I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 171

I Killed the Demon King. It was a Mistake.

Chapter 171

Geotech’s heart was incredibly strong and vibrant, like a troll’s.

To the extent that even with Thunder piercing his heart, he could still actively supply blood through his blood vessels.

The problem was that because of this vibrant heart, Geotech had to suffer terrible pain.

The holy flame oil mixed with Thunder soaked into Geotech’s blood, and with each pump of his heart, this mixed blood was distributed throughout his blood vessels before even burning the devil’s blood.

Moreover, the powerful current rising from Thunder paralyzed Geotech’s nervous system, so although he tried to somehow stretch out his hand to pull out Thunder, his hand would not obey.

“Urrrrrrrr!”

At that moment, four ogres charged towards Caesar.

‘This is quite intense.’

Just four ogres rushing at once completely blocked Caesar’s view.

If an ordinary person had seen this scene, they would have fainted from the sight alone, but Caesar was different.

“Wrrrrrrr!”

Caesar used Berserker quintuple stack.

With a tense sensation, power overflowed throughout Caesar’s entire body.

Of course, pain rushed in like a flood, but he tricked his brain with laughter.

“Hahahahaha!”

Caesar charged towards the two ogres blocking his front.

The ogres could not handle Caesar’s momentary charge, and with two swings of his axe, their heads and both arms were split.

Caesar used ‘Wind Riding’ to move instantly to Geotech, utilizing the upward momentum he had gained.

Thud!

Caesar climbed onto Geotech’s golden palanquin and looked down at him.

Geotech was drooling, staring at Caesar while suffering terrible pain that burned from his internal organs.

“I cannot kill you right now.”

“Uuuuugh…”

Caesar raised lefty high into the sky.

“But I’ll kill you soon.”

Crack!

Caesar’s Lefty mercilessly crushed the creature’s head.

Caesar pulled out Thunder embedded in its chest and flew high into the sky.

Although wind and rain blocked Caesar’s path, using Wind Riding allowed him to advance quite a distance.

“Then, see you later. You detestable ones.”

Caesar disappeared into the Forest of beast people, leaving behind the black-horned clan members who watched like dogs chasing chickens.

***

Geotech burst out from the orc’s belly.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

It was not simply a scream filled with rage.

It was a scream mixed with unbearable pain from all directions.

Geotech had never experienced such terrible pain in his entire life.

The blue flames flowing through his bloodstream ruthlessly ate away at his internal organs, and the pain was so profound that it seemed to seep into his very soul, forcing him to roll on the ground for a long time.

Thump! Thump!

As the pain somewhat subsided, Geotech began to scratch his skin with his nails.

Unable to bear the itching that followed the pain.

“W-What is this?”

The axe containing lightning.

He trembled with fear of the blue flames wrapped around that axe.

He was clearly the son of the sky and the god of thunder.

How could he feel fear and pain from mere flames?

Geotech could not understand the physical and mental changes happening to him.

“Grand Priest. That red-haired one has crossed the river. What should we do?”

“Do not ask me about every little thing!”

Geotech’s fist dug into the soft ground.

“Everyone, cross the river and tear that damn bastard to pieces.”

Geotech could not admit that he was experiencing fear towards mere humans.

The purple madness in his eyes continued to intensify.

“I must go kill that bastard. Must kill…”

This humiliation can only be healed, and this maddening itching can only be eliminated by doing so.

***

As Caesar crossed the river and entered the forest, he was first greeted by the mountain tiger clan.

“Thanks to you, I came easily.”

“Compared to your hardships, this is nothing.”

The mountain tigers had cleverly kept the earth bridge fixed to allow Caesar to cross, and immediately collapsed it once he had crossed. The fanatics would now take quite a long time to cross this river.

How far had Caesar and the mountain tigers run?

They could see Raven floating in the air, learning how to use the ‘Forest of Labyrinth’ from the red fox clan.

Upon seeing Caesar, Raven let out a slight sigh of relief.

“…You’re back.”

“Well, it’s just about drawing some aggro, that’s all.”

Although he spoke casually, Caesar was currently exhausted to the point of near death.

Having scraped the Aura to its absolute bottom, even running was difficult.

Raven noticed Caesar’s fatigue and immediately called for Whitey.

“Please rest.”

“I will gratefully accept.”

Caesar leaned back on Whitey. During this time, Raven walked and learned sealing techniques from the creatures.

After some time had passed and Caesar’s accumulated fatigue had dissipated, Caesar spoke.

“Is it learnable?” 

