Chapter 34 – 4-Mist(4)
My daily life has always been the same.
The daily life of coming out of my messy laboratory, scouting the surroundings with some modified magic beasts, checking if the demon sword Darkness is intact, and checking if the magic circle of black magic is intact.
In my opinion, I wanted to pour my all into the goal of making the ultimate demon with my own hands.
But that’s impossible.
Because I have no freedom.
I had no freedom, only solitude.
I was lonely in a place where only demons were my life.
Of course, some humans came into this forest, but all of them were thrown as food for the demons.
Every time I thought and thought again.
I want to go out and enjoy freedom, I want to decide and act according to my own will, even if I die like them.
I want to spend my life focusing only on my research like them.
But that was impossible.
It is my duty and purpose of life to protect the hope of our demons and everything of my ancestors, which are inscribed in our blood.
That’s why I had to give up hope.
Guarding the sword, guarding the sword, awaiting our lord.
Waiting for the rightful successor.
That is an absolute duty written in blood.
Whether you want to refuse or run away, the ideal engraved in your blood is a mission that has been handed down from generation to generation from our ancestors.
And today the mission is over.
The rightful successor to the owner of the sword was determined.
The successor appointed by my ancestors was before me.
Following the words of my ancestors, my blood began to pulsate again.
Follow the boy… Give your all to the boy… Absolutely obey the boy, that is a bloody duty…
Rumbling blood was telling me.
Despair began to rise in my heart once again, saying that the boy is now a net and a fence that binds you.
Yes… There is no salvation for me.
That’s how I was slowly despairing and giving up, and a new hope came down to me.
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Mystra Laratina was in a daze for a moment after the story of the Demon King was over.
But when I waved my hand in front of me, startled! He shuddered and got up from his seat.
“I look forward to seeing you in the future. My Demon King.”
Mist’s eyes were mixed as he said that.
‘Hmm… I guess it’s because I don’t think I’ll be able to study witchcraft.’
And I quickly found the reason.
Originally, wizards put great importance on studying their own magic.
In response, I put my hand on Mist’s head and said.
“My name is Shine Artel, and I will be your lord and your biggest supporter.”
At my words, Mist looked up at me with her puzzled expression, and I said while stroking Mist’s long ears.
“Simply put, I’m supporting your witchbeast research, so I’m telling you to make great results with it.”
“Huh…! I… Really?”
At my words, Mist’s eyes brightened and he asked while blushing, and I nodded in affirmation.
Then Mist made a bright expression, and Senia and Anel, who were running behind her, made happy faces.
“Huh-huh… Artel’s brother’s number of slaves has increased again! I have to educate him well!”
“Oh oh oh oh my junior!”
Hearing the excited voices of the two, I smiled and said.
“Mist, guide me to your lab first, so I can sleep with this first.”
I said that and lifted the teleport scroll in her hand. Mist nodded her head and took us somewhere.
As she was walking through the woods, she lowered a strange branch about halfway to the strange tree, causing the ground to shake.
Deed deed!!
The surrounding ground shook with a huge tremor, and when the tremor stopped, there was a strange house behind the tree.
“Come in. Demon Lord!”
I went inside with a warning at the words of Myst who shouted with an excited expression.
“From now on, call me Master, not Demon Lord.”
It would be very dangerous to call me the devil outside, so I immediately warned her and nodded her head, saying that I would know if Mist understood it.
After that we all went inside the room.
“Wow… That’s messy”
“…It’s very dirty.”
Senia said, ‘It can be this messy!’ And fired pure factual violence, and Arnell frowned and fired a fact missile at her.
However, Mist, who may have been a descendant of the Demon King, was moving and collecting his belongings without the slightest change in expression.
“This… Is necessary! This… Can be discarded! This is no longer needed, so throw it away… And again!”
Seeing the hurried abandonment, moving, and stacking of luggage, we intuition that it would take a long time and decided to just look around.
That’s how we toured the mansions of wizards and warlocks who research witches.
