Adventure 7 ─ The hero finally discovers the truth

I got a little scared after defeating the swordsman with the cursed katana, as in the distance we saw the city soldiers approaching.

I was tired and wounded, I couldn't fight anymore.

But suddenly something strange happened.

The soldiers were actually running away, they were running away from the locals.

I could hear their shouts from here.

"This is our chance to get rid of the tyrant!"

"Death to the marquis's pig!"

"I'll make you pay for leaving me in misery!"

Apparently, when the attack began, many observed the mansion being attacked and came to the conclusion that it was a rebellion.

The soldiers were beaten and tied up, they were going to execute them no doubt.

It is not my problem so I don't care.

The eldest princess approached the crowd and explained the situation.

The people were demanding the head of the marquis, the princess answered them.

"Don't worry, once we are done with him. We will hand them over to you."

The people rejoiced and went in to take everything the marquis had stolen from them with years of high taxes.

It was amazing how they looted the mansion.

Even the mayor of the town, the alleged right hand man of the marquis, let us stay in his house as a thank you.

Well, who wants to stay in a house full of corpses?

The princess gladly accepted and we went to take a bath.

I was the last to take a bath and was given new clothes.

They were servant's clothes since they didn't have my size.

I mention this because the crotch is the most uncomfortable part of the clothes they gave me at first.

I am better now, I just got rid of the jacket.

In the distance I watched as a big party was organized by the villagers.

I went to the room where the other girls were.

I entered and there they were waiting for me, all of them were wearing borrowed clothes.

Both princesses' clothes were commoner's clothes, but they didn't care in the current situation.

"You're late."

"Sorry."

I apologized to Princess Rosemary.

In a corner all beat up, stood the marquis.

"Now that you're here, let's start with the interrogation."

"Spill everything you know. Or else..."

She pointed outside.

"You'll end up just as roasted as your soldiers."

No joke what she was saying, the villagers really did burn the soldiers alive over a slow fire.

How much did they hate them to go to this extreme?

"Answer quickly, you will be punished by them, but at least you will leave with a clean conscience after committing treason."

She took the ball of paper from his mouth.

The marquis did not hesitate to fight back.

"You idiot girl!"

"Do you even know who I am?"

"I am part of the Six Grand Marquises of the kingdom. Marquis Reiss."

"If it weren't for us, your family and the country would be─ Bukoo!"

She put her foot in his mouth.

Producing a strange bird-like sound.

She moved her foot in his mouth in disgust.

"Not only do you betray your homeland, you also dare to belittle your princess. Do you wish to die that much?"

"You will die either by them or by my hand, just give me a name of who is responsible for attacking my country and I will kill you as much as you want."

She pulled her foot out of his mouth, he was still all foolish.

"You fucking bitch!"

"You want an answer!!! I'll give them to you so you'll agonize and know you'd be better off as some guy's pet before you know the hell you got yourself into!"

Amazing how that worked.

The marquis finally spoke up.

"This was all a plan put together by the three of us after we were contacted by Loki-sama."

"Loki-sama? Who the hell is this Loki?"

"Utgard-Loki-sama is for you."

"He is the reason for this attack."

"He said he wanted to increase his influence in the Order. He wanted to be able to manage to please the boss and thus earn himself a place in the seats."

"Seats?"

The marquis smiled wickedly.

"A seat is what the most important members of the Order are called. The Round Table of the Dark Knights."

"Sometimes called The Order of the Black Knights or simply as Rounds."

"They are a super important secret organization in the world."

"For centuries they have waved their hands to take over the world. But recently their goals which were to cause economic ruin and wars changed to that of resurrecting the Demon God."

This time I spoke up since that information concerned me more.

"Who is this Demon God?"

"What is the reason for reviving him?"

"You ask yourself a lot of questions don't you?"

The Marquis looked at me and stuck out his tongue in a repulsive manner.

"I won't tell you, you asshole, idiot, piece of shit~."

"I'm afraid of the Order more than I'm afraid of you."

"I can survive, but if I tell them some vital information they told me, hahaha, I'd have to be on the run forever without stopping."

"They... Loki-sama is very scary."

"Obermayer and I are afraid of him, that other guy isn't afraid of him, but it's up to him to deal with the problem."

"Obermayer you said!"

Rosemary pulled me aside to hold him down.

"You said Obermayer right! You're not lying?"

"Who's Obermayer?"

I asked because she looked upset, not only her, Alice and Louise were upset too.

Rosemary spoke after staring at him.

