○ Lesser Demon King Kyuka’s Camp – Nehyor
Kyuka’s soldiers were running to and fro.
And upon seeing how much chaos had descended over the camp, Nehyor decided that no good would co from staying any longer.
It might just be a matter of days now until Kyuka becos a Demon King.
He had been thinking such things.
Even though it would be difficult, there were still other Lesser Demon Kings.
He just needed to convince them and stay close by until they beca a Demon King. Such had been his thoughts.
“…Damn it. It’s like so terrible joke.”
Nehyor squeezed the Orb of Control. It was the one he had extracted from Kyuka’s body.
This was not enough for him to evolve.
But even though he knew this, he had brought it with him as if he could not let it go.
“Now I’ll have to find soone else… That being said, Golan crushed the west, and so I have nowhere to turn.”
Should he go to the west and start plotting from the beginning?
He had already provoked them as much as he could, and instigated. How could he go and et any of them now?
“In that case, what if I just turned Golan into a Demon King?”
He had grown so much in such a short while.
Considering his potential, perhaps he was Nehyor’s best bet now.
However, Nehyor soon abandoned this idea due to one single reason.
And that was that he was unable to predict what Golan would do.
Even when he was still an Ogre, Golan had been too much for Nehyor to control.
And so even if there was a good chance that Golan could rise to Demon King, there were too many uncertainties that would co with it.
It was too dangerous to incorporate Golan into his plan.
“I have no choice then. I’ll have to return to my country for now.”
The only thing left was to antagonize an ordinary Demon King.
While Nehyor may have looked young, he was actually quite old.
Indeed, he was much older than Farneze.
That was one of the reasons that he could not wait for lvis to wake up. However, his lifespan would be extended greatly if he evolved.
It was this promise that had made him act so recklessly up until now.
The number of people in the Demon World who were cautious towards him was increasing. And he did not have much ti left before his movent would beco very restricted.
He had one, maybe two chances left.
After that, his abilities would start to decline rapidly
“I’ll discuss it with Legras and find out if we can go up against Demon King Legard.”
While Nehyor flew towards the south, sothing was happening in Demon King Dalm’s country…
○ Demon King Dalm’s Country – lvis
The conversation between Lesser Demon King lvis and Great Demon King Dalm was coming to an end.
While they had not t for a very long ti, Dalm felt that lvis had not changed much at all.
(He won’t listen no matter what I say.)
Still, there was sothing he could not stop himself from saying. It was…
“It seems like things are getting very busy in the Demon World. Many Lesser Demon Kings and Demon Kings are risking their lives in order to rise up. I hope that you will stay calm.”
This didn’t apply to countries that ca out to attack lvis, but he was asking lvis to abstain from sticking his head out in the matters of other countries.
When things beca very active in the Demon World, the rankings would be disturbed.
New and young Lesser Demon Kings and Demon Kings were born, while the old and strong faded away now that their role was ended.
But Dalm saw it as a necessary ritual for the Demon World to be reborn.
Dalm was one of two who were considered to be the strongest. But he was no exception.
And so he would accept it, when the ti ca for him to withdraw.
However, lvis was different.
It was possible for him to scorch the entire Demon World, and he could target specific races and destroy them if he wanted.
If lvis decided to reshape the Demon World entirely, what kind of world would it be?
Dalm doubted the word ‘reborn’ would be fitting for whatever the result was.
And so he asked for restraint.
It was his duty as the old guard to say it.
Even though this duty could make him the target of lvis’s wrath, he had to say it.
“Hmm. …Well, I shall consider it.”
Dalm sighed with relief upon hearing those words.
The old lvis might have just said, ‘what does that have to do with ?’
It wasn’t hard for him to imagine lvis saying, ‘and?’ after explaining how this was for the future of the Demon World.
It had only been a few hundred years, but perhaps lvis had llowed just a little during his sleep…
“But I might have to destroy the Celestial World. Regardless, I will not end the Demon World before then.”
“I…I’m glad that you understand….”
“I should be leaving soon.”
He had heard what he ca to hear.
And so lvis stood up as if he had no business here anymore.
As for Dalm, he was mulling over lvis’s words and trying to determine if it was a joke or not.
And then, with a ‘Ah, yes, yes,’ lvis turned around.
“I want you to ask the Fallen for more details about what is happening in the Celestial World now.”
“…!”
And with that, lvis flew out of the window.
lvis’s goal was to et Yamato.
That was sothing that hadn’t changed at all.
As the Tablet of Control showed, there was no doubt that Yamato was a Lesser High King.
He was alive sowhere.
So said that he was in a place between space and ti. But no one knew. No one had seen him.
The only thing that was certain was that he wasn’t in the Demon World or Under World.
And he was surely not in the Celestial World.
Dalm did not know why lvis had claid that he might destroy the Celestial World.
Perhaps it was because he wasn’t sure.
If destroying the Celestial World would allow him to et Yamato, lvis would not hesitate to do it.
(…Really now. Will you not co back to us?)
Dalm could only beg in his heart to the Lesser High King who was not there.
After leaving Great Demon King Dalm’s castle, lvis saw that soone else was flying below him.
Far below him, in fact.
That being said, it wasn’t because this person was flying low, but that lvis was flying abnormally high.
“…Hmm. From the north, eh?”
The person who was flying was Nehyor, who was returning to his country from Lesser Demon King Kyuka’s camp.
For no more reason than finding him to be an eyesore, lvis gathered purple fire into his finger in order to vaporize Nehyor in a flash… But then he rembered Dalm’s earlier request.
“Hmph.”
He muttered to himself, and he decreased the size of the fla before unleashing it.
—Dodon!
“Ggggaa…wh-what…!?”
After being hit in the back by sothing huge and condensed, Nehyor crashed to the ground.
He was half dead and writhed in pain.
But by then, lvis was already far away.
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