Chapter 501 - 502 – End of the empire – Part 3.
The hordes of the countless demons poured out of the city gates.
Their number were overwhelming to the point many would fear facing them.
However,…. They were annihilated. All by the group of the six people.
And reason how they did it?
Was it because they were strong?
Wrong.
The demons were the ones that were truly weak.
"…"
"I don't get it." – said Rampage as she stared at the countless corpse of the demonic hounds.
"Why the hell did they send an army of the low level and low rank demons? I mean, even if they look down on us, they are not that stupid to think this would take us down."
"…."
"Say…. Don't you….. Where the fuck are the players?!" – said Shri.
"!"
"Yea! Where the fuck are they?!" – said Blueberry before then flying high into the air and equipping back her goggles.
"…. This is weird, in more than one way." – said ClownFrog.
"First an army of an weak demons that had an no hope of winning against us…. And now even an lack of an players attacking us? Hell! The remaining rankers should had launched an attack with the demons. As weak as these demons would be, they can still serv as meat shields."
(I even finished assembling my army.) – though ClownFrog as his army of demons, undeads and elementals were ready for battle.
"…"
"Say, can players be used as living sacrifices to summon demons?" – asked Rampage.
"…"
"They can." – replied ClownFrog.
"However, unlike sacrifices made using NPCs, the players suffices are less potent."
"Meaning that you won't get an 100% value from sacrificing an player, however there is also an question of the "quality of an offering" and that also affects players."
"Still, even though sacrificing players would be far less effective, it doesn't mean that it can't be done….. You are suggesting that this Kamil guy had killed the rankers to summon demons?"
"Well, isn't this reasonable explanation?" – asked Rampage.
"I mean, we would had attacked ages ago by them by now."
"…. True…. It would be an highly likely scenario." – said Oron.
"But isn't this stupid?!" – said Shri.
"I mean these demons weren't even an warmup for us and the rankers guild COULD had at least damaged us…. So, it doesn't make any sense at all why would they do that. Hell, shouldn't we at least be fighting some high ranking demons at least? And I'm talking about few, not many."
"I get what you are saying…. But the question would be "why"." – said Oron.
"Why are we only spotting low rank demons and why the players are missing?"
"Honestly both of these situations are…. Way too conveniently for us."
"There are no high ranking demons and no players attacking. Hell, forget the rankers, we haven't even encountered some random ass players that are not even part of any guilds."
"…"
"Let's go." – said ClownFrog.
"MY BEAST! MY SOLDIERS! MY MONSTERS! GO AND WRECK THE HAVOC!"
The army of the ClownFrog monsters began marching towards the city and before long, they reach it, confronted the demons guarding the gate and walls… But these demons as well were far too weak to stop anything as the ClownFrog personal army easily ravaged through everything and easily destroyed them, allowing the army to enter the city while also allowing the group of the guild members to easily enter city.
"…"
"Jezus. This place is already big mess before we got here?" – said Rampage as she looked around and saw destroyed and burning buildings all around her.
"I'm here!" – said Blueberry as she landed down back next to the group.
"I looked around and there are people fighting the demons."
"But I couldn't find an single person that resembles an player."
"…. Welp…. Just fuck it?" – asked GreyHunt.
"Fuck it." – replied ClownFrog.
"My servants! Destroy the demons of the Oin empire and all those who would fight alongside them!"
"Massacre them all!"
The army of the monsters began pouring into the city and starting ravaging everything, they see, hunting down demons and pretty much killing them with ease.
"…." Destroys demons of the Oin empire"? You are planning on sparing the civilians?" – asked GreyHunt.
"No. That wasn't my original plan…. But right now, circumstances changed." – said ClownFrog.
"Not only that, but as soon as I stepped inside that city, my [Magic Detection] and [High Magic Detection] had been ringing nonstop."
"This entire city has been turned into sacrificial grounds if what I'm thinking is true."
"Kill people, more demons would spawn."
"This would somewhat explain why the demons are just going around killing people…. And would also explain why the demon rank is so low."
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"Why is that? I mean the low rank?" – asked Rampage.
