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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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Yuma stood before the Great Demon King Lilith.
“I got the imprint. Now I’m planning to go kill Berzet.”
Lilith nodded at Yuma’s words.
“Understood. If we let another day or two pass, the chances of them noticing this occupation will only increase, so you should leave right after the sun rises.”
Yuma nodded.
“Understood.”
Yuma opened the door to the house where Selene was staying again.
Creak—
Selene was sitting in her chair, just like when he first saw her.
And before Selene, he noticed Bell chattering away.
“Sister, sister, let’s definitely find a way to go down to the middle world later!”
“Yes, sure.”
Selene smiled awkwardly as she watched Bell speak so energetically.
Bell and Selene continued chatting for a while longer before falling asleep.
Yuma also fell into a light sleep at some distance beside the two.
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“How boring.”
A purple toad.
A demon who closely resembled a toad in both facial features and body shape opened his mouth wide and let out a long yawn.
Berzet, the master of all blessings, was sitting on his throne.
Berzet felt boredom again.
It was because of this terrible boredom that the family conquest had started.
And the family that was hunted as part of that family conquest 350 years ago was the Seal Clan.
Should I devour another family again?
Berzet was seriously considering that thought.
There had been many times when he wanted to escape this long tedium.
He had only been watching the reactions of other Great Demon Kings.
If he acted too wildly, two or more Great Demon Kings might form an alliance and come to annihilate him.
‘Not that those guys would ever show such a friendly attitude.’
Berzet felt the front of the palace becoming very noisy.
And someone walked in hurriedly.
It was his right-hand man, Advisor Algeanus.
The blue-skinned demonic race, Algeanus, urgently approached Berzet.
“Lord Berzet—!”
It was a very urgent cry.
“What’s the matter?”
Algeanus opened his mouth without taking a moment to catch his breath.
“Lilith. Great Demon King Lilith is leading troops toward this place, the Blood Realm Castle, they say.”
Berzet’s brows furrowed deeply.
“Lilith. Is that the Master of All Fire Demons Lilith I know?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Why would she suddenly…”
Anger and bewilderment stirred in Berzet’s mind.
Berzet traced the reasons why Lilith would target him.
‘The Great Demon King species is quite rational.’
To take revenge for a war fought more than 1,500 years ago?
Was Lilith such an irrational being who would risk her position as a Great Demon King for such a personal revenge?
Berzet shook his head.
In the first place, the being who had first proposed to end the ongoing war was Great Demon King Lilith.
‘Rather, openly marching like this…’
It seemed far from making a reckless advance while risking the position of a Great Demon King.
‘That means she has confidence in destroying me… and this Blood Realm Castle.’
Though he couldn’t even guess what it was, the fact that she was directly invading this Blood Realm Castle instead of mountains or plains commonly used as battlefields in the demon world meant that she must have a clear power to kill him.
‘What on earth have you prepared, have you formed an alliance with another Great Demon King?’
The face that closely resembled a purple toad wrinkled severely.
The golden pupils trembled subtly.
Another being approached Berzet’s side.
It was Berzet’s left-hand man and general, Rohit of the Marang tribe.
The wolf spoke to the toad.
“The observation post has identified the being at the very front of the enemies who are marching.”
Who was at the front of the forces marching toward the Blood Realm Castle?
Berzet swallowed hard and waited for Rohit’s next words.
“It’s a human.”
Rohit’s words pierced Berzet’s ears.
The already deeply furrowed brow of Berzet deepened even further.
“A… human?”
Berzet’s golden eyes on both sides stared at Rohit.
It was a tone that contained the question of whether he had heard correctly.
Rohit bowed his wolf head under Berzet’s angry gaze.
“Yes, it’s definitely a human. I’m certain because the human even used a voice amplification artifact to declare war on the Blood Realm Castle.”
The more Rohit spoke, the more it felt like a tasteless joke to Berzet.
“…Declaring war with an amplification artifact? A mere human? That inferior life form that at most is said to be equal in power to a 1st rank demon?”
Rohit gulped at the dark red energy swirling behind Berzet’s back.
Berzet was now angry.
At the fact that a mere human, whose species could reach no higher than a mere ‘Grand Master,’ dared to covet this land, the Blood Realm Castle, where he existed.
Despite Berzet’s cold gaze, Rohit resolutely opened his mouth again.
He thought it was information that his lord absolutely needed to hear.
“I gathered information about the human.
A human with ash-gray hair and wall-colored eyes.
