Chapter 237 – Showdown (4)
The place where the devil descended was not only the Chepeshu Mansion.
All over the continent.
Under the command of the Demon King, all the remaining demons invaded the continent by leading their respective legions.
Considering that even the demons at the bottom of the hierarchy were on the same level as Aura Masters or Arch Mages, it was rather strange that the continent would not be overrun helplessly.
Nevertheless.
The power of the continent was well against the invasion of demons.
Even if all the Masters and the number of Arch Mages are combined, there are less than one hundred on the entire continent.
Among them, if you pick the level where you can fully face the devil, about half of them fall again.
Even so, it is incomparable to the demons of the higher ranks.
Sitri, who was ranked 12th and immediately stormed into the academy, was a grand master, a level slightly less powerful than that.
Normally, it wouldn’t be strange if half of the continent had already been devastated.
Because the purpose of the demons is not conquest but destruction, and war itself in the first place is bound to cause great damage to the defenders.
However, the continent exceeded the level of unexpected propaganda, and even if there was quite a lot of damage, there was not a single damage enough to shake the entire continent.
There were several reasons why the continent was able to make a good save.
First.
“—Tsk. I guess the time has come for the world to end.”
“Grandee! Please refrain from saying such things!”
“Did I say something wrong? Look at me I can see all sorts of sundry things coming up over the horizon.”
“… Phew. If it hadn’t been for the Archduke, he would have written a will by now.”
“Marquis, I always think about it, but your flaw is that you talk a lot. You, her daughter, must have inherited her father’s strange personality…”
“Is that what you want to say to the lord who has come to fight, leaving the territory behind?”
“The lively color… Anyway, if this hole is pierced, it’s all over, and I didn’t even call, but didn’t you come running?”
Northern Duke.
Even though it is only within a limited area, the prestige of the Grand Master of Continental Yui is not in vain.
Even the number of demons killed so far is in double digits.
Among them, even the top 10 demons were included.
After a fierce battle, he annihilated the 13th rank Beled, and himself suffered serious injuries.
“This is better if you apply saliva and rest for a day!”
“Stop talking bullshit, please. You are old now.”
“Is this guy ignoring me now because he’s young?”
Knowing that, Sasha’s father and old friend of the Archduke—Marquis Aylanova came to visit.
If the Grand Duke of the North, the master of the snowy fields, and the sword of the empire were broken here, the North would be helplessly broken through.
Even though that daughter, Anna, is scheduled to become the next-generation swordsman, she is not yet ripe.
“… There are too many of them, though.”
Thousands, tens of thousands of demonic beasts. After absorbing Beled’s legion that had lost its owner, several demons advancing to destroy the north came into sight of the Grand Duke and the Marquis.
“… Him.”
The Grand Duke remembered an old friend who was no better than trash to be angry with.
Even if he is an irredeemable trash, he is a guy who has no choice but to acknowledge his ability, so I believe that he will somehow solve this situation.
Until then, he vows once again to firmly defend the North.
And second.
“Your majesty! Anomalies all over the capital!”
“I know Jim too…”
Decrepit emperor.
With the exception of Grand, he has no rivals on the continent, and even he who has reached the end of the Master cannot escape the flow of time.
Wouldn’t it be better if it became a grand class free from such laws?
The current emperor was too old and too weak to demonstrate the power of a master.
To the extent that they couldn’t even set out to subdue the hordes of heinous demons appearing all over the continent.
“If only Jim had been ten years younger…”
If that was the case, they would have gone out of the imperial palace with a triumphant ceremony and wiped out the demon army.
Of course, the emperor at that time was all the same old, and he didn’t have an outgoing personality, so even if he was actually 10 years younger, “Oh, if only I was 20 years younger…” “I would have said the same thing.
Even so, the emperor did not just sit still.
“Do you have Sir Arnold?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The always loyal Knight Commander bowed to the supreme ruler of the empire.
The emperor smiled contentedly, ran his hand through his long beard and squeezed the handle of his throne.
“Even if Jim can’t swing the sword himself, the realization won’t disappear.”
Enlightenment.
In other words, a unique authority that the master can wield.
The emperor, befitting the greatest being in the empire, possessed powers befitting his position.
─What is it?
—Me, Meteor! What the hell is that?!
