Chapter 307: Canton Coalition Meeting (1)
Kyung-joon called all seven Canton leaders together for a Canton Union meeting.
Here, Kyung-joon intended to reveal a huge secret.
Of course, there was one thing he had to do first.
That was to get the consent of all seven Canton leaders.
‘Kyung-joon. Are you really going to reveal that……in this situation?’
Fairy King sent a telepathic message to Kyung-joon with a wink.
For now, it seemed Fairy King had a rough idea, so she passed.
Even if ‘that’ was revealed, Fairy King would be displeased, but she would definitely take Kyung-joon’s side.
Kyung-joon didn’t reply to Fairy King separately, but just smiled slightly.
Next was Half-and-Half Dragon.
“Kraaa! Don’t beat around the bush and make it boring! It’s killing the mood!”
Half-and-Half Dragon seemed to be fine as long as it was fun.
Even if it was a bit boring, he would surely agree, thinking of the old friendship and current loyalty.
Even if it meant fighting the Demon King and losing his life.
Kyung-joon just winked at Half-and-Half Dragon without any meaning.
“Hmm?!”
Half-and-Half Dragon wondered if there was any meaning to it, but there wasn’t.
While buying time, Kyung-joon looked at Lothar next.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
He was more interested in making magic engineering weapons right away than in the meeting, and he had already taken out a portable anvil and hammer and was hammering away.
He too would silently follow if he knew the secret.
That was the will of Huma, and the reason why the first Redbeard hammered for 700 years for his will.
Therefore, Lothar would continue to hammer for Kyung-joon.
“Add some more meat here! With bones!”
The leader of the Beastkin Alliance, Buried Bones, loves meat.
Thick meat surrounding thick bones.
Therefore, the Beastkin Alliance was on Kyung-joon’s side anyway.
Anyway, these four were easy.
But the remaining three were the problem.
<Leader of the Free Mercenaries>
<The Mercenary who Inherited the Name of Immovable>
▼Miharan (NPC)
“If you’re not going to talk, it’s just a waste of time. I’m leaving.”
The leader of the Free Mercenaries and the mercenary who inherited the name of Immovable rose from his seat.
Rather, he was easy to persuade.
Kyung-joon finally opened his tightly closed mouth.
“The mission is to subjugate the Demon King. The reward is freedom.”
Miharan, who heard Kyung-joon’s words, stopped walking.
He spoke briefly without looking back.
“How arrogant. Freedom is not obtained from others. It is something you fight for yourself.”
Miharan turned his head and glared at Kyung-joon.
“What kind of freedom are you talking about?”
“I’m talking about the freedom to decide the fate of myself, my family, my neighbors, my country, and the World.”
After hearing Kyung-joon’s words, Miharan quickly turned his head and walked out of the conference hall.
“Call me when the time comes. I’ll be ready.”
Whoosh.
He threw a treasure to Kyung-joon.
[The Sixth Symbol of the Hero (Miharan)]
What Miharan threw to Kyung-joon was the Hero’s Symbol.
Kyung-joon immediately put it in his inventory and said,
“Don’t you need to hear more?”
“I don’t need the details. The mission and the reward. That’s enough.”
Miharan thus cast his vote for Kyung-joon and disappeared from the conference hall.
The next person to speak after Miharan disappeared was, as Kyung-joon expected, Lupera, the head of New Devil Corporation.
His expression was very grim.
He looked more than angry, he looked furious.
<Head of New Devil Corporation>
<Descendant of the Demon King Traitor>
▼Lupera (NPC)
“Hey, Mr. Kyung-joon. Do you know what you just touched?”
“Probably the Demon King?”
“Ha, you said that knowing full well.”
To New Devil Corporation, which was mostly composed of demons, the Demon King was a sacred existence.
Because the Demon King was the parent who created them.
“I’ll let it slide this time because you’re an otherworlder. However, we need to address what needs to be addressed. If you thought we would participate in the subjugation you’re talking about after seeing the title ‘Demon King Traitor’ above my head, you’re sorely mistaken.”
The title of ‘Demon King Traitor’ given to the demons after the Demon King War ended 700 years ago.
It was not an honor, but a disgrace to them.
“700 years ago, we demons definitely lost. That’s why the Demon King was sealed. But that’s because we lost. There are no complaints about that. But if you’re presumptuously judging good and evil……”
When Lupera said that, the King of Humanity, who had been silent until then, opened his mouth.
<Leader of Humanity>
<The King of Humanity Recognized by the Pope>
▼Humanity VIII (NPC)
“You! Are you still trying to mock history! Because of you, because of your Demon King, how many died in the past, and do you even know what kind of situation this is?!”
“Ha, Humanity, you’re still disgustingly acting righteous. When will you finally realize that good and evil are just things you made up? Doesn’t that God fellow tell you that?”
“You bastard! How dare you, an unclean thing, speak of God so carelessly……!”
“And in the first place, if we’re talking about the number of deaths, more of our demons died in that war. The thought that our deaths are good and your deaths are bad. Really, it’s a disgusting way of thinking, befitting humans. It makes me sick. Ugh.”
“Blasphemy! You still haven’t repented after 700 years! You should be struck by God’s divine punishment right now……”
“Stop this ridiculous fight, you two.”
Kyung-joon intervened in the fight between Lupera and Humanity VIII.
And then he completely shut their mouths by throwing in a very secret story.
“By the way, New Devil made the Black Magic Stone, Humanity distributed it, and the Crusaders spread it, so why are you all so angry with each other? You should be getting along.”
