Revenge Against the Fourth Traitor
Within the Dark Empire, the two Elf forests had fallen. Every Elf was either dead or turned into a Dark Elf, and only an extremely small number of Elf women remained as forced prostitutes for the demons while still calling themselves Elves.
In particular, the number of surviving Elf men was no more than forty, and those were only young boys.
Moreover, the fact that the girls in the Elf forests had become Dark Elves remained unknown, and so did what had happened to the World Trees in those two Elf forests.
If the Elf forests were the ones serving to block the border with the Sardinia Kingdom, even the slightest clue about what had become of them would have been detected. Yet the Elf forests inside the Dark Empire were unknown to everyone except the Forces of Darkness, who ruled the Dark Empire.
Sending a spy into the Dark Empire was out of the question; the traitor would be discovered immediately, captured, and killed right there.
If he had truly become a Force of Darkness, radiating demonic energy, he would simply be enslaved by the Demon King Jae-hyun and forced to reveal all the information he knew to his master.
As a result, no one knew what had become of the World Trees or the Elves’ welfare. But unlike the tragic fate the Elves had suffered, the World Trees remained untouched.
They had not been corrupted by demonic energy and were even more secure, protected by the Holy Power of the Demon King’s Holy Sword.
‘It is coming soon.’
Jae-hyun thought this as he sat bound to a chair, a gag in his mouth, and gazed at Lucretia.
It had been only three days since his arrival. For Lucretia, less than a day had passed, yet her belly was swollen to an astonishing degree.
“Huuu…”
With the gag in her mouth, Lucretia’s wrists were tied behind the chair, her legs spread wide apart and secured, her sex fully exposed. Her hips were also slightly raised due to the wide leg spread, allowing her anus to be clearly visible if one looked carefully.
When Jae-hyun’s eyes met hers, Lucretia trembled, her face twisted in fear. As he rose from his seat and approached, she thrashed desperately.
“Mmph! Mmph!”
Jae-hyun stood before the beautiful Elf woman’s spread sex and gently touched the delicate color of her pubic hair.
“Truly beautiful. If you had not been my target for revenge, I would have made you my concubine on the spot.”
Jae-hyun deliberately used the word “concubine” rather than “wife.” No matter how she struggled, she would always be beneath Irene.
Irene, now a Great Archdemon and no longer human or of the Intermediate World, had been the most beautiful maiden of the Intermediate World. And the most beautiful maiden of the Intermediate World was currently pregnant with a demon’s spawn, her belly swollen.
“The demons who tasted your flesh were all delighted. They said it was the most delicious food they had ever eaten.”
Fear flashed in Lucretia’s eyes at Jae-hyun’s words. Every demon looked at her with hungry eyes, saliva dripping.
It was because she was beautiful; they wanted to have sex with her, but more than anything, they wanted to devour the Saint.
“Especially your plump breasts and ass. Give birth quickly. After you deliver, my subordinates will cut you open while you are still warm and serve your meat as sashimi.”
“Mmph! Mmph!”
Lucretia thrashed even more desperately, trying to shake off the gag and speak, but her bound limbs made it impossible.
As Jae-hyun stroked her beautiful silver hair, feeling its silky texture, he watched the terrified, writhing Lucretia with a soft, almost affectionate gaze. The sight of her beautiful body convulsing in fear was truly beautiful, lovely, and adorable.
And the image of her screaming while her warm ass was carved up would be even more so.
“Heh heh.”
Jae-hyun suppressed a full laugh and placed his hand on Lucretia’s cheek, gently caressing it.
“Truly beautiful. A saintly beauty. Pay close attention. The Saint who betrayed us together with the other traitors is the one who is slowly destroying this world, wielded by the Demon King Jae-hyun.”
In a way, the Demon King smiled at the Saint, one of the creators of himself, and left the Demon King’s castle. Only Irene remained beside him.
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Gallia Kingdom.
“Huuu…”
William, the Gale Sword Emperor, one of the ten heroes who had saved the continent ten years ago and a comrade of the summoned hero, was sitting in a chair and sighing deeply. The meeting yesterday had brought him many worries.
When he learned that the most important power, Irene—the Flash Magic Swordswoman—had already been taken back by Jae-hyun, he felt a deep sense of gloom.
Irene was far faster than even the Gale Sword Emperor. For that reason, William had always envied her talent.
If envy were false, then jealousy would be false as well. Yet he had not been jealous like Karl Tenant. He had not even felt envy toward Jae-hyun’s talent; he had only been awestruck.
