Main Character Hides His Strength

31. Book of the Devil (3)

The first people to awaken magic in this world were the Mages.

The Horses were more easily accessible to magic than the others and possessed an exceptional magical talent.

Ultimately, excessive magic corrupted them, but the magical knowledge and powerful magic of the Mages have long been subject to chant and worship.

It's almost gone now, but there used to be a lot of devil worshippers in this world.

The ultimate goal of the devil worshipers is to escape the fate of the simple and humble man and become the devil himself.

The book of the Devil is an essence that captures the visions of the devil worshipers.

“... containing the Devil's Quest. ”

There's nothing more to hide and nothing more to hide.

Ilya Bregas told the world everything she knows.

“It serves as a guide to the Demon Cult city, hidden somewhere in the entrance to the Magic Cube. And if you open the book in front of the Manma Altar, which is in the city, that person will get a quest from the once human Demon. ”

“An unhealthy quest. Was that really necessary? ”

Kim Sung-cheol asked in a calm voice.

“I had to avenge myself by gaining the power of the devil. because he's driven her to her death, and he's trying to get rid of us. ”

The cold flames of fury burn in Iliya Bregas' eyes.

Kim Sung-cheol could feel the sincerity in him.

“... Follow me. ”

Kim Sung-cheol walked forward first.

He follows in his footsteps, fleeing south.

Before the unexpected actions of the world's enemies, the Bregas sisters were confused and followed behind him.

Immediately, a torn human corpse appeared before them.

The corpse of a member of the Revolutionary Cross.

After leaving Sung-cheol Kim's protection, he was attacked by the devil and brought to a miserable end by the devil's prey.

“Lucas...”

Sofia Bregast recognizes the body and trembles lightly.

“Do you know him? ”

Kim Sung-cheol asked, looking at the blood on the floor.

“... I've been a friend since I was a kid. I betrayed him at the end. ”

Kim Sung-cheol continued to walk forward.

I see another body.

This time, it was not one, but two.

The corpses were captured by a demon with 100 teeth and became a Demon Trinket.

Kim Sung-cheol shredded the corpse with his careless eyes and gazed at the devil who was trying to attach his head and limbs to the different corpses.

Iliya and Sofia's eyes widen.

“Gil, Jint...”

Those members were also old friends of my brother and sister.

Eventually, even though they betrayed their brothers and sisters, their miserable end, which was once a friend, shocked the Bregas sisters.

A demon with 100 teeth throws away the corpses of humans who were playing with new humans and reveals ugly teeth.

“Key! Key! Key!”

But the demon's wish did not come true.

Puck!

Kim Sung-cheol punched the devil in the face.

Hundreds of teeth shattered and excellently dropped with red blood.

Kim Sung-cheol grabbed many of the sharp teeth lying on the floor and rubbed them against the big eyes of the devil.

“Ouch!!! ”

Kim Sung-cheol subsequently tore out the Devil's arms with his bones and threw the roaring Devil away.

Catastrophic torments begin to gather over the shivering demon's head, trapped on the ground.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol, who had defeated the devil, walked forward without a word.

The Bregas sisters simply followed behind them quietly, staring at the back of an impossibly powerful man with stunning eyes.

As I followed behind him, I suddenly had an idea that crossed the brain of Iliya Bregas.

Maybe the only reason we're still alive... is because that guy was close. ’

His guess was correct.

The reason why Kim Sung-cheol didn't chase the runaway members is also in contact with him.

It's because the helpless members of the Salvation Crusade fall prey to the bottom of the Magical Pyramid as they escape Kim Sung-cheol's protection from the underworld.

Kim Sung-cheol and Bregas were able to find several more bodies after their sisters.

They faced a miserable and terrible death together.

There was also a living person.

However, his condition was miserable enough that death was a blessing.

“Kill... me...”

The man who was injected alive with a giant Insectivore egg begged for death, feeling the extreme pain of insect larvae digging up flesh inside his body.

Puck!

Kim Sung-cheol's hammer crushed a man's head.

A maggot-shaped insect, the size of a finger, slows down with its sharp teeth in its smashed head.

“Ugh…”

Bertelgia, who was in Kim Sung-cheol's arms, trembled.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol left the body and headed forward.

‘There are only two left. ’

Soon, the two materials were also found.

Ilam Il Woman.

He's still alive.

But it's dangerous.

In front of them were demons with pure skin on necklaces made of human arms and legs floating like clouds.

The demon slowly descends, making strange laughter like mechanical sound, creating thunder and lightning.

A machinable brainstorm strikes them.

Kim Sung-cheol's hammer broke the devil's skull, but the two men and women had already suffered a fatal wound.

“Shhh…”

One of them was already dead.

Only the man with the long scar of a burrow stared into the air with a blurred vision as he groaned in agony.

Iliya and Sofia hurriedly approach him.

“Crewe!”

Ilya hugs him.

The man's eyes had already lost function for a long time.

“Ilya, is that you? ”

“Yes, it's me. ”

“I'm sorry. I'm so... sorry. ”

The man leaves his words and suffocates.

The heavy silence has come.

In silence, Kim Sung-cheol recovered the Book of the Devil from the dead woman's body.

When I held the book of the Devil in my hand, a faint line appeared in Kim Sung-cheol's view.

