Chapter 377: Subjugation

"Aqua, Megumin, Kazuma Satouu! Get over here!"

Roa shouted loudly, and soon the sound of the room opening came.

Roa looked over and saw that all three were there, with no one missing.

Honestly, he had been a little worried that these guys would sneak away.

This kind of situation wasn't unheard of; he couldn't trust the integrity of these three, especially Aqua.

With the team members all gathered, Roa didn't waste any time and went straight to the point: "To defeat the Demon King, I'll be at the front, and you guys just follow behind."

The three nodded reluctantly.

Roa didn't say much more; anyway, these guys were definitely going.

Taking a group of good-for-nothings with him, Roa directly embarked on the road to defeat the Demon King.

The journey was a bit far, but since things had already reached this point, spending a little more time didn't matter much.

The Demon King's castle was eerie and strange, with no sunlight shining on it year-round, exuding an extremely terrifying atmosphere.

Inside the Demon King's castle, everyone had a lazy expression, not realizing that they would face a devastating blow in the next moment.

Roa cast a stealth skill on everyone, lurking in the shadows, spying on the Demon King's castle.

According to reason, the Demon King's barrier would only break when all the Demon King's executives were killed.

Only then could everyone attack the Demon King's castle.

The Demon King's executives were not all incompetent; there were many strong individuals, even including fallen goddesses and the world's most powerful mages.

But for Roa, these were all just small potatoes.

Now that everyone was here, Roa began to think about how to arrange them.

Should he just bring them along, or let them take action and participate in the plot?

After thinking about it, Roa shook his head, not planning to let this group of idiots run around.

If something really went wrong, he would be the one cleaning up the mess.

Roa briefly explained the plan for this subjugation to everyone.

"I will use the Traveler's Fantasy to break the barrier. I will stand at the very front and lead the charge, and you guys just follow behind."

In a concise manner, Roa directly stated the operation plan for this time.

Everyone looked at each other, they really didn't expect that coming here this time would purely be for show.

"Is it okay to do this?"

Iris asked with some concern.

Roa smiled faintly and said, "It's okay to do it this way. Rather than having these guys be a hindrance, standing aside and doing nothing is the best choice."

Hearing this, Aqua's expression became quite displeased. Roa didn't want to listen to Aqua's grumbling and said directly, "I'm going first, you guys watch and follow."

After speaking, the young man lit up his golden eyes.

Word Soul—Moment, activated at this moment.

Second-stage Moment, four times speed acceleration.

The boiling dragon blood began to roll, and magic mixed with this hot blood flowed throughout his body. The young man slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and Roa walked expressionlessly towards the Demon King's castle.

Without much more to say, Roa was going to directly kill the Demon King this time.

As for how to deal with other things like the Demon King's army executives, it was simple: whoever stood in his way would die.

Casually walking towards the soldiers standing guard at the door, Roa's golden pupils reflected their faces.

Windpipe appeared in Roa's hand; this B-ranked longsword was Roa's most frequently used sword now.

It wasn't because he didn't have better weapons in his hand, but if he summoned Est or Restia, he would either summon both of them together or not summon either of them at all.

The reason was simple: if he summoned one, the other would always look at him with a resentful gaze afterward, making Roa feel a bit of a headache.

Not wanting to comfort the sword spirits, Roa felt that Windpipe was quite good.

Moreover, in ordinary, not-so-intense battles, Windpipe was indeed more convenient to use.

This sword was very suitable for using Sword of Light, and it didn't have much weight. The narrow blade made the longsword have a throat-sealing effect when using Sword of Light.

It was indeed worthy of being named Windpipe.

The moment the longsword appeared, the young man had already passed by these small monsters expressionlessly.

Without much to say, Roa simply brushed a sword flower, and the cold sword light swept across, and several large heads fell to the ground.

Four times speed, for a Sword God-level master, what such an increase meant was completely beyond words.

If he really had to say it, it could be felt from the two letters EX on the system panel.

Whether it was in this world or the world of Mushoku Tensei, no one would be faster or more powerful than him.

This almost ghostly speed was Roa's trump card.

The young man strolled leisurely, walking slowly.

Four times the speed, for both sides, was like a chasm at this moment.

Arriving in front of the barrier, Roa raised his eyes and looked up.

That intriguing gaze did not come. Roa reached out and touched the barrier.

Soon, Roa felt an invisible air wall blocking Roa's palm, stopping his hand outside.

This was the barrier of the Demon King's castle. Legend had it that only by killing all the Demon King's executives would this barrier break, allowing others to enter.

But there were always exceptions, and the so-called barrier was not absolute.

Even if Roa didn't have the Traveler's Fantasy, this artifact, he could still forcibly solve it with brute force.

But doing so would definitely cause a lot of noise, and there was no need to startle the snake.

The ring on the right index finger glowed blue, and magic began to pour into it.

The blue light shined and disappeared. After reaching a certain critical point, the barrier broke, revealing the scene inside.

Very simple, it didn't take long, and it wasn't as exaggerated as forcibly opening the door between two worlds like in the world of Mushoku Tensei.

Roa waved to the people behind him.

Iris, seeing this, took Aqua and the others up together.

Roa injected a little more magic to make the loophole in the barrier a little bigger. After everyone got closer, he let go and walked towards the Demon King's castle.

It was also when Roa let go that the barrier began to shrink at a slow speed. Roa ignored the shrinking barrier; this amount of time was enough for everyone to enter the Demon King's castle.

Roa took a few steps and once again noticed a gaze.

It was the same person who had been observing Roa last time.

But this time, the other party clearly didn't have as much patience. The alarm bell rang, which meant that an enemy had invaded the Demon King's castle.

