The Demon Goes to Work Today As Well - Chapter 95

Chapter 95: The Start of the Invasion (5)

While Nicholas was marching with a force of 30 million troops.

“Wait here.”

Elvis was stationing a force of 20,000 at the expected point of the enemy’s arrival.

“It will take them a while to get here, so familiarize yourselves with the location of the countries you will be invading.”

“””Yes, Your Majesty.”””

The number of allied kingdoms was 300.

Since they had to invade 300 kingdoms within a day, the knights and mages needed to be familiar with the geography without any errors.
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‘I’ll be able to rest comfortably until then.’

He thought he should relax and enjoy the surrounding scenery as it would take the enemy some time to arrive. Just then,
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“Your Majesty, may I ask you something?”

Arnold, who was sitting next to him, spoke to Elvis with a slightly puzzled expression.

“What is it?”

“I think 100 men would be enough to deal with the enemy. Is there a reason why you are stationing so many people here?”

He meant that it would be easier to send knights and mages to invade when the kingdoms were empty, so why waste manpower here?

“How arrogant.”

Elvis, upon receiving the question, looked at Arnold with a pitiful gaze and said,

“…Pardon?”

“Are you ignoring the possibility that there might be a large number of highly skilled individuals among the enemy?”

“…Haven’t we identified all the Sword Masters and 8th Class mages?”

“Then are you 100% certain that there will be no other skilled individuals besides them?”

“…”

Arnold closed his mouth at Elvis’s question.

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“Arnold, arrogance and carelessness lead to the path of ruin. Therefore, it is always necessary to consider the worst-case scenario and act accordingly.”

At the ensuing advice, Arnold bowed his head deeply and replied,

“My thoughts were shallow, and I failed to grasp Your Majesty’s profound intentions.”

“Well, I understand why you are showing such confidence, so I’ll let it slide this time.”

“I am grateful for your generosity.”

After finishing the short conversation with Arnold, about 3 hours passed.

“They’re here.”

A gray wave could be seen rippling beyond the horizon.

“Just give the order. I will immediately lead the knights and mages and annihilate them.”

At Arnold’s words, Elvis shook his head and said,

“No, I have something to experiment with, so you all wait.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

You might wonder what experiment he could possibly conduct during a war, but.

‘I haven’t been able to use my power properly for over 20 years.’

What he meant by experimenting was his own military prowess.

‘I’m looking forward to it.’

For over 20 years, he had been steadily receiving demonic energy from the Demon Lord-nim and had been repeating endless research and experiments to properly utilize his power.

‘Today, I will finally be able to see a glimpse of the power that the Demon Lord-nim has bestowed upon me.’

Elvis closed his eyes gently and exhaled.

‘Demonic energy is an ability befitting the word ‘omnipotent’.’

Then, as he awakened all his senses and spread demonic energy around him,

‘If you know how to use it properly, you can achieve anything.’

The clear sky became overcast, and darkness began to fall upon the earth.

‘That means nature can also be manipulated according to my will.’

And Elvis opened his closed eyes, stretched his hand forward, and then,

“Blame the king who sent you to your deaths.”

He uttered a short word of mourning, and at the same time,

“Strike them down!”

He shouted, clenching his outstretched hand tightly.

Rumble, Crash――――!!!

Then, countless black lightning bolts began to rain down on the enemies from the dark clouds.

Crash, Crash, Crash―!!!

“””U, Uwaaaaaaaagh!”””

The soldiers, unable to put up any resistance against the ceaselessly striking black lightning, collapsed on the spot and died.

“D, Deploy the protective barrier!”

“What are the mages doing?!”

The mages, coming to their senses belatedly, tried to cast protective barriers to block the black lightning, but,

Clang―

Crash―――!!

“””Cough!”””

The black lightning shattered the protective barriers and took the lives of the mages all too easily.

‘A spectacle.’

Elvis, who had caused the black lightning, was watching this scene with a dazed expression.

‘It’s not for nothing that the Demon Lords-nim ordered us to invade all the nations.’

If he couldn’t invade all the nations even after gaining this much power, it would be because he was incompetent.

‘It’s like watching an orchestra performance.’

You might wonder how a battlefield filled with screams and bloodshed could possibly resemble an orchestra performance, but.

On the contrary, Elvis wanted to ask.

He was playing the role of the conductor who sets the rhythm of the performance, and.

The beautiful melody of the instruments was replaced by the raging thunder and the screams of the soldiers, so how could this not look like an orchestra performance?

‘…Beautiful.’

As Elvis gently waved his hand to play the next piece of music,

Swish―――――Splat!

Thud, Thud, Thud―!

Demonic energy, shaped like a crescent moon, shot out from his hand, mercilessly decapitating the soldiers.

“…As expected of Your Majesty.”

Arnold, who had been watching the scene from the side, couldn’t close his mouth and burst into admiration.
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By the time the 30 million soldiers had been reduced to 100,000,

“Cut off the Emperor’s head!!”

“We can’t just stand here and take this!!!”

“We won’t crumble so easily!”

The knights who had reached the realm of Sword Master and the 8th Class mages began to charge towards Elvis.

“Like moths drawn to a flame.”

Elvis sneered at the approaching enemies and gave orders to the waiting knights and mages.

“Now is your time to step forward. Wipe them all out.”

“””Yes!!!”

“”

As if they had been waiting for this order, the knights and mages began to run towards the enemies.

200 versus 20,000.

Numerically, the allied side was at a disadvantage, but.

They were confident that they would win easily, as they were the ones who had shaken the very foundations of their kingdoms.

However, there was one thing they had overlooked.

The fact that when they encountered someone of a higher realm than themselves, they couldn’t gauge their true power.

