Chapter 052 (1/2)

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Hero Ryuuya.

Borrowing the power of the Goddess of Light, he was the Hero that the Great Altlis Temple had summoned.

The black haired, black eyed Hero that was said to have come from another world that was not this one, together with a young Sylphid girl, went on a journey with the mission of subduing the Demon King Shuklous.

And then, after obtaining many companions, he destroyed Shuklous with a sacred sword that controlled the power of the Gods and prayers. Furthermore, when the Hero Ryuuya came to know of the existence of the Great Demon King Gramfia that lied dormant in the Dark Continent, he searched for a way to cross over to the Dark Continent together with his companions.

Before long, they got the Holy Dragon Exlet to obey, and after crossing over to the Dark Continent on that, they finally subdued Gramfia.

「……Wait a minute.」

As Shion was explaining, Nino interjected.

「What is it?」

「Dragons, they are Mazoku, aren’t they?」

「That’s right.」

Just as Nino said, Dragons were unmistakably Mazoku.

Sub-dragons and Flying dragons, and then firedrakes, and veil dragons

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……There was no mistake that Gramfia had created these.

But, dragons known as a Holy Dragon were not among them.

「Also, there is one more thing. Going by the story just now, that Shuk-whatever knew of the Dark Continent?」

「It would seem that he did.」

That’s right, at the moment that Demon King Shuklous was defeated, he divulged the existence of the 「Great Demon King Gramfia」 and the Dark Continent and then perished.

There was probably some surprise for mankind’s side, but it was nothing strange. Behind one evil, there was an even greater evil, it was probably taken with that level of understanding. But when thinking of it from the common sense of Mazoku, there was clearly a problem.

For the Mazoku, there was a one and only Demon King. There existed no greater or lesser of it.

Naturally, that was the case for Gramfia as well. As a matter of fact, as far as the Mazoku of those times know, Gramfia had not even called himself something like the 「Great Demon King」.

And then, there was an even stranger point.

「Demon Kings……are able to create Mazoku but……」

「Yeah.」

「……There is also an exception that cannot be created.」

That’s right. If Shuklous were a genuine Demon King, starting with the Ogres, the existence of the Mazoku that appeared only in the Shutaia Continent could be explained. It meant that they were Mazoku that Shuklous had created.

But, however.

「Demon Kings……cannot create Demon Kings.」

That’s right, that was the exception. Those of the same race cannot be created.

That was the single exception to the Demon King’s power.

When Gramfia had come to learn of the existence of mankind and had started to send his subordinate Mazoku to the Shutaia Continent, Shuklous was already acting in the Shutaia Continent.

In other words, Shuklous couldn’t have been sent in by Gramfia.

Despite this, to the Hero that could use magic that could confirm one’s status, Shuklous was recognized as a Demon King.

In short, this indicated a certain fact.

「Shuklous was……a genuine Demon King.」

And then, Shuklous, for some sort of reason, grasped the existence of another Demon King, Gramfia, and the Dark Continent.

On top of that, he purported that Gramfia was a 「Great Demon King」.

As if to make it so that Gramfia were the root of all evil……

Naturally, Gramfia himself was unmistakably the enemy of mankind.

However, if one were to say that he was the root of all evil, that would be slightly wrong.

Besides, at present, there wasn’t any sort of point connecting Gramfia and Shuklous.

When looked at from mankind’s side, it’s a fact that they were connected. But from the Mazoku’s side, they couldn’t be connected.

「This is clearly strange. No……Shuklous’s existence, every part of it is strange.」

After thinking of it like that, the existence of the Alva were also strange.

The eerie Alva that appear through airspace transfer.