Chapter 53
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 53
Chapter Title: Dispatch
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“Two weeks until their return... But why haven't we received any reports? We clearly agreed they'd send word from inside the dungeon.”
“Even I have no idea about that, sir.”
The knight's gaze pierced straight into Alcom's head.
His eyes, brimming with suspicion, bored into him relentlessly.
But that was all.
The knight couldn't confirm anything.
Not unless he entered the dungeon himself.
He unleashed waves of killing intent, demanding Alcom spit out the truth, but Alcom wasn't the type to tremble at such tactics.
“Looks like it's true, then.”
“Of course it is.”
“In that case, we'll wait here in the village until they emerge.”
“Ah, then allow us to prepare comfortable accommodations for you.”
“Much obliged.”
Alcom bowed his head.
He recalled the Demon King's words: he'd emerge in two weeks.
'Two weeks.'
Alcom realized the foolish knight before him had only two weeks left to live.
He'd have to treat him well without raising suspicion.
A last supper? That much he could certainly provide.
“We'll offer you our finest hospitality during your stay.”
Time flew by in a blur.
Summoning monsters and installing fitting traps barely left enough hours in the day.
On top of that, I spent my nights with Amy and Rebecca, Ariana and Frederike.
“Demon King... I praise you. For embracing this girl and taking me to your paradise...”
Amy craved worshipful service through sex, gazing up at me with eyes full of devotion.
“Sniff sniff... Demon King scent... It smells so good...”
Rebecca always ditched her mask whenever we met, sniffing every inch of my body.
“Grrraaah! D-Did you think I'd loseeee?!”
Frederike deliberately provoked me, begging for even rougher sex. In those moments of domination, as I crushed her beneath me, her eyes gleamed with a twisted mix of ecstasy and pleasure.
Matching her masochistic cravings with her ironclad durability was no small feat.
“Demon King, I want to drink your semen. Pour it into my lower mouth, fill my womb to the brim...”
Ariana savored sex like it was a feast designed to milk every last drop of my seed, as if determined to swallow it all.
Even as we fucked, her fangs seemed sharper and more prominent than before.
I barely had a moment to breathe.
Sometimes, two of them ganged up on me at once.
There were days when they paired off in twos, assaulting me nonstop until my body felt like it might give out.
“Haaang! Demon Kiiing!!! It feels so gooood!! Ungh!”
My fingers dug into Ariana's ass.
Even impaled like that, she kept rocking her hips to wring out my cum.
Her technique grew more lascivious with every passing day.
Especially when her pussy muscles rippled like waves along my shaft—it drove me to the edge of madness.
As Ariana squeezed my semen from me with her pussy, Frederike pinched my nipple hard.
A sharp, burning pain shot through my chest.
“Ngh!”
“How's that? Hurts, doesn't it? Feels good to put a maso bitch like me in her place, right?”
Her eyes burned with a strange hunger as she taunted me.
Torment me like this, and she'll get torment twice over in return.
That was what her gaze was pleading for.
Torment me. Send me to Valhalla.
I fixed her with a cold glare, and she shivered violently.
Goosebumps prickled across her pale skin, stark against her black scales.
“Insolent wretch. A half-broken lizard who's fallen to depravity, reduced to whimpering with lust.”
“Hnnngh!”
Her body twitched.
“Is that what you want? A proper lesson?”
“L-Lesson? N-No, a fair duel...!”
Despite her defiant tone, her lizard tail swished back and forth playfully.
I grabbed her horn and yanked.
She resisted, but she couldn't match my strength anymore.
I hauled her toward me by the horn and glared down at the cheeky lizard.
“A fair duel is for equals. Pets like you, collared and leashed, have no right to even utter the words—it's a sacred rite beyond your station.”
“Y-Yes... I'm just a worthless lizard...!”
The harder I gripped her horn, the more her expression melted.
I could've sworn hearts were floating in her eyes now.
Frederike looked up at me with a dopey grin, her long dragonkin tongue lapping at my chest.
She tenderly licked the nipple she'd just pinched, all traces of her ancient dragonkin pride gone.
“I-I'm sorryyy...”
As atonement, she licked my nipple while grinding her face against me, her ass wiggling desperately.
The dragonkin warrior who swept enemies aside with her massive muscles on the battlefield now strained those same muscles to pleasure me. It was so ridiculous, I couldn't help smirking.
“D-Don't look at me like thaaat... Haaah!”
Even my mocking sneer was fuel for her fire.
“I-Insult me more... Make me a viler lizard so I can serve the Demon King properly...!”
I slapped her ass.
Smack!
“Kyaaah!!”
She screamed, and pissed herself.
Legs buckling, she collapsed right there.
“V-Valhalla...”
At that moment, a magic message from Kina and Rayleigh arrived.
The Hero suspects the two of us.
Since the holy sword didn't detect it, we're not fully corrupted yet.
The kingdom is preparing to dispatch a knight order to the dungeon.
A burst of light appeared before me, and a note materialized in my hand.
Her message was concise.
But packed with useful intel.
