After being forced to step down, the once-annoying nun eloped with me.

The girls listening in wiped the cold sweat from their brows: after all, they also felt the strange atmosphere of impending doom, but even they had no idea what the other person was thinking.

What should I do?!

Everyone was secretly anxious.

It was at this moment that... the first to lose control was Miss Margarita, who was the most anxious.

She had to take the initiative to break the silence.

"Yang Hao, I—"

But just as she opened her mouth, a burst of intense purple light suddenly illuminated the surface of Wiss City from above outside the conference room window, drawing everyone's attention.

Yang Hao first looked at the speechless Miss Margarita:

"Is this some kind of experiment in Ysgard?"

Miss Margarita shook her head, bewildered and at a loss.

"I also want to ask... what is the United Nations doing? Even in the event of a natural disaster, our country has never experienced anything like this..."

"..."

It was visibly noticeable that everyone's faces had become particularly grim.

Elena's expression changed drastically. She jumped down from the audience and rushed to Yang Hao's side, whispering a few words in his ear. After receiving the important information, the man said with a grim face: "The anomaly comes from the sky."

In the sky above Isgard, a huge purple rift appeared in the northern region of the continent of Orros—this rift was unfinished, with numerous magic circles on it, but ultimately it still needed time to be perfected.

Not just the continent of Orros.

On the continent of Elusia, the same thing appeared in the skies above the Roman Magic Domain and the Frozen Magic Domain.

This is definitely the work of demons. But wasn't the Great Cataclysm supposed to arrive in this world ten years from now? What on earth is going on?!

"Warning: According to our detection... the demon in the Roman Demon Realm, marked as the highest danger level, seems to have been close to death the moment the purple rift appeared."

Analysis: The rifts appearing on both continents are related to the dying demons... but these rifts definitely appeared prematurely. They haven't opened yet, and there are even many flaws...

"Conclusion: But no matter what... the early arrival of the demonic calamity is a fact we must face."

Amid Elena's worry, Yang Hao and Margarita gazed at each other.

The devil may be coming sooner than expected.

Perhaps there's no point in continuing this stalemate any longer.

"...Yang Hao [Margarita]. We need to talk about the matter of national merger."

Their simultaneous remarks surprised both of them.

After a moment, they sat back down at the conference table.

In the Roman Magic Realm.

The demon servant made a decision after fully realizing that he had lost all his way out and all his opportunities.

By dying, he brought about the impending calamity of the demons.

Chapter 3: [It's just a sunken continent? Let's raise it up!] - 8K

A few small things before.

...All of this was unexpected for the demon servants.

He lost all his escape routes and opportunities. Not only did he fail to save the Ice Calamity, but even the Mother Nest on the continent of Orros, which he had desperately tried to awaken, was attacked by the United Nations... Now, the Demon Servant is no longer able to find his own kind of allies in this world.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that he has wasted far too much. In the past few years, he has wasted time, wasted his vitality, wasted his precious kin, and even wasted himself.

No.

Strictly speaking, he [himself] is still somewhat useful.

At a time when it has been determined that no aid can be provided for the calamity ten years from now.

The demon servants had one more risky step: to bring the Demonic Calamity Rift to life ahead of schedule.

This is not something impossible—or rather, it is something that must be done. And ultimately, for the demon race, this is a major step towards gaining the upper hand.

The price was merely the sacrifice of the demon servants and the collapse of the Roman Demon Realm. That was all.

"As long as I use my last strength and the heart of the Demon Realm to summon the Great Demonic Calamity Rift... I don't know how many years earlier it will be, but at least I should be able to send my kin to this world sooner."

Previously, the demon servant was mainly worried that the plan was too random.

He could very well cause the demonic calamity to appear before his very eyes.

It could also bring the demonic disaster forward by less than two days.

Not to mention, to hold such a ceremony, one must not only sacrifice one's already limited life force, but also cause the heart that maintains the operation of the Roman Magic Domain to consume the vast majority of its power, further weakening the overall magical strength.

If given a choice, the demon servant would absolutely not choose the worst path.

In a sense, if the Roman demon had been willing to sacrifice even a fraction of his life force instead of dedicating his entire life to the civil war, the demon servants wouldn't have had to come to this...

But no matter what, they've exhausted all their resources. Even a dying person grasps at their last straw; similarly, a demon on the verge of collapse will surely cling to its final hope.

Even if one's luck is terrible, it's still possible to bring about a calamity two, three, or even four or five years earlier... right?

