66 Demon King's Army ■■■ Hero Sage (3) (18+)

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EP.66 Chapter 66 Demon King's Army ■■■ Hero Sage (3)

"Nngh..."

Lucas, the mayor of Mir city with stern eyes, thick white beard below his nose, tightly closed lips and aquiline nose, clutched his wrinkled brow.

He had a headache from the series of recent incidents.

In his 20 years as mayor of Mir city, he had never worried this much.

Though on the outskirts of the empire, the city's economic growth from local specialties and silver production from the Kebrul mines was enviable to any city or territory.

It was a prosperous city where just maintaining the status quo was enough to keep power.

However, two months ago, kingdom mages visited, and the city's forces were lost due to their corruption.

As many as 200 of Mir's sons with voting rights all died in the expedition.

As soon as news of the annihilation and rumors that the kingdom mages were corrupted by demons spread, collective protests occurred saying the mayor had sold their sons to demons.

It was obvious who was behind it.

It must be the machinations of the opposition party always acting as the city's non-mainstream.

They wanted the mayor to step down from his position immediately and hold new elections, saying the mayor was also a minion of the Demon King.

But before that issue ended, the kingdom began large-scale conscription.

News belatedly arrived that Lord Bergio, the kingdom's greatest knight, had fallen in battle.

The citizens were shocked and enraged.

Those saying they should raise troops to kill the Demon King right away and those saying they should flee as they might become the front lines raised their voices in the assembly.

In the end, war won.

Courage surged at news that the kingdom's soldiers, knights and mages were coming led by the hero.

Adventurers looking to make a profit began gathering in Mir.

"To think only 1000 out of all of them returned."

It was a miserable defeat.

Even the hero went missing, and the city fell into depression.

The kingdom sent troops again, saying they would station forces to build a base near the city in preparation for future invasion by the Demon King's army.

There was never a peaceful moment due to monsters periodically attacking the kingdom's forces trying to build bases.

'It's concerning to have other forces stationed near the city, but...'

There was no choice.

Because he knew it was an opponent they couldn't defeat with just the city's forces.

And the mayor couldn't pay much attention to that either.

Now he was using all his nerves to refute the argument of responsibility for the deaths of soldiers sent on the second expedition.

It was clearly the opposition party that argued they should fight for revenge, so why are the arrows pointing at me!

"Sigh. Re-election is out of the question now."

His head hurt.

Troublesome matters everywhere.

But he had no intention of stepping down as mayor here.

He didn't want to be remembered as a coward who just caused problems and stepped down.

Who would want his 20-year reign that he built up to crumble because of this incident?

I'll end it with my own hands somehow.

Mayor Lucas vowed inwardly.

Endure and endure.

"Mayor, have you heard the news?"

His secretary opened his mouth.

"They say heretics are rampant centered on back alleys and slums."

"I know."

He really felt suffocated from the problems erupting simultaneously everywhere.

"What do you want me to do about it?"

From the mayor's office, the army stationed outside the city walls was visible.

About 500 kingdom soldiers dispatched from the kingdom.

Their presence seemed to show the crisis looming over this city.

'To think even kingdom mages were brainwashed.'

Can this city really hold out?

He became newly worried.

"I want to go home."

"How many days have we been on duty?"

"It's almost been a month already. They won't even let us go home because of the recent emergency... If it was going to be like this, I wouldn't have become a professional soldier."

"I know. I've already forgotten the taste of beer."

"I heard they got new dark beer at that inn where light shines down."

"Really? I used to go there often because the waitress was pretty, when did they get it?"

"I don't know. I just heard it from a guy who came back on leave."

Mir's guards chatted idly.

The city atmosphere was terrible because of recent events near the city.

"Looks like those kingdom bastards have no intention of leaving."

"Why do more and more of those capital hicks keep coming? I heard monsters have increased a lot recently too."

Just then, the guards saw an unfamiliar figure.

That direction was towards Duvel Forest, where the Demon King's dungeon was said to have appeared.

"What's that?"

"Huh? What?"

"Look over there. Someone's coming."

"Who...?"

The soldiers stood by ready to ring the bell immediately.

The human-shaped figure gradually approached closer.

"Huh?"

"Isn't that the Hero?"

