Chapter 577 – The Final Chapter. To Julian’s Future (5)
“It’s a grand festival. Julian What do you mean by that?”
My maternal grandfather asked me curiously.
The reaction was natural.
Far from being a festival, countless people died every day on the battlefield.
Not only for those soldiers, but also for humanity, the only future left was despair, not a festival.
The sky of the ecliptic was still cloudy.
It wasn’t even a figurative expression.
Demonic spirit power on a scale beyond common sense that the resurrected Demon God Knoia is sprinkling on the ground.
The clouds created by that magic power were so thick that they covered the sky.
However, I smiled at my maternal grandfather and said.
“I’m literally going to really open a festival.”
“I still don’t know what that word means. I still do not even understand the meaning of the temple you speak of. Not only our imperial army… Isn’t your Demon King’s army also here?”
My grandfather was right.
My maternal grandfather spoke cautiously, being conscious of the Demon King’s Army, who had now become my soldier.
The long-standing conflict between humans and demons is not light enough to disappear overnight.
“I am aware of the discrimination the Empire has been doing to the demons. Julian. So it won’t be easy for your soldiers to think of humans as being on the same side. Besides, even the main deities they serve are different from each other…”
“So, as I said, we need a grand festival. Jedin and Yunir. To start a new temple that inherited the will of the two main gods.”
“Then maybe…”
My grandfather seems to have understood the meaning of my words.
“Right. Julian. Do you have the confidence to unite the will of all mankind gathered here before the final battle?”
My grandfather was right.
An empire representing humans. Agriel, who represents the demons.
The will of the two groups must be properly united to fight against Knoia.
‘There shouldn’t be an inch of doubt or hatred.’
Of course, if the two groups spread a united front, it is natural that trust towards each other is important.
But what he was telling me was a story beyond that level.
“Knoia is human distrust or greed. Negative emotions such as hatred and resentment… It is a Demon God created by concentrating those old human emotions to the point of being terrifying. If humans and demons had such feelings for each other and go into battle…”
“That horse can’t escape the influence of Knoia’s demon power. Isn’t that what you mean?”
“You’re right. Knoia is an existence of chaos. There’s no way he wouldn’t use the feelings of confusion created by the people gathered here.”
Not only that.
The existence of the Keiatic Gate and the Witchbeast.
Because of the monster’s existence, which was so savage and cruel that it couldn’t even be compared to monsters that existed in the past.
Humankind has long been imprinted with an unconscious fear of the Witchbeast.
There was nothing to say about the soldiers who lost countless comrades to the demons and demons like now.
I have always witnessed the deep and heavy fear and despair of the soldiers facing the Witchbeast on the battlefield.
‘It can’t be like that.’
Those feelings. The chaos is delicious food for Knoia.
So if I prepare a true holy war in my name.
A fight with that demon.
It was necessary to change the mindset of the allies facing the battle from the very beginning.
I briefly told my grandfather about my plan.
“So we need a grand festival. A place where humans and demons can go beyond the past and reconcile… Also, the opportunity and stage to show a new will to never give in to demons.”
So the grand festival I said was necessary.
Although the enmity of a long history cannot be completely washed away in that short period of time.
However, they are not each other’s enemies.
It is a place where we can think anew about the fact that we are the same human beings capable of reconciliation.
‘It’s a temple in the true sense of the word.’
At the same time, it is a human and a demon.
It was also a homework for me, who wants to become the god of all mankind someday.
After I said everything, I looked at my maternal grandfather.
The maternal grandfather gently closed his eyes for a moment.
He paused for a moment, as if thinking about something.
He spoke to me in a voice full of emotion.
“That’s right, Yulian. You are right. Now, many famous heroes from Island have gathered in this ecliptic. Not only the ten thrones of the empire, but also those like Ustina and Aitekkia, who are famous in the Demon Kingdom. But no one would have thought the same as you, Julian. The idea of bringing everyone together in a true sense.”
He didn’t deny that.
At that, I nodded my head to my grandfather.
“This is just the beginning. The beginning of the festival to show our humanity that we will never give in to Knoia.”
I told my maternal grandfather a more specific plan.
***
Outskirts of the ecliptic.
The forefront of mankind preparing for the final battle against the resurrected Demon God.
Over the past few days, the Imperial forces gathered there have been fighting for their lives.
The atmosphere there was obviously different from before.
Cuckoo coo-
I felt the ground shaking as if an earthquake had occurred.
