Erasing a mountain from existence wasnât too difficult a task, but moving one⊠while also preventing any future problems that it might cause, was a little more difficult.
And the difficulty of this task increased sharply when performing it on a mountain range rather than a singular mountain.
âIâm glad I made proper preparations. If I were doing it on my own, Iâm sure I would be struggling partway through from the loneliness and the fatigue,â Vandalieu said quietly, holding his staff in one hand in Samâs carriage.
âI believe we waited three days after informing the Adventurersâ Guild and the Sauron Duchyâs army so that sufficient notice could be provided to the adventurers and the soldiers at the fortresses along the border. But your preparations took only around an hour, did they not, Bocchan?â asked Sam.
âItâs just that I was able to make proper preparations in an hour, Sam. And the fact that Iâm currently riding your carriage is a part of it,â Vandalieu said.
Vandalieuâs Mana was close to inexhaustible. And due to the effects of his âConstant Super Mana Recoveryâ Skill, he recovered vast quantities of Mana even as he spent it.
But it was not truly limitless. Turning a mountain range into Golems while creating durable, thick bedrock across a vast area and even adjusting things for underground water streams was an incredibly difficult task for him to do on his own.
He didnât even want to imagine how difficult it would have been if he were also simultaneously casting âFlightâ on himself and exterminating the monsters fleeing the mountain range and the skies above it to make sure they didnât get away and cause any harm.
⊠Vandalieu might have actually been capable of doing this, but he had no intention of taking on such a lonely and harsh task.
Vandalieu was accompanied by a number of women, including Tarea, Kachia, Privel, Gizania, Myuze and Yuuma, and they looked physically drained.
Indeed, if someone were to see them now, they would assume that amorous affairs had just taken place, or that the women were being made to wait on him. That assumption would only be strengthened by the fact that they were all wearing clothes that left their shoulders exposed.
The âMetamorphâ Mari and Gufadgarn, the Evil God of Labyrinths, were also waiting behind Vandalieu.
âNobody with no knowledge of the situation would be able to see inside Sam-sanâs carriage, so you can have us serve you as much as you want. Right, Van?â said Mari.
âIndeed. There is nothing for you to be concerned about, great Vandalieu,â said Gufadgarn.
âNot that Iâm actually doing anything indecent,â said Vandalieu.
âYouâre right, Van-sama,â Tarea whispered sweetly into his ear as she embraced him. âSo please⊠drink more of me, and let me eat more of you.â
âTarea⊠If I suck any more of your blood, youâll collapse, you know,â Vandalieu said. âAnd even if you eat parts of me, it takes some time for your stamina and blood to recover.â
Vandalieu really wasnât doing anything indecent. He had simply been drinking the blood of Tarea and the others to recover his Mana and use his âBlood Ruleâ Skill, which strengthened his Attribute Values. And in order to allow Tarea and the others to recover more quickly, he was giving them parts of himself to eat.
What he was giving them was an improved version of Blood Potion, which was made from Vandalieuâs blood. He had harvested medicinal herbs and mushrooms that he had grown using âDemon World Binding Technique,â which contained the âPlant Binding Technique.â He had then combined them with concentrated blood of the Demon King created using the Demon Kingâs bone marrow, then turned this substance into egg-shaped objects using the Demon Kingâs oviducts. These egg-shaped objects had been temporarily named âBlood Eggs.â
They had the appearance of black-red spheres, enveloped in a jelly-like substance â like enormous frog eggs. They had a very concentrated flavor, similar to Blood Potion if it was boiled down, so they were slightly difficult to eat until one got used to them⊠And they were also highly toxic, with a high likelihood of causing drastic physical changes if consumed by those who hadnât been guided by Vandalieu.
However, to those who had been guided by him, they were nothing more than a rich source of nutrients and a powerful healing medicine. However, when replenishing lost blood rather than healing wounds, it still required some time.
Vandalieu himself was also snacking on Blood Eggs and Demon King Familiar parts. This could perhaps be referred to as autophagy, but he was doing this to fulfil the requirements of the âAugmented Attribute Values: Cannibalismâ and âSelf-Regeneration: Cannibalismâ Skills.
âThen drinkmyblood! Iâve got the most or second-most volume out of everyone here, so I should still have plenty of blood!â said Privel.
âI-if it is volume that we are talking about, I have no less than you! And I am confident in my Vitality as well!â said Gizania.
