Imitation (3)

To fail the mission and bear disgrace?

To have his life end here?

For dozens of subordinates to be wiped out on this floor?

For the Eastern Empire to lose the multi-front war and be destroyed?

All those concerns were trivial compared with the fear the knight commander had just imagined.

‘The extinction of humanity.’

The alarm ringing in the knight commander's head meant exactly that.

If the seed of the only being capable of opposing the Demon King had been captured by the Demon King, then no means of restraining the Demon King would remain.

“…”

The knight commander recalled the chain of thoughts that had just torn through his mind and found it absurd that he had thought them at all...