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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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The smell of blood tickled the tip of his nose.
Yuma walked toward the defensive fortress, which was greatly distorted in shape.
Lilith’s subordinates had already subdued the direct descendants of Berzet, as ordered by their lord.
Sreung
Kara, a demon who would soon become the head of the Seal Clan Levian, drew his sword.
It was a sword handed to him by one of Lilith’s subordinates.
“…I have no intention of making you feel the same pain that we felt.”
Kara, with a hardened face, spoke as Zargos, the man kneeling before him, trembled visibly.
“D-dare you… do you think someone like you can kill me?”
Zargos thought of himself as a chosen being.
And that wasn’t an incorrect truth.
Being of the Demon King’s bloodline, he was indeed a chosen being in this demon realm.
The problem was that now, that halo had been properly erased.
The current sight of Zargos forced to his knees demonstrated that reality clearly.
On Zargos’s knees, a dagger that had been stabbed to prevent movement was scattering light.
Once Kara made his decision, there was no hesitation.
He drove the sword straight into Zargos’s heart.
Blood burst from Zargos’s mouth.
And so Kara ended the life of Zargos, the first son of Berzet.
The other members of the Levian family also cut off the lives of the direct bloodline of Berzet.
Yuren, the youngest among those engraved, thrust his sword into the heart of Jeimel, on whom he had carved the engraving with his own hands just days ago.
The Seal Clan Levian were clearly demons.
They had only been oppressed for a long time, but they possessed the innately combative aspects that demons are born with.
Nine screams echoed across the floor of the Blood Realm Castle.
The lives of the direct bloodline of the Demon King Berzet were all extinguished like that.
The next day.
Demon King Lilith immediately conducted the ceremony to transfer control of this place, Blood Realm Castle, to the Levian family.
Yuma confirmed with his own eyes that Lilith carried out the process.
Now, the schedule in the Demon Realm was coming to an end.
“…Here it is.”
Kara gestured respectfully toward Yuma.
Yuma looked at Selene’s grave.
After staring at the grave for a long time, Yuma slowly rose to his feet.
And he faced Lilith, who stood before him.
“I’ll come to check on your homework in 10 years.”
Demon King Lilith opened her red eyes wide. “Homework… check?”
“Yes.”
“One who claims he will check this one’s homework… I shall see no more such madmen… Understood. I shall uphold the alliance properly.”
Yuma nodded.
“Right, let’s make sure we don’t have to blush when we meet again later.”
Let’s do well.
At Yuma’s words, Lilith said with a smiling face.
“Indeed, I shall look forward to the day we meet again! Yuma!”
The farewell with Demon King Lilith ended like that.
Yuma looked at the bloodlines of Levian standing behind Lilith.
All nine direct descendants of Levian knelt before Yuma at once.
“We will remember the benefactor’s grace and mercy.”
At the words of Kara, who had become the new head of Levian, the remaining nine bowed their heads deeply and chanted softly in unison.
“We will remember the benefactor’s grace and mercy.”
Yuma slowly surveyed the nine awakened bloodlines of the engraved ability of Levian.
“Survive.”
At Yuma’s words, all nine responded forcefully at the same time.
“Go.”
Yuma spoke while looking at Bell, who was beside him.
Bell nodded and took out the return device that Yuma had handed over before they entered the demon realm together.
It was a navy-blue intermediate realm return device.
Since the location had been set to the Astes Empire’s Imperial Palace, all they had to do was press the button in the center.
The two pressed the button simultaneously.
Flash!
And with a burst of blue light, the two humans who had been standing in the demon realm disappeared.
Demon King Lilith exhaled a low sigh when she confirmed that Yuma and Bell were clearly gone from where they had been standing.
“The most bizarre week in this one’s life…”
For a week, two humans had stayed in the demon realm.
They had extinguished the life of one Demon King and liberated the slave family that had been ruled by that Demon King’s bloodline.
Lilith sighed and turned around.
She looked at the nine bloodlines of the Seal Clan Levian who were bowing their heads toward her.
“…Well, let us make the Seal Clan a distinguished family once more.”
At Lilith’s words, the engraved bloodlines’ eyes shone.
“Yes!”
Kara and the other eight engraved bloodlines bowed toward Selene’s grave.
Even for Selene who had sacrificed herself for this family, Levian.
