## Chapter 1035 – A Man of Many Questions
That’s how I talked with Copson.
“Anyway, load that knight bastard onto the carriage. I’ll go kill those demon bastards. Which direction is it?”
“Are you really sure about this?”
He still seemed doubtful that one person could completely obliterate all those demons. Honestly, I used to think that even superhumans had clear limits.
But that wasn’t the case.
Unless it’s a literal army, someone like me can crush them all. Of course, there aren’t many strong people like me in the world.
“It’s not just ‘sure,’ it’s fucking easy, no cap. A knight’s strength is on a different level from ordinary people. Compared to that knight, you’re just a pathetic Copson, right?”
“Please don’t state the obvious.”
“Anyway, compared to me, that knight is just a three-year-old kid. A three-year-old kid with broken arms and legs.”
A three-year-old kid with broken arms and legs can’t beat a healthy adult man no matter what they do. Even if they try their best to struggle, all they can do is squirm or wail. In a life-or-death battle, such pathetic attacks won’t work at all.
It’s the same even if the kid has a gun. They can’t shoot a gun with broken arms. That’s the difference between the knight and an absolute superhuman like me.
“Why do you always have to use the analogy of beating up a three-year-old? Your words and actions are always so violent and murderous. I suppose that barbaric attitude is the shortcut to strength.”
“Bullshit. You’re pretty similar.”
“I’m a civilized man! I’m qualitatively different from you barbarian! Learn some culture, barbarian!!”
“Ugh.”
Anyway.
“Haa, even seeing it with my own eyes, I can’t believe it. Honestly, I don’t think even the strongest barbarian could kill a demon squad like that without breaking a sweat.”
“You’ll believe it soon enough. Hey, have you ever seen a High Demon?”
I wondered if this guy had seen one.
“If I had, I’d already be a corpse.”
Copson shook his head.
Well… when you think about it, that makes sense. It would be hard to kill one even with a group. It seems he’s never even accidentally seen one.
“I’m living with the mindset of avoiding them at all costs. Honestly, when a situation like this happens, it’s better to just stay holed up in the city, but I still need to make money, you know?”
Very wise.
That kind of attitude is what guarantees his survival.
“Yeah, well. Be careful in the future.”
“I will.”
Copson nodded and called another adventurer from the back. He carefully lifted the fucked-up knight and started moving him toward the carriage. That knight is just baggage now.
“Katt.”
“Claudie, you came?”
It seemed Claudie had been watching the situation from above and came down.
“You met a friend after a long time?”
“Yeah. But it turned out like this. You saw it, right? Me beating up the knight?”
“Hehe, yes. I saw it well.”
“What do you think?”
“It’s only natural for Katt to attack and destroy someone.”
“Is that so? Anyway, Claudie. Today, just for a bit…”
“Do whatever you want, Katt. Mama approves of everything.”
“Thanks!”
As expected, Claudie is full of love. Soon, Copson came to tell me the direction of the demons, and he awkwardly greeted Claudie when he met her. Anyway, I immediately sprinted with her toward where the demons were.
ㅡThwackathwackathwackathwack!!
I expanded my senses while sprinting at high speed through the dense forest. It would be easier if Hilde was here, but if I roughly set the direction and focus, I should be able to find them somehow.
Claudie also nimbly moved her body and followed me.
How long had we been running? My sharp senses began to pick up the evil energy of the demons. ㅡKooong! I immediately kicked off the ground and shot my body like a flying arrow toward that place.
“Dejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!”
I shouted and looked down.
“Kreeuk?”
“That sound.”
“A human’s scream.”
The black demons were gathered together, plotting something. So, they were trying to kill the demons here and gain some merit, huh? It certainly seemed difficult for adventurers to handle. There were quite a few of them.
ㅡKooong!!!
I landed there like a meteor.
“H, human…!”
“A strong human!”
“Krrr!!”
There were about 35 demons around. Lesser Demons and High Imps were gathered for some reason. It didn’t matter. I was going to kill them all from now on.
ㅡFwaat!
As if they noticed, they tried to run away in an instant.
“Stop, you trash!!!!!!”
ㅡKreaaaaaaaaah!!!
Suddenly, something roared at the fleeing demons. I wondered which bastard stole the line I was going to say, and I saw a huge monster walking heavily and revealing itself.
“Krrr…!”
“Krrrreureureu!!”
When that large being appeared with a roar, the demons that were running away stopped moving and froze in place.
“What’s this bastard?”
The thing was a black monster about 2.5 meters tall, with its entire body filled with hard muscles. It had a body like an extremely trained warrior, giving the feeling that some kind of martial arts monk had been corrupted by the power of a demon.
ㅡHwareureuk.
Its murderous eyes were burning red, and inside its mouth, which was torn to the ears, were rows of white fangs. Above all, it had a very rich beard on its face, and a pair of bull-like horns sprouted above both temples.
ㅡIt was a typical humanoid demon.
The thing was wearing a necklace made of human skulls with flesh and hair still attached.
“Trying to run away at the sight of just one human!!! Go and fight!!!”
It seemed to be a commanding entity. Was this bastard the High Demon? Of course, Hilde had told me that High Demons had different appearances and came from different races, but if it looked like this, it would be better to avoid it if possible.
“K, kraaaaaaaaah!!”
“Krrreureureureuk!!”
“Kill himaaaaaa!!!”
These bastards?
