Chapter 178

He who introduced himself as the Olphol group devil reactivated the magic circle .

The destination he came from .

[Just kill him . ]

I asked the holy play the reason .

Why?

[Just cause . ]

This guy probably needed more probation .

Althought it didn’t seem right to put him in the inventory right away .

Instead, I decided to lock him in the inventory for a good one or two months .

In time, the devil completed the activation and gestured to me .

“Come and stand on the circle . Newbie . ”

What reason was there to hesitate when they wanted to summon me to their base .

I walked to the circle and stood on it .

[It might be a trap, hero . What are you going to do it isn’t a teleportation circle . ]

It’s a teleportation circle .

[How can you be sure?]

I’ve rode it before . Twice .

[Normally you can’t confirm the type of the circle by riding it twice . What are you going to do if it doesn’t head to their base and somewhere dangerous . ]

It’s fine . If it is, then I can cancel the teleportation . If I do, it’ll send me back to this place .

[…is that possible?]

It was .

I tried it the first time I rode the magic circle with Serezia .

Because of that, the sickness that overcame Serezia from activating the circle three times in a row was tremendous .

Back then, Serezia acted as though there was nothing wrong with the magic circle .

Not knowing it was me that caused the issues with the circle .

The demon spoke before he activated the circle .

“Newbie, I’m saying this for your own good, but listen closely . Do not be rash in front of Olfon . It’s not as though there were demons who tried their hand at the Demon King’s seat, and it wasn’t a small number that was brought forth before Olphon . There will be dire consequences if you show arrogance believing in your magics . ”

“What kind of consequences?”

“Well . Who knows, but where you’ll be headed is down instead of up . ”

What the fuck does that mean .

Is it some sort of ambiguous expression .

“Newbie, your goal is probably to challenge for the seat of Demon King . ”

“If you want, you could put it that way . ”

“The one you will meet now has already been on the Demon King throne . ”

My questions weren’t fully answered yet, but the demon started the magic circle .

The space in front of my eyes warped .

The space shook here and there and at a certain point, it started to rip with a certain starting point in the air .

Like a paper ripping, the space ripped .

Past the ripped space, I saw another space .

From the crazy amount of mana flowing out, I knew it was the place Olphon was at .

[It’s not a teleport circle?]

“…It’s possible . ”

“What is . ”

The demon responded to my embarrassed soliloquy to the holy sword’s words .

“No . It’s nothing . ”

[Hero . Hero? That’s not a teleport circle? It’s a dimension gate? Didn’t you say you knew from just seeing the magic circle? Wow, world . I wouldn’t know in my dreams . That the all-knowing hero would make a mistake like this . Hah, if you live for a few centuries things like this happen after all . Fu . Fu . Fu . Fu . ]

Leave it at that .

[Eebebebe . ]

I promised to find a silence enchantment scroll after I clear this floor .

And passed through the gate with the demon beside me .

Once I passed the gap in space, the ripped space healed itself .

It looks like a great high-level magic .

How long would it take me to learn that .

My thirst for magic is continuing to become larger .

It was then, a voice from a distance in front of me could be heard .

It was the words of the demon sitting at the head of the table in this banquet-like hall .

Numerous demons were filling the space .

Unusually, there was no different in height of the seats the demons were sitting on .

89 demons exactly .

Each one had a strength that would be hard to find elsewhere .

But from the presence of the demon at the head of the table made everyone else seem small .

“Welcome, newbie . ”

It was monotonous and soft .

The voice wasn’t loud either .

Rather, it was quiet .

But the strength carried by the voice, the mana gave it that presence .

The demon talking to me was sitting at the same level as me, but his presence felt as though it was above my head and also behind me .

“You have a cute magic sword . ”

“Didn’t your mother tell you that it’s not good manners to listen in on other people’s conversations?”

The mood in the banquet hall completely changed at my words .

It went past intimidating and became outright bloody .

That’s no good for banquets .

It felt as though I made a mistake in ruining the mood .

“You know nothing about me . ”

‘Was there a reason I had to?’

The mood started to attack my body outright .

The sense of the mood ready to cut .

If it was a normal human, they would’ve actually been cut to pieces and died .

“I was born in the third class, in the depths of despair . I have no mother and father . I was born alone, existed alone, and prove myself . ”

Prove oneself by existing alone .

Would that be enough to prove oneself as a sentient being .

Self-respect is just self-respect .

There was something more important .

The demon in front of my eyes was born with an advantage from birth .

“So that means you’re immune to mom-jokes . That’s good for you, mate . ”

Kwang!

The mood exploded .

The demons exuded intimidating force at the same time, and from that clash came an explosion .

I thought to myself as my hair was flying back in the wind from the explosion .

It wasn’t something I should be saying when I blew up the 30th floor from experimenting, but to cause an explosion by not being able to control that .

What idiots .

The demons were screaming and denouncing something about me .

Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand the words .

Whether it was colloquial that demons here used, or ancient words of the demon race, but it didn’t translate well .

But thankfully I could guess at what it meant .

