Elf Slave Knight 73

Chapter 73 – Demon King Savnak (2)

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Hundreds of fireballs devastated the ground all at once, and the battlefield was quickly devastated.

Ardena and Bariteon opened up all their power and countered Savnak’s mass destruction magic, but only half of the attacks were offset. The other half of the fireballs destroyed the ground, inflicting near-annihilation damage to the Elven Knights.

Death and fear.
Destruction and devastation.
The Red Demon King’s attack forced the elves to give up hope of victory and life.

“You look like El Cid.”

Savnak said.

In the place where the demon king’s gaze reached, there was Ardena, who was fixing her half-shattered armor.

The white flower’s armor repaired the wound while regenerating near-infinite energy. The bluish sword offset all the damage done to Ardena as it added her vitality to Ardena. Each time, El Cid’s energy overflowed and protected Ardena.

“Resoluteness that never loses cool. High pride, shining honor, and even the will to protect one’s own people…. All of your appearances remind me of El Cid. It is clear that you are related to El Cid.”

Savnak sat down on a pile of stones for a while, probably not wanting to end it so quickly.

It is to wait for Ardena, who is restoring her wounds and regenerating energy. Ardena had exhausted a lot of strength to protect the Elven Knights from hundreds of fire meteorites.

I want to talk for a moment.
At Savnak’s suggestion, Ardena strongly bit her lip. It was because she felt humiliated in the appearance of the demon king who showed a relaxed appearance.

“Why do you have such power… , Didn’t you destroy us?”
Ardena asked.

At the high elf female knight’s question, Savnak shrugged his shoulders.

“I know that El Cid cannot go to war because of the oath. If we had driven the momentum and attacked your elven country, we could have easily won.”

After finishing his words, Savnak was silent for a moment before opening his mouth again.

“But I gave you hundreds of years. What do you think is the reason?”

However, Savnak could not continue his words.

The warrior chiefs rushed.
The elven warrior chiefs who survived in the fire poured out their rage and wielded murderous intent.

“Savnak!”
“You dare four years!”

Many comrades were lost in the fire.

The elven warrior chiefs with faces full of resentment clenched their teeth and swung their weapons.

He unleashed a blow focused on anger.
Savnak was caught in a sudden surprise attack by her warrior chiefs, but she soon returned the blows of her warrior chiefs with a quick spin of the scrap sword she held in her hand.

“I gave you hundreds of years. It gave me time to hone my strength and hone my skills. As long as El Cid is removed from the frontlines by agreement, your country of elves will never be able to defeat me.”

Gave a grace period
How many hundreds of years.

Elves waited for them to grow as they grew stronger and learned their skills. They were left to give birth to children and establish the country. We waited in silence to build our hopes and build our future.

There is only one reason.
It was to destroy the tower called hope that the elves had built with both hands. To take away all the hopes you’ve been working hard to build for hundreds of years. Because that would be the best revenge for El Cid.

“But in the end, no one strong enough to compare to El Cid appeared.”

Savnak raised his scrap sword.

The warrior commanders who carried out the surprise attack were halfway out.

The top warriors such as Ardena and Bariteon were still full of fighting spirit, but the other warriors showed signs of being very tired. It was because he had wasted a lot of stamina to endure the flames.

“The probation is over, elf.”

Savnak opened his mouth and rose from his seat.

* * *

News came that Savnak was ravaging the battlefield.

Maherit’s palace was turned upside down.
High Elf nobles gathered to discuss countermeasures.

But there was no way to come up with a solution.
Until now, he had mainly dealt with Savnak’s followers, but he had never fought a direct battle with Savnak. How to deal with the Demon King, and how to deal with it. There was no one who had experience dealing with the demon lord.

“Ever since I was driven to the southern continent by El Cid, I have been silent until now….”
“What the hell have you been doing for hundreds of years! I should have come up with a countermeasure to stop the demon king from seeking revenge!”
“What kind of countermeasures are prepared against an immortal being… ! Do you think we were just playing around? In the end, there was no way to cut off the demon king’s immortality!”

When the nobility representing the Liberia elven country gathered and were talking about meaningless things,

The guests of the Holy Empire, who arrived in the Elf country via the warp gate connected to the palace, appeared. As if they had already been contacted, the elf knights waiting in front of the warp gate escorted the guests of the Holy Empire to the parlor where Hierarch Ileina was waiting.

“As expected, it’s a mayhem.”

The Imperial Court Chamberlain, Tanya Mainz, said to the priest with a stiff expression.

The head priest nodded her head.
He was showing a stiff appearance, probably feeling a lot of responsibility for this situation.

He should have prepared a countermeasure in case the demon king Savnak would someday plan the elven nation. But in the end it failed. He even failed to seek cooperation from the Demon King Slayer who was approaching. Ileina put on her guilt-ridden expression, saying that all of her initiatives were her fault.

She said, “She brought the armor she used to subjugate Agares…. Because there is no knight to wear her armor.”

Tanya winked at the imperial knights who came with her.

Then the imperial knights put down something wrapped in black cloth.

