Became the Emperor in the Hero Game

66 – Part 2 Episode 22

“… He killed the king of beasts, and now he is the king of beasts. There are so many kings in the world.”

“Well, where could there have been only the king of demons? Every star had a star king.”

“So, they’re asleep, and they’re going to wake up? In the first place, how many times have the guys called the king of beasts been subjugated already?”

On the continent, very strong monsters appear one by one with a cycle of 10 years if short, or tens of years if long.

Every time that happens, they are called what kind of king or what kind of disaster.

Some of them can be hunted by one strong Master, such as the Red Calamity that was defeated by the Black Swan.

There are also types that a country needs to subdue with all its might, like the monster that appeared when the Pale family received the duchy.

In the end, the strongest monsters recorded in history were also organized along the line of mankind.

Not even a god or a dragon, not even the lord of the mage tower, has ever been involved, so does Kiriya need to care about such an existence?

I conveyed the question to the pope, and the pope gave an answer.

“Hmm. Of course, they are also the king of demons. However, among them, there are those who are a little lower in class.”

“Is there a rank among the beast kings?”

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“According to old records, there were four beasts at the top, and all kinds of monster kings below them.”

“The Four Beasts?”

“Have you heard anything from the Grand Duke of the North?”

“The Grand Duke said that the Great War is simply a war between gods.”

“It was not wrong in the latter half of the war, so it is reasonable.

However, more people participated in the war in the early days of the war. Among them, the Four Beasts and the Witch Beast Kings were quite strong. To be more precise, it is said that their power was the greatest before the gods entered the war in earnest.”

“Does the Seongguk have records of the Great War?”

“There was no holy kingdom at that time, but there is a record left by Kiriya.”

Ah.

Well, the winner of that great war was Kiriya.

If it’s natural, then it must be natural.

“As the gods and dragons entered the battle in earnest, the monster beasts and monster kings began to be pushed back. Realizing that they could never be victors, they declared that they would fall asleep and leave the war.”

“Did the gods accept it?”

“At that time, those who were the strongest kept each other in check, so they couldn’t move recklessly, and those who were slightly weaker than that were not the ones who could defeat them without damage, so the gods tolerated them.”

“There is something I want to ask you.”

“Speak, Emperor.”

“Jim thinks that everything will be resolved if Kiriya steps in after all, right? Of course, even if Jim steps forward, I don’t think that witch beasts or the like will become opponents.”

Let me unify the continent according to Kiriya’s will, prevent death from stepping in, and deal with the awakened Demon Beast Kings.

Then what about after that?

In the end, whether it be me or my descendants, the empire will continue to rule the continent, but in that case, the influence of the castle will continue to diminish.

Even if the target wasn’t Kiriya, I would have suspected that he was aiming for fisherman geography.

“… Kiriya is currently having difficulty moving. Kiriya said she would watch the situation until the very end.”

“I don’t know why. I don’t think it would be very unpleasant if you tried to treat me as just a follower or subordinate.”

“Kiriya respects the Emperor very much, and never thinks so. However, when Kiriya moves, the wavelength is too great.”

“Rather than me uniting the continents?”

“… That’s right.”

It’s something that will have a bigger impact than the continental unification of the empire.

“… Another god? I heard that Kiriya and the World Tree are quite close.”

“Of course, the World Tree would be happy if Kiriya came down, but there are people who don’t. On the continent and outside the continent.”

At the Pope’s words, my gaze turned to the map I had spread out earlier.

A map depicting the continents and the sea surrounding them.

“Are you talking about outside the sea?”

The world in the Chronicles of Sien is different from Earth.

There is a huge continent, and there is an ocean surrounding that continent.

It is said that the sea where the giant whale lives is endless and there is nothing beyond it.

“… That’s right. You are indeed the emperor. It must not have been easy to immediately associate the sea.”

That’s right, when I first came to this world, I paid attention to it for a while.

Is this world really flat? Or is it just that people haven’t discovered beyond the sea yet? Do.

My conclusion was flat.

I don’t have any other special reason, I just thought that in a world where wizards split the water, if no one goes to the sea and returns, the end of the world will be right.

Since then I’ve been so busy, but it’s true that I didn’t have the nerve to write.

But what lies beyond that?

“Some of the losers of the Great War fled across the sea. And we made a new land there.”

“It is a new land.”

“I don’t know the official name, but it’s called the Land of the Losers. Oh, don’t get me wrong. It’s not the name Kiriya gave it, it’s because the Dragon Lord called it that.”

“So, does Kiriya care about them?”

“It’s a bit complicated. The Great War was not a fight between two camps. It was not a battle between justice and evil, nor between light and darkness. There are winners, there are losers, and there are also people who are neither. Some of them are on the continent, and some are outside, but if Kiriya is moved by the movements of the monster beasts and monster kings, there are some who will use that as an excuse.”

“If Kiriya considers me an ally, I would like to get information from them.”

When I first became a transcendental being, I felt the eyes of various gods and transcendental beings, but I could not find them. Because there was still a difference in rank.

I wouldn’t know if they were determined and showed their presence, otherwise it would be difficult to find gods outside the empire.

“Of course. We will deliver it soon.”

“Yes, then those who are asleep are the Demon Beast Kings. Perhaps death is trying to wake them up and use them.”

“… Exactly. May I ask one too?”

“Tell me.”

“How did the emperor know about death? He never said it directly, but judging from the sudden declaration of unification and the oracle’s response earlier, I think he already knew.”

“Death was behind Edelwein.”

“… I asked how you knew that, but it was a stupid question. He became the Supreme One, so he must have just felt it.”

Exactly.

I just knew it the moment I saw it.

“Then let’s get back to the main topic. The demon kings just need to know that, and will they wake up right away?”

“Since there is no sound of death, we cannot be vigilant and stop it, but the World Tree is helping us. You won’t be able to wake up the beasts right away. First of all, you must have spent a lot of effort breaking the wolf’s seal not long ago, so it will still take some time. The Emperor, let death have no place before then.”

“As you may have heard, I have already passed Heon. Now there are Xer and Anon left, please make a seat in the Pope’s name soon. That would look better.”

Reconciliation, not conquest.

One continent.

If the Holy Kingdom intervened, it would be possible to have such a form.

Actually, it won’t be that different.

“I will.”

The Pope must have thought of that in the first place. It’s probably the least bloody way.

“Let me ask you one more question. What are those wicked people? What immediately comes to mind is the devil.”

In the history of the country, there is a record that a war was waged against a demon that had awakened from a seal.

In the past, even though the emperor considered himself a descendant of the dragon and used dragon words, he would not have been an ordinary enemy if he had used the expression war rather than hunting or subjugation.

“That devil is right. They are just evil, ominous, terrible people.”

“Are they out of the continent?”

“There are many outside, and there are many inside. Many are dead, but some are still sealed.”

“Are those demons all transcendent? There is a record of it in the history of the empire, but it is old and there is no detailed information.”

“Even if the dragons took one side in the battle in which countless gods participated, the war was established. Because the devil was on the other side.”

“Equivalent to a dragon?”

“Kiriya said that the dragon lord could not move before the demon king fell, so it must be so.”

“If Kiriya can’t move, what about dragons?”

“That’s not true. The losers are enemies in the first place, and even those who are neutral won’t take issue with that.”

“Why?”

“That’s right, isn’t it a dragon? Dragons will move freely, but there will be no gods who can say anything about it. Not because I’m afraid of dragons, but because it’s so natural.”