Chapter 123 – The Hero Runs (4)
Episode 123: The Hero Escapes (4)
“Shit… “
A cold sweat ran down his spine.
As soon as I opened the teleport scroll, I saw a place in a dark forest.
Although the summoning point was set with the gate crack as the focus.
I was summoned to the middle of the forest.
“Ha… Uh… “
Retina leaned against a crooked tree.
The whole body was in a state of excitement because of the pervert-like effect of the restraints.
To calm her agitated lower abdomen, Retina rests at the base of a tree.
“Looks like the first plan failed.”
It was a foreseeable situation.
Ikarut, who had intercourse with an expedition member, deliberately mixed demonic energy into semen.
One by one, they forcibly entered into a binding contract.
It was possible to brainwash or track the other person’s body through the demonic energy it possessed.
“Is it fortunate that I received an oracle?”
Retina stroked her twitching lower belly.
Divine power, the power bestowed by God, nullifies the turbid magic.
No matter how much magic was injected, it had no effect on the warrior who received the oracle.
“… Tsk, too much belly fat.”
The stomach with strong abs has been changed to soft and soft skin.
I was pinching my bulging belly fat, but I stopped because I felt like a woman complaining about gaining weight.
She then wipes her face up and lets out a short sigh.
At that moment, a light breeze blew and a rustling sound was heard breaking through the grass.
Papababat!
Retina’s green eyes flashed between her fingers covering her face.
And she hastily rolls over to her side.
Awesome… Thud!
The wooden pole Retina was leaning on was cut off with her single blade.
A lot of dark memories were stuck in the tree that fell behind.
She was cut across her side again.
“The tracking is faster than I thought? Did you put a location tracker on it?”
“As soon as the restraint was released, it was enchanted to track the target for 5 minutes.”
“Oh, so you got caught a little earlier than expected.”
Ikarut breaks through this space.
Dark red demonic energy was burning in Ikarut’s hand.
After easily tracking down the escaped warrior, the chased person was quite relaxed as expected.
“The Great Bandit and the Elf King were imprisoned while trying to save you. Even if you open the gate crack with the help of the great sage, you will die here. Hero, what choice will you make now?”
“… Whoa! Even if I make a choice, two or three answers are fixed?”
Did you recall the memories that came back?
As Retina rolled her round eyes, she burst out laughing.
And she shows her composure after brushing off her dirt-stained knees.
“Aren’t you pitiful for the hero who always had to answer for a given choice?
An old-fashioned and disgusting mission to protect the human world… Even if you win or lose the war, the world keeps going back.”
Retina sweeps the hairs that stick out next to her ears.
With a self-deprecating smile, she coolly summons the inventory.
Take out the first weapon you receive in the tutorial quest, the old longsword, and rub the back of the sword.
As if stroking a dog’s fur, he touched it and then set the tip of the sword to the demon king.
“She even gave her advice not to trust the saintess too much, but you believed it to the end.”
“…”
“Is that how much the saintess gave you trust… Or are you just stupid… I don’t know?”
A pure white aura gathers at the tip of the sword.
Retina had reached the level of a sword master.
Worse!
She swings her sword coldly.
The blade carrying the aura is as sharp and dangerous as a gust of wind.
I threw demonic energy several times, but the blade ran fiercely.
Boom – !!
“… Huiyu, I’ve seen your sword hundreds of times, but it’s amazing.”
Retina blows a short whistle.
Even as she marvels, she is wary.
The demonic sword, which embraces pure evil and chaos, resembles the darkness born from the beginning.
A sword body dyed in pitch black.
Around it, like a ring of planets, an aura glowed red.
“It’s a trembling energy.”
Magi with pure evil was like good and evil in Adam and Eve.
The untainted darkness looked beautiful from the outside, but inside was chaos itself.
Sensing the aura of the magic sword, Retina instinctively felt fear.
“You have a sword that can split in two in an instant.”
“In fact, it’s worth fighting against to some extent even without the holy sword.”
“It’s because the hero who groans and cries under the ground is arrogant.”
