A dark elf with a majestic atmosphere appears from the depths of the darkness.

　This is the first time for me to see it - no, it's not.
　When I read Falcon's memories with [Analysis], I did indeed catch a glimpse of him.

''No way, ...... demon king, Gandalf ......!
What?

　Garnett jumps forward quickly and holds his sword up to protect me.

'How.'

　The Demon King Gandalf stopped under the light of the illumination and nodded with a relaxed attitude.

　There is no sign of hostility or malice.

　But that's not some joke like 'because the Demon King is kind-hearted'.
　It's simply that he doesn't see us as a threat.

　If you want to use a metaphor, it's like a squirrel that wandered into your house and after chasing it around, finally caught it, locked it in a basket and placed it on the table - that's the extent of its existence.

'Back off, Norzli.
As you wish.

　Norzuri accepted the order without hesitation and disappeared into the darkness away from us.

　I'm not sure if the Demon King's order is that absolute for him, even though he was so concerned about the rematch and humiliation.

You are not to be alarmed. I have no intention of laying a hand on you. I will allow my guards the honor of an audience with you.
Do you think there's anyone ...... who wouldn't be vigilant when confronted with a human enemy?
"Hmm. I see. An enemy of humanity: ....... I can't say that it's a mistake, but I must say that there's a bit of a misnomer in that.

　The demon king muttered something unreadable about his intentions, pretended to be convinced by himself, and then opened his mouth to me again.

'Our true enemy is not the humans who live on earth. They are the ones who breathe in a deeper realm than this one.
''The level below the 'Demon King's Castle Realm' is ...... where the enemy is .......

　I've heard before that the Demon King's Army emerged from the deepest levels and conquered the 'Demon King's Castle Realm'.

　As I recall, the source of the information was the testimony of a dwarf who was an indigenous dwarf.

''Ha!　I don't give a shit!　Are you going to whine about how humans just invaded on their own?　My master's eyes ain't knotty, you know?

　Garnett thrusts the tip of his sword at the demon king and howls.

　The distance between us and the Demon King is quite large, but Garnett, with his skills and instantaneous boosts, will be able to get into the flesh in an instant.

　However, it's hard to believe that he calls himself the Demon King to the extent that he can't deal with it.

''To begin with. You guys crawled up from the depths and conquered the dwarves, right? You have enemies below you, so what kind of reason do you have to conquer the top?

　It's a good thing that you're in a good mood," said Gandalf, who accepted Garnett's statement without a single change in color, and then replied in a clear low voice.

I've been in a very good mood," he said. I forgive you for your disrespect, and I will answer you. I forgive you for your disrespect and I will answer you, including the stain on our history.

　I could feel Garnett biting his back teeth with a grin.

　--I can't see the bottom of it.

　I'm sure you'll be able to see the bottom of the mountain, and if you compare His Majesty Alfred, the country we live in (Westland), to a high mountain, then the Demon King Gandalf is an abyss where no light can reach.

　There seems to be a generosity in him that accepts everything, but if you take one step, you'll tumble down to your death - I can't help but feel a sense of foreboding.

'Once we were defeated by our true enemy. "Once we were defeated by the true enemy, and many of our people are now under his control. It is our mission to defeat them and liberate our people.

　The humanoid-shaped abyss begins to speak indifferently.

''I conquered this land in order to build up my forces. It is a good thing that the abandoned relics of the old era are available, or so I thought ....... But the golems that lie in this land were too inadequate as a fighting force.
Then what was the point of using the golem as a weapon? Did you bother to dig up a useless thing and fix it?

　Garnett threw out what I wanted to say without hesitation.

　If the golem couldn't be used against the true enemy that was underground, and if the conquest of the 'Demon King's Castle Realm' had already been completed, there was no point in incorporating the golem into the Demon King's army as a weapon.

　If that's the case, then it can only be assumed that they were expecting a battle with a human kingdom against an opponent that could accept a golem.

The next thing we looked at was the strongest magical beast inhabiting this land, the dragon. However, it was extremely difficult to develop the technology to control them, so we were unable to place them at the center of our strategy.

　There was no response to Garnett's question, and he continued to speak in a matter-of-fact manner.

　You'll know this if you keep listening to this story - it was as if he was telling you so unspoken.

'Hence the idea of transplanting the power of a dragon to another creature,'
............!
But this too was not easy. Our experiments with our people and the dwarves did not succeed at last.

　It's hard not to think of the Falcon and Julia when you hear about the implantation of dragon powers.

'The turning point was when we 'used' a human who had wandered through the labyrinth.
'No way, a party of brave men and women is ......'
No, they are different individuals that were captured earlier. The second and third specimens ...... those you called brave were wonderfully elemental, but the research itself was nearly complete before then.

　I've never heard of anyone who had trudged through the 'Thousand Year Corridor of the Abyss' before the brave Falcon.

　But not having heard of it does not mean that it does not exist.

　In dungeon conquests, it's not uncommon to find cases where a player has stepped on a dungeon but failed to return alive.

"The results of our work with the first specimen have led us to hypothesize that a human being with less of an attributive bias than ourselves and the dwarves could succeed.
If you're human, you can create a chimera with a dragon: ...... So that's what it is.

　It also made sense that all the converted soldiers summoned by Bran were human.

　It felt unnatural that he hadn't used a dwarf who was a slave, let alone a dark elf of his own race, but it was merely because it wasn't feasible.

　And a few mysteries were also solved.

　The reason why the Demon King's Army had turned a golem, which should not be able to communicate with the 'true enemy', into a force.

　And why those modified soldiers had not been used in the battles against the Golden Knights until now.

''Demon King Gandalf!　You didn't think you guys were preparing for a ground invasion to scrounge up humans to gather material for ...... modified soldiers? ......!
Indeed. I did not expect there to be any other path to the surface than the labyrinth, and that the armies of mankind would beat us to it.

　The 'true enemy' that defeated the Demon King's army in the past.

　The study of controlling dragons as a force to be reckoned with.

　The result of his research, a modified soldier, a composite of a human and a dragon.

　A golem weaponized with a ground invasion in mind to collect materials--

"(Jesus Christ ...... connected, all in one line ......!)