CH 6

I felt my little mana being scraped to the floor, so I put strength in my eyes and held on.

‘Please let it be a fine demon beast.’

The demon beast is determined by the Demon King’s mana, but if the mana is small and weak, a weakened demon beast is often summoned.

From the black light, a black mist began to seep through and soon filled the empty room.

‘…My mana is continuously consumed.’

Not knowing what would happen if I ran out of mana, I tried to leave the summoning circle, but even that wasn’t easy.

Once the summoning ceremony has begun, either the summoner faints or forcibly destroyed.

It didn’t stop unless the summons were summoned.

‘… I’m in trouble.’

I died prematurely before becoming a Great Demon King.

The summoning circle, which was barely absorbing the mana, stopped emitting the mist just before my eyes became blurry.

Kugugu-

I sat down on the floor and shook my head blankly.

Suddenly, something was glimmering brightly through the black mist.

‘It’s successfully summoned.’

It was fortunate.

“Contract…”

I need to go ahead with the contract…

“Ah…”

My body hunched forward.

It was after a dull pain came up from my head that I realized that my waist was half folded and my forehead hit the floor.

“Are you the one who summoned me?”

A voice that felt even more gloomy than the voice in the cave called me with a lot of weight on it.

I had to answer, but I didn’t have the strength to move my lips.

‘My… mana.’

It was completely blown into the sky.

‘Who told you to be summoned in such a gigantic form?’

It was a giant snake that filled the ceiling. A giant snake with its mouth full of its coveted tail in a circle.

There were rumors that it’s either the first demons or the last demons, and that only the first demon king will see a snake taking its tail out of its mouth.

Of course, I’m not sure which one is right.

When I was the Great Demon King, I didn’t really need the help of a demon beast.

I became the Demon King because I grew up and was awakened on my own.

Anyway, that didn’t matter now.

The problem now is that this summoned beast came out in such a huge form, so it ate up all my mana.

The larger the size of the summoned beast, the more mana is consumed when it is summoned.

‘Why did I drop down like this?’

Even though it was barely snoring, he was drooping in the aftermath of using a single magical power, and his eyes were twitching.

“Ehm, why, why didn’t you answer?”

I don’t even have the strength to lick my lips.

“E-Excuse me… You’re the next Demon King, right?”

The shrill voice filled with embarrassment asked carefully as I wondered where the voice that was as gloomy as a cave went.

‘Is it a hallucination?’

It seemed as if tiny eyes twinkled somewhere in the body of a giant snake. It was incomparably small compared to the eyes that flashed in the fog earlier.

‘Did I see it wrong?’

It might be because my vision is blurry.

“Excuse me… Peeerhaps, if anyone else is here, please introduce yourself…”

However, the voice that asked with hesitation was no longer an auditory hallucination.

It even tried to find someone else to make sure as it felt like I wasn’t a summoner.

It was confusing, but the shape of the big snake didn’t disappear, so it wasn’t fake, but it hurt my pride a bit.

“Tebam…”

(* “You…”)

I slowly closed my eyes and opened my mouth. I felt that my opponent was confused.

“Avara alpha etti… Tebam naman, Ouroboros.”

(* “Next time, come small…. Your name is Ouroboros.”)

I can’t believe I summoned a giant snake that bit its tail with such a small half-body.

‘I, as expected, am amazing.’

I was stunned, thinking that there was only one name for the snake that bit its tail.

***

To be honest, my first summoning of the demon beast was a devastating defeat.

The problem isn’t the number of summoned demons, but the fact that the summoned demons disappeared after being called again.

Originally, no matter how massively a demonic beast was summoned, I wouldn’t have had any problems.

But now I’m not a Demon King, I am a young mixed race, and my magic has been sealed, so I was completely weak and fell.

It seems that the contract was signed, but the summoned beast couldn’t maintain its shape and disappeared.

Besides, my mana was completely depleted.

If it runs out to this extent, it will take quite a while for my mana to be replenished again.

‘I messed up…’

For a while, I had to live without a penny of mana.

‘How did I, the Great Demon King, become like this…’

It’s sad.

How can I do good things with such a wretched body?

‘Now I must do something.’

As time passed, I felt frustrated.

As I lay down on the floor and pondered, I heard a neat knock.

I got my body up from the floor.

‘Still, I’m glad I made at least one family before my mana was exhausted.’

