Duke of Hadest
Wars with demons are difficult.
In a human-to-human war, it would be possible to plant a spy to acquire information and use it in war.
However, there is no way for humans to hide in the midst of the demons and acquire such information.
Because of this, the war with the demons begins with information warfare first.
What is the size of the opponent’s army, and who exists as a commander?
It is necessary to check the opponent’s capabilities in a hit-and-run style rather than an all-out war.
Considered by simple force, as a human who is inferior in physical and magical abilities to the demons, it is forbidden to fight in the form of pushing ahead with strength or numbers.
Of course, that was the story when Leon wasn’t there.
“Really, Sir Leon’s magic was unparalleled.”
“Pacheon. A magician who destroys the sky.”
“So speaking, the scouts have discovered a city of demons in front of us.”
This land was a city of humans that was stolen by demons in the war 50 years ago.
The estate ruled by the Count Polark family, Grave.
However, the city was caught up in the huge war, and all the buildings collapsed and burned to ruins, and over the past 50 years, the demons built buildings and built the city in a form that is comfortable for them to live in.
“Can’t Sir Leon take the lead and unleash the magic of destruction again this time?”
In other words, it was meant to measure the opponent’s ability with Leon’s magic.
There is no reason not to use that power for the commanders who have learned the magic of Leon.
And it wasn’t a bad story for Leon either.
Being the vanguard of 100,000 troops is the highest honor on the battlefield.
Above all, the reason Leon participated in this war was to accumulate merit and rise to a higher rank than Steve Parostel, the second in the line of succession to the Marquis Parostel family.
For such Leon, the vanguard position was an opportunity to build up achievements more easily.
After a brief silence, Leon nodded and the faces of the commanders brightened.
“It is a bold decision worthy of Pacheon’s name. I’ll pass it on to my High Majesty the King.”
Leon did not care whether or not to do so at Duke Dout August’s remarks and turned his head to the direction of the city of demons.
The vast magical reaction felt there.
As Leon burns and evaporates all the forbidden forests, the demons feel the sight of a hole in the sky and are preparing for war.
Of course, even if that wasn’t the case, the information that humans were forming an army to conquer the southern part of the continent would have already been delivered from some demons who were hiding in the Philo Kingdom.
The second prince of the Philo Kingdom, who became a Magician in the first place, was in charge of such a mission, and Leon subjugated him, but Leon clearly thought that there would be more Magicians like Beatson.
The march of 100,000 troops of Philo Kingdom began.
From now on, they were fighting a war with the demons, but the morale of the soldiers was soaring.
The great magic they saw.
Leon, who has the power of the sun to break the sky, is already intoxicated with the feeling that this war has been won just by taking a step forward.
A hot breath mixed with tension and excitement colored the battlefield, and the Legion formed a line ahead of the distance of 10 kilometers from the city of demons.
Compared to the forest that Leon has erased from the world, that city is not that large.
If it were an ordinary city, it would have been possible to annihilate everything with Leon’s magic one shot.
However, Leon’s atomic burst, which was soon unfolding, was blocked by the translucent barrier that surrounded the city.
‘The vast magical reaction felt in the city was for this.’
The commanders who lead the army of Philo Kingdom referred to that place as a city of demons, but if you look at the facts, it will be a concept closer to an outpost rather than a city.
A strong fortress built by demons to take over the world.
No matter how powerful Leon’s magic is, he cannot clean up the fortress with just one magic.
“However······.”
The explosion of an atomic burst occurs twice.
When Leon reached out his hand, the heat wave was concentrated around the starting point of the explosion, and another explosion occurred.
A hole was drilled along the pillar of light soaring into the sky, and the same was true of the defensive wall that was protecting the city of demons.
waggle window.
Even though there was no way that sound could have come this far, I had the illusion that such a sound had been heard.
A defense wall that breaks down and falls down so clearly.
And with that as a starting point, the demonic counterattack began.
“I, there…”
“Look at the sky!”
“Me, Meteorda…!”
It’s not one either.
A total of 5 luminous objects that brightly color the sky.
Seven circles of mass magic that could sweep away thousands and tens of thousands of soldiers were deployed at the same time as many as five.
What this reveals is that there are at least 5 magicians of the 7th circle in the hostile faction.
But Leon calmly pointed his finger at Meteor.
The magic of yin and yang is circling those fingers.
The vast magical power concentrated on the fingertips while drawing the Taegeuk pattern became the brightest light in the world and pierced the meteorite that hit the ground.
“Divine Impact.”
Doo doo doo!
Four meteorites are smashed and scattered, and black lightning sweeps away the fragments.
Even so, one Meteor remained intact and was falling towards the Philo Kingdom Army.
It was Steve Farostel who stepped in.
He is the second in the line of succession to the Parostel Marquis family, and the owner of 7th circle fire magic.
Recognized as a higher skill than the One-man Legion Levis Parostel, he was a magician who handled black flames.
Black flames from his hand surround the falling meteorite.
