[You have entered the Demon Realm.]
As the message disappeared, a hellscape unfolded. Blazing flames shot up from all directions in the violet sky.
Overall, the atmosphere was dark. It felt like an ordinary person would go insane immediately if they came here.
[This is the entrance to the Demon Realm. Deeper inside, you will find the Demon King’s location.]
Nodding at Turkan’s explanation, I moved.
“Ah, right.”
I sent a message to Yoo Seolha using magic that modified telepathy, telling her to take care of the advance team matters. And soon, a new message appeared.
[All have been dealt with, and Apostle candidates have been secured.]
The fact that this was resolved in such a short time meant that time flows differently between Earth and this Demon Realm.
“Let’s go immediately.”
[Understood. Then I will go ahead and prepare.]
Turkan melded with the darkness and disappeared. Since he was a Guardian, I could sense his presence. Turkan, who had moved deep into the Demon Realm as if using Teleportation Magic, used his power.
Gooooooo!
I could feel the power Turkan was emitting from beyond the endless horizon. Using that as a reference point, I used Teleportation Magic.
“…Mana can’t be used?”
Seeing that the magic didn’t work, I converted mana to demonic power and used Teleportation Magic again.
Flash!
In an instant, the surrounding scenery changed. On a ground boiling with hot magma, thousands of demonkind were kneeling. In their center stood Turkan.
[Follow.]
As he displayed the dignity of a Demon King, the demonkind obeyed Turkan’s command. The only law of the Demon Realm: Rule of the Strong. It was a place where obeying the commands of a stronger demon was natural. The demonkind moved together, following Turkan.
When the demonkind, initially numbering thousands, swelled to tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, the Demon King’s Castle—the center of the Demon Realm where the Demon King lived—appeared.
[Turkan… Not only did you dare betray me, but you walk here on your own feet. You must be mad, wanting to die.]
【Hey, wipe them out.】
Turkan ignored the Greed Demon King. He immediately gave orders to the demonkind, and the demonkind who received the orders charged toward the Demon King’s Castle.
The Demon King Faction and the Anti-Demon King Faction. The two massive groups clashed, sending powerful shockwaves in all directions. However, the battle was one-sided. The elite demonkind, who were the Demon King’s closest aides and possessed strong demonic power, swept away the hastily formed anti-Demon King forces.
【Kyaaaaah!】
[Kehuk!]
[You ungrateful bastards, dare to betray the Demon King? Die, all of you!]
A battle close to massacre. Meanwhile, Turkan advanced toward the Greed Demon King. Whenever someone approached, he unhesitatingly burst their heads.
Bang!
Kwaaang!
Every time Turkan used his power, the enemy forces were swept away.
[Turkanaaaaaan!]
The Greed Demon King leaped down from the Demon King’s Castle and moved toward Turkan. An intense pressure crushed the area around the Demon King’s Castle. Some demonkind burst from the pressure alone, while others were pinned to the ground, barely gasping for breath.
[Come down now. The owner of that seat is someone else.]
[I will make you suffer in the Demon King’s Castle for the rest of your life.]
The Greed Demon King poured Black Magic at Turkan.
Kwaaang!
Kwagagagang!
Such powerful force that it devastated the surroundings of the Demon King’s Castle. Turkan blocked the attacks with ease. Although he was once the Demon King’s lackey, he was now a legitimate Demon King himself.
Emitting an aura that didn’t lose to the Greed Demon King, he blocked the enemy’s attacks and counterattacked. He lightly clenched his fist and thrust it forward. He added rotational force to the condensed demonic power, amplifying its strength. The Ascending Martial Arts, containing the Enlightenment gained from conquering the Demon Realm.
Turkan’s extended fist swallowed the Demon King’s Castle whole.
Kwagagagagang!
The top of the Demon King’s Castle, which wouldn’t even be scratched by ordinary attacks, vanished. It disappeared without even leaving dust.
Watching that sight, the Greed Demon King’s eyebrows twitched. Perhaps he judged that Turkan was stronger than he had imagined.
He called over a nearby supreme demon. He then absorbed that guy’s demonic power. The demon whose power was drained died on the spot, and the Greed Demon King, having replenished his strength, once again fired magic at Turkan.
[Nothing special.]
Having grasped the enemy’s full strength, Turkan moved. Dodging the barrage of attacks from the Greed Demon King, he approached him directly. In an instant, Turkan closed in right before his eyes.
He clenched his fist tightly and thrust it with all his might, the corners of his mouth lifting.
Kwaaaaaaang!
An intense force erupted, shaking the ground. The Greed Demon King tried to block with all his strength, but it was a meaningless effort. The barrier shattered, and Turkan’s fist reached his heart.
It burst the heart, and the demonic power the guy possessed was released in an instant. Turkan opened his mouth and devoured the demonic power that the Greed Demon King had held.
A battle that truly ended in an instant. The Greed Demon King died, and Turkan became the new Demon King of this Demon Realm. Those who had been fighting until just now united and paid their respects to Turkan.
[We congratulate the birth of a new Demon King.]
[We will follow you from now on.]
Everyone knelt before Turkan. Quite a magnificent sight.
Turkan looked at me with a satisfied smile. I slowly walked over to where Turkan was. There, the Greed Demon King was gasping for breath.
“Sorry. You came too late, so I attacked first.”
[You… Kugh, so it was your doing.]
“You teamed up with the Black Dragon God, right? You stay here and talk with me for a bit.”
Then I turned my head and looked at Turkan.
“Take these guys right now and wipe out the Apostles of the White Dragon God.”
[Understood.]
I reached out my hand and opened a dimensional gate to the surface. The coordinates were set in advance. To the place where the Apostles of the White Dragon God were gathered.
