Chapter 62_ Demon Slayer

Jeryl, one of the younger generation in the knights that now served Lexus. Before when he was in the Capital, he would get humiliated on a daily basis by stronger knights... he had always thought that he was inferior to everyone else.

But when Lexus became the king and revised the system in the kingdom, made him feel like he was wrong... He wasn't inferior, he just lacked the proper guidance to become one of the best.

Ever since the wise king ascended the throne, he had gotten a lot stronger and had somehow become smarter with the guidance of the king's clones. Even though he had never experienced any war before, he now understood war tactics and several fighting techniques.

He also realized that his king was unlike all the other nobles.

Ever since they came into power, the people had a lot of food, and were now independent on their own.

He could easily see the joy in all their hearts.

He clearly remembered before when most royals or nobles ignored the people and just acted like they owned everything. The people were no different from street beggars in. They looked haggard and worned out.

When he remembered that scene, something tugged in his heart, as he didn't want the kingdom to go back to the way it used to be. With everyone satisfied, how could Jeryl not be angry with this so called threat?

Eternal Kingdom was their paradise their home and their happiness. But now, some scheming noble wanted to take all this away because of greed.

There was no way that these nobles cared about the people or the soldiers.

That's why he decided to fight.... to fight for his king, his sister, his father, his friends, his self, the people and his homeland.

In fact, its not only Jeryl, all the soldiers and knights felt that way. Some had their families, while others had made friends and found their happiness within the city.

There was no way that they would give it up.

Above in the air, Lexus stared at the battlefield.

This feeling..... was this how war felt like?

It was frightening, nerve wrecking.... but at the same time exciting... It felt like he had the whole weight of the kingdom on his shoulders. This was what responsibility felt like.

"Well first, let's remove the civilians from the battlefield."

With a single command, mana resonated with him. Suddenly, all the enemies had their eyes widened in surprise. It was because the civilians that they pushed as pawns started flying into the sky.

"Casting Fly magic on others consumed more mana than casting into myself. Not to mention, the target were more hundred thousands."

Although Lexus grumbles about the massive mana consumption, he had a smile on his face. He possess millions of mana, not to mention that he now recovers almost 2% of total mana pool per second.

"Go."

With his signal, all of his troops charged straight to the battlefield.

Viscount Barn frowned at the scene before him, just what was going on? Why were the pawns in the sky?

All he could do was be more confused than before. Lexus no longer care for them. The moment that he lifted the civilians out of the battlefield, the hesitation of his men has disappeared.

"Lich Summon, Mumud."

Lich Mumud's iridescent magic struck the humans in the ground. With the difference in levels between the armies and together the appearance of Lich Mumud, victory is already guaranteed.

On the battle field, the enemy was thoroughly confused.

'Wasn't that the sound of thunder? How could the sky make that sound on a hot sunny day and why was the sky lighting up?'

They saw several flashes of flames go off, so Viscount Barn had let the warriors run forward with their horses but before they could make heads or tails of what was going on, the horses started panicking and running frantically.

They doubled their speeds as if running for their lives... were they also excited about the war? Suddenly, something flew past some of the horses and instantly hit the floor.

'Boom!'

Miniature Meteorites.

The floor scattered and the next thing the knights knew, the ground shook violently.

'Rumbe! Rumble!'

Then, dirt and some stones flew about the place haphazardly.

Those ahead turned their heads to look at the situation, while those behind were in constant shock.

There were no less than 100 men lying on the ground with their horses. Some men had blood coming out of their ears and nostrils, others lost body parts, some fell from their horses and were badly trampled..... while others just stayed there, with no signs of waking up.

Instantly, panic spread throughout the battlefield.

Although these men were experienced in battles, human beings would always fear what they didn't understand. None of them had noticed that the responsible for this scene was a magician of death, unleashing large scale legendary magic spells one after another as the punishment for looking down on his master.

As for the royal army, they were shocked silly at what they were witnessing. They had their eyes and mouth wide open. This.. this .. just how were people suppose to fight against this?

The scene was indeed gruesome.

None of them could put what they witnessed into words or to be exact, none of them were aware that what they were witnessing, was the capabilities of a legendary great magician in a war.

"Don't panic! The enemy is less in number!"

Viscount Barn tried to command his troops in order to maintain the battle lines with whatever means available and put up a fight, but such a feat was impossible. The battle formations had already been broken and now the royal army is now on the move.

The troops were stricken with fear, and the knights were also indeed unable to assess where they should respond to first.

It was the worst situation imaginable.

On top of that…

The most decisive factor was the knights that attained their rewards in the ranking system.

"KUUUH!"

Several knights tried to block royal knights' path; but it was impossible to impede them, let alone slow their advance.

"How...M-monster."

"Kuh… someone do someth-… UGH!"

The royal knights led the attack head-on and pressured the enemy one-sidedly. As they did so, the unit following their lead was filled with a rush of vigor.

[Black Dragon Nevartan has raided the 1st Great Demon Baal.]

[Black Dragon Nevartan has slaughtered all the demon races in 1st Great Demon Baal's territory.]

"Huh?"