Wooooo!!
It must have been quite heavy, and as soon as it landed on the floor, a heavy sound was heard. The Imperial Knights, who safely put their items on the floor, stepped back while wiping the sweat from their foreheads.

“Is this the armor?”
“Yes, that’s right. It’s an armor that has been adorning the imperial treasury for a long time. A magical weapon forged from the scales of a gold dragon that is said to have swallowed a thousand thunderbolts.”

Tanya herself removed the black cloth covering the object.

The armor was a full body plate.
However, contrary to the explanation that it was forged with the scales of a gold dragon, the armor was achromatic, like dark iron ore. The only thing that stood out was the pattern of the Holy Empire engraved on the chest and cape.

I couldn’t feel any mana in the armor enough to make me wonder if it was the armor used by the real demon king slayer. All the elven knights who were escorting the priest showed the same reaction.

“It was originally an antique. It was only a rarity that it was forged with the scales of a gold dragon, and it was a nuisance pot that could not generate any power.”

Tanya made the priest understand by kindly explaining about the armor.

If it were someone else, he would have shouted, “Are your eyes gnarled?”, But the silver-haired elf in front of him was the leader of the Liberia Elf Country.

So, the way he spoke was quite polite.
It was a respectful expression of respect from the Imperial Chamberlain that could never be heard by anyone other than the emperor or crown prince. The holy knights made meaningful expressions at her courteous manners.

“But Yusin Gilead is not in the elves. Thank you for coming after receiving a request for support, but the Demon King Slayer will not return.”
“I will come.”

At the priest’s words, the Imperial Chamberlain shrugged.

Her tone was very firm.
She felt a strong conviction to the point of asserting it in front of the head of the priesthood.

“Despite fierce opposition and criticism from the arrogant and ignorant imperial aristocrats, Yushin Gilead raised his sword against the tyrannical demon king. She’s a figure she never admits but has the status of a hero. Unless he was a hero, he would never have taken on an impossible feat.”

He succeeded

By subjugating Agares, he ended the tyranny that had lasted for hundreds of years.

When the news of the tyrant’s subjugation came, numerous demons, including the imperial knights, who had suffered from Agares’ tyranny, cried out and praised the feat of the Demon King Slayer.

“But the Demon King is strong. Not to mention Savnak, who has been gnashing his teeth for hundreds of years of vengeance. Even if Yushin Gilead comes, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to defeat Savnak….”
“It is foolish to have confidence in the devil. Because you can’t be sure, because it’s a thorny road fraught with unknowns and dangers, subjugating the demon lord is called a feat or a legend.”

The reason Tanya Mainz came to Liberia’s elves was to deliver armor to Yushin.

And she had something to say to him.

‘Be sure to return the borrowed items.’

It was a cliché.

However, that meant returning to return the armor to the Holy Empire.

Come back alive
It contained the hidden meaning of the disingenuous imperial chamberlain. The reason why the imperial chamberlain personally came to Maherit’s palace at a time when the Liberia elves were about to perish at the hands of Savnak was because he wanted to convey it directly to Yushin.

“Chief of Staff.”

An Imperial Knight approached and bowed to Tanya.

He urged her
You never know when Savnak, rampaging on the front lines, will attack this Maherit.

From the point of view of the imperial knight escorting the imperial chamberlain, he hoped to return to the holy empire via the warp gate. The Liberia Elves were one of the allies of the Holy Empire, but the safety of Tanya Mainz was more important to the Imperial Knights.

“The wires haven’t even been pierced yet. Don’t rush, you motherfucker.”

Said Tanya to her Imperial Knight, who urged her on in her thick voice.

At that, the knight nodded.
The knight stepped back with a look of deep exaltation.

Maybe he was deliberately provoking Tanya. Ileina thought about that, but she shook her head, thinking, ‘There’s no way there’s anyone in the world who would like to be insulted by a woman.’

“Perhaps… , Do you know what reward was promised to Gilead, the god of restoration who subdued the demon king in the imperial family?”

Ilayna asked.
Tanya laughed at the priest’s question.

“No reward will be able to dazzle Gilead. He rejected all offers from the Holy Empire and returned to the Kingdom of Valois. He did say that he wanted to hide his identity until the end. I don’t know why.”

While the high priest and the imperial chamberlain were having an important conversation in the drawing room,

The female knight outside the door approached.
It must have been quite urgent, so she immediately reported it to Ileina, who was talking with a distinguished guest from the Holy Empire.

“Priestess, now Maherit is being attacked by monsters. No, it should be called an attack… , I don’t know, but the demons attacked Maherit anyway.”
“What do you mean?”

What kind of nonsense do you mean?
Il Reina frowned at the report of the company, which only added her nonsensical words.

“So in the sky… , Countless monsters are falling headlong to the ground.”

Big! Wow! Nice!

Now in Maherit, there was a groaning sound of a piece of meat being crushed by a strong impact.

The drawing room located deep inside the palace was unaware of this fact, but now the citizens of Maherit were screaming at the monster’s fall from the sky relentlessly.