The Demon Prince goes to the Academy Chapter 450

Chapter 450

A gate avalanche is a phenomenon in which monsters pour out of a warp gate.

The gate situation has to progress to a certain extent before the monster spreads to remote areas. Unless it’s been a while since the incident occurred, the outskirts of the city or villages without warp gates are rather peaceful.

And if there is a small warp gate, it must be on a city-level scale.

Dangerous places in the early stage of the crisis are large cities including the ecliptic.

Following Ellerith’s guidance, my party reached the place where Galarche and Lruen were casting a mass teleport, and were able to reach a forest area far away from the ecliptic.

Antirianus does not know what he is doing.

However, we arrived at a peaceful green forest that had nothing to do with the catastrophic phenomena that were taking place in the ecliptic.

Me, Olivia, Liana, Heriot, Elleris, Lluen, and even Galarche.

The three blindly following me to rescue me, their complexions turned white when they saw Lluen with long ears, and even Galarsch, the Orc Vampire.

“you… … . you really… … .”

Liana, bewildered, pointed her finger at me.

“Now you’re saying that you’re a real demon king? Didn’t you follow me knowingly?”

“no… … . It is, but… … .”

Liana was staring blankly at the gray giant orc vampire.

“Elf… … . You really were… … .”

In a different sense, it was the same that Harriet was staring blankly at Lruen with her mouth open.

I didn’t think I would be able to get out safely, but I did get out of the ecliptic safely anyway.

We are in a calm and peaceful landscape in a forest where we can hear the chirping of unknown birds, but it is not actually peaceful.

Monsters will be popping out of the warp gates around the world as well as the ecliptic, and many cities will perish without being able to properly deal with them.

And the cities attached to that ruined city would meet the same fate as the spreading monsters.

No matter how much it was to save me, Ellerith couldn’t even raise her head properly as she was the one who caused the incident herself.

Efforts to prevent the Gate incident caused the Gate incident.

But I can’t be bound by such hopelessness.

I see people in this place.

In the end, they are the people who are with me until this point because they believe in me. First of all, I had to explain everything.

“good. First of all, it’s probably the first time I’ve met you, so let me introduce you. These are ancient vampire lords who are older than most countries and my collaborators.”

Hwayo’s Elleris.

Thursday’s Leruen.

Gold Galarsh.

All three of them were taken aback by the unheard-of sound of a road vampire.

“that… … . It’s daytime now… … ?”

“that’s right… … .”

“Just do it.”

There was no time to explain what a Lord Vampire was.

“And I’m not here… … . know? Lucinil, who was close to me.”

“huh.”

“… … Why is he?”

“ah… … . Come to think of it, he was… … .”

Olivia had seen Lucinil suddenly appear.

“Lucinil… … . One of the Lord Vampires who infiltrated the Temple.”

Will Lucinl be safe?

Even as I spoke, one side of my heart couldn’t help but feel a tingle.

* * *

Everyone was taken aback when they heard Lucinil’s true identity, but they couldn’t give enough time to understand him.

Because there are too many things to explain.

Under the premise that everyone believed me without question, I told the best I could.

Just like Elerys did.

That he remembers from the day the demon king was killed by the hero.

Knowing that the gate incident was happening and knowing the future to some extent.

That they’ve been doing everything they can to prevent that gate incident.

Tracking down Akasha and Cantus Magna.

Even the fact that he found out Akasha’s identity, and that things got twisted like this the moment he was about to reveal everything.

That’s why my men started a gate avalanche to save me, so I’m here now.

Elleris already knew the story, but Temple’s three, as well as Galarche and Lruen, all had their eyes wide open at what I said.

“So, while I was trying to stop the Gate incident, I became the direct cause of the Gate incident.”

I don’t know what kind of expression I made when I said that.

Only Olivia and Harriet were biting their lips.

As the person responsible for causing the gate incident, Elleris was unable to say anything out of guilt.

It’s obvious if you don’t look.

I wouldn’t have been able to overcome the impulsiveness of Sarkegar or Antirianus.

Of course, that doesn’t mean Elerith’s crimes will go away.

“Anyway, I can’t just sit back and do nothing just because things have turned out this way. I have to do something.”

It’s funny that I’m the subject of the gate incident and I’m going around trying to clear things up.

But can’t you just do that?

My life is exchanged for the lives of tens or hundreds of millions of people. Even if I didn’t want that, it has already happened.

So even just one.

Isn’t it my duty to save even one life that will die because of me?

Antirianus wants me to collapse in despair, but I have no intention of doing that.

