Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Lesson 723: The Lion and the Demon King (IV)

The man's golden hair standing in front of him was like a lion's hyena.

The figure of a king wearing armor imitating a silver lion (Rayon) was very similar to the portrait of the Ciuss Cloud I saw as a child. I'm glad to say two melons in the Cius Cloud on my young day. Because I am a parent and child, it is natural to resemble each other. However, it would be rare to inherit not only appearance, but also the strength of the will to lose to drifting elegance and anything.

Leongando Ray-Gandia.

He is the only son of Siuscloud Ray-Gandhia and a raw heir to the First Throne. Having just been born, he was praised as an angelic baby and had a promising view of the future. In the presence of Yingjie's exalted Leongand and his seemingly lucrative heir to the throne, one saw Gandhia's future. Gandia must be stable and flourish as the centre of the tri-national alliance. Even if the ambitions of the Ciuss Cloud are inconclusive, it must prevent aggression from the north. Gandhia spins history, as always. Everyone thought so.

Even in the favela on the corner of Wang capital Gandhion, expectations of Siuscloud and Leongando were high. If the Ciuss Cloud brings glory to Gandhia, the people of the Glades may also be able to get out of this irremediable routine. If the country moisturizes, will it reach out to the lower people as well? The expectations of the poor grew daily. That is also because the measures led by Queen Gracia Rae-Gandia have made a significant difference in the reality of the slums.

Gracia appealed for the relief of the poor and made it somewhat real.

She is from the Ansleus family, the best aristocrat in Gandia, but if you follow that blood, you will reach Manafrea, a talented woman from the Glades. Manafrea said he was seen by the Anthreus family owner many generations ago and welcomed as his rightful wife. It was only natural, in a way, for Gracia to heat up the relief of the poor.

Sius Cloud, King of Yingjie, Gracia the Queen, and Leongand the Prince. The Glades did not doubt that it was the transformation that the Royal Gandia would bring that would have a way of salvation.

Ellen was one of them. Arya, Ur, and the Lerga brothers, too, or maybe they were. The Royal Faith in the Glades had been begun by Manafrea's entrance into the House of Anthrius and had begun to turn into a madness by Gracia's measures.

Ellen was raised into an ardent royal believer by her father, who tends to lay low in sickness, and by her mother, who is out working in her father's stead. I grew up looking at a portrait of the Cius Cloud decorated on the walls of my house. The portrait was acquired by my mother because she wanted large pieces, but because of the thinness of the colour in her memory, she must have sold cheap items at a high price.

Still, the house of Ellen, who got the idol, became the meeting place for the avid believers. Every day, it was a royal story. Yesterday it was all about what Prince Leongand had eaten and what kind of meals he was having. Of course, there are many topics of Sius Cloud and Gracia. But the people of the Glades only expected Leongand, their successor, more than Siuscloud.

Cius Cloud has the wind of an ancient and present hero. It will be one like him who makes it important. But he can save us. It is to his successor that we should expect. After His Majesty has taken care of it, the Prince will do the maintenance. So everything goes well...

The poor exchanged arguments day and night, unable to speak for themselves.

I thought Ellen was like that, too, and I believed in Sius Cloud enthusiastically and put my expectations in Leongand. I believe it is only when Leongand has grown up that the daily routine in the Glades will come to an end.

But those hopeful days close to darkness with Siuscloud getting the disease. When Cius Cloud lay down on the hospital bed, Gracia stopped coming out of the royal palace. And it became rumored that Leongand was a fool. We cannot leave the country to Leongand. It was not long after that that those voices became heard from inside and outside the royal palace.

Eventually, dark clouds began to burst into all of Gandia.

The people of the Glades prayed that the Cius Cloud would resume. If the Sius Cloud overcomes the disease and rises, the dark clouds covering Gandia will, by the way, be blown away. In that case, Gracia will begin to show herself, and the royal palace will regain its sun.

Everyone believed that.

But reality didn't work out so well.

The disease, which erodes the body of the cius-cloud, is getting worse every day, and he says he sees no possibility of improvement. It was sometimes rumored that it was not a disease, it was a curse or sorcery, and there was no material to deny it. The cause of the illness had not even been identified.

The people of Gandia, who had hope for the existence of the Ciuss Cloud, had no choice but to despair. The rumor that Leongando, who should succeed, was a "noose”, deepened the despair of the people. Few things separated Gandhia.

That's why there's nothing people in the Glades can do about it. If you mean you can leave Gandion and move to another country, you will be doing so from the beginning.

And the time has come for fate.

Ellen was taken with several children. I guess Aryans were among them, but I never looked at them until they were thrown into an institution with them who were born and raised in a separate compartment of slums.

All that was pushed into a jail-like confined space were children gathered from slums all over Gandion.

'I ask you to cooperate in the experiment for Your Majesty. If you succeed in the experiment, you will be able to get out of that painful situation. It's not all bad.'

I haven't forgotten every word the researchers have uttered.

And he was right.

The situation has changed. After hell, everything changed.

It was five years ago that a foreign law research facility was raided by the Leongands. At that time, the six survivors were Ellen, Arlia, Iris, Ur, Heath and Keith, all rescued and protected by the Leongands. I didn't even remember being touched that I had been able to be treated like a human being for the first time in years, probably because my heart was dead. All six of them were fruitful like unspeakable dolls.

