“What is that sound?”
It seemed that Kenar was not the only one who heard that sound. The other priests and some of the paladins also turned their gazes toward the corpses.
“What are you talking about?”
Duke Orobas didn’t seem to hear them. But the next moment, he no longer had to ask.
Ring! Ring!
A sound was heard from under the cloth. The sound of something clearly alive and moving.
Kenar stepped back.
“That... what on earth is down there?”
Duke Orobas had clearly said that there were corpses of monsters inside.
Some were in coffins, and others were roughly arranged to be carried away.
But they were...
“...They weren’t all dead?”
Didn’t they clearly say that they were only collecting corpses?
Duke Orobas nodded repeatedly with a pale face at those words.
“They’re dead! There’s no way they weren’t dead! Am I crazy enough to drag a living monster into the mansion?”
Duke Orobas was so excited that his neck was practically on fire.
However.
Thump.
In a situation where the sound was heard again, no matter how much Duke Orobas insisted, it was useless.
“I, it seems to be moving.”
Those who had already gathered in the basement of the mansion to watch Duke Orobas pray were all focused on the ceiling.
Thump! Thump!
Then as if they could not bear the movement, the ceiling shook violently.
“Ugh!”
“A monster!”
“A holy knight!”
The startled priests all hurriedly stepped aside from the ceiling.
However.
“...It’s me!”
A human voice was heard from that direction.
“?”
Everyone froze.
“No!”
“Please save me!”
And there wasn’t just one voice. At that time, Kenar’s neck was covered in cold sweat.
“What is this... What is....”
“A person?”
The priests’ faces also turned pale. As the knights slowly approached, a voice that touched their little mercy was heard.
“Please save me!”
It was a desperate voice asking for help. One of the knights mustered up the courage to pull back the cloth.
A voice could clearly be heard among the scattered corpses of the monsters.
“Please...!”
The voice begging for help sounded somewhat resonant as if it were trapped somewhere.
“A coffin, it seems to be a coffin!”
Another knight shouted. Then, one by one, the knights began to carefully open the coffin.
And finally.
“Huk!”
“Ugh!”
A knight opened the lid of the coffin and screamed. Everyone there clearly saw a person moving inside.
“A, a person?”
“Please save me!”
“A real person!”
The voices begging for help and the panicked voices of the temple people mixed together, creating a commotion.
“Please! Please!”
The person in the coffin trembled and grabbed the knight’s hand.
“Ugh!”
And the paladin pushed away the hand as if the corpse had suddenly risen up and stepped back.
Who would have thought that a living person would come out of the coffin?
“I, I don’t want to die like this... Ugh!”
The person inside the coffin, who was trying to somehow get out of the coffin, was terrified at the sight of the monster corpses scattered around him.
And on the other side, another person was being rescued.
“Please save me! What is this! Ugh!”
And that side’s reaction to the monster's corpse was similar.
No matter how he looked at it, this was...
“How is it, here?”
One of the two said to the stammering priest.
“I just drew water from the well! I knew it wasn’t from our village! I won’t do it again, ever!”
He was talking nonsense, but it was clear that he had been caught drawing water from a well in another village.
“I, I did nothing wrong!”
And the other side didn’t seem to have the presence of mind to defend itself at all.
But he said the decisive words.
“I go to the temple every week! I, I have not sinned enough to be offered up as a sacrifice!”
The word sacrifice was decisively heard by every person in the room.
“A sacrifice?”
The priests were shocked.
“Were you trying to offer a living sacrifice?”
This was a serious matter.
“No! What the hell are they!”
Duke Orobas was going crazy and jumping around in the middle of it all.
However, no matter how much he jumped around, the situation was too clear.
What excuse was there when even people came out of the coffin?
The cold sweat ran down his face for a moment, and Kenar’s face, which had sunk cold, turned to Duke Orobas.
Offering a living sacrifice was an act that directly harmed the safety of the people of the empire.
No matter how much the royal family and nobles considered the lives of commoners to be expendable, it was a different matter to have seen the scene with one’s own eyes.
“First...”
A paladin was trying to calm down the two people who had come out of the coffin and were out of their minds.
Those two people... Helbas and Hanar, pretending to be human, screamed.
“Please save me!”
And he threw all his acting skills into pushing the paladins aside and ran out.
“Huh?”
The Orobas people hesitated. Should they catch that?
However, the Orobas people who carried the coffin themselves were equally confused.
Would they have brought a useless and misunderstood human in a coffin because they were crazy? Did they bring it because they thought it was a dead knight? Were there any who didn’t hear the order to bring a monster in a coffin instead of a knight?
By the way, should they catch those guys? Wouldn’t they be misunderstood more if they caught them?
While their gazes met each other with confusion, Helbas and Hanar were already running far away.
