Why I Quit Being the Demon King

Why I Quit Being the Demon King Chapter 156

36. Meeting the New Order (2)

Kat Run, the most outstanding warrior among them, just swallowed dry saliva and cowered against his shield.

While he was dealing with the two gorillas, the remaining four started running rampant from behind.

The warrior Sernut took charge of each one and tried to stop them in any way possible, but it was not easy.

The screams

rang incessantly in Katran’s ears.

This was because the warriors were unable to stop it and the monster invaded the rear. At the same time, the magicians’ concentration was also disturbed. Our army’s magic had no place to go and was prone to mistakenly attacking the soldiers.

A soldier with his body on fire was screaming and running around.

He found Katrun and bowed down in front of him and shouted.

“Fire Hero! Please light the fire!”

But I couldn’t even say that for long.

The soldier

was crushed to pieces by the gorilla’s front paws. Life has become meaningless.

“Aaaah!”

Katrun raised his shield and charged in, swinging his sword.

He tried to cut off the front paws of the hated gorilla.

But it was useless.

The gorilla’s front paw was not cut off by his disheveled sword strike.

Instead, the sword got stuck in the fur and became entangled. I had to struggle for a long time to get my sword back.

Meanwhile, another gorilla aimed at Katrun’s

side.

I turned my shield to block it, but my body was blown away like a straw bale and landed.

It wasn’t direct damage, but the goal rang and I couldn’t get up easily.

Jefferson grabbed Katran’s arm and helped her up.

“Are you okay?”

Katran nodded.

“Four four!”

“You’re doing well. Hold on just a little longer. little bit more.”

However, even the voice of Jefferson who was speaking

was trembling slightly. What difference will it make if I hold on?

More than half of them have already died. On the other hand, all six gorillas were in good spirits.

There was too much difference in power.

“At times like this, I envy the soldier. “You can run away.”

Jefferson said this and ran towards the gorillas again.

Immediately after that, what caught Katran’s eyes was the sight of Jefferson’s head flying off.

Two gorillas grabbed him at the same time, tore him apart, and knocked his head off.

“Aaaahhh!”

Katran screamed in horror. But what can you do?

I saw a priest kneeling and praying.

It was Jordan.

To be precise, I didn’t kneel.

The area underneath it has disappeared, leaving me with no choice but to sit down on the ground.

In the face of death, he found God.

Did prayers really reach heaven?

Katrun raised his shield and charged at a nearby gorilla.

Once or twice. I blocked the monster’s fist.

It was a brave battle worthy of a G-class hero, but that was the end.

Now, what was left was a group of less than 100 knights, wizard warriors, and soldiers.

They had banded together and were fighting against death, forgetting about tactics and strategies.

The difference between life and death was not skill. Just luck.

Katran was lucky. Because

they survived until there were 40 people left

.

“The world is still such a mess and humans just fight with each other.”

It seemed like time had stopped.

At least that’s how Katrun felt.

He walked leisurely between six huge black beasts.

Black magic spewed out from his empty hand.

The two gorillas let out bizarre screams and twisted around. It seemed like he was caught up in dark magic.

Almost immediately he placed his shield in front of him.

The shield radiated light.

The moment Katran touched the light, tears suddenly broke out and she couldn’t bear it.

I wiped my face with my sleeve.

It was so warm.

It’s hard to believe that so many people have just died right before our eyes.

The paladin who used dark magic took the lives of the gorillas so easily.

The golden cross emanating from the sword

did not spare any enemy within tens of meters.

With just three or four slashes, all the gorillas except one were killed.

The other one only survived because it escaped.

He let out a short sigh as he looked at his enemy’s back.

“Life is something everyone likes, but it’s always light.”

The sigh was probably directed at the thousand dead bodies here.

He waved his hand and scattered black fog.

The fog clung to the corpses as if they were alive. All the rapidly melted bodies disappeared into the ground.

“Your souls have returned to the Lord, so I will return your bodies to the Earth Mother.”

After a short prayer, he turned his attention again to the handful of surviving humans.

“Zeke… are you Mr.?”

Katrun asked.

“Yes my name is Zeke. “You must be the Holy Emperor’s expedition team.”

Zeke van Holwitsch.

No, he was dismissed and his name was now Sieg van Jade.

Katran burst into tears again in front of him.

“Why didn’t you come earlier! Mr. Jefferson… Mr. Jefferson, your comrade in arms, died so miserably.”

I knew very well that it was unreasonable.

But Katran couldn’t stop talking.

“If it were you… you could have saved it!” It was a complaint that

was so absurd that he even thought about it

.

Nevertheless, Zeke bowed his head to himself with a solemn expression.

“I’m sorry.”

Katran wiped her tears with her sleeve again.

The moment I heard his apology, I came to my senses.

I turned my head and looked at the faces of the survivors.

There was no one higher in rank than him. Knight’s seed, training wizard, and slave spearmen. There were

only about four B- or C-level heroes that

stood out.

Katran looked at Zeke again.

Is he really a dark hero?