Privel was a Scylla Origin, with the lower body of an octopus and dragonsâ heads at the ends of her tentacles, while Gizania had the lower body of a spider. Both had the upper bodies of women, but if one included their lower bodies, they did indeed have several times the average womanâs body volume.
âI already took your body volumes into account when I drank your blood the first time, so no. Please remember that having large body volumes means that you need larger volumes of blood as well,â Vandalieu told them.
It seemed that he had already adjusted for this when calculating how much blood to suck from them. Of course, he had actually left significantly more than the minimum blood they needed, in order to avoid any unforeseen complications.
It was out of concern for their well-being that he was pretending that he had already sucked as much blood from them as possible.
âI see. I still feel rather fatigued, so I shall rest a little longer,â said Myuze.
âYeah, my body still feels a bit heavy, so it canât be helped,â said Kachia.
Both of them were leaning against Vandalieu on the opposite side from Tarea.
âIf youâre that exhausted, should we switch you out for Bellmond and the others?â suggested Mari. âWhat do you think, Gufadgarn?â
âIf it is for the great Vandalieuâs sake, I am ready to open Teleportation Gates at a momentâs notice,â Gufadgarn replied.
âNo, no! Weâre fine, so you donât need to go that far!â Myuze and Kachia said simultaneously, suddenly looking livelier as they shook their heads.
They were here for Vandalieu to suck their blood, of course, but if that was all, there were more suitable candidates â Bellmond, who possessed the Unique Skill âOfferingâ; Eleanora, who innately possessed powerful regenerative capabilities; and Darcia, who was Vidaâs incarnation. The initial plan had been for them to be in Samâs carriage right now.
But Tarea had objected to this.
She had said that it would be unfair for only Bellmond and the others to have their blood sucked, and that Vandalieu should suck her and the othersâ blood from time to time as well. And she had pointed out that Darcia and the others had other things to do at ground level with Kanako and the rest.
âI suppose youâre right. Well then, take care of Vandalieu for me,â Darcia had said, easily agreeing to Tareaâs request, and that was why Tarea and the others were here now.
âIâm personally happy about it, but donât you need to be providing leadership for the Ghouls, Tarea? And donât you need to give orders to the Scylla, Privel?â Vandalieu asked.
Tarea had originally been one of the Ghoul chieftains, and Privel was the daughter of the Scylla elder. Gizania and Yuuma were also princesses of their respective nations.
âThereâs nothing to be worried about, Van-sama,â said Tarea.
It seemed that there were no issues with them being at Vandalieuâs side.
âAlmost nobody in human society knows about me, after all. And Zadiris-san and Basdia-san serve more than well enough as representatives for the Ghouls,â Tarea explained.
She served important roles, including helping in the creation of Artifacts such as transformation equipment. That made it risky for her existence to be made well-known in human society, so she rarely performed on-stage with Kanako outside the Demon Empire of Vidal.
On the other hand, Zadiris and Basdia were well-known in human society, so Tarea believed that the two of them were sufficient for acting as symbols and leaders of the Ghouls, a race created by Vida.
âThe same goes for me,â said Kachia. âIâm not all that important to begin with, and I wanted Van to kiss me.â
âKachia, I do indeed have to place my lips on you, but itâs blood-sucking, not kissing. Though I canât deny it completely,â said Vandalieu. âWhat about you, Privel?â
âNo problems for me, either,â Privel replied. âMother serves as everyoneâs leader⊠and she told me that itâs more important for me to be by your side, Van-kun.â
Privelâs mother Periveil was the current chief of the Scylla from the Sauron Duchy, and she had decided that Privel being here was more important.
Assisting Vandalieu in moving the mountain range was an important role indeed, after all.
âMyâŠmynation isnât involved in this, so itâs fine for me to be here, isnât it?â said Yuuma, who was the only daughter of the king of the Kijin nation.
âThe same is true for myself,â said Gizania, the princess of Zanalpadna.
âAnd for me as well. And some say that a shinobi must not attract attention to themselves. Also, I am not a princess,â said Myuze, who was not a princess but was considered the most capable individual among the Empusa.
âThat may be true, but I still wonât suck any more blood from you until your blood is replenished,â Vandalieu said as he put a jointed leg from the remains of a Demon King Familiar into his mouth and bit into it with a crunch.
His mouth was filled with the taste of his own flesh⊠It wasnât very delicious.
I donât understand why everyone wants to eat parts of me. They have beneficial effects in the form of Potions and ointments, but these are just broken remains,thought Vandalieu.Of course, I suppose I only feel that way because theyâre a part of myself.
