I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 148

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 148

Agatha knew that she would eventually be exposed to Elijah about being the next Demon King.

Maya and Borden were already beginning to feel the new power rising from Agatha’s body, and she didn’t think Elijah wouldn’t notice.

She just didn’t want to be exposed this quickly. 

“That’s right, Elijah. I will become the Demon King. I will reunite the demon races and reclaim the demon realm. And…”

Agatha glared at Elijah’s neck.

“I will definitely tear you apart and avenge my fellow demon races and my mother.”

Elijah laughed softly and lit his cigar.

“So, are you declaring war on me, the Allied commander of the human alliance?”

Elijah pointed to the alliance commander’s symbol on his chest.

“If you attack me, you’ll have to face the second demon realm war.”

“I just need to expose that you’re a doppelganger.”

“How?”

Elijah blew cigar smoke directly into Agatha’s face.

Agatha wanted to immediately cut off her neck from that unpleasant breath, but endured it with extreme patience.

“There has been no way to identify a doppelganger since the birth of the imperial nation. Well, perhaps one might emerge in the future. But…”

Elijah chuckled.

“If you find a way to identify a doppelganger, you should know that Caesar, whom you cherish, will also be in danger. Can you handle that?”

“I’ll save Caesar, and that’s all.”

“Is that easily possible? When I’m your opponent.”

Elijah exhaled cigar smoke and then dropped the cigar to the ground.

“Foolish child with only flowers in your head. That’s why you’re not my match.”

Elijah stepped on and extinguished the cigar.

“The one standing before you right now is a monster who has eaten eight living sons. To face a monster, you must become a monster yourself. With such half-hearted feelings, you’ll just end up being eaten by me.”

Agatha clenched her fist.

Caesar was right.

Elijah is a monster.

Not a sleeping monster, but a monster clearly moving toward a specific goal.

To face him, Agatha would have to bear bleeding no matter what.

“At least have the fear for me like Caesar does. Don’t die by showing off unnecessary bravado.”

“…What nonsense are you talking about? Why would you care about my life?”

Elijah chuckled.

“There’s no reason for you to know.”

Elijah slowly walked away, leaving those words behind.

Agatha stared at him until he disappeared from her sight.

What exactly is Elijah targeting?

***

Upon receiving the succubi letter, the staff immediately split into two factions.

“We must neither accept this nor present it to His Majesty! They are infidels and inherently deceitful like venomous snakes! If we negotiate with them, the aftermath will be unbearable!”

“Then do we have the capacity to handle them right now? We can somewhat manage the beast people and Orcs with artillery! But succubi and vampires are impossible! Especially when succubi casts their charm magic, the front lines will instantly collapse!”

Both arguments had merit.

Until now, the imperial nation had not treated demon races as people.

The ceasefire negotiations were only possible because the beast people and Orcs came in a submissive manner and promised to betray the succubi, vampires, and doppelgangers.

From the alliance’s perspective, negotiating on equal terms was difficult to accept.

Moreover, if they were to accept the succubi wishes when they could barely handle 10,000 demon lords and vampires during the demon realm war ceasefire, they couldn’t predict what criticism would rain down on Elijah.

Yet, the current situation in the demon realm was not good enough to completely dismiss the negotiations.

In the rear, rebel forces were running wild, and malaria had begun to spread, making it difficult to maintain the front lines.

In such a situation, if vampires and succubi began attacking the front lines, they would either have to abandon Luxhope or move the front lines to the rear to protect Luxhope and the magic stone distribution route.

“Your Lordship! This must not be accepted!”

“Your Lordship! We must at least partially accept this!”

Elijah opened his firmly closed mouth amid the voices of his staff pouring around him.

“Report secretly to His Majesty. Let no one present here ever disclose the contents of this matter.”

This was not a matter that could be viewed simply from a military perspective.

This was an issue where a political and religious grand compromise was inevitable.

“Additionally, we will need reinforcements of wizards who can handle the succubi and vampires… Sir Caesar.”

Caesar lowered his head.

