Chapter 373: No Demon King? Then I'll Just Become the Demon King Myself?!

It's a bit ironic — when the Demon King Army was around, the three great human kingdoms stood united, and despite a sense of despair that saw no hope, they still fought bravely, holding up a space for humanity to survive.

But now that the Demon King Army is gone, the three great kingdoms have turned on each other, even drawing blades — though this is still a future event that hasn't happened yet, the first signs are already visible.

However, truth be told, even if war really breaks out in this world's future, the impact on Broly's side would be limited.

Megumin and Yunyun need no mention — they hail from the Red Demon Clan, and the Red Demon Clan never belonged to any of the three great human kingdoms to begin with.

Back when the Demon King Army still existed, it couldn't deal with the Red Demon Clan, let alone the three great human kingdoms, which are even weaker than the Demon King Army was.

If war really breaks out, it probably won't reach the Red Demon Village either.

As for Aqua, her sect is prophesied to become the world's number one sect — she'll reap the benefits of war hands down.

As for Wiz, with her top-tier strength and being a Lich, if she doesn't participate in the war and only protects herself, there's absolutely no problem.

The one truly affected is Darkness, this noble lady of Axel — if war breaks out in the future, as the lord heir she'll have to go to the battlefield.

But given her level of meat shield durability, the probability of her being beaten to death is practically zero.

The only real headache is Eris — as the goddess managing this world, it's only been stable for two years; if war breaks out in the future, there'll probably be a pile of dead souls who don't want to reincarnate into this calamity-ridden world.

The Heavenly performance review will definitely crack her then, and if faith in the mortal realm gets uprooted too, she might not even get to be a goddess anymore.

"This matter must be resolved, but how to resolve it is the problem."

"I'll go directly grab those guys who'll cause the future war, give them a beating or just kill them outright — would that work?"

Broly asked.

"The future war is caused by the general trend — merely eliminating a few decision-makers cannot change the future outcome."

Miss Soket made a prophecy under these conditions and found it useless, while Darkness offered her own analysis from the side.

As long as the situation of the three great kingdoms doesn't change and the points of conflict aren't resolved, war is an inevitable event.

Perhaps doing certain things could delay the outbreak of war, but only delay it — once the critical point is reached, it will still erupt.

Right now, the choices before us seem to be only two: one is to help the Belzerg Kingdom eliminate the other two kingdoms, but that would require killing a great many people.

The other is to make the vanished Demon King Army reappear — as long as external pressure on humanity reappears, internal contradictions will naturally ease.

"Then how can we make the already-vanished Demon King Army reappear?"

Considering Eris's feelings, Broly took the initiative to ask about the latter method.

"The key to the Demon King Army is the Demon King — we have to find the Demon King first."

Aqua said — she didn't deliberately choose not to change things just because the future Soket prophesied was favorable to the Axis Cult.

"But that old Demon King is very old — is he even still alive?"

Yunyun raised this question, and no one present knew the answer.

However, Wiz might know.

Broly and the others brought the fortune teller together to Megumin's house.

They found Wiz and informed her of the prophecy.

"As for Yasaka Kyoichi, he should still be alive.

A while back, didn't the household receive a large sea fish? That was a gift from him.

As for where he is now, I recall it's a small coastal city in the south."

Wiz tried hard to recall, but she didn't know the old Demon King's exact whereabouts.

As for wanting the fortune teller to use divination to locate the old Demon King's current position.

Soket tried, and found it didn't work.

"Either that person is dead, or he has anti-divination magic on him."

Divination isn't omnipotent — preventing a prophet from divining one's own information isn't too difficult.

Back when the old Demon King was resurrected, he worried his survival might be divined by outsiders, so he set up quite a few counter-divination and anti-prophecy measures.

So even with Soket, a top-tier fortune teller, performing the divination, the result was simply 'no such person found'.

"Ah, what do we do now?"

Little Princess Alice was a bit anxious.

"No problem, knowing the general direction is enough."

Broly said instead.

"Eh, you have a way?"

Darkness looked over curiously.

"All things have Qi, but individuals with abundant Qi are few — though I haven't memorized the old Demon King's Qi, I remember his Qi isn't low."

The old Demon King's combat strength isn't strong, but his level is very high, and his magic power value is also high.

Translated to Broly's perception, that means the other party's Qi is much stronger than other creatures'.

Although this world has no shortage of powerful creatures, few can match the old Demon King's Qi magnitude.

Once we know the general direction, we just need to sense powerful Qi in that direction and check them one by one.

"I'll go look — if I find him, I'll bring him back."