It wasn't until more than a month had passed that I could get myself back. If I regained my self, it was my anger at the Gandhian royal family that sprang up and the sentiment that I was betrayed. The fervent love for the royal family turned into fierce hatred. Vengeance sprouted. But I can't stop feeling just revenge.

Ellen spoke with her surviving companions. But the four of them, Arya, Ur, Heath and Keith, did not get on Ellen's proposal. He said he would stay in Gandhia. The Lerga brothers said that they would work for Leongand and Nahles-Ragnahorn, and that Arya and Ur would also serve Leongand. Iris was furious and tried to fly now, but Ellen suppressed and got nothing.

Hell, Ellen wasn't convinced. I bid farewell to the four of them, and went through the royal palace with Illis.

After we left the royal palace, it was the ghetto that headed first. But there was no one in the house where I was born and raised, and the story showed that both my father and mother were dead. Regardless of my father, who was sick and weak, I must have let him die even to my mother because I didn't have the self to support him. Years of captivity in the Wangdu basement took everything.

Ellen resented the royal family more and more.

resentment, hatred, anger, jealousy...... various emotions may have mixed in to form another personality in Ellen. That would have appeared after he reached Kruselk, deceiving the name Demon King.

After breaking up with Illis for New Heaven and Earth, Ellen awoke to alienation. No, I was awake for a while, but maybe I just didn't notice. His alien powers never came to the fore because of the foreign law agency that didn't try experiments with the Imperial Demon.

Having placed the Imperial Devil under his control, with his overwhelming military might, he approached the capital of Kruselk, Krusel. By threats against the backdrop of the power of the Imperial Demon, he pressed for the Zen concession of kingdom, the Crown of Kruselk approved it, and Ellen, named Yubel Ray-Kruselk, became king of Kruselk.

I won't let the people go down.

He reached out to the lower people of salvation and listened equally to the upper people. I swore to my heart that I would never do anything but make sacrifices to the people.

I decided not to be a siuss cloud.

(Yeah, I'm not gonna be like that guy... I'm not gonna be)

But how about reality?

Doesn't it make you as irrational as Sius Cloud?

Yubel thinks, staring at Leongand take off his helmet. Isn't it just irrational that I was there? Much of hatred, isn't it clouding your eyes?

If I die, isn't it its ultimate, such as the killing of an innocent people by the rampage of the Imperial Devil? Isn't it only good with the madness of tyrants?

"If I die, the Royal Gandia, who inherits the blood of the Siuscloud, will cease. So why don't you finish everything?"

Leongand, kneeling on the spot, drowned his head. His subordinate, who is on the spot, was drained of his temper by the motion as if to ask God for forgiveness.

Yubel is also deeply surprised.

"Please."

Leongando's long hair touches the floor. The golden hair glittered in the light of a demonic crystal lamp suspended from the ceiling.

"Are you mistaken about something? I'm the Demon King. After I kill you, I might renege on my promise. You can use 200,000 Imperial Demons to kill Allied forces and then destroy Gandhia."

Fine, I felt void because I was beginning to know that I couldn't do that anymore.

"... If you were the Demon King, you would be. But you are not the Demon King"

Leongand stayed flat-headed and raised his face. There was no humility in that expression. Rather, Yubel was more overwhelmed. I was pressured.

Yubel looked next door. Luska's bluff was anxiety itself. You must be noticing the swings in Yubel's mind. That's what she had. Is it ironic that she, the Imperial Demon, is the one who understands Yubel more than anyone else?

That's why he told me.

"I'm the Demon King. We can no longer go back to being human."

"But I can save the people if I become you. That's what the Cius Cloud couldn't do."

To the transparency of Leongand's eyes, Yubel lay down her eyes and then rose. Turn your back on him.

"... pull the army."

"We want you to pull the army and stop serving the Imperial Devil. The Imperial Devil is the enemy of mankind. No matter how strong the reign of the Demon King may be, as long as there is an Imperial Demon in the land, no true peace will be brought to one's heart."

(I know that)

As long as there are Imperial Demons, there will be no peace in people's hearts. Naturally. It's the truth. That is why he intended to dissolve the Demon King's Army as soon as this battle was over. We were going to restore the Imperial Demons to their original realm. We only needed to keep under control what got us armed summonses, but that's something we can't help.

I did not intend to reign as Demon King forever. It's just a story from the beginning to the end of revenge. If only Gandia could be destroyed, that's all I'm glad for. I didn't need anything else. Neither the throne nor the kingdom of Kruselk was a decoration for revenge, nor a worthy thing in him.

No, reigning as a wise man may have been, as he put it, some sort of revenge on the Sius Cloud.

"That's right. I want you to work with the Allied Coalition countries, if you like."

"Cooperation?"

"We want you to remove the Imperial Demon from the territory of the countries participating in the Alliance. No, somewhere..."

"What are you talking about falling asleep? There's no reason for me to follow you."

Yubel flaunted her shoulders at what was too convenient.

"Llusca. Let's go."

"Yes."

"Wait, Uberle."

Leongando called out to me a lot, hoping I wouldn't be able to solve it.

"What?

"Aren't you going to kill me?

"There's no reason to follow you."

When Yubel told him so, he went down the steps of the throne. I look sideways at Lyuska's anxiety face and exhale small. It is harder to reassure her heart than to reassure her people.

"Yubel! Why... why?

Yubel had no choice but to sigh at the sharpness of Leongand's screams. Then, give it back aloud.

"Live well, lion king. And don't ever give birth to a monster like me again."

Yubel's voice echoed into the hall on the heavenly first floor.