The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 427

Chapter 427

If I can’t fulfill my mission, one day my son will inherit it and complete the extinction of mankind. The feeling of despair and betrayal when they hit me on the back and broke off the fallen horn was indescribable.

Still, I couldn’t kill my mother, but my son broke my horn and kicked me out of the Dark Land.

The demon king, whose horns were broken, lost all power. I could no longer rule the demons and they did not follow me.

It was only later that I realized that kicking me out of the Dark Land was the last consideration my son had for his mother. If I had stayed in the Dark Land, the demons who had escaped from my control would have tried to kill me.

All power, magical power, and knowledge have become incapable of being used.

The pain of having your horns broken by demons is worse than death. For a while, I suffered for a very long time from the pain I felt at the site of the missing horn.

Would I have come to my senses and realized my mistake… … .

I was just angry and embarrassed.

It was sad.

I shuddered with anger at the thought that everything I had built up over a long time had been lost and that everything had been ruined by my son’s hand in the end, even though I only had to take a few more steps.

I couldn’t die like that.

too upset

so sad

I’m so sorry

I didn’t want to admit that it was all over.

I couldn’t figure out how, but I wanted revenge. He tried to fulfill his unfinished mission by confidently regaining the throne from his son who had brought such disgrace to his mother.

I’ve been looking for a way for demons who have lost their horns to build up their strength.

Since I have to build up my strength while living for a long time, I became aware of the need to become immortal and became a vampire. I tried to become strong again by becoming a vampire and accumulating the power of other beings within me.

Crossing the Dark Land and the human land, he took the blood of many powerful demons, strong beasts, and strong humans, and sometimes fought for his life, seeking the blood of the strong.

Rumor has it that there are people who have reached the extreme of vampire power in a remote place in the far north.

Even after that, I took the blood of countless beings.

Cat and eat and eat and eat whatever they come across.

I ate something for a very long time, so much so that I believed that the corpses of countless beings piled up would form mountain peaks and the blood I sucked would flow as a river.

At some point, I had no choice but to become the family head of Hwayo.

The previous head of the family, who had abandoned the world because he was tired of living, handed over the position of the head of the household to me and said that.

Isn’t it time to stop killing for the sake of killing?

Even if I drink all the blood in the world, my thirst will not be satisfied.

Think about whether you really want what you want. He said that and closed his eyes.

It was something I had never thought of.

For a very long time. It was only then that I realized that I had never thought about it.

At some point, I became an introverted being who kills to kill, drinks to drink, and tries to become strong to become strong.

He vaguely wanders the world in search of strong blood, but the original vengeance and purpose he was trying to achieve through that blood have disappeared under the fading of time.

It’s still not enough.

It’s still not enough to face the Demon King.

He said he was still far from reclaiming the throne.

As you build up your slaughter to become stronger and stronger, the throne of the Dark Lands has already changed.

The son who broke my horn and drove me out died a long time ago, and only then did I know that my daughter would become the next demon king.

Before I knew it, I became an aimless vampire and was just an immortal man wandering the continent in search of blood.

Why does the throne of the demon realm have to be mine again?

Why should mankind be exterminated?

why did i want that

Everything has been lost.

In the time of obsessing over strength and craving blood, I became a crazy vampire with only the craving for blood left.

I realized too late that my vague vengeance and longing for the throne had already passed away.

The power from the mountains of corpses and rivers of blood was within me, but I realized too late that there was nothing I wanted to do with it.

Even if many tyrants sacrifice their people for misbehavior, I will not kill them with my own hands.

As a tyrant, I sacrificed countless demons, and after becoming a vampire, I piled up a mountain of corpses with my own hands.

There will be no one in the world who has killed more than me.

It was not atonement, but it had lost its meaning, so I no longer took part in the slaughter.

After wandering the world to find blood, I fell into futility and wandered the world again.

I lost my purpose and there was no wind, so I moved to the place where my feet touched, like a wind that had lost its place.

Sometimes in the Dark Land, sometimes in the land of humans.

It was the first time I saw beings alive, even though they have been living for a very long time.

To me, who was a demon king, demons were tools and humans were enemies.

To me who became a vampire, all beings were just ingredients for strength.

Only after I lost all cravings was it possible for me to look at the beings living in the world aimlessly.

how humans live.

