Immediately after the chanting, cumulus clouds began to roll in.
The clear sky, which had never been cloudless, was instantly hidden by dark clouds.
And what came was darkness.

''What is this........''

The old man muttered as he stared at the sky.

'Lord, what have you done?

All the people present were looking up at the sky that had been transformed.
Even the Demon Race in the grassland area was distracted by the sky.

--The gray sky.

There was an "it" there.
But it's better to have the color.
The real thing is more faded.

And then it happened.
A reddish-black, gurgling shadow appeared at my feet, and in a moment, it spread out over a wide area of the grassland.

Bubbling and bubbling shadows.

--And then something else appeared from there.

"They appeared as if they were crawling up and showing off their full extent.

--They're knights.

The mummified ones wear simple, rusty, unplated armor all over their bodies.

''What in the world did you summon........?''

The old man didn't ask me, but said so in a muttered voice.

A mummy knight clad in armor appeared across the edge of the grassland.
His entire body, except for his face, is wrapped in armor.
Such things are crawling out of the boiling shadows one after another.

I don't even understand.......what are these guys?

If you look closely, you can see blood seeping out of the cracks in the armor.
It's not just blood. Clots of blood and pieces of flesh have fallen to the ground in clumps.
I take the rusted sword that I carry at my waist as I remove these filth.
Then, in order from the one who took the sword, he ran to the battlefield.

-- "I have summoned the royal knights. Please choose the next thing to be summoned."

Then an announcement like that came through in my head.

'Next? .....

I unconsciously muttered this to myself.
I'm not going to be the only one who can do this.
It's not just a matter of time before you get to the top of the list, but also a matter of time before you get to the bottom of the list.


***** "Royalty (Legion)" **.

[Enchanted King]
[Queen of Glamour]
[Four Mad Knights (Jack)]
[Knight Bound]
[Cunning Joker]




Should we subpoena these as well?　But it seems to be enough.

As soon as the Mummy Knight, or the 'Bound Knight', clashed with the demons, he swung his rusty sword around wildly and cut them down without mercy.
There is no such thing as swordsmanship.
It's as if he can't use his body as he would like, or he's swinging his body from side to side as if in agony, swinging it around with centrifugal force.
It's a crude way to go.

"This is........magic........

At that moment, Oswald muttered.

'Oh?'

Rude. It's magic for all intents and purposes, right?
This is not possible unless it's magic.

No, this is what magic is all about!

Magic that summons an army of immortals in an instant!

Great.....

Yeah!

'The power of the abyss? ........stupid......

Then an old man who called himself Brahms followed Oswald and "flirted" with him.

"You're the ones who are stupid, aren't you?

The old man wrinkles his brow at my words.

It's not only that they're only half-useful, they're also relying on that fool! Not only is it only half-useful, and to top it all off, you're even relying on that "fool"!　Do you guys think you can act like that to me in this situation!　You think you can protect the students and them by yourselves?　What do you think?　You can't protect me, can you?　I'm the one who's protecting them now. Unfortunately, I'm the guy who's not, okay?　Don't forget that, okay?

....

"Principal?"　You can dream of being a righteous man, but if you are, then why don't you protect me?

....

You can't do that!　Let me tell you, the moment I break this spell, these demons are going to come pouring in here!　There's yet another demon tribe army closing in behind us. Do you think you can handle a situation like that with your own strength alone?!

You know the answer to that.

"Don't get in my face if you know what you're doing!　Watch out for the students.　Incompetence!

They are so irritating. You're killing demons that you don't want to kill and you're killing humans anyway.
I just want to kill this old man and end it all.
But if I do that, I won't be able to show Ichijo that I can do it.
Even during this question and answer session, Ichijou is looking at me strangely.
I shouldn't have used honorifics. I should have acted more naturally.
Then it would have been better.

'Nito, sir? .....

Ichijo said as if he was worried about me.

''I'm sorry. Don't worry about it.

I can only say this.

'Master ... is there anything Nem ... is there anything Nem can do for you?

Nem, who is peeking at me with an anxious expression.

"It's okay. Don't worry about it. They're demons. It's still tough for Nem to do that. For now, why don't you just watch me fight for a while?

Yes, because....

Nem replied with sadness.

Sufilia didn't say anything in particular.
But in his heart, he must want to say something.
She is always silent, but she tells me something with her eyes.
Do you want me to notice?　But I don't know what to notice.

Toa was still looking at the battlefield and me with an uncomfortable expression, not to say a smile, but with a slight smile on his face.
He seems to be in a good mood somehow.
What in the world is so fun about it?

In the meantime, a demon tribe in the direction of the venue crossed the town and appeared in front of me.
Then, the demon tribe seemed to think that they would come charging in, but then they stopped moving and stood still as if they were aligned.
It was like a performance.

The sound of the horde's armor polishing together echoed across the battlefield as they stopped and aligned at once.

At this moment, from the center of the horde's relatively close to the front row of the "fortress", a person with a distinctly different magic power and style from the others appears.

Listen!　Human!

--A woman. A woman of the demon tribe.

She has clear white skin and long red hair.
Whenever a breeze passes over the battlefield, you can see her yellow right eye hidden by her bangs.

Nito!　It's Cassandra!

At that time, Toa, who was behind him, changed his expression, which had looked amused earlier, and said that with a certain killing intent.
In other words, that's the Demon King. It is true that the magic power is that of a demon king.
It's far beyond the Empire's 'King's Shield'.
It may be beyond even the emperor, but after facing Kyogoku, my concept of superficial magic power has changed.
Maybe this guy is hiding it too.

''Let's praise him!　You've made fools of us demons!　Congrats on defeating the demons with flying colors!　But those were just wait-and-see!　It's not the national army!

