The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 707: The Alliance & The Demons 6

“The Empire accepts the terms if the issue of demons is solved before all that,” the emperor proclaimed.

Damian simply nodded.

“We will send the word to our queen,” Ilvanya said after exchanging glances with Vidalia. “You will have to wait for her response. I am sure it will be positive.”

Damian acknowledged her too. Then all of them looked towards the king of Faerunia. Even the two transcendents of Faerunia were looking at their armored king. Thaddeus Seablaze opened his eyes and declared in a voice befitting a king,

“A Rune Shaper asking for time—I should have seen that coming. You want to prepare for the inevitable? You think a brat like you can reach a level that can face all of us and come out a champion in just a mere hundred years? Fine, you can have it. Let me see what the first true Rune Shaper transcendent in history is capable of.”

“Very well then,” Damian said simply. “With that aside, now let’s deal with the black stain in our history.”

“Black stain?” the princess of Faerunia asked.

Damian looked at the Land-breaker and asked, “Will you tell them, or should I?”

All eyes turned toward the Land-breaker as he started the tale of a thousand years in the past. The heroes, the demon lord, the myth of the demon lord—the chaos god’s part in it, and in the end, the humans’, beastmen’s, and elves’ decision to remove all traces of the demons from their world. Spreading fear about them and their use of dark and chaos element spells because of the influence of the esper that was the last demon lord.

Damian half assumed the Land-breaker would reveal his other name to complete the tale, but he didn’t. He left the choice of revealing it or not in Damian’s hands. Damian thought for a while and decided against it.

The second he revealed he was a half-demon to begin with, and had a name that was infamous in demon history—they would fear him, doubt him, and would even think that he was doing all this to bring the demon king to his knees and grab the opportunity to rule all the demons with that.

He had no problems with the demons as long as they stopped daydreaming about defeating all humans present on this land. But he didn’t have any future plans for them either.

“That doesn’t change anything,” the emperor said, with a bit of hesitation in his voice.

“Yes,” the Sea Snake agreed. “A thousand years of grudge has made them bloodthirsty and beyond reason.”

“Wiping out their military is fine, but killing non-fighting demons is not right,” Vidalia, the voice of reason, said the thing they all were thinking.

“Does the hundred years of no-border change apply to them as well? Certainly not, right?” the emperor asked.

Damian breathed in and revealed his thoughts out loud, “Without their ships and the ability to make them—they won’t be able to cross the sea. The demons living in the Old Empire will be completely abandoned by their island brothers. Sooner or later, some of us will try to enslave the weak, hated species. No person in this world wants a fate like that now, do they?”

“So what are you proposing?” the blue-robed mage asked. “That we protect the demons now?”

“How about you all give me a few months and I try to find a faraway place to send them to?” Damian asked. “Order your people not to mess with demons till then, and I promise to send them all somewhere they would never be able to come back from to attack any of your land.”

“Are you a demon too? Is that why you want to save them?” Ilvanya asked the inevitable question. Her daughter stared at her, but Ilvanya ignored her as if Vidalia was a child throwing tantrums.

“Not exactly,” Damian replied. “I am a half-demon, but that has nothing to do with why I want to save a unique species of our world. I am doing it because, as my friend the Spellmaster said—it is the right thing to do.”

“With your waygates, you can easily go to wherever you will send them,” the Sea Snake objected. “A whole kingdom full of people willing to do anything to please the only person that could give them important supplies.”

“So what? Slaughter them all because our people are too stubborn to get along?” Damian asked, a bit irritated—he was the only one giving any viable solutions.

“What if..” Suddenly the Land-breaker spoke up, “After sending all the demons from here and the island to this other land—assuming you find such a place—we declare the island of demons a neutral territory divided into six parts, including one for the demons. A place where you connect all of us through the waygates so whenever someone from the four human regions meets the demons, who would be allowed to stay in their part of the island—all others can see it. A mana contract could be signed declaring any other type of contact with the demons, other than this, is forbidden.”

“Are you okay with humans interacting with demons?” Ilvanya asked, surprised a little. “Wasn’t it your ancient oath to defend our land against evil?”

“That is not why we fought the demons,” the Land-breaker refuted. “The Highsword was only following a mana contract that I had formed thousands of years ago—not to let any demon lord’s minions place foot on our land. The demons of today used to be humans once—their changed appearance is because of the influence of the esper demon lord. But the demon lord is gone now, and his absence frees us from our ancient oath.”

“Changed appearance? Like him?” the emperor asked, very rudely pointing at Damian.

“Yes,” the Land-breaker confirmed. “Some rare jobs—or who knows what—allow a human to change into something entirely else, like espers. The Seablaze family is the best example of that. There was once a Seablaze esper, able to control water, and all his descendants after that had some form of ability to manipulate water.”

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