Chapter 1 – To Catch an Elf, Go to the Elf Den

My whole body is hot from the flames surrounding me.
My nose is itchy from the smell of blood all over my body.

My legs were shaking from the heavy fatigue and horror of the battlefield, but my face was bright.

Because I finally defeated the Demon King.
Because he was pierced by my sword, he fell down the cliff before his eyes and was consumed by the fire of hell.

“It’s all over now!”

Along with the spontaneous cheers, anticipation for the future rises.

What will be the reward for the long fight?
Will I go back to the world I used to live in, to my long-lost home in Korea?

If not… Even if not, it’s okay.
Now that I have become a hero who defeated the Demon King, it would be nice to be treated well by the people of this world and live in peace.

“Alvin.”

My name in this world is now more familiar than my original name, Park Yu-hyeon.

When I looked back, drawn by the call, there was a beautiful woman standing there.
Picturesque features and long ears.
He was the leader of the elf knights who fought with me against the Demon King.

“Captain! We finally did it!”

“Yes, you did it. Give me the hero’s sword. It must be as heavy as a rock for you now that you are exhausted. The demon lord is gone, so you will never have to lift it again.”

“Thank you!”

“I will keep this sword in my royal palace.”

Unlike me, who handed me the sword with a happy face, the elf had no smile.
He was calm, as befits a general who survived numerous battles, but even his appearance was as dazzling as a flower blooming on the battlefield.

‘I can now be recognized as a proper member of the elves!’

When I was thinking like that.

“…Alvin.”

I could feel the cold energy in the leader’s voice as he handed over the warrior’s sword to another knight.

Then, as if to say that my intuition was correct, the tip of the sword she was using was pointed at me.

“What the hell is this…?”

“I am sorry. This is the queen’s…No, this is the will of me and the elf kingdom.”

“Huh!”

Before I had time to react, the blade penetrated my body.

Soon vision and consciousness become blurred.
My body, which had been struggling to stand, tilted, and I fell into the cliff.

—

“Huh!”

I came to my senses in a forest with a scream.
Out of breath, the first thing I did was to urgently fumble around.

‘What happened? He was clearly falling with a sword stabbing him.’

That wasn’t the only strange thing.
The half-broken armor he was wearing was everywhere, and instead he was wearing ordinary people’s clothes made of cloth.
In addition, a strange feeling of discomfort spreads throughout my body.

After fiddling with myself for a while, I realized the identity of my discomfort.

‘… It’s not my body. Could it be that he was reincarnated as someone else?’

I didn’t shake my head, saying that there was no way something like that was possible.
Because I have already experienced the unrealistic experience of being dropped into another world.
I don’t know why, but I was lucky that I survived anyway.

But the relief was short-lived.

‘Dog-like elf bitches… !’

Unable to control the anger that had begun to boil over, he hit the ground with his fist.

Coo!

“How! How could you do this to me!”

After being left alone in the strange land of Elora, she helped the elf many times.
According to the prophecy, they said they needed me to save the world, so they dedicated themselves to overcoming countless mortal dangers.

So we finally got rid of the demon lord, but what?

What does the Elven Kingdom mean?
Was the spirit of the noble elves that they talked about so much about betraying and killing their comrades who had fought so hard?

Coo!

Even the intense pain felt in his hand does not subside.

When I think about it, the main elves in the castle, including the leader and the queen, have never treated me kindly.

They knew I had nowhere to go, so instead of treating me like a hero, they treated me like a minor subordinate.

It would be natural since humans were considered a dirtier and lower race than elves.

But there was nothing that could be done.
When I came, the human race on this earth had already been destroyed by the devil, so I had to gain their approval in order to survive.

The Elf Queen also promised that she would be allowed to live in the Elven Kingdom once the war was over.

‘If you defeat the Demon King, the elves’ attitude will change.’

I tried to save the world with such earnestness, but they only intended to use me and abandon me from the beginning.

I literally felt like my blood was rushing.

‘… ‘I must take revenge.’

They too must feel the grief I felt.
Just like what happened back then, being stabbed with a knife and thrown off a cliff…

No, killing him is not enough.

I want to ravage the bodies of those bitches who are colorful, unlike their gloomy insides.

I want to inflict the pain of being defiled for the rest of my life to people who looked down on me like animals.

I want to make the elves, who cursed humans as slaves of desire, regret it by engraving it in their bodies that they are no different from humans.

But.

‘What can I do alone?’

Is it possible to fight against the elf race alone?
Can they make even a small dent in their huge kingdom?

No matter how optimistic she tried to think, the strength in her shoulders kept slipping away.

In the end, I tried to stand up, feeling only empty.

“Uh?”

My hand, which was about to touch the ground, touched something.
It was a smartphone, an object from the original world that had never been seen since it fell to Elora.

‘Why is this?’

After turning around to check and realizing that it was my phone, a forgotten memory came back to me.

When I came to this world without knowing anything, all I had was a smartphone in my pocket.
While panicking, I encountered a mountain animal and ran away, but was accidentally discovered by elves, and that was the beginning of my new life.

‘This is the forest where I first fell. I wondered where I lost it, but I guess I dropped it while running.’

But it’s strange.
Even though several years had passed since then, the phone was extremely clean.
As if it was waiting for its owner to return here.