“……!!”
Humanity VIII flinched greatly for a moment.
“Oh?”
Lupera narrowed her eyes and looked at Kyung-joon with interest.
“Oh, and I’ve already investigated everything and left evidence, so don’t even think about denying it.”
Clang!
The sound of Lothar’s hammering stopped.
“Wait, what was that just now? Could it be……?”
Lothar glared at Lupera and Humanity VIII with very sunken eyes.
Again, it was Kyung-joon who answered.
“Oh, and I see that the crystal, the intermediate material for the Black Magic Stone, is all dwarf-made. I thought your craftsmanship was amazing, but now I see it’s exactly that, isn’t it?”
Whirr! Clang! Clang! Whirr! Whizz! Clang!
Lothar turned his head again and started hammering again.
He was whistling silently, but for some reason he seemed to be drenched in cold sweat.
“Ah! Speaking of crystals, I remember! Come to think of it, the dwarves ordered a lot of ore that would become the raw material for crystals, so I mined and sold it until I was sick of it! It was very suspicious because they told me not to tell anyone, but they paid me a lot of money, so I just took it. Hahaha!”
Then Buried Bones confessed while chewing on his meat.
It didn’t end there.
According to Kyung-joon’s investigation, the Free Mercenaries were also heavily involved in the initial Black Magic Stone incident.
Of course, they weren’t interested in the details and just carried out the mission, but the fact that it contributed to the spread of the Black Magic Stone in the first place remained unchanged.
“And in the Fael Alliance, it seems that the Fael University Dark Magic Department secretly conducted joint research with New Devil……Fairy King-nim, were you aware of this?”
“Ahem……I had a hunch that something was suspicious, but I never thought it would be the Black Magic Stone……”
“That’s dereliction of duty.”
“I, I apologize……”
Fairy King bowed her head and created a space cube, fidgeting with it with her hands.
“Hmm, what’s this? You guys, were you playing around like this without this Half-and-Half Dragon?”
“They probably used dragon scales and claws imported from the Dael Alliance to process the Black Magic Stone, so strictly speaking, you were also involved.”
“Oh! Moitie. Was that the case?”
The humanoid Half-and-Half Dragon asked his first maid in his shadow.
“When the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan urgently needed scales and claws, I thought they were making dragon-slaying weapons. However, after investigating, it didn’t seem to be the case, so I just let it slide.”
“Kraaa! Is that so? I didn’t know that!”
That’s right.
All seven Cantons here, intentionally or not, were all accomplices who contributed to the creation of the Black Magic Stone.
Only after confirming all this did Kyung-joon finally get to the main point.
“Oh, right.”
Snap.
Kyung-joon snapped his fingers.
Then, 12 glass bottles that had been hidden by the Isolated System appeared.
From the 72nd Andromalius to the 61st Jagan, all the devils that had been shrunk after having their power absorbed by Kyung-joon.
Showing these to everyone, Kyung-joon casually, as if talking about today’s lunch menu, stated the fact.
“By the way, I’m the one who recently unsealed the Demon King.”
It was the moment when it was proven how the world would turn if the top was rotten.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
“W, What do you mean you unsealed the Demon King……!”
Humanity VIII couldn’t follow Kyung-joon’s words.
People reacted in various ways.
Fairy King shook her head, saying, ‘As expected……’, and Half-and-Half Dragon laughed, saying ‘Kraaa!’.
The Beastkin King’s eyes widened in surprise as he chewed on his meat, and Lothar’s hammering stopped once again.
Only Lupera, the head of New Devil Corporation and a demon, calmly asked again.
“I thought I smelled something nice for some reason, so you were hiding such a secret. So, what are you going to do? Is it a complete subjugation, as you said?”
What was the reason why Kyung-joon unsealed the Demon King?
“Yes. It’s the subjugation of the Demon King.”
Kyung-joon nodded at Lupera’s words.
Lupera tried to get up from her seat, saying, ‘As expected.’
Since the purpose of the meeting was the subjugation of the Demon King, there was no reason for New Devil Corporation to participate.
Rather, there was only a reason to stop it.
However, there was one thing that needed to be addressed.
“But the one you’re subjugating won’t be the ‘Demon King of Demons’ that you serve.”
“……What do you mean?”
“The Demon King that will be resurrected this time, no, the Demon King that will be newly born, is completely different from the Demon King of 700 years ago.”
Ding.
Saying that, Kyung-joon showed a long status window to all the leaders except Miharan, who wasn’t here.
It was in Huma’s hip pocket folder, the future world he had predicted.
The status window described the world 700 years later.
『Descendant. Infinite Knowledge Seeker.
You may think that the Demon King sealed 700 years ago is your enemy.
But by the time you read this, you’ll know that’s not the case.
Especially if you received the Parallel Imprinting that I entrusted to the Demon King.
……(Omitted)……
Just as there are no eternal allies in the world, there are no eternal enemies either.
But new allies and enemies are always born.
After connecting with the different world called Earth, I had this thought.
And that thought has led to a very high degree of certainty, based on my research so far.
Infinite Knowledge Seeker.
And the Seven Heroes and those who follow in their footsteps.
The moment you see this, you must abandon the thought that the Demon King of 700 years ago is your enemy as soon as possible.
The Demon King, the new Demon King, is different from the Demon King of 700 years ago.
In the process of the seal being broken, a second Demon King will be born, and this cannot be delayed or stopped in any way.
The second Demon King is probably an otherworlder.
If this is not handled properly, the World will face a much greater chaos than 700 years ago.』
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