I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 162

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 162

Caesar approached Raven, leaving the other wizards behind.

“Are you okay? Wizard Raven?”

“I’m a bit exhausted.”

The urge to ask whether she had succeeded or failed rose to his chin, but it felt awkward to ask. This was because Raven’s physical condition didn’t look good at all.

He decided to let her rest first.

“Please rest for a bit. I’ll accompany you home.”

Raven slightly nodded at Caesar’s words.

Then she used magic to float herself and moved slowly.

She even used shield magic simultaneously to block the wind and rain.

Moving by magic is more comfortable than walking.

How much of a genius is this guy?

“Take all the wizards to their homes. I’ll escort Raven.”

“Yes! Understood!”

After seeing the knights help escort the wizards, Caesar followed behind Raven.

Raven opened her pale lips with great difficulty.

“First, all the magic was successful. With the number of supporting wizards, the magic can be maintained for approximately ten days.”

Caesar clenched his fist.

Raven’s genius truly needs to be recognized.

He probably hadn’t even thought about stopping the lightning until Caesar mentioned it.

Not only creating such magic but also realizing it.

There’s no cheat character quite like this one.

“Of course, it would be useless if the 199th lightning strike fell in the meantime.”

“I will go and check it personally.”

“No. Let’s go together. We need to meet the beast people anyway.”

“That would be impossible in your current condition. Please rest and then go.”

Raven nodded slightly.

She seemed to have barely enough energy to speak.

Caesar guided Raven to the front of her house.

“Please rest well.”

“Wait a moment.”

After shaking off the moisture from her body, Raven opened her mouth.

“I have something to ask.”

A glimmer of curiosity flickered in Raven’s weak eyes.

He wanted to tell him to rest first, but looking at his expression, it didn’t seem like he would easily back down.

“Please speak.”

“What kind of relationship do you have with the Allied Commander?”

Caesar immediately understood Raven’s intention.

It seems she had noticed the not-so-good atmosphere between Elijah and Caesar during the recent emergency meeting.

‘This is quite difficult to answer.’

Considering that Raven had helped him, he wanted to explain as much as possible, but he couldn’t reveal too much.

If he did, he would also have to reveal that Caesar is a doppelganger.

While pondering how to answer, Caesar finally spoke.

“Let’s call it a temporary alliance.”

“…What kind of deal did you have with the Allied Commander?”

“I cannot answer everything. It’s related to the secret of His Excellency Elijah, the Margrave.”

Caesar felt Raven’s curiosity seemed to intensify.

Perhaps a bit of color returned to her pale lips?

It seems her energy source is curiosity.

“Is this a secret I should know?”

Having been helped this much, his conscience was pricked by the thought of not explaining anything.

Caesar decided to take a slight risk and give him a small reward.

“If you promise not to reveal this fact to anyone, I’ll tell you.”

“I promise.”

Caesar approached Raven and whispered softly.

“The Margrave was trying to make me his successor.”

“…?”

It was as if a question mark had appeared above Raven’s head.

What on earth could this mean?

But this is actually true.

“However, I refused. That’s why we’re not on good terms.”

“…Like trying to adopt Yan as a son?”

“It’s similar.”

“Why on earth did you refuse?”

“That’s a secret.”

He could give a roundabout explanation, but that would be disrespectful to Raven and would be easily exposed.

Revealing a secret that could be easily uncovered is a low-level move.

“Rest now. I’ll come to escort you later.”

– “Why did you refuse?”

– “Yan refused because of Rose…”

– “What connection does Caesar have with the Arch Duke?”

His head was spinning around.

He wondered if this might have made Raven more uncomfortable.

She should sleep well so they could go to the beast people’s forest together.

In times like these, just disappearing is helping.

Caesar closed Raven’s house door and flipped his outer garment.

There was something he needed to do while Raven was sleeping.

‘I need to meet Arang.’

First, he needed to align the story so Raven wouldn’t be surprised when she went to look.

Caesar thought about calling Whitey, but the creature was definitely resting, completely exhausted.

So Caesar decided to ride another animal.

Looking at a mouse sheltering from the rain under Raven’s house, he said,

“Pepe. Let’s go meet the beast people.”

***

Elijah took a sip of alcohol and fell into thought.

He had carefully prepared an almost desperate move against Caesar.

He judged that by pressuring Caesar to this extent, he would somehow inherit the Margrave’s position to protect Agatha.

Because Caesar is outstanding but has deep faith and strong emotions.