"Obermayer is one of the six marquis houses that helped the kingdom through a crisis. They are the most important nobles in the nation."

"But among all of them, Obermayer is special, since he serves as prime minister and..."

Rosemary didn't want to speak, is that worse than being prime minister?

She looked at me and made me understand that if it was worse than it was.

"He is our uncle. His older brother is actually our father..."

"They're very close, both of them. Which means these three, my father and uncle wanted to destroy our country."

I really don't know what to say about this.

"Hahahahaha!"

The marquis started laughing like crazy.

"Best of all, the reason for this war is because he wants something he can only get there."

"Do you know that or not brat?"

"The strange entrance you two inadvertently found years ago, remember?"

"...?"

(What are they talking about?)

(What's a strange entrance got to do with it?)

Rosemary fell silent and stared at the marquis.

"How do you know that?"

"No. I can already imagine the reason. Only the royal family should know that along with some knights."

"But it's no use, it's sealed with some spell."

"Hahahahaha. It's not sealed, it's locked and the only one capable of opening it him, Utgard-Loki-sama."

"He has the way to do it hahaha. That's why it's this war."

"We told him many things of interest. He promised us riches if we did."

"Living in a measly third-rate country is no good if you can't have riches!"

"I deserve to have many things, and because of that shitty kingdom I can't have it."

"That's why he told us that, because of the information, he unleashed this war using Bellmoth and his new pet."

"Hahahaha. Now that you know you're sorry to hear that, aren't you?"

"I told you it was better to be the pet─ Bleh!"

The guy started to get fed up, but the one who reacted wasn't Rosemary, it was Alice who took a kitchen knife and inserted it into the marquis' neck.

Marquis Reiss was rapidly bleeding to death on the floor.

Pathetically he called for help and then stopped moving.

A huge red stain stained the floor next to a large chunk of shit.

Alice's hands were shaking, her breathing heavy.

She screamed before I said something to her.

"You're the worst!"

"You're all the worst!"

"Our home, the home of many innocent people."

"You sold all that for money!"

"You're a monster! A filthy, disgusting monster!"

"I hate all of you! I hated my father before, but with this now I'm disgusted to know that I have that pig's blood running through my veins!"

Alice tried to cut herself, but Louise and Rosemary restrained her.

"Alice-sama please calm down."

"Alice, I understand how you feel. I am repulsed by this too. But we mustn't worry about the hatred we feel now."

"We must think about what to do now with this information."

"Aaaaaaaah! I hate this! I hate evil people!"

As she was being reassured. I walked over to the window, I could see that an object was shining brightly because of the light.

I smiled and said to the girls.

"I promised you girls didn't I."

"I was going to save your home."

I pointed outside the window.

"I just need some info on the place, I already found my weapon."

I really didn't expect that I would have to use "that" one more time.

◇◇◇

On the outskirts of the capital of the Lespinasse Kingdom, a large crowd of soldiers and monsters were gathering.

The people inside the capital's walls wanted to flee, but...

"What do you mean we can't get out?"

"I am a viscount and I demand to get out of here."

"At least allow the children to leave!"

The knights were blocking the exits.

Why couldn't they evacuate the residents?

The knight in charge replied.

"It's an order from His Majesty, the King Emerson-sama."

"He said that everything will be settled soon, there is no need to evacuate."

"Haven't you seen how things are outside!"

"..."

"For days since this started, the number of monsters is growing!"

"I heard that a lich is commanding them."

"A lich you say!"

People panicked when they heard that the enemy had an undead as a commander.

That caused them to increase their attempts to leave.

All of that was observed from the palace by them.

A plump, almost hairless man of short stature.

One of them was Prime Minister Obermayer.

"Look at those pests. Like dogs begging for a bit of food."

"If only they knew they had the honor of becoming a sacrifice to the Demon God."

"Mmmh. Mmmh. Mmmh."

"Swallow the food and then speak."

He replied to the other man with him.

"Sorry, Gustave."

Replied the man who, unlike his younger brother, he was a whale in human form.

He was morbidly obese, to the point that he couldn't even walk without assistance.

He was the "king" of the kingdom, Emerson.

Emerson came to his position as king because his father made an agreement with the previous queen.

At that time Emerson was a very handsome blond haired boy with a good physique, all the girls drooled over him, the crown princess even felt a slight attraction for him.

But Gustave was different, he knew that his older brother was a jerk from a young age, that's why he recommended him to train and become a man desired by women.

