Chapter 117 – Sacrifice
Walking around the inside of the castle was a series of hardships.
I had to move without getting caught, so I had to wait and pass carefully if there was someone, but if the road was blocked or the door was locked, I had to secretly kill the devil and pass by, so it was more difficult.
Above all, the biggest problem was that the inside of the castle was so complicated that it took too long to get to the end of the castle, the audience room.
Basically, there are no other demons except for the demon king in the throne room of the demon king.
It was like that in game too.
No other reason.
Because there is no need
In fact, if I didn’t do that, it would be out of balance.
If you can’t even win against the demon king in the first place, but even the road to get closer to the demon king is too rough, wouldn’t there be more people who just give up?
That’s why the demons you will face on your way to the Demon King are easy enough to go through if you put in the time, even if you don’t know much about the game as well as the regular method.
They say that this level design was done on purpose in order to give greater hope and to motivate the trampled to do the next round…
From my point of view, knowing the future, the pressure drove me crazy.
I really want to be okay… I feel like I don’t want anything to happen.
“It’s really not long now.”
It’s really coming soon.
I gulped.
In terms of experience, for almost half a day, I wandered here and there through secret passages, avoiding the demons guarding the place.
That too was over soon.
“This is the last passage.”
Saying so, the hero opened the door to the secret passage leading to the castle and moved inside.
With the words that if you go through this passage, you will be able to reach the door where the audience room is located.
As soon as they completely passed through the passage, towards the two demons they saw, Ruril instantly pierced them through the narrow passage with an arrow made of Cecilia’s holy power.
It was so narrow that it was difficult to get out of there quickly and slice it.
“… “
Even so, thinking of the hero who was trying to be as careful as possible not to kick me right behind me while I was on my stomach made me laugh for no reason.
“OMG… It was hard… “
As soon as Cecilia came down quickly and cleansed her demonic corpse, she let out a sigh, saying that Ruril had a hard time beside him.
To be honest, I had a hard time too.
No matter how much it was to subdue the demon king, he was walking around the narrow place all day holding on to his chest, afraid that he would be found out by the demons.
It was weird that it wasn’t hard.
But now there was a wall that was tougher than that right in front of my nose.
‘This looks so big… ‘
[It’s big, right.]
‘No… It looks bigger… ‘
It was a metaphorical saying that it looks bigger because it thinks that there is a devil over here, even though it is already big… It’s even worse that he said that deliberately to get into a fight while he understood.
[Are you evil? Still, thanks to me, the tension was relieved, right?]
‘Um… ‘
That… It was.
Certainly, hearing Rumia’s voice should be said to be relieved, and the tension that I was hearing was considerably reduced.
“The battle… It won’t happen right away. If you do well, you won’t have to fight the demon lord at all. Because… “
Because the Demon King already knows we’ve come.
‘What… ?’
It was a word that I couldn’t understand for a moment, but before the hero finished talking, he opened the huge door wide.
“Are you finally here?”
At that place,
“That… Devil… ?”
“Oh, the magic is too thick… !”
I can feel the thick magic all the way here.
The king of evil was sitting on a throne, looking down at us, with red eyes shining through his body with a huge aura of evil.
But why?
‘It’s strange… ?’
He didn’t look relaxed.
Although he was clearly sitting on the throne and arrogantly looking down at us, he seemed to be somewhat insecure, showing no composure of the strong.
The Demon King gritted his teeth and said.
“You did a nuisance, hero. How did know?”
“I can’t know. Do you know how many times I came here to kill you?”
The hero said that and energized his holy sword.
“Kuh… ! You bastard!”
The Demon King stretched out his hand towards me.
I was shocked for a moment and tried to open the shield, but before that, a barrier of light was created in front of me.
It was thanks to Cecilia, thinking that she would attack us, opened a wall of light.
“The stallion of an insignificant god… !”
The Demon King showed hostility toward Cecilia, but it was already too late.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t explain properly until now.”
The warrior turned to me and said.
And it started coming towards me step by step.
“Rumia, who would only be a wizard, how did you have to seal it with your own life as collateral? How could that be possible in the first place… I was always worried.”
Saying that, the hero looked back at Cecilia.
“Cecilia. When I signal, use the best purification magic you can use.”
“Uh… Uh? What is that… “
“I can drive them out with this.”
The hero looked at me and raised the holy sword.
“I’m sorry, Rumia.”
Who are you talking to?
I’m sure he calls me Rumia, but the hero didn’t seem to be talking to me.
But I couldn’t think more deeply.
I felt like something was piercing me.
I looked down as if possessed.
A holy sword that emitted pure white light was piercing my heart.
“… ?!”
“You can’t move!!”
Don’t move…
‘Uh… ?’
Turns out, it didn’t hurt.
For a moment, the hero stabbed me, so I didn’t know what this was about, or if the hero betrayed me.
But it didn’t hurt at all to do so.
Suddenly, I felt something rising and coughed, and black blood flowed out.
“Yo, warrior?! What are you doing!!”
When Ruril saw that the hero had stabbed me, he shouted.
But the hero did not stop.
“Rumia, weren’t you always curious? Why can only my voice be heard… Why can’t I talk?”
That… Because of the curse
More and more things are coming up.
My head was getting complicated.
And slowly, my vision was blurring.
“Please say thank you instead.”
What does that mean… ?
Hearing the warrior’s voice fading, I close my eyes,
“Here… ?”
I was back in a familiar place before I knew it.
“It’s finally here.”
“Ah… ?”
I heard a familiar voice, and when I turned my head, Rumia was there.
Lumia, who is slowly absorbing the darkness and is gradually turning black.
“You… The look… I’m sure he’s blocking the curse… “
“Sorry.”
Rumia was the first to bow her head to me.
Confusing.
She thought that she would become her as long as she subdued the Demon King, but suddenly what does this mean? Rumia approached me who was confused and smiled and put her hand on my face and stroked her.
“That I’m blocking right now… It’s very different from a curse.”
Rumia said so and showed her arm.
Her hand was stained with demonic energy.
“The demon king is preventing the warrior party from reaching him… It is the source of evil that I planted since I was born for the purpose of preying on me, the child of the stars, in case of emergency.”
It’s the root of evil… ?
Come to think of it, it was something strange to call it a curse.
Common sense made no sense that Rumia, who as a child of the stars, possessed magic almost equivalent to power, could not deliver a curse like that.
“Without that, the Demon King can no longer survive. He can’t even use that strong force.”
“Ah… !”
“Yes, that’s why you can subdue the demon lord if you’re pregnant with a hero’s child.”
Because it is the source of evil, it is weak against holy power.
If you embrace the seed of the warrior, you will no longer be able to erode it.
And if she uses the power flowing from her child to drive it out, the hero will be able to cut out the root and seed of evil.
If so, she would be able to subdue the demon lord only then.
Rumia explained it that way.
“No way… I didn’t expect to return to the past and fundamentally destroy the demon king’s plans that spanned over 20 years.”
Rumia said that and smiled at her.
Only then did I know
Why was Lumia in the original story able to sacrifice herself to seal it?
She sealed the demon lord using the source of this evil that had entered and eroded her own body.
But why…
“Why is demonic erosion in the soul? Ho, maybe this is also to prevent erosion… ?”
“It’s not like that, so don’t worry.”
Rumia laughed and said.
If so, what is it for?
At my question, Rumia let out a sigh of her own, and then she put on a serious expression.
Soon, her mouth opened.
“I will subdue the demon lord, no, I will annihilate it. With the source.”
So that this does not happen again,
So that the same thing does not happen again,
She declared.