‘But who would have thought Raven would step in…’

Of course, Raven’s plan was clearly full of gaps.

No matter how rationally he thought about it, it was nothing more than a low-probability gamble.

A wise commander should have immediately rejected it as nonsense, but with Mitchell and Yan’s support, everything became twisted.

Elijah thought deeply.

‘Honestly, this is an impossible gamble. And yet…’

The more Elijah thought, the more he felt this low-probability gamble might succeed.

Raven’s genius, Caesar’s political skills, and the beast people’s desperation.

At the moment when all their capabilities and momentum harmonize, it seemed they might truly succeed in sealing the Black Horn tribe.

‘But that cannot happen.’

It’s true that the Black Horn tribe is dangerous.

But they are a necessary evil for Elijah.

Currently, in the demon realm, there’s no group that can threaten Agatha as appropriately as the Black Horn tribe.

Elijah snapped his fingers.

A black dove entered the tent.

“Go to the doppelgangers hiding in the forest and deliver a message.”

Elijah took out Caesar’s photo from the table and showed it to the black dove.

“Transform into Caesar’s appearance and trap the beast people. We must make the beast people unable to trust Caesar.”

The dove thought for a moment before speaking.

“To transform into Caesar, we’ll need his flesh or blood. How will we obtain that?”

“Attack and retrieve it. If 10 of us rush at once, we can probably get a few drops of blood.”

The black dove nodded.

“I will convey that.”

As the black dove flew away, Elijah crumpled Caesar’s photo.

Honestly, even if dozens of his own offshoots attacked, there’s no guarantee they could overcome Caesar.

Caesar is also a Barbarian Knight.

“I really didn’t want to use such a method.”

Elijah opened a drawer and pulled out a white Pegasus photo.

“Still, I’m a bit curious how you’ll respond. Pepe.”

***

The border guards who were guarding the side of the beast people Forest were startled and saluted when Caesar suddenly appeared behind them.

“Oh, loyalty!”

“Yes, good work.”

As Caesar tried to pass by them and enter deeper into the beast people Forest, the border guards spoke urgently.

“Commander El Lindger. I’m sorry, but where are you going?”

“It’s top secret. Don’t record it or report it.”

“Ah… Yes!”

Of course, even if he said this, these guys would report everything to their superiors.

Well, it doesn’t matter anyway.

After Caesar entered deep into the beast people Forest, he spoke to Pepe, who was hidden in his bosom.

“Shall we go now? Pepe?”

Pepe transformed into a Pegasus and stood next to Caesar.

Caesar climbed onto Pepe’s back and grabbed his neck.

Although it was somewhat uncomfortable without a saddle, it would take at least 5 hours to reach the destination, so it was better to endure the pain between his legs.

Pepe was more skilled in flying than Whitey.

While Whitey had a strong tendency to fly roughly through wind and rain, Pepe moved along the grain of the wind and rain, saving energy as much as possible.

Pepe, who had been silent for a while, opened his mouth.

“I have one question. Caesar.”

“What are you curious about?”

“Are you planning to go to war with Elijah? Why do you keep conflicting with Elijah?”

“Hmm… It’s quite ambiguous to answer.”

“Is it awkward to answer because I’m Elijah’s alter ego?”

Caesar shook his head.

“No, you’re not loyal to Elijah.”

“Then what’s ambiguous? If you just say you’ll succeed the position of Border Margrave, wouldn’t everyone be able to reach a satisfactory conclusion?”

“No, I’m not satisfied.”

Caesar opened his mouth with a somewhat cold tone.

“You’ve experienced war too, so you’ll know. During the Demon Realm War, I was dragged around without any initiative. I had to gather information and hand it over to the Demon King, and fight somewhat passively. Above all, I had to play along with the plans others had drawn.”

When he lived as an infantry soldier with no abilities or strength, he had to wage war without a single deviation from the demon races’ orders.

Even when he lived as the Sky Knight ‘Mill’, he focused only on information gathering and deception without actively intervening in operations.

Of course, when he began living as ‘Barre’, he ignored the demon race operations and fought as he wanted, but in the end, he was still swayed by stupid commanders and demon race operations.

Now, Caesar was sick to the point of disgust with fighting on a battlefield being led by someone else.

“I realized that if I didn’t have initiative back then, I couldn’t achieve the results I wanted. But Elijah is trying to take away my initiative. I hate that.”

“How does becoming the Border Margrave mean having your initiative taken away?”

