Chapter 285
- It is most fun to watch fights (10)
#12 Their situation: The situation of a certain Demon King
We are being pushed back one-sidedly.
It was a situation I hadn’t even imagined.
I didn’t take the power of humans lightly.
I just judged that the forces of evil were superior when I evaluated everything.
First of all, the chain of command.
Humans who have to consider all kinds of situations could not unify the chain of command.
Because they have to fight thinking not only of the interests of their own country, but also of the future balance of power and after the fall of the forces of evil.
But in the case of the forces of evil, they could abandon their lives according to my orders.
It was a matter of course. After all, they were monsters who lost their sanity, tainted by evil in the first place.
As a result, the forces of evil were able to fight at an overwhelmingly advantageous position early in the war.
Smashing the kingdoms that failed to unite, we marched forward, and were able to wipe out almost 10 kingdoms from the continent.
Of course, there were no kingdoms that could be called major powers among them.
It attacked only small kingdoms that were only as strong as one major power when five of them combined forces, except for the Revellan City Alliance, the city alliance to stop the demons.
The reason was territorial occupation and expansion of troops through it.
Invading a strong country consumes a lot of troops, but invading a weak country allows you to occupy the territory of that kingdom with very little losses.
To occupy the territory of a kingdom means that various monsters and beasts within the kingdom can be turned into forces of evil in a stable manner.
So we attack a kingdom slightly bigger with the bulked up troops.
Minimize damage again to maintain the troops, and replenish forces from the occupied kingdom.
The goal was to gradually occupy larger kingdoms starting from small ones.
The kingdom we recently defeated was not called a major power, but it was quite a large kingdom compared to other kingdoms.
But that was the end of it.
In terms of strength alone, we reached a level where we could afford to defeat even kingdoms classified as major powers.
We will lose a lot of troops, but we will be able to take down as much power from humans.
No, we might even be able to replenish countless troops from the huge territories of major powers.
Therefore, an attempt was made to occupy it, and it failed spectacularly.
It was because an unexpected variable appeared.
“I didn’t think the empire would be that strong….”
The Karan Empire, the only hegemonic state on the continent.
I had known about their enormous military power since the days when I was a hero..
Not only did it devastate the kingdom of Merdeah, which was at the level of an empire in military terms alone, during the war known as the Great War in the past, but it also destroyed the Pernes Empire, Merdeah’s allied kingdom, and reigned over the continent as the only empire.
The Empire, which I thought would be the ultimate enemy to destroy the human continent.
I was always on guard and prepared for a fight.
Even with this much preparation, since it is an empire, there may be more. So let’s try to prepare more.
Since even that might not be enough, I’ll have to try this too.
To the point that I kept thinking like that, I knew that the Empire had tremendous power.
I was not only a Demon King but also a hero of the Temple of Struggle before that, but more so because I was a member of Howling, the most powerful evil organization on the continent to overthrow the Empire!
Even now I think Howling was a very powerful organization.
Considering that what I know is only the tip of the iceberg, I judged that it had a larger scale than the small kingdoms I had overthrown.
The Empire was so powerful that it cleaned up such a Howling in just a few months.
That’s why I prepared and prepared again.
Because the final fight against humans will be against the Empire!
When more than half of the kingdoms on the continent collapsed and other kingdoms judged that they could not stop the evil god’s forces
I thought that the day would come when I would have a decisive battle with the Karan Empire, which had united all human power.
But what was the reality like?
With only a small portion of the imperial army, the evil god’s forces are drying up.
The forces of evil god spread across the continent are making tens of thousands of troops every day, but the number of troops disappearing is even greater.
If this continued, not only the evil god’s army but all the monsters on the continent would become extinct.
The empire’s power was beyond what I expected.
The power of the imperial army was so strong that even Parfesey, who was a dragon in the past and was currently at a slightly lower level than previous Demon Kings, died in one day.
The empire did not mobilize its main force.
Only some troops.
The Empire, which has countless legions, is massacring the forces of evil with less than a division, more than a regiment.
“Scary, the Empire!”
After becoming the Demon King, I wasn’t even afraid of the gods.
I can’t believe I’m scared of a human kingdom.
“Is this destiny?”
Evil is judged by justice.
Even young children know the story.
Of course, justice doesn’t always win.
After all, aren’t I the result of defeated justice that went astray?
However, justice is constantly produced.
As heroes keep appearing to succeed when one hero falls.
Evil may take one or two wins, but it is the fate of evil not to withstand continuous attacks and fall.
-Wreaf!
“Ha, nonsense.”
I almost gave up everything.
I was about to lead all my troops and gloriously turn to ash.
But at the last moment, I saw Ariel smiling brightly, I couldn’t die.
Not before taking revenge on this world for stealing her smile.
“I can’t even die even if I die.”
As I spat out those words, another face began to appear.
-Pl, please just kill me…. Cough!
-I can’t watch something scary like death happen.
An image of a man stepping on my heels as I tried to flee flashes through my mind.
-Now!
-Abandoning your colleagues to flee is shameful.
Weeden, who was trying to escape secretly, flew far away after I abandoned him.
I lifted the foot that was stepping on my heel and kicked Weeden.
-Love for colleagues, love for the organization. I didn’t raise bad people who abandon their colleagues as disciples.
An evil organization raising villains does not raise bad people.
It was an enormous contradiction.
No, wasn’t the training we received back then training to become bad guys in the first place?
-Da, damn it!
