Graduated from Witchcraft Institute

On the third floor of the castle, we were led to Eileen's private room, where we sat on a horizontal guest couch at the behest of the Lord.

Eileen sat in my opposite seat as the old gentleman, the butler, dined tea and tea treats at the current short table.

And where the butler had graciously left the room, the beautiful male princess had only slightly embarked herself and cut out the story.

"Uh, to conclude. Will, I want you to come with me to Fire Dragon Mountain."

Put your elbows on the table, put your assembled hands in front of you, and Eileen has said so with a straight eye.

─ ─ But there's no difference in being pushed with such an atmosphere that the story is too abrupt to tell.

"... wait, Eileen. Talk to me in order."

When I put in that kind of scratch, the girl starts panicking that she was on her way.

"Oh, that...? Was I saving too much time after all?

"That would be so. If you think they're gonna talk about the Demon King, it's suddenly Fire Dragon Mountain. There's too little context."

Fire Dragon Mountain is a steep mountain in places such as this King's Capital into the undeveloped lands of the south and finally getting there after about three days of walking.

As the name suggests, a fire dragon (Red Dragon) is said to inhabit the top of that mountain, and it should be a place where even adventurers don't normally even try to get close.

"Ah, uh, well... So where do I start talking..."

"Tell me in order from the beginning. He said the Demon King had emerged, but where was the place of discovery and what was the status of the discovery? Let's start with that."

"Ugh, yeah, okay.... Eh, this is what people told me too..."

That being said, Eileen began to talk about the beginning of this case.

Hi, I think the first person to discover the anomaly was a certain adventurer party.

The adventurers stopped in one village on their journey.

No, at that stage already, I wonder if I should say "where it was a village".

What the adventurers saw was that it was an unfortunate sight.

At that time, in time to plug it in at night.

There was not a single living person in the place.

It's just that there are bodies of tragically murdered villagers lying everywhere.

In the middle of the bodies of those villagers, three standing figures were seen.

Even though it was a shadow, it was somewhat bigger than a normal human being, with sharp nails, fangs and horns.

I mean, the three shadows, they were all demons.

But none of that meant "demon king".

I don't know if it's appropriate to say normal, but it seemed like a normal demon tribe anyway.

However, I think Will knows that the Demon Clan is quite strong even in the lowest order.

If it's all the same, if it's all three of them, they can't beat the crap out of an adventurer party there.

So the adventurers who saw the sight fled the scene in a hurry.

Fortunately not noticed by the demons, they succeeded in escaping.

And that adventurer party reported it to the Adventurer Guild.

The information came back to us - the Knights of the King's Capital - as a serious incident.

Naturally, we can't leave the demons who destroyed the village of the territory alone.

The Knights organized a crusade to send them to the village.

... the crusaders were supposed to be too powerful.

With senior knight Bertram as commander, courtroom magician Elvis and Samurai Festival Thelma took on an auxiliary role, plus three other Orthodox knights and ten quasi-knights.

A handful of elite crusading units that don't take no more than soldiers, and can certainly handle even with some irregularities - it was supposed to be the troops sent with that kind of prospectus.

In fact, the crusaders who arrived on the ground defeated the three demons they discovered there without difficulty.

That was good.

But just in case, when they were going around looking further into the village - I met him.

He appeared to be alone from the building that was the lord's hall in that village.

The figure resembles that of a lower demon tribe, but the physique is rather small and ordinary human.

The corners, the fangs and the sharp nails where they grow are the same as normal demons.

But he was wearing ice armor.

What's more, a storm of extreme cold, like a snowstorm, was blowing all around him.

The Crusaders recognized him as an exorcism.

The court magician Elvis immediately chanted a fireball (fireball) spell while the distance was still away, releasing it.

But the fireball never hit him directly.

When the fireball was imminent, he offered his left hand forward.

The ring that he had fitted in his left finger glowed, and that's all the court magician Elvis' fireball was erased.

