Chapter 739 – Day 84 – Sometimes Even the Princess Turns Around!
“You’re using shallow numbers.”
“Isn’t that something unknown?”
The snorting princess points her finger at Annette, who looks nervous.
“You should quickly leave the place.”
“But Your Highness Venus, I can use magic, even if it’s just a little bit.”
The princess looked at Annette with very serious eyes and shook her head, wanting to somehow become her own strength.
“If you think about what will happen here and now, there is something I can only ask of you. Please does it while avoiding the place.”
Looking into the princess’ shining eyes, Annette nods her head.
“You obviously mean to take the people who were brought to this castle and worked there and move out, right?”
“Haha! Now you know my feelings even if I don’t say anything? Please, Annette Carcassonne.”
Annette nods and turns around. To stop her, her Zodiac Knights appear with their huge weapons.
“Chief of War, are you really planning to stop Annette?”
“It is natural to punish those who have taunted His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. Are you punishing Annette for falling for my trick and catching me? What reason would you have for punishing that girl who faithfully even understood your orders?”
The military commander does not even sigh at the logic that is so closely aligned.
Without any orders, the knights take up their weapons. Annette bows and leaves the same way she came in.
‘I guess we can just bide our time while Annette evacuates people.’
Unlike the princess, who appeared with a relaxed smile, there was no way to know what kind of expression the Zodiac commander, wearing a huge helmet, was making.
─Boom! Thump!
As the huge castle shakes loudly once again, the princess places her butt on the chair near her and points outward with her thumb.
“Don’t we have to stop the demons who want to become demon kings?”
─Cow wow!!!
The demon, who had transformed into a man with such an exotic appearance that the dust falling from the ceiling was behaving incredibly fiercely.
“What did you do…”
“Haha, isn’t it simple? They say that a demon who wants to become a demon lord needs a huge amount of magic power. That’s why they want to accumulate a mountain of magic stones.”
The princess leisurely crosses her legs and looks at her military commander.
“He must want to go underground.”
“Nonsense.”
“In order to protect Abamama’s plan to turn Minos into a ‘vessel’, you will have to protect the magic stones piled up underground. This has become a very difficult task, huh?’
At that one word, the military commander’s eyes hidden in his helmet burn like fire.
He was honestly surprised that the princess could see through everything.
“Unfortunately, I was dragged here.”
The princess felt very at ease after bringing her demon, which could have caused a riot in a place full of people, into the castle.
Anyway, there are only the commander’s subordinates and members of the Knights of the Zodiac in this castle.
It is quite unfortunate that their lives are sacrificed, but it is a completely different story for knights and soldiers to die while performing their duties and for them to die without knowing what is happening.
“I don’t want to go crazy and incur Abama’s wrath, so I guess I’ll just have to stay quiet.”
“Venus Holympia.”
Letting out a sound like boiling hot molten iron, the Zodiac commander glares at the princess.
“Perform your royal duties…”
“You must carry out the orders given by Abama. Am I not in a position to scold you now?”
─Tukwaang!
As soon as the conversation between the two ends, the huge wall finally shatters, and a demon appears with a pitch black cloak draped over his shoulders.
I wonder what kind of fashion sense he had for exposing his upper body and wearing only a cape, but unlike the ridiculous attire, the magic emanating from his body was real.
‘As expected, Ceres tricked him into absorbing the magic power of the magic stone. Although he is not perfect, he is said to be closer to the devil to some extent… ‘
The princess swallowed her saliva and relaxed a little when she saw that Ceres was not behind the demon king.
‘That guy, who has gotten even the slightest bit closer to being the Demon Lord, is probably thinking of going straight down to the basement where Minos is, so the Zodiac commander has no choice anymore.’
The demon looked at the princess, military commander, and knights with bright red eyes and snorted.
“Don’t you even have the courage to stop me?”
At his provocation, the Zodiac commander turns his face from glaring at the princess and points his finger at her demon.
─Kwaang!!!
At that moment, the members of the Zodiac Knights, who had been holding huge weapons until now, began attacking the demons. The huge ax was swung at incredible speed, and the weapon was struck with such force that the princess was surprised.
“It’s truly petty to think of subduing me with force.”
The demon who would become the demon lord blocks such attacks with a single snap of his finger. It was magic. White smoke began to pour out from its body, and the speed increased to the point that even the smallest movements of the body left afterimages.
