142. Demon
In a normal story, there is a hero of justice who wants freedom and a demon king of absolute evil who wants to rule the world.
A hero is on the side of justice, and a demon lord is on the side of evil- A stepping stone for brainwashing children from a young age.
However, the reality was not that hard to divide.
[Die, die! I mean die!]
-Follow the system.
-Don’t try to escape fate.
Against the demon king who fires magic without breathing, the shinigami who became Ian’s summoned beasts said so and began to push the demon king away.
Indeed, the name of the Demon King does not go anywhere – she endured the pincer attack of six summoned beasts alone.
Ian listened to the story of the demon king, who struggled like crazy and shouted. She was afraid of dying.
‘What kind of demon king is that?’
Of course, it is natural for living things to fear death. No living thing lives to die.
But the Demon King is not like that. The Demon King who hates humanity and is programmed to kill humans… … .
‘Hey, if it’s normal, there’s no way to contaminate the system in the first place.’
Ian looked at the Demon King carefully. Although it is now covered with magic, it had a considerable appearance just before.
He seemed to care too much about his appearance, the subject of giving birth to monsters he couldn’t see with his eyes open.
It’s like human behavior.
“Anna.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Special move, are you ready?”
“sorry. Because I still can’t connect with God… … .”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
God was still tainted. A tainted god could not receive such an oracle. God, what can we do to bring the system back?
First, we need to eliminate the source of contamination.
“Blue dragon, Hyunmoo, and Baekho. They are the four gods.”
─Do not order!
-We’ll take care of it.
While saying that, the Shinigami used their special moves according to Ian’s orders. Breaths with the properties unique to the Shinigami spewed out from their mouths.
Even the Demon King, who has been hit by attacks in the past, may have had a hard time accepting this attack, and I can feel the barriers being cut off little by little.
Empress and Theresia aimed at the gap that was so exposed.
“There’s nothing wrong with the Demon King.”
“Does it look like a stick because we are playing?”
The great witch, Empress, breaks the barrier that spreads around the Demon King, and Theresia thrusts her sword through the cracks that have been broken.
Like the two of them who have been together for a long time, a picture-like connection. I could see the Demon King’s HP dropping down.
[Stop, maan- maan!]
After being beaten for a while, the Demon King exploded all his power as if he could not stand it, and attempted to escape again.
However, they were not foolish enough to receive the same number of beasts once.
“Where-. Barrier deployment.”
—Earthworm. cannot run away.
The barrier laid out by Empress and Hyunmoo binds the Demon King as it is.
The blue dragon and the white tiger, seeing the large gap, start to cooperate.
– Fit me.
—Huh, on the subject of creeping beasts… … .
-Noisy, tearing it apart.
The rebar made by Baekho starts to heat up by the electric current emitted by the blue dragon. The reinforcing bar trapped between the current and the current is thrown out with a strong Lorentz force as it is.
A railgun loaded with the power of the two reapers- The warhead alone reached several tons, so the power was terrifying, needless to say.
The Demon King, crushed in half by the massive mass, struggled to survive while crawling on the ground.
[No, I can’t die here like this… … .]
“I don’t know why I am so obsessed with life… … It’s time to die, so die well.”
Saying so, Ian ordered a finishing attack. A gap where all the summons attempt to attack at once.
The moment that gap is revealed – The Demon King opens the ego that has been suppressed for so long.
[I must die like this… … Let’s all die together.]
At that moment, a status window appears above the demon king’s head.
【LV. ??? Demon]
“Oh, what else… … .”
[-All die.]
A different mechanical tone than before. In addition to that, he began to spit out a number of powerful attacks that were incomparable to before.
Ian, who quickly evaded behind the Shinigami, began to deduce what the demon king had done.
‘crazy… … Are you going to commit suicide?’
It is absurd to say that the author of God is defeated by the Demon King at once. Of course, God would be the most powerful being allowed systematically. The kind that can kill a demon lord… … .
If you fight from the front, there’s no way a god will be killed by a demon lord or something like that. The Demon King must have devoured the gods by contaminating the system and using some kind of means.
