Are you the Devil of the Labyrinth

He was still standing there, unchanged from the beginning.

Above the battlefield, where everything looks red, he stares at the red sky.

Smells of stinky blood. Do you really think a man can stay in a place like this?

Dead bodies everywhere. There is still heat in the flowing bloodstream.

Yoohyun approached behind the man as he stepped on the bloody ground.

Looking around, I can see a lot of interesting things.

You can see human corpses, elves, orcs, Demibeasts, ogres, and even Minotaurs.

It's faster to find the factions that aren't on this battlefield right now.

.. a grumpy human being. Yoohyun looked at a man's back and thought so.

“You're here sooner than I thought. Half a year is faster than I expected. ”

A man turns his back with a slightly surprised voice. A man with red hair, like blood, still had scary eyes. Just looking at it makes my body creep.

The man was still wearing armor colored with black oxidized blood.

It reminded me of how hellish the battlefield he had been through rather than the thought of being damp in blood and scarred in his armor, but miserable to see a man.

Shoulders open flatteringly. A well-trained body. The red eyes of a man who is quietly locked with his life in his arms are terrifying.

As expected, he is a scary man. Yoohyun felt a cold sweat pouring down his back.

I think I can kill this man even if I have the power before regression.

Funnily enough, Yoohyun was looking at a man and adjusting the size of his power. What would a man think if he knew Yoohyun like this? With that in mind, Yoohyun bowed his head and greeted him.

“It's been a long time. ”

“It's been a long time. It hasn't been that long for me. ”

“Is that so?”

“You think it's been a few hundred years since I started staying here. It only takes a few months to dust. ”

“That's amazing. ”

The sanctuary of souls is where spirits dwell. Of course, all the spirits that can be seen in the sanctuary are devoid of flesh. Their flesh has already rotted and vanished hundreds of years ago.

Eventually, all the spirits we meet in the sanctuary are ghosts, all of whom remain spiritual.

Then one question arises. How can they stay like this?

Then all I could think about was dark magic.

It would be a little ridiculous to compare them to an undead like Banana Race.

“Can I ask you one question? ”

“Hmm. Good. I feel good, so let me ask you a few questions. ”

“Are you Undead? ”

The face of the red-haired man frowned severely.

“Are you kidding me? ”

“That's not true. I was just curious. ”

“That means I asked you seriously. ”

The red man who gazed at Yoohyun's eyes jiggled and burst into laughter.

Yoohyun's eyes were serious. As I'm really curious.

He's also a fun guy. As it first appeared, he is entertaining himself.

He wondered if someone could be so bold as to ask him if he was undead.

The red man who was thinking about Yoohyun's question shrugged his shoulders.

“Actually, I don't know how I can be like this. ”

This time Yoohyun frowned. I look at a man with the eyes of a strange man.

“What does that mean? ”

“Literally. I don't know much about my body right now. ”

As I recall the distant past, with my eyes looking far away, the man recalls the first thing he did.

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes after thinking I was dead was an empty white space.

Afterwards, they appeared and were told that humans had been defeated.

Human defeat.

The man had no anger or sadness about it. I think I was just insensitive.

It may have been because we thought humans would lose long ago.

The defeat of humans that had already been predicted.

But after decades of war, it was a little ridiculous that humans were defeated and fled the maze.

It was just that. I couldn't feel anything like a dry desert that hadn't rained in a long time. A man nods like a hard-nosed doll and acknowledges reality.

In the first place, men were not valued in the fight between humans and xenophobics from the beginning.

And yet the man who fought on the battlefield,

It wasn't because of someone's loyalty, or their pride as a human race.

I slept on the battlefield, opened my eyes, and grew up as a child, and I was still fighting.

Everything was a flow. There was only one place where humans who lived on the battlefield would die.

So, the man had no foolishness about his own death.

It is because of this that man felt no emotion when he was defeated in the war against the xenophobics.

The man was just a warrior who was crazy about fighting.

Such massacres, for some, were called heroes.

“It is ridiculous that I was called a spirit in the first place, and admired as a hero. ”

A man's voice was as dry as a battlefield with heat cooling.

