Dealing with terrorists was, in fact, not difficult.
With Lloyd's position, he could easily propose tactical plans against the terrorists, mobilize forces, and prepare schemes.
What mattered was that I had to personally step onto the battlefield and calculate how to restrain all three threats at once: Euni, Phelion, and Luce, as well as the terrorists, including the cultists.
Naturally, the mission was to hold them back and kill as many terrorists as possible, preventing them from approaching the central districts and the outskirts of the city.
In addition, it was best not to kill all of them. Many of the criminals were tasked with gathering intelligence. In the original novel, Hadelus had also been captured alive to extract information.
Therefore, I wanted to spread false information, causing both sides to lose trust in each other, making the tension between the nobility and royalty and the underworld even more complicated. That would make things easier for One Line.
There was one more thing. Strengthening the spiritual status.
I needed to force everyone involved in the plan to drink one of my concoctions.
Its purpose was to reinforce the spiritual hierarchy of the soul, helping them resist real death through virtual death and retain memories after moving between layers of reality.
As for getting those outside my group to drink it, some arrangements would be necessary. This would have to be handled on the fly. The main idea was to trap both sides in adversity, give them a tiny shred of hope, and force them to drink it while they were not in a clear state of mind to make a conscious choice.
However, that was somewhat troublesome.
In addition, I needed to go to the underground world before the festival, where two keys were located, in order to summon help.
The reason I would only go there at the last moment was that it was far too dangerous to place it at the forefront. If I failed to return in time or died, a backup plan I had prepared in advance would be activated. But if I returned safely, I could increase our chances of victory.
At the same time, there was another reason. Those two keys were extremely special. The black key and the white key did not belong to this place. Once the gate between the two worlds began to connect, they would soon vanish into the void.
They would also gradually disappear if not used within a certain period of time. Fundamentally, reality did not possess that much Death mana.
I also needed to personally deal with the death seeds of the Earth Demon. That meant I had to act alone, following a separate plan.
During that time, Lloyd would have to use his puppets to draw and establish the coordinates for subjugating the Heavenly and Earth Demons.
Do not be too curious about the method of subjugation. It is better that way. You only need to know that the demon part would be separated from the soul.
Through killing two demons twice within false reality, we would weaken them enough for Lloyd to seize their vessels, thereby freeing the souls of Phelion and Sophia. This had been planned from the beginning and would be carried out through Lloyd's puppets drawing blood symbols.
Once they lost their souls, the demons would be in critical condition. At that point, a massive amount of death power would be needed to forcibly kill them immediately.
This would allow death to blanket the land and erase the demons' mana imprints.
In addition, the white key would allow life to sprout again within the third layer of virtual reality, countering the death outside.
The white key enabled rebirth. It was born from the death of the black key, and the black key was born from absorbing death.
This was also the trump card I had prepared to defeat any demon, regardless of who or what it was.
And I would summon something.
A vessel similar to the one that carried me to the Abyss of the Underworld.
Beneath the city's sanctuary lay a cavern similar to the one I had once passed through.
In essence, this place was a massive gate connected to the underground world, much like that cave.
Fundamentally, it could hide itself from all forms of tracking. No mana based method could detect it.
Death mana was too strong. Any attempt at mana detection was meaningless.
And in truth, that was not even the deepest secret. The reason a barrier existed to block the demons, a barrier that had become the third layer of reality through deception, lay here.
A fragment of Heaven.
A royal secret buried for three hundred years.
It was also the reason Janeus came here.
However, persuading her would be extremely difficult. Fine then. How could you convince someone who understood every minute detail about you, who told you a secret worth ten thousand people, who warned you about terrorist plots targeting you and the horrors surrounding you, without making them suspect that you were insane?
The answer was that you could not. Someone like Janeus was intelligent enough to know exactly what needed to be done.
She would kill me immediately beneath the cavern once I separated from the group, walked alone, without defenses, without enough time, and while distracted.
All for two words: benefit and trust.
So what would I do?