episode_0128

CXXI.

Eat well while you have it~, don’t be fussy~♪

Be nice when you have it~, don’t be harsh~♬

Turn and turn~, turn and turn~♩

It’s good when you’re there~, so it’s good~♬

―From a song by a grandmother who is famous for having seven granddaughters

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Gray is stuck in the name of Suryun… No, while it was gone, the continent became noisy in many ways.

The day after Gray first left the conference hall and disappeared, the nobles tried to meet him.

Of course, it was a pointless thing to do.

Gray went straight into the training room the next day and locked the door with a formula that not even the dean could unlock, and did not come out.

As the news of the high-ranking nobles being cheated on spread, nobles and candidates who had negative feelings toward Gray expressed their dissatisfaction everywhere.

―You have neglected your duty as a candidate!

―This is an act of betrayal to humanity!

-Punishment must be imposed. At the very least, you should at least receive the rights to the gold coins you have supported!

This public opinion died down as quickly as it started. The identities of those who had promoted public opinion were exposed, causing great embarrassment.

Why?

It was because of the words that the superhumans who heard the news said one by one.

“The number of demons you have defeated is over ten? Betrayal? It’s time for a heresy judge.”

These are the words of Pope Judas, the representative of the Caligo denomination and the romance of shota-loving sisters.

“Hoo~? Is that so~? Look. What did I say? You said it would be like this, right? They say that if you save something from drowning, you have to hand over the bundle!”

“I admit this. Real facts. No refutation. It went well. It was annoying, but at this point, shouldn’t we just follow Gray and stick ourselves in a quiet place?”

“But the rights to gold coins? Isn’t there a dragon lord among Gray’s group who lives on a mountain of gold and jewels? If Gray hears this, he will throw the gold coins on the floor. Kkkk.”

These are the impressions of the self-proclaimed ‘Beautiful Three Musketeers’, Swordsman, Death King, and Lightning Thunder, who have been around for some time.

“Huh? Is that a popular satire these days? Are you making fun of the pig-like nobles who do nothing? No? Did this come from the mouth of some idiot? If you just look at the facts right now, isn’t that completely true? I’m sure there aren’t any scum among the Academy students who say things like that, right? what? there is?! Catch it!!”

Evergreen’s Jinseong crazy guy. This was the dean’s answer.

If it was just a conversation between superhumans, it wouldn’t have been much of a problem if these superhumans were old people who holed up in their closets and wasted their time.

However, the problem was that the above-mentioned superhumans were under the control of an organization with such influence that most broadcasting companies could not be compared.

The Caligo Church boasts the greatest presence on the continent.

Naturally, the words that the Pope mentioned and expressed his deep discomfort were conveyed to temples spread across the continent, and each temple also conveyed this fact through its believers.

In the process, ‘wajeon’ was a natural option.

Death King and Lightning are also called Mercenary Queen and Mercenary Sage.

These two women, who received absolute support from the mercenaries, vented their dissatisfaction at the Evergreen mercenary branch. The three women’s remarks were spread by word of mouth among the mercenaries.

With the basic characteristic of the mercenary class, ‘Geppoeng’ applied.

Dean of Evergreen Academy.

Is there any need for further explanation with just this name?

Why! During a faculty meeting, Dean Hu was asked this question, and again! Why! The problem grew as one of the students at Evergreen Academy included someone who sympathized with public opinion.

Even in the history of Evergreen Academy, a very rare form of corporal punishment called ‘expulsion’ took place, and naturally, rumors spread throughout the continent.

At this point, not only did public opinion about Gray become negative, but good rumors began to slowly form about Gray, who had forgotten to eat and drink and was training.

Later, it was spread as if it were some kind of birth myth, and in some extreme places, it was even said that Gray was born from an egg. It’s real. Really true.

Moreover, less than 15 days after Gray was confined to the training ground, the incident occurred and the continent became aware of it. How much effort Gray and the superhumans have been working on.

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To the east of Alfonso’s empire, there are four countries stretched out in a long line at the eastern end of the continent.

Kingdom of Heiro, Kingdom of Elam, Kingdom of Carthage, Kingdom of Hittite.

The incident began in these countries, which are ranked 4th out of 2nd and 7th.

The common characteristics of these countries are that they have weak national power and that they are maintained through maritime trade.

Because of these characteristics, the countries had a strong navy and a weak army that fought on land, so they were divided into four countries.

But at some point, these four countries began to have one more thing in common.

Strange things are happening here and there with unknown causes.

A plague of unknown disease that kills one-third of the territory.

A village where women are kidnapped, horribly raped, and found dead every night.

It was absurd that the villagers who had always been like family suddenly started hating each other and started stabbing each other.

A city where a docile person took up a knife in broad daylight and murdered people passing by and then committed suicide, spreading like an epidemic.

An incident where a person who worked hard all his life suddenly starves to death while sleeping instead of getting out of bed.

On the other hand, there are people who continue to eat even when they are full, but their stomachs explode and they die.

