The World of Masks

"Are you the Demon King · · · · · · ·?"

"Yes, I am the Demon King."

Demon King. It is commonly known as an image that leads many demons or monsters and invades the human world. Novels, movies, cartoons, and most of the protagonists appeared as the ultimate boss to be defeated. In many subcultures recently, the word 'Demon King' was far from a positive image after treating the Demon King as the protagonist or as a positive face after slaughtering humans completely and destroying the world.

'I think I've heard that before in a beginner's village · · · · · · ·.'

I remember Lancer, the general goods store owner, handing Lanpral the Demon King's progeny. At that time, I only heard it with one ear and spilled it with one ear, but I didn't know that the word 'Demon King' would reappear in this place.

"A few days ago, an army in the city marched in to defeat the bandits. At that time, some of the soldiers found a strange body."

"If it's weird, what kind of body?"

"I was drained of all my life force."

Jack's body pauses. Fortunately, Jorba didn't notice the dream of authenticity because of the anxiety that the Demon King's traces were found.

"Animals and monsters who use the beads of life to suck life out of their bodies like a mummy. If you're a traveler who's used the Orb of Life, you might be familiar with it. The problem is that the phenomenon was found in the human body."

"Isn't it impossible to steal the life force of humans and metahumans?"

Jack chirps and asks as if he has a question.

"That's what scares the Demon King. Somehow, the Demon King was able to absorb the life force of both humans and metahumans. How did they escape Ueron's blessing? · · · · · · ·"

Jorba, with her hands on her forehead as if she were in trouble, memorized the elongated prayer.

"Then why was the army again in the city a few days ago · · · · · · · ·."

"To dig up the Demon King's trail."

'This is bad.'

Jack swallows his immersion into his heart. From what I've heard, it seems that the Demon King's remains must have been the bodies of the bandits he threw away. There's no trace of them left, and I haven't robbed anyone of their life since I absorbed their life, but I don't know if that's true. There may be traces you don't even know about. Based on Jorba's attitude, it would not have ended well to know that he was the one who left the mark of the Demon King.

"Can I hear more about the Demon King?"

Calm down without creating a panic. Jack asked Jorba in a voice pretending to be ordinary.

"The Demon King. I see."

Jorba grabs her chin slowly as if she were stuttering her memory.

"But we don't know that. It's just that 50 years ago, all of a sudden, they came out of nowhere and they took over the world with a vast army of monsters, and all of the humans in the Demon King's place were taken away and turned into mummies. And the Demon Lord himself was incredibly strong."

Jorba trembles once as she recalls that moment. The mighty army and the powerful Demon King terrorized the world itself.

"The vast majority of empires and kingdoms fell, and many lands lay in ruins. Nearly 80 percent of civilizations are extinct. You can imagine that most of the civilizations on the continent have been rebuilt in almost 50 years."

Jack is appalled. Nearly 80% of civilizations are gone. Perhaps 50 years ago, the Demon King had driven the real world to the brink of destruction.

"And this city?"

"No. No matter how hard the Demon King touched the Holy Neutral City, the Holy Neutral Cities were relatively harmed less. But there was no collateral damage. Many sacred neutral cities were burnt to ashes in the fire."

God's blessing is that there is little damage. "It was Jorba who held hands and prayed for a moment.

"It must have been a massive attack."

"Yes. Even if the Demon King couldn't lead the monsters, 800,000 would be enough." "

800,000. Although it is easy for people to put tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even more than a million troops in their mouths because of the influence of the Three Kingdoms, it is extremely difficult to actually gather such large troops. But an army of monsters with physical abilities far superior to humans is 800,000.

"Scary."

"Yes. Scary. The armies of nations from the north, from the west, from the south, which felt threatened by the losers and all the surrounding countries, from far away, could unite and literally fight the Blitz War and still recover from the death of many people and talents. It's a fortunate city that was not harmed at the time, so I enjoy this culture, but if I leave this city right now, my standard of living will plummet."

It was literally a big war. It was not a battle between the kingdom and the kingdom, but a struggle to prevent the destruction of the human race itself.

"So there's hardly anything known about the Demon King."

"Yes, it is. It's only known that it came down from the far north."

'North.' '

The NPCs in this game don't know what country is beyond and what world is unfolding except where they live and where they live. Or should I say I don't really care? A medieval civilization, in a certain sense.

'Let's take the road to the north first.'

I was leaving town anyway. Seeking the Demon King's Trace would not be a bad idea to wander around here and there without a purpose.

"This is a serious situation, I hear. You say you found something?"

Jack quietly asked Jorba. This is important. If the robber's corpses or clues about themselves are found around them, we had to leave the city as soon as possible. From what I heard, I accidentally obtained a bead of life that absorbs human life, and the excuses I used and did not seem to work. There, Jack himself did not want to give up the beads of life he now had.

"Nothing. They just found a body right now."

Jack sweeps his chest secretly. He didn't seem to notice that he was the culprit. Then suddenly there was a question that was passing by Jack's brain.

"Low · · · · · · · · · · ·. But can you explain this in detail? I could be the culprit, after all."

Jorba chuckles.

"Are you the culprit?"

"No way."

Jack smashes his hand. Jorba holds her head back as if she didn't think so at first.

"Jack has already proven that he has just arrived in this world as a jewel of contract. Strangers, who have not been here long enough, have nothing to do with the Demon King."

'No, there's a lot to it.'

Apparently, Jorba didn't have the slightest notion that a novice traveler had anything to do with the Demon King. Despite the very dangerous idea itself.

"Plus, if this is really, really terrible, but the Demon King reappears, we're going to need a lot of help from the travelers."

The reputation of travellers travelling the world to subdue various monsters or explore mysterious places has spread quite far. And one of the people most closely related to the travellers, Jorba was well aware of the strength of skilled travellers. If the Demon King is resurrected, the travellers will be a great force.

'Good for you.'

There was no sign of suspicion at all. No, it was Jorba who made herself an ally in case of misfortune. It seemed like I could be relieved.

"Then you must be strong from now on. to stop the Demon Lord."

"Haha. Please do me a favor."

In order to keep his secret, Jorba had a friendly conversation with each other, smiling at each other in order to attract even more power from one person in the unlikely event. Frostbite. The two continued to talk, thinking differently.