Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 478

It was a massive army, so immense that words could hardly describe it.

A black and red tide.

Clank, clank.

The sound of armor shook the very ground.

Kuurrr, Kwaang!

It struck like thunder and lightning, as if the earth had split open, spewing forth lava and demons.

And that was, in fact, the truth.

‘…’

The Archduke.

A demon who occupied a quarter of Gehenna [a hellish realm], and the second in command of Gehenna.

One of the three closest to the Demon King, he was the general leading this army.

-Pajira.

It was Pajira.

A being clad in red armor, holding a spear larger than his own height in one hand.

‘He’s insane.’

Partisan expressed it that way, looking at the scene.

A dragon, known as the strongest among living beings, wielding power and majesty akin to a god.

That Partisan….

Shudder.

Was trembling, even if just slightly.

It wasn’t out of fear, but an unavoidable dread that all living things possess.

And.

‘I’m always amazed by your pathetic way of expressing things.’

Lee Rowoon also said, looking at the army.

‘I agree.’

It wasn’t the massive army that caught his eye.

‘Pajira.’

The existence, that one being, filled his vision, taking over all his consciousness.

In Eun [a cultivation system], there were stages of cultivation: Hwagyung, Hyungyung, and Saengsagyung.

And beyond that.

-Transcendent Realm.

And having entered the true realm of transcendence….

-Divine Immortal Realm.

Of course, it was unreasonable to think of demons within the framework of Eun.

Their species were different, their worlds were different, so their laws and abilities were different.

But because of that.

‘Divine Immortal Realm.’

Lee Rowoon could tell.

It wasn’t a fake like the newly opened Shingae [a newly opened realm], or a newly molted stage like Shaolin’s Beopcheon [a Buddhist concept of heavenly realm].

That was.

‘He’s completely broken free.’

A strongman who had long since shed his shell and stepped into the true realm of transcendence.

For example.

‘So, it was true that you were aiming for the Demon King’s throne.’

A king-level powerhouse.

The sight of a strongman that Lee Rowoon was seeing for the first time even made him feel refreshed.

However.

Clench.

Forzia stood firmly by Lee Rowoon’s side.

Her newly conceived position.

‘I am the King’s knight.’

To protect that position.

-Master, should I go and blast them with a breath attack?

Nidhogg, who was sitting on Lee Rowoon’s shoulder, raised his head and said.

-I think I can erase about a third of them.

Nidhogg was smiling confidently.

Because he also.

-Let me do it.

Because Lee Rowoon had fully awakened the Demon King’s power and grown.

He was itching to use the new power he had gained.

However.

‘Look properly before you speak.’

Lee Rowoon’s voice and gaze turned in one direction.

-Ah.

Nidhogg slowly lowered his head and.

-Kuuul.

Started pretending to be asleep.

Pajira.

It was what happened when he properly faced the owner of the power that had overwhelmed him without taking on his true form.

‘That guy… don’t even call him a dragon.’

Partisan’s voice.

Whatever it was.

Thud.

It began to move.

Even though Forzia’s territory had grown stronger with Forzia’s growth, it had no ability to face such an army.

A hopeless situation.

However.

Tap.

Lee Rowoon casually threw himself off the castle wall.

Tap.

Forzia, the Death Champions, Partisan, and even Nidhogg followed behind him.

‘Leave the rest to me.’

Partisan said.

When a territory war broke out, battles between the lords would occur.

The only ones who could intervene in such battles were the lords with titles.

The reason they led armies was.

-To attack the territory.

In a territory war, the shield that protected the territory would ironically disappear, and in the meantime, the enemy’s army would trample the territory.

The more the territory was destroyed and the territory’s people were killed, the weaker the lord’s power would become, and that would affect the territory war.

Partisan meant that he would stop the army of the Death Champions, Nidhogg, and Pajira.

Because Forzia’s territory was connected to Forzia and also to Lee Rowoon.

-Hmph. Don’t give me orders, you moron lizard.

Nidhogg’s voice.

‘Wh, what… this crazy bastard…?’

While Partisan and Nidhogg were growling at each other, the distance between Pajira’s army and Lee Rowoon and the others had already narrowed.

A massive barrier.

This barrier was the starting point.

In front of the barrier protecting Forzia’s territory….

Thud!

Pajira stopped.

Soon, the moment he declared the territory war, the battle would begin.

Clench.

His allies were tense, except for Lee Rowoon.

‘…’

Lee Rowoon, with a languid face, looked at Pajira.

And.

-Archduke, Pajira.

A voice that was too beautiful to come from within the blood-red armor echoed.

-I come to pay respects to the King.

Thud!

It was a completely unexpected situation.

* * *

Pajira was kneeling on one knee, showing his loyalty.

Behind him.

Thud! Thud! Kuuuuuuung! Kwaaaaaaaang!

