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Leaving the dungeon, Yuna walked through the dark corridor.

Suddenly, she stopped.

"Why... are you always smiling?"

No one responded, but Yuna continued to ask.

"In this war, you know... we've already lost."

"Victory and defeat were always just a thin line."

As the voice spoke, it suddenly appeared in the darkness.

A man leaned lightly against the wall, looking out at the scenery outside the city.

The sun had risen, and at the end of the corridor, it began to be obscured by white light.

"All I've ever pursued in life was an interesting existence. And at some point, playing with that king's command became quite interesting to me~"

Yuna had heard these words countless times.

"And when I learned that I would die, I also found the most interesting thing in my life~"

Taking a step forward, Arrogance stood in front of Yuna, with his back turned towards her, facing the light.

"Perhaps this is my Arrogance~ surpassing that woman, surpassing the chains of fate~"

"No..."

Yuna wanted to say it was boring, but in the end, she didn't say anything. She just silently watched that person of Arrogance, moving towards the light.

Not left, not right, but a confrontation straight ahead.

The troops were split into three parts, and now the only forces remaining in Seven Sins City were Arrogance's exclusive unit.

On the terrace of Seven Sins City, Arrogance looked out at the Poison Mist Marsh ahead, and an army emerged from the flames.

Through the continuous digging of summoning beasts day and night, King Allen led his strongest summoner brigade to appear in the burning Poison Mist Marsh.

With the appearance of a giant, the battleground fell silent over Seven Sins City.

King Allen stood on top of the Frost Giant's crown, overlooking Arrogance on Seven Sins City.

And it was the first time for Arrogance to look up at King Allen, who was half a head shorter than him.

Large numbers of summoning beasts advanced in an orderly manner.

Seeing that, King Allen, standing at the highest point and looking down on everything, saw clearly. The two demon armies were turning around to the north and south.

But Daniel's arranged northern and southern forces had caught up and started restraining the two armies who wanted to turn back.

King Allen took a deep breath. He may have waited too long for this moment, the feeling of victory now within his grasp.

Trembling hands, the Tiny Royania tribe, Tiny had to face his fears.

"Here I come, little one!!"

Even if he couldn't hear the other person's voice, Allen, who was in a high place, still knew what Arrogance was about to say.

"Ah! I'm here, Your Highness!"

For the man who always smiled, King Allen had once felt despair.

Three years ago, no one knew, and no one understood what King Allen had faced.

But now, King Allen smiled confidently.

"Arrogance!!!"

In response to King Allen, Arrogance took out his staff.

"King Allen!!"

Attersass Lunar Calendar, year 502, winter.

The Great Demon Annihilation War quickly reached its end.

With the death of Arrogance serving as the signal of defeat, the demons, who were already in the process of a large-scale migration, mostly managed to escape to the Western Sea under the lazy leadership.

In order to buy more time, General Asmode led a small group of elite warriors, charging towards Allen City with the witch Yuna as their vanguard.

Everything unfolded just as Allen's strategists had calculated. Before the end of winter, Daniel successfully captured Seven Sins City, accomplishing a demon conquest that hadn't been achieved in five hundred years.

However, at the end of this war, instead of happiness and honor, a terrifying darkness loomed.

The few demons who failed to escape began to hide their identities even more diligently, blending into the civilian population.

Through this battle, an even stronger anti-demon sentiment was stirred, and this growing awareness began to spread rapidly, targeting both the demons who had already been hiding and those who were preparing to hide.

Although Allen's hatred for the demon race had been appeased by Arrogance's death, an atmosphere of despair silently enveloped the entire continent after this war.

But the historical record only reaches this point, because the subsequent events were all rewritten due to the actions of a certain individual.

The most famous event in history is about to occur, and a love story that will touch the hearts of future generations, sung by countless poets, is about to unfold.

The Great Demon Annihilation War ultimately became just a prelude to this story, a moment when the darkest and brightest periods of Allen intertwined...

The Witch Hunt has begun...

"..."

A week after the Great Demon Annihilation War, with one more week until the end of winter, the climate began to warm up.

No more war, no more killings.

In a small ordinary village, the protagonist of this legendary tale, the man known as "Allen's hero," survived amidst death.

The moment he opened his eyes, an angel appeared before him.

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