episode_0098

“How about it?”

“There is nothing more important than you think.”

“Literally, there’s nothing special.”

10th floor.

Su-yeon said that this place, called the Demon World, was an area entirely painted in red.

Red sky.

red earth.

Red tree.

As soon as I entered the red-hot 10th floor, what I felt was that there was nothing unexpected.

“A magical beast, let alone a building like a house? I can’t even see them?”

“This place was located in heaven, so they chose an area with as few demons as possible and let us enter.”

“Oh… But now that I think about it, why did Heaven send us instead of coming in directly?”

“The heavens never sent us, they just came from the devil world to eat the earth, and the heavens only helped us to prevent that.”

“It’s an ally.”

“A friend.”

The time given to us at the 10th floor entrance was 10 minutes.

Just before the guild leader returned home, in order to figure out how difficult the 10th floor was for me now, the meeting concluded that we would return home immediately after a brief battle, so we are now on the 10th floor. It had come in.

“It feels a bit like gaining magic power on the 8th floor.”

“That’s right.”

“Huh?”

“That’s right, do you remember the emperor muttering on the 8th floor and saying it was the devil?”

“I remember.”

“The world was debating about that bastard’s eternal life, and I think it happened because the emperor made a contract with the devil and made a mistake.”

After listening to Suyeon and thinking about it, I realized that the land on the 10th floor was very similar to the land on the 8th floor.

“But seeing as my magic power is increasing quickly, I can’t stay here for more than 3 hours. How can you stay here for 90 days?”

“Because it’s me.”

“Awesome.”

About 5 minutes had passed since I walked through the red forest on the 10th floor while talking with Suyeon.

Suyeon suddenly stopped and raised her hand to signal not to move.

I stopped at Suyeon’s signal, and after a while, I heard a strange crying sound.

No… it’s a questionable sound that I’m not sure if it’s okay to call it crying.

The unpleasant sound, similar to drawing on a blackboard, gives me goosebumps as I wonder if this is what it would feel like if it contained the emotion of anger.

Then after a while.

Geek!

With an eccentric cry,

“…is this right?”

“I was lucky.”

A monster crawling away from a distance of about 10 meters, making a creepy howl.

It’s great to be a part of it!

“I was really nervous because I was told it was the last floor, but it feels like all that has disappeared.”

A huge mass of bugs crawling at twice the speed of Nyamu, which has recently started toddling.

Other than feeling a little disgusted, I didn’t really feel anything like this,

“Try to attack directly without using your hands.”

“Can I do it? Doesn’t it electrocute you, spit hydrochloric acid, or spit fire or something like that just by attacking you?”

“…I guess you watched a lot of movies.”

“Thank you.”

“..There are kids like that, but since my brother asked, I’ll go home and tell you about the kids who use those things. For now, just kill that guy.”

“Isn’t it safe?”

“They are magic beasts called garbage cleaners, but it doesn’t matter as long as there is no direct contact with the body.”

“I’ll try.”

The sword in his hand was filled with magical power.

Let’s cut the frenzied sword full of magical power sideways with the intention of cutting that crawling bug in two with this single blow.

Pub!

The sword, which was cut halfway, stops.

Let’s pull the sword out of the beast’s body, as it can no longer cut no matter how hard we apply it.

With a strange cry, the caterpillar’s body began to droop.

Black liquid was gushing out like blood from the place where the frantic sword cut, and when the liquid touched the red ground, it was immediately absorbed into the ground, leaving only the clean ground.

At the same time as resolving the question of how the red earth looks so clean, the question of the level of difficulty on the 10th floor also seemed to have been resolved.

“She’s the weakest one, right?”

“Almost like that.”

“I think I should get the full reward next time.”

“In the first place, our goal was not for you to be active. I’m the one who kills the monsters on the 10th floor step by step, and my brother takes the role of running away with me in case of an emergency.”

I agreed.

I had cut the weakest and most formidable caterpillar in two with the intention of simply cutting it, but the sword got stuck about halfway through.

It was definitely a limitation.

It didn’t move, so I could attack it with all my heart, and although it was a caterpillar that didn’t look that hard on the outside, it was definitely the 10th floor.

I felt that my role here should be strictly that of Suyeon’s assistant.

“Honestly, I wanted to be a hero too, but I couldn’t do that.”

“..My brother is.”

Since I had to go home right after catching the first beast, Sooyeon, who was lifted up and held by me in a princess hug, buried her head in my chest.

“You were always my hero.”

Perhaps because she was embarrassed by what she said, she didn’t reveal her face buried in her chest.

“..Thank you.”

“I am.”