In order to divert their attention from him, Gustave's plan was to obtain the throne, in this country having a matriarchal monarchical system, it takes a huge weight off the man.

A king was nothing more than the spouse of the queen, who had the real power.

So if he became the prime minister, he would have power, and if his brother was that spouse of the queen, he had the backing of the important nobles.

That being what actually happened all this time.

That was the original plan, but after meeting "Loki," it changed to a more wicked one.

"Once the attack begins, Utgard-Loki-sama said he would give us our reward."

"Mmmh, I certainly hope so little brother."

"By the way, are you really sure about that?"

"What are you talking about?"

"You agreed to let Reiss sell your daughters."

"Oh, that."

Emerson replied after devouring a whole chicken.

"I wanted a boy, but that woman gave me two girls. Why do I want women when I wanted a boy?"

"That's what is called a defective woman, isn't it?"

"You're right."

In this world, a defective woman is known as those women who if after their first or second birth, they fail to give birth to a boy.

It means that they are women who are not fit to leave heirs.

The queen was a fertile woman, but she had only two beautiful daughters.

Emerson wanted a boy, the prime minister saw to it that everyone looked down on the queen and called her incompetent.

Even if the royal family was all women, having a boy would make the ministers feel respect for her.

But since no boy ever came to the palace...

"...?"

Someone knocked on the door, Gustave indicated for the person behind the door to pass.

A servant entered.

"Prime Minister, Your Majesty, the messenger from the enemy horde has arrived at the palace."

"Well, hey, come on."

Gustave told his brother to get up.

"Okay."

A group of servants entered after the servant who brought the news left.

They used a throne-like chair to lift him up.

Gustave knew it was time.

He wanted power, and he didn't mind sacrificing hundreds of innocents for a cause he doesn't believe in.

◇◇◇

Among the corridors of the palace, a woman was walking with hurried steps.

A female knight was behind her along with a female servant.

"A messenger?"

"Yes, the messenger said I should speak to Her Majesty the queen."

"I wonder what it is?"

"I tried by all means possible to get them to desist from their attack, I even hoped they would understand that we tripled the offerings, but they didn't accept either."

"Your Majesty, do you think they want to ask us to be a vassal state?"

"...!"

The female knight and the woman in front of them, the queen, were aghast at those words.

"A vassal state... you know that's worse than slavery don't you?"

"I know..."

The queen approached a window, there, she showed her appearance to the sun's rays.

A woman in her thirties who appeared to be younger than she is.

Her honey-blonde hair was tied in a braided bun, with a lock reaching her chin.

Like her daughters, near the end her hair turns a different color, hers is amethyst like her eyes.

It wasn't the only trait her daughters inherited from their mother, their mother was an explosion of sensuality that far surpassed her daughters.

Wide hips after giving birth to two healthy girls, slim waist, plump thighs and, above all, huge breasts that exceeded 100 cm.

On the royal bust scale, it is the queen who wins by triple digits.

The queen, Angelina Sara Lespinasse, was worried about the future of her country.

"..."

"I hope this will be settled peacefully."

The queen and her escorts went to the hall where the messenger was, and found familiar faces, including those of the prime minister and her husband.

But when she observed their expressions, she became concerned.

They were frightened, then she looked at the person who must have been the messenger.

"A lich!"

Bellmoth's messenger was a rotting corpse, with half a melted face and half a face showing his skull.

The lich politely introduced himself upon seeing the queen, his voice so ominous that it put the queen's escort on guard.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty, Queen Angelina-sama."

"My actual name is Magius. I am a servant of Utgard-Loki-sama."

"A-a pleasure to meet you... What message do you have for us from your lord?"

"Yes, I will tell you the same thing I told your husband and the prime minister."

Magius made the queen feel her heart stop.

He played a mysterious voice that was not his own, it was a youthful voice but very rude.

"I'm sick of waiting. Tell those idiots we'll start attacking as soon as possible."

"Our goal is to wipe them all out and turn this into a bloodbath."

"Yes, also tell those assholes Obermayer and the obese one that they will also be part of the massacre, I never talked to them so I don't know why they talk to me as if they know me."

"No one sent them to sell their country for an empty promise they falsely made to me."

"So said my lord, I will now return to give the order to attack, if you will excuse me."

The queen was dumbfounded.

"..."

But not by the declaration of war, but by the other thing.

"You sold out this country!"

Her anger was directed at Emerson and Gustave.

"You being my husband and you being the prime minister, you sold out this country?"

