Chapter 540 – Siege
‘Hmm?’
Having placed the entire city within the realm of transcendental perception, I sensed life forms other than the Demon King’s subjugation team.
It is not a small living thing like a bug or an animal.
It was a human.
There was a person inside Lord Ramona’s mansion.
Let me pay attention to that.
Before I knew it, I was ‘looking’ at that place.
Four men and women were gathered in front of the fireplace in an old-fashioned room and drinking.
He must have already had quite a bit of alcohol, so he looked quite drunk. Leftover food is scattered on the floor.
They appeared to be people who had not taken refuge.
They were all wearing luxurious clothes. These were clothes that only nobles would wear.
Probably not a nobleman.
Why would the nobles take the risk of remaining here just because they feel sorry?
And their faces showed signs of having been hit directly by the ravages of time… Different from nobles.
It seemed like he was wandering around the empty city, taking things as he pleased, and enjoying pleasures he couldn’t normally dream of.
If I got caught, it would have been pointless to have my head cut off, but I didn’t have any intention of saying anything to them.
As I watched them, I decided to take my current state of contemplation one step further.
The sight of them laughing and talking slowly begins to slow down.
Accident acceleration.
As my thinking accelerated, the passage of time seemed to slow down.
As their movements become slower and slower, a stiffness is felt, as if someone is pulling on the avatar’s head.
It seemed like this was the limit.
Even in this state, the main body is capable of powerful thought acceleration as if time has stopped, but the demon’s avatar seemed to be insufficient even though its level was raised considerably.
So what about something else?
A man who was drinking a little away from his group gets up as if he needs to urinate.
I used my will to gently pull his feet.
“Huh? Huh?”
He stumbled in an unexpected situation, fell, and rolled all the way to the fireplace.
One of his feet went into the fireplace.
The man’s legs were on fire when he pulled out in shock.
“Ugh!! My foot is on fire!!”
Colleagues who saw this were shocked while drinking and flapped their blankets to put out the fire on the man’s feet.
It wasn’t a very big fire.
They were able to put out the fire without difficulty.
Since the fire was briefly extinguished, the man was not seriously injured.
“If this idiot… Is drunk, he should go to sleep.”
“Oh, no! Someone grabbed my foot.”
“You crazy! You’re making excuses that don’t work! You were alone and someone is holding your feet!”
At that time, the candles in the room went out all at once.
The room became dark.
There was light from the fireplace, but it was not enough to illuminate the entire large room.
Those who were talking noisily kept their mouths shut, as if they had made a promise.
A quiet silence flows.
-Gulp…
Someone swallows dry saliva.
“Who, who is it?
A man takes out a knife from his chest and looks around him, shouting.
There was a lot of cold sweat on his forehead, and he looked like a scared dog.
“… Couldn’t it be a ghost?!”
“Shut up! You bastard! Be quiet.”
-Slap!
With intent, I struck the man holding the knife in the face.
It’s a weak slap that doesn’t hit at all.
But the effect was perfect.
“Come on, you bastard! Come on, come on!!”
A man holding a knife swings the knife in the air.
The guy was desperate, but I somehow found it funny.
I can feel my avatar in the distance smiling.
If someone were to look at you, you would wonder if you were having a good dream.
The man who had been swinging the knife for a while was panting as if he was tired.
The other men and women standing close to him were trembling and looking around with their eyes wide open and faces full of fear.
I pushed the vase behind them with intent.
-Clink!
The vase fell and made a loud noise.
-Ugh!!!
From that point on, they ran away from the lord’s mansion in a panic.
‘It’s interesting, but…’
It was surprising.
Because it was so far away, it couldn’t exert much power.
It was at the level of ghost play.
I think the Demon King would have noticed what he was doing right away. Still, it seems like a good idea to make fun of ignorant people.
If you secretly move something like a knife and drop it from above, you might be able to plan the perfect assassination.
Well… That’s only when the targets are sloppy guys.
My head is hot.
It seemed like it was too much trouble just to cause a poltergeist phenomenon that was as clumsy as blowing out a candle.