I thought I would save everyone.

Even though I knew I couldn’t save everyone, I tried to do it.

And if in the end I was the cause of the situation where everyone would die.

if you make it like that

If you put me in that situation.

Did you think I’d fall

Did you think I would fall apart?

Did you think it wouldn’t happen again?

If I could die and save everyone, I could.

However, with my current death, I can’t create anything beyond meaninglessness.

What I can do in death is gone, so I will do what I can do in life.

Since I can no longer find meaning in death, I will find meaning in life.

I’m not a strong person, but I thought a lot during the time I was held captive.

In resignation, I hoped that everything would end with my death.

But I’m not dead.

I had to watch the gate incident happen while I was alive, and I was thrown into the world again.

The world wants me to fall

Even if it’s because of that malice, even if it’s unfair, even if it’s because it’s sad.

I can’t quietly break down.

I won’t do anything like standing there in a corner of the continent in a state of disbelief because of the gate crisis, saying I’ve done everything wrong and being crushed in regret.

If you must be strong, you must be strong.

I don’t know what the line in this situation is.

It would be evil to be broken and not rise.

I hoped for goodness, but I couldn’t implement goodness.

At least I will avoid evil.

I decided to stay away from evil.

can’t break down

can’t sit down

I must do what I can.

“Reinhardt… … . Why do we have to save humans? why?”

Those were Olivia’s words.

I didn’t believe in you, I just hated you, and even if I got to know me like this, in the end, everyone would just hate me, saying that the devil was the culprit of everything.

Olivia didn’t seem to understand what I was saying.

“Because I made this world that way.”

This is the world I made, and the characters were sacrificed to the absurdity I made.

if it were real

That is where the imagination became a reality.

Try to solve the absurdity you made, and be subjected to a worse absurdity than that.

I was thrown into such a situation.

It’s the world I made, and it’s the absurdity I made.

so i have to solve it

Everyone doesn’t understand what I mean.

It’s okay if you don’t understand.

Do what you can in any given situation.

Even when I didn’t know what caused the gate incident, I did what I could in the circumstances.

Now that the result has led to the gate crisis.

I still do what I can, given the circumstances.

There is nothing else.

“I have to calm this down somehow from now on.”

“I don’t think I can do everything by myself. What you can do alone is very limited, and when you look at the scale, it won’t be very valuable.”

“I’m trying to do what I can, but it probably doesn’t mean much on my own, so I need a lot of people.”

“I don’t need everyone to cooperate with me. If you don’t understand what I’m trying to do, you don’t have to do anything. But I have to take some responsibility for the people who believed in me and came this far. At least where we can stay safe. I will provide that much.”

“And I’m trying to do something I couldn’t do alone. In order to do that, it has to be ‘we’, not ‘me’.”

“Secure a safe place for us, build our forces, create people who follow us, and increase our strength… … . I’ll have to work on those… … . therefore… … .”

A gate incident has occurred.

That’s why, to solve this, I can no longer be satisfied with myself or a small group of forces.

“I will rebuild the Dark Land.”

That’s why I have no choice but to dream of truly rebuilding the Dark Land now.

I am.

Now that everything is like this, now that everything is broken.

He felt intuition that he should become the king of the reconstructed Dark Land, rather than remaining as the prince of a ruined country.

* * *

In order to calm the gate situation, the demon realm is rebuilt. If you jump in alone, you’ll have no choice but to break down a few gates. If you do, the future that will die like self-destruction is so certain.

I’m incomparably stronger than normal humans, but I have a limit in the end.

It doesn’t matter if I’m a sword master or a grand master.

Even if the sword masters are superhumans, can they save the world?

Through the power of my followers, I will save villages, villages and cities and bring about an end to the Gate Crisis.

So it is better to use my political power and influence than my own.

“I haven’t thought about who will follow me or how I can form my forces. But once… … .”

“I know.”

I was about to say something, but Olivia said.

“What?”

“On your side, someone who will listen to you unconditionally. No, people.”

I thought I knew what Olivia was talking about.

“If it is the Five Great Main Churches… … . As long as I’m certain of the cause of the gate incident, I don’t think they’ll try to deny it no matter how much I have the holy relic.”

“No, not that one.”

Olivia shook her head.

“Matheistic.”

ah.

It was only then that a proposition that had been forgotten because of what had happened came to mind.

Demonic Church.

“I know where the Demonicists’ stronghold is and where they are.”

no, when?

“The demonists think you should really die, not pretend to die. I saw them all.”

