224. Hope
Dragons are predators.
It is the highest race in the Demon Realm and is a hunter who always reigns above and hunts prey.
so that.
It was not very pleasant to see others looking at them as prey.
No, it wasn’t that it wasn’t pleasant, it was intense and disgusting with anger. If possible, I wanted to cut off Jason’s head as soon as possible.
But I endured. Because he was a patient demon dragon.
“Don’t give it back as it is. After killing you and conquering Arain, I will challenge the Demon Emperor.”
“Good. There is something we desperately want, and we want it to come true as soon as possible.”
Because Berge-sama has told Archduke Alkyin in detail, I think I’m going to be a little busy.
“It’s self-sufficient. Falsely, did you know that even after killing the Demon Kings, you would be okay?”
“I don’t think that’s what Berge-nim, who killed Drakson-sama, would say.”
“I didn’t kill him.”
Berger stood up.
“See you next time.”
“The next one will be Berge-nim’s last.”
Berge did not answer. got out of the seat quickly.
“···Are you okay?”
Ernyl glanced at Berge’s hand. The fingernails digging into the palms were producing blood.
“Okay. How are you?”
“Me?”
“Did you know the secrets of the demon realm?”
“I do not know. It’s odd. Because that’s not what I wanted to know. Am I the first person to know the secrets of the demon realm?”
“okay.”
“It might be a little bit happy in a way. Are you going to fight?”
“You have to fight.”
As long as things turn out like this, Jason won’t stop. Whether the humans were blocking it, or Berger himself, it had to be done.
Otherwise, the entire continent will fall into his grasp.
“The Demon Lord of Lies, the Great Demon Lord of the Empire, it will be a union of humans.”
“People don’t know about that.”
“Why don’t you show up at all?”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re not helping behind the scenes, you’re being openly on the side of people.”
“Are you telling me to fight for humans?”
“It’s not for humans. If you have to fight anyway, use everything you can. For the Demon King.”
“It’s too vague.”
In the first place, humans would not accept Berge. Although the Demon Lord of Lies had a sudden seizure, in the end, the root cause of this situation was Berge.
“no. Think about it.”
“think?”
“The demon lord has only defended the bravery that came to attack the tower.”
“Even though I erased the city of the empire and kidnapped the first prince.”
“So. It’s all ’empire’, right? The empire will be eroded by the Demon King of lies and will soon cause chaos.”
“··········!”
It wasn’t wrong. But there was nothing too optimistic about it.
“But I have already killed tens of thousands of humans.”
“A drowning man is bound to catch anything in a hurry. I don’t care if it’s a copper cord or a snake’s tail. It’s important to live first.”
“So when humans in crisis want to catch even the straw, can I help you?”
“That’s it. Humans are especially weak against the heroes who helped them.”
“You want me to be a hero?”
“You don’t have to be a hero. It’s a success if you get people to have a ‘what if?’ feeling.”
It is very weak, but a clue that we can cooperate.
“Actually, even if humans fight to the death, they are bound to unite when they encounter an external enemy.”
“I am also an external enemy.”
“It is what I and Hillen-sama should do to make the Demon Lord an internal enemy. Weren’t you prepared for a time like this?”
“I won’t deny it, but…”
The Crown Princess of Hilderan and the guild leader of the Heroes Guild defend the Demon King.
It will definitely have a huge impact. In particular, the Crown Princess of Hilderan is the Elemental King’s contractor.
“Of course, you need the right opportunity. A lie will create this opportunity.”
“Invasion of Hilderan.”
Jason promised to invade Hilderan and Arkhan. It was clear that it was aimed at Ernian and Lavinia.
“So it is. When will the sky tower you build be completed? Dramatic appearances are always important.”
Ernian’s eyes turned sharp.
“Of course, before that, we will have to call the stars and kiss them.”
* * *
“We won.”
After Ernyan flew to the lake, a water barrier separated the lake from the land.
And when it lifted again, the legion of lies began to move again.
As if to say that it was a joke until now, a more overwhelming number colored the world black.
Duke Olten had a sense of victory.
“Shoot!”
Cluster bombs, explosive bombs, wave bombs, incendiary bombs. All types of magic cannons were fired.
The wizards vomited blood and chanted spells, and the knights erected shields and decapitated the monsters that were about to come up to the water.
Still, the number of enemies did not seem to decrease significantly.
But he was not disappointed. Rather, I had hope.
“When the Demon King dies, the demons under his control lose their reason and go crazy! This is proof that the warriors beheaded the Demon King!”
“Wow!”
A harsh shout echoed across the lake shore.
“We have won! So don’t even think about retreating if you don’t want to be victorious and still be a lost idiot!”
“If you break through, the continent will be ravaged! Give your life for your country and for your family!”
I also.
Sureung-
Duke Olten drew his sword.
“I am going to be with you here. If you stop them, peace will come to the continent!”
he made up his mind
“no.”