There were no stories of Vampires drinking their own blood to get by, so Vandalieu suspected that this was probably similar to that.Follow the newest chapters on nĐŸvelping.com.
âBy the way, Van, do you not need to make any more Demon King Familiars?â asked Mari.
âI think there are enough for now,â replied a Demon King Familiar rather than Vandalieu himself.
Like all Demon King Familiars, it was a split entity of Vandalieu⊠and it had not even a single joined leg. It consisted of only an enormous brain.
This was a brain-type Demon King Familiar that Vandalieu had created to assist him in controlling his magic. And inside this enormous brain were the necessary organs to keep it alive, as well as a treasure orb to generate Mana.
Ordinarily, a brain with a height of over two meters would collapse under its own weight, even if it was a monster. But because it was a brain of the Demon King, it was far firmer and more durable than the tofu-like consistency one might expect it to have.
However, if it werenât for the fact that it was aboard Samâs carriage, which provided extremely stable and smooth transport, Vandalieu would have needed to spend extra Mana to create a hard shell around it.
Vandalieu had increased his own processing power by connecting this brain-type Demon King Familiar to his main body. He was like a supercomputer, attaching an extra brain rather than extra processors.
And he had created other Demon King Familiars. There were dozens of vision-assistance-type Demon King Familiars, consisting of only a meter-wide eyeball and wings, flying around Sam.
He had created them to make sure that no monsters were escaping, that no part of the mountain range was collapsing, that there was no part that was sinking or becoming abnormally elevated.
There were a countless number of them, from the former Scylla territory to the mountain rangeâs final destination, as well as the skies above the row of rocky mountains that met the Boundary mountain range, cutting off the northern Bahn Gaia continent from the ocean.
âPapa, can I eat these?â Bakunawa asked, pointing at some other Demon King Familiars.
Vandalieu had also created Demon King Familiars to serve as snacks for Bakunawa. These were essential to the operation, as they prevented Bakunawa from eating the Demon King Familiars that were actively being used.
Incidentally, Bakunawa preferred Demon King Familiars with large eyeballs and brains. He claimed that he liked how the eyeballs burst in his mouth, and how the brains had a melty, creamy texture on his tongue.
âYou can eat the ones that are for snacking,â one of the Demon King Familiars said.
âDonât eat that one, eat me instead,â said another, volunteering itself for consumption.
âBut I would appreciate it if you ate the monsters as well,â added a third.
âYeah, but the monsters here arenât that strong, so theyâre kind of tasteless and mushy,â Bakunawa complained.
It seemed that unlike the monsters on the Dark Continent and the Demon Kingâs Continent, Bakunawa didnât much care for the monsters of the Boundary Mountain Range. Even on the Dark Continent, there were monsters that were low in Rank⊠though with that said, even the average adventurer would only barely be able to defeat them. The fact that Bakunawa still enjoyed eating them but not the monsters here likely had something to do with the concentration of the miasma that contaminated the Devilâs Nests that they lived in.
While Bakunawa wasnât eating the monsters, Pete was doing his best to devour as many as possible. There werenât many high-Rank monsters to begin with, so Pete and his âElder Dragon Devourerâ Skill were more than enough to deal with even the more powerful ones.
So why was Bakunawa here? The answer was that he had said, âI want to help Onee-chan.â
Children liked to help their parents and older siblings. Believing that Bakunawa was growing up fast, Vandalieu had no hesitation in having him help⊠though he had, for a brief moment, worried slightly about the effects the sight of Bakunawa would have on the minds of the soldiers in the fortresses along the Sauron Duchyâs border. But he had decided that it would be fine, as they would only see Bakunawa from a distance.
Other major reasons Vandalieu had made this decision was included the fact that although Bakunawa had not been seen by humans yet, he had already been seen by the gods of Aldaâs forces during the battle to liberate Botin; and the fact that Bakunawa was more than powerful enough to defend himself.
Aradia, whose existence was unknown to Aldaâs forces and was still unable to fight, was at home with her mother Deeana.
And even while Bakunawaâs hunger was directed at the Demon King Familiars instead of the monsters, Pete hissed ferociously as he devoured Bakunawaâs share as well.
After his latest Rank increase, Pete was now a Divine Steel Roaring Lightning Centipede Dark Beast King with an enormous body that was well over a hundred meters in length, radiating a divine aura⊠or rather, a sinister one.
