054. Temple smashed (5)

A stranger with a very strange appearance appeared in the colony of the Legion, which began to actively work by pulling out troops to sweep the demonic domains.

The person who visited us had a long beard covering his face, an excessively muscular body that looked very hard compared to his short stature, and a state-of-the-art reinforced suit that clearly looked like a craftsman’s touch.

What is this, a mix of fantasy and sci-fi?

“Ah, can you hear me? Are you the ruler of the corps?”

At first, this visitor wore something reminiscent of a Bluetooth earphone, and at first a recorded voice came out, and then it gradually changed the unfamiliar alien language back into a voice we could understand, creating an amazing phenomenon.

… … It is said that advanced science is no different from magic, but the technology of instantaneously interpreting an alien language was really absurd.

The transcendental technology that surprised us was not limited to the foreign language interpretation equipment.

“… … Yes, I am the ruler of that Legion. But who are you?”

When I asked, the visitor smiled like a benevolent grandfather, not befitting his excessive muscle mass.

“I am the one who protects the Temple of Horus, and the head of the Elder, the owner of the Dimension Workshop.”

The visitor, who was short and short, pulled out a wooden barrel of enormous size equal to his height from a bag-like object behind his back.

But the shape of that wooden barrel is really… … .

“Do you like beer?”

“… … .”

Ah, looking at it, the object behind the author’s back was not a bag. The barrel wasn’t even big enough to come out of the bag, and the barrel was constantly sticking out through the cracks instead of one.

So, that seems to be the kind of equipment that is directly connected to the [gate] to the warehouse where the barrels are kept, and takes out the goods.

“hahahaha, I made it using the power you sold me. Thank you for handing over such precious authority.”

“… … .”

Yes. These noblemen are the masters of the crazy technology that made bracelets studded with power and residential buildings.

Even the head of the elders and I were on eye level while talking. This is because the reinforced suit worn by the author was showing a really absurd performance, floating in the air without any sound.

That’s a very coveted item.

Shall we get one by coaxing interest?

“Are you guys the kind of nobles who really hate taking a break and prefer beer instead?”

“Ah, I know you well. You captured the demon king and protected the precious temple, so isn’t it the law to drink beer unconditionally when there is an event like this?”

I felt that these were people who were very faithful to familiar clichés.

“There are people in our clan who once lived in the dimension called Earth, and they probably created a legend. I heard that we often appear in the culture of web novels these days? Heh heh heh.”

And the feet are incredibly wide.

Yeah, there’s no reason for smoke to come out of the chimney when it’s not.

* * *

After the Demon King was really meaninglessly captured, while the legion’s jellyfish loaded up their troops and left to scavenge the Demon Realm beyond the [Gate], we enjoyed a daytime drink with a very delicious beer with the head of the Elders.

A great beer needs a good side dish, and for that side dish, our legion’s professional chefs quickly created a moderately savory menu.

The long table that the point vending machine pulled out of the system quickly turned into a drinking table. It’s beer time on the gooey slime, so this is a very refreshing experience.

“… … Beer is good.”

“hahahaha, these snacks are delicious.”

The head of the elders held a chicken wing soaked in salty seasoning in one hand and looked really satisfied.

In the distance, a man who continued to cook chicken smiled heartily.

“A very good snack. It’s obviously similar to the food sold in the Earth system, but it tastes much better. hahahaha, how can I express my gratitude to you guys for helping me and even treating me to great food?”

Soy sauce chicken is a must at a drinking party. Oh, now this is not important.

I explained the purpose of our visit to the head of the region, and he was very interested in the word sacred.

“So, you guys are looking for the sixth relic that is said to be here? Why do those who have enough power to capture that troublesome Demon King?”

“… … Well, I don’t think you need it, but this war would be more comfortable if you had it. Our goal is to defeat the Demon God, not the Demon King. And the Demon King was captured by himself.”

