Chapter 44 – 44. A Hero Who Wants to Level Up.

“The holy sword has turned blue.”
“Because I caught Drake and absorbed the level.”

Ash turns his holy sword around.
Other jewelry decorations changed from white to blue.
The blade also had a slight bluish tinge.

‘Because of this setting, the warriors end up killing each other.’

The holy sword grows when hunting monsters or demons.
You can do something called awakening by consuming the accumulated experience points.

However, the number of monsters and demons is limited.
Not infinite
From the moment the demon world erosion begins, monsters do not appear, and the growth of the warriors is blocked.

Realize one setting in such a situation.
It is possible to absorb the levels of other holy swords with a holy sword.
Only after the death of the hero and before the holy sword expires.

In the final battle, the warriors give up their lives to catch the demon king Baal.
It is to drive the level to the strongest warrior Ash and the protagonist.

‘Ash knows that, so he must have killed Drake decisively.’

Drake is a warrior who is active in the early and mid-season.
Should I say it feels like a Deus Ex Machina for the main character, Luke?
Whenever Luke is in danger, he appears by chance and saves him.

But that role has disappeared.
Now that Drake is dead, there is no hero to rescue Luke.
The story itself was greatly twisted.

I didn’t expect it to flow like the original, but I didn’t know that a cataclysm like this would happen.
Because of my jealousy and envy…

“Since the holy sword is level 4, I can catch all kinds of demons. Shall I clean half of it?”

Ash took Drake’s death lightly.
Nuance’s attitude that it didn’t matter in particular felt reassuring for some reason.

I wouldn’t have killed him without a countermeasure.
Ash must have made up his own plan to catch the demon king Baal.

I just had to follow.
Unless Ash abandoned me, there was no reason for me to leave first.

“Drake?”
“Warrior? Where is it?”

Drake’s harem has been looking for him.
He’s already dead, so he won’t come back.

‘I’m a little sorry.’

They must have genuinely liked Drake.
Because of my petty jealousy, I lost a loved one.

Ash, who had killed himself, seemed unconcerned.
Whether the women were running around or not, they were just stretching and passing by.

In a way, Ash was provoking me to induce the current situation, but I wondered if I was innocent.
Moderately rationalized, he turned away from the Drake party.

I met Baron Euteron at the entrance of Baron Euteron’s mansion.
He decided to keep quiet about Drake and made a deal with Ash.

“Thank you very much, warrior.”
“It’s shameless.”

Baron Euteron greeted us with a smile.
Ash averted his gaze as he replied indifferently.

We got out of Baron Euteron’s mansion early in the morning.
Since Ash had received a request to annihilate demons, it was to catch at least one.

“Looking for people who have both sides.”

Ash took out a leather pouch from his bosom.
There was a lot of gold coins in the pocket.

The money saved, 50 million Sol.
I was thinking of inflating this by investing.

Hey-!
The horse Baron Euteron had lent him was healthy and strong.
It ran briskly even with two people on it.

He couldn’t ride a horse, so I sat blankly, leaning on Ash.
Ash naturally touched my balls.
I couldn’t get an erection because of the chastity belt, but I started to feel agitated and excited.

Still, now this kind of skinship has reached the point where it’s nothing.
Even if the desire to ejaculate welled up, it was bearable enough.

Rather, it became possible to refrain from circumstances and only feel the touch itself.
She even leaned against Ash and felt her soft breasts.

“Should we sit on the opposite side next time?”
“Contrary?”
“Sit facing each other. So that we can kiss while riding.”

It was a suggestion that would bite your tongue hard.

“I think it would be better to get a wagon.”
“Is it?”

Two-seater wagons are easier to obtain than other wagons.
You don’t have to carry a lot of luggage, and you only need to bring a coachman with you.

After driving for about an hour, we arrived at a village.
A village belonging to the barony, the name marked on the map was Maroon.

“Looks like everyone has gone to work.”

Humans each have their own karma for their livelihood.
It is difficult to take a day off properly in order to eat and live.

Because of this, there was no one to greet us.

“You mean there’s someone here?”
“I only know the name. I know your face, but it will be different from now because it’s a more mature look, it’s ambiguous.”

I got off the horse and pulled my pants on.
It seems that Ash still touches it because he kept touching it.

“What is your name?”
“Gulick.”

It is said that a boy named Gulik will grow up to be a colossus.
Not even in the distant future.
In the next two years, he will earn a lot of money to support the warriors.

Ash intends to raise Gulik with the money he has now.
I think supporting rather than raising is more appropriate.

Gulick’s success is certain because he has a known future.
It is to preoccupy a sponsor position in advance, complete a top group that can suck until death of old, and become a major shareholder there.

“We don’t work, we just make babies.”

Ash’s eyes twinkled.
It was as if I was already having a happy dream.

