Episode 3
“Oh my, I’m so busy, why are you calling me and making a fuss?”
Today Rachel’s expression was very crumpled.
Because there was a call from the superior.
“I have to achieve top performance this month and get a bonus!”
These days, people are so lethargic that it’s not easy to send them out as warriors.
Nevertheless, Rachel had achieved the number one ranking in warrior transport performance in recent months, and was still struggling to maintain that position.
“Hmm, hmm…!”
As I was thinking about my achievements, I arrived at my destination before I knew it.
A hallway paved with pure white marble.
Rachel, standing at the door at the end, adjusted her clothes.
Rachel opened the door with the brightest smile on her face.
“Did you find it?”
“okay.”
The man who greeted Rachel was a man with a blunt appearance.
Rachel’s superior was named ‘Prisella’.
“Rahel. A man named Choi Hyun-seok. Do you remember him?”
Prizella immediately brought up the name Choi Hyun-seok.
Rachel was momentarily taken aback, but quickly regained her composure.
“Of course. He was an important warrior candidate with SSS-level potential.”
The only man on Earth with SSS-class potential.
I couldn’t have forgotten him, since I even received a special bonus for sending him as a warrior.
“You said it. You transferred Choi Hyun-seok without any problems.”
“That’s right!”
Rachel was puzzled.
Why would Prizella, the superior, say something like that?
I couldn’t figure out why, but a sense of foreboding began to creep up on me.
“Where did you send Choi Hyun-seok?” “I sent him to the capital of the Domis Kingdom along with the other warriors. It would be against the rules to give Choi Hyun-seok special treatment from the start just because he has SSS-level potential.” “I see… I see. You sent him to the capital of the Domis Kingdom?”
“yes!”
“But you know…”
Frizella clenched her molars as if trying to suppress her anger.
“Since when has the capital of the Kingdom of Domis been turned into a Demon King’s fortress?”
“yes?”
“Did the Kingdom of Domis perish without me knowing?”
“What is that…”
Rachel couldn’t understand what her superior was talking about.
“Choi Hyun-seok is a very, very important reserve soldier. That’s why I checked separately to make sure he was transported properly. Even though it was against the rules, it was important.”
Frizella approached and pushed her face close to mine.
“And then I doubted my eyes.”
“…”
“What the heck! Why! Is Choi Hyun-seok being held captive in the Demon King’s fortress!?” “The Demon King’s fortress…?” “That’s not all. There are a whopping 93 other reserve warriors being held captive there.”
“yes!?”
“I looked through the records and they were all Rachel. They were the warriors you sent. And they were all sent within the last three months.”
Prizella opened her eyes fiercely.
“You sent them out indiscriminately without even checking the qualifications of the warriors in order to increase your performance. And you didn’t even give them any special privileges. And as if that wasn’t enough…!”
Prizella’s voice gradually became louder as she spoke.
“Throw all the warriors into the Demon King’s fortress!? Including Choi Hyun-seok with SSS-level potential!? You couldn’t have gone crazy!” “T-That can’t be possible…” “I just checked your transport equipment. When I checked, the transport coordinates were written incorrectly.”
“coordinate…?”
At that moment, why?
Suddenly, a scene flashed through Rachel’s mind.
“Wow, macarons are the best after all.”
A month ago.
That day, as usual, I was enjoying coffee and macarons.
“Hurrup… ah! Hot!”
He spilled coffee on his typewriter.
I wiped the typewriter with a cloth.
‘Surely not then…’
Rachel looked as if she had lost her mind.
Prizella chuckled and placed a hand on Rachel’s shoulder.
“Are you getting a grasp of the situation now?”
“That, that…”
“Rachel. Are you ready?”
***
The 2nd Slave Unit, under the 3rd Army Corps of the Demon King’s Army.
Here, thousands of human slaves were mobilized to build the fortress.
“We are… the great… Demon King’s Army…”
Choi Hyun-seok swung his pickaxe while singing the 3rd Corps song of the Demon King’s Army.
