Albeit with a slight mishap at the start, their quest proceeded without much trouble.
With the witches casting death curses left and right, no demon could even roar at them, much less touch the Humvee's exterior. As planned, an hour later, they arrived at their first stop: the nearest minor fortress—their initial checkpoint.
Fixing the fortress took no more than a few seconds, but activating the teleportation array and waiting for other witches to man the fortress took quite a while.
They couldn't leave the fortress until everything was set, after all.
If they abandoned it too early, only death awaited those left behind.
After about 15 minutes, everything was sufficiently prepared for Axel's group to leave. And just like that, while slaying all demons along the way, they reached the next fortress, and then the one after that, and so on.
At noon, they stopped at the fifth minor fortress for a brief lunch.
