Chapter 338 The Ancient Legend of the Demon Lord

"Did I hear correctly? You found some people that appeared here due to that sea monster actions; until that point, it isn't hard to believe as it has happened already a few times, but the next part…"

The chief of the lizardmen tribe didn't have any problem with the story of Yale about his group having been attacked by that sea monster because the lizardman with the scar wasn't the first victim of that sea monster nor the last.

He had already assumed that the coast near the lizardmen tribe was a point in which usually appeared its victims. However, usually those who appeared weren't lizardmen, so they left after asking some basic information about the area.

"Are you sure that there are one of our own with that group and that the others are all divine beasts?"

Despite believing the first part, the chief found quite difficult to believe the other, but the transformations of Yale, Sebe, and Wyba were clearly seen by the scout group, so they didn't have any doubt.

"I know it is difficult to believe, but that is the truth. Moreover, the two normal wolves of their group called the one who seems to be the leader of the group by the name Demon Lord. However, that person isn't the strongest in level despite being treated like the leader and having that nickname. Is that something important?"

Until that moment they had only told that Yale's group was formed by divine beasts, and explained how Yale could teleport without any difficulty, but until that moment they hadn't told the chief about the name that the wolves used towards Yale.

"Demon Lord? Are you sure?"

The face of the chief changed when he heard his subordinates report about how Yale was called.

"We are sure!"

Both lizardmen replied at the same time.

"This… Wait, before continue, are they alright? I hope that they aren't harmed and that you didn't dare to offend them."

The chief was extremely nervous at that moment, which made that his subordinates understood that Yale's group wasn't simple.

"We tried to kill them because we thought that they were humans, but the Demon Lord blocked our sneak attack easily, and he even forgave our actions after we spoke."

The chief was seriously thinking in offering that scouting group as sacrifices if the Demon Lord dared to pursue the matter, but if his subordinates had been forgiven, that was the best.

"Listen, you mustn't offend that divine beast, no matter the reasons. Being called demons lord and traveling with other divine beasts without internal strife… that only makes me recall a story I heard when I was young."

Seeing that the chief, who was at the Sage Rank and had lived for an extremely long time was so serious about the matter, the two lizardmen didn't even dare to speak.

"I think that you already know that usually, divine beasts don't like to associate with other divine beasts unless they are family, and they are also too competitive making that they are unable to unify."

The two lizardmen nodded as it was common sense about divine beasts that anyone could learn from any books that spoke about the story of the continent.

Divine beasts possessed a lot of Law Masters in the western continent and if they were to be united, conquering the continent wouldn't be impossible. At least, it was sure that they could make an enormous empire without problems.

"However, that wasn't like this in the past, and when I say past, I am referring to a lot of time before the invasion of the eastern continent. It is a story that I heard from my grandfather, and he had heard it from his ancestors, I think that you can imagine how old is this story."

It was as the chief was saying, the story he had heard was almost as old as the world and was related to the first inhabitants of the western continent. The lizardmen were among the oldest species in living on the western continent, so it was normal to have some old stories, although it was difficult to ensure which parts were true and which were false due to how old those stories were.

"There was once a divine beast with an extremely powerful bloodline, far more powerful than other divine beasts. That powerful bloodline could easily suppress the other divine beasts making that they followed orders obediently. The legend says that the bloodline of that beast was mutated and instead of giving him the capability of becoming a Law Master easily, it gave him the capability of becoming a Law God easily."

The lizardmen were already jealous that divine beasts had such an easy time to become Law Masters, but the fact that a divine beast could become a Law God easily was already something that they couldn't even imagine. After all, the lizardmen never had a Law God even in ancient times when the lizardmen were powerful.

"You can imagine how was the influence of divine beasts at that time, they were the strongest force of the continent, and everyone called the divine beast with that abnormal bloodline [Demon Lord]."

The two lizardmen could already imagine the continuation of the story, but they remained silent.

"In this world, it is impossible to a divine beast with less potential than that abnormal beast to be called Demon Lord by other beasts or all the divine beasts would try to kill that divine beast for such an insult to the original Demon Lord. If that divine beast that had beast subordinates that call him Demon Lord, probably his bloodline is also enough to turn him into a Law God in the future like in the legend."

The guess of the chief was spot on because Yale's bloodline was indeed enough to let him become a Law God, but it wasn't due to his divine beast bloodline, but due to the divine bloodlines, he had made in his past life.

All the beasts in the world had hidden within their bloodlines the instinct to call Demon Lord someone with a divine beast bloodline and a potential comparable or superior to that Demon Lord of the ancient era, and the wolves called Yale like that unconsciously because he met the requirements.

Of course, the story of the Demon Lord wasn't that short, but the chief lacked confidence in the veracity of the other parts, and they weren't relevant for their situation either.

"Chief, what happened with that Demon Lord?"

Given the words said by their chief, something should have happened to that Demon Lord, or there was no way it remained as an ancient story.

"Disappeared. There are a lot of rumors about what happened to the Demon Lord, but no one knows with certainty what happened to him. Some legends say that he died for offending a strong foe, others that he went to travel to another world, and others that he decided to follow a master and left the continent."

Even if the legend was from the ancient era, that Demon Lord should be alive if no one had killed him because natural death wasn't an option with his bloodline. Moreover, there wasn't any divine beast that wanted to believe that the Demon Lord abandoned them to follow someone else or to travel, so most divine bests believed that he died.

"How can someone that powerful chose to follow a master? How strong should be that master to do something like that?"

One of the lizardmen couldn't believe that the option of following a master was possible because it didn't make sense given how powerful was the Demon Lord.

"The legends that point that he followed a master usually also say that the master was the son of the expert who created this world. I believe that it is true that the Demon Lord followed him because that person really exists, and he was the one who stopped the invasion effortlessly and killed those who instigated it, like some of our most powerful ancestors. I was young, but I was alive more than thirty thousand years ago when that person appeared, and I don't feel that it isn't difficult that the Demon Lord would have chosen to follow someone like him."

The lizardmen hearing the chief froze when they heard that explanation because the legends about the man who stopped that war and provoked the decline of a lot of species in the western continent were well-known by everyone.

Of course, that man was Liye, and it was true that he took the Demon Lord as his disciple in the ancient era, when neither of them had become Law Masters due to being too young, and years later the Demon Lord traveled some time with Liye.

"Oh, I think that now I can remember that Demon Lord. It is quite funny that I obtained the title of my disciple. I wonder if he is alright or if he died with Zuatania's group…"

Yale had been spying them with his Spiritual Sense, and after hearing the story about the Demon Lord, he recovered some memories about him. The Demon Lord was a mutated Soul Eater Sun Lion, and he was also the divine beast who offered his bloodline to Liye to let him create the divine beast bloodline of Anpaes. Sadly, the inherited bloodline was degraded to that of a normal Soul Eater Lion, but it was quite a powerful divine beast even without the mutation.