1000 Years Later, Even My Weakest Follower Has Become A Demon King Novel - Chapter 98

98 The Cursed and the Lost (Part 1)

A thousand years ago, the entire Vic Continent was on the brink of doomsday. It looked like a miracle that the Judgment could resolve all the threats.

Against this background, William had always taken it for granted that the Judgment had united all the powers on the continent. After all, if they didn’t unite, the entire world would turn into hell on earth due to the Moon Realm crisis.

William only began to think about what the Doomsday Watchers were after everything was settled.

Without a doubt, it was a military organization that transcended all secular regimes. Moreover, according to its original intention when it was established, other than the crisis that threatened the peace of Currere, they shouldn’t have the right to interfere with the operations of this world.

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However, after the Doomsday Watchers gained such powerful influence, it was very difficult for it to maintain its transcendent status as one imagined. Every move of such a behemoth would severely affect the balance of the continent.

Especially in that era, be it nobles, generals, or commoners, as long as it involved Moon Realm worship, the Judges were judge, jury, and executioner. They had even tried kings—they were just quests.

From this perspective, it wasn’t a problem to call the Judges the true rulers of the Vic Continent after the Moon Realm crisis.

This was also why the Doomsday Watchers needed to disband at the end of the full moon ending. Since all the threats had disappeared, there was no reason for them to maintain such a powerful military and hold such terrifying authority.

Unless the Doomsday Watchers planned on establishing a country with their reputation of saving the world.

William wasn’t against establishing a country, but it was a pity that this option wasn’t available in-game. Therefore, disbanding was the next best choice—respect the fate of this world and return the fate of mortals to mortals.

This was indeed a very perfect ending in the game’s epilogue. Everyone lived happily, and the entire world entered a new era of peace and tranquility.

However, all of this was based on the fact that William hadn’t left.

If he left, the nature of everything would be different.

No Judge had the reputation and strength to stop the upcoming chaos in the mortal world. Even after the Doomsday Watchers disbanded, the Judges from the various countries had to reconsider their positions.

Coles’s departure tipped the fragile balance.

His question before he left hit the nail on the head.

After the Presiding Judge left, who should be in charge even if they wanted to continue maintaining the existence of Judgment and the Doomsday Watchers or even take another step forward in establishing the order of the new era?

This would be a more incisive and sensitive problem.

A few of the Judges at the obsidian round table stood up and left after Coles left. During this period, Byron kept trying to persuade and stop them, but to no avail.

With every person who walked out, the lights that shone on this character would be extinguished. Finally, including Byron, there were only five spotlights left at the round table.

Valk looked at the extinguished lights on the stage in ecstasy and said emotionally, “Ah, this is how the seeds of conflict were planted.”

“You trusted your subordinates too much, or rather, you trusted the mortals too much. If they really let everything develop for the better as you imagine, would we still be born? To throw all the choices to them as you did is tantamount to throwing a piece of good cheese into a dog cage. Speaking of which, do dogs eat cheese?”

Valk chattered beside William while William silently watched everything happening on stage.

On stage, Byron looked around at the remaining four people at the round table and let out a long sigh.

Evelyn, who had also voted in favor, left.

“Then, let’s begin with all the changes…”

After Byron finished his last line, the remaining five spotlights on the field extinguished at the same time, and the stage fell into darkness again. The velvet curtain slowly closed, and soothing interlude music sounded.

The prologue ended.

Valk jumped up and shouted at the stage, “Skip the first and second acts. There’s not much time. Fast-forward to the fourth act!”

After He shouted, the orderly sounds of prop preparations behind the curtain immediately became chaotic.

After sitting back in his seat, Valk tidied His hair and said to William, “I love Act 4—the Cursed and the Lost. Compared to the boring political dramas in the previous acts, you will definitely like this act more.”

William wanted to say that it was best to start from the first act and finish the entire plot.

However, firstly, this was someone else’s theater after all, and secondly, he didn’t buy the tickets. Most importantly, the other party was a complete lunatic, so he didn’t think the other party would accept his suggestion.

Before long, the curtain was lifted again as a bell rang.

The background of the stage turned into an abstract painting filled with saturated colors. Moreover, flames that constantly changed form floated in the background. One couldn’t find anything with a physical form in the entire background.

Without a doubt, this stage background symbolized the constantly changing Moon Realm.

Two spotlights shone on the two people at the edge of the stage.

Black Swordsman Blake and Jackdaw Coles, who were originally the fourth and last Judge, were walking side by side in the Moon Realm domain.

After the two of them walked to the center of the stage in silence, Blake asked with a heavy expression, “Remides chose to remain neutral. Sibylla is missing, Byron supports the Kos Empire, and Jay supports the Storm Kingdom’s royal family… The entire continent is now shrouded in the shadow of war. I don’t understand why this happened. What went wrong?”

“This is because there’s no one in Judgment who can suppress everything. Be it choosing to create a new order or maintaining the old order, nothing can be said without such a person,” Coles replied calmly to Blake’s question.

“So you chose to leave back then because you had long expected such an outcome?” Blake asked.

The threads of fate in Coles’s eyes constantly flickered as he replied, “If I hadn’t exposed the fragility of all of this, they would have been going back and forth over this problem for more than a year. When Judgment is divided, they will only be bound to the seven kingdoms instead of the current situation. At the very least, they can take the initiative and retain a spark for the rebuilding of Judgment.”

Coles suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked at Blake.

“Do you believe that William is dead?”