Chapter 871 – The Demon King

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After the light fades, what Cleon sees before his eyes is the power of the broken fortress – magic crystal.

And, fluttering in the air – crystals of light blue light.

Lastly, it was a man standing in front of him, wearing a half-broken mask, looking at the hilt of a sword with no blade left in his hand.

The appearance seen beyond the broken mask looked a little old to be called a young man, and on the contrary, it looked a little young to be called middle-aged-

If he had started a family, it wouldn’t be strange for him to have a child around 10 years old.

The color of his hair is a slightly dull light blue. And the color of his eyes was the same color as the color of the dark cloudy sky.

Was that the color he originally had – or was it the result of his mind representing the sky, which he had not been able to look up to since that day, affecting his body?

Either way, he no longer felt life in his eyes.

The strength of his body was clearly evident just by the fact that he was still alive, leaving behind his form, having received the magic that drew the power of the 4-attribute dragons and exploded them from the front.

Cleon gave his last strength to his legs, which seemed ready to collapse at any moment, and staggered over to him, who was sitting on his knees.

Bring the sword to his neck.

Galatea.

It was the most suitable sword to end him.

“It’s over. The Holy Swordsman of the Exiled Church.”

When Cleon spoke as if declaring, the man answered him without even raising his head.

“… Ah. It seems so.”

The fortress lost power.

There was still some magic left to circulate within the fortress, so it would not fall immediately, but there was not much time left before it began to lower its altitude due to lack of power.

And that.

He himself lost his weapon, the Holy Sword.

And, as the holy sword left, he felt like everything that was left of him was taken away at once.

There was no strength in his hands, no energy left in his body.

Here’s the thing… He was just a loser who stayed alive because he couldn’t die.

Seeing that spiritless appearance, Cleon closed his mouth for a moment and took a deep breath.

“What was the reason for banishing Resia to the gap in another dimension?”

“I can’t believe you came all the way here and asked me that. You, too, are a man with a lot of karma.”

In response to Cleon’s question, he mutters that.

However, Cleon did not threaten him by holding a knife to his throat.

Since it was already confirmed that his life was over, that kind of threat would not work.

Why? If he is now-

His mask was half removed, and he was confident that if he heard his sword’s voice for the last time, he would answer.

“It was the Father’s command from Adam. Of course. Hero Lesia… Had power too great for a single human being to possess. That would greatly disturb the balance of the world. If she gets involved in her people’s politics… Or if she becomes the main force and tries to do something of her own. The power of her world will lean toward her.”

＂…＂

When Cleon got the only answer he expected, he couldn’t help but frown.

Upon seeing Cleon like that, the sex inspector smiled and started talking.

“This is the superficial reason why she was expelled from her church.”

＂What…?＂

As the Holy Prosecutor spoke as if it were just a pretense, Cleon asked him back.

“Adam was more agitated than ever before when Lesia appeared. More than anything I’ve seen since I became his hand and foot under him. That was… Fear.”

“─Fear.”

Cleon places the words in his mouth as if repeating them.

“Okay. I couldn’t help but be surprised that a being like Adam, who transcended humanity, felt fear – but more than anything else, Adam had the delusion or obsession that Resia’s existence would lead to his own destruction.”

That’s because Adam knew of the existence of Lesia as a golden comet?

For Adam, the being who destroyed the primordial world where Adam was born, the culprit was Lesia.

However – the Lesia depicted as a golden comet and the Lesia of Cleon’s memories have significant differences not only in appearance but also in power, so even if it is Lesia, it will be lacking in some aspects to fight for the entire world. You must have felt it.

Resia, who appeared as a golden comet, must have been so strong because Nemea received support from her in order to fulfill her will to protect her star.

“… Then. Did Adam throw Lecia into the gap in her dimension in order to escape from her?”

“─No. Adam, of course, as I said, he first saw Lesia and was horrified. And while the war with the empire continued, he even thought that it would be better for Resia to perish together with the Demon Sword Emperor. The Demon Sword Emperor was certainly a difficult person, but Lesia probably thought that he might become more than that in the future. However… After the war between the Empire and the Kingdom ended, Adam changed his attitude towards Lesia. As if I realized something.”

Adam’s enlightenment.

What was it that allowed Adam to escape his fear of Lesia?

“According to the passage of time, Resia eventually realized that she had no choice but to be expelled from this world by the hands of our Expulsion Church.”

＂──.＂

Cleon felt as if he had been hit on the head for a moment by his words.

Even as Adam, he would have wanted to somehow banish Resia from this world.

Like a cockroach that came out of the house, or tomorrow’s homework that you didn’t want to see, you probably wanted to put it in a dustpan, organize it neatly, and then throw it away somewhere out of sight.

But, what if Resia resists when you do that?

Even though she tried to send her own limbs to deal with her Lesia, there was no vision that they would be victorious over her Lesia, so Adam became aware of a presence lurking behind the scenes of her world that she called her own. I didn’t want to be chased, and I extremely refused to have anything to do with her.

Because of her personality, if she is noticed, she will definitely grab her by the tail and try to get to her truth.

It was for this reason that the power of the Exiled Church came to a halt while Lecia went on her adventure.

But Adam realized.

In the end, Resia descends on the original world as her deterrent to destroy ‘humanity’ and protect the world and the stars.