“Catch, catch!”
One of the Duke of Orobas’ confidants shouted. The one who reflexively blocked his way was the paladin.
“Catch them, what are you trying to do!?”
“I’m not going to use them as a sacrifice, but first...!”
We have to make sure they don’t go out and spread false rumors!
However, while the paladins were blocking them, the two were already screaming and running out of the mansion.
“Hey, I’m going to offer a living sacrifice here!”
“Send me back home!”
He screamed.
Duke Orobas’ face turned completely pale.
Outside, there were not only the people of the temple but also the people from outside, such as the high priests and servants, who had come to help them. What if they heard the rumor that ‘Orobas is going to offer a sacrifice’?
No matter how much he makes holy water here, he won’t be able to avoid the misunderstanding that it’s a demon.
Rather, they’ll say that the holy water is fake!
“First, listen to what I say...!”
However, the final disaster struck Duke Orobas, who was trying to survive somehow.
“My Lord, poisonous fog is flowing out of the annex!”
“What?”
“The priests have already fallen!”
“It seems they’re targeting the prayer room!”
Duke Orobas’s mouth fell open at the reports that were simultaneously pouring out.
“Ah, no...”
No one listened to his words anymore.
They, who had no knowledge of magic, had no way of knowing that poison was leaking out of the decorations of Marves that Beryl had given him.
“I will tell all of this to His Majesty the Emperor, and I will strongly request that he punish the family that has harmed the peace of the Empire.”
It was the moment when Orobas was completely finished.
And in the chaos.
-Heeheeing!
-Beep!
Two animals, no, demons, were returning to Vine, showing off their joyful and loud cries.
Helbas and Hanar had succeeded in falsely accusing Orobas of offering a living sacrifice, as ordered by their mistress.
Orobas’ confidants would not have known. That there were demons with the ability to transform into animals.
They would not have thought that they had deliberately worn the skins of demons to be suspected of being monsters and were then carried away in a coffin.
And all of this was the plan of the demon Archduchess Beryl.
The two demons thought.
The first battle he had participated in had been an unparalleled victory.
As Duke Orobas was being dragged away,
Duke Yubar was biting his fingernails and lost in agony.
“How on earth is it going?”
He had definitely seen the wave of demons at this banquet.
If the influx of demons wasn’t the wave of demons, then what could it be?
‘?’
However, the confidants of the Duke of Orobas who were receiving help had a trembling expression.
The thought that they would help them and then get out of this situation was clearly visible on their faces.
In short, it meant that they didn’t understand why Yubar was helping them.
“Orobas... isn’t it?”
He had already summoned a demon. A demon with knowledge and great power that far surpassed humans, and on top of that, a supernatural power called magic.
Although their power was sealed behind the gates of Hell and they couldn’t use their power properly, he said that if there was someone who summoned them using a summoning circle, they could regain a little more power.
“I... I summoned them.”
He frowned. Now that they had a summoner, they would have more power than before, and there was no need to hide anymore.
But why were the Orobas family, who he thought were demons, being held so helplessly? No way.
“No way.”
But the power that the demon had shown was real?
That was the moment when he tilted his head with a puzzled expression.
At the end of his vision, he caught the end of a black robe.
There was no way anyone could enter Duke Yubar’s office, which was completely blocked from the outside world by the temple troops.
“...!”
Duke Yubar, with his eyes wide open, raised his head, and the man in the black robe opened his mouth.
“You look tired.”
It was a demon. Duke Yubar widened his eyes.
“What is this...”
He almost grabbed the hem of his clothes without realizing it, but the demon avoided his touch with a clean movement.
Then he opened his mouth in a somewhat displeased voice.
“I couldn’t use my strength properly. Did you neglect to draw the summoning circle after summoning me?”
Duke Yubar widened his eyes at those words.
Does that mean I have to draw more summoning circles?
He seemed completely unaware, and the demon was visibly displeased. Even though his face was completely covered by his robe, it was visible, so Duke Yubar held his breath.
“The more elaborate and numerous the summoning circle, the more powerful the demon becomes. I didn’t know that either.”
“That...”
As a long-time devil worshiper, he have drawn summoning circles, but this was his first time hearing such a story.
However, he could not disbelieve the words of this devil who entered this mansion surrounded by temple troops.
Above all, the deep magical energy that appeared briefly before his eyes was real.
“What should I do?”
At those words, the demon, Naberus, opened his mouth.
“I need more, clearer summoning circles. If I gain power from them, I can get you out of here.”
Then, I can take one step further toward a world of devils. Isn’t that right?
Naberus thought as he spoke so grandly.
‘If this summoning circle could generate magical power, we would have drawn it...’
However, Duke Yubar, who could not have known his thoughts, opened his eyes wide.
As if he had realized something.