From there, Yoohyun can see that there is no pride as a hero in the man with red hair in front of his eyes. That was amazing.

The spirit who contracted Yoohyun before the regression took great pride in the fact that he was a hero. I'm really bored.

“When they called me a hero and had a useless imagination, I just laughed. I was just a slaughterhouse. He wasn't the one to be called a hero. But they didn't give up and called me a hero. So I decided to play with them. ”

Those bastards. Yoohyun was interested in what he said.

“Who are they? ”

“They are the ones. I don't know. ”

“.. Isn't that too thoughtless? ”

The man shrugs, smiling. Like I don't care.

Seeing that, Yoohyun felt that this man was really a troubled human being.

“One thing I know is that the people who came to visit me are the people of the Irias Empire. I never thought for a second that the Irias would support me as their hero. ”

“Aren't you from the Irias Empire? ”

“Why did you think I was from the Irias Empire in the first place? ”

“That's...”

Of course I have to. This is the refuge of heroes who entered through Iris Irias.

All the spirits here have nothing to do with the Irias Empire.

... at least in Yoohyun's sense.

The red man who looked down at Yoohyun's face snorted.

“I was a mercenary. It was unrestrained in any country. If there was a war, he ran there, wielded his sword, killed people, and captured monsters if necessary. Those things have been replaced by slitting the throats of xenophobics. ”

“Mercenaries..." ”

There is no particularly bad idea about mercenaries. But it was also a little surprising.

As Yoohyun knows, it was the heroes of that country who were in the refuge of heroes.

If you have accomplished enough as a mercenary, you can still claim to be a hero, but somehow the man in front of you doesn't seem to recognize you as a hero.

When I think about it, even when I first saw it, the man said about the hero's backwardness.

Maybe this guy hates being a hero.

“Well, so I'm lonely among other spirits. ”

I couldn't feel the loneliness in a man's face, even though I said that.

I'm just smiling at other spirits.

Yoohyun had a curious face.

“May I meet with other spirits? ”

“If you want, why don't we bring the others here now? ”

As the man smiled and said, Yoohyun looked tired.

“..... that's enough. ”

It makes the scary story feel nothing. It's like dealing with a toy.

He doesn't have any other spirits.

If he nodded, the man might really do it.

But thanks to this, I learned one thing. All spirits are in one place.

Should we say they're connected to each other exactly?

What will happen to the structure?

“This is the first time I've actually signed a contract with you in hundreds of years. ”

“So you've been playing for hundreds of years? ”

“Huh. I can't believe I was just playing. In the first place, there's no reason for me to help the Irias for free. Contracting with me means borrowing my power. ”

Then, Yoohyun nodded.

“And I am a mercenary. There's no reason to help them without something. Even though I'm dead and I only have souls like this, the fact that I was a mercenary doesn't change. ”

“Then why did you sign a contract with me? ”

“Because you brought me the magic sword I used. That's why I kidnapped them before they even showed interest. He'll relieve me of my boredom, but it won't be easy for the others to show their interest. ”

.. with a back that I don't know about.

At the same time, Yoohyun's magic sword suddenly appeared in the man's hand.

Yoohyun blinks and stares at it and notices a little late that what is in a man's hand is his sword. I feel like something has been taken from me.

Yoohyun's sword is currently in the inn. But the man called it here.

Is that a real magic sword or something conceptual?

The man grabbed the resulting sword in his hand, and laughed.

As if satisfied.

“I guess you've been doing something pretty interesting. If you look at this guy this big. ”

What does a man feel through a magic sword?

.. I don't care about anything. Yoohyun has something to ask.

“Can I ask you one more question? ”

“I have a lot of questions. Is this a useless question again? ”

“No, this is a pretty serious question. ”

“Then tell me. ”

Yoohyun asked as he stared at the red eyes that seemed to tear even his soul apart.

“Is that black relic really the Devil King? ”

Reviews

It's fun raising Lily in Soulwalker.

Like Lily, it's hard to swing a sickle.

Iris had a bit of difficulty because the skill movement term was too big.