Everyone other than Pete himself was surprised when he became a Divine Steel Roaring Lightning Centipede Dark Beast King. Beast-kings were demigods, and the term generally referred to the kings of beasts fathered by the Beast God Ganpaplio. Luciliano, Gufadgarn, and even Peria, the Goddess of Water and Knowledge, had all been unaware that it was even possible for a monster to increase its Rank to become a Beast-king.
One possibility was that Pete had simply gained a race whose title contained the words âBeast-king,â and he had not actually become a Beast-king â however, it seemed the âStrengthen Followersâ Skill he had acquired affected even regular centipedes that were not monsters, so it was presumed that he had truly become the Centipede Beast-king.
When Lafaz, the Bird Beast-king, was questioned whether it was possible for a monster to become a Beast-king, he had been completely shocked. It seemed that he had never even thought about the possibility, let alone heard of such a thing happening.
According to Lafaz, it was possible for a new Beast-king to be born. But that could only happen if the previous Beast-king were to die and was succeeded by one of their children.
That was why he had never even imagined that a Beast-king could be born from a species of bug that never even had a Beast-king in the first place, let alone from a monster. However, it was possible that there were monsters somewhere in the world that had become Beast-kings, Colossi, or Elder Dragons, and he had simply been unaware of them because he had been in the Demon Continent the whole time.
That was what Lafaz had said as he stared at Vandalieu⊠A Dhampir who had attained godhood as a mortal, absorbed the fragments of the Demon King, and had even stolen them from Guduranis. Perhaps he had thought that ifthatcould happen, then it might be possible for a monster to become a Beast-king, too.
âWhatâs the matter, Van-sama?â asked Tarea.
âI was just thinking that there might be others among my companions who become Beast-kings or Elder Dragons in the future, similar to what Pete did. Though I still donât know what can cause a monster to become a Beast-king,â Vandalieu replied.
Nobody denied the possibility that he was suggesting.
âGreat Vandalieu, you have walked our world after being reincarnated here from another, and you have accomplished divine deeds. I believe it is only natural for those who serve you to follow in your footsteps,â said Gufadgarn, actually agreeing with Vandalieu for reasons that he didnât really understand.
âMaybe Pete has become something similar to a Beast-king, like a Dark Beast-king or something, rather than an actual Beast-king. People who drink Vandalieuâs blood repeatedly transform into Dark Humans, after all,â said Kachia.
â⊠That is certainly possible,â Vandalieu said as he stared into space, unable to think of any counter-argument.
âWill Tadano become a rodent Beast-king?â wondered Yuuma.
âI think Maroru and her sisters would get there first,â said Privel. âPersonally, Iâm cheering for Tama and Gyoku, since they have tentacles like me.â
âIt seems like Yamata and Rapiéçage will become something impressive as well,â said Myuze.
Suddenly, Bone Man â or rather, just his skull â flew into the carriage. âMy lord!â
âHmm? Whatâs the matter? Is there trouble on the ground surface?â asked one of the Demon King Familiars.
âJyuuh! There are less monsters coming out of the mountain range than expected, so things are proceeding smoothly⊠though the soldiers and residents of the fortresses and stronghold cities along the border are running about and displaying strange behavior. Darcia-sama and the others are flying about, trying to calm them down,â Bone Man reported.
It seemed that things had become slightly troublesome at ground level, not only due to the monsters coming out of the mountain range, but due to the people who had witnessed the mountain rangeâs movement and seen Bakunawa and Pete in the sky above them.
âBone Man, what do you mean by âstrange behavior?ââ Vandalieu asked.
âMy Lord! It seems that they are begging the gods for mercy!â Bone Man replied.
It seemed that the people were under the impression that the world was coming to an end.
This might be bad. Should I stop the task for now?Vandalieu wondered.
But it seemed that the people had already recovered from their panic.
âIt seems that Vida, Botin, and Peria have sent Divine Messages, so there are cities and fortresses where the chaos died down before Darcia-sama and the others got there, so I believe the trouble is already resolved,â Bone Man said.
Interpreting complicated messages accurately required exceptional, talented clergymen who were few in number, but a simple message of âcalm downâ was not so difficult to interpret.
Those clergymen would just need to use the peopleâs respect that they had earned in order to convince the people to calm down.
âI feel bad about it, but I suppose I just have to hope that theyâll forgive me, since Iâm making sure that they donât have to suffer from the war with the Holy Nation of Amid anymore?â Vandalieu said.