From there, the slaughter play began.

As its demon clan approaches at a fearful rate, it scratches with incredible agility between the hastily stood knights and quickly kills court mage Elvis.

Furthermore, Bertram and the other knights, the advanced knights who challenged the battle, were easily swayed and killed as if they were twisting the hands of a baby.

The battle was like a master of martial arts who honed his craft to the ultimate.

The knights, whose morale had collapsed to such strength, fled with us.

Some of them managed to escape, and one of them turned around to escape.

And I saw the sight.

From the former Lords' Hall, more than ten bodies loosely appeared, a number of demonic tribes extending to twenty or more.

They will flock to the knights who were killed before us and "eat" their bodies.

... Well, aside from that bad story of chest feces, what matters is the strength and characteristics of that demon clan, plus the number.

cases of jumped out individuals.

Because of the strength of his ability to slaughter knights, including senior knight Bertram, he was certified as a presumed Monster Rank S or above, or "Demon King".

The tentative name at the Knights' Conference or something is "The Ice Demon King".

Then, the power that extinguished the fireball (fireball) of court magician Elvis.

It is probably not the power of the Ice Demon King himself, but the power of a demonic prop (magic item) called the "Demon Ring".

I don't know where you got it, but as long as it's there, all direct magic won't work.

To sum up, that demon king has magically sealed demonic props (magic items) and even twenty of his subordinate demon clans to such an awesome physical combat ability as to seem invincible.

Still, guys, hold your heads.

How am I supposed to take him down?

The fact that you turned a hundred knights, you challenged a thousand, including soldiers, may just end up being unilaterally slaughtered.

That's when your father, who was at the Knights' meeting, said:

"Okay, then I'll go as far as Fire Dragon Mountain. Let's get that dragon over there to help. It's just hard for him, so if I die, just put the cauldron up properly."

Ice Demon King must be an ice attribute, so if magic doesn't work, dragon (dragon) flames. Even that seems to be the idea.

... No, it's full of scratches, isn't it?

While I was my father, I thought he was an asshole.

I mean, even my daughter and I didn't know that your father, Andrew the King of Wu, knew the Dragon of Fire Dragon Mountain.

Whatever.

Everyone in the Knights vehemently disagrees.

You're already a king, you need to be aware.

Naturally, right?

Then the next thing you know, your father said:

"Then let my daughter go".

I really thought he was an asshole.

I wonder what you think it is about me.

No, I don't like that either, that's fine.

So, naturally, everyone in the Knights disagrees with this, too, but that's what your father said. I screwed up.

We keep the lives of our people, so you can hit whatever hand you want, or you won't be convinced that even if you make a use of it, you won't send a daughter who inherited my blood.

So, anyway, that's what I went through.

Of course, it seems to strike a lot of other hands, but among them, attaching dragon (dragon) cooperation is a trump card (joker) treatment.

But you can't let me go all the way to Fire Dragon Mountain by myself, and you can't just break a certain amount of fighting power into it.

"─ So there was a white feather arrow standing on Will and the others. He said he had enough strength and, above all, he could be trusted.... I wonder, will you take it on?

"... I see. More or less, I get the point."

I asked for the reward, and I talked to all three of them, Satsuki, Mi and Cyril, and as a result I decided to take this request.

The reward was too much, and I could easily imagine that it would be a lot of trouble if we didn't take it on, and I came all the way here to get the request - well, thank God, I didn't see any reason to say no.

If you insist, it's expected to be quite dangerous, but...

If Eileen is going, she doesn't like it when she loses her life without my knowledge, so I can say that it's a stone and two birds in a way to escort her as she sees it.

I sometimes wonder what her presence was to me, but in any case, I thought it would be okay for me to get on with it.

Then we got to the floor at the inn.

And the next morning, when Eileen and the Adventurer Alliance met, we quickly set out for Fire Dragon Mountain.