Chapter 155 – Artificial Demon -1- (With Artwork)

Leo, the only boy among the children of the Floyd family, the four knights of the Empire, inherited from the head of the family a high pride and a flame-like quality rather than a talent for the sword.

It’s not that Leo doesn’t have talent for the sword, it’s that he doesn’t have a proper character education due to his innate nature.

The arrogant head quickly found satisfaction, and was far from the procedure.

He said that a man with aspirations should have high self-esteem and always be confident.

No matter what he did, the attitude of the cheap 4 knights accelerated the deterioration of his behavior.

“It’s hard to wait~ It’s been a while since I’ve had a specimen, so I’m already looking forward to it.”

“Ismay-sama. No matter how stupid he is, he can’t get past that easily after only a few days…?”

Even to Bernstein, an inexperienced newcomer, Leo was something warlocks would salivate over.

It definitely walks on two legs, and the shell is human, but the head is at the level of doubting whether it is an educated aristocrat.

Even so! Even if your brain is at the level of a cattle that can’t figure out a single poison clause in the contract!

I couldn’t imagine that things would work out so easily.

“Bernstein. Shall we make a bet?”

“…”

“A man who shuts his mouth when he is at a disadvantage is not popular~”

“Sorry.”

Ismay sneered at Bernstein’s stiff attitude and continued to order with a serious face.

“Tsk- I can’t figure out how to slow down the process.”

…

There is something envy and envy of crazy devil worshipers like Nema Natas and Mendes Pentagram.

Dreaming of evolving into demons, they don’t want power like nobles or beautiful women.

If they evolve purely and become demons, in the end, the human body is nothing more than an insignificant shell to be thrown away.

Even though they are black magicians who use sacrifices, they are annoying more than necessary, and those who have already reached the state of innocence in this world.

Mendes Pentagram, which is pointed out as a combination of madness even among black magicians, is just one of the items owned by Nema Natas, a secular group that has completely opposite properties to them.

There is something I desperately want.

It is the ‘high-ranking devil’s flesh’ that I don’t know how it was obtained.

To put it simply, the flesh of a high-ranking demon with a name of its own.

For the church, something intuited to those they worshiped existed in kind, such as the hair and tears of the archangels who were said to serve the goddess next to them.

The route to get it is covered in a veil, only knowing the leader of Nemanatas.

But this is a joke.

If fully used, it may surely turn into a demon with great power or open a new horizon of black magic.

But to Nema Natas, who thinks that becoming a demon, a synonym for uncleanness, is a loss even if one has power.

This item is a source of pride for other groups, but it was difficult to find more value than that.

Even if they gain power, using it to force things to proceed is far from their method that has been going on for a long time.

So I had to find a use for it.

It’s too wasteful to leave it as it is, so there must be a use for it somewhere.

For a long time, research and analysis were conducted based on the ‘high-ranking devil’s flesh’ while holding back Mendes Pentagram, who coveted this item, and progress was made.

The ‘Devil’s Flesh’ was made by combining the unique black magic that could be called demonization into a tangible form.

This theory was analyzed as much as possible and used as a basis.

At the end of an experiment in which an unknown number of orphans, residents of unknown farmhouses or villages, and outcasts died.

I succeeded in making an object with properties similar to the flesh of a demon artificially.

What is certain is that this research is not the realm of creation, but the continuous change.

If you gather hundreds and thousands of sacrifices, corrupt them with evil thoughts, and mix them up, it won’t be any personality.

A single, empty personality born with unclean attributes takes its place.

By continuously projecting black magic that mimics demonization, it degenerates humans from the inside into unclean creatures.

It’s easy to say, but even this is impossible in a normal way.

I understood from experience so far that if you use a contract with a demon with a strong penalty, there is a high probability that unclean creatures will be limited to the demon side.

Its appearance resembles a black bead or a lump of spiritual body that demons leave behind after death.

It is very encouraging that if you inflict a penalty through a contract with the devil, the effect is not much different from the devil’s flesh.

In this way, it is a thing that has been established to use and mechanism inside.

There were still a couple of things that needed to be improved.

Three big ones.

The first and biggest problem is that it takes too long to make even some good warlocks who have been shared how to make artificial flesh through tight contracts.

And the second problem was the nature of the object to select and cover the person who wanted a greedy person like Leo on the subject of artificial flesh and parasitism.

The last point is that even if you make a contract with the devil, the probability increases, but it does not necessarily transform into a devil.

