Chapter 841 – Episode 773 – The First Encounter With Demons, Completely Different From What Was Expected!
“Ha no… What on earth is this kind of town…”
Approximately 24 hours including breaks.
After looking around the demon spirit all day, I finally had no choice but to let out the sigh I had been holding in.
“Are you really living in a place like this…? Sigh… Demon kids, they are all out of their minds, really…”
I had a feeling that it wouldn’t be a very good environment. The barren environment of the demon spirit feels even more serious when you actually see it.
I think I covered almost hundreds of kilometers in one day. However, the entire hundreds of kilometers of land were extremely barren.
It’s like saying don’t even dream about farming. Dry land that feels so soft to the touch of a horse’s hoof.
Somehow, the plants seem to be growing. At best, it’s just dried out grass and bare trees that are barely holding on.
No matter how you look at it, it is a harsh environment, like a land of death, where life cannot survive. This kind of environment extends over hundreds of kilometers.
It was such a worrisome environment that I wondered if demons could survive like this.
“Of course, we are intentionally going around in circles to understand the environment… But at this point, shouldn’t we be seeing something different?”
“A human kingdom should have two or three cities. How on earth do demons live in a place like this?”
“Maybe we were in the wrong location? In fact, the place we are currently wandering around is on the other side of the World Tree?”
“I don’t think there would have been that much of a difference anyway… Hmm. If so, that would be good news for us. Even if it’s on the other side of the world tree, it means we can move around.”
As I was running, he was next to me as I was saddened by the sight of the demon spirit. My negative numbers chime in with a bored expression.
Perhaps because they were tired of seeing the same scene over and over again, my dogs were doing their own thing on the running horse.
Starting with Lisbeth and Fayen, who are reading a book. Sera is writing something like a document, and Ceres is reviewing something with Sera.
Lyanna is cutting her cloth with the help of Marian and Marci, and Cecilia and Genesia are sparring with each other with swords.
It’s clearly traveling at a tremendous speed, like a Lamborghini driving down the highway. However, my dogs riding on the sound horse looked comfortable as if they were in their own room.
Hmm… Of course… The comfortable riding experience of our tone horses really shines at times like this, right?
If I were a real horse, it would be much slower than it is now and the riding experience would be completely crappy. But you’re comfortable enough to do other things like that, so you can endure even if you’re bored, right?
If you had to endure shaking and wind while moving, it would be impossible to even dream of looking around the entire Demon Territory. Even if they are my eumsu, if they hold on to the eumjoma for 24 hours a day, they will inevitably feel quite tired.
But no matter how much it is… It’s a bit difficult if it continues like this…
It’s just a day or two of doing something else. If the entire demon spirit is like this, it’s a bit difficult to get around…
Me and the others are animals whose dicks and pussies get itchy when we’re bored, right? Look. Yewha is already dozing off, and Laphina is shaking the Lapienne sword embedded in her tone horse as if she can’t hold on?
If the boring journey continues like this, everyone will probably be unable to bear the boredom and start talking about mating. Then, the travel to the Demon Territory will become longer…
Umm… No matter how many sound fields we send, we can’t just ignore the war…
Should I think that the development of the Demon Territory will proceed slowly and postpone the tour until later? First, after corrupting the female demons into beasts, settling the war and slowly developing…
“… Hmm. It’s a shame. “I guess it’s not around here, on the other side of the World Tree.”
“Uh? Okay? Are you starting to feel something, Clea?”
I was thinking about what to do if the wasteland continues like this.
As if Clea, who was running in front of her, felt something, she looked at me who was following and started speaking.
“Although it was very slight, the concentration of Eser began to increase little by little… And although I am not sure yet, I think I can feel the energy of life beyond that mountain.”
“Oh, finally…! Is it finally possible to meet the demons now!?”
“There is a possibility that it is a monster rather than a demon… But it seems certain that there is something, so it would be a good idea to go and check it out.”
Ugh. Okay. People are going to war. It makes no sense that this large land is empty.
Wouldn’t it make sense for at least half of the entire demon territory to be alive, demons or whatever?
Although the mountain Clea mentioned is still far enough away to be vaguely visible. Still, beyond that mountain, there are demons and monsters living…
This suddenly gives me motivation. I have to go and check it out soon!
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After hearing Clea’s story about how I felt something, I and her friends started running in the direction she pointed.
After crossing the mountain in about two hours, I started to see changes in the desolate appearance of the demon spirit little by little as I continued to run for another hour.
Although it still feels dry and twisted, the grass is starting to grow little by little, and the bare trees are starting to gradually increase in height.
As Clea said, the concentration of Eser had begun to increase, and a moist feeling was being added to the dry ground that I felt every time I ran.
Although it is still a wasteland compared to the Kingdom of Ladiana and Water. Still, at this rate, I feel like it is now possible to cultivate at least nine yellow-green crops.
The moment we reached the top of the small hill, a tattered village that felt like a refugee camp appeared.
“… Sigh… Oh my god, that is…”
Ugh… No, what is that…
I had some expectations when I came here, but I couldn’t believe it, that they were all living together in a slum like that…
No matter how I look at it, that village feels better than the slums of old Radia, right?
Of course, it doesn’t feel as dirty as a slum… But it feels like the house I built as a house would collapse if I hit it, so I can’t look at it favorably.
