Chapter 248 – Chapter 248. Last War (4)
Beelzebub.
No one who has lived longer than that in the current demon lord army will exist.
Because most of the demons are often unable to live up to their lives due to their warlike nature, and a very small number of demons end up living in seclusion as their desires run out over time.
At least, even the srak, who can be compared to himself as a career, went to look for witches and went missing.
Considering that the witches came here and confronted the Demon King’s army, it was not difficult to imagine what had become of him.
“… Unlike his dirty face, he still has a gentlemanly attitude.”
And one reason why he was able to survive for so long. Even though Beelzebub was born with a greater desire than other demons, it was because he learned how to control that desire.
He minimizes his losses and seeks greater rewards in the future… He is a leader who seeks the most efficient path at any time.
“Whoa, it’s such an honor that a hero of the past remembers me.”
To him, Melia was a very annoying existence.
A hero who has lived as many years as he has, and has a track record of excelling in real battles that are much harsher than himself.
Although he was said to have been secluded for a long time, considering the power of the arrows he had shot before, his skills would have improved, but he was in a state that could not be said to have rusted.
“By the way, are you okay? There don’t seem to be any other allies around, but you alone are going to deal with all of us…”
Of course, even with such a hero, it would be difficult to deal with all the hordes of Chungins covering the sky.
Even so, the arrowheads pointed at him showed no sign of reaping.
“No matter how old I am, I don’t know the military, but I can take at least one of your necks, right?”
“… Even if you have to risk your life for it?”
“You better not think of it as a bluff. I’m in a state of extreme anger because of that dream witch’s pranks.”
Mikhail.
Did he already know that he became the demon king because of Garbonya’s trick?
‘This is troublesome. I’m really prepared to even get to know each other here.’
It’s a bad situation. If you fight her, no matter how you win, her loss will be great.
After the birth of a new demon king, Beelzebub, who has to prepare for the power war in the future, never wants to be swayed.
A strong man who was even prepared to burn himself and block the spot could even be a reason for Beelzebub to retreat.
“Seeing that you don’t rush right away, it seems that the tendency to not want to lose seems to be the same as it was then and now.”
“Kuhuhu, wouldn’t that be natural in the first place? At best, I had power and status, but it would be such a waste to wield it clumsily like the life of a fly and die.”
Melia is also well aware of that, so she can stand alone against her large army.
If that intention goes well, we might even aim to retreat from this spot…
“Ah, speaking of Paris, Ms. Melia. Do you know what the intention of the flies rubbing their hands is?”
“… Well, why?”
“Because I don’t want to get my hands dirty.”
Beelzebub started rubbing his thin, hairy hands.
Along with him, his complexion had a strange look, and immediately after that, the leaking voice began to gain weight.
It’s as if he’s trying to draw her attention to himself.
“If I have something to fight like now, I don’t have to get my hands dirty. I was already preparing for this to happen.”
The moment Melia’s attention was focused on her voice as her magic spread along with her youthful spirit.
As Melia, who could not overlook it, prepared to bounce her bow, she turned the direction of her bow, startled by the thick aura she felt from afar.
Floor, not air. From there, to the sorcerers of the Chungin tribe who are distorting space by unleashing her magical energy.
‘This… !!’
When they noticed it belatedly and saturated the arrows, the Chungins stopped the ceremony and retreated.
However, traces of the distorted space they created still remain there.
“Khuhu, yes. There are many people who will fight on our behalf. I’m just a little cautious, because there are many demons whose goal is to fight.”
I just withheld the coming because I did not trust the birth of a new demon king.
If that fact had been confirmed, there were numerous people in the Demon King’s army, and Beelzebub was ready to call them here just in case.
If he opens the gate, it means that there is someone trying to disrupt the coronation of the new demon king, so he was instructed to attack at random.
“The fact that the gate is open means that people who interfere with the birth of a new demon king appear, right?”
And Melia’s attack only stopped the expansion of the gate.
As much as the space was narrow, the demons at the forefront were already prepared to attack the presumed enemies, consolidating their fighting spirit.
Officers of the Demon King’s army.
It’s not to the point of being the core, but it’s definitely the strong ones who are called the strongest in the demon lord’s army.
“At this level, it won’t be enough to deal with a hero like you. Then, I have urgent business, so excuse me…”
“At there!!”
Melia hurriedly aims her arrow at him with her screams.
At that moment, Melia unfolded her shield to contain the bullets that gathered the rushing mana and fired.
The magicians of the Chungin people preparing to expand the gate again, and the officers of the demon king’s army who escaped ahead through the gate they opened.
“What are you, an elf? Why is the elf here?”
Hee hee!! Come to think of it, I’ve never eaten elven meat before.”
“Before eating, commit and kill!!”
As their eyes glazed over and their saliva flowed, Melia began to break out in a cold sweat as she hardened the smile she had drawn on her lips.
“This is so… You make someone of your age do something too reckless.”
The only consolation thing is that only one Beelzebub with a cautious personality is the only one who goes to the warrior party?
However, even the current struggle with Garbonya is dangerous.
If he, being an opportunist, deliberately exploits a loophole, the precariously maintained balance is in danger of being destroyed.
