Chapter 61
The day after giving the Elf Maman some practical education, I spread my wings and left the Elf Royal Castle.
Gotta keep my promises. First up is taking down the Demon King.
No matter how I look at it, the Empire would have a hard time attacking the Elves alone. The Demon King's power must have been significant. I don't know much about this world's setting, but according to what the Elves told me, that's how it is.
The Empire will probably hesitate quite a bit once the Demon King is out of the picture.
The Four Heavenly Kings were trash, so the Demon King is obviously going to be below me too.
Should I go for the Demon King's neck first or start with the demons?
Hmm. Finding the Demon King would be a pain. Let's start with the demons. He'll probably come looking for me himself once he sees his soldiers dying.
"Those are clearly the ones, just looking at them."
After flying for a while, I saw what looked like a black wave rushing toward one of the Elf Fortresses.
The Elves at the fortress were firing off what seemed to be magic, but it was like throwing eggs at a rock.
Can't beat human wave tactics.
Recently, I've been doing some truly pure power-leveling.
No, while it's been described as me being extremely powerful, what I've used so far is basically just elementary magic at most.
"Those guys down there need to be swept away with force in one go."
I lowered my sword toward the black wave swarming like cockroaches below and gathered magic power at its tip.
The purple magic power gathered at the sword's tip gradually began changing to white flame, eventually becoming a small sphere.
Hmm, but there's one issue.
I need a technique name. I want to use something cooler too.
"For the technique name... Right. Destruction of White Flame Bullet."
I dropped the chuunibyou-filled Destruction of White Flame Bullet right into the middle of that black sea.
KWAAAANG!
In an instant, a mushroom cloud erupted.
Different from a nuclear bomb's mushroom cloud though.
I launched it, but I'm not sure about the principle behind it - looking closely at the cloud that rose into the sky, it was a pillar of white fire.
That pillar of fire completely melted the earth.
"Pretty easy, right?"
Muttering to myself without targeting anyone specific, I glanced at the fortress.
I wonder how the Elves will react?
"The heavens! The heavens have protected us!"
An old Elf who seemed to be the commander was spouting nonsense.
Nah, that's not it. If it wasn't for your Maman, I wouldn't have given a shit.
Well, if they were female Elf soldiers, maybe I'd be a bit turned on?
Even then, I only deal with S-Rank. I hate Elf soldiers that all look the same, like they came off an assembly line.
"Anyway, should I drop a few more in other places?"
The Elves' job is just to use Golems to fuck up the Empire that backstabbed them.
I'm talking about this lightly, but the Elves really took massive casualties this time.
Most of the Elves died when their fortresses got wiped out.
Of all things, Elves are civilians who double as soldiers, so they were bound to take heavy losses.
Even if they're lucky enough to survive, they'd probably just end up as doll-like Dark Elves corrupted by the Demon King.
"Destruction of White Flame Bullet."
KWAAANG!
"White Flame Bullet."
KWAAANG!
"WFB"
I fired them until I got sick of it. Even this much was me holding back to avoid friendly fire on the Elves. If I really went all out, I could wipe out the Empire and everything else, friendly fire be damned. But why hasn't that Demon King bastard shown up yet?
Just when I was getting bored and casually riding the wind, some skeleton bastard appeared before me.
"How dare you destroy my legion! Who the fuck are you!"
A ragged skeleton floating in the air. Some useless bastard I saw in the Library before.
He got his ass kicked and died in one hit, then mocked Rachel.
Come to think of it, that bastard knew back then. That Rachel was a record. So she couldn't leave the Library.
That's why he was such a dick. Even if I had known until then. If Rachel had just told me, I would have found a way to get her out.
"Oh, if it isn't the so-called undying Lich bonehead."
"Kuhaha. I am immortal. Now that I'm here, you cannot win! I'll kill you and turn you into an undead to offer to the Demon King!"
He died to me before but hasn't learned his lesson. No, maybe the timeline's different? Whatever, let's beat his ass quickly. I have no interest in skeletons that aren't even women.
"After using that much high-level magic, you must be out of power."
"Is your skull empty? How the fuck did you calculate that I'd be out of magic power after using that spell multiple times?"
Just from that much?
"What?"
"Ah sorry, I guess you really don't have a brain in there."
It was a mistake to expect a skeleton to have a brain.
"In life I was a renowned scholar!"
"But now you've got no brain, you fucking skeleton."
Wonder what's even in that skull. Nothing probably.
