Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 474

“It’s already too late.”

Forzia couldn’t hide her bewilderment at Lee Rowoon’s firm reply.

“What do you mean…”

Her attitude seemed to suggest she couldn’t understand.

“They’ve already started moving.”

Lee Rowoon drove the point home to Forzia.

At first, Forzia seemed clueless.

“……!”

But soon, her eyes widened in surprise.

She had felt it too.

“The candidates…!”

The children of the Demon King Berzena.

The true nobles who currently ruled Gehenna….

“They’ve started moving?”

That they were moving.

According to Forzia, the candidates were attacking the gaps to leave Gehenna and enter Earth.

The fighting between them had temporarily subsided, and they were consolidating their respective territories and gathering strength.

Those candidates had finally moved.

“I don’t know how this happened,” Forzia said in a sincere voice, as if asserting her innocence.

And.

“I know.”

Lee Rowoon also knew the truth.

Who was the culprit behind all of this, and what was the cause.

“Indeed.”

There was only one.

“It’s her.”

The Demon King, Berzena.

This was her doing.

“If it’s her… ?”

Forzia looked flustered, as if she understood Lee Rowoon’s words.

“It’s been 100,000 years since she showed herself. She has only been waiting for her successor.”

But.

“Her?”

Was he saying that the Demon King had interfered in the current situation?

And Lee Rowoon looked at Forzia.

“How much time did you spend with her?”

She was the Demon King’s child.

However.

“…….”

It was as he expected.

“She must have created you and then disappeared.”

They had never seen the Demon King in person.

Or at least, not Forzia.

There were only the memories imprinted at birth, the commands engraved in their demonic power.

None of them would have spent a long time with Berzena.

That’s why they didn’t know.

“She is…”

Berzena.

“A meticulous and calculating person.”

From her story, it was clear that Berzena was not only a genius but also had the ability to plan and execute her plans.

-I can’t understand what’s going on in her head.

The Martial King and Sword King Masters had given up on understanding the Demon King.

-The mastermind behind this plan is the Demon King.

Even the plan to take in Lee Rowoon, raise him, and then pit him against Chaos was created by Berzena.

She had created the candidates.

‘If she was waiting for me.’

It was highly likely that the subsequent situation was also planned.

This was the proof.

The clash with Forzia.

And then, that clash echoed throughout Gehenna.

The fight that took place in Forzia’s territory was supposed to be completely sealed off, but it had spread throughout Gehenna.

This couldn’t have happened without someone’s intervention.

And that intervention was.

“You do know where this is, right?”

Forzia’s territory that she had protected.

Or rather, before that.

The Demon King’s Castle, Beze.

It was a sanctuary.

“……!”

Forzia’s eyes widened even more, as if she finally understood everything.

* * *

‘How far ahead did Master see?’

That he would come to Gehenna, meet Forzia, and refuse to lead Gehenna.

The method to force that to happen.

“Incute is heading towards Forzia.”

There were currently two candidates heading towards Forzia’s territory.

One of them was Incute, known as the Annihilation Marquis, who sensed the movement of Gehenna through the power of Forzia’s territory.

And.

“Grand Duke, Pajira.”

It was said that Grand Duke Pajira was also heading towards Forzia’s territory.

“…….”

Indeed, their energy could be felt even here.

Their energy became clearer and clearer as the days and time passed.

“…Monsters.”

Partizan also felt it and muttered to himself.

Lee Rowoon clicked his tongue at Partizan’s poor expression, but it wasn’t wrong.

‘Monsters.’

Just like Forzia.

No.

“They are predators who have devoured anywhere from a few to dozens of candidates.”

They were stronger than Forzia could ever compare to.

“The balance of Gehenna was already somewhat established.”

Through the candidates’ predation, the difference in their power had reached a certain balance.

There were candidates who could be called strong, but even those who were not as strong could exert considerable power within their territories, so no one moved easily.

So they had turned their attention to the outside, not Gehenna.

“A way to break the balance has appeared.”

Instead of the arduous task of piercing through the gaps, an easy way to disrupt the balance had emerged.

“Successor.”

The true successor that Berzena had prophesied.

“With your power, the balance will collapse.”

The candidates had begun to move, coveting the power that Lee Rowoon possessed.

“That power isn’t just about lending a hand, is it?”

To take sides.

To give teachings.

It wouldn’t be something like that.

Just like Gehenna’s past and present.

“Predation.”

It was to devour him.

“It’s an unavoidable situation to fight.”

