114. A human that makes even the devil cry (3)

“Well, nothing happened.”

After putting some of the demons I had caught into the pond for experimentation, I looked around.

There, after pouring out all the power she suddenly gained, Maria, who had been stretched out, and the demon king, who had been rescued, were spread out.

“You son of a demon king, this is a really humble guy.”

To say the conclusion first, the demon king lost his power and became a can.

“It was just stripped off and eaten.”

It was a demon king who was beaten to the brink of death by an ignorant old man who came out for expelling the lord of destruction. Ah, the fact that the normal guy was beaten to the brink of death is his own fault for exposing his weakness, and it will never be my fault.

Anyway, if he used the essence of the corps to remodel his body to be strong, the demon king would have been able to regain his strength.

However, the strange guy who didn’t know if he was a demon or not, who rolled into the seat next to him at just the right time, awakened after consuming all the power that the demon king had stretched out.

Without leaving a single drop, I just picked it up and ate it.

“… … Could this guy have been aiming for it?”

It seems Maria was intentionally aiming for the power shed by the Demon King.

The demon king of the previous generation, who had high hopes for the return of the power of the demon god thanks to what had happened, had an expression as if the sky had collapsed.

“The ruler of the corps, then what will the demon king do now?”

“It’s useless now.”

“… … .”

“If this kid comes to his senses, give him a meal and send him home.”

The former demon king once again showed a distraught expression at the word ‘house’ I said.

“… … We don’t have a proper house yet, and we don’t have the strength to protect the territory.”

“Ah, that is your case. He saved the lives of those who would be hunted or eaten anyway by lending the power of the corps. Didn’t they give you some suitable estates too? Please, do it on your own.”

“… … .”

Come to think of it, the demon survivors were in fact ‘refugees’, so there was no proper territory to return to yet. Territories are only those places that have been ruined by the war and are just digging the shovel for restoration.

However, in a situation where the surviving demons were of no help to our power, there was no good reason why I should take care of them all.

“Please take care of the world you live in.”

The former demon king probably thought of using the excuse of losing his power as a demon to get something to rebuild their territory, that is to say, to get some support for something like the Horus Mountain building, which consumes expensive points.

Of course, the legion is busy earning points to run the clock tower at a critical juncture, so they don’t have the energy to help the demon survivors who are useless right now.

And, to put it bluntly, we should be grateful for the fact that we rescued the survivors at the cost of Legion troops.

Where are you trying to get all of this?

“… … We will take care of that.”

After hearing my words, the middle-aged high-ranking demon tribe, after answering like this, frowned and wiped his face with his hand.

“No, I hope you don’t talk like you’re doing the obvious thing so reluctantly?”

After a while, he came to his senses and asked me again, this time pointing to Maria who had sucked up all the demon king’s power and fell asleep.

“after… … Then what will you do with that brazen child who stole your power?”

“yes?”

“That child is not the legitimate owner of power. Maria claims to be a member of the legion, not a demon. It is an obvious act of usurpation to take possession of the owner’s power in this way when he is not a demon… … .”

“Until there.”

This human, no demon, had a very decent personality.

However, whenever there is a situation where he reveals his opinion about the race, he feels that the demon king of the previous generation kicked off the part that he could benefit from.

If you ask me to do something because I need something, I would have listened to it, but since I always build my pride like this and talk about legitimacy, I end up losing a lot instead of profiting from the transaction.

“Don’t be mean.”

I also blocked the mouth of the former demon king who tried to catch the horse’s tail with legitimacy.

“It was the fault of someone who had power but couldn’t properly manage it, so someone else took it away. Don’t you know the world of the weak meat?”

“… … .”

“Such grumbling is pointless at this point.”

Well, whether it’s legal or usurpation, what’s the point in this situation?

When it comes to power, the person who picks it up and eats it first is the owner.

“It’s better than what. After all, this bastard once usurped the position of demon king, so you won’t have good feelings for each other, right?”

“… … I think of the future of the race before personal grudges. Forget the old grudges… … .”

“What did you say. Aren’t you the only one thinking hard about the future of your race?”

“… … .”

“To put it bluntly, there is no one busier than me here, and certainly no crazy person carrying three races.”

At this point, even the former demon king would never think of trying to make a deal with me by blaming me for something.

Of course, it’s not that I hate the former demon king, I just want to understand how to be clever so I can communicate a little better.

“Even if you go to Moro, as long as your power is counted, it’s enough. Anyway, the demon lord is not close to me, but Maria is my subordinate, right? I want to roll it and eat it.”

Well, this is also a bad thing for the surviving demons, but it was good for me, so it wasn’t a bad thing.

Rather, thanks to the situation where the demon king could not come to the fore, the troublesome things that would happen in the future disappeared.

If we introduce to mankind, who have repeatedly been destroyed by demons’ attacks, ‘From today, the demon king is an ally’, what will happen between them, even if they depend on the legion?

“why? What else do you have to say?”

“… … None.”

“okay. If you don’t have anything else to do, take the children of the demon king that have spread over there.”

“… … I see.”

The former demon king tried to get something out of me like this, but after suffering a complete defeat, he quietly collapsed.

He thought this quietly to himself as he carried the demon king who had not yet come to his senses and passed through the dimension.

“… … The author is really worse than the devil… … .”

Well.

thank you for the compliment

“By the way, why didn’t you stop him from going in?”

The next conversation partner was a bald wizard who stayed silent to avoid the slightly bloody atmosphere between me and the former demon king.

“No, I didn’t know you were having such sinister thoughts.”

