chapter 99
99 – The Demon King, and the End (2)
Although I was not born human.
There has never been a moment when I wasn’t living as a human being.
From the moment you were born to the moment you became an adult.
I’ve always lived a human life, and humans’ enemies have always been demons.
Demons have always been the object of hatred in my life.
My parents, who created and raised me, were killed by warriors under the pretext of ‘the heart of the demon’.
The whole cause was me, but the fundamental reason was the vampire’s peculiarity and the demon’s heart itself.
Four years after I was adopted by the Philip family, Karin, my sister, was poisoned by a demon.
She suffered from the deadly poison for days and days, and was able to somehow save her life with my desperate efforts to create an antidote.
After finally entering the academy.
Morphine’s mother and Delia’s father, who had a hard life because of the demons.
They were all people who lost their lives or their families to the demons, and their hearts were broken as a result.
Asmodian.
They have always been enemies of man.
and… .
“It’s good that you came all the way here.”
Demons, the one standing at the end.
Devil.
The Demon King was in front of me.
Leaving behind Kate, Dean Tariere, Professor Melaine, and ten warriors.
It was the result of running endlessly to the center of the imperial palace.
Demon King of Greed, Mamon.
He sat in the chair the Emperor should be sitting on.
He was drinking wine alone and enjoying his leisure time.
“Are there any monsters?”
Mamon was alone.
There were no monsters around.
At my sudden question, Mamon suddenly burst into laughter.
“ha ha ha. You say something funny. Do I, Mamon, need an escort against a human like you? No, in the first place… ”
A mean smile crept across his lips.
“The fact that you were able to come this far without any obstacles… Do you think it is all your strength?”
his meaningful words.
it’s like…
It was the way he said he was waiting for me to come.
“I know you. Sacher Philip. A human who wiped out all of Schlein’s men and Foylinon’s men. Maybe if I had grown up… This body, this guy called Ludgale Liquid, might have even improved his skills.”
Mammon finally drank all the wine.
And dropped the glass right next to it.
A clang sound resonated in the imperial court.
“So I left it as is. So that I can die with that foolish idea of trying to catch me. You, who are so inexperienced, are coming here… I left it as is.”
Mamon tilted her head slightly and smiled.
“Do you understand?”
I watched him quietly.
Then he smiled and opened his mouth.
“you. Is it greed?”
“… what?”
Was it far from the answer he had thought?
Mamon asked back, confused by my question out of the blue.
“Is it greed, you? Do you think your actions are just like the devil of arrogance? You don’t even know what number I brought.”
“… Some insignificant man climbs without knowing the subject. No matter how you play tricks, not even a speck of dust can reach me. Why do I need to know the number of humans?”
“Look. What you are doing is just arrogance. Be honest. Are you Lucifer?”
“This gnome… !!”
Mamon’s furious roar echoed through the imperial court.
Demon King of Arrogance, Lucifer.
I don’t know what Mamon and his relationship are like, but it seems like it would be very insulting to give a demon king the name of another demon king.
I see you react so violently.
I pointed my finger at Mamon with a smile of repentance that the provocation strategy had worked.
“you. Wipe your neck clean. Because here today, your neck will fall.”
“The bluff is piercing the sky… !! To you, whose body is nothing more than a human… ”
Kwaaang!!
I didn’t give Mamon time to talk.
You don’t need to keep that kind of manners while fighting demons.
While he was talking, he immediately dropped the [Puri Stone] on the floor.
The smoke that spreads out soon and the area that splits regularly.
A strange stone-type magic tool that creates an area that inflicts debuffs on opponents and buffs themselves.
The power of the [Fury Stone] began to be applied immediately.
I felt a surge of strength all over my body, and I drew my sword and charged Mamon.
“no use… !!”
Is it still not resolved?
Mamon caught my flying sword with his bare hands.
But it’s like cutting metal.
I didn’t feel anything.
His body had durability that was on a different level from that of normal demons or humans.
“Sigh… !!”
I backed off right away.
I expected it to some extent, but after all, the demon king is the demon king.
There is no way to get rid of it in a normal way.
It was surprising that even after applying enough debuffs with [Pury Stone], it was able to defend this much.
Subsequently, a tremendous amount of mana began to gather in Mamon.
‘It’s magic… !!’
Demons with deep knowledge of magical powers.
Among them, the demon king considered the best.
There was an immeasurable depth and enormous amount of mana in the magic he spread.
“Die, human… !!”
I immediately summoned [Giant Reaper].
A golem with the best defense among my main golems.