âWhy do you sound so uncertain? Isnât it obviously better for them if thereâs no war?â said Kachia.
âKachia, if thereâs no more war, there will be a reduction in arms⊠a reduction in the armyâs budget, which canât be said to be a positive thing for the fortresses and stronghold cities along the border,â Vandalieu explained.This story is hosted at NovelPing.
It was precisely because there was a shared border with an enemy nation that there were multiple fortresses along the border, with the families of the soldiers working at the fortresses living in them as well, and stronghold cities were built and maintained as transit points for the supplies that the fortresses needed.
If this enemy nation became blocked off by a tall mountain range, all of these people would become little more than tax thieves.
âThough I think they will remain for a while as bases for adventurers who cull the monsters to prevent monster stampedes from the mountain rangeâs Devilâs Nests, and as a line of defense in the case that a monster stampede does happen,â Vandalieu said.
âCome to think of it, this place has always received support from the other duchies because of the fact that itâs the first line of defense against the Amid Empire. Wonât that support go away?â asked Privel, pointing out a possible dark future for the Sauron Duchy.
âPrivel, that support can be replaced by the profits from trade with our nation. If not, Iâll give them pocket money if I have to,â Vandalieu said.
â⊠At that point, why donât we just annex the duchy?â Privel questioned.
As long as the Sauron Duchy was ruled by Elizabeth, who had been haunted by a powerful backer in the form of Vandalieu, its future would be made bright by force if needed⊠Indeed, Elizabeth had notgaineda backer. She had been haunted by one.
Because she had been haunted by this backer, she could not make him stop backing her, either.
âA change of topic, My Lord, but I have two things to report,â said Bone Man. âThe first is that my Rank has increased, and I am now a Rank 15 Dark Emperor Godâs Skeleton Knight!â
This news supported the speculation that Vandalieu had made just a few minutes earlier.
âDark Emperor Godâs Skeleton Knightâ was quite a different race title than the ones that Bone Man previously had. Although he was not the same as a demigod, it was difficult to imagine that he was completely different, either.
âJudging from the race name, Iâm sure it means that you are a knight who serves a Dark Emperor God, and that Dark Emperor God isâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠprobably, definitely me, I suppose,â Vandalieu said reluctantly.
If possible, he didnât want to admit that the âDark Emperor Godâ in Bone Manâs race title referred to himself. But he had foreseen that if he had dared ask, âI wonder who this âDark Emperor Godâ is?â Bone Man would have immediately erupted into tears and shouted, âJyuooooh! My Lord, do you truly believe that I could serve anyone other than you?!â
Thus, Vandalieu had decided to reluctantly accept this fact.
âOh, thank you, My Lord! I was so, so worried! I wouldnât have known what to do with myself if you had suggested that the Dark Emperor God is not you!â Bone Man exclaimed in relief.
It seemed that Vandalieuâs prediction had been correct.
âTo think that you would accept it of your own will, Van-sama⊠You have grown, havenât you. Your appearance doesnât change much, so I was under the impression that you were the same as you always have been,â said Tarea.
âTarea, the fact that Iâm not growing any taller isnât a problem when you take my race into account. Iâm planning to take a century or two to become more than two meters tall,â said Vandalieu.
This figure of âmore than two meters tallâ was just the ideal height that he wanted to reach; it wasnât a number that was actually based on anything.
âSo, what was the other thing you wanted to report?â Vandalieu asked.
âJyuuh! Everyone in the fortresses, stronghold cities, and villages along the border are worshiping you as a god, My Lord,â said Bone Man.
âHuh? Why?â
Vandalieu truly had no idea why the people would do such a thing.
âWell⊠It is only natural, isnât it,â said Tarea.
âIn fact, it would be strange if theydidnâtâŠâ said Privel.
âI thought thatsurelyVan would notice this time, but I suppose not,â said Kachia.
âI had assumed that he had been prepared for this from the beginning,â said Gizania.
It seemed that everyone else had already predicted that this would happen.
âTarea, everyone, did you all predict the future?â Vandalieu asked.
âNo, that is not it,â said Myuze. âI suggest that you perhaps reflect upon what you are doing right now.â
âWhat Iâm doing right now? Myuze, Iâm only changing the shape of the mountain range to block off the Mirg shield-nation from the Sauron Duchy,â said Vandalieu.
âI think thatâs the main reason,â said Mari gently.
