Chapter 131 – Battle to Subdue the Demon King
Kang! Visor! Kiyiing!
A sound so unbelievable that fists and swords collided began to fill the throne room.
The chains that had been flying towards Karina and me until just now were all flying towards me.
Are you saying you’re going to target me first, not the hero who is gathering strength from behind?
“Ragnarok!”
Erina created a pillar of fire to block the chains flying around me. As soon as the pillar of fire disappeared, the chain flew again, but the three-pronged arrow bounced off the chain and protected me.
The wind was blowing at my feet, making my legs feel lighter.
‘Is it ouch?’
Since I saw that he used a lot of wind, he must have wrapped the wind around me while adjusting the arrow.
A special wind, different from magic, swirls around my legs and helps me speed up.
‘Thanks to this wind, Ayah arrived quickly.’
I wondered how he was able to climb trees or walk on all fours using his hands so quickly, but I guess this was thanks to him.
With the support of my allies, I was able to engage in a bloody battle with the Demon King.
‘My goal is just to hold on. From the beginning, I didn’t think I could kill him.’
To kill the Demon King, you definitely need the power of the Holy Sword. Therefore, what I have to do is hold on until Emil gathers all his strength and prepare the best blow.
[Ranelle… Do I really have to hold on?]
‘Yes… Nia.’
Nia seemed to have forgotten her former master. I guess she knows that the demon lord, not the hero, must be defeated.
She grabbed Nia and swung at the Demon King again.
Parking!
Among the demons I’ve encountered so far, it’s the toughest. The skin is like a megalith and does not break or cut.
‘Then, at least with lightning!’
If you can’t cause devastation, it might be better to accumulate damage little by little from the inside.
You’ll fall in love!
Once again, she converted the mana into her element and put it into her sword. A noise like hundreds of swallows roaring at once came from the sword.
‘It’s coming!’
While I was putting mana into my sword, I barely avoided her flying fist. I knew where she was going to fly from the movement of her muscles and the look in her eyes, but I barely managed to avoid it.
It’s incredibly fast.
‘Even though the horn is broken, it still achieves this speed?!’
The first blow to my face wasn’t the end, and subsequent blows began to come in.
Once on the face.
Twice on the body.
I even almost got hit on the side of my ribs.
I tried to avoid everything I could, but there was nothing I could do about the sharp wind. Even if you take damage, you bleed little by little.
If you don’t avoid it, you will die.
You can’t kill it, but you have to endure it.
All of these difficult conditions were combined to create the current situation.
‘If it weren’t for Karina’s help, she might have died already?’
She is only holding on because Karina weakened her. If she had been intact, she wouldn’t have been able to last even a minute.
Pakang!
I hit her hard, ready to cut off her hand, but I was the one who got knocked out. Were the scales of the dragon in mythology probably this strong?
It felt like she was reenacting a fight from a myth, but she couldn’t let down her guard.
‘Side! Under! Right!’
The attack didn’t seem slow or anything, I could barely follow it with my eyes. I could feel the mana pouring out to her limits, burning like crazy and leaving her body.
If I were to express my current situation, it would be like a candle. It’s also a very short candle.
I can feel the fire called Mana burning the wick and getting shorter.
You have to finish it quickly before you use up all your mana. Even if she uses it up, she won’t die, but she might collapse.
I was doing my best to hold on, but little by little I could feel the wounds.
“Everyone gets out of the way!!!”
Bang!
“Ugh…!”
It was a blow that would have really broken Nia if she hadn’t let it go, even though she had blocked it with all her might.
As far as I know, the former warrior was a swordsman, but can he produce this much power with just his fists?
I began to feel a little fear at the overwhelming power, but I held back and continued to swing my sword for the sake of my colleagues who were watching my back.
“Laneell!”
While I was holding on like that, I hurriedly got away from the demon king when I heard a sudden voice. Of course, when I tried to fall, she, who was right in front of me, followed her instinct and tried not to move away.
Swish!
The fireballs and arrows flying from behind prevented the Demon King from approaching me as much as possible. No matter how strong you are, it will be difficult to resist impact.
As I expected, it followed me, but stopped for a moment and blocked the attack.
The moment I took advantage of this opportunity and quickly fell back, the front blinked with an enormous light.
Kwaaang!
It wasn’t a direct hit, but I could feel the pain of my body burning slightly from the enormous light. The immense light seemed like a song of destruction that would soon destroy everything.
“Ugh…”
“Ranell! Are you okay?”
The bright light must have strained my eyes. As soon as I opened my eyes, an afterimage remained, and I felt a bit of pain.
No matter how fast you are, it seems impossible to run away faster than light.
Shio and Emil came next to me and checked my condition, asking if I was okay, while Aya and Erina did not let down their guard and did not relax their fighting stance.
“Is it over?”
“No… It’s not over yet.”
