Chapter 327 – Theseus, King of Dominion (2)

“Whoa…”

After entering the basement through the underground passage, what I felt was ominous.
I felt the pressure as the demons gathered together in the narrow basement.

‘Theseus is a magician, so I just need to move quickly from close range.’

Theseus is a wizard.
He’s good at magic and incredibly weak in hand-to-hand combat…

It felt odd.

Who are the girls next to me…?

“Calm down.”

Suddenly, a bright light enveloped my body.
And the queerness I had felt just before had completely disappeared.

“What just happened…?”

“Hmm, it seems to be interfering with the mind. My sister would have been in danger too.”

Riel was also wrapped in the light of the Great Spirit.

‘He pierced through my mental power…?’

This was quite a shock.
My mental strength stat is a whopping 140.

“No surprise. I’m pretty good at holding up.”

The Great Spirit chuckled and then looked back.

“Ugh… Uh… Mi, sorry. I’m a little dizzy.”

“Yuri seems to have been hit pretty badly, but she’ll be fine soon.”

“Yeah, I’m glad. Is your sister okay?”

“Yeah, Baekho protected me.”

Once confirmed that everything is fine.
I hadn’t heard from Kant about this ability.

“It seems that demonic energy has been condensed in this basement for a long time. That’s why the mental interference was quite strong. But don’t worry. I have it.”

“Oh oh. As expected, brother.”

It seems that the magi’s pressure that I felt as soon as I entered the basement was for this reason.
And the attribute of the great spirit is light.

No one can follow in buff, curse immunity, and heel exorcism.

“Then let’s go.”

The basement was a space dug in the ground.
As a result of using the search skill, it was made as complicated as a maze, but I couldn’t avoid my search skill.

There were no other life forms or traps, only Theseus at the end of the cellar.

∴

Since I was born, I have been stronger than anyone else.

Born as an ogre, the highest level monster, when only three years had passed, he won a victory against all the adults in the village, and when he turned 5, he defeated the chieftain and became the strongest among the ogres.

As time passed, the fear of defeat that would come someday and the vague desire to become the strongest gradually increased the thirst for power.

Again, 5 years later.
One day, I got something called a human book.
In that book it was written:

A very long time ago, the hero defeated the dragon and saved the princess.
I was in shock.

Dragons are absolute beings.
The dragon’s power was so absolute that it terrified even the gods.

But that wasn’t it.

The strongest guy
The only monster that surpassed the Dragon.

The desire for power grew out of control, and when he turned 12, he transcended ogre and became high ogre.

It took me at least 30 years to become a High Ogre, but I did it in the end.
Two more years later, when I traveled all over the world, I battled with the High Ogres, and I won without a single defeat and became the strongest among all monsters except for the dragon.

However, even challenging the dragon to this extent was impossible.
That’s why I grew stronger.

10 years have passed.
News came that humans living on the opposite continent were invaded by demons.

I was happy.
The opportunity to test my strength has finally arrived.

He went straight across the sea to the human continent.

The world of humans was mercilessly trampled by demons, but they didn’t care.

All I wanted was someone to test my strength on.

That’s why the demons went out for a foot-and-foot battle.
In the process, some monsters started to follow me, and the number increased enormously.

Demons are strong.
But not all demons are strong.

There were dangerous moments, but in the end we won.

One day, after fighting non-stop for a year.

I lost.
Overwhelmingly, powerlessly.
My sword couldn’t even brush the tip of my enemy’s hair, and the opponent rather seemed to be playing with me rather than fighting me.

And when he introduced himself as a quasi-baron-class demon, the world seemed to fall apart.

He became the strongest among the monsters, but was defeated so mercilessly by a demon with the lowest rank.

For some reason, he disappeared somewhere, saying that he would not kill me but exterminate humans.

Shortly thereafter, I returned to my original house.
The first loss in my life.
It was bittersweet, but it informed me of my limits.

So, I entered lung training.
I don’t know how many years have passed.
It could be 10 years or 20 years.

Realizing that he had grown by leaps and bounds compared to before training, he came out of the closed building.
But the feeling at the time was despair.
Because I, the High Ogre, realized that I couldn’t get any stronger than this.

Humans are envious
The human race itself is weak, but it is a race that can exceed its limits at any time.

One year after coming out of the closet. A news came. The news was the obituary of Kreine, my king and the wall I thought I would one day have to jump over.

The cause of his death was absurd and incomprehensible.
Cryne died of old age.
Not lost in battle, not sick.

I’m in shock.
And fear came over me.

I realized that no matter how strong I was, I had to die eventually.

And also the fact that I’m not as young as I used to be.

At that moment of frustration, the devil whispered in my ear.

‘I will give you eternal life and great strength. If you sell your soul to me.’

“…”

What would happen to me if I didn’t listen to that whisper then.

Vain imagination means nothing.
I live in the present, not the past, and one day I will make dragons fall from the sky.

Footsteps echo from beyond the wall.
Footsteps of 5 people.

“… Why.”

Want to be human
I want to crash a dragon that I can never reach.

That was my ‘greed’.

“You hid well.”

A male human voice was heard.
A calm voice with me right in front of me.