If it were the main body, wouldn’t it be possible to exert something more powerful?
I don’t know why, but in Zephyria, there was a force at work that suppressed the expansion of my consciousness.
And looking at Demon King Gregory’s reaction, Zephyria may have a means to understand this ability.
Still, I thought it could be quite useful if I returned to Earth.
The expanded consciousness was returned to the body.
I can feel the senses of an ordinary human being.
It feels a little like waking up from a dream.
There is still a long way to go before morning.
Current avatar level is 97.
Does anything change when you reach level 100?
It was expected that he would easily reach level 100 by defeating the demon lord.
I decided to log out for a moment and look at the movements of the demons and find out some information about level 100.
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-Quit! Shut up!
The speed of the fast-moving Demon King punitive force has decreased.
At some point, I realized that the colors of the land and plants had turned dull.
“This is Demon World…”
Hilda said with a sigh.
Because it’s not…
However, she couldn’t fix the error.
It wasn’t a demon painting, but the lifeless landscape of the land didn’t look very nice.
But I felt that the avatar’s condition had subtly improved.
The Demon Lord’s subjugation team, which had been moving through the heterogeneous land with utmost vigilance, stopped in front of a huge building.
The central city of Crea territory.
It was Crea.
However, I couldn’t see the city I had seen before, Crea, even if I washed my eyes and looked for it.
“Ziggurat.”
“A ziggurat? Isn’t it the devil’s castle?”
Karia, who was next to him, tackled him.
Those words came out without me realizing it when I saw a familiar sight that seemed like something I had seen on Earth.
“… I think my former teacher called a dungeon similar to that one that way.”
“… Is that so?”
Of course it was a lie.
But it was okay.
According to the settings, my teacher is already dead, so I can’t check it.
Of course, that building that looks like the Devil’s Castle is not exactly the same as the ziggurat on Earth.
The only thing similar was that it had a shape reminiscent of a ziggurat.
The structure that covered the entire city of Crea was incomparably gigantic compared to a ziggurat, and its exterior walls were dark red, giving off an ominous aura.
‘You created something like that in such a short period of time?’
It’s been less than half a year since the Demon King descended.
Looking at the finish, there were traces of sloppy construction, but it was amazing that a building of that scale was created in such a short period of time.
I think it would be impossible to build a building of this scale in such a short time even on Earth.
It looked closer to a fortress than a demon castle.
“Priscilla. Is that the Demon Castle? How does it look? Does it look finished?”
Burwell asked Priscilla.
Has Priscilla ever seen the Devil’s Castle?
“It’s small in scale, but… It looks similar to the Demon Castle of the past. It may not have been completed.”
That thing is small…
“It would be a good idea to give a shock from the outside first. Priscilla, do you mind if I ask you a favor?”
At Burwell’s request, Priscilla nods her head and slowly steps forward.
Fortunately, Burwell was a man with common sense.
If you look at the fact that no one dares to storm into a building that looks suspicious and dangerous.
He also seemed reluctant to enter the unusual-looking building.
“Elestra.”
Priscilla quietly calls someone’s name.
Her hair glows a soft blue light, and a huge woman made of water appears in the air.
The huge spirit, which seems to easily cross 20 meters, must have already read Priscilla’s intention, and soon turns into a water bomb and flies towards the Demon Castle.
-Cow!!
Just before Elestra collided with the Demon Castle, a gray protective shield prevented the collision.
The attack did not stop with just one attack.
Elestra flies through the air, pounding on her demon lord’s castle.
-Thud! Thud! Boom!
Despite an attack so powerful that it shook the ground, the Demon King did not flinch.
“I don’t think I can do it alone.”
Priscilla still seemed to have energy. However, she is an important force in the Demon King’s subjugation team. Here she could not exert all her strength.
“Uhm…”
Burwell sighed at the solid appearance of the Demon King.
If you knocked on it that much, a demon lord or a demon would come out and see you… But it was showing a strange appearance without any reaction.
It is not an empty house.
Before coming here, I briefly logged out of Ramona and looked around the Panthera community, and I knew that all the demons were in the Demon Castle.
