Demon King

Chapter 16. Monster Heart 2

Boss on the second floor is a werewolf. And what I'm dealing with is a werewolf.

Coincidence, but an interesting coincidence.

However, unlike the werewolf you saw in the boss' room, he was severely wounded. First, there was a large penetrating wound to the abdomen, and the shoulders, forearms, legs, feet, head were severed in flesh and nerves, and the bones were revealed.

And I was spilling blood from all of it.

The only reason he didn't die right now was because he had the incredible life force of a werewolf.

“Grrrrrrr...! ”

“Grrr……. ”

The wolves were hostile to me, but he raised his hand to make the wolves retreat.

“What... do you want from me? ”

“Depends on what you want. ”

I thought it was a pretty silly thing to say, but he nodded slightly to see if he was satisfied with it.

“I... want to live. ”

“And?”

“My friends and colleagues, those who treated them as monsters who only wanted to live...... avenge their blood! ”

What an amazing thing this is.

At that moment, when he spoke out in agony and anger, his devastating body began to recover on its own.

I wonder if your regenerative skills have grown at this point. I saw the size of his abdominal laceration shrinking in real time. What an amazing recovery!

He also seemed to have realized it. With his bones exposed, he raises his hand, which is gradually covered in muscles, flesh and clean fur, and smiles small.

“Very little, but the odds have risen.... ”

“But you can't survive on your own. ”

“Yes, it's definitely not possible. ”

He nods. After a little bloodshed and sputum, I heard his voice more clearly.

It was hard to estimate the exact age of the wolf's face, but I felt that his voice would not exceed the age of 20.

He continued:

“I'm alone, and they're over the bag. Moreover, as resurfacing takes health in return, even if my body is intact, I need an agent to survive.... ”

“Let me get this straight. ”

I hung up on him and looked down at him.

People are now emerging one by one within 500 meters of each other. If we don't finish our business soon, we'll both be found at once.

“I want to know how not to let humans find out I'm a fugitive. ”

“... I know. ”

“I'd like to hear more about what's going on right now. ”

“It's easy. ”

“If you grant me those two demands, I will spare your life. ”

He seemed to think for a moment, but soon asked me.

“Don't you covet the EXP, money, and items that are on me? ”

“You kill a man like yourself because you can get money? ”

But in my words, he said as if laughing at me.

“There are about a hundred of them out there. ”

“I don't call them flying people. ”

I stood up to him with a bloody smile.

Just a little bit, with my feelings for the crowd.

“They're just monsters. A monster in mind who looks uglier than our appearance. ”

“ ……. ”

He silenced with his emotions like I just did, then immediately glanced up at me with blue eyes.

“What a wonderful way of thinking. I like it.”

“Really?"

“Apart from that, I can't trust the first one I see so easily. ”

“Of course it is. ”

It is a mindset that everyone must have to survive.

Suddenly, even if I had two conditions, I would be suspicious if I suddenly said I would protect myself from more than 100 humans.

“Still.”

He twists his horse's tail and laughs. I felt like I was smiling.

“You're all I have left. And by walking to you and failing, it can't get any worse. ”

“If so?”

“All in. All in on you. ”

“Good choice. ”

I approached him without making a sound. The wolves howl at the boundary, but he stops them.

“And the wolves?”

“Up to five can be controlled, but not permanently, and Mana is consumed. We won't have the strength to fight them. ”

“Then send it back. ”

“Sure."

He made an unknown move for me. The sharp expressions of the wolves faint momentarily, and the horns scatter in every direction, unaware of the two of us.

“That's enough. ”

“Not yet.”

I brought the shadow of blood to the floor and all of his blood, which was oozing out of my mind, got sucked into it. He looks at it and smiles small.

“Great artifact. ”

“You'll feel dizzy without blood, but just hold on a little longer. ”

Along with that, I caught him. He immediately realized what he needed to do, and began to do his best.

After a very small nod, I move straight to the dark passageway leading to the third floor.

The contact with the humans wandering around the dungeon was predetermined by advanced detection, and the monsters didn't recognize us.

I didn't know it until now, but the surprise and fairy tale seemed to influence to some extent what I was carrying.

However, this shortened the time it took to get to the dark corridor. After arriving in front of the passageway, he was surprised with his eyes wide open.

“You know the entrance to the 'stairwell'... Are you the First Conqueror on the second floor of this dungeon? ”

“That's right."

I jumped into it without hesitation.

It was the first time I had entered with someone other than myself, but I could clearly recognize his presence. The mere existence that wandered in the void was stretched from one to the other.

“Huh, huh? Are... are you there right now? ”

No, I guess he didn't sense me very well. I loosened up the surprise and fairy tale I was keeping in my habit.

“Can you detect it now? ”

“... Amazing. My detection abilities are intermediate... ”

“I'll keep going up to the third floor, so wait there. I'll catch you an intermediate monster, so eat it and regain your health. ”

“And what about you? ”

“I have to watch for a while. ”

You broke your promise to me and ran away.

and whether they're going to keep coming in.

The passageway was as long as ever, but I had already gotten used to it, so I quickly passed through it and arrived on the third floor in just a few minutes.

As I set him on the ground, he stood with his feet on the ground and looked around as if he couldn't believe it, and breathed out loud.

He mutters with a small cry, overwhelmed by feelings of relief.

“I really lived...! ”

“Not yet.”

I simply resisted and cast a shadow of blood on the spot.

With the power of Advanced Martial Arts and Heilang intact, Heilang flies through the air like a light dagger, piercing the head of a giant vampire bat hanging upside down from the ceiling.