Leaving these words, Broly jumped out of the house and took flight, heading south.

His speed was very fast — in the sky, he vanished in an instant.

Southern Islands, on the calm sea surface, a small fishing boat drifted.

Suddenly, beneath the fishing boat, a huge shadow emerged.

With a splash, a giant octopus surfaced from the sea.

"Good job, this is your reward."

The white-haired but spirited old captain leaned on the gunwale, watching the water splashing on the sea surface, a satisfied expression on his face, raising his hand to toss out a cluster of special magic power.

The giant octopus caught the ball of magic power with its tentacles, absorbed it into its body, then rolled the fishing net toward the side of the fishing boat.

"Hauling in the net!"

The old captain shouted toward the stern; the girl who had been lying on the mast sunbathing grabbed the rope and jumped down from the mast.

She hooked the fishing net being rolled over by the octopus tentacles with her iron hook tied with hemp rope, and after doing this, she ran to the other end and began pulling the rope.

The sound of splashing water rang out; the fishing net filled with various sea fish was pulled from the sea onto the boat. Looking at the net bag containing quite a few expensive sea fish, the wheat-skinned girl's face revealed a smile like an old farmer's.

And just as the girl was sorting the sea fish, she suddenly felt as if she had been locked onto by something; following the sensation, she looked up at the sky horizon.

A small black dot appeared at the sky horizon; the black dot rapidly grew larger, and after approaching this side, it brought a gale. The sea waves whipped up by the gale smashed directly toward the small fishing boat.

The girl sorting fish hurriedly picked up the long, strip-shaped sea fish at her feet. This fish perhaps had never thought that one day it would be used as a sword by a person; sword qi emerged from the fish's body, and she slashed it toward the oncoming huge wave.

The wave was split in two; the fish-carrying girl cautiously watched the guy falling from the sky, and after seeing Broly's appearance clearly, she exclaimed: "It's you, this guy?!"

People, boat, and fresh fish all together — Broly carried the entire small fishing boat back.

"Miss Wiz, long time no see."

After jumping down from the fishing boat, the old captain greeted the lich he knew on the scene.

"Isn't this Aqua-sama? It's been a while~"

Although the ancestor and the Water Goddess had grievances, Yasaka Kyoichi was after all resurrected by her, so he still politely doffed his hat and bowed to Aqua.

"Don't know what business you all have that needs this old bone of mine to help with?"

The old Demon King asked for guidance.

"Broly, you didn't explain clearly to the other party?"

Aqua looked at the boy in puzzlement.

"I only said I needed his help, then brought him back."

Broly honestly confessed.

"Still the kind without our agreement."

The Demon King's daughter complained; who would have thought that while catching fish at sea, one could be abducted along with the boat.

"The situation is like this......"

Wiz and the old Demon King are acquaintances, so the matter of explaining the situation was handed to her.

"What, you want me to be Demon King again? No, no......"

The old Demon King shook his head like a pellet drum.

"Rest assured, this is for the future peace of this world that you are being made Demon King again, to reorganize the Demon King Army; there will be no heroes dispatched from Heaven coming to subjugate you."

Eris hurriedly persuaded.

"But even if I won't be subjugated by heroes, I still don't want to be Demon King again."

The old Demon King still waved his hand.

"Eh, why?"

Everyone was somewhat confused, until they heard the old Demon King speak of his days as Demon King.

"Put nicely I'm the Demon King; put bluntly, I'm the Demon King Army's nanny. Every day I open my eyes, over a hundred thousand mouths up and down need me to feed them full.

And if it were just the eating problem it would be fine, but the former executives always stirred up dog-shit messes.

For example, Miss Wiz — she embezzled the Demon King Army's military funding to fill the losses of her deficit magic tool shop......"

The old Demon King pointed at the lich lady, directly exposing her black history.

"Ah, my magic tool shop has been profitable for a long time!"

Wiz's face flushed red, and she hurriedly retorted.

"This is still just a minor matter; there were more major messes needing me, this Demon King, to wipe their asses. Thinking back on it now, those were all tears!

I barely got out alive from the Demon King position; now I can travel mountains and play in water with my daughter, sail out to sea fishing, living carefree days. If you want me to go back to being Demon King, you might as well kill me."

Yasaka Kyoichi directly stated his position: making him go back as Demon King, he'd rather return his life to Aqua. Anyway, he'd already lived over two years of relaxed, carefree days; dying now wouldn't count as leaving regrets.

And the crowd, faced with the old Demon King who would rather die than be Demon King again, had no way — they couldn't force this former old ox of the Demon King Army to drink that dirty water again, right?

