chapter 67
67 – The final battle (2)
“Isn’t Miya not coming after all… “
How many months have passed since you came back here?
Now it was a time when I couldn’t focus on training anymore, and I had to show up.
Certainly, thanks to his focus on training, he has now become quite accustomed to using 7th tier magic.
Recently, he participated in a battle against demons that appeared in the Duchy of Deerheart.
7Th tier magic had a clear effect.
During the battle, there was a fight with a demon who seemed to be the leader of the demon, and only the 7th tier magic, Divine Cyclone, was able to bring victory in a one-on-one fight with him.
Although I couldn’t kill him and missed him, thanks to that, the battle between humans and demons after a long time ended with a great victory.
Since the demon leader who escaped was also Sam, who ran away with only his life still attached, he thought that perhaps he might really have a chance to win in the battle with the demon king.
However, if there was a magic called Demon Lord Slayer that the goddess said, it might be easier to solve, but judging from the lack of news from Miya, it seemed difficult.
You can’t force Miya to make a choice. In fact, for Miya, I wonder if she really should have lived with Miya in modern times.
“… It couldn’t have been.”
No, it wasn’t. Accepting Miya, a resident of this world, and allowing this continent to be covered with demonic energy was also not the right thing to do.
Thoroughly ignoring or taking responsibility.
Because those two were only possible options.
-Uncle. Are you ready?
Today is the day I decided to show up to the imperial family.
It was to inform the imperial family of my existence and receive artifacts.
The imperial family wouldn’t be very helpful. Even in the final battle, the current human combat power was not very helpful.
Many kingdoms had already disappeared under Magi, and most of the continent had already become the territory of Demons.
The only thing that was intact was the empire, and all the surviving troops became part of the empire.
“Let’s go.”
The final battle that will take place soon after the demon king appears on the continent.
Originally, humans who lost their heroes would fight them with the surviving troops gathered in the empire.
Of course, if the demon king crosses the gate of the bell, the chaos level in the middle world rises rapidly, so the heavens will also be directly involved.
It would be hope for humans that the beings of the celestial world participate in the battle, but it did not seem that the result would change.
Because even though they are celestial beings, there is a high probability that they will not be able to match the demon lord.
Considering that the chaos level rises far as the demon king crosses the gate, it can be interpreted that the demon king’s influence is higher than that of beings in the celestial world.
Still, it’ll be a way to earn some time.
“Mister, are you okay?”
“What wouldn’t be okay? But honestly, I don’t know if I can defeat the demon king.”
In a way, he was the most pitiful warrior.
It’s like throwing away eight years of time, training for less than a year, and setting up to fight the demon king.
Of course, the cause is this foolish world, the goddess, and the imperial family.
In preparation for this one-in-a-kind case, I made a scroll containing the magic of dimension shifting back to Earth.
It took quite a bit of effort, but the price of my life was cheap.
If I judged that I couldn’t win at all, I would use the scroll without hesitation.
You might think I’m cowardly, but well, what should I do? Gotta live
“Yes. I won’t be able to say anything to you in the imperial family from now on. Rather, you will like it.”
“I guess so.”
As expected, the plump old emperor looked at me and sobbed.
At first, he seemed a little angry when he saw me, but he soon understood the situation and changed his attitude.
Now, it seems like he quickly realized that I am the only hope of the world.
The story went smoothly.
I was able to safely receive the artifacts I needed, and I was able to start preparing for the final battle.
The fact that beings from the celestial world would appear was also conveyed, so there was quite a bit of hope in the human side.
Of course, I still wasn’t confident.
Even during the battle, it felt like I had to see an opportunity to somehow get my hands on the magic circle called the Demon Lord Slayer.
To really win.
Time passed so quickly and the last day approached.
***
Lilithia is the mother of succubuses. She is one of the leaders of the Demon Tribe.
She was one of the strongest succubus queens among the demons.
In the tens of thousands of years of history, in a situation where numerous demon leaders have changed, Lilithia was one of the few remaining elders.
The War of the Heavenly Demon that took place in Middle-earth 10,000 years ago. It was one human being who made such Lilithia remain in the middle world in the Heavenly Demon War.
