Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Demon King
A tavern on the outskirts of Kappa.
The adventurer's somewhat crude but very cheerful laughter was mixed with the smell of alcohol. With the orange lights drifting out of the tavern.
The wooden door of the tavern is pushed open from the inside out.
Out of it came an adventurer burping and smelling of alcohol.
The adventurer wore a somewhat shabby dirty cloak that covered his face.
He staggered into the alley next to the tavern.
I happened to meet the chef in the back kitchen of the tavern who came out to take out the garbage.
The fat cook's sleeves were rolled up to reveal a small section of his arm, except for the bold thick long hair, which was a crisscrossing scar.
Such a tavern for drunk adventurers who do not agree with each other, even the back kitchen employs retired adventurers.
"Damn it, get out there and pee, you shit!"
The fiery back kitchen yelled at the adventurer who was shaking and had already found a corner.
This is the back kitchen, but these bastards always come here to pee after drinking too much.
Now that he has put down the butcher knife and become a chef with high professional qualifications, he is almost angry.
As soon as he saw the group of guests urinating at the back door of his back kitchen, he swore that he would take out his old machete again.
"Hey! Old Pusen, hiccup~ The sun is nice today, isn't it......? ”
As he spoke, the guy who had already begun to release the water raised his head and tried to see the sky.
However, when he looked up, he certainly didn't see the sun.
The brain, paralyzed by alcohol, begins to work slowly.
But it's like restarting an old factory that has been out of production for 19 years.
"! What is in the sky, am I drinking too much? ”
The fat cook rolled his eyes, as if he had gone back and picked up the kitchen knife and chopped up the bastard in front of him.
But this kid acted quite similarly, and now he looks up at the sky in shock, like a complete idiot.
But after all, he couldn't resist his curiosity, and the fat cook said, 'If there is nothing strange in the sky, I will chop up this familiar customer,' and finally raised his head.
This look can make the fat cook stunned.
Hell yes!
What is in the sky?
……
At this time, on the top of a hill outside Kappa City, a black-armored man sat cross-legged on the ground.
He held a transparent crystal bottle in his left hand.
From time to time, his right hand stuffed his fingers into the crystal bottle, dipped a little red blood, and then used his fingers as a pen and blood as ink to draw a complex magic circle on the parchment scroll.
This is nothing.
However, not far behind him, there stood many silver armies.
These iron-blooded armies led by Ray Tyglin were all looking at the mysterious black-armored men who were silent and looked down with their heads drawn with complex magic arrays on their faces full of horror.
Just because, if you look up at the starry sky at this time, you will find ......
The stars in the night sky had long since vanished, but in their place was a huge, glowing dark red magic array.
This magic array just shrouded the city of Kappa, which was lit up not far from the mountain.
……
The people of the Adventurer's Tavern are more aware of some of the evil spells in this world than the ignorant and ordinary people.
The dark red circle that covered the entire city like a dome in the sky didn't look like a good thing no matter how you looked at it.
Drag the blessing of the adventurer whose tongue is curled up.
The fat cook of the tavern hurried to arrive
"Damn it! What is this? Does the caster know? ”
"Ahh This?! This is a directional magic array!? But...... But how can it be so big? How can it be in heaven?? ”
Non-spell-casting adventurers who drink a little too much can't understand such professional words.
They looked furrily at the tightly obscured adventurer and said, "What the hell? Is 'Directional Magic Array' a lingua franca? Can you speak human language? ”
At this time, the self-appointed superior spellcaster quickly explained: "That is to say, all the big characters of the heterogeneous plane whose identity has reached a certain status have a fixed 'contact method'. ”
"Besides, you can think of this one in the sky as someone contacting a top-level powerhouse in an alien plane."
Profound!
That's what you know.
"Hey, friend, can you see what's connected with this one above your head?"
The caster shook his head in embarrassment.
But from the circle is like a lingua franca.
If you see a term you don't recognize, but based on your life experience, you can probably guess something.
For example, a part of this complex magic array is not available to the [Supreme King].
Therefore, it can be deduced that the magic array in the sky may be pointing to the king of a certain low-level plane.
