Chapter 223 – Chapter 223 ― An Unexpected Gift (4)
Episode 223 ― Unexpected Gift (4)
The body of the demon lord, Roan, is very unconcerned even in shock.
It must be because the owner of that body was originally good at hiding what I felt emotionally.
His second body, Naor, was more natural in expressing emotions than Roan, but he had never shown so much surprise while talking.
Naor, who had been staring at Roan in a stupor, asked after a while before coming to his senses.
“Is it something like prophecy?”
He also knows about special abilities.
As the Count had previously predicted, Naor seemed to think that Roan had a skill related to future vision.
“That… Maybe something similar.”
When Roan gave a vague answer, Nao put on a stern expression.
“Why are all the answers so vague?”
“The future…”
For a moment, Roan remembered the endings in the game.
Of course, ‘Castle Hero Legend’ is a yagame, not an RPG, so no warriors die in battle. Even if you die, you can load your save or redo it at a nearby waypoint.
Depending on how you attack the main characters, the ending is only divided into numerous branches.
“There are too many branches.”
However, Roan’s answer seemed rather persuasive to Naor. Naor’s eyes sparkled. He’s got his interest.
“What did you see, out of those countless futures?”
At those words, Roan thought again.
He needed to think about which content to choose.
But Naor did not urge him.
Naor was already paying full attention to the words that would come out of Roan’s mouth. He could have laughed it off because it was absurd, but I didn’t doubt it.
“Well, once.”
At Roan’s next words, Naor’s face turned pale.
“I am… The emperor of the demons is killed by the hero.”
Naor’s face was drained of blood.
Seeing that face, Roan was puzzled.
Didn’t he abandon the throne because he thought it was a fight he couldn’t win?
If you put the wrong person here, it’s normal that you can’t stand against the devil’s power. Didn’t you think I was going to die?
“… And?”
“Fight the demon summoner.”
“Under.”
He let out a breath tinged with laughter.
The hero grows up and kills the demon king,
He spends a comfortable life surrounded by women for a while. If you want to see Grünent, you go to Sproth, and if you want to see Eleanor, go to Basel.
Then one day, after capturing Erenier and for some time, something is summoned from the castle.
Just the final boss. Summoners of demons and demons.
“After that?”
“What… I might win… I might lose.”
“It’s not decided.”
“That’s how it is.”
The hero fights the demon and, of course, wins.
Surface?
You can load it until you win, but what does it matter? However, in reality, infinite road new work is impossible.
“That’s why you put so much effort into it.”
For the first time, Naor’s eyes softened.
“You…”
And Roan, who saw that expression, was about to say something, but stopped.
I cried at first.
It felt like someone recognized my anxiety and fear.
Annoyance followed.
In the end, what the (former) demon king did was a big reason why the demon king was marked as a hunting target by the warriors. Isn’t it that I’ve been running here and there to fix it up to now?
Of course, I can’t deny that there are many bean curds that I ate while possessing the devil, but when I first saw Grunent or Diove’s affinity for it, I was worried about the twisted future and worried about it. Barely sinks
“You, don’t look at me with such pity, when I think of the hardships I suffered because of you…”
“Originally, you or I were destined to die. Why was a guy who was going to die anyway struggling so much? In other words, isn’t that ‘hero’ much stronger than us?”
At that, Roan glared at Naor.
“Because it can change.”
“You mean you decided to choose a future in which you wouldn’t die?”
Roan scratched his head.
“Of course, it was because I had a rough idea of what was going to happen… I wrote a child.”
Nao seemed surprised by Roan’s acceptance.
He hesitated while trying to say something in his heart, and opened his mouth after a moment’s gap.
Naor seems to be trying to say something that simply cannot be expressed in terms of surprise or interest. It feels like something is messed up.
He said in a strangely sad voice.
“But that’s how you could have changed your death.”
No matter how you hear it, it’s a voice that seems to be heard with envy and regret. As Roan silently agreed, Naor asked.
“Then, shouldn’t we entrust the next battle to that ‘hero’ who is stronger than you? Didn’t you find the hero? Or is it too hard to make on your side?”
It was an unexpectedly poignant remark.
Originally, the main character of this story is a warrior after all.
It is a game in which the warrior grows and overcomes the summoner and the summoned demon, not the content of the demon king confronting it.
But now that I’m raising a hero, I’ve preoccupied a lot of things. It may grow to the point of being of my help, but especially…
“I think it will be a bit difficult.”
When Roan was embarrassed, Naor, who knew nothing, asked innocently.
“Why?”
The main driving force behind Roan’s growth,
And the factors that make the warrior grow in the game
After all, it’s a female character attack.
She is already the woman in my arms, not only to the main characters such as Grunent, Helen, Diovena and Erenier, but also to Aina, who should have become the hero’s companion.
When they meet the hero, the genre suddenly drifts dangerously.
“… Anyway, no.”
“Then do you intend to fight? What about that demon?”
“It won’t come against the true face of the devil. If the hero did it, there’s no way it wouldn’t work with this body’s better specs than that.”
What the hero faced in the game was not the ‘greed’ itself that the Goddess said was sealed with Fiora in the past. Because Emily, the duke of the forest fairy, said that the seal was certain.
Even with the advice of the goddess, there was no word that the seal would be released immediately. She just said to beware of the ‘gap’.
The ‘devil’ that the hero fought against could be dealt with sufficiently in the line of growth of the hero. This is because it was not the main body of ‘greed’ that was unsealed in the east, but was eventually summoned by someone.
