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I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 44

I Killed the Demon Lord. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 44

Seo-han decided to try experiments one by one.

“Oh! It passes through.”

Objects passed through normally. 

It worked with walls, beds, and even Seo-han’s own body passed through.

“It doesn’t pass through the ground.”

He had hoped to dig through the ground and reach the inner core, but that was disappointing.

Then how about rocks?

Rocks worked.

However, anything larger than Seo-han’s height didn’t work.

It seems impossible to enter substances larger and harder than the volume of Seo-han’s soul.

Afterwards, Seo-han conducted various experiments.

He tried running on the ground, flying in the sky, manifesting the sense of using aura, and even tried using psychometry while touching objects.

To conclude, running on the ground was possible, and flying in the sky was also possible.

Aura manifestation failed, and using psychometry on objects was impossible.

Instead, it was possible to use it on people, but it only allowed him to check what the other person was currently thinking.

“Hmm…”

It seems he’s tried everything he could here.

Honestly, it was quite fun.

He tried various things to shake off anxiety, but just being free from the chains of gravity and being able to pass through the boundaries of matter gave him a sense of liberating freedom.

Seo-han shot up high into the sky like a rocket.

He passed the top of the magic tower and now reached where the clouds were.

Seo-han looked down.

It was quite fun to look down at the entire view of Homigraph.

How many meters above sea level would this be?

Judging by how it’s almost at the same height as the distant ‘Gobi Mountains’, it seems to be over 5,000m above sea level.

‘Hmm. It’s round here too.’

This place is also a planet, as it’s round at the edges.

And the Valent continent was larger than he thought.

Looking west and north, and then south, an endless continent was visible.

The sea was visible at the eastern end, but its end was not in sight.

Instead, only a strange wall of fog blocked Seo-han’s view.

‘I wonder how high I can go?’

Seo-han continued to rise past the clouds.

But at some point, rather than feeling like he was going up, it felt like he was standing still.

In fact, when he compared it to the Gobi Mountains, he wasn’t rising anymore.

There seems to be some kind of limit.

If there’s a limit vertically, how about horizontally?

Seo-han looked south.

The demon realm is there.

He’s not particularly curious about other places, but he’s wondering what the current situation in the demon realm is like.

There hasn’t been much news about the demon realm in the newspapers lately.

It seems like there’s some kind of problem, but he wants to find out exactly what it is.

‘Shall I go south?’

If he wants to know the horizontal limit, it might be good to go south.

Since the Earth is round, wouldn’t he come back around if he keeps going?

Seo-han flew through the sky like a jet.

The feeling of floating in the sky with the sun and clouds was quite enjoyable.

However, as he headed south, there was something that changed slightly.

As if there was a yellow dust storm, the further south he went, the more it felt like something murky was obstructing his view.

According to Raven, that would be magic.

While leisurely looking around and enjoying the surroundings, he soon arrived at the demon realm.

He’s not sure about the exact time, but since the sun had completely set and the moon had risen, it seems to have taken about 12 hours.

Seo-han came down.

The target is the frontline where the war is in full swing.

‘What? Why have they only pushed this far?’

It’s been 5 months since the Demon Lord’s head flew off.

But the allied forces haven’t moved beyond the entrance of the ‘Region of the Water People‘ right in front of the Demon Lord’s castle.

Originally, after the Demon Lord’s castle is occupied, the allied forces completely conquer the demon realm and start colonization within a year.

But now, the Demon Lord has even died in his castle.

Shouldn’t they be conquering the demon realm faster then?

Beyond the Region of the Water People, there’s also the Realm of Greenskins, so why are they dragging their feet like this?

Seo-han came down to check the war situation.

There are explosions here and there, but there’s something strange.

They’re all artillery explosions.

There is no common explosion magic or shield magic.

Come to think of it, there are no knights either.

It’s all just regular soldiers of the allied forces fighting the war.

‘Why on earth aren’t the knights and mages stepping up?’

Is today special?

Or is there a special reason?

Seo-han entered the tent of the general who was setting up camp at the front line.

‘This old fart was here.’

General Baker.

This bastard was incompetent but got promoted by sucking up to the Crown Prince like crazy.

Of course, being the Crown Prince’s maternal uncle also played a part.

Anyway, this guy seems to have been promoted.

He has two stars on his shoulder.

Seo-han put his hand on Baker’s shoulder.

-Fuck! Fuck! Nothing is going right!