“Learning itself is not bad. I don’t think understanding the principles will be very difficult.”

“Is there a problem?”

“We need many magic stones. And specifically High-grade magic stones.”

Come to think of it, Arang had also mentioned needing High-grade magic stones.

He thought Raven might find another method… But this was somewhat disappointing.

“How many High-grade magic stones would be needed?”

“It depends on the range you want to seal. To seal about 150,000 at once, you’d need to seal an area the size of a small mountain, which would require at least 1,000 stones. And these would need to be High-grade magic stones the size of my fist.”

Raven’s fist was particularly small, but 1,000 stones of that size…

It was by no means easy.

Naturally discovering High-grade magic stones was extremely rare.

Typically, High-grade magic stones are created by concentrating lower to mid-grade stones and removing impurities.

Although the magic stone mines in the demon realm were said to be of good quality, Caesar knew they only contained high-grade stones, with no reports of High-grade magic stone mines.

“What about high-grade magic stones?”

“Then you’d need 5,000 stones. And the time to embed magical formulas into those stones would be even longer.”

Problem here, problem there.

How did these creatures actually manage to seal Yan in the Forest of Labyrinth?

“Would it be possible if we somehow obtain High-grade magic stones?”

“If the creatures help with installation, it would be possible. Of course, selecting an appropriate location would also be important.”

Caesar knew a method to obtain High-grade magic stones.

He might even be able to get more than 1,000.

But it was awkward for him to mention the method directly.

It was definitely not something he could know at this point.

‘I didn’t expect to use game knowledge even at this moment.’

He thought he had already exhausted all the easily exploitable opportunities.

The demon realm was indeed a land of endless opportunities.

Caesar glanced at the creatures following him and spoke.

“Do you perhaps know a way to obtain High-grade magic stones?”

“…To be honest, I’m not sure.”

“Then how did you seal Yan? You must have somehow acquired High-grade magic stones to seal him in the Forest of Labyrinth.”

Caesar wanted the creatures to derive the answer according to his intentions.

After a moment of thought, they spoke.

“When climbing the Red Mountain Range, you occasionally find rocks with a brilliant teal-green color. Those rocks are High-grade magic stones.”

Raven stared at the creatures in disbelief.

It was like hearing someone talk about picking mountain ginseng in a local mountain.

“We would break those rocks to use as supplementary materials for techniques or offer them to the Demon King. Of course, we rarely used them.”

Raven tilted her head as if something was strange.

“Then why did they create the sealing technique in the first place? What were they trying to seal?”

“Hmm… We don’t know that ourselves.”

“You don’t know?”

“Yes. Our ancestors didn’t tell us. But according to rumors, the first Demon King sealed a monster in the underground of the Demon King’s Castle.”

“Underground of the Demon King’s Castle? By underground… Are you talking about the Unopenable Library?”

“I don’t know the details. But we can only guess that a monster was sealed in that library.”

As Raven began to think deeply, Caesar immediately used psychometry.

-Did the beast people block the unopenable underground library?

-If we learn this sealing technique, could we open that library?

-No. The sealing technique of that library was not so simple.

-There were no references about the library’s seal in other documents.

As Raven fell into deep thought, Caesar snapped his fingers to draw her attention.

“Isn’t it more important that we survive first, rather than worrying about the library’s seal?”

“…So, can we find a way to obtain the magic stone?”

“Well, there might be a way.”

Caesar looked at the Red Mountain Range.

“We have no choice but to go to that Red Mountain Range and mine the magic stone.”

“What? Climb the mountain?”

“We should split into two groups. The young beast people who are injured or close to being out of combat should continue moving north to find other beast people, and the young, healthy beast people should search for the highest-grade magic stones in the Red Mountain Range.”

The beast people thought for a moment after Caesar’s words and then nodded.

“If you really want to seal those guys, going to the Red Mountain Range is correct. But there are two problems.”

“What are they?”

“The Red Mountain Range is extremely dangerous. The reason even our beast people rarely go there is because it’s full of dangerous monsters. And there’s even a phoenix living at the top of the mountain.”

Raven’s expression hardened.

“A phoenix? Is that true?”

“Yes. Of course, it’s almost in a state of deep sleep, so it won’t wake up unless someone disturbs it.”

“I’ll definitely avoid the top of the mountain if possible.”

The phoenix is the most legendary of all spiritual creatures.

It’s best not to touch it if possible, and if touched, it would be considered certain death.

The phoenix is also called a ‘wizard killer’ because its body naturally disperses powerful magic waves that tangle all magical techniques, rendering wizards unable to use magic.

