Chapter 98 – Balladur -1-
A campsite near Hegrove.
When the sausages were browned, Ed finished his speech and handed them out to his party one by one.
Receiving it, Joanna opened her mouth for her summary.
“So, your master originally came from another world, but he was thrown into this world, and the woman he met there died in an accident, even though he was destined to do so?”
“Right.”
“Uh, that… It must have been very difficult….”
Seeing Ed’s notice, he opened his mouth as he ate the sausage without thinking.
“What can I do? The living must live. After that, he went over to Tallard and lived as a mercenary.”
“Aha….”
At his words, Joanna closed her mouth and nodded her head.
Ed wondered about it.
‘Surprisingly, you don’t think that I’m from another world… ?’
Not only she, but also Yeren and Beatrice didn’t say much.
Maybe it’s common to be thrown here from another world?
‘It can’t be.’
They just trust Ed no matter what he says.
Realizing that, he felt very good.
Meanwhile, Yeren, who has been thinking about it for a while, brings up a slightly different story.
“Ed. Do you know what the demon realm is like?”
“Well… It’s just a bit hot and a place where demons live? I don’t know the details. Because not much is known about it.”
“The Demon World is the same as here. Except for the fact that all demons are divided into ranks, living with humans is similar.”
Currently, humans were guessing that the demon realm was a certain underground space.
Or a continent that hasn’t been discovered yet.
“Ed said he was a human from another world. Then I am also from another world. Because the demon realm is a different dimension from this place.”
“Another dimension?”
If so, could the earth be classified as another dimension?
Ed was confused by her words.
“Yes. In order for demons to come to this world, they must make a contract with the devil. I came to this land under a contract with a demon of pleasure called Lerazier, but I am currently under a contract with a demon called Lilith.”
“Um… ?”
As Ed asked back at the complex story, Jeren looked at the browned sausage.
She was contemplating whether it was right to say this now.
After a while, she let out a small breath and Jeren continued her words.
“Why do demons send us here to corrupt humans?”
“Is that so, because this land is richer than the demon realm?”
Ed, who was a little interested in her question and answer, responded quickly.
In the first place, she liked the fantasy world, so it felt like hearing about her setting.
“That’s right too. However, there is something more important. The demon king, the ruler of the demon realm, is dead. It means that the demon world will collapse sooner or later.”
“The demon world is collapsing?”
“Yes. Because without the Demon King, the Demon Realm will perish. About three years ago, he died.”
“Uh, then shouldn’t the strongest demon be the demon king?”
Would it be right to say her.
Perhaps, she might be wrong about what she knew.
Even though she had already made up her mind, Yer En’s mouth didn’t move easily.
“The moment the demon king dies, a human is selected as the demon king. This fact never changes.”
“The Demon King is a human?”
“Yes. Although there are a few differences from humans here… The Demon King has always been human.”
The moment when Yeren continued her words.
“If you leave out one premise, Ed….”
Suddenly, I felt a strange sensation on one side.
Yer En, who was looking at the place with a frown on her face, opened her mouth.
“I don’t know who it is… A man full of hostility is coming this way.”
As the presence got closer and closer, Ed felt it too.
A being with extraordinary powers.
Yeren and Joanna raised their strength and prepared for battle.
“Who is it-!”
Then Ed also applied the protection of the brave, and Beatrice also got up from her seat and prepared to cast magic.
After a while, what appeared.
“Kuhuk, nice to meet you.”
It was a disgusting, humanoid balladur that had gained so much weight that it seemed difficult to even walk properly.
* * *
The moment he faced this guy who looked like he was using a hypnosis app, he realized that it was Baladur.
Ed had seen him in the reminiscence room.
However, he never expected to meet him so soon.
‘Fuck.’
Did you already catch and kill Jurgon?
‘By the way… Is this enough?’
Explosive power imprinted on the body, not magical power.
Balladur didn’t hide his power and was spreading his energy in all directions, probably to give a sense of intimidation.
Ed’s skin tingled with the energy, and his body atrophied like a prey in front of a predator.
So even though he sat right next to him and reached for the well-cooked sausage, the party couldn’t do anything.
For Balladur to kill them would be as simple as popping an insect.