In any case, this is better than letting the demonic calamity descend as originally planned—after all, if it really were ten years from now, and the humans of this world were prepared to defend themselves, even the demon servants themselves could not predict what kind of technology humans would develop to fight against their own kind.

Rather than giving them opportunities to develop, it would be better to...

"Why not give it a shot..."

Although the demon servant disliked gambling—now, he had no choice but to gamble.

The demon servant was prepared to offer his life. But at that moment, a figure over three meters tall appeared in the space that should have been his alone.

It was Prince Garsen's head lady-in-waiting. The weak demon servant raised an eyelid, carefully moved the shriveled remains of the sacrificial primal demons around him aside, and looked at the head lady-in-waiting who had come with an unknown purpose, thinking to himself that this guy was finally about to reveal his true nature.

If Prince Garsen's incompetent and pleasure-seeking nature is the true face that the demon servant has already recognized, then the head maid's true face... remains hidden in the thick fog.

The head maid, whose name is unknown and whose origins are strange—no matter how long the demon servants spent gathering information about the head maid, all they could find was disguised and almost fragmented information.

In a sense, the only thing the demon servant can trust now is that the head maid's activities revolve almost extremely around Prince Garsen. Her loyalty is unlike that of a Roman; this loyalty has even become a negative emotion that hinders Prince Garsen's growth and evolution—something the demon servant finds hard to understand.

And now, this blindly loyal head maid, who had been almost entirely inactive except when the Roman demons planned to attack the capital, actually had the idea of ​​finding her.

“…”

"..."

The demon servant had to be on high alert: he was certain to lose his life, but at least he had to lose it in a more worthwhile way.

So he just stared at the head maid. The tall, imposing head maid stared intently at the demon servant.

She's already a high-ranking demon—the demon servant thought. Although he didn't know her specific abilities, he was certain she was the most powerful Roman demon in the Roman Demon Realm, without exception.

"...Attendant. I roughly know what you're planning to do."

The head maid used insect-like mouthparts to make human-like sounds.

"You want to trade your life for the realization of your grand plan—but that's not allowed."

"..."

“You must stand in this position. Otherwise, Garsen will go insane like he did when the little queen was kidnapped. So I will not allow you to die.”

"..."

It was all for this ridiculous reason?!

The demon servant almost peed himself.

He had considered that the head maid might kill him for her own power.

He had considered that the head maid might be trying to make use of his useless status.

He even wondered if Prince Garsen had lost his mind and wanted his head lady-in-waiting to perform a demonstration of the Primal Demon bracelet, and that he was the target of his anger.

But he never thought about it.

The head maid came here because she wanted to stop him from dying.

And the reason he wanted to avoid his own death was simply because Garsen needed a little queen-like figure to stand in the spotlight?!

What is this called?

Incorrigible?

Or is it that human dreams and obsessions are simply indelible?

Or is this just a fucking joke?

The demon servant's eyes widened.

The head maid seemed oblivious to the absurdity in the demon servant's eyes, and continued to display human wisdom:

"Although it took me a long time to get used to this form, I still know that the [power] you expend each time you move must be a matter of life and death. I don't know what you want to do, I only know that for Garsen's sake, you can't die."

"..."

"Besides, why risk your own life?"

The head maid lowered her head and glanced at the shriveled remains of the primordial demons surrounding the demon servants.

"Aren't there many Romans outside?"

"..."

In Roman Demon's worldview, they seem to still maintain everything about being human.

Although the Roman demons have been controlled by various "collective consciousnesses," the core of these "collective consciousnesses" is still the Roman people. Naturally, they also regard themselves as "human beings."

The head maid referred to the Roman demon outside in this way for this reason—but to be honest, it doesn't really matter what she calls him.

With insufficient power under the demon servants to fight against the vast number of Roman demons, and the demon servants seemingly having to sacrifice their life force, and Prince Garsen, whose mental state had finally stabilized, still needing someone to stand in the spotlight, the head maid wanted to make a deal with the demon servants.

One reason is that the head lady-in-waiting doesn't believe the other demons can take good care of Prince Garsen; otherwise, she could stand in the spotlight.

On the other hand, it's because demon servants are still useful.

“I will bring the Romans from outside. After all, you are not the same kind of people as them, so it is only natural for you to plunder everything from outsiders, right?”

"At that time, you can prolong your life, pave the way for your great cause, and then continue to stand in the spotlight. I can continue to take care of Garsen without worrying about what's happening outside."