"The Demon King is coming!"
Those few words carried a crushing weight.
In an instant, they tore through the peace of the Three Great Principalities.
The Ranoa Kingdom, the Neris Principality, and the Baxelante Holy Country-the three powerful nations standing at the pinnacle of the Northern Territory-received the same urgent intelligence simultaneously, enough to make any sovereign leap from their throne.
Yet a fatal problem had arisen in the delivery of that intelligence.
Normally, an alarm of this magnitude would be relayed through the highest-level magical communications, giving all parties enough time to prepare and deploy.
This time, however, the news had failed to outrun its subject.
The Demon King was simply moving too fast, at a speed beyond anyone's imagination!
As a result, when the rulers of the Three Great Principalities first saw the brief but urgent warning sent by Ranoa Magic University through their magic crystals, Demon King Badigadi himself had practically already arrived at his destination.
The sudden development caught all three nations completely off guard, throwing them into chaos.
To those living in Humanfolk territory today, a "Demon King" was largely a distant, nebulous concept found in epics and legends.
Ever since the Laplace War had swept across the entire world centuries ago, the landscape within Demonfolk society had changed beyond recognition.
Almost all the Demon Kings of the Radical Faction and Combat Faction, who relished fighting, invasion, and slaughter, had been exterminated or sealed away by the heroes of that brutal war.
Thus, most of the Demon Kings who still held territory on the Demon Continent belonged to the Moderate Faction or Conservative Faction and had no interest in war.
But no one should be fooled by words like "moderate" or "conservative."
They were still Demon Kings!
Demon Kings were the absolute rulers who stood