Chapter 358 – Destiny
The return was not likely to come to an easy conclusion. I decided to think more slowly, and I decided to take care of other things first.
“What are you guys going to do?”
I asked after seeing the adventurers wearing Eoyoung and Buyeong’s hats.
“Me, are you talking about us?”
“Yes, you.”
The warlock subjugation party was dragged into the labyrinth because of me.
In broad terms, it’s Terra’s fault, but…
Anyway, I have a lot of girls. Of course, I needed to take responsibility.
But not adventurers.
They are raw men in the first place.
Naturally, I didn’t feel the need to take care of the adventurers.
If I had to question it, you could say that I came here because I got caught up in a trap that the black magician prepared for me, but…
If I pushed their backs and put them into the dungeon, I might have felt a sense of responsibility.
However, we told adventurers not to enter the dungeon because it was dangerous… And it was the guys who ignored it.
It is their fault that the adventurers got caught in a trap and fell into the Pandemonium, not mine.
“Is there a representative?”
After stumbling around, a hairy adventurer stepped forward.
A hairy adventurer whose head was stepped on by a kid.
“My name is Jayden.”
“You don’t think I’m going to feed and sleep you guys for free, do you?”
“…Yeah? That, that’s…”
At my words, the hairy adventurer was taken aback.
It’s the expression that this isn’t it.
“Well…I’m not that cold-hearted either. I’ll give you a suitable building.”
“Yes?”
“I will receive the monthly rent in magic stones.”
“…Yes?”
At my one-sided notification, the hairy adventurer continued to utter dumbfounded noises.
“Don’t you like it?”
After thinking for a moment while rolling her eyes, the hairy boy reluctantly replies.
“Oh, no. Thank you…”
I don’t know what the adventurers will think… But even this is a considerable amount of consideration.
If you do this to someone you don’t even know, you won’t have anything to say even if you hear the sound of Hogu.
I ate a big heart and tried to give for the first time in a long time.
In an instant, I became the owner of the building… No, the owner of the Great Demon Castle, so I was able to make this decision easily with a generous heart.
The reason why I decided to treat the adventurers like this was because I had looked at the lives of the demons in the Great Devil Castle.
The lives of the demons living in the Great Demon Castle were a bit rough, but there was nothing much different from humans.
This Great Devil Castle is like an oasis on this wasteland planet.
According to Fatima and Neria, most demons live in the Great Demon Castle.
It’s not that there aren’t wild demons, but most of those living outside the castle are demons.
The outside of the Great Devil Castle is a harsh environment even for demons to live in.
Demons are also intelligent beings.
And where such intelligent beings gather, order is formed to some degree.
The same laws as humans are not clearly defined.
Surprisingly, something like a market was formed, and demons were living their lives doing economic activities on their own.
Of course, the most important thing in the lives of demons is power. However, that power does not simply mean brute force.
Force is important.
However, unless they have overwhelming power, that’s not all the lives of stoic demons do.
A typical example is Neria.
Neria is only at the level of Charles in terms of strength.
However, the demons living in the Great Devil Castle cannot disobey Neria’s words.
It is because the country is overturning the background.
This is more like power than brute force.
The life of the city demons also goes that way.
Go under a demon with strong power and enjoy power under the protection of the owner.
Sometimes they unite and inflate their power.
At the apex of the demons living like that.
There is a great devil.
However, the demons treat the great demon as an out-of-the-box object.
Do not treat them as the same devil.
To them, the Great Devil is a natural disaster… To put it a bit exaggeratedly, it’s like a god.
What if one day, for no reason, the Great Devil dies?
No anger or resentment.
If it hits the earth, it’s treated like being struck by lightning.
Then, if you are making the demons pay the cost of living in the Great Devil Castle like adventurers, that is not the case.
This is not giving preference to demons over adventurers.
The demons living in the Great Demon Castle are the property of the Great Devil.
Do you want something possessed by some devil?
Just say the word and bring and offer anything.
There is no one to resist.
The property of the demons is the Great Devil… That is to say, they are all mine.
Do I really need to charge something like rent for my property?
If I set my mind to it, I can use the Great Devil Castle system to monitor the demons’ every move.