Otherwise.

‘Have we returned to the past? When I came to this world? Then it doesn’t explain the body change.’

“…”

As I was contemplating, my finger pressed the power button as if possessed.
However, the screen did not turn on no matter how much I held down the button, as if the battery had run out.

“Ha.”

Even if it is turned on, it is not possible to return to the original world, and I sigh out of senseless disappointment.

It was then.
The phone, which seemed to be silent forever, vibrated.
It didn’t stop there, the screen turned on, and the wallpaper that I once saw every day appeared before my eyes.

‘As expected, it’s my phone.’

Vague expectations bloom in unexpected situations.
Could it be possible to get in touch with where I originally lived?

However, hope did not last long.
In this place where there was no data or Wi-Fi, smartphones were just shining stones.

‘Of course it is.’

While looking through the list of apps with disappointment, I came across an app I had never seen before.

An icon with an elf’s face on a red background and an empty name below it.
Feeling something unusual, I touched it without realizing it.

‘… ‘Elf corruption app?’

—

About an hour later, I was still looking at my phone.

‘All the information and functions to corrupt the elves…’

The more I looked at it, the more interesting and unique it was.
Information about this world was organized like a kind of game encyclopedia, and it was possible to learn special skills if certain conditions were met.

At first impression, it seemed like it would directly hypnotize an elf, but even if that wasn’t the case, it seemed good enough to live up to the name of an elf corruption app.

‘If these features are real…’

You can take revenge on the dismal elves who are at odds with each other.

After my thoughts reached that point, I decided to check if this app was real.

There was no need to wonder why the phone’s battery did not drop from 100% or how this app came into existence.
For me, who went through reincarnation, the hope that I might be able to resolve my resentment was more important than those things.

“Ugh!”

When I was about to get up and move, I heard someone’s voice nearby.
I lowered my body, muffled my footsteps, and slowly approached there.

As I hid between the thick bushes and looked across, a face that I was happy to see in many ways caught my eye.

‘Agnes!’

Her pointy ears and admirable appearance tell you that she is an elf.
The reason her neatly tied-up hair is black and her skin has a light brown tinge is probably because she inherited the blood of a dark elf.
Even her unusual skin color was beautiful, but rather than being dazzled by her mystery, my heart was filled with anger.

She was the leader of the elf knights I belonged to.
Because as soon as her demon lord disappeared, she was the one who stabbed me and knocked me down.

‘I can’t believe we met right away like this… !’

Still, I couldn’t run out right away.
She has always been stronger than me, and there may be her subordinates around her.

It was the right decision for now to somehow control my emotions and observe the situation.

“…”

The memory of just before I died is still vivid in my mind, but I am walking with my usual calm expression as if nothing had happened.
But at that moment, Agnes’s brow furrowed.

“Ugh… The wound is getting worse. I have to go back to the castle quickly.”

She straightens her staggering body and tries to walk again.
However, once the balance was lost, it was difficult to return, and each step seemed precarious.

The cause seemed to be a visible wound on his right calf.

At that moment, a function of the app came to mind, so I turned on my phone camera and secretly headed to her legs.

[Analysis results: Wounds caused by the poisonous poison of the deer’s weed]

I guess this app is real because you can get information just by looking at it on the camera.
In addition, it contained all information about deer weed and what to do when infected.

‘I’ve never seen or heard of grass like this in my past life…’ . To get better, you need to find herbs or learn a healing skill called Healing Hand using this app.’

There were many other texts lined up, but one sentence caught my attention.

‘If you are addicted, you will feel pain all over your body, then you will become unable to move your body due to lethargy, and if left untreated, it will lead to death? So now… !’

I can get revenge on that ogre.
As long as it is confirmed that there is no one around, if the other person cannot move properly, it will be a humiliation that will last a lifetime.

I thought about that for a moment, but then I shook my head in my mind.

‘No.’

That woman definitely said it.
He said that killing me is his will and that of the elf kingdom.

That meant that key figures in the royal palace, including the knight commander Agnes and the queen, agreed to kill me.

In order to find out who it was and pay it back, it was necessary to aim for the rabbit hole instead of just being greedy for the rabbit in front of you.

‘… First of all, the priority is to go to the elf castle and establish contact with them.’

After looking closely at the app again and making a plan, I headed out of the bushes.
Agnes, who had been walking shakily, adjusted her posture as soon as she saw me and stood.

“Are you… Human?”

She doesn’t recognize the man she killed at all.
She pretended to be okay so as not to appear weak to the stranger, but her breathing was heavy and sweat was pouring down like rain.

“Why are you still alive? Humans must have already perished? Ugh…!”

Unable to overcome the pain as the poison gradually spreads, he stumbles.

She said now was her chance, trying to maintain reason as best as she could even though her instincts were whispering to me.

“Stay still. If you move, the poison will spread faster.”

“Ugh… Do you have any first aid equipment?”

As soon as he saw my friendly attitude, he asked me directly if I was in a lot of pain.
Her relaxed appearance was good news to me.

“Treatment is simple if you know how. However, in exchange for my help, I would like to ask you a favor…”

“Please? Hmm…Tell me.”

As her symptoms worsen, she can’t even argue with me and says that.

I put out my request without hesitation.

“Please take me to the castle of the elf kingdom.”