Chapter 219 There Is Hope!
The rat-man\'s reaction afterwards was quite special.
After a brief daze, Skaven\'s eyes suddenly lit up.
He was not afraid of Reji, nor did he question Reji. Instead, he seemed to quickly accept Reji\'s setting of "I am the Demon King".
Yes, setting.
Reji felt that the current rat-man was looking at him with the eyes of seeing a "fellow".
It was as if I was a swindler.
It turned out that after all this fuss...
You are one too!
We are all one family!
The only difference was that he, as a small swindler, only dared to impersonate the "Tenth Apostle" of the demon race to have delusions and deceive other foreign races.
But Reji dared to directly call himself the Demon King.
This made Skaven immediately stand in awe.
"Demon King! So you are the great Demon King!!" The rat-man took less than half a second to have tears in his eyes. He knelt down with a thud in front of Reji, as if he were a loyal old minister wandering outside.
Afterwards, he quickly stood up, turned around, and shouted loudly to those non-human races who were still a bit dazed and didn\'t understand the situation.
"Did you hear that! Squeak! Did everyone hear that! He is the Demon King! Our King has come!!"
"I told you long ago, squeak! The demon race has never perished! The defeat a thousand years ago was only temporary. The reason we have not received news of demon activities is the same as our lurking behind enemy lines, all to recuperate and conserve strength! To endure!"
"Now, humans are indulging in pleasure, lax and tired, while we demons have been working day and night for revenge. The well-trained million-strong demon army is ready and waiting, able to trample human cities at any time, and our Demon King has also arrived in front of his most loyal subordinates!"
"The golden age of humans has ended. Now, it is time to open the glorious chapter of the demon race\'s revival, squeak squeak!"
The rat-man became more and more excited, his whole body trembling with agitation.
As for the non-humans imprisoned in Stillwater Prison below, their emotions were also mobilized.
Although from Reji\'s appearance, he looked quite different from the fierce and evil Demon King they imagined, looking similar to a human.
But the scene of Reji absorbing the gloom before, directly eliminating the most terrifying curse of Stillwater Prison with his own strength, was still vivid in their minds.
Before, they couldn\'t figure out how Reji did it.
But after hearing that he was the Demon King...
There was no need for Reji to explain anything further. Suddenly, it seemed to all make sense.
In their eyes, the Demon King should have boundless magical power.
The mere curse of the human Stillwater Prison was something the Demon King should be able to handle with ease.
"Wahhhhhh!"
"Hail The King!!"
"Overthrow humans! Trample humans!"
"Ooh ah wah (Fishman language)"
"Ooh la ooh la ooh la! (Bearman language)"
In an instant, various cheers from different races sounded one after another. Although in Reji\'s ears, it sounded almost like ghosts wailing and wolves howling.
Reji also saw that even the dragon warrior from before, who was half-dead from being slashed by his Holy Smite, was now fanatical and very admiring of him. He was still spitting blood but had to raise his weapon to show his loyalty, without any intention of resentment.
This effect was even better than the deterrence of Reji absorbing the gloom of the entire Stillwater Prison before.
If there was a favorability rating, Reji estimated that it might have directly maxed out for these non-human races, thanks to the persistent deception of the swindler rat-man towards these non-human races over the years.
Reji: "..."
Although it felt a bit strange.
But at least from the results, it was similar to the purpose I wanted to achieve.
These non-humans in Stillwater Prison, although they looked stupid as if they had been fooled, in fact, each of their strengths was not to be underestimated.
Being able to survive under the corrosive gloom curse, one could imagine how much their bodies had been tempered.
Since they were imprisoned by the Emperor, captured from other worlds, resented the Emperor, and even defected to the demon race because of this, willing to be loyal to the demon race, Reji was also happy to accept this force.
Instead... Reji was a bit puzzled. From the previous beastmen to the Star Spirits to these non-human races, why did that Emperor, as the ruler of humans, frequently engage in such enemy-making behavior?
Reji felt that if he were the Emperor, assuming it was to prevent the demon race, he would definitely unite with other races, not lure and capture non-human races like this.
"Alright, first answer a few questions for me. Tell me, how did you get in here?"
As soon as Reji brought this up, many non-human prisoners in the prison gnashed their teeth, their expressions filled with resentment towards humans.
The more straightforward dragon warrior stepped forward and said to Reji:
"Back then, after the humans defeated the demon race, that Radiant Saintess, the first Emperor, used spells to send the victory spoils to the entire planar universe and conveyed a message to us, saying that she hoped we could all come to the human world to form an alliance together to jointly prevent the evil demon race from reappearing."
When Skaven heard this, what evil demon race!? He was about to glare and scold that dragon-born for how he spoke, but Reji raised his hand to interrupt the rat-man. The rat-man could only swallow it back and continue listening quietly.
Next, the elder of the dragon race revealed angry recollection in his turbid eyes, and his voice also became gnashing.
"At that time, after receiving the human communication, our race\'s king had no doubts at all and immediately brought our race\'s top powerhouses, as well as many precious treasures, to the human world, wanting to show goodwill to humans and express congratulations and gratitude to humans for eliminating the demon race, but we never thought..."
"What greeted us was not some so-called human alliance at all, but here! Stillwater Prison! After that Emperor tricked us in here, under the gloom curse, our magic power was completely sealed. By the time we discovered it, it was too late. Without magic power, we were no match for that Woman at all!"
"We could only watch helplessly as the Emperor killed our race\'s king, extracted the king\'s soul, and slaughtered all the king\'s guards and other powerhouses of our race. I was spared only because my strength was very low and was not valued by the Emperor, merely imprisoned here."
Afterwards, the other non-human races also showed similar expressions one after another.
Their experiences were basically the same as what the dragon race suffered, all being tricked by the Emperor to come under the pretext of alliance and then killed.
The "essence" of these racial kings was all taken away by the Emperor. The essence here, Reji roughly understood as the fate track of that race, similar to the "Demon King".
This meant that the race would never be able to give birth to powerhouses again in the future. No matter how hard they tried, it was fundamentally controlled and deprived by the Emperor.
No wonder these non-human races hated humans so much, were angry at the Emperor, and even defected to the demon race.
The demon race was clean and thorough in destruction.
What the First Emperor did was more like castrating the race.
The king died, and the racial soul was also gone. When mentioning the past misery, the non-human prisoners all clenched their fists, lowered their heads, maybe some even had tears in their eyes, feeling aggrieved and dejected. In an instant, the mood sank to the extreme.
At this time, the rat-man couldn\'t stand it anymore. Skaven immediately stood up and shouted loudly again:
"So now everyone know who is our real enemy! Who is our reliance! To fight against humans and avenge our race, there is only the demon race!"
"Squeak! We must turn grief into strength. Moreover, now we no longer need to be depressed! Because..."
"The Demon King is here! Stillwater Prison can no longer trap us!"
"The Demon King is here! We have hope of escaping!"