The Hero they thought had died returned.

Dong~ Dong~.

"The Hero has returned!"

"She's returned with a priestess!"

Though they couldn't recognize her at first because her hair had grown longer than before, they knew from the sword at her waist and circlet on her head.

It was clearly the Hero.

The Hero wearing dust-covered armor was steadily approaching Mir.

The return of the Hero who was said to be missing.

"Quickly open the city gates!"

"Come on, hurry and escort her in."

Hero Sage entered through the city gates.

"He-Hero! Are you alright?"

"We thought you had died..."

The guards felt chills down their spines as they met eyes with Sage looking at them with an emotionless gaze.

For a moment they imagined her sword cutting their necks.

They even wet themselves a little.

"Wh-What was that just now?"

"You felt it too?"

"The Hero seems to have changed a bit."

"Yeah. She looked at us like... bugs?"

It must be their imagination.

"Soldiers will come soon to escort you to the mayor."

She nodded.

That appearance felt strangely creepy, like a doll.

The mayor heard news that the Hero had returned.

"The Hero? Is it true?"

"Yes."

"Ho ho, it seems the world is helping me."

Just a little.

He felt he might be able to overcome this crisis.

"Quickly escort her in. Hahaha."

Not long after the knight left, Sage entered the mayor's office.

Her image was already different from when she first came.

Her silver hair that was cut almost like a man's had now grown to near her chest.

Her expression that was full of anger had also relaxed somewhat calmly.

Did she just escape from the Demon King's dungeon?

Her appearance was not very good.

"Hero, we thought you had died. There were soldiers' testimonies that you were captured by the Demon King, did you escape?"

"Yes, I was able to get out safely."

"What about the others...?"

"There are none. Just me and the priestess."

Sage pointed to the silver-haired priestess standing behind her.

Mayor Lucas felt his lower body harden involuntarily as soon as he met eyes with her.

'What is this...'

How could a priestess have such a lewd gaze?

Just meeting her eyes made him imagine being embraced in those voluptuous breasts.

Is she really a priestess?

"Ahem, anyway I'll give you a room to rest. It seems to have been too much for the Hero. We can talk in detail later..."

"There's something I want to ask before that."

"Something you want to ask?"

"Yes."

"It's about Lord Bergio."

"Ah, you mentioned it last time too. I clearly remember the Hero's appearance saying she would avenge Lord Bergio."

At that time, her driving force was revenge.

"That's right."

Something about her answer was strange, but Mayor Lucas didn't think much of it.

"What are you curious about?"

"What do you think about Lord Bergio? I heard he rushed at the Demon King without proper preparation due to the king's unreasonable order."

"Where did you hear that?"

Sage didn't answer.

She just smiled bitterly.

Feeling like there was some story behind that smile, Lucas didn't ask further.

"It was an unreasonable order. The Demon King is the one who corrupted two kingdom mages. At least someone of Bergio's caliber should have accompanied him."

Sage nodded.

"However, I don't think that was His Majesty the King's fault. In the end, we couldn't properly grasp the enemy, and Lord Bergio was the kingdom's best. He must have believed in him."

"Then are you saying the king is not at fault?"

"I'm not sure. But Lord Bergio's death is regrettable. To have lost the kingdom's greatest knight so vainly..."

Lucas smiled bitterly.

Watching that, Sage clenched her fist.

"Liar."

"What do you mean?"

"The mayor was a liar too."

Sage glared and drew her holy sword.

"S-Sage? What are you doing?"

"You're smiling right now."

"Smiling, what do you mean?"

"Why are you smiling while saying you're sad about Lord Bergio's death? Did you think I would be fooled if you spoke while smiling?"

"I don't understand. What are you saying..."

Suddenly calling him a liar.

He just spoke his true feelings.

Yet she calls him a liar for smiling bitterly.

What does this mean?

He couldn't understand.

"Priestess, what's going on! Please stop the Hero! She doesn't seem to be in her right mind!"

"Don't point at Vivian!"

Hearing the Hero's angry words, Priestess Vivian put her hand on Sage's shoulder and spoke.

"Didn't I tell you? Humans are full of hypocrisy and lies. When he's in danger of dying, he's trying to push his duties onto others to save himself alone. It's the mayor himself who should persuade Sage, not me."

