Chapter 218 – Chapter 45: Demon King #5 (1/2)

Chapter 218 – Chapter 45: Demon King #5

The Death Knight took a step forward. He stood alone among the flames and screams coming from every direction.

The Death Knight and War Knight weren’t the only ones attacking the Demon King’s Palace. Many troops had been prepared for today. The apostles of War were raging everywhere. They were those who lived for war, so the battlefield was the only place where they could feel this pleasure.

There were also the apostles of Death. Every one of them was old, and some of them had lived even longer than Arch Lich Shutenberg.

The Death Knight raised his sword, which was already covered with blood. The Death Knight’s sword was enveloped in the power of Death, so all the dead were reborn as undead which hated the living. It was thanks to the power of Death that the Demon King’s Palace became so chaotic in such a short period of time.

It was a horrible chain where the mother bit the child and then the child bit the father. The Death Knight recalled the past. Even though a long time had passed, the memories still remained clear in his head. He remained silent as he gazed at the scene he had created with his own hands.

There wasn’t much left. He had exhausted everything in today’s fight.

The Famine Knight had disappeared before even joining them. Then Arch Lich Shutenberg and the winter king had disappeared beyond the limit line along with the Conquest Knight, the warrior, and the other children of the demon king.

The attack on the Demon King’s Palace was using the last of the Death Knight’s forces. He had no more troops.It would be foolish to take a step back.

The Four Knights of the Apocalypse desired the destruction of the world, not the collapse of the Demon King’s Palace.The Demon King’s Palace was just a single city. Its disappearance wouldn’t cause the whole of the Demon World to collapse.

It would just cause confusion. Since the focal point of the demon world was gone, there would clearly be an uproar. The Death Knight hoped the war between species would happen again.

However, that was still far from destruction.

Even if Arch Lich Shutenberg disappeared with the other children of the demon, 3rd Prince Victor still remained in the west. There were also children of the concubines who were performing missions outside the Demon King’s Palace.

Additionally, the queens were outside the palace. 1st Queen Aishar Ragnaros remained at the Demon King’s Palace, but there was a big difference between her and the other queens. The 1st Queen was the daughter of King Zanskal of the draconians, while the other queens were the leaders of their species. Harming the 1st Queen was different from harming the others.

It would be inefficient and stupid to waste his remaining forces on attacking the Demon King’s Palace just for a slight chance of restarting the Era of Struggle. Rather, it would be more effective to raise the northern barbarians along with the winter king and Shutenberg.

Nevertheless, the Death Knight attacked the Demon King’s Palace.Despite everything else, he tried to erase the Demon King’s Palace from the world.However, it wasn’t due to a personal grudge, and it was far from clinging to an obsession.

This was necessary. Everything he had done so far would end with the destruction of the Demon King’s Palace.

Feeling what the War Knight felt, the Death Knight paused for a second and took a deep breath.A certain person was approaching. Instead of fleeing the Demon King’s Palace, he had chosen to fight.

He was the king—the Demon World’s protector.

It was something the Death Knight had hoped for, but he couldn’t help feeling a little bit of bitterness. He both admired and despised the demon king for his devotion.

Then the Death Knight stepped forward again.It was time to settle this.

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Four of the five captains of the Demon King’s Palace were in the north.

Reinhardt, a yaksha and the only remaining captain, was furious at the sight of the scene at the Demon King’s Palace. As befitting of his nickname ‘the Silent Knight’, he didn’t speak. He simply rushed toward the War Knight as flames covered the red armour on the War Knight’s body.

It was at that moment that Reinhardt discovered that the opponent was a woman. However, he didn’t have any problems with that.

With every stroke, Reinhardt tried to smash her. He was a yaksha and several times bigger than the red woman in front of him. Rather than a sword, he wielded a greatsword which contained a huge blunt force.

The War Knight received Reinhardt’s sword. As soon as it was blocked, her sword moved to the side of Reinhardt’s sword, seeming to slip down along its side smoothly.

Reinhardt’s sword soon landed on the ground. The War Knight was silent, but War laughed. Then she sped up.

The movements of the War Knight became faster and faster, and the crescent sword curved toward Reinhardt’s throat.

Simultaneously, flames burst out everywhere. The apostles of War, riding on fire, rushed towards the guards.

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It had started with the removal of the guardians around the Demon World.Numerous guardians had been killed, and by the time the Demon King’s Palace had noticed the guardians were being hunted, half of the target number had already been achieved.

The transformation of lands into deserts or wilderness was merely an additional effect as the goal wasn’t the devastation of the Demon World.

What were the guardians in the first place? Why had the lands been devastated after the disappearance of the guardians?

The reason for the latter was simple.

The Demon World was originally a land where people couldn’t live, and it had become like this due to the red dragon.This wasn’t devastation. It was just giving a glimpse of the Demon World’s original appearance.

If so, who had created the present Demon World? Who had put a shell over the ravaged world?Moreover, if it wasn’t for the sake of destruction, why had the Death Knight peeled off the shell?

There was one more meaning to the shell…

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The fact that the Demon King’s Palace was being attacked spread quickly. In addition to the three queens outside the castle, the four captains in the north also heard about the urgent situation.

However,the transportation formations didn’t activate. They had been destroyed before they could even be used. The first job of the Death Knight’s underlings was to destroy the transportation formations.

The three queens showed different actions. 3rd Queen Sylvia hurried to the Demon King’s Palace. Since the transportation formation of the palace wasn’t in action, she wanted to use the one nearest to the Demon King’s Palace.

4th Queen Elaine wasn’t in a better situation. She also wanted to head to the palace in a hurry, but she was outdoors, not at the palace of the lycanthropes. Elaine didn’t love the demon king, but she didn’t hate him; she simply thought it was for the best that he rule over the entire Demon World.

Elaine sped up along with her Blood Companions. Their goal was a transportation formation close to the Demon King’s Palace.

2nd Queen Titania Nekrion didn’t rush. She remained calm despite hearing that she couldn’t move directly to the Demon King’s Palace through the transportation formation. It wasn’t because she was cold-blooded or not worried about the demon king.

Among the queens, she was the one who believed in the demon king’s strength the most. Thus, she was able to keep a calm state despite the Demon King’s Palace being attacked.

The three queens were leading their armies towards the palace in their own way. The problem was whether they would make it in time.

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