"Speaking of which, you really need a Demon King to resolve the Human Kingdom's current conflict, but it doesn't necessarily have to be this old man, right?"

The old Demon King spoke, raising his hand to point at Broly beside him.

"With his strength, being a new Demon King, wouldn't that be more than sufficient?"

Yasaka Kyoichi asked in some puzzlement.

"I cannot stay long-term in this world."

Broly answered the old Demon King's puzzlement.

To change the foreseen war-torn future, what is needed is a long-term great enemy of humanity, to pose a sustained threat to all humanity.

Becoming humanity's great enemy, Broly's strength is indeed more than sufficient, but being unable to stay long in this world makes him unable to satisfy the latter condition.

"Ah, then what exactly should we do?"

Princess Alice once again let out a cry for help.

"Hehehe......"

A burst of deliberately affected laughter suddenly rang out.

"Megumin, what are you laughing weirdly for?"

Yunyun asked the girl beside her in puzzlement.

And Megumin now had already changed into a set of special attire: a black-faced, red-lined large cloak.

"That's naturally because I've already thought of a way."

"Eh?"

Everyone looked over.

"What method?"

Princess Alice pressed the question.

"Since there's no Demon King in the world, then if I become the Demon King, wouldn't that solve it!"

Megumin said this.

"Huh, I thought you had some good idea, but this is it?"

Aqua glanced over sideways, pursed her lips, mockery at max level.

"Ah, Aqua you bastard, are you looking down on me?"

Megumin flew into a rage.

"It's not looking down on you, but a Demon King isn't something just anyone can be."

Aqua shrugged her shoulders.

"Right, at least you need to possess either a powerful faction or personal strength."

Wiz chimed in.

"Let me ask you, which one do you have?"

With Aqua's backing, she immediately shot back.

"That's naturally my powerful personal strength!"

Megumin declared with absolute confidence.

"Uh, Megumin, your Job Class level isn't low, but the problem is you only know Explosion Magic, and someone who only knows Explosion Magic can't be a Demon King."

Wiz looked at her, shaking her head.

"Want to compare magic destructive power with me?"

Megumin, unconvinced, picked up her staff, intending to compete with Wiz.

"In terms of magic destructive power, I'm naturally not as good as you who specializes in Explosion Magic, but the question is how many times can you cast Explosion Magic?"

"Three times, oh no, the limit is five times!"

The extremely mana-intensive Explosion Magic being usable five times in a row meant Megumin's magic power value already exceeded many Archmages.

"Mr. Yasaka Kyoichi, if you used Explosion Magic, how many times could your magic power support you casting it?"

The Lich lady didn't comment on Megumin's confident statement, instead turning her head to ask the old Demon King this question.

"Uh, ten-odd times, but Explosion Magic has no use; having magic power and using it on this spell, it's better to use the magic power to strengthen subordinates."

Yasaka Kyoichi answered honestly.

"Then do you think someone who only knows Explosion Magic can become a Demon King?"

Wiz asked another question.

"That probably won't work. It's well known that Explosion Magic consumes extreme magic power. If someone who only knows Explosion Magic becomes the Demon King, just send some Elite Professionals to exhaust that kind of Demon King's magic power with their lives, and the opponent would be easily defeated."

The former Demon King Army's strength lay in having no obvious weaknesses; his ability could even amplify small soldiers' strength to executive level.

If not for meeting an even more monstrous boy, he wouldn't even know how he lost.

"However, a Demon King doesn't necessarily need to be able to fight personally; if she has a group of capable subordinates around her, she can still be a Demon King."

The old Demon King shifted the topic and said.

In Yasaka Kyoichi's view, this Red Demon Clan girl alone definitely couldn't be a Demon King, couldn't become humanity's great enemy.

But adding the Red Demon Clan changes things; the Red Demon Clan where everyone is an Archmage is fully qualified to become humanity's great enemy, giving the current three human kingdoms external pressure.

Even the once flawless Demon King Army was beaten by the Red Demon Clan until they had no temper left; when soldiers were dispatched to attack the Red Demon Village, they would weep bitterly, calling it a meaningless battle of sending themselves to death.

"Ah, that's right, that's what I mean. Besides my personal strength, behind me, there's also my clan!"

Hearing the old Demon King speak words acknowledging the Red Demon Clan's overall strength, Megumin belatedly reacted and immediately added.

Everyone fell into thought.

"Would that work?"

Eris even asked Soket.

"Ah, it connected!"

The Fortune Teller lady divined again, yet didn't know what she divined, and just exclaimed.

"What connected?"

Broly asked curiously.

"The divination connected!"

(Chapter End)