The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 657
Chapter 657:
Marching Day.
As dawn broke, the allies had spent the day defending their garrison, and now the morning of the advance was in sight.
That’s how I met the morning in Razak.
As in the last battle, I was disguised as one of the Allied soldiers.
I will jump into the battlefield as it is and participate in the final battle as a single soldier.
However, like the last time, Harriet, Olivia, Liana, and even the Lord Vampires were all ready.
The holy knights and priests of the Holy Church, which can be said to be our total strength, are already unknowingly assigned to the Knights Templar.
That is why, as much as the all-out force of the Allied Forces is committed, we are also committing all-out efforts.
The five Lord Vampires, as well as the wizards of each family, were ready.
“I can go alone.”
“If that’s the case, why are you going?”
“… … is it.”
In fact, there is a high possibility that our strength is not needed.
So I can go alone.
However, if I were to argue like that, I couldn’t explain why I had to go, so I thought everyone would follow me in the end.
And that’s not all.
Olivia Ranze was not the only one waiting to depart while wearing the full body of a paladin’s armor.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been fighting rather than commanding.”
Ileion Boelton decided to participate in the capture of Diane as well.
No one invited me, but I asked myself.
He said that even though he was a retired commander of the Templars, who would recognize me if I was wearing a mask.
Just as Olivia disguises herself as a paladin and fights, it seems that Illion Bolton will follow suit.
Charlotte volunteered, asking if it was okay for her to fight for a day or so, but withdrew when I was serious.
Charlotte has fighting skills, but doesn’t know how to fight.
That’s why Charlotte was only there to meet her with an anxious expression.
Airi is also a succubus queen, so she has tremendous fighting power, but because of her horns, she cannot camouflage herself.
It’s not as massive as the Allies.
However, our forces are already in the Allies, so in fact most of those who can fight in Razak are heading to the battlefield.
Not a very large number.
I wonder if this is only about the total power of the demon lord.
But with only this amount of people, have I come to the verge of devouring the entire continent?
anyway.
before departure.
Now that the king has become a man, he must say something.
Not everyone participates, but everyone gathers.
Harriet.
Olivia Ranze.
Liana de Granz.
Ileion Boelton.
Elerys.
Lucinyl.
Galarsch.
Lruen.
Antirianus.
Vampires on Thursday Friday Saturday.
Charlotte de Gradias.
Airi.
Sarkegar.
“I don’t know how to say big words.”
There is only one thing I can say in front of those who can be called my strength.
“It’s what you said to live until now.”
okay.
I’ve been doing all this to survive.
“Then let’s survive.”
So there is nothing to dream of or wish for except to survive.
Not just them, but everyone who has been on my side, of course.
To everyone who is not on my side.
May there be life and survival after this.
Pray.
* * *
The final battle actually started before reaching Diane.
The seething monsters roamed far beyond the confines of the city and continued to appear.
The day of the battle is just the moment Diane reaches the distance of a day.
The final battle had already begun two days ago.
Allied forces fight their way through waves of monsters.
As always, Ellen Artorius was in the vanguard.
It slashes monsters with the hem of the void and pierces forward without hesitation while wearing the cloak of the sun god that burns all attacks.
-Wow!
-Kwoaaaaa!
The shouts of the angry soldiers and the cries of the monsters were resounding with the momentum to tear the world apart.
It is the final battlefield.
That’s why the number of giant monsters was incomparable to the previous level, and of course, the allied forces had to move forward while blocking the waves of monsters from all directions, not just breaking through the front.
In a state where there is no choice but to hit the drain by force, it is a battle of whether the annihilation of the allied forces comes first or the destruction of all of Diane’s warp gates first.
To put it very cruelly.
Even if the allied forces are annihilated here, the goal of destroying all warp gates can be achieved.
The remaining monsters in the world should be slowly exterminated.
No more monsters appearing.
Magic and fire swords and claws wither.
The venom and flame lightning pouring from the jaws of the flying monsters that fly across the sky scorch the ground.
And the magic cannons and lightning strikes fired from the ground toward the flying monsters across the sky cut them into pieces and burn them.
Something constantly dies.
both people and monsters.
We are approaching the end of all this malice.
– What about the Titans! Is the Titan still there!
-Titans will be summoned when the attack on Diane begins!