“Yes, Your Lordship.”

“Please write a letter to the Arch Duke. He will likely listen to your words more than mine.”

The staff’s gazes crossed toward Caesar.

With the emergence of succubi and vampires, Caesar had rapidly risen as the most important figure on the demon realm front.

Already receiving jealousy from many soldiers for monopolizing 300 wizards, now the reinforcement of wizards would be determined by his writing skills.

The soldiers from Baker’s division, who had openly criticized him for monopolizing wizards, could no longer tolerate Caesar.

“Understood. I will convey the message well to His Grace the Arch Duke.”

Caesar rose, leaving behind the staffs’s gazes, and walked out.

***

Caesar wrote a letter to the Arch Duke and handed it to Gloria.

“Deliver this directly to him. Absolutely do not open it.”

Gloria stared at the letter with a dissatisfied look.

“…Can’t someone else be sent? I want to stay on the battlefield.”

Gloria extremely disliked being treated as a weak person who needed protection.

So whenever someone tried to make an exception for her, she would habitually blame herself, wondering if it was because she was weaker or less capable than other knights.

Caesar did not view this poorly.

Having pride as a knight was not a bad thing, and this level of complaint was almost endearing.

Aren’t knights who flee out of fear of dying much worse?

“I’m not sending you away from the battlefield, but this is such an important matter that I’m entrusting it to you. Deliver the letter, receive the Arch Duke’s intentions, and return. Understood?”

Gloria nodded, seemingly convinced by Caesar’s words.

“If you say so, I understand.”

“Then go to Luxhope now.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Gloria saluted.

“I’ll be back.”

After Gloria left the tent, Caesar sighed.

“…This isn’t easy.”

When Elijah returned after his private meeting with Agatha, Caesar had read Elijah’s mind.

Naturally, Elijah also knew Caesar would read his mind and easily opened it up.

-Agatha declared war on me.

-Well, since I exposed my past to Caesar, I expected this would happen, so it doesn’t matter.

-Still, Agatha seems easy to excite and will be easy to handle.

-But Caesar is a bit tricky.

What he thought would be smoothly resolved, the relationship between Elijah and Agatha had become so strained.

Caesar’s task for the next month was to keep a watchful eye and prevent even the slightest spark from exploding in this damn powder keg.

“If they would just fight it out cleanly… But this is something beyond human capability.”

Caesar went outside the tent, intending to light a cigar.

Night had fallen.

The rainy season in the demon realm becomes quiet as soon as night comes.

Then when the sun rises, rain falls, making it hard to see the sun.

Caesar tried to put a cigar in his mouth but then put it back in his pocket.

Right now, he craved cool air more than a cigar.

Caesar whistled.

Whitey flew to Caesar.

“Were you eating turnip leaves again?”

Whitey avoided Caesar’s gaze and quickly stuffed turnip leaves into his mouth.

“Okay, you should eat too.”

Caesar climbed onto Whitey’s back.

“Let’s go for a night walk.”

Caesar took to the sky.

Though it was a dark night, the moonlight was high, making visibility good.

***

Caesar flew far above the forest of beasts instead of the sea.

A dense forest where not a single piece of land could be seen.

During the Demon realm War, when the allied forces arrived at this forest of beasts, the first thing they lost was their visibility.

Even when trying to use the Sky Knight Squadron for reconnaissance, the dense forest made it difficult to understand the terrain.

And if they were to send a search party inside, the forest was nothing more than a playground for the beast people, who would play with the search party members like toys before killing them.

There were two ways to deal with these beast people:

Either advance while burning the entire forest or occupy the forest step by step with wizards who could properly use ‘detection magic’.

Both methods were labor-intensive and time-consuming, and in the game, it took at least a year to properly occupy the forest of beast people.

‘But what are these beast people really doing?’

While I knew they were suffering from typhoid, it was too quiet.

Even when they saw that the succubi and vampires they had sold out had come back to life, they should have been terrified, but it was eerily calm.

‘This won’t do.’

