Chapter 117 - Fallen Kingdom 3 (1/2)
It was unclear what Rodriguez was lying about in his first answer because it contained several contents.
However, the second answer contained only one content.
So, unlike before, he had an instinctive conviction.
'First, I'll have to capture Rodriguez.'
He didn't know why he had kept Bailey alive, but it worked out to his advantage anyway.
When Woohyuk got off the horse and walked alone, Rodriguez urgently ordered an attack.
“Attack him already! Don't get caught up in his tricks!”
He was getting an unusual feeling from Woohyuk.
It felt like Woohyuk was staring at his deepest core, that he could see everything about him.
Besides, he wasn’t an ordinary guy seeing how he had kept his calm in this situation.
Swooosh!
The archer unit placed in the rear shot arrows at Woohyuk.
It was a threatening attack, but Woohyuk simply surrounded himself with demonic energy and neutralized them.
And… ,
Whack!
In an instant, the gap narrowed and he slammed a fist into Rodriguez's abdomen.
“Cough...”
“Tell your men to drop their weapons.”
When Rodriguez opened his eyes and gasped for air, Woohyuk placed Grandia’s blade on his neck.
It happened so quickly that the knights that escorted him could not react and had to hide their embarrassment.
“Do, do as he said!”
“…”
“What are you doing, everyone? Do as he ordered you to!
“…Yes sir.”
The soldiers slowly put down their weapons one by one carefully.
After capturing them all, Woo-hyuk interrogated Rodriguez.
“Where is Bailey?”
“… I locked him up in my family mansion’s basement.”
“Guide me there.”
Rodriguez took a gentle pace.
Soon, as the two arrived at the luxurious mansion, the soldiers guarding the door expressed a sense of embarrassment.
“Count...”
“Shut up and open the door if you don't want to get fired.”
It was difficult to eat food properly if you were unemployed with the current job difficulties.
Due to Rodriguez's nervousness, the guards stepped aside, and Woohyuk was able to enter the mansion.
'Looks like he’s living alone.'
He was of marriageable age and could have a wife and child, but Woohyuk couldn't feel anything except from the basement side.
He seemed to have no interest in raising a family after contracting with the demons and giving up all of their rights in his life.
Woohyuk opened his mouth as he went down the basement stairs with Rodriguez.
“Who is your master?”
“…A high-class demon called Petos.”
Most of the demons of the Dane Kingdom were the subordinates of Dantalion.
Therefore, there was no need to fight Petos to save Bailey.
'Well, he’s probably not even here.'
After the three demon kings belonging to the Ars Nova Circle were sealed, all the subordinates under their commands were forcibly summoned to the demon world.
Therefore, the Dane Kingdom and Lydia Kingdom were currently not under the control of the demons.
The remaining demonic influencers were those who had signed contracts with them, like Rodriguez.
'Prince Ramirez must have sold his soul to Dantalion.'
He was also cunning and ambitious like his father, Heinrich III.
In order to increase the territory of the country, they would use any means. If Woohyuk wanted to conquer the Eeth continent in the future, he had to remove him.
When Woo-hyuk was reminiscing about his past, a system message popped up in front of his eyes.
[The high-class demon Petos from the Dantalion Barony wants to meet Chun Woohyuk. Will you allow it?]
[Accept / Decline]
It was the guy who had signed a contract with Rodriguez.
I was thinking of summoning the demons as a test, but it worked.
When Woohyuk, who had stopped walking, pressed the accept button, a black portal appeared in the air, and a blond man with horns on his head appeared.
“Thank you for allowing this meeting, Lord Asura.”
“What do you want?”
“I don’t have anything else to do, so I would like to help Lord Asura a little.”
The territories of the three demon kings were now sealed and confined in a hemispherical transparent barrier.
Because of that, the demons under their commands had their activities in the demon world limited.
Petos had asked to be summoned while the others were hesitating to do so.
“Aren’t you confused that Dantalion isn’t in the territory anymore?”
“There is nothing special about it. However, we are all concerned about our futures.”
When the demon was forcibly summoned, a system guide message popped up, and the demons understood the situation roughly, because they knew about Lemegeton as well.
However, since the death of the wise king Solomon, it has never reappeared in the world so far, so everyone was surprised.
“You don’t like obeying me, right?”
‘Rather than dislike. I’m afraid I will not be able to live freely anymore.’
Lemegueton was the absolute magic book for the 72 Demon Kings.
If they were sealed in it, even the demons under the commands had to obey the owner and couldn’t come to the world without permission.
In addition, the estates of the demon kings belonging to the Ars Nova circle, including Dantalion, were now colonized.
The demons couldn’t help but wordy about themselves.
“I guess I should have a face-to-face meeting with everybody once. I did see the top-class demons last time on the battlefield.”
“We were just following our lord’s commands. Please relieve your anger.”
Petos bowed his head.
No matter where he was from, Woohyuk was the one who had found the treasures of the wise king Solomon.
Since he had conquered the three demon kings this time, he was someone who could conquer the demon world in the future.
“I, too, was underestimating and looking down on Lord Asura. Please have mercy on me.”
When Petos treated Woohyuk as if he were a king, Rodriguez, who had been silent, intervened.
He could roughly understand what had happened through the conversation.
Now that Dantalion was defeated, it was better to be on Woohyuk’s side rather than Prince Ramirez.
“Lead me to Bailey already.”
Woohyuk said again, holding the vampiric dagger behind Rodriguez's back.
He was cruel enough to not hesitate to kill.