– Stop it!
Boom——!
Kwaaang———!
The sound of heaven and earth collapsing reached the imperial palace.
Before the heinous devil’s legion entered the capital’s castle, he used his power to drop a meteorite.
Power of the emperor.
That’s the ‘command’.
As the head of the imperial family, who is favored by the goddess, the power created by weaving the powers of the powers he possesses in an appropriate and harmonious manner.
—Well, that’s almost the emperor’s prerogative.
-That name is fine.
“Emperor’s Privilege”
Long ago. Just like the name Scarlett, an old friend, gave her.
At least within the Empire, for the sake of the Empire’s stability, it is a power that can wield near-miraculous power.
“Then, Sir Arnold, I’ll leave the rest to you…”
“I will serve you!”
Although it comes with a very large recoil depending on its output and form.
This would be much better than going out with a sword and setting it up.
Thanks to Meteor just now, most of the demon corps have been annihilated. The only ones who survived were the demons who were on the same level as the emperor himself, and the officers under his command.
“I should have done this…”
The emperor, whose strength had weakened from what had just happened, gasped and leaned back on his throne.
I really felt like I had reached my limit.
Well, I did eat enough for my age.
Because of my damn friends, one of them being an immortal race and the other being a Grand and rejuvenated unlike myself, I feel a bit lonely because I have no one to go with me.
“Whatever… Those guys stay here that long… I have to do what the living must do…”
The old man let out a deep sigh.
I say this, but I can’t help but feel sorry for nothing.
Still, I can’t ask my friends to die together.
“A face before I die… I’d love to see…”
Now that it’s time to die, I want to see the faces of my children.
It’s okay since everyone is in the imperial palace. One, my beautiful youngest daughter, is obsessed with that mean friend, so I want to see my daughter one last time while seeing his face once…
“As people get older, they become emotional. Maybe it’s time to go… Haha.”
The old man recalled the face of his mean friend.
He felt like he couldn’t close his eyes right now, even to tell him, “I can’t give you my daughter.”
Besides that.
Arrangements that Scarlett spread all over the continent faithfully prevented the invasion of demons.
Thanks to the fact that even the demon king himself was tied to Scarlett, the power of the demons, who should have descended intact, was weakened by crossing the dimensional gate.
Even the dragons that were connected by helping Calia in the Dragon Mountains spread their wings and raised their heavy bodies.
Not just a simple adult-level dragon, but also an old dragon-level that was just waiting for the day to go, and was still so stiff that moss would grow on its body if it was too cumbersome to move.
“… I’m surprised. I thought even the dragon would move.”
The demon who had been looking down on all of that from the dimensional rift——Gamigin turned his gaze.
Instead of going through the dimensional gate, Gamigin prepared a special space where he could hide himself in the space between the dimensional gates with his authority and hid himself.
Unlike the other demons, she was not very interested in invading the continent.
It seems that even Sitrima, her close friend, met a satisfactory end in my own way.
No matter how much her king orders, her king will return and destroy her. She couldn’t force the actions of the fourth-ranked woman.
In her honest state of mind, it didn’t matter what would happen.
Thanks to her, I was able to watch her with a sense of spectatorship, so even her dragon’s participation in the battle did not inspire her.
Even that Dragon Lord would be nothing more than a winged lizard before the power of the Demon King.
In the end, the important thing is not the fight on the continent, but the fight of the transcendents unfolding far beyond.
“… Sitri, what did you like so much? I’m just hiding…”
Sitri, her end was execution.
Not only did she disobey the Supreme King’s orders, but she also betrayed and passed information on to the Demon King’s nemesis.
Gamigin was questionable.
What was her true love that led her to throw away her own life like that?
Did she love that man so much that she didn’t care if she vanished in vain?
“Even though we’ve never met in person and talked to each other properly.”
The vacancy of her best friend, who had left after suffering from a fever of unrequited love, was still unfamiliar to Gamigin.
“…”
Perhaps because of that, the sight of the man Sitriga loved so much, and the women who loved that man, were gathering.
What kind of women are they?
“… Uh?”
Why is Agares over there?
2nd place in the sequence.
The Demon King’s most faithful right-hand man, the best warrior in the Demon Realm.
Agares was descending there.
