Chapter 8 – Demon King’s Army Officer Hanji + (Side Story) the Hero Has Logged Out
The night has receded and dawn has arrived, turning the blackened sky into a deep blue.
The morning sun hadn’t risen yet, but the end of the sun could be seen over the horizon, so there was no problem in setting off.
“Eww… !!
It was only 2-3 hours, but the warrior who came out of the tent after sleeping came out of the tent and stretched.
Soon after, the warrior’s companions came out, each yawning or stretching.
The warrior, who was looking around his comrades, noticed that the Horde had not yet come out and asked Yuria.
“Yuria, what about Horde?”
“Huh… ? Ah… I’ll wake you up.”
YuRia, who was in a daze to see if she hadn’t fully woken up yet, slowly went back into the tent.
And after entering the tent, YuRia said something and came out of the tent again.
– Flinch!
Shortly after Yuria came out, the shadow of Horde reflected in her tent began to flinch, and she jumped up as if she had come to her senses.
“Oh shit… !!”
Horde’s face contorted with anger as he ran outside, spitting out curses.
His face was completely red, and he was breathing so heavily that even a fool could tell he was angry.
The warrior who saw it asked Horde.
“Mr Horde? Why are you like that? What happened to you yesterday?”
When the hero spoke, Horde relaxed his expression and let go of his anger as if he had never done that.
“… Oh, nothing.”
“Is that so? You seemed very angry earlier…”
“No, that… I didn’t like the dream spot yesterday.”
The hero still seemed to think it was strange, but he just let it go when he said that, but he roughly noticed that something had happened between Horde and Yuria.
‘Did they even fight yesterday?’
Unlike the hero who guessed so, Lina, who roughly grasped the situation at a glance, licked her lips and said.
“Ah… You should have been awake yesterday.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Huh? It’s something a hero doesn’t have to know!”
Lina prepared to leave with her pretense, and the hero and the Horde also tidied up her tent where they stayed last night.
After organizing the tent, the Hero group moved to their destination, deep in the forest.
Rina, who led the way, stopped at the place where the hero and Mirian were sparring at night, and looked at the marks of the hero and Mirian on the floor, she said.
“Huh? What is this? It doesn’t look like the animal has moved…”
“Well… My eyes look like the tracks the beast has moved.”
Mirian, who knew better than anyone what the beast Martha meant, clicked her tongue inside her without saying anything.
“These are the marks that Me and Mirian made yesterday. You don’t have to worry about it. Martha was here yesterday too.”
“Ah, yes… It was too dark yesterday, so I was mistaken.”
“…”
Lina let out a deep sigh when she noticed what had happened by observing the atmosphere flowing from the Hero, Martha, and Mirian.
“How many did you miss… ?”
“Yes?”
The hero, not quite sure what he was talking about from earlier, tilted his head.
After digging into the depths of the forest with Lina’s guidance, I encountered monsters and beasts that I hadn’t encountered yesterday.
The party of warriors easily dealt with the monsters and beasts they encountered in the forest.
As we progressed, the frequency of monsters and beasts gradually increased, but it was not a big problem for the Hero and the others who had dealt with more enemies than that.
“It’s strange…”
Retrieving the arrow she shot at the wolf, Lina muttered as she looked at the fallen beasts.
“What do you mean?”
“… Didn’t you think that because of that iron mountain bear, the monsters and beasts living in the depths of the forest were chased away? But these are the kids who originally live around here.”
In short, contrary to what I was worried about at first, the level of the monsters was originally this level.
Of course, it was a good thing, but for some reason, Lina and the Hero party were lost.
“… You’ll know once you get inside.”
As we continued to advance through the bushes, the sun had risen in mid-sky.
“… Look, the compass is shaking.”
The Witchbeast Compass had the property that the compass trembled as the target Witchbeast approached.
Sensing that they would soon encounter an enemy, the Hero party grabbed their weapons and prepared for the upcoming battle.
Every time we made our way through the thicket, thinking that the enemy might attack at any moment, even the hero’s party had cold sweat running down their foreheads.
The place where I arrived with the tension tight so that I could deal with it at any time was in front of a cave.
Although the entrance to the cave was huge, several monsters were camped out in front of the cave, which was a little too much for a bear over 10m tall to enter.
Unlike the monsters that Hero and his party encountered earlier, the Witchbeasts were watching the front without looking away like a well-trained army.
Seeing those unnatural monsters, Hero and the others had a hunch.
“In me… There will be an officer.”
At the words of the hero, all the party members nodded and looked at the entrance of the cave.
“What will you do, warrior? I think it’s a good idea to step back and come with other adventurers…”
As Martha said, the monsters guarding the entrance to the cave were no big deal, but I didn’t know what monsters were waiting inside.
Besides, waiting inside is none other than a person presumed to be an executive of the Demon King’s Army.
If he was not careful, his life was in danger, even if he was a dragon.
“… Let us deal with it here and now.”
Even the hero knew that Martha was right, but he couldn’t just go back unless he knew when to move.
“… It will take several days round trip to get back here. Besides, it would be too late if the adventurers were summoned.”
At that time, if the demon army moved and attacked the village, it was clear that the village would be annihilated helplessly without a single proper resistance.
“I know I’m pushing myself, but… I want you to hear it as it is.”
As the hero lowered his head, Marta and the other colleagues, startled, waved their hands and said,
“Hero! I understand, so please raise your head quickly!”
“I also agree with the warrior’s words. It’s obvious that even if you bring in the idiots, you’ll only get in the way.”
“Me too… There is also a way to destroy the cave if necessary, so it doesn’t matter…”
“It’s annoying to come back, so let’s just deal with it here and go.”
