Why I Quit Being the Demon King

Why I Quit Being the Demon King Chapter 144

33. The hero leaves the warbler’s nest (1)

– It would have been better for the hero who defeated the devil to die.

Acoma Castle of the Kingdom of Verde was in full swing with a festival commemorating the victory.

The crusader army dispatched from Seonghwang won victory after a fierce battle in Jose Tail Woods. The festival to

console the crusaders

was scheduled to take place on a scale that would be difficult to find in history.

The temporary Imperial Palace was located in the Warbler Pavilion, south of what is now the Acoma Castle.

Neuekan, the site of the old Seonghwangcheong, was taken over by mugwort monsters. It was too dangerous to go back.

The Warbler Pavilion was a manor used as a summer residence by the royal family.

It was a beautiful villa with a lake, a garden, and an antique building in harmony.

However, it was too worldly and did not appeal to the cardinals.

The Holy Emperor planned to build a new cathedral in the south of Acoma soon.

They were a people who believed that God resided in high ceilings, steep towers, and ornate stained glass.

Cardinal Le Sulet, Congregation for the Church of Christ, stopped for a moment and sighed as he passed through the garden leading to the inner circle.

“He is a warrior who came back alive… It is not written in the Bible what he should be called!”

He leaned on his cane.

Seventy this year.

Although people say he has lived long enough, Le Sulet has no intention of turning back.

The Ministry of Education and Culture was an institution similar to the Ministry of Home Affairs in the kingdom. It was the pinnacle of all priests, directly assisted the Holy Emperor, and was also in charge of diplomacy with other countries.

Above all, it was this department that was in charge of the Warrior Management Office, which was considered the most important part of Seonghwangcheong.

Archbishop Jardin, vice-minister of the Congregation for Apostolic Affairs, bowed his head at Le Sulet’s words

and said,

“The public is already calling him Deender.”

“Terminator! But this war was not a 100-year war.”

“I killed the Demon King…. It’s not unreasonable for everyone to think that.”

“So, will the next war be in 100 years? Or 120 years later? Or 20 years from now, the day of promise?”

Jardin was at a loss for an answer to Le Sulet’s question.

“There is no oracle yet.”

“Yes, Cardinal.”

“Will His Holiness be able to receive God’s grace again?”

At that time, a ball bounced inside the courtyard of the Whistle Hall and rolled to the front of the corridor.

Jardin was startled and blocked Le Sulet’s path.

Three boys ran and stopped in surprise when they saw Lesulet and Jardin.

The boys appeared to be about 5 or 6 years old.

After bowing his head, one of the boys pushed the other’s back.

The boy who had been pushed out looked back, but the boy who had pushed his back looked the other way.

The boy sighed and walked out to where the ball was.

The cardinal was only three or four steps away.

Hesitantly, he opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry for surprising you.”

Jardin glared at the boy with a grim expression.

“Do you know who this is?”

“yes. “This is Le Sule, Cardinal of the Congregation for Church Affairs.”

“Someone I know would do such a dangerous thing!”

“That’s it. “Aren’t they children?”

Le Sulet stopped his subordinate with a benevolent look.

he asked, looking at the boy.

“What is your name?”

“yes! Regin Pan Jade! “This is Zeke van Holly Jade’s younger brother!”

His voice was full of confidence.

Le Schiller’s eyebrows twitched.

“You said

“Old!”

The voice was loud.

It had to be that way. The ender. He was the younger brother of the former ruler of the castle.

Immediately after the temple was over, the Holy Emperor called Regin and made him sit on his lap and personally told him about what his brother had done.

The bullying from my friends disappeared instantly.

There were no more children who spoke of being from a family of contract warriors.

From then on, Regin was looked up to as a king by the remaining warrior children in Seonghwangcheong.

Even worse, there was already talk of getting married.

Of course, the story did not progress due to the absence of the guardian, Zeke.

It was natural for the immature boy’s shoulders to feel heavy.

The moment he saw Regin’s confident face, the cardinal’s worries deepened.

The warrior’s younger brother….

A 5-year-old child from a ten-year-old provincial family looks straight at the cardinal.

He is proud of being a child of the Holly Beach family.

What if I grow up like this?

Can you really handle the power of the Hollybitch family?

“Your brother did an amazing job. “All of humanity is grateful.”

Regin smiled and looked under his nose.

“My friends laughed at me, but I believed in my brother

.”

Cardinal Le Sulet nodded and walked into the corridor.

He was smiling, but his expression was not bright.

Jardin looked at his superior’s back and shook his head.

It was better for the warrior to die.

All you have to do is distribute the huge prize money to the survivors, paint their families with gold, and

that’s it.

When Generation Zero comes to an end and the first generation of warriors is born again, they race like racehorses.

People try to increase their purity even a little.

There was no need for Seonghwangcheong to be anxious.

No matter how great a warrior’s ability was, it was not enough to turn the country and society over.

Because a D-class hero was barely capable of being compared to a single knight corps.

But The Ender was on a different level.

He is a warrior who is on par with the Demon King.

If he truly wants to go to war with humanity, he must be prepared to give up as much as he would lose in the war against the devil.

A few countries.

Hundreds of thousands of sick people.

Millions of humans.

30% of production.

Countless amounts of money.

If you take into account the war that will occur 100 years from now, you have to be prepared for decline at that moment.

“Because… we don’t have any power yet. It won’t be that strong.

Because the Demon King has an army.”