“Let’s defeat humans. Let’s eat humans…”
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How many times did I swing the pickaxe with my eyes open?
“That’s all for today’s work. Everyone, get in!”
Goblin Jack, who leads the slave class that Choi Hyun-seok belongs to, shouted.
“Get in, you worthless people!”
Jacques kicked the slaves’ butts hard.
‘That son of a bitch…’
‘The topic of the short-haired girl!’
Goblins are ugly, green-skinned monsters with small stature.
To that extent, it is possible to subdue any adult male.
But people didn’t dare to attack Jacques.
It was because of his cruel personality.
Jacques, who swings a sword that is over a meter long indiscriminately, was a symbol of fear to the slaves here.
“Human! What are you mumbling about!?”
The spark flew to Choi Hyun-seok.
Jack approached and hit the back of my head with his palm.
“Huh!? Why aren’t you going quickly? You snail!”
Jack was too short to reach the back of Choi Hyun-seok’s head, who was 198cm tall.
So I jumped up and down and hit the back of his head, which made me even angrier.
‘This goblin cub…!’
For a moment, a fire flashed in Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes, but he desperately controlled his mind.
“Go, go. Haha!”
Choi Hyun-seok lowered his head with a fake smile.
“Go quickly! You stupid human!”
“Yes… yes!”
Choi Hyun-seok hurried back to his cell.
‘You really don’t kill nicely…’
I will get my revenge someday.
I’m going to hit that annoying goblin on the back of the head 500 times and he’ll beg to be killed.
How many times must he have sharpened the blade of revenge?
Before we knew it, all the slaves had returned.
Jacques locked the prison door and left.
“Whew… It’s finally quiet.”
Choi Hyun-seok sighed.
Now, prison is actually more comfortable.
At least there were no Demon King’s troops here to labor or harass.
‘Now, shall we check today’s results?’
There’s something Choi Hyun-seok is into these days.
To be precise, it could be said to be the only hope.
That’s the status window!
The status window is similar to the interface used in games.
I found out thanks to the people here.
“It’s a special ability that only warriors have!”
The status window that my knowledgeable fellow slave Park Tae-su had told me about had a very familiar user environment.
▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok
▫Title: Reserve Warrior
▫Level: 1
·Strength: 28
· Agility: 29
· Stamina: 31
·Horsepower: 10
·Bonus points: 0
▫Warrior Points: 0
▫Ability: Pickaxe (D)
▫ Skills: –
“Oh, my stamina went up by 1.”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes, which had been like those of a dead fish, began to show a little life.
I’ve heard that if you work hard, your abilities will improve.
But I was halfway giving up after not getting any response for a week, but finally my ability level went up.
“Have your abilities already increased?”
Park Tae-su, the slave in the next room, spoke to me.
I thought I heard Choi Hyun-seok muttering.
“Yes. Stamina went up by 1.” “That’s amazing. Is this what it means to be a world champion? Haha!” “What good is a world champion? I’m a slave.”
Choi Hyun-seok laughed bitterly.
“No. I’m sure you can escape this place and become a true warrior.”
Park Tae-soo was sincere.
How surprised I was when I first found out Choi Hyun-seok’s identity.
The famous world champion in fighting was right here.
Moreover, his abilities are also extraordinary.
The average ability of warriors who usually come here is 10~15.
Even though it was really high, it was only around the late 10s, Choi Hyun-seok had an ability value of 30 from the start.
“I’ve heard it too, but there’s something that says starting ability values affect growth potential.”
This is what a warrior who was captured here and died said a while ago.
If that is true, Choi Hyun-seok becomes a warrior with greater potential than anyone else.
That thought became more certain as I watched Choi Hyun-seok grow at a rapid pace.
“Did you just say that pickaxing is a D-grade skill?”
“yes.”
“As expected, you are different!”
The ability to pickaxe is a common skill shared by all warrior slaves here.
But considering that Choi Hyun-seok had only been in the fortress for a week, it was a huge deal.
This is usually the time when you should just be developing pickaxe skills.
