
“Then, let's start the execution, Prince.”
Damian laughed wickedly in front of Leon. Instantly, a mysterious magic-circle appears right in front of Leon.
“You? So it was all you? You were the one who summoned those monsters the other day, not that soldier? So you are the true demon summoner!”
“Quickly once.”
Damian really showed his triumphant face when all the evil he was hiding was revealed at a truly opportune time. He really enjoyed Leon's desperate face.
“How then did the soldier do the same? Why did he blow himself up and claim to be a spy for the Vlonhard Empire?”
“Are you a monster named Arachnea from the tarantula dungeon, Prince?”
Leon just stared in silence at Damian's words.
“Monster Arachnea has a very unique skill. He could control a person remotely while transferring skills from one person to another for a while. Truly dangerous monsters.”
“Lantas how can you explain that Emperor Vlonhard confessed his crime?!”
“How I know. Maybe he just wants to find because he thinks the kingdom is very weak?”
Damian carelessly ignored Leon's deep curiosity. He only focused on his summon circle. Then a moment later, the monsters began to arrive through the summon magic circle.
“Well, feel this terrible pain, Prince.”
Damian smiled wickedly. What he summoned was apparently a bunch of red ants no bigger than Leon's fist. But the number is very much that even if it is plotted it may be a third of the size of the giant monster Perses who had been defeated by Leon before.
However, Leon had not stayed silent to accept his fate to be killed just like that by Damian. He deliberately stalling for time by deliberately inviting Damian to speak so that he could slightly recover his stamina that had been exhausted after facing the titan Perses monster.
As soon as the fire ants approached Leon, Leon immediately poured out his entire fire aura around his body.
However, that's where Leon is mistaken for one thing. It was the fire ant monster from the insect dungeon. The monster is immune to fire to ten thousand degrees Fahrenheit even heat.
In an instant, Leon's entire body was shrouded by those fire ants.
“Do you think I don't know your plan to deliberately stall out time to gather your strength back? But you can what? You are now too weak even to kill those fire ant monsters.”
Slowly, Damian approached Leon, whispering something.
“How does it feel, someone who can even subvert a high-level heroic-class monster, someone dubbed the genius swordsman in the Meglovia Kingdom, should be killed at the hands of a trash-rank monster? Must be embarrassing, right? This great Leon was eaten in helplessness by the trash creatures who should have been very easy to kill each of them if only one was even by an ordinary warrior!”
Leon tried to endure the extreme pain he was in, feeling his skin and flesh being skinned and eaten piecemeal by the fire ants. Leon is helpless. He was at his worst until to stand up he was difficult.
However, Leon still wants to look handsome. At the very least, he did not want to die looking shamefully in front of that trash named Damian.
He endured and continued to endure the skinned pain, pierced by the sharp stings of the fire ants. Leon's blood slowly poured out and the longer the more swift. However, he still did not make a sound. Leon tried to hold his scream until the end even though the pain was getting gripping.
It was only the expression of his pain that he could not hide in front of Damian who laughed at his suffering.
Then a moment later, Damian could no longer see Leon. The fire ants had perfectly enveloped his entire body. Leon disappears without a trace, including his bones.
Hestia shouted, screaming in the shadows, about to come out to save her master. But whatever the power, he had no way of getting out of the shadow. He also had to witness the death of his master.
“Oh ho.”
Damian's unique eyes suddenly twisted toward the void. No, it was a place where Hestia was hidden in the shadows.
“Shadow steps of a child? And you think this great me can't realize it? Leon, Leon, until you die, you're still stupid.”
Damian stepped towards the center of the shadow. Hestia wiped away her tears in fear hiding behind the shadow. Then something happened that he did not expect. He had all this time run out of ways to break through that shadow barrier. Damian did it easily.
As if tearing a fragile paper, Damian ripped a shadow and strangled Hestia who was inside.
Damian looked at Hestia with a smile and a very disgusting look.
“Aha, I have a more interesting idea. It's not interesting that I just kill you.”
Damian touched Hestia's head. Instantly a bright light shone on the area of his head, then Hestia fainted.
Damian then left the slaughter area and soon joined the soldiers of other Painfinn City as if nothing had happened in that place.
***
[POV Leon]
Maybe this is my end.
I hate my weak self so that I can be defeated by that demon.
However, if there is regret that I feel, it is because I have failed to realize my dream of returning Brother Helios to his happiness, failed to protect Ilene, and I also failed to meet the expectations of Sister Tius.
Though we have taken pains to arrange this scheme neatly so that those corrupt nobles have gathered to my side. Unfortunately, Kak Tius' plan could no longer be realized because of my death.
Ah, if I knew I'd die this young, I wouldn't have had to try so hard. Perhaps, as the youngest boy in the royal family, being a lazy prince only thought of the pleasures of power and women not bad either. If Brother Helios could be a little reliable, maybe it could be true.
If I knew it would be like this, I would never ignore Helios. I'll be more honest in front of him. Every day, I would visit his shabby residence that must be the view of the holy temple would always look at me with an unpleasant gaze.
You know, I'll never give a damn about that holy temple again. I will spend my time with Brother Helios more relaxed and free. Every now and then, maybe I can take Brother Helios to visit our sister, Ilene.
Come to think of it, it would also seem that if I formed an adventurer party with Brother Helios since I was the greatest swordsman in the kingdom and others might not have known it yet, but Brother Helios is the greatest magician in the kingdom. No, not only in the royal sphere, Brother Helios is unmistakably the greatest magician on the continent.
No, my eyes are getting dark. Is this the name on the verge of death? No, I'm scared. I'm so scared. Helios, please save me.
My body is cold, my body is very cold. It's colder than Helios' ice.
Uh, who else is Helios? Why do I call him brother? Is he ready for me? But wait, who am I? No, slowly my vision began to blur as if I had been swallowed into the void.
Leon loses consciousness and sinks into the bottomless abyss of darkness.