Dimensional Descent

In the Border Region, the forts were separated into Small and Large Barracks. There were a total of 99 Small Barracks and 9 Large Barracks. All Small Barracks were headed by Three Star Grand Knights while all Large Barracks were headed by Knights of the Round Table in shifts.

With this sort of setup, it was obvious that every Large Barrack had 11 Small Barracks under their charge. However, what Lancelot could have never expected was for six of his Small Barracks to suddenly come out and ask for help like this.

Lancelot frowned.

He had thought that the Demons retreated a bit too easily. Though Leonel was putting a lot of pressure on them, it was also obvious that Leonel had been reaching the end of his rope. On top of that, they allowed one of the Demon Lords to die too easily… Unless!

Lancelot's heart trembled.

Others might not know why the Demon Lords were insistent on keeping their numbers at 66, but Lancelot was very much aware. Lionus had explained it to Leonel perfunctorily, but how could such a thing not have a deep, underlying reason for it?

The truth was that just like paladins of Pope Margrave, much of the strength of the Demon Lords were gained directly from Modred. The balance of this shared power was perfect when there were 66 of them. However, when there was an additional Demon Lord, that balance would be lost.

This wasn't as simple as there not being enough Darkness Internal Strength. Modred's power was beyond imagining. If The Pope could have hundreds of Paladins, it obviously wasn't a problem for Modred to have hundreds of Demon Lords. The issue lied in the properties of Dark Internal Strength. Or rather, in the propertied of Modred's Dark Internal Strength.

This kind of Internal Strength was exceptionally volatile and difficult to control. In addition, it had a negative influence on one's Ethereal Glabella, and by extension, one's Soul Force. As a result, whenever there was an imbalance in Demon Lords, their strength took a dive as a collective.

That was right. Demon Lord Gorgo was about 10% weaker than his peak form when he was fighting Leonel for this very reason.

kill Gorgo, then? Wouldn't it

not kill Demon Lords just to keep this imbalance? It might have been possible to capture and imprison Gorgo today, but would it

Mordred could dispell the powers of a Demon Lord whenever she so wished. Even if Gorgo was captured, if the Demon

Camelot went out of their way to capture and not kill Demon Lords… these were Demons they were talking about! Why wouldn't they just

Modred wanted, and he was likely correct. Even if Modred protected the newly appointed Demon Lord, if the Demon Lords were so eager

target, the Demons chose to launch an all out offensive

his Large Barracks weren't the only ones to receive so many SOS calls at once. It may be that the entire Border Region was lit with flames

thoughts reached this point, Lancelot sucked in a cold breath.

'Last time she acted…'

a pain of the flesh, but rather

changed several times. He thought himself to be good at reading human emotion, but whatever Lancelot was thinking of was way beyond his means

Lancelot took in

Hammond — You'll lead your troops to support the

toward Peirce. He was the very same man who had two exceptionally long swords strapped to the sides of his horse. Leonel had paid a small bit of attention toward him during the

of the Knights of the Round Table as

'Who is he, exactly?'

Leonel had no idea.

to