A Demon Lord’s Tale: Dungeons, Monster Girls, and Heartwarming Bliss

Adventurer.

It is he who follows the unknown, seeks the unknown, and is relative to the unknown.

They get all sorts of requests, they do it, they get paid.

Due to the magnitude of its achievements, let us say that it is a very dreamy job, because some have become aristocrats and gained territory or tremendous wealth and fame when they are also at the top.

In addition, although it is lumped together with the adventurer, the content of the request varies, and the width of what the same adventurer can be said to specialize in, depending on what the person specializes in, such as going on a crusade of demons, going on a picking spindle, and some scholar-skinned people with site excavation spindle.

It's just - in any case of work, the first thing you need is strength of arms.

Step outside the human survival zone, and it will be the land adjacent to demons and the death of outsiders.

Whatever you do to make living in such an environment a living is not strong enough to start the conversation, and you are asked for strong spiritual strength and guts that you will never give up in a predicament.

It is the position of Adventurer that those who cannot have it will either be eliminated early or will not be able to raise the ranks that represent the strength of their adventurers and will continue to stall in the same place.

The adventurer has a class to represent the division of strength, which starts with red copper (bronze), goes up with steel (iron), silver (silver), gold (gold), magic silver (misril), and adamantite, and ends up with orihalcon - in which we are located in magic silver (misril).

It is the third class from the top, but when we go to the Orihalcon class, it is no longer the same as the strategic weapons of the outside world, even the Adamantite class is a thousand fierce men, and since they are only a few dozen or so of the adventurers with a few stars, it can be said that we, who are once demon silver, are also located above among the adventurers.

- Therefore, as in this case, it also remained the case that requests were requested directly from the 'guild', the mutual aid organization that heads the adventurer.

Alfiero, our front-line city, is situated on the border of the country, so many adventurers have many opportunities to relate to demons, but there is not a single person in the city because the country is surrounded by people with the power of the Orihalcon class.

There are a few Adamantite classes, but now they happen to be leaving the city because of something else, and after considering the other guy who's free in the Mithril class downstairs, they ended the request a while ago and took a rest in the city, and they came around to talk to us.

The content of that request is about the anomaly of The Demonic Forest.

"Demonic Forest" is a land of secrecy where the strongest demons in this neighborhood live, and where their numbers are barely higher than elsewhere - once stepped in, they say they'll never come out again.

The environment is also very harsh, with natural struggles day and night, and it is said that if ordinary people are lost, they will go to the afterlife in less than thirty minutes.

Therefore, it is strictly forbidden for any adventurer to enter the depths of the Demonic Forest, even if it is gold (gold) or more, and even if it is more than magical silver (misrills), even if it is a business of demonic exorcism, and in both cases, when it is broken, the punishment for tightness awaits.

Well, sometimes it's because the Demonic Forest is a harsh environment, but there are other reasons why it's so tightly managed.

It is caused by a single demon that lives in the deepest part of the mountain.

- Soyts, because of their overwhelming strength, are just called 'Heilong'.

The dragon species that is called the strongest of creatures, and the most powerful of them, even the legendary catastrophic creature in human history, the "Heilong".

The catastrophic class is said to destroy one country with just one of them, and when Heilong was actually raging around, several countries were destroyed, and all the crusaders were turned back as well.

Hido said that the nearby countries that had stayed together until then formed coalitions just to discuss Heilong and headed for a crusade with a total of 300,000 large armies... Fewer than a thousand (...) returned, although the remaining records show that many of them should have participated in what the adventurers call the Orihalcon and Adamantite classes.

Others literally put it all in the ashes overnight.

There are other legacies about Heilong that have changed the terrain with one brace, or the extreme magic that only a few people in the world say can use, just as effortlessly as dealing with elementary magic to erase the mountain itself, all of which remain episodes that are just disputed as natural disasters...... but apparently Heilong is also told that he is not as interested in other creatures besides himself, and that if he doesn't get his hands on this one, he won't be able to strike from the other side.

As a result, in these nearby countries, an agreement was made that you should never lay a hand on Heilong, and the effect of his touch is still ongoing.

Neither does the Heilong know what kind of change of heart there was, but a hundred years and a while ago he pulled into his present residence, the depths of the Demonic Forest, and since then he hasn't shown himself in rare things...

- Thanks for the woods. Something's not right these days.

Heilong, who should rarely appear from his own territory, has for some reason recently been witnessed successively outside that area.

They also say there's been some massive territorial feud in some sort of demonic forest, and a large number of reports that demons who lost that fight are starting to scatter around them are in the guild.

At first, the Heilong was the cause, and the demon fled frightened because Soytz began to move vigorously, and he wondered if there was a territorial feud ahead of him, but even where there were no examples of Heilong sightings, the movement of the demon seemed to be confirmed.

Therefore, there is another cause in the Alliance, and it is estimated that both Heilong and the demon are moving more energetically because of it.

Scattered demons, even though they lost, are talking about demonic forest standards, strong enough compared to demons in other parts of the world.

They prefer places with thick levels of magic in the air, and rarely come near people in places with thin levels of magic, so they don't particularly mean that they are damaged by those demons... But that's not the kind of situation where you can be alone, so come and find out what's going on.