How demons live.

I watched them without any purpose or reason because they were right in front of my eyes.

Even though I traveled through many lands and drank the blood of many beings, I felt like I was seeing the many sights I had seen for the first time.

One day I climbed mountain ranges, one day I walked through snowfields, and one day I saw countless ways and aspects of existence as I passed through deserts, straits, and jungles.

Looking at the scenery of life where everyone seems to be similar and lives differently.

I couldn’t help but know how much I had sinned and how many lives I had destroyed.

We have destroyed and destroyed countless lives and foundations while packing all the things that could have been more beautiful as they are in the sack of unfulfilled longing.

I am a sinner who learned too late to love things.

A very ugly and cowardly vampire who realizes that things are worth loving only after all the qualifications to love and cherish are gone.

So I thought.

At least the day will not come when the mountain of sins we have built up will be so large that we will cover it with goodness.

at least… … .

Let’s not accumulate any more sins.

It was as if it was still a vague life.

He no longer sucks blood, but wanders vaguely around the world, watching over something and trying to help someone as much as he can. But be careful not to be overly presumptuous.

Because I don’t have the qualifications to build good.

It was the best I could do to give someone a degree of sympathy that is hard to call a very small good.

It was just a time of such indifference and contemplation.

I heard such a story one day in the days of living a long, long, long time while spending such a vague time.

The war between the Dark Land and mankind is at hand.

I’ve been confused for a long time.

I certainly didn’t think I would have a role as a forgotten Demon Lord and an old vampire in a war in which so many people were forced to die.

but.

There was at least a sense of duty.

As the Demon King who once made the Dark Land sick with his tyranny.

As a demon king who hated humans who wanted the end of mankind.

It’s a very old root, but as an existence called Archdemon.

I couldn’t play a big role in that war, but I felt a certain sense of duty that I had to do as much as watch it.

It cannot be said that there was no bond with the blood of the Archdemon, which would have been diluted and disappeared.

Even if I couldn’t help as much as possible, I thought it was my job to do at least slightly hold the hand of a distant descendant.

So I found Valier and joined him.

I hoped the war would end without too much bloodshed. No matter who wins, blood is only shed, so I thought that the only good thing about war is that it ends quickly.

As I thought, I was assigned a role that was not particularly special, and I was watching the development of the war from a distance, far from the war.

and… … . towards the end of the war.

One day the war has already ended in a distant place.

A boy came through the door of my shop.

When I found out that the boy was low.

I am… … .

I had an intuition that there was a certain fate given to me.

* * *

After a long talk, Elleris looks at me.

In a place where the Demon King would never appear, Ellerith faced me.

What was Elerith thinking at that moment that day?

When the demon king of Dark Land, who tried to play no role but fell into his arms, his distant and last descendant came into his arms.

Ellerith must have felt a strong sense of fate that she could not remain a bystander on the fringe of the incident.

“The story after that… … . As you know.”

Elerith is an ancient demon lord long forgotten.

Even if Vali had known that Elerith was a Lord Vampire, he would not have known that he was an ancient demon lord.

All of Ellerith’s actions so far now make sense.

Did the actions and gazes that show me the same attitude as my mother whenever she treats me actually stemmed from that mindset?

The predecessor Balie must have already occupied the absolute position as the demon king.

However, everything I did was clumsy, I lost my memory, and I didn’t even have proper abilities, so Elleris would have no choice but to worry about what I did and worry about getting hurt or dying.

Elerith, who would have been a tyrant, could not have been a proper parent.

So when he treated me, he might have tried to give me something similar to affection that he couldn’t do to his child at the time.

When I was curious about Ellerith’s identity, I thought that she might be something like my mother, but it turned out that she was a similar being.

An Archdemon who became a vampire.

That was the true face of Elleris.

All of the powers of the Archdemon have been lost, but the root is the Archdemon.

That’s why he stood on the side of the demon king to watch the end or victory of the demon realm established by Archdemon.

“This is something I’ve been curious about for a long time.”

“Yes lower.”

Now that I know Ellerith is my ancestor, I wonder if I should call her something else. Elleris still calls me low, so it seemed like there was no need to sort things out.

“Doesn’t Elerith have a husband then?”