-Lack of fighting spirit! Lack of fighting spirit!

-These incompetent bastards!

-If only we had knights or mages, this would have been over long ago! Damn it!

“No knights or mages?”

Why?

Seo-han looked at the Demon Lord’s castle.

The allied forces’ headquarters should be over there.

Seo-han ran towards the Demon Lord’s castle.

As expected, the ‘Knight of Dawn Order’, which only protects the royal family, was camped here.

Mages were also occasionally seen, so it seemed certain that the Crown Prince was here.

Seo-han wandered around various parts of the Demon Lord’s castle.

Most of what he saw were mages.

The mages were leisurely reading books, gathered in places like libraries.

It seemed certain that the chain of command had collapsed.

While wandering around various parts of the Demon Lord’s castle, Seo-han noticed a room that knights were guarding like an iron wall.

There was a temporary sign that read ‘Allied Forces Commander’s Office’.

Seo-han entered.

Then, the Crown Prince appeared before Seo-han’s eyes.

The problem was that he was lying in bed, half-dead.

‘Why is he like this?’

Seo-han’s known future had completely missed the mark.

He had never seen a scenario where the Crown Prince was dying at this point.

Why on earth is this happening?

Seo-han touched a nursing nun from the Luber Order.

-It’s not poison…

-Potions only show temporary effects but don’t fully recover him.

-It seems like an endemic disease… Symptoms similar to malaria…

-Could there be malaria in the demon realm too?

This time, Seo-han touched a doctor.

-Please don’t die. Please don’t die.

-Goddess of Purity, please save him.

-If the Crown Prince dies, I’ll die too!

Seo-han racked his brain.

What would happen if the Crown Prince fell ill?

The Crown Prince has the overwhelming authority to give orders to all mages.

Because there’s a rule that mages can’t take orders from anyone without the command of the Crown Prince or Emperor, they can’t move recklessly.

The reason Raven could participate in the hero’s party was because the hero officially requested it from the Emperor. If not for that, Raven wouldn’t have been able to join the hero’s party.

Why are there so many restrictions on mages?

The mages here are each like strategic missiles.

If given coordinates, a mage can cast buff spells on allies from a distance, or spread debuff or poison spells on demon tribes.

Firing such missiles without authority would be a capital offense even in Korea.

As a result, the strategic use of mages is strictly managed by the Empire, and the Arch Duke also strictly manages the outflow of mages.

Of course, realistically, since the Crown Prince can’t continuously give instructions to mages, they’ve resolved legal issues by issuing time-limited command authority to generals monthly…

But with that Crown Prince bedridden, they can’t even operate the mages.

Then can’t the Emperor send command authority to the generals by letter?

Yes, that’s right.

But for some reason, it seems the Emperor is unable to issue temporary command authority over mages to the generals right now.

I don’t know exactly why that is…

Okay.

Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that mages can’t move because their commander is bedridden.

Then why aren’t the knights moving?

Those who can give orders to knights are the representatives of each participating knight order.

That is, the nobles.

Have those nobles collectively started a rebellion?

‘My head is spinning.’

I really want to grab anyone and ask, but there’s no one to ask.

If the situation continues like this, the war in the demon realm will drag on endlessly.

Then what kind of situation will unfold?

‘What’s certain is that the scenario I knew has completely gone out the window.’

It seems I should give up on milking future knowledge.

Well, I milked it well for 3 years.

I found secret passages hidden in the demon realm, made quite a few achievements predicting the war situation, escaped deadly crises, and found and consumed some precious elixirs.

The problem is that those were benefits gained as Barre, not as Caesar.

Thinking about it again, giving up Barre’s body was really too wasteful.

No, looking at the current situation, it doesn’t seem too bad.

If I had stayed in the demon realm, I would have had to run around that hell with just an axe, right?

Life is unpredictable.

Seo-han decided to leave the Crown Prince’s room.

There doesn’t seem to be anything more to gain here.

Instead, there’s someone to find.

Seo-han wandered around various parts of the Demon Lord’s castle.

“Found her.”

A girl with emerald-like sparkling green eyes.

It’s Raven.

Raven was sitting like a doll in a spacious room, reading a book.

‘What is she reading?’

Seo-han glanced at the book.

But it wasn’t in a language Seo-han could understand.

It seems to be a book written by demon tribe members.

Seo-han put his hand on Raven’s shoulder.

-Her blood was sweet like honey. I slowly, along with her sensual moans, on the bed slowly…

Seo-han startled, removed his hand.

