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Five Stories: "Tragic Day (After)"

Emperor Carius VI wanted to send out a Kingsguard outside to join him if the castle was safer, but the Kingsguard Knights face didn't try to snort.

"I'm afraid if the devil were to aim, it would be His Majesty's life"

This was the best thing to do.

The Royal Family was also targeted in the Serraeno raid, so it is unlikely that they will come after the Empire in this raid.

"But the people..."

The Emperor's tooth cleavage is not impossible.

Even though the people said they could still be exposed to monster threats, it felt similar to hindsight that they were standing in a safe place.

"The country is difficult to maintain without Your Majesty. What happens to a people other than the people of the city, just in case something happens to you?"

It was weak when they said it.

No matter how many Crown Princes you say there are, there will be less confusion if the Emperor dies now.

In order to avoid it, we must, to some extent, let it die for the whole people of the Empire.

It wouldn't have accumulated if I tried it on the side of being seen dead.

When the room was about to be wrapped in heavy painful air, the door, which should have been tightly closed, made a loud noise and smashed.

"What is it!?"

The Kingsguard knights scream like that but quickly draw their swords, sheltering the Empires behind their backs.

It is highly unlikely that those who come in without knocking and destroying the door will be on their side.

Such a hunch hit me.

They came in with a bunch of zombies, skeletons, and worn cloths.

"Become, Tom."

It was Ares who accidentally screamed.

Tom, who participated with him in the earlier Demon Show Festival, stood in front of Ares as he turned out to be.

"Oh, you zombie a wizard like that?

Not impossible, of course, but the wizard's resistance is extraordinarily high, and a hundred forces cannot even zombiize a corpse.

Other zombies, if you look closely, were the Kingsguard knights who headed for the monster interception.

"Is that you..."

The anger and sadness of turning his subordinates into undead friends were so amazing that they were also amazed.

If he could take his life with his gaze, the wizard-wind man could have died a thousand times.

Gastark laughed at the Bergandas.

"Until I was rewarded for shielding me. Ask Emperor Berganda"

Use blatantly disrespectful words to emperors of one country.

"Is there no seal for Master Aulanis? Answer me."

The question gives rise to blurring.

The name of the mightiest demon king, Aulanis, is well known to everyone.

Therefore, the emperor's reply had also been decided.

"Know what? I didn't tell you what I knew."

Gastark didn't even get angry, he made a laugh.

It was a cold laugh, uncomfortable for all the Bergandas I heard.

"It's pathetic and funny. You think a dwarf can live longer by shielding himself against a demon?

I don't hesitate to answer that question either.

"Ooh, I thought so. That's why people's business has been going on!

This was a declaration of war on the devil and at the same time an encouragement to those around him.

Those who were angry with Gastark but were still under barometric pressure regained me with the emperor's temper and began to twitch and besiege Gastark.

"Huh. [Exhalatio]"

A blue and white flame rises and encompasses those who were building a siege net.

I couldn't even raise my voice of pain, and the Kingsguards fell.

The emperor stared at it with dismay.

I know the power of demons is mighty, but I never heard of using human magic.

Besides using Necromancy, I'm not talking about surprise.

"Hey, who... who are you?

I could say it was a miracle that my voice didn't go up.

The emperor was so upset by then.

It was as strong as Marius Touban I saw at the Demon Show Festival.

It's just that this man is not Marius.

Marius was not such a cold and disastrous sign, nor was he such a voice.

If Marius wants to know the seal of Aulanis in the first place, he can't even follow the monster and attack him.

All you have to do is ask the Emperor.

Even if the Emperor had asked Marius, he would have answered the truth.

"It is I who am asking. Is there no seal on Master Aulanis?

The emperor's psychological state was not the only one who felt the pressure of the difference in digits from when the words were surrounded by escorts.

Gastark is starting to show one scale of his original power, little by little, to compress his mind.

"And I don't. I wouldn't tell you if I knew."

There was just the emperor, and he didn't give in to psychological pressure.

Gastark pitied such a man.

"Then I'll turn him into a corpse and ask him."

"Hey, what is it?"

I was surprised for a moment by what Gastark said, but if you can manipulate the body, it may not be impossible to get the information the body has.

"That's pathetic. Your resistance was in vain."

"Knock."

Gastark gave his own name to the emperor, who looked remorseful.

"My name is Gastark. He who makes me Rubens and ends the world of men."

The emperor was severely shocked.

Not so much so far as witnessing the moon and the sun rising from the west.

"Ga, Gastark...... you think it's Gastark? I didn't think you were."

Gastark did not let the emperor, trembling with amazement and fear, say to the end.

He released the "laser" and pierced the breasts of the emperor, empress and crown prince.

Four people fall like a puppet with a broken thread.

Imperial Castle fell less than two hours after it was raided.

As a gastark, I'm not going to disobey Rubens' dictates.

If a mighty enemy had appeared, he would have left honestly and called Alberto.

But what I actually encountered was just a bunch of mutton fish that didn't pose any threat.

If you mean it, you can burn down a thousand soldiers. I was sure he had few enemies that felt dangerous.

Gastark turns off his grin and uses magic.

"[Necromancy]"

The Empires are reborn into zombies without putting aside time.

