Chapter 183: Descent of the King

"YARGH!" With a single swing, hundreds of monsters would perish. I know that this greatsword has no weight but when I swing it, I feel like it adapts to my strength. It maximizes it to its fullest potential. That's why I feel intense pain every single swing.

Veins were nearly popping out off my whole arm up to my shoulder and I felt it being dislocated. But the Demon King's Form is instantly regenerating that before I could feel the pain with the purple flame I manifest.

Before I could take a good long rest, thousands of monsters jumped on me. "Can I take a rest? Like damn!" I summoned another copy of the Demon Sword of Acabar. It was just a hollow copy of it with the purple flame. I hopped on it and flew higher and higher until I decided to stop.

Thousands of flying beasts like gryphons, imps, harpies and all that other stuff came rushing at me. "Hellfire's Chakram!" A giant circle of purple flame surrounded me and began to spin in unimaginable speed. Everything it touched burnet and was torn in half no matter what it damaged.

I don't know how long I've been fighting in here. Honestly. It has been so long that I lost count. First time it was just hours of fighting. Then it turned into a day. Into a week. Then a month.

Honestly, I don't know how long I've been here and how will it affect the time in the outside world. Is it longer here to the point that I just spent about a month or a week in the outside world. Or is the time here speeds up the time outside to the point that I spent several months or even a year. I don't want to just keep training here either way since I still have some things to do with the serpent union.

"Fallen's Wrath!" With my sword, I accelerated downwards with great speed like a jouster with his lance in front. But in my case, the sword.

As I fell down, cracks opened from the space like a tear from reality itself and pillars of flames came rushing out burning everything in its view.

I stood upon the thousand burnt bodies and I felt joy as I saw that no more monsters were heading my way. I flew to the very top of the corpse pile and stomped on the corpse there. "Haha... HAHAHAHA!"

"Good. You defeated them all. But that time you took... Was pretty long." The former Demon King muttered.

"How long was that..?"

"Three months."

"Three months huh... I felt like the monsters you released were spawning in endlessly. I thought this fight wouldn't end. This form is powerful but the area of its attacks are pretty short."

"Its because your still at the start. It'll grow stronger. Far stronger than you can imagine."

"So... can I wake up now? From the outside world?"

"Not yet. Your trial is still not over. I want to see you fare with these three dragons."

"I thought I killed them with my attacks. I guess you're hiding them."

"Hmph. Go." The former demon king waved his hand the dragons followed his command.

The first one who rushed has blue scales all over its body. It opened its mouth and a mist like thing appeared as it inhaled the air around the whole place to create a ball of light.

The two followed up. The second one was shrouded in thick and spike scales of red lining. It did the same as the blue dragon but this time it created a gigantic fireball in his mouth.

The last one has green scales around its body and it mimicked the the other two by inhaling the air and forming of what seems to be just a cloud of wind.

And as the last dragon finished its charging, they all blasted the same type of spell simultaneously. It was a blast of ice, a ray of fire and a wind blast all at the same time.

"Demon's Authority!" A shield of flame which surrounds me from any kind of attack and I'll be able to absorb the mana from their spell completely... Obliterating it.

Their spells hit my shield and in just a moment, their spell instantly disappeared as their mana was being sapped by me.

"Playtime's over!" I flew upwards to where I could meet their eye level. "Roaring Demon!" My sword grew larger to an insane amount. It was as big as... no... bigger than the dragons themselves. The shear length of this sword was insane but I felt no resistance.

I swung it with all I've got and I decapitated the heads of all the dragons in just one swing.

"Your better than I expected. You used the perfect skill in that moment. I guess I was right on passing the Demon King's title to you."

I then felt a disturbance in the area. A crack opened up from the sky and a hand came out. The former demon king stretched out his hand and grabbed it. It was like a toddler being held by a full sized adult.

The former demon king then pulled whoever it was and brought him into my space. I was surprised to see him. It was Herold.

"You've got a nasty smell around you..." The former Demon King said as he held Herold. "It's reminiscing of Tartarus."

"Where's Zieglind?" Herold asked of him.

I was about to say who I was but the former Demon King replied. "He'll be back. Now scram." Herold instantly disappeared.

"Hey! What'd you do!?" I grew worried.

"Nothing. I just brought his soul back to his own body. Anyway... I guess it's time to go out now. We've spent too much time in here. I'm sick of seeing this black space. Gate." A single word and as if a crack from reality itself was formed as a portal spawned out of nowhere. "Let's go. The demons are waiting for their master."

I walked in the portal and as I opened my eyes, I was looking up. At the ceiling. I examined my surroundings and I was in the castle back at Izgoy.

I don't know if that was all just a dream but I don't know any way of confirming it.

"Seriously?" I heard someone talk from the back of my head. "That's such a boring way of waking up after a long time. You're a Demon King now. Flaunt your power. Here. I'll help you."

As if something in me triggered, I stood upright and floated above the bed. I saw Zeta and Herold on the floor not knowing what to do.

And then, stampedes were heard throughout the whole area as the ground was being shaken by something.

Afal then busted in the door as he was grasping his chest from intense pain.

"What's happening!?" Zeta asked Afal.

"He's calling for me... for us!!! ARGHHHHHHH!!!" I've never seen Afal be in this much pain before.

"What do you mean calling?"

"The... The Demon King is calling for us!!!"

That confirmed everything. Everything that happened is real and is happening. And the voice that I heard earlier was the former Demon King himself.

Herold and Zeta were panicking.

"What!?" As Zeta said that, the stampedes got even more violent as the stomps have gotten even more powerful as the whole building began to shake. Zeta looked outside, "A demon horde!? Right now!? Damn it!" As Zeta was about to summon his Gazer form, to kill them all, I knew I had to do something.

I raised my hand at the air as if I'm trying to grab something.

"All the demons... they all suddenly stopped..?" Zeta muttered.

I could feel myself being connected to all the thousands of demons outside. I feel like I'm one of them. And I'm their leader as they wait for my orders.

"You must respond." The voice from the back of my head spoke to me again. I'm guessing the former Demon King. "Your loyal subjects has come to find you. Their leader. You will start a new era. A new Demon King has awaken. So you must show your true powers. So that they can accept you. AS THE TRUE KING. NOW! ANSWER THEIR CALLS TO YOU MY LORD!"

This is a new page in this journey of mine that I didn't expect to be taking. For someone like me who hates evil deeds to be aligned and be the leader of the demons, it's simply laughable. But this is the only path. The only path that I could take.

Angels or Demons, it doesn't matter whose side I'm on. As long as I can end this godforasken game, I'm going to do anything.

Even if it means... Becoming the Demon King himself. "Come to me... Demon Sword, Acabar!"

A giant light illuminated the whole place then suddenly disappeared. I felt the thoughts and movements of every demon that accepted my call. And in just one word, that the voice from the back of my head said, I repeated. "Kneel."

The amalgamated thoughts of the thousands of demons flowed through my mind.

"Hail, thy Demon King."

"Hail."