Chapter 516 – 146. Lord of the Irish League (2)
No matter who sees it, it is not the appearance of a great old dragon, but the appearance of a lord on the verge of death from overwork.
However, no one in the Demon Palace knew of Ustina’s appearance.
The red dragon Ustina is a fearful existence to the officials who enter and exit the Demon King’s Palace.
Normally, I couldn’t even make eye contact with her, so I was prostrated on the floor of her audience room as she was.
At least, if there is someone who can see her human side. It was only the demon archduke.
“I want to die!! No, I want to live!! Damn Knoia! Tear that bug-like bastard limb from limb…”
Whirririric-
Right at that moment.
As if responding to Ustina’s scream, a book of magic suddenly appeared in the air.
Lemegeton.
The magic book that proves the contract with the demon archduke opened the bookshelf by itself.
Soon, the sphere of dark magic gathered above her and spoke to her.
[Ustina. You shouldn’t be so relaxed! Do you really intend to give the demon kingdom to that half-seat demon dragon!]
That devil archduke. Diael, the Grand Duke of her wrath, hastened her.
Then, Ustina, the current demon king of the Demon Kingdom, shouted with a voice full of anger.
“Shut up! Diael! It’s because you cheated on me… I killed almost all the guys in the Senate, so I have to suffer like this!”
[Why is it my fault? Whenever that Cecilia gets angry because she died because of the Senators. Obviously, I told you to keep those who are reasonably useful.]
“I wouldn’t have left the nest if you had conceded a lot of contracts with Cecilia in the first place!”
[I just responded to the call. The problem is that your nephew’s dragon heart was weak beyond common sense. Even if I yielded everything in an unfair contract, such a weak dragon would have died.]
“Hey, Diael! Are you insulting my nephew?”
[…
The Grand Duke of Fury quietly disappeared into Lemegeton.
Diael already knew her personality. Recently, she has become more obediently silent.
In fact, both of them knew that this argument was meaningless.
Diael, who is the great devil and also a dragon himself.
And Ustina, a red dragon who has a lot of pride in dragons.
Both of you are in the same position that dragon blood is extremely valuable. So we just held hands.
And that because of that position, Julian von Reinhardt, who was mixed with human blood, could not be recognized as the successor of the Demon King.
In the first place, he was not even from the Demon Kingdom, but an enemy, a nobleman of the Ramir Empire. It doesn’t make sense to claim him as the Demon King just because Lucifer’s blood was mixed.
‘Even if he was from a pure demon tribe, he wouldn’t have had a base of support.’
But in fact, the current Ustina really wanted to hand over all the kingship to him.
A ferocious fanatic of the goddess Unir.
That’s why, unlike Diael, who couldn’t acknowledge Yulian who was chosen by the goddess any more. Ustina thought realistically from the devil’s point of view.
She has done her best so far.
In fact, if she hadn’t quickly become the Demon King.
The capital, Yekares, is the traitor of the demons, Euranes. It would have been destroyed in the end by that apostle.
The Senate was corrupt and incompetent. It wasn’t strange at all that they attached themselves to Euranes, a dark elf and an apostle of Knoia.
Even she, who lacked her lust for power, was enraged at the senate.
Although the reason was Cecilia’s revenge. Still, Ustina was never foolish as an elder dragon.
She was doing her best to protect the Demon Kingdom.
‘Damn it! Suffering as suffering No recognition!’
In the first place, the Western Demon King Army did not recognize itself. Now even the South seems to have recognized Julian von Reinhardt as their new leader.
‘I had no intention of becoming a demon king in the first place!’
In fact, I wanted to leave everything to that Yulian, and defeat that Caceres-kun and the Demonic Beasts in the East with ease.
It’s such an irresponsible act now.
There are many great princes loyal to her in the central part of her demon kingdom and in the eastern part where her capital is located.
And for the sake of her soldiers, who are still risking their lives to stop the invading army of Euranes and Pedro.