"No matter who this thing is pointing at, he's suffocating me with an ominous aura, go! Let's go out of town! The other spellcaster said solemnly.
However, it was too late to find out at this point.
By the time the Silver Army silently surrounded the city of Kappa, tragedy was a foregone conclusion.
Adventurers on the outskirts of the city hurried to the city walls.
only to find that the guards on the city wall all seemed to have fallen into evil, like puppets who had lost their souls.
What made them even more desperate was that the whole city seemed to be covered by a huge, transparent glass shroud.
No matter how hard they try, they can't break through.
The adventurers did not give up their resistance, and they bombarded one place together.
Keep trying.
But overhead, the magic array that was constantly improving in the sky was like an hourglass of countdown, urging everyone.
The crystal bottle in the black armor man's hand used up the last dark red liquid, and with it, the magic circle he drew was also completed.
The connected magic circuits lit up with a scarlet light, and the corresponding sky was the same.
When the scarlet light lit up the sky, the dark clouds were like whirlpools of the deep sea, as if they were about to suck the small city on the ground into it.
In the middle of the depression, a large skull with three faces emerged.
Three human faces, three expressions, are joy, anger, and sorrow.
And the three-sided ghost opened its mouth wide and inhaled deeply at the same time.
I saw that the countless fresh lives in the town on the ground were instantly extinguished like 'candle flames' that were extinguished in the silent night.
The souls converged into a brilliant white 'stream', split into three strands in mid-air, and were finally swallowed by three huge mouths on the terrifying head of the empty vault.
One second, two seconds...... Ten seconds.
Ten seconds later, there were no living people in the city.
After completing the first step of summoning the sacrifice, the relieved black-robed man stood up and prepared to start the second step.
He slashed his fingers, dripping blood, and spotted it on the magic array that had been prepared beforehand.
In the darkness of the night, the parchment scroll that had drawn the magic array in advance suddenly burned.
The fierce flames seemed to emit a sharp and ugly laugh.
The kind of unbridled laughter that only came from the depths of hell gave goosebumps to everyone present in the cold night wind.
The flames expanded abnormally.
There was no combustible, but it burned to a height of three meters.
There was a 'boom' and the flames dissipated.
Instead, a young man with a feminine face appeared in front of everyone.
He casts a 'reflection' as he sits lazily in an ornate obsidian high-backed chair, staring at the crowd.
The Black Armor Army knelt on one knee in front of the inverted projection.
The silver army looked at each other.
Although he had been warned by the Black Armor before, he had the most sincere respect for him.
But the other party is vague, and when he makes such a big whole picture, he makes a young man who is too young and has a soft face like a woman.
Everyone will wonder if they have met a liar, right?
It was this moment of hesitation that caused the soft-looking man on the high-backed chair to look at him.
Ray Tegelin, who was standing at the forefront of the silver army, instantly wet his clothes under the armor in a cold sweat.
At that moment, it was as if he had seen a hell burning with countless screaming souls.
At that moment, it was as if he had plunged into an infernal hell of endless suffering.
That moment...... He saw the incomparably noble and great demon king who ruled hell.
"Hey, though I'm the kindest of the demon kings."
"But seeing the little ants ignorantly looking at me at eye level, I still have a little temper in my heart, this, friends who sacrifice a million delicious souls of the main plane like me today, can you understand my behavior below?"
The leader of the Black Armor Army was also sweating profusely with fear.
But in the end, he swallowed his saliva, "One of the Great Seven Demon Kings, Your Majesty Belier......"
"Don't worry, I won't kill my friend who sacrificed to me, right?"
"Otherwise, next time, who will send 'souvenirs' to the barren hell?"
But instead, the man with a slight smile looked at the army of silver standing.
The ruddy lips opened slightly, and the Demon King smiled like a flower and spat out a hellish word.
Obviously, no one can understand the words of hell that can be turned into a 'source of pollution' just by sound.
But the soul accurately captured the decree from the other Plane Dominant.
'Bang la-la' The silver-white soldiers knelt down one by one.
The pious and humble buckled their heads, including Ray Tygrin.
"Ah, you see, that's a lot more pleasing to the eye."
