The Guardians' Throne - The First Magic Swordsman

Laiex and Drian looked at Zaos as if he was speaking nonsense, but Dalyor's silence made them frown. As expected, Dalyor had read most of the books regarding the demon god to know what Zaos was talking about, and yet… he didn't share it with his two closest friends.

"Your Majesty?" Laiex asked.

"... What he said is true," Dalyor said after a few moments of hesitation. "I suppose since the wielders of the two swords wrote down those facts, it is a sign that they regretted their actions."

"Or maybe their descendants did it for them. The demon god didn't cause trouble for many years, after all," Zaos said. "Anyway, guide me to the library, and you can tell them what you know."

As expected, those two didn't like Zaos' tone. Still, they had to keep quiet because Dalyor got up from his throne and decided to guide Zaos and Aleni toward the royal library. At first, they imagined that the king had something in mind, but they soon changed their minds since he truly guided them toward the library. While they had entered the place a few times, they couldn't believe that he was going to let those two enter and use the place as they saw fit.

Weirdly enough, the royal library was hidden below the ordinary one. Dalyor didn't have to move any books or candle holders to make the entrance. He just had to move two shelves slightly, and then some underground passage was opened. Zaos wondered how Nyana and the others found that since it wasn't a common secret.

The place was pretty dark, but Zaos found some candle holders with Light in the Darkness, and then he lit them with magic. Everyone found countless documents in formats of scrolls instead of proper books. As expected, those were probably things written by people who lived more than twenty-five centuries ago and by the kings that lived after the demon god period.

"Did you organize these scrolls by themes or something?" Zaos asked.

"I had a kingdom to rule. I couldn't stay here forever doing that," Dalyor said. "Nor could I ask someone to do this for me. My wife didn't see any point in coming here either."

"I suppose the previous kings and queens thought the same things…" Zaos said and then sighed. "Still, Ameria came here and did some of that job for us."

Zaos pointed toward a shelf that had some scrolls on the ground, and when they went to check it, Dalyor confirmed that it was something written by someone who lived during the times of war against the demon god. The language was quite different, but Dalyot had read some old documents and recognized some things he had read in the past. In the last ten years, only Ameria could have found those scrolls… Nyana and the others found those documents, and thanks to her, they learned a lot without wasting too much time.

  Zaos, Laiex, and Drian approached the pile and grabbed some documents. Still, they only found the registered actions of the demon god during the war. Like he conquered certain fortresses using flying demons… or like a massive beast that was unstoppable and destroyed a whole unit of cavalry by itself. It took a while, but they eventually found the scrolls that mentioned his power to drain mana and an aura that could paralyze everything.

"It says here that the demon god could copy even the magic attacks that had been developed to kill him at a distance instantly," Zaos said. "That is one of Milliendra's powers… I taught her the symbols of the spells, and she succeeded in activating them on her first try, even when she wrote the symbols on the ground."

"How can we know that you aren't lying?" Dalyor asked.

"Here… break my left hand," Zaos said. "I don't feel a thing in my left arm, so I won't feel the pain."

That seemed a bit too much, but Dalyor didn't hesitate in doing that. He bent Zaos's forearm in a weird direction, and he didn't even blink… his arm turned purple, and he was acting like he was bored or something. Dalyor decided to test his other arms, but Zaos told him to fuck off.

"While this doesn't confirm her ability to learn magic insanely fast, it confirms her power to drain mana," Zaos said. "When her glove broke, her aura just by itself terrorized the other kids that we were looking after, and a single touch made one of them fall unconscious due to mana exhaustion, but I prevented his death by using a mana potion. After that, Milliendra stayed indoors for a few weeks to make the other kids forget about that."

"... Why does the mana stealing work on you, but the aura doesn't?" Dalyor asked.

"I suppose that is because I have high resistance against it… and because the aura doesn't need physical contact to work," Zaos replied. "Since the mana stealing needs it, it can't be stopped. That was why Ameria asked me to take Milliendra… she noticed that the followers of the demon god had a fraction of the same power, but it didn't work on me. As for Aleni, the aura needs to be seen… it doesn't work on those who have lost their sight."

Dalyor thought it didn't make sense since mana wasn't supposed to be something that affects sight. Still, after thinking for a while, he realized that the image of someone's face added with the aura would have lasting effects on the fear. Say someone saw the demon god once and got terrorized, the effects of the fear would be less effective if the person didn't have a proper image of him… Regardless, Dalyor didn't believe in everything that Zaos said. Still, his eagerness to read all the old scrolls showed him that he truly wanted to find a way to free Milliendra from something. If that something was the demon god or not, that was another matter.

Even Laiex and Drian were starting to think that Zaos was serious… aside from the rumors that they heard of him defeating demons and thousands of mercenaries by himself, it was a fact that he could have killed those three.