Unless he left Gehenna, their pursuit would continue endlessly.

Then he had no choice but to fight.

That was how the balance would be achieved.

If Lee Rowoon was killed.

‘That would be the end.’

But if Lee Rowoon won and overcame it.

“Does that mean I have to accept Gehenna in the end?”

Gehenna would be subjugated to Lee Rowoon.

“What about the other candidates?”

Lee Rowoon asked Forzia.

She had already declared herself Lee Rowoon’s guardian and subordinate, and was reporting on the current situation.

In any case, it was fortunate for Forzia that she had inherited the Demon King’s will.

“They haven’t shown any movement yet. They’re probably watching the situation.”

Or perhaps they were aiming for an easy victory.

“But there’s something strange,” Forzia said.

“That Pajira, of all people, would move….”

Grand Duke, Pajira.

He was said to be one of the three closest to the Demon King’s level in the current Gehenna.

He was the one who had been waiting quietly, not piercing through the gaps or devouring others.

“The first to arrive will be….”

And the first to arrive at Forzia’s territory would be.

“Incute.”

The Annihilation Marquis, Incute.

He was the owner of Incute’s territory, which was relatively close to Forzia’s territory, and he would be the first to arrive here.

“They are….”

Forzia said.

“They are different from me.”

Forzia said.

“I have not devoured any candidates, nor have I increased the size of my demonic power.”

The ways in which a demon with a title could become stronger.

Forzia had given up on all of that, and had simply been guarding this territory of Forzia.

Also, she did not receive the demonic stones, a kind of tax that could be collected from the territory’s inhabitants, nor did she absorb them.

“The weakest among the candidates.”

The weakest among the candidates.

“However, the Annihilation Marquis is one of the top five strongest candidates, and there is a huge gap between him and me.”

Lee Rowoon had overwhelmed Forzia, but it might be different when facing Incute.

“So?”

Lee Rowoon asked.

Even though his thoughts were a little different.

“There must be a reason why you’re saying that?”

Forzia didn’t seem like someone who was just spouting words without thinking.

“There is something that has been prepared.”

Indeed.

“Is it because it’s a sanctuary?”

Also.

“Master… is this it?”

This must also be part of Master’s plan.

* * *

Beze.

This place, which was once Berzena’s Demon King’s Castle, was once called a sanctuary, but it had lost its glory over time.

The candidates.

-This is my given qualification and right.

They took the Demon King’s legacies that had been left in Beze one by one and left their territories.

Forzia couldn’t stop them.

As they said, those were the rights given to them.

Also.

-I’ll leave Beze to you, so shut up and stay put.

In order to avoid conflict with the candidates, Forzia had to let them go.

At first, she thought that was their way.

They would leave Beze to carry on the Demon King’s will, but they would keep the time they were waiting for in their positions.

But what happened was mutual slaughter.

The candidates devoured each other and coveted each other’s power.

Also, in the process.

-Hand it over.

They stole each other’s legacies.

Legacies that were combined and unified, and those who wielded them.

All that was left for Forzia was Beze, this land.

“There is something I have been protecting,” Forzia said.

“It is my remaining right and legacy.”

Even so, there was something left for her.

The Demon King’s Castle, which had been damaged and destroyed because it could not match the power of Berzena in the past, even though Forzia was managing it.

Lee Rowoon and Forzia entered the place where access was forbidden by Forzia’s orders.

Rustle.

As if telling the story of time, the remains of the castle crumbled as they stepped forward.

All of these things had been maintained by magic power, so the Demon King’s Castle, which had not received the Demon King’s power, was merely maintaining its shape and dying.

“It’s an old place where only the shape remains.”

Forzia led the way, dragging her white dress.

The debris that was swept away in her wake seemed to be making a path.

“Even so.”

Forzia turned her head slightly and looked at Lee Rowoon.

Sway.

In the moment when the veil was briefly lifted by the blowing wind, she was smiling brightly.

“You can feel her, can’t you?”

At Forzia’s words.

“Yes.”

Lee Rowoon replied.

She was right.

The debris that was broken and scattered.

What remained within it was.

Clench.

The debris that was clenched in Lee Rowoon’s fist scattered and turned to dust.

“I will give you my legacy.”

Forzia.

“Please, lead Gehenna.”

That was what she wanted.

“I can’t promise that. But….”

If it was an unavoidable fate.

“I won’t avoid it either.”

Finally, at the center of the debris.

The two arrived at the center where the most powerful magic power could be felt.