Although the sample of the experiment was absurdly small, the solution itself was a bleak problem.

The real black magicians who received the recipe from Nema Natas did not stop experimenting whenever they had free time outside of work.

This is an experiment that great people are interested in.

It is unstoppable because those who achieve success in solving any of the three problems have a great chance of rising to a higher position in the group.

The daughter of the Bright family, who was the wife of Marquis Enoch Skadi, was the first aristocratic experiment subject to challenge, ignoring her temper.

The form of thought was immature and the test subject showed weak resistance to uncleanness, so it became a failure that lost reason.

Long-term research and trial and error, regardless of class and gender, have yet to find exact consistency.

Even so, the one who does not give up is the family of magicians.

Repeatedly unexpected results brought about failure, not giving up.

“Ismay-sama…! The contract has been responded to…!”

In response to Bernstein’s unusually high-pitched response, Ismay smiled, saying yes.

“Look~ No, but I think it’s too fast…?”

The results happened quickly enough to embarrass Ismay, who had promised that Leo Floyd would break the contract within a month.

“…How can I do it?”

“How do I do it? Share your location, release the waiting kids, and start observing.”

As the results of this experiment were always running at extremes, Ismay could not hide his expectations.

What kind of results will Leo’s body, which showed a lot of unexpected aspects and which artificial flesh was madly coveting, show?

A monster that is weaker than a goblin even after using countless sacrifices? Or a death knight on the level of a veteran knight?

Or… Something completely new?

*****

“…?”

Like a pigeon that was a cleaner at dawn, he ate his own vomit, so he did something, but the condition was strange.

As if he had eaten something on the ground, he moved his cage around and spewed out black smoke like steam all over his body.

Fuhwaak-!!

I widened my distance from the guy who gave off an unpleasant aura and saw him get up from his seat.

The bloodshot red eyes turned completely black, and only the pupils emitted a vicious yellow light.

His skin covered in sticky smoke and turned a cloudy color, and at the same time, his muscle mass increased and his size grew.

However, apart from all of them, the most eye-catching thing is the head.

“Hey… Are you angry with your head?”

The two horns protruding from both temples had already lost their human form.

Doduk- Doduk-

She turns her head, which has become fashionable with horns, to and fro, then smiles, showing sharp teeth like a beast.

“Is this a human body? Liberation is refreshing.”

Originally, I didn’t like male voices, but a neutral voice that was more annoying than before came out of the man’s mouth.

“That sucks. Where’s the bastard turning his eyes?”

Fuck!

He hit the head as he tried to turn his head towards the mansion where Chloe was.

Bung- The floating body spun round and round, collapsing the wall and crashing into it.

Pudeuk – hot!

The sound of bones and muscles being forced to turn through the rising dust.

It was similar to the deformed one of Deganello, the second wanderer.

“…Human. You are especially dangerous. The sense of pain… Is it a faithful servant of the goddess that this body feels pain?”

A voice like tinnitus broke through the dusty air.

‘Isn’t it strange that you’re talking about it from before?’

I thought that my body was taken away by the devil, but if it is an ordinary devil, I don’t have such a question.

I got a creepy feeling when I saw him prying at me as if I was learning.

‘Kill.’

Following my instincts, I decided to kill it as quickly as possible.

“Gleipnir.”

Cheerreuk-

I grabbed the chain pulled out of the air with both hands and cut it off at the length I was accustomed to.

[ White Flame ]

Hwareuk!

The flames that rose as she guzzled and ate mana ran down her chains.

The white flames spread rapidly and illuminated the surroundings brightly.

The man with the horns stepped back and grinned.

“Yes…! This emotion that makes my body tremble just by looking at it… Is frightening.”

The moment you swing the chain. His fingers pointed at Eclair’s mansion.

-■■.

The high-speed casting that leads to the devil’s peculiar language is comparable to a no-young window.

The black magic gathered at the fingertips was not powerful enough to be an effective attack for me as I gathered it in a hurry, but the direction was clear.

Chloe’s room.

“…!”

Watching the clumsy, clumsy clumps of filth leave his fingers.

With Gleipnir wrapped around his arm, he threw himself into white flames.

Kwajangchang-!!

Even though I blocked the attack, I was floating in the air, so my body broke the window and rolled several times.

‘There is no particular wound…The bones are all attached.’

No problem with going on.

