Chapter 256 – The Hero Meets Baal
I quickly rode my horse and headed for the desert.
Considering the distance from the ecliptic to the desert, it didn’t start very fast, but the problem was that Talion was running much faster than I expected.
It looked like it would arrive a little earlier than the appointment time, but that wasn’t a big deal.
Rather, while waiting for Baal, I needed time to review the battle with Baal once again.
“Still, I guess I can’t do anything.”
I murmured as I held on to Talion’s mane as he was sweating.
According to the legends of the desert tribes, I expected a bit of a bicorn to run in the sky, but it seemed to be a metaphor.
“Pureung!”
Perhaps offended by my words, Talion started moving his legs even faster.
Of course, that didn’t mean I could fly, but at least I could understand why the people of the desert tribe said that.
After running for a few days, the scenery around us began to change.
The empire’s buildings and well-maintained roads disappeared, and endless sand began to fill in their place.
Even though the sandy bottom of the desert was not a good place for a horse to run, Talion ran on it without any hesitation.
Only then did I realize the true meaning of the saying that bicorns run through the sky.
‘In the eyes of the old people, it must have seemed like they were really running on the sky.’
Before his leg his fell into the sand, the sight of Talion running and kicking off the sand with his other leg was enough to evoke the illusion of walking on air.
After running for a long time in the desert, I was able to reach the place where I was supposed to meet Baal.
A desert so deep that even small creatures are hard to find.
In that place, Baal was waiting for me, as if I had known I would come beforehand.
“You came early.”
“What? Could it be that you’ve been waiting here all along?”
I asked Baal, who looked at me with a carefree face.
“Okay. Waited.”
“There is nothing to do. If so, what are you going to do with the appointment?”
I got off Talion’s back and asked Baal that question again.
It was a question and answer that anyone could mistake for a light conversation between friends rather than enemies, but as you know, he and I could never be friends.
“I just needed a moment to think.”
“What do you think makes a difference? You will die here today anyway.”
I pulled out the ebony hanging from my waist and said that to Baal.
It was a line that made me feel more like a villain, but it wasn’t wrong.
“Yes, I guess.”
“Have you given up already?”
I looked at Baal, who meekly admitted that he would be defeated, with a surprised expression on his face.
Well, he also knew I had a regression, and he didn’t know that he had lost to me before.
“It’s not only humans who know the end but rush like a moth to a fire.”
“Are you sentimental today? Don’t you have anything to say? I’m in a bit of a hurry.”
I let Baal’s words flow through my ears and aimed my sword at him.
“So, are you here early?”
“Oh, of course I had no idea you would be here so early. I am grateful for that.”
“It is interesting. It’s to the point where I think that maybe if you were the demon lord, I might have enjoyed this job a little more.”
I twitched my eyebrows as I looked at Baal, who spoke strangely.
Come to think of it, it was because the Demon King was nowhere to be seen.
‘No way?’
For a moment, I felt a chill run down my spine.
What if Baal was the bait to draw me out, and the devil and Aaron held hands?
‘Ah, but that’s not it.’
Come to think of it, the demon lord was a bitch without particularly great abilities.
It was to the extent that it could be organized at the Marian line without even going to Camara.
“If it’s the demon king, he ran away.”
“What?”
I opened my eyes wide at Baal’s unexpected words and shouted like that.
“He said he didn’t want to die, so he ran away. She wouldn’t have to worry.”
I let out a small sigh as I watched Baal explain things as if he had read my insides.
Although I was worried about the companions I left behind, she was definitely a woman who could run away if it was a demon lord.
“You are suffering too, indeed.”
I said that to Baal with a pitiful expression.
I thought he would be unfair too.
A bitch with the name of a demon lord is at the peak of incompetence, and half of his subordinates had beaten him in the back of the head.
Of course, it was just a story, and that didn’t mean he did well.
“Consolation, thank you.”
Baal also took out his favorite bottle as he said that, as if he did not put a deep meaning in my words.
It was a sword with a dazzlingly white blade for the actual boss of the Demon King’s Army.
‘This is it, no matter who sees me, I look like the demon king, right?’
I suddenly thought of that, but luckily there was no one around.
“Shall we begin?”
I said that to Baal, and he nodded and stabbed his sword straight at me.
**
“No hero? Are you sure?”
“Yes. It was confirmed through an official in the imperial palace.”
“As expected, it was true that Nebula betrayed me.”
Aaron was delighted at the word that the hero had disappeared from the ecliptic and was showing a proud smile.
There was only one reason for the hero to leave the imperial city.
I heard from Nebula that the demon king’s Baal or something asked for a duel.
Of course, Nebula said that Baal wanted a one-on-one match with a hero, but there was no reason to accept such a condition unless he was a two-headed man.
No, in the first place, Aaron thought that Baal would also dig a trap and wait for the hero.
‘Assholes, let them fight well among themselves.’
Of course, if the hero knew his identity through Nebula, there was a possibility that he would be prepared for it.
But Aaron thought that Nebula would not have completely betrayed him.
If she really betrayed her, she would have already come looking for Aaron, not the heroine herself.
‘A pitiful bitch.’
Aaron clenched his molars and remembered Nebula.
Clearly, that slut-like bitch was obsessed with the hero’s cock of her, but it must have been that she could n’t stop her infatuation of her with herself.
Aaron laughed at Nebula, who had an ugly appearance and an unreasonable lust, and spoke to his subordinates his.
“Get everything ready. I am going to find my place.”
There would still be some Holy Knights and Imperial Guards left, but that didn’t matter too much.
No, in fact, it was impossible to guarantee a match, but Aaron, who had already been driven to a dead end, had only the thought that this was his last chance.
**
“Has everyone gathered?”
“Yes!”
Aaron looked at the knights, soldiers, and mercenaries gathered in his secret space with a satisfied look on his face.
It was a meager army to be called the emperor’s army, but it looked pretty good when gathered together.
‘This is the end of using these guys anyway.’
Though he did so in his heart his, Aaron looked at his followers his with the most benevolent smile.
“The moment has come to let the imperial people know who the rightful heir is! If you help me, I will not forget your contributions either!”
“Waaaaa!!”
At Aaron’s words, the soldiers, knights, and some nobles gathered there shouted.
Anyway, they were also rotten people like Aaron, and the reason why they were attached to Aaron was clear.
Unlike the previous emperor, Mary was not an easygoing person.
Rather than being pushed out of the core of power as the era of Mary opens, it was just that they did not want to lose their vested interests by putting Aaron at the forefront.
That is to say, they had mutual interests.
“Let’s go! Get out there and get everything!”
Aaron wasn’t unaware of that either, but he had nowhere else to turn to but them.
Aaron opened the door to the space he was hiding in.
The place where Aaron was hiding was the underpass of the ecliptic, and Aaron and his army immediately ran toward the center of the ecliptic.
“Kyaaaaac!!”
Citizens who suddenly met a group of people running around with weapons started screaming and running away.
“If you rebel, kill me! Dogs and pigs that even their owners don’t know are not worth raising!”
Aaron drew his sword and commanded his followers.
When I stepped forward and raised my voice, I felt very good.
As if he were a conquering monarch running through the battlefield, Aaron glered at those who turned away from him with a solemn expression.
The fact that the opponent was not a foreign soldier, but a citizen of the empire made him feel a bit bitter, but that was only for a moment.
‘Anyway, those who turned their backs on me are enemies!’
Aaron reprimanded himself like that, and swung his sword randomly at the things he could see.