It was then that the stars, including Hillen, arrived.
Healan Cargill bleeding from a major wound in her chest, Roselle Chartres and Aina Diaphrin pale complexion, Ralph Schmidt bathing in blood, Wharton Colo with all her armor broken and her arm broken, Cerna with her whole body mutilated and her hair scattered. Princesses whose clothes were ripped and some of them were ripped, and even those called Fail.
“·················ogue.”
Its climax was the corpse of Pablo Barkat, transported by magic but not feeling alive at all.
It could never be called the return of the winners.
“no way···?”
Duke Olten swallowed a groan. A deep ominous feeling that he might be wrong crossed his mind.
no way. I hope it is.
“…we lost. We must run away and conserve power!”
“Defeat. Aren’t there six stars? Aren’t you the Elemental King’s contractor?”
Did they lose against only one demon king?
I couldn’t believe it.
Duke Olten thought Hillen Cargill was playing a damn game. Please, I beg you to be joking.
“It may be hard to believe, but I hate to admit it, but it is true.”
Hillen clenched his teeth as if in anger.
“How is that…!”
“One hundred years is too long. When we were immersed in peace and looked down at the Demon King, the lie quietly nurtured its power. He has transcended the ordinary demon lord!”
“iced coffee···.”
Duke Olten stumbled in a desperate situation.
“dismissal!”
“dismissal!”
Knights and lieutenants hurriedly supported him.
“Hey, are you sure you failed?”
“Yes.”
“Then now these demons…”
“Celebrating victory and charging to devour the losers.”
“Oh My God···.”
“We must retreat now. We must conserve power to stop them.”
“You lost. The six stars, the Elemental King’s contractor, have been defeated. But even if we retreat, will there be a sharp number?”
“But if it is annihilated like this, the kingdoms will only be ravaged more defenselessly.”
“Guild Master.”
Duke Olten’s voice was low.
“Is there a way?”
“It’s just making something. Because that is the essence of a warrior.”
In the end, there was no sound.
Duke Olten gave the order to retreat powerlessly.
All dreams and hopes disappeared, but as Hillen said, he couldn’t blow up all 100,000 troops in this place.
It was right to at least retreat to the nearby fortress and conserve as much power as possible.
Aaah-
Sah, save me!
But the order to retreat soon meant failure. There were no soldiers who didn’t know that.
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Morale dropped exponentially and despair and fear lingered at the fact that he was defeated despite the fact that he was defeated even though he had six stars and the contract of the Spirit King.Demons and demons put daggers on the backs of the retreating remnants.
Nearly 20,000 troops were killed during the retreat.
It was a very painful loss.
* * *
[The brave act, it ends in failure. The Union is defeated again…. ]
【Pablo Barkat returned with a cold corpse. why did he die ]
【Shock! Six Stars, and the Elemental King’s Contractor. They couldn’t handle one demon lord… ]
【Thousands of false demons. Beyond the level of the general demon king army… ]
【The testimony of a knight who participated in the coalition, ‘It was a disaster. The Dwarves’ magic grapes, even the warriors, couldn’t stop it. We cannot win.’ Shocking remarks… ]
【New Heroes Guild’s Guild Leader Hillen Cargill ‘Sorry to everyone, I will definitely subdue lies.’]
【The demons that disappeared after destroying the Fortress of Velogan, the Principality of Artian and the Traparta Union in shock…. ]
【The Crown Princess of Hilderan, Ernyl Hilderan ‘The Demon King was strong. Maybe humans have given the lie too much time.’ speech ripples. Was a hundred years too long…? ]
Hwareuk-
The newspaper was burned.
Roselle Charter sharpened her teeth.
“I have not been defeated! I just went back because the demon king told me to go back! Who is the bastard who wrote this article!”
“Everyone knows.”
“Who is everyone? It’s just you and them, and the heroes! That’s why I’m proudly writing such bullshit!”
“It is true that it was difficult.”
“There is a difference between a difficult battle and a defeat. We could have won if we kept going!”
“It wasn’t, don’t you know?”
They were the best among the warriors. There was no way he could not feel the rank of a demon king until he fought directly.
Jason was different. It was different from any other demons he had ever dealt with.
It was deeper, something was indescribably terrible.
“It would have been if we were together. But in the first place, Ernyl Hilderan and the Demon King didn’t even work together.”
If they had been together, the story would have been different.
“The demon lord has ordered the retreat.”
“So Fort Velogen is completely in ruins.”
“You are a star, but before that, you belong to the Demon Lord’s family. You must not forget your duty.”
“Is it perfectly possible to become the Demon King’s dog?”
“So, since when did Roselle become so righteous?”
“From now on.”
The two warriors stared at each other.
“huh.”
Roselle snorted and broke the window and went out.
“Why do you leave the door open…?”
“Leave it. If you say it like that, you will know. I just don’t want to admit it.”
