Shikkakumon Anime Episode 10

"The Strongest Sage Works With a Team." is the 10th episode of the "Shikkakumon no Saikyokenja" Anime adaptation.

''Matthias and his party head for the city of Folkia, only to find it controlled by demons! In order to stop the demonic plot to use humans to create powerful destructive weapons, the team leaps into coordinated action!''

Summary
Alma and Lurie are both found sleeping having been affected by the sleep agent trap that Matty had them use against their ambushers. Before Matty awakens the two, Iris draws on Alma's face who becomes upset at her for doing that.

Reaching their destination, Lurie immediately senses although faint, roughly thirty demonic presences all across the city. Matty claims that the feeling is weak due to a concealment spell that's cast around the city. Surprised by this revelation, Lurie and Alma claim that Demons typically don't work in groups, but Matty clarifies that's not the case for Demidemons. Unclear to what a Demidemon is, Matty explains its background to both Lurie and Alma. Finding a secret entryway leading to an underground tunnelway into the city and the group enters it. Sensing the presence of a demidemon ahead, Matty phases through the wall and uses his magic to temporarily blind its senses with a stupify spell, allowing the group to pass by it undetected.

On the surface of the town, the group finds out from Matty that the townsfolk have a spell called Though Paralysis on them a spell just like Stupification. Hoping to learn more about the demons and their plans, they infiltrate a factory that before you enter it, a demon disguised as a human; checks the Stupification spell on those who enter. To counter this, Matty casts an anti-Though Paralysis on them all and tells them to act as if they were under its influence. They do and Iris causes a scene where she trips and falls, however, the demon that checks up on her figures that the Though Paralysis cast on her was too much which causes it to degrade. Inside of the building, the group finds that the people working there are putting a special ore called Rankine Magical Ore into the furnaces there. Matty concludes that the demons are doing this to refine the ore so that it could be made into explosives. In his opinion, Matty states that a ton of the ores of 100 purity could blow up an entire kingdom. Despite it would take a hundred years to accomplish, the demons' goal is all too clear.

Outside of the factory, it's decided that the group must eliminate the demons controlling the city so they can save the people there. Using a map of the demons' current locations within the city, it's deduced that the demons entered from the city center and are capable of telepathic messaging. Because of the teamwork, the demons are capable of, Matty claims they'll use their teamwork against them. Creating a large pillar of light within the city, the demons instantly are alerted by this and are ordered by the head demidemon to investigate the area. While the demons encircle the location of the pillar of light, their numbers start to dwindle as Matty and his group deals with them. A brief flashback of Matty's plan is shown where Iris was the center of the pillar of light as a way to lure the demons away from the center of town. Once about eight of the thirty demons in the city have been dealt with, Matty plans on turning up the pressure. The use of magistones as makeshift bombs against the demons was Matty's plan to have misinformation spread via the demidemons shared consciousness. This was to make them think traps were spread across the city and the demidemons take the bait. In light of this, Matty has Lurie and Alma cast concealment magic on themselves. After the twenty-second demidemon was dealt with, the head demidemon investigates the body of a recently deceased demidemon. It then informs the remaining demidemons that it sensed the presence of two people and that the demidemon there wasn't killed by a trap, but by a sword. The demidemons then change their strategy to consolidate in one location and Matty figures the demons have figured out that there are no traps. The head demidemon then instructs the remaining demons to use the magistones to blow up the city as a desperate attempt to eliminate their foes. However, before they could even make a move, Giluas appears to eliminate the demidemons and the head demidemon. On the other hand, Matty with a bit of help from Iris, eliminate the remaining demidemons leaving Giluas to face off against the head demidemon. After a strenuous battle against the head demidemon, Giluas wins. Unbeknownst to the group, the head demidemon was down, but not defeated.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Characters in italics debuted here.
 * Matthias Hildesheimer
 * Alma Lepucius
 * Lurie Abendroth
 * Iris
 * Giluas