In history, even if just one of these appeared, things that would be recorded in royal documents as strange were happening simultaneously.

This fact was shared by merchants engaged in maritime trade in the four countries along the coastline, and it only took a week for it to eventually spread throughout the continent.

And this strange phenomenon, which started in four countries, gradually began to expand its scope to the center of the continent. As if a shapeless evil spirit was spreading.

After hearing the news, the Caligo Church hurried out and the superhumans took action.

However, since the superhumans had to move in groups of at least two in case of a surprise attack, there was bound to be a hole. So, the vacancy had to be filled by the strong players of each country.

As the situation gradually stabilized, the abnormal phenomenon subsided and the incident seemed to be over due to the influence of the powerful. In fact, semi-superhumans even reported that.

Pope Judas of the Caligo Church revealed that this incident was caused by ‘lesser demons’.

A little late.

This was a tragedy caused by a difference of opinion between the Pope and the paranormals of each kingdom, and an extremely unlucky coincidence.

Since the enemies Pope had faced so far were at least corrupted dragons and at most top-level demons, he searched with the minimum limit set to mid-level demons.

From the beginning, the semi-humans did not keep in mind that it was the work of demons and only caught and killed those who were acting crazy, and reported that they thought the problem was solved.

This difference in thinking led to greater confusion.

So, was this the devil’s intention?

To conclude, that’s not it.

The demon kings, including the remnants, needed information about the process by which the highest-level demons were killed by humans.

In their opinion, humans can never cause the ‘extinction’ of the highest level demons who went to the continent with a power close to 80%.

But what? The highest-level demon died, making all my boasts pointless?

And that is the butcher Glacia Lavolas, who can be said to be the most natural enemy of humans.

The Remnant and the Demon King needed that information.

How and in what manner he died.

Also, I decided I needed to take a moment to catch my breath.

It was not simply a concern about a power leak or a top-level demon being killed.

In the first place, to the remnants, demons are no different from regular heroes with white backgrounds in mobile games.

The reason why Remnant and the Demon King, who is close to Remnant, decided to take a breather and decided that they needed to know the inside story, started with the fallen dragon Nitas.

Nitas’ survival instinct was a thousand times overturned by Glacia Lavolas’ mistake.

Levidon went on a rampage with the information provided by Nitas in order to avoid responsibility for the points he had spent while sending out Glacia Lavolas.

Naturally, Mammon, who had Glacia Lavolas under his command, refuted that Nitas’ information was wrong.

The two remnants collided. In particular, Mamon’s identity is ‘greed’. Mammon was the most sensitive among the remnants in terms of profit and loss.

The conflict between the two was bound to intensify.

In the end, the Remnant and the Demon King needed to find out information. Moreover, there were quite a few points used while sending out Glacia Lavolas.

For these reasons, it was necessary for the remnants to briefly change their attack-oriented stance.

However, we cannot just let go.

Putting aside information gathering and the like, when preparing for war, what fool would allow the opposing camp to prepare for war in comfort and ease?

Oh, except the nobles. Those idiots are the ones who will party just because they declared war.

So what the remnants came up with was a way to send out the low-level demons.

The points required to send out a low-level demon were not even in units of work, but in decimal units, and the number of low-level demons in the demon world was at the level of soldiers, so they were a common rank that could not be counted.

As soon as the remnants made their decision, they sent out a large number of low-level demons.

However, this number brings unexpected results.

Whether in the divine world or the demon world.

If they had the inaction of a master, they would have been more undetectable because they were low-level demons that could be easily caught if they were not careful.

I finally caught it.

The problem is that we didn’t catch everything.

No, the really big problem was that we couldn’t even guess how big that number was.

Like a cockroach, like a mosquito on a summer night.

As the situation continued with no way to guess whether this was the end, or whether there was more left, or how many people were left, the confusion grew even greater than before the capture of the low-level demons.

How much is left? I wonder if the thing I just caught is a demon.

I couldn’t figure that out.

Ironically, even greater confusion arose because they were low-level demons with all kinds of trivial powers, to the point where one wonders if such things can really be called powers.

Cause you to suffer from severe fever,

When you’re sad, you laugh,

It seems like your sex drive decreases as you get younger.

The more this happened, the more the people on the continent had to find the reason why the situation had progressed to this point, or the object of their resentment.

There is no gray.

People and enthusiasts said that the reason for this confusion was because Gray, who was so good at dealing with demons that they were natural enemies, was missing.

In general, in the common sense, ‘lower level’ would seem to be much easier than ‘highest level’ or ‘high level’.

I think that since Gray and his group, who took care of the top and high-level demons, are gone, the lower-level demons are also having a hard time.

Why did Gray cut off contact with the outside world while training? Because of the nobles.

The atmosphere of the continent is growing increasingly dissatisfied with the commoners among the commoners and the nobles with the nobles, and with growing confusion.

In the midst of all this, something that causes even greater confusion becomes known.

As you might have guessed from the expression ‘made known,’ this incident was not something that happened recently, but something that happened before was brought to the surface.

―The eliminated candidates defected!