“Hmm. You are my hateful child.”
Says Balladur, who had picked up a sausage and munched, looking at Beatrice, who was clutching a blazing fireball in his grasp.
With that one word, the fireball disappeared and her body trembled like an aspen tree.
I was resentful, but Ed was also similar.
An aura that grotesquely doesn’t match Balladur’s appearance.
It started focusing only on Ed.
“But where is the hero?”
Ed’s breath quickens, and his heart begins to race.
Biting his lip, he forced his teeth apart as he glared at Baladur.
“Why, ask us.”
You wouldn’t have killed
After saying that, Baladur’s head turned to Ed.
“Awesome… !”
“Hoo. You coveted my daughter.”
I felt hostility rising towards him, and the aura that had suppressed Ed’s body began to grow even more powerful.
With just that, blood gushed out of his mouth with the pain of something bursting in his chest.
It was part of the gut that burst.
“It’s dark… Sir, fuck… !”
After collapsing on the bed and complaining of pain, he crawled desperately toward his backpack at the corner of the camp.
Why is it now?
Ed’s questions were of no avail.
“I came to look for a hero, but how could it be so wicked-“
When Balladur clicked his tongue and tossed the sausage,
– Wedge liquid!
Yer En, who was aiming for that gap, drew her sword and rushed in, swinging it in her line of sight.
But Balladur, who avoided it by lightly pulling her shoulders back, grabbed Yer En’s neck.
“Keuhuhhhhh… !”
Joanna, too, drew her long, sharp claws and lunged at him like her goblin.
“Die-!”
Her claws she pierced, pointed at the heart of Baladur.
Joanna’s attack, which was faster than anyone else in her party in terms of her speed, was blocked very easily.
Sensing that her attack could not be avoided with her body without mana, Balladur stopped Joanna’s attack by pushing Jeren forward.
Joanna aimed at him without being able to do this or that, but there was no gap in sight.
In a series of situations, Balladur uttered a word.
“Looks like you mingled with all of them, not just my descendants.”
―Fire!
The moment Joanna hesitated, Beatrice’s flames flew and attacked Balladur’s feet.
Frowning at him, he swung his foot at a smooth angle, and the flames vanished in vain.
“Oh, uh, how….”
Even though the mana was sealed, it was a simple task if you knew the principle because the magic that Balladur used best was the flame system.
“Hmm. This body has come to talk, and the illusion is very strong.”
“Kuk, kuk, kuk… !”
Balladur opened his lips as he applied a little more grip on Yeren’s neck, which he had been clutching.
“You guys….”
His gaze landed on Ed, who was rummaging through something in his backpack.
Ed, watched by Balladur, struggled to turn over and stuffed something into his mouth.
What he drank was the healing potion that Sophia Drin had prepared for him.
“I was expecting a little bit… You, too, were nothing more than a baby bug.”
Balladur fell in love with Ed, who was busy drinking potion while his colleagues were in danger.
He said, looking at Yer En, who was holding it in his hand, and Joanna, who was confronting right in front of him.
“I will spare you two years.”
Then he bent his arm at a deformed angle,
“Nonsense— ghast, kyaaagh—!”
It exploded with overwhelming power and threw Yeren as it was.
Flying at high speed, she was soon out of sight.
Then, realizing that the balladur was trying to throw him away like Jeren, Joanna moved in an instant to the back of her balladur, brandishing her claws and shouting:
“Beatrice—! Take the master and run away!”
She decided not to run away with Ed, but to get her attention.
Anyway, this evil dragon said it would save him, so this side is more efficient.
“I’ll never catch you with a body like that!”
Joanna, who provoked him so that one eye could not be sold.
After watching it, Beatrice let out her breath, and as she instructed, she quickly ran to Ed and supported him with her legs.
However,
– Percussion!
“No way.”
After a few seconds, Baladur seized Joanna’s wrist with force.
“Uh, how… !”
Her evil dragon, who looked at her with a funny expression, swung her arm halfway.
“Quaaaaah!”
Joanna’s cry, thrown in the opposite direction from Jeren, echoed.
And the silence that came.
Balladur let out a heavy breath and moved his legs.
