Chapter 198 – 49. Demon King (1)
It had no name.
There was no self, no soul.
Its birth was nothing more than a bright red drop.
Falling from the red moon in the middle of the northern sky,
Escape from the seal through a gap in the blue net,
It succeeded in reaching the ground by gear nose,
He finally opened his eyes as he swallowed an innocent girl in a rural village.
Its attack was instinctive. His indiscriminate hatred for life determined his premature death. The girl’s fault was just the unhappiness of being there that day.
Fortunately, it was able to eat right away, but it was not full at all.
An empty stomach was its essence.
The desire for life was like a jar with a hole in the bottom, which could never be satisfied. An insatiable physiology was a demon, and its purpose and mission was to color the whole world with this terrible desire.
Turn off the light and spread the shade.
They destroy nature and pollute the land.
Awakens the degenerated savagery of the Demon Beast and makes the living beast extinct from the face of the earth.
“Kyaaaaagh! It’s a monster!”
“Save people—- keuhuk…”
The slaughter happened every day.
Since it did not require sleep, it repeatedly killed and killed all day and night, digesting the people it ate in its body and using them as food for growth.
I observed the world by imitating human senses,
They roamed the land with limbs imitating human limbs,
They began to think with a neural system built to imitate the human brain.
A monster that gradually grew to resemble its prey.
But it could never become a person.
Just like a shadow, it mimics the form and behavior of people.
An infinitely black and dark shade can never have a color.
It was a human-eating human figure.
It paradoxically assimilated into the world while continuing to destroy the world on which it set foot, proving its status by constantly growing and overflowing all over the world.
Eventually, the heavenly law determined the fate of the impurities that belonged to the world, although they were enemies of the world.
Epic level [Shadow] Attribute.
It was heaven’s justice for the vanguard of the Demon Realm.
It still had no name,
People call it a dark red demon that eats humans with a group of monsters.
He was called the king of demon beasts, the demon king.
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It gradually expanded its domain around the northern part of the continent where it first appeared.
He drove countless monsters, destroyed nearby cities, and killed countless people.
In doing so, it gradually learned to be human.
Learned the language
Learned how to convey meaning verbally.
He began to lead the demons with orders.
It continued to grow, and thanks to this, the demonic transformation on the ground went smoothly without any obstruction.
Also, it finally got a proper name for it.
“Demon King Casperence… I don’t want to die…!”
[Casperance… My name···.]
It was a title that humans gave to themselves at will, and he did not know what it meant, but that, no, the demon king Casperence did not reject it.
Because he was willing to fear the people who died while repeating his name in his trembling voice.
Casperence moved south without hesitation to spread death and terror to the world every day.
One day, the demon king stopped his steps for the first time.
It had to be.
It was because an army of really crowded humans was waiting for him.
The all-out force of mankind, which could not stand to see further destruction, finally blocked the demon king’s path.
Against their desperate resistance, Casperence eventually took a step back.
However, this was only a step back for this step forward.
[Come. Demon’s children.]
The demon king gathered most of the monsters walking in the north.
Huge beasts, swift lizards, stealthy serpents, and tiny worms responded to the demon’s summons.
The advance of the monsters was a dark red tsunami.
[Responds to numbers with numbers.]
The Demon King was only on his own. Since he had never been defeated in this world, he thought that he would be able to eat humans without much difficulty this time too.
So, the demon king’s legion confronted the power of mankind on a wide plain in broad daylight.
It was a gigantic battle that would later be known as the ‘Star Wars’.
It didn’t work.
The demon king should not have stood in the vanguard of the demon beasts.
[Shadow] Never precedes.
He should have induced attrition of the enemy by repeating covert guerrilla battles, not flashy all-out warfare.
Casperence, who had learned not only human intelligence but also carelessness and conceit, was mortally wounded by the hero of [Light] That day and was defeated.
From that day on, it was not long before he was captured and sealed away.
The demon king is not dead. Because he couldn’t die. In fact, he was a part of the devil realm, and he was an immortal being as long as the red moon hung intact in the sky.
So instead, Casperence lost his body.
Some divine force forcibly tore his consciousness from his body.
[Quaaaaa!!]
······When he came to his senses, he was trapped in an unknown space.
Now the Demon King could neither move nor feel his senses.
He is just tied to somewhere and has nothing but endless thoughts to repeat…
Like that, Casperence couldn’t look up at the night sky for 300 years.
That is, until a human suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
“Oh, fuck… What the hell… Where is this?”
[Oh… Oh oh…!]
Seunghyun Seo.
A summoner from the alien world called ‘Earth’.
In that it originated from the other world, it is like a demonic beast.
He was fit He couldn’t have been better for his own mind parasitism. Seo Seung-hyun’s constitution, disposition, and attributes were all perfect. His appearance was not a coincidence, but it must have been someone’s arrangement for the resurrection of the demon king.
By transferring his own consciousness into Seo Seung-hyeon’s body, Casper Rens was finally able to break free from the terrible seal.
The process was bizarrely easy, but not entirely satisfying. It was because he was still in a state where only a spirit existed without a body.
Freedom in 300 years was half price.
[Kill a human. And eat.]
“Well, before that… Can I play with it a bit?!”
[Of course. If it’s okay as a corpse.]
Casperence and Seo Seung-hyun coexisted in one body and began to develop their strength step by step. The Demon King’s abundant knowledge and the Summoner’s unreserved action demonstrated tremendous synergy and achieved explosive growth. The breathing between the two was fantastic.
On the way, there was an unfortunate incident where I had to give up all my achievements for several weeks and run away, but…
They successfully established a foothold in the southern part of the continent.
The Demon King made a firm commitment.
[Do not repeat the same mistakes as before.]
Do not recklessly come to the fore. It is a battle of confusion and attrition. While the witch beasts are rampaging and killing humans, he hides in the shadows until the end and only takes the sweet fruits of the attack.
Develop strength and elevate rank.
And later, when the time was ripe,
[Eat Seo Seung-hyun.]
Take away his body and regain true freedom.
And it achieves a mandate that was unattainable 300 years ago.
[Perfect.]
Casperence’s calculations were meticulous and realistic.
In fact, if there hadn’t been an incident, the first part could have been successful.
But now, his plan is in danger of being stranded as soon as it starts.
Because of the academy students who started climbing the mountain.
[···!!!!!]
The demon king was astonished.
If he had eyes, he was probably on the verge of popping out his eyeballs.
However, since he had no sensory organs, he had to urge Seo Seung-hyeon to move his sight in the direction he wanted.
While countless seed monsters and brainwashed humans attack them,
Casperence only looked at one person.
“Don’t kill the natural people, subdue them!! It’s clear that they are being manipulated by something!”
He was not a man who wielded a sword boasting [Light] At the forefront of him,
“…Jihoo, what should I do? Don’t really kill me?”
“For now, let’s do as Minho says. Don’t step out with wisdom.”
“Haaam…”
It wasn’t even the students who didn’t show any tension in front of the enemy.
Casperence’s gaze was fixed on the woman hiding in the shadow, in the corner of the group.
Black hair, slender body, [Shadow] Attribute.
The Demon King did not know the name of Amyeonggyeong Leah, but he knew more than anyone else about it.
Because she
[Why, my body is over there…?!!]
It was because it was her own body that she had to part with 300 years ago.
[Changes the plan.]
This too is the devil’s arrangement.
