Chapter 207- Demon Queen (Part 2)
The silence of the surrounding forest that was at first calming became eerie, unnerving and even repulsive.
Somi tightened her grip on her weapon as she looked around, ready for any ambush.
'I can't sense any presence nearby. This is odd.' Beads of sweat fell down her face as she expanded her senses to the farthest place they could reach.
Meanwhile, the others also did the same, each taking an angle where a possible ambush could happen. Moments passed slowly with nothing happening.
As they were like that, Numen turned around and walked toward Somi slowly.
"Hm, did you sense anything, Numen?" Somi asked as she noticed how her companion was coming toward her.
On the other hand, Rophian was seeing what was happening and his eyes were squinted.
"Be careful, Somi!!" His eyes then widened as he instinctively jumped forward, psuhsing Somi away.
However, at the same time, Numen created a very sharp shard of rock and stabbed forward, ultimately hitting Rophian's back and piercing it deeply.
"Ugh!" Clenching his teeth, Rophian didnt allow himself to make a noise.
"Rophian!!" Somi realized what happened and her face paled completely.
On the other hand, Letum quickly subdued Numen who wasn't able to react fast.
"I-I'm fine." Smiling slightly, Rophian tried to stand up.
"Wait! I will heal you immediately."
"Oh, you will?"
Suddenly, a voice penetrated the silence of the forest and made everyone turn around to look at one particular direction.
The voice was heavenly, sweet yet also a coldness far deeper than anything the three of them had ever heard in their lives. It was like an extremely beautiful song, filled with cursed, evil lyrics.
Then, from within the darkness of the night, emerged a person walking slowly toward them. This person was a woman, clad in a dark, beautiful robe. Her hair was as white as snow and as beautiful as the most sacred heaven.
Her face was otherworldly, akin to a goddess and her figure was beyond perfect. She was, I every sense of the word, an extremely beautiful woman.
However, her looks were completely covered by her unbelievably strong pressure that she was emitting.
It didn't take more than a second for the three of them to know one certain fact. One fact that was shocking enough to make them freeze in their place.
'We can't defeat this woman.' They all thought.
Her power was stronger than all three of them combined. Considering the fact that Somi, Rophian and Letum were three of the strongest people in the world made that realization even more mind-blowing.
"It's a pleasure to meet you visitors from the world of humans. This empress' name is Eisheth but you can call me Your Highness." The woman said with a graceful smile that didn't change from the start of the interaction.
'Eisheth... I heard the name before... She's the Demon Queen.' Somi realized what she meant by calling herself Empress.
"It's certainly an honor to meet the Queen of demons herself." Deciding to take matters into her hands, Somi stepped forward and spoke.
"Fufufu! Well, This empress wanted to see how the visitors of our world looked like and I must say, I'm not dissapointed.
"Well, since we are visitors. Shouldn't we be received with hospitality?" Somi asked with a fake smile.
Deep down, she knew that gentle facade the demon queen was putting on was simply to be graceful. The highly likely chance was that none of them would be able to survive tonight.
'Are you two ready for death? You better be, Rophian, Letum!!'
"Oh, my apologies for the late hospitality. I was thinking of a good way to receive all of you and I must say, this is the best I could come up with.
"U-Ugh... Drop down the act, Queen! If you are going to try and capture us then no use. We all can kill ourselves before you could do anything to us." Rophian said as he held his injury with one hand.
However, Eisheth didn't seem to be angry at how Rophian spoke.
"No reason to be perturbed, Mr. Human. We, demons, don't know how to interact with humans and even the human slaves we had are already dead. It would be pointless to make you all slaves for us." Eisheth said.
"Oh, do you perhaps not consider us enemies?" Somi asked.
"Oh? Obviously not. I do not see you as enemies. Who would look at a bunch of ants and think they are enemies worthy of taking attention?"
After that, the Demon Queen lifted her hand and continued.
"You ants killed our kind and kicked us to this world thinking that Divine Sapphire belongs to you. Look at this world, this was a hellhole when we first arrived here yet we made it a heaven for our kind. What did your race do? I'm sure Divine Sapphire is suffering because of your filthy hands."
"U-Ugh, no! don't!" Suddenly, Rophian yelled as his legs started walking on their own.
"Rophian!!"
"Know, humans, that we are simply awaiting the day that gate will open and when that happens, the world will return to its rightful owners."
Then, Rophian suddenly started running toward Somi with his sword already pulled out ready to attack her.
Even though his eyes had lost their light, tears fell down his face, showing the huge conflict he was having inside over the control of his own body.
Somi quickly jumped away before the sword attack could hit her.
"Letum, run!" She said.
However, at that moment, the demon queen smiled and said.
"Ah, how saddening to see a husband kill his own wife. Maybe to make it slightly better, let's make the wife attack him too. An equal fight."
At that moment, Somi clenched her teeth as she felt strong pain assault her head along with a powerful blow to her consciousness.
"Don't wait for us! Run, Letum!" She said as she pulled her sword out and aimed it at Rophian.
The latter frowned heavily before he quickly turned around and dashed away.
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"Then I ran and ran for a long time. I didn't turn around at all during this time. But, I know that The Demon Queen had used her powers to control the two of them and made them fight to death."
"To make two people that loved each other dearly fight to death... Horrible." Even though Rin didn't meet Somi, he could comprehend how horrible it was for her.
'The Demon Queen... So she's the strongest demon out of all of them. She was able to easily overpower three of the strongest humans as if it was nothing. How can you even beat someone like this?'
Rin was aware of how strong the ruler of demon should be but that didn't make things any less worriesome.
"I have no face to tell them that I ran way when Somi stayed there and fought her husband. I can't do that." Letum added with a cold tone.
But, it was clear how shameful he was feeling at the moment. He was powerless and had to see his friends die because of that. No one can blame him for changing like this.
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