“He wants me to live not as a Border Margrave, but as a breakwater that receives Agatha’s anger instead. In other words, he wants to treat me like a tool. Who would want such a life?”

Pepe thought for a moment and then spoke.

“Then how do you see me?”

“What are you trying to say?”

“I am Elijah’s alter ego. From Elijah’s perspective, I’m probably just a convenient chess piece. Do you also think of me as just a messenger or a convenient mount like now?”

Caesar immediately understood what Pepe was worrying about.

At the same time, he could tell what kind of answer Pepe wanted, even without using psychometry.

“What nonsense are you talking about? You’re my friend. Pepe.”

Pepe’s expression was not visible.

However, the emotions flowing through the psychometry were quite intense.

Caesar felt somewhat doubtful about this change in Pepe.

Despite being Elijah’s alter ego, Pepe has emotions.

Like a gradually blooming flower?

Then why did the beast people people feel that the alter egos they met had no emotions?

“So I’m relying on you. Whenever the moment comes that you need to rely on me, rely on me anytime. I’ll definitely help you.”

“……Hmm. Is that so?”

Caesar does not lie.

In other words, what he said to Pepe was not just lip service, but something he genuinely meant.

“Then there’s a fact I want to tell you.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“When I was released from Sodom and returned to the Demon Realm, the first thing I did was find the surviving doppelgangers.”

“I know that too. But weren’t they all just Elijah’s alter egos?”

“Then why do you think they were only Elijah’s alter egos?”

Caesar tilted his head.

“……Hmm. Maybe because the beast people people handed over all the doppelgangers?”

“Exactly. The beast people people definitely captured the doppelgangers and handed them over to the Allied Forces. The number was precisely 43. It’s clearly recorded in the Allied Forces’ documents.”

“Were you included among them?”

“No, at that time I was disguised as a vampire, so I wasn’t treated as a doppelganger.”

“Oh, right.”

“But those 43 suddenly disappeared. It was quite a big issue within the Allied Forces.”

“Didn’t they escape by turning into a small mouse like you?”

“No, they were wearing anti-wizard handcuffs to prevent the doppelgangers from escaping.”

If it’s an anti-wizard handcuff, wasn’t it the terra alloy that was used to bind Agatha and her sister Maya in the past?

If they were bound by that, escape by their own power would have been absolutely impossible.

“Then how did they disappear?”

“The place where the doppelgangers were imprisoned was top secret and strictly managed, so not even a mouse or an insect could enter. But it was said that they vanished like smoke less than an hour after the beast people handed them over to the Allied Forces.”

“……Smoke? What does that mean?”

“Just that they disappeared. That’s what the Dawn Knights guarding the doppelgangers at the time testified. Among them was Hudson, whom you knew.”

Disappeared like smoke?

What nonsense is this?

Caesar had seen a fellow doppelganger die during the war.

It was when he was living as an unnamed soldier 1, and the soldier was torn to pieces by a cannonball shot by the Allied Forces.

At that time, he vividly remembered the touch of spilled blood, flesh, and bones.

How could such doppelgangers disappear without a trace?

“Wait a moment…”

A hypothesis flashed through Caesar’s mind.

But it seemed it wasn’t just Caesar who thought of it.

“Yes. It’s highly likely that all the doppelgangers handed over by the beast people people were Elijah’s alter egos.”

“Can he remotely eliminate his alter egos at any time?”

“It’s not entirely accurate, but if it’s not that, it doesn’t make sense.”

“What about the other doppelgangers?”

“I don’t know their locations. I’m not even sure if there are other doppelgangers.”

According to the information Caesar has gathered so far, the difference between Elijah’s alter egos and real doppelgangers is the presence or absence of a second skill.

Caesar had psychometry, and his fearful comrade who was a soldier 1 in the Allied Forces had telepathy.

So where did the other doppelgangers disappear to?

‘…The more I dig, the more this guy stinks.’

Just how many more secrets is this monster Elijah hiding?

It’s completely unimaginable.

At that moment, Caesar’s psychometry picked up Pepe’s ‘concern’.

From Pepe’s perspective, there was something more important than the location or situation of other doppelgangers.

“By the way, you definitely said the doppelgangers disappeared like smoke, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Without any signs?”

“Yes. Without any signs.”

“Doesn’t that mean if Elijah decides, you could suddenly disappear just like those guys at any time?”

Pepe opened his heavy mouth.

“…Well, something like that.”

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