Influenced by the resurrection of the Demon God, numerous transcendental level Demonic Beasts appeared.
Each of those monsters is like a natural disaster.
That’s why there was nothing strange about hearing the sound of something being destroyed countless times on the battlefield.
But it was strange.
That loud sound didn’t seem to originate from the Witchbeast.
The surrounding topography was changing as if civil engineering work was taking place on the outskirts of the ecliptic.
Chloe stared at the scene with her fan wide open, slightly covering her face.
No, she was busy too.
Widely-
She folded her fan and pointed it at a nearby piece of land.
“Are you thinking of using the current area as a plaza? Those gathered here, go to work as I instructed in advance.”
“All right! Countess Chloe!”
After hearing Chloe’s instructions, the alchemists answered in unison.
Looking at this, Chloe smiled arrogantly at the other party who were standing together with a triumphant expression.
“Look! I am this kind of person in this imperial city… No, in the empire!”
And again, the fan bloomed and said triumphantly.
The people who gathered with Chloe didn’t pay much attention, as if the appearance was familiar.
“Still, the presence of an alchemist is amazing. The borders of the ecliptic… This place was like a wasteland when we arrived.”
The one who answered Chloe’s words was Lucia.
Although Chloe was a young lady with the personality of being unlikable and making enemies even when she stayed still.
Surprisingly, Chloe and Lucia matched their personalities well.
When no one responded, it was Chloe who instantly turned pale.
Fortunately, though, when Lucia answered, she raised her head again and smiled excitedly.
“Is it so! All the alchemists gathered here are imperial level talents! My father… The great Imperial Duke Gerard de Aitern’s proud alchemy division! Whoop…”
She was right.
Alchemists were rapidly changing the terrain around them.
It is a common task for military alchemists to create trenches for battle or traps to deal with the Witchbeast.
But now, no matter who saw them, they seemed to be concentrating on construction.
“The festival starts today. It’s thrilling, but a little unbelievable.”
And Cecilia, who was standing next to Lucia, murmured.
Right now, Julian’s lovers, except for the two, were gathered together in this place.
Chloe and Lucia.
And even Cecilia and Rosette.
Although they also belonged to the demon king’s army along with Yulian.
Now he joined the Imperial Army and was helping Yulian with his work.
Lucia answered Cecilia’s words.
“Me too. Cecil. I was prepared for a fierce battle where I risked my life… But I never thought that a festival where both humans and demons would be together would take place right here…”
Lucia’s voice trembled a little.
Although she was Lucia, who usually doesn’t show her emotions well.
Even she was excited now.
It is she who risked her life to protect her demonic sisters, Tricia and Cecilia.
In the first place, Luciani treated the demons without prejudice, even from the eyes of the imperial people.
As much as Lucia was like that, she had read all the true meaning behind the grand festival that Julian had planned.
Both humans and demons.
All were of the same human race.
Luciani, Unir’s incarnation. Because of her influence, she had been dreaming without even realizing it.
The moment when humans and demons can harmonize without prejudice or misunderstanding.
“Everyone is safe!”
And that was when
Two familiar female knights were approaching this place.
Uriel and Charlotte.
They were the two people who were the high night of the midnight sun.
So, in terms of their affiliation, they belong to the Knights of the Midnight Sun and are no different from Lucia’s superiors.
However, Yuriel approached with sincere joy at seeing Lucia safe and sound.
“Aww! Lucia! You’re all right! So good!”
Then Charlotte hugged Lucia tightly and rubbed Lucia’s cheeks with her cheeks.
“Oh. Essenmund’s way of greeting… Looks strange and interesting.”
“Really? Is that a greeting? That…The scene is somehow strange…”
Cecilia and Rosette, who were watching the reunion scene, also exchanged words.
And the conversation was short-lived.
Suddenly there was a sound of vibrating the air around me.
Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo-
The sound interrupted their conversation.
And at the same time, something was rising into the air.
“It has started…”
Uriel muttered.
Now the exhibition situation.
Right now, the Demonic Beast Army led by Pedro is at a distance.
Of course, calmly preparing for the festival was tantamount to committing suicide.
But now, there was the only person, or the only being, who could make that possible.
Julian von Reinhardt.
Yuriel looked at Yulian who started her flight, and she was unknowingly amazed.
“To think that Count Julian is really a dragon…”
The appearance of Yulian, who became a demonic dragon and flew up, was beautiful in a pure sense.
[I, Julian von Reinhardt, will tell you in this place.]
And Julian shouted at everyone gathered here.