After that, Olivia told me in detail that the ruined city in the desert area of ​​Gelkolgir was the stronghold of the demonists, and that they had already identified all of their strongholds.

Originally, I thought they would be my enemies, so I tried to mobilize the Templars to wipe them out, but I even added a story that I was captured by the knights of Chanafell before reporting to the Templars.

drinking cult.

They’re dangerous guys, but I need strength now.

It is a situation where strength is needed most of all. The demonists who worship me even though I didn’t want to, and who absolutely think about my words, are a force that must be secured in the current situation.

This happened because the timing wasn’t right.

If the timing had gone wrong, the Demonic Christians would have already been annihilated by the Templar Knights.

This off-beat has been a terrible thing for me, but at the same time, it’s also a boon at some point.

Harriet and Liana didn’t seem to understand how Olivia could have found out such information.

Those two don’t know that Olivia can handle demonic powers.

It would have been easy to gain the trust of the demon cultists just by handling the power of the demon gods, so reaching them would have been the easiest thing for Olivia.

“good… … . Then, it would be important to put the Demonic Cultists under them first… … .”

Securing the power of the Demonic Church as my own was also a very important condition.

And the Gelcorgis desert area is uninhabited. There are no warp gates there, so apart from being unaffected by the Gate Crisis, you wouldn’t even know that this is happening on the continent.

-Food Deuddeuk!

From somewhere, a swarm of black bats started flying in from one side of the forest. Harriet pointed to it, her complexion turning white.

“Um, what is that… … ?”

“Don’t be scared.”

It soon came together in front of us and transformed into an old man wearing a black suit, fedora, and holding a cane.

Antirianus looks at me, takes off his hat and bows his head deeply.

“Meet the Great One.”

Antirianus smiled and put his hat back on, seemingly amused by the situation.

okay.

I’m going to die of love for this situation where I’ve reached the answer to everything and become a mess in the situation.

“That old man is the last of the Lord Vampires I mentioned earlier, Antirianus of Toyo. I’m out of my mind, so don’t be friendly.”

“haha. Your words are harsh.”

Despite my verbal abuse, Antirianus just laughed and said nothing.

It seems like the amount of information these three have to take in is too much. Anyway, there was no time to calmly explain.

“Patriarch of Demand and Lord Sarkegar have been captured, and Lord Loyard and Epinhauser are dead.”

Antirianus came with a treasure trove.

Mr. Epinhauser and Royard are dead.

“Sir, teacher… … . why?”

“My teacher?”

Lyanna and Harriet both turned pale when they heard that Dr. Epinhauser had died.

I don’t know why.

Mr. Epinhauser tried to save me, and said it was not the order’s will.

Dr. Epinhauser betrayed the will of the Order and tried to save me, and died.

And Loyard died too.

It’s hard to believe that Rotary clubs will survive.

What happened to Adriana?

Some survived, but too many were dead or whose fate was unknown.

“… … .”

I was shuddering with the pressure and despair that seemed to tighten my heart.

Why did Dr. Epinhauser die for me?

I want to think about the death of Loyard and my clubmates, but I don’t have time to sink into it.

I don’t know what a king is, and I never thought I’d want to be one.

I had no intention of answering Sarkegar’s wish for me to become king.

However, I decided to become a king.

A king would not be a place for someone who is saddened by such things, depressed, locked in a corner and sinking into despair.

What happened is what happened.

Who loved me, how much I loved someone.

What were the memories I had with them, and what kind of existence they were to me.

Rather than remembering it, it would be an existence that should arrange the future.

So I put it off, I put off thinking about it forever, and I put it off and put it off until after everything is okay.

completely forgotten.

In the end, beings who do not know what to remember, who to remember, and what to mourn.

that would be the king

Royard is dead.

Epinhauser is dead.

however.

Lucinil and Sarkegar were captured.

Still alive.

Grief for the dead is postponed.

Although I don’t know when I’ll be able to grieve for that.

Death cannot be undone, so I must delay the death of my people who are still alive.

“Antyrianus, can you deliver a message to the empire?”

“Anything is possible.”

I have to be the one who arranges the future.

You cannot be bound by the past.

“The incident happened, but tell them that we will deal with the gate incident in our own way, and that we have no intention of fighting humans.”

The gate crisis has already happened.

“But if you kill Lucinil and Sarkegar, from that moment on, it’s permanent enmity.”

This is no joke.

“Tell me so.”

The usual empire cannot be destroyed.