Choi Hyun-seok has not only created the ability, but has also developed it two levels further.
‘He is the type of person who will become a real warrior, not a fake warrior like us!’
You might wonder what’s so special about just using a pickaxe, but Park Tae-su truly believed it.
When will Choi Hyun-seok escape this hell and become a true warrior?
‘I should have shown you well before that!’
There are two ways to survive in the harsh wilderness.
If you are outstanding or something.
Otherwise, you have to hold the line well.
Park Tae-soo’s sense, developed over 30 years of corporate life, spoke.
Choi Hyun-seok is truly a top-class rope.
***
That night.
Even though it was late, Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t go to bed.
“Phew…”
I can feel the cold stone floor behind me.
Inside the cell, there was a bed roughly made of straw or something, but it smelled so bad that I didn’t even want to look at it.
‘When will I be able to go out after raising my abilities like this…’
Recently, this ability was Choi Hyun-seok’s only hope.
‘If I roughly achieve an average of 100, will I become stronger?’
The average of current abilities excluding magic power is approximately 30.
In that case, we need to increase each by 70, for a total of 210.
‘Since it went up once a week, 210 is roughly 1470 days. 4 years…’
This is a really useless calculation.
There is no guarantee that your abilities will continue to increase every week going forward.
Choi Hyun-seok also knows that fact.
I just thought that I had to do this to survive this hell.
‘It’s all because of Rachel, that damn bitch?’
Whenever I thought of Rachel, my teeth would grind in my sleep.
‘You have such a pretty face, yet you do something like this!?’
How could that be possible?
He even tried to convert to Christianity because of Rachel.
But to commit such a shameless act!
“A hero! When you wake up, the village chief will come running barefoot and treat you to food, saying, “Hero~!”
The village chief of a rural village?
What actually appeared was a muscle monster with a cow head that spewed flames from its horns.
“I came back after finishing my mission and guess what? The village chief’s youngest daughter was a pure beauty in her twenties!?”
There is no such thing as a peerless beauty.
There are just some dwarf goblins that are so repulsive that just looking at them is enough to make you feel disgusted.
Oh, and swinging a sword with scabs stuck on it is optional.
Choi Hyun-seok gritted his teeth.
‘I can’t die like this! I have to survive somehow.’
Warrior? I don’t know about that anymore.
I don’t care.
Choi Hyun-seok’s goal is to survive.
And then there’s revenge.
The ugly goblin warden, Jack.
Captain Soda Head Raid Run.
Finally, there’s Rachel, the demon wearing an angel’s mask.
‘Until I get stronger… Until then, I’ll just lie down flat.’
I have to become stronger somehow.
I heard that in this world, one can gain superhuman strength through something called magic.
·Horsepower: 10
It’s only 10 horsepower right now, but there must be a way to increase it.
Hope doesn’t end there.
‘What is this warrior point? It seems very important…’
Choi Hyun-seok focused on the item called ‘Warrior Points’ at the bottom of the status window.
▫ Warrior Points: 0
Unfortunately, no one knew about this.
Everyone is just talking nonsense.
“He said that if I collected those points, I could buy a legendary weapon!” “He said that it would allow me to return to Earth?” “He said that it would give me incredible strength, enough to break rocks with one punch.”
Nothing particularly helpful was said.
What do these fake warriors here know?
Anyway, as soon as we started, we were thrown into the fortress and lived as slaves.
I just came a little earlier than Choi Hyun-seok and picked up a lot of things.
“Warrior Points. I think I need to know what these are…”
At that moment, Choi Hyun-seok continued his thoughts with a frown.
A familiar voice was heard from behind.
“Shall I tell you?”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes widen when he hears the voice.
‘This voice could not be…’
The head turns slowly.
Choi Hyun-seok knew who the owner of the voice was.
How could I forget this voice?
Although it was a brief encounter, I will probably never forget it for the rest of my life.
“You, you…!?”
“It’s been a while, warrior.”
Rachel smiled shyly and greeted him.
