Chapter 252 – 252. Negotiation With the Demon King (2)
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To the elves of the Liberia Peninsula, Savnak, the Demon Lord of Heat, was an enemy that could never live under the same sky, and was like an absolute evil that must be annihilated.
A monster that slaughtered countless compatriots.
Savnak even committed an atrocity by mobilizing wyverns and throwing the supply and demand of elves cut down on the battlefield into the sky above Maherit, the capital of the elven nation of Liberia.
To Ilayna, the spiritual leader revered by all elves, and to Ardena, who values the honor and pride of her compatriots above all else, the warrior chiefs under the priest, Savnak was considered an object of hatred that must be slain no matter what.
“If Savnak calls, we should go.”
Yushin said.
At those words, El put on a worried expression.
“… It might be a trap.”
“Savnak would not have dug a trap. He’s a violent warmonger, but he’s not a downtrodden coward.”
After answering that, Yushin opened his mouth again with an expression of “Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.”
“It would be very disrespectful to say this in front of Lord El Cid, who has lost many of his compatriots to Savnak.”
“I have no intention of interfering with Mr. Gilead’s thoughts. But he wants to say that you should never trust Savnak. Never believe in demons, monsters, and the demon king, the lord of ten thousand demons. Even if it’s someone you acknowledge.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
The devil is an absolutely untrustworthy race.
No matter what you say,
Whatever promise he made,
It is just candy coating to dazzle and brainwash the opponent, and it is absolutely not the truth that contains faith and trust.
El advised Yushin that no matter what Savnak suggested, he should never accept it.
“And….”
She was like a mother explaining to her son on her first errand one after another what to look out for.
It seemed as if they would even say, “Don’t follow me for candy.”
“Shouldn’t I tell Ardena too?”
El asked.
That Savnak had appeared,
Maybe I should tell Ardena too.
Even though he lost half of his magic core and even lost his immortality, Savnak is still one of the most difficult enemies for Yushin to deal with. Besides, isn’t it a long-time grudge? Since it was a job with many risks, he thought it was something he should tell his lover, Ardena.
“No, because if Ardena finds out, she will definitely try to follow. Savnak wants to be alone. For that, Savnak must have called me using Vortigan’s soul as bait.”
“Even to her fiancé… ?”
“Moreover.”
Yushin’s fiancee, Allen Roxfield.
Elle, who learned her name only later, took an interest in Allen, her Yushin fiancee.
And she developed her wariness, mixed with jealousy, commensurate with the attention.
Fiancee.
A person who promises to marry in the future.
Perhaps it was only natural that El, who had longed for Yushin, secretly became jealous of Allen.
But she didn’t show off her blatantly. For her to be jealous of a woman who is only 21 this year, it’s never grown-up. So, whenever she saw her Allen, Ellen would just cast a cute curse at her from behind, saying, ‘Bump her toe on the corner of her dresser!’
“If Allen finds out, she will try to break into the scene at all costs. It’s obvious that a knife fight will happen. If that happens, the private relationship with Savnak will cross the water.”
Yushin asked El to keep quiet about Ardena and Allen.
El nodded her head.
Although she was still worried,
If that was Yushin’s wish, he had no choice but to listen.
* * *
It seems that the time Master and Yushin are together has increased significantly these days.
Every time Ardena sees her master, seeing that she is always with Yushin, she has a small question. It’s a woman’s intuition. It was not a suspicion through the trained intuition of a prosecutor, but a question and doubt embracing as a woman.
‘What an idiot. Master is just helping Yushin adjust his prosthetic arm so that he can handle it proficiently. Ardena Valencia, do you dare to doubt your beloved master?’
Ardena sent her words of warning to herself as she doubted her Master.
How long has it been since she cleared up her misunderstanding with Master and made her reconciliation? Besides, didn’t she dare to declare ‘isolation’ to Master a few days ago?
Reflecting on her doubts about Master, she paid close attention to herself so that this would not happen again.
“Hey, long ears.”
Ardena, who was brandishing her sword in the training ground used by the knights of her family, looked at the owner of her voice with her face distorted at the unpleasant voice calling her.
Allen Roxfield.
Seeing her blue hair, Ardena put on a stern expression as if she had seen something she couldn’t.
I was grateful to Allen for giving me advice (closer to force rather than advice) to myself, who had fallen into despair after falling into despair after estranged from Master. There was no way to express it, so I deliberately showed a blunt response.
“What is it, Allen Roxfield?”
“Your teacher is suspicious these days.”
“Master?”
At Allen’s question with her serious expression, Ardena felt bad because she was thinking the same thing as herself.
With this poor woman,
She must have had the same doubts.
“I have to say that she became very suspicious after she went to the place where the big tree was. It smells different. The way she looked at her brother also became strange. It’s like people have completely changed.”
After the battle that took place in the sanctuary,
Allen, who had been watching El’s every move, kept his eyes on her, saying that she was suspicious.
Until now, the number of foxes who had pursued Yushin was uncountable. Nicknamed the Mad Dog of Roxfield, Allen has maintained her fiancée status by physically driving away all of her vixen who tried to bewitch her fiancée.
“Yushin was willing to sacrifice her arm to save her master. It’s just that Master takes care of Yushin better than necessary because he feels sorry for him. Do not dare to send baseless suspicions to Master, Allen Roxfield.”
