I Quit the Hero’s Party Chapter 469

* * *

* * *

The first madman, Acrita Clen Arcadia.

Raniel began preparing for a subjugation war to completely eliminate its existence from this land. As it was, it wouldn’t have been the madman’s turn next. Raniel’s next target of subjugation would not have been a madman, but the ‘most fearful disaster’.

The sword of death, Ganicalt.

Originally, the next target for subjugation was the Sword of Death, but the plan changed. Now that I knew how to track down the madman, there was no need to leave him alone.

‘Under the leadership of Her Majesty the Queen, Resty is collaborating to identify the true identity of the madman.’

This is the method discovered by the founding father of Cartedia and verified by Raniel. Since the method is clear, it will not take a long time to identify the true body. Soon the location of the madman would be identified, and all that was needed was to attack the place and kill the madman’s purpose in advance.

Are the preparations for the madman’s subjugation battle sufficient?

Raniel looked at the chessboard with narrowed eyes.

Presumably, this is the chessboard that the madman is also looking at. Pieces are placed in a mess on a chessboard divided into black and white. A chessboard with humanity as the white pieces and the demonic forces as the black pieces.

Just a few years ago, the chessboard was dominated by black. White was pushed back and pushed back, trampled under black’s pieces. But what about now? Quite the opposite. Now White occupied most of the battlefield.

‘I lost my horse in the battle to subdue the apostates…’

Raniel’s items are still intact.

Rather, it became stronger through the war against apostates. These are people who are fully capable of doing their part. Meanwhile, what about black’s pieces?

There are only a few objects that a madman can handle.

The king, symbolizing the dark forces, never moves. The sword that guards the king’s side also does not move. They are beings that are not controlled by anything. Let’s say it’s an object that a madman can handle…

‘At best, it’s skebal and…’

Raniel saw an object in the shape of an animal.

‘It’s probably only the King of Demon Beasts.’

“Toouk,” Raniel rested his chin and tapped the corner of his mouth with his index finger. It was a habit she developed when she had a lot to think about. Raniel tapped his mouth and closed his eyes.

“···It is advantageous.”

I am in an advantageous situation.

This is also a situation where one’s side is overwhelmingly advantageous. Because of this situation, Raniel became even more suspicious. There’s no way a madman wouldn’t know about the current war situation, right? Are you really just waiting for me to defeat the demon lord?

‘Are you aiming for that one tens of thousands?’

No, that can’t be true.

Raniel knows a madman. He doesn’t understand him, but he knows how he thinks. Although he is walking on opposite paths, the destinations he and the madman pursue are vaguely similar.

Because they are of the same kind, they are of the same kind.

At both extremes, Raniel and the madman were looking at the same scenery. We were looking at the same board. Raniel narrowed his eyes and looked beyond his chessboard. He would be sitting across from his own. He must be looking at the same scenery as himself. A dark shadow over human history.

A being that dominated this board for over a thousand years.

There is no way a being of that size could have prepared just one plan. It was clear that numerous ‘what if’ assumptions had been made. Raniel narrowed his eyebrows a little more.

“What are you aiming for?”

Raniel stretched out his hand.

White’s pieces were moved to push Black into a corner a little further. After placing the item heavily on the board, Raniel stood up.

She did what she had to do.

The battlefield was pushed. He shared the plan to subdue the madman with his disciples, and developed the plan with Kalt’s assistance. I stopped by Branch 0 of the Gray Magic Tower and inspected the artifact. So time continued to pass.

『Expansion of the front line.』

『There really isn’t much left now.』

『A hero about to fight his last battle.』

White’s piece advances.

Black’s pawns and pieces fell without stopping. The fallen and fallen pieces came down to the bottom of the board.

『Numerous territories were recovered.』

『The end of the war is approaching.』

『Going towards the final disaster, the sword of death.』

The pieces that came down to the bottom of the board.

Raniel, who continued to move forward, suddenly focused his attention on the pieces that had come down to the bottom of the board. And then I started to realize something about him.

“Khalt.”

“Yes, senior.”

“Hasn’t it been a long time since you’ve seen the necromancers?”