At the same time, 10 tons of magical matter falling at a speed of 10 kilometers per second began to slow down.
Meteor, who seemed to explode on the Philo Kingdom Army and cause a huge explosion at any moment, continued to decelerate as it was, and gradually burned and evaporated in the black flames that were gradually growing in size.
‘It’s fun.’
From the beginning, Leon was interested in Steve’s ability to handle black flames and black flames.
A flame refers to a mass of plasma that emits light and heat, but a black flame.
Because that meant a flame that didn’t emit visible light.
Perhaps it was a flame that emits ultraviolet rays, a spectrum outside of purple that the human eye cannot see because the concentration of heat energy is stronger than that of Hellfire, which has a purple flame.
‘It wasn’t like that.’
Steve’s black salt offset Meteor’s kinetic energy.
As a result, the huge inflated flame burned all the magical substances, but it was evident with Leon’s eyes that Meteor’s speed was decelerating just before that.
Of course, since thermal energy is the kinetic energy of particles, it would be possible to use it to offset the kinetic energy of the Meteor, but then, the larger size of the flame in the process of deceleration cannot be explained.
‘Black flame….’
It wasn’t just that it didn’t emit visible light.
Absorbs ambient light.
offset the kinetic energy.
The word that flashed through Leon’s mind through the phenomenon was the photoelectric effect.
A phenomenon discovered by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz during an experiment, the phenomenon in which electrons are ejected when a metal is exposed to light of a certain frequency or higher.
And it was explained by Albert Einstein’s photon theory that light is not a wave, but a phenomenon that occurs because it has the property of a particle.
Absorbs light and emits electrons.
And flames are plasmas generated through intense oxidation reactions that occur when electrons are lost with high-temperature thermal energy.
Steve didn’t just absorb photons and particles of light, but understood the particle properties of all materials as waves, and had magical resonance ability close to the power to create flames by absorbing energy from a specific frequency.
If Veronica’s power absorbs magic power and creates flames,
Steve, on the other hand, converts only physical kinetic energy into flame.
The reason Leon was able to immediately understand the principle of Steve’s magic was because the sheath Leon presented to Veronica was a relic with the exact same abilities as him.
Although black flames do not come out of its sheath, it absorbs shock, damage, and kinetic energy inflicted on its owner and emits it as a flame.
The ability to feel and deal with the power of God, the duality of matter explained by quantum physics, in the realm of instinct.
Indeed, it was a genius that was second in the line of the Marquis Parostel family.
His eyes met Steve.
He had offset one Meteor with his amazing magic and colored the sky with black flames, but his expression looking up at Leon was nevertheless unsatisfactory.
He already knew that Leon was a great wizard, but he never thought that he would be able to deploy magic powerful enough to destroy 4 meteorites in such a short time.
At that moment, the Duke of Doubt shouted.
“The barrier has been broken! All troops advance! Destroy the gate as it is and take the lives of the demons!”
wow!
The army of Philo Kingdom’s march resumed, and the gates were opened in the city of demons.
A wall is basically a high-rise building that blocks the intrusion of enemies, but that’s also a story to some extent.
A soldier who has trained five or six-star martial arts can easily jump over a 20-meter-high fortress wall.
So the walls of this world have another function.
It is to be used as the basis for engraving the magic circle to activate the defensive wall that Leon has broken.
The barrier collapsed, and part of the overloaded magic circle was destroyed.
As demons increase their power by killing and eating more monsters than humans, the amount of mana stones they possess is beyond imagination.
In other words, if only the magic circle is restored, the defensive wall can be deployed again.
To buy time, the gates were opened and demons started pouring out.
Among them, a demon emitting a unique magical wave rose into the sky and flew towards Leon.
A figure of fluttering ragged black robes and holding a huge sickle in his hand.
He was a demon who looked exactly like the image that comes to mind when he thinks of ‘death god’ in the modern world.
[This is not a land that you humans dare to cross. This is the harvest area. stop going away Otherwise, your souls will be harvested.]
With those remarks, the identity of the guy was clear.
A demon who worships the Demon God of Harvest.
The Demon God of Harvest is the parent of all demons.
He was the subject of harvesting the souls of all living creatures, corrupting them, and creating monsters from the seeds.
At first a black flame scorched towards such a man.
“Shut up!”
Steve’s black flame, which absorbed the kinetic energy of 10 tons of magical material and 10 kilometers per second, had intense thermal energy,
Sigh–.
At the light gesture of the demon, the black salt was harvested and sucked into its grasp.
“what······?!”
The magic was harvested and killed.
No matter how powerful magic is, what constitutes it is the wizard’s spirit wave, that is, the soul.
If the mental waves that make up the magic form were harvested, the magic could no longer survive.
The man who cut away the huge black flame opened his mouth to Leon without even giving a glance to Steve, who was the master of the magic.
[My name is Hadest. He is the Duke of Hadest who serves the harvest.]
Leon’s eyes widened.
The commander of the war that has corrupted Leon with magic in the past.
Because his name was Hadest.