103. Infinite Battlegrounds (2)

“You were lucky.”

The Lord of Ruin didn’t hesitate to smile at all, unlike before, when he didn’t show any emotions.

He consumed a lot of power, but this time he succeeded in summoning a fairly powerful demon king, and he thought he had obtained a satisfactory card that could put his plan into action.

“Welcome.”

From the dark depths of the [Demon King], an unusual demon lord in the shape of a black dove appeared cutting through Hellfire.

Wooo!!!

Surprisingly, as soon as this demon appeared, [Demon Castle] began to shake as a whole as if a sword made by an artisan resonated with its owner.

“Great monarch.”

A cool, ghastly voice began to emerge from the dove’s mouth, and the Lord of Doom felt the brawn of his subordinate and smiled more contentedly.

“The 38th Demon Commander has an audience with the great Doomlord.”

“Halfas.”

This demon lord was the Lord of Ruin’s greatest strength.

‘Halfas’, who loves ‘destruction’ and ‘death’ and who loves ‘war’ more than any demon lord, is the 38th ranked ‘Halfas’.

“My king. I can feel the strong scent of the battlefield right now in this land. Are the people my army will be dealing with from the past? Has my nemesis, the ‘Immortal Bird’, already appeared?”

“Bird of death, you have not changed at all. Unfortunately for you, this opponent is not them.”

The dove demon, Halfas tilted his head.

“Are they not the apostles but others? Are there other people who seduce me with such a thick and fragrant smell of blood? Are the enemies that have appeared now capable of satisfying my thirst and hunger?”

“You are still unafraid of the enemy. But don’t take it lightly. The enemy leader has the ‘God’s Sword’.”

“Ohh… … .”

This pigeon devil was always filled with only the word ‘war’ in his head, and befitting his inclination, he had the ability to lead a powerful army armed with a ‘devil’s fortress’ and ‘death sword’ with excellent defense. there was.

Since the last fortress that Halfas left behind in the world was this [Demon King Castle], anyone had no choice but to acknowledge his ability to wage war.

“The scent of the battlefield seduces me. king Please let me go.”

“good night. I will authorize the Demon Commander to go out.”

The Lord of Destruction, among his subordinates, could be confident that he would not be pushed back in the all-out war against the Legion, as the Demon Commander, who had the best war-fighting ability, would come forward directly.

“Lady Luck. Four years will forever regret in hell the mistake of giving me this luck.”

* * *

Prior to launching a full-scale offensive operation, we had to decide who would be involved in this risky operation.

“From now on, the Legion will go on very, very dangerous missions.”

It was clear that the Lord of Destruction must have summoned a new demon while consuming his power in order to overcome the disadvantaged situation due to my obstruction.

Therefore, since the operation to be carried out from now on has become very dangerous unlike before, it was necessary to organize the personnel who will move with me thoroughly and efficiently.

“Now, the brave ones who want to accompany the corps for this [Demon Castle] strike operation are big hands.”

Of course, I wasn’t the type to force my companions to accompany me.

It is up to their free will whether or not they go on an operation. Besides, taking a guy who doesn’t want to go to dangerous things and making room for trouble is not the picture I want.

Of course, there are those whom I have to force to accompany.

A typical example of this is that Legion cooks have to be by my side unconditionally, regardless of whether they like it or not.

Since I was mainly active as a human body rather than the main body, I had to eat frequently to maintain my dominance. The Hive Consciousness, as well as the ESP ability and telekinesis, which are sometimes used, consume so many calories that it makes you hungry in an instant.

To replenish the calories consumed in this way, there was no desire to eat combat rations without taste heads, and therefore, Kang Jin-hyeok was a being who had to be taken unconditionally because of the delicious rice.

“First of all, the corps’ exclusive chef has to cook for me, right?”

“… … I already know. But Ji-woo… … Is the cooking assistant Maria who also makes food waste?”

“Hey, a skilled craftsman never blames his tools.”

“… … .”

In fact, if I acted as a main body rather than an inefficient human body, I could very easily replenish calories through the mucus produced by the hatchery.

However, it was impossible to stand out in front of others in the form of the main body, and it felt like I would lose even the last handful of humanity if I moved my mind there, so I didn’t even want to do it for efficiency.

“Now, the head of the guardians must escort me too, right?”

This is a race deep in the essence with a mission to support the primordial pond and the Legion Lord who took over it from birth.

So, in a word, the head of the dragon must be by my side unconditionally, whether he likes it or not, until the legion is destroyed.

“Oh, of course it is. I will always be by your side… … .”

“Now, next… … .”

“… … It’s too much.”

… … I get goosebumps because this keeps happening.

I am a human on the outside, but I have no desire to go out into a developed relationship with a cold-blooded winged psychic reptile.

Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t like this kind of aggressive expression, but even if I looked at it regardless of race, that wife wasn’t my ideal type.

“Okay, next is the old man. Of course, the elders must follow.”

