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"Your, Your Majesty!"
"I have been very forgiving of you, especially."
"Your Majesty!"
"It was because you had your uses. But now, not only are you useless, but you even dared to touch my nemesis, Davian Naone. Was it you who sent the Gray Witch to Davian?"
"……!"
"And the assassin of death, too."
This was a situation where he should be kowtowing and begging for forgiveness.
Even then, his survival was not guaranteed.
However.
His head was grabbed by the Emperor, and he couldn't move.
"I, I deserve to die! Please, forgive me just once!"
"Just once? I clearly told you not to touch Davian. You've touched him three times already, and you ask for just once?"
"I deserve to die! Please forgive me!"
"No. My forgiveness is over."
Squeeze.
"Kugh!"
The hand grabbing Heinz Greighton's head gradually tightened.
'No! I can't die here!'
"Your Majesty! Please!"
"The other two will soon join you, so your journey to the afterlife won't be lonely. Oh, and of course, your wife and children will soon join you as well. Disobeying the imperial order is no different from treason."
Treason!
The word treason came from the mouth of Emperor Kaiser Lapax.
To be charged with treason meant.
That everyone connected by marriage and blood would die.
"No... way!"
Heinz Greighton instantly gathered all his inner strength.
'I'll kill! I'll kill this emperor bastard today! No, I should have killed him sooner!'
Emperor Kaiser Lapax was defenseless, holding Heinz Greighton's head.
Heinz Greighton, who had just returned from the battlefield, had his sword, his lifelong companion, at his waist.
The distance between them was extremely close.
'I'll kill!'
Slash.
Drawing the sword and attacking happened simultaneously.
A strike that poured out all his lifelong inner strength and swordsmanship.
Senior swordsman Heinz Greighton's sword quickly cut through the space.
In that brief moment, the sword was imbued with a thick aura.
However.
Thud.
The strike that had been poured out over a lifetime stopped in mid-air.
More precisely, it was stopped by Emperor Kaiser Lapax's thumb and forefinger.
With one hand still gripping Heinz Greighton's head.
He blocked Heinz's sword with his other hand.
With just two fingers.
'Monster...'
Emperor Kaiser Lapax smirked.
"Are you trying to cut me down now?"
"……."
Everything was over.
Begging for his life now would change nothing.
Just as he was about to give up everything.
He remembered his wife and bright-eyed children, who had been by his side all his life.
"I, I was out of my mind for a moment! Explode my head right here, and please, just spare my family."
Crack!
Heinz Greighton's head exploded before he could finish his sentence.
Attila Payman, who was kneeling behind him, raised his head and looked at Heinz Greighton's back, where his head had exploded.
"Ah... ah..."
Thud.
Emperor Kaiser Lapax's left hand grabbed Attila Payman's head.
"Aah..."
Thud.
His right hand grabbed Attila's younger sister, Amanda Payman.
Bang!
Ting.
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[Quest 'Rescue Undine' Completed]
―Reward: 120K Mana Points (x2)
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Swish.
The raging ice storm subsided.
A warm breeze returned to the coast.
"Amazing."
Black Dragon Inseness clicked his tongue as he looked at the coast.
The sandy beach, which had sparkled in the sunlight, had turned into a mud pit because the ice covering it had melted.
On top of that, tens of thousands of Imperial Army corpses were strewn about haphazardly.
The blood of the Imperial Army had not only turned the sandy beach into a muddy swamp, but it had also dyed the seawater red.
Ignis slapped Inseness on the back.
"Even a Mad Dragon wouldn't do this much. What do you think? As someone who was once a Mad Dragon."
"I have no memory of when I was a Mad Dragon, so I don't know."
"I was just joking, a joke."
Undine approached, holding the contractor girl's hand.
The Spirit Prison had been destroyed by Davian.
"Thank you, Glacie, Davian."
Glacie, who had been beside herself with worry about her sister, clicked her tongue.
"So clumsy. Getting caught by humans."
"I know, right."
Davian chimed in.
"I don't think you're in a position to say that, considering you spent two years traveling through dimensions because of humans and barely made it back?"
Glacie glared.
"I was just careless then. It won't happen twice."
Undine took the contractor girl's hands and said.
"I'm going to visit the Spirit Realm for a bit. There are a lot of spirits who are worried."
"Okay! Undine. I'm glad nothing happened, really glad."
Undine stroked the contractor girl's head.
"Let's go, Glacie. Everyone's worried, right?"
"Yeah, Sis. Davian, we're leaving."
Glacie looked at Davian and smiled brightly.
It was hard to believe that it was the face of a spirit who had just mercilessly massacred tens of thousands of humans.
"Okay, see you later."
Glacie and Undine returned to the Spirit Realm.
The contractor girl also left, saying she had to go home quickly.
"Let's go back, too."
"Yeah."
"Yes."
The incident in which an entire legion of the Marino Imperial Army disappeared.
Came to an end like this.
Some time later, Elton City.
The Sea-Bure restaurant, which serves seafood from the east coast and land meat from Bure Prairie together.
"Did you hear about it?"
"Hear about what?"
"The story that one of the Marino Imperial Army legions was annihilated."