Could there be a ruler more cruel than this?
This is the ideal that dictators dream of.
If someone else does it, it’s a joke, but if I do it?
It’s honey.
If it was modern, it would be condemned all over the world, right?
This is the demon realm.
This is the world for granted.
Bloa, who was a former demon, said that he only treated non-slave demons as insects, but it was reasonable.
But adventurers are not demons.
If I ask the adventurers if you, like demons, will live with everything belonging to me, normal humans will refuse.
That’s why they allowed the adventurers to live there for a reasonable price.
This is a considerable privilege for demons.
Preference is not only that.
Adventurers are closer to the weak than the strong in the Great Devil Castle.
What if I just fell here with my bare body?
You must have suffered a lot.
But just the fact that I’ve been considerate to some extent won’t make them feel bad.
I have been considerate to this extent, but the price that adventurers give me in the name of monthly rent is close to a pittance.
There are demons who live by hunting monsters in the wasteland outside and engaging in economic activities.
If adventurers live like that, living here won’t be too difficult.
“There must be many things you don’t know… I’ll give you a person… No, a demon who will tell you that. Then you’ll have a sense of how to live here.”
“Ah…Yes…Thank you.”
This is enough to do it on a humanitarian level.
I’ve seen everything the adventurers have to do.
“Then go.”
I waved my hand to take them away.
Seeing that, Neria quickly called the adventurers.
“Follow me. I will guide you to where you will be staying.”
The adventurers noticed me and followed Neria through the Great Devil’s Hall.
Seeing that, Judith steps up in front of me and quietly gets down on one knee with him.
“His Holiness…Why do you leave the demons in the castle alone…”
“Why do you leave it as it is? Do you want me to dispose of all the demons in this Great Devil Castle?”
Hearing this, Fatima trembled in shock.
On the other hand, Kazel is yawning as if she doesn’t care at all.
“…Yes.”
The devil is just an alien from my point of view.
It is a rather radical statement to say that we should annihilate not just one or two, but many demons for no particular reason.
“The reason I don’t deal with demons is simple. Because there is nothing to gain.”
“Yes? Why is that… Your Holiness, if you can annihilate countless demons in this place, it will be a great achievement. What could be a greater benefit than this?”
It is the natural thing to do, and there is no greater benefit than this.
I understand Judith.
Logic is not important in religion.
It is the realm of faith.
However, Judith’s suggestion could not be accepted.
If this place were Pantera, there would be a corner that would listen to her words to some extent.
With these many demons, I would have become the enemy of the whole world, and even in Terra Church, I would have rushed at you like a holy war.
But this place is a demon world.
Even if I keep the demons alive, no one will say anything.
I became the owner of the Great Devil Castle, which can be called an oasis in the demon realm.
Not just a ruler.
He is the absolute ruler who would have existed throughout Earth’s history.
And…How expensive are the labor costs these days…
I became the owner of countless demons that I could pamper without pay.
What do I get by slaying demons?
It’s just magic stones… And experience.
If I could get skill points by defeating the demons, it would have been something worth thinking about seriously.
The demons here die at my word.
Absolutely obey
Exterminate those demons?
There is no such thing as damage.
It’s a magic stone. I might get some, but…
If I change the manpower who absolutely obeys me just to get a magic stone, this is a loss no matter how I think about it.
Even if magic stones are expensive.
Is it comparable to a manpower that can be employed without pay for the rest of their lives?
I don’t know how big of a magic stone she holds, even if it’s just her boss, Kazel, but what if I ask her to go to her wasteland and get her demon beast?
Casel will bring back magic stones worth more than the magic stones she holds in her arms.
No matter how you think about it, disposing of the demons is like cutting the belly of the goose that lays the golden eggs.
However, even if I explained the reason, Judith would not be convinced.
She has a way of life that has led her life to hate the devil.
Persuasion is not easy.
“Demons don’t dispose. Know that.”
Fatima, who was next to her, quietly sighed in relief.
“Sir, His Holiness…That, that’s…”
At my decision, Judith bowed her head with a devastated expression. It seems that it is not easy for her to adapt to her demon world life.
