Zhuge vs. the King of Darkness [Modified Gale Kingdom Map]

Even so, Jegal didn’t stop.

“I won’t give up! You Demon bastard!”

Jegal’s hands trembled, and his face turned pale.

In the sky, my Dark Tentacle Spears and Jegal’s Four Great Spirit King Spears clashed incessantly, creating noise and debris.

I, floating in the air, praised Jegal, who stood on the ground.

“To stand against my unique magic, the Infinite Dark Tentacle Spears, you’re quite something, human.”

“I’m not afraid! Spirit Kings! Give me strength! Keulkeok!”

More blood gushed from Jegal’s mouth, but he didn’t stop.

Louisa screamed, seeing Jegal’s clothes covered in blood from his mouth.

“Kyaaak! Jegal!”

Louisa went to the center, hugged Jegal, and tried to dissuade him.

“Jegal! Stop it now!”

The Water Spirit King, Elquines, looked at Louisa and said.

“Louisa! Our Spirit Kings are protecting Jegal!”

From my perspective, it looked like they were barely preventing him from being crushed, but I didn’t show it.

Louisa raised her shield towards me and chanted her unique magic.

“I trust Jegal! Wall of Trust!”

As Louisa activated the Wall of Trust, translucent blue walls appeared wherever my spears rained down.

The Wall of Trust collided with my spears, creating a ‘Kwaaa Kwang’ sound as it shattered, but it weakened the speed and durability of my spears.

The Spirit Kings’ spears began to easily break my spears.

Jegal’s hands no longer trembled, but he was about to lose consciousness due to excessive mana use.

Louisa grabbed Jegal’s hand with her own and said.

“Jegal! Together, we can stop him!”

Louisa’s defense and Jegal’s Four Great Spirit King Spears evenly blocked the King of Darkness’s Infinite Dark Tentacle Spears.

As Jegal and Louisa were caught up in the battle with me, the other knights screamed and died one by one, overwhelmed by the pouring Tentacle Heroes, Tentacle Elite Soldiers, and Slimes.

“For the Gale Kingdom! Euaaak! Kek.”

“Goddess Elia, give me strength! Huh? My arm! Kkeueok.”

Only 20 knights remained.

Vanguard Knight Commander Maudan sliced through a Tentacle Elite Soldier that had just jumped up with his aura sword and urgently urged Jegal.

“Military Advisor Jegal! We’re almost all dead! We need to find a way out quickly!”

Right now, the humans were enduring with nothing but guts and spite in a hopeless situation.

Louisa looked around and realized that there was only one option she could take.

If her Wall of Trust disappeared now, the King of Darkness’s Dark Tentacle Spears would instantly pierce through all the humans, including Jegal.

Louisa decided to sacrifice herself to save Jegal.

Louisa called Maudan.

“Commander Maudan, come here!”

Maudan barely shook off a tentacle and came to Louisa, asking.

“Heok heok. What’s the matter?”

Louisa, while maintaining the Wall of Trust, told him about the secret passage in the Marquis’s study.

Louisa told Maudan to take Jegal and leave.

Right now, Jegal was almost in a coma, unconsciously supplying mana to the Four Great Spirit Kings.

Maudan made a sad face and shook his head.

“What about you, Princess!”

“I can’t go. The moment my Wall of Trust breaks, that Demon’s spear will engulf us all.”

“Kueuk.”

“Please. Save Jegal. If Jegal is alive, the Gale Kingdom can rise again!”

Even the stoic man Maudan was moved by the Princess’s spirit of sacrifice, and a tear fell from his eye.

“Princess’s sacrifice. I will remember it for the rest of my life.”

Louisa used all of her remaining mana to activate the Wall of Trust (True).

“Protect those who I trust! Wall of Trust. True!”

The Wall of Trust (True) was an invincible magic that only those she trusted could pass through, and it blocked all other attacks, but the caster could not move.

A spherical, translucent blue wall swelled up from Louisa’s body.

The Wall of Trust (True) allowed Jegal and the knights to pass through, pushed away the tentacles and slimes, and even included part of the mansion in the sphere.

As my Infinite Dark Tentacle Spears and the attacks of the tentacles and slimes pounded on the Wall of Trust (True), Louisa vomited blood due to excessive mana use.

Louisa shouted with a determined face.

“I am Louisa, the First Princess of the Gale Kingdom! I will not back down!”

The Four Great Spirit Kings also flew around Louisa, attacking the Demon army.

Ifrit shouted.

“Our little one can’t die here! Thanks! Louisa! Let’s play as flamboyantly as possible today!”

A giant fireball was created in Ifrit’s right hand, and it flew away, burning dozens of tentacles.