The final battleground of blood and skin splashing death was incomparably more gruesome than before.
“Huh!”
– Rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
As sparks fly around Heinrich’s eyes, the group of monsters that rushed in waves are swept away by the red flames.
Thousands of monsters burned away in an instant, and monsters that could not be killed by the flames penetrated and hacked at the soldiers.
There are monsters that are impervious to fire.
Even Heinrich was used to it.
However, he couldn’t get used to seeing monsters that he couldn’t handle, breaking through and killing people.
– Flash!
– Cuckoo!
However, Heinrich widens his eyes when he sees that the monster that has broken through the flames explodes after being hit by wild lightning from the sky.
thunderstroke.
That is obviously possible with magic.
but.
-Kurrureung
In an instant, the sky turned black, and thunderbolts began to seep through the dark clouds.
soon.
– Flash!
Heinrich had no choice but to close his eyes tightly at the blinding flash.
Dozens or hundreds in a very short moment.
no.
-Quarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Heinrich couldn’t help but stare blankly at the sight of thousands of lightning bolts sweeping the battlefield and exploding monsters.
It wasn’t the end of that once.
– Flash!
Thousands of lightning strikes per second sweep the battlefield.
This level of magic is impossible even with the highest level of magic, Thunder Storm.
A thunderstorm rains down, dyeing the battlefield in white light and erasing monsters like an eraser.
all over the battlefield.
“liana… … ?”
Naturally.
Heinrich couldn’t help but know who was here.
* * *
A lightning storm rages in the sky of dark clouds.
As if aiming a shot, I was pierced by the wave of monsters.
“are you okay?”
“I want to die because I’m depressed.”
At Harriet’s question, the dark-eyed Liana covered her mouth and vomited.
Some corner of the Allied battlefield.
Only a few people know that the heavy rain of lightning that fell across the battlefield came from Liana, who was gagging right here.
Even in a shuddering depression, Liana still focuses on her abilities.
more lightning strikes.
more lightning.
Clear the way by clearing the monsters with it.
“But it’s a problem because I think it’s over now, so I’ll feel better.”
Harriet smiles awkwardly at Liana’s joke.
Although surrounded, the forces of the allied forces are stronger than ever.
There are never many numbers, but the power of the demon king who is joining them can never be ignored.
Liana, by her very existence, can already do things far beyond what several divisions in the military can do, and so do each Lord Vampire and his clan.
It is premature to look at the situation with optimism already, but I had no choice but to see that the charter was good.
is it really over
Around that time, Harriet began to think about whether the Gate incident could end as it is, even if she was worried about Lee Da-eum.
– Flash!
“uh… … ?”
Flashes of light begin to flash all over the battlefield.
It wasn’t the light of destruction.
Destruction does not occur where the flash strikes.
It is disappearing.
Both Liana and Harriot were in a position where they could look down on the battlefield, so they could see the white light that occurred simultaneously even in the battlefield where sparks and explosions were scattered here and there.
It is not the light associated with destruction.
“Teleport… … ?”
It was clearly a flash of movement-type magic.
It is not that someone arrives through that light.
It disappears.
Someone disappears with flashes of light.
It is not ordinary soldiers who disappear.
They are soldiers wearing face armor.
Liana muttered in a daze as she looked at the unbelievable situation even after seeing it with her own eyes.
“Immortal… … . Immortals are disappearing, right?”
Harriet was also wide-eyed at the scene.
“no way… … . I hope it can’t be no way… … . No way… … .”
Harriet could only freeze in her terrifying imagination.
But the reality unfolding right in front of your eyes speaks for itself.
Immortals were withdrawing at will.
* * *
“… … Huh!”
Ludwig stopped slicing up the monster and was suddenly forced to move somewhere along with a white halo.
“what… … . what… … ?”
Apparently, he jumped into the battlefield, knocked down a giant monster in one blow, and the moment he was about to leap, Ludwig was caught up in the recall magic without knowing why.
Ludwig woke up in a familiar place.
A place to arrive as a recall if the Immortal is damaged.
Underground research wing of Temple Magic University.
Although it is a temple that cannot move in space, it is now possible to move in a limited way in the basement of the Magic University.
If the immortal is damaged, you have to come back here and go through the restoration work.
Ludwig stared blankly at the sight of huge cavities and restoration ports lined up.