Caesar landed in a clearing without trees in the middle of the path along the Eagle valley 

And he slapped Whitey’s buttocks.

“You’re flying alone in the sky. Come when I call you.”

-Awesome

Whitey quickly flew up into the sky, delighted to be able to fly freely alone.

He’s so simple, which is great.

A life where just eating and flying can make you happy.

I’m a little envious of that simplicity today.

Caesar looked into the pitch-dark forest where even moonlight could not properly enter.

There might be beast people inside, or there might be ferocious beasts.

But the front was not visible.

In this situation, the only thing Caesar could trust was one thing.

His hearing.

Caesar closed his eyes entirely and concentrated intensely on ‘Wind Reading’ .

Just like a bat reading surrounding objects with ultrasound, Caesar’s field of view opened up 360 degrees.

Then things that were not visible became visible, and things that were not audible became heard.

“Come out.”

Caesar’s words crossed the trees.

But not a single forest bird jumped out.

Caesar raised Thunder hanging on the hook and his Lefty.

“If you don’t come out, I’ll go in.”

Did they understand Caesar’s threat?

Dozens of golden eyes filled the dark forest.

Flare!

Finally, a fireball the size of a torch bloomed in the empty space between trees.

The light emanating from that fireball illuminated the face of a fierce beast.

“What’s going on here? Doppelganger.”

A jaw as long as a beast’s.

Red fur covering from head to toe.

Sharp fangs as if ready to bite Caesar’s nape at any moment.

The appearance was exactly like a fox, but these foxes were not usually around 2 meters tall and not even standing.

It was a beast person.

“Nice to meet you.”

Caesar revealed his face in the moonlight.

“I’m called Caesar.”

The fox beast person circled around Caesar like a wary beast, slowly approaching.

Like a predatory beast that has discovered its prey, slowly approaching its target.

“I didn’t ask for your name. I asked why you’re here.”

Flare!

A dagger made of fire appeared in the fox’s right hand.

“This is my last warning. Choose your words carefully.”

The beast people’s vigilance was more intense than expected.

According to Pepe, the beast people had lost many of their capable warriors due to the epidemic.

Even the Orcs were freely roaming the forest of beast people as if it were their own home, now that the beast people had weakened.

From the perspective of those who value territorial living, Caesar’s mere presence in the forest of beast people would undoubtedly cause extreme stress.

Naturally, touching these highly agitated creatures would not be a good choice.

Caesar hung the axes back on the hook on his back.

“I want to have a conversation with you.”

“It’s not a conversation. You’re trying to extract our information. Doppelganger.”

The fox growled.

“If you don’t go back right now and don’t even dare to approach our forest, I’ll let you go nicely. Tell that to the Queen of the succubi as well. Doppelganger.”

Caesar was able to glean two pieces of information from this conversation.

The beast people, as aggressive and territorial as they were, had only issued a warning.

They clearly did not want to engage in an unnecessary fight with Caesar at the moment.

And secondly, the beast people knew nothing about Caesar.

If they had known Caesar was a commander of the allied forces, they would not have mentioned Agatha first.

‘Then there’s no reason to leak my information.’

“Are you suffering headaches because of the Orcs?”

The fox’s expression twisted.

“Didn’t you hear me? Get lost.”

“I heard the epidemic is also raging. Do you know the cure?”

“…Cure?”

There was a change in his expression.

Indeed, the epidemic seemed to be a serious issue among the beast people.

“Terrible stomach pain, diarrhea, high fever, and chills. These are typical typhoid symptoms. Humans have been suffering from this disease for a very long time.”

The beast person circled around Caesar in silence.

With his ears perked up, it seemed he wanted to continue listening to Caesar’s words.

“Of course, humans haven’t developed a clear cure for the disease yet, but I know a few prevention methods.”

“…What are they?”

“I’m not going to tell you.”

The beast person looked at him as if he was absurd.

“…What?”

“I said I’m not telling you. Why would I share such high-level information with you? With traitors who sold doppelgangers to the allied forces?”

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