After that, the Demon King, realizing that he could not use the power of God with his sane mind, must have sealed the God within him forever.
Even though the Demon King polluted and ruled the system, that must be the reason why he could not use the system completely on his own.
The system is the power of God, and unless you can fully digest God, you can’t use that power.
‘I have no self.’
And the demon in front of him seemed to have lost his original demon lord’s self. The Demon King, who had an intuition of defeat and death, did not care about his ego and used the power of God.
It is impossible for a god to have an intact ego, and the demon lord, crushed by God’s bloated ego, lost himself as it was.
‘The subject that I wanted to live so far… … .’
For the subject he wanted to avoid death so much, when he could not avoid death, he threw his life away in an instant.
Ian looked at the demon god running wild alone from afar, and shouted at his summoned beasts.
“Retreat!”
─What? leave that one?
“It is already ‘God’. We don’t need to fight any more. Isn’t it, isn’t it?”
“… … Yes, I can’t believe it – that’s a god. I can feel that I have been connected with her before.”
Anna said so and bit her lip. The reality of the god he followed all this time was like that.
I was just shocked.
However, there was no time to be in shock. Ian shouted at Anna.
“What are you doing, hurry up!”
“… … God, grant us our wish.”
wish to god. Anna’s special arts that cannot be used several times a day. Soon after, the demon connected with her grudges stopped and began to stare intently at Anna.
Anna’s wish is that everyone in this party can safely return to their original place. The demon granted that wish. extremely drinkable.
[good night.]
In the next moment, all the summons were sucked into the glyph of Ian. Ian looked startled at the hole that had formed under my feet.
falls with no bottom or end.
Watching Ian fall into the hole, the demon followed him and jumped into the hole.
* * *
great canyon.
A place that boasts the deepest cliffs on the continent.
There were lines of beauties that would normally have their eyes open.
“Here, right?”
“Yeah- it’s here.”
Stella leaned her head out and looked at the bottom of the cliff. The people standing behind were startled that she might stumble, but Stella looked at the hole casually and let out a sigh.
“… … I can’t see anything.”
“As the name suggests, it is a grand canyon. A place that neither light nor pets can explore.”
“Have you tried it?”
“then. Summoners don’t die. You can explore places that humans can never go.”
“How is it?”
“I went crazy. Both Summoners and Summoners.”
Stella held out the back of her hand in disbelief when she heard that people and heroic beings had gone crazy just by looking inside.
And I summoned my summoned beast and tried it myself.
“Ifrit, Bull.”
─Yes. okay.
The Fire Spirit King, Ifrit, sent fire straight down the canyon. The flames that had fallen down the cliff, spewing out intense heat and light, disappeared at some point.
Seeing this, Ifrit tilted her head and began to panic.
“what are you doing?”
-Oh… … It’s not turned off yet.
“You didn’t turn it off? Did it suddenly disappear?”
-I’ll try again. This time a little bit stronger.
Gathering all her strength, Ifrit shot a stream of fire down the cliff. Not only does it not turn off easily, but also so that it can be seen at a glance from a distance.
However, as soon as a certain boundary was crossed, the flame also disappeared in an instant.
“Isn’t there water underneath?”
─No. Fire, not extinguished. you just can’t see it what? That’s… … .
“… … Down here, see what’s there.”
But on this street, no matter how much I opened my eyes, I couldn’t even see what was there.
In the end, you have no choice but to go down. Down that cliff that goes crazy the moment you go down.
“Ifrit, help me. I’m going down.”
“Did you not hear me? If I go down, will you go crazy?”
“I have listened to Artia-sama’s words. But, if Ian was down there, even if it was hell— I would go.”
As Stella said that and was about to jump down the cliff, something rose from the bottom of the cliff, hugging her.
It jumped backwards as if ignoring gravity, passed Stella and the others and ascended to the sky.
“Ahhhh!”
“… … Ian?”
Ian was there.
As the party looked at him as he ascended high into the sky in bewilderment, something dark appeared behind Ian.
[I curse you, world. All die.]
A demon has descended into the world.