But for that to happen, Resia must ultimately go to a space off the axis of time – a gap in another dimension.

In other words, it boils down to the fact that no matter what happens to Lecia, she ends up flying into a gap in another dimension.

If Adam had realized that fact a few years earlier, Lecia might have actually been exiled by the Exile Church before she even met Cleon – right after defeating the Demon Sword Emperor.

＂For Adam, the existence of Lesia is a disaster that brought about the destruction of the original world… But at the same time, she became a being who laid the foundation for him to put humanity under his control. And in order for a successor world to be born through the determined history of the destruction of the original world, it was ultimately necessary to expel Lesia.”

If the church does not expel Lesia, her history may be distorted.

Perhaps, as a result of the golden comet not appearing, humanity could have destroyed the star and destroyed itself, and not even a successor world could have been born.

“Do you understand? Demon swordsman. Unless she goes to the gap in this dimension. This world really could not come into existence. So we had to banish her. No matter what sacrifice she makes-“

＂──Ugh, don’t crawl!!＂

Cleon, who had been quietly listening to the story, could not hold back his boiling anger and raised his voice to the prosecutor.

In particular, the moment he uttered the word ‘sacrifice’, Cleon’s face was distorted almost like the devil.

＂What a sacrifice! It was Lesia who was sacrificed! The passage of time? Survival of the world!? It’s just the self-justification of a crazy machine that wants to keep humanity – the world – in its hands! Have you ever walked through a gap in another dimension with your own feet, and into the subliminal realm within it?”

When Cleon raised his voice in excitement, the prosecutor was unable to give Cleon any answer and kept his mouth shut.

“I don’t understand why you believe in Adam. Certainly, it will continue to be like that. But… The facial expressions you see every time you say that what you did was for the sake of an ideal or for the sake of this world… Looking at that, it means that you have never once thought about what kind of existence the branches you cut off were. I know.”

That was the face of blind people who had no doubt that they were right.

“Ah, now I know for sure. Why do I get so angry when I see you…! You guys are just like Alvain after all. For the sake of their ideal world, these are the guys who want to put everything that gets in the way out of sight…!”

As he came this far, Cleon recalled what he had told himself and his colleagues that it was for Lesia’s sake and to prevent the being named Adam from trying to take over humanity and become the god of the world.

But – in a more fundamental way, Cleon was something they could never understand.

The organization called the Expulsion Church, and its beliefs and actions, remind Cleon of Albain expelling him.

“I will bring back what you kicked out of this world. “Including Lesia, everything that was sacrificed.”

Cleon pledged to stand completely on the other side of them and fight to protect things that were pointed out as unnecessary or that should not exist.

“──If that’s the case, it will bring great chaos to this world.”

“It doesn’t matter if you say that. What’s important to me is that the ‘seed of chaos’ defined by your standards existed as a pillar that supported the feelings of friends, family, and lovers for some people.”

Cleon says that all of those things are precious.

And if the current world exists on top of the sacrifices of those things.

“I will personally destroy that world—Adam’s world. Do you know about disorder and chaos…!”

＂I see…＂

At Cleon’s words, Prosecutor Seong slightly shook his shoulders, as if he was smiling.

＂That last thing… Sounds like the devil.＂

＂──＂

Cleon heard his words and swung his sword.

It was swung in a trajectory that hit his neck, and the sword that fell like lightning from top to bottom—

Not only does it cut off Prosecutor Seong’s head, but boom! And he fell to the floor of the power room with all his emotions.

The sensation of cutting off a person’s head came through Cleon’s hand.

And the next thing that was conveyed was the feeling of the weakened floor transmitted through the sword as it was struck.

Wow! A voice is heard.

Cleon had to step back without realizing it.

The part that he had cut down and hit the ground was wounded by Cleon in order to activate the magic, and as the magic was activated and weakened, it completely collapsed due to the previous attack, creating a large hole.

With a swoosh, the head separated from the Holy Swordsman’s body fell through the hole and was thrown into the sky.

His body and head disappearing beyond the clouds.

He swallowed his breath without realizing it, and Cleon, who was looking at the falling head, saw the face of Prosecutor Seong with his eyes closed, even if he didn’t like it.

That face was still covered with regret and agony.

He may have regretted all his choices until the last moment.

Not only did he become a warrior and wield the holy sword, but he also talked to Cleon right before he died.

He regretted everything he had chosen as an escape route.

Cleon muttered to the open floor, hoping that he would fall into hell.

“… After the Demon Sword Emperor, is it the Demon King?”

Cleon was bitterly thinking about the title that was close to ridicule.

And the very next moment.

When you think the sound is heard again, a large hole opens in the wall of the power room.

Excluding the wall that the Holy Swordsman had melted with heat rays, it was the only intact wall of the power room that remained.

＂Cleon!＂

Cleon looks back towards Laila who appears from beyond-

＂Won-＂

He couldn’t finish his next sentence and collapsed as if he was falling asleep.

[Cleon!? Now!?]

[If I collapse here~]

＂Uh huh!? Wait!”

＂Instructor!?＂

Hearing that voice, Cleon felt as if his body was being thrown out into the pleasant wind, and he was completely-

It had crashed from Vajra, a fortress in the sky.