Chapter 103

Suho was a little impressed.

Esil really seemed to be a noble.

It was quite cool to see her, whom he had only thought of as a meat-lover, skillfully commanding the slave demons.

"Esil-nim, I accept your order.", said the one they encountered when they first set foot in the demon realm.

'Nukira', the horse that was pulling the cart, finally returned to its original form and began to follow Esil's commands.

Meanwhile, Suho summoned all the demons in the Colosseum that were poisoned by light-blooded poison and detoxified them one by one.

"Ah, the pain is going away…!"

"Thank you! Thank you!"

The demons who were poisoned by light-blooded poison always lived in pain of boiling blood.

The most fundamental thing for demons is blood.

Lack of blood for demons was a pain in itself, and boiling blood was a terrible condition that erases their existence.

However, all of those phenomena disappeared as soon as Suho deciphered them.

"T-Thank you!"

"Wow, haha! It doesn't hurt anymore! I'm alive!"

[Oh, wait. You there.]

"… Yes?"

[Weren't you the one who cursed at Young Master last time?]

Hiccup.

Among them, Beru had already chosen those who deserved to die.

The demons that were nearby when Suho was imprisoned.

Beru remembered each and every one of the faces of those who eagerly cursed at Suho and made fun of him.

The mad-blooded demons who treated Suho badly trembled as Beru approached them.

"My Lord, I have committed a mortal sin. I guess I was a little crazy at the time."

[Kieek! If you commit a mortal sin, it is but natural to get persecuted!]

Beru had no mercy, and he killed them mercilessly.

The light-blooded demons in the prison were detoxified and the pain disappeared, but at the same time their strength has considerably weakened.

Even though Esil originally had the strength of an S-Class hunter, she was currently only at B-Class level because of the lack of blood in her body.

No matter how small and weak Beru was, there was no problem killing the powerless mad-blooded horses.

As he ate them one by one, he gradually recharged his power.

Suho refrained him from doing that.

"Beru, but don't kill too many. they are necessary for the reconstruction of the demon realm."

[Keheuheuk. Young Master is too compassionate. It breaks my heart…!]

"If you're going to kill them, do it when they're strong again to gain a lot of experience."

[…!]

Beru got enlightened and immediately stopped the slaughter.

He couldn't interfere with Suho's level up.

On the other hand…

"… Thank you."

The old demon who gave Suho advice in prison approached him.

"Ah, old man."

Suho immediately detoxified the old demon, and then his body lost strength and collapsed on the spot.

As Suho tried to help him, he shook his bony arm saying it was okay.

"Haha. It's okay. It's because all the blood in my body was filled with poison. Oh, but don't worry, I won't die."

The old demon struggled to get himself up on his own.

He then politely bowed down to Suho again.

Lower than before.

"Thank you very much. For saving our demon realm."

Suho's act wasn't simply to save them, but to save the demon realm.

The old man was sincerely grateful for that.

Suho watched him quietly and asked.

"Old man, are you by any chance a demon attendant?"

"… How did you know?"

The old man flinched at the words and looked bewildered.

"It felt similar to Nukira over there."

"This feels odd. Well, you even killed the tyrant king, so finding out my identity is no big deal. That's right. I was once a servant of a nobleman."

"It looks like you're not Radiru's servant."

"I was… Vulcan's servant."

"Vulcan?"

Suho's eyes widened when a truly unexpected answer came out.

As if expecting that reaction, the old man nodded again with a self-deprecating smile.

"Right. Vulcan, the demon of greed. Also, he never had a son."

"Haha."

Suho just laughed.

Rumor about him being Vulcan's hidden son was still circulating among the demons.

How did the old man feel when he heard the rumor?

"In the first place, Vulcan had no other desires as he was a demon who lived only by his appetite. So he was a fairly easy Lord to serve."

"Did you say it was easy?"

"Yes. You just had to be careful not to get eaten."

"…"

Was that some kind of joke?

It didn't seem funny, and the atmosphere was full of tension.

"Do you perhaps know what will happen to the demons in a territory where the demon nobles disappeared?"

"Isn't it going to be like this? Being ruled by the strongest…"

"Not really. No matter how strong the opponent is, demons try to devour regardless of their means and methods."

Accordingly, the case of the mad-blooded tyrant was a very special case.

"Then what?"

"Normally, they destroy themselves. They eat each other and get eaten, and in the end only one demon survives."

"…!"

At those words, Suho looked at the old man again.

"Were you that one demon?"