"Okay, I think, now we can get down to business, my dear friend~"
As he spoke, His Majesty the smiling Demon King changed his posture, propped one hand on the armrest of the high-backed chair, supported his chin, and stared at the black-armored man kneeling on one knee with deep eyes.
But in those eyes that were slowly sinful, there were countless delicious souls reflected.
The crimson tongue sticks out, outlining the lips as if they have just sucked blood.
The Adam's apple swayed up and down, swallowing the saliva that kept being secreted.
The faint sound alone was enough to frighten the black-armored man who was kneeling on one knee and his breathing was disordered.
……
Charlie took the goblin to the lounge area in the side room of the banquet hall.
"What happened?"
Charlie thought seriously about the little thing in front of him that was uglier and cuter than Harpy, and finally remembered the other party's name - Blackskin.
"Blackskin, speak slowly."
Heipi took a deep breath before he said, "In the morning, near the Blue Mine, in that big city on the coast of the Platinum Empire, we, our companions, have disappeared!" ”
"And then, and then the investigators from the headquarters arrived, and the people, the people, and the goblins were all dead! Lord Charlie! They're all dead! ”
"Two hours later, the east side of the Blue Mine Mountain! Newcastle City, too, is in the same situation! ”
"So far, there have been at least ten towns and cities with similar situations!"
Charlie gasped.
"You're saying that at least ten towns and cities are dead?!"
Blackskin nodded.
Charlie took a step backwards in shock, and only one word came to mind - Silver Empire.
Did it come so quickly?
"Maps! Give me a map! ”
Charlie took out the magic summoning bell and shook it sharply, and at the same time, used the bell to inform Antanaron.
Please come over with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Things don't know how yet.
Charlie didn't want to get scared on the first day he welcomed his allies.
A short time later, Alfonstantin walked in with a roll of maps.
Obviously, this highness is very 'affinity', and he saw the half-elf secretary general who hurriedly brought the map on the way, so he took it for him.
"Heipi, tell Your Highness what you just said."
As an ordinary member of countless goblins, he suddenly saw the dragon prince who was enshrined in the shrine by the elders of the goblins.
Heipi almost fainted with excitement.
Charlie unfolded the map and circled them one by one against the towns reported by the black skin just now.
It turned out that these towns were connected in a circle, just surrounding the ideal township.
This is definitely the Silver Empire.
It's just that......?!
Slaughtering ten cities in a day, is the Silver Empire so strong?!
With this strength, take it out early, if the platinum empire doesn't invite the dragon god Bahamut to play, it will die early!
What the?!
Could it be that the former Silver Grand Duke would be holding back?
The black skin finally trembled and looked at the expressionless black gold monarch, and finished reporting the information he had told His Excellency Charlie before.
Alfonstantin's complexion never changed.
He just calmly walked up to Charlie after confirming that the goblins were not revealing key information, and glanced at the circled map with slightly squinted golden eyes.
"It's not like a human empire alone can do it."
A deep voice rang in Charlie's ears.
She raised her head slightly, and she could see the charming side face of His Royal Highness the Prince.
"You mean ......?"
"Anyway, it's better to go and see it first."
The Prince's hand tapped the Blue Mine.
"Together?"
Charlie nodded vigorously.
I thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would pull his very well-lined escort.
But when only Alfonstain and Charlie appeared on the dragon platform, Charlie was a little confused.
Well, are they the only two of them?
Well, it seems that this highness has a high force value, and he doesn't have to worry about security.
It's not just a casual character who can go to Hell 'one day later', overturn a palace of the Prince of Darkness, and then beat a great demon of no low rank to a serious injury, and then return safely.
At this point, Charlie felt very secure.
Charlie was just thinking about how they would get over and whether he should open the door.
But she hasn't been to the Blue Mine......
'Whew-'
A whole breeze is blowing.
When he looked up again, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the form of an elf was gone.
In its place was a huge black gold dragon.
The mysterious black color resembles a magnificent nightfall, and the scales on it are like shining gold with bright points of light, like the stars that dot the night sky.
Such a thrilling beauty, this is the most outstanding work of the Creator.
Charlie was fascinated.
The corners of the black gold dragon's mouth were slightly hooked, and he spoke, letting out a deeper magnetic voice, "Come up." ”