Combat Maid Harem



Krives, Anatalia, Majia, Constantine, and Precipity stared at the falling ashes in a daze.

They couldn't take the sudden up and down of events.

They were in despair of how to defeat Lawrend when Polka suddenly appeared out of nowhere. And then Polka brought them hope, and they were so close to killing him.

Instead, Lawrend came back and easily killed Polka when she got near him.

Lawrend turned his eyes to the five. He was like a dragon in the body of a human. He could kill them as easily as chickens.

"Stop!" Krives shouted.

She raised her hands up in defeat. The other four were shocked at the sudden development.

…

All of that happened while Ember fought with the purple-haired beauty with short horns.

The two of them entangled with each other in a fierce battle. One controlled the water element and the other controlled fire.

Ember stared at her solemnly as she threw balls of flames, created walls of flame, and fiery embers that could burn anyone.

The purple-haired beauty never said her name. She silently insta-cast her spells and blocked Ember's spells.

It was a close battle between the two of them. Ember thought that she was fighting against a member of the Spring clan.

Her fluid water-like motions could only be found from that clan. She simultaneously used ice attacks to counterattack once in a while.

She shouldn't be mistaken.

"Are you a member of the Spring clan?" Ember asked while dodging a blade of ice spiraling toward her body. If it hit, she would've been split horizontally.

"No," she curtly answered.

She created a ball of ice and threw it at Ember. It exploded with perfect timing and filled the area with water mana.

This affected Ember's spells, but it was minimal. She imitated her in displeasure and shot her own fireball.

It exploded in midair and the purple-haired demon created a wall of ice between it and her.

"Do you have the bloodline of the Spring clan?" Ember asked.

"..."

She furrowed her eyebrows and her attacks became fiercer.

"Hmph. Is it that hard to respond?" Ember harrumphed in anger.

She flew backward and created a distance between the two of them. She made various hand motions and the fire mana from the surrounding hundred kilometers around her rushed to her body.

Flames engulfed her whole body, and she turned into a phoenix that was about three meters tall. She gloriously opened her wings and flapped.

Ember decided to take this seriously.

She flew up higher and higher. The purple-haired woman watched her and created a giant blade of ice in front of her.

The ice started out as white and opaque. It then slowly changed transparency as it became as clear as glass.

The defects within the ice disappeared.

Finally, the ice blade suddenly turned into water, but it was a different kind of water.

Ember descended and stretched her phoenix talons in front of her. She struck the giant blade of ice, and her phoenix form shattered in half.

Ember came out unscathed, but she was visibly pale. She flew up again and turned into a fiery phoenix that was only two meters in height.

"That was a spell only members of the Spring clan could cast," Ember said solemnly.

It was her first time learning that the Spring Clan had a demon descendant. What was surprising was that she could use spells that were dependent on having the Spring bloodline.

As one of the three great clans, they publicly ostracized demons. It was even the reason they used to invade the Ignis clan with the Zephyr clan.

So seeing one of their descendants living here as one of the Twelve Pillars of the Demon World was beyond her expectations.

That meant that the Spring clan actually had more power than they let out. She needed to know more about this situation.

"I'm Olina Spring, a Water Heaven Demon. Now that you know my secret, you will have to die," Olina replied.

She knew that it was useless hiding that fact, so she decided to reveal it to Ember. It would also stop her from being annoying while they fought.

"Ember Ignis, a Fire Heaven Mage. So you're not a part of the Spring clan, but you're one of their descendants?" Ember guessed.

She remembered the detail that Olina said no when she asked if she was part of the Spring clan.

Olina's eyebrows trembled. Ember's sharpness made her feel uncomfortable.

Ember only needed to see that to know that her guess was correct. She smirked and felt more relaxed knowing that she was fighting against a descendant of the Spring clan.

In the Ignis clan, it was one of her training lessons to counter the moves of the Spring and Zephyr clans. The competition between the three couldn't be underestimated.

Based on what she could tell, Olina didn't receive that kind of training. Presumably, she grew up in the Demon World without any members of the Spring Clan to teach her.

This realization gave Ember a lot of confidence for victory.

"Phoenix!"

Ember turned into a different kind of phoenix. She opened her wings out, and her wingspan reached tens of meters.

She covered a huge part of the sky and Olina was like a small kid facing against an adult.

Olina visibly became worried. Ember was right. She didn't receive any proper training from the Spring clan.

She learned everything from the books her parents gave her before she was sent to the demon world. That was the reason she acted somewhat similar to members of the Spring clan.

Ember opened her beaks and the fire mana from several hundred kilometers around her froze and rapidly rushed inside. They turned into liquid rain that fell in.

The power she generated created waves that created a heavy humming sound around her. It was like being in front of a bass speaker at a metal concert.

Olina borrowed power from her bloodline and turned into a slime-like state with a translucent purple body.

If other members of the Spring clan used this technique, they would've turned into clear water that was similar to spring water.

This was the best she could do without any proper training.