Episode 261
My head is spinning.
My eyelids were so heavy that I couldn’t open them.
Consciousness is as hazy as if covered in thick fog.
Choi Hyun-seok wanted to fall back asleep like that, so he tried to lose consciousness, but he couldn’t do that.
“Eww…! I’m dying! I’m dying!”
“Ohhohoho!”
The high-pitched laughter and snickers pierced my ears and shook my brain.
“Ahhhh~ Yum yum!”
“Don’t do it! Don’t do it! I told you not to do it!” “You’ve digested it well? You can just swallow it like this.”
“Eughhhhhhh!”
What on earth are you doing to make such a fuss?
Choi Hyun-seok, unable to contain his curiosity and annoyance, slowly opened his eyes.
The sight that came into view was more shocking than expected.
‘What are you doing…?’
Hemis is picking up Rachel with his snow-white hands and putting her in his mouth and taking her out repeatedly.
Rachel seemed to be resisting desperately, but who was her opponent?
It’s just a meaningless tantrum.
“Eeeeeee…!”
“Yum!”
Hemis swallowed Rachel.
After a while, he puts his hand in his mouth and takes Rachel out again.
Rachel, lying on the floor, raised her hands, trembling.
“Hey, save me…”
“Oh my, what are you talking about? If someone saw you, they’d think you were hacking.” “What you’re doing right now is hacking! You devil!” “This is called play, a game. Why are you doing this when you’re having fun with me?”
“Eww!”
Hemis picked up Rachel again.
The moment Rachel was about to enter the torn mouth.
Choi Hyun-seok opened his mouth.
“…What are you doing?”
My voice is hoarse, perhaps because my mouth is dry.
Hemis stopped at the sound of the voice and looked back at him.
“Are you awake?”
“Ugh! I’m a warrior! Please save me! The lip monster is trying to eat me, no. It’s eating me!”
My head started to hurt more.
Is it simply because I’m not feeling well?
Or is it because of this absurd situation?
Choi Hyun-seok was convinced that the latter would have a greater impact.
“… I need to explain the situation. Why am I here?”
Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t understand.
He was clearly engaged in a final showdown with the Pope.
To be exact, it was just a way for Park Hyun-ah to buy time to escape.
Anyway, I squeezed out every bit of my strength and confronted the Pope.
Lost consciousness.
Death was the natural course of events, so why was I lying in an unfamiliar cave with Hemis?
Are you saying that this is the afterlife?
“I saved you.”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes narrowed at her words that she had saved him.
‘You saved me in that situation…?’
Choi Hyun-seok, who fought them himself, knows best how many enemies there were.
Moreover, the Pope’s power was beyond imagination.
Even for Hemis, it wasn’t an easy situation to survive.
I couldn’t believe it when he said that he had escaped with me in the middle of a battlefield where I was dying.
‘The Pope must have tried to deal with me somehow.’
Choi Hyun-seok never thought that he, too, was alive thanks to having entered Hemis’ mouth like Rachel.
“Did you do it alone?” “I did mobilize some of my followers. Um, did you basically do it alone?”
Her retinue was a force that belonged to her, so it seemed right to see her as alone.
“Anyway, I ran away here with you and waited for you to wake up.”
“… thank you.”
Choi Hyun-seok had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but he decided to find out little by little.
‘I feel like I’m going to die…’
First of all, I need to recover from my exhaustion.
I couldn’t stay conscious because I felt like my eyes were going to go out and my head was going to burst.
“I… I’m sorry, but I think I need to rest a little more…” “Get some rest. I can just play with this fairy.” “Hey, warrior! What are you talking about! Get up right now! You’re a warrior!!!” “Rachel… Please shut up… My head is ringing…”
“okay.”
“Kkiaaaah! Don’t do that!”
Choi Hyun-seok closed his eyes after seeing Hemis devouring Rachel again.
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It was another day later when Choi Hyun-seok opened his eyes again.
He carefully got up from his seat, feeling much better.
“Oh, I almost died.”
When I woke up, I saw Rachel half-unconscious, stuck to the floor like slime.
“What are you doing?”
“Don’t talk to me…”
“okay.”
When Choi Hyun-seok ignored him and tried to leave the cave, Rachel suddenly got up.
“What if you really leave!?” “I told you not to talk to me.” “No matter what, you’re still like that! Don’t you have any blood or tears, warrior!? Conscience! Guilt! Admittance! Do you have no humanity?” “If you’re going to talk nonsense, then I’ll go.”
