Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 625

Chapter 625: Release My Son
“Release my son.”

Duke Grant spoke up once he heard the army was far enough to no longer be seen over the hill on the horizon, and Mark stood up and spoke to one of the demons at his side to carry James away.

“I’ll release him after the message has been sent to the king and I receive a response. I know better than to trust someone who hates demons as much as you.”

Duke Grant growled somewhere deep in his throat, but he eventually huffed and turned around to walk back to the tent with Mark, Arit, Riger, and Hunn following behind him.

Once they got to the tent, Mark brought out the letter he wanted them to send to the king, and Duke Grant read through it properly with a scowl on his face. There was a section of the letter where the duke was supposed to put his signature and stamp to show he was in agreement with Mark, and the Duke never felt more disgusted with himself than at that moment as he did just that.

Once he was done putting his signature, he called on one of the messenger hawks and put the letter in the holster on its back before sending it off towards the castle with a quick command.

Mark nodded and turned around to leave with the rest of his council. Riger seemed hesitant to leave as he stared at the Duke with one hand on the hilt of his sword. It was obvious that Riger wanted to kill the man, but Mark’s threatening presence was the only thing holding him back. The Duke spoke up before Mark could leave.

“What about my son!?”

Mark turned around and gave the duke a look of confusion, as if it was obvious that he wasn’t going to get his son back yet.

“I’ll hand him back to you when I get a favorable response from your king. Until then, keep your army in check, and I will do the same with mine. Have a nice day, Duke.”

And with that, Mark and his entourage turned and left.

SMASH!

The duke slammed his hand into the table, breaking it into a million pieces and sending it crashing to the ground as he cursed!

“That fucking bastard! Who does he think he is!? Just because he won one fight, he thinks I’m his slave now!?”

The duke glared at where Mark left from and cursed once more before he ordered them to pack up the tent. They were leaving!

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Inside the demon castle, things were very tense after the entire display that Mark and James put on. Most of the demons in the army thought that after Mark won against James, they would attack the angels and defeat all of them now that their strongest was defeated. It was the most rational thing to do, and the demons had already prepared and were only waiting for the demon lord’s orders to attack. But once they saw the angels leaving, they were all stunned, and they could do nothing but stare until the angel disappeared into the horizon.

Had the demon lord taken the side of the angels?

This was the thought that started to filter through the army slowly as they all wondered what the demon lord was trying to achieve. They thought that the demon lord was on the side of the angels and he had betrayed them.

But that night, Mark gave a speech to the demons about his new plans to sign a peace treaty with the angels and end this war, and the demons all realized that the demon lord hadn’t taken the side of the angels.

The demon lord had gone mad.

This was the conclusion that they all reached once they heard the demon lord’s plan.

Peace? With the angels? What sort of nonsense was this!?

Almost none of the demons in the army understood what Mark was trying to achieve by seeking peace, and there were many of them that voiced their concerns and anger very loudly! Mark weathered all of this calmly as he allowed them to let all this anger out. It didn’t matter if they screamed from now until the next winter, Mark had made up his mind.

They were going to have peace whether they liked it or not.

“This war has gone on for more than a century now, and your people have been dying. When I came here, you were on the brink of defeat and the Angels had pushed you far back into your own continent, making you struggle to survive in your own land. Is this the sort of life you wish to continue living? The demons have so much potential within themselves! You could grow to surpass the angels and become something more. This war is doing nothing but killing your children and stopping your growth. Peace is the only answer. Are you so shortsighted that you would choose battle over the lives of your own people?”

The army listened to Mark’s words and slowly quieted down as some of them began to see the sense in what Mark was saying. Mark was right about the fact that they had been losing the war badly before he came here. It was this fact that made it so irritating that Mark was willing to seek peace with the angels after everything that they did.

But recently, Mark had led the demons to nothing but victory after victory, so they were more willing to listen to what he had to say since they knew that he wasn’t talking from a place of cowardice. Mark was a strong warrior, and if he wanted to, he could have continued fighting the war for a long time, so Mark saying that he wanted peace made them wonder if he was really trying to look out for them.

“Do you think the demon lord is telling the truth? Will the angels agree to a peace treaty?”

“Like I care about that! I just want to kill those bastards! They took my child from me! I won’t rest until they are all dead!”

“The demon lord has really lost his mind. Maybe it’s because of that angel girl he brought back with him. I’m sure he’s fucking her and she made him change his mind about the war!”

“Don’t you remember what happened to that undead girl when she tried to sleep with the demon lord?”

“That demon queen will kill anyone that tries getting close to the demon lord. There’s no way he’s sleeping with an angel.”

“Those angels are nothing but trouble! Just kill all of them and take their land and women!”

Thoughts and opinions filtered through the army as they murmured amongst themselves, and it wasn’t long until the army had become divided. Half of them agreed with Mark’s opinion. They thought that the war had gone on for far too long and it was about time they ended it, but the other half, who were a lot more vocal about their opinions, thought that Mark had gone mad and he shouldn’t even try to end the war! The war against the angels was started by the angels as far as they were concerned, and they were not going to stop until they ended what those fucking birds started!

This was the state of the army for the next few days after Mark’s fight against James and the meeting with the duke, and it wasn’t long before that week had passed.

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