I can feel the magic.
Also, it was known as someone who had the same demonic energy.
The fact that he is at least a baron level demon.

“You’ve come this far after all.”

He raised his sword and rose from his seat.

“I can’t avoid it any longer. I am Theseus, the one who will make the dragon fall.”

“I am Siwoo Kim who will kill you.”

∴

Theseus held a sword with a blade curved in the shape of a crescent moon in each hand.

“Children, I will fight alone for now.”

“Are you okay?”

“Of course. Please help me if anything happens.”

Used all buff skills.

“Let’s go one-on-one.”

He summoned Hyewon and put on the magic armor and gauntlet.

“Kraine’s successor. I ask you one thing.”

“Hmm?”

“A human with dragon blood and demonic energy. Are you the strongest among humans?”

“… Hmm. There must be about 30 people stronger than me.”

My strength is beyond A+ rank, but it’s probably slightly less than S rank.
So maybe around 30 people.

Haha…!!!”

Theseus suddenly started laughing maniacally.

“Are you just saying you’re number 30?”

What.
Is it a provocation
It seems really absurd to be a provocation.

“I am the strongest among monsters. In decades of fighting, he had only lost once. It was also defeated by the devil.”

What do you mean?
I decided to listen as it was the final boss.

“Then, do all the 30 people you mentioned inherit dragon blood or possess demonic energy?”

“No.”

“Haha… I should have been born as a human.”

Theseus laughed dejectedly and spoke to himself.

“Come on, heir. My soul will become the devil’s meal and I will end my life defeated by you, but I will prove that the strength I have accumulated over the course of my life is by no means weak.”

Who are you going to prove it to?
I won’t be
Maybe it’s yourself

The magi, heavily buried in the cellar, began to gather toward Theseus.
The magi clung to Theseus’ body, wriggling, and took the form of armor.

Theseus swung his sword at me.

A diagonal cut from the top right to the bottom left.

I turned around and dodged him.

“As expected, the source doesn’t work.”

Said Theseus, whose attack missed.

“Source?”

“Yes, the source of greed, the power obtained at the cost of selling one’s soul to the devil.”

After all, the fact that I, who has a mental strength of 140, was subjected to mental interference felt unusual, but I thought it was the source.

“The source’s ability is to manipulate the opponent’s mental interference.”

“You tell me all that, and you’re kind.”

“It doesn’t work for you anyway. The source I just used was full power.”

It was possible because the Great Spirit blocked it.

He kicked off the ground and reached Theseus’ eyes.

I aimed at his abdomen and threw his fists, crossed his swords and Theseus blocked my fists.

After his fists collided with 2 swords, demonic energy gathered over his fists and exploded, linking them.

“Kuu…!”

The guard let go and once again threw out his fist.

Theseus stepped back and avoided his fist, and his fist narrowly touched Theseus, but did no damage.

I was expecting him to avoid it.

What I was aiming for was different.

“Am…”

Hyewon, who had been hiding in her fist, popped out and opened her mouth wide, biting into the demonic armor covering Theseus.

“That’s right…!”

At the same time, Theseus, who had bitten off the skin on his abdomen, groaned and stepped back.

“This is the source of gluttony. Eat well. Very.”

“Ha, haha… Kkeut…”

The skin beneath the punctured armor began to heal.
The wounds that had healed rapidly were once again covered with demonic armor.

Swinging his sword, Theseus came running.

If you run straight like that, who will be able to take care of it?

Stamped his feet

And the magi, hidden by the ground from his feet, sprang from the direction Theseus was running, and blocked his approach.

Whoops.
The black demon tamed Theseus’ sword and cut my demon spirit.
As soon as I hit the sword flying toward my neck with my wrist, I swung the other sword horizontally.

Do not avoid
His and my Magi are qualitatively different.
The sword couldn’t pierce my demon’s armor.

Patter on the larynx.

Hundreds of demonic thorns that floated in the air in an instant flew towards Theseus at once.

Theseus did not dodge.
Because I thought the armor would block enough.

Armor could block it.
Unless it was a thorn that compressed demonic energy.

After unzipping it, the Magi’s spines, which had grown huge in the blink of an eye, swelled to a size of more than 30 cm and aimed at Theseus’ head all at once.

Then Theseus realized that he was wrong.

“That’s right…!”

‘To handle Magi so skillfully…!’

I felt powerless.
I only felt this feeling once.
The day I was defeated by the devil.

‘It holds up well.’

Since my Magi stat reached 112, I also feel keenly that I have become stronger.
Even though I am a quasi-baron level devil, I think I am worthy of competing against the count level devil who attacked Jeju Island.
At that time, because the devil was forced to cross the dimension, he descended with the power of a baron-class devil.

Feelings are enough for this.

Theseus is strong enough.
Much more than I expected.

So I was satisfied enough.

If it was Theseus, it would be easy to deal with about 10 A+ grade hunters.

Right now, I have a great spirit that blocks the source of his greed.
Originally, it would have been boiling, but now I am convinced that I am overwhelmingly strong.

“Hey, Theseus.”

“… What.”

“Admit defeat right now and serve me. Because you are too precious to die here.”

I said, recalling a ministry skill that I had lain dormant for a long time.