CHAPTER 47: PLAN TO KILL THE DEMON KING

We entered the room and she closed the door. After she told me the news about the demon king, there is something I want. I want to test something, so this isolated room is perfect.

"T-Then Grand Duchess Pandora, what d-did you want to talk to me about?" She asks with obvious nervousness.

"Tell me, what information do we have about the Demon King, and plans to kill him, after all he is a threat that needs to be eliminated soon, don’t you agree?" As if I would let it be that easy.

"W-Well, you’re right, we need to eliminate him soon..."

"We have some plans, the last Demon King took 15 years to reach his full power, so taking that into account, we plan to use the next few years to strengthen the heroes and make some alliances."

"And how would that be, where would the attack be, when would it be, you know that hiding this kind of thing in times like this can result in failures." I want to know everything, with that I will mess up their plans.

"First we plan to try to make a military alliance with the dragons, elves and dwarves...besides that, we plan to try an agreement with the mermaids," she begins to explain with a little less fear.

"We decided to try to use the ocean, as the demon kingdom has a coastline on the back, we plan to attack from there, if the mermaids give us permission to use the ocean, we can attack the demonic kingdom from the rear."

"As you already know, I will make the map clear for the route, initially we thought of using the East, cutting through the Elven kingdom, but that would take a long time since we have to move an army and ships through the dense and dangerous forests of the elves, who are very conservative with them."

Soon I remember the "Map" of the continent, nothing too complicated since it is very simple and easy to understand, as it accounts for the main races that dominate the world.

East of the continent = Elven Kingdom

West of the Continent = Dragon Kingdom

North of the Continent = Demonic Kingdom

Center of the Continent = Human Kingdom

South of the Continent = Dead Mana Forest

"That’s why we decided that if the dragons accept the alliance, we’ll go through the route that is dominated by the dragons’ main tribe, so we’ll reach the ocean, and we’ll use various vessels."

"When we reach the coast of the demonic kingdom, we will gather all the soldiers from the ships and start the march aiming at the breaches in the demonic kingdom, since the security on the ocean side is low."

"So that the demons don’t suspect, 30% of the army will attack the demonic kingdom directly from our kingdom, so there will be two attacks, but we don’t have an exact date for this yet."

"So we’ll lose about 30% of the military forces we have for something we don’t know if it will work?" It doesn’t seem like the best of plans, in fact it seems full of holes.

"It’s not quite like that, Grand Duchess Pandora, we have 3 heroes with unique abilities that can help us in this situation." I notice how she avoids calling me Pandora anymore, but I let her continue explaining.

"First, we have one with a unique passive ability called [Aura of the Glorious] This passive has been shown to be able to increase the maximum power and status of someone by 3 times, and can be used on a large number, that is, our 30% army will have this hero who will make the initial army seem like our whole army."

"Then this hero will be teleported to the army that is in the demon kingdom to help, giving this support."

’Fuck...’ Soon I notice how this passive is overpowered as hell, imagine my power 3 times greater, it’s simply insane, I need to kill this person who has this passive as soon as possible when it’s time to kill.

"The second ability is an active one, [Vision of Weakness] It allows the user to visualize weak points in anything, thanks to this ability we were able to find some locations on the map that we can use to reach the Demon King’s castle."

"In addition, if he sees the Demon King, he can tell the weaknesses of the Demon King, so he will be very useful for finding safe or flawed areas as well as helping against the Demon King and his minions."

’This seems more manageable.’ Fortunately, I literally have no weaknesses, my biggest weakness in combat is my abdomen near vital organs, which is actually used as a counterattack by the tail.

Whether it’s elements or environments, there is nothing that I have any particular weakness to...now for my servants, this ability will be a problem.

"And finally, we have the [War Cry] This active ability weakens 7/10 of the enemy’s strength who hears the sound, although the range is limited and cannot be expanded, it will still be very useful against the Demon King."

Looking at it this way, this plan is not madness, in fact, with only 3 abilities being able to make this plan work, it is dangerous.

