The emperor and high priestess were murdered before their eyes.

People were bewildered by the unbelievable scene and couldn’t take any action.

It was suspicious enough to wonder if they were all having a collective dream. Following the talk of heresy, they even died?

Linus hurriedly ran over to check his father’s pulse and furrowed his brow.

‘He’s passed away.’

He had wanted to put him on trial and have him properly punished if possible.

His eyes reached the tall back figure that was limping toward the altar.

To his other half-brother.

“Head Priest Raviel! What on earth is this? His Majesty is still the emperor! You will be charged with regicide……!”

“Do as you please.”

Raviel indifferently cut off Linus’s words and placed two blood-stained daggers on the altar.

“The world will be mine anyway now.”

Linus sensed something ominous from him and urgently commanded.

“Arrest the head priest immediately! He’s also a heretic!”

“Yes!”

But before the Imperial Knight Order could reach the altar, Raviel’s mouth opened first.

“Great demon who will rule the world, Rudvalt. I offer sacrifices for you. Please answer my call.”

He blew a dark holy power into the daggers. His power that he had corrupted through t*rture-like experiments.

Then black smoke began to swirl around the altar and his surroundings.

The smoke that shot up instantly called forth pitch-black storm clouds and darkened the sky.

Because of the smoke’s protection, no one could approach Raviel.

“Ugh, d*mn……”

Linus blocked in front of his mother and grimaced.

“Grandfather, Father! It’s dangerous, so please step back!”

Dain also hid Deborah behind him and called to Bartholomew and Benjamin.

CRASH!

Soon lightning struck from between the storm clouds. The ground of the square instantly cracked and shook violently.

“Kyaaah!”

“Ahhh!”

Screams erupted from all directions. People trying to flee tangled together and it instantly became pandemonium.

“Stop! Everyone calm down!”

No matter how much Linus tried to control them, it was useless. It got worse after a hole appeared in the blackened sky.

Because the smoke that flowed out from there took the shape of a demon and then engulfed Raviel as if attacking him.

“It’s a demon! A real demon has appeared!”

“Someone save us!”

“Get out of the way! Move!”

People who realized that a demon had truly been summoned tried desperately to escape this place.

The only ones maintaining their composure were the empress and her son and the Diart family.

They clearly watched as black smoke seeped into Raviel’s body and subsided.

“Kugh, ugh! Uh, ahhhhh!”

Raviel had welcomed the demon willingly with both arms spread, but soon writhed in agony not long after.

It felt like his internal organs were twisting and boiling water was being poured into his intestines. It felt like each joint in his bones was being shattered and reconstructed.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!

“Ahhhhh!”

His flawlessly white and beautiful skin turned dark purple and cracked.

His thin and slender body without muscle swelled up tautly, and his clothes were torn to shreds.

His fingernails and toenails became long and sharp like a demon’s, and his eyes that had been brilliant like amethyst were dyed pitch black without any whites.

Red blood vessels protruded all over his face and body, creating an eerie appearance.

“Huff, huh, huff……”

Raviel, who had been breathing heavily with his body drooping, looked down at his body and burst into mad laughter.

“Hahahaha! Finally! I have finally returned to this land!”

A voice rang out harshly.

He was no longer Raviel. To be precise, he was the demon Rudvalt wearing Raviel’s shell.

The calamity that the sun god Solaris had driven away had descended once again.

The Ending Is Too Much

Noticing that something ominous was happening in the square, we hurriedly ran there.

The scene that unfolded before us was extremely shocking.

“Kyaah! Save me!”

“Huuuung!”

“Everyone run!”

People were crying and fleeing in terror and attacking them…….

‘Raviel……!’

The head priest transformed into a grotesque appearance.

Even without hearing a detailed explanation, we could tell that he had summoned a demon and become one with it.

“Grandfather! Uncle! Dain! Deborah!”

I spotted my family gathered in front and headed toward them.

But before we could meet, the demonized Raviel intervened.

