The Hero Who Returned From Death Quits

EP8. The Coming Doom

After destroying the production facility, Ainzel began to fight on the battlefield with his comrades for several months. He did not die. This was because his comrades destroyed all the enemies with overwhelming force.

After killing Malecidus and his exploits on the battlefield, his companions gradually became more capable of handling the powers they had gained through transcendence.

They were simply overwhelming, overwhelming, overwhelming. The ashen soldiers gradually began to disappear from the battlefield, and countless armies of demons met the warrior and his companions and were crushed.

The odds were clear. The Demon King’s army suffered defeat after defeat wherever his comrades went, and only one commander was left who could hold his ground on the battlefield.

Grandis. I can say with certainty that she was the strongest demon in this world, excluding the Demon King. Could the Dragon Kings at the end of the world be compared to her power? That’s how strong Grandis was.

However, other legion commanders could not do so.

First of all, among the legion commanders, the one who was the strongest after Grandis was Malecidus. However, after Malecidus died, the legion commanders, although strong, were unable to escape the realm of extremes.

And the commanders who could not escape the realm of the extreme could do nothing.

At some point, rumors began to spread.

There is a rumor that you cannot use black magic when standing in front of a warrior.

And when they came face to face with the warriors, the legion commanders could realize that the rumors were true.

The spell was eroded, twisted, and destroyed. The black magic did not go away, but rather the sword, magic, miracles, and arrows of the warrior, Ainzel Leonhard, appeared before them.

With his past actions, he became increasingly a target of fear for the demons.

However, Ainzel was different from the past. He no longer went on a rampage to kill the demons.

Rather, he took the job calmly and showed no emotion.

His colleagues thought something was strange about that appearance.

Does it make sense that one’s attitude could change like that overnight?

Of course, it could be that it has changed because of the work in the furnace.

But he hadn’t changed much for a few days since he returned from the furnace. Then, suddenly, a few days later, his attitude changed like this, and they couldn’t get used to it.

Ainzel felt their gazes but didn’t care.

Now, I still have no idea how to treat my colleagues.

The bond I had with them was not broken. There were many times when I missed them while living with Grandis.

But even if they were not cut off, the weight they held in him inevitably had to decrease little by little.

He didn’t know how to deal with them now, so he deliberately kept his distance from them. Of course, that awkward feeling disappeared after a few months of fighting, but the gap of several decades was not easily bridged, so an invisible wall was built between them.

After time passed like that, Ainzel finally came face to face with the Seidel Highlands, a key strategic point within the Demon King’s territory.

Once you occupy this high ground, there is the Demon King’s castle beyond it.

The Demon King was right in front of us.

Ainzel wanted to kill the Demon King.

That was enough.

Ainzel stationed his soldiers in front of Seidel Hill. No matter how strong his comrades who had reached the state of transcendence were, the soldiers were ultimately the main force on the battlefield. He knew that nothing would be accomplished without paying attention to his soldiers.

Although his strategic abilities were underestimated after the failed siege of the Telbren fortress in the past, and he had to be accompanied by advisors, it was still good. He could ignore the chattering parrots at his side.

The next day, a battle will be fought to take over Seiden Highlands. And behind that, only the Demon King awaits.

The enemies also know this. Therefore, they will do their best to protect Seiden Highlands no matter what happens.

And there seemed to be only one person capable of doing it.

“Grandis.”

I remembered her cooking for him. I remembered her smiling at him. I remembered her last appearance, selfish to the end.

“…Fuck.”

He stood there for a long time, staring at the sky, before finally letting out a message.

She was a truly, truly, truly selfish woman to the end.

His hands still remember her warmth.

His ears still remember her voice.

His eyes still remember her appearance.

But how, how dare he. her.

“I can kill you… .”

I hated her so much for telling him that he could kill her after doing that.

He still felt her chained to his heart, squeezing him.

Because he missed her so much. Because he was in so much pain. Because he loved her so much. He couldn’t kill her.

He washed his face dry. What should he do? To kill the Demon King, he must win this battle.

He won’t kill her. But he will definitely win. For his own sake and for hers.

Dawn broke. As day began to break, a force of perhaps tens of thousands of men was gathered at Seiden Koji.

The number of demons opposing him was probably only a few thousand, but considering that each demon was capable of fighting ten humans, it was by no means an insufficient force.

And, above all, there she was, in the midst of the demons.

The world’s greatest, strongest, and worst warlock was smiling.

“Ah, this is it… I wanted to meet you, so it’s good. This is our first meeting, right? Warrior.”

Ainzel’s expression hardened when he heard Grandis’ voice. Their first meeting. Could there be a more certain and cruel word than this to make him face the fact that the things he had become accustomed to had already disappeared?

Ainzel looked at Grandis and smiled faintly. Grandis smiled strangely and said.

“It’s great to meet you like this. Up until now, there has been no one who has led the battles I’ve participated in to such strange results, and above all, there has never been anyone who has given me so much trouble. I don’t know why we’ve come face to face like this after not showing our faces all this time… I hope you’ll entertain me.”

Ainzel quietly looked at Grandis’ face as he spoke. Grandis also quietly observed Ainzel.

It wasn’t as strong as I thought. It felt like a unique completeness that made me question whether it could be this perfect, especially at the end, where it reached the extreme.

Of all the Masters she had ever met, the strongest was the Black Knight who had guarded the Telbren Fortress, but the energy she felt from the current warrior’s body was even greater. It was an energy that made her wonder how he had managed to perfect himself to that level.

But that was it. What she felt from the warrior’s body was not an overwhelming strength or a flash of genius, but rather the experience of someone who had spent decades training himself. It was quite different from the impression she had of him, the one who had caused her trouble.

Well, but-

That will be revealed after the fight, Grandis thought.

Finally, the fight began. When Peria snapped her fingers, a giant fireball began to fall from the sky.

Should I block it with a shield? No, that wasn’t Grandis’ taste.

She fired a giant sphere of darkness herself in return, and when she tried to counterattack,

The drinking habit suddenly began to erode.

‘What is this?’

There were many spells she used that no one but herself knew about. How many people could possibly erode those spells… no, how many people could possibly erode her black magic in the first place?

Grandis was a little late in weaving the spell because of that, and at that moment, an arrow was shot at her. It was from Lena. Grandis dodged the arrow with ease, but because she lost focus, the spell was broken.

It was the same after that. Strangely, the spell he used for defense was intact, but every time he prepared the spell to attack, the spell was eroded and arrows were shot at him.

Grandis found that puzzling, but she soon came to a conclusion.

It’s a warrior. The warrior is blocking himself with the power of the holy sword. I’ve never heard of the holy sword having such power, but it wasn’t strange because there were long-standing records of the holy sword suddenly displaying unknown powers.

In fact, it’s hard to think of anything else. Unless someone knows ‘all’ the spells they use…

Grandis licked her lips. She had a feeling this was going to be fun.