Chapter 683: Last Episode - Red Thread
Some parts of the history of the Demon King’s empire can only be written and illustrated in blood.
After the Gate Incident, the Demon King proclaimed the birth of a new empire. Some people put their faith in the Demon King, while others did not, leading to a deep division within humanity. This division sowed seeds of discord that sprouted in many places, igniting several wars. Though these conflicts were all stamped out, they were never fully eradicated. Instead, the conflicts only served to scatter these seeds further, ready to take root elsewhere.
But one crucial fact remained: the Demon King’s empire did not taste defeat.
If one were to ask whether there was no prosperity or reconstruction, the answer would be no. Despite the divisions and sporadic conflict, civilization was slowly piecing itself together across the continent.
And so, amidst the hesitant yet determined march of history, in the fifth year of the New Imperial Calendar...
Rustle...
Ellen surveyed the corpses scattered about this part of the blood-stained forest. She silently studied the remains of the creatures, which were neither human nor any known beast.
She seemed to be lost in deep thought, as if she were trying to imagine what they had looked like before they had been torn apart.
Ellen quietly took out a notebook and began to write. She sat there, writing, and drawing as well, though her sketches were simple. She had never been one to draw before, but somehow, it had become a part of her routine.
But why draw?
Monsters still had, for the most part, symmetrical structures, yet each one was distinct in its grotesque, terrifying, and unfamiliar form. Capturing their likeness on paper had seemed pointless during the chaos of the Gate Incident.
Still, Ellen drew.