"What the hell is wrong with you two?"

"Shut your mouth you, insolent woman!"

Emerson was the one who reproached his wife.

"It's not our fault we were born in this third rate country, we had to be born in the empire at least."

"Who cares if a few lowly peasants and nobles die?"

"I'm the king of this place, I deserve luxuries, I deserve the best of meals."

"I forgot, sorry."

Magius turned around and made both Emerson and Gustave truly damned.

"Prime Minister Obermayer, I'm afraid the plan to sell the princesses by Marquis Reiss failed."

"...!"

"My master was wondering how he was doing due to the fact that he lent him a large sum of money that he hasn't paid back, if you'll excuse me..."

Before walking out the door, he was stopped by a young knight.

"Hold it right there, lich."

"Rembrandt, what are you doing!"

The young man was a handsome knight with blond hair and a righteous look.

His name is Rembrandt and he is the captain of Alice's royal guard.

His dream is to become commander of the royal knights.

Rembrandt drew his sword and pointed it at Magius, who didn't look at him at all.

"If you came to threaten us and then declare that you are the commander, I will not let you return home."

"Here and now I will kill you."

His gaze was menacing, but to Magius it was like a kitten facing a giant.

He slowly raised his long-nailed bony hand, with those same nails he dug them into his neck and face.

"Agh!"

Rembrandt cried out in pain.

"If this is your attack, it's nothing─!"

He suddenly began to feel strange.

"Huh?"

Was what he said as he felt hundreds of worms enter his body.

"Get them off me!"

The worms began to eat him from the inside.

"Foolish human, you don't know who you're up against."

"Before I was Magius, I had another name. Zelm Zemlupus."

"Zelm he said!"

Everyone was startled at the sound of that name.

Magius went to the door to leave quietly.

The queen before fainting said.

"Guards. Arrest those two."

The knights went to arrest Emerson and Gustave.

"Let me go you fools!"

"How dare you take the king prisoner, I'll have your heads cut off!"

They were taken to the subway prison.

The woman knight at the queen's side, a twenty-year-old beauty with navy blue hair and purple eyes, Zara Forgrave said to her.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"..."

"Your Majesty, please. We have to do something."

"Get everyone out of here. As many as possible."

"Evacuation is immediate, children and young women are the priority. Then adults regardless of whether they are commoners or nobles. Lastly, the palace and everyone present."

"If we're all going down... at least we'll leave the impression that the queen stuck her neck out to save a handful."

Tears streamed down her rosy cheeks at the thought of never seeing her daughters again.

"Alice, Mary, I'm so sorry."

◇◇◇

In the enemy camp, someone was munching on junk food.

"Oh shit, this is delicious."

"Processed food is the best."

It was a young boy in his late 18s or early 20s.

He had unhealthy pale skin, as if he was sick and lacking vitamins. Despite being very thin, his beer belly was unsightly.

His violet hair was dry and very oily.

His face was almost like a dead man's, with freckles, an angry dead fish looks and, above all, yellow pierced teeth in his ears and eyebrows matched his pink eyes.

What stood out the most was not his rebellious black outfit, it was the tattoo on his left hand, it was a black snake eating its own tail.

He is Utgard-Loki, part of the Ouroboros Order.

Utgard-Loki is not his real name, it is a pseudonym used once they receive baptism by low-ranking members known as "Numbers".

The Numbers are in charge of dangerous missions of different types.

They are the organization's replaceable cannon fodder.

Then follow the "Faceless", those who are important figures such as Marquis Reiss among others.

They are so called because no one but a few important members and they themselves know the identity of the other.

When a subordinate is very useful, the Number is removed and changed to a name.

Which is an "Apostle".

There are many apostles among their ranks, Utgard-Loki is in fact one of the youngest and most talented.

He was from a small village where by his appearance he was judged by others.

They committed misdeeds in his name and stole his food, his own parents turned their backs on him.

So, one day someone came to that village, met a young man who wanted to take revenge on everyone and offered him power.

That day, that young man was reborn as Utgard-Loki, after having killed and tortured all the villagers without exception.

When Utgard-Loki finished eating, he left his camp and went to the center of the place.

The soldiers were resting while waiting for orders.

"Idiots. It's time."

The soldiers stood up and lined up.

Why would they obey him if they were not part of the Order?

It was all due to him.

"Magius, did you tell them to get ready?"

"Yes. It was very boring."

"I imagine so. Get into position."

"At your orders."

Magius ordered everyone to line up and readied their weapons.