As Lexus was serving as the overseer of the war in the sky above the battlefield, he was surprised at the system message that emerged in his vision.

[Your contracted Black Dragon Nevartan has summoned you. Will you accept the summon?]

Demons are a race from Hell. There are not many of them, but they possess very high combat strength and Demonic Power. A great demon is a being who has personally been given power by Yatan. Therefore the legend says that the great demons are creatures of God Yatan.

The existence of great demons is beyond eternity by Yatan's blessing to reincarnate for eternity. The great demons can be several thousand years old with their eternal life. The 33 supreme rulers of Hell. They are the common enemies of humanity but also enemies of all species on earth. With how strong they were, it would be a suicide attack for humanity to invade hell.

And yet, Nevartan has raided the strongest demon, the master of hell, the demon king, and the 1st great demon Baal who existed even before the beginning of the human world.

[You have entered Hell. It is impossible for ordinary humans to enter hell.]

[You are affected by a strong evil energy.]

[Your body is exhausted. Attack power, defense, and agility will decrease by 30%.]

[Health won't recover naturally.]

[You have received a mental blow. Mana regeneration rate will slow by 50%.]

[You have resisted.]

Being intrigued as to why Nevartan had summoned him, Lexus agreed and was immediately transported to Hell. He was already certain who the victor of the war was, so he didn't need to hesitate.

[You are in the territory of the ruler of Hell.]

[All of your stats are reduced by 70% and your status is greatly damaged. You have lost most of the beneficial effects of a transcendent.]

[You have resisted.]

[The 'Blessing' from Black Dragon 'Nevartan' is neutralizing the dimensional effect that oppresses you.]

Arriving somewhere in Hell, Lexus saw Nevartan's massive dragon form. However, before he could greet Nevartan, his Super Sensitivity and Keen Intuition that allows him to detect any potential threats in the surrounding area, sensitively react like crazy.

[You have encountered the 1st Great Demon of hell, 'Baal'.]

[All willpower has been lost.]

[The resistance of all attributes except the divine attribute is fixed at 0%.]

[Demonic energy resistance is fixed at -200%.]

[Critical hit resistance, weakness resistance, and evasion correction effects are fixed at 0.]

[The buffs in effect are released and all buffs are disabled. The same is applied to items.]

[The passive skills in effect are released and all passive skills are stopped. The same is applied to items.]

[You can't set a target when using skills or magic. Targeting skills and magic are changed to non-targeted skills and magic.]

[The skills that receive the absolute hit correction will lose the correction effect.]

At a certain distance away from Lexus, the Absolute of hell—Baal's presence wasn't something that humanity could afford.

[All abnormal status effect has been resisted.]

Baal was the size of an ordinary human, unlike what was said that he had a different appearance depending on the legends. His pale, smooth-looking skin gradually became as hard as stone. The three horns on his head soared high and his body also grew huge.

Just based on the previous system notification, he was aware that Baal was repeatedly trampled by the anger of Nevartan, but still, he wasn't inferior even standing side by side with the dragon.

'Is swordsmanship the main force?'

Baal crafted a black sword with demonic energy. It possessed an unchallenged power. The more he approached a subject that was beyond being powerful, the more status abnormalities that would occur. It was literally a demonic sword.

The most threatening aspect of the demonic sword was the debuff 'destruction of the status immunity.' The status immunity that he enjoyed and took for granted ever since becoming a legend was gone and most of his immunity functions became weak.

If not for his Perfect Status Immunity, he would have been weakened to the extreme.

'I knew this day would come eventually.'

It would be weird if one of the final bosses didn't do this much. He stayed calm. There was no need to despair.

Then another notification windows appeared in his vision.

[You have witnessed the source of all evil.]

[All the quarrels and famines in the world might've been the work of demons.]

[Humanity, your task is to punish Baal.]

"A human? Interesting."

Although he was surprised to see a human in the midst of his fight against Nevartan, Baal's dismal laugh spread throughout the 1st Hell.

Although Nevartan had already slain Baal several times already and weakened him, in the novel, Baal is a cheat like existence whose life was infinite as long as the concept of human fear remains. Nevertheless, the resentment, anger, and killing intent that Nevartan was emitting toward Baal was clear as day. Nevartan had a clear hatred of Baal that couldn't be easily resolved even though he had killed Ball again and again.

As Lexus was wondering why things happen one after another, a new quest appeared in front of the confused him.

[Pagma's Rest]

[Difficulty: Final Class Quest.

A traitor who betrayed a friend and dug up the remains of the former generation legends, he ended up signing a contract with a great demon.

Those who have heard of pieces of Pagma's life don't know that he is a hero. Even those who know that he saved humanity often disparage his achievements or raise the conspiracy theory that he did it for other purposes because he signed a contract with Baal. The world recognizes Pagma as just the blacksmith Pagma.

After inheriting Pagma's skills, you are the only witness who understands Pagma's life and respects his achievements.

Free the pitiful soul who is suffering in hell.

Quest Clear Rewards: All skills of Pagma will be acquired. Open all Pagma's Sword Dances. All sword dances can be fused without restriction except for Sky.

Quest Time Limit: None]