“If I, who absorbed the demonic cult, tried to do that, I wouldn’t know that I could do it as much as I wanted.”

However, if I now absorb the power of the Demonic Cult, the empire may not be a problem, but humanity may fall.

The Empire might be stupid enough not to know that. So you can kill Lucinil and Sarkegar.

If that happens, I will destroy the empire and build a new one on the ruins.

Because there is no need for the master of mankind to be human.

“Heh, heh heh… … . By all means, I will tell you that. Great Being… … .”

I narrowed my brows as I saw Antirianus laughing as if he was enjoying my words and decision.

It was an inspiration that must have spurred on Ellerith.

“I know it won’t be fun if I change the words strangely and convey them.”

At my words, Antirianus shook his head.

“haha… … . Could I possibly pursue such trivial fun?”

okay.

I believe in the words of Antirianus that he would not play rash jokes unless it was for extreme fun.

– Jjiik! snap!

-Food Deuddeuk!

Everyone was looking ominously at Antirianus, who turned into a swarm of bats and flew away.

They threaten the empire that if they recklessly threaten the safety of Sarkegar and Lucinil, they will end up in real trouble.

The Empire may hate me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stop thinking about what would happen if they made me their enemy.

Getting them back may be difficult right now, but it might be possible in the long run.

“Arcdemon, then, do you intend to go to Gelcorgis Desert from now on?”

Lruen looked at me and asked.

Will Galarche and Lluen continue to cooperate with me?

Even if those two decide to leave, I have nothing to say. Because you have done so much for me who has nothing to give.

“Gelcorgis Desert is also my base. If I know exactly where the demonists are, I might be able to deliver them.”

“I guess so. But it is not a priority.”

There are more important things than securing power.

position.

A land where we can be safe.

and before that.

I see Harriet and Liana.

“You and your family… … . What are you going to do?”

They both tried to save me somehow. I don’t know what the plan was, but it got messed up because of the Gate Incident.

However, it was clear that he thought his family was in danger when this happened. It’s not just their lives at risk, it’s because the lives of people on the entire continent are at risk.

“Arnaka… … . It will be fine… … . Trust my dad… … .”

Arnaca, the capital of the Principality of Saint-Ouan.

The Grand Duke said that he would be more worried about his daughter who was on the side of the Demon King. Harriet lowered her head and clenched her fists.

Heriot seemed to believe that the Archduke, as well as the Principality of Saint-Ouan, would be able to cope with the Gate incident, even if it caused confusion.

I see Liana this time. Liana looked at the other side of the forest and spoke slowly, as if sighing.

“… … I told my mom that I was going to do this today.”

Whatever the case, Liana knew that the Empire, not me, was the target of her revenge. Having said that, it must have meant that Riana’s mother knew about it.

Liana decided to stand on the side of the demon king to destroy the empire, and her mother also agreed.

After the death of Duke Grantz, it was clear that the Duchess had changed a lot in her mind.

The Duchess allowed Riana to risk her life to avenge her father.

But now, the danger is not Liana, but the Duchess.

Harriet trembles with fear, but because she believes in the power of the Duke of Saint-Ouane and the Duchy, it is different from being anxious and believing that her father will be safe.

The Duchess’s life is in danger, and even if she is safe until the gate situation is stabilized, as long as it is certain that Liana is on my side, the Duchess cannot be safe.

Liana clenched her fists and shook her hands.

“So mom… … . know. The last time we went… … .”

hmm?

no way?

“Edina Archipelago?”

“Yeah, I’m sheltering at the villa over there. If I do this… … . It will be dangerous… … .”

Since Liana was going to have an accident, Duchess Grantz also took shelter in advance.

However, the life of the Duchess would be in danger as a gate incident would have occurred in the Edina Archipelago as well. That’s why Liana decided to help me, but knowing that her mother’s life was in danger, she couldn’t put her mind at ease.

“Good.”

But at my words, Liana looked at me and narrowed her eyes, and of course Harriet flinched as if asking what she was talking about.

“what? Are you okay?”

“It’s fine then.”

I crossed my arms.

“We are going to the Edina Islands from now on.”

From now on, the place we will use as our base.

Not only saving Airi who is in danger, but also a place that is too far from the continent and news is delivered very late.

Edina Archipelago.

The isolated archipelago is a suitable place for us to grow our power while hiding from the eyes of the Empire.

“We will occupy the Edina Islands.”

That will be the first starting point of the reconstructed Dark Land.

I’m going to rescue Airi.

And I will also save the Duchess of Grantz.

So it has to be a good thing.