Of course, even if the immortal is not destroyed, you can reverse summon the immortal as many times as you like.
– Phat! Flash!
It’s not just Ludwig.
With the flash of light, Immortal’s wizards and soldiers were being recalled at a tremendous speed.
Watching the wizards of Immortal appear to be casting Recall, Ludwig couldn’t help but know what was going on.
The Immortal is leaving the battlefield and he was also forcibly summoned by the recall magic.
Who can do something like this?
“Christina… … ?”
Ludwig gasped when he saw Christina standing still in the middle of the Immortal wizards.
In a nearby restoration pot, Anna and Louis Ankton were asleep with their backs against the wall.
It was clear that he had been forced to fall asleep.
Because the two of us can’t agree on something like this.
“Don’t panic, Ludwig. Because it was all planned.”
Looking at Ludwig, who has lost his senses, Christina says with a firm expression.
“Christina? what now… … . what are you trying to do… … ?”
Ludwig could not accept this situation.
It’s the last fight.
It’s a step.
However, leaving the last step, the most important force, the Immortals, left the battlefield.
It was crazy enough to say it was crazy.
Whatever the intent, however worthy the purpose may be.
This is something you shouldn’t do.
Cristina smiles faintly, as if she could tell what he was trying to say just by looking at Ludwig’s expression.
“You don’t know, but most of the allied forces sided with the Demon King. If everything goes smoothly, the entire Allied Forces will be handed over to the Demon King.”
“so… … . What are you going to do?”
“The fact that the allied forces belong to the demon king means that mankind will belong to the demon king.”
Although he is asking with his mouth, Ludwig already knows.
I can’t help but think about why Cristina is doing this just by thinking about what will happen in the future.
“Can’t you just let that happen?”
“No Cristina… … . no. This kind of thing… … . You can’t do this! This is crazy!”
Even if those who betrayed mankind and sided with the demon king are outraged, even if they say they can’t let it go, is it okay to do something like this?
In the end, the helpless will die first, and they have nothing to do with this situation.
Cristina was calmly saying that she would sacrifice them.
“I’m not trying to annihilate the Allies. to reduce the number. Enough to sort out the whole situation with just Immortal.”
If there is an army that is scheduled to become the devil’s later, it is already the devil’s.
So weaken it.
Until immortals alone can suffocate.
“In the meantime, it wouldn’t be as good if the guys we had to kill died fighting the monsters. no?”
Ludwig gets up from his seat with his eyes wide open.
You shouldn’t stand by this kind of thing.
It couldn’t be.
– Knock!
Ludwig grabs Christina by the collar.
“Don’t be crazy. Send the Immortal back to Diane right away.”
Ludwig crossed the line to some extent, but not as much as Christina.
I could never have imagined that I would do something like this.
This is madness.
It’s just a crazy thing that can’t be understood or understood.
At Ludwig’s cool voice, Christina smiles even while being grabbed by the collar.
“okay? Let’s assume that the gate incident is over by putting in Immortals like this.”
“okay! Once all of this is over, it’s not too late to think about it! Doing this is not for anyone!”
“Then how will you get revenge?”
“… … what?”
“More than half of the allied forces belonged to the demon king, and the emperor is about to abandon the empire. Then in the end, to get revenge, you have to kill the demon king, kill the emperor, kill Ellen, and kill everyone. Do you think it would be possible to kill only the demon lord and leave everyone who decided to side with the demon lord alone? Don’t you believe that it would be possible to weed out and kill only those who did wrong in the huge mass of the Allied Forces?”
“you… … . What are you talking about… … . I’m doing… … ?”
“The monsters at the gate kill the people who should be killed anyway. The only difference is whether Immortals kill them or monsters kill them.”
Dealing with groups, not people.
If the war ended without much damage, it would only result in making the demon king’s army more powerful.
In that case, it would be weakened in advance.
Later or now, the Immortals must kill a great number of people.
“Ludwig. Rather, we should do this now so that later there will be no war between the Immortals and the Allies. If the Immortals and the allied forces fight, more people will die?”
“That is sophistry, Cristina. It doesn’t even sound like words!”
If the gate incident is over while the allied forces are in good health and the Immortals point their swords at the allied forces that have become demon kings, more damage will occur due to the secondary battle.