While walking down the dark brown hallway of the hospital, Le Sulet suddenly uttered these words.

“What do you mean?”

“Force force. “His Holiness is already thinking of entrusting him with being Leo’s paladin.”

“So it is.”

“He will bestow the holy sword Regulus, knights, wizards, warriors, and adventurers. “Many people will be subjugated to his unit.”

“Yes, Cardinal.”

“That’s very reassuring.”

“of course. It seems that other Zodiac Knights also have high expectations for the new Paladin of Leo. “Three Zodiac Knights were killed in this war.”

“yes. “There are only six Zodiac Knights now.”

It was a pain in the ass.

In performance.

The Holy Emperor and the Kingdoms.

And even within Seonghwangcheong, there were the official faction, the sacred faction, and the warrior tribe.

As humans enjoy division, conflicts

occurred constantly.

Now we are looking for a balance… but

with the temple, the balance was broken.

Zeke and the Crusaders of Seonghwangcheong arrived at Akoma Castle this afternoon.

“Smile. “Spread your shoulders.”

Don, the duck with his horse’s head side by side, said to Zeke.

” yes.”

I tried laughing. I also put strength on my shoulders.

But it only lasted a moment.

Zeke looked around.

Now, the only ones left by his side are Nezar and Sadimus. There were only two of us.

It was a very noisy group not long ago.

“It must be a shock. Because I did the same.”

“The shock wasn’t as big as I thought. To be honest, it’s a bit odd that none of the people around me were human… or rather, it’s not like there wasn’t a single one.”

Nezar and Sadimus were initially human.

“That was just surprising.” “It’s no

wonder the angels were surprised that

the being moved that much .”

Demon Lord Deus.

The Holy Knights had been debating for about a month as to what intention he had for approaching Zeke, but could not get an answer.

Oridon raised his voice to brighten the mood.

“Anyway, straighten your shoulders. “Zeek, you saved this world once.”

“It’s not me. “It’s us.”

“Haha, that’s right. “Even the weakest slave soldiers and Zeke, who fought directly against the Demon King,

were able to defeat the Demon King’s army because they each played their respective roles in their respective positions.”

Oridon repeated the word “us.”

“we.”

At that time, a knight rode from the middle army to the lead.

The name of the knight, wearing silver armor and adorned with blue accessories, was Lexia van Holyoke.

He was Zeke’s senior at school and a hero of his hometown.

“Signi is following along well.”

“Thank you, senior. Thanks to my senior,

Signi is also adapting well.”

“Because it is a girl, it is convenient for a woman to take care of it. All I did was not say sorry. “In that war… my father’s opposition was so strong that I couldn’t follow him.”

“I understand. “The Holyoke family has precious blood.”

“As punishment, I am now serving as the saint’s escort.”

“I feel really reassured.”

Zeke laughed. Lexia couldn’t look straight at him.

Not long ago,

he was just a few years younger than me, but now he has grown up a lot.

Rather, Lexia came to the point of relying on Zeke.

Lexia saw a large castle standing tall on a deep green plain in the distance.

“That’s Verde’s Acoma. “As expected, Jose is the strongest country.”

“It looks like the volcano that rose up in the Horsespine Mountains caused quite a bit of damage here too.”

“Because the center of the explosion was due north of here.” The distance

from Akoma Castle to Neuekan

was only about 100 kilometers in a straight line.

On the day the volcano erupted, burning rubble flew all the way to the castle.

“But Zeke…

“Yes?”

“What do you think? Will there be war in 20 years? Everyone has different opinions. There is an opinion that the century has been reset and that we should think of it as the 667th century from now on… There will be a war 20 years later. Otherwise, war will break out in 120 years. “I heard it was divided into three.”

“How should I know?”

“If The Ender doesn’t know, who knows?”

“I am not The Ender. “He is a 4th generation warrior.”

“That’s even greater.”

“God knew that the devil would descend, so he sent an angel to lend me his strength.”

Oridon laughed and joined the conversation.

“What do you think of the Lady of Holyoke?”

“Not a lady, but a warrior. “Ori donin I”

“Excuse me. “The warrior Lexia.”

“The Demon King…isn’t he only half dead?”

She too had heard stories about Deus.

Since he was someone who knew so well about Deus, it was difficult for him to say that he went missing after the war with the Demon Lord.

Moreover, since they were from a prestigious warrior family, they had every right to know the truth.

“Then won’t there still be a war 20 years from now?”

Oridon nodded.

“You might think so. However, even a demon king with full abilities has been killed by a hero in 665 wars so far, so can a half-powerful demon really have that kind of courage?”

Zeke felt uneasy the whole time he was listening to the story.

I felt resistance to depicting the Demon King as simply evil.

At the same time, a feeling of self-destruction came over me.

As expected, I was tainted by evil.

I begged the devil for my sister’s life.

I have reaped the debt of my life several times over.

How can someone like me become a warrior? It’s disqualification.

When the banquet became noisy, it seemed right to quietly disappear.

I followed everyone here because I didn’t want to lose face, but…

I lost my qualifications as a hero.

“Zeke!”

” yes?”

“What are you thinking like that? “What is the answer to my question?”

“Oh, I don’t know either. Deus-sama…

“Again! “Even if it’s just your speaking habit, correct it.”

“sorry. Anyway, I don’t think the Demon King’s army will attack.”

“why? “Is there any basis?”

“Well…no, he wasn’t interested in that.”