chapter 7
7 – The golden demon, the golden demon
“… ….”
Koo goong, koo goong…….
At the sound of vibration, a man raised his head.
“Noisy.”
“…… Demon King, that is.”
At the words of her man, a woman who was prostrated in front of her man trembled.
It was just a short sentence, but it looked as if he had heard a death sentence.
‘You can’t tremble, you can’t tremble.’
…… I tried my best to mutter that to myself, but how could such a thing stop my instinctive fear?
The woman’s body literally shook as if in a seizure.
Would that look bother you?
“… ….”
The blonde-haired man, who had been quietly keeping her mouth shut, waved her hand once.
That’s right, with the lightness of the movement.
Her man moved her hand in a graceful trajectory.
“…… !”
With that movement, the woman’s eyes grew larger than that.
“Demon King! Just a moment, if you give me some time—”
f*ck!
The woman’s words were not connected.
With a noise as if fruit were being trampled and burst, the woman’s body collapsed helplessly.
“…… It’s annoying. At this critical time. Tsk.”
And the man who created such a terrifying sight.
The golden demon king only muttered that once.
Even though he just made a single life vanish in vain, he was just unconcerned.
In a way, it was as if she had already forgotten that a woman had lost her life to her own magic.
To that extent, it must mean that these things do not touch him very deeply.
And there were several people watching all of it.
“… ….”
“… ….”
Similar to the woman just before, she just lowered her body to the floor, and there are about a dozen women who are minimizing the tremors of her body.
Among them is a girl who doesn’t look like she’s in her mid-teens yet.
There was also a woman who looked beyond her 20s and looked into her 30s, with a strange s*xual energy.
For all those diverse women, if there was one thing in common.
It’s probably just that she’s trying to keep her eyes off the woman, whose head just exploded like a fruit a moment ago.
At the same time, the trembling body is also suppressed as best as it can.
A woman was even biting her mouth, causing her to bleed.
Would it have been that desperate?
Is her man that much of a fearsome existence for them?
“… ….”
But regardless of the women’s reactions, the blond man just calmly rested his chin on her.
It looked like it was waiting for something.
“…… Gradually, is it coming to completion?”
Her man murmured softly.
A little bit of anticipation passed over his inorganic expression.
Koo goong, koo goong.
“… ….”
…… And.
A little while ago, the noise that a woman had heard before she lost her life.
Once again, it began to resonate from within the golden tower.
Kung.
Kung.
Kung.
Three echoes felt like the footsteps of a giant.
And that giant’s footsteps, before long.
Kung.
Boom, quaang.
Quaaang!
It has come to a point where it has changed its shape with a wild explosion.
“…… How.”
…… It was around that time that the golden demon king finally responded.
A clear feeling of anger began to emerge in the man’s eyes.
“In the world, what are the guys below doing?”
“… ….”
No answer came back.
As if he was looking at someone, only his eyes rolled.
The man let out a small laugh.
“Isn’t it? Kale.”
“… ….”
Wheek!
At that man’s murmur that was close to talking to himself, a small wind blew up inside the mage tower.
And soon someone showed up next to her man.
“I’m sorry, Demon King.”
A man in a deep brown robe, reminiscent of her assassin, let out a gloomy voice.
At the same time, he bowed his head in front of the golden demon.
Quaaa!
Right after that, a storm of wild mana erupted from the body of the golden demon king.
“…… It’s okay.”
“Eup, ugh.”
The women who were prostrated by him began to drool in groups.
A girl seems to have even had a feeling of vomiting.
“…… Kut.”
…… However, even those girls.
I didn’t feel as much pain as the man in the robe who faced the pressure of the golden demon head-on.
Go oh oh-
“Kuh, kuh… ….”
The man who continued to drool at the intangible pressure, eventually.
“…… Whoops!”
I couldn’t stand the moaning and came to the point of coughing up blood.
Black blood spurted out from his lips.
Steel Puck!
“… ….”
The black blood soon reached the toes of the golden demon king.
Chack!
The moan that accompanies the violent spitting out of blood was indeed the last voice he uttered in his life.
Man, could Cale know?
No, you probably couldn’t even guess.
Just with his eyes wide open, as if he didn’t even feel any sensation.
Keeping the expression she had in her lifetime, Cale’s head was cut by an intangible energy and she fell helplessly to the ground.
“Useless things.”
Despite having just cut off the man who had been loyal to him all his life, the golden demon king’s expression did not change at all.
Just calmly or with an emotionless expression.
The man slowly began to raise his heavy body.
Koogu Palace… ….
Once again, vibrations resonated inside the mage tower.
The texture was much different from the resonating moments before.
“I have to go down myself.”
As his black eyes darkened even more, the golden demon king began to gather huge amounts of mana in both hands.
Ugh-
Mana let out a rough cry.
Ugh-
Once again.
“…… The end of the experiment is right around the corner, but the Empire’s dogs have already arrived.”
Ugh, ugh-
The sound of mana was continuously echoing.
“Can’t you stand that moment? Disciples are really useless.”
The man kept muttering.
Ugh-
One more turn.
It was about that time that Mana calmly let out her unique cry.