It was because of the many supports Ferdinand had promised and the thought that Jae-hyun’s disappearance would benefit the continent.
William, from the fallen Rodriguez family, once a mere count of Gallia Kingdom, wanted to revive his family as Karl had done.
His powerful Gale Sword Emperor aura had allowed him to perform great deeds in the war against the Forces of Darkness and rise to his current position.
As a Duke with power surpassing even the King of Gallia, he was satisfied with his place and worked hard to expand the kingdom’s territory.
Gallia Kingdom was a small nation compared to the northern Minoa Kingdom or the southern Valois Kingdom. Therefore, he had tried to seize as much territory as possible from the fallen Calmar Kingdom, particularly the northern and northeastern lands.
The Valois Kingdom, which had seized the southeastern Calmar lands, and the Minoa Kingdom, which had taken considerable territory from the Iberian Kingdom, had become even larger. For Gallia, there was still a long road ahead.
That was why William had thought of the exchange of Elves and Dwarves living inside Gallia Kingdom.
He already knew the efficiency of the weapons crafted by the Dwarves without anyone needing to tell him, and he had praised the Elf bows as superior even to those made by Dwarves.
Of course, there were not many Elves or Dwarves living in Gallia Kingdom. In fact, the only Elf forest on the continent with the smallest population—only sixty thousand—was located there. The smallest and second-smallest forests belonged to the Habsburg Empire, which also had ten thousand more Elves in yet another forest, totaling one hundred and ninety thousand Elves living within its borders. Yet Gallia Kingdom, with only sixty thousand Elves, was the nation with the fewest.
Dwarves were also the fewest in number, with only around forty thousand living in the entire continent.
Especially the Elf forests of Gallia Kingdom, located in the southwest of the kingdom, were disadvantageous. The Minoa Kingdom in the north had no Dwarf caves, so no Dwarves lived there—a happy stroke of luck for Gallia. But the Valois Kingdom in the south housed a full one hundred thousand Dwarves. Through them, Gallia could maintain contact with the Elf forests: sixty thousand to the northwest and ten thousand to the southwest, totaling one hundred and sixty thousand Elves.
William had not been wrong to bring in the Venice Kingdom and Sardinia Kingdom to restrain Valois. But now was the time to unite all forces.
‘Using that method…’
The plan proposed by Ferdinand and Griffith, reviewed together by Jason, was difficult for William and Karl to understand. As a Saint who had studied ancient records thoroughly, Lucretia would have had many other opinions when hearing it. But since she had already been captured by Jae-hyun, her participation was impossible.
However, the method of Ferdinand and Griffith was risky. Its success was not certain, and in reality it was little different from staking everything on a final hope.
If Jae-hyun had returned even a few days late, Irene’s transformation would have been complete, and she would have become an even stronger power. But she was already beside him with her brainwashing broken, creating not one but two enemies more terrifying than Demon King Laylana.
“Damn it… I should have killed him back then.”
Eating the bread that had come out as dessert, William showed his regret. His sword had not pierced Jae-hyun’s abdomen cleanly enough to cut his throat.
Because Irene had interfered, he had failed to kill him. Because Irene had pushed him through the gap, he had given up on chasing and eliminating the man who fell to another dimension.
Crossing the gap meant never returning. No one wanted such a sacrifice.
Even now, if he could turn back, he would not have sacrificed himself. If he had truly possessed the spirit to sacrifice, he would never have betrayed Jae-hyun.
The regret was simply that he had not stabbed him in the heart instead of the abdomen.
That was the moment. William felt the atmosphere inside his room change.
He had wanted to be spared during meal time, so he usually had people waiting outside while he ate alone in his room.
Food, wine, and drinks were brought by servants who waited outside for his command. And William’s keen senses allowed him to know exactly who was outside.
But right now he felt nothing from outside! No, he could sense nothing beyond the room, as if something was blocking it. He realized he was trapped inside a barrier.
“Yes, you must be regretting it a lot, William Rodriguez.”
“Y-You!”
Even after becoming a Duke, the appearance of a handsome black-haired youth who had appeared ten years ago during the battle against the Forces of Darkness, calling himself by his name at that time, caused William to shout in shock.
The black-haired youth who had arrived with a beautiful golden-haired girl beside him, the Demon King Jae-hyun, looked at the traitor who had stabbed him in the abdomen and smiled.
“The moment I had longed for even in my dreams for ten years…”
Of course, as a Demon King, Jae-hyun had not slept for a long time even before dreaming, but the point was the same.