61 – Distance to the Sun – 7
“Wow…Dirty and hard to find.”
It’s already been an hour since I went out for a night walk.
I couldn’t find this guy’s tavern even if I looked around the entire street of the moon, and at the end I was able to find a tavern called Devil’s Tears through the sign of an old building stuck in the corner.
Is the tavern called Devil’s Tears really a building that sells food? It looked old and dirty, and the size itself wasn’t that big.
The tavern door looked like it would break with just one knock, but that wasn’t my concern.
Smart…
“Is anyone there?”
If it wasn’t there, I was going to just kick it in and make a fuss, but luckily there was one member of the gang managing the door.
“…What is the password?”
“…Password?”
Password? The password I know is that I go with a close friend from elementary school to the back of the restaurant run by the friend’s parents, put up a box and make it like a hideout. There was nothing but this fuss.
Then to hear the words of memories here…If you do this, you can’t help but reciprocate.
“The password is…”
Your life, Shivalum.
Kwaang-!
With all my strength, the soles of my feet shattered the decrepit tavern door. Then, a macho man who looked like his brain was made up of muscles in front of him was looking at me with a dumbfounded expression, not understanding the current situation.
“Hi?”
“What is this… What is this…!”
It took about three seconds for Macho Nam to understand the current situation and swung his fist at me, turning his face red.
“Huh?!”
Obviously, I wasn’t good enough to block the obvious attack. Right away, he put a counter punch into the macho man’s chin and knocked down a giant that looked over 100kg in an instant.
Let’s think about it. The level of a macho man seen through [Emotion] Is 31, which is filthy low by my standards and quite high by the standard of ordinary people.
It’s the door to the hideout of the organization, but there’s no way a weak guy was set up there.
In other words, the fact that there is a very high probability that only people below level 31 will gather in this organization on average.
If my reasoning is correct, there will be no one in this organization to stop me.
“Then shall we go in soon?”
-I don’t feel any dangerous energy, so go wild.
“OK.”
There were no tables or counters in the old tavern, and only one large staircase leading to the basement was placed in the center of the tavern.
As the assassin said earlier, these stairs would be the entrance to the hideout.
“[Dark Veil].”
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First of all, I decided to turn on the [Dark Curtain] In preparation for an unexpected situation.
There were many abilities in this world, and among those many abilities, the ability to counter me might exist. I didn’t use [Dark Curtain] For no reason and said ‘Surprise? I don’t need anything like that, rush~!’ If you do, you can seriously injure your nose.
The basement of the tavern was filled with bumpy stones, and there were footprints left in the middle.
Just by counting the number of footprints, it was possible to infer that it was a fairly large organization.
“Ah… That… That’s…”
‘…A voice?’
At that moment, a human voice was heard from the front of the aisle.
Anyway, there was a [Dark Curtain] Now, so I didn’t have to worry about being caught, so I decided to go in the direction where I could hear the voice.
“It’s so… Disgustingly tasteless. When are we going to sip wine elegantly like aristocrats?”
“Be patient. The boss seems to be preparing something big this time.”
“The big one? What is it? Didn’t you say the stone was stolen?”
“I heard that there is a stone dozens of times larger than that stone, and that the ceremony will be held in a few days?”
“Keuhehehe…Then am I finally seeing the face of a dog-like aristocrat with my own eyes? Kihehehe!”
As I was listening to the conversation of the two men who seemed to be members of the gang, the moment I heard them talking, a question came to mind.
The stone these two guys are talking about must be an expression that means the devil’s stone. And they said that the boss had a devil’s stone that was dozens of times bigger than the stone I took.
I heard from Veronica earlier that the rank of demons that can be summoned depends on the size of the demon stone.
The stone the size of a demon I ate is said to be low grade, the stone the size of a fist is medium, the stone the size of a thigh is high, and the stone the size of a human body can summon noble demons with titles.
-If it’s dozens of times… The least advanced, and the worst would be noble demons…
‘Isn’t this bigger than I thought..?’
-I need to move a little faster. King, if a demon with a title appears in the middle of the street of the moon, the entire capital city could be annihilated.
‘f*ck…?’
I just came to take care of the top guy who sent an assassin to me, but it suddenly became a big deal.
I don’t know what kind of boss this organization’s boss is, but he dares to annoy me… I won’t just end it if I meet him.
“I’m in a good mood, how about a cigar?”
“Does it bloom here?”
“Then where do you open it?”
“Did you already forget how crazy Chase was about smoking in the basement?”
“Ah, I’m not there right now, so what does it matter? You can also open one.”
“Okay, I don’t want to be scolded by Chase.”
“Sheesh… Little bastard…”
The man clicked his tongue and pulled out of his pocket a cigar twice the size of his finger. Then he started lighting a cigar using fire magic.
‘This is the time!’
Thinking that this moment was my chance, I quickly used [Psychokinesis] To break the neck of the guy who was about to smoke a cigar.
Then another gang member next to him looked at his colleague who had collapsed on the floor with a dumbfounded expression.
“Uh…Uh…?”
“I’ll send you along with your friends.”
Kwajik-!
As expected, the level of the members was low, so a single [Psychokinesis] Hit was enough to instantly kill them.
If these guys had a higher level than me, it would have been difficult to deal with [Psychokinesis] Alone, but their levels are 24 and 26.
In fact, the group of 5 Hell Worms in the Abyssal Labyrinth was more threatening than these guys.
“Ah…But why didn’t you leave one alive? I should have asked where the boss was.”
Come to think of it, I should have kept one pup for questioning, but my obsession to deal with it quickly messed with the job.
