"What? You went to burn the Witch, and ended up burned by her, with your entire army wiped out?"
The few fleeing soldiers quickly spread the news that five hundred cavalrymen had been swept away by a single person.
What spread alongside it was the first true Great Demon King to appear in all of history.
A peasant girl who had once possessed no power at all, been wantonly tortured by several country Priests, and sent to the Execution Rack had been chosen by the Demon King overnight—and actually destroyed five hundred full-plate cavalrymen!
That Expeditionary Force was an utterly formidable power in any great duke's territory or kingdom.
Now, it had been completely wiped out by a single fire.
"The Demon King—no, the Demon God!"
"The flames seemed to rise from Hell itself, burning everything to ashes!"
"And hundreds of Hell Warhorses charged too! They were the Burning Legion under the Demon God!"
The few survivors babbled hysterically, spouting insane nonsense. It was obvious they had lost their minds.
The various lords and bishops had great difficulty sorting out some useful information, after which they sent people to inspect the site.
The battlefield was scorched earth as far as the eye could see, with corpses strewn everywhere. Nothing could have been more real, and no one dared disbelieve in the Demon King's existence anymore.
The various Great Lords were not the only ones shaken. Even the greatest king in the north and the Pope of the Church of the One God had been alarmed.
They naturally knew that Witches had nothing to do with demons. Burning Witches was purely because women made convenient scapegoats.
Those who truly received power from demons included both Witches and Male Witches, though most were exorcists supported by kingdoms.
Demons chose people without regard