When we entered the depths of the house, what greeted us were all sorts of reagents and the body organs of various monsters contained in the reagents, and in some places there were demon beasts entirely contained in reagents.
In addition, there were hairs and a large amount of hardened blood stains on the floor… And there was a wolf beast with a split stomach and panting.
All teeth were removed, only gums remained, and blood was constantly flowing from the cracked stomach.
In addition, the wolf witch saw us and started growling, and I frowned at this, and Senia stepped in front of me.
Senia stepped in front of me and created an icicle in her hand.
“Wow… So many disgusting things!”
Fu-wook!
Senia, who held her icicle in her hand, drove the icicle into the head of the wolf beast with an excited voice and a disgusted expression.
“Hey! Where are you going to attack us, the devil!”
Senia didn’t seem to like the struggling wolf master.
“Anyway… There are a lot of things that are quite strange.”
In the meantime, Annell’s face was shining as she looked at all the drugs and ingredients that Mist was supposed to use next to me.
Among them, he saw a red potion reminiscent of the sun and held it up with both hands as if he was deeply interested.
In addition, because there were three potions, Anel looked at them with thrilling eyes.
“This is my first time using magic items like this.”
Anel said so and he watched the three potions from above and below and performed various actions as if shaking them.
It seemed strange to see magic items for the first time.
“Hmm… Is this here?”
And I left those kids behind, and I was moving somewhere by detecting the surroundings with electromagnetic waves and finding a way.
From the time I entered this land, I moved in search of something with an aura similar to a sword.
The electromagnetic waves that searched every nook and cranny of this house showed me the way I should go, and I left the room and went deeper and deeper.
Ine I even went into the basement of the house.
The basement door was locked with a strange technique, but I just broke it with force and entered.
When I entered the basement, there was a passage that went deeper and deeper into the basement.
When I sensed it with my ability, it was such a deep and deep passage that I had to go down at least 1 km to see the end.
“I found Bingo.
Having discovered this passage, I went down the passage without hesitation.
Behind me, ‘aaaaa! Mind… Demon Lord!!’ I heard Myst’s voice shouting,
As I descended further and further from the basement, the surroundings were very dark and there were a large number of demon beasts.
“Kyaaaaa!”
“Karrrr!”
As soon as I came down, the beasts began to attack me with their teeth.
The number of monsters I detected with my ability was about 10,000, so I grabbed the handle of the sword worn around my waist and injected lightning into the sword.
Pajijijijik!
Golden lightning spread out in all directions, brightening up the surroundings, and the magic beasts flinched at the sudden bright light.
At this, my sword was mercilessly swung.
The skill I’m using now is a wide-area skill that cuts everything around me by continuously swinging my sword, so it’s very suitable for the situation.
So I spoke briefly and drew my sword.
“It’s in the way.”
Lightning type 4 – super light incomparable
Chaaaaagh-!
My sword was surrounded by massive lightning, and high-speed sword strikes engulfed the surroundings.
There was a roar, like a series of lightning bolts, and bright flashes of light illuminated the surroundings.
And when the light subsided, all that was left was the remains of the beasts that had been hacked to pieces and burned by lightning.
Having slaughtered the monsters like that, I wandered around to find a way.
Fortunately, there was no difficulty in advancing toward the goal because the Demon King Sword Darkness rang resonantly.
“No… No… I found it. Here is the place where you can feel the special electromagnetic waves… And the sword is also reacting.”
I was able to see the sword reacting as I moved forward.
“…This is… Armor?”
The black and red armor that reminded me of a beast was wrapped in chains in front of me.
While I was bewildered by this appearance, the demon king dwelling in the sword opened his mouth.
[Indeed… Is it an armor made from the corpses of the dragons I caught and my remaining bones… I put a lot of effort into making it]
I couldn’t help but admire the demon king’s words.
“It’s a rare species that you can’t catch if you’re a dragon, but this is really great.”
The demon king also laughed and agreed with my words.
[Honestly, they’re guardians, they’re the ones who live in hiding!]
Haha! While I was doing that, Mist and his party were running after me.