Bang!
When I asked her if she was finished, Karina, who was next to her, slowly walked forward, holding her side, saying it was not finished yet.
Little by little, the dust disappeared, and inside it was the Demon King, whose right arm had disappeared, looking at us with sharp eyes.
No matter how injured I was, my spirit of life never faded.
“Emil, can you use that technique one more time?”
“Hmm… It’s a little ambiguous?”
“I’ll give you a blessing first.”
“I also used a lot of mana, but I have to scrape it all off to the end,”
“Well …”
The Demon King was also injured, but that didn’t mean we were all in a normal state.
It’s been a long time since Erina and I felt that we were almost out of mana, and Aya and Shio weren’t doing well either.
If there was a problem, the hands of Emil, the most important soldier among us, were shaking slightly.
“Then the front…”
“Wait a minute.”
I tried to jump forward again with my sword, but Karina blocked me with her hand.
“Why… Why…! “Don’t you want to save your father, Line?”
“Saving them alive?”
She was surprised to hear that she could raise the dead.
The law of the world is that the dead cannot be revived. But what if there were enough ingredients to shatter that principle?
In the past, the method chosen by Lennon, who was saddened by my death, was to resurrect me by containing tens of thousands of souls in order to retrieve one soul.
No way… The resurrection that the devil speaks of…
“I could have saved him… He died because of his longevity, but if I had the soul of a warrior and hundreds of thousands of riches, I could have saved him! Karina! “Why are you… Disturbing me?”
The sight of the devil screaming for evil now felt pitiful rather than scary.
This is because the more I looked at that image, the more I saw Lennon’s past. I may not have seen it in person, but maybe Lennon was like that back then?
Karina cut off her mother’s words with one word, as if she didn’t want to hear the devil’s words anymore.
“My father, Line, was like that. You are so pathetic. He said he was so pitiful and sorry that you had become corrupted because of him that he was scared to live in this world. “I have always loved me and I have loved you too, but I am sorry that I cannot love you as the Demon King.”
The more I listened to Karina, the more I could understand. Even if it were me, I couldn’t help but feel sorry if I thought that Lennon was in such a bad state because of me. Instead, you might blame yourself, saying it was my fault.
I, an ordinary person, felt the same way, but how sorry he must have felt as a devout priest of the Order of Frey.
“So you asked me to do it. “I will definitely sacrifice my life to liberate you, and I will go first and secure a place for you, so I will always be waiting for you.”
“… Line.”
I guess I had no choice but to lose my will to fight as the person I loved asked me a favor for the last time. The Demon King, who had been spewing out ferocious murderous tendencies until now, was sitting quietly with his eyes closed, as if he had given up on everything.
Seeing that sight, we slowly approached and prayed for the finale of the former warrior.
Emil raised the holy sword, imbued it with divinity, and very slowly stabbed the demon king in the back with the sword. Even though he could die, the demon king never moved.
Did he lose his reason to live?
“Kuuuuu. Line…”
We all said nothing and looked at the Demon King who was gradually turning into dust due to his divine power.
Her eyes gradually lost their luster, but she never took her gaze off to see if she could see anything. She slowly stretched out her hand and quietly recited.
“Line… I am…”
“…”
“I’m sorry for coming late… And I’m sorry for everything.”
Her heartbreaking love will not disappear even if it turns to dust.
It was the moment when I thought everything was over with the Demon King dying. In front of us, Karina spread her arms wide and quietly said something to us.
“Well, the Demon King is also dead… Do whatever you want. Since you’re the devil’s daughter, they might give you an extra bounty if you rip off her head, right?”
I approached Karina, smiling quietly, as she made a relieved face, as if she had finished her mistake.
He slowly hugged her waist and whispered.
“Why are you killing the porter? Aren’t porters a warrior party?”
“I see…”
After the battle with the Demon King, we slowly made our way out of the castle. As soon as I came out, what I felt was silence and silence.
The demons must have instinctively realized that their king was dead, and had long since lost their will to fight, so they gave up the battle and waited in front of the castle.
‘But… What happens to these demons? ‘Is everyone going to die?’
No matter how many demons have lived as enemies of humanity, they are not intelligent like demon beasts, and are intelligent beings that can feel emotions like humans. Is it okay to just kill them?
There may be some who enjoy killing people because they are demons, but there are also those who advocate for peace.
In general, the beings who wanted peace were mainly porters or half-demons who quietly farmed in the kingdom.
‘Karina also came to our party a long time ago by pretending to be a half-demon.’
It was a situation where we couldn’t say that all demons were bad, but we couldn’t say that they were all safe.
If only someone could force them and make them stop…
“Ah… I got a good idea. “Karina, can you listen to me for a moment?”
“Why?”
I don’t know if everyone will be happy, but I found a way to solve it in the least unhappy way possible.
