Zeref as the "Etherious".

"Of course I know, the one who sealed me in this flute made Deliora and others 'demon' after he seizes my demon's body".

"In other words, Deliora was not purely demon, but his strength was unimaginable terrifying one, even equivalent with the level of a Demon King in the Demon World".

Hearing those words, Nathan expressed his astonishment, even though he didn't know how strong the Demon King's strength was that Lullaby said, but it sounds so powerful.

"If I can absorb this demon soul, my strength will restores by around 50% of my peak power" Lullaby excitedly claimed, "But how did Deliora end up in this state?"

The Demon King's strength is not something that can be belittling. In its era, mages who were comparable with the Demon King's power level could only be counted in one hand. Whereas Deliora was roamed around the word freely for more than a century, rampaging the continent unstoppable.

To think there's a day that Deliora ends up in this pitiful state.

It seems like, the quality of mages in this age is more powerful in its time! Lullaby thought.