At the top of the Demon King's castle, that cold figure stood there, staring straight at the young man below.

The young man was wearing a light knight's uniform and had smooth, golden hair.

The obvious feature was that he was the young man who had retreated some time ago.

Before, he was a little wary of the other party, and at the same time, he didn't know how the other party had broken in. To be cautious, he thought he could lure the enemy in deep.

But he didn't expect the other party to retreat so easily, and even more so, he didn't expect that after the other party retreated, it had only been a few days, and he had come to the door again.

For a moment, he was a little silent.

He was a Demon King's army executive, responsible for the daily work of maintaining the magic barrier.

Usually, there wasn't much to do, so he was very idle.

When he was human, he was once the world's number one mage, and his attainments in magic were quite high.

Even Explosion Magic or other high-level magic had been researched.

Roa stood below the Demon King's castle, his golden pupils reflecting the figures of minotaurs all around.

Without speaking or taking action, Roa even directly revealed his figure, holding the longsword at his waist in his right hand, watching a group of guards constantly approaching him as the center.

These were all cannon fodder, whose role was to test Roa's strength.

Although they were cannon fodder, their levels were very high, and their basic attributes were quite good.

Roa coldly swept over the minotaurs.

When these minotaurs cautiously approached within a certain range, Roa slowly walked forward.

The leading minotaur glared at Roa, its violent scarlet eyes flashing with boiling anger.

It only said one sentence: "Daring to break into the Demon King's palace, human, you will die here!"

This was the first sentence this minotaur said, but it was also the last sentence.

The snow-white thin sword was drawn, and the longsword silently cut across the neck of the burly minotaur in front of him. The world seemed to fall into a pool of stagnant water at this moment.

The young man walked past the minotaur, and at this moment, the Word Soul named Moment exerted its unusually powerful effect.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the ground through the thick clouds.

Roa just slowly passed through the minotaur leader, walked past, passed by all the minotaurs, and came to the very back.

Roa sheathed Windpipe. In the next moment, minotaur heads flew up and rolled on the ground, hot black blood splattering everywhere, and headless corpses fell to the ground.

Roa didn't continue to move forward but shouted to the people behind him, "Follow me."

Then he strode forward.

With Roa leading the charge, there would naturally be no accidents.

Iris drew the holy sword, and the brilliant light coated the holy sword with a layer of light golden halo.

The girl's gaze had been fixed on the young man in front of her. The young man's figure was gradually moving away. He was clearly just walking so simply, but the distance between the two was constantly widening.

All the monsters blocking Roa's path were cleared away by Roa.

At this moment, in this place, Roa was the absolute powerhouse.

The cold, crimson-gold pupils swept around, and the longsword in his hand didn't make any movements, but in the next moment, a line of blood appeared on the necks of all the monsters.

Roa walked forward slowly, his pace not stopping at all, still extremely calm.

The pace of advancement had never stopped, and no one could stop him. The increase brought by Word Soul Moment could be described as terrifying.

A normal person can run six meters per second, then in the same initial-stage Moment, he can run twelve meters.

This is a basic problem of initial speed. If the action itself is faster, the amplification effect of Time Zero and Moment on you will be more obvious. And when the target of Moment's amplification is changed to Roa, it will become an extremely terrifying thing.

Roa's speed was already fast, and his basic attributes could be described as perverted.

And with the addition of Moment, it could no longer be described as terrifying.

Even if Roa couldn't break through his own limits, there would still be some limitations in actually using Moment.

But this still couldn't change one fact.

That is, Roa is now a powerhouse, a real powerhouse.

The word 'powerhouse' is poison to every man, sweet, tempting, making people yearn for rain.

Roa had passed the weak stage, without experiencing too many hardships, and stood smoothly at the top of the mountains, looking down from the top.

How enviable and jealous is this?

Even if there were other users who also possessed Moment, if they could only use the same level of Moment, the only result they would have when they met Roa would be certain death.

The breeze gently caressed the young man's face, and that handsome face didn't reveal the slightest expression. In the eyes of outsiders, the young man had never drawn his sword from beginning to end.

But in his world, it was a different scene.

Each time he raised his hand, it meant that a fresh life died in his hands.

These monsters were as weak as small ants, and he could erase their traces with just a slight lift of his hand, without leaving any trace.

There were many monsters in the Demon King's castle, and they were considered relatively powerful in this world.

But now, the scene of overlooking from the fifth floor of the Demon King's castle was shocking.

The monsters fell in rows like harvesting wheat, and no one could stop him. Even with his temperament, he couldn't help but feel a touch of irritability.

Raising the magic wand in his hand, his eyes looked gloomily at the young man below. Magic gathered on the magic wand, and a hot light lit up. Complex and profound magic arrays layered on top of each other, illuminating the entire room.

The nonchalant youth at the very bottom seemed to sense something, his brilliant golden eyes glancing upwards.

However, that single glance sent a chill down his spine.

An invisible domain rapidly expanded, tentacles of black magic spreading in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the magic domain formed by the coalesced black magic had enveloped the self-proclaimed world's greatest mage.

The magic transformed into a massive black hand, not giving him any chance to cast a spell, and seized him instantly.

At the same time, a dazzling golden light swept across, enveloping him in its warm and radiant glow. The mage quickly realized something was amiss.

His energy was gradually disappearing, his magic constantly draining away, as if another force was greedily stealing his power.

This sight caused the mage's expression to change drastically, as he recognized it as life drain.

Moreover, to achieve this at such a distance was simply monstrous.

His withered and emaciated body was grabbed and dragged downwards. With both his magic and strength suppressed, he couldn't even stir up the slightest ripple.

And all of this happened too quickly.