I don't want to take such a nasty request, if it were meant to be, but the troublesome thing is that the Alliance's direct request, when I say no, will degrade my reputation as an adventurer.

Otherwise, it is certain that this case cannot be abandoned, and no one is likely to receive this request except us right now.

That's why I came into the Demonic Forest at the threesome party that I always organize...

"What the fuck!!

"Gudagda, you didn't tell me. Run!! You want to die!!

"The rumors were true...... ugh!

Reyes, a man of scouts, and Le Laure, a woman who plays magician, must escape.

Running behind it, me, Griffa.

Approaching from behind, 'Horn Tiger'.

They're hunting us down, hunting us down, hunting us down, hunting down the trees as easily as they can.

Horn Tiger is located in the "War Class" amongst the dangers of demons broken up into seven levels: harmless, harmful, man-made, war, disaster, catastrophic, and catastrophic. Its strength is such demons that Adamantite Adventurers are single and somehow able to party and defeat critical, and it has the ability to do so even in the surrounding area of "Nushi" if in other areas.

Well, just kidding, there's enough demons on this level here to rot... after all, something's wrong.

We've been up to Mithril several times in the woods, but he must have been a little more of a monster living in the back.

I'm not a demon who shows up in a place like this that hasn't been here for hours.

Besides... Hi this tiger, looks like he lost the survival competition and hasn't eaten anything for more than a few days.

The body is so thin that we can see it, and the way we look at it is annoying for us to see the rush and obsession of starving to death if we don't get food here.

"Le Laure!! What about magic!?

"No, you're still recovering 10%!!

Yes, if it's a party of Mithrill Adventurers, that's why we're running away against demons that can defeat us critically.

We've already fought not only this tiger, but other monsters of equal strength.

Because of this, the magic of Le Laure, a sorcerer, was exhausted, as were the potions we had brought.

Because of the abnormality, it has been better equipped than ever, but it is still the result.

Regret boils down even now that I should have refused such a request without worrying about evaluation.

"Grr!!

"Whew!?

The horn tiger behind us accelerates rapidly to see if he's used it in some kind of skill, and moves forward to block our path.

"Chip, do you have to -!!"

I decided to be ready to die, and let go of my sword - then.

All of a sudden, some kind of wind-cut sound.

A moment later, I hear a vivid sound of gushing and something crushing my flesh.

- When I realized, Horn Tiger, who had cornered us in distress, lay low on the ground and stopped moving, instead another demon in one piece, standing there.

"Huh!!"

Unexpectedly, it solidifies in an outrageous way.

There he was - a huge one wolf, with a hairy hair so beautiful that you could accidentally fall in love.

A figure that seems to be about the height of a whole house on supple hands and feet that are as thick as a whole, but then you can see the tightness of the muscles.

There is also a large mouth with sharp fang glimpses proportional to the size of the body, and it would be possible to flatten it in one bite if it was about our size.

- He's a jerk.

At first sight, such thoughts boil in my chest.

He has dived through a number of training grounds as an adventurer, but years of cultivation tell him that existence in front of him is more of a threat than at any other time.

From the top of my head to the toe of my foot, I'm telling you to get out of this place now - but I can't move (...).

If you move one step at a time, if you blink one, the imagination of a reaper waving a sickle at that moment occupies your head and you can't take physical movement.

That's apparently the same for both of my people, and when I squeezed the will of none and only checked left and right with Chirali, Reyes and Le Laure were completely consolidated, staring at the overwhelming presence in front of them.

When the giant wolf glanced at us, he turned his face away as if he were not interested - he left the scene with his hunted prey in his mouth.

The moment I lost sight of him, he lost his mind at once, even though he was still in the demonic forest, and Le Laure lowered his hips.

But I don't feel like blaming you.

I'm also about to have a cold sweat coming out of my whole body now, and my knees are about to crack and laugh if I get a little distracted.

"Yes, I picked up my life..."

With a slight soaking voice of relief, Le Laure groans like that.

Reyes continues his words, like hammering at it.

"That wolf definitely had a disaster class..."

"... that's not all. Didn't you notice? That wolf... was wearing a collar (...)"

Yes, as if it were a pet dog, that wolf had a beautifully carved collar wrapped around his neck.

"Become - I mean, you're saying there's a guy who's using the arr!?

Reyes looks at me with an incredible look.

So much so that I think my eyes have gone crazy, too.

Speaking of disaster classes, they are strong enough for the army to raise its total strength and head for the crusade.

Definitely not the level of strength that mankind can serve, but the ability to follow the presence of non-human subraces, beasts, or even demons hostile to mankind, such as catastrophic classes, should not be possible.

"... something terrible may have settled in this forest."

Even disastrous demons frighten the demons of the Demonic Forest, something.

The imagination that the existence is still deep in the woods, observing this condition in the equipment (crunchiness) is too far behind the brain, and something unexpectedly frightening runs through the spine.

"... Anyway, let's get out of this forest quickly. This forest is beyond our grasp."

"Agreed. No matter how many lives you have, it's not enough."

"Well... I don't want to be in this place for a second anymore"

Having made that decision unanimously, we began to return to the path we had come to see as if we were running away from something.