“Could you shut that mouth?”
Tendons grew on Retina’s forehead.
Dig! Steps that go out with a spurt, and kicks out with magic power.
Ikarut dodged lightly and swung the demonic sword.
Thud!
A heavy attack with sword skills.
As Retina kicks the back of her sword, she retreats like a spring.
“Kuh… Monster guy. How do you lift that heavy thing?”
“Your holy sword is not too heavy.”
“It was like a feather when I heard it?!”
That’s because you’re a warrior who’s been entrusted with.
It rises up her throat and swallows her sincerity.
When Nancy lifted her holy sword, there was a dialogue script she complained about being heavy.
“Okay, so surrender quietly.”
Because of playing the game too much, Ikarut, who even remembered the flow of the conversation, chose silence.
I put a proper shot on my sword.
And blows away the vast amount of magic with an aura.
Kwak Kwa Kwak!
An attack that extends in a straight line.
Pierce through the center of the forest.
“Crazy guy… “
It was also a boss character that decorates the final ending.
The tree, hit by a powerful blow, disappeared without a trace.
The once-peaceful forest turned into a chaos with quiet turbulence.
‘If I procrastinate longer than this, I’ll be in danger.’
Retina is sweating profusely.
She naturally touched the lobe, but her communication magic was disabled.
What is Delphine doing?
In the dense forest, not even the slightest sign of presence was felt.
“Operation to destroy the crack in the gate has already failed.”
“… “
“The great sage fell for Lord Agares’ trick. It was pitiful for the listeners to hear that they were going in vain, not knowing that they had been deceived by hallucination magic.”
Just before tracking down Retina, she received a debrief from Leviathan.
I was fooled by Sir Agares’ high level of entertainment.
In the end, the great sage was captured and confined to a special confinement room with his fellow expedition members.
“You don’t have to be sorry. It seemed like it was going to fail somehow.”
Retina was fine.
On the contrary, they smile positively as if this procedure is correct.
My colleague was arrested because of me.
A dubious plan to open the center of the crack in the gate also went off the rails.
“… “
“Why are you looking at me with those eyes? Ikarut.”
The hero’s face was devoid of guilt or fear of failure.
“I told you. I always have two or three answers.”
At the meaningful words, Ikarut slightly twisted his head.
Retina taps the side of her ear, then slowly strokes it down her jawline.
“The ending of the world changed depending on what I said and did.
In line with that, I thought of one more way to get out of the castle.”
It makes things even more annoying.
The returned hero seems to have learned how to make an ending naturally.
“As the saintess said, how nice it would be if the center of the world went back to me.”
Retina mentioned her saintess.
Then, narrowing her eyes thinly, she sends an unknown look.
I looked up and down Ikarut and looked somewhere.
“So I’m going to try to make my own ending too.”
Retina flicks the pinna of her ear.
The moment when a very fine blue light shines.
A subtle energy that was neither human nor demonic was creeping closer.
Chew!
A black aura covers the blade as if embroidered.
Ikarut turned his back and drew a diagonal line.
An aura that advances in a spiral form. The black aura splits apart and attacks someone.
“… There was one more communication magic engraved on it.”
“It’s been a while. Teaching assistant.”
A person who disappeared through a crack in the gate.
Daphnell revealed the face he had covered with his cloak.
“I didn’t know you were the real demon king.”
Her orange hair, wavy, was tied down, covering one of her shoulders.
Her arms are crossed, and her thin, curvaceous collarbones stand out.
“Why are you here?”
“I came because he called. Anyway, I never imagined you were the Demon King. I’ve been looking for you all along… “
The fists clenched under her cloak trembled.
Eventually, when she stretched out her feet, her legs were exposed through the cracks in the clinging dress.
“Since I haven’t seen you, the atmosphere has changed a lot.”
“It is the same as before and now. Oh, if there’s anything different, it’s before and after meeting you?”
The dark smoky makeup made the atmosphere even more alluring.
However, the vivid purple eyes lost their unique vitality.
An eerie feeling that was slightly different from the human aura took hold.