‘Then, now is the time to really formally talk to him.’
Although, from a political point of view, Julian and himself are on opposite sides.
Instead, the two have a clear common enemy: Knoia and the forces following him.
It’s the throne, second to none. First of all, we can overcome the current crisis only by combining all the power of the Demon Kingdom.
‘Lucifer… And Aquarithe…’
He’s already missing, not even Lucifer, who’s been dead for 20 years.
The death of Aquarithe, one of the best forces in the Demon Kingdom, felt very painful.
Lucifer and Aquarite, both old friends of Ustina.
Although there was more time to fight than to make friends in a friendly way.
The three of them were childhood friends who had been together since childhood.
And not too long ago, Aquarius briefly appeared through the branches of the World Tree in the garden of the Demon King’s Palace.
Of course, since he was already dead, he was a ghost.
– Ustina! I’ll head to the side of the goddess first! Suffer!
I wanted to annihilate the guy who spoke so casually with his soul intact.
But I couldn’t ignore his last words.
– Lucifer’s son is a very nice guy. Regardless of whether he has human blood mixed in, he is a being closer to the source of dragons than anyone else. So try to convince the Grand Duke of Wrath! Anyway, see you in the next life!
After the ignorant Aquarithe died, it seems to have calmed down.
Anyway, if that aquarite, who was more arrogant than he was, had recognized Yulian.
Now is definitely the time to change your mind. She had a hunch.
‘He is also the owner of Remegeton. Sooner or later, I have to propose a dream meeting.’
The dream that continues like that is the queen of succubus. She borrows the power of Louis Lille, the queen of lust, so she inevitably becomes a lust.
To the extent that she was said to be asexual, she never sought out any male even during her estrus. Naughty dreams won’t be much of a problem.
Ustina took out the Remegeton again and said to the Grand Duke of Wrath.
“Tell the Grand Duchess of Lust. I will have a meeting with Julian von Reinhardt soon.”
Although the Archduke’s planting felt uncomfortable.
As the owner of Remegeton, he had the right to summon all the Grand Dukes.
She didn’t object to what she said. Although it soon disappeared into that hell.
“Whew… Anyway, that Julian von Reinhardt. What kind of guy is he?”
He is his most beloved nephew. You are Cecilia’s lover. I wondered how he would have seduced that innocent child.
However, there was no time to indulge in other thoughts like that.
“Why are you still here!!”
She screamed at the paperwork that didn’t shrink, and eventually couldn’t sleep that night either.
***
The movement of the Witchbeast was different from before.
Aitekkia, the general of the western demon army.
And now he became the commander of the 1st Corps of the Irish Alliance. He saw a number of nests perched on the plain in front of him.
‘Is it time to redefine the definition of an imperial nest?’
At one time, demons were not afraid of demons at all.
A monster that already existed before the appearance of the Keiatic Gate.
Only the monsters who mimicked the appearance of that monster.
It wasn’t a big threat to demons with physical abilities different from humans.
However, those monsters gradually evolved.
Unlike monsters whose intelligence level is much lower than that of humans.
They had a centralized focal point called the Keiatic Gate.
Unlike monsters, if you move away from that gate, the number of demons will also weaken. Instead, it gradually showed a different strength from normal monsters in the place where the magic power of the gate reached.
And they began to mimic the human form, and even formed a chain of command.
A dungeon that serves as their base.
And the scale of the dungeon gradually evolved.
From small zeros of dozens of scales. Up to the Empire level, which commands more than thousands of monsters as legions.
The nesting surface of the transcendent type beyond type 1.
Each of the monsters belonging to that nest became strong enough to surpass an Auror Expert.
‘Still, their power weakens as they get farther away from the Keiatic Gate…’
That, too, has already become a thing of the past.
“Unlike before, magical energy in the air will no longer recover when nearby nests disappear. Perhaps the resurrected Knoia and the last Keiatic Gate. It must be because of the jail cell.”
Dwarven Archbishop. Ruian said to Aitekkia.
