Chapter 2: Summon

Demon King Bel Pegor. About 500 years ago, a terrifying demon king who almost ruled the human world.

A demon dragon who cut off the heads of those who called themselves heroes and hung them on the walls, decorating the Demon King’s Castle with a whopping 108 corpses.

Even such a being was eventually defeated by the hero.

The demon king who was called the strongest demon king of his time and was on the verge of conquering the world was defeated by the holy sword.

So what is the demon king doing now?

Nothing. Meh.

Nothing.

He spends his time locked away in the demon world’s territory, sleeping every day.

The demons are immortal unless their cores are destroyed by fighting, and no one dares to fight Bel Pegor.

Bel Pegor has the power to fight two demon kings on his own.

Bel Pegor has the power to fight three demon kings on his own.

If you were to kill Bel Pegor, at least four demon kings would have to join forces and fight together.

And among them, at least 2-3 Demon Kings will die. Bel Pegor, who has such great power, has no interest in ruling the Demon World.

He simply spends his time sleeping in the deepest part of Hell, a dark place where most Demons cannot even set foot.

That is why the people of the Demon World have two conflicting evaluations of Demon King Bel Pegor.

A Demon King who reigns but does not rule.

A Demon King who lost all motivation after being defeated by a hero.

Although he himself has no thoughts.

The reason I do not know this is because I am Bel Pegor.

“Haam.”

I lay down on my bed in a human body for the first time in a long time.

I did not care what the other Demons said about Bel Pegor.

“It’s annoying Once, I poured everything into ruling the Middle-earth and advancing the Demons.

I poured my life, soul, and everything I had into bringing humanity to the brink of victory. But I lost. As if it were the law of the world that the Demon King would eventually be defeated by the warrior, I was defeated by the human warrior with the holy sword and the three heterodox warriors supporting him, and fell.

“…..”

My heart that was stabbed by the holy sword still throbs.

Even though 500 years have passed, the phantom pain still beats my chest, making me recall the memories of that day.

Today in particular is worse.

Perhaps it is because today is the day 500 years ago, when I was summoned to Middle-earth. Those days were truly amazing’

The golden age of the Demon Race.

I enjoyed immense wealth and authority that I could not enjoy in the Demon World.

I experienced all the luxuries that I could never experience in my entire life.

Which Demon captured both the Elf Queen and the Fairy Queen at the same time?

Which Demon stole the lips of a saint in front of the priests of the church?

Which Demon took the life of a female warrior in front of her childhood friend, the wizard?

There are one or two.

There were many other demons summoned to the Middle-Earth, and among them, there were definitely several other demon kings besides me.

However, no demon achieved as much as I did.

No demon was greater than me.

Sometimes, when I overheard the demons summoned to the Middle-Earth, they said that the status of the Great Demon King Bel Phegor was so great that the demons would tremble.

“I played around a bit. The first time humanity united was when we fought against my demon king’s army.

I was summoned by a certain black magician, and I took the black magician’s body and made it mine, and I successfully summoned my “main body’ to the Middle-Earth.

The Middle-Earth is a place that demons cannot enter without permission.

After the Great Heavenly Demon War, the Celestials created a barrier that prevented even them from entering the Middle-Earth, so the demons could not enter the Middle-Earth without special means. When a being from the Middle-Earth officially summons.

Commonly called the “Demon Summoning Ritual’, I was summoned by a warlock and caused quite a ruckus in the Middle-earth. If I were to do it again…

“It’s annoying’ Burnout.

I had already poured my all into it.

But everything was ruined in an instant by the existence of the warrior.

I realized. No matter how hard the demons tried to invade the Middle-earth, the warrior would eventually come out and sort everything out.

No matter how deep underground you hide and build dungeons, no matter how much you build a Demon King’s castle and place a lot of subordinates to prevent heroes from coming, no matter how much you kill humanity as soon as they appear, the hero will suddenly appear from somewhere and kill the Demon King.

Whether it’s the Celestials intervening, or the great goddess sending a random hero, someone will grab the “Holy Sword” and kill the Demon.

When the Holy Sword shoots light ‘Shoot-ash-“, the Demon will just go “Kkieeeek-!” and die. That’s the fate of the Holy Sword, the Hero, and the Demon.

But.

“Hey, you rascal. Let’s have something big.”

