How to Save Humanity After Transmigrating into a Villainess Princess? Chapter 202 : A Thread of Hope

"Damn, this bitch's magic is as consistently... huh?!"

Karen, who had just climbed up from the terrifying earthquake brought by [Earth-Shaking], was cursing and complaining, but when he turned his gaze back to below the city wall, he saw a scene that made his heart stop!

The wall he had put so much effort into building, spent so many resources on... had just been blasted apart like that!?

This... had human technology advanced so rapidly?

It had only been a short two or three years since the last large-scale war between the two nations, fought with their entire national strength......

In just these two or three years, humans had not only popularized anti-demon weapons but even created such new siege weapons?

......

Karen knew—he was finished.

The demons were finished too.

Among all previous Demon Lords, he was actually the one with the strongest rallying power.

Unlike previous Demon Lords who could only mobilize a few demon tribes, Karen, having obtained the [Holy Sword] granted by the goddess, could use the sword's power to force other demons to submit to him.

To mobilize maximum strength, he had gathered the vast majority of demon combat units into the Demon Capital......

The demons scattered in other regions were all worthless trash with no combat ability!

As long as he and all the demons in the Demon Capital died here......

The demon race would truly be finished!

Utterly despairing, Karen looked up at the azure sky with his purple eyes.

"Oh vast heavens, why are you so harsh to us demons......"

Who could have imagined... that seemingly insignificant "small mistake" from ten thousand years ago would now beco the great disaster that completely destroyed the demon race!

Watching the black-clothed woman in the distance fly into the air again to cast spells and create earthquakes, the scene from ten thousand years ago couldn't help but reappear before his eyes......

Back then, he wasn't yet a Demon Lord, but a small administrator of a "human ranch"......

The demons all said managing human ranches was a cushy job.

Humans weren't like other livestock—humans could manage themselves.

An administrator only needed to appoint a human assistant and could happily slack off.

So administrators didn't need to expend much effort.

And humans tasted so good... as an administrator, casually eating a human or two wouldn't cause any consequences......

But Karen at that ti didn't think so.

He thought—humans were dangerous.

Humans couldn't be allowed to manage themselves.

Otherwise, it would eventually lead to unimaginable consequences.

However, being just a small administrator at the ti, his opinions weren't sothing demon higher-ups would adopt.

Until... the appearance of that man nad "Stiel"......

As the assistant administrator of the largest human ranch, he led the humans in that ranch to break through demon barriers overnight and charged toward the south with tens of thousands of humans......

Although ultimately, under demon army interception, fewer than ten thousand humans actually escaped to the south, that man and large numbers of humans still got away......

After the dispatched demon army was completely annihilated, to ensure his position wouldn't be coveted by other tribal leaders, that Demon Lord didn't bother with the matter......

Then... it beca like this......

Humans took root in that place rich with [Iron] mines and refined large quantities of iron to arm their armies.

Once humans donned armor forged from iron, demon magic's lethality against them was greatly reduced......

After ten thousand years of war... it beca like this......

"Boom!"

As an earthquake occurred that made both humans and demons struggle to stand, dozens more crossbow bolts with terrifying destructive power shot toward the wall!

The Demon Capital's wall collapsed with another thunderous "rumble" as a large section gave way under this terrible explosion!

Pulled back from his mories by the explosion, Karen knew—he had to do sothing now!

Otherwise... both he and the demons in this city... would surely die at the hands of that terrifying woman......

Thinking this, Karen looked at the purple-glowing [Holy Sword] in his hand......

This sword... hadn't been with him long, but had given him considerable help......

Under this sword's [Fear] effect, he had subdued those disobedient demon tribes completely.

With this sword's powerful lethality, he had slaughtered those colonial sub-humans completely......

Hadn't the goddess prophesied... that he would lead this sword to destroy humanity......

Looking at the goddess-granted [Holy Sword] in his hand, Karen knew—now everything depended on him.

As a demon who had dealt extensively with humans ten thousand years ago, he understood very clearly the differences between humans and demons.

Though demons and humans looked very similar, they were fundantally completely different.

Both humans and demons possessed the ability for large-scale organization, but the things that enabled humans to cooperate on a large scale... he still hadn't figured out to this day.

Those strange and ethereal things humans shouted about like "honor"......

"descendants"......

"loyalty"......

"future"...... and such......

They could truly face death without fear......

But demons couldn't.

Demons could cooperate on a large scale for only one reason—their own survival.

This was also why Demon Lords had to use violence to mobilize demons.

He understood very clearly—if they knew a battle was dood to fail, demon armies would instantly lose fighting power and scatter in all directions.

The thirty thousand-plus routed soldiers trapped here by humans had already completely lost their fighting capacity.

The only one who could reverse the situation now was himself......

Thinking this, Karen drew the [Holy Sword] from his hand.

Unlike his previous caution, now he was going to gamble......

Using a voice magically amplified to be heard across the entire battlefield, he shouted loudly to the woman in the center of the battlefield:

"Human Sovereign! Do you dare face in single combat?"

This was the only thing that could revive demon morale!

If that woman didn't accept his challenge to single combat, it would an humans feared him.

He could use this as grounds to greatly boost demon morale.

And if that woman accepted, he could stake everything on this one possibility of victory!

If... he ant if......

He could kill that woman on the battlefield, then the situation would be completely reversed!

Even if he couldn't win, it didn't matter! He could just retreat!

Anyway, demon morale was already at rock bottom—a few more failures wouldn't matter!

Moreover, in all those previous battles, that woman had never been able to kill him!

This proved that woman definitely lacked this ability!

Karen was so certain of this fact because he had already faced off with that human empress many tis.

When he personally witnessed the previous Demon Lord being killed by her sches over a hundred years ago when she was still young and inexperienced, he understood clearly—this woman would absolutely never show rcy on the battlefield!

Her inability to kill him was because she couldn't do it! There could be no other reason!