It was to allow him to absorb Mamon’s magic as much as possible.
—–!!
[Giant Reaper] hit me head-on with magic.
But it wasn’t enough.
The unknown magic created by Mammon annihilated the [Giant Ripper] as it came and tore away the flesh from my body.
“That- uhhh… !!”
I screamed out in unbearable pain.
I realized it while being hit with magic.
[Void Labs].
Incredible high-level magic that erases a space by creating magic with an extremely compressed amount of magical energy.
Mamon unleashed this magic that was known only in legends at once.
[Giant Reaper] captured the impact intact, so it was this much because I was hit by a direct hit.
“hmm. You’ve managed to get through it once despite being a trash subject.”
The demon lord of greed, Mamon, slowly approached me.
I collapsed as it was because of the shock of flesh being ripped everywhere.
I couldn’t take any action.
Mamon pulled me by the collar and pulled me up.
“Hey, human. Say it again. What did you believe in and act so foolishly? Like this, I’m going to sit down without a look.”
“Kuk, keoeouk… !!”
I couldn’t breathe normally because of the pain felt on my skin and the collar Mamon had pulled up.
Mamon smiled meanly at me.
“Tell me? With what kind of confidence did you attack?”
“Gagging… !!”
“You are just a human being. Killing Schlein and Foylinon’s men is of no avail. The difference between a demon king and a human hero is the difference between heaven and earth. Seeing that the Ludgale Liquid you guys were so proud of was eventually eaten by gluttony, don’t you realize that?”
None of the weapons I had were eaten by the demon lord.
[Fury Stone], which was ambitiously prepared, was not very effective against the demon lord even if it had a slight effect, and the main golem, [Giant Reaper], was annihilated at once by the demon lord’s magic.
Even if he used a potion like [Berserk] or an enchanting magic tool like [Cobalt Thunder], nothing changed.
With the strength of the warrior I have.
It was impossible to hunt the demon lord of greed, Mamon.
… It must have been impossible.
“ … … all.”
“what? I can’t hear you very well.”
“I jumped in with such confidence. Damn you son of a b*tch.”
just one moment.
If it wasn’t for a single moment now when the distance with the demon king has narrowed.
Perhaps my operation would have ended in an impossibility forever.
“What is this… !!”
Geee-!!
A strange sound that cannot be regarded as the voice of an object.
A deafening sound like an ultrasound.
With that sound, a magic tool emitted light from my magic bag.
[Art of the End]
-Type: Special
-Producer: Sacher Philippe
-Intense magical power frame with five demon hearts. This frame contains enormous power that can permanently seal a certain demon, and this is achieved by using half of the user’s magic and magic tool’s magic. Unless the user directly releases the seal, there is no way for the demon in the frame to come out to the present world in any way. The demon’s heart, which has been equipped with the power of sealing after endless remodeling, provides the driving force for any demon to hold it in a frame.
I am for this magic tool.
For the seal contained in the magic tool.
I’ve only been waiting for one moment.
The moment when Mamon and I will be the closest.
[Art of the End] is a legendary magic tool that can seal only one entity among all demons, including the demon king.
It’s already been 10 years since I lost my parents to the heart of the demon.
I’ve been there for 10 years.
not even for a moment.
Even for a single moment, he never stopped researching the demon’s heart.
The demon’s heart has always been a magical ingredient that gives me obsessive compulsive disorder.
A hallucination that haunted me endlessly for 10 years.
To escape that hallucination, I studied the demon’s heart every day.
and the results of the study.
He created a historical sealing magic tool called [The Art of the End].
“this… what nonsense… !! Whew, Whack, Whack… !!”
Mamon’s body.
To be precise, Ludgale Liquid’s body was sucked into the [Art of the End].
He poured all his magical energy into trying to break free from the seal.
No demon could escape the reach of the [Art of the End].
Gyyyy–.
“… … .”
It was the end.
The noisy interior of the imperial palace was quickly turned into silence.
As for [Art of the End], nothing happened.
The demon lord was sealed, and all of the surrounding magical energy was absorbed.
The ending felt a bit futile.
I am a single magic tool.
Destroy the Demon King’s plan.
Completely sealing the Demon King.
It was to save humanity from crisis.
In an instant, a tremendous sense of helplessness ran through my body.
“It’s really over… .”
I ended up lying down in the imperial palace.
finished.
The demon king and the demon tribe.
Both warriors and humans.
The war of hatred against each other has come to an end.
I finally defeated the demon lord.
It was an art-like end.