The King of Tricks and Magic

Chapter 105: Defending The Capital

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 400,000 (+4,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 500,000 (+7,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 1,000,000 (+10,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 700, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -Appraisal -Evil gaze -Strengthen -Leap -Basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia -Slime Soul Diversion -Slime technique: Split -Tarot Emperor -Master of The Dragon King, Atlas]

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Inside the abyss of death.

The world of death and undead.

The world filled with darkness and death miasma.

At a huge castle, a skeletal figure is sitting on top of a gorgeous throne. his mightiest soldiers are kneeling in front of him.

“Your majesty, we’ve conquered half of the undead world. If we want to completely conquer the world, there is only one opponent left for us to defeat…” Lich Oz’s first loyal servant, the mummy king, Malistrode said to his master.

“The Undead Dragon King. The one that currently has the highest authority over the undead world. his voice alone could take a living creature’s soul, even an undead will feel fear in face of him,” (Vlad)

“Me. And him. Who do you think will win?” The deep voice of the skeletal figure that contains a powerful force not inferior from the voice from the mighty dragons.

“Of course, you’ll be able to defeat him, my lord. But it might be an intense battle,” (Vlad)

“Is that so? Shame… Well, let’s begin then. Let’s face the last boss,”

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“Mother! We won’t survive with this number!” (Sera)

“Sera. At our condition right now, we could only afford that number of soldiers. If we muster too many soldiers, we’ll be vulnerable if the noble faction attacked us. They don’t even send 1 percent of their soldiers to protect the kingdom against the demons, not to mention asking the Gracefield kingdom and the Potterland kingdom for backup, they definitely won’t send their soldiers with guarding their homeland as their reason. We have too many enemies to wary, Sera. If we could wait another five days, we could be able to summon more soldiers,” Said the queen calmly from the throne.

“Y-you… Even though our kingdom’s life is on the stake… You still worry about having the throne stolen and afraid of those nobles!? Then why are you still sitting on that throne!?” Shouted Sera as she left the throne room and in anger.

The meeting with the queen end shortly with only a sum of 40,000 soldiers will be called from the kingdom’s other regions to back up the capital.

Meeting up with the others at a barrack near the capital’s walls, Sera told them the result of her meeting with her royal mother, the queen.

“So we’re going to play defense with only 50,000 capital soldiers and 30,000 men from my guild while another 40,000 will arrive in 2 days…” (Peter)

“Yup, we’re dead,” (Alfred)

“Alfred!” Sera shouted Alfred’s name angrily because of his words.

“I-I’m just kidding princess… But seriously, this is a problem…” Alfred’s face changed into a serious one. 

“Attacking them head-on or even having a war with the demons outside the capital are clearly out of question. A low-ranked demon is on par with five normal great swordsmen ranked soldiers. A mid-ranked demon is on par with ten master swordsman ranked soldiers. While a high-ranked demon could even be on par with a sword god. Not to mention the 72 demon kings…” (Alfred)

“The 10,000 demons appear at the Bareland city, they’re high-ranked demons, right?” (Edreale)

“Yeah. And Ren managed to defeat all of them single-handedly,” (Sera)

“Even now, even though I’ve reached the sword god realm, I still couldn’t imagine I’m winning against him…” Said Sen that rarely praised people, let alone admitting someone is better than him.

“Well, that guy is an exception. There are too many things that we didn’t know about him, more importantly, let’s decide what kind of formation our defense will be. We’re going to need to defend for three days without having too many casualties on our side, can we do it, princess?” (Alfred)

“It will, no, it must be. Or not, all of us will die… I’ve let them take the normal positions according to the usual formation for now. any suggestions?” (Sera)

“I do. I think we’re going to need-” Before Peter could finish his sentence, the sound that they didn’t want to hear the most suddenly sounded from outside the barrack.

*Sound an alarm bell rung*

“We’re under attack!!! Take positions!!!”

“Demons!!! Fend them off!!!”