After some time went by, sitting at the head of the table, Olphon opened his mouth again .

Olphon’s face didn’t seem that angry .

The only thing I could fathom was weariness .

“From the report, I thought a great magician appeared . But what really appeared was an idiot with a rare magic sword . Talk, newbie . What fuels your stupidity?”

Magician .

He must’ve thought I was a battle magician controlling the sword through magic .

Then once he realized the ability was fully from the holy sword, been disappointed .

And the magic and strength he can feel from me wouldn’t be enough to satisfy him .

That’s always the problem with these idiots .

“Out of those that I’ve called here, there were many who truly wished to challenge the Demon King . There actually was one that was able to challenge the Demon King . But what are you . I have no idea what you are thinking by coming here . What is your purpose in coming here . Do you wish to die, or are you just raving with madness . ”

What I want .

Well .

“For now, it’s taking care of the Demon King . ”

“Your jokes are no longer funny . It’s impossible for you to kill the Demon King . It’s true for anyone else for that matter . ”

“impossible to kill the Demon King?”

“Yes . ”

Impossible to kill the Demon King .

Would the Demon King be immortal or a mind-form or that sort of thing .

I asked Olphon who was strangely good at describing things .

“Just like the words, it’s impossible to kill the Demon King . ”

What kind of stupid answer is that .

“The current Demon King is the strongest of all time . That is true . I can assure you . Before he ceases to exist, there will be no demon who can trump him and take the throne of Demon King . ”

“A stupid answer till the end . ”

“Why do you think so?”

Why do I think so?

I’m calling a stupid answer stupid, what else can I call it .

“You all are always like this . You think that’s everything probably because you’re born with unimaginable strength and power . ”

“…What does that mean?”

“You have no interest in figuring out how to use that power better, and just ponder how to achieve more power . And . ”

“And?”

“You overtly trust the absolute amount of power . ”

The strength of the demons here surpasses mine .

It wouldn’t be comparable even if 89 Lee HoJae’s were here to fight the 89 demons .

89 Lee HoJae’s wouldn’t be enough to surpass that one Olphon .

That sort of glaring difference .

But .

I’m already certain .

I’m the absolutely the strongest one here .

The position isn’t made by my muscles and mana .

It wasn’t from the experience of swordsmanship and shield techniques either .

It also wasn’t the talent and sense I had .

What could you see as the standard for strength when those with the strength by which one wave of the hand fells the sky, and rips the earth .

To standardize it through the absolute quantity of mana was a stupid thing to do .

From my perspective, an objective standard should be victory .

A higher win rate means more strength .

The strong doesn’t win, the victorious is strong .

As I’ve said multiple times, I’m unwaveringly the strongest here, and the probability that I’ll beat the demons there surpass half .

“It seems you’ve really come here to die . ”

As I gathered my spirit, Olphon said upon noticing .

He was that nonchalant even though I’m explicitly preparing for battle .

He doesn’t know how to utilize this strength, and have never learned how to see true strength because he’s been drunk on his own strength .

He couldn’t even become the target of my Opponent Designation skill .

Just prey with bulky amounts of strength ready to be hunted .

How long will they disappoint me .

“Let me ask one last thing . ”

Demons are hurt by explosions caused by magic .

Obviously, they’re not hurt by explosions caused by their own .

Just like a moment ago .

But they were grievously wounded by the explosion made by the holy sword and me .

Physically and mentally .

It’s probably because of the Holy energy in our mana .

The holy energy exploded in every direction along with the explosion and attacked them .

I had prepared something nice for the explosion .

Before I entered the 31st floor, I made a sphere of aura .

I had slowly rotated and maintained that .

Even this moment .

I added a sphere to that every day .

There were three spheres rotating above my head .

“What is it that you wanted to ask before your death?”

I smirked at Olphon’s still nonchalant voice .

“Are you used to pain?”

I’m fucking used to it .

At the same time as my words ended, the transparent spheres lit up in white flames .

Just before the spheres rotating at high speed started to create friction and explode, I gave up confining it .

[The God of Light is excited!]

And I lunged at the demons .

Boom!

From the strong explosion behind my back, my body was covered thoroughly in the impact .

I persevered .

I saved my blink .

Instead, I used Talalia’s wings and Fortitude .

The two skills raised by stats relative to the opponent’s strength .

The demons couldn’t gather their senses amidst the continuing explosions .

The strong light and sounds quashed their sight and hearing .

The holy energy mixed with mana pouring down upon them was no different from white phosphorous shells .

I took out the soul sword on my side .

Meanwhile, the magic initiated by demons that came to their sense blocked my path .

Shield, Barrier, Trap, Hallucination, the magic that binds my legs, and attack magics made to intercept filled vision in disarray .

Just like a barrage game .

I’m insanely good at this .

[Hero, can I join in? Please, Please!]

“Take care of the little ones! The ones in the middle are all mine!”

The holy sword went around the magic and towards the demons in the corners .

Before I lose my pretty to the holy sword, I need to make it past these magics .

Rather than taking a step backwards away from the magic flying towards me, I ran forward .