Possibly thanks to the resistance to injustice, this amount of black magic doesn’t even activate Blood Demon.

I bounced my back and legs and got up like a spring, and I saw Chloe approaching me in contemplation.

“Older brother…!! Gwa, are you okay?!”

Her hand was shaking, perhaps because she saw the black magic directed at her, but she held his sword properly.

“Chloe? Are you okay?”

“…I’m fine! Oh, my older brother…!!”

“That’s okay. I’m fine too.”

I pressed Chloe’s head, who was crying, and looked outside, where there was no follow-up attack.

Looking out from my seat, I let out a laugh.

“Hey, are you running away?”

Did you run from the moment you threw your body to block it?

Seeing him disappear without even looking back, digging into the far-off alleyway, I truly admired it.

Among the devils I met, he was the most devilish guy in the dictionary sense.

All the demons he had met up to this point were proud and dedicated based on the contract, and did not run away because they did not presuppose true extinction.

It is foreign and definitely different from the demons I know. It was something I had never seen before in the game.

‘…A troublesome bastard came out.’

-That’s it.

Daughter! Right!

Looking down at the mansion, I realized that I saw skeletons and ghouls climbing up from the floor without mana manipulation.

That guy is the cause

I don’t know exactly what path the ghoul took earlier.

Now, just by staying and existing, it is scattering unclean energy and generating undead.

‘It would have been better if it was in that direction.’

Need to chase right into your impatience? None at all.

If you are an opponent who can use your brain, the first priority is to secure the safety of women who can be my weakness.

*****

“Kuk! Kuk Kuk!”

Even as he ran through the dark alleys, he laughed so much that his stomach hurt at his natural ability to survive.

The judgment thrown for instant survival is perfect.

That white flame would have melted him without a trace.

Haha!! Living life is like this. Stupid scum – are you watching closely?”

Leo Floyd, the original owner of this body, does not know the meaning and method of living properly.

I was confined in a small space and looked at the outside world and suddenly realized. For the unfaithful self, there would be no bowl like Leo.

I watched and learned in my arms.

Young and young women have particularly tender flesh, and drinking alcohol loosens the emotional chains and makes them feel good.

Violence towards the weak is a solution without worry, and it is a natural act to chew and eat when hungry.

“Hehe…”

Yikes- yikes-

He swung his sword as he was accustomed to and put the fallen corpse in his mouth.

I was hungry, so it was natural and I was happy.

The blood and flesh tasted sweet to his taste like sugar.

The unclean body, following its instincts, ate humans at random and grew exponentially in a short time, adding one more horn.

Both arms lengthened and muscles enlarged, and the fists touched the ground.

He also learned how to block out the screams of humans and hide his gigantic body in the dark.

“Kyaaaaa!!”

“Do, run away!”

A grown-up adult was caught in one arm and exploded, and the humans who made eye contact became hardened like stones and could not escape.

This is obviously omnipotent.

Like breathing in my head, my knowledge of black magic began to grow more and more like an instinct.

I realized that I was certain of my own existence.

The humans around you are just tools to satisfy your endless thirst.

In order to increase strength, the back alley where the darkness was located was the most suitable.

How many people did you eat in a short amount of time?

From a certain point on, there was no sense that they would grow even if they ate humans.

As an ordinary human being, you can’t go any higher. I need something different.

“Hey you motherfucker.”

Bang!

The man who landed by breaking the floor had a fresher and lighter expression than before.

Probably because he is alone.

But he himself was fully prepared.

“Now… You’re here. You’re late, so these are dead. Heul!!”

The man who saw the corpses around him was stunned.

“What? Did I stab you and kill you?”

Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!

“Geuhehe… I’ll take out the intestines and sprinkle it on the woman before eating it.”

As I got closer, the gaze was much lower than before, and the man looked like an insect that would die if he raised his arm.

“Look at how he got better and taller. Growing up? But why did he lose his hair? There won’t be any traces left when he runs away.”

This man is not at all afraid of himself who has grown to the maximum.

Now his feelings of his own pride can’t tolerate it.

“Shut up!! Run away… Run away…! There is no shame!!”

-■.

The floor trembled with a single chant, and a huge, crude sword abruptly rose.

The corpses around them rapidly rotted and turned into evil spirits instead of undead, and the ground began to shake with uncleanness.

“Okay. Let’s try.”

Ordinary humans go through an environment where it is difficult to breathe.

A man with chains wrapped around his arms strode forward.