“Heo Eok… Huh… ! f*ck… ! Thousand years that are nothing… Cheeky… “
Although he is a leader who survived several wars, he could not be said to be absolutely safe from the threat of war.
Since she survived several times, it was more probable that she would not survive this time.
And just before the War of the Heavenly Demon ten thousand years ago. When the defeat of the demons became almost certain in that war, Lilithia was also running away from the warrior party.
“Kyaaak-!”
Lilithia was unable to use her magic due to the curse of the warlock of the warrior party.
If she goes back to the Demon Realm, she will be able to recover this curse right away, but in order to do so, she had to avoid the eyes of humans and Elyos and join the Demon King’s army.
And it was not too late for her to join us. It was because if it was just a little bit later, the surviving demons would go to the demon realm, and if that happened, the door connecting the middle world and the demon realm would open again ten thousand years later.
Because the demons who were defeated in the war were to return to the demon realm.
It meant that we had to wait until the next war started.
Of course, even in Middle-earth, after several thousand years, the curse can be removed and her original powers restored.
But in order to do that, we had to wait for the war to end completely and the Elyos to return to the Celestial World.
I had to hide until humans misunderstood that peace had come to Middle-earth.
Otherwise, avoid the chase and join the Demon King’s Army.
Both were extremely unlikely.
In fact, now that the Demon King has been defeated by the hero, Lilithia’s death was as if it had been decided.
Actually, other demons might have already fled to the demon realm in a hurry.
Because it was common for the demons remaining in Middle-earth to be killed after being defeated in battle.
Even if it is the leader of each race.
Anyway, before the next war begins, before ten thousand years pass, a new leader will be elected in the Pandemonium, and a new war will be prepared.
Because she was Lilithia, who had already been through several wars and had seen the demon leader change, she knew that fact better than anyone else.
The assumption that the demons had already given up on him was also accurate.
“This time… I thought I would win this time… Damn warrior son… !”
I was more resentful because it was Lilithia, which had been through several wars.
In fact, there are only a few left, including himself, and they are all people who have shared the history of war that occurs every 10,000 years.
Everyone hoped that the demons would win the war, but that expectation was always shattered by the existence of a hero.
Actually, if you only look at the Elyos, they’re no match. He couldn’t win because he brought the aliens and treated them to his side.
And this war was the same.
The demon king was defeated by the hero, and the remaining demons had to either run away like Lilithia or desperately cross the door to return to the original world.
– There it is!
“Huh… f*ck… !”
I knew it was the end anyway.
Even so, Lilithia couldn’t let go of the lingering attachment that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.
I couldn’t be killed without seeing the victory of the demons in the end.
I actually knew the ending, but even so, Lilithia ran ugly.
Until you don’t know where it is or how long it has run.
In order not to be seen by humans, he had to squeeze out the remaining demonic energy to hide the evidence of the succubus.
Nevertheless, I was afraid of being discovered by humans, so I had to run through the rough forest road.
My skin was bitten by insignificant insects, and I had to spend the night with my eyes open avoiding a trivial mountain beast.
From the words of Lilithia, one of the strongest demons, it was something no one would have thought of.
In the midst of running away like that for several more days. At that time, I didn’t even know if there were demons left in the middle world, or whether all the demons had already passed on to the demon world.
– Catch it!
“Keuk… uh uh… f*ck… Stop, stop… !”
“This way!”
“… ?!”
While running on a relatively quiet forest road, Lilithia was pulled by someone’s hand.
That hand held Lilithia in his arms and covered her mouth, and the pursuers ran past them.
“Are you okay?”
“You, who… “
‘This, a human?’
It was human. A very handsome human man.
A mere human saved Lilithia, one of the strongest demons.
She was held in the arms of a weak human male.
“My name is Cain. I don’t know the circumstances, but I don’t think I’m pretending not to know the lady who is being chased by her. Are you all right?”
It was Lilithia who laughed out loud when she boasted that she had saved herself, a demon, and protected her lady.
It was a little strange from the way of thinking that a woman being chased by soldiers in this situation was a normal lady.
That was the first meeting between Lilithia and Cain.