“Okay. So let’s assume you’re dealing with it. Do you know who summons demons?”
Unfortunately, in the game, summoners only appear as “Summoners.”
I didn’t let go of it though.
It’s him who appears after the demon king, and most absurdly, he appears in the imperial castle.
You can’t lose your bedroom all of a sudden, can you?
At least I knew that story, so I researched demonic magic and summoning in my spare time.
After all, it is the magician who performs the summoning. The skill of the wizard determines the success of the summon and the ability of the summon. Of course, if you go deeper, there are factors such as the quantity and quality of the sacrifice and the magical power of the medium, but once you put it simply, it is.
“I always thought it would be the grand duke.”
“The grounds?”
Orga, who had unconsciously been touching his chin, was puzzled by Roan’s words.
“I was summoned from the imperial castle.”
“Hwangseong… !”
All of a sudden, Naor’s expression became stern.
“How dare you arrange things in it…”
But, growling with rage, he closed his mouth again. Roan realized why Naor had suddenly acted the way he did.
Because the imperial castle is a precious place to him.
Even though he escaped, many of the memories he cherished also came from the imperial castle.
But he gave away that precious thing himself. So I closed his mouth. Perhaps he thought he had no right to grumble more.
Na Orr, who had been suppressing his anger with his mouth shut, asked in a rough voice that still had passion.
“If it’s the imperial castle, why is it the grand duke and not Elenir? From what I’ve seen, he seems more likely to commit. The Archduke has more time at Swin Lake anyway.”
“When the devil is summoned, Erenier is in a state where he can’t.”
Roan explained.
“As I said before, what I saw was when I was already dead. It’s the story after the hero came out of the castle and drove out all the small meetings.”
“… Shit.”
No matter which one occupied the imperial castle, Nao would have been in a bad mood. Displeasure aside, Nao clearly understood what Roan was talking about.
Eleanor is a person by the emperor’s side. There was no way that Erenia would have stood by and watched the emperor being pushed out by the hero. And there’s no way the Hero would have left such an Eleanor alone.
What will happen to such Erenier later – of course, it completely depends on the player’s inclination in the game – is not confirmed, but Erenie doesn’t get enough freedom to summon the devil no matter what the ending.
“Then, except for Eleanor. He thought at first that the Archduke was up to something. That it could be wrong…”
Roan confirmed Naor’s thoughts.
“Hmm. Somewhere in the land of men there is a contract. That’s clear Since Merde is in the middle, it’s not easy to find information or reach out.”
The summoning of demons and endings in the game are events that automatically occur when a set date passes.
The exact date is not known, but the relationship with Eleanor deepens, and the end of the game comes out when all the ending branches of all characters are over.
And just before that,
The dragon’s artifact disappears.
However, since it is not an artifact with tremendous abilities in the first place, it is not regrettable if it disappears. It’s just an artifact with good value for money in the early to mid-mid range, so by the time you see the ending, it’s already stuck somewhere in your inventory or converted into gold.
So most of the players didn’t even know.
Whether it is directly related to the final boss.
“There is a hint. There are artifacts left by dragons in the human world. I heard the contract is similar to that. Perhaps it is the artifact itself.”
“In other words, holding a human hand… The grand duke?”
“Not easy to believe.”
Naor put on an expression of amazement.
“It’s not that hard to believe. Idiots evaluate its value by strength. To the demons, humans are like insignificant insects unless they are powerful wizards. Even grand duke If I decided to attack, it was a whistle even with me. What is he collaborating with humans for?”
“Everybody said he was ambitious. Isn’t ambition, in the end, not covering the means for the end?”
Then Naor’s expression became more specular. With him he would never be able to understand the grand duke. Wasn’t he the one who abandoned the throne that the grand duke wanted so much?
“He’s an unknown guy… Yes, whether it’s a grand duke or a human. Assume that someone called the devil out of the castle. When is that? Can you tell that too?”
“If it happens… Two to three years later.”
“That is fortunate.”
Naor laughed.
“There will still be time for you to run hard and get ready.”
Roan raised his eyes, but he refilled his glass with a relaxed expression.
“It seems that summoning demons takes time, doesn’t it? Does it take two years to sing one?”
Naor, who was laughing and passing the glass, saw Roan’s serious expression and gulped it down.
“… Ah, please Wouldn’t it be?”
“Mmm.”
The count’s words that there might be something like a magic circle in the imperial castle flashed through my mind.
“No way. Does summoning take that long?”
The answer won’t come out unless you’re sitting with two keuts who don’t know magic. Fortunately, Roan knows one of the masters of demonism.
“If you don’t know, just ask.”
“To whom? Liron?”
“Eleanor.”
“Crazy bastard.”
Roan was serious.
At least he is estimating the extent of the devil’s power. Of course, he is stronger than the Demon King. It’s because the enemy greets the hero after spending two years.
Let’s openly ask what it takes and how long it will take to summon such a colossal thing.
“Well, you don’t seem to have any problems being close to that weird girl, so yeah. Perhaps it would be best to ask directly.”
And Naor shook the bottle.
What he just drank was the last drink.
“Ha, I came to sell it, but I drank the whole bottle. It’s expensive.”
Roan made a puzzled expression.
“You opened it and drank it all.”
“I’ve been drinking alcohol since early in the morning. Tell the Lord of Sanghap that I can’t go today because of you.”
Roan sighed and rose from his seat.