I saw him using dark magic with my own eyes, but his face didn’t look evil at all.

Katrun pressed his fist to his chest.

“This is Katran van Hollygum. “On behalf of the group, I would like to thank Zeke.”

“You’re the one who took Holly’s name. nice to meet you.”

Zeke held out his hand. Katran took his hand.

I felt an indescribable power in my hands.

Zeke then said:

“There are many people injured. It seems impossible to go down the mountain today, so how about taking a break in Neuekan for a while? After 10 days, some of us are planning to descend the mountain to get daily necessities. “I think you can join us then.”

Now was not the time for pride or anything like that.

Katran immediately accepted Zeke’s offer.

“Rather, we would like to ask you a favor. “Then please wait here for a moment.”

When Zeke nodded, Katran chased after a horse that had run away and grabbed her bag from there.

That horse was ridden by Bishop Jordan.

What was in the bag was Seonghwangcheong’s personal letter. Even though the situation was like this, I couldn’t abandon my mission.

Meanwhile, Zeke walked among the people and

cast recovery magic on those who were seriously injured.

“You are skilled in both dark magic and holy magic.”

“Because I have a good teacher. If you’re ready, let’s go. The smell of blood is too strong. “You never know when another monster will appear.”

Zeke first had the injured people get on the horses.

A man dressed as a priest said.

“That guy is a slave.”

The young man with his feet in stirrups wore a heart shield made of leather and

carried a wooden spear.

To make them fight a mugwort monster with only that much weaponry. Zeke was appalled by the cruelty of the Saesam people.

“Slave… Is that a name from the Bible?”

The young priest answered immediately.

“It’s not in the Bible, but in the world, there is something called status. “The only people who can ride horses are nobles, warriors, and our priests.”

“Forget such laws here.”

“Why…

“Neuekan has only one iron rule. Surviving. Just think about that.”

The place where Seonghwangcheong’s expedition team encountered the gorilla was only about 2 kilometers away from Neuekan.

After crossing the two bridges and passing the southern fortress, Neuekan’s south gate fortress soon came into view.

The fortress at the southern gate was empty.

There was no income to be gained compared to the labor it took to protect it.

The bridge connecting the canyon

was completely destroyed and a 30-meter long drawbridge was installed in its place.

Zeke waved his hand at the end of the collapsed bridge.

The drawbridge slowly came down as if it had discovered the sight.

It was a narrow bridge that carriages could not pass. One by one, we slowly crossed the bridge.

Katrun guarded the rearguard with Zeke until the very end.

Zeke entered Neuekan one step ahead, and Katran followed right behind.

Katran stopped. And

took a deep breath.

I’ve imagined it countless times over the years.

Who on earth is this being called the Black Hero?

Why did such a being come into being and…

what kind of monsters is the group he leads?

But the first person he saw was a woman.

She was not a beauty. She was an ordinary woman

walking, holding the wrist of a five or six-year-old girl with a basin on her right side .

This is a ‘person’ that can be found in any town.

The streets were lush with fresh green and well-kept.

There were so many trees in the city that it seemed like there was a city in the forest.

Each and every one of them had red apples hanging from them.

Moreover, there were unusually many young children on the streets.

They climbed trees, picked apples as they pleased,

washed them in the waterway that ran through the city, and ate them.

It would have been more understandable if it had been full of black knights riding black war horses.

Neuekan was the complete opposite of that: an idyllic town.

Peaceful and tranquil.

It’s hard to believe that this place is one of the centers of monster occurrence.

“First, I will give you an empty barracks on the southern wall, so you can rest there.”

Katran nodded at Zeke’s request.

Inside the quiet barracks.

Katrun looked down at his sword.

A G-class hero.

The name G-class was given because it meant that a basic party of about 5 people could hunt giants.

The shield was able to withstand the giant’s blows, and the sword easily cut through the giant’s thick muscles.

Because he had that ability, he was able to become a G-class hero.

The reason he was able to become a G-class hero at the young age of seventeen

was probably because he was a warrior of the last four generations, close to the zero generation.

but.

“Incompetent.”

Tears flowed and dripped onto the sword.

He lost all of the warriors he met on the expedition, who were like brothers, in a single battle.

If it weren’t for the help of the Black Hero Zeke, he would have met the same fate.

I was embarrassed by the G-class name.

Couldn’t save anything.

I wiped my tears with my sleeve. I felt ashamed of

the fact that I was sitting in the closet and moping

.

I left the room.

After passing a few doors, I saw a large room. Slaves and commoners were sitting there with blank eyes.

They also seemed unable to believe the current situation.

I thought there would be no great danger as a member of a large unit of 1,000 people, but in front of the mugwort monster, numbers were just decoration.

Ignoring them, Katran stepped into Neue Kahn. I made

eye contact with the soldier guarding the south gate

. But they didn’t really hold themselves back.

One of them was seen smiling and waving.

He also looked to be around 10 to 60 years old. He had a helmet made of hammered iron and a crude spear propped up crookedly.

Katran gently bowed her head to receive his greeting and walked into the castle.