King of Titans and Dragons
Chapter 414 - 414 409 Demon Hunter Monument System

Chapter 414: Chapter 409: Demon Hunter Monument System Chapter 414: Chapter 409: Demon Hunter Monument System The Scarlett Family of the Lockman Kingdom itself had a fully formed team composed of auxiliary professionals. They could create any magitech item that any reigning ruler desired, such as the Merit System and Demon Hunter Monument that His Majesty Mureya wanted for the Demon Hunting Team.

Every member who joins the Demon Hunting Team can receive a piece of jewelry similar to a Battlefield Recorder. It can be a belt, a wrist guard, a forehead ornament, or any other item that doesn’t affect combat power.

These Battlefield Recorders can record all the information after the wearer kills a demon. After evaluation, it converts into merit, then the data is transmitted to the nearest Demon Hunter Monument, and finally synchronizes to all the Demon Hunter Monuments so that the kingdom’s residents can see it.

This is a project that requires heavy financial investment, but fortunately, similar magitech systems have already been researched and created by others. Muria only needed to order the Artifact Refiners in his service, Array Glyph Masters, just to imitate and produce a similar one.

Muria’s main reasoning for creating such an open and transparent Merit System was to prevent anyone from slacking off. After all, some people were compelled and felt helpless when they joined the Demon Hunting Team.

To prevent such people from withholding effort, it would be best to have an open, transparent, and constantly updating Demon Hunter Merit Monument. With nearly two thousand people, would you dare to fall into the last place? Even if you aren’t last, falling behind due to too few merits is still a form of disgrace.

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“Is the synchronous transmission function of the Demon Hunter Monument functioning properly? Does it meet my original conception? Are the teleportation and SOS functions of the Demon Hunter Monument completed?”

“Your Majesty Mureya, according to Captain Leon’s experiments, all functions of the Demon Hunter Monument are complete, no errors have occurred, the delay in transmitting merit data is controlled within a fraction of a second, and the error is zero.”

“Well, that’s good. Begin deploying the created Demon Hunter Monuments to all cities in the kingdom.” Mureya issued rigid targets, “Every city must have a Demon Hunter Monument.”

“Understood.”

“When deploying the Demon Hunter Monument, the significance of its existence must be promoted to the local cities. Tell them what the string of changing numbers under each person’s name represents.”

Mureya spoke with a stern expression, “The kingdom’s populace must know when the numbers change. It represents a group of individuals fighting bravely and bathing in blood for them. Heroes should not go unnamed.”

Everything went according to Mureya’s predictions. After the public understood what the changing numbers on the Demon Hunter Monument represented, they became excited. Their only doubt was where the Demon Hunting Team was hunting demons, and why they hadn’t seen them?

But it didn’t matter whether they saw them or not. If His Majesty Mureya said that there were demon invasions, then there were demon invasions. There could be no mistake. Golden Dragons couldn’t lie.

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The sun rose and then set, time passed. As Muria predicted, the frequency of demon assaults increased. More and more demons appeared without warning and then initiated indiscriminate slaughter.

Due to the unpredictable time and location of the demon appearances, all of the kingdom’s Teleportation Arrays remained open. The Cloud Giants and the Demon Hunting Team members were given priority to use them during missions.

Even though Mureya was well prepared, the number of casualties within the kingdom kept increasing as time went by. At times, demons would suddenly appear in cities. In such instances, widespread damage was inevitable.

The sentiment of panic spread over Lockman Kingdom and, broadly, across the Nocchio Subcontinent under the pressure of continuous and potentially unending demon invasions.

Human beings having extraordinary powers were a minority. Most humans, even when facing the weakest cowardly demons, only had two options: to run away or to surrender and be slaughtered. For ordinary people, confronting demons was no different than committing suicide.

The citizens of the Lockman Kingdom, though fearing that demons could suddenly appear and kill them, living a suppressed life, they had a spiritual comfort that no other kingdom had: Demon Hunter Monuments.

The Demon Hunter Monuments present in every city of the Lockman Kingdom stood nearly one hundred meters high. Even in the dark, they would radiate dazzling light. The numbers constantly changing on them day and night—the changing positions of the images of the Demon Hunting Team members—all brought tremendous comfort to the worried populace.

Under Mureya’s operation, the Demon Hunter Monuments had become the kingdom’s second largest spiritual pillar. The first was naturally the Deity—turning to the Deity for comfort when encountering insurmountable danger was always the first choice for the populace. It was a tradition that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.

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“Damn it, there are actually three Gold-level demons.” A holy knight, shrouded in pure white sacred light, stood on the city wall, looking at the demons blocked outside the city by the City Protection Array. His face looked a bit grim, “Have the SOS messages been sent to the Demon Hunting Team?”

“The SOS message has been sent to the Royal Capital through the Demon Hunter Monument. Still, they responded saying that it will take a quarter of an hour before they can arrange for enough Gold-level Demon Hunters to come for support, asking us to rely on the City Protection Array to hold out as much as possible.”

“Damn it, don’t those guys in the United War Department at the Royal Capital know that we’ve been attacked by a demon just a month ago? And it was an internal attack, our City Protection Array is already incomplete.

How could we possibly resist the attack of three Gold-level demons and their underlings for a quarter of an hour? Do those guys in the Royal Capital want us to be wiped out by demons, and let there be another Demon Massacre Incident in the kingdom?”

“It can’t be helped, the Lockman Kingdom’s land area is too large, and now there are hundreds of demon attacks happening nationwide in a day, and the Demon Hunting Team only has so many people.”

“His Majesty Mureya should be expanding the Demon Hunting Team. Those prodigies are simply not enough. This is not a competition, there is no need to restrict age. As long as one has the guts to fight demons.”

“I heard that they’ve already started selecting new members for the Demon Hunting Team. All powerful individuals above the Gold-level will receive an invitation. You should receive one then… What honor it is to have your name placed on the Demon Hunter Monument?”

“Don’t talk about those useless things. Just withstand this demon attack first.” The holy knight showed a slight smile on his face, quickly withdrawing it. With a stern face, he spoke in a serious tone.

“Howl!” “Howl!” … As the demons outside the city were attracted by the life force radiated by the large number of humans in the city and were attacking the city defense spiritual light shield frantically.

“Hum!” The Demon Hunter Monument vibrated, in the hopeful and respectful gaze of the surrounding soldiers, more than a dozen young men and women, tired from battling yet their spirit was high, holding guns and swords, appeared…