It seemed that Kenar was not the only one who heard that sound. The other priests and some of the paladins also turned their gazes toward the corpses.
“What are you talking about?”
Duke Orobas didn’t seem to hear them. But the next moment, he no longer had to ask.
Ring! Ring!
A sound was heard from under the cloth. The sound of something clearly alive and moving.
Kenar stepped back.
“That... what on earth is down there?”
Duke Orobas had clearly said that there were corpses of monsters inside.
Some were in coffins, and others were roughly arranged to be carried away.
But they were...
“...They weren’t all dead?”
Didn’t they clearly say that they were only collecting corpses?
Duke Orobas nodded repeatedly with a pale face at those words.
“They’re dead! There’s no way they weren’t dead! Am I crazy enough to drag a living monster into the mansion?”
Duke Orobas was so excited that his neck was practically on fire.
However.
Thump.
In a situation where the sound was heard again, no matter how much Duke Orobas insisted, it was useless.
“I, it seems to be moving.”
Those who had already gathered in the basement of the mansion to watch Duke Orobas pray were all focused on the ceiling.
Thump! Thump!
Then as if they could not bear the movement, the ceiling shook violently.
“Ugh!”
“A monster!”
“A holy knight!”
The startled priests all hurriedly stepped aside from the ceiling.
However.
“...It’s me!”
A human voice was heard from that direction.
“?”
Everyone froze.
“No!”
“Please save me!”
And there wasn’t just one voice. At that time, Kenar’s neck was covered in cold sweat.
“What is this... What is....”
“A person?”
The priests’ faces also turned pale. As the knights slowly approached, a voice that touched their little mercy was heard.
“Please save me!”
It was a desperate voice asking for help. One of the knights mustered up the courage to pull back the cloth.
A voice could clearly be heard among the scattered corpses of the monsters.
“Please...!”
The voice begging for help sounded somewhat resonant as if it were trapped somewhere.
“A coffin, it seems to be a coffin!”
Another knight shouted. Then, one by one, the knights began to carefully open the coffin.
And finally.
“Huk!”
“Ugh!”
A knight opened the lid of the coffin and screamed. Everyone there clearly saw a person moving inside.
“A, a person?”
“Please save me!”
“A real person!”
The voices begging for help and the panicked voices of the temple people mixed together, creating a commotion.
“Please! Please!”
The person in the coffin trembled and grabbed the knight’s hand.
“Ugh!”
And the paladin pushed away the hand as if the corpse had suddenly risen up and stepped back.
Who would have thought that a living person would come out of the coffin?
“I, I don’t want to die like this... Ugh!”
The person inside the coffin, who was trying to somehow get out of the coffin, was terrified at the sight of the monster corpses scattered around him.
And on the other side, another person was being rescued.
“Please save me! What is this! Ugh!”
And that side’s reaction to the monster's corpse was similar.
No matter how he looked at it, this was...
“How is it, here?”
One of the two said to the stammering priest.
“I just drew water from the well! I knew it wasn’t from our village! I won’t do it again, ever!”
He was talking nonsense, but it was clear that he had been caught drawing water from a well in another village.
“I, I did nothing wrong!”
And the other side didn’t seem to have the presence of mind to defend itself at all.
But he said the decisive words.
“I go to the temple every week! I, I have not sinned enough to be offered up as a sacrifice!”
The word sacrifice was decisively heard by every person in the room.
“A sacrifice?”
The priests were shocked.
“Were you trying to offer a living sacrifice?”
This was a serious matter.
“No! What the hell are they!”
Duke Orobas was going crazy and jumping around in the middle of it all.
However, no matter how much he jumped around, the situation was too clear.
What excuse was there when even people came out of the coffin?
The cold sweat ran down his face for a moment, and Kenar’s face, which had sunk cold, turned to Duke Orobas.
Offering a living sacrifice was an act that directly harmed the safety of the people of the empire.
No matter how much the royal family and nobles considered the lives of commoners to be expendable, it was a different matter to have seen the scene with one’s own eyes.
“First...”
A paladin was trying to calm down the two people who had come out of the coffin and were out of their minds.
Those two people... Helbas and Hanar, pretending to be human, screamed.
“Please save me!”
And he threw all his acting skills into pushing the paladins aside and ran out.
“Huh?”
The Orobas people hesitated. Should they catch that?
However, the Orobas people who carried the coffin themselves were equally confused.
Would they have brought a useless and misunderstood human in a coffin because they were crazy? Did they bring it because they thought it was a dead knight? Were there any who didn’t hear the order to bring a monster in a coffin instead of a knight?
By the way, should they catch those guys? Wouldn’t they be misunderstood more if they caught them?
While their gazes met each other with confusion, Helbas and Hanar were already running far away.
