The Devil Who Grants Wishes

“You guys! What are you doing here!?”

The host, Count Erlingen, is momentarily bewildered and unable to grasp the situation, but soon becomes very angry.

To ruin the banquet by treating himself like this, the head of the Erlingen family, who has devoted himself to the empire from generation to generation, is because it is not an insult to the Count, but a rudeness that is close to declaring war.

The Count doesn’t know what misunderstanding they made, but no matter what, he can’t bear to treat him like this, even ruining the banquet.

“Leave now and come back tomorrow morning!

“Ahhhh!!”

However, the Count overlooked that the present situation was extremely abnormal.

When the count sees the soldiers who do not respond at all, he gets more excited and raises his voice, and then he is killed on the spot by the sword of the knight commander who leads them.

Such a death caused a tremendous shock to the banquet attendees who saw it, but the soldiers, including the commander of the knight, simply stood there with their weapons pointed.

“Stop! We’ve got information that a conspiracy plot is going on. Where are the traitors talking!”

“Hey, hey…”

“A related inspector will be here soon, so everyone, wait there! Not a single person can get out of this banquet hall!”

The commander of the knights and the guards, obeying the emperor’s orders, believe in the charges of treason that the emperor himself gave as spying.

They treat everyone gathered in the banquet hall as traitors, and the nobles, bourgeoisie, and clergy who are treated that way just tremble while looking at the rough blades of their swords.

He didn’t even know that the emperor was among the soldiers.

“Ummm…”

Of course, Lucia and Aegoceros, who are watching all these things, are not afraid of anything.

Living like this is nothing compared to Faust’s Magi.

Lucia, who has been drinking Faust’s magic like water and air since she was a child, is watching the situation dryly as if a modern person is looking over a movie screen, and Aegoceros is just a little dog taunting the current behavior of the guards. only see it as

“dare…”

“Korokke, wait.”

“Yes, Lucia-sama.”

Of course, if those petty puppies try to attack their owners, it’s a different story.

Aegoceros tried to kill the soldiers who dared to kill Lucia, but eventually gave up on Lucia’s order to stop.

“Let’s wait a moment. I wondered what he was going to do.”

“I’ll do it. You can move as much as you want as long as you’ve applied the sound blocking magic following the recognition inhibition.”

It wasn’t that Lucia took pity on their lives and stopped them.

I’m just wondering what they’re going to do, knowing that no matter what happens, I won’t get hurt, so I can get out of this place at any time, so I’m acting like this.

Lucia, who has always received only favorable emotions from her father and butler, is not accustomed to the overflowing negative emotions, but rather, the unfamiliarity made her curious.

Lucia is observing with great interest the other people and all the evil feelings they have towards each other, and Aegoceros stands next to him and begins to guess what they are doing now.

………….

“So, do you know what it is?”

“It looks like a demon summoning ritual.”

Not long after, Aegoceros, who closely observed their every move, decides that they are about to perform a demon summoning ceremony.

The full magi make the moon in the sky appear red to those in the magic field, and the real moon has a different cause, but once the moon has turned red, the result is the same.

In other words, the emperor is trying to summon a demon without making a wish by using the same result that the moon turns red.

“No, strictly speaking, it’s not a summoning, it looks more like a curse. It’s a curse that is forcibly summoned without asking the devil’s will at a cost.”

“curse?”

“Yeah, those born demons like me have no power to resist their curse.”

Even this summoning ritual is not an ordinary summoning method.

Compared to summoning a demon out of desire alone, that curse does not take into account the will of the demon being summoned.

A demon of the same level as the sacrifice is forcibly brought from the Demon Realm, and of course the demon who is forcibly dragged will not grant his wish.

No, not granting wishes is at the very moderate level.

“Of course, the demon summoned like that will be furious and go crazy.”

The vast majority of demons will rage at the fact that they have been forcibly brought under a curse, and will unleash aggression everywhere.

However, the wizard who casts the curse of summoning demons does not consider such things at all.

No, it’s not that we don’t take it into account, it’s just that we don’t know at all.

He was hastily using the knowledge he had learned from scratching the watermelon without knowing any precautions.

“To the extent that the croquettes are hard to stop?”

“I evolved into a Demon Lord with Faust-sama’s grace, and I can easily block the arrival of an Archdaemon. However, the cost of the curse is annoying. It is difficult to predict the strength of the demon that will be summoned because of the large amount.”

“Cost… Ah, croquette taught me that curses come at a reasonable cost, didn’t they?”

“Yes, that’s great. The curse they’re casting uses the Red Moon as a medium, but in the form of a magic circle, it will only work if you offer noble blood as a cost along with it. will be there.”

“Ummm…”

When Aegokeros looked at the magic circle painted on the floor of the banquet hall and said that, Lucia was confused.

Lucia, who still has a human heart, feels strangely unfamiliar with the fact that she will let those who have expressed such fondness for her die.

Lucia had just been trying to watch them, not caring about their lives, but when she realized that they could really die, she felt pity.

“Coroke, would it be very painful to die at the cost of a curse?”

“It will. The soul burns to pieces.”

“Then… let’s change to that grandfather.”

“Yes?”

“Is that grandfather doing this to summon the devil? As that grandfather wishes, let’s sacrifice our lives to summon the devil.”

Of course, it’s not good for those who didn’t show interest in him.

Lucia, who was reluctant to kill those who showed her affection for her, decides to change the cost of the curse to the emperor who planned this.

“Hmm… Yeah, I’ll do that. I’ll just use magic tricks.”

“Please.”

Aegoceros obeys Lucia’s simple request.

He used group hallucination magic to prevent everyone from properly recognizing reality, and only the emperor was put in the huge magic circle drawn on the floor of the banquet hall.

“Great, well done.”

However, Lucia and Aegoceros did not know that this would be a mistake.

This curse works by fueling the life of a high-ranking person, and it has a mechanism to summon a stronger demon as the status of the person who will be fueled increases.

Of course, quantity is important, but quality is ten times more important.

In other words, he used the emperor who had no status as the fuel for the curse, and the consequences of that curse became difficult to bear even with Aegokeros, who evolved into a Demon Lord.

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“…”

It’s not funny.

The security magic that responds to the intruders was activated and came back in a hurry, but it had been a long time since the intruders had already been eaten alive by flowers and Nero that had turned into beasts.

“Ah, oh my…”

Waves-

You… what are you doing?

Flower and Nero, who had turned into ugly beasts, are playing ordinary flowers and cats as if nothing had happened.

No, it’s already too late. Why the hell are you acting like that?

And Nero, were you a beast too? I’ve been hiding it very well for 13 years.

Parrut-

‘…what, just?’

At the moment when he was sticking his tongue out at the shamelessness of flowers and Nero, suddenly his skin began to tremble.

It felt similar to when [Faust] reacted to someone’s empty wish and moved at will, but it’s slightly different.

“…what?”

I looked out the window involuntarily with such a terrible sense of incongruity wrapped around my body, and I was a little surprised at how bright the full moon was. It’s as clear as a painting.

The surprising part is that the moon is not alone.

A demon’s magic other than Aigo’s is filling the system. Like the fog in the morning.

The current situation is so abnormal that it looks like this is not a city, but a number of dungeons that you saw a lot in Noah.

‘The source of the magic is–

And the magic was gushing out from the mansion where Lucia had gone for a banquet today.

There is a lot of magic around the mansion, so it’s hard to see what’s inside from here.

…no.

Hurry up and go to Lucia.