It was Roselle who had been winning and winning with her outstanding talent. Neither as a wizard of the tower nor as a star of the Heroes’ Guild, she has lived a life that is not very friendly with failure.
Even to her, who had her self-esteem skyrocketed by engraving eight engravings a while ago, the presence of a huge wall that could not be overcome no matter what she did must have come as a big shock.
“I understand.”
Hillen nodded at Ralph’s words.
“So, what do you mean by the Demon King and Crown Princess? To deliberately exaggerate a lie.”
Thanks to this, the fear of lies grew even greater. Of course, it was the expected result of the Union’s defeat, but it got worse.
“The lie will attack Hilderan.”
“I heard that too. So aren’t we here?”
Using the movements of the demons as an excuse, Hillen Cargill led the heroes of the Heroes’ Guild to Ruiyan, the fortress city of Hilderan adjacent to the lake.
If the monsters started advancing from the lake, they inevitably had to pass through this place.
“I don’t doubt it because the demon king said it, but why?”
Ralph did not fully understand the current situation.
At that time, it would have been a problem if we had all just worked together and fought.
Why do you have to retreat and take the damage with the stigma of defeat?
“After all, because he’s a Demon King…”
“Even if we fought back then, the odds were not that high.”
“Of course, I admit that lies are very strong. But isn’t the Demon King of Chlorination also strong?”
“I thought so too.”
“Isn’t it now?”
“The confident demon king spoke of ‘defeat’.”
He is a proud demon king who does not say that he loses even as a joke. He could not resist the false threat.
“That means that the Demon King is hiding something we don’t know.”
“Right.”
At that moment, the door swung open and Ernyl Hilderan entered.
“majesty.”
“I would have lost if I kept fighting. All of you must have been dead.”
“We are stars.”
“He is not lying.”
“What does that mean?”
“While you all retreated, there was a deep conversation between the Demon Lord and the lie. I can’t go into details, but one thing I can say for sure is that a lie is a doppelganger.”
“Are you talking about doppelgangers?”
“If it’s a doppelganger…”
“A demon that parasitizes other living things and eventually eats them and pretends to be someone else.”
“…that word.”
“The fact that we were fighting wasn’t a lie in the first place.”
“Then when did the doppelganger come to Araine?”
“Hundreds of years.”
“Is that possible?”
“This is ridiculous!”
The warriors were astonished. They could not admit that the opponent they thought was just a slightly stronger Demon Lord was actually a high mountain.
If they can’t do it, if even the Demon Lord of Fire can’t do it, there’s really no way.
In the darkness without a single ray of hope, Arain perishes.
“You’ve been through the results, haven’t you? Normal demon lords can’t do that.”
“…Then why did such a person send the Demon Lord so gracefully?”
“I made a deal. I can’t tell you in detail about that.”
“deal? Are you sure you’re selling us off?”
An earthquake struck Wharton’s pupil.
“If you did, you would have died on the spot.”
“···then.”
Aina’s voice trembled anxiously.
“Is there any way?”
If the opponent is not a simple demon king, but a doppelganger that ate dozens of demon kings and countless warriors.
If you have no choice but to retreat because you can’t win.
Would just a little bit of time make a big difference?
“there is.”
“Really?”
“I think Aina-sama lacks faith. That’s what the Demon King does. Of course there is a way.”
“What is it?”
“Hope.”
“Hope?”
The warriors who did not understand tilted their heads.
Ernya said once more with certainty.
“The Demon Lord will be a ray of hope for mankind. Instead of a white horse, he appears riding a sky tower.”
“…a tower in the sky?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are you saying that the sky flies the tower, or the tower flies in the sky?”
“That’s it.”
“·················ogue.”
The warriors had dumbfounded faces.
“So what happens?”
“Because towers fly in the sky.”
“···uh.”
“I don’t mean to say it, but I think the Crown Princess has become a little crazy, no, it’s strange.”
“I don’t think so, but now I can’t bear to deny it.”
“Perhaps another person covered in the skin of the Demon King of Lies…”
“If that were the case, I wouldn’t have been able to summon the Spirit King.”
“So is it.”
Aina and Ralph whispered quietly.
They were the stars who came to this place fighting countless demons.
I’ve seen and experienced many towers, and I know very well how absurd it is to have those towers flying in the sky.
Especially since they couldn’t see the tower itself in action.
“…I don’t quite understand, but after all, is it true that Berge-sama has a trick?”
“Right.”
“Then that’s it.”
Hillen meekly agreed.
The Berge that he knew was not a demon king who spoke nonsense. If there is a way, then there is.
Then there is no need to be so frustrated. You just have to do the best you can in your position.
“…to entrust the hopes of mankind to the Demon King.”
“It’s not something a member of the Demon King’s family would say.”
“That’s it, my lord. It’s ironic.”
Ralph scratched his head.
That was then.
“The movements of the demons have been caught!”
Jason’s dagger began to fly.