058. Master of Calamity (1)

[Those who want the position of the demon king must enter the test.]

When the demon king of the time failed in his mission and was captured by the enemy, the demon god’s declaration that he needed someone to become his new limb resonated throughout the world.

[The seat of the demon king will return to the strongest.]

When the Demon God announced that he would elect a new demon king and summoned the lords, high-ranking demons who aspired to the position of demon king flocked to the [Demon King Castle], creating a sea of people.

They will have a massive internal fight ahead of the promotion of the demon king, and the strongest demon tribe that survived until the end will sit in the seat of the new demon king.

Of course, there were also strange demons who did not have any meaning in the position of demon king.

“Assholes, what would you do as a demon king in this situation… … .”

At a bar in the capital building, a high-ranking demon spat out a harsh curse. The vassal who heard his swear words was startled and looked around and spoke. Fortunately, there was no one in this bar except the owner who guarded the bar alone.

“Master, there are many powerful high-ranking demons here. You must be careful with your words.”

However, there was no sign that this high-ranking demon’s vitriol would stop here.

“The demon has descended as an incarnation. In this situation where the entire demon realm is in crisis, no matter what you do, you have no choice but to suit his taste. Becoming the demon king now is the way to give up eternal life and live a short life. They are stupid children.”

“My lord, is it a crisis? As always, we will win the war.”

The high-ranking demon raised his head crookedly and glared at his vassal.

“Do you think you can win this war?”

“… … Lord, we are members of the great Pandemonium that rules this world. To speak of defeat is to directly go against the will of the Demon God.”

“You are wrong.”

The high-ranking demon shook his head after drinking heavily.

“We will lose this war.”

“… … Lord!”

“Lower your voice.”

The vassal’s embarrassed cry echoed loudly in the empty bar.

When the bar owner who was washing the dishes looked at him with a puzzled expression, the high-ranking demon threw a large coin while waving his hand to mean that it was no big deal.

“Don’t you know too well? Things have already turned a lot. I will not participate in the promotion of the demon king.”

“… … Lord, when this war is over, you will have no chance to become a demon king. Your lord is more qualified than anyone else to become the Demon King. There is no demon in the world that can ignore your lineage and power.”

“Stop adding useless rhetoric. My becoming the Demon King is also a story that can only be established by winning this war.”

“… … .”

As he said, the demon world was truly in crisis.

The Pandemonium, which had lived as a conqueror of a dimension for a long time, was under a massive attack for the first time ever by the ugly people called the legion and the manager of the dimension territory that cooperated with them.

“The frontier warlords have all turned their backs. In addition, because of the attack on Horus’ temple, all the ancient tribes that secretly traded with us are hostile to us. Even with their help, the devil turned them all into enemies.”

Hundreds of territories have already been occupied by those hideous creatures. In the meantime, the generals who had a strong tendency to oppose the will of the demons rebelled and scattered, and the border territories were even attacked by a catastrophe.

In the midst of this chaos, a very shocking incident occurred at the same time, in which the demon king of the time was captured by the enemy.

“Do you know why the ‘Great Demon King’ is obsessed with sacred objects?”

“… … My lord, that title is forbidden by the demons.”

“Damn it. He’s just a dimension manager who doesn’t know the subject and intervenes excessively. What kind of god is that?”

“Lord. If you do it wrong, your neck will run away. Please think of your family.”

The mouth of the high-ranking demon was really unstoppable. Interest had a good reason.

“As long as my family has the ‘Second Holy Relic’, the Great Demon King can’t touch me carelessly.”

“… … Lord! I’m afraid that someone will listen. Please pay attention to your words and actions… … .”

“There is no one around here except the bar owner.”

“Isn’t the author already listening?”

“The dead are by nature silent.”

As he finished speaking, there was a loud sound of someone falling to the floor.

“No one listens to me anymore.”

“… … .”

“Anyway, what do you think the current actions of the Great Demon King mean?”

The vassal swallowed his saliva.

“that… … Isn’t it because the enemies also have two holy relics?”

“Wrong again. If you keep doing this, you don’t deserve to be a vassal. Think about it and live.”

The high-ranking demon adorned with various jewels and filled an extravagant cup with alcohol.

“Using the power of the holy object, they want to summon a more powerful being above the administrator.”

“… … Could it be ‘that existence’?”

“You still don’t know me. When have you ever seen me talk nonsense?”

The full glass was emptied in an instant, and the high-ranking demon looked at the pale-faced vassal with a fishy smile.

“If only three relics are in the hands of the Great Demon King, the offspring will break the seal and bring ‘that existence’ back into the world.”

“… … If he ever comes back, everything will really be ruined.”

When the high-ranking demons rose from their seats, the space in front of them cracked and a door leading to another dimension appeared.

“Branch. Now it’s time to go meet the ruler of the Legion. He will give me an answer.”

“Master, are you really going to meet him?”

The high-ranking demon spoke calmly as he walked through the door through which Nemesis’ turbid air spewed out like a storm.

“I bet on the odds of winning.”

The one who could open the door to the heart of the corps at once in the faraway [Demon Castle], this high-ranking demon was really not an ordinary person.

“My lord… … ”

The vassal ran after him in a hurry.

A few days later, a new demon king was born after a fierce promotion in the demon realm.

[The new demon king will lead the war to victory.]

