Interlude 3
The Most Unfortunate Person in This
World
Translator : PolterGlast
Mergitos Graham
Griffin Barnfield.
A demonkin who
appeared in the Demon Lord's territory like a comet, the greatest Demon Lord in
history.
With a multitude of
monsters under his command, he unified the Demon Lord's territory at the young
age of thirty.
Furthermore, he forged
an alliance with the dragon clan, with whom they had been enemies for many
years.
There was no longer
anything to obstruct the Demon Lord's path; he would become the king who ruled
the world.
Anyone who had ever
seen the Demon Lord Mergitos even once would have thought so, but...
"My Lord, I have
a report. The troll village of Pegiraka, the lizardman swamps of Jireb, and—the
undead capital of Ri-Hulagar have been attacked by the dragon clan and
annihilated."
"...Damn it.
—Damn you all!!"
With an explosion of
anger, Mergitos kicked his throne with all his might.
The custom-made marble
throne shattered into pieces, and the room fell silent.
How did it come to
this?
He had continued to
make all the best possible moves, even managing to secure an alliance with the
dragon clan, something that had not been achieved for many years.
So why was his demon
kingdom facing its greatest crisis?
...No, the reason was
perfectly clear.
It was all the fault
of that small village.
To be more precise, it
was the fault of the monstrous human in that village—Graham Ward.
He had thwarted every
one of the Demon Lord's army's multiple assaults.
When Mergitos first
heard that his army had been annihilated by the soldiers of such a small
village, he thought it had to be some kind of mistake.
But the second and
third attacks were also completely annihilated. On the fourth, Mergitos himself
led the assault on the village, but he was forced to flee, unable to lay a hand
on Graham Ward.
Those who actually
witnessed Graham's fighting began to voice the opinion that it was better not
to engage the humans, and for the first time since Mergitos became the Demon
Lord, opinions were split.
Mergitos himself
realized that Graham was not an opponent he could win against, and the doubt
began to grow that if he couldn't even take a village that small, how could he
possibly take the large cities that lay beyond it.
But even so, Mergitos,
who had never known failure until now, could not choose to give up, bowing to a
single human.
Realizing that any
further failure would risk an internal collapse, Mergitos decided to scrape
together the elite of his army and crush the village with all his might.
He had his three
generals—Elder Lich Wiseperson; Fenrir Lord; and Chimeratoros—lead the army.
Furthermore, Mergitos
went to the allied dragon clan and secured their help with the promise to cede
half of the Demon Lord's territory if they succeeded in taking the village.
It was a negotiation
based on the idea that even if he gave up half his territory, it would be a small
price to pay for the vast lands inhabited by humans. And with that enormous
price as the condition—the oldest and strongest of the dragon clan, the Ancient
Dragon, leading the dragon army, agreed to lend their power.
It was already
overwhelming force; he believed a single Ancient Dragon alone could easily
annihilate the village. But he had been humbled and forced to retreat four
times by Graham.
He would not let his
guard down. He would pour all his forces into crushing that small village
first—or so it was supposed to go, but the fifth invasion, for which he had
gambled everything, also ended in failure.
"...Why has it
come to this?"
No one responded to
Mergitos's small, tear-filled whisper. It echoed in the vast room and was
quickly swallowed by the silence.
His elite force of
over 2,000 monsters, his three generals who had supported him for many years,
were all killed, and the Ancient Dragon, whose help he had obtained by offering
half his territory, was left in a ghastly state.
He had by no means underestimated
Graham Ward.
He had viewed him as
the strongest opponent in history and had set out to crush him with all his
might and without the slightest bit of carelessness, but he was repelled.
He couldn't hide his
shock that the Ancient Dragon, hailed as the strongest since ancient times, had
been defeated, but the ones most shocked by this were not the demonkin or
Mergitos, but the dragon clan who had revered it like a god.
The current situation
is that the dragons, whose rage has become uncontrollable after the Ancient
Dragon was killed, have begun to rampage in various parts of the Demon Lord's
territory.
With the loss of his
three generals, who were the pillars of his army, as well as all of his elite
forces, he is unable to respond and is being destroyed piece by piece.
He wanted to tell them
that if they were rampaging for revenge, they should attack Graham Ward, but
even the dragon clan was too terrified to lay a hand on the one who killed the
Ancient Dragon.
He was at his wit's
end, with not a single move left to make.
Right now, the most
unfortunate person in this world—was undoubtedly Mergitos.
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