Well, it’s okay. After all, there are a lot of guys to ask.
“..Three people a little away from here… Aren’t they pretending to be too openly?”
-How much do you expect from an average level 20?
“That makes sense.”
First of all, the important thing now is information about the boss. Looking back at the conversations the guys on the floor had, I’m sure the boss said he had the Devil’s Stone.
So the first thing I need to do is find the boss, and if I find the boss, I’ll be able to solve everything, whether it’s the Devil’s Stone or whatever.
“Ah..I’m so f*cking tired…Do you have any ale?”
“Ale is a piece of sh*t.. Eat beef jerky, you bastard.”
“Hey sh*t… When does the boss have a ritual… We have to do it quickly so we can live while laughing..”
When I went to a place where I could feel the presence of people, there were three members of the organization sitting at a table and having a conversation.
Two of my comrades died right in front of me, and they were so carefree… I couldn’t help but punish them.
“Amy Sifal…But is it okay to trust the real boss? To be honest, I don’t trust the boss very well…”
“Shh, don’t you know that the guy who said that last time was found dead the next day? Shut up.”
After eavesdropping on their conversation, it seems that the trust of the boss is not very good.
If you think about it, the mental state of the guy who tried to summon the devil in the middle of the capital couldn’t be normal.
“[Psychokinesis].”
When I used [Psychokinesis] To float one of the three gang members, they opened their eyes wide and looked at their comrades flying into the air.
“f*ck?! What are you!”
“Suddenly what?! A ghost?!”
Kwajik-!
“Huh..?”
I broke the guy’s neck with telekinesis, and the two remaining members looked at each other with puzzled eyes.
And then, soon after, his face turned blue and he started screaming at the people around him.
“Ears..Ghosts!!!”
“I lived doing only f*cking bad things, but a ghost seduced me?! Run away…”
Kwajik-!
“Uh…?”
One of the two also broke his neck and sent him to the nether road.
Now all that remains is one gang member wearing a red mask.
“Are you the only one left?”
“Who… Who is that?!”
When I showed up with a smile on my face, the masked gang member shuddered and shouted at me.
He’s the highest level among the three, so I let him live for now, but if he tells me only useless information, he’ll mercilessly break his neck.
“Looking at the current situation, don’t you understand? If you don’t want to be like Jaedle, you’d better answer my question properly.”
“Yes..What about you…?”
“Shut up, I’m the only one asking questions. Do you understand?”
“Ah..I see..!”
Fortunately, the guy who survived was a guy with a lot of skills. He liked it very much that he would come out with respectful words without saying anything, just like he did when he was an assassin.
“Where’s the gang boss?”
“Bo… If you’re the boss… You’ll be in the deepest room in the hideout! It’s a room where no one except the executives can enter, and we always have meetings there!”
“Really?”
Kwajik-!
As a reward for the good explanation, I decided to let it go without pain.
I hope to be born as a pet Pomeranian in my next life.
“Then let’s go finish it now.”
Now it’s time to go meet the final boss.
***
Deep in the basement of the Devil’s Tears Tavern, Shima, the head of Apocalypse, was staring at the large purple rock in front of him.
“Originally, I was going to use it later, but because of one annoying guy, I ended up using it sooner than I thought… But that’s okay. Rather, I’ll be able to give the filthy nobles despair early.”
Sima gave a wicked smile as she caressed the man-sized demon stone.
Since childhood, Shima has grown up as one of the common orphans in the City of the Moon. She had no parents and no one to call her family except her sister.
Because of this, Shima took good care of her sister, her only family, and loved her as her family.
But one day, one of the nobles of her empire said he liked her face and dragged her to his mansion. A week later, her sister’s body was delivered to her Shima’s house.
After that day, Shima made up his mind.
She will definitely take revenge on the nobles.
He said he would destroy not only the nobles, but also the Hyperion Empire itself that created this environment.
“…It’s coming soon… It’s finally time to make my wish come true…!”
She laughed so loudly that Shima could feel her madness and spread her arms wide.
“I will definitely kill you! Nobles…! Imperial family…! I will destroy them all! I will destroy them! I will turn them to ashes! hahahaha!!”
A demon summoned by a demon stone cannot be controlled by the summoner.
That Shima also knew very well.
In other words, the demon could be killed as soon as it was summoned.
However, Shima accepted her own death.
She was willing to sacrifice at least one of her own lives to avenge her filthy and disgusting empire.
“…Boss, I have something to tell you.”
“…What is it?”
At that time, Denver, one of the four executives, approached Shima and whispered to him.
“Looks like there’s an intruder. I can’t feel the vital signs of the members.”
“…Is it a rat….. Gather the officers and deal with it. I have to hold a ceremony.”
“Okay.”
Denver, like Shima, was also raped by an imperial nobleman.
Before that, all the four executives in the Apocalypse organization were made up of those who had precious things taken away by the imperial nobility.
They, like Shima, were ready to sacrifice their lives to avenge the empire.
“Whoa…You’re so excited…It’s not good to be excited about a ritual.”
Sima calmed the joy rising in her heart as much as possible and began to perform the ritual of summoning the demon by injecting magical power into the demon stone.
“Respond to my call.”
Geeeing-!
As if in response to Shima’s words, the Devil’s Stone began to glow and ring.
Of the materials required for the demon summoning ritual, the most important is the demon stone, and the second most important are magic power and vitality.
He intended to use his life force to summon a demon.
“I will definitely… I will definitely revenge…!”
An ominous purple light began to shimmer deep underground.