Central District——
Faltra City is a fortress city hardened with a solid and very long rampart. If looked at from the sky, it had an octogonal shape, and towers were erected at the places that would be the corners.
Those towers were buildings made for the sake of a large-scale ritual magic that repelled Demonic Beings and Demonic Beasts. It operated by making the Magician’s Guild Guildmaster, Celestine Bordorel’s magic power as its power source.
Within the walls, a great number of buildings were lined up, and there was a main street that was wide enough for army to march in that connected the east and west gates.
At the center of such a street, it wasn’t as strong as the outer walls but there was also a solid wall. It was an inner wall that surrounded the central district where the estates of the Feudal Lord, nobles, and extremely rich people were at.
Rather than a rampart that would be useful during times of war, its main purpose was to prevent crime. Nevertheless, it was a thick stone wall and had a height that went to the roof of a three story building.
There were gates only on the east, west, north and south.
Because people that came in and out were strictly surveillanced, the heavily armed infantry holding halberds were all standing in a line.
They weren’t military personnel, but local knights that were under the direct command of the Feudal Lord.
Diablo walked lined up with Sylvie. Rem and Shera came along behind them. Shera had changed into her usual green clothes.
Frequently having coaches pass through it the main street was a stone paving that was laid out.
On the way——Sylvie said “I think it would be best if you know now” and started talking about the Feudal Lord.
Although he had the guise of having no interest, Diablo steadily listened.
「Let’s see……before talking about the Feudal Lord, I’m going to talk a bit about Faltra City first, okay? How important this town is……just as you guys know, this place is the Races’ foremost line. The Lifelia Kingdom’s dominion is spread out on the east side and that’s where many people of the Races live. There are a lot of large towns and several of them are defenseless in that they don’t have ramparts and armies to fight against Demonic Beings and Demonic Beasts. In other words, it would turn into something terrible if they were invaded by an enemy army. And then, to the west side of Faltra City, the Demon King’s territory is spread out.」
「……You mean the former Demon King’s territory, right?」
Rem supplemented.
Sylvie nodded.
「Yeah, although it doesn’t feel like it since the Demonic Beings and Demonic Beasts are active, it’s the former Demon King’s territory. On the 124 year of Lifelia Kingdom’s calendar, the Demon King appeared and from here to the west, it became the Demon King’s territory. And then, on the 135 year of the kingdom’s calendar, he was defeated by someone……that’s what was said. 《Demon King of the Brain, Enkvalos》 was……」
A name that he knew of came up.
「Ahh, that guy was the first——」
Stopping in mid-sentence, Diablo then shut his mouth.
——Me defeating him was something from the game. Rather, it’s the same name as the game’s Demon King!?
By going ahead of the other Players and defeating 《Demon King of the Brain, Enkvalos》 first, Diablo acquired 《The Demon King’s Ring》.
He recalled——
Enkvalos had an ability that reflected magic. For that reason, it seemed that other Players challenged him with Warrior-types as the core. But, Warrior-types were established to have low magic defense (POW). They easily received bad statuses like 《Confuse》 and 《Sleep》.
Because Diablo’s specialty was Solo Play, bad statuses were the same as instant death, so he was abundant with counter-measures for them.
Also, he was blessed to have learned magic that gave physical damage for the times he had to go against monsters where magic wouldn’t work on them.
In the early days where there wasn’t much information, his being able to crush the 《Demon King of the Brain, Enkvalos》 on his first challenge of it was due to huge fortune……and the Player Skills that he had tempered.
In his world, that was something from two years ago.
「Come to think of it, I haven’t confirmed it. What year is it now? How many years ago was it that Demon King Enkvalos was defeated?」
「Right now it’s the 284 year of the Lifelia Kingdom’s calendar. It’s been about thirty-something years since the Demon King vanished.」
「I see.」
——Could it be that this other world has its time flow about ten-something times faster than the world I was summoned from? No, I guess that would be weird. If I defeated the Demon King thirty-something years ago, that would mean that Diablo would be somewhere in this other world.
Should he just think that the Demon King’s names were only the same and that it was a different existence from the one of the game?
To begin with, the 《Demon King of the Brain, Enkvalos》 was something that a majority of the Player would defeat in the story quests.