At last, the dark mages started to move at the Demon King’s command.
[Demons! Please grant our request.]
Zing!
The dark mages muttered as they formed a magic circle, and one by one, demons started to emerge from it. Soon, more than a hundred demons appeared.
[Kekeke! It’s been a while since we’ve been to the human world. Alright, what is your request?]
[Please kill that ignorant and stupid human.]
[Kekeke. Kill a human, huh? What an easy request. You know the price, right?]
[Of course. We’ve prepared countless sacrifices and blood.]
[Kekeke, good, good. Very good!]
The emotionally charged world of humans was a more enjoyable playground for demons compared to the dull, uninteresting demon world. In addition, the easiest yet most expensive request, killing someone, was a favorite for the demons.
[Kekeke. Let’s go, everyone!]
[Yee-haw!]
The demons flew up in unison and charged at Han-Yeol.
Chaaa!
[Hehehe, let’s see some blood!]
[Huh?]Upstodatee from n(0)/ve/lbIn/.(co/m
[Huh?]
The hundred demons flew toward Han-Yeol with a rather powerful spirit, but they couldn't help feeling uneasy when they closed in on Han-Yeol.
Gulp.
[T-T-This aura is?]
[N-No way?]
Gwoooo.
The demons could see the black mana flowing from Han-Yeol’s back, a powerful demonic aura they couldn't even look at, and the presence of a dark being that seemed to require unconditional obedience.
[S-Something seems to be w-wrong?]
However, it was already too late.
“Why aren’t they coming?”
The demons hesitated, but Han-Yeol had been looking forward to this fight. He stretched and cracked his neck.
Crack!
The demons didn’t answer Han-Yeol’s question.
[Agh!]
[...]
“Well then, I guess I’ll have to go. Let’s go, Tia.”
“Alright.”
“Ah, you too, Stewart.”
“It’s nice of you to take care of me, too.”
“Haha, stop overreacting.”
Stewart frowned again at Han-Yeol’s attitude.
The demons were a bit frightened at first, but they were a race that enjoyed blood and battle, so they didn’t embarrass themselves by running away in fear. In fact, some demons regained their composure and attacked as they became used to Han-Yeol’s aura.
However, that didn’t change anything.
Chaak! Chak!
[Khaaa!]
[Arghhh!]
Han-Yeol moved as fast as a lightning bolt, darting in and out of the gaps between the hundred or so demons summoned by the dark mages, unleashing his attacks.
[Agh!]
Drip, drip.
The demons that weren’t summoned back also had wounds all over their bodies, and their blood dripped onto the ground.
“What the hell? Did these scum only pay attention to Han-Yeol-nim and not us?”
“Haha, I think so, Mr. Demon.”
Stewart appeared from the sky, and Tia appeared from the ground.
[Who are you?!]
It seemed like they had just appeared, but they had been there all along. The demons were solely focused on Han-Yeol, so they thought Stewart and Tia had just appeared out of thin air.
[Ugh, damn it...]
‘It’s only the beginning of the battle, and we have already taken too much damage. We can’t continue like this.’
The demons looked around at their group as fighting at this point had already become pointless. It was hard enough to deal with just Han-Yeol, but now there were two others who were also powerful, and with more than half their group gone, there was no point in fighting anymore. But even if they wanted to give up, they couldn’t.
‘Damn it, damn it...! I thought it would be easy to rule this world which is why I made an absolute contract with those lowlifes, but now I can’t even run away!’
Han-Yeol had made a simple contract with a demon, but for dark mages who could deal with demons and monsters professionally, there were many different types of contracts. Among them, an absolute contract allowed demons to have the most advantage, receiving the most amount of offerings per favor. However, high profits were dangerous, and once a favor was accepted, it had to be granted. If not, their soul would vanish, and they would disappear from this world completely.
Grit!
[Agh!]
Han-Yeol tightened his grip on the demon’s head. He broke its neck and it was summoned back to the demon world.
“Stewart, Tia, I can leave the rest up to you, right?”
“There’s not much left for us to do. We’ll catch up soon.”
“Hahaha.”
“Okay.”
Han-Yeol left the demons to the two and headed straight for the dark mages.
“I’m lazy, so just attack all at once.”
They couldn't understand each other's language, but what kind of world only spoke with words?
There were plenty of non-verbal ways to convey a message, and gestures were one of them.
[W-What the hell?!]
[Get that bastard down on his knees right before me right now!]
[Y-Yes, sir!]
The Demon King tried to look dignified, but he quickly became enraged at Han-Yeol’s finger-pointing provocation, thus revealing his original scoundrel-like personality.
Mutter.
The dark mages raised their hands in unison and started casting a spell.
‘What are they trying to do?’
The spell didn’t take very long, as they were high-ranking dark mages.
[Summon Great Demon Balbeget!]
Shoo!
As the dark mages finished their spell, a huge magic circle emerged from the ground, and a massive demon appeared from it.
‘Balbaget?’
[It's a demon that’s rare in the demon world. The word great in this case means big rather than high in rank, but it’s not just big. It’s also around the same rank as a king.]
Karvis was the one who answered Han-Yeol’s question.
‘Great Demon?’
[Yes, but it's not just big. It’s literally a king-rank demon, so its rank is slightly lower than Stewart's, yet it's so ignorant because it sacrificed its intelligence for combat skills.]
‘In other words, it’s useless except in combat?’
[That’s right. So it's one of those demons that live independently in the demon world, since no Demon King wants a stupid Great Demon that only causes trouble as their subordinate.]
‘Eh, they don’t usually do that?’
Although Han-Yeol had a lot of connections to the demon world as he had already made contracts with two Demon Kings, he didn’t know the details of the demon world. More precisely, he didn’t know because he didn’t need to know, but he knew the basics of their world. However, the demon world was far more intricate than the human world, so the information Han-Yeol possessed was merely a grain of salt.
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