I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 173

I Killed the Demon King. It was a mistake.

Chapter 173

Caesar planted the Magic stone Raven handed him.

“Is this it?”

“Yes.”

Raven blankly stared at the drizzling forest.

“I’m not sure if the other beast people did well.”

“Let’s first go to the meeting point.”

Caesar and Raven slowly climbed the mountain.

“By the way, what escape criteria have you set for the Forest of Labyrinth?”

“I haven’t decided yet. I’ll probably set a condition that can seal Geotech forever.”

Raven looked at Caesar and said.

“Do you have any good ideas?”

“How about stopping the heart for more than a minute?”

“That’s too difficult. While everyone can do it, the harder something is to come up with, the lower the spell difficulty and the faster the casting speed.”

“Hmm… Walking 100 steps backward without looking back?”

“Not bad. I’ll keep that in mind.”

Raven cast a concealment spell on Caesar and herself.

If the Red Mountain Range had an advantage, it was that the thick grass made traces hard to detect.

In fact, they might need to deliberately leave beast people fur on branches to help Geotech track them.

Caesar and Raven encountered Black Horn tribe members patrolling the area.

Unlike during the pyramid era, the Black Horn tribe looked extremely emaciated.

Geotech’s army didn’t stockpile food while moving, and there wasn’t abundant food to plunder in the Red Mountain Range.

Having marched for 10 days almost without eating or drinking, their patience and morale must have dropped dramatically.

‘Things might be easier than I thought.’

Caesar was now worried Geotech might even give up the pursuit and descend the mountain.

With such thoughts, he carefully headed towards the meeting point.

***

The place Caesar and the beast people were to meet was a small cave hidden by Raven and the Red Fox using illusion magic.

Stepping into what looked like an ordinary cliff, they passed through an incredibly thin curtain and entered the cave.

Raven lifted the concealment spell.

“Is everyone here?”

The beast people in the cave shook their heads.

“10 people haven’t arrived yet.”

“10? They should have arrived by now.”

“We were thinking of sending people to check if something happened.”

“Which team hasn’t arrived?”

The beast people pointed to the map drawn on the cave wall.

“The beast people planting magic stone in the northeast, starting from the Steel Monkey’s nest, haven’t arrived yet.”

“Have the others all planted their magic stones?”

“Yes. All completed.”

Caesar raised his axe.

“I’ll go check what happened. Raven, please wait here.”

“Understood. Don’t remove the communication device from your body. Tell me immediately if anything happens.”

“Yes. I understand.”

As soon as Caesar received Raven’s concealment spell, he ran.

Worried about beast people being discovered by Geotech’s soldiers, Raven had created temporary concealment artifacts with spare magic stones to distribute to the beast people.

Were they discovered despite using these?

Or did another variable suddenly appear?

‘I thought things would be too easy.’

***

Caesar climbed trees, focusing his hearing using the Path of the Wind.

Rough breathing of Black Horn tribe members filled the surroundings.

The unexpectedly large number of Black Horn tribe members made Caesar’s unease accelerate.

‘Damn.’

And that unease always led to bad results.

Crunch! Crack!

Scattered magic stones.

Blood everywhere.

Fallen beast people corpses.

And Black Horn tribe members eating those corpses.

“These damn bastards…!”

Caesar first collected himself.

The beast people deaths were inevitable.

It was hubris to think no one would die in this operation.

Two problems:

Raven absolutely needs to plant magic stones in the northeast to activate the forest’s maze.

But how can he plant them with so many Black Horn tribe members around?

‘I’ll first discuss this with Raven.’

Last remaining second problem.

How did those beast people get caught?

Did those beast people get caught by the Black Horn clan due to a mistake?

Or did Geotech find a way to locate our hidden hideout?

If it’s the former, we can try again, but if it’s the latter, the situation is serious.

We need to look for a new method to plant the magic stone.

Caesar decided to do what he could first.

‘Let’s secure the magic stone first.’

The Black Horn clan was preoccupied with devouring the beast people.

Now is the only chance to secure the magic stone.

Caesar took a deep breath and used the Path of Wind.

Caesar slid down very quietly and picked up the magic stones one by one, putting them into his inner pocket.

As the magic stones entered Caesar’s inner pocket, they lost their light and disappeared.

To their eyes, it would seem like the magic stones suddenly vanished.

‘… Five… Six…’

There are a total of 8 magic stones dropped on the ground.

Now he just needs to pick up 2 more.

Caesar picked up the magic stones scattered on the ground and put them into his bosom.

At that moment, a bizarre breathing sound reached Caesar’s ears.

