The human-demon negotiation ended with this conclusion, drawing to a close.
Reji had long departed.
Leon, who was cleaning up the aftermath on site, intentionally sent the other apostles away, having them return to their respective posts, leaving only Eileen with him.
Eileen naturally understood his intention.
Rather, it could be said that the other demons were simple-minded, so they wouldn't consider so much.
But the two of them, as the decision-makers of the demon race, had an indisputable fact. From the perspective of the entire demon race, the King's choice to slaughter all the surrendering human nobles here undoubtedly did more harm than good.
"If Lordan were still here, he would probably like these nobles very much," Leon spoke first, as if joking, but actually had a deeper meaning.
From the human perspective, this group of nobles was undoubtedly traitorous, guilty of heinous crimes, selling out the entire human race. Even from their later statements, such as not allowing humans to popularize magic, and carrying out various exploitations and oppressions to constantly tighten the reins on humans...
If the Demon King truly agreed to rule the world according to their plan, the human race would certainly have no chance of turning the tables. The entire race would decline further and further until it perished.
Of course, this was from the human perspective.
But from the demon race's point of view...
Wasn't this the revenge they hoped for?
That's why Leon now wanted to talk to Eileen alone.
The Wisdom Demon believed that Eileen must have also seen it.
The Demon King... Did not want to destroy humanity.
On the contrary. Even from today's massacre, Leon vaguely felt that the Demon King seemed to want to help humans, hoping that humans could become strong again.
That's why Leon had to keep Eileen behind to talk alone.
The Wisdom Demon knew that Eileen hated humans the most.
Because Eileen's parents, the previous generation's Demon King and Succubus Apostle, died under the blade of the human hero, and the entire Succubus race was wiped out without exception, leaving only her as the sole survivor.
After sensing the Demon King's intention, would Eileen have a change of heart towards the King?
Would there be cracks?
Doubts?
Because frankly speaking, the vast majority of previous Demon Kings...
Leon carefully recalled that even if the Demon Kings had different styles, some may focus on slaughter, some like wealth, some like beauty, and so on...
But all Demon Kings had one thing in common - they rarely spoke.
Their words were as precious as gold.
As for their interactions with the apostles, there were some, but extremely few. And usually after interacting with each apostle a few times, apart from daily work, they never came again.
As for the Demon King's daily work...
In most cases, it was he, the Wisdom Demon, who first planned a goal or mission for the Demon King, a general direction of attack, and then the Demon King would go and concentrate the demon race's power to carry out the conquest, battles, and so on.
So when Reji, the new Demon King, was summoned...
Seeing the new Demon King actually take the initiative to hold a meeting and actively assign them tasks, Leon was so surprised. It was also at that moment that he realized the new Demon King was different from all the previous ones.
Later facts indeed proved this point.
How many generations of Demon Kings had never made Eris like them so much that she was willing to appear as a little girl, as a Decay Demon?
The same went for Shadow Demon Shermen. In Leon's impression, Shermen was always an ice cube to many other Demon Kings, never speaking more than a few words, also a representative of silence.
But in just a few days with the new Demon King, Shermen had already changed greatly.
As for the Wicked Demon and the Flower Apostle...
That goes without saying.
Throughout the entire history of the demon race, the new Demon King was the first to be able to slay apostles in his position and even re-establish a new apostle.
Everything proved the uniqueness of the new Demon King.
Because of this. In fact, Leon had long had a vague premonition of this day.
The Wisdom Demon believed that if he could think of it, that special new Demon King must also be able to jump out of the rules and understand the price of being the Demon King.
So now there were two choices before them apostles.
Either destroy humans to complete the revenge, and under the power of the rules, the Demon King disappears, leaving them apostles to continue finding the next target and carry on the ancient, unchanging heritage of the demon race for thousands and thousands of years.
Or... Leave the humans, and even protect the humans.
Because as long as humans are not destroyed, then the current Demon King, this most special King, will be their eternal King.