There was a royal family named Prowza and Kaiser, but was that also a small fry?
Or is it something else?

Toatrica!　Come to my country!　And that person will be Chastain's next, the Demon King!

....

Come to think of it, I think Kaizel had said something like that before.
That he would make Toa the next king.

'Toatrica!　Come on!

I turned to Toa and looked at his expression.
But even before I saw it, I could feel the killing intent.
And when you see it, it doesn't change.

--I'm not going to be able to get the best out of it.

''Toa, what do we do?''

Kill me.

An immediate answer. There was no hesitation in Toa.

"He says he's going to make Toa king?

'I'm a princess of the demon kingdom of Ursula?　I don't know anything about Chastain.　Kill me quickly.....

Toa's emotions are mixed.
Sadness, anger, and murderous intent. They are swirling around.

"Huh ... "Kill me ..." ... Is this what I'm supposed to do?

Oh, I see. So this whole sequence of events is caused by this person?

That's what the old man said.

"A demon calling himself Kaiser told me that there is a demon king's daughter here. "A demon named Kaiser told me that he had a daughter of the king. And that they came here for the daughter...we didn't understand before. But now I finally understand what it means.

Mr. Brahms, what's going on?

Oswald asked.

'That means that one of the students was the daughter of the Demon King. That's what caused this devastation. They sought out that person and that's why they did this. Otherwise, the demon race would never have appeared in the human world. Originally, the demon race is a race that is only interested in its own affairs.

This woman...

That's when Saeki muttered that.
I reflexively move my eyes.

'I don't care who caused it!　Do you have time for that?!

Then, as if taking over for me, Ichijo blamed the people around him.

'Brahms-san?　Can you get out of this situation?　It doesn't seem that way to me; I don't know how much of an SSS rank you are, but you don't seem like much of a mage now.

"Do you say, girl?

Then the Spirit King beside him stared at Ichijou.

SSS rank?　This old man?
No wonder you're so high and mighty.

''I'm sorry but the only person who can change this situation is Nito-san.

Ichijou seemed to be relying on me.

'Nito, what are you going to do?'

It's been a long time since we've had this conversation. Patrick asked.

'What do you think we should do?'

I asked him that, even though I was harassing him.
Of course, I have no choice but to counterattack, and I've already decided what I'm going to do.

【Benedict Javelin, the Blessed Playful Spear】.

I made the spear of magic power appear.
Then I stabbed it into Ichijo.

''Don't worry,''

For a moment, Ichijou looked at him doubtfully, but his emotions soon became calm.

''I just recovered my magic power. Please rest assured.

This ... this is ... this ...

Then Ichijou seems to have understood this magic.
That's the way it is.

This magic is a constant supply of magic power, but there is a risk, too.
I replied to Ichijo, who was confused by the magic.

'With this, you don't have to worry about the lack of magic power, but please keep using the magic for a while, right?　I'm adjusting it now, because it's essentially magic that no normal person can withstand.

While this magic allows you to use magic indefinitely, if you don't consume it, the swollen magic will cause your body to risk bouncing off of it.
I've been using it on Zeke and the others when we attacked Grayberg, but I was adjusting it at that time.
As soon as I used it, I deactivated it, and I was able to manipulate the supply rate. I still have it under control.

"Ichijo-san, let's take two. I'll cover you.

Ichijo's explosive magic is useful.
The chanting is short and the ability to create a large explosion to a wide area without a magic circle in the first place is appealing.
For that reason, I don't have to work as hard.

At that time, the "bound knight" wiped out the demons in the grassland area.
I stabbed myself with the "Benedictine Javelin" and restored my magic power just in case.
This contradictory magic, which uses magic power to restore magic power, is the symbol of the abyss.

''I don't mind doing it knight by knight, Ichijo-san, please move as you please.

'That's fine, but...'

Ichijou was puzzled by my sudden proposal.
It's probably because I don't ask anyone to fight with me.
But the others are not only untrustworthy, they're also useless.

As long as it's a fight to protect the Toa, I can't involve the Toa in the battle.
It's still too early for Nem, and Sufilia is not suited for the battle itself.
If that was the case, the only person who could be counted on to help at this point was Ichijo.
I'll let Ichijo disrupt them and attack them from behind.

''I'll take care of the Demon King. Ichijo-san will ask for my knights and miscellaneous fish.

I understand.

Ichijou seemed to be ready for it.

I didn't tell him any particular plan, or anything like that, but Ichijou didn't argue with the suggestion and took out Excalibur.

We walked through the general public gathering to escape to the rear of us and walked forward with Saeki at our side.
And next to him is Ichijo.

It's up to you to decide how to fight.

All right. Then we'll need backup.

And I'm ordering the knights to...

--Annihilate them.

At that moment, the 'bound knights (knights)' of the grassland area turned around and ran out of the battlefield in unison.
Then they passed through Oswald, Brahms, Saeki and Schneizel and headed toward the armor-clad True Demon Army without paying attention to the refugees gathered there.
The earth shook and the place turned into a battlefield once again.

''Master, aren't you using it?''

We'll see how it goes.

After answering Vel's question, he looked at the battlefield.

And at that time, following the knight, Ichijo also ran out.

''【Bombering Explosions!

With the first move, Ichijo suddenly unleashes an explosive magic.
Just like my words, I caused a large explosion over a wide area without hesitation to the 'Bound Knight (Knight)'

--The armor of the demon race dances in the air.

Apparently, since it's called the national army, something is different from those guys just now.
Their numbers haven't dwindled beyond what I had expected.
It seems that even with the magic of a single-jou, they can't get rid of many of them at once.
If that's the case, let's summon this guy while we're at it.

''Vel, we'll go too?

Ready when you are?

I put my magic power into it.

"[Enchanted King]!