141. The protagonist
The demon king’s words that command death.
I thought they would attack right away, but the level was too high. The barriers laid by Empress are easily passed by – the spirit of death reaches Ian.
“Ugh-!?”
At that moment, my heart stops. While Ian fell while grabbing his chest, other summoned beasts began to line up in front of Ian.
─I was distracted.
Blue Dragon clasped his chest and sent an electric current to the back of the fallen Ian. After a while, my heart started beating when I received an electrical signal to move again.
Ian, who was resurrected from the dead, began to smirk while glaring at the Demon King.
“Is it true… … .”
There was no such thing as directly attacking the player in the game. That’s normal. If there was a game where you counterattack or attack and defeat a player you can’t respond to, you’d be cursed as a sh*t game.
However, the Archangel and the Demon King who polluted the system did not follow such ‘rules’.
[why?]
The Demon King looked at Ian who stood up again and had a question. Unlike the great heroes and supernatural summoners, isn’t Ian the summoner an ordinary human?
On a human subject – it was impossible, it was a bug. Bugs should be removed. Ian Clark- must disappear.
[No, no. Don’t come to mind, don’t do it!]
Seeing the sudden madness of the Demon King, Ian thought it was an opportunity and moved his summons.
Summons, who quickly settled in, carried out special moves, being careful not to let their allies get hit by each other’s attacks.
“Holy Cross!”
“Come, Meteor!”
“Declaration of territory.”
A beam of light filled with divine power spewed out, meteorites began to fall from the sky, and the earth turned into a burning battlefield.
Each of the reapers fired a breath with their own attributes, and various special moves burst out in an instant, so that it was thought that no matter how much the demon lord would be able to withstand it.
[Event announcement.]
And the demon king did not block all those attacks. didn’t even avoid it. I just took it whole body.
[Demon Awakening, cutscene inserted.]
The moment the attacks hit the Demon King, the attacks fired by the summoned beasts passed through the Demon King’s body.
At this moment, the Demon King seemed to be in another dimension.
“what!?”
『Cogs of a system that works for mankind』
[That’s why I said not to come.]
“The Demon King” says:
The devil also says
Ian was bewildered by the demon king’s voice ringing in his head and the demon king’s voice in his ear, and tried to move his body.
Strangely, his body did not move. It did not move as if time or space was fixed.
Ian as well as the other summons began to pay attention to whether the situation was the same, rolling only their eyes.
“Is it fun to live in a given circle?”
[I won’t kill you… … The protagonist of this world.]
In a world where everything stopped, only the Demon King was free. The Demon King, walking slowly and reaching in front of Ian, gently stroked his cheek.
Only then did Ian know what the Demon King used. It’s a cutscene that I’ve never seen since I fell into another world, and there are very few cutscenes in the game.
A video that tells about the character’s past or story. Neither the monster nor the player can move while the cutscene is playing.
‘This crazy buggy… … !’
The Demon King is both within the system and outside the system. She corrupted and ruled the system that ruled me, thus eliminating the existence to command her—and consequently I am not governed by the system.
However, realizing that others were still under the control of the system, the Demon King took advantage of that fact.
“Crazy bitch, where is the owner… … .”
“I can’t move – it feels terrible.”
The summons tried to move their bodies somehow, but the power of the system was absolute. To the extent that it is questionable how the alternative demon lord could contaminate the system.
After stroking Ian’s cheek several times, the Demon King created a cocoon that wrapped around him as it was.
[Let’s go- main character.]
The Demon King said so and took Ian and divided the space.
Beyond the heavens, to the subspace where she hides.
* * *
Contrary to what I thought I would live in a hideous cave with tentacles on all sides, the Demon King’s room was a little dark, but it was full of all kinds of fancy things.
Would it be easier to understand if I said that it was the room of a girl with secondary disease? – Ian looked around the room and asked, looking at the Demon King.
“You, what are you?”
[Those who could not cast off the bridle.]
“What kind of bullsh*t is that… … All right, if you’re going to kill me, do you want to kill me quickly?”
[Ugh, you don’t kill me. Because he’s the main character.]
“Hero? What are you talking about?”