"KRAAAAGH. DIE!"
"Kay, die then."
Whoosh
Burning nicely again.
"Did I not tell you? I was a renowned scholar. I will take your body and serve the Demon King!"
Pretty ambitious for someone who already died once and is dying again to talk about serving the Demon King.
Suddenly his body evaporated and the Lich turned into some kind of blue smoky... water balloon? Some weird slime thing that came flying at me.
"Oh, is this a soul or whatever? The Lich's unique ability?"
But shouldn't you do this kind of thing without announcing it?
Not that it would work on me anyway. Can't let this dumbass have his way.
I grabbed the weird blue smoke flying through the air.
What should I do with this?
"Hmm?"
There's a dead Elf down there. Looking at the face, quite beautiful too. Got an interesting idea.
I shoved that filthy blue soul into the Elf's corpse.
"Kuhaha! Finally a young bitch's fresh body! Huh?"
He must not be so happy anymore. The bastard looked at me with his newly formed eyes then looked down at his own body.
"You crazy fucker. Well, it is a young woman's body. But how fucking rotten must your soul be for a normal Elf body to turn straight into a Dark Elf?"
But this one's different from Reina's Dark Elf.
Reina's Dark Elf state has light purple skin. But this one has copper-colored skin? Like, similar to Geum Tae-yang's skin tone.
Just moments ago it was just an Elf corpse with fair skin. No, can a corpse even come back to life from having a soul put in it?
"Y-you put me in an Elf corpse! H-how!"
I just grabbed it and shoved it in the Elf.
"I told you, right? That you've got nothing in your head. That's why you couldn't even gauge who I was and got fucked up acting tough."
Well, I can kind of understand.
From the Demon King's Army's perspective, they'd think the Demon King is the strongest in this world. If there was someone as strong as me before, they would have been known. But I'm an outsider from another world. How would they know? They just had shit luck.
"W-what are you going to do with me!"
Do with you? I'm going to teach you how to properly get in line.
"Well, simply put I'll do this and keep you around."
I put on shackles made of Demonic Power. Since I already put the soul in, it'll probably be hard to take it out again.
"Watch with your own eyes. Your precious Demon King's Army getting wrecked."
After that I showed him the army getting annihilated a few more times.
Before I knew it, 90% of the Demon King's Army advancing from the north of the Elf Kingdom was wiped out.
The Lich in the Dark Elf body's eyes were about to pop out. Seems he finally realizes who he picked a fight with.
Just the fact that he can't break shackles made of Demonic Power tells you everything.
"B-but this is too much! Most of them were just demon soldiers following orders!"
"Those soldiers killed Elves though. Ah, well honestly I wouldn't care even if you guys wiped out the Elves."
"Then why!"
"Ah, just because the Elf Queen said she'd become my woman."
Simply that reason.
"What?"
"In other words, I'm massacring you guys to get the Elf Queen. Yeah. I'm surprisingly thorough with after-sales service, so Yong-yong can do things like this too."
I roughly calculated the demon forces' advance routes and figured out their territory was in the north.
It was pretty simple to predict since they just relied on numbers to advance.
I had a map from the Elves too, and just needed to get a rough sense of the distance.
This time I decided to use a bigger White Flame Bullet. One or two shots should clean things up nicely.
"Hey, the Demon King's Domain is north of here right?"
"W-what about it?"
"Since you're a Lich, can you see the souls of the dead? You must have that kind of skill since you can enter other bodies."
"Of course! I am the Lich who handles souls, immortal and undying!"
Not really the time to be proud.
"Kek. Then watch carefully? The world's greatest villain Yong-yong will throw a super cute ball~"
"That's not a ball- No way!"
"Yeah, exactly what you think."
I threw a compressed White Flame Bullet ball far to the north.
The rapidly flying projectile seemed to land exactly on the Demon King's Domain in the northern continent.
KUOAAAAAAANG.
A white pillar of fire rose from the Demon King's Domain that occupied the northern continent. The world shook.
That pillar of fire spread across the entire Demon King's Domain, almost like divine judgment from the heavens.
Of course that's none of my business.
Die or live. I just did what I had to for Maman.
"Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions. How can you wear a human mask and-!"
Are the demons' souls wailing or something?
"Can't you see the Elves that were dying until recently? Such fucking hypocrisy. Well, the reason you're dying is simple. It's for Maman."
Besides, isn't this just one of Writer Yoo Eunha's worlds anyway?