"The demonic gateways usually require preparations and different kind of gateways have different effect."
"If we consider how many demons are here and how low rank of there are…. Then its quiet obvious with is it and how it works."
"it's just that obvious…. To the point it makes this desperation seems completely stupid."
(I would get if they…. Wait, maybe they can't summon high ranking demons?!)
(Maybe it's not like they decided to summon hordes of the small flies demons, but instead they just couldn't summon strong demons?!)
(But they should have the ancient demon arm that the hell lord gave to the emperor…. What is going on? With that thing it should work as an catalyst.)
"Tch. Advance." – said annoyed ClownFrog.
"N-no! Wait! Please stop!" – said the woman as she was running away by the demonic hounds before then having her path cut off by the flesh abominations.
"?!"
"N-NO! I DIDN'T- "
The undeads ignored the woman and attacked the demons, killing them and leaving the woman alone.
"?"
"W-what?" – said confused woman as the undeads ignored her and other civilians and just chased around demons, murdering them.
"…"
(Jezus…. Even though we came in here, the demons are not giving us all of their attention, they are just attacking they can see… This is beyond pathetic.)
(I guess the person who summon these demons don't even know how to properly control them, at the best he could do was to point at one direction where we were and have these demons run at us.) – though ClownFrog as he didn't even bothered stopping as the demon hounds rushed at him and bit his feet, he just simple lifted his leg and crushed all the demons like insects with his stomp.
(Hell! This isn't even battle!)
The group just marched through the city with ease as none of the demons were even able to slow them down and while they were marching, the ClownFrog private army was completely obliviating the demons.
Sometime passed and the group managed to arrive at the castle…. Or what remained of it.
"…Damn. That entire place reeks of the demonic mana. It's like it had been infested." – said Oron while using his demonic eye.
ClownFrog pointed with his staff before then blasting the entire entrance gate with lava without warning, completely destroying the entire thing.
"I want to end this." – said ClownFrog as he took on his humanoid form and entered the castle alongside the others fallowing right behind him/
The group easily entered the castle and upon entering it they found out that the entire castle interior was destroyed and it was now filled with the soldiers that had been corrupted and transformed into demons.
But without even batting an eye, ClownFrog just pointed with his staff and unleashed the tornado that had completely torn to shreds the enemies as well as wrecked the walls of castle.
"…. Are…. Are you angry?" – asked Blueberry in her humanoid form.
"I'm." – replied ClownFrog.
"[Dragonian Territory]."
"…"
"Below us." – replied ClownFrog.
The group began bombarding the castle, destroying its floors and trying to find the entrance to the underground, before then finding out an way downwards.
The group took the underground stairs and found themselves in the underground laboratory…. But even if was completely wrecked as demons completely destroyed everything.
And once again, the demons were beyond weak, causing them to get instantly destroyed.
"…"
"Oron." – said ClownFrog.
"On right. I didn't even needed to use detection." – said Oron as he pointed at the hidden entrance that had been completely burseted open, making the hidden entrance being completely exposed, allowing the group to take the second set of stairs and head into even deeper parts of the underground.
After reaching the end, the group found themselves in underground that seems to be facility fully related to the demonic arts.
However, unlike two places before, this place was completely abandoned…. Or more exactly, there were corpse of nobles everywhere.
"…" – ClownFrog stopped for an moment, staring down on the corpse on his path way, before then relumining walking on top of them, heading to the deeper parts of pathway before then arriving at the giant underground open space.
"…Y-Y-o-u came!" – said the distorted man voice from the pit surrounded by blood and carvings.
"…."
"Are you Kamil Korak?" – asked ClownFrog.
"Y-y-e-s! I-m!"
"N-O!"
"I-M!"
"I-M N-N-E-W! T-R-U-E!"
"OIN ERUN!" – shouted the creature that once was an human, but now was an monster distorted by the demonic energy while his own arm looked like it did not belonged to it as it was over three times bigger than its already enlarged body.
"…"
"No. You are not Oin Erun." – said ClownFrog.
"You are disappointment."