Still, it seems like there are thousands of people living there. But I can’t choose just one, they’re all such shabby houses…
The demons were living like beggars like this? This really brings tears to my eyes.
“Ha… I can’t believe this. Do demons really live in places like that?”
“It feels like the males of Radia are doing much better… No, this isn’t just a feeling, I guess I have to say that’s really the case?”
“Let alone a castle wall, there is only a fence that looks like it will fall if you hit it… If that happens, when the monsters come, it seems like everything will just be destroyed…”
“Although most of the buildings in the Water Kingdom were made of wood… But thanks to the use of various magic tools, it did not feel old or shabby at all.”
“Wouldn’t that be a good place for us to stay? I guess the tent we brought would be much better?”
This is true. I guess I didn’t expect that my negative numbers would be at this level… It feels like everyone is very cold.
But. According to the information gathered from Radia, the living standard of the demons should be at the level of the kingdom’s rural cities. But instead of a rural city, a shabby village that felt like a slum appeared?
From the moment we landed, I thought something was strange. But even so, I never thought they would be that bad…
This is so embarrassing. I feel like I need to check if I’m eating properly before the mating party.
“… Hmm… That’s strange…”
“Huh? Clea. “What?”
“I’m talking about the village you see before your eyes… There are more than just one or two villages like that. “It feels like those villages are spread out over a wide area, as if there was some kind of division?”
“Yes? “There are slums like that all over the place?”
Ugh… Is it true? There are more slum-like villages like this here and there?
First, the village we first arrived at looked like that. Still, I was holding out hope that maybe it was just like this…
But there are villages spread out that have a similar feel to that village. It really feels like there is no dream or hope…
“But what’s a little strange is that in the center where the villages are spread out like that, I can feel a pretty good energy… It feels like a city in the human kingdom…”
“Uh? What? Really?”
“Wait a minute. If it feels like this, it’s probably… Hmmm. It’s barely out of the range that I can see with my magical eyes, so I can’t be sure… But it kind of feels like a castle wall…”
Clea put her hands together, released evil energy, and sensed her surroundings with all her might.
As if Clea had discovered something, she opened her black eyes and began to look somewhere.
I was concentrating my energy on those eyes, whether I could see them in a dangerous way. Take a few minutes to quietly look around.
Clea looked around for a while and tilted her head as if there was something strange.
“It’s strange… It’s quite far away, but I can definitely see the real city. But around that city, there are about 50 shabby villages like this…”
“Are there 50 villages like this? But is there a proper city in the middle?”
“Yes. It doesn’t seem to be a city as big as a human kingdom… But it’s still a city that’s quite well-established and seems to be home to tens of thousands of people… But the surrounding village is in such a mess. “I don’t understand.”
Hmm… It’s not a city that encompasses a wide area like the cities of the human kingdom, but it still seems like it’s a city where tens of thousands of people live?
It seems like a city of the size you would normally think of… But there are villages like this surrounding it. I definitely don’t understand this.
Are you saying that only a few noble people can live in the city? But anyway, isn’t this town too serious?
This feels like a place where beggars live. Even if the place where people live is divided like that, if there is a city, shouldn’t the village also be more like it?
Having a city means that it has a decent level of building technology and standard of living, right? But with that kind of skill, you’re living like a beggar like this?
Since this is where they live, they should at least have enough protection from wind and rain… But what about those tattered houses?
There is very little information about the lives of demons, so I don’t know why it’s like this. What on earth are you thinking, living like a beggar?
“Hmm… Are these kids like slaves…? No, I think there are too many numbers for that to be true…”
“Another thing that concerns me is… I’m definitely feeling a lot of signs that I think are demons… Even if you add up all 50 villages, it feels like it’s less than the energy I feel in the city…”
“Ok? “50 villages with thousands of people are worse than one city with tens of thousands of people?”
“Yes. For some reason, the demons living outside the city… I should say that their life force itself is weak… It’s a bit strange that I can only feel such a weak energy… Huh?”
With enhanced detection capabilities that are incomparable to those of the past. Clea was sensing a wide range that was not even visible to my eyes.
Clea suddenly tilted her head and looked to the side as if she had found something.
“Wait a moment, Demon King. There is something nearby…”
As if sensing something nearby. The moment when Clea, who suddenly had a stiff expression on her face, looked at the dry grass next to her.
A rustling sound was heard from the direction of the grass. I started to hear the sound of something approaching us.
“…Hmm,~?”
A very faint, faint energy that I can’t even properly sense with my own eyes.
I spent a few seconds staring at that forest of grass in silence, feeling that energy and the other people handling their weapons.
Suddenly, the rustling sound in the grass stopped… And then a human head with horns popped out from the grass.
“… Ugh… Ah, where… Huh?”
He was lying down on all fours, probably looking for something in the grass. A female demon with red hair appeared while looking around.
With rag-like clothes, like something a beggar would wear. A female demon with an uncharacteristically ugly appearance found us and froze…
“… Sin, sin…”
“… Hmm?”
I mumbled for a while. Suddenly, he started bowing his head towards us.
“S-sorry!!! Boo, please! Forgive me!!”
“Ah? What? Huh? “What?”
As if I met people I shouldn’t have met. A demon bowing its head to us, looking very frightened.
It was the first female demon we met, completely different from what we had imagined.