“Ariana.”
“Y-Yes, Demon King...?”
“Your pussy's grip is getting weak. Keep that up, and you won't get your cum.”
“I-I'll try harder! Hnngh!”
Thanks to Ariana's renewed efforts, I unloaded deep inside her.
“Good work.”
“Th-Thank youuu... Hnng!”
I patted Ariana's ass in reward and stood, brushing myself off.
The two women, utterly spent, whimpered now and then in the throne room, but I didn't have time to clean up after them.
“Yulia.”
“Yes, Demon King.”
“It's time to move. We expand our territory now. Everything's ready, so we need to prepare a welcome for our guests.”
“Understood, Demon King.”
Yulia bowed.
“Bergio.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Do you think the Hero's suspicions about Kina and Rayleigh hold water?”
“It seems likely. But we can't be certain. Arresting them on suspicion alone...”
“It's the ties with the Magic Tower. A rank-six mage is a rare asset even there.”
King Aslan swallowed hard after Bergio's report.
Even if he suspected the mages, without ironclad proof, he couldn't touch them.
Snatch them without cause, sour relations with the Tower, and every mage under their banner might pull out of the kingdom.
“The holy sword not reacting bothers me.”
To capture those two mages, he'd need justification.
The Hero's instincts alone wouldn't cut it.
“Suppose the kingdom's mages really were brainwashed by the Demon King. Could you take them down?”
“Seventy-thirty odds in my favor. Their combo's strong, but not against me.”
“...And with the Hero?”
“Better odds.”
“What if the Hero goes alone?”
“Her win rate would be higher than mine.”
“You think Sage is stronger than you?”
“Yes. With the holy sword's power, she's at least my superior.”
“Hm. Trusting the Hero...”
The king sighed, staring at the ceiling.
“A tough call...”
“...”
“Sir Bergio.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Go to Dibel Forest yourself and uncover the truth. If the mages are telling the truth, I'll apologize personally for doubting them. But if they're lying...”
Resolve hardened in the king's wrinkled eyes.
“I'll brand those two human traitors and order their execution.”
“Understood.”
“Dispatch...?”
Sage eyed the fully armored Bergio.
“Yes. His Majesty agrees your concerns about Kina and Rayleigh's behavior warrant a check.”
“I-I'll go! Why the captain?!”
It made no sense.
If he didn't trust them, just arrest and interrogate them.
Why send him blindly into what might be enemy territory without intel?
“Politics. I share your suspicions, but we must consider the Magic Tower.”
Bergio ruffled her hair with a gentle smile.
“Worried about me?”
“Of course. Just thirty knights for an outing...?”
“Someone has to guard the capital. And if those two are corrupted, we'll need knights here to take them down.”
“...”
“Sage, stay at the capital. The moment we confirm their corruption...”
Bergio's eyes sharpened.
The knight captain's gaze.
His face filled with killing intent, he whispered his order.
“Kill them. Both. Don't listen to a word they say.”
“Understood.”
“Good. Take care of yourself.”
Bergio mounted his horse.
Sage watched him go, an inexplicable unease gnawing at her.
A dread that if she let him leave now, she'd never see him again.
“C-Captain?”
“What is it?”
“After this mission, when you return...”
Bergio paused atop his horse, waiting.
“I found a great place in the capital. Dinner together...?”
“As long as it's not seafood.”
“N-No! It's famous for steaks.”
“Hahaha! Kidding. If Sage wants to go, anywhere's fine.”
Bergio nodded with a hearty laugh.
“I'll look forward to it.”
“Me too.”
Bergio rode off toward Dibel Forest.
Gazing at his receding figure, Sage unconsciously gripped the holy sword at her waist.
“It's been two weeks as promised. Where's the update?”
Alcom's legs shook under the knight's murderous glare.
Pure killing intent.
One wrong word, and he'd be dead.
“W-Well... I-I don't know either.”
“Don't toy with me. If your story's true, the advance team should be back by now. So why the silence?”
The knight bared his teeth with a growl.
“Th-That's beyond my knowledge...”
“You bastard!”
Shing!
The knight drew his sword.
Alcom wet himself under the full brunt of a trained knight's aura.
“I'd stop there if I were you.”
A savior's voice rang out.
Nearly two meters tall, navy-blue skin, thick horns sprouting from his head.
Alcom collapsed at the sight of the Demon King's true form.
Utterly unlike the human guise he'd worn before.
“Aaaah...”
The village chief prostrated himself, trembling.
“Wh-What is this...?”
Before the knight could react to the Demon King, his head flew.
Blood sprayed as he crumpled.
“Casual speech to the Demon King? How rude.”
It was Rebecca.
The Demon King approached Alcom slowly.
“Gr-Great One.”
“You held the line well. Good work.”
The Demon King offered the promised potion as reward.
“Th-Thank you.”
Alcom took it and watched the Demon King stare into space, lost in thought.
After sorting his thoughts, he spoke slowly.
“Subjugation.”
Subjugation
Rumble...!
The ground began to shake.