-Anyway, there’s only one colleague, so you only need to protect one. You have to be able to protect at least one.
-Cough!
-Gah!
The kicked Weeden fell onto me again.
– Don’t worry. This instructor has trained others without losing a single life.
– Hmm… Instructor… I have a question.
– What is it?
– Didn’t you say when we first met that we were your first disciples?
– That’s right. There were some I taught briefly, but they weren’t at a level I’d call disciples.
– …But you said you’re an instructor who hasn’t lost a single life?
– That’s true as long as you don’t die, so let’s move on.
Weeden and I couldn’t help but stare blankly at the instructor’s face, utterly dumbfounded.
My teeth were still clenched and I was still furious about it all.
At that time, I was craven enough to nod my head in agreement just to stay alive.
“Yes, the instructor was the most evil being of all.”
When I was young, I thought he might be more evil than the devil, more sinister than an evil god.
And now, even as the Demon King, my thoughts haven’t changed much.
“Think like the instructor. Act like the instructor. Recall the instructor’s teachings.”
I grasp my mind and recall the situation to break through this predicament.
Plan A, failure. Plan B, failure. Plan C, failure. Plan D failure… Plan 100, failure… Plan 928, failure.
Despite the repeated failures, I don’t give up and continue to find a plan that can succeed.
– This isn’t something I made, but a strategy created by a great strategist I respect. Hmm? Who is it, you ask? You wouldn’t know them. There’s someone with the nickname Emperor.
I suddenly recalled what the instructor was talking about.
The reason it was such a strong memory was because of the grandiose title of Emperor.
That was a title that only the emperor of the Karan Empire, the sole empire on the continent, could use.
– He developed aerial tactics no one else used before, called Lim X Hwan’s Drop X! His Drop X-ships left a strong impression on many, and are still passed down in legend. And not just that, he was able to achieve victory in battles that seemed absolutely unwinnable through control.
To be honest, I didn’t understand what he was talking about.
But I did know that the imperial army used a similar principle.
– In times of crisis, even while under enemy attack, he showed how he could turn a small force around to make a surprise drop attack.
It was precisely the imperial army’s way of using magicians and the imperial-style magical bombardment used by magicians.
– So what am I trying to say? What I’m saying is that the best thing when the enemy takes the offensive isn’t to defend, but to attack. If key facilities are suddenly damaged or the commander comes under attack, even the enemy will have no choice but to be surprised.
He said that because the higher the enemy’s advantage, the higher the probability they would be off guard, this tactic would work well.
“Thank you, Instructor.”
Now, let’s come up with a new plan.
Plan 1529, seems worth trying.
The instructor’s story and the imperial army’s magician deployment methods.
Applying those may have enough value to be worth trying.
Well then, I should give it a try.
I gathered the evil forces that could fly in the sky like harpies, wyverns, griffons, drakes, etc. in one place.
For the larger kinds like wyverns and drakes, I also ordered some monsters to ride them.
Surprisingly, a large number were able to board.
The ambush force that was created in that way was 30,000.
And most of them were what could be called high-level monsters.
“The blow would be great if this fails.”
The evil god forces that were being depleted even faster due to the Magic Tower and Mercenary King.
An army that disappeared at the level of thousands to ten thousands a day!
If they met the imperial army or the mercenaries at this moment, they might not even be able to counterattack and be defeated.
“But still…”
It’s worth trying.
If I can’t come up with a new plan other than this, then I have no choice.
“Go. Spread evil across the world.”
If even this fails, then my fate is to gather all my forces for an all out war, I believe.
– Kuoouoouoo!
– Keeeurrrnnng!
– Kiyaahh!
The monsters that received the order looked up at the sky and shrieked as if screaming.
The plan went like this.
Not a nearby kingdom, but the furthest back kingdom.
Monsters corrupted by evil were transported at high altitudes to that place far removed from the war’s influence and infiltrated.
While assimilating monsters around to go wild here and there.
The purpose was chaos.
No matter how strong the monsters corrupted by evil were, they were just a bit stronger than other monsters when moving in small numbers.
But to humans, these forces were the forces of evil, no, they were the forces of the evil god that almost brought ruin to the world!
The difference in perception was very large.
Opponents recognized simply as monsters and opponents recognized as one force.
Despite being the same monsters, the former were just monsters, but the latter turned into enemies that might be up to something.
In the case of the former, they just suddenly appeared, but in the case of the latter, it turned from the main enemy force they were fighting fiercely against appearing deep in the rear!
“Now then, what will you humans do in response.”
If they quickly grasp the situation and resolve it, it’s the humans’ win.
If they collapse into chaos themselves, then I gain the chance to buy time.
If you lose, you lose, if you win, you break even.
“How did I end up coming this far?”
I should hurry up and find a new Demon King candidate.
It would be best if it was a race with intelligence besides humans and elves.
While having that thought, I could feel the monsters using the Drop X-ship maneuvers the instructor taught me making achievements.
And the result was.
“As expected, Instructor.”
It was a perfect success.
The humans drowned in the peace that hadn’t even come yet became powerless and started collapsing, and the evil forces grew bit by bit feeding on them.
Such places were in 46 kingdoms.
Considering there were a little over 100 countries on the continent, chaos had come to around half the countries!
Even the empire wouldn’t be able to ignore this.
Now that I’ve bought time, if I gather my forces and prepare, there is a chance of victory…
“Kill the wicked Demon King!”
But I had no choice but to miss that opportunity due to the knights using the exact strategy I had written to counter attack.
