160 – Spirit Appears There
In the end, the stupid war called the crony war ended absurdly in a draw.
Lane was the first to fall. Since she hadn’t yet accumulated the proper attributes and proficiency of her magical powers, she was defeated relatively quickly. Next, Lianne, who had excellent skills but poor overall stats, was eliminated.
After that, after enduring diligently with Skaya, Neros, and Minel, the magic created by the limited amount of magic disappeared and a four-person composition was created again, but Skaya, who ran out of magic, was automatically eliminated.
Neros and Minel tried to fight, but with Ciel in the middle, the three of them fought hard, and in the end it became a scuffle, and I stopped it, and the strange war came to an end.
“… So that’s why you end up going home like this.”
“Not at home, but at the academy’s dormitory.”
Like Arian, I didn’t go in because I didn’t have much attachment to the house.
Rein also refused to go back, saying that he was uncomfortable with joining the wizard family as a prosecutor, and Minel said that she was told not to come back from the family at the time the Reinhardt family’s knight nailed it.
“What happened is that the children of nobles are treated like that.”
After boarding the boat, I burst into laughter as I looked at our party, where not a single person had made the choice to return to the family.
For some reason, I suddenly thought that it would be fun to talk with people like this as the heads of noble families, and laughter burst out of my mouth without realizing it.
What will happen to the aristocratic families of the empire if those who have the least interest in the family become the head of the household? As I was delusional, the boat gradually approached the land.
Now, it’s been a long time since I’ve been to the academy.
*****
As soon as I arrived at the academy, I threw myself into the academy’s dormitory, which was now more familiar than home, with Rianne and Lane.
“Huh… exhausted.”
Fortunately, the wagon moved quickly, so I was grateful that I didn’t have to go through that cumbersome, boring, and difficult school opening ceremony with my tired body.
“Turn it off… .”
The only environment to sleep on the way back to the academy is a blanket or sleeping bag.
I chose the best one as I was carrying my luggage in a simplified way, but that alone made me slump after waking up from the damn hard ground.
“As expected, the bed should be soft.”
It’s not good to be too soft, but once you taste the feel of the mattress, you’ll never want to sleep on the ground at night again.
There are times when you have to do it, but people have to sleep where they normally sleep, right?
[‘I didn’t want to remain as a virgin’ asked for a correction saying that the forest is a good place to sleep.]
“No bullsh*t.”
forest? Not a bad place to sleep, of course.
It’s easy to dig caves thanks to tree roots, so it’s good to sleep underground, and sleeping on top of trees isn’t too bad. But there are too many risks.
I don’t care about monsters that even an ordinary adult can kill like goblins and kobolds, but even the owner monsters residing in the forest come out. It’s usually not bothersome.
“If you sleep in the forest, you will find a cave.”
If you search properly there, you can set up traps and barricades at the entrance, but the forest is good for enemies everywhere.
“… What are you doing?”
“Listening to God’s revelation. It doesn’t go well with the Demon King, so please sleep quietly in your image.”
While I was having an in-depth discussion about sleeping with one of the gods, I raised my upper body while frowning at Ciel’s sudden visit.
What are you going to do all of a sudden when he says he’s taking a break?
“… I’m here to tell you good news and bad news because you don’t seem to have sensed it yet.”
“From the good news.”
When I told Lee Ji-sunda, who was familiar with me, to tell me the good news first, Ciel plucked out the familiar bat wings from behind, stared at me, controlled his demonic energy, and sent it only to me.
He hurriedly spews divine power at the familiar Magi control, but the Magi, which would normally have been consumed by the divine power, fought in the air and quickly disappeared into gray light.
“… Gyeok is back?”
The demon king’s status returned to Ciel.
What this meant was simple.
“The demon king is dead?”
why?
Why did the Demon King suddenly die when I was still like this?
I wonder if I can guess anything, but nothing really came to my mind this time. He hadn’t even met an officer of the Demon King’s Army after Clema. There was nothing related to it, except for the fight with those who were close to the devil’s army in the press family’s territory.
“… Any bad news?”
“Most of the demon lord’s status at the time flowed into someone else, not me… Now I don’t know who it is.”
“Damn it.”
I can’t even get Ciel’s help anymore.
He said that he gave the devil who followed Ciel the devil, but killing him means that at least an incident occurred that would turn the devil army over once.
And if that happens, the demon king army that I know, that Ciel knows, will disappear.
“Do you really have to fight a completely new demon lord army?”
He clutched his throbbing head and lay back on his back on the bed.
I came back after solving the case, but it seems like it will take a long time before I can rest properly.
*****
“… Yes, the current Demon King was you.”
A woman sitting on the throne of a huge demon king trampled on the head of the demon who had just been the demon king, expressing her annoyance without hiding anything.
“This is also irregular.”
Kwadeuk! Kwadeuk!! Kwaduk!!!
Every time the pink-haired woman stepped on the demon lord’s head, a black puzzle slowly flowed into her body from the demon lord’s body.
“eww… ugh… !!”
The woman accepted it with the impression that it was unpleasant, but she still couldn’t accept it all.
“oooh!!”
The demon king’s attack that had just entered her body came out of her mouth.
As the faintly purified status of a demon lord spewed out of the woman’s mouth, she refused to enter her body and fled far away.
“Whoa… Damn, I’m in a position where I have to eat at such a price.”
Wow!!
The woman who let out the blow from her mouth pulled her pink hair back and put her buttocks on the chair the first demon king had made.
“f*ck… Am I suffering because of her?”
The woman let out a sigh and looked down at the demon in front of her.
“why… why… Irregular pops out and bothers me too!”
Kwajik!!
The magic that came out like the sound of a skull completely breaking engulfed the demon castle, but the woman in front of me looked at the demonic storm casually and twitched her fingers.
Ting!
wheeeing!!!
The storm of black magic that had blown in an instant changed into a pure white wind of divine power.
If the devil was present, the devil, who was the devil, disappeared in an instant due to the thrilling wind of divine power that would have been purified in an instant.
And that demonic castle was no longer a demonic castle.
Whiiing!!
The pure white wind that only raged in the demon king’s room began to reshape the exterior of the demon king castle, which exudes a dingy atmosphere, from one to ten.
The bricks, which have turned black due to the magic, are polished and polished.
The moss and vines on the walls disappear, leaving only the parts that naturally harmonize with the castle and are set ablaze by the sacred flame.
In the land unsuitable for living things, new sprouts grew, and new animals that could not have originally appeared one after another.
“Yeah, it just happened… Whether it’s the hero, the demon king, or the king of spirits, you just have to defeat them all and regain your status and bring her down from there.”
Neiros, the only top-level spirit, opened his mouth inside the castle, which transformed from the castle of the devil to an ancient castle that assimilated with beautiful nature in an instant.
“come.”
From the magic circle created by Neiros’s words, the spirits and fairies that were originally her subordinates jumped out and knelt down in front of her in an orderly manner.
“Goddess. What are you going to do?”
“It’s a bit of a mess. From now on, I will start direct interference.”
At the mention of the direct intervention of the goddess, there was a moment of commotion, but the red-haired woman standing at the front answered with her head bowed toward Neiros.
“yes! Lelye, who was Neiros-sama’s subordinate and the hero’s partner. Burn this body and follow the goddess’ words… .”
“I will kill the warrior.”
“… yes?”
The words of the goddess, who had just finished the words of the fairy who had been burning with enthusiasm, were enough to embarrass everyone present.
“I will kill the contemporary warrior with my own hands.”
The spirits burning with greed only for their own benefit ordered their subordinates once again.
Bring the hero before your eyes and kill him.