However, the Demon King did not respond to his words.
Standing on the bed, she hugged my knees and fell into contemplation. Ian screamed loudly and struggled to get out of the cocoon, but it didn’t even respond.
‘Where else is this?’
Ian looked around at the demon king’s eyes. A place I’ve never seen in a game. dummy data? If not, the room the Demon King made himself?
If the latter, why was it made this way? I couldn’t understand. The Demon King is the king of demons and the enemy of mankind. I mean, it’s a monster.
Even though it is a true evil that has no human side at all, it is like… … .
‘It’s like a heroine.’
I’d like to think that’s not possible, but I can’t be sure because it’s his pretty girl’s gacha game that becomes the original of another world.
He was the great demon king of absolute evil whose face only appeared in the game, but we cannot ignore the possibility that the demon king was also a heroine when we first set it up.
“hey.”
[…] … .]
“You don’t even answer, you idiot.”
As Ian said that, he realized that the Demon Lord had not completely conquered the system.
If I had known about the system, I would have covered my eyes, cut off my limbs, and locked them in a little more firmly, rather than tying me up with a cocoon like this.
‘Empress. Are you there?’
—Yes, Summoner. Where the hell are you?
‘I don’t even know… … This is your chance when you’re on the lookout.’
Summoners are supported by all kinds of systems to protect summoners. For example, when the battle is over, it automatically returns to the summoner—
The Demon King fled with only Ian, and there were no monsters left. In other words, the summoned beasts left behind after the demon king left came back to Ian.
‘I’ll go after three. three.’
─This body, sortie!
Empress, who understood Ian’s words awkwardly, immediately jumped out through the pattern, and then his summons followed.
The demon king, who had no answer no matter how many times he called, opened his eyes and looked at the summoned beasts. He looked very bewildered.
[how… … .]
“Aren’t you the only one who can exploit the system?”
[…] … Indeed, this is the main character.]
“And the main character has been around since a while ago—I’m not the main character in another world, am I?”
Saying that, Ian spread his will to his summons. The summoned beasts that received Ian’s will blew their special moves at the same time.
It was the same pattern as before, but this time, I was sure I couldn’t stop it. Indeed, the Demon King did not use the system as before, but instead used his magical power to block the attack.
[—I command you in the name of the Demon King, so change. world.]
And, the cute girl’s room turns into the tomb dungeon that Ian could have predicted.
Disgusting tentacles sprout from the walls, and deadly toxins spread to humans and pets.
[If you want to fight, I will fight well. But if you want to give up, I will suffice to let you go.]
“Are you scared?”
Within Empress’s barrier, Ian sent arsenic to the demon king who was so arrogant. what? If you give up, will you return it?
What is the reason that he is living a newlywed life because he is stuck in a different world and cannot return? … Even if Ian had to die soon, he had to defeat the Demon King.
“I’m sorry, I have to kill you- you have to stop me. This is a set ‘rule’.”
[…] … His rules, rules, and developments – I will not follow them. I will not follow.]
Demon wings protrude from the back of the demon king.
Alluring wings like angels.
However, it never looks like an angel.
[I will be free.]
In the next moment, hundreds of magic circles bloomed behind the demon king’s back.
* * *
The four people, including Stella, went to a person who might know where Ian disappeared. He was someone who could be called a character, but… … .
“—There is a place I can guess.”
“Where are you?”
Artia quietly closed her eyes and answered Stella’s question.
“The Grand Canyon. It’s not too far from here.”
“If it’s the Grand Canyon… … It’s near here.”
A deep cliff that knows no depth. The reason why this seemingly dangerous terrain was located near the Hwangseong was to prepare for an invasion.
The canyon became a natural barrier that did not require digging a moat.
“Why there… … .”
“Well- I haven’t heard the details either.”
“… … So how did you know Ian was there?”
“persimmon.”
Artia said so and remembered the blue dragon who had recently visited her. The blue dragon, who would not move if nothing happened, asked her about Ian.
From whether he is a reliable person— to information about the Grand Canyon nearby.
Unless you’re an idiot, you can tell what’s going on between Blue Dragon and Ian. And if they disappeared, the canyon would have its secrets.