[All of you, follow.]
Turkan led the way to the surface. The demonkind followed behind him. All of the demonkind that existed in the Demon Realm crossed over to where the Apostles of the White Dragon God were, following Turkan.
The scene visible beyond the dimensional gate: the demonkind smashed and burned the place where the Apostles of the White Dragon God lived. The Apostles of the White Dragon God appeared belatedly and tried to stop the demonkind.
[What the hell are you doing?]
“You don’t need to know.”
I looked at the Greed Demon King and used Dragon Fear. A fear that would not have worked under normal circumstances. The Greed Demon King had lost all the power he possessed. Fear easily dominated him.
As I peeked into his memories, I discovered something unexpected.
-Gather your strength and strike the Apostles of the White Dragon God.
A conversation between the Apostle of the Black Dragon God and the Demon King. So they were also planning to attack the White Dragon God.
“Look at these guys?”
On the Iigrant Continent, the light shone on only one place. The Sun Garden at the center of the continent. All the light poured only where the Apostles of the White Dragon God gathered, and that light faintly illuminated the surrounding continent. The farther out you went, the darker it became. The places where humans and abandoned demi-humans lived were so dark that they could barely see ahead.
“Good.”
“Sunlight is the best, as expected.”
In a special garden within the Sun Garden that only High Apostles could enter, many High Apostles were enjoying sunbathing. They passed the time storing the power of light through the warm rays.
“I wonder if the kids down below are doing their job well?”
“They’ll manage. What’s there to worry about?”
“Haaaah. The opponent is a bit special, right?”
“The new Successor of the Lord? Still a rookie less than a year old, isn’t he?”
“They say that rookie already destroyed a High Apostle of the Black Dragon God.”
“The Black Dragon side has always been low-level. I heard they even lost a Supreme Apostle recently? Management must have been a mess.”
The Apostles chatted among themselves. Then someone raised a question.
“But why is the advance team so quiet? Are they doing well?”
“I wonder. Didn’t they say Lurelio went?”
“Yeah. The Supreme Apostle himself appointed him. Said it was important, specifically picked Lurelio.”
“He’ll take care of it. Guys like him wouldn’t even be a match for that bastard. He was overkill for an advance team.”
“Isn’t he having fun all by himself?”
“Ah. I want to taste what the light of another world is like too.”
The mission given to the High Apostles was to conserve their power as much as possible and stand by to unleash their best abilities at any time. So most of the High Apostles gathered in the Sun Garden and spent their time there.
While exchanging trivial chatter, one High Apostle frowned.
“Hmm? Did anyone sense that just now?”
“What?”
“Stop it. You’re going to say something like ‘the sunlight feels a bit strong’ again. This guy is always sensitive.”
“No, not that. I just felt demonic power. Didn’t any of you feel it?”
“Demonic power? Oh. I feel it.”
Ssssss…
Feeling the gradually intensifying demonic power, the High Apostles twisted their lips. With demonic power flowing in like a pollutant into a place full of sacred light, there was no way they felt good.
“Did a guest come from the Demon Realm?”
Just then, an Intermediate Apostle flew in quickly and dropped among the High Apostles. He was covered in wounds. Gasping for breath, he opened his mouth.
“From the… Demon Realm… an invasion…”
Before he could finish his words, a powerful demonic power raged. Near the Sun Garden, multiple black lights flashed.
Kwaaaang!
Kwagagagang!
Darkness came to the city of Apostles that should have been full of light.
“What?!”
“Are the Demon Realm bastards crazy? Do they know where this is?!”
“What, are they sane? Are they insane? Suddenly invading and causing such a mess?”
“It must be the Black Dragon God’s side making a move. Ugh, those cunning bastards. Clearly they don’t want to go down alone, so they’re tripping us up.”
“Let’s go. Wipe them out.”
“The Supreme Apostle’s order to us was to conserve our power.”
“So you’re just going to watch that? We have to stop them. I can’t stand the moment those bastards set foot here.”
One High Apostle couldn’t contain his anger and rushed out. He created pure white wings, flew into the sky, and released the power he had gathered so far toward the demonkind.
Flash!
White lightning strikes fell all around.
Kugugugung!
“Kyaaaaaah!”
All around, demonkind burned to death in the pure white light. But that number was only a tiny fraction. There were far more demonkind that did not die. The demonkind surrounded the Sun Garden and trampled everything. And finally, they stormed into the Sun Garden itself.
“Half of you fall back and conserve your power. Let the other half take down these guys.”
“Alright.”
“I’ll join too.”
The half of the Apostles who stepped forward opened their power and engaged the demonkind in battle.
Mass Attack Tactic. The demonkind, who could never defeat a High Apostle in one-on-one combat, sacrificed their own lives to exhaust the High Apostles’ power. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of demonkind crossing through the Demon Realm’s gate. Even the lowest-ranking demonkind rushed in, targeting the High Apostles in the Sun Garden.
“Tenacious bastards! Are you saying we’ll see the end today?!”
“Those Black Dragon God bastards definitely came with a plan.”
At that moment, among the demonkind, a being exuding a powerful aura burst demonic power in all directions.
“The Black Dragon God has commanded! Wipe them all out!”
“Waaaaaaaa!”
Demonic power with an ominous aura slowly contaminated the Sun Garden. In the contaminated areas, the demonkind’s abilities gradually increased. Even so, it was difficult to defeat the High Apostles of the White Dragon God. One by one, they began to exhaust all their power.
“Damn it!”
And after a relentless mass attack, one demon bit into the throat of a High Apostle.
“Kehuk!”
At that moment, all the High Apostles who had been waiting in the rear released their seals and charged at the demonkind.
“Kill them all!”
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