It was neither the rough and low sound unique to orcs,

Nor the nimble and cunning breathing of goblins.

This was the breathing of an steel monkey.

The reason Caesar paid attention to the steel monkey’s breathing was that it suddenly came from nearby.

Caesar’s Path of Wind was somewhat on track.

It was absolutely not at a level where he couldn’t detect the breathing of a steel monkey quietly breathing just 10-20m away.

Caesar instinctively moved from his spot.

Ting!

A small piece of iron flew and stuck where Caesar had been just moments ago.

Caesar looked in the direction the iron piece came from.

There was a steel monkey, and unusually, a small crossbag was hanging on its shoulder.

Although the steel monkey is said to have high intelligence, it’s not enough to make a leather crossbag like that.

Caesar felt a familiar energy emanating from this creature.

‘A doppelganger.’

Caesar instinctively jumped towards it.

The doppelganger didn’t even react before Caesar grabbed its neck.

“… Kup!”

Caesar blocked its windpipe so it couldn’t scream and growled softly.

“What were you doing?”

Caesar used psychometry.

– This voice is Caesar’s.

– As expected, it was Caesar who avoided it.

This is Elijah’s avatar.

Caesar gripped the neck even more strongly, as if about to break it.

“I asked what you were doing here.”

– Now is the time.

Caesar realized the creature had used its ‘special ability’.

With a chilling sensation down his spine, Caesar immediately expanded the Path of the Wind as wide as possible.

Then he felt four presences rapidly approaching him.

This is a trap.

In the blink of an eye, the creature’s body transformed into a muscular human, and the hand gripping Caesar’s hand tightened firmly.

“Goodbye, Caesar.”

Four humans burst through the forest and flew at Caesar in an instant. They held massive greatswords in both hands and wore black armor and cloaks as if made from melted shadows.

Caesar knew their identity as he was wary of Elijah.

They were the elite of the elite knights of the Friedrich family, knights operating in the shadows.

The Steel Lion Knights.

Kwaaang!

Their greatswords ruthlessly struck down at Caesar.

The shockwave shattered trees, tore up the ground, and made the Black Horn clan members dining in the distance stagger.

This level of surprise attack would kill even someone wearing an armor made of For Honor due to the shockwave.

But the Steel Lion Knights’ expressions were not good.

They should have felt the sensation of cleanly cutting through something, but instead felt like they were striking hard steel.

As the dust settled, the Steel Lion Knights could see what they had struck down.

“Is Elijah ordering you to kill me?”

The Caesar they struck down disappeared without a trace, and a monster with black hair and copper-colored skin was growling at the Steel Lion Knights. Surprisingly, their greatswords could not pierce Barre’s skin.

“Then you must be prepared to die by my hand.”

The Steel Lion Knights.

One of the rare knights in the game Valent saga. To the extent that even knights of the Friedrich family becoming the Steel Lion Knight Order cannot encounter or even speak with the Steel Lion Knights. Their power level is unverifiable, and only the description of them being the elite knights of the Friedrich family exists.

In reality, Caesar had never seen Elijah bringing these steel knights around. He had never even heard stories of their achievements during war. Therefore, Caesar had almost forgotten about these knights, but now he understood what they were doing. They were knights composed of doppelgangers who only killed Elijah’s enemies.

Barre used the captured doppelganger as a club and swung it around.

Pluck!

When the hard body collided with the Steel Lion Knight’s armor, it turned into a bloody pulp and disappeared. The Steel Lion Knights did not care about their comrade’s death and stepped back. They stared at Barre’s body. The area where the greatsword had struck was instantly healed, without leaving a single bruise.

“… Is this all?”

“This is a body that has withstood the sword strength of the Moon Knights and the Demon King’s weapon.”

Barre looked at the sword energy flowing through the Steel Lion Knights’ greatswords.

“It would be difficult to wound my body with this level of skill.”

Barre held Thunder and Lefty in both hands.

“Uriyaaaaaaaa!”

Barre immediately raised Berserker to a 6-fold stack. His already large body turned dark reddish and seemed to grow about 1.5 times larger. The Steel Lion Knights were overwhelmed by Barre’s momentum and froze in place.

Barre moved.

But between the moment Barre appeared and…

Boom!

There was a significant pause in the thunderous sound erupting from where Barre had been.

As a tank-type knight, Barre knew how to use his entire body as a weapon. Barre rammed a Steel Lion Knight with his shoulder. The knight barely raised his greatsword to block, but that was the knight’s mistake.

Crack!