* * *

Instead of going back to Nemesis, I made a plan to find their origin based on the information I read from the ruling object of the disaster after I sent the information.

“Let’s go to the hometown of disaster for now.”

Originally, I was in a situation where I had postponed research on the roots of the corps and the use of calamity. It was judged that such research could be done after the war.

However, I discovered an amazing fact that there is a means to dramatically increase the power of the Legion at the origin of the disaster.

This was something that had to be done even if everything was postponed unconditionally.

“… … Ruler, the coordinates you gave me are in another cluster of stars.”

“A bunch of stars?”

“Usually, human scholars refer to it as a ‘galaxy’. Management systems usually mark it as a cluster of stars.”

“So?”

But there was one problem. [Gate] The manager who should have shuttled me, what the hell was he doing after he took the demon king, he still had no intention of returning.

He did not receive any contact through the apostle, and even though I went to sleep for a while, I did not meet him.

So I had no choice but to ask Jeong Seong-cheol, a high-ranking apostle with the most powerful divine power after the manager, to open the [gate], but the apostle’s expression when he heard the coordinates was not very good.

“… … My ability is not enough to open the road there.”

So, it was said that the destination was too far to go by opening [gates] in succession using divine power.

“Can’t you just drink a potion to restore your strength?”

“… … Are you familiar with the side effects of that potion? If you drink too much of it in a short amount of time, your hair will fall out.”

“That’s right, Kang Han also took medicine recklessly and ended up like that, so I know it well. To be honest, I was a bit surprised to see hair loss following me even though I went back in time.”

“… … In addition to hair loss, if severe, you may become a man with your head down. As you can see, I drank quite a few potions of stamina to defend the hive. If I drink more here, it’s honestly dangerous for me too.”

Embarrassingly enough, putting too much divine power into the body with artificial potions resulted in the deterioration of physical abilities.

It is absolutely not easy to use the original divine power as a human body. Accepting that power itself puts a strain on the body in the first place, and if you don’t grow the bowl through training, you have no choice but to suffer from various side effects.

The problem is that the side effects are so… … .

Players who forcibly injected divine power into their bodies using potions suffered from various side effects in the process of reversing time, as the excessively accumulated divine power was accumulated again as much as they had eaten.

In the next episode, it was common for him to become a man with his head down or have to cover his head with a hat.

“Because it’s me, I survived the potion in the last battle. But now it’s slowly reaching its limits. Because of the excessive use of new strength, there are signs that the body will take a load. Lord, I am still unmarried. You don’t know if your hair falls out, but if you lower your head, the meaning of life… … .”

Anything made by the manager is like that.

Like the idiot-like authority that says life is three or three times, and the potion with such severe side effects, nothing the old man touched was flawless.

“Apostle.”

“Yes.”

“Is there any use in raising your head?”

“… … .”

Apostle Jeong Seong-cheol made an expression that the whole world had collapsed.

“Anyway, that’s not the point. First of all, didn’t you agree to cooperate with me in whatever I do? Elder Woojae is absent, so you have to work instead of him, right? If you don’t cooperate, the troops will be removed from the occupied area. The same goes for Limen.”

“… … .”

True to my word, the Legion was making a lot of sacrifices for the players of humanity.

When battles broke out, it was the corps that fought at the forefront to prevent players from getting hurt, and it was the corps that guarded the occupied areas where mankind’s new stronghold was built.

The queens of the colony left there were still struggling to the death against the occasional raids of demons.

If I withdraw my hand here, it’s not the Legion that’s at risk, it’s humanity.

“So far, billions of Legion troops have been beaten to death by the demons. I make no sacrifices. They don’t know that they are also living, right?”

“… … Ruler.”

“I’m losing billions of troops while working for humanity, and you’re saying that the apostle won’t cooperate with me for fear of bowing your head.”

“… … .”

If there’s no manager, you’ll have to act as his substitute, as assigned. If you don’t want to do that, find the lost manager and bring him in front of me?

Of course, I didn’t say these thoughts myself. Instead, he persuaded the apostle by applying a little ‘nitrogen packing’ that Kang Jin-hyeok liked to use.

“It is an opportunity for many of humanity to benefit from the sacrifice of one person. Now, only you can do it.”

“… … All right.”

In this way, the fear of ‘hair loss and impotence’ was well packaged as ‘sacrifice for humanity’ and succeeded in persuading the apostle.

Thanks to this, Sado became a shuttle who took medicine like crazy and opened the [Gate], leaving worries about side effects behind.

[I can’t do it anymore. I need to get some rest.]

【Your destination is close. Please give me a little more strength. Your sacrifice is the way to save mankind!]

[…] … .]

Thanks to this, we succeeded in escaping the group of stars at a speed as if we were traveling on an open highway, albeit a bit slower than the manager’s high pass.

“To be honest, I had no intention of forcing you to do it if you didn’t want to.”

“… … Isn’t that the same as being forced to do it?”

“Well, it’s because that nobleman has thin ears.”

“… … .”

Upon learning the whole story, Kang Jin-hyeok shook his head.

And finally, they arrived at an area where there were piles of huge chunks of flesh that reminded them of those who had attacked Nemesis in the past. There was an important clue to strengthen the Legion’s power.

“Now, let’s go see the ruler of the primeval disaster.”