After Being Sold Out By The Empire, I Decide To Assist The Demon King

"It's done. You can see the external video feed is now open..."

Shedding her skin like a snake, she said this with satisfaction, looking at her masterpiece, at the screens where she could freely switch observation windows and views. She crossed her hips and plopped herself down onto the sofa.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Yila said, watching the colossal World Tree Beast, moving at a leisurely pace, heading towards the Beastman Country... Occasionally, magic spells flew in its direction.

On the World Tree Beast, bursts of smoke erupted... Without a doubt, the World Tree Beast's defense was very high. If the attacks were scattered and lacked power, they wouldn't even cause any injuries.

But these attacks could!

The people who had found a way to attack the World Tree Beast painstakingly created powerful magic spells... If winning by quantity wasn't reasonable, then they would make the quality of each attack the best.

"Topps... the automated magic wands have finally shown their greatest advantage."

Yila marveled, watching the massive magic bullets launched from the huge automated magic wands... The advantage of the automated magic wand lay in that—the wand had already "learned" the magic.

What the user needed to do was simply recharge it with magic power. This process wasn't limited by Mana's properties; indeed, any race, any number of people, could complete the charging process.

Everyone worked together, completing magic spells powerful enough to "destroy a city."

In the video, on the front line, Topps watched all this with a smile... However, for the World Tree Beast, such injuries were minimal, but for the "world" itself, the impact was significant.

"..."

Yila reached out and zoomed in the video... It was clear that the mages were finding it increasingly difficult to breathe, but he didn't know what was happening.

"Is the oxygen getting thin? No... in that case, the warriors should be the first to feel uncomfortable."

Analyzing this, Yila quickly reached a conclusion, saying, "What's getting thin is not the air, nor the oxygen in the air. It's the Mana... the free Mana is getting thin."

The mages' words in the video also confirmed this point.

"I feel a bit uncomfortable..."

"It seems like I can't squeeze out any Mana."

"Yeah... the recovery speed of Mana has become very slow."

"..."

"..."

Yila looked at Snake Shedding, who was sitting on the sofa watching cartoons and eating chips... She looked very relaxed, as if she was at home.

Well, it was indeed her home.

"When the 'Beast' is harmed, the Mana in the world will become thinner and thinner until people can no longer survive. So... does it need to be killed in one strike?"

Under Yila's analysis, Snake Shedding leaned over, blinking, and said, "Um, maybe? But it seems the other side doesn't 'trigger once after being harmed,' so a fatal strike is like a suicide strike."

"But the discomfort would be less, so it could be said that long pain is worse than short pain."

Snake Shedding said, taking a sip of black sugary soda, "Reducing Mana concentration isn't a means for the 'Beast' to kill people... It's just a characteristic of the world being hurt, like when a person bleeds after getting hurt."

"Humans rely on the world's 'blood' to live, so while harming the 'world,' it's also like committing suicide... It's something unavoidable."

"..."

What Snake Shedding said was the truth, but the truth was somewhat despairing... Although everyone knew about this despair, they had already put it behind them.

*What did all the counterattacks and attacks amount to now?*

*Yila wasn't clear, nor were all those who organized the offensive, yet the battle naturally continued, to the extent that everyone felt it was inevitable... Fighting merely for the sake of fighting.*

*Perhaps the world was meant to be like this, perhaps Favignano was the smartest one of them all.*

*[Favignano (in the Federation, eating a mouthful of KFC on a Crazy Thursday): Ha?]*

"Speaking of which, should we bring Satan Ye in?"

Yila asked, watching the army approach the World Tree Beast and being quickly defeated, observing the organized retreat, exchanging information, and contemplating strategies.

*Yila didn't know if it was his illusion, but with the world's damage, the World Tree Beast's actions seemed to become faster and less sluggish than before. Its strength also seemed to increasingly grow.*

"Bring in Satan Ye? Is that necessary?"

Snake Shedding asked, glancing at Yila, understanding what she was thinking, and said, "Ah, no hurry, no hurry... Let her die once first, and then resurrect her when she leaves."

Resurrect?

*Wait... this wasn't as agreed, right?*

Realizing Yila misunderstood something, Snake Shedding cleared her throat and said, "Ahem, actually, it's like this, the reason we can only bring two people across worlds is because Snake Shedding can only bring one person... I can bring one, my sister can bring one."

*What?! So that's how the two came over?*

"So, just let her die first, then resurrect her... She actually really wants to clash with the Demon King Territory and the World Tree Beast, right? Look at her expression."

Snake Shedding said, and Yila looked at the screen showing Satan Ye, who was issuing commands like a mighty Demon King... No, there was no need for "like," because she was indeed a mighty Demon King.

"Then, why does it have to be Satan Ye?"

Yila asked.

"???"

This question elicited a strange look from Snake Shedding, her eyes unquestioningly saying, "What? Isn't she the one you chose? Don't you dare say otherwise, we Snake Shedding don't practice alchemy with young children."

Yila also realized he misspoke, he twitched his mouth and corrected his statement, "I mean, why can only Satan Ye be resurrected?"

"..."

Okay, Snake Shedding understood.

"No, everyone can be resurrected... especially when it doesn't count as 'dead' yet."

Snake Shedding said, casually counting on her fingers, "Aren't all the souls here? Reconstruct a body, put the soul in... Just two steps, and you can complete what you call 'resurrection.'"

"You wouldn't think that, for a Snake Shedding (me) who's already freed from the seal, creating a body would be difficult, would you?"

Snake Shedding said this, lazily reclining on the sofa, waving her hand casually under Yila's stunned gaze, adding, "Those things, I can create as many as I want, and with the souls here... I can resurrect as many as I want~"

"..."

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Yila: If you do it like this, it seems like I'm relying on you for everything...

Snake Shedding: Just say if you'll take the help or not~

...

In the end, he took it.