The knight’s arms broke, unable to withstand Barre’s muscle strength. His body bounced like a water strider and was embedded in a large tree. Three Steel Lion Knights simultaneously charged at Barre. Their movements were like a single body.

Barre used psychometry.

– Left

– Right

– Head

They were not coordinating in advance but were sharing their attack directions in real-time through ‘telepathy’. They all had telepathic abilities. This was not just unusual, but bizarre.

Kwaaang!

Barre’s Lefty and Thunder blocked the attacks targeting his head and left greatsword, while his sturdy side blocked another greatsword.

“Ugh!”

The Steel Knight blocking Thunder trembled. A powerful current rising from Thunder had electrocuted his body through the greatsword and armor.

The Steel Lion Knight who attacked his side looked at Barre with a vacant expression. He definitely hit, but felt no sensation of impact. It was like hitting a cotton ball.

“Could this be… Kek!”

Barre’s hard shin kicked the knight’s side. The knight flew away like a soccer ball. Barre blocked the Steel Lion Knight’s consecutive greatsword attacks with Lefty.

“If you truly intended to kill me, you should have brought Elijah instead of coming yourselves.”

Barre pushed the knight’s greatsword aside and then struck his side with Thunder.

Thud!

Barre’s strong hand and the For Honor-tempered blade tore through the knight’s armor and scraped his internal organs. The knight fell forward without even screaming.

Woohoo!

At that moment, Barre felt as if his body had suddenly become heavy.

It was because the Steel Lion knight who had just flown away had used a strange necklace-like artifact.

It seemed that a spell had been cast to make Barre’s body heavy.

“This bastard…! Oh?”

Barre’s body felt strange.

Or should he say it felt like everything was reversed?

When he tried to move his right foot, his left foot moved, and when he tried to move his left hand, his right hand moved.

“Cough!”

The Steel Lion knight laughed while watching Barre unable to control his body.

“…No matter who you are, it seems you’re weak against magic.”

The Steel Lion knight, with both arms broken, approached while pouring a potion on his fractured areas.

His arms quickly healed, and he picked up his fallen greatsword.

“You are an obstacle to His Lordship. You must die here.”

He charged as if to split Barre’s head.

And he consecutively brought down his greatsword on Barre’s head.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Each time, a loud noise erupted.

While they weren’t sword masters who could use sword strength, they were elite knights who had learned the ‘Lion’s Strike’ from Elijah.

No matter how strong Barre was, he would die if hit by a greatsword dozens of times.

The knight struck Barre’s head as if chopping firewood.

Tub!

But at that moment, Barre’s right hand grabbed the knight’s greatsword.

He tried to pull it out, but it wouldn’t budge at all.

Drip!

Blood flowed from Barre’s head down to his chin.

“Thank you. Thanks to this, I’ve come to my senses.”

Boom! Boom!

The two artifacts holding Barre simultaneously exploded.

The Steel Lion knights screamed.

“Run away!”

“Too late.”

Barre pulled the greatsword and sent the knight’s head flying to the left.

Licking the blood flowing from his lips, he looked at the remaining two knights.

“No other artifacts?”

“…This monster bastard.”

“Is that all you have to say? With my magic resistance being so high, you didn’t even bring extras?”

As Barre’s left hand moved, a sonic boom erupted, and something flew through, piercing the Steel Lion knight’s armor and embedding itself in his heart.

“At least if you were going to face me, you should have brought five more artifacts.”

“Aaaaargh!”

The last remaining knight charged at Barre.

Within the gap of his helmet, his eyes were filled with determination.

Not determination to kill Barre, but determination to die.

Therefore, Barre blocked the greatsword with an axe and struck the knight’s head.

“Ack!”

Thud! Thud!

As the knight’s helmet came off, Barre grabbed his neck.

“…Kill me.”

“Why kill you? I have so many things to ask you.”

Barre used psychometry.

“What’s the real reason you’re targeting me? Elijah isn’t a fool, so it can’t be that you’re trying to kill me with just these five of you.”

“Kill me!”

Barre directly absorbed the knights’ plans flowing into his mind.

Then his lips turned pale.

“…These motherfuckers!”

Kwagwagwagwang!

Immediately after, a loud noise erupted from the direction where Raven was.

It was the sound of a mountain collapsing.

“Raven…!”

The knight smiled at Barre.

“It seems our objective has been achieved.”

Puck!

Barre struck the knight’s face with his fist.

The knight’s teeth all fell out, and he immediately passed out.

“I’ll deal with you a bit later.”

Barre ran towards the direction of the landslide.

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