Vol. 12 - Chapter 763 - Demon’s True Objective: Demon’s True Objective

The demon king Mara led 10 high-ranking demons and headed for the royal capital of the Shandar Empire, Labur, aiming for the first angel Homar.

Analyzing the Demon King's army's movements and their aims, Allen desperately sent Merus towards Mara as the Demon King's retreat drew closer and closer.

With the combination of the Awakening skills that S-rank Merus has acquired and the support of Lupt, he slaughters Mara with a single blow, and just when relief seems to be spilling out, the situation changes completely.

Demon King Cybel suddenly appeared behind the first angel Lupt and firmly grabbed him by the neck from behind.

(Kybel!!)

Before Allen even spoke to Will, Mels was moving.

Are you summoning a summoned beast to this place that has already finished its battle?

Should I replace the summoned beast of Angel B who has already used the awakening skill?

However, with only seconds left, what was the best plan?

Without having time to listen to Allen's strategy or instructions, Merus took it upon himself to save Lupt.

I deleted Angel B's "Great Sword", re-summoned it, reset the cooldown time, and tried to cut it with the awakening skill.

“Mmm! Thor Slasher! ! ”

“Huh? That's what I just showed you. I've been preparing a lot, but I'm disappointed. Hey! ! ”

Don!

“Gha! ! ”

Mels's great sword was swung in a trajectory that would not hit Lupt, but Kybel clenched his fist to use his left arm, which was not holding Lupt, as a shield and tried to take the attack.

However, the movement of taking a defensive stance was a fake, his entire body was protected by a powerful barrier, and he did not even touch Kybel's body.

The left arm that showed its stance was for storing magical power.

Merus, who has become stronger through repeated buffs, easily blocks the blow with his barrier, and fires a magic bullet towards his defenseless stomach after the attack.

With a strong impact, I was blown far away.

(Does that mean they're fully prepared for attack and defense by the time they teleport here? As long as they defeat Shinorom! There's still a lot to recover...)

"Oh, big brother..."

He has always been imbuing his right arm with magical power, and in order to prevent Lupt from escaping with his teleportation skill, he uses some kind of skill to steal it and seal it away so that he cannot escape.

“Hehe, I’m a lying clown. You shouldn't trust it. Well, it's time for teleportation. There's no problem with the coordinates.''

Buuuuuun...

Space begins to distort as Kybel grabs Lupt, and a shock engulfs her whole body.

At that time, Allen is pressing Shinorom, who operates the space-time management system, while being interfered with by Guy, the final magical weapon.

Mara opened her mouth desperately while turning her hazy eyes towards Kybel.

``I'm sorry. I can still be of help to Kybel-sama... Please join us...''

Mara, who is on the verge of death after being slashed from the abdomen up and down by Merus, begs Cybel to save her.

His physical strength has already dropped to 0, jet black smoke is billowing out from his abdomen, and his body is beginning to disintegrate.

“Oh, that’s right! But, I'm sorry. This teleportation was originally a two-seater. I can't take you with me.''

“Oh, that’s it! ? I-I... Until now, for the sake of Kybel-sama...''

Mara, who realizes that everything has been used from the beginning, is engulfed in pitch black smoke and disappears, tinged with despair.

The place where Mara was was turned into charcoal, leaving nothing behind.

``Yes, yes. The look of despair on her face is irresistible and wonderful for anyone. Oh, it's time. See you soon. Oh, it was fun! ”

“Wait! ! ”

“Mels-nii-chan! ? ”

In front of Mels, who was about to stand up, Kybel teleported and disappeared while grabbing Lupt, who was screaming for help.

Then, a little later, it just cuts through the sky where Mels is heading.

“Lord Lupt! ? ”

“Lord Lupt! ? ”

“Lord Lupt! ? ”

Aura and the other three archangels who finally flew back after placing the Divine World Ship on the first floor couldn't make it in time, and they stretched out their arms and screamed, but they couldn't reach them.

(They were planning to kidnap Lupt from the beginning. Was it a trick to pretend that he was Homaru? Was it a plan to buy time, exhaust him, and collect him just before he could teleport? Damn, he let Shinorom escape just before he could!!)

Kybel probably anticipated that Lupt would come here and fixed the coordinates as the transfer destination.

(But why Lupt? If it's the first angel, Kelvin is like that, and so is Homaru. In fact, Mara thought it was Homaru and didn't even look at Lupt when he came.)

I don't understand why the first angel kidnapped Lupt even though there were three of them in the divine world.

In fact, it seems that Homaru was what the Demon King Mara and the Demon King Gandira were looking for.

Lupt only saw him as someone who was getting in the way of Homaru being held by the queen.

I don't understand why the goal he wants to achieve is the first angel Lupt, even if he sacrifices himself to 1000 high-ranking demons without telling the executives of the Demon King's army the true plan.

『...Lupt』

He tries to talk to Mels about his shared will, but he is taken away right in front of his eyes, and he gets irritated and doesn't respond.

(Would you like to check with me before I get defeated? I have to do what I can.)

I remembered another person who confirmed the reason why Allen tried to kidnap Lupt.

Using Bird A's summoned beast's special skill "Homing Instinct", he teleports from the space-time management system on the 2nd floor to below his friends on the 1st floor.

"Oh! You're back!! How was it?"

"Luke, it was no good. The space-time management system was stolen by a demon called Shinorom, and the first angel Lupt was kidnapped in the capital."

