Chapter 337: translated
I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.
Chapter 337
When the world becomes chaotic, it divides and becomes hostile.
People who cannot endure freedom within disorder surrender themselves to abnormally controlled order.
Caesar thought that those he was cutting down were also such kind of people.
"The Red King has overthrown the Forest King!"
"Oh, Your Majesty. Lead us!"
Caesar pulled Thunder from the head of the Bandit King he had just broken.
The people who had followed the bandits prostrated themselves before Caesar.
There were armed bandits among them, but also many young children and young women.
Gloria approached Caesar and asked.
"Lord Caesar, what should we do?"
Caesar wiped the blood from his axe with a cloth.
"Collect all weapons and bring anyone who appears to be related to devils before me."
"Yes. Understood."
Caesar sat on the throne where the Forest King had sat and looked down at the village that the Forest King had led.
Everywhere he could see symbols familiar to Caesar's eyes.
"These devil cult bastards, acting like they own the world."
Every house had an Adoratorum with an inverted pentagram drawn on a goat skull hanging on it. This was the third village he had encountered with Adoratorums hanging.
It had been almost three weeks since heading toward Homigraph, so he had encountered them roughly once a week.
Caesar's soldiers brought people with their hands and feet bound to slings. All of them were humans with inverted pentagrams drawn on their foreheads.
They spat at Caesar's feet.
"Be cursed! Caesar El Lindger! You will grovel before the King of Niflheim!"
"Your soul will be thrown into hellfire and burn for eternity!"
Caesar said while caressing the axe blade with his finger.
"I don't know if the era created you, or if you are creating the era."
Caesar stood up from his seat, holding Thunder, and stood before them. Fear seeped into their eyes.
"However, I do know that you deserve to die for skinning living people, forcibly embedding goat horns into heads, and conducting demonic experiments."
Caesar raised Thunder.
"Die, you damn devil worshippers."
Thud!
When Caesar killed the one at the front, the knights behind beheaded the devil worshippers.
The red blood of the devil worshippers mixed with the mud.
Caesar shook off the blood from Thunder and said.
"Somehow, the closer we get to Homigraph, the more these devil cult bastards are thriving."
"Could Homigraph have fallen to the devil cult as well?"
"That's impossible. If it had, they would have all been burned to death by Arch Duke."
Caesar saw a newspaper fallen on the ground.
"No, wait."
Caesar brushed off the mud on the newspaper and read it.
[Eileen Empire Grants Unlimited Military Independence to Duke Noah Arch.]
[Duke Noah Arch Will Take Up the Staff for His Imperial Majesty.]
"Now it wouldn't matter if we called him His Royal Majesty."
If he has unlimited independent military authority, that's basically a kingdom.
I can feel the ass-show of Hilos desperately struggling to prevent the independence of Wizard Province all the way from here.
Caesar unfolded the newspaper and quickly skimmed through the headlines.
[Was Home Town Really Annihilated?]
[Where is Sith, the Ringleader?]
[Redfield Family Divides.]
[Redfield, War of Princes Breaks Out.]
[Count Springfield Establishes the Kingdom of Springfield.]
[Royder, 100,000 Del for Just Revealing the Location of Caesar the Blasphemer.......]
The world is truly a mess.
Originally, the period of warring states is the most chaotic time, but experiencing it firsthand makes one's mind dizzy.
Caesar threw the newspaper into the bonfire.
"We'll stay here tonight. We'll move again tomorrow morning, so rest well."
"Yes! Baptism King!"
Caesar clicked his tongue.
"...... Baptism King my ass."
Although this is an era of calling for kings, he really hates such cringe-worthy nicknames.
"Hah...... When will we reach Homigraph."
Caesar watched his breath dispersing quickly.
It's now early March.
The time when winter barley begins to find humility.
That means the weather has become warmer, and at the same time, it also means it's better for waging war.
"Now a bloody storm will blow across the continent."
The climax of the warring states arrives.
***
"There they are! The Home Town guys!"
"Kill them quickly!"
Bang! Rattle!
The compatriots following behind were killed, but they did not stop their steps.
This was because they had already become accustomed to losing their compatriots.
The man wearing a flat cap who was leading at the front stopped his steps.