“…… Hmm?”
Maybe it was only then that he sensed the change.
The golden demon king narrowed his eyes and looked down at his own hands.
“… ….”
In those massive hands, there was a huge amount of mana that could annihilate a city.
Ugh-
“…… This.”
The golden demon king was immediately aware.
The cries of mana resounding inside the mage tower were not his own.
“──.”
The golden demon king began to shine a ridiculous light on his expression.
…… If it wasn’t you who spewed out enough mana to make your magic tower ring.
Who the hell is spreading such intense mana?
“…… What the hell, who is that?”
Embarrassed feelings appeared on the golden demon king’s face.
…… If it had this much mana and could handle it perfectly.
At least the same as himself, or.
─More than that.
“…… Her.”
The golden demon lord let out a laugh.
…… Nonsense.
If you’re on the same level as yourself, there aren’t even dozens of them on this continent.
Since most of them were occupied by the 12 Demon Kings.
“…… Another demon lord invaded my tower?”
A golden demon king who immediately brings out the thoughts that pop into his mind.
‘No.’
But he immediately shook his head.
A sudden surprise or invasion by the other 12 Demon Lords.
Probably not that kind of attack.
A demon lord who fully understands the ‘agreement’ would never do such a thing.
─If so.
Since there was one question that arises at the same time.
“…… Who are you?”
Slowly, the golden demon king began to shoot a terrifying life over his own eyes.
Quaaa!
“…… Kyaaak!”
His mana spurted out wildly, and the women prostrated by him lost their minds in an instant.
The golden demon king had no time to pay attention to such things.
“Who is it?”
It just explodes in anger and twists its expression into a stern look.
‘…… Did the imperial family even come forward? Or, the head of the Clifford family came out directly.’
Although the outside was tinged with anger, the inside was much calmer.
While burning mana with wild rage, he began to roll his brain with all his might as the golden demon king.
…… If it was a force or person who would spread this much mana and attack him.
Except for the 12 demon kings, few came to mind.
“…… I hope it’s not like a Grand Mage.”
First of all, the golden demon king erased one assumption neatly.
That would be the case too.
If only a wizard of the level of a great mage had suddenly attacked his mage tower.
If only he had made such a big move.
There was no way he himself wouldn’t notice.
Even if such a wizard decides to hide himself.
Of course, he wouldn’t notice it unless he was a wizard of the same level as the Great Mage.
…… At least in that case, a big incident would have erupted anywhere on the continent.
As for the continent’s great mage class, most of them were bound to occupy a high position in their respective powers.
Of course, there were a few high mage level wizards who hid their appearance and went into seclusion, but they had no reason to attack their mage tower.
…… If so, move on to the next one.
A wizard of the archmage level, right below the archmage level?
The possibilities are further widened.
“… ….”
As he unfolded in his head a list of those with motives worthy of attacking him among wizards of the archmage class, the golden demon agonized over and over again.
The members of the Imperial Magician Order, Teikan Qliphoth, head of the Duke of Qliphort, a renowned magician.
Neither he nor he.
Or else, he’s a wizard he doesn’t know ─
“…… Who the hell, so suddenly?”
However, no conclusion has been reached.
No matter how much I think about it, no matter how much I worry about it.
I couldn’t guess what kind of magician had attacked him like this.
‘…… The most probable thing is.’
The golden demon king slowly began to think of several figures in his mind.
And the incomplete conclusion that came to the end.
“Are they the imperial family’s archmage-class mages?”
They were the most likely to attack him, those of the imperial family.
Awesome!
“…… Dare.”
Grinding his teeth roughly once, the golden demon king started sparking from both of his pupils.
It looked like he was really heated up to the point where there was nothing more.
“The hounds of the empire, my magic tower!”
Quaaa!
As soon as his ferocious voice resounded, mana of slightly darker color began to burst violently from his whole body.
And then, just then.
“—I found it.”
“…… !”
At the time when the golden demon king was half convinced that the identities of those who had attacked his mage tower were the royal mages.
It was at that moment that a boy’s voice resonated calmly.
‘…… Who is it?’
The golden demon king blinked his eyes in a daze.
…… Whoever it is, until someone gets this close.
He said he hadn’t noticed at all?
A reality that was difficult to understand was unfolding calmly.
That made the golden demon king maintain a dazed attitude for a moment.
“──.”
…… That ‘boy’ wasn’t stupid enough to miss such a gap.
Whoops!
In an instant, from the bottom of the top floor of the mage tower, something huge pressure began to rise at a tremendous speed.
“—What?”
At the time the golden demon king, who sensed the presence, murmured with a look of surprise.
Just after that.
Quaaagh!
…… With a huge explosion, the top floor of the mage tower was hollowly pierced, revealing the blue sky straight up.
What appeared soon after was none other than that.
It was the figure of a boy with a black robe roughly worn over him, and a clear blue light on his hands.
“—It’s an experiment.”
Boy, White said a short word.
And soon, White’s blue eyes flashed once.
“I would like you to tell me a little bit about the demon king of gold.”
With a bit of a bloody expression, he quietly raised the corners of his mouth.