Maudan put the almost comatose Jegal on his shoulder and entered the mansion with the remaining 18 knights.

Jegal was not conscious and was only supplying mana to the Four Great Spirit Kings.

I leisurely watched all of that and stopped the Dark Tentacle Spears.

Louisa looked at me and shouted in a hateful voice.

“What is it! King of Demons!”

I said.

“Do you take me for a fool to attack you?”

I turned my body towards the mansion, took out dozens of tentacles from my stomach, and shot a Dark Mana Cannon at the mansion that was not included in her Wall of Trust (True).

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Louisa screamed.

“No!”

The Dark Mana Cannon advanced, obliterating the mansion, and a ‘Kwaaaang’ sound and smoke billowed up.

Elquines screamed.

“Kyaaaa! Jegal! You must live!”

When the smoke cleared, what was visible was the mansion with a hole where the Mana Cannon had passed through, and one man.

That man was Maudan, standing there with blood spurting from the seven orifices in his head.

Maudan had swung his aura sword at the speed of sound, using his ultimate technique, the Aura Barrier, to block the King of Darkness’s Dark Mana Cannon.

However, the impact caused blood to spurt from the seven orifices in his head.

Maudan said with a smile.

“Hahahaha! King of Darkness. Military Advisor Jegal has already escaped! You will not achieve your goal!”

I scoffed.

“What nonsense are you spouting? Jegal is just a plaything.”

In reality, Marquis Sains’s castle had already become my territory, and Jegal was just a toy.

Louisa called Maudan in a joyful voice.

“Commander Maudan!”

Maudan, with a relieved face, continued to speak without even knowing what he was saying.

“I didn’t like Jegal, who was only good with his head. Keulkeok. So I treated him coldly. But today, I don’t regret letting him escape. Jegal fought bravely today and was an excellent commander. Keulkeok. Keulkeok.”

Maudan closed his eyes, still standing with his sword raised.

He had died standing up with tremendous will.

I grabbed my head and raged.

“Euaaaa! What kind of movie is this? Why is it so touching! And I’m the good guy who came to liberate the Demons, and you guys are the bad guys!”

Louisa looked at me and sneered.

“We humans can sacrifice ourselves, unlike you. This time, it’s our victory.”

Lucy-nuna got angry.

“We can sacrifice ourselves too! And you’re all already dead, and only a few escaped, what victory are you talking about!”

Louisa must have used up all of her mana because the Wall of Trust (True) began to fade.

The Four Great Spirit Kings also gradually became transparent and were about to dissipate.

At that moment, I shouted.

“Capture the Four Great Spirit Kings!”

As Lucy-nuna used all of her mana, a giant magic circle appeared around them, severing the connection between this space and the Spirit Realm, and the Four Great Spirit Kings became bright again.

Sylphid urgently shouted.

“We have to kill that woman! If we can’t go to the Spirit Realm from here, it’s over!”

Louisa lost consciousness and collapsed at the same time as the Wall of Trust (True) disappeared.

The Four Great Spirit Kings rushed towards Lucy-nuna, but Tentacle Elite Soldiers piled up in front of Lucy-nuna, creating a wall to block them.

As Mona held her magic staff and chanted a spell, rings of mana appeared around the Four Great Spirit Kings, then shrank, tightly constricting their arms and legs.

The Four Great Spirit Kings fell to the ground with their arms, wrists, and legs constricted by the rings in an attention stance.

The Spirit Kings, who had already used most of their power, could not resist this magic.

I was amazed by Mona’s ability and praised her.

“Mona, well done!”

Mona made an ‘assa’ gesture with her clenched fist and shouted with a cheerful face.

“I’m an excellent sealing magician, you know!”

Today, the Army of Darkness completely occupied Marquis Sains’s castle.

They infected 65,000 humans with Brain Parasite Tentacles, liberated 162,000 Demon slaves, and captured Princess Louisa of the Gale Kingdom and Jegal’s Four Great Spirit Kings.

Among the humans, there were Slave Choker experts and Demon slave traders, so I had them research how to remove the Slave Chokers.

I led 88,000 Slimes and 133,000 Tentacle troops to Brunshier City in the north with this momentum.

The bleak situation in Marquis Sains’s territory had spread to Brunshier City, and many people, including the mayor, had fled to North Gale.

I was able to easily take Brunshier City.

Here too, I liberated 100,000 Demon slaves.

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I renamed Marquis Sains’s city Sains City and had Archbishop Rajikvaz manage it.

Margrave Clarice’s city was renamed Clarice City and had Archbishop Clarice manage it.

I sent an archbishop to manage Brunshier City.

Now, all the land south of the Loire River became territory of the Kyle Holy Kingdom.

