235. Daemon Road

A long time ago, Daemon Road was born after unifying a hell of constant conflict.

Demonrod, who achieved his goal by conquering hell, decided to take the beautiful earthly world as his next goal. The daemons are greatly weakened as soon as they go to the ground, but Demonrod, who took the throne with great power, didn't care. The daemon rod United the daemons with his unique charisma and power, and he used his power to make them exert the same power on earth. Sudden attacks in hell, strangely powerful daemons, peaceful humanity is on the verge of destruction. Mankind in the face of a crisis has been investigated over and over again, and we've been able to figure out the cause, and we thought that if we knock down the daemons, we can weaken them and divide them, so we can reverse the situation. So we gathered the strongest in the world, and we created an expedition to take down the Demon Road, and we sent it to hell. And after a while, we lost contact with the expedition completely, but the expedition was successful, and the invasion of the daemons stopped.

The wise man assumed that the daemon road would have been born again based on his previous victory, and said that if he sent an expedition to defeat the daemon road as before, the daemons would no longer come in. In the sage's story, the earthly union decided to gather the strongest in the world to create an expedition with the feeling of catching straws, and you, the strongest in the empire, were chosen for the expedition. When all the expedition members were gathered, the expedition went down to hell through a rift. A world with multiple suns and no night, the expedition members have arrived in hell, where the daemons live.

At the entrance to hell, the expedition members felt strange. According to tradition, the birth of the daemon road should not have made much difference in the power of the daemons on earth and those in hell, but the daemons faced by the expedition members were all much stronger than those on earth. It was an expedition made up of the elite of mankind, so it was able to continue to win, but the deeper it went, the more powerful the daemons became, and the worse the environment became. The ground was hotter than that of the kingdom, where the ground was all made of sand, and the temperature was much hotter than noon in midsummer. The exhaustion began to lead to a fallout, the pace of the advance slowed down, and the number of expedition members decreased as the fallout and the corresponding troops were sent back to the ground. You and the expedition are starting to get tired.

The expedition crossed many lines and eventually reached the deepest part of hell. And what unfolded in front of the expedition was, as its name suggests, a scene like hell. From time to time, flames spouted from the ground, lava flowed instead of the river or where the water was supposed to be, and the air felt an unparalleled heat. Like the lava giant, Wyverns, legendary monsters that we only saw in books went around and attacked the expedition. There were a lot of deaths on the expedition, and the scale continued to decrease. I wondered if I could take down the Daemon Road in this state, but I couldn't give up because they were the last hope of mankind. I no longer cared about the fallen crew, and I just took a step forward.

The expedition eventually found the Demon Road and started the battle with the determination to burn the last life. However, Daemonrod scattered the camp of the expedition with the magic of fire handling and teleportation, and sometimes teleported the crew in front of his eyes, easily collapsing. They were the expedition members who went through all the hardships, but when they collapsed so easily by Demon Road, you and your crew felt extreme despair, helplessness, and fear. Due to the overwhelming force of the Demon Road, some of the expedition members gave up the fight and the battle became even harder. As time went by, you were left alone.

You vaguely realized that there was no hope, but you continued the battle by hypnotizing yourself that you could win. There was a fairly long battle and you felt a sense of incompatibility. I couldn't understand that Demon Lord, who easily defeated so many expedition members, continued to fight against one of them for such a long time, and in fact, Demon Lord only avoided the attack and did not actively attack. When Daemon Road, who was avoiding attacks through easy teleportation, was attacked by himself for the first time, the sense of incompatibility turned into conviction. You stopped the attack and tried to talk.

"Why don't you fight properly?"

Daemon Lord said.

"A long time ago, a sudden flood of daemons from hell destroyed the earth and brought humans to the brink of destruction."

You were puzzled by the answer that had nothing to do with the question, but we decided to listen to Daemon Road until the end.

"In times of crisis, we thought we could reverse the situation by defeating the king of the daemons."

"We gathered the strongest people in the world and went to hell, and after a fierce battle, we were able to defeat the Demon Lord."

You said.

"This is what we already know through transmission." Why are you talking like you were an expedition member?

Daemon Lord said.

"Of course. I am the captain of the Party Congress expedition.

You felt dizzy with the story of Daemon Road.

"What nonsense.. "

"If it's okay, I want to say it to the end. How about listening first?"

You put up with the question of what Daemon Road said and decided to listen to it for now.

"I realized a truth when I knocked down the Demon Road of the national team in the final showdown."

"The power of the Daemon Road is not to give the Daemons more power and prevent them from weakening on the ground." On the contrary, it is the opposite.

Daemon Road said, inserting a huge double-edged axe to the floor.

"If you hold this axe and become a Daemon Lord, you will gain some power." The first of these is, as I have shown, dealing with fire like hands and feet, being able to handle space and gaining eternal life.

But the power that really matters is the second. When the daemon road is born, all daemons are suppressed by their endless slaughter instincts and strengthened in reason.

"And the daemons can keep them under their feet."

"But in the process, the daemons are forced to lose their power because even their attacking instincts, which ignore their maximum strength, are suppressed."

"In other words, without a daemon road, the daemons are stronger." Whether here or on the ground.

You felt confused listening to Daemon Road. He could not tell what was true because it was so different from what he knew. However, your question is still not solved, so I asked you again.

"What does it have to do with you fighting for me?"

Daemon Road replied.

"It doesn't matter, because I'm going to give you the place of Daemon Road."

"If you want to mock me, you should be careful." "

"No. I mean it. I'm tired now. It is the last pride of the expedition leader of the national convention to bring you here. Even if I hadn't ordered the invasion, the aftermath of the daemons that lost their monarchs would eventually extend to the ground.

"So it was necessary to identify the strongest to succeed the Daemon Road."

"But now that all the screening is over, I don't care if you take over." Just remember that if you don't accept it, the human race will perish.

As Daemonrod finished speaking, he smashed a token that appeared to symbolize that he was the master of the weapon, and it became ashes and scattered. At the same time, the presence of monsters and daemons that remained in the past began to grow, and energy alone began to pressure them.

In an urgent situation, you couldn't determine whether the words of Daemon Lord were true or not. However, to live, I got my hands on a huge, flaming double-edged axe left by Daemon Road. And you realized. The words of the dead daemon road are true, and at this moment, he has become a new daemon road. And I felt a sense of being placed under the feet of all the daemons, and I felt a tremendous sense of uplift that I could do everything if I wanted to. And I was able to know the truth about the transfer, which was a question that was not solved until the end.

Some of the top daemons were strongly opposed to the Demon Lord, who controlled their power by force and did not invade the earth. However, because of their power, they could not kill the Daemon Road with their own hands. So the way they chose to do it was to process the daemon road with the hands of other tribes. And one of the plans was about transmission. It was to spread the story all over the ground that if only the daemon rod died, everything would be solved.

How long can you sacrifice in a place where you have eternal life, but your feelings for yourself are nothing but life?