"So why did you ask, son?" Aldwin replied.
"Well… I just wanted to know," Rowan said. "So… there really are humans stronger than that," Rowan muttered quietly. "Stronger than Father."
Even though he had lost to the Demon Lord's personal knight, Valzaha, he was still incredibly powerful. And yet, Aldwin said there were humans even stronger than him. That meant these people existed but he knew they wouldn't be able to defeat him the near future even if he hasn't met them.
"In the books I've read," he continued to himself, "there were stories of heroes summoned from another world, heroes capable of challenging the Demon Lord himself."
Some of them succeeded.
Some of them died.
And others… vanished entirely.
"The Demon Lord can be replaced or resurrected," Rowan thought, "but these heroes… some managed to resist him, even briefly."
He remembered the account clearly.
In the last twenty-five years, the current Demon Lord has killed over twenty summoned heroes.