“You, be honest.”

“… … What?”

Still, it was a problem because I could see the inside of this guy so well even if I didn’t use my ability, maybe because I had time to roll as a colleague.

“Didn’t I just let you in to fuck the Devil King?”

“… … Well.”

“Good job. Maria had a hard time at this time, so she should get ahead.”

Yes, even if they had a common enemy now, he was not the previous demon king and the mild-tempered demon tribe under him, but the very one who destroyed mankind three times.

So, those who joined our corps thought, ‘Is there a need to accept the Demon King as an ally?’ It’s obvious you’re thinking about it.

“First of all, I hate that bastard.”

Fucking past enemies in a mean way like this is just my taste.

“You really… … If I had met him as a senior in the army, he would have looked like a real devil.”

“Yes, thank you.”

“… … .”

I was praised again.

“Hey, Maria, send it to me when you wake up.”

I don’t have anything urgent right now, so I’ll wait slowly while eating chicken with dark beer from Horus.

“Hey, Jiwoo.”

“Ah, old man. Would you like some chicken?”

“Chicken isn’t important, I found him.”

But, something happened again.

“… … Couldn’t that guy be the last player of the third and third powers that went missing?”

“Right, I found him. This bastard hides his power so well that even I struggled to find it. But I think we should go there quickly now?”

“why? What do you want?”

Oh, can’t we eat some of this chicken?

“It looks like the world he is in is being invaded. in a hurry.”

“under… … Where is it?”

Why does this world not even allow me time to enjoy the happiness of a piece of chicken?

“It’s where the gods of the other world rule.”

“… … It’s getting dirty.”

“Hey, should we go and find it? Let’s move quickly.”

* * *

The Lord of Doom, who had been immersed in the hot infernal lava, quietly opened his eyes.

“Did you finally find it?”

He sought out a new world untouched by the legion for power supply, and finally found such a place. Thanks to their interference, the supply and demand was cut off, but the power slowly began to come in.

Huge despair, fear, and enormous energy created by death began to be supplied to himself and his subordinates trapped in Hell.

“It’s a world full of power.”

There was a lonely and remote world far beyond the reach of the Legion, a place covered with water that looked like the world of mankind.

The native civilization living here seemed to have a fairly advanced civilization or armed force, and there were quite a few of their own men who fought against them and returned to their deaths.

The Lord of Ruin called his subordinates who had experienced death and returned.

“Tell me in detail about what you saw.”

The dead demon’s flame began to whisper to the lord what it had experienced.

However, the Lord of Destruction, who was listening to the reports of his subordinates, began to frown more and more as he learned more about the world.

“… … What a strange thing. Aren’t those who developed technological civilization abnormally only dwarves and those called humans?”

It was really strange.

Usually, civilization develops by relying on the power of magic or temples, so there were few cases where only technology developed ignorantly.

Where such transcendental power exists, most of the time, the very slow or non-existent development of technology has been, in some ways, a normal development.

“Those who use magic, the power of temples, and firearms at the same time?”

Apparently, the Lord of Destruction is out of luck.

The newly discovered world was by no means an easy place to conquer.

At that moment, a red portal opened and the forces of hell, led by slaves who had lost their ego, invaded the world.

The demonic troops rushing in like a wave were pouring hellfires and burning the forest and city in front of them, collecting strength diligently.

It was normal for a world subjected to such a massive invasion to falter and collapse on its own before the arrival of the Legion.

Even Cerberus, the watchman and gatekeeper of hell, is so powerful that even one of them can play as a boss in the area if it falls into a decent civilization.

“What are these children… … ? There are definitely demons mixed in, but why are you so zombie-like? Where the hell did these guys come from?”

However, things were going differently in the world they invaded now.

“Well, I don’t know if these bastards are the demons with whom I was sick of fighting before or if they are other guys… … .”

The man, dressed in a stylish uniform with splendid decorations, said while gripping his weapon tightly.

“The only thing I will give to those who invade my world is death.”

What he held in his hand was none other than an antique musket that looked like something you would see in a museum on Earth.

“Buff open. All troops, march toward the enemy.”

At his command, soldiers dressed in colorful primary colors began advancing toward the devil’s army, boasting measured ceremonies to the merry marching music of the military band.

Behind this classic army, reminiscent of modern line infantry, wizards and priests followed together, infusing powerful buff magic for them.

“Put the filthy children of hell to sleep forever… … .”

The power of divine power emitted from the priests’ incantations permeated the soldiers, to be precise, the bullets they possessed.

A divine spell to deal with an enemy that could not be killed by ordinary methods, and a deadly power for demons who climbed from hell, was contained in a small lead bullet.

“I was tired of fighting the demons, I wanted to live a little quieter this life… … .”

In a world where wizards and priests existed and the development of civilization should have stopped, personal firearms and line infantry appeared out of nowhere. This was the power of technology that this man had achieved in a new world.

“Your Majesty, there are enemies ahead.”

“All troops, stand still.”

At the battlefield that finally arrived, the man stopped the troops, and they stopped, maintaining their ranks as if measured with a ruler.

Towards those who had stopped in place like this, the demonic army that had been devouring destruction was running, scattering sparks.

“load.”

“All armies loaded—!!!”

At the command of the man, a loud blessing spear fell, and the soldiers put gunpowder and ammunition into the muzzle with surprisingly calm skill even in the dire situation where demons from hell rushed to them.

“Fire!”

At the demons who fearlessly set fire to them, bullets with divine power began pouring down relentlessly.