Chapter 68 – The End of the Journey
“It’s surprisingly empty.”
Three days later, the castle of the demon king who rushed in did not see a servant to clean or run errands, let alone a guard guarding the castle.
There was a lot of dust on the furniture in the castle, but looking at it, it seemed that it had been a long time since the demon king lived here alone.
“Then shall we go…”
“… Huh.”
Go up the unguarded hallway and find the stairs, then go up.
Although the castle was huge, the road was not twisted like a maze, so after repeating it several times, Hero and his party were able to climb to the top floor of the castle without difficulty.
As I climbed to the top floor, the ominous energy I felt at the supply base and banquet hall emanated from deep inside.
As if the energy was enticing him to come here, the warrior did not hesitate and moved as the energy led him.
At the end of following the energy, unlike other areas in the castle, there was a luxurious door engraved with intricate symbols and patterns reminiscent of art rather than clean corridors and doors without a single dust.
The hero stopped in front of the door, hesitated for a moment, then opened the tightly closed door.
-Kiik.
With the sound of old hinges ringing, the demon king’s face was visible through the crack in the open door.
Seeing that face, he was a warrior who hesitated for a moment, but immediately grabbed his heart and opened the door wide.
“What was my last name? I put a lot of thought into the interior.”
It was a friendly tone that did not seem to have been thrown at an opponent who would kill each other from now on.
In response to the demon king’s question, the hero said, recalling the scene he had seen while climbing up to the top floor.
“… It wasn’t much fun because it was empty.”
“This evaluation is minuscule. Actually, there was a plan to make something like the Four Heavenly Kings… All the skills of the corps commanders are there… Shit, that’s unfortunate.”
“No matter how well you do… What does it mean to be dusty?”
“That too. At first, there were attendants, but it was annoying and I killed them one by one, so they all disappeared. If you knew it would be like this… I should have left about 10 of them.”
It was a light attitude, as if the furniture that was in the way had been removed to storage.
However, despite the demon king’s shocking remarks, no one, including the hero, was shocked.
I don’t know if someone else said it, but who would be surprised by the extent to which the demon king killed his subordinates.
“Then… Let’s start slowly.”
Before this final battle, I got tired of the questions and answers, so I got up from the throne of the demon king.
When the demon king rose from the throne and approached the hero with his bare hands without a sword, the warrior with a sword drawn asked the demon king.
“… I have one last question I want to ask you.”
“If you’re asking why you did this, it’s just because you’re bored. There’s no grandiose reason.”
“I knew that vaguely, so I’m not really curious.”
Until now, it was just speculation, but it was only after stepping into this castle that the hero understood the demon lord’s principles of action.
They don’t want treasure, they don’t want to show off their power, they just repeat meaningless slaughter in various places.
Judging from his simple disclosure of where his last name was, and his devoid of sincerity, he did not have any great ideas.
When I thought about all of this, I couldn’t help but think that it was just because it was fun.
“Then what are you so curious about?”
“What is your identity?”
“… What?”
“It is literally. What is your identity? At least not human What kind of mutation is that?”
Perhaps this was an unexpected question even for the demon lord, but the demon lord’s expression, which had been nothing but boredom until now, was slightly confused.
After the first sighting of the demon king, at the request of the hero, the wise men of the kingdom of Biltan tried to uncover the identity of the demon king by examining all kinds of documents.
However, no matter how much I searched, I couldn’t come up with any plausible information.
The warrior was curious. What is a demon king and how was he born?
“… To put it bluntly, I don’t know. When I recognized myself, I was alone.”
The first memory to arrive at the end of groping and groping is the memory of killing an unknown human being.
I can’t remember why I did that. But if there’s one thing that’s for sure, it’s that it was fun.
Even after that, the Demon King continued to slaughter in various places regardless of gender, age or race.
As he continued to wander like that, he had subordinates who followed him, and those who received the power of the devil supported the will of the devil.
At first, that was fun, but as the years went by, it got boring.
Rumors of the hero reached the ears of the demon king, who was drowning in extreme boredom and wondering what to do.
However, the existence of the hero attracted the demon king’s interest only for a short time, and it was not enough to be an ambiguous existence even if it really existed.
However, he gave orders to the corps commanders at the front to stand by so as not to step on any shoots that might amuse him.
Ironically, that peace was shattered with the appearance of the hero while everyone was enjoying the momentary peace that no one expected.
Three corps commanders were hit at once.
This meant only one thing, and the demon king immediately created a simple body and faced the hero for the first time.
The demon king vaguely noticed that the hero had the potential to reach him just by meeting him for the first time, but that wasn’t enough yet.
Thinking that he could cross the stone bridge by tapping it, he sent Carmion, who had the strongest power among his subordinates, to the warrior.
And on the exact third day after sending Carmion, the connection with Carmion was cut off.
On this day, the demon king was sure. No matter what the result is, the hero is a worthy opponent for his final game.
“And… Reach today How about it, is your curiosity resolved now?”
“No, not at all…”
The warrior with a dissatisfied expression stood up in preparation for the showdown that was about to begin.
Unlike the extremely nervous warrior, the demon king, who approached the warrior with a relaxed attitude, smiled and looked at Lina and said,
“Hey elf!! I will leave you until the end and kill you in the cruelest way.”
“What?! What?! Why me… ?!!”
Lina shouted in disbelief at the sudden nomination of the Demon King.
“What did I do… !!”
“Airship.”
“… Ah.”
I don’t know if I knew it from the beginning or if I didn’t get it later, but it didn’t seem to work for the devil.