“ah.”

I’ve been curious about this for a long time, but now I’m asking.

“Rather than that, there are so few Archdemons, so how is the maintenance of the alternative species going?”

At this point, I am the only Archdemon. To put it broadly, it would include Elerith and Charlotte, but to be honest, I am the only pure-blooded Archdemon.

Did Ellerith marry another Archdemon?

Did the number decrease and decrease until it became like this?

Elleris looks at me as if she asked me that.

“Archdemons are all races and their… … . hmm… … .”

“I understand what you mean. I can do no more.”

“yes… … . Of course, I don’t have information on how far from where it is possible, but… … . universally… … . And it’s very difficult to see descendants of Archdemon… … .”

Seeing Eleris evasive, he knew what he meant.

Archdemon is that.

The one who can do anything.

uh… … .

Looks like something like that.

I don’t know why, but… … .

It’s not clear from where to where.

It’s so scary.

I’m just scared!

We’d better not even know who Eleris’ husband was!

So, no matter who I like, I think it’s something that Ellerith and the other guys haven’t said much about until now… … .

“That’s why the blood of the Archdemon gradually fades as generations pass.”

Now I understand why my ability to control demons is so poor.

We walk down to the basement of the demon castle.

“When I heard that you were trying to prevent a great tragedy from happening in the future… … . Presumptuously, I wonder if atonement is possible. I even thought of that.”

I told all my secrets only to Elerith.

He said that a Gate incident would happen in the future and that it would be a great tragedy for all beings in the world, and that he wanted to prevent it.

Wasn’t that why he was involved in finding Akasha?

“Of course, nothing can remove the mountains of sins I have accumulated, but… … . If such a thing is possible, if we can add a little help to prevent that future tragedy. Wouldn’t it be possible to relieve even a little bit of the weight of the slaughter and sins accumulated by me… … . I dared to think so… … .”

Ellerith wants atonement, but she knows that it is a luxury and an ugly thing to wish for.

Nonetheless, Elleris is willing to cooperate for him if helping me can alleviate some of his guilt.

If it was a war, I would have been afraid to take anyone’s side, but this is to save everyone.

That’s why Elerith wants me to be sincere and helps me again.

“Lowering… … .”

“uh.”

“No matter what happens, I am glad to see you. It’s my luck and your luck that you came to find me after wandering through the ecliptic full of humans… … . I believe so.”

May we be each other’s luck that we met.

Elleris believed and hoped so, so I continued to go down the stairs while helping Ellerith.

“Maybe it wasn’t luck that we met.”

“… … .”

I put more strength on the arm supporting Elerith.

This whole story started when Ellerith and I met in the shop of the ecliptic.

If I hadn’t met Ellerith, I might have lived as a beggar while wandering on some street in the ecliptic, or I might have been caught and hung up on as a demon.

If I hadn’t met Ellerith, I wouldn’t have entered the Temple and none of this would have even begun.

Could the meeting between Elleris and I be lucky for each other?

Can I remember it like that?

I do not know.

Even so.

“I’m confident I won’t regret it even if it wasn’t luck.”

I won’t regret any of this.

“… … .”

My words brought tears to Elerith’s eyes.

* * *

We were able to reach the underground bunker in the castle soon.

It was certain that we arrived ahead of Antirianus and Acrich.

Ellerith was now energized to see how much she had recovered.

“If breaking through the Quantum Maze and getting here are the same way, would they be able to break through the labyrinth and come all the way here?”

“I don’t know that much.”

I don’t know if only Archdemon can reach here.

The important thing is that after me and Charlotte, Elleris can also enter this place. Since Charlotte with a half-soul can come here, it is certain that Archdemon who became a vampire can also enter this place.

Ellerith and I headed to the library.

Lothar Dewyn coveted the magic book that Charlotte had airlifted here, committed a murder case in the imperial palace, and headed for the lich’s grave.

So, since Antirianus betrayed them, they would soon find a way to reach this place.

Before that, you must either retrieve the magic book or burn it.

“A little… … . It’s a shame to burn it, but… … .”

“It’s a pity that I can’t retrieve it because I’m a wizard too… … . You never know what will happen when Akasha is completed… … .”

Ellerith and I stood in front of the library and sighed.