He was very good at acting calm in front of other people.

“…I know why I liked you.”

“Go home quickly.”

“Chivalry, Lee Seol-hee.”

In an all-red world, the view changes to a familiar sight.

“Oh my!”

As soon as I arrived here, the first person to notice me was Nyamu.

“Are you here now?”

Afterwards, with the guild leader

“Oppa!”

“Did anything happen?”

Even Su-ah and Seol-hee noona.

I didn’t see it for only about 10 minutes, but I felt particularly welcome, perhaps because the place we had just been to was on the 10th floor.

…

“..Was it really like this?”

“Yes.”

A guild leader with a worried expression.

“If Cheonhwi cannot cut down the weakest entity in one go, then the 10th floor is still a difficult place for my level to enter.”

After watching all the footage recorded on the body camera, this is the result of our meeting.

“I’ll go and come back.”

“Don’t get hurt, and we’ll call you in 50 minutes, so don’t worry too much about time and just relax.”

Sua’s buff can be felt throughout her body.

Of course, if we moved to another floor, the buff would only last for about an hour at most, but since we were only going to be there for about 50 minutes in the first place, the duration of the buff was not important to us.

A 3-stack buff for me, and a 2-stack buff for Suyeon.

After completing our preparations, we pressed the button to enter the 10th floor.

The red earth unfolds before my eyes again.

“Let’s go.”

Then, I walked behind Suyeon, who had started walking ahead of me in that place.

For about 30 minutes, I followed Sooyeon as she went around what was thought to be the entrance to the Demon World, cutting down fifteen demonic beasts.

Every time she cut down a demonic beast, a sticky black liquid flowed out like blood and seeped into the red earth. Because of this, Suyeon secretly hunted the demonic beasts that were scattered about.

“If black blood rushes to the ground at once, will a devil appear?”

“Blood here is good wealth, so the moment you cut down dozens of them at the same time, there is a possibility that a devil will be summoned in that place.”

“So you’re only catching one or two at a time.”

A four-legged beast,

A demonic beast with nine eyes,

It looks like a horse, but has six legs,

A magical beast with six wings that flies in the sky,

It seems like 50 minutes have already passed as I cut down various magical beasts.

“Kya!”

…

Two weeks passed, repeating this behavior 4 to 5 times a day.

After about two weeks, most of the demonic beasts that existed at the beginning of the demon world were eliminated.

“You received full compensation, right?”

“Yes, my magical power has definitely increased.”

“I got it too, so give Suaya a 5-stack buff to her oppa.”

“All 5 stacks?”

“From now on, we have to be careful where we go because we don’t know what might pop out.”

“Hehe.. I understand. Come back without getting hurt.”

Feeling a little nervous, as always, I pressed the button to enter the 10th floor with Suyeon.

This time, we had to travel a longer distance than the 500m radius from where we were moving, and according to Suyeon, it was really impossible to predict what would come from here, so I tried not to panic no matter what appeared…

“Hello?”

As soon as I entered the 10th floor, I heard a man’s voice coming from behind me, so I hurriedly swung my sword backwards and straightened my posture.

“Um… you did all of this? With only this much power?”

A demon holding the blade of its sword with two fingers and spreading its wings like a giant bat.

At that moment, my eyes met with the devil looking down at me, and my whole body began to tremble as if in convulsions.

Intimidating.

Feeling overwhelmed.

As if gravity works differently only here, when your whole body wants to kneel to the devil in front of you,

My body suddenly feels lighter.

With him.

“…Huh?”

The golden airflow spread before my eyes, and the demon that had been slashed split into two sides and fell down.

“Phew, this is good because there is no need to save magic power.”

Su-yeon asks if she’s okay with a calm expression.

Wiping away the cold sweat that was still dripping down my face, I asked what this guy who looked like the devil at first glance was.

“It’s true that he is a devil, but he is a lower level devil.”

“Subordinate..?”

“He only killed 500 to 600 demon beasts, so if he comes to you out of curiosity, he’s low level. Also, the intermediate level doesn’t die just because it’s split in half like this.”

I turn my head slightly and look at the corpse of a low-level demon being eaten by Suyeon’s golden magic.

“…You won’t die even if you’re split in half?”

“I can’t do it the way I am now. At least you need at least 5 magic power stacks from Su-a, who received the full reward next time, to be able to resist the magic power of a mid-level demon…”

That moment.

Su-yeon suddenly ran towards me and hugged me, and continued speaking urgently.

“Chivalry, quickly!”

With Soo-yeon’s words, the world began to darken, and I realized that something very scary was about to happen, so I quickly used chivalry.

“Chivalry.”