Chapter 170 (1/2)

Volume 2

The Simple Job of Only Perishing to the Hero Volume 5 Chapter 21

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The mysterious castle was appearing in various places of the Dark Continent.

Following the Lulugal Forest occupied fort attack, numerous reports like that were brought to the Demon King Castle.

All of them had the point that it immediately vanished after its appearance, and it closely resembled the situation of the time of the Lulugal occupied fort attack.

Due to that, the Four Cardinal Generals returned to their respective headquarters and imposed emergency orders.

One of the Eastern Army’s occupied bases was annihilated. For Vermudol, this was extremely regretful.

Certainly, he had placed importance on the west and the Western Army as anti-Hero military bases. But, there was no changing the fact that the Eastern Army was a part of the Demon King Army.

Their organization should have been prepared enough to fight satisfactorily at the critical moment.

And how did that turn out.

They were toyed with by something that was said to be a mysterious castle that could freely appear in various places of the Dark Continent.

And then, what came out from that castle were unknown powerful Mazoku.

Anything and everything about this was unforeseen, but there was one thing that was clear.

「The enemy’s objective is without a doubt me.」

「Yes.」

Next to Vermudol who sat in the Demon King Castle’s throne, Ichika nodded.

Nino, who stood on the opposite side as if to sandwich Vermudol in between them, remained silent.

The war potential that was currently in the Demon King Castle Throne Room was Vermudol, Ichika, Nino, and some Magic Operated Armors.

Gordy was being vigilant of the airspace around the Demon King Castle, and Rokuna, just in case, was attached to the defense of the underground large magic formation.

Everyone else such as Orel and Aulokk were also out as security throughout the town of Arkverm.

「I don’t know how much information the opponent has about us, but I can see through how much war potential they have. It isn’t all that much. I am positive of that.」

「Why?」

Vermudol made a thin smile at Nino who seemed to have a bit of an interest.

「It’s simple. A castle that is able to freely appear anywhere. Despite possessing something as great as this, they didn’t attack Arkverm from the beginning.」

「……Nino doesn’t get it.」

Vermudol made a wry smile at Nino who intensified her displeased-looking expression even more.

「If the enemy possessed plenty of war potential, things would advance faster if they just appeared in the skies of Arkverm from the beginning. If they were to dispatch a huge army all at once at us while we weren’t on guard, the Central Army would have fallen into a state of confusion with just that.」

There would have been no need to expressly appear in various places of the Dark Continent. And there wouldn’t have been even a need to attack a single garrison of the Eastern Army.

「But if they’re targeting you, Demon King-sama, it would be possible to gather all armies right away to protect you, you know?」

It actually was possible to do that, and if they were to protect Vermudol, that would be the correct thing to do.

「Yeah, it’s exactly as you say. But, I won’t choose that. No, I can’t choose that.」

「Why?」

「That is the sly part of the enemy. Most likely, they have read my personality to a certain extent.」

Seeing Nino express a question mark, Vermudol tapped on the throne’s armrest.

「In other words, it’s this.」

「This……the chair?」

Seeing Nino tilt her head, Vermudol said “that’s not it” and waved his hand.

「Ahー……In other words. This is a tactic that takes into account the fact that I am the king.」

This time, the enemy had cut up their most likely scarce war potential, and expressly attacked an occupied base of the Eastern Army. It was easy to guess the reason why they did this.

「They went and expressly declared “we’ll attack even places other than the Demon King Castle”. They’re doing this knowing that I am managing the Zadark Kingdom earnestly, and that I intend on protecting it.」

He didn’t know if it was a coincident or not, but the fact that they attacked not a town but an occupied fort was also effective.

It had shown verification that at the very least, something on the scale of a small force would be unable to compete with them. Even how they purposely let a portion of the soldiers escape was done with the intent to have them make a report about their strength.

They had challenged them with the prediction that Vermudol would most likely not abandon his own subordinates.

And that was correct.

Vermudol was not cold hearted enough to abandon those that followed him. He had no intention of becoming a Demon King that only keep his power as a mere ostentation like Demon King Gramfia had done in the past.

He would develop the Zadark Kingdom, and bring about peace to all of the Mazoku he cherished.

He believed that that was the mission he needed to carry out.