Episode 7

**The Human King** (人間の王, *Ningen no Ō*) is the seventh episode of the Helck Anime series.

## Summary

Kenros, Dorshe, Ista, and Hyura watch in awe as they witness the aftermath of Azudra restraining the Awakened Soldiers. Hon then explains that Azudora's ability allows him full control over all of the Empire's trees. Despite Azudra claiming he's the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings, that's an understatement, as Hon believes him to be the mightiest.

One of the Awakened Soldiers was surprised that Azudra was one of the Heavenly Kings, but Azudra downplayed his title, claiming he was merely another citizen of the Empire. He then asks that the Awakened Soldiers surrender; however, they refuse. At that moment, Azudra was sniped by an arrow, but he deflects it, and Ista mentions that the arrow came from the castle. Back at the castle, a bunch of Awakened Soldier archers with arrows in their bows charged their arrows and fired at what appeared to be the Demons. However, as it turned out, their true targets were the Awakened Soldiers that were wrapped by Azudra's roots. Hyura recalls this happened before when they first faced off against the Awakened Soldiers in the castle.

Releasing one of the Awakened Soldiers from the tree roots, Azudra asks that one why their allies turned on them. The Awakened Soldier answered that it was a way to ensure they don't take in hostages to interrogate. Furthermore, the Awakened Soldier claims that they won't die... only be resurrected, stronger than before. With that, the Awakened Soldier uses his sword to slice his neck, killing himself. The other Awakened Soldiers' bodies are engulfed by light while puffy spores emerge and float away from their bodies.

Teleported back to the Human Empire, the Awakened Soldiers report to the Human King they failed. However, the Human King doesn't hold it against them and hopes they succeed in continuing the extermination of the Demons. Asta, who was also there, saw the scene unfold and hoped to gather more intel from there.

Returning to Azudra's side, he praises the three Demons' efforts against the Awakened Soldiers. Hon then erects a quasi-barrier to protect and detoxify any poisons within the area as Ista serves the group some coffee. Moments later, Ista gets contacted by her sister Asta and the older sister informs her little sister about what she's learned about the Human Empire. Once the report was finished, Rococo started an Emergency Military Conversation, where the group deliberated about the issues the Eastern Region currently faces. Furthermore, rankings of the disasters are detailed, and it's noted that the Human Ranking was far too low.

In Azudra's opinion, the Humans' ranking would be, at best, C if they weren't facing off against them as Awakened Soldiers. After hearing Hyura's opinion on the Awakened Soldiers' combative capabilities, Azudra ranks them as an A-Rank threat due to their resurrection abilities. On the other hand, Azudra notes that if the Awakened Soldiers become powerful enough to reach the strength of Heroes from the old days, their threat would become SSS.

Assessing the situation using Rococo's map, Azudra claims that more than half of the Empires Forces are currently positioned at the Northern part of their realm. Hence, if the Awakened Soldiers continue developing their power, they'll be on par with their forces and would likely be overwhelmed by them. With the situation dire, Azudra proclaims they'll have to stop the Awakened Soldiers' ability to resurrect and surmises the ability is magic oriented. Therefore, they'll need to defeat its spell caster, who is suspected to be the Human King. Azudra based his knowledge on how long ago, he faced a Hero who had the ability to resurrect himself countless times. He also believes that the resurrection ability is similar to his Green Contract, where the Humans who form a contract with the Human King are granted his resurrection ability. In light of the intel Asta gave it was decided that they'll bolster their defenses for the Awakened Soldiers' attack on Thor's Castle and try and retake Castle Urum.

Time passed by, and Castle Urum was in the process of being rebuilt. In the innermost part of the castle where the Gate Helck and Vermilio went through. Azudra and Hon investigate the area, and Azudra surmises that it's possible to reopen it. However, presently Azudra doesn't have enough power to open it fully, so he compromises with some items that'd be small enough to pass through a small one he opens. Although drained of his energy, Azudra successfully opens up a portal allowing Hon to toss the items meant for Vermilio into it.

At where Vermilio's location, the green bird locates the items meant for Vermilio, eats her orange, and would later burn the remainder of her stuff to heat her stew.

## Characters

* Kenros
* Dorshe
* Ista
* Hyura
* Hon
* Azudra
* Rococo
* Alicia
* Edil
* Zelgeon
* Thor (Mentioned)
* Urum (Mentioned)
* Asta
* Helck
* Vermilio
* Piwi