You, you! This was your taste?!

Why are you reading this kind of thing!

Raven read a bit more and then closed the book with a snap.

Seo-han put his hand on Raven’s shoulder again.

-I thought vampires had no sexual desire, so why did they write such an erotic book?

-Is it a craving born from lack? Or is this also for amusement?

-All vampires alike think of amusement as life and enjoy it. Why is that?

Seo-han sighed in relief.

Right.

There’s no way she would like this kind of erotic novel.

It must be out of pure curiosity about vampires.

Raven opened the book again.

-…But what happens next?

Cancel.

Once you get a taste for junk food, you can’t escape.

How boring would it be if Raven only read dry magic books every day?

She needs to refresh her mind by reading things like this too.

“But how interesting is it that she’s reading it?”

I’m getting curious too.

Seo-han crouched next to Raven and put his hand on her shoulder.

***

How much time has passed?

Raven nodded off while reading the book and collapsed on the desk.

Seo-han stood up.

“That vampire is quite something.”

I had never seen anything like this even in Korea, but it feels like it made me appreciate the subtle yet deep flavor of the writing.

And if there’s a good point about reading through Raven’s thoughts, it’s that I could naturally learn the vampires’ language.

When Raven read the vampire’s erotic novel, she translated it once into the common language of the Empire while reading, so it was quite a language study.

“It’s just a little lacking.”

It feels like the internet suddenly cut off while playing a game.

Is there perhaps another mage reading an erotic novel… No, just a novel?

Seo-han wandered around and saw a sign written in vampire language.

[Art Gallery]

“They’ve luxuriously put an art gallery in the Demon Lord’s castle.”

No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t feel like the taste of the Demon Lord who died at Barre’s hands.

The Demon Lord was, if anything, a ‘doppelganger’, so he was far from such refined tastes.

“But why is it written in vampire language?”

Various parts of the Demon Lord’s castle were filled with vampire language.

The languages used by Greenskins, vampires, beast-people, and succubi are all different.

You ask if doppelgangers don’t have their own language?

Unfortunately, I don’t think they do.

Doppelgangers usually like to be alone, so unless there’s a big event like this demon realm war, they rarely gather together.

This means there wasn’t a chance for the language itself to develop.

“Did the Demon Lord learn vampire language?”

That could be possible, but from the building style to the furniture scattered around, most of it is to vampire taste.

There’s even a ‘sky path’ on the ceiling for easy flying in bat form.

As I felt before, it doesn’t seem like a castle made for a doppelganger to use.

“Well, that’s not really important.”

Seo-han entered the art gallery.

It was brighter inside than expected.

There were no candles, but with well-placed windows and good moonlight, it was easy to distinguish objects.

“It’s all just sculptures.”

It seems there are no mages here either.

Well, with books overflowing elsewhere, there’s no reason to look at these sculptures.

Seo-han viewed the vampire sculptures.

There wasn’t a single human form, nor any vampires.

It was full of monsters that could appear in imagination.

Then, one sculpture looked quite familiar to Seo-han.

It had bat wings and head, and a dragon-like body.

What do you call this?

A gargoyle?

“Come to think of it, breaking these sculptures used to give experience points.”

When you enter the Demon Lord’s castle, there are these bat-head sculptures everywhere, and breaking them would give loads of experience points.

And occasionally they would move and attack.

They were all called gargoyles.

‘I wonder if there are living gargoyles here too?’

Seo-han touched one of the sculptures.

-Who might you be?

“…Huh?”

The gargoyle speaks.

And to Seo-han, who’s having an out-of-body experience.

Is this for real?

“My goodness, can you hear my voice?”

-…?

“Is this not it? Can you see me…?”

-Are you joking now? Your words and inner thoughts are subtly different yet the same.

This confirms it.

This guy is definitely sensing Seo-han.


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I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

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Status: Ongoing Type: Author: Released: 2024 Native Language: Korean
[Congratulations on seeing all the endings of the Valent Saga.] [From now on, you can select the hidden origin ‘Demon Race’.] I was transmigrated into a Demon after falling into the game world and a whole 3 years have passed. The nameless Allied Forces soldier, Mil of the Sky Knight Order, Barbarian Knight Barre. And the doppelganger and spy of the Demon King's army, Seo-han, are all me. But I... "Y- you, what the heck... Bam!" I ended up blowing off the Demon King's head. Huh? This isn't right.

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