Yes. The demon king was taken for granted, to the extent that I doubted whether I had overestimated the Demon World too much.

If you think about it, the devil is definitely a guy who has enough ability to take out at least one of his own body if he puts his mind to it. If such a guy runs away with all his might, opens the [gate] and leaves the area, it will not be easy for us to trace it back.

However, today’s demon king threw his body into the army of the legion very coolly, like a liner who just threw the game away. If this were a game, there would be no trolls like that.

“Oh, that sounds interesting. The demon king was captured by himself? wherefore?”

When the dwarf uncle, who was good at drinking beer, tilted his head in puzzlement, the former demon king, who had been quietly dipping chicken breast in sauce and eating it, opened his mouth.

Oh, does he know how to eat chicken?

“If the mission to find the holy relic fails, the demon will kill him without hesitation and appoint another demon king. A demon god is someone who prefers to deal with things like that. The Demon God must have already taken away his authority by now.”

“… … Do you know me well?”

“Ah, I asked. They risked their lives against the Demon God and opposed the operation three times, but in the end, they said they went ahead with it. You didn’t kill me then, so you must have put up with it a lot.”

That is to say, the weak demon king, who could not stand the drip I had hit, completely lost his mentality after being under the devil with a trashy personality.

Um, is it weird that I relate to this story?

Since the behavior of the son of the demon king was clearly something that could only come from a desperate guy, I felt very strong persuasion in the words of the previous demon king.

Of course, the red-nosed dwarf uncle, who did not know the details of the underworld, had a really absurd expression.

“No, did you say the former Demon King? How can you believe that? You mean the demon king betrayed his manager? Such a person should not be spared, but should be killed immediately. Do you know how much we lost because of him? What if he plots something again?”

The dwarf uncle uttered violent words with the force of a skilled rapper freestyle. Yes, it seems that the damage here is quite severe due to the demonic invasion.

Perhaps he didn’t like the fact that we hadn’t killed the demon lord for information yet, so the headman’s face, who had been fine drinking beer by the barrel, turned red in an instant.

“Oh, don’t worry about that. Since they have already been dragged into the tower, there is no way for the demon king to carry out his plot. The owner of the tower is really close to a god in that world. And the administrators of Earth and the rulers here have no intention of keeping the demon king alive for long. He will die soon.”

The previous demon king very calmly picked up another chicken breast and continued talking.

“Above all, the Demon King now openly curses at drinking. It’s a story about turning into a certain half-demon. Even if he doesn’t die, the temple you guard will not be in danger.”

“… … The former Demon King, can you prove that?”

“Those who have received the demon god’s power and swore allegiance cannot curse the demon god in the first place. Chief of the Elders, can you curse Horus out of your mouth?”

“… … Oh, that’s right. I understand.”

The previous demon king drank a cool beer and looked at me and said.

“Ruler, after you get all the information you need from the demon king, are you going to kill him?”

“yes.”

“… … .”

“why? Isn’t that obvious?”

Even if the devil called him regenerates and says he will take our side, anyway, that bastard is the one who destroyed the earth many times. When it’s no longer useful, of course you have to kill it.

“Persuade the ruler and administrator to kill the demon king… … .”

“Fuck me. There is no such thing as keeping him alive.”

“… … .”

“I’m gathering priest players for him. 개새끼, 지옥 대신 천국에 보내 줄 거다.”

The faces of the people sitting at the luxurious table turned pale in an instant, as if I had revealed my intention to live.

Little Jiwoo, who sat quite far away, was startled by the flesh I exuded and wondered if the chicken had gotten stuck in her throat.

“after… … former demon king. You don’t want to interfere in our affairs.”

After I emptied my glass of beer, I looked up at the Pandemonium territory around the temple where a fierce battle was taking place.

[Gates] were disappearing one by one in the territories that had been occupied by the Legion, and now the view of the sky was wide open. In addition, seeing that the wavelength is different, it seems that the disasters that have been hatched in advance have also begun to be active.

