The Villains Need to Save the World?

rison to the demons.
The Beastmen weren’t afraid of injuries, but the demons weren’t even scared of death.
The Beastmen were terrified of this type of enemy, and right in their first clash, they were defeated.
Many didn’t even have a chance to escape before being cut down by skeleton soldiers and ghouls. 

 

Although both sides were demons, Sarni City’s defenders wore the emblem of the Sarnia Duchy—a lily seal—on their shoulders.
They also raised the banner of Sarnia Duchy.
Since the Darkness Sacred Region didn’t have a flag of their own, the demons naturally adopted Sarnia Duchy’s heraldry.

 

In the skies above, Lisha rode a golden dragon into battle.
This was the Golden Dragon Princess Laceman’s first time seeing such a large scale demonic armed conflict.
At first, she was unused to the situation.
Battling alongside demon guards and bone dragon knights, perhaps only the black dragon race would have experienced such a thing before.

 

Although she was inexperienced, Laceman could only stubbornly advance; there was no room for hesitation.
Seeing the appearance of a golden dragon, several zombie dragon knights directed their mounts to attack.
The golden dragon slashed its claws and struck a zombie dragon back several meters.

 

In terms of quality, zombie dragons were a lower rank than bone dragons.
Bone dragons were created by refining dragon bones with darkness magic, so they were extremely strong.
On the contrary, Zombie dragons were created from the corpses of dead dragons.
Needless to say, their bodies were weakened by the corpses’ natural decomposition.

 

Taking advantage of Laceman’s powerful strike, several bone dragon knights hurried over to reinforce their golden comrade.
With their aid, Lisha was able to dismount the enemy zombie dragon knight successfully. 

 

The battle on the ground was even more of a mess.
The demons of the Darkness Sacred Region only recognized Sarnia Duchy’s lily flower badge.
Those bearing the insignia were treated as allies, while all other moving things were killed; it was that simple.

 

Bella’s roommates, after wearing Sarnia Duchy’s emblem, also joined this “chaotic dance of demons”.
Noreya flashed through the battleground.
Tumultuous battlefields like this were an assassin’s banquet, and she specifically targeted the Beastmen army’s officers and commanders.

 

Many Beastmen officers didn’t even have time to react before they were beheaded from behind.
Kriss fought in the most conventional manner, wielding twin swords as she stood in front of Sarni City’s walls and carved through the invading demon army.
Each of her strikes chopped dozens of skeleton soldiers and ghouls.

 

The most astonishing fact was that Kriss’s sword energy possessed a friendly fire recognition system and automatically avoided the demonic reinforcements from the Darkness Sacred Region.
After dozens of sword moves, the only corpses were that of the enemy; her allied demons were completely unharmed.
This level of control was the peak of swordsmanship.

 

Ariel and Elaine, as long-range caster classes, stood in the center of their friendly forces.
In these kinds of muddled melees, mages were basically limited to using fireball and fire arrow.
These kinds of small to mid-scale magic spells were to protect allied forces from friendly fire.

 

Ariel fought conservatively, only using fireball and related small scale magic to attack.
Standing guard around her were several elite level demon captains, to protect her from any sneak attacks.

 

Elaine, behind Noreya, was the one with free reigns to use her abilities.
Although most puppet masters were very weak in close-quarter combat, Elaine, as a close-range killing machine, was an exception.
Other master’s puppet silk was far too fragile to even touch someone directly, let alone kill them.

 

Elaine fought near Ariel, protecting her.
She would usually be in charge of protecting a party’s priests and mages, but since there were no priests, she simply guarded Ariel.

 

Bella mixed into the allied demon army and treated the entire battle as practice.
Any enemies that got close to her were instantly shattered by her blunt strikes.
As soon as she saw one, she’d destroy it.

 

The Beastmen’s main camp was built exceptionally crudely.
There were practically no defenses, and in a single assault, the allied demon army trampled down the fence.
The pathetic Beastmen began retreating; the sight of over a million fleeing Beastmen was quite majestic.

 

Wolf King Springhall had never issued an order to hold the line.
Yet, this previously undefeated beast king couldn’t bring himself to announce the retreat order.
He could only silently accept defeat and wordlessly retreat with his troops.

 

The most fortunate Beastmen were White Wolf Princess Tania and Silver Fox Princess Vanessa.
Wearing the mysterious black rings that Bella had given them, the demons of the Darkness Sacred region did not attack them.
They had even helped defend the girls from some berserk demons that could no longer tell friend from foe.

 

Tania and Vanessa wordlessly looked at each other.
The value of these black rings had already proven themselves.
Due to their complicated emotions, neither said a word as they retreated with the Beastmen army.

 

The demons aiding the Beastmen army only numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Facing an army of nearly three million demons, they instantly crumpled.
The numbers disparity was insurmountable.

 

Darkness Wizard God Kenneth had an ugly expression on his face.
He couldn’t accept what was currently happening.
He hadn’t lost to an enemy hero but instead lost to a superior user of darkness.

 

“Duchess Bellina, so you were an underling of a demon king… No.
A mere underling having such a force would be against the rules.”

 

Bella, flanked by her demonic minions, quickly charged into the Beastmen main camp.
There, she saw Kenneth, who looked like a young man wearing dark wizard robes.
He expressionlessly stared at Bella.
He couldn’t be considered handsome, with ordinary looks.

 

Kenneth was also evaluating Bella.
This blond-haired beauty was wearing a Holy Knight’s armor while being followed by large packs of demon guards.
This juxtaposition gave Kenneth a great sense of irony.

 

Bella’s beautiful blue eyes gave off no hint of evil, and it was this imperceivable evil that was the most dangerous of all.
Kenneth couldn’t figure out whether she was a Demon King or a simple demon.
He was at a loss for words.

 

“That collection of yours was remarkable.
I have already accepted all of it.
Also, your assistant witches… you understand.”

 

“Duchess Bellina, you… It’s good that you’re happy.
This time, it is my loss.
However, I have the backing of a Demon King…”

 

“I don’t give a hoot.
I’m just a selfish girl, nothing else.”

 

Kenneth barely suppressed his anger and avoided cursing at her.
Not only did Bella snitch his trophies of war, but she had also stolen his personal witches, whom he had painstakingly raised for years.
However, he could only wait until later to avenge this grudge.

 

In the end, Kenneth escaped with the teleportation magic that was inherent to his divine artifact.
Bella didn’t chase after him since his destination was unclear.
Added on to the fact that he was a fellow “gentleman”, she decided to let him off this time.

 

When the next day dawned, there was nothing left outside of Sarni City beside a field of beastmen corpses.
With the help of the Darkness Sacred Region’s vanguard forces, Sarnia Duchy won the siege against the million-strong Beastmen army.

 

In last night’s battle, the Beastmen had lost almost 50,000 men.
Counting in the casualties during the rest of the siege, they had lost a total of over 100,000 troops.
Despite this, Wolf King Springhall did not retreat back to the Beastmen Continent.
He decided to attack the Gabriel Empire from a different direction.
Losing a tenth of his entire army with nothing to show, this result would be enough for the Beast Emperor to rescind his Beast King title.

 

Sarnia Duchy had a little over 1,000 fatalities, which was negligible.
Once the fallen priests of the Darkness Sacred Region arrived, the casualties could be resurrected.
Duchess Bellina retreated back to the Darkness Sacred Region with her girlfriends in order to plan for the upcoming storm.