I smiled shyly.
I believe my body will work hard.

‘By the way, it’s Gulik…’

In the original work I read, a man named Gulick does not appear.
As a reader, it was amazing that a boy I had never seen before became a colossus and supported the warriors.

‘It must have been my behavior in the previous episode.’

The story unfolded even before Ash returned.
Me and Ash who don’t know anything.
My actions will grow like a butterfly effect, twisting a large stem.

‘It’s because of me that Ash was rehabilitated and at least he became nice…’

In the previous episode, I was not saved by Ash and became a sex toy.
It was reasonable to think that what he was doing after escaping led to Gulick’s success.

This time, the process is scrapped and Ash directly supports Gulick.
There was no doubt that he would probably succeed with a high probability.

“I’ll have to find Gulick first.”

I toured Maroon Village.
I grabbed the reins and ran around.

Now, a few people who have discovered the outsider are approaching.
Most of them were scruffy-dressed adults and old people who couldn’t work.

“Yo, warrior… ?!”

An old man found the holy sword Ash was carrying on his back.
The hero’s identity was proved with that.

“What did the hero do to our village… ?”

To the general public, the hero is a welcome but uncomfortable existence.

If the warrior is near me, it means the devil is nearby.
People have a wish to work from a distance to become a hero.

“I’ve been looking for someone for a while.”
“Who… ?”

Ash said his business proudly.
If you can hit and run, it was right to go out after seeing things quickly.

“I’m looking for a boy named Gulick.”
“Gulick… ? What did Gulik do wrong?”
“I didn’t do anything wrong, I just came to see you.”

The old man was at a loss in front of the hero.

“Gulick… I came to meet Gulick, but what is this, Gulick is not in a state to meet the hero…”
“Please guide me first.”
“Yes.”

It is definitely better to see it than to hear it in words.
Ash led the old man to Gulik’s house.

A shabby two-story house.
Gulick says he lives here in the attic.

Broke into the house without permission
Ash had nothing to shy away from.

The attic was connected by a ladder, and moaning could be heard from there.

“Uh, uh…”

It was a grunt of pain.
A boy who hasn’t gone through puberty.
Gulick seemed certain.

‘I think I know why Gulick doesn’t appear in the original story.’

In this world, people die all the time.
I can’t help it because the medical technology or environment is poor.
A commoner who was not wealthy enough to summon a priest would be half-dead the moment they fell ill.

In the original story, Gulick dies.
He dies of an unknown disease.
That’s why I don’t know the character Gulick.

However, in previous episodes, it was different.
For some reason, Gulik’s illness was cured and he survived.
With that talent blossoming, he became a colossus and supported the warriors, leaving a legacy in Ash’s memory.

“Can you feel Magi?”

Ash climbed the ladder and muttered above.
After briefly checking Gulik’s condition, he came down and found his parents.

Instead of Gulik’s parents, another person appeared.
He was a middle-aged man who was relatively more well-behaved than the old men we saw earlier.

“I am the chief of Maroon Village.”
“Oh yeah? Do you know where Gulik’s parents are?”
“Gulick’s parents are probably in the silver mine. They are digging for silver.”
“Looks like a miner.”

A village that settled down and lived next to a silver mine.
Of course, it will be a town of miners who mine silver.

Ash glared at the village chief while fiddling with the holy sword.

“I can feel demonic energy in Gulick’s body. It means black magic was used. Can you explain the situation?”
“Magi in Gulik’s body, you mean… It’s something we don’t know. All of a sudden, Gulik collapses from a wound, and I don’t know anything except that the fever doesn’t go away.”

Ash stares into the village chief’s eyes.
She met his anxious, quivering eyes, as if he was trying to see through them.

“I don’t think you’re lying.”

Ash removed her hand from the handle of her holy sword.
It didn’t seem to be a problem at the village level.

“Then there must be a warlock around.”

Ash, who came to a simple conclusion, sharpened her senses.
In the momentum of the sinking heavily, Ash found something in the gap.

“I can see the secretly hidden magic circle.”
“Do you know what kind of magic circle it is?”
“I can’t interpret it until then. It’s just a matter of guessing.”

Ash’s eyes sparkle.
It was pure white magic light, a silver flame.

“In this case, it is most likely an infection. When Gulick dies, the magic is passed on to others.”
“One magic will kill all the villagers and extract the demonic energy.”
“Because it is a magic that dies while suffering, the quality of magic will not be bad. There’s probably a warlock keeping an eye on us. From the time we entered the village…”

Ash drew the holy sword and went out of the house.
Searching for an energy invisible to me, I shot out in that direction.

“Yo, warrior… ?”

The village chief hurriedly called Ash, but he had already disappeared.

“Let’s wait.”

I said to the villagers with bewildered faces.
It calmed them down and comforted them.