It was a faint flash that was invisible to the unconscious.

The beam extends eastward.

Kim Sung-cheol gave Iliya the book of the Devil.

“Take it.”

“ ……. ”

Iliya received a letter from the Devil with a puzzling look on her face.

"What the hell is this guy? What's the point of this? ’

He could not even imagine Kim Sung-cheol's heart.

The reason or purpose is entirely unclear.

Kim Sung-cheol read the confusion in Iliya's eyes and said in a loud voice.

“Lead the way. To the Devil's Quest. ”

Then Iliya seemed to know a little about what Kim Sung-cheol wanted.

He nodded and led Sung-cheol Kim to the place where the Devil's Quest was waiting.

A sea of fog awaits them as they cross several icebergs and rivers of flames.

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes reminded me of this.

‘There was something in this fog zone. ’

This sea of fog is a place in the memory of Kim Sung-cheol who ran through the Magic Cube.

It wasn't worth it.

There are mud pits everywhere, and there are only monsters that resemble dead drownings that draw the passers-by.

But now, Kim Sung-cheol has the Book of the Devil.

A beam of flashing light from the Devil's Book was a lighthouse that guided an invisible sea of fog.

Qajik!

The fog clears up around the time you crush about ten muddy monsters with your bare feet.

After escaping the fog zone, Kim Sung-cheol and the Bregas sisters saw towers rising like skyscrapers.

There are eight towers.

A narrow web of cobwebs weaves between the tower and the tower, causing the viewer to feel dizzy.

Kim Sung-cheol walked forward and stared at the towers.

‘There's a place like this on the mantel. ’

Kim Sung-cheol found In-young lingering under the tower.

It was surprisingly human.

Although it had been distorted and ugly by the harsh torture and body remodeling, Sung-cheol Kim could hardly recognize that the gangster who was pulling the sack of horses was a human being.

Kim Sung-cheol turned around and looked at Iliya.

“Where am I? ”

He would know something.

The Devil's Book in his hands.

The person who gave the book would have told you.

Stories about the city of Mahjong that even Kim Sung-cheol did not know.

Kim Sung-cheol's guess was correct.

“This... is a city of men. ”

Iliya said.

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes reminded me of this.

“A human city in the middle of a barrier? ”

“Yes. This is the city of those who wanted to escape the fate of mortals, who wanted to become demons." ”

“A den of Devil Worshipers? ”

Iliya nodded her head with a dark expression in Kim Sung-cheol's question.

Kim Sung-cheol looked up at the towers with interesting eyes.

‘There are places like this. ’

No human knows more about Mahjong than Kim Sung-cheol.

At least in the Eastern Era.

But Ilya Bregas, the person who handed him the book, knows the city exists.

He is no ordinary man.

Kim Sung-cheol turned his head toward Ilya...

“Who did you get it from? ”

It's a question we'll have to face someday.

Kim Sung-cheol was weighing his time and felt that the time had finally come.

Iliya also knew that Kim Sung-cheol would ask about it one day.

He clears his head for a moment, then speaks in a calm tone.

“I'll try to understand first. I don't know much about her. because she suddenly appeared to us. So we don't know if her identity is real or not. ”

That's not an appropriate answer

The tip of Kim Sung-cheol's arm moved slightly.

It's a small gesture, but it feels incredibly big to Ilya.

He swallows his saliva and continues to speak.

“She named him Seven Heroes. ”

“Seven heroes?”

Kim Sung-cheol's lips were heavily closed.

Iliya hurriedly confronts you.

“Yes, she named her Vestiaret. ”

Vestiaret.

One of the seven heroes.

He is in contact with Kim Sung-cheol.

Kim Sung-cheol's class echo was received directly from Vestiaret himself.

Iliya continued to talk about what she saw.

Kim Sung-cheol's hand went up.

It was a sign of silence.

Instead, Kim Sung-cheol turned his head and stared at Sofia Bregas.

Sophia Bregas' new brother trembled, but soon she suddenly met Kim Sung-cheol.

“Have you seen her? ”

Sofia tries to shake her head, realizing it was a pointless attempt and nodding.

“What did she look like? ”

In her question, Sofia Bregas said, stuttering her memory.

“It was a high-elf blonde. ”

Kim Sung-cheol's eyes reminded me of this.

“It was skin as pale as a ghost. I can see all the blood vessels inside. And he had a dreamy voice. ”

The Vestiares Sofia talks about were largely in line with Kim Sung-cheol's views.

I don't think he's lying.

Kim Sung-cheol stood there and thought deeply.

"The Demon King's disaster is not over yet, but the Seven Heroes are already active? ’

You can't trust the word of the Bregas brothers 100%.

But most of what they said was true.

Under suspicion, Kim Sung-cheol stared at the towers of the high devil worshippers.

‘Something must be happening. ’

First things first, solve the problem in front of you.

Kim Sung-cheol thought so.

In front of Kim Sung-cheol and the Bregas sisters, there was a tightly closed door.

It was a huge iron gate that did not seem to be opened by human power, but when it came into the hands of Kim Sung-cheol who had a divine power, a heavy iron door opened with thunder.

“Follow me.”

Kim Sung-cheol walked towards the inside of the tower where ominous light was leaking out.