“Eeeeeee…!”
Rachel trembled with resentment and injustice.
You’ve been by my side through all the hardships I’ve been going through these past few days!
Of course, it didn’t really help Choi Hyun-seok get better.
The hardships I went through had nothing to do with Choi Hyun-seok.
anyway!
What’s important is that you’ve had a hard time.
But that cold-blooded warrior doesn’t understand that feeling and just serves cold rice.
My heart ached.
“Where did Hemis go?” “Huh! I don’t know! Where did he go to eat some innocent animal! Like a savage!” “That doesn’t sound like something you should say, since you like to slaughter and roast innocent animals. Anyway, I understand.”
Perhaps he went to fill his stomach.
Choi Hyun-seok decided to sit down and wait for Hemis to arrive.
Anyway, I needed to check my condition.
“First, the warrior quest.”
The first thing he did was check the warrior quests.
The last quest you receive is to stop the Empire’s devotion.
Whether the quest was completed or not would also tell us whether the operation was successful or not.
[The warrior quest failed!]
[Imperial Devotion is activated!]
The first thing I saw was a failure notification.
Choi Hyun-seok sighed and swore.
“So this is how it ended up.”
Even though I fought so hard to prevent the Empire’s devotion.
It ended in failure.
What would the continent be like now?
Although various questions came to mind, I continued reading the message.
After that, I kept getting notifications.
“hmm?”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyebrows twitched as he read the following message.
The status of the message was very strange.
[New warrior, quest [email protected] begins…]
I think they’re giving out new warrior quests.
Up until here, I could read it, but the problem is what happens next.
★☆#☆ Warrior Quest@#t! ★%@☆
Oh no! I don’t have time,
@#, [email protected][email protected]
three[email protected]%#[email protected]@
Choi Hyun-seok blinked and rubbed his eyes with his hands.
“what?”
I can’t understand the content at all.
The letters were all garbled, like a computer document whose file was corrupted and unreadable.
Choi Hyun-seok stared at the message for a while to figure out what it said, then gave up and turned it off.
‘The first line probably said there was no time. Could it be that something happened to God?’
I’ve been making guesses, but I can’t be sure of anything right now.
‘I wonder if my older sister knows what’s going on.’
Park Hyun-ah, who is well-versed in various fields of knowledge, might not know something.
The moment I was thinking that.
“Ah! What happened to your sister!?”
Did Park Hyun-ah really survive?
I tried my best to save him, but I’m not sure if he really survived.
‘If I had known Hemis was coming, I wouldn’t have done something like that…’
It’s a meaningless thought now.
Because Choi Hyun-seok made the best choice he could at that moment.
I don’t really regret anything.
However, as a result, I desperately hoped that Park Hyun-ah would be alive.
‘Failed to stop the Imperial Devotion. The system messages are strange. I don’t even know if my sister is alive or dead. It’s the worst in every way.’
He doesn’t even know how long he’s been unconscious.
Choi Hyun-seok called out to Rachel, who was lying next to him.
“Rachel. How long have I been lying down?” “About four days? Five days?” “I’ve been lying down longer than I thought.”
It’s been a long time since I’ve lost consciousness for this long.
Because the body, which was far superior to that of a human, was not easily damaged.
That was proof that Choi Hyun-seok had overdone it in the final battle.
“Are you awake?”
When I turned around at the sound of the voice, I saw Hemis walking out of the cave.
“Yes. Thanks to you, my health has recovered a lot. Thank you.” “You don’t have to be thankful. I did it because I thought it would be fun.”
Hemis said with a grin.
Is it because your face is pretty?
The smile that always felt so bizarre seems warm today.
“By the way, where have you been?” “I went out to check up on the situation. I was curious about how the continent was doing.” “Oh! Please tell me too!”
Choi Hyun-seok was delighted.
Information is more important than ever right now.
Hemis had a strange talent for gathering information that others didn’t know, so he might have some knowledge of the current situation.
“Hmm~ To summarize, I guess you could say that the continent is on the verge of destruction.” “… I think I summarized it too much.” “If you want, I can explain in detail.”
Hemis summarized the information he had gathered so far.
That the devotion to the Empire turned people into fanatics.
Most kingdoms have collapsed, except for a few, and a huge number of fanatics still roam the continent, harming people.