“Lina, don’t worry. That will never happen.”
“Yo, warrior… !!”
“There is nothing more meaningless than words that cannot be kept.”
With those words, the demon king entered the gap between the warriors and a fight that Lina could never lose especially began.
*****
In the fight that started after the Q&A, the demon king had the upper hand at first, but as time passed, the warrior’s had the upper hand.
Although he was angry, the hero knew well that he could not reach the devil with his own strength.
That’s why, in cooperation with his colleagues, he tried to consume the demon king’s physical strength by drawing the maximum amount of time.
Realizing that the strategy actually worked and that there was no chance of winning if it continued like this, the demon king first aimed at the party members covering the hero from behind.
“… First of all, from four years.”
The first thing the demon king aimed for was Mirian, who was continuously shooting swords from a distance.
Suddenly, he became a target in the hero, but Mirian, far from being surprised, threw down the sword that was only a burden and ran away as if he expected it.
“Tsk… !!”
Originally, to the demon king, Mirian was just a weak being who would disappear with one gesture.
However, in a situation where the hero and other colleagues were attacking, Mirian was focused on running away, so no matter how hard he tried, he could not hit the attack.
“I expected you to do something like that when cornered.”
“Ugh… !!”
As his stamina was gradually consumed, the demon king thought about turning his eyes to other party members for a moment, but the same situation was repeated again.
The Demon King, who gave up chasing Mirian, stopped and gathered mana in both hands.
Originally, he didn’t want to do such a rough thing because it would hurt himself, but if he didn’t take the damage, he would only be defeated.
“That guy… !!”
Everyone who felt the extraordinary mana gathered in the demon king’s hands had a premonition that this place would soon be blown away.
‘If you cut that…’
Like the Behemoth, it seemed as if he could not absorb all the mana, and his body would become stiff due to overload.
And unlike then, this time the party members won’t be able to hold out until the hero recovers.
‘I have no choice but to…’
Right before the demon king’s magic was almost completed, the determined hero grabbed the demon king by the waist and ran to the window beyond the throne.
“From now on, it is 1:1.”
“… Foolish.”
The mana gathered in the demon king’s hands was scattered, probably because he judged that there was no need to take the damage.
And the hero holding the demon king jumped out of the window beyond the throne holding the demon king as it was.
“…”
The two jumped from the top floor and landed on different roofs, looking at each other.
But for a while, the two looked at each other and rushed at each other raising their swords and fists.
Under the night sky with a large moon rising, every time the two exchanged swords and fists, roofs and walls collapsed with a loud roar.
“Ha… Ha…”
As time passed, the hero’s breath became more and more disturbed, and the demon king was also sweating because he had already consumed a lot of stamina upstairs.
Both had a premonition that this battle would not last long and prepared for the final blow.
The Demon King puts a sharp and hard aura on his fist, and his warriors are endowed with sword lightning to increase penetration and cutting power.
The demon king rushed at the hero, and the hero threw his sword at the demon king with all his might.
The sword thrown by the hero aiming at the heart hit the stomach a little lower than that.
Even though the lightning bolt embedded in the sword would have pierced the skin and burned the internal organs, the Demon King showed no sign of hesitation.
Rather, knowing that the weapon was missing from the hero, he rushed at the hero with more speed.
“…”
The warrior whose weapon disappeared stood still and looked at the demon king as if he had given up.
‘Win!!’
The moment the demon king, intoxicated with the thought of winning, punches the hero.
“Summons.”
A black spear summoned from the air along with the warrior’s spell pierced the demon king’s heart.
– Push!
The demon king, who saw the spear that pierced his heart, moved his gaze and looked at the hero with trembling eyes.
“This, this window… !”
“… It’s made from Carmion’s horn. There is no other material as powerful as the by-product of a powerful demonic beast.”
“… Right.”
Even if he was a demon king, he couldn’t survive even if his heart was pierced, so his vision began to blur.
“Is this death…”
“Are you in trouble?”
“… No, it’s more comfortable than I thought.”
The demon king, feeling exhaustion for the first time in his life, instinctively realized that his life was short.
‘… I can’t just go on like this.’
I didn’t disobey this result, but I wanted to give the hero a shot apart from that.
“… Your colleague seems to prefer older men.”
“… What?”
For a moment, the warrior who didn’t know what the demon king was saying tilted his head.
“What are you talking about?”
“My eyes see many things that are invisible to ordinary humans. One of them is whether or not there is sexual intercourse between humans.”
To be precise, it was applied to the power to see human desire, and the demon king was able to know whether or not there was sexual intercourse between humans.
And when he saw the hero and his companions for the first time at the banquet hall, the demon king saw what was connected between the Horde and the three.
“The ugly yellow-haired man I was with at the banquet at the time. That man is involved with three of your party members.”
“The ugly yellow-haired guy? Are you talking about Mr. Horde? Why?”
“Heh…”
At first, the demon king saw the casual hero’s face and thought he was just pretending to be calm.
However, as time went by, he thought that it was impossible, and he asked the warrior just in case.
“No way… Did you really know?”
“Yeah, he’s a colleague, and of course he knew.”
“… Are you still okay?”
“What the hell do you mean when you say nothing is wrong? Connecting with colleagues is something to celebrate, right?”
“No, what kind of guy…”
After saying that, the demon king died. It was a little foolish to say that it was the will of the demon king who terrorized the continent for decades.
At the end, leaving behind a stupid will, peace has returned to this world.
And time went by, and in an instant, 10 years passed.