‘Please hold on until I join you…’ … !’
Melia, who was just praying, prepared to confront the officers of her demon king’s army by demonstrating the power of the spirits that communicated with her own will.
It was at that moment that an unexpected intrusion came in.
-Shuh!
A sharp noise cutting through the air. A sharp afterimage rushing to surround himself with him.
Sensing this earlier, Melia’s head hurriedly lowered her head, and her slash, flying from behind her, brushed past the bodies of her officers surrounding her.
“Haha!”
“What, what is it? What happened… !?”
It’s a moment to spit out embarrassment.
Even before the screams were over, the bodies of the officers were pushed away by the quick stabbing, and soon the figure of the intruder began to appear clearly on the spot.
“… Who are you?”
Thin armor that clearly shows the outline of the body.
A woman with a dry expression with her gray hair tied back above it.
She said as she raised her sword in her own hand at her officers.
“Okay.”
In her very dry voice, she kept her own business simple.
“I will help you.”
The king’s knight Darkan. Humanity’s fastest sword.
The mana held in his hand was sharpened and became an afterimage again, preparing to slaughter the enemies.
And…
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– Did she eventually go away?
“Yes, as soon as I grasped the situation, I went right down.”
Katarina, at the head of the group, her eyes fixed on Dar Khan, responding to the voice that came from the crystal in her hand.
She had been the woman next to me until just now, but by the time she noticed, she had already gone down the hill and was ready to engage the enemy.
Speed is also speed, but the movement is mechanical and monotonous. His sword strikes, which he wielded without superfluity in his body movements, accurately cut through the enemy’s vital points, to the point of making even inferiority in numbers to the point of being indistinct.
But even more surprising than that was the fact that she jumped directly into her battlefield.
It would be surprising to anyone who knew her reticent personality to see her rush into battle before even being ordered to engage.
-I don’t usually get emotional like that. It seems that while she was away from him, she regretted a lot in many ways.
“… You mean the lord.”
– Well, it won’t be so well received by you, but anyway.
Katarina who shrank her body for a moment at the voice of the crystal.
She actually had a vague idea of what she had in her mind while they were together, but she had long since sorted out her thoughts about him.
“It doesn’t really matter. Rather, if it is for that person, there is absolutely no reason to refuse.”
Because any leader has to embrace the many people who give for him.
If she captivated even a woman who might become her enemy, it would be her duty as a servant to appreciate his ability and to be loyal to him.
-Whoops, that’s right. Now, it’s a state where we’ve actually formed an alliance where we live and die together.
The voice of the lens responding as if accepting Katarina’s reaction.
Katarina, feeling the difference between her relaxed appearance and her current situation, quietly turned her uneasy gaze behind him.
“But, is it really okay to let them enter the war?”
Combatants of the Anti-Human Alliance to which they belong.
And with the army of demons standing behind it, tens of times larger than that.
– You called me and now you’re feeling anxious?
“I just followed the hero’s instructions.”
Warrior Celica.
Katarina, who received her note on the day she and her last met, after begging Dave for his understanding, escaped the Orc tribe and faced the head of the human forces who had infiltrated the Demon King’s Territory.
Argentina Alencia.
As the heir to the Anti-Human Alliance, he must be an enemy.
-They have plenty of reasons to fight. Don’t you know? The reason the demons are under the Demon King is not to swear allegiance to him, but to use his influence.
“… Yeah, I know. We are almost expelled now, but we belonged to the Demon King’s Army.”
Yes, originally, he was the blood of a person who was regarded as an enemy to him, but what he actually did after coming to this demon lord was to appease the demons and make them his subordinates.
To be precise, to gather the losers who have not risen to the leadership of the Demon King’s Army and to open an arena to give them a chance to recover.
The structure that allows the victor in such a revival battle to monopolize all power was also a great help in enlisting a large number of troops seeking a chance to recover with a few powerful people.
-You don’t have to worry about them betraying you. If the Demon King dies and the military collapses, the power system so far will be completely overturned. Wouldn’t there be a better chance of success for the losers who couldn’t even become the executives of the demon king’s army?
Originally, the troops gathered by the hero to attack the weakened demon lord with the thought that he would be defeated.
Contrary to their intention, what happened after arriving here was that the hero had dealt with the demon king and that a new author had appeared who was aiming for the position of the demon king, but to them, it would be considered only to the extent that the target to attack had changed.
Whatever it is, you can take advantage of this opportunity to climb even higher, but what reason would demons with strong aggressiveness refuse to fight for it?
“You are mistaken.”
However, the demons’ desires are all in different directions.
Afterwards, as if representing a group of demons, a man stepped forward and quietly answered the voice coming from the lens.
“I am not particularly interested in the existence or power of this world. The reason I hung out with you was because I thought I might be able to meet her again.”
A bicorn, a centaur man with the lower body of a horse covered in black fur.
The former leader of the demon lord’s army and the head of the centaur clan, crossed her arms and began to stare at a woman fighting a cultist at the foot of the hill.
“…I think the time has come to hear the answer that I couldn’t hear at that time.”
Not always the calm answer.
With a very lively look.