’I need to prevent this...maybe put my troops on the back...or...make the mermaids our allies.’ The mermaids would never accept being allies of the demons, but the goddess of the mermaids is a possibility, if I can get this goddess to accept my request, I can prevent the humans from using the sea as a passage.

"Why do you know the abilities of these heroes?" I thought it was supposed to be a secret.

"...They are just some not-so-smart heroes who ended up talking too much...I apologize if I was disrespectful, Grand Duchess Pandora," she apologizes upon seeing my expression.

"I told you to just call me Pandora." She is so afraid that she doesn’t even call me Pandora.

"U-Understood P-Pandora." I prefer to be called that by her, and it’s funny to see her trembling in fear just by saying my name.

"Even though this plan is not all bad, I see many flaws, what happens if the mermaids don’t accept? Who guarantees that the dragons will give permission? Why do they think they can deceive the Demon King with the fake army?"

"W-Well, it’s still in the initial stage, this is just the basic proposal, many things will still change over the course of this time, after all, we don’t even know how much power the current Demon King has."

"Also the heroes need to maximize their levels...tell me the truth...does the church know all the abilities of the heroes?" I say bluntly, they used various tricks to have the heroes under their command, and they also have this plan, it wouldn’t be possible to do this without knowing the unique abilities of each one.

It’s obvious that they have something to know the unique abilities.

"I-I have no idea what you’re talking about Pandora, why would the church have that kind of record?"

"I never said it was a record." So they wrote it down and put it somewhere, great to know that, I need to have the hidden demons in the kingdom look for these records.

I get up from the chair and go to the chair that the "Saint" is in, after all, this girl has nothing holy about her, at all times I saw her colors were either of despair because I was near her or of manipulation.

"Tell me the truth before I cut you to pieces." I threaten her now, I realize that her power is high, I don’t know if I would win in a duel now, but she can’t notice that I’m weaker than the previous Grand Duchess because she’s so afraid.

’Celeste noticed that I’m weaker than Kaelith...’ Celeste had mentioned that I "seem" weaker, obviously she didn’t suspect anything, but she still noticed it.

"I-I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, this information is with the Pope, please don’t kill me," she curls up and hugs her knees, hiding her face while trembling in fear. It’s delicious to see this despair, I wonder why she was so afraid of Kaelith, it can’t just be because of the arm.

For a resident of a dangerous world like this, I highly doubt this manipulative saint has such a weak mentality to be afraid of me because of an arm, it must be something deeper.

I walk up to her and hold her face, making her look at me.

"I won’t kill you, but pay close attention, Saint Rosaline, if you don’t get out of my way, I’ll make you go through hell, do you understand me?" She nods her head quickly.

During all this time I placed shadow insects in her shadow, I had only used these insects once and since they were defeated quickly, I thought they were weak.

But some time ago I tested them and discovered what their peculiarity is.

’Parasitism’ They infiltrate the target’s body and modify it from the inside, I know a great revenge to do with the saint that I thought of when I saw her fear in this situation, I will corrupt this saint, from what I read in the history books.

Saint Rosaline is very proud of her position and sacred power, and I will take that away from her, for her who has lived her whole life as a saint, losing that would be worse than death, I will take away what she values most, her power and authority as a saint.

Unfortunately, these insects are slow, very slow, and only work near me, fortunately I will have plenty of time at the academy for this. And the reason they are slow is so that the affected person doesn’t notice them.

They modify extremely slowly and also move very slowly when they are inside something. But the result is efficient, although the modifications are limited, but I know that the saint’s sacred power comes from her title.

And when corrupted, she loses the title, consequently also losing her sacred power. Sacred power can be gained by having talent, as in my case, and can be gained by title, as in the case of the saint.

But in the case of the saint, if she loses her title, she loses the power. When she loses her power, I decide how I will make her suffer even more. In addition, the insects cannot be seen with magic when they are inside the body, unlike the sharks, which can be seen with magic when they are on the ground.

"Cough Cough" I start coughing up blood, and the saint Rosaline’s eyes widen.

"B-Blood" She says surprised at the fact that I’m coughing up blood.