“Did you make a contract with the demons?”
“The streets of Charata have everything. Occasionally I, the watcher, also use it.”
The informant guild members I met on the streets of Charata also signed a contract with the demons.
As soon as humans make a formal contract with the demons, they slowly lose their vitality and become corrupted.
In the end, the soul becomes the demon’s.
“Dafnell has been looking for you all along. After learning that you were the Demon King, they said that they wanted to see you by signing a contract with the demons themselves.”
“Retina… Did you know?”
“When I first heard of it, the assistant teacher denied that he was not a cruel demon king. Am I wrong?”
“… Until now, you alone have monopolized the teaching assistant.”
“Huh, they said that contracting with demons makes you weird, that’s true.”
Daphnell’s eyes were terrifyingly shining.
What did that demon king do to the streets of Charata? The close friend he met for another plan was completely gone.
“If I had known right away that you were the demon king, I would have signed a contract with the demon tribe that only caused that irritation… I look like an idiot.”
As if he wasn’t afraid of Ikarut holding a huge demonic sword, Daphnell moved closer.
“Ah… I am so happy to see you again. If I were to see you again, I really wanted to have it this time. I was going crazy wanting to have all of you.”
Black-painted nails cover his chin, and he soon makes an ecstatic expression.
Red blood vessels spread in the slightly enlarged pupil.
‘You’re in the state of becoming a demon. That’s why I was able to survive in the monster forest for a long time.’
The place where the gate crack is located is in the forest teeming with top-notch monsters.
There was poisonous demonic energy in the breath that the monster breathed.
As soon as you breathe, you die unless you have a cleric or 6th circle high-ranking magic, Cure.
“I want to take you right now, but I have a prior arrangement. Don’t worry. Because I always want to be by your side forever.”
Daphnell blushed as she recited some crazy line.
Sasasak.
After that, the 6th and 7th circle high-ranking wizards appeared.
About 30 people draw magic spells in succession.
In the place where Ikarut is, the restraint spell doubles, triples, quadruples.
“!!”
Paper weave! Even the slightest movement put me in a straitjacket.
Perhaps they haven’t given up on opening the center of the gate, so some wizards cling to the cracks in the gate.
“Leviathan. Stop that group of humans.”
“Johnny.”
Leviathan, hiding at the king’s feet, quickly emerged.
As soon as a huge shadow swallows it, the wizard screams in endless darkness and fear.
However, as if there were more high-ranking wizards who crossed the gate, layers of hallucination magic were cast to block Ikarut’s vision.
A restraining circle created by concocting thirty spells.
A hallucination spell written like an eyepatch.
‘He uses crappy magic against the demon lord.’
Ikarut spewed out mighty demonic energy.
Dark red demonic energy spreads down centered on him.
Dismissal… Paper weave…
The complicated restraint formula was quickly solved.
As soon as the restraint is released, the magic formula engraved in the eye is changed.
At the same time as the form of the spell changed, Jaan emitted a gloomy light.
The eyes looking down into the abyss easily penetrated the hallucination.
“Ikarut-sama, I’m sorry.”
Just in time, Leviathan bowed his head on tiptoe.
Ikarut rolls his eyes, scans the area, then lowers his gaze again.
“You ran away.”
“About 32 people, 6th circle mage. 27 people are estimated to be 7th circle mages. Seeing as they hurriedly ran away with the hero and demon contractor, opening the gate was not their purpose.”
“Follow the hero’s whereabouts. Through the teleport scroll, you will be able to quickly track down the one who ran away.”
“Johnny.”
Softly…
Leviathan scattered like ashes.
‘Make your own ending… Is it really possible?’
The words the warrior shouted confidently.
It was quite annoying to my ears.
I mean, I want to change the ending myself.
There was a high possibility that the ending of Ikarut could be changed unintentionally.
‘How nice it would be if the center of the world went back to me, as the saintess said.’
In addition, Retina casually mentioned her saintess.
“It looks like the saintess secretly communicated with the hero.”
Ending soon.
As expected, the saintess was a double-edged sword.