"… No, I was just lucky. I hid in the ground while everyone was in a mess. When it was all over, I crawled out and ate their bodies to gain strength."

[Those strong words coming from you were quite contrasting with your looks though?]

Beru suddenly intervened and scanned the old man up and down.

At that, the old man laughed helplessly.

"It's natural. My power was stolen by the tyrant king."

"The tyrant?"

"Yes. Actually, I was the first host to be preyed on by the tyrant king. Later when he realized that my body was old and useless, he abandoned me without hesitation to find a stronger and fresher demon."

What the old man said was a very interesting story.

The first host of the mad-blooded tyrant.

Even Beru listened to the old man and asked about what had happened at the time.

[Do you know how he got into the demon realm?]

"How did he get here? Well, I do remember. How could I forget that moment?"

Meteor.

One day, there was a small meteorite that fell into the demon realm where the old man lived.

It was burning in the middle of the ground where the fragment of the star had fallen.

Blue flame.

From there, the hardships of the demon world began.

"At first, no one knew that he, who was thought to be a small fire demon, would grow into a tyrant who rules over all demons."

"A meteorite…"

Beru mumbled something to Suho, who pondered the old man's words.

[Young Master, it seems that the apostle from outer space hid in a meteorite and landed here.]

"Hid in a meteorite?"

[Yes. If it had just flown, it would have been caught and blocked by our Shadow Corps.]

Currently, all the paths through which the forces of outer space entered that universe were thoroughly defended by the Shadow Corps.

However, it is impossible to monitor each and every one of those many meteorites.

[If it was too strong, it would be easy for us to find out. However, after dealing with it, it seems that the mad-blooded tyrant is so small that he was able to hide without being caught.]

"Small?"

The old man couldn't help but be taken aback by Beru's words.

Who would dare to evaluate the fearsome tyrant king as a small one?

However, since Suho, who actually killed the tyrant king with even greater power, was in front of him, there was no way to refute that statement.

"Haha. That's… really incredible."

The old man just laughed.

"Beru."

[Yep.]

Suho looked at Beru and asked.

"What is the probability that there are still other Itarim apostles around here?"

[I'm still expanding my senses, but I can't feel anything around here right now.]

"Hmm. Alright. Should I visit the place where the meteorite fell?"

Suho who was lost in thought for a while.

He finally found traces of Itharim for the first time.

"Old man, could you please guide me to where the meteorite fell?"

"For sure."

* * *

Suho arrived at the place where the meteorite fell.

[Young Master, this is definitely the place. There is a lot of Itharim's energy in this area.]

"Hmm."

Suho looked around.

Indeed, a meteorite fell, and the place had a huge crater dug wide.

Beru continued to flick his antennae and searched for signs around. He quickly returned to Suho and reported.

[Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be another mad-blooded tyrant hiding.]

"We can just check over there then."

Suho approached the center of the crater.

There, the 'a small piece of star' the old man said, or a huge pile of stones from Suho's point of view, was buried in the ground.

"I'm going to dig a bit."

Suho looked around and opened his mouth after confirming that there was no one around.

"Arise."

Suho's shadow spread widely, and black steam rose from beneath it.

[Shadow Minotaur Lv.1]

Knight Class

[Shadow Minotaur Lv.1]

Knight Class

Five gigantic cows with solid muscular bodies appeared.

[Mooooo-!]

[Mooooo!]

The Shadow Minotaurs howled ferociously.

With a single order from Suho, it seemed as if the enemy would be crushed and torn to shreds at any moment.

Suho nodded and pointed at the meteorite.

"What are you doing? Dig."

[… Mooo.]

The minotaurs crouched down and began digging with their muscular arms.

Little by little, the meteorite that had been buried became visible.

[Master! I found something!]

Quietly controlling the Minotaurs in perfect order, Quay urgently called for Suho.

[Here! There is a hidden space!]

"… Hmm?"

When Suho saw what Quay had found, his eyes flashed.

There was an artificial hole in the side of the meteorite that looked like a pile of stones.

'Since he came hidden, could there be an entrance to some kind of spaceship?'

With force, he widened the hole a little more and looked inside…

[Ehh?]

Inside was a pattern that was covered with blue flames.

[It seems liike a shamanic circle made with the energy of Itharim.]

Beru muttered, squinting his eyes.

"Shaman? Do you know what kind of magic it is?"

[Hmm. Apparently, this is a high-level magic that increases the durability of the meteorite and expands the secret subspace within it…]

"What is so grand about it? It's just some sort of storage though."

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