In other words, the 20,000 troops appeared to them as nothing more than ordinary knights and mages.

And this carelessness led directly to their deaths.

“I will kill you all and bring down the Empire!!!”

The enemy knight who faced Arnold unleashed his aura and tried to swing his sword, but.

“Feel the terror of the Pacon Empire to your very bones.”

Arnold scoffed and swiftly swung his sword.

Swish――Splat!

“…Huh?”

The enemy knight, cut by the sword, wore a dazed expression, and then,

Thud―!

His body split in half, and he died instantly.

“Pathetic.”

As Arnold looked at the dead knight with cold eyes,

“You’re quite skilled with a sword.”
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“It must have been just luck.”

“I’ll give you the honorable opportunity to die by my sword.”

The enemy Sword Masters approached Arnold rapidly and swung their swords at the same time.

“You speak as if you’ve mastered everything, even though you’ve only reached the beginning stages of the Sword Master realm.”

Arnold clicked his tongue and then,

“I’ll make you realize that there is a heaven above heaven.”

Swish――――――Splat!

With a single swing of his sword, he decapitated the enemy Sword Masters.

“How dull.”

Arnold shook off the blood from his sword and moved on to kill the next enemy.

As Arnold was moving to kill another enemy,

“I’ll show you the power of magic.”

“Repent through death.”

The enemy 8th Class mages were in the middle of casting their spells.

Just as they were about to complete their casting and unleash their magic,

“””Cough!”””

Their spell casting was abruptly canceled, and the backlash caused them to start coughing up blood.

“…What?”

The mages were bewildered by the canceled casting and looked around, and then,

“It’s laughable that you’re casting magic so openly.”

“You’re practically begging to be killed.”

The 8th Class mages of the Pacon Empire were casting spells with mocking voices.

“…Oh no.”

Seeing that, the enemy mages realized that their casting had been forcibly canceled by the Pacon Empire’s mages.

“There are this many high-ranking mages…?”

The enemy mages hurriedly tried to retreat, but,

“””Maze”””

Their upper bodies were sucked into another dimension, and they died, leaving only their lower bodies behind.

About 10 minutes later,

There was not a single survivor left on the battlefield except for Nicholas Martin.

While Elvis was mercilessly taking the lives of the soldiers,

‘T, The Emperor possessed this kind of power…?’

Nicholas was staring at the sky in panic.

‘Can we even win this war…?’

For a moment, the thought of raising a white flag and admitting defeat in the war crossed his mind, but,

‘No… I can’t bring dishonor upon myself by surrendering like this!’

He didn’t want to be recorded in history as a loser of the war, so Nicholas barely managed to hold on to his fleeing spirit.

“Don’t panic, everyone, counterattack!”

Nicholas gave orders to the soldiers, but,
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“””Uwaaaaaaaagh!”””

The soldiers didn’t follow Nicholas’s orders.

Or to be more precise, they were too busy running away from the black lightning to hear his orders.

‘…Damn it.’

Nicholas bit his lip and tried to find a way to turn the situation around, but,

‘…It’s hopeless.’

He couldn’t come up with any decent ideas.

‘At this rate, I have to deploy the Sword Masters and 8th Class mages!’

The moment Nicholas turned his horse around to head towards them,

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Swish――Splat!
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“Huh?”

His legs, along with the horse, were cut in half by the crescent-shaped demonic energy.

“G, Guuuugh…!”

Nicholas crashed to the ground, screaming in agony.

‘Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!’

With his legs gone, a longing to survive, not to win the war, surged within him.

‘I shouldn’t have participated in this war…!’

As he was about to lose consciousness from excessive bleeding,

“I will kill you all and bring down the Empire!!!”

He could see the Sword Masters and 8th Class mages, who had been watching the situation, entering the battlefield.

‘…Yes, if I can hold out until the Imperial army is dead, there’s a chance I might survive.’

Nicholas felt a faint glimmer of hope, but,

“…”

That hope was mercilessly crushed in less than 10 minutes.

‘The Sword Masters and 8th Class mages are dead…?’

Feeling despair in this hopeless situation, Nicholas was about to accept his death, when,

“Are you Nicholas?”

A monotonous voice reached his ears.

“…?”

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Nicholas struggled to lift his head to find the source of the voice, and then,

“T, The Emperor…?”

He could see the Emperor of the Pacon Empire looking down at him.

He wondered how the Emperor knew his name, but,

“The Demon Lord-nim has given you a chance to become a Demon Servant. Will you accept it?”

With the hope of survival, Nicholas cleared away all his doubts and answered in a strained voice,

“…I don’t know what a Demon Servant is, but if it means I can live, I will accept it.”

“Wise choice.”
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Elvis chuckled and took out a parchment, saying,

“I’ll take the blood from your severed leg.”

And as he smeared Nicholas’s blood on the parchment,

“Gasp!”

Black flames began to engulf his body.

“U, Uuuugh!”

He felt like he was about to pass out from the excruciating pain, but then,

Sizzle―――――

The black flames died out, and he felt a surge of power throughout his body.

“M, My legs?”

He looked at his severed legs and saw that they had been regenerated.

‘I, I’m alive!’

Nicholas breathed a sigh of relief that he wasn’t dead, but then,

“You will now serve as the commander of the Pacon Empire and lead the charge.”

The Emperor of the Pacon Empire declared that he would appoint him as a commander.

“I will obey Your Majesty’s orders.”

Thinking that he couldn’t make a fool of himself here, Nicholas hurriedly knelt on one knee and answered vigorously.

“I have high hopes for you.”

And so, Nicholas Martin, the sole survivor of the 30 million troops, betrayed the kingdom to which he had dedicated his entire life and became a commander of the Pacon Empire.