Chapter 350: TRANSLATED
I Killed the Demon King. It was a Mistake.
Chapter 350
A blood-soaked bed.
Pain climbing up both wrists and ankles. The cause was in the wrists and ankles of Count Vex who was dangling from the ceiling.
-Such a noble spirit indeed.
-You should have broken by now.
Andras pushed plenty of Night Maker into Count Vex.
Count Vex's pupils flickered purple, but he endured, gritting his teeth as if refusing to ever become a devil.
Looking at Count Vex, Andras clicked his tongue.
-You just need to become comfortable.
-Then there's no choice.
-I'll have to refer to Andromalius' research.
A slime with three horns approached Count Vex's side. The slime wriggled and slid into Count Vex's mouth.
-Aaaaaaargh!
Andras smiled and stroked Count Vex's hair.
-Now, swallow it all, Count Vex.
-When you wake up, you will be my subject.
Count Vex's pupils lost their way.
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Swoosh!
The Luminion Fury flew toward Count Vex, but he had no intention of blocking it. Instead, the tentacles that were healing his side immediately stretched out and caught the Luminion Fury. But it wasn't a cutting power that tentacles could withstand.
The Luminion Fury lodged in Count Vex's shoulder.
"Ugh!"
The Luminion Fury began to suck Count Vex's blood. The horns on Count Vex's head twisted, and mouths protruded from the tentacles.
Aaaaaaaah!
The tentacles with mouths screamed and rushed at Yugar. Frost blades slaughtered all the tentacles with mouths.
Yugar growled like a beast.
"Did you also desire to become what the king so wanted to be?"
Yugar drove the sword in deeper. Purple blood spurted from Count Vex's mouth.
"I'm asking if you wanted to become king so badly that you abandoned your humanity and became a devil!"
"Ah..... It's you."
Count Vex dropped his sword.
"You were the one stopping me."
"......What?"
Yugar didn't know whether Count Vex was whispering to deceive him or if there was another reason.
"Well, this is my fault for trusting that rubbish's research."
Andras clicked his tongue and soaked a handkerchief with the red blood droplets that fell on the leaves.
"You! What did you do to Count Vex?"
"I tried to subjugate Count Vex. But now it seems I must abandon my greed."
Whistle!
One of Andras' faces whistled. Then Count Vex screamed.
"Aaaaargh!"
The horns on his head grew longer and his body began to heal rapidly.
"He's already too broken, so I can't expect much."
Andras' eyes were filled with delighted greed. The direction of that greed was aimed at Yugar.
"Shall we see the performance of my new test subject?"
Count Vex's sword flew at Yugar.
Yugar blocked it with his shield but slid backward from the impact, which was greater than expected. As the Luminion Fury was pulled out, tentacles spilled out like intestines along with blood.
Count Vex ground his teeth like a wounded beast growling.
Grrrrrr.....
"Count Vex!"
Count Vex rushed forward. His eyes were like those of a beast that had completely lost its reason, but his swordsmanship was surprisingly magnificent.
55555Flower Petal Cutting
Form 5
Shower
Sharp aura fragments that unfolded from Count Vex's hand poured down on Yugar. It gave the illusion that a thousand swords were pouring down on Yugar simultaneously.
Yugar didn't try to deflect them all but summoned frost blades to create armor.
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
The sword aura swept down like a fierce summer shower. The shower found gaps in the shield and rushed at Yugar, but the solid armor deflected them all.
Count Vex rushed at Yugar like a beast. Yugar concentrated aura on his two legs and received Count Vex's sword.
Clang!
Count Vex's attacks poured down relentlessly like a long rainy season. Knights watching the superhuman duel from a distance began to worry.
"Lord Yugar isn't making any response."
"Shouldn't we help him?"
Raven, who had climbed to the top of the control tower through spatial movement, spoke.
"Don't do anything unnecessary."
"What? If Lord Yugar gets hurt..."
"I mean don't create variables in a battle that's already won."
The knights didn't understand Raven's words.
This was understandable since on the surface, it appeared that Yugar was unable to respond and was being overwhelmed. But Raven's eyes saw differently.
Yugar was waiting for the right moment like a tiger hidden in the bushes.
Thud!
Yugar pushed his shield forward to disturb the striking point. Count Vex's sword bounced back, exposing his body.
The Luminion Fury pierced through the shield and went straight at Count Vex.