“If we reduce the number in advance, the allied forces will surrender in front of the Immortals? Because you know you’re no match. Think carefully, Ludwig, this is the way to save people.”
To avoid killing more people later, they stand by their deaths now.
If the secondary battle between the Allied Forces and Immortals, which became the Demon King’s Army, ends with the Allied Army’s annihilation, it is true that ending the war as it is will result in more people dying.
However, if the Allies lost a lot of power in the Gate War, they could surrender unconditionally in front of the Immortals, whether or not they sided with the Demon Lord. Then people actually die less.
If things go the way Christina said, they’ll be right.
“I won’t wait for everyone to die. Immortals won’t be away from the battlefield for long.”
“… … what?”
“Now, whether you are hiding somewhere and watching the situation, or disguised as something. The guys we need to kill are bound to appear one by one if we think the allied forces will be wiped out.”
“now… … . Are you going to wait for that?”
“of course.”
Someone has to fill the void equal to the power weakened by the absence of Immortals.
So, wherever you are watching, the demon king’s army will appear.
whether individually or collectively, in any way.
“When they show up, we’ll deploy the Immortals again. The Immortals will kill them along with the monsters.”
“… … .”
“don’t worry. If the demon king shows up quickly, the immortals will be reintroduced to the battlefield just as quickly.”
When the demon king appears to support the allied forces, Immortal goes to the battlefield to kill the demon king.
It means that the demon king will use the heart that wants the survival of mankind.
Ludwig also thinks that the Demon King should take responsibility for this situation.
But will it work?
“This is… … . This is not revenge… … . this is not No! People die because of us, not the devil. Then the person who really needs to be killed is us, not the demon king or the emperor! Why do people have to die! Why do people have to be sacrificed because of your wishes! I didn’t do this for the sake of that! I didn’t create Immortals for that!”
Ludwig couldn’t help but shout in anger at the evil thought of summoning the demon king by pouring the blood of innocent people after he decided to take revenge because he was saddened by the blood of innocent people.
“What are you talking about, Ludwig… … ?”
At Ludwig’s question, Christina tilts her head while being grabbed by the collar.
“I never said I do this for people… … . I’ve never had… … ?”
“… … what?”
“You said you didn’t do this for people, but wanted to make people pay for it… … ?”
Apparently Ludwig said so too.
“I just want revenge.”
Cristina never once said she wanted to represent the victims for their injustice.
This is just revenge on the world.
It’s just a matter of resentment.
for someone
I never said I was plotting this for some great, happy ending.
I created Immortal because I wanted to end the Gate incident and use that power to get revenge.
It was just to make everyone who did this pay the price.
Cristina had never said that she made Immortals for the weak or to represent the weak.
“Aren’t you misunderstanding yourself?”
“… … .”
“Ludwig, what you are trying to do. Saying that trying to kill the demon king and making people pay for these things has nothing to do with justice or something grandiose like that… … . That’s what I was thinking… … ?”
It is a decision that has nothing to do with the judgment of good and evil.
It started like that, but I ask again why do you bring up something similar to justice that says you shouldn’t sacrifice the weak now?
“If you were under the illusion that this was something good or just, Ludwig… … . you still… … . still… … .”
As Christina puts on a hideous smile.
“You’re still a fucking fucking idiot.”
Said so.
It was revenge in the first place.
When I started to get revenge, I said to get revenge.
Now I can’t do anything too terrible.
It is ridiculous to say that we must keep the line.
At Christina’s words, Ludwig opened his eyes and looked at Christina’s dark eyes, which had become the abyss itself.
“Yes, you may be right… … . but… … . Yes, if this is revenge. If you have to do something like this for that revenge to come true… … . If, instead of making them pay the price, we will become the people who have to pay the price… … .”
Ludwig puts power into his right hand, which is gripping Christina’s collar.
“I’m not going to take revenge.”
Cristina, who had become a monster, could neither understand nor accept.
It has become something that should not exist in the world.
But you can’t kill Christina either.
“Let it go. Even just me.”
Christina widened her eyes at Ludwig’s cold declaration.
“… … I’m serious?”
Cristina, on some level, had a hunch that such words would come out.
“uh.”
“… … .”
“No matter what you do, I can’t stop you, and you won’t listen to me. Then there is only one thing I can do.”