“Get out.”

The green-haired man wearing a monocle and a white gown, “Mamon’, came all the way to this deep underground to persuade me.

“I told you I’ll go if you come?”

“Go without me. There are a lot of guys who want to be the Demon King. Let’s put one of them in my place and go.”

“It’s meaningless without you!”

Mamon snarled and stomped his feet.

“You’re the strongest and you’re the Great Demon King, so you can leave?”

“That’s nonsense.” “Hey, don’t do that! If you just join, I’ll do it ten times, no, a hundred times!”

“I don’t plan on doing it.”

“How dare you do that without even listening to what’s going on?!”

“Hey. Here.”

Mamon shot a magic bullet at me.

I lay still and caught the magic bullet with my hand and blew it up.

“I don’t plan on going, so stop asking.” “Hey, you loser. Are you going to stop here?”

Mamon’s eyes were filled with tears.

“Don’t you think you want revenge on humans? Are you just going to die here for the rest of your life?”

“Huh. Trying to hurt my pride like that won’t work.”

I waved my hand at Mamon. “If you really want to go, do it yourselves. Don’t try to drag me in, who’s just sitting there”

“You, are you saying that knowing what’s going on in the Demon World right now?”

Mamon’s eyes began to fill with murderous intent.

“The mana flowing through the veins is now running out. There is no mana to feed the children that are being bom, so the parents are currently sharing their mana to keep them alive. If things continue like this, all the demons in this world will become ‘mortals”

” .”

It doesn’t matter to me.

“Even if the world eventually perishes? Even if the planet itself dies?”

“I’ve lived long enough, dying with the demon world isn’t so bad. No matter what you say, it’s useless. L.

” Sasah. ”

I’m going to sleep here, so don’t disturb my sleep and get out”

“You bad boy.”

Mamon left with a teleportation spell.

As someone who has studied the survival of the demon world and the demons for a long time, she would be very angry that I wouldn’t join her research, the plan that all six demon lords were trying to implement.

She actually got angry.

But that’s not why I have to step forward.

Even if their plan succeeds and turns Middle-earth into the world of the demons, I’ll just sleep in this world. I have nothing to achieve.

I have no purpose or goal in life.

All that’s left for me to do is breathe and sleep.

“I’d rather.” If the eternal sleep called death were to come, I would quietly close my eyes and accept death. Perhaps. That’s why. “.

I’ll just sleep.

” With the determination not to wake up, no matter who comes and attacks. Not sleeping in my human body, but sleeping with my ‘main body. ”

“Polymorph release.”

Gugugugu.

My body slowly began to grow.

My field of vision widened, and the magical power flowing through my body began to overflow endlessly.

“….”

It was big enough to fill the cave.

I used my magical power to close my ears, block out all my senses, and lie down on the floor. To sleep.

***

I see an illusion. Inside a dark cave. The girl is walking inside the cave with other boys and girls her age, her hands tied with rope.

There was a huge cavern inside, and inside it was an altar.

Oh, great Demon King! I call your spirit here! The girl looked around blankly.

The altar was full of people wearing black robes and white hoods on their heads.

The robed beings, who had no other features except for two holes where their eyes could be seen on their faces, each held a dagger in their hand and began muttering something.

The girl was terrified. It felt as if the dagger would be stabbed at her at any moment.

However, her body did not move. Contrary to her mind becoming clearer, her body was walking towards the altar in a daze as if it were being controlled by unidentified warlocks.

And the girl’s prediction was right.

Demon King, I offer you the 660th girl.

Please descend for us.

The girl was the sacrifice.

The girl who had been lying in front of her had her heart ripped out while lying on the altar.

Nevertheless, the girl whose heart had been ripped out walked beyond the altar like a corpse controlled by a necromancer.

661.662.

And…

it was slowly her turn.

She did not know what happened to the girl after that.

All she knew was that she was the 666th. Oh, can you hear me?!

I am sending so many girls to you for your sake!

My beloved Demon King, please, please come down here this time!

Great Demon King, Belphegor!!

The girl lay down on the altar.

It was not of her own free will.

I do not want to die. Please spare me.

Thud. The sharp dagger stabbed the girl’s heart.

And.

The girl’s blue eyes slowly began to turn red.

“Oh, the great Demon King has come!”

“..Me?”

I woke up.