"That's right. Vivian is right. Humans are liars. Hypocrites."

She's crazy.

These bitches are all crazy!

They are not the Hero or a priestess.

Demons brainwashed by the Demon King.

"Guards! Guar-Kuhup!"

Sage covered the mayor's mouth.

"This is punishment for liars."

"You demon!"

And the mayor's head fell by Sage's holy sword.

"Mayor, what's...! No? He-Hero?"

"What do you think?"

"Wh-What do you mean?"

"About Lord Bergio."

Step.

She took a step towards the guards.

"Ah, no need to listen. You'll just lie anyway."

She killed the guards before even hearing their answer.

"We thought you had died..."

"He-Hero! Are you alright?"

The guards felt chills down their spines as they met eyes with Sage looking at them with an emotionless gaze.

"Uwaah!!! The Hero has gone mad! Everyone stop that crazy bitch!"

"I'm not crazy. I just realized the truth."

"Kyaak!!"

The soldiers fell unable to resist the Hero's holy sword.

She was evaluated to be on par with Bergio in his prime.

It wasn't a level the city's ordinary soldiers could stop.

Dying soldiers.

Though they desperately resisted, no one could defeat the Hero.

Even the few knights there were also killed by the Hero.

"The Demon King said. For me to decide."

Before leaving the dungeon, the Demon King said.

-Go to Mir and ask the humans. If they tell the truth, you can act as the kingdom's Hero again. I won't stop you. But if they lie, and you think they need divine punishment...

The Demon King gently stroked her head and said.

-Open Mir's gates and welcome me and my army.

Sage who nodded opened Mir's gates.

At that signal, hundreds of orcs and spiders swarmed in.

The kingdom's army stationed outside the walls couldn't helplessly handle the monsters that rushed in without warning.

"Wh-What is this! Stop them!!! Absolutely don't let them pass..."

Sage beheaded the commanders at once.

The monsters entered through the opened gates.

"Ah... The savior has come..."

And those watching from back alleys knelt and shed tears.

"Look everyone. The savior has come. They are God's messengers who have come to save you all stuck in the mire created by human selfishness. Let us quickly welcome them."

"Ahhh."

Those enchanted by Amy and the corrupted priests took up weapons and became one group with the spiders and monsters.

Strangely, the monsters didn't attack them.

As if they were comrades from the beginning.

"Stop them!!!! You dogs! Mayor! Where is the mayor! Where the hell did all the commanders go!!"

Those who still maintained some composure shouted until their throats burst, but there was no way the leadership annihilated by Sage remained.

Hell unfolded in Mir.

"Uwaah!"

The screams of resisting soldiers and.

"Kyaah! Nooo!"

The screams of those dying and being violated by monsters echoed.

On the walls of such a Mir, Hero Sage lay with her head on Vivian's lap.

"Sage, are you feeling a bit better now?"

"Yeah. I'm okay when I'm with Mama Vivian."

"Don't be too hurt. Humans are originally liars. They always hide their true feelings and deceive people."

"That's right. They're liars. They were very bad."

"But that's why we too must wear masks when dealing with humans. We're too weak to be deceived without countermeasures."

Sage looked up at Vivian while lying on her lap.

"Do we really have to do that?"

"Sadly, we have to."

"I don't want to."

Vivian smiled and gently brushed her hair.

"From now on, maintain acting like an adult in front of other people. It doesn't matter in front of the Demon King or me, but it's not good if other people see."

"Why?"

"Because you're the Hero. The Hero everyone respects. You should be mature. Sage isn't a little child forever."

"Okay... I'll do that if Mama Vivian says so. Then it's okay in front of Mama Vivian and the Demon, King?"

She seemed to hesitate, still resistant to elevating the Demon King.

"Of course. The Demon King and I can accept Sage's childishness."

"Okay."

She stroked Sage's head lying on her lap.

"Are you sleepy?"

"Yeah, a little."

"Then I'll sing you a lullaby. Sleep comfortably. The Demon King will come and end everything now."

Along with the screams of the city crumbling, Vivian sang a lullaby for Sage.

To the crumbling Mir.

The Demon King made his entrance.

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