"What… did you just say?"

The Emperor, his voice trembling, asked again, completely dropping the refined tone he had used until now, clearly in shock. Nika chuckled mockingly in response.

"If you want, I can say it as many times as you like. The Demon King Elissier is dead. I swear it on everything I and my clan hold dear."

"How… could that be?"

"What do you mean, 'how'? Didn't you all witness it? The light and darkness that split the sky over the Empire."@@novelbin@@

If by light and darkness splitting the sky, she was referring to my duel with Dullahan, then yes, that's what she was talking about. It seemed they had decided to spin it as a battle with the Demon King.

It wasn’t an entirely inaccurate description.

"Since the Demon King's death, the Demon Realm has been plunged into chaos. Every demon is clamoring to fill the void left by his absence. With the Ma-geom destroyed, there is no way to prove legitimacy. If this continues, there is no hope for the demons. That is why we have come to negotiate with humans. If you choose to reject our offer, be prepared for the consequences."

Nika fell silent, having said what she needed to, but no one present dared to speak immediately. The news that Demon King Elissier was dead was simply too shocking.

Who was Elissier, after all?

She was the one who had left the Swordmaster so traumatized that he couldn’t even properly hold a sword and had waged a war against humanity for centuries under the pretext of weeding out the weak, all while maintaining absolute support.

The fact that humans had been able to hold their own or even push back against the demons at times was solely because the Demon King hadn’t gone all out.

There was no one who could easily accept the idea that such a powerful and formidable being was dead.

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