Reincarnated as a Demon

Kwajik!

I plunge my sword into the chest of a fleeing enemy and survey the surroundings.

Though the battle was short, my disruption of the enemy lines had helped bring it to a close.

At that moment, Helena, who met my gaze, used Blink to approach me.

Helena, appearing with a small cluster of light in mid-air, looked at the horns on my head and opened her mouth.

“What’s that?”

“Ah. I reincarnated as a demon.”

“Ah, a demon…?”

Helena was startled by my answer and began to circle around me.

The way she scrutinized me from head to toe was quite intense.

“Only horns?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s a relief…”

Helena sighed in relief at my answer.

She must have been reminded of how I transformed into that huge demon before.

I told Helena about the effects of the demon reincarnation.

Helena, who was listening to my explanation, said with a glint in her eyes.

“I want to be a demon too.”

“But to do that, you need to be able to enter the demon village, right? Normal users can’t enter; the guards come running out and beat the crap out of you.”

“Hmm…”

I felt it firsthand. Just how OP the demon race skill, [Mana Release], was.

There was a condition that it couldn’t be used in areas other than Hell, but considering the advantages you could get in this area, reincarnating as a demon was not an option, but a necessity.

I wanted to recommend demon reincarnation to the entire guild, not just Helena.

But I couldn’t. To reincarnate as a demon, you had to be able to enter the demon village.

I had witnessed with my own eyes the sight of demon guards running out and beating up users trying to enter the village.

To reincarnate as a demon, I had to find a way to raise their favorability first.

“The guards rush out, you say?”

“Yeah.”

But, Helena seemed to have come up with a good idea, as she wore a small smile and began to move her fingers in the air.

She was using the guild chat.

Helena selected about 10 priests from the guild chat to help her.

Since she said she would give them a considerable amount of gold as a reward, the priest users gave up the quests they were doing and rushed over.

“What are you planning to do?”

“Demon reincarnation.”

Helena left the elite hunting ground with the 10 priests and headed to the village where she could reincarnate as a demon.

I was also curious about her method, so I followed Helena.

Near the demon village, the corpses of human users who had tried to approach were scattered.

Helena stood where the guards couldn’t recognize her and looked at the village.

“You’ll die if you approach. What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to cast shields in succession.”

Helena gathered the 10 priests and explained the plan.

Helena receives the priest’s shield and lures the guard NPCs inside.

The plan was to gather all the NPCs in that state, freeze them with ice-type skills, and then enter the village with the priests.

Once inside the village, they would immediately run towards the demon reincarnation monument, and the priests would cast shields until Helena’s demon reincarnation was complete, thus ending the operation.

But will this plan really work?

I was skeptical.

“Let’s start.”

But whether I liked it or not, Helena was headstrong.

I stood far away and began to watch the whole scene.

Helena began to lure the guard NPCs while shielded, as planned.

It was a shield that blocked all damage for a certain period of time. She could withstand the guards’ attacks for a certain amount of time.

Thanks to the item effect of Azure Jade of Dignity, Helena’s Blink cooldown was shorter than that of ordinary mages.

She used that fast Blink to gather the NPCs in one place and used the ice-type skill, Frost Nova.

Kwajijijik!

The blue ice that stretched out from her hand froze the demon guards.

It was that moment. Helena gestured to the priests who were far away, and then began to run into the village with them.

The shield continued to be cast. When a guard who had been released from the ice followed, Helena used an ice skill again to tie their feet.

After running for a while, Helena finally stood in front of the demon reincarnation monument.

I stared blankly with my mouth open at the sight.

I wanted to show this to the mages who were raving about how OP Berserkers and Barbarians were.

Helena placed her hand on the monument while shielded.

Then, just like when I used the monument, black mana began to pour out from within.

At that moment, the demon guards who had been released from the frozen state began to rush in.

Sharp swords and spears poured into Helena’s body, but the shield protecting her body blocked all attacks.

Paaat-!

The mana surrounding Helena’s body was soon released.

The demon guards changed the direction of the spears and swords they were wielding towards Helena.

Towards the priests, that is.

They no longer attacked Helena. That meant that Helena had succeeded in reincarnating as a demon.

A small horn symbolizing the demon race had sprouted on her head.

-I can’t believe such a method is possible…

It was the moment I was admiring Helena’s absurd plan that had succeeded.

A few priest users who had not yet used their shields used their shields on their bodies and then ran to the demon reincarnation monument.

The priest users who had used their shields to protect Helena soon died because they had no means to protect their bodies.