As that happened, Utgard-Loki watched him with a smile.

(It really is gratifying for me to have the great Zelm as my slave.)

Who was actually Magius?

◇◇◇

A long time ago, there was a certain wizard.

His name was Zelm Zemlupus, a dark wizard.

Dark wizards in ancient times were highly desired by kingdoms.

They were sorcerers who used dark magic to accomplish great feats.

Kings longed to have one at their side.

And that old man, Zelm, was no exception.

Zelm was a dark wizard known worldwide for wiping out hordes of enemies with his infernal insects.

Bugs that could do anything from eating human flesh to brainwashing.

Fame and fortune for Zelm was not a problem.

But there was one he couldn't help but defeat.

Death.

He made it to his 90th birthday by a miracle.

He wanted to go on living, he wanted to live for centuries and never die.

One day, he did something unforgivable.

He kidnapped the youngest daughter of a poor king.

He used her as an experiment and see if his insects, his worms could steal the life of others as if he were a vampire.

It was a success.

His vampire worms began to attack young girls who were bursting with vitality.

He stole their magical power as they gradually ate their flesh.

And by means of secretions such as saliva and excrement, Zelm fed on it.

He made it to 216 years old without a problem.

He was on top of the world.

But one day, when he turned 270 years old...

"Kill the monster!"

He made a mistake.

He attacked a girl walking in the middle of the night in a wheat field.

He attacked people from small and remote places.

But he never imagined that the girl he attacked had actually been the daughter of an important landowner who was playing with her boyfriend, a future general.

The young man observed everything and told the girl's father.

They went to see the lifeless body of the girl and thanks to the hatred they felt, they mobilized an entire army to put an end to the monster.

They burned the entire castle.

Zelm was burned alive.

That's how Zelm died.

... Or at least that's what everyone believes.

One day, Utgard-Loki entered the ruined castle looking to steal.

An undead rose up, attacked him, but the young man defeated him using his "blessing".

Then, after touching the undead's body looking for something to steal, he discovered his personal belongings that he has been carrying for centuries and found out that the undead was Zelm.

Again he used his blessing and managed to control the lich, giving him a small portion of intelligence.

Utgard-Loki was happy reminiscing about the past as he watched Magius, the name he gave Zelm after christening him, watch as he summoned giant fireballs to destroy the wall.

(I really am lucky.)

(To think that a legendary dark wizard like him could be easily manipulated thanks to the tattoo on my left hand.)

(Hahahaha, I'll show that I'm worthy to be part of the Rounds.)

The wall fell and the army of monsters, humans and Magius began to advance on the shattered wall.

The soldiers were hundreds of meters away creating magical and spiked barricades so far.

Utgard-Loki laughed like mad at the sight of them.

"Kakakaka!"

"Pathetic, really, really pathetic!"

"Do you think you'll be able to do anything?"

"Try. Make this fun."

(I won't wait for that motherfucker Number 666 anymore.)

(I'll be sure to fuck him up when I find him.)

"Huh?"

He froze suddenly.

He heard something.

"What's that?"

It was a strange sound similar to a strong wind hitting an object.

"It doesn't sound like it's going to rain. What could that noise be?"

"... Huh?"

He was surprised to realize that a strange object was about to fall.

"What is that?"

"A huge balloon?"

"No. A giant bird?"

"Hell no. What the hell is that?"

Utgard-Loki suddenly broke out in a cold sweat as he realized up ahead what it was that was falling towards them.

To be more specific, a huge metal object similar to a shovel fell on Magius.

Magius' entire existence... Zelm... and the soldier-like monsters near him were wiped away thanks to a person holding that stick.

"Good afternoon everyone, dear sons of bitches."

"I am the hero and I have come to kill you all."

"Please don't make a fuss, shout, implore and most of all I want you to stay still so I can kill you quickly and end this."

Lion arrived at the kingdom to save it, finishing off Magius, one of the biggest threats of the enemy army.

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Did you want fanservice from the queen? Too bad!

I leave you designs from another time, characters that the author discards never to be used again, also some love to Utgard-Loki, I consider him to be my Derrick-chan 2.0, which means the author wants to see him suffer a lot.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/5686859

Rembrandt

https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Mauk

Zelm

https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Zurrernorn

Magius

https://overlordmaruyama.fandom.com/wiki/Davernoch

Emerson

https://arslansenki.fandom.com/wiki/Innocentis_VII

Gustave Obermayer

https://attackontitan.fandom.com/wiki/Wald