‘Is it possible to do magic that strengthens the body without even saying a word?’
She was a princess who was a little embarrassed, but her demons did not stop there. The guy raises his left hand and clenches it into a fist.
It made such a noise that even the princess had to cover her ears in surprise because it hurt her ears.
“Ugh…! You’re doing something quite cruel!”
The members of the Zodiac Knights who were near the demons did not seem to have any problems. But the princess knew. The knights, who were moving with perfect zeal and enthusiasm, suddenly stopped moving.
─I’m crying! I’m crying!
It was only after seeing bright red liquid flowing from the cracks and crevices of her armor that the princess realized what kind of magic had occurred.
‘That demon guy! I guess you already knew the story about the full-body armor powered by magic stones?’
The princess could not help but be impressed when she realized that she had ignored her armor, which had tremendous defensive power, and killed the person inside it with a roar.
“What nonsense.”
The commander speaks briefly and moves wearing huge armor.
He moved his arms and legs with lightning speed, reminding me of Emperor Jupiter, and slashed the huge ax towards his demon.
“I believed you would do that much.”
─Pang!
The ice wall rising from the floor blocks the Zodiac Commander’s ax at the perfect angle. Ice was nothing in the face of inhumanly powerful strength, but it does not change the fact that in the end, a fatal attack was lodged in ice.
Without even taking a step back, the demon sticks out its left hand.
“I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of screams they’ll make.”
The guy’s left hand instantly draws the heat from his right arm and throws it away. He didn’t just shoot out a chill, he instantly took away any existing heat. In the end, the commander’s right arm froze, with white dew forming.
“Your skills are terrible─”
Before the demon can finish speaking, the military commander recklessly swings his left hand and throws the demon away, as if his frozen right arm is not a problem. Afterward, the military commander, holding the ax with his left hand, slams it down on his shoulder.
─Boom!
The white frozen arm falls off along with the armor. The military officer caresses the magic stone embedded in his shoulder as if picking up a fallen sword. In an instant, golden light erupted and a right arm and armor were created.
‘Is that the truth about the rumored Golden Army?’
The military commander, who instantly lost one of his arms, rushed at the demon who would become the demon king again at breakneck speed. All it did was make a really ignorant physical attack, but no matter how powerful a demon can use magic, if its head is cut open and a sword is stuck in its heart, it will die.
“Like an earthly bug, it seems like it doesn’t know how to fight other than smelling like sweat!”
The laughing demon waves his right hand and creates a huge whirlwind that sucks everything in the room. As soon as he waved his left hand, intense sunlight suddenly came down from the sky and tried to melt the commander’s armor.
The commander completely avoids each attack or aggressively gives up his arms or legs and pushes the demon.
‘On the outside, it looks like we are fighting on equal footing…’
The princess did not know who would win. There’s only one thing, really, if there’s one thing you can know.
‘As Ceres said, if he can unleash such strange power with just a small amount of magic stones, then he is a true demon lord…’
The hotter the fight between the demons and the general became, the more free the princess became.
The knights who filled the room were only prepared with good tools and secret tricks to kill the demon’s head, but they did not try to capture or restrain the princess.
“Zodiac Commander, listen. Can you defeat that demon?”
No answer comes back. It may not be a situation worthy of the princess’s attention.
“Look at the power of that demon. If he becomes a demon lord, won’t he give Abama a headache?”
That sounds very obvious. However, the commander knew how strong the demon in front of him was, and he was engaged in a bloody fight with the demon, burning the magic stone on his shoulder to pitch black.
“If you, a member of the royal family who can move your body freely, go underground and move the magic stone to another place, wouldn’t you have carried out Abamama’s orders perfectly?”
She openly declared that she would go to find Minos, but the Zodiac commander could not stop her.
He must consider. He, who is called the emperor’s right-hand man, knows that in the worst case scenario, if he is defeated here, it will not end there, and he will commit irreparable disloyalty that will lead to the descent of the Demon King.
“Zodiac commander! For me! And for the empire where the sun never sets! Bring on the time!”
After speaking with her own smile, the princess runs down the stairs to her basement.
“… I hate you. Venus Holympia.’
Although he was a military commander who made the sound of boiling molten iron, he had the duty to kill the demon in front of him.