Thud!
With a precise strike, Count Vex couldn't react and his heart was pierced. The tentacles went wild and embraced Yugar's body.
Crunch!
Yugar, instead, pushed further in and knocked Count Vex down. And he firmly fixed his body. The blood vessels of the Luminion Fury, which had dug into Yugar's right arm, dug into Count Vex's body.
The Luminion Fury, which had inserted a straw into Count Vex's blood vessels, greedily drank his blood and aura.
Gulp! Gulp!
The tentacles tried to crush Yugar's solid armor but instead lost strength like ivy vines that had dried up in the autumn sun.
"Ah."
Purple blood tears flowed from Count Vex's eyes.
Does the ruler of Vex also shed tears in the face of death?
Yugar did not know whether the Count Vex was regretting or crying for another reason.
All Yugar could do was give rest to this miserable knight who was being played with as the devil's toy.
"This is good enough to qualify as a new test subject."
Andras smiled and twisted his wrist.
Crack!
Then Yugar's wrist twisted.
"......!"
Yugar barely managed to hold back the scream that was about to burst out. But when Andras subsequently broke his nasal bridge, he couldn't maintain his composure.
Count Vex tentacle barely pushed Yugar away. The blood vessels that had been fixed to the Luminion Fury were pulled out and settled back into Yugar's hand.
But Yugar couldn't lift the Luminion Fury. His right wrist was smashed and he physically couldn't lift it. The Luminion Fury just dangled from his hand.
"You......!"
Andras grabbed his own right leg with a vicious smile.
"Your form of address is wrong."
Andras' knee slowly twisted. And Yugar's knee started to twist simultaneously.
"Aaaaargh!"
Yugar found it difficult to control the overwhelming pain and slumped down.
"You are my slave, Yugar."
Andras felt an indescribable pleasure watching Yugar kneeling before him. It was truly enjoyable to see the famously proud Wolf King squirming like a worm at his feet. Count Vex recovered and stood up.
Grrrr!
"I can make you crawl like a worm, turn you into a servant, or make you unable to leave your bed for the rest of your life until you die."
Count Vex dragged his sword and slowly approached Yugar. It was like an executioner coming to behead him.
"Aren't you afraid? That I can render all traces of your honor, your strength, and everything you've built up in your body utterly useless."
Andras pointed to the tip of his foot.
"If you want to live, kiss the tip of my foot. If you do so, I'll spare you."
To Andras, Yugar looking down at the tip of his foot appeared like himself when he knelt before Denver in the past.
Is that so?
Had Denver seen Andras from this angle?
He somewhat understood why Denver had shown mercy to Andras.
Yugar looked so small and fragile.
"I am the supreme ruler of the Hironeel border."
Yugar put down his shield and picked up the Luminion Fury with his left hand.
"I am the shield that protects humanity and the wolf that drives away the frost wind. I will break rather than bend."
Yugar used the sword as a cane to stand up.
"I will end my life as a knight who fights to die, not to live. That is why I accepted the Luminion Fury."
The Luminion Fury began to frantically suck Yugar's blood. As it did so, the Luminion Fury grew even larger in size.
"How utterly foolish the knightly kind is."
Andras began to slowly twist his knee again.
"Aaaaargh!"
"Because of your choice, your city will burn. Children will cry while embracing their mothers' corpses, and men will have their eyes gouged out and lose their ears so they cannot recognize who their wives and children are. Not only you but all your people will learn that humans are bound not to their souls but to their bodies."
Andras applied even more strength to his hand.
"Don't worry. I will certainly keep you alive until the last of your people dies."
"Aaaaaaargh!"
As Yugar rushed toward Andras, Andras bent his left knee.
Crack!
Yugar's knee bent and he fell forward. Behind him, Count Vex tentacle crawled like a snake.
"Hang that pitiful Wolf King. Show everyone that they will not escape death if they reject my will."
At that moment, white flames sparked from the tentacle.
"Aaaargh!"
The white flames flowed quickly along the tentacle like a fuse.
Count Vex immediately severed the tentacle. Then the sky brightened as if it were midday. Hundreds of white suns opened above Andras' head. It was so bright that it was difficult to keep one's eyes open.
There is only one being in this world who can manifest such an absurd magic.
"Raven......!"
"You gave something to a wizard that you should never give. Do you know what that is?"
The wizards of Homigraph cast their magic. Red fireballs opened next to the white suns in the sky.