And he gave a hand signal. At the signal to escape into the house nearby, the men immediately hid inside the house. Only the man wearing the flat cap remained in the alley.
"Stop!"
Four steel knights walked out in front of the alley.
Just having four knights blocking the alley made it feel like a wall.
Following that, dozens of soldiers with guns rushed over and took aim. The man wearing the flat cap, whose escape route was blocked, raised his hands.
Four knights wearing armor with lion pictures drawn on their chests approached through the soldiers.
"Finally caught you."
The knight said, looking at the man wearing the flat cap.
"Traitor Sith."
Sith said nothing and just glared at the knights. The knights threw handcuffs at Sith.
"I promise. Put on these handcuffs obediently. Then I'll spare your hidden subordinates."
"Then what happens to me?"
The Steel Lion knights gritted their teeth and said.
"You, who dared to damage the Steel Fortress and incite innocent people to rebellion, will be executed immediately. No, not simply execution, but we'll cut your limbs into pieces and chew them up bit by bit."
The knights raised their hands. Then the soldiers aimed at Sith.
"Die, Sith."
As the knight lowered his hand and hid beside the alley, countless bullets rained toward Sith. The Steel Lion knights were certain that Sith would die with bullet holes.
This was because they had heard that although Sith was a former knight, his combat ability was not exceptional.
At that moment, screams flowed from the alley. Not just one, but several screams. The Steel Lion knights quickly examined the alley.
Bang! Bang! Rattle!
"Aaaaaaah!"
Sith, who was expected to have holes all over his body, was unharmed. Rather, the soldiers were being slaughtered by Sith.
"What the...!"
The Steel Lion knights immediately rushed towards Sith. Nets poured out from the alley.
"What...?"
With more than 10 nets thrown into the narrow alley, the Steel Lion knights had no way to escape.
Only one Steel Lion knight who was at the front could escape the nets, but the other knights struggled, trapped in the nets.
Hissssss!
Ten lit bombs flew in simultaneously.
Baaaaaang!
The knights caught in the nets were blown to death.
The Steel Lion knight looked up at the sky. Throughout the alley, Home Town people with nets, bombs, and guns could be seen.
"When did so many..."
Sith beheaded the last remaining soldier.
The Steel Lion knight shouted and rushed at Sith. Sith avoided the sword of the Steel Lion knight rushing at him.
The Steel Lion knight felt sweat running down his back as his sword repeatedly missed. Sith dodged half a step ahead, as if he knew where the knight would attack.
"Elijah would think Home Town was annihilated."
Thousands of people filled the alley.
"That's his arrogance."
Sith cut the knight's wrist.
"Kuk!"
The knight dropped his sword.
Sith tripped him and placed a sword at his neck.
"Don't underestimate the anger of those who have lost their hometown and family."
The knight saw the angry eyes of the people surrounding him. There were ordinary housewives, disabled people with missing arms, and young children.
"Those who have lost their families and hometown are all Home Town."
Sith stabbed the sword into the knight's nape. The knight struggled for a while but eventually stopped breathing not long after.
"Strike down Elijah’s soldiers hidden in the city, and behead and display the nobles and soldiers who took your sons and fathers."
The flat cap was blown off in the wind.
"This is the beginning of the revenge we've been waiting for."
On Sith's head, two small horns had grown. People knelt before Sith.
"Yes! Our King!"
Sith's eyes, looking at them, turned purple.
***
Caesar sat facing Agatha, drinking tea.
Agatha tasted the tea once and smiled brightly.
"Hmm, now you can handle dreams quite well?"
"Has the aroma improved?"
"Yes. Now it can really be called black tea."
Agatha placed the teacup on the square table.
Caesar sighed and put down the table.
"It's not as easy as I thought to create taste and aroma in dreams."
"Of course. It's the realm of creating the world. I'm used to it, but you're not."
Caesar put a cookie from the table into his mouth. It was so dry that it felt like chewing sand.
"I might as well meet you and have real cookies and tea."
"Want to see me soon?"
"A little?"
"Just a little?"
"A lot?"
"How much."
"...Let's stop. It's draining."
Agatha chuckled. She said while putting a cookie into her mouth.
"More importantly, the situation on the continent is not looking good, I hear?"
