The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 74



73. This is the story of the Demon King

The Demon King closed his eyes.

At that moment, a man appeared in front of him. He was someone he couldn’t forget even if he wanted to. Because he was the first person who had given him an ‘unforgettable moment’.

He was the first warrior, the first human to defeat himself.

The first being to successfully seal itself

Even though it was said that he had borrowed the power of the holy sword that the gods had barely managed to create with their last bit of strength during the Great War of the Gods and Demons, the Demon King could not help but be amazed at the fact that such a feat, such a miracle, could be accomplished with a human body that he had easily destroyed.

But the words that came out of such a being’s mouth were ridiculous. It was a serious statement that could not be misinterpreted. It was so serious that even at the moment of sealing, the Demon King could not help but laugh.

-Demon King! This is God’s will!

Oh, what a ridiculous sight! The foolishness of not knowing that he has performed a miracle, even though he has performed one himself.

That was why the Demon King could not help but laugh. That human had no doubt that the miracle he had performed was performed by God. He truly believed it.

Humans have always been like that.

These are truly pitiful beings who try to package their achievements as gods, which is beyond understanding.

To the Demon King, the human race was like that.

Even dragons, who are said to be perfect beings,

The celestials who guard the side of God

That weak yet great race that performs miracles that no one else could do

They were always anxious to give the miracles and glory they created to God.

This is truly a funny story.

“I too am a being born from that god.”

As the perfect dragon would be

Just like the celestials, the messengers of God,

The Demon King was also born from God.

That’s a given.

Because it is the gods who create the world.

Therefore, everything in this world was created by the gods, and everything in this world was the responsibility of the gods. And it was no different for the Demon King, who was a symbol of destruction. He was also created by the gods, and the gods were responsible for his existence.

But humans did not try to know that obvious truth. They just always praised God and tried to become God’s slaves.

The celestials simply pretended not to know and tried to cover up the truth, and the humans did not dare to imagine such a thing. Only the dragons did not turn away from the truth. That is why they chose to destroy themselves.

They knew that the reason the gods created them as perfect beings was to correct their mistakes, to cover up their mistakes, so they would not have wanted to accept their own pathetic reason for existence. The sky-high self-esteem that comes with being perfect beings is because they could not accept the reason for their birth, their reason for existence, which was simply to correct the mistakes of the gods.

And they never revealed that fact to anyone. Even though they knew that it would end up being recorded in history as ‘so perfect that it was boring and it disappeared.’… They did it. Because it was the best revenge they could do for their self-esteem. Nothing would deny the absoluteness of the gods more than the ‘most perfect being they created’ that the gods acknowledged disappearing so vainly.

“…I thought we would soon be able to end this boring war.”

The Demon King laughed as if he found it amusing.

The dragons had all disappeared, and the Celestials had also lost more and more strength as they suffered great damage from the Demon King each time the seal was broken, and they were no longer as powerful as they used to be.

There is nothing that can stop you anymore.

The Demon King could not help but have such confidence.

But his confidence was shattered.

I lost the dragon egg I thought I had.

The last dragon ended up falling into the hands of humans. And then he was born as the first white dragon. And because of the white dragon, he lost his most trusted advisor, Andres.

It was just a dragon. Of course, the problem was that the power that one dragon possessed was the power to absolutely destroy demons… But there was nothing he could do about himself, who was an absolute demon.

If he were to cross over to the human world in his perfect state, there wouldn’t be any obstacles that could stand in his way.

“But still, it’s fun. Isn’t it that we’re finally free from this boredom? No, I should say that we’re finally able to wage a ‘war that can be allowed to end.’”

Andres was a great staff member. He had been faithfully preparing since the distant past when the Demon King’s seal had not been released. He had thoroughly prepared for this great war to be the last war, so that everything could be put into the Demon King’s hands. Therefore, in the current situation where the power was incomparably advantageous compared to the past, even if Andres sent out the Demon King’s army as it was, even if its strength was weakened, it should have been able to win.

But Andres died

The demons of his own forces, whom Andres had boasted so much about, were either killed or suffered massive damage as soon as they crossed over.

The Demon King was originally confident that the Demon King’s army alone would be able to finish everything without him having to step forward. However, the Demon King had no choice but to give up that confidence.

The cause is unknown, but it seems like there is an entity that keeps changing the flow in the human world.

It was a heart-pounding event for the Demon King. Surprisingly, it was. The Demon King felt more joy than confusion in this unexpected situation.

He had no negative feelings about the existence of such a being that broke his expectations and surpassed his predictions.

Rather, if he could easily destroy this world… on the contrary, he would not have liked it at all.