Ludwig knew he couldn’t convince Christina.
Both went crazy in their own way.
So persuasion is impossible in the first place.
I also know that killing Cristina will cause more chaos.
So I’d rather break up.
We need to break up as quickly as possible.
That way, I can fight a little faster on behalf of the person who will die because of Christina’s decision.
Cristina decided to let people die.
Ludwig hadn’t gone mad that far yet.
“Send me.”
On the battlefield without immortals, the chances of dying are very high.
Christina stares at Ludwig, who says that he wants to send it alone, as if he doesn’t mind that kind of thing.
Just as Ludwig cannot convince Christina, neither can he.
I won’t say anything more about you, so I can’t break Ludwig’s will to send me to death.
“… … okay.”
Following Christina’s instructions, Immortal wizards begin casting.
“Don’t die until the Immortal returns.”
Ludwig found Christina’s words somewhat funny.
Is someone still valuable?
Even if it’s like this.
while doing this
Can you say that you don’t want someone’s death?
It’s madness at the same time.
Perhaps it is the true nature of a terribly selfish human being.
“Christina.”
Ludwig looks at Christina and says just before the casting of the teleport is over.
“In the end, what we chose was also the wrong answer. That is the most terrible mistake.”
Couldn’t find the answer.
I knew that the right answer was each wrong answer created by each person’s thoughts.
That’s why in the things I faced at the end of that choice.
Ludwig himself and Christina too.
They had no choice but to admit that they were just as wrong as the rest of the world was.
Everyone picked the wrong answer.
Those who chose the wrong answer are fighting each other, claiming that their wrong answer is close to the correct answer.
that’s what’s happening now
In words full of Ludwig’s self-help and contempt.
“Still, this wrong answer is cool inside.”
Cristina replies that she just wants to solve everything rather than insisting that her wrong answer is the right answer.
– Flash!
Ludwig soon disappeared with a flash.
Alone without immortals.
Ludwig will not die easily.
It’s because it’s an arm that I put on so that I won’t die easily.
You just have to wait.
Until those to be killed appear on the battlefield.
The Immortal will then return to the battlefield and begin hunting.
In addition to hunting monsters, they hunt demon kings and warriors.
If it’s a pity that people are dying, you just have to show up quickly.
While Christina waits in silence for the situation she wants.
Ludwig has left, and Anna and Louis are asleep in a quiet but immortal-filled underground laboratory.
-Jerbeok
-Jerbeok
Soon you start to hear the sound of quiet footsteps somewhere.
-thud!
-Kooung!
Then, the sound of the laboratory’s bulkhead being destroyed, which should have been closed, begins to be heard.
Christina’s expression hardened.
The lab is closed.
After the development of the Immortal, no one was allowed to enter. All the wizards of the imperial family were kicked out, and Immortal troops were guarding the research center so that no one could enter.
The sound you hear now means that the immortal forces are in the process of being neutralized.
“… … .”
Cristina stares at the entrance to the underground research wing.
someone is coming
Enough to incapacitate the immortals and break down the barriers to get close.
very powerful.
what kind of being
– Kkwaga River!
With an explosion close to a huge explosion, the entrance to the closed underground research center crumbles and someone appears.
Cristina looks at the figure who has emerged from the rising dust.
It was a familiar face.
And now he was a person who was not on the Allied battlefield.
“… … Saviolin Tana.”
Cristina quietly muttered the name as she saw Tana appearing alone.
Even with the title of the world’s strongest swordsman, she was unable to participate in the Pandemonium War.
And even now, with the title of the world’s strongest swordsman, she couldn’t go to the final battlefield.
she suddenly thinks
Could this be fate or a curse given to me?
You can’t fight where everyone remembers.
It is something that cannot stand in the place of the greatest glory.
It may be the fate of Saviolin Tana, the greatest swordsman in the continent.
Even in the seat of greatest glory in the Great War of the Demon World.
Even in the final fight that put an end to the gate crisis.
There was no place for her.
The emperor sent his sharpest sword here.
A cursed genius who was destined to be unable to fight where glory resides.
Saviolin Tana calmly closes her eyes.
“This is… … .”
In a place no one in the world will remember.
In a dark basement where there is no glory or honor.
“Is it my last battlefield?”
She had to fight the hardest fight.