I incorporated Bradon Village into the Kyle Holy Kingdom, promoted it to Bradon City, and appointed Jackson as archbishop to manage it.

Bradon City became a famous tourist destination as the place where Kyle God was first born into the world.

I deployed 150,000 Tentacle troops south of the Loire River to keep the Gale Kingdom in check.

I gave the Slimes free visas to the Kyle Holy Kingdom, allowing them to live freely in the Holy Kingdom on the condition that they paid taxes and obeyed the law.

I toured the entire Kyle Holy Kingdom and made my holiness known to all the Demons.

The Demons who saw me willingly served me.

As the mine area of South Gale came into my hands, mineral resources gathered.

City development, including the Minji Holy Site, took place, and products using ore came onto the market, enriching the lives of the Holy Kingdom’s citizens.

The mine area was owned by the Kyle Holy Kingdom, and Demons still worked as miners.

Now, the Demon miners received regular salaries and enjoyed welfare benefits such as break rooms, a 5-day work week, night work bonuses, infirmaries, and paid childcare leave, and they could receive severance pay and do other work.

The Demons who had been working in the mines from the beginning now worked in the mines because they wanted to.

I also went to the Harpy Colony and the Beastmen Village and formed economic and military alliances with them.

Harpies are a Dark race with the upper body of a human with bird wings instead of arms and bird legs on the lower body.

The Harpy Colony is ruled by the Harpy Queen, and there were Harpy nests all over the giant mountain, some looking like bird nests and others looking like caves.

There were both female and male Harpies.

The Harpy Queen saw me and said that she would become an allied nation with the Kyle Holy Kingdom.

The Harpy Queen was old and had wrinkles, so it was difficult to take her as a wife.

In the case of the Beastmen Village, various Beastmen were building huts and living there.

Beastmen are a race with half Dark and half Light, and they can become anything.

The Beastmen did not want to be hostile to me.

The Beastmen were incorporated into the Kyle Holy Kingdom’s giant economic and military community in exchange for being granted freedom.

I asked the Giant Ent Queen Zahara to create an underground highway connecting each city.

The Giant Ents began construction work on the underground highway.

The Kyle Holy Kingdom and the Giant Ents shared the stake in the underground highway equally.

As time passed, Giant Ents, Slimes, Demons, Tentacles, Harpies, and Beastmen could be seen walking around together in various cities.

The city’s markets sold specialties from other regions.

For example, the Kyle Holy Kingdom sold Slime’s A++ grade Horned Rabbit meat and Giant Ent’s Aphid Juice, while the Slime Kingdom sold Kyle Holy Kingdom’s bread and Giant Ent’s Matango.

The Harpy Colony’s specialty products were Harpy unfertilized eggs and Harpy feathers, and the Beastmen Village’s specialty products were clothes made from Beastmen fur and Dairy Cow Beastmen milk.

Demon, Slime, and Giant Ent researchers are researching subways to run on the underground highway, so transportation and transport will become faster in the future.

Currently, the concept of using firelight stones to boil water and turn turbines with steam has been developed and will continue to develop in the future.

I was inspired by Jegal’s Dwarven-made cannons and thought that the Tentacles should also have firepower weapons.

The creature Tentacle Cannon came to my mind.

I used 200 points to turn 10 human women into Tentacle Cannon hatcheries and hatched the Tentacle Cannon eggs.

The Tentacle Cannon needed to absorb 300 humans to barely fulfill its role.

I made 200 Tentacle Cannons.

The Tentacle Cannon is a giant creature with a round body that is 40m tall, with eyes all around, and four spider-like legs symmetrically attached to the body.

On top of the body is one large tube-shaped tentacle with a diameter of 10m, which can launch acidic venom projectiles for kilometers.

It can also pick up and fire stones or cannonballs.

I also deployed the Tentacle Cannons south of the Loire River.

I created schools in various cities for young Dark races.

I selected smart Dark races and made them teachers at the schools.

The schools taught Holy Kingdom Scripture, Holy Kingdom Ethics, mathematics, economics, magic, and martial arts, and Holy Kingdom Scripture and Holy Kingdom Ethics were especially important to be recognized for academic ability.

Holy Kingdom Scripture revered me, Kyle, as the only God of Darkness and taught the various famous sayings, actions, and footsteps that I had spoken.

Holy Kingdom Ethics was created to promote the patriotism and pride of the Holy Kingdom’s citizens and taught the good points of the Kyle Holy Kingdom, we are all one Dark race, let’s understand each other’s differences, and so on.

Now, when they saw me, the Dark race children cheered and came to me, and they were moved and happy just to see me.

[Revised Map of the Gale Kingdom]