As if Ardena knew how to say it at Ardena’s textbook-like reasoning, Allen let out a deep sigh and shook her head.
“Well, long ears, what do I want from you? Believe and live like Hogu for the rest of your life, then get betrayed.”
“I’d rather live a modest life than live surrounded by mistrust like you.”
“Next time, I won’t help you even if you procrastinate.”
“I never asked for help! Get out of here!”
“Oh, I wasted my time.”
In response to Ardena’s sharp response, Allen turned her back while sticking out her tongue.
It’s just a waste of time.
Knowing that Ardena would never doubt her own master, she dared to ask Ardena her question. She muttered, responding that she herself did not know.
“Allen Roxfield.”
As she walked with her back turned,
At Ardena’s voice calling her name, Allen turned her head again.
“At that time… , Thank you from the bottom of my heart for lifting me up from an unsightly appearance. Your intentions are still unknown, but thanks to you, she came to her senses and reconciled with her master.”
Ardena contorted her face, and as if she was being tortured to vomit her feces, she conveyed her thanks to Allen.
Acknowledging her is more hateful than her death,
It was true that she had been helped, so Ardena continued to ponder, and eventually she expressed her gratitude to Allen.
“Don’t you lower your head? If you really want to show your appreciation, you should bow your head 90 degrees.”
“Kuk!”
At Allen’s insistence on speaking in a sarcastic tone, Ardena swallowed her saliva and slowly lowered her head.
Like a diplomat signing a humiliating diplomacy,
With tears in her heart, she bowed her head to Allen.
The sight was truly heartbreaking. If you had seen Ardena’s appearance, she would have been unable to hold back her tears. Right now, Ardena hung her head, feeling humiliated to the point that her rationality stopped for a moment.
“Yeah, yeah, from now on, I’m going to figure out a little bit about the subject.”
Allen looked at Ardena with her head bowed toward her with satisfaction, and patted her on the shoulder.
“Two, let’s see….”
To an opponent who never wants to lose,
Ardena shook her shoulders and blushed at her humiliation.
* * *
Savnak did not tell El the location of the meeting, but Yushin knew him through intuition.
The place where El contacted Savnak.
Judging that there must be Savnak in the sanctuary, Yushin moved her steps without hesitation and fulfilled her request.
“… Yushin Gilead.”
The red devil raised his head.
Savnak, who was standing with his back to the old moon in the night sky and the world tree visible beyond, opened his mouth as soon as the Restoration appeared.
Although she kept her expressionless expression,
In my heart, many emotions were crossing over.
“Savnak, I heard you called me.”
At Yushin’s question, Savnak nodded her head and bit her lips tightly.
Like I don’t know what to say right now
After a while, Savnak opened his tightly closed mouth.
“Yes. Yushin Gilead, because there are things I want to ask you.”
“What do you want to ask?”
As soon as he met her in the face, she was suddenly suspicious of Savnak’s behavior to provoke a serious conversation, as it was Yushin who she thought would cause a knife strike.
Savnak, famous for his warmongering, talking?
It was a more surprising situation than being asked if he had no intention of turning into his own new demon king army.
Didn’t she lose half of her magic core? She even lost her complete avoidance of death and the immortality she received from her Demon God. To her, she is the enemy of the crippled Great Heaven and the opponent of vengeance that would not be good even if she was chewed to death, but she had a few questions about Savnak’s unexpectedly calm reaction.
“How did she get chosen by the magic core of the heat wave? And how did she become the new demon lord while controlling all of her demon lord powers and obtaining her own personification? I’ve been through many inflection points and singularities through countless years, but there is no existence like you.”
There are people who became demon lords even though they are human.
However, there was never a case where he became a new demon king who deviated from the category of the six demon kings by using half of the demon core as a medium like Yushin.
So Savnak had doubts.
What kind of magic did he use, what kind of miracle did he use to step into a realm that he thought would never be possible?
“Before you answer…. I want to check Vortigan’s soul first. It would be embarrassing if, after hearing all the things you want to hear, you end up eating and running.”
At Yushin’s question, which seemed to doubt his true intentions, Savnak chewed his displeasure and distorted his face.
“The last king of the kingdom of Vulcan is already dead. I extinguished it with black fire.”
“Completely annihilated? When the hell….”
“After notifying El Cid, Vortigan’s soul was immediately incinerated without leaving a single fragment.”
“Oh my gosh.”
Should I be fooled by this?
Or should I say thank you for annihilating Vortigan from reviving a second time.
Yushin scratched the back of his head while making an indescribably ambiguous expression at Savnak’s direct speech.
‘There is no way that Savnak, who values pride and honor, will speak lies. If he ever swung his sword at me, he would swing it, because I’m not the type to dig cumbersome traps or cheat.’
Even though they are enemies, they are trustworthy.
The opponent who tried her life could never believe that she would lie and cheat.
But if you have any doubts….
“Why did you extinguish Vortigan’s soul? You must have relied on the beast of lust after losing the war for supremacy in the Liberia Peninsula. Since Vortigan was a bastard who followed the beast of lust as his master, in a way she was on the same boat?”
I didn’t understand so I asked Savnak.
But the question she threw at her was,
It acted as a provocation that slashed the straight at Savnak’s wrath, which should never be touched.