"Ah, that. The Manum Continent is buzzing about it, right?"
Another group said.
"I heard that, too. Because of that, the movements of the colonial states of the Manum Continent have become unusual."
"That's right. It seems like everyone is just biding their time, waiting to start a war of independence."
A man with a thick beard nodded.
"Timing is important. If you step out too early, you might get crushed. If you step out too late, the Empire might regain its strength, and you might miss the timing to declare independence."
"Then have you heard that rumor?"
"What rumor?"
"The rumor that the person who wiped out that Marino Imperial Army legion was none other than Davian Naone of Elton Academy."
"I heard it, but isn't it just a baseless rumor? I know Davian Naone is amazing, but how could he go alone, annihilate a legion, and come back?"
"No. Davian Naone has the Ice Spirit Glacie-nim by his side."
"Even so, it doesn't make sense."
"Then who can annihilate an Imperial Army legion?"
The man with the thick beard stroked his chin.
"Wouldn't it be the demons who invaded? Like our city a while ago."
The woman sitting at the next table flinched at the word demon.
The three people sitting at the same table as the woman looked at her carefully.
Regardless, the men's conversation continued.
"Demons? Right. That makes sense."
Another man offered a different opinion.
"Or a Mad Dragon appeared."
"Mad Dragon... That makes sense, too."
The man who had been listening to the two men shook his head.
"No. I heard it directly from a merchant who came from the Marino Empire. It's true that Davian Naone was the one who did that to the Imperial Army legion."
"Is that true?"
While the men were talking about the Imperial Army legion's disappearance.
The woman at the next table gestured for her group to leave.
Judging by the way the group bowed their heads in response to the woman's gesture, her status was quite high.
The woman and her group went outside and headed for a quiet inn that had been reserved in advance.
A corner room on the second floor of the inn, not far from Sea-Bure.
The woman opened her mouth.
"I knew it. It seems that Davian Naone was the one who did it."
"I think so, too. To wipe out a whole legion, he's really amazing."
"He even has spirits and dragons by his side, so it's no wonder Javier failed."
Javier.
The name of the demon legion commander who led the Cocalarus Legion, one of the five legions of the Penrose Continent in the Demon World.
He boldly crossed over to the human world, only to be killed by Glacie just before self-destruction.
"To think there's such an amazing person among humans. Our information was lacking."
"No, we already had information about that Davian Naone. It's just that he became strong too quickly and attracted powerful people around him."
"Anyway, we've thoroughly investigated this Pax Continent this time, so there won't be any failure."
The woman nodded.
"I think we've done enough investigation. It's time to return to the Demon World."
"If you return to the Demon World, you'll be able to receive a portion of the Demon King's power as promised by the Demon King. Congratulations, Javier-nim."
"If you receive the Demon King's power, Javier-nim's era will begin."
"You'll be able to stand above all the legion commanders."
"Congratulations, Legion Commander Javier-nim."
Javier.
The demon who was appointed as the new legion commander of the Cocalarus Legion, succeeding the deceased Legion Commander Javier.
Although he was appointed as a legion commander, most of the Cocalarus Legion demons were dead, so it was somewhat ambiguous to call him a legion commander.
He personally asked the Demon King to come to the human world to investigate the Pax Continent.
He swallowed the bead given by the Demon King and was able to disguise himself as a human with his three subordinates.
"To take over the human world's Pax Continent, it's right to strike here first. If we just destroy this Elton Academy, where Davian Naone is, this continent will be ours."
"That's right, Javier-nim. Then shall we install the Demon King's relic here?"
"Yes. Let's install the Demon King's relic here and return to the Demon World."
One of Javier's subordinates, who was in human form, took out a large brass plate from his bag.
Various patterns were very precisely engraved on the brass plate.
"Proceed, Javier-nim."
"Okay."
Swish.
The form of the human woman disappeared, and a demon with horns on his head appeared.
Javier's original form.
Javier, who had received the brass plate, began to mutter incomprehensible words.
The relic he had received directly from the Demon King and the spell that the Demon King had taught him directly.
Javier's heart was filled with pride that he had taken on and successfully carried out such a big role.
As Javier's incantation continued, a dark aura began to gather on the brass plate.
Float.
The brass plate, which had floated into the air, slowly flew towards the inn wall.
Swish.
The brass plate touched the inn wall and was sucked straight into the wall.
"It's done."
The dark aura that had been gathering on the brass plate spread throughout the building along the inn wall.
But no one staying at the inn felt this abnormality.
The moment the entire dilapidated inn building was transformed into a gateway connecting the Demon World and the human world.
"Let's go back. Let's go back and tell the Demon King and the other legion commanders everything we've seen, heard, and investigated."
"Yes, Legion Commander Javier-nim."
One of Javier's subordinates took out a demon stone and stuck it into the inn floor.
Ripple.
The inn floor rippled like the surface of a lake, and a passage to the Demon World was created.
Swish.
Javier's subordinates also shed their human forms and regained their demon forms.
The four demons, including Legion Commander Javier, left for the Demon World through the passage that had appeared in the inn floor.
A little later.
The inn floor, which had been rippling like waves, returned to being a solid stone floor.
Again, no one staying at the inn felt anything.
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