“It might be right to burn it because it’s dangerous to have something like the magic that Archrich used here.”

“If you think about it that way, yes… … .”

I knew that magic was powerful, but I felt dizzy just thinking about what would have happened if the meteor had hit the earth.

Of course, Harriet, who blocked it, did something even more absurd.

Magic itself is dangerous, and it’s better that there is no such level of magic in the world.

A magic book like that might be sleeping somewhere in this library, so it might be better to burn it than to secure it.

While looking at the library for a while, the title of a certain book caught my eye.

[Understanding the operation structure of a meteor group through astronomical observation and understanding the opening of a dimensional gate through trajectory calculation] It

was a very thick book with a fairly long title.

what is it

this one

I don’t know, but is it my imagination that I feel that this magic and the context are a bit similar?

I took out the thick book and picked it up.

“Down here… … .”

Ellerith also took out a book from somewhere to see if she had found something.

That was written on the book Elerys was holding.

[Understanding the movement structure of meteors through astronomical observations and understanding the opening of dimension gates through trajectory calculation]

Eleris was also staring blankly at the magic book I was holding.

“It seems to be the same book… … .”

“… … I know.”

We picked up exactly the same book from completely different shelves.

A strange goose bump ran down his spine.

Charlotte had stolen many of the magic books here a while ago, and Lothar saw the piles of books scattered around Dewyn’s house.

I clearly saw that the scale was unusual.

So, at least one or two bookshelves here should be empty.

“why… … . The bookshelf is full… … .”

but.

Every bookshelf that came into my sight was filled without the slightest gap.

* * *

The experiences of the past passed through my head.

The same book in the hands of Ellerith and me. It is probably a spellbook related to meteor summoning.

When I first discovered this bunker with Charlotte and Tana. I was trying to find out if there was any magic in this library that could improve Charlotte’s condition. For example, I wonder if there is any magic that deals with the soul.

I was able to find a book on psychics right away.

The second time I came here with Elerith Lucinil, I was looking for another version of the Sorcery to show Lucinil.

I immediately looked for the Asmodian version of the Sorcery of Souls.

And Ellerith immediately found the magic book called Quantum Maze, saying that the magic book that designed this labyrinth would be here.

And now.

I tried to find a spellbook similar to summoning a meteor and found it right away.

this archive.

There are so many magical magic.

strangely enough.

if.

no way.

I am.

Could it be that I’ve been mistaken all this time?

Ellerith and I were staring blankly at each other.

I turn my gaze to one of the bookshelves in the library.

Maybe there’s something like a magic book about fireball?

When I turned my gaze to another place, a book stuck there caught my eye.

[Understanding and application of fire-type basic destruction magic – Fireball] Although

relatively thin compared to other magic books, there was a magic book about fireballs.

“The books on this bookshelf are changing in real time.”

“yes… … . clearly… … .”

If I try to find a certain magic book, that magic book is stuck on the bookshelf at some point.

That’s why I was able to find it right away without wasting time.

Ellerith and I both turned white.

I’ve never wished for it until now.

It will be in the hands of others.

I thought so, so I didn’t wonder. I didn’t think there would be information about him here.

but.

i want to know now

No, this bookshelf will tell you.

What is Akasha? Is there a magic book that describes Akasha?

turn your gaze once more

But there were no books that caught my eye.

Is there any data about what Akasha is?

No, is the keyword wrong?

Could there be other books as well as magic books?

Because anything else is fine.

Records about Akasha. It doesn’t have to be a book about magic, so something.

do you have

When I looked again, there was a book that caught my eye.

A notebook-like item decorated with red leather caught my eye.

I took out a book, but there was no title.

I opened the book.

When I saw the first page, I couldn’t help but catch my breath.

[Son. Never use Akasha for destruction.]

That one sentence.

Not a lot of complicated theories and explanations, but that sentence explained everything to me.

“Elleris… … .”

“yes… … . Lowering.”

I was looking for Akasha, not knowing that Akasha was already in my grasp.

Akasha is an artifact.

And, of course, I thought that artifacts were things.

not a thing

“I guess… … . This bookshelf here isn’t… … . Not just bookshelves… … .”

I browse the library.

“This space… … . By itself… … . Being Akasha… … . same… … .”

Akasha was space.