“What!?”

"I-Is that so!? Lupt-sama is joining the Demon King's army..."

“You said the space-time management system was taken away!?”

The battle has already ended on the first floor, so Allen is relieved and briefly reports and shares the current situation with his friends.

“Don’t! I need to check the space-time management system...''

Sophie and Formal are at a loss for words.

In order to check the status of the space-time management system, the space-time god Desperado teleported to the lower two floors.

"Then why did you kidnap Lord Lupt?"

Sophie checks the situation, thinking that Allen, who was sharing her vision with the summoned beasts, would know the reason.

"I don't know. I came here to confirm that. So, Bildiga, why did you kidnap Lupt? What is the Demon King's purpose?"

Demon King Bildiga's entire body's metallic exoskeleton was destroyed by the concentrated attacks of his companions, and purple blood was gushing out from everywhere.

Furthermore, his body has already begun to disintegrate, and jet black smoke is billowing from his entire body.

“Oh, I see…. Did you kidnap Lupt? With this, the world will return to its original form...''

The incarnation of Bildiga seemed to have regained its sense of self on the verge of death, as it appeared to be smiling with its expressionless beetle face.

(Don't you have any intention of answering? I don't know what kind of strategy the Insect God, who has lived for over 1 million years and was originally a high-ranking god, wants to carry out even if it means sacrificing his life. Even in this situation, I will save Bildiga. Or rather, he doesn't urge the sacred beast stone to retrieve Bildiga's soul through the magic book.)

Aura and his friends, who were shaken by Lupt being abducted by Mels, came into view and were explaining the situation to the Sky King and the others, but it seemed like they didn't have time to give advice to Allen through the logs in the magic book right now.

I previously heard through a spellbook that Demon King Bildiga was a candidate for Insect S's summoned beast.

Boom!

I took out my magic book, took out the sacred beast stone stored there, and raised it to Bildiga, which had begun to collapse.

Paaah

“Ba! ? What are you doing to me? ! ”

"Hmph, you were defeated by me. Your life is all mine. From now on, you will follow my instructions."

"I'm not kidding..."

Bildiga is at a loss for words as it begins to collapse, but before he can express all of his dissatisfaction and complaints, he seals it inside Allen's Sacred Beast Stone.

``I sealed the soul of Demon King Bildiga into the sacred beast stone. ...Due to the absence of the operator, please check the log regularly for future progress.''

『...』

A jet black soul swirls in the center of the light blue sacred beast stone.

Allen grasps the Sacred Beast Stone with both hands and feels a strong will that reminds him of Vildiga's refusal to stay silent.

(As usual, isn't there a work log for negotiating and converting souls into summoned beasts? Huh? There's some movement in the Demon King's army. Is this the Demon King's stronghold? It looks like it's inside a castle, so is it a Demon King's castle?)

Allen uses Quattro's special skill ``Tracking Eye'' against Ordo, the commander of the Demon King's army, and Demon King Bask.

This special ability allows you to track the target's actions from behind, but the effect has not yet worn off even after being transferred.

However, there don't seem to be that many people around the target he captured with his special skill, "Tracking Eye."

All I can see is Ordo, the commander in chief of the demon king's army, the high rank demon god Cybel, the first angel Lupt who was captured by him, the demon king Bask, and Shinorom.

Since the purpose is to track the target, it is not possible to see a wide range of surroundings.

However, from the edge of his field of vision, Allen was simultaneously checking on the state of the Demon King's army that he had transferred to.

(Maybe they weren't able to defeat Basque in the end. Dogora was chasing him pretty hard, but he wasn't strong enough and didn't have enough decisive moves.)

When the Great Spirit God Easley joined the battle against the Demon King's army and the battle against Dogora and Shia was on the decline, Basque decided that they were on the losing side.

It seems that as a result of desperately trying to escape, by using the wall of demons and higher-ranking demons, and sometimes hiding among corpses, they ran out of time and were able to escape.

"Gui-chan, my Guy-chan..."

At the very end, the final magical weapon Guy, who was cut into two vertically, entwined his tentacles and saved Shinorom from Allen's slashing attack, allowing Shinorom to teleport and escape.

Ordo's face was furrowed between his eyebrows when he turned his gaze from the depressed Shinorom to Kybel, and it was easy to see that he was angry.

“And there’s no Bildiga or Gandira! ! Staff officer Kybel, what's going on? ! Why don't you, the strategy planner, give us a report! ! ”

``Looks like you haven't been able to keep up with this strategy. I guess I forced myself to do it in order to capture the first angel.''

“Hey, so what happened to Mara? Why am I not with you? Wasn't it a plan to finally meet up with Mara in the royal capital? ! ”

``That... by the time I headed there, it had already been done... I was able to help you in a little while, but... But thanks to her risking her life to carry out this mission, we were able to achieve our goal.''

``Hmm, let me ask you a little more details. It is my duty to report accurately to the Demon King.''

Ordo's harsh interrogation of Cubel begins.

After speaking with the Sky King in the royal capital of Labour, Archangel Aura flies to her former boss, Merus.

"Mels-sama..."

“…What?”

``The Great King of the Sky has requested a report on the current situation. Could you please ask Allen and his friends to gather at the royal capital of Labour?''

Through Mels's frustration, Allen realizes that they need to talk about what's to come.