“The head of the Elders. Do you know the location of the holy relic?”

The dwarf man made a bewildered expression, then suddenly came to his senses at my question and nodded.

“Guardians of our temple from the demon realm, the originally hidden temple should not be revealed to anyone, but you are well qualified to have the sixth holy relic.”

I nodded.

“Where’s that damn thing?”

Then the head of the elder tribe smiled meaningfully.

“But, even if you know the location, it won’t be easy to get. You will need to prepare your troops in advance.”

* * *

“There is a temple here. It is the very temple in question that houses the holy relics given to it by a demon in the past.”

“… … Anything?”

The place the head of the Elders guided us to was a gravel desert terrain with nothing.

There were no buildings that could be thought of as temples, nor even mountains of scale, just a wasteland littered with the corpses of demons.

Where the hell is the temple?

As I looked at it with a puzzled expression, the head of the Elder tribe immediately called in the technicians of the tribe and started working on something.

“The temple is now completely hidden from the world. When we release its power, it will reappear in the world.”

What he said was true.

After the Mechanic Dwarves installed a lot of complicated devices around them and started operating them, a temple was revealed in the empty land where nothing existed.

It was a temple in the form of a stepped pyramid with a sky-high height, but like the [Demon King] I saw, it had a lot of turrets packed so tightly that it was hard to find any gaps, so it looked very menacing.

Oh my gosh, it’s such a great technique that the entire building is invisible, isn’t it?

“… … This time the building is cloaked.”

“hahahaha, this isn’t a simple stealth or such a trivial skill. It is a state of isolation between the world and the gap between the world for a while by properly using the power of authority and technology.”

“… … .”

It’s bigger than you think.

Somehow, there was a reason why the Demon King would never find the holy relic. No, even if I knew this, there would have been virtually no way to find it.

In order to find such a hidden temple, the help of the elder technicians is absolutely necessary, but since he was very excited about attacking this race, there is no way he will help you find the temple.

By the way, I can feel the momentum of the turrets immediately gathering energy and operating. Is this a normal reaction?

“The ruler of the legion. To bring the holy relics from that temple.”

The head of the elder clan calmly opened his mouth.

“We have to defeat all the people Horus left behind and destroy the core of that temple to neutralize it. The relic will be behind that core.”

The moment he finished speaking, additional strange buildings appeared from the ground around the temple, and skinny, skinny people broke through the floor and began to rise.

“… … What are those dead and rolled babies?”

“They were once an elite army that directly served Horus, and now they remain as an immortal army and guard the hidden temple.”

Wow, I might not have been able to eat this even if I told the demon king to take it.

The identity of those who guarded the temple was a legion of dead corpses exuding incredibly strong momentum.

That legion of corpses was on a different level from the people of the [Necromancer] I met on the continent of the goddesses in the past, and I felt that each and every one of them was endowed with powerful powers.

“There is a sixth relic in the hidden temple, Necropolis. It won’t be easy even for you to get that relic. Oh, we won’t help. There’s no problem handing it over to someone you think deserves it, but it’s difficult to help yourself… … ruler?”

The head of the Elder tribe, who was speaking with a serious expression, turned his head and stopped talking.

“ruler? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”

Looking at the temple and the army of immortals rising there, I was smiling brightly for the first time in a long time.

“Oh, there’s an undead spider over there that looks incredibly strong.”

“… … Well? What’s the use of that ancient spider’s corpse, so you smile so brightly? Because they belong to Horus, they cannot be commanded by other rulers.”

“Ah, there are all kinds of ways to bequeath it.”

Head of the Mechanic Dwarves. You may not know, but I actually prefer thick cash-like things like that to holy relics.

ha ha ha.

What windfall is this?

【It’s a good gene. Gather.]

All the Legion forces began to gather towards the temple.

【Destroy the temple.】