Chapter 108 - 101: Killing Thousands

Demi-humans, or beastmen, has always been a target of ridicule by humans. Their race were enslaved, forced to sell their bodies, drugs forcefully shoved down their throats, and many, many depraved activities.

So, they rose against the humans and built their own Kingdom. But even then, that did not stop humans from torturing some of their kin for fun.

The Beast King has a deep hatred towards humans as a whole. His one and only goal in life is to slaughter humanity to extinction. After many years, the beastmen managed to become equal footing to humans, and they did the same thing to them. They hunted any humans that dared to enter their territories, and some ate human meat.

It was now their turn to become the hunters… or so they thought.

Turns out, the Kingdom of Humans summoned heroes from another dimension with the help of their goddess. And those "Heroes" defended humans, going as far as to kill the current Demon Emperor at the time.

But then, the unexpected happened.

The leader of the heroes, the Dark Hero, fell in love with the daughter of the Demon Emperor. When they learned of that, the very same people the heroes were trying to protect, rallied against them. They cursed their name, saying that the Heroes have been tainted with the evil energy of the demons. They became even more enraged when they learned that the Heroes were going against their beloved goddess.

Humanity, unexpectedly, turned against the Heroes.

The Heroes mysteriously disappeared one day, and no one knew why. It may be because they turned against the goddess, or they just hid themselves.

That was only 10 years ago, yet the people have already forgotten what happened.

And now, the current Demon Emperor and his demonkin.

The Demon Emperor right now is a half-beastmen and half-demon. His parents were very powerful people in their Kingdoms, respectively. His mother was a demon, a succubus to be exact, and his father was a White Lion Beastman.

He inherited his looks from his father, while he inherited his mother's magical power. He has a white shaggy main, rough-looking face, fierce black eyes, and 2 times taller than a regular human.

The reason he decided to invade the Kingdom of Humans was because of resources. Their Empire is running out of resources, and he had to think of something quick. His people were suffering due to the lack of food. He, the Demon Emperor, couldn't bear to look at his starving subjects and decided to just invade the Kingdom of Humans.

But he knew that his forces wouldn't be enough, and he formed an alliance with the Beast King.

The two races have something similar between them, and that all of them were forsaken by the goddess herself. Humans got the blessings from the goddess, giving them fertile lands to farm their crops, huge trees, many edible animals, and fertility. But the two races only had their strength and magic, even then they couldn't make their land fertile by themselves.

Humanity was blessed from the very start, and that irritated them even further.

And now, it came to this.

The two monarchs saw a single man in front of their army. He wore nothing but aristocratic clothes, and a long black halberd behind his back.

He was smiling at them madly as he said, "Come, don't hold back, for all of you will feel despair today!"

That riled up their entire forces, and all of them attacked without the orders from their superiors. But that matters not for the two monarchs, they, too, are quite pissed that a single human dares to challenge them all on his own.

They have an army of 600,000, while the Kingdom of Humans only have around 300,000. They have double the amount of their forces, so there's no way they would lose.

Yet, why do they have a bad feeling about this?

Meanwhile, with Hikaru…

He smiled inwardly as he thought, 'I wonder what reactions I will get from those heroes, once I've brought this entire army to their knees.'

"""""Uooooohh!!"""" The collective battle cries of his enemies.

The earth rumbled and the people of the Kingdom saw what was happening outside of their walls. They fell into despair when they saw how many soldiers their enemy had. The citizens were evacuated into the underground shelter by the soldiers of the Kingdom, this was ordered by the King's right-hand man, Cristoff.

All of them knew that their King was fighting alone, but even then they still had faith that their King would be able to defeat them.

Hikaru did not move, he only stared at his enemies.

"As expected, they're all weaklings." He said as time suddenly slowed down in his perspective.

He waved his hand and thousands of his enemies lost their heads. He ran towards them as he drew his Black Halberd, and he slashed towards them a couple of times!

With that, he returned back to his original position as time began to move again.

The moment time moved normally again, many demons and beastmen fell to the ground, and all of them lost their heads.

"Wha- What happened!?" The Beast King roared as he saw a hundred thousand of his army fall.

"Tha- that's simply impossible! How!?" The Demon Emperor reacted almost immediately.

The army stopped their advancement when they saw their comrades fall to the ground. It was… a gruesome sight. The outside of the Capital was painted in blood, heads were rolling on the ground, thousands of corpses were being pecked on by the ravens that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

There was only one explanation to this…

"You! Who are you!?" The Beast King pointed at Hikaru, who had a crazy look on his face. While he was quite far-away from the Beast King, he can still hear him due to his heightened senses.

Hikaru gracefully bowed, as if he was mocking them, and said, "I am the Monarch of this Kingdom, I simply killed some insects that dared to enter MY land."

The Beast King exploded in anger and yelled, "Huh!? Who do you think you're calling insects!? They were all precious soldiers that I nurtured myself!"

The Demon Emperor remained in silence, even though everyone could tell that he was seething in anger. Thousands of his precious soldiers died, too.

Suddenly, Hikaru started cackling madly as he said, "Hahahaha! Precious soldiers!? They're mostly worth nothing in my eyes! Here, let me show you how weak they are!" With another swing from his Halberd, thousands died again in front of the two monarchs.

Even though he wasn't touching them directly, the force of each of his swings is enough to cut reality itself! He calls this, [Reality Slash]. This technique of his isn't really a form of magic, it's just that he's physical strength is so powerful that he can grab reality now.

"Monster…" The Demon Emperor muttered, "Beast King, what are you doing!? Order them to retreat now! All of us are no match against this monster!" He roared towards his fellow monarch.

"But he's just one man! With our numbers, we can defeat h-" He was cut off.

"You imbecile! That "one man" can slaughter us all in less than a second! Do you know what he did earlier? He was able to slash through reality itself with pure physical strength! Use your brain for once!" The Demon Emperor yelled at the Beast King.

"Hey, what are you two talking about?" A voice came from behind him, and it was eerily close.

The Beast King widened his eyes.

The Demon Emperor froze. He could feel his presence behind him. He felt as if he was about to die. His heart thumped loudly, his white mane started to wither and fall off from his body. His face grew a hundred years older. His skin was as pale as white. He felt like many years had passed, even though only a few seconds passed.

He suddenly grew older in a few seconds due to fear!

"Oi, I'm talking to you, Lion thingy." Hikaru said from behind him.

The Demon Emperor turned around on top of his horse as he scratched the back of his head and nervously said, "Ahahah...hahaha, I didn't expect for your highness to come here. You shouldn't have, what if we dirtied your clothes? We were just visiting to go sightseeing, we will be retreating now. Ahahahahaha!"

Hikaru grabbed both of their throats and said, "I have little patience for people like you. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill the two of you right now?"

The Demon Emperor then struggled, "Your… hand…"

Hikaru let go of his neck, then said, "I'll give you a few seconds to speak, or I'll send you to hell..."

"Wai-Wait! We can negotiate! Uh, eh, uh, eh, how about forming an alliance! If we form an alliance, our respective Kingdoms can live in peace! We'll open our trade routes towards your Kingdom! We Demons can make all kinds of potions, and anything alchemy related! We can trade you that!" The Demon Emperor said in panic.

"How about the beastmen?" Hikaru turned his eyes on the Beast King, and released him from his grip.

"What can you make?" He asked the Beast King.

The Beast King looked at him with enraged eyes and said, "We'll never surrender to you humans. You've taken a lot from us! We can never forgive all of you!"

Hikaru's eyes turned icy as he said, "Then, so be it." He raised his hand and the Beast King closed his eyes, waiting for his death.