It's just a world that appears for an event with rough settings. So I don't care if those things die or not.
This time I'm on humanity's side, but here I'm on the Elves' side. Now that I've wrecked the demons, the Empire must be in quite a tight spot.
"For one woman. You crazy bitch!"
The Lich turned so pale his copper skin looked blue, realizing I just committed this massacre just to get one body.
Must think I'm not just any crazy bitch.
Honestly I surprise myself too. No, I mean think about it. What kind of crazy bitch goes around killing people to get a woman.
"Well anyway, you'll make a perfect slave for Reina. Be grateful I'm letting you live."
"You bitch! You dare kill our Demon King's people!"
Oh, isn't that the Knight of the Abyss? These guys I saw in the Library are showing up one by one.
"Ah, those who died once should fuck off."
KWARARARA
He died instantly when I burned him. Died just as easily as in the Library.
"Hii-iieek."
The copper-skinned Elf's body trembled.
But this bitch. Liquid is flowing from between her legs.
"Hey, when you were just bones you probably never pissed yourself. Pretty funny seeing you wet yourself now? Get it now? What you need to do now is lick my feet and beg for your life."
"W-when the Demon King comes it'll all be over!"
Seems this bitch still doesn't understand the situation.
Just like Kim Seung-joon who was loyal to the Black God Church?
No. At least that guy had a time when he wasn't devoted to the Black God Church.
"Can that bastard use something like this like I can?"
I asked while pointing at the white pillar of fire still rising in the distance.
"......"
See? The fact that she can't answer means we already have our answer.
Must know the reality now. That the tide of war has completely turned. That her master can't beat the massacrer before her eyes.
Still must be hard to accept.
That's natural. Everything she believed in and was loyal to until now is crumbling in an instant.
"No right? If he could, the Elves would have disappeared long ago. Maybe even taken out their Empire allies too. Right?"
If he had that kind of power, why bother allying with the Empire?
When I openly mocked her, the copper-skinned Elf gritted her teeth.
And then. Some brat had the nerve to appear before me.
"You. You killed my precious people?"
"Who the fuck are you?"
I have a guess, but how disappointing.
Can't believe it's a pretty boy. At least expected a loli Demon King, but with that cloak he looks exactly like a chuunibyou middle schooler...
But why does this kid have the same hair color as me?
Suddenly blood rushes to my head. Ah my head is throbbing and my limbs are trembling.
Even if his face looks like that, he must be quite old inside.
"I am the Demon King. The absolute ruler of this Lotus Continent! You dare kill my people in my land! You must forfeit your life!"
Well fighting is fine. I'm pissed too that I share hair color with this chuuni.
But before that. There's something I really want to know.
"Before we fight let me ask. Why are you trying to kill the Elves?"
If I just kill him here I'll be curious.
I need to hear exactly why the Elves, Reina's ancestors, were destroyed by the Demon King.
"Revenge for the previous Demon King and following the natural order!"
"Natural order?"
"This world is mine! And you, why did you massacre my people!"
Can't believe he's asking that.
"Ah, that kind of development is getting boring too. Well fine. Since you asked I'll answer."
I started feeling sorry for this white-haired boy.
Why did Writer Yoo Eunha put in that setting?
Did she really do it just to surprise me? Since the novel became reality, that Demon King's existence is real too.
Demon Kings are usually villains.
So it's fine to kill him right? He's going to destroy the Elf Kingdom anyway.
Maybe Maman was just an excuse for the massacre.
Anyway, I'm Azhi Dahaka's reincarnation. That essence doesn't go away.
I felt myself grinning until my mouth was about to split.
"Just for fun."
"When did-!"
Before he knew it I was by the Demon King's ear, and with that simple reason to no one in particular, I grabbed and twisted his neck like wringing a chicken's neck.
CRACK!
The Demon King's head fell to the ground.
At that pathetically anticlimactic sight, the Lich completely froze.
Haven't felt this sensation in a while. The thrill of taking lives just for fun. My body trembles with excitement to the point I want to strip off my panties and make this chocolate Elf bitch service me.
"Haaa~ So good♥"
The warm blood gushing like a fountain from the Demon King's neck falls on my upturned face and flows down my body to the ground.
"C-crazy bitch. T-the Demon King- Kugh!?"
"You kneel, bitch."
The Demon King is the Demon King, and this Lich Elf needs to be thoroughly trained in service before I give her to Reina as a slave.
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