They had to raise the Levian family back to being a prestigious family in the demon realm.
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The place designated for their return was clear.
Right in front of the Astes Imperial Palace, in the garden.
A blue light flashed in that garden full of flowers.
The two people who walked out of that light were Yuma and Bell.
“Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh…!!”
Former Saint Ermel and cat-tribe warrior Hestia, who were using the garden path as their morning walking route, stopped in their tracks.
Two weeks.
After nearly two weeks of not seeing Yuma, Hestia rushed out urgently.
Without thinking about Ermel’s stamina as she grabbed her left wrist, she ran wildly.
“Yuma Yuma!”
Tudadadada!
Hestia came running with her cat ears perked up.
“You’re finally back!”
Yuma nodded as he looked at Hestia, who was shouting loudly with her eyes wide open.
“Yes, I’m back.”
After answering like that, Yuma looked at the blonde former Saint Ermel.
“Is your training as a mage going well?”
“Y-yes! It’s going well! Lord Yuma!”
Ermel needlessly gave a loud answer.
Yuma looked at Hestia and said
“Welcome back! Yuma’s sword!”
Bell smiled as she saw Hestia expressing intense joy, calling herself Yuma’s sword.
“Yes, I’m back.”
“Is Cloney well?”
Hestia, who was in the middle of a reunion embrace with Bell, quickly answered Yuma’s question.
“Yes, right now Cloney is at the Red Mage Tower of the Red Mage Tower Master in the lower part of the capital. She went down for magic
training. Since a week ago.”
“I see.”
It seemed that Cloney was also contemplating a lot about becoming stronger.
Cloney would leave the Red Mage Tower and come back up to the capital when she heard that he had returned.
Yuma thought of the person he needed to see right now.
Brigitte.
First, he needed to see the Emperor of this land.
“Let’s go to the Imperial Palace together.”
At Yuma’s words, Hestia perked up her reddish ears on both sides.
“Yes, Yuma!”
Ermel, who was sticking close behind Hestia, opened her small mouth.
The two began to whisper.
Quietly enough so that Yuma, who was walking ahead, couldn’t hear.
“Um, when should we tell him about the construction that started on that temple…”
At Ermel’s words, Hestia answered with a serious expression as if she were about to undertake a great task.
“We’ve only changed the temple sign so far anyway, let’s wait until it’s decorated more properly before telling him! Surprise Yuma!”
“Yes!”
Ermel agreed enthusiastically, nodding her head vigorously.
Yuma and Bell headed to Brigitte’s office.
The secretary who was firmly holding the position of Brigitte’s aide.
Brigitte’s eyes widened when she saw Yuma.
Brigitte put down the document she was reading with a hardened face and sprang up from her chair.
“You’ve returned safely, Yuma.”
The Emperor of the Astes Empire, Brigitte, said so as she strode toward Yuma.
“Yes.”
Brigitte raised her heels while still wearing her shoes to match her height with Yuma.
Brigitte raised her slender right arm and slowly brought her hand to Yuma’s face.
Then she gently held his chin with her index finger and thumb.
She slowly moved Yuma’s face left and right.
“You’re not injured anywhere.”
After confirming that there were no wounds on Yuma’s face, Brigitte slowly lowered her hand.
Yuma twisted the corner of his mouth.
“Can you tell that just by looking at my face?”
Brigitte grinned at Yuma’s words.
Their blue eyes gazed at each other.
“So, did you get everything you needed?”
At Brigitte’s question, Yuma slowly nodded.
“Yes, I got everything. And… I need time to make what I obtained my own. Today. No, make sure no one enters my quarters until I come out.”
“Alright, understood.”
“Is Cloney at the Red Mage Tower?”
At Yuma’s question, Brigitte gave a detailed explanation.
“Yes, Cloney asked first to be put in contact with Red Mage Tower Master Eldrie. Probably because Eldrie is the highest-level mage Cloney knows of.”
And there was no need to limit it to the empire.
Even if you considered the entire human race, that was the truth.
“I’ll contact the Red Mage Tower immediately, and when she hears that news, she’ll return to the capital right away.”
“Good.”
After confirming all the parts that needed to be checked, Yuma entered his quarters in the Imperial Palace.
Yuma sat down cross-legged on the floor and took out several objects from his spatial pocket.
The items being laid out on the floor one by one were all things that people would not see in a lifetime.