Aitekia’s already white face became even paler.
“As expected. Laenstia is located in the middle of Inferno in the south and Plutia in the east, and is very far from the Chaetic Gate. But to the point where even an imperial nest can be found in a place like this. It seems that the end times have really come.”
According to Count Lantea, the number of demon beasts identified was about 2,000.
However, due to the outstanding performance of the allies of Island, they had already killed more than 2,000 monsters in two weeks.
Still, the battle isn’t over.
The Witchbeast’s nest nestled in the Great Plain of Tizenkire.
It was because the evolved dungeons and nests formed numerous colonies like beehives or anthills, producing new monsters.
Almost 2,000 monsters, the same number as the disappeared monsters, poured out of the nest again.
‘To think that an army of 2,000 would appear again…’
Above all, from the abyss of its nest.
The fact that Plutia’s apostle, Duke Pedro, hid the seed of the demon. I figured it out too late.
The transcendence monster, Jormungand, has awakened here on the plains.
Not quite as good as that aquarite. Its wide-area attack was no less than that of Aquarithe.
‘The range is transcendent…’
Ordinary soldiers or knights could not even approach that Jormungandr.
“It must be the last gateway before our allies advance to the capital.”
And the corps commander of the 3rd corps standing side by side with him, Lyles said.
Aitecia glanced at him.
A human knight that is not easy to get along with as a demon. And he was a member of the High Knights of the Imperial Guard, who had recently reached the level of Master.
But now, the 3 Corps, the human soldiers, were merging with the soldiers from the Demon King’s Army.
Now, they are not at odds with each other because of their origin or race.
All Irish allies. And they were soldiers loyal to Julian von Reinhardt, the leader.
Above all, that faithful knight and his soldiers. He took up his sword to protect the demons here in the Demon Kingdom.
‘It’s amazing.’
And they had extreme trust in Julian, who was the successor of the margrave, not the emperor.
Even though it was discussed with the emperor of the empire. Doing that close to rebellion.
That those who were full of loyalty to the Imperial family of Ramir allowed it. It’s not easy.
‘It must mean that His Majesty Julian’s name has a great meaning in the empire.’
Even though this is the Demon Kingdom.
It was said that the empire was buzzing with the appearance of a great hero who enthused the entire empire.
The betrothed of the emperor and the slayer of the treacherous god Grius.
And the young lord who protected the Western Kingdom Union from the apostles and the Byrea mercenary group.
‘A new hero will be needed in this chaotic era.’
The successor of the Margrave, Julian von Reinhardt. The news that he was rapidly emerging as a new hero of the empire.
That’s why the humans of the 3rd Corps did not doubt Yulian’s loyalty. Already, they sincerely believed in Yulian.
It’s not just a vain ambition to conquer the continent.
That he personally spearheaded the crusade to bring the light of mankind. Everyone knew
It is said that Lyles, the commander of the corps, was at the scene of suppressing the rebellion with Julian.
And Aitecia was well aware of the feelings of the 3rd Corps.
Every time I participated in a battle with Yulian, I felt a burning sensation somewhere in my heart.
‘Yes. Everyone must be standing on the site of a mountain of history. Of a hero named Julian von Reinhardt.’
Oh oh oh oh oh-
And from far away came the roar of Jormungandr.
Even that roar was imbued with demonic power that was so strong that it naturally made you feel fear.
Both Aitecia and Lyles felt fear from that Jormungand.
Without a doubt, its strength was on a different level from the monsters they had dealt with.
A small shockwave created by him instantly evaporated hundreds of troops.
And that moment.
A blond young man in silver armor approached and shouted in front of the corps commanders.
“All preparations are complete. Get ready for the Giants! I will be in the vanguard!”
The young leader of the alliance.
And for the demon lords, a new demon lord. In unison, the top commanders knelt toward him.
“I will obey Your Majesty’s orders!”
Moments later, Yulian drew his holy sword and charged at Jormungand.