Because if he completely destroys this world, it will prove the absoluteness of the gods.

If the perfect beings, the dragons, wanted to deny the absoluteness of the gods by destroying themselves, then the Demon King is trying to deny the absoluteness of the gods in his own way. If the Demon King, who was born with the symbol of destruction by the gods, completely destroyed the world, then that would only prove the absoluteness of the gods.

That is what the Demon King desires.

Even though dragons are extinct

Even though the Celestials no longer have the power of the past,

I hope that something new, something unusual, will happen again.

So, for him, it is actually a happy thing when things don’t go as he expected.

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“But if you’ve been hit, you should give it back. If you stay still after being hit, that would be unbecoming of a Demon King.”

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The World Tree was doing its best to prepare. It knew that there was still time until that moment came, thanks to the knowledge left behind by so many of them… But this world was already changing.

The world in which the hero had the possibility of defeating the Demon King was the first world in which he had the possibility of defeating the Demon King. This was because it was impossible to know what would happen in the current world where a miracle that had never happened before had occurred.

The world tree thought.

I’m glad I prepared.

Everything was on fire.

All living things are being destroyed without mercy.

Most of the elves were completely evacuated by the magic of the World Tree. However, in order to buy that time, their precious children had to be sacrificed.

‘I’m sorry, my precious children… .’

The World Tree couldn’t help but shed tears as it remembered the children who had willingly sacrificed themselves for its request.

The beautiful forest that had been protected within its own barrier for so long was no longer visible.

Everything is simply burned black by the devil’s flames.

It’s ruined and ruined.

That was the only world the Demon King could create, the only outcome he could create, and the only ending he could create.

“More than anything else, you are the one who has sustained the world for the longest time.”

The Demon King smiled as he looked down on the world where everything was burning.

“… … .”

“I guess Jim never expected this to happen.”

“… Even if it’s you, if you force yourself to come over, you’ll become weaker. Why…?”

As evidence, blood flowed from the Demon King’s hand. Looking at the pitch-black blood, the Demon King smiled with interest.

“Blood flowing from Jim’s body. What a strange sensation. But isn’t this also just a momentary pleasure?”

The great magic used by the elven elders who had supported her for the longest time, risking their lives, had succeeded in wounding the Demon King. Even so, it was far from a fatal wound, but that alone was a great thing. If the Demon King had been in perfect condition, he wouldn’t have been able to touch even a single hair, let alone be wounded. The fact that he was wounded was proof that he had been weakened by overcoming a state that was not perfect at all.

None of the other knowledge they left behind had ever happened like this. The Demon King had never acted before coming to the human world in perfect condition. But the Irregulars had already happened, and the Elven Forest was no longer in the shape it once was.

“It’s all well and good to completely destroy the world on a perfect stage. But isn’t that just too boring? It lacks too much improvisation and fun.”

“… Is it fun?”

“Is that strange? But I am the Demon King. The gods gave me a script called fate, and I was born that way. In other words, this is the result that the gods created at this very moment, and the gods are also responsible for this result.”

The Demon King calmly recited the truth of the world that the Celestials absolutely wanted to hide.

The World Tree could not help but resent the gods.

Why on earth did they create such a being? For what purpose? Was this world so far from the perfect world they had hoped for?

As a result, the Demon King was sealed several times and then woke up from the seal, leading the world to destruction. As a result, the powerful Celestials completely lost their former glory, the dragons turned their backs on the world, and because of this endless vicious cycle, even the creator gods were forced to shed blood and face death.

but

Blaming the gods won’t change anything.

She has a world to protect

Because the fact that the Demon King is an absolute evil that will destroy it has not changed one bit.

So the World Tree decided to accept death.

If he, who knows the future, accepts death in vain, the Demon King will be mistaken. He says that there is no hope. In reality, there is hope, but in order to keep the hope from being discovered, in order to preserve the spark of hope, he must die.

In this way, the World Tree tried to accept its end.

If only the Demon King hadn’t told the final truth.

“It would be better to give the World Tree a hard time. ‘It would be too tedious for me to burn you, who accepted death in vain.’”

“… … ?!”

The moment I heard those words

The world tree

I ended up realizing the real truth.

Actually, I had my doubts from the beginning.

In the first Great War of the Gods and Demons, the gods had to suffer many sacrifices from the demon king they had created. In the subsequent battles with the demon king that occurred every time the seal was broken, the gods’ power was consumed and consumed again.

But is it really possible for the gods to make one human regress to the past so many times? Is it really possible?

From the beginning

There was only one answer.

A being with the power to perform such outrageous miracles in succession

No more

In this world

There is only one being left.

It was the ‘Devil King’.