“Jeon… It’s just my job to wait here, so I’m fine.”
“Thank you all…”
The warrior, who was well aware that he was being forced, bowed his head once more, got up from his seat, and stood in front of the cave.
“Kong! Kong!!
The witch beasts noticed the hero and rushed at the hero, but two arrows fired by Lina pierced the beast’s head faster than that.
“Come on, let’s go!!”
With the words of the hero, the party members except for the Horde rushed into the cave where the evil lurked.
*****
“…”
It’s been three months since I became an officer in the Demon King’s Army, and Hanji, a new officer, woke up on the floor of the cave today.
It was good that he was scouted as an executive in the Demon King’s Army in recognition of his research on black magic related to witchcraft, but as time passed, he regretted that choice.
Even though she was a black magician, Hanji, who had been living in a house like a house before becoming an executive, has now been forced to move from one cave to another.
The mission Hanji received was to research magic to strengthen the demons and to supply the demons that controlled the demons to the army of the demon king.
He needed to live in a forest like this because he needed to live in a place with many demons to complete that mission.
“Fuck, I’ll just stick with Warlock…” .”
Hanji stood up from the ground, rubbing his eyes with one hand and looking at his own face in the mirror.
Perhaps it was because she lived in a cave for several months, Hanji’s appearance was incomparably haggard compared to before she became an officer in the Demon King’s Army.
‘We need to get things done quickly…’
Within the Demon King’s army, which is based on skill supremacy, any race can rise to the top as long as they have skills.
That’s why Hanji continued his research with a tired body every day while controlling the demons to be supplied to the demon king’s army.
And a month ago, I finally achieved results with one single commitment to get out of here as soon as possible.
[Magic Beast Enlargement Magic]
Literally, it is magic that enlarges the monster.
Hanji still can’t forget his joy and despair when this magic succeeded for the first time.
‘Ahaha!!! Finally castle… !! Uh huh What’s wrong with that bastard?!’
The magic beast, which had become too strong with the giantization magic, broke away from Hans’ control and smashed everything around it at random.
If it hadn’t been for the side effect of being the size of a fist in less than 10 seconds after activating the gigantic magic, Hanji wouldn’t be a person in this world today.
‘Let’s do it again…’
He almost died, but Hanji, who saw the power of the giant monster, was fascinated by its overwhelming destructive power.
However, various problems arose when he was near his residence, so he mastered a suitable demon beast and sent it away, then sent a familiar to cast magic remotely.
The beast prepared as a test subject was a hard and large iron mountain bear that could maximize the efficiency of gigantism.
Hanji, who sent the Iron Mountain Bear far away, ordered it to come to him after casting a gigantic magic through his familiar.
The duration was longer than when the magic was first activated, but it was still far away and the side effects were still there.
Hanji, who did not even think that the experiment would succeed at once, improved his magic again and experimented again.
Repeating the experiment several times, it got to the point where the animals around him were driven to the outside of the forest, but Hanji didn’t care.
There weren’t that many great adventurers in the fortified cities around here, and there was no way an army could be dispatched with just a few animals.
‘It’s a little further…’
Experiment after experiment, the duration of the gigantic magic increased several times and its side effects were significantly reduced.
With the hope that he might soon become an executive under the direct command of the military corps commander, Hanji continued his research today.
“Hmm?!
On his way to the shrunken iron mountain bear he had retrieved some time ago that had risen from the ground, he noticed that he had lost his connection with the Demon Beast he dominated.
‘… Was it hunted by a lost adventurer?’
Hanji gave an order to the Witchbeast with a light heart to relieve the stress accumulated for a while by using the foolish adventurer as a punching bag.
‘What… There aren’t any great adventurers around here anyway, so there’s nothing special, right?’
******
(Abduction) The hero logged out.
“I couldn’t be satisfied with the hero’s poor cock!!”
The wizard Jack, who came out after hearing the sound of fighting, was dumbfounded at the sight before his eyes.
The saintess and the warrior who cling to the porter’s side in the nude are scolding for the hero’s small genitals.
I wonder what kind of bullshit this is, but it was the reality of the situation unfolding before Jack’s eyes.
‘What the fuck is this situation?’
Jack, who had just woken up, couldn’t understand why those two people who were dating the hero were acting like that.
“Whoa…”
The hero let out a sigh filled with anger just by hearing it, and glared at the two with lifeless eyes.
Perhaps to protect their master, the warrior and saintess stepped forward.
“Somehow, I felt strange from the middle.”
“Whoops… ! It’s really pitiful that he doesn’t even notice that his own woman has become another man’s female.”
“No, not that. Kim Jong-chul said he thought it was weird from the moment this bastard bought me a game.”
“Game… ?”
The saintess, the warrior, the wizard, and the porter couldn’t understand what the hero was saying.
“What are you saying… ?”
“What a fucking game… Log out.”
Suddenly, the hero’s body begins to disappear with blue light coming down from the sky.
The wizard, who had just come out of the tent and watched the scene, widened his eyes when he saw the mysterious blue light.
“Uh? Uh?!”
Judging from the lack of mana, it wasn’t because of magic like teleportation.
Above all, even a wizard who had mastered numerous magics had never heard of the magic of logging out.
“What is this… ?!”
The confusion was the same with the saintess, but it seemed that she was not even a miracle using divine power.
The blue light that came down from the sky gradually faded and the hero’s body completely disappeared.
“…”
The current situation where the context is unclear.
A hero who mysteriously disappeared.
And the holy sword thrown to the floor.
The sorcerer’s intuition that saw it all shouted.
We’re fucked.