"Yeah. Everyone's going crazy claiming to be a king right now."
"You're a king too. What was it again? Baptism King? Wandering King? Red King?"
"I really don't know who comes up with such childish names."
"People always like to give nicknames. Like finding honor and nicknames even in war."
"I don't really like such things. If I meet Arch Duke like this, it would be awkward."
"Then would a king be placed under a Duke?"
Caesar sighed.
"That's actually giving me a bit of a headache. I'm not sure how Arch Duke will react."
"Then why did you receive the baptism sword?"
"Don't you know that the man who received the completed baptism sword became the emperor who unified the continent? If I could become that strong, of course I should take it."
Of course, he had no idea that the baptism sword would turn into oil and seep into Caesar's body.
When Yan used the completed baptism sword, there was no such setting.
Caesar had planned to just stuff it in his subspace bag and use it as a buff, just like carrying Flawless.
"By now, couldn't we handle Elijah?"
"Don't be too careless. That guy is a monster who lived for 300 years. He'll also have countermeasures since he heard you've become stronger."
As Agatha said, one must not be careless. Elijah that bastard wouldn't just sit still.
"By the way, how's the situation in the demon realm?"
Agatha snapped her fingers. Then the panorama of Luxhope appeared.
"The demon realm is more stable than expected. Perhaps because Elijah is obsessed with catching Sith, we were able to stabilize the demon realm faster than expected."
"How are the soldiers?"
"The human side seems to have gathered about 50,000, including non-combat personnel, and we also have about 10,000, including non-combat personnel."
"Are you short on food and such?"
"We are short, but we've already taught humans how to farm in the demon realm and what things can be eaten
"Whether Mitchell anticipated that it would be a long-term battle, or because he focused on securing food rather than combat training, they are now somewhat self-sufficient."
That Mitchell guy is really something. He's amazing at swordsmanship, but he's also knowledgeable in administrative and political fields, so in some ways he might be much more of a cheat character than Yan.
"How about your side? Where are you now?"
"We've entered the Wizard Province. Of course, our numbers have increased in the meantime."
"By how much?"
"Originally there were 10,000 people in Shalibi, but now it's already increased to 30,000."
"...Is it possible to cross the continent with that many people?"
"Most of them are people I told not to follow me. Since they're mostly people who insisted on following me, I just told them to come on their own."
For people to follow Caesar, who is being cursed across the continent for breaking the Holy Grail, the state of this world must be quite extraordinary.
"More importantly, Arch Duke is the problem. The numbers have grown too much, and if Arch Duke misunderstands and thinks I'm trying to start a rebellion, it will be really troublesome."
A person leading over 30,000 people, including knights and soldiers, who has received the blessing of the Baptism Sword and is being called king, is coming to Homigraph?
Even though the relationship between Caesar and Arch Duke is good, will he really welcome him?
Isn't it common for victorious generals to die after receiving the emperor's jealousy?
Agatha patted Caesar's shoulder.
"Well, we'll find out when we get there."
***
When Caesar arrived at Homigraph, he blankly stared at the confetti.
"Our King Caesar has arrived!"
"Oh! King of Homigraph! Rule over us."
Tens of thousands of Homigraph people blew fanfares and cheered toward Caesar.
Caesar looked not at the cheering people but at the Blue Star wizards who were watching him from various rooftops.
"Caesar, over there."
At the end of the path Raven pointed to, a familiar man appeared. It was Duke Noah Arch.
Noah Arch was looking at Caesar with the characteristic expressionless face, just like the previous Arch Dukes.
"...I should go, right?"
"You need to explain well."
There cannot be two suns in the world.
There cannot be two kings in the same land of Homigraph.
Caesar approached Noah.
What should he do first?
Should he smile?
Or should he be serious?
Caesar suddenly felt strange that he was being so conscious of the Arch Duke.
'But why am I feeling pressured?'
If things go wrong, I'll just charge in.
Did Caesar want to become king?
They're just calling him king on their own.
Caesar stood confidently in front of Duke Noah Arch.
Caesar decided to read what Noah Arch was thinking.
-How annoying.
-I just wish I could inspect the Ark quickly.
...This guy doesn't seem very interested in the current situation. Why?