Are you hurt, Demon King?
I'm good. Thank you, Holy Maiden.
Can you stop calling me the Holy Maiden? It's so embarrassing. Just call me Liv.
No, you are the Holy Maiden. I'm not going to change that.
(Sighs)
Liv and the probe—who claimed to be the Demon King—embarked on a new journey after running away from the guards.
Sorry for being rude, but are you really the Demon King? I thought he would be a black giant or something.
I was like that until the heroes defeated me. I turned into this form to survive.
Remember when you first saw me? You were calling me Heteromer or something.
Yeah, you looked exactly like that.
If you say so. After all, our world is but a projection of the real world.
Liv met this Demon King at her spawn point. She was quite terrified in the beginning, but decided to help this world after hearing his words.
According to him, the King had a bug which made him realize this was nothing but a game world, and he was only an AI created for entertainment.
That was why he started all the crazy moves.
I don't know exactly what he is thinking, but I guess he is planning to delete the world, then recreate it... And make himself the god of this game.
Delete... What will happen to everyone else in this world?
They will lose all their data. The storage of this game is limited. Can't make a new world without deleting the data.
...Are they all going to disappear? They don't even know they are NPCs.
No matter how unrealistic, everybody still believes they are living in the "real world"...
But if the King knew he was a game character because of the bug, how did you find out about that?
Because I had a bug too.
In the original ending, the King was supposed to turn into Kuroro and be defeated by the heroes. But they left the world too early.
The game didn't end properly, and was suddenly reset until one day, when new heroes—Liv and others—entered again.
A series of errors turned the Demon King into another bug.
Let me make this clear: I don't plan to take control of the world. In the past, the program made me destroy many cities and humans, and that really upset me. Now I am a Demon King of love and peace.
Ahaha...
Liv burst into laughter after hearing the somewhat cute machine say love and peace, the latter returned a complaining look.
Ahem. Anyway, the enemies are doing all they can to limit our movement, but there is only one place that we absolutely have to go.
The castle of the last Demon General, Karuna. He was probably the only one left with artifact fragment. Everyone else had theirs taken.
Even one fragment can also increase my power. Then I'll be able to fight.