Epilogue
“Enjoy your victory while you still can, Hero.”
A raspy voice echoed in the dark depths.
“By defeating the demon lord, you have filled the Evil God’s Prison with miasma.”
The man strode through the darkness without any source of light.
“To think that the hero who set out to save the world has only helped us release the seal on the Evil God’s Prison and unleash destruction on the world…”
This was Den of Evil Six, where the battle to the death played out between the hero and the demon lord.
“Truly, what a thrill! And now that the blasted hero is gone, there is no one left to stand in our way.”
The man trod closer to his destination.
“…What is the meaning of this?”
He’d realized that the miasma he expected to fill the altar room was far sparser than it should have been.
“Did the seal absorb all the miasma?”
With a growing sense of dread, the man began walking more quickly.
“Impossible! The miasma concentration is less than ten percent?! That’s half of what it was when our plan first began!”
Reaching the location of the seal, the man operated a magic device there and looked at the results in horror.
“How can this be? There was no time for the hero’s followers to cleanse it all. The fools of Parion’s temple could never have removed so much miasma in such a short amount of time. Even their stocks of the evil-cleansing dragon powder would surely not be enough.”
The man howled into the darkness.
“Don’t tell me—is this the work of the hero that supposedly appeared in Shiga Kingdom?! But that would mean that the rumors that he defeated the boar lord and Doghead were not mere Shigan propaganda…”
The man and his co-conspirators had assumed that the Evil God’s Spawn that attacked the Shigan royal capital at the end of the year failed, due to the arrival of the sky dragon, Shiga Kingdom’s own guardian deity.
“Lord Green was in Shiga Kingdom for a time. I must ask him about it when he returns.”
The man scowled in frustration at his would-be ally’s untrustworthy nature.
“This setback will not stop me from pursuing my goal. I swear I shall release the seal of the Evil God’s Prison.”
He clenched his fist until blood trickled from his palm.
“For I am the true sage. I am nothing like that bumbling old fool Touya.”
He failed to notice the blood as he rambled on.
“Mark my words, unknown Shiga Kingdom hero! The Great Sage Sorijeyro’s calamitous army will destroy your land, this I swear! Prepare to weep as you watch your kingdom fall to ruin! Then, once you are in the depths of despair, my shadows shall tear you to shreds.”
He bellowed into the dark.
“And when my army of destruction has laid waste to the land, my long-oppressed people shall begin a glorious new reign. As long as we have the power of the Holy Woman and the calamitous army, victory is as good as ours. I shall lead the way to a new empire!”
His shouting finally dissolved into ominous laughter, and he faded into the shadows.
He spared not a single thought for the demon lord that had fallen for the sake of his dark ambitions.
Only the breeze that blew through the underground chamber gradually broke down the mountain of sand, as if to soothe the deceased demon lord’s soul.
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