“···yes?”

It wasn’t just the necromancer.

“A necromancer, a black knight, an army of death, a dragon knight who will lead a wyvern army, none of those things are visible these days.”

“When I think about it, I’m sure…”

“These days, all I can see are demonic beasts. I can see wyvern troops, but there is no one commanding them.”

The only horses that came down were beasts.

There was no one to lead them. I feel a sense of discomfort. The feeling that he was missing something caught Raniel’s nerves. And, it was at that point.

Rumors circulated.

Strange rumors began to circulate.

It must have been a human land, not a demonic world, but the thing that rose in the sky was a black sun. There were people who said they saw the sun of the devil in the land of humans. Drivers responded to reports of a body flowing through the waterway. When the knights went back up the waterway and headed to the water source, there was a pile of shitz piled up there. Their cause of death was drowning. It was suicide.

『The sky turned pitch black.』

『It rained, but it was black.』

『I hear a scream. I don’t know where I heard it. The screams continue to echo.』

Rumors.

『Disaster is coming! Disaster is coming! Disaster is coming! Death, death, death is coming!』

『It cannot be stopped. Disaster, death, disaster.』

A crazy astrologer sang of disaster.

Those who read the constellations in the sky went crazy and sang about death. They collapsed and died while bleeding. Unknown events continued.

『Lightning soared from the ground to the sky.』

『It’s bizarre. It’s strange. Wasn’t it lightning that fell from the sky? It’s not lightning, it’s lightening. How should we interpret this phenomenon, which is completely opposite to the original?』

『An epidemic has broken out.』

『A village was turned into a place where corpses rot.』

『The waterway was boiling.』

『An untimely drought has come. There was no rain, so the ground dried out and became distorted.』

『It was supposed to be the middle of summer, but it snowed. The weather is strange.』

Strange rumors overlapped.

Overlapping rumors. Rumors, some of which were fiction and some of which were truth, grew in popularity. The story finally reached Raniel’s ears.

“······.”

And, Raniel.

“under.”

I burst out laughing.

Sitting alone in the barracks, she looked at the chessboard in front of her. There was no one sitting across from her, but Raniel looked at the madman who was sitting there. Looking at Ran El, she opened her mouth.

“Was this it?”

Black piece.

“Is this what you were aiming for?”

The black piece that was thought to never move is about to move. The chessboard shakes. The items laid down were shaking. A being with the weight to overturn this situation was slowly moving.

【Shade.】

After becoming a hero, the voice of the star, which Raniel had always cut off, seeped into Raniel’s ears. As if even this should not be ignored.

【The shadow moves. Cut off all restrictions.】

The king moves.

The signs were appearing all over the world.

The madman’s exhibition hall.

Acrita walked alone through the place where the bodies of the heroes who led an era were stuffed. It’s been a while since I moved with my true body. The madman mumbled and laughed. A more joyful laugh.

Akrita walked briskly through the bodies of the heroes. She passed by and headed into the depths.

The heroes stuffed here are arranged according to the time they were born. So heading into the depths of the exhibition hall would be like stepping into the past. The madman went back in time. To the deepest places.

There was a cage placed there.

A cage large enough to confine a human being.

The madman stretched out his hand toward the cage covered in shadows. The moment the true body tapped the shadow with its finger, the shadow covering the cage disappeared in one go. The shadows clear and what is revealed are the chains that hang like spiderwebs on the cage.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands of chains.

The chain was binding someone to the center of the cage. The madman opened the cage door. He waved his hand to break the chains that were full of cages and headed toward the center of the cage.

“Sister.”

The madman smiled.

“My lovely sister.”

What’s there is a corpse.

It is the corpse of someone whose body was cut in half by a sword, leaving only half of the body. The madman stretched out his hand toward the corpse that had not decayed in the slightest. He grabbed the corpse’s head.

“Acriel Clen Arcadia.”

The first and last queen of Arcadia.

The first vessel to have shade.

The madman dragged his now empty body out of the cage. There is no value to this body anymore. It is a corpse that has already died, a vessel that can no longer hold something.