"Time."
The Spell eaters stared blankly at the sky. They couldn't fathom how to swallow all the thousands of spells cast by Raven and the wizards. Raven lowered her hand.
Then the white suns began to fall like meteors. Andras shouted to the Spell eaters hiding in the forest.
"Swallow them all!"
Blink! Blink! Blink!
More than a thousand Spell eaters kept blinking their eyes toward the sky.
The Fire Strike spells cast by ordinary wizards were easily swallowed by the Spell eaters, but Raven's ‘Flame That Annihilates Devils’ was not so easily consumed. It was also not easy to swallow the spells cast all at once by nearly 4,000 combat wizards.
"Ugh......!"
Eventually, Raven's spells rained down on the devils' heads.
---!
A tremendous explosion sound beyond the audible threshold of ordinary people erupted. Although they were dropped from quite a distance, the explosive power was stronger than expected, and pieces of burning devil corpses flew all the way to Homigraph.
"What is this......"
Whoosh!
While distracted by Raven, Yugar moved.
Yugar moved his intact right foot and delivered Luminion Fury to Andras.
Clang!
Count Vex stepped forward and blocked Yugar's sword.
Yugar glared not at Count Vex but at Andras who was behind him. Andras was momentarily overwhelmed by Yugar's murderous gaze.
That fact was shameful, and the whole situation irritated him.
"Very well. Even if you beg for death, I will never kill you. You will become Hironeel's nightmare and burn and destroy your border territory with your own hands."
Andras' hand moved toward his neck.
At that moment, hidden frost blades flew like daggers toward Andras. Andras instinctively blocked the frost blades flying toward his head.
"Argggghhhhh!"
Andras' both arms were torn apart by the sharp blades and disappeared. Yugar had expected his own arms would fly off like that too.
But Yugar's arms were intact.
"Kill this damned bastard!"
Count Vex deflected Yugar's sword and thrust.
Yugar's body had almost reached its limit, so he couldn't react. Count Vex's sword, which should have slashed Yugar's neck, cut through empty air instead.
This was because Yugar's body had been teleported to Raven's side.
"Escort Lord Yugar."
Wolf knights including Sir Bell quickly lifted Yugar. Yugar looked at Raven, who was preparing a spell, and muttered.
"Thank you, Green-eyed wizard."
"Thank me for saving your life later. It's not over yet."
"That's not it. I meant for waiting and letting me fight until the end."
Raven had many opportunities to save Yugar. But she waited because Yugar was a knight, and she thought interrupting a knight's duel wasn't right.
However, looking at Yugar's twisted left knee and right hand, Raven couldn't tell if her choice had been correct.
Without holy water now, would there be a way to restore those damaged joints?
Should she have saved him earlier?
Raven decided to put aside questions with unknowable answers for now.
"Homigraph's physicians are top-notch. They will do their best to help you recover."
"Thank you."
Raven looked at the battlefield. She thought they had almost annihilated all the devils, but annoyingly, some survivors still remained. Especially the Spell eaters seemed relatively unharmed, as they had primarily focused on blocking magic directed at them.
"How dare you...! Is this how you repay my kindness?"
Andras' severed hands regenerated.
"Then I have no choice. Homigraph will disappear from the map today."
Andras' hand extended.
"Destroy Homigraph!"
Count Vex charged forward as the vanguard. Wizards, including Raven, casted spells to block Count Vex.
Blink! Blink!
But the Spell eaters absorbed all the magic pouring down on Count Vex, and most attacks were blocked by tentacles or dodged.
"What is this... impossible...!"
"Block him! Knights, hurry and block him!"
Raven's ‘Flame That Annihilates Devils’ burst upon Count Vex.
55555Flower Petal Cutting
Form 3
Falling Flower
Raven's magic was cut into thousands of pieces and scattered.
Count Vex maintained his charging momentum and headed toward Homigraph's main gate.
"B-Block him! Hurry...!"
55555Flower Petal Cutting
Form 1
Cherry Blossom Cutting
Count Vex's sword and tentacles moved horizontally at the same time. Like leaves swept away in a typhoon, the obstacles, makeshift iron gate, and knights guarding the main gate were pulverized and scattered.
Count Vex stepped onto Homigraph's main gate, now stained with blood and flesh.
Count Vex's empty eyes naturally looked upward.
Raven was there.