The black and red tide began to surge.

Starting with Pajira, demons who seemed to be five meters tall.

Thud!

Pajira’s armored soldiers.

Thud!

All knelt down, showing their loyalty.

‘…!’

Partisan, as well as Forzia, seemed surprised by that.

They had thought that Pajira had come here to take Lee Rowoon’s power, but instead, he was taking a posture of showing his loyalty.

If that was the case.

‘Not yet.’

They could think it was just a trap to induce carelessness.

There was no possibility that a strongman like Pajira would use such a shallow trick, but this was Gehenna.

Also.

‘…’

Lee Rowoon would be a strongman that Pajira would acknowledge.

But what happened after that was.

-I, Archduke Pajira.

It was something that even Forzia was shocked by.

-Will subordinate all my authority and existence to the new King.

At that moment.

[Pajira’s request has been accepted.]

The language of the world began to echo.

Touching the laws, the laws moved.

[Pajira is subordinated to Forzia’s territory, the new Demon King….]

Zzzzt.

[Subordinated.]

At that moment, a bright light and radiance spread from Pajira’s entire body.

The light collided with the barrier that was surrounding Forzia’s territory and began to merge into one.

Forzia’s territory, Pajira’s army.

The moment everything was sucked into the unified radiance.

Thud!

Pajira once again buried his face in front of Lee Rowoon.

It was a declaration recognized by the language of the world.

In fact, Forzia could realize that Pajira was connected to her and also to Lee Rowoon.

An irreversible event.

‘Perhaps…’

Was there still something left?

‘If it’s Pajira, there might be something that could even ignore the language of the world….’

Forzia, who was still wary of Pajira, did not let go of her suspicion.

‘My King.’

Pajira said.

‘May I rise?’

A voice of a reliable knight.

Already.

‘Rise.’

Lee Rowoon seemed to have acknowledged and accepted the situation.

‘Thank you for your consideration, my King.’

Pajira raised his massive body.

And the gaze he turned was towards Forzia.

‘There’s no need to be so wary, sister.’

‘…!’

‘I have no other intentions, I have come to offer my loyalty to the new King of Gehenna…’

Pajira’s red eyes glowed beneath his helmet.

‘To the successor that our mother had planned.’

‘…!’

‘Do not say that I have abandoned our mother’s will by wandering away from Beze [a place or concept].’

Pajira said.

‘Do not think that I have abandoned our mother’s will by devouring the blood of our siblings.’

Pajira.

Kwaaaaaa-!

An even more intense power exploded from his entire body.

‘It was to collect the blood of the traitors and the flesh of the unfilial. I have no intention of harming you, who have upheld our mother’s will, or the successor that our mother had planned.’

And.

Shudder.

Forzia’s body began to tremble.

‘I…’

A sobbing voice.

‘I thought I was alone.’

Ten thousand years, the time Forzia had thought she was alone.

There were many territory people who helped her and stayed by her side, but as a candidate, she had her own loneliness.

How many times had she wanted to give up everything, thinking that she would always be alone, that she had to fight alone?

However.

‘I wasn’t alone.’

Pajira’s words were a great comfort to Forzia, who had thought she was alone.

‘Thank you….’

‘I should be the one thanking you. For protecting this sanctuary.’

The reunion of the two.

But there was no way that all of this would end with a happy ending.

Swish.

Pajira looked at Lee Rowoon.

‘My King.’

Pajira was about to say something.

‘The other brothers and sisters are in a fierce battle in the gaps of the world.’

It was a fact that she had already heard from Forzia.

‘However….’

Pajira’s aura changed.

That explosive aura was clearly showing hostility.

Pajira said.

‘Traitors.’

The other siblings who had abandoned Berzena’s will and were devouring each other.

Those who were moving for their own gain, separate from their mother’s will.

No, it was a story about something even more than that.

‘They serve a false king, and have sworn loyalty to a false king.’

‘…!’

‘Please, defeat the false king and unify Gehenna completely?’

* * *

Ten thousand years.

At first, they were candidates who had waited for a successor, upholding Berzena’s will.

But as time passed, their wait grew longer, and their hunger grew stronger.

Their reactions, as they began to leave one by one, were varied.

Some, like Forzia and Pajira, had said that they would carry on their mother’s will.

There were also those who had left simply to satisfy their immediate hunger.

-Mother has abandoned us.

There were also those who had left, resenting Berzena.

Time passed, and the wait was endless.

‘A while ago.’

Pajira said.

‘Someone appeared, calling himself the successor of Gehenna.’

What had happened far away, outside the sanctuary.

Pajira, who had thrown off his helmet and was shaking his black hair, said.

‘And he….’

Pajira seemed to have faced that being once before.

‘Indeed, he had the skills to be called the successor of Gehenna.’

‘That can’t be…!’