The Seventy-Two Demon Gods Appear / Prove He Has the Power to Control the Seventy-Two Demon Gods

The story written in "The Key of Solomon" was nothing more than humanity satisfying its own vanity.

But it could not all be false. For example, it was said that King Solomon obtained the angel-written "Book of Raziel," thereby gaining the ability to freely summon and command demons and spirits. That might not have been false.

After all, King Solomon himself had appeared. That made it all the more likely that he was a child of God.

"One side is a cursed man swallowed by darkness, while the other is a man blessed by God and favored by light. When the two clash, will darkness cover the heavens, or will light illuminate them?"

As the announcer, Heimdallr shouted those provocative words.

The stirred-up gods and humans were also filled with anticipation, roaring their cheers.

"Then, the second round of The Final Battle Between Humans and Gods, the battle of fate—begin!!!"

The instant the declaration fell, Heimdallr moved away to avoid being caught in either side's immediate attack.

Incidentally, the arena had been expanded tenfold this time. The previous battle had been far too unexpected, making the original arena seem too small and insufficient for them to fully fight.

".It looks like Beelzebub is making the first move. What magic will he use? Hmm? Is that a summoning circle?"

Everyone had assumed Beelzebub would attack directly, but numerous Magic Arrays appeared around him, and something was rising from them.

"Wh-what is that?!"

"What kind of monster is that?!"

"Demons?"

"No way, I've never seen demons like that!"

Quite a few spectators on the gods' side turned pale.

The things emerging from the Magic Arrays could indeed be called demons. After all, weren't demons supposed to be ugly monsters like that?

But the problem was that none of these monsters had ever been seen before. They differed greatly from the demons people imagined and looked even more horrifying.

Upon closer inspection, some people noticed something. These monsters did possess certain traits of familiar demons.

These demon monsters were simply amalgamations, like Chimeras.

They were most likely demons Beelzebub had modified himself.

In the blink of an eye, a pile of spine-chilling demon monsters appeared beside Beelzebub. "Huh? There are exactly seventy-two of them?"

"So, aren't you King Solomon, the one said to command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons? Why not summon them to protect you?"

Beelzebub spoke coldly to the man across from him.

As for whether the other man could truly summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, he did not believe it.

Rather, perhaps he really could summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, but there would be a price. It would be transactional in nature.

And he probably could not summon all of them, either.

What Beelzebub did not believe was that he could command all seventy-two Pillars of Demons. Command them!

Command and transaction were two entirely different things.

"I see. Since the King of Flies wishes to meet them so badly, wouldn't it be disappointing not to let them come out?"

After King Solomon spoke gently, he gave Beelzebub a slight bow and extended one hand.

Then, he lifted the lid off Hell's pot.

The Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons Appear

A massive Magic Array spread out with King Solomon at its center.

As the Magic Array rotated, the ground covered by its circle vanished, turning into a writhing darkness.

Perhaps it was better described as a black opening, with King Solomon standing atop it.

The opening radiated a hair-raising aura, as though it were connected to the abyss of Hell.

"What kind of aura is this?"

"This aura feels like it came from Hell."

"No, it doesn't merely feel that way. It is Hell! This guy really opened a passage to Hell!"

Some gods who had visited Hell could clearly tell that this was identical to the infernal aura they had felt there before.

But what made his scalp tingle was that the dense aura pouring from this open passage to Hell was countless times stronger than anything he had felt back then.

Especially the aura of another kind of living being—an aura belonging to demons.

No, it was not the aura of ordinary demons, but Demon Gods!

He had once encountered a Demon God, but its aura had been worlds apart from what he felt now.

The Demon God aura he sensed now was dozens, perhaps even hundreds of times stronger than the one he had felt before.

It was as though this opening had appeared right beside a group of Demon Gods?

A group of Demon Gods?

Could it be that he was truly going to summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons?

Th-this was impossible, wasn't it?

The next instant, black Miasma erupted from the opening, making the entire arena gloomy and sinister.

As for the sky, the sunlight pouring down was fading away, while black, lead-like clouds from nowhere prepared to cover the heavens.

As a result, the arena grew darker and darker.

"Gulp!"

Goll swallowed hard. The scene before her made her feel as though the entire arena had been dragged into Hell.

