Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 634

Chapter 634: He’s Outside!
After the previous king and queen were killed by the demons, the current king took over at a very young age, and he had been forced to mature quickly in order to continue leading the army during the period of war. If not for the many advisors who made sure to help him with his decisions, he wouldn’t have been able to keep the army afloat at all.

So right now, the king had developed a slight dependence on the advisors, and out of all of them, Ephraim was the one person whose words he never doubted. If Ephraim said that the conditions he gave the demons were fair, then the king believed him.

But some things still didn’t make sense to the king.

“Then why is the demon lord attacking us too? If he is only angry with the demons, shouldn’t he only be attacking them?”

The king asked this, and Ephraim shook his head before saying that he was sure it was just the demon lord’s demonic personality at work.

“All demons are bloodthirsty. Something like this is not beneath them. He came to us for peace, and we kindly hosted him, only for him to end up doing this.”

“Wait! You can’t go in there! I said –!”

“Get your hands off me!”

Slam!

The sound of quarreling reached the throne room from outside before the door leading into the room was thrown open forcefully! The guards in the room all activated magic circles and pointed them toward the person who had just entered.

James, the son of Duke Grant, was breathing heavily as he looked around the room. He turned to the king in the distance, and he bowed his head to him before he spoke up.

“Your Majesty –”

“James, what is the meaning of this?”

Ephraim admonished James in annoyance, and James tightened his hand into a fist before looking up and speaking.

“Your Majesty. I have come to make a request. I asked to meet with you, but the guards outside refused me. I did not see any other way.”

The king hummed again in that childish way before telling the guards around to stop as he asked James what it was that he needed.

James took a few breaths to calm himself. Now that he finally had his audience with the king, he had to make sure he made good use of it. After the attack on Duke Grant’s castle by Mark, James was beaten to near death, and his father’s arm was taken by the demon lord during their fight. It was only due to sheer luck that none of his family members were killed in that battle. They couldn’t keep doing this.

If things continued the way they were going, then the demon lord was going to eradicate their forces. They didn’t have the power to stand up to the demon lord, and even if all the big families came together to fight the demon lord, James still didn’t think they would stand a chance.

James spoke up.

“Your Majesty. Over the past three days, the demon lord has laid waste to no less than two thousand soldiers in both the demon and angel armies. He is a force we cannot comprehend, and as of now, I do not think there is anyone alive capable of standing up to him in our army. But we must remember that before he became the bloodthirsty monster he parades himself as now, he was advocating for peace. He came here to ask us to sign a peace treaty, and your advisor, Ephraim, gave him a series of impossible conditions that led to this situation!”

“Impossible conditions? What conditions?”

The king turned to Ephraim curiously as he asked this. Didn’t Ephraim say that the conditions he gave the demons were perfectly sensible? If so many people were saying that there was something wrong with the conditions, then the king could no longer just ignore it.

Ephraim cleared his throat before speaking.

“I simply told the demon king what he would need to do in order for us to grant him the peace he wants. We have suffered a lot at the hands of the demons, so it is only right that they pay back what they have taken.”

The king asked Ephraim to say what the conditions were, and Ephraim called in a guard to retrieve the agreement and bring it to him. Once the guard returned, Ephraim handed it to the king to read.

“Ephraim. Isn’t this excessive? No one would accept this!”

The king exclaimed once he read through it all, but Ephraim leaned down to whisper in the king’s ear before anyone else could talk.

“Your Majesty, this is the bare minimum that is needed for the people to be satisfied. Announcing a peace treaty with the demons was always going to make the citizens worry. It is better to announce their surrender and appease those that have lost a lot to them.”

The king hummed curiously as he heard this. Was that really true? Would it be better that way?

James watched what was happening with a narrowed glare. James had been close to convincing the king about the peace treaty, but he could tell that Ephraim had said something to change the king’s mind back and disregard everything James had said. Did this bastard wants them all to die?

“Your Majesty, if you’ll just allow us to meet with the demon lord and talk! I’m sure you’ll understand that—”

Gong~! Gong~! Gong~!

The sound of the warning bells announcing an attack echoed through the central city and drowned out what James was about to say.

And before anyone could react, the castle shook!

BOOM!!

A massive explosion suddenly went off outside the castle walls! Everyone shook from the tremors that traveled through the ground, and Ephraim quickly shouted out for the guards to go and see what was going on!

Many of the guards ran out of the room to go and investigate, and Ephraim told the king to not leave the room no matter what. This throne room was the most protected place in the entire castle, so they would be safe there. James quickly got off his knees and moved out of the room with Seraph to see what had happened. James felt his eyes widen as he looked out the window at the side of the long hallway outside the throne room.

A large plume of smoke was rising from a massive fire near the castle entrance. Hundreds of civilians were running around desperately to try and save themselves, and the sky had darkened with massive bolts of electricity slowly gathering above them! Was the world coming to an end!? James could only think like this at first, but he immediately shook his head as he focused again and looked past the smoke from the fire to the person standing on the grounds.

The demon lord was holding two soldiers by their necks while crushing a third one to death under his feet and glaring at everyone surrounding him. His hands were stained with blood, and every now and then his body would flicker with electricity that would shock the people around him and prevent them from even getting close!

Mark’s gaze swept over the civilians and soldiers all around him impassively before his eyes fell to the many dead bodies that were scattered on the floor around him.

On a normal day, Mark would feel bad about killing these many people since it was not in his nature to be bloodthirsty against those who weren’t trying to harm him, but right now, Mark just didn’t care.