As soon as its command fell, the demons started rushing at me as a group. A demon listening to someone else’s command and trying to attack by burning its own life? Questions remained, but there was only one thing to do now.
ㅡKwaang!
I drew Vugal, raised my right foot, and kicked the ground intensely.
ㅡHwoong!
Using that explosive power, I rotated once with the sword in my hand. A time that was split in half, split again, and split again. In a truly instant rotation, I turned the area around me into the inside of a mixer.
ㅡChwajajajajajajajak!!!
The demons that were rushing at me were all slaughtered, scattering black body fluids and pieces of flesh. This wasn’t exactly swordsmanship. It was just a technique using my enhanced Synesthesia.
“K… huh?”
The large demon momentarily panicked and took a step back.
“What race of demon are you?”
“…”
“Not answering?”
When I spoke while pointing my sword, it answered in a weak voice.
“R… Rakshasa.”
“Rakshasa… I see. That race, huh?”
Hilde said they were quite strong.
“A scrub race. You were a really useless demon.”
“…!”
At that provocation, the thing’s face instantly turned sour.
“K, kreaaaaaaaaah!!!”
It roared and charged at me. The speed was quite fast, and the weight coming from its large body also seemed considerable.
ㅡSwaeeeeeeek!!
As expected, it played according to its appearance and threw a punch at me. The power emanating from its bulging arm muscles and huge fist was certainly destructive, but.
“Asura Bloodshed Fist.”
I met that flying fist with a punch of my own.
ㅡPueoooooooong!!
“Keuhak!!!”
With that, the thing’s fist and forearm exploded entirely. As soon as I confirmed that, I slammed my other fist into the thing’s neck.
ㅡKooong!
That was the end.
The Rakshasa’s body, with its neck exploding and separating into head and torso, collapsed. Black blood splattered, but the corpse remained. Let’s use this as a trophy.
“Fucking weak.”
It was an existence that died just by throwing a punch. Anyway, all that remained around was this Rakshasa’s corpse and the black body fluids of the demons I had just massacred.
It was boring.
“Claudie. Take this and go bac… um?”
“Katt. Look at this.”
“What is it?”
Claudie was standing in front, examining something.
“What’s this?”
When I went closer, there was a black stele. A stele full of evil patterns. The stele, about the size of a dresser, was stuck in the ground.
What is this doing here?
“Was this the reason the demons were gathered?”
“…Reason?”
“Yeah. The demons were examining this.”
Claudie said that as if it was nothing. Certainly, the things were gathered and murmuring. That must have been because of this.
“But Katt. I think I’ve seen this stele somewhere before.”
What.
“Wait, Claudie.”
Something flashed through my mind, and I immediately spread out only the index and middle fingers of both hands and gently massaged my temples.
“Think, think…!”
A time when I saw this stele.
“Ah!!! That’s right!!!”
And old memories that came to mind!!!
“When I went into the Kobold Dungeon a long time ago!!!”
“That’s right. It was definitely then.”
No cap, I had seen a stele similar to this when I went into the Kobold Dungeon a long time ago…! It was definitely the place I went with Claudie, Winia, and Elise, and we found this in that underground area.
And when we touched that stele, the ground suddenly collapsed, and we fell vertically into a very distant underground area. At the time, Claudie saved me and Winia.
“When we fell! When we fell, right, Claudie!!!”
“Yeah. That’s it. I used up all my mana then and was in trouble, but I think I saw it then.”
“Yeah! That was it!!”
At that time, that stele fell with us and was shattered to pieces, but even so, I faintly remembered the pattern…!
When I fought the cursed Kobold Queen!
At the same time, numerous doubts and hypotheses seemed to be stirring in my head. What exactly is the identity of this stele? And the cultist forces that were plotting something with those kobolds.
“This will be a good clue. Let’s take it.”
I immediately hugged the stele and strongly gave it strength to pull it out of the ground.
ㅡSwoosh!
The stele that was pulled out was almost the size of a small wardrobe. After putting it down for a moment, I tied the Rakshasa’s fallen head to its corpse to fix it in place, and then, with the stele on my shoulder again, I grabbed the corpse’s arm and moved.
“Is this stele related to the cultists after all?”
“I’m 100 percent sure it is… Let’s go take a look first.”
With that, I returned with Claudie to the place we had come from.
* * *
“Heok!”
When I returned, Copson and the adventurers were shocked. They were waiting for us with a defensive formation centered around the carriage, so they were bound to be surprised when I threw the Rakshasa’s head.
“Not only did you come back so quickly, but you even brought the head of this monster…! What are those things!!”
“Various trophies. That’s a High Demon corpse. Do you get a sense of my skills now?”
“I feel like the barbarian who used to mess around with me has become a completely distant existence! Please come back!! Don’t leave me here alone and go far away!!!”
“Hehehe, this bastard’s bullshit is truly top-notch.”
Anyway, I immediately loaded the stele and the Rakshasa’s corpse onto the carriage.
“Kkeueueueuk…”
The knight was still wandering between life and death. I gently tapped his cheek to check his consciousness and then went to Copson.
“You know the direction, right?”
“I know it.”
“Then let’s go.”
With that, the supply unit moved again.
“Let’s go a little faster.”
Since we already knew the way, and I, who had fucked up the knight, was next to them, no one could say anything else, so we moved at almost full speed. In fact, when a supply unit moves, it usually operates scouts and moves while being careful of ambushes, but with me here, there was no need to worry about that.