Otherwise, it would have been difficult in this state.

“It’s time for you to go to dinner.”

Chiffon glanced at me gently.

“Alright.”

When I woke up, Chiffon put on an old dress on me which I wanted to ask where she got it from.

‘It’s a bad quality one.’

It was even tacky.

‘I’ll have to change things up a bit.’

I’m thinking of finding a good opponent and making a deal.

‘I don’t have the money, but I can help with the memories I have.’

If I tell someone a profitable story, they will pay a price accordingly.

Because I, the Great Demon King, can read the stars.

The Demon King was also said to be a candidate for God. Exactly, a candidate for the Demon God.

So the Demon King wasn’t a god, but it was the closest thing to God.

Is it because of that?

The Demon King had the power to read the stars.

The stars represent each living being in the world, and the sky represents the world that contains them. The deity who had reached the highest level in the heavens, the main deity, created the world and controlled destiny.

And the Demon God was a god on an equal footing with that God.

So, the Demon King who was in the last stage before becoming a Demon God was a being who could only vaguely read the fate.

Some will call it the power to foretell the future, some will call it a curse that causes disaster, and some will call it a savior with the power of salvation.

In fact, there was a time when I pretended to be a prophet in the human realm.

Occasionally, I have a precognitive dream because I’m deeply assimilated with the world in my unconsciousness.

So, since ancient times, demons have thought that the Demon King is a bridge that connects God and demons.

It is said that the Demon King was sent down to earth to save the Demon Realm from a great crisis.

Ah!

Of course, I think it’s all bullshit.

“Is it required to go?”

Chiffon frowned from time to time, perhaps because of my clumsy language despite my efforts.

When I was at the height of my activities in the human world, the current language wasn’t used, so learning new things was also a struggle for me.

[A Miraculous Imperial Language That Even a 0-year-old Can Speak In a Day!]

…is what the book Chiffon gave me called and the one I’m studying it, a day, my ass.

Even though I hold on to it for three hours a day, I’m still in my place.

Yeah, there was no miracle.

‘How troublesome.’

When can I be a Hanryang? (t/n: a jobless person who spends money generously and enjoys life of pleasure)

They say that if you want to live comfortably in the human world, you need a lot of money.

Now, without money, let alone magic, I was in a very low-key situation.

“Yes, I think you can go like this.”

Chiffon responded by gently stroking my clothes.

“Hmm, it’s nice, you’re pretty good at this.”

I reached out and tapped Chiffon’s head as she leaned forward.

On the first day, she was severely beaten and for several days she was terrified, but now she looked quite domineering.

“But has anything happened at your home?”

I looked at Chiffon and asked.

“…Yes?”

“One of the people close to you has the spirit of death(死氣).”

Am I speaking right? Chiffon. Isn’t this the pronunciation of ‘hour of death’ in the imperial language?

“…What is that?”

“They’re going to die soon.”

She didn’t seem to understand, so I said it directly.

Chiffon’s face hardened at my words.

Sadness and frost flew across her cold face.

The fact that she was staring at me with wide-earned eyes that wasn’t the gaze of a loyal subordinate.

I gave her advice with a good intention, but I couldn’t figure out why she was doing it, so I tilted her head.

“Why?”

“…Are you even cursing me? I… What did I do wrong… I did everything you asked me to…”

“Curse?”

Unknowingly, I pouted my lips and made an impression in a sad voice.

‘I can’t believe she said a curse.’

What is the point of doing such a trivial thing to my family?

“I’m just saying what I saw with my own eyes. That’s it.”

In front of me, a blue star mixed with black fluttered around Chiffon. However, the energy of this star doesn’t belong to Chiffon.

However, since that disturbing star energy and Chiffon’s star energy were mixed to some extent, it was clear that they were closely related.

“Not yet, because it’s not quite visible.”

There was a chance to turn it around.

“There’s someone sick.”

“…Someone sick?”

“Yes. There is trouble with the water around.”

I flung myself onto the mat laid out by Chiffon. I was slowly running out of mana.

“I know. And come. Again.”

I couldn’t help her if I didn’t listen closely.

“Chiffon is my first faithful person. And if you say ‘help me,’ I’ll help you.”

She was my first family, so if she asked for help, I could help.

“Here we go.”

I followed Chiffon and walked to the dining room.