Chapter 92: A King and his General (5)
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The office became quiet. It felt like the temperature had dropped.
I heard the boisterous laughter from outside the window. Once I glimpsed outside the window, I saw Brother Beleth with a liquor jug holding a small banquet with a few Demon Lords on the castle courtyard. Brother Beleth must’ve felt my gaze as he waved towards me. I smiled and waved back.
A languid landscape of fir groves and mounds of red clay on a hill stretched out beyond the castle walls. I drank a gulp of my whiskey as I stared out the window for a while. There was a type of eternity paused within nature itself. The laugher from the banquet grabbed on to it and dragged it out.
“Commander Paimon will end up betraying the demon world. She will be attacking her own allies. Would this not infuriate the Neutral Faction and the unaffiliated Demon Lords?”
“They simply have to create a justification. The demon world has already experienced 2,000 years of failure. The number of demons that doubt the Crescent Alliance, no, the number of demons that doubt Demon Lords themselves are not few in numbers.”
Ivar Lodbrok is a prime example. As the owner of the Keuncuska Firm and a vampire lord, she was greatly disappointed in the genuine state of Demon Lords. In the end, Ivar betrays the Demon Lord army. She devotes herself to the free company led by the hero. It is highly doubtful that she alone is the only citizen of the demon world that has disassociated themselves from Demon Lords.
“If there is no hope for success, then what is the point of these expeditions? Every time the Crescent Alliance fails, hundreds of orcs, ogres, and other monsters die. Are the Demon Lords not gambling with the lives of demonkind……? This concern is undoubtedly in the minds of the people.”
It isn’t a coincidence that the Mountain Faction managed to push the Plains Faction aside and become the largest faction of the Demon Lord army. The rise of the Mountain Faction is also reflected by the trends within demon society. Instead of needlessly wasting campaign funds and the lives of demonkind, we should try to work together with the humans―This sort of ideology has been on the rise lately.