“but.”

The madman smiled.

“Bait works.”

A throne placed in the middle of the exhibition hall.

The madman placed the body on the throne. The madman swung his finger and cut off all the cloaking spells that had been placed on his corpse. In this way, the entire world was informed that the vessel that contained the Demon King, who everyone thought had been erased from this world without a trace, was here.

“Cow,” the exhibition hall shook.

“He’s my junior.”

The madman laughed.

“You, who are looking at the same direction as me, may have seen through my plan. You may have concluded that you must kill me before defeating the Demon King. No, you would have definitely done so.”

I have the ability and knowledge to do so.

That child must have figured out his plan.

“Your conclusion is right. Indeed, it is right. If you can do that, you can end everything.”

But, the madman whispered.

“I also know the loopholes in my plan. I know the openings through which you can sneak in. Knowing that, how could I not have prepared for that? That’s impossible.”

Because you must always be thorough.

“There is something you don’t know.”

The madman smiled.

The madman smiled and placed his fingers one by one on the shoulders of his sister, who was sitting on the throne. Hidden behind his throne, the madman laughed.

“My sister became the devil’s vessel. She became a vessel embracing the shadow. However, she did not give up on reason until the end. She resisted. Do you know what the result was?”

The madman went mad.

“Assimilated. My sister’s soul is mixed in the depths of the shadows. And, the soul is always…”

“Ugh,” the madman grabbed his sister’s shoulder.

“It’s a way to wander in search of one’s original body.”

The shadow has been searching for this body here for a very long time. Even if this body was nothing more than a broken vessel that could no longer contain anything, the soul of Archriel Clen Arcadia, mixed in the depths of the shadows, longed for its own body.

“Look, shade.”

The madman whispered to the shadowy piece that stayed by his side. She stepped on a piece of shadow, crushed it, and smiled.

“Here is the body you have been longing for.”

Tell it to your body.

The body you have been searching for so long is here.

“The balance has tipped.”

The black dragon died by having its head cut off.

The apostate was subdued.

You, the shadow, have become imperfect and mortal.

Thus, the forces of the devil were driven into a corner.

It’s different from the days when humanity was cornered.

“Now, providence can no longer bind you.”

Now it’s the shadows that are cornered.

Providence no longer binds you.

You will be able to move freely.

“Come here.”

So, get moving.

“Take your body back.”

The sky shook.

The piece of shadow that had been trampled and crushed by the madman’s feet let out a final scream. That terrible scream sounded like the most beautiful musical instrument to the madman’s ears.

“That sounds good.”

Listening to the screams, the madman opened the ceiling of the exhibition hall. What is visible beyond the open ceiling is not the black sun. It is not the black sky of the devil’s eye. Rather, it is quite the opposite.

A land illuminated by the bright sun and stars.

The place where the madman’s exhibition hall is located is not the magic world. Rather, in the place furthest from the devil, the madman set up his own exhibition hall. The edge of human territory. The madman burst into laughter at the final tower once guarded by the last gunner.

The shade is at the end of the magic scene.

This place is at the edge of human territory.

The shadow will cross the continent to reach this place, devouring everything in its path. Because it has become incomplete and because it has lost all its words, the stars cannot block the shadow that is free from constraints.

Many people will die. Countless lands will be polluted.

There is only one person who can stop it.

The madman looked at the other side of the chessboard. He smiled at his junior, who was looking at the same board as him.

“The hero, Rania Van Trias.”

You have the ability. There is power. There is a responsibility. That’s why you are called a hero. That’s why you are called a hero. So you, so called, will stop the devil. It will definitely end up being subjugated. The devil will be completely eradicated from this land.

“And, if that happens.”

Shut up.

The madman moved the chess piece.

“It’s my victory.”

The moment the demon king dies, I create another king.

A new king will appear where the king disappeared. Everything goes back to the beginning. Even though you know that fact, you will move to defeat the demon lord.

why? ‘ the madman asked himself.

Yes, the madman answered his own question.

“Because you are a hero.”

Because you want to be the perfect hero.

That is your weakness. I’m a junior.

fantasy,