Falling Mage and the Power of Divergence

There are ten facilities known as the Demon King's Villa that fit within the Dacrea Empire. Its purpose is to accommodate and defend the Demon King as he emerges from his ruling district into the Dacrya Empire. The Demon Kings use the Demon King's villa because there is less confusion than using civilian accommodation poorly.

Then why are there more establishments for the number of demon kings? On the face of it, it is assumed to be a spare when the villa of the Demon King, which is normally used, becomes unusable due to some problem. That is one reason, but at the same time there was another.

It serves as a morgue for those who lost their lives within the Dacrea Empire. At the time of the loss of his life, the person is stripped of the title of Demon King and the name of Demon King is transferred to the perpetrator. Naturally, that includes the right to use the Demon King's villa.

But all of a sudden it's not pleasant to tell the Demon King to leave because he can't use his villa, so he lends his spare. That's the same as one case of this demon king Asmodeus.

The body of former demon king Asmodeus, who lost his life at the hands of Mikola-Asmodeus, the new demon king of lust, had been transferred to a spare demon king's villa. And several of his men are following along with his body.

Institutionally, it is common for subordinates to also fall under the new Demon King at the time the Demon King's name is transferred. But naturally, if you are told to serve the person who has previously served your boss immediately, there will also be those who will rebel. These people try to serve all demon kings by becoming adventurers out of the Demon King's possession.

By the way, there are just over twenty out of a hundred who continue to remain under the control of the Demon King in this case of Asmodeus. Others went away from the command of Mikola-Asmodeus, the Demon King, and became an adventurer, or a vagrant people.

But that doesn't add up. At the moment, the body of the Dream King and the number of those accompanying him are about five. Where have the other seventy gone? The answer is simple. Back to normal people.

Most of my men who served the former Demon King, the Dream King, returned to the general population to be young women who were reluctantly serving their families by being taken hostage. It was liberated by the death of the Dream King and returned to normal life. For that reason, only about five people continued to serve the Dream King.

It's just called the Demon King's Villa, and the size of the facility is pretty good. Naturally, there can't be about five people to manage, so I can hire people to help, but I didn't see anyone helping me at the facility. On the contrary, there was no sign of the men who were supposed to serve continuously.

Looking at the current situation, Rona finds it uncomfortable to ask about the Demon King's villa earlier.

"What the hell is this?"

Once Rona opened the entrance and realized there were no signs of people indoors, she went outside and put the entire facility in sight. I suspected that maybe I had come to a different villa by mistake, but it was an institution that was undoubtedly taught in advance.

Surely there is no number of people relative to the size of the facility, but is that why it is so quiet? It's also hard to imagine that the Dream King's body is resting but his men are out in general. As Rona stepped inside the villa again, suspiciously, she began her intrusion into the facility as it was.

"Ho."

The first thing that came into my eyes was a large portrait decorated on the front door. There is depicted the figure of the Dream King in his lifetime, which would be about twenty years old to observe from its appearance. Twenty years ago, around the disappearance of the Great Demon King Keith, but Lorna took her steps without worrying about that.

Only the tricks and Rona's footprints echo indoors. I can't feel anything else. It felt as if walking through an abandoned ruin with no one. Rona slowly turns with her hands on that door knob as she stands in front of the big hall door. The door slowly opens as it makes the sound of Gigi, and the indoor appearance is reflected in Rona's sight.

"Hmm, nothing particularly wrong with that."

Having looked through the room, Rona made sure there were no anomalies, and stepped into the small kitchen that was co-located as it was. It's a kitchen famous for allowing demon kings to use it only on trusted cooks. It is Dacrea's custom to be convinced that the cook gained trust from the Demon King by letting him use the kitchen.

For the most part, Rona went to the kitchen because she was told that a trusted cook would serve her boss even after he died. No matter how many shadows there are, if you're staying here, there should just be some kind of cooking trail.

There were signs of cooking in the kitchen. But what came into Rona's eyes was not a trace of cooking, but a figure of one man falling down in the cooking area.

When Rona approached the man, she slowly checked for consciousness.

"This one's already dead"

Having confirmed the breathing of the man who had fallen, Rona was convinced that the man was not already breathing. Besides, stiffness has already begun after death, and I don't even think I took my breath away just now.

"Was he dead before yesterday?"

Looking at the body, Rona feels the smell all at once. As far as the condition of the body is concerned, I don't see any traumatic trauma. Then it would be unnatural if they said it was sudden illness or death. Assuming it's a sickness or death, there's no way the rest of my men would have left the body alone.

"No way......"

Rona rushed to the other room. I looked around everything from the bathroom to the dining room and bedroom my men use, to the other rooms in the facility. And what I found were men falling to the ground with no trauma, just like the earlier bodies. All of them were dead without exception.

That would obviously be natural to assume that he was killed artificially. The line that everyone is suddenly sick and dead cannot be considered first. Then you have no choice but to be killed.

Then who the hell did that? And what if those who were the men of the Demon King were to be killed unilaterally? Even if it did, how did they get their breath out without any trauma?

There are no traces of combat in the facility. But it is true that some magic was exercised from the slightest magic felt from the body. Rona derives the presence of one magician from it.

"I didn't know you'd really show up."

Rona visited this facility only with the possibility that maybe. That is no exaggeration to say that I visited to wipe away a glimmer of anxiety that remains in my heart. But the reality is that she rolled over just as she expected.

Rona leaves the room and heads to a certain place. That's the only place I haven't checked yet. This is where the body of the Dream King, the previous demon king Asmodeus, rests.

That place behind the facility is a church-like room, with a coffin placed under the stone behind it. Naturally it is the body of the Dream King who is in the coffin.

And there was one figure in front of the coffin. The shadow is still small, would it be a child about ten years old if I tried it at my age? Rona takes a breath when she sees the shadow and decides to be ready.

You noticed Rona's footsteps called tips, and the kid turned around. That face is an unforgettable face for Rona, even if she wants to. The child says with a smile after giving him a slightly surprised look.

"Hey, I knew you were alive."

"That's not our line. Noah."

The child was once Noah that Rona had been defeated.