We ask the Emperor.

"What's Master Aulanis's seal?

"... Mount Larmibal... at the foot... suspicious... place... there is"

Gastark giggled damned at the gruesome response.

"Where is Mount Larmibal?

When I heard the answer, I used "telepathy" for Franklin, who was supposed to be waiting outside of Imperial Capital.

"Yes, at the foot of Mount Larmibal... the place..."

After finishing the call, Gastark takes the ruling undead outside the castle.

Outside, Alberto and Labella, who destroyed the Imperial Capital, plus Franklin and Pal, were supposed to be waiting.

At this time, if the demons had made a miscalculation, it would have been a while before the rest of the world noticed the anomaly in the Empire City.

Their senses have slaughtered all the messengers and intermediates who inform them of the anomaly, so they should not be easy to convey.

Now man was cautious or wise compared to the devil.

We were in regular contact with each other, and it was the discontinuity that led to the adoption of the system as a testament to the occurrence of anomalies.

In other words, because the Pals killed even those who were in regular contact, those responsible everywhere had already detected the anomaly in the Imperial Capital.

The biggest problem for the demons is that it can be said not only within Berganda, but also to foreign countries.

This was not part of Rubens' calculation.

Not knowing that, the demons achieved their primary goal and joined with the exasperation.

"No... it took me hours to say I enjoyed it"

It is Labella who has blurred.

He didn't care how long it took him to attack the Imperial Capital and kill all humans.

Only women would have been kept alive, but the Knights had wiped out all the monsters, so I had to kill them.

It was their custom that females who practice reproduction should be brought back and managed by males, and females who had no one to manage were often killed.

'Cause there's plenty of human females out there.

That is the recognition of goblins and oaks.

The Knights were wiped out by the Labellas without power, but they saved the women from the tragedy of giving birth to alien children until they broke.

Alberto blames Labella for her blur.

"Then work without having fun. If you leave me alone, I'll kill you."

"Su, excuse me"

Labella flatly apologizes to Alberto, who seems unpleasant.

Unlike Rubens and Franklin, Alberto is a noisy opponent who doesn't even feel anything for killing junior demons.

It was life-threatening for a junior demon to disrupt Alberto's mood in the absence of Rubens.

"Forgive him, Alberto. Because we have achieved our purpose within tolerance."

It was Franklin who took it for granted.

He is a moderate demon who uses salutations against anyone, but a senior demon of the same quality as Alberto.

I couldn't have made it so unobstructed as to say Alberto.

"Shit, it's Gastark, what are we gonna do in the future?

My gaze concentrates on Gastark, who was supposed to have heard the destination.

"They say it's Mount Larmibal. We can go as far as we can in a matter of minutes."

"You're surprisingly close."

Pal showed a small surprise and snapped.

Well, by our standards.

Gastark laughed frankly.

He still has a job to do.

"Then I'll do the job that Master Rubens told me to do."

"Ooh."

The demons knew what was going to happen, but watched Gastark's place with a sense of seeing the art of street performers.

Gastark begins chanting when he magically floats in the universe.

"Lost soul, be my servant [Necromancy]"

Gastark's words echo, and when magic passes, changes come around.

The dead knights, monsters, and the people of the city transform into zombies.

And I started to get up cursorily.

I used it in the surrounding area, so the time difference just started to work.

That's how Rubens ordered Gastark to create an undead soldier.

If you undead all the humans and monsters that are now dead, it will be hundreds of thousands of troops.

Add the original undead and it's nearly a million.

It was Gastark who could control so many undead by himself, as an army, and yet maintain his fighting power as a demon.

Zofi didn't know everything.

If I had known, I would have told Marius that Gastark was a threat.

The demons split up second-hand.

To those who attack all over Berganda and those who look for Aulanis.

Alberto and Labella were the former, Franklin, Pal and Gastark were the latter.

Gastark initially intended to participate in the attack, but was reluctantly given up when Franklin and Alberto opposed him.

As long as Aulanis is revived, the bulk of the concerns will be resolved once and for all.

Gastark told himself he was patient until then.

"Hmm, it's odd here for sure..."

It is the first voice of Franklin on Mount Larmibal.

Franklin, who is also the strongest and most sensory, soon realized the discomfort.

It is common to the demon king's seal that the ecosystem is abnormal, and the signs of the demon king are weak.

"If you're like Aulanis, isn't it more intense or strange?

Pal twists his neck too.

Gastark joins in, and the three of us start exploring.

The monster, who sensed signs of the three releasing, fled frightened or began to pretend to be dead.

Most monsters who don't put themselves in control with their skills are this reaction.

Is the exception like a dragon?

Either way, the three of them don't think it's worth worrying about, but they keep exploring.

"Hmm?

And Pal's loud voice sounded.

The two people I've heard come together.

"What, what's up?

Pal pointed in a cold sweat, and looked at Franklin as if to wander.

"F, Dear Franklin... Could this be..."

"Yeah, I'm sure of it."

Both Franklin and Gastark's expression gets harsher on unimaginable developments.

Even though the demon instinct tells us that the place in front of us is the seal, there is no sign of Aulanis.

The three of them understood with their heads what it meant, but were unable to digest emotionally.

... Aulanis had already been resurrected.