“Tch! Now from all times…” Peter gritted his teeth.

“Let’s go!” (Sera)

The five of them went to the walls.

It’s another wave of minions and low-ranked demons. The situation seems to be under control for now, but Alfred felt that there is something amiss.

(They’re not the type that attacks with the same plan as before. What are they planning?) (Alfred)

Alfred climbed the wall and see a shocking scene.

Behind the attacking low-ranked demons, a well-organized army of demons could be seen. They’re standing still like a veteran army waiting for their general’s instructions.

“These low-ranked demons that are attacking us are about 8,000… That army behind them… Crap, this is a problem… That number, it’s more than 40,000…” Alfred couldn’t help but show a wry smile.

“Guys… I think you guys need to go up here…” Alfred called the others.

The others jumped to the top of the walls while killing every demon that they meet.

“This is…” (Sera)

“…..” (Sen and Edreale)

“Oioi… Are you serious…?” (Albus)

Even though they have more in number and are taking advantage of the walls surrounding the capital, but the demons’ overall strength is far stronger than a human. They couldn’t help but gasped and have their morale dropped when they saw the number of demons.

“Hm?” Peter narrowed his eyes as he saw a demon using a black cloak that covers the whole of his body walked to the front of the army behind the low-ranked demons.

“That demon, what is he doing?” Asked Peter as he points his finger towards the cloaked demon.

Huge magic circles suddenly start to appear at his surroundings. Enormous aura of malice and demonic mana is gushing out from him, sending shivers and fear towards the kingdom’s soldiers.

“T-that! He’s casting a forbidden spell! That magic circles, that enormous mana! That spell is dangerous! Fireball!” Albus exclaimed in panic and shot a firebolt spell in reflex, trying to hinder the chanting process.

A fireball shot by a magic god is powerful, but even so.

Whoosh!

Albus’s fireball vanishes 5 meters before it reached the cloaked demon.

Albus releases other consecutive spells trying to hinder the cloaked demon again, but it still ended in vain. All of his spells disappear before even reaching the cloaked demon, let alone giving him any damage.

“His chantation is so fast! There’s not enough time. Even if I cast a high-ranked spell or a forbidden spell, his chantation will finish first!” (Albus)

Albus’s statement enveloped the group with panic. If the five of them went to slay the cloaked demon that is casting the forbidden spell, they’ll die because of getting surrounded. If they lead the soldiers to get out from the walls and to battle head-on, they’ll also lose. But if they remain inside the walls, the forbidden spell cast by the cloaked demon will destroy the capital together with them.

“Shit, it’s too late…” Alfred gritted his teeth as he couldn’t find any solutions.

A huge magic circle appeared at the sky above the capital, but before it could do anything.

Crack!

A sound of cracked appear from the magic spell before it dissolved into bits and disappears to the thin air.

“Don’t panic, young men,” A familiar old voice appears behind them. Hearing the familiar voice couldn’t help but give them a feeling of safety.

“””Headmaster!””” (Everyone)

Just like the old man Kyron, Oxius had also drilling himself in cultivation since Ren’s disappearance and the accusation that Ren’s a heretic from the church. That day, he couldn’t do anything. If he protested, the magic gods and sword gods from the church will attack him without giving him any leeway.

“Princess, take command of the army. After we deal with the low-ranked demons, go outside the walls and take an attacking stance. That guy will join the battle too so don’t worry,” Oxius said with a confident smile.

“He?” (Sera)

“Yes, that old man, the sword god, Kyron,” Said Oxius.

“O-oh! Great!” (Sera)

“Tell me honestly, Sera. You just thought that he’s referring to Ren, right?” (Edreale)

“N-no! Of course not!” (Sera)

Following Oxius’s orders, they manage to slaughter all of the low-ranked demons and finally let out their army outside the walls. They quickly took the attacking stance and are ready to attack anytime. Looking at the demon army in front of them, Sera felt a bad feeling as she feels weirdly nostalgic when she looks at the demon army before her.

(Will we able to win…?)