Chapter 207- Demon Queen (Part 2)
The silence of the surrounding forest that was at first calming beca eerie, unnerving and even repulsive.
Somi tightened her grip on her weapon as she looked around, ready for any ambush.
'I can't sense any presence nearby. This is odd.' Beads of sweat fell down her face as she expanded her senses to the farthest place they could reach.
anwhile, the others also did the sa, each taking an angle where a possible ambush could happen. Monts passed slowly with nothing happening.
As they were like that, Nun turned around and walked toward Somi slowly.
"Hm, did you sense anything, Nun?" Somi asked as she noticed how her companion was coming toward her.
On the other hand, Rophian was seeing what was happening and his eyes were squinted.
"Be careful, Somi!!" His eyes then widened as he instinctively jumped forward, psuhsing Somi away.
However, at the sa ti, Nun created a very sharp shard of rock and stabbed forward, ultimately hitting Rophian's back and piercing it deeply.
"Ugh!" Clenching his teeth, Rophian didnt allow himself to make a noise.
"Rophian!!" Somi realized what happened and her face paled completely.
On the other hand, Letum quickly subdued Nun who wasn't able to react fast.
"I-I'm fine." Smiling slightly, Rophian tried to stand up.
"Wait! I will heal you imdiately."
"Oh, you will?"
Suddenly, a voice penetrated the silence of the forest and made everyone turn around to look at one particular direction.
The voice was heavenly, sweet yet also a coldness far deeper than anything the three of them had ever heard in their lives. It was like an extrely beautiful song, filled with cursed, evil lyrics.
Then, from within the darkness of the night, erged a person walking slowly toward them. This person was a woman, clad in a dark, beautiful robe. Her hair was as white as snow and as beautiful as the most sacred heaven.
Her face was otherworldly, akin to a goddess and her figure was beyond perfect. She was, I every sense of the word, an extrely beautiful woman.
However, her looks were completely covered by her unbelievably strong pressure that she was emitting.
It didn't take more than a second for the three of them to know one certain fact. One fact that was shocking enough to make them freeze in their place.
'We can't defeat this woman.' They all thought.
Her power was stronger than all three of them combined. Considering the fact that Somi, Rophian and Letum were three of the strongest people in the world made that realization even more mind-blowing.
"It's a pleasure to et you visitors from the world of humans. This empress' na is Eisheth but you can call Your Highness." The woman said with a graceful smile that didn't change from the start of the interaction.
'Eisheth... I heard the na before... She's the Demon Queen.' Somi realized what she ant by calling herself Empress.
"It's certainly an honor to et the Queen of demons herself." Deciding to take matters into her hands, Somi stepped forward and spoke.
"Fufufu! Well, This empress wanted to see how the visitors of our world looked like and I must say, I'm not dissapointed.
"Well, since we are visitors. Shouldn't we be received with hospitality?" Somi asked with a fake smile.
Deep down, she knew that gentle facade the demon queen was putting on was simply to be graceful. The highly likely chance was that none of them would be able to survive tonight.
'Are you two ready for death? You better be, Rophian, Letum!!'
"Oh, my apologies for the late hospitality. I was thinking of a good way to receive all of you and I must say, this is the best I could co up with.
"U-Ugh... Drop down the act, Queen! If you are going to try and capture us then no use. We all can kill ourselves before you could do anything to us." Rophian said as he held his injury with one hand.
However, Eisheth didn't seem to be angry at how Rophian spoke.
"No reason to be perturbed, Mr. Human. We, demons, don't know how to interact with humans and even the human slaves we had are already dead. It would be pointless to make you all slaves for us." Eisheth said.
"Oh, do you perhaps not consider us enemies?" Somi asked.
"Oh? Obviously not. I do not see you as enemies. Who would look at a bunch of ants and think they are enemies worthy of taking attention?"
After that, the Demon Queen lifted her hand and continued.
"You ants killed our kind and kicked us to this world thinking that Divine Sapphire belongs to you. Look at this world, this was a hellhole when we first arrived here yet we made it a heaven for our kind. What did your race do? I'm sure Divine Sapphire is suffering because of your filthy hands."
"U-Ugh, no! don't!" Suddenly, Rophian yelled as his legs started walking on their own.
"Rophian!!"
"Know, humans, that we are simply awaiting the day that gate will open and when that happens, the world will return to its rightful owners."
Then, Rophian suddenly started running toward Somi with his sword already pulled out ready to attack her.
Even though his eyes had lost their light, tears fell down his face, showing the huge conflict he was having inside over the control of his own body.
Somi quickly jumped away before the sword attack could hit her.
"Letum, run!" She said.
However, at that mont, the demon queen smiled and said.
"Ah, how saddening to see a husband kill his own wife. Maybe to make it slightly better, let's make the wife attack him too. An equal fight."
At that mont, Somi clenched her teeth as she felt strong pain assault her head along with a powerful blow to her consciousness.
"Don't wait for us! Run, Letum!" She said as she pulled her sword out and aid it at Rophian.
The latter frowned heavily before he quickly turned around and dashed away.
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"Then I ran and ran for a long ti. I didn't turn around at all during this ti. But, I know that The Demon Queen had used her powers to control the two of them and made them fight to death."
"To make two people that loved each other dearly fight to death... Horrible." Even though Rin didn't et Somi, he could comprehend how horrible it was for her.
'The Demon Queen... So she's the strongest demon out of all of them. She was able to easily overpower three of the strongest humans as if it was nothing. How can you even beat soone like this?'
Rin was aware of how strong the ruler of demon should be but that didn't make things any less worrieso.
"I have no face to tell them that I ran way when Somi stayed there and fought her husband. I can't do that." Letum added with a cold tone.
But, it was clear how shaful he was feeling at the mont. He was powerless and had to see his friends die because of that. No one can bla him for changing like this.
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