This human is the one who killed two demon kings among the demonic forces sent to the middle world under Great Demon King Kutos. It’s believed that they may have transcended the 1st rank level.”
A different light flashed in Berzet’s golden eyes.
“I see… so he killed two demon kings.”
One, despite his words suggesting he might need to think about something, the intense demonic energy swirling like a huge fire around his thick body showed no signs of subsiding.
‘I thought she might have acquired a plausible force, but a human?’
It wasn’t an alliance with other Great Demon Kings.
It wasn’t a massive coalition with dozens of demon kings.
Just a human who killed two demon kings?
“So after killing just two of those common demon kings, you’re certain you can kill this Berzet?”
Berzet flicked his huge dark red tongue.
Berzet’s eyes continued to stare at Rohit.
“So, what was the content of the declaration of war that this human made, which you just mentioned?”
Rohit spoke with cold sweat.
“He, he said for the Great Demon King to come out and face him directly.”
Berzet stared at Rohit intensely.
“Precisely. Say everything he said without missing a single word.”
In the end, Rohit had no choice but to reveal what he had hidden to prevent Berzet’s anger from growing.
“…If you’re not too scared, he said to come out and face him directly.
He said that if he was killed, the Great Demon King Lilith and her subordinate armies behind him would not advance on the Blood Realm Castle.”
The king of all blessings, Berzet, momentarily hung his large and long tongue down and wore a blank expression.
“That human said that if he was killed, Lilith and her purgatory army would not invade the Blood Realm Castle… is that what he said? That guy?”
“Yes, that’s right. And he said that Lilith had sworn on her honor as a Great Demon King about retreating if he was killed.”
Berzet abruptly rose from his throne.
The Great Demon King Berzet, with a toad-like form larger than an ogre, strode forward.
He walked on two legs.
“The crazy woman must have gone senile. To stake her honor on a mere human.”
Berzet tried to recall if there had ever been a time in his life when he had been this angry.
‘No.’
Kwang!
With that conclusion, Berzet opened the palace door as if breaking it.
‘Just because he killed two demon kings, did she think that human has a chance of killing me?
That woman.’
Rohit hurriedly followed his lord who was stepping out toward the outside of the Blood Realm Castle.
Rohit opened his mouth again.
“He said he would wait in front of the Blood Realm Castle.”
Berzet spoke, revealing his sharp teeth.
“Make that human enter through the castle gate. I need to show that woman what happens when one sets foot in this Blood Realm Castle. So that she never does such an insolent act again.”
Berzet decided to turn the human into dozens of pieces of meat.
He planned to tear apart that human whom Lilith had brought out as her blade.
“Gather the entire army of the Blood Realm Castle behind me. I will tear apart that human who has lost his fear with my own hands. And then I will pressure Lilith with this military force.”
He had no intention of immediately clashing with Lilith.
After all, he didn’t consider a war between Great Demon Kings.
But if he let them go without any response, it was obvious what rumors would spread.
Rumors that he was someone who didn’t counterattack despite being subjected to such a pathetic gamble first.
“Understood, my lord.”
The devil-type demon Algeanus answered and then disappeared to carry out Berzet’s orders.
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Blood Realm Castle.
Yuma stared at Great Demon King Berzet’s castle.
Behind Yuma, tens of thousands of troops brought by Lilith were stretched out in a long line.
Because Yuma had made a declaration.
‘I will catch that Berzet. Just prepare to handle the remaining forces.’
That calmly uttered declaration could not be refused.
The red-haired Great Demon King, Master of All Fire Demons Lilith, looked at Yuma standing in front of her.
“Not saying anything about the Seal Clan at all and provoking Berzet’s pride with talk of my honor was quite a good choice. If you had mentioned the family, there was a risk of him doing unnecessary things.”
Yuma nodded slowly.
That was the intention behind the provocation from the beginning.
A provocation designed to make him never imagine that he was being attacked because of the Seal Clan.
At that moment, just as Yuma had just said through the amplified voice, a huge demon’s voice was heard from the direction of the Blood Realm Castle.
“-Human, if you’re so confident, come into this Blood Realm Castle. Then the Great Demon King will personally teach you a lesson.”
Yuma turned around at those words.
There stood Selene, the head of the Seal Clan, Levian.
Yuma approached Selene.
Step
Selene’s moon-colored eyes looked directly at Yuma.
Yuma slowly opened his mouth.
“Don’t worry, I’ve never failed to keep a promise yet.”
Selene smiled gently.
“Yes, take care, Yuma.”
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