The Villains Need to Save the World?

ait for the right time to break out.

 

“Dem… Mistress Bella has arrived.
Everyone, salute Mistress Bella!”

 

Following the etiquette officer’s roar, dozens of demon generals and several Demon Lords all knelt to salute Bella.
Because the space in the main tent was limited, these demons had transformed into human-like forms and looked less frightening.

 

“Fortunately, Pamela hasn’t woken up.
If she were to see the scene of her tens of thousands strong army being completely annihilated, I’m afraid she would really collapse!”

 

Bella waved for the demon generals and Lords to get up, then walked over to the scrying mirror.
It should be the so-called Venifreza Empire’s army that was occupying the Simon Quarry, and it was unknown what kind of secret art they had used in order to resurrect such a terrible rock puppet.
Fortunately, her troops had arrived in time; otherwise, it would have been difficult for the entire Olsylvia Academy to escape from disaster.

 

“Kriss, what kind of happy thing did you think of? I’m a little panicked seeing the slight smile on your face!”

 

Kriss and Ariel had removed the masks they used to cover their faces.
Everyone here was Bella’s man, and they had no intention of hiding as Bella’s demons were quite trustworthy.
There was another intention behind revealing their faces, which was that they wanted to indirectly tell Bella’s subordinates that they were Bella’s ‘girlfriends’.
They were doing this in preparation for staying by Bella’s side in the future.

 

Consequently, Bella had caught sight of the obvious smile on Kriss’s face, and Bella was now trying to find out why she was smiling out of curiosity.
In her impression, Kriss seldom smiled.

 

“No reason.
Bella, I was thinking.
As the Devil King, you’re helping the Human Empire do this and that all day long.
Are you happy living this kind of life without a proper job?”

 

“This… I’m not working for nothing.
At least I get a special reward every time! Besides, Kriss, I’m too lazy to do proper business.
There are so many people like us in the world.
I don’t want to steal others from their business.”

 

Bella would never do anything for free.
if it hadn’t been for the ‘Christmas gifts’ she had received in the form of President Ivy and Princess Pamela, she would’ve been too lazy to summon out her subordinates from the Darkness Sacred Region.

 

Bella hadn’t dealt directly with the other two Demon kings when she summoned her subordinates and didn’t know that that Demon King Dolores had been here before.

 

“Mistress Bella, the enemy sitting in the quarry seems to want to negotiate with us.
They are sending messengers over.
May I ask Mistress Bella what you intend to do with them…”

 

“What’s there to talk about? Just blast them.
I have important things to do in the evening!”

 

“This… Should we also fire the giant cannon?”

 

“Fire them all.
This quarry doesn’t belong to me.
Don’t keep any of the shells, transporting them back is damned expensive.
Only stop when they’re all used up.”

 

At Bella’s command, the demon army’s artillery and catapults opened fire at the quarry at the same time.
Countless shells and thrown rocks hit the Rock Puppets and blew them into pieces.
Although the Rock Puppets had abnormally high defense, when faced with gunpowder weapons, their defense was still a little short.

 

In particular, whenever the magic cannon fired, the white Rock Puppet King was directly pushed back by a good few meters, and its upper body was now covered with large artillery scars.
After the attacks began, the Rock Puppets began to rush towards the Demon Army.

 

The Rock Puppets moved very slowly, and the Demon Army’s artillery took the opportunity to shoot at their legs.
Many Rock Puppets fell over on the way forward, their legs broken by the cannons.

 

Because the Rock Puppets’ heads were made of stone, they had no IQ to speak of.
They wouldn’t make detours as they walked, and if the Rock Puppets up ahead had toppled, the ones behind it wouldn’t take heed and would continue to push forth.
Very soon, the passage leading out of the quarry was blocked by the Rock Puppets’ bodies.

 

The situation in this battlefield skewed to one side instantly.
The Rock Puppets were blocked, and the Demon Army’s artillery units and catapult constantly treated them as live training targets.
Faced with round after round of bombardment, Alcott Valley’s former overlords were about to face their demise.

 

The fifteen-meter tall White Rock Puppet finally stopped moving after six rounds of magic cannon fire.
The Rock Puppets also fought back, frantically throwing stones, but when these boulders landed amongst the Demon Army, they were blocked by the other side’s magical barriers and were broken up and crushed against the magical shielding.