But the priests who used shields on themselves were different.

Like Helena, they were able to successfully complete their demon reincarnation.

Some priests had wings, horns, and tails, while others, like me and Helena, had only small horns.

Helena’s plan was successful.

She had discovered a way to reincarnate as a demon without raising the favorability of the demon NPCs.

Helena walked towards me with a confident expression, along with the priests who had reincarnated as demons.

The dark red horns sprouting above her head looked really cute.

“How is it?”

“Amazing!”

This was a huge discovery.

There was no time to be doing this.

I took out the [Guild Summons] item from my inventory.

Before using the summons item, I asked the guild chat who wanted to reincarnate as a demon.

Who would refuse to make their character stronger?

With the exception of a very few, everyone who was logged in answered that they wanted to reincarnate as a demon.

I immediately used the guild summons.

The summons I was holding in my hand disappeared, emitting a white light, and the moment it disappeared, streaks of light began to pour around me, and nearly a hundred guild members poured out.

No further explanation was needed.

I had already explained the whole situation through the guild chat.

With this many people, there was no need to avoid the guards or cast shields.

“Charge!”

It was that moment.

[Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello. This is Deron Online.

Emergency temporary maintenance of the game service will be conducted from 19:20 to 19:40 (Wed), November 16th, for 20 minutes.

Please check the website for details.

A message appeared on the entire server.

There had been emergency maintenance announcements before, but at that time, they gave users about 10 minutes of leeway so that they could log out in a safe place.

But now, there was less than a minute left before the server shut down.

The guild members who were rushing out stopped in their tracks, looking around.

“This, could it be a sniper patch for us…?”

“I think you’re right?”

I listened to the guild members and quickly checked the website.

[Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello. This is Deron Online.

Emergency temporary maintenance of the game service will be conducted from 19:20 to 19:40 (Wed), November 16th, for 20 minutes.

[Maintenance Details]

Emergency maintenance to fix errors in the race reincarnation content.

[Precautions]

The game service will not be available during the maintenance, and the maintenance may end early.

My ominous premonition was correct.

At that moment, the game was forcibly terminated and I opened my eyes in the dark capsule.

I sighed deeply and checked my phone.

The Deron Gallery was on fire as expected.

Since no one had properly used the reincarnation system, most people were angry that they couldn’t play the game right now rather than the maintenance details.

[Deron Online Gallery]

[1 minute notice what the fuck] [1]

[First time seeing a 1 minute notice while playing a game ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[1 minute notice for maintenance???]

[Duplication bug exploded?] [5]

[Fucking small company level ㅋㅋㅋㅋ] [2]

[Ah, fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] [1]

[I got kicked out during the raid, will they compensate me???] [2]

I nodded as I watched them.

Because they loved Deron more than anyone else, they were truly angry.

The maintenance details were not important to them. They just wanted to play the game right now.

Since the maintenance time was not long, the server was soon opened.

I quickly logged into the game to check my status.

Fortunately, my appearance had not changed.

At that moment, other guild members began to appear.

Since everyone had logged out next to me, the guild members began to appear here.

At that moment, Helena appeared with light.

“Ah…”

Helena stroked her head.

To be exact, the place where the demon’s horns had sprouted.

The small horns that had sprouted were nowhere to be found.

“Did you return to being a human?”

“Yeah…”

Helena nodded with a sullen expression.

It wasn’t just Helena. The other priests who had reincarnated as demons with her had also returned to being human.

Only users who had reincarnated in a normal way, like me and the black mages, were maintaining their demon status.

This meant that the guild members had only wasted their time.

I bowed my head and apologized to the guild members.

“Ah… it seems the demon reincarnation conditions have been modified. I’m sorry, everyone!”

“Hmm, I expected it to some extent, but the patch was fast.”

“It’s okay.”

But the guild members didn’t look too upset.

Rather, they laughed and waved their hands.

I disbanded the guild members because the reincarnation conditions had been patched.

Helena also left the demon village, saying she would look for quests to increase the favorability of the demon NPCs.

Left alone, I sat down on the floor and began to organize my inventory.

Because I had fought against the hostile alliance and killed monsters earlier, various junk items had rolled in.

While rummaging through my inventory for a long time, I was able to find a luxurious letter tucked away in the corner.

[Demon Castle Invitation]

An invitation personally prepared by Vamphrick, the owner of Demon Castle.

※The invitation will disappear upon entering Demon Castle.

It seemed that the invitation was mixed in with the junk items I had acquired earlier.