The terrifying aura also made her legs tremble. She instinctively grabbed Sister Brunhilde beside her with both hands to support herself, lest she shake so badly that she could no longer stand and collapsed to the ground.

"Did he really summon the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons?"

Brunhilde murmured softly, her gaze carrying both anticipation and unease.

She anticipated that if he could truly command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, dealing with Beelzebub should not be a problem.

But she was also uneasy over whether the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons would truly obey his orders. After all, the time when they had obeyed King Solomon was thousands of years ago for the Demon Gods now being summoned.

Would these Demon Gods still obey his orders now?

Hopefully, they would not turn against him.

"What is going on, Archangel?"

The angels in Heaven became somewhat flustered. Having fought the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons before, how could they fail to recognize that aura?

Was he truly going to summon those demons of Hell?

And the person carrying out the summoning was actually a human who had received the Lord's blessing.

It was simply a vicious slap across the Lord's face.

"I don't know!"

Though the Archangel, Heaven's Vice-Lord, said that, he was deeply uneasy inside.

Knowing certain secrets, he did not believe that the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons were something King Solomon could summon and command.

Even the true child of God favored by the Lord had not been granted such authority.

But what exactly was happening now?

Could this be a new arrangement by the Lord?

"This is getting interesting."

The one who said that was Shiva, seated in a corner of the stands.

The seat he gripped with both hands had already cracked beneath his fingers.

Originally, it had been decided that he would take the field in the second round.

Who would have thought that Beelzebub would suddenly cut in line? It had truly infuriated him.

Therefore, his seemingly teeth-clenched expression was not because he was angry that Beelzebub had taken the second round of Ragnarok that should have belonged to him.

He was excited—so excited that he could barely control himself, and increasingly eager to slaughter humans.

"This man is quite wonderful."

The one who said this was the beautiful goddess Aphrodite, who extended her tongue and licked her lips.

King Solomon was precisely the sort of man she liked. He made her desperately want to have a proper taste of him.

Oh my, she could no longer see that captivating face. That was because her entire field of vision had gone dark.

The entire arena had fallen into a state where one could not see even a hand in front of one's face.

Such a state left many spectators deeply panicked.

Suddenly, a flash of white light streaked through the darkness. It was lightning.

That fleeting flash illuminated the arena for an extremely brief moment.

In that instant, gods and humans who had been watching the arena closely discovered that four figures had appeared beside King Solomon.

One held a massive hammer in his right hand and a glowing thunderball in his left. He wore a conical crown with two horns and rode upon lightning.

One had a woman's face and a man's body, wearing a jewel-studded crown.

One resembled an angel riding a dark, dragon-like monster. His skin was blackened, and black Miasma radiated from his body.

One had three heads—a bull's head, a human head, and a ram's head—as well as a serpent's tail.

Those who recognized these four figures broke into cold sweat.

Were these not the Supreme Four Pillars Gods among the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons?

Could it have been an illusion?

After all, the flash of lightning vanished in an instant, and everything was swallowed by darkness once more.

But the next second, hundreds and thousands of bolts of lightning flashed continuously, making the entire arena brighter than daylight.

At that moment, everyone saw clearly—

"Th-they increased in number!"

"It's no longer just four!"

"Are there seventy-two?"

"Th-they've all appeared!"

All seventy-two Demon Gods had appeared, their aura sweeping across the entire arena like a tidal wave.

Some weaker gods trembled from head to toe at those terrifying forms.

However, something even more terrifying was that the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons actually knelt on one knee before King Solomon in a gesture of submission.

N-no way!

What kind of joke was this?!

Countless people gasped sharply.

If King Solomon could truly command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons, it was equivalent to possessing an entire mythological system himself. He would be the Main God of that system.

Wait, something was strange as well.

A few humans and gods became confused. Wasn't Beelzebub rumored to be the Demon God Baal?

Now, it seemed that rumor was mistaken too.

Those with sharper eyesight had noticed, when the Supreme Four Pillars Gods first appeared, that Baal's gaze toward Beelzebub was practically trying to devour him.

It was as though they had an irreconcilable grudge.

Proof of the Power to Command the Seventy-two Pillars of Demons

Baal had originally been a god in Canaanite Mythology, the god who governed lightning, agriculture, and livestock.

He was also a god of death and resurrection, as well as the Sun God.