Intermediate monster blood boats plummet to the ground with a blood shadow, claiming their lives in one blow.

[EXP 25,680.]

[You got 45 Silver.]

I reach out and retrieve the Blood Shadow, and throw the corpse of the Blood Belly at him.

“These guys are pretty good at hiding. If you're careful about entering the third floor, you'll be sucked out of all that vital blood. ”

“Well, yeah. ”

This, of course, was also to inform him of the dangers of the third floor of the dungeon, but also to expose myself to my own power and rid him of useless thoughts.

The ability, the ability, and the power to hide and detect him without being seen by humans. Whether he understood them all correctly, he nodded carefully and accepted Blood's stomach.

Then he asked me instead of trying to chew the head off of Blood's stomach.

“Are you really an intermediate monster? Senior, perhaps?”

“No, it's intermediate. Not yet.”

But soon it will not be. You must.

However, when I turned back to the corridor, he called me up urgently.

“I haven't heard your name yet. I'm Chan Yuk. Lee Chan Yuk. ”

“I am a river... no. ”

Instinctively speaking my name, I paused for a moment.

The thought of being able to reveal myself as a monster to others under the name 'exaggeration' dominated me.

And it quickly came to a conclusion.

“Call me Faith. ”

“Fate" pseudonym? ”

“No, that's my name. ”

“Okay, got it....... Please take good care of yourself, Fett. ”

I tried not to contain my emotions as much as I could, but he seemed to have read the convenience of feeling the darkness in my words. His answer was heavy, and it was genuine.

In exchange for a short conversation, I felt frustrated that I could only guess and conclude my past and present, but I felt empathy for him and me.

I've been thinking about his past freely since the moment I met him. It was no different. It wasn't his fault. It was normal.

And what bloomed at the end was a little, yet feeble, co-consciousness.

How did this happen? I don't even trust him yet. It was a really interesting thing, even though it was my own emotion.

Of course I shouldn't get caught up in it.

“Take good care of me, Lee Chan Yuk. Two things I asked you to do, and you'll hear them when I get back. ”

“Whatever. Like I said before, I'm all in with you. ”

“And, you know, just in case. ”

Instead of stepping into the hallway, I thought of one thing I needed to check out for him. That's why I looked back and asked him.

“Do you have to avenge yourself with your own hands? ”

“…… If revenge is impossible by my power now, you can leave it to my colleagues. ”

“I'm not your partner yet. ”

“But I think we're going to be partners soon. ”

I wonder if he felt the same way about me.

Perhaps he had already had colleagues, so he felt more intimate with me.

At this rate, I saved you in a crisis that would kill you, so you could have solid trust. He had already seen me as a colleague.

From that moment on, he really believed me completely.

I don't trust emotions.

It is easily betrayed. Easy to hurt, easy to change It is explosive, instantaneous.

But in the end, you can't deny that it's the driving force that makes people move the most. The miracle of achieving what cannot be achieved comes from the movement of emotion.

Can we be partners? Can we really trust each other and put our backs into it? Will the day come when the two forces come together?

I can't trust the person I just met, no matter what.

But I hope I can be trusted someday.

I threw myself down the aisle without answering him, as if I had cut off a small, secretly blooming expectation.

I began my training in ambushes and fairy tales to the middle of the passageway, and began to closely investigate the human movements on the second floor. And soon it became clear that the ‘guild’ had no intention of returning.

“We must find it. I'm gonna watch him get his head cut off with my own eyes. ”

“There's a lot to hear. First of all, why we were able to hide the identity of the foreigners. ”

“Dammit, did he take the First Conqueror upstairs? Where the hell did he get the key and break through the second floor? ”

Lee Chon Yuk got the key from the first floor and quickly broke through the Goblin King and went down to the second floor.

However, he did not have the strength to overcome the mass eruptions on the second floor, and was only waiting for him to die quietly when he met his limit. It was then that he and I met.

So there's still a werewolf in the boss' room on the second floor. If the guild overcomes mass appearances several times, they will realize the situation.

“I've got the key to the boss room! He's still on the second floor! ”

The time has finally come. It was less than a few hours later.

“You can't go down to the third floor. Just give me the keys. From now on, we search thoroughly. No one's getting out of this dungeon until we get him! ”

“Yep!"

A few more days passed from there. I watched over them with my training and helped Chan Yuk recover. Lee Chan Yuk was able to hunt on the third floor by himself one day.

He was strong enough to survive until the end. He had a good sense of combat. Skill also grew diligently. This was strong enough to be able to compete one-on-one with the boss on the second floor.

“Too strong, damn it. First floor is beginner, second floor is lower, third floor is intermediate? Don't joke. At this rate, even the best monsters or horsemen I've ever heard come out. ”

“It's a good thing. I can be strong. ”

“When you were a human, were you a mercenary in a war nation? ”

I went back to the corridor without answering him. Having a proper conversation with him is after you've fulfilled your promise.

He sighs a little in the background, but I don't care.

“I can't. ”

It was that afternoon that the sensation of higher level 4 brought the guild master's voice to my ears of the 'Phoenix Hunters’ guild.

“Looks like they found a stairwell going down. It's a ridiculous possibility, but I can't think of anything else. ”

“So what do we do? ”

“Take the boss and go to the third floor. ”

As soon as I heard that, I turned to the second floor, not the third floor.

“I'll find him and kill him somehow. ”

It was his wait, and my wait was over.

Chapter 16. Monster Heart 2 End