“Your Majesty, this is a high level strategy,” Hyeonu opened his mouth without panicking as he turned toward the emperor.

“Strategy? What does that mean?” the emperor replied with an expression that was telling Hyeonu to explain.

Hyeonu smiled at the emperor’s expression.

“If you fight Baler now, you will only be fighting one demon king. No one knows when the next demon king will appear.”

The emperor listened to Hyeonu’s explanation.

“However, if you are a bit more patient, you can fight at least three demon kings.”

There were seven demon kings in the demon world in total. Then Damanos died at the hands of the emperor, and Callioraks turned Galiya into a bead. So there were five remaining demon kings in total. One of them was Lebron and the emperor’s teacher, John Blake. Baler, the party he had an agreement with, made four. Thus, there were only three left.

“Yes, that is how it is.”

The emperor knew it to some extent, so he didn’t stop Hyeonu’s arbitrary behavior. It was good to be able to fight with Baler here, but his desire was too great to end it with...