“Shailyn! Watch out!”

Carl urgently embraced my shoulder and stopped me.

Thud, Raviel jumped in with a heavy sound and blocked our path, grotesquely pulling up his lips.

“So it’s you, the human my host desired.”

“……Raviel, stop this right now. This isn’t right!”

“So what? Doing wrong is what demons do.”

From his giggling face, I completely realized. The man before me was Great Demon Rudvalt, not Raviel.

That he could never be Raviel again.

His ending, where he chose to become a demon’s host himself, was this cruel.

To lose his reason and have his body stolen.

“Still, look forward to it. Considering my host’s wish, at least you—”

Rudvalt smiled showing his white teeth and approached right up to my nose in the blink of an eye.

“I’ll smash you to pieces and throw your soul into hell.”

“……!”

Stab.

The vivid sound of sharp claws digging into something reached my ears as I squeezed my eyes shut.

However, I felt no pain in my body. The moment I opened my eyes in bewilderment, I was horrified.

“……Carl!”

Carl extended his forearm to block Rudvalt’s attack and contorted his face.

He pulled me strongly into his embrace and drew the holy sword he wore at his waist and swung it.

Sizzle.

Rudvalt, whose skin burned the moment it touched the holy sword, frowned and stepped back.

“Ha! Here was another arrogant human with that troublesome sword.”

“Touch even a hair on Shailyn. You’ll die by my hand.”

Carl aimed the holy sword and growled a warning at Rudvalt.

“A lowly creature like you doesn’t know your place just because you’re holding one sword.”

“Says the lowly demon who’s endlessly arrogant just because you’ve taken over one human body.”

At Carl’s retort that didn’t back down, Rudvalt’s face hardened coldly.

He created black flames in his hand and threw them at us.

Flash!

A translucent golden barrier appeared to protect us. It was created by the tower master.

“Are you two alright?”

“……Yes! Thank you, Tower Master..”

I greeted him while barely calming my madly beating heart. Then I looked up at Carl and said.

“Thank you for saving me too, Carl.”

“……”

Carl stared at me silently with an unreadable expression, then turned his head.

“Young master!”

He called out to Dain in a loud voice. I asked, somewhat confused.

“Why Dain?”

But Carl didn’t answer my question. He kept his mouth tightly shut until Dain came despite the danger.

What is it. Why did he specifically call out Dain among my family members?

Dain, who had arrived at our side avoiding Rudvalt’s attacks with the tower master’s help, asked just as bewildered as me.

“Why did you call me?”

“This is the holy sword.”

Carl suddenly handed over the holy sword he was holding to Dain.

If it were the Carl I knew, he would try to resolve the situation with the holy sword himself, not hand it over to someone else.

‘Is it because he injured his arm because of me?’

I had that speculation for a moment, but it was only half right.

“Please hold onto it for a moment. I’ll take Shailyn to a safe place and come back.”

It was because of me, but not because of Carl’s own injury.

“What? What do you—”

“I understand.”

“Please.”

The two men who ignored my objection to being moved around arbitrarily exchanged the sword and nodded to each other.

“Shailyn, let’s go.”

“No……”

Even as I was led along by Carl, I kept looking back.

The tower master blocking Rudvalt and Dain fighting him, the other family members with the empress and crown prince.

They kept weighing on my mind, so even after leaving the square, I couldn’t easily pick up my pace.

Thinking that I couldn’t just run away alone like this, I finally grabbed Carl’s wrist and shouted.

“Carl, wait! If we’re going to a safe place, we should bring other people too!”

“Those two can’t go.”

Carl replied stiffly.

Wondering what on earth he was talking about, I forcefully stopped him.

Then Carl grabbed my shoulder somewhat roughly and said.

“It’s a place only you can go.”

Looking at his red eyes filled with a resolute light, I gradually had a certain premonition.

“……Don’t tell me.”

Carl cupped my cheek as I muttered anxiously and slowly opened his mouth.