Vandalieu looked around him, but no matter how many times he rotated his head around on his neck, there was not a single person who disagreed with Mari.
To Vandalieu, moving the mountain range was a significant task, but one that was still possible if he mustered all of his Mana â nothing more, and nothing less. In the past, he had once crossed the mountain range with the Ghouls including Tarea, Kachia, and Zadiris. Back then, he had altered the shapes of the cliffs to make it easier to do so. And when entering the Hartner Duchy, he had repaired the collapsed tunnel beneath the Boundary Mountain Range.
He considered his task of moving the mountain range to be nothing more than an extension of that.
He was doing so with everyoneâs help, and he did think it was quite an incredible thing. But he truly hadnât believed that it was such a great task that the people would skip the stage of respecting him and go straight to worshiping him as a god.
At this rate, Iâll become worshiped as the god who moved the mountain range, not only along the border but throughout the whole Sauron Duchy. Help me, Borgadon,Vandalieu silently pleaded to Borgadon, the God of Mountains, who was worshiped in the duchy adjacent to the Sauron Duchy.
But for some reason, an image of Borgadon shaking his head vehemently flashed in his mind, saying, âHuh? No way, itâd be impossible to make up a story that makes sense at this point.â So with no choice, Vandalieu gave up.
In the emergency council taking place inside Vandalieuâs head, there was one suggestion to give credit for the feat to Bakunawa, who had been seen by a large number of people. But if some kind of problem were to occur, Bakunawa would bear the blame. And it would be a despicable act for Vandalieu to use his own young son as a scapegoat, so this was out of the question.
The final decision was⊠to spread credit for the task among everyone and hope that some of the peopleâs worship would be directed at the others rather than only at him.
âIâll name the new portion of the mountain range the âArk Mountain Range,ââ Vandalieu said. âAnd Iâll build Churches for Ricklent, Zuruwarn, and Botin. Letâs create natural water springs or hot springs and then ask Elizabeth-sama to implement a policy to build a hot spring town named âSolderâ around the Church of Peria.â
And so began the plan to revitalize the Sauron Duchyâs economy.
âCome to think of it, Van, I wanted to talk to you about something,â said Mari. âIs it alright if I split my blood and whatever else is needed to create a sister for myself? Iâm being asked to help make a body.â
âIf itâs someone you think you can trust, Mari, then itâs fine⊠Wait, you can do something like that?â asked Vandalieu.
âI donât know, so I thought, well, maybe Iâd give it a try. Itâs alright, itâs someone who is very trustworthy,â Mari said.
Meanwhile, on the Mirg shield-nation side of the border, there was an even greater panic occurring than on the Sauron Duchyâs side.
There were no gods with prior knowledge of the situation, and the clergymen had no idea whether they were supposed to tell the people to flee or to calm down. The people trembled in fear at the sight of mountains that groaned as they moved, and the enormous Elder Dragon and centipede flying in the sky above them.
And the prided sturdy fortresses of the Mirg shield-nation were struggling to deal with the monsters that had flown out of the part of the Boundary Mountain Range that had become the Ark Mountain Range.
These monsters would be considered few in number to a force of fully prepared, powerful Ghouls, Scylla, Demons, and Undead. But their number was certainly not small to the Mirg shield-nationâs army, which had been caught by surprise.
As for the gods of Aldaâs forces, they had sent Divine Messages to the clergymen of the Mirg shield-nation saying, âThis is a part of the Demon Kingâs power,â and then decided to simply observe how the situation developed.
Perhaps this was not true for the people of the Holy Nation of Amid, but to the gods of Aldaâs forces, the enemy that ought to be defeated was not the Orbaume Kingdom, but Vandalieu and the Demon Empire of Vidal that he ruled.
It was troublesome that the way to the Sauron Duchy had been closed off by the mountain range. But it was not something that required them to immediately prevent, gathering all their forces with the willingness to suffer great losses in order to do so.
With that being the case, Alda and his subordinates had believed that it would be best to use this incident to tell the Holy Nation of Amid who their true enemy was.
As a result, the fear and dread of the people who lived under the rule of the Holy Nation of Amid would be directed at Vandalieu, but Alda believed that this would be worth it as long as it allowed the Holy Nation of Amid to become united.
To Alda and his subordinates, Vandalieu was a reincarnated individual who had come from another world and absorbed the Demon King into his own body; although there were people in the Demon Empire of Vidal and the Orbaume Kingdom who worshiped him as a god, they did not consider him to truly be a god.
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