[Vulcan-Dehit’s Dragon Heart].
The Red Dragon Vulcan-Dehit’s dragon heart that had been left in the place where Yuma had directly killed the Black Dragon Elcam-Acreon who had occupied it as his lair.
Consuming this dragon heart to escape from his current state of being an ordinary person.
That was the reason why Yuma had to go all the way to the demon realm.
The first condition material for consuming the dragon heart.
[Golden Rule Sprout].
An item given by the system after killing the god Incrinew.
In Loop Blood, it was an item possessed by gods belonging to the good side.
This process also led to the thought that the ‘system’ might be related to gods on the good side.
And the second condition material.
[Demon King’s Blood].
Yuma had extracted blood from the [Demon King Berzet’s Heart] and put it in a flask.
The red blood swirled in the flask.
Yuma slowly nodded.
Yuma carried out the instructions.
Drip-drip-drip
The demon king’s blood was sprinkled on the golden rule sprout placed on top of the dragon heart.
A golden radiance filled the quarters for an instant.
And in the place where all the materials had fused together.
There was a golden bead.
‘…A pill?’
It was a bead in the exact form of what was called a “cheongshimhwan” (a traditional medicine pill) in the world where Yuma had lived.
Yuma swallowed the bead.
Gulp.
Soon, his consciousness faded away.
Thud.
Yuma, who had collapsed on the floor, could only stare at the ceiling.
His vision, which had temporarily gone out like a power outage, slowly returned.
“Hah.”
Yuma exhaled a sigh of relief that his body didn’t explode or die.
“I guess something like a dragon heart wouldn’t be digested right away.”
Yuma muttered like that while stretching.
Except for feeling a bit hot, his body was fine.
All that remained was to wait a little longer.
Until the consumed dragon heart completely settled in his body.
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Puwhaak!!
The right arm of the Battle God Barbatos was piercing through something.
“Kreuuurgh… kuheck!”
It was a god.
At the end of Barbatos’s persistent chase.
The 2nd-tier god of the scholar type, God of Wisdom and Magic—Rockmenton, had been caught in Barbatos’s grasp.
“Rejoice, Rockmenton.”
The face of Rockmenton, a god resembling a giraffe, was severely distorted.
“That power you possess suits me well. I will use it well.”
“…Instead of clinging to those vile evil gods… click click!”
Rockmenton clicked his tongue.
“A curse will befall you… unvirtuous one.”
Barbatos’s red eyes gleamed as he raised the corner of his mouth in a sneer.
Barbatos’s right arm completely pierced through Rockmenton’s upper body.
Barbatos’s right arm, with bulging muscles and veins.
And in the hand at the end of that right arm, Rockmenton’s bright red heart was pulsating.
“Just die already, pathetic extinct species unworthy of being a god.”
Crack!
Rockmenton’s heart burst.
Rockmenton’s gold eyes, which had been shining brilliantly, turned pitch black.
Three bundles of light rose from Rockmenton’s corpse, sprawled on the floor of the god realm.
Barbatos picked up the brightest green orb among the light orbs.
And he swallowed it.
It was the moment when the power that Rockmenton had completed after thousands of years of research became one of Barbatos’s powers.
Barbatos swung his right arm.
Rockmenton’s flesh and blood splattered onto the floor.
Barbatos slowly raised his head.
His black hair fluttered in the wind.
Barbatos’s red eyes gazed at the sky.
“That human seems to be bothering you quite a bit, Malphas.”
Barbatos looked at Malphas, the evil god in the form of a crow who had told him about Yuma.
A giant crow was flying in the sky.
“…Yes, to be honest, that’s true, Barbatos.”
Barbatos grinned.
“Malphas, you’re a god with a fighting spirit different from this extinct species. I’ll go down to kill him soon, because I’m quite curious about what kind of person he is to make you so concerned.”
Flutter
Malphas unknowingly increased the speed of his slowly fluttering wings.
Flutter—Flap!
It was because the fighting spirit emanating from Barbatos’s entire body was so fierce it was sickening.
The Battle God looked at his own body.
“I’m worried that insect might be crushed too easily.”
Now, there was no being stronger than himself in pure power, even in this god realm.
Barbatos was certain of that.
“I hope he’ll be at least enough for entertainment.”
A pastime.
Barbatos hoped that Yuma would at least be a toy worth playing with.
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