 

Bella did not go to the front lines to kill the enemy.
She knew too little information about the Venifreza Empire and only knew that the human beings in that Empire were very different from humans in the Human Empires of the current Coristel Continent.
They could avoid death and had a very strong ability to revive.
They seemed to have some skill at disguise, but she didn’t know any other intelligence.

 

They would be miserable if there was an ambush from their opponents after they rushed in and engaged in battle.
It was better to sit there with nobody else around and enjoy the landscape! Kriss and Ariel were very enthusiastic about finding places close to Bella to sit themselves down.
They were still carrying weapons that didn’t match their professions, and it was an unwise move to go down and participate in the fight.

 

But, they weren’t just sitting there doing nothing.
The defensive magical barrier had been put up by Ariel, and even Bella was unable to judge the strength of this beautiful female magician.
For her to be able to maintain such vast defensive magic for such a long time while sitting here sipping wine, her expression unchanged, was something that even her class advisor, Holy Magic Mentor Gilbert might not be able to do.

 

The demon generals and Demon Lords who had been on standby around them all tacitly withdrew.
Soon after, the ghost maids that were in charge of logistics brought over all sorts of snacks and wine and placed them on the command table in front of Bella one after another.

 

Inside the Simon Quarry, two thousand troops from the Venifreza Empire were in retreat.
Unlike the portion of the army that had captured the garrison, these two thousand soldiers were all mages and were much more valuable than the four thousand members of infantry that had been destroyed earlier.

 

“Big sis, the teleportation array has been set up.
Let’s retreat! Our army unit that took control of the array that leads to Alcott Valley has been discovered by those mercenaries and students from Olsylvia Academy.
They’re about to recapture the teleportation array.”

 

“Damn it.
How could the guys on the other side be so brainless? They made such a big move that they even brought over the Manasvir Empire’s troops.
What’s that all about?”

 

Two armored figures stood out amongst the Venifreza Empire’s mage army.
One of the two was the one who had confronted Bella previously through Colin’s chopped off head.

 

They were both very angry about the failure of their attack this time, yet they also felt helpless.
The other party had never had any intention to reason with them, and they had been attacked even before their messengers could be sent out.

 

“Little sis, go back and properly investigate who this Duchess is.
Is she a puppet under the Demon King’s control, or someone else? This person is too wayward…”

 

The eldest princess of the Venifreza Empire could see Bella, who was indulging in a decadent life of wine and women in the open-air base camp, through a telescope-like object.

 

The blond beauty had no military demeanor at all.
She had a maiden wrapped in pure white silk in each arm, one of which was precisely the target of their attack, Princess Pamela, but the Princess had already fallen asleep.

 

The ears of the two beautiful girls had been plugged by delicate cotton earplugs, and they could not hear the roaring sound of the cannons, so they didn’t wake up.
In addition to this, on either side of Bella were two beautiful silver-haired maidens, one of whom was responsible for feeding Bella snacks while the other held up a glass filled with red wine since both of Bella’s arms were full.

 

Bella’s face hadn’t been tense from beginning to end, and if she had a crown on her head, she would look no different from those royal scoundrels who came out to hang out with the military.

 

The eldest princess of the Venifreza Empire was so angry! She was a legitimate soldier who had won countless battles and was usually very strict on both herself and the soldiers beneath her.
Today, she had actually been defeated by this kind of ‘undisciplined, rich brat’, which was a great blow to her.

 

Bella seemed to have noticed her peeping, and after Bella sent a meaningful look in her direction, the lens of the telescope the eldest princess of the Venifreza Empire was carrying instantly shattered.
Bella had immediately guessed that the peeper was a girl; otherwise, one of the princess’ eyes would have been destroyed along with the telescope.

 

“Little sister, let’s go.
Remember this woman for me…”

 

The plan for the invasion of the Venifreza Empire was declared a failure due to Bella’s intervention.
During this secret war, Bella had wiped out four thousand of the Venifreza Empire’s vanguard troops, captured hundreds of Rock Puppets’ Hearts as trophies, and obtained a rare rock demon soul.

 

For Bella, the biggest gains she had obtained were the two ‘Christmas gifts’ of Princess Pamela and President Ivy that she had picked up.
The rest were of no interest to her.

 

As for the casualties, Bella’s side lost over a thousand skeleton soldiers.
Their ‘allies’ the Manasvir Empire lost ten thousand people, and amongst the ‘neutrals’, a dozen or so of Olsylvia Academy’s students had been injured, while the mercenaries’ casualties were unknown for the time being.