“… … OK.”

In fact, it is harder for senior managers to find reasons to leave.

“Stalin Castro.”

“My servant and I want to take on the task of protecting Nemesis.”

“yes. yes.”

“… … .”

This friend seems to have something on the outside, but when you get to know him, he is full of tendencies that are very annoying to fight, so I didn’t even expect it in the first place.

“Uncle Demon King.”

“The ruler who saved the demons. It’s such an honor to be able to stand with you on the battlefield… … .”

“Take the kids to the construction site.”

“… … .”

“If you have a lot of friends who have a hard time catching even a single roach, it will cost you a lot of food, but it doesn’t help much, right? I’m going to the appropriate dimension and building a house for you guys to live in.”

The former demon king, the peace-loving high-ranking demon whose name I can’t remember, and the remaining demon survivors were excluded because they were of no help at all.

These days, through the manager’s route, they have started to deal with divine power, albeit weakly, but even so, they were still much weaker than the human players.

“How do we… … .”

“Ah, excluding Garam’s younger brother and his wife. You are resting in Nemesis.”

“I-I… … .”

“Oh, except for my twin brother. You are practicing here.”

Those with overwhelmingly poor skills cannot participate in the forthcoming corps missions.

“Then I will help the demons with their construction… … .”

“Seongcheol is this bastard. you should go with me I, the manager, go out on the field myself. Where are you going to play with my apostle?”

“… … Me, Woojae hyung? I have to do hair transplant surgery in the next few days… … .”

“Shut up and follow me.”

This side can actually be seen as outside my authority, but it was an automatic participation anyway.

“Now, of course you pass.”

“great. Bastards, I will break all the earthenware pots.”

“The time has finally come to put my masterpiece into action.”

A leader with a hammer who can imitate a one-man corps alone and a wizard who can create various evolutionary creatures are, of course, the core forces of the corps.

All the members to go to the battlefield, including the paladin army, were decided, and I opened a portal to the battlefield where a fierce war was taking place.

“Should I go soon?”

When I passed through the portal I made myself, the portals created by the combined efforts of the alter egos to send troops from the colony that had already taken over the world continued across multiple dimensions.

After walking through these portals for a long time, the last portal I arrived at was a place where I could see at a glance the appearance of several alter egos gathering and creating a huge colony beyond the cracked space.

“It’s been a while here again.”

This is a place where I have a lot of memories of giving taffy in the past, and a place where the demon disappeared after the death of the demon after wandering around the world.

“I’m back.”

It is the [Demon Castle], the capital of the demons in the past and now the heart of destruction.

Here, I succeeded in a thrilling vacant house robbing operation against the incumbent demon king, and after discovering disasters, I even obtained the result of taking over the pond in the beginning.

This was a battlefield that reminded me of a pleasant victory in many ways, and it was the final battlefield that I ended up coming back to like this.

It was the moment when I took a step towards such a meaningful place.

―Flash!

The image of a thunderbolt suddenly struck in my mind vividly.

“Hey, wait a minute.”

This was clearly a warning of ESP’s ability to predict the future, and of all the many future predictions I’ve ever experienced, this was the first time I’d heard a lightning strike in my head.

“Everyone don’t come in!!!”

I stopped the party who were trying to cross the cracked space after me, and immediately threw the [Excalibur] I was holding in my hand over the portal and closed the portal at the same time.

The legendary weapon that flew towards the disappearing portal, fortunately succeeded in breaking through the gap.

“Fuck-!!!”

At the very moment I spit out the curse, huge dark masses mercilessly descended from the sky towards the colony where the alter egos were huddled together.

Kwaaang-!!!

A tremendous shock that shook the sky and the earth hit me, and after that, no sound was heard and the world began to slow down.

The sight of the hatchery exploding in a sudden attack that no one expected, and the shocking scene of my alter ego being scattered as pieces of flesh unfolded slowly before my eyes.

‘… … It’s fucked up.’

The mass of darkness that exploded did not disappear, but spread like fog and began to swallow everything around it. As the alter ego died, I received a momentary strong mental shock, and now I felt my vision gradually blurring.

‘late.’

If the alter ego that split my mind and connected it died in this way, I too would have to suffer a strong blow.

In preparation for this situation, if the situation seemed even a little dangerous, I immediately cut off the link of the alter ego and made it self-destruct, but now I was really surprised at the situation without any prediction, so I couldn’t do that.

‘What kind of guy is he?’

Finally, the human incarnation I had been using for so long was also trapped in the Dark Fog, and I began to search for the culprit through my final rites.

And after a while, right before I lost consciousness, I could find a man wearing clothes decorated with all sorts of jewels staring at me with an eerie smile in the distance where ‘catapults’ were installed.

‘That’s him.’

The son of a bitch who had turned my colony into a mess was laughing at me, and I remembered his face very firmly and passed it through a tiny portal before passing out.

‘That bastard… … !’