Chapter 153

                                    

                                          

If an ordinary person could get into the minds and communication networks of the Demon Kings at this moment, they would probably go crazy as they become inundated with the screams and the general commotion going on at the moment.
Panic, overwhelming panic, the kind that only the masters of worldly destinies who seemed like kings yesterday, were suddenly faced with the real and brutal world that shattered their self-image. That was what was going on among the Demon Kings at the moment.
Perhaps no supercomputer, except for the one amusing exception on the moon, could handle the swarm of thoughts, cries, and speculation that had consumed the Demon Kings.
However, comparing what's going on right now to a supercomputer would not be correct, far from it, in fact. The machine's actions, no matter how chaotic they might seem to an outside observer, were aimed at a goal. The Demon Kings' thoughts, on the other hand, bore little resemblance to anything purposeful, although you couldn't say that there was nothing coherent in their panic.
Just one, one single thought prevailed in the hurricane of panic that is the minds and thoughts of the Demon Kings.
"How?!"
One question, to be more precise.
"HOW DID HE FOUND OUT WHAT WE'RE PLANNING?!"
The Demon Kings have only one thing that they feared, Solomon, their lord. How can you fear something when you are immortal? And how can you not fear the one person who can take away your immortality?
Well, with what they've learned, now there were two of them.
Everything began to change the moment they first encountered something so... strange. Unknowable, even.
It came as a great shock to them. A creature capable of fighting their Lord!? A mysterious enemy capable of killing immortals?! A Machiavellian genius waging war on their invincible, their all-powerful and all-knowing King!?
And they were the poor pawns standing in the front lines.
It was a sharp blow to their psyche. It was as if their confidence, their strength, and knowledge, their whole being had all been shattered in an instant. For the first time in their immortal lives, the Demon Kings were facing not with a 'problem' to be solved, but with a 'danger' directly pointed to their necks.
And yet it was not a fatal blow to them.
Even if their enemy was indeed as powerful, as dangerous as their King, it still couldn't destroy their faith in the power of their King. Indeed, it was a grievous blow to their very worldview, a blow to the very heart of their reality. And yet, by restraining their minds from contemplating the madness, from the collapse of their worldview, they were able to survive such a shock.
And to these Pillars, barely holding on to their foundation, they returned to the King, and found that he was going through the same thing they were going through.
Their powerful, invincible King had found their match. The sole pillar of their existence had retreated.
Perhaps, ironically, it was even more of a shocking experience for their King than it was for the Demon Kings.
The Demon Kings always had before them the example of the invincible, all-powerful, and all-knowing leader. But Solomon could never look at himself that way, through the eyes of his followers.
For him, to face something like Ainz was perhaps an even more unbelievable event than for the Demon Kings.
An equal, possessing a strength equal to him, an intelligence equal to him...