“In my view, humans are finished. This is absolutely not a disaster that humans can prevent.” “… Is that it?” “Of course. If you think about it a little, even a stupid orc would know.”
Hemis seemed convinced of humanity’s destruction.
It couldn’t be helped, the power difference was too great.
“Even if we gather all the remaining human troops, we’ll barely be able to surpass a million. But our opponents have at least fifty million. Maybe even hundreds of millions.”
Even when compared in simple numbers, the power difference is between fifty and a hundred times.
However, since the fanatics had greater military power than ordinary soldiers, the actual difference in military power was considered to be greater.
“If you or I step forward and gradually reduce their numbers, we may eventually be able to eliminate them all, but by then there will be no humans left on this continent.”
“Umm…”
Choi Hyun-seok furrowed his brows and fell into agony.
Of course, I expected the situation to be bad, but the reality was much worse.
If things continue like this, humanity is finished.
While he was thinking, he suddenly remembered something and kicked his seat.
“Lord Hemis. Are you able to contact the Demon King’s army?” “We receive periodic reports from Mortem.” “Then I have one favor to ask.”
“What favor?”
“I must meet Demon King Cidriel right now.”
***
“The king of humans?”
“Yes! I caught it wandering around the nearby forest!”
Raidran looked at the human woman before him with his arms crossed.
‘What on earth are you thinking?’
The power felt from women is weak.
Although it seemed to have trained well, its body was so weak that it would burst with just one light gesture from Raidrun.
Up to here, I can understand.
Unlike the demons, becoming a human king does not require force.
The problem is that this woman who claims to be the king came to the Demon King’s castle alone.
‘It’s one of three.’
Raidran developed three hypotheses about this human female.
Or have multiple lives.
Or you made fun of the demons.
Or maybe you’re just crazy.
Personally, I wanted Raidrun to put some strength into the last story.
Seeing that he didn’t even flinch when faced with the energy he was emitting right in front of his eyes, it was clear that there was something loose about this person.
“You may be the king of humans, but this is the territory of the demons. I have no intention of paying any particular attention to you.”
“Do as you wish.”
“Why did you come here?” “Because I want to meet the Demon King.” “The Demon King is not a man of leisure.”
At Raidran’s words, the human woman, Ien Nel Chersi, shook her head.
“Even if you’re not free, you’ll have to make time. This is a story that’s related to the survival of the Demon Tribe.” “That can’t be done. Make a formal request for a meeting and come see me.”
“…”
“This is the only time I will forgive such rudeness. Next time, I will cut off your head without warning.”
The demons and humans signed a peace treaty.
However, this does not mean that humans can roam around the Demon’s territory as if it were their own home.
And on top of that, you came without notice and wanted to meet the Demon King.
Even if the opponent was the king of a kingdom, such rudeness could not be overlooked.
“Go back.”
“It will only take a moment.”
“Human. I said go back.”
“That can’t be.”
Raidrun’s eyebrows twitched.
Even though I showed you mercy, this is how you behave.
The energy coming from his body became even stronger.
Then Ian’s body begins to tremble.
Regardless of our will, our body instinctively responds to life.
But even as she trembled, her eyes remained calm.
“You don’t have time either. If you miss the timing, the offer will be meaningless. If you decline the meeting now, you will definitely regret it.”
Raidrun couldn’t understand.
He gave off an aura that wouldn’t be strange if he lost consciousness right away.
The woman in front of me was still speaking with a clear voice and gaze.
It was not possible for a human being without any special magical powers.
‘Is the king a king?’
It seems like there is some kind of podium, but that’s it.
If we accept these requests one by one, it will never end.
Then what is the meaning of principles and rules?
“I warned you enough.”
Raidrun raised his fist.
The moment this comes down, this human will be reduced to a handful of blood.
Whether he knew it or not, Ian still stood there, staring at Raidran clearly.
“Courage is admirable, but there are many things in this world that cannot be achieved with courage alone. Don’t blame me.”
Just before the red fist comes down.
A familiar male voice was heard.
“No, don’t do that. How about listening to the story?”
Raidran looked at the man with wide eyes.
The murderous intent he had been exuding until just before disappeared without a trace, and joy filled his face.
“Choi Hyun-seok!”
“It’s been a while, Raidrun.”
Choi Hyun-seok stood in front of him with a smile.