Moreover, knights can’t catch it because it can fly.

In gaming terms, it would be considered an uncatchable monster.

“What’s the second problem?”

“Finding the highest-grade magic stone in the Red Mountain Range is extremely difficult. Although it was said that highest-grade magic stones exist naturally, finding them will be incredibly challenging.”

Well, this was an expected problem.

However, if they could overcome just one of these two problems, there was definitely a way to obtain the highest-grade magic stones.

Caesar decided to probe for the answer.

“What monsters live in the Red Mountain Range?”

“There are so many it’s hard to describe. There are monsters like Grauers, and steel beetles that suck iron tree sap.”

“What else?”

The beast people could sense what kind of monster Caesar wanted to hear about.

“Hmm… There are griffins… and steel monkeys… Oh!”

The beast people eventually found the answer Caesar was seeking.

“There is a way to find the highest-grade magic stones.”

“What? Didn’t you just say it was difficult?”

“Still, there’s a definite method. That is to raid the steel monkeys’ nest.”

“Steel monkeys? What are those?”

“They are monkeys living in the middle of the Red Mountain Range, with claws, nails, and teeth made of steel. They particularly love shiny things.”

“If they love shiny things… Would magic stones be included?”

“Yes. Correct. If we go to the steel monkeys’ nest, magic stones will be piled up.”

Caesar wanted to applaud the beast people for finding the answer.

“The problem is that these steel monkeys move in groups, making them extremely difficult to defeat…”

“Why should we fight?”

Caesar pointed behind them.

“We have others who can fight instead.”

It seems they don’t yet know the Chinese strategy of ‘using barbarians to control barbarians’, this would be a good opportunity to show a spicy taste.

***

As Geotech followed the traces of the beast people and Caesar, they suddenly realized they had arrived in the Red Mountain Range.

If the Red Mountain Range had a characteristic, it would be the abundance of trees with extremely hard bark and hard, sharp red leaves.

To the extent that Orcs and trolls who would normally push and break through trees couldn’t destroy them and instead got wounds on their skin.

Naturally, the creatures surviving in such an environment were fundamentally tough, strong, and aggressive.

“Aaaaaargh!”

A goblin was pierced by a griffin’s hard claws and flew up into the sky.

Subsequently, a massive tree branch moved and lifted an entire Orc, biting its neck.

That wasn’t actually a tree branch.

It was a massive larvae pretending to be a tree branch.

The Orc was chewed in the larvae’s mouth, trembling.

But the Black Blessing didn’t allow the Orc to die easily.

The Orc’s flesh was forcibly rising, and its pain was increasing.

“Rescue quickly!”

Only after other Orcs climbed the tree and stabbed their axes and clubs into the larvae’s body could the Orc caught by the larvae survive.

When the larvae fell to the ground, it was chopped and killed by Geotech’s soldiers’ axes and clubs.

The griffin that had captured the goblin also flew back to its nest after the goblin shot a poison dart and caused a commotion.

Although the Red Mountain Range’s monsters were dangerous, Geotech’s military was not weak.

Basically, they couldn’t die due to the Black Blessing, and there were no monsters that could withstand an army of 150,000.

“If we’re at this level, those guys will be the same.”

Geotech scratched his body and raised his blazing eyes towards the peak.

“I’ll tear everything apart.”

***

Caesar stopped walking.

He heard a sound of sucking sap from somewhere.

“Steel beetle at 12 o’clock, 300 meters away.”

The beast people watched for a moment after Caesar’s words and then exclaimed.

“Really… How did you know?”

“If you feel the spirit of the wind freely, you can know.”

Raven noticed Caesar was making strange statements again and casually used magic.

He threw an ice spear towards the steel beetle sucking tree sap.

The steel beetle was pierced by the ice spear and died instantly.

Caesar looked at the steel beetle’s corpse.

Its body was almost as large as Caesar’s.

Even in game terms it was no joke, but seeing it in reality was even more disgusting.

“By the way, how much further until we reach the nest?”

Caesar pointed to the claw marks scratched on the tree.

“We seem to be approaching their territory.”

In fact, they weren’t just approaching the territory.

Caesar’s group had already entered the steel monkeys’ territory.

Ukki!

“Shh.”

Caesar focused on his hearing.

A monkey-like cry was heard nearby.

Caesar closed his eyes and concentrated on the Path of the Wind.

Tracing the sound along the Path of the Wind, Caesar could immediately pinpoint the steel monkeys’ location.

“We need to hide now.”

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