“Catch, catch!”
One of the Duke of Orobas’ confidants shouted. The one who reflexively blocked his way was the paladin.
“Catch them, what are you trying to do!?”
“I’m not going to use them as a sacrifice, but first...!”
We have to make sure they don’t go out and spread false rumors!
However, while the paladins were blocking them, the two were already screaming and running out of the mansion.
“Hey, I’m going to offer a living sacrifice here!”
“Send me back home!”
He screamed.
Duke Orobas’ face turned completely pale.
Outside, there were not only the people of the temple but also the people from outside, such as the high priests and servants, who had come to help them. What if they heard the rumor that ‘Orobas is going to offer a sacrifice’?
No matter how much he makes holy water here, he won’t be able to avoid the misunderstanding that it’s a demon.
Rather, they’ll say that the holy water is fake!
“First, listen to what I say...!”
However, the final disaster struck Duke Orobas, who was trying to survive somehow.
“My Lord, poisonous fog is flowing out of the annex!”
“What?”
“The priests have already fallen!”
“It seems they’re targeting the prayer room!”
Duke Orobas’s mouth fell open at the reports that were simultaneously pouring out.
“Ah, no...”
No one listened to his words anymore.
They, who had no knowledge of magic, had no way of knowing that poison was leaking out of the decorations of Marves that Beryl had given him.
“I will tell all of this to His Majesty the Emperor, and I will strongly request that he punish the family that has harmed the peace of the Empire.”
It was the moment when Orobas was completely finished.
***
And in the chaos.
-Heeheeing!
-Beep!
Two animals, no, demons, were returning to Vine, showing off their joyful and loud cries.
Helbas and Hanar had succeeded in falsely accusing Orobas of offering a living sacrifice, as ordered by their mistress.
Orobas’ confidants would not have known. That there were demons with the ability to transform into animals.
They would not have thought that they had deliberately worn the skins of demons to be suspected of being monsters and were then carried away in a coffin.
And all of this was the plan of the demon Archduchess Beryl.
The two demons thought.
The first battle he had participated in had been an unparalleled victory.
***
As Duke Orobas was being dragged away,
Duke Yubar was biting his fingernails and lost in agony.
“How on earth is it going?”
He had definitely seen the wave of demons at this banquet.
If the influx of demons wasn’t the wave of demons, then what could it be?
‘?’
However, the confidants of the Duke of Orobas who were receiving help had a trembling expression.
The thought that they would help them and then get out of this situation was clearly visible on their faces.
In short, it meant that they didn’t understand why Yubar was helping them.
“Orobas... isn’t it?”
He had already summoned a demon. A demon with knowledge and great power that far surpassed humans, and on top of that, a supernatural power called magic.
Although their power was sealed behind the gates of Hell and they couldn’t use their power properly, he said that if there was someone who summoned them using a summoning circle, they could regain a little more power.
“I... I summoned them.”
He frowned. Now that they had a summoner, they would have more power than before, and there was no need to hide anymore.
But why were the Orobas family, who he thought were demons, being held so helplessly? No way.
“No way.”
But the power that the demon had shown was real?
That was the moment when he tilted his head with a puzzled expression.
At the end of his vision, he caught the end of a black robe.
There was no way anyone could enter Duke Yubar’s office, which was completely blocked from the outside world by the temple troops.
“...!”
Duke Yubar, with his eyes wide open, raised his head, and the man in the black robe opened his mouth.
“You look tired.”
It was a demon. Duke Yubar widened his eyes.
“What is this...”
He almost grabbed the hem of his clothes without realizing it, but the demon avoided his touch with a clean movement.
Then he opened his mouth in a somewhat displeased voice.
“I couldn’t use my strength properly. Did you neglect to draw the summoning circle after summoning me?”
Duke Yubar widened his eyes at those words.
Does that mean I have to draw more summoning circles?
He seemed completely unaware, and the demon was visibly displeased. Even though his face was completely covered by his robe, it was visible, so Duke Yubar held his breath.
“The more elaborate and numerous the summoning circle, the more powerful the demon becomes. I didn’t know that either.”
“That...”
As a long-time devil worshiper, he have drawn summoning circles, but this was his first time hearing such a story.
However, he could not disbelieve the words of this devil who entered this mansion surrounded by temple troops.
Above all, the deep magical energy that appeared briefly before his eyes was real.
“What should I do?”
At those words, the demon, Naberus, opened his mouth.
“I need more, clearer summoning circles. If I gain power from them, I can get you out of here.”
Then, I can take one step further toward a world of devils. Isn’t that right?
Naberus thought as he spoke so grandly.
‘If this summoning circle could generate magical power, we would have drawn it...’
However, Duke Yubar, who could not have known his thoughts, opened his eyes wide.
As if he had realized something.
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