Chapter 1923 – [Return of the Great Demon King]

I often see things like summoning from another world in my life. By a transcendent being like God or Gaia, or by an accident like a dimension. Without having to go far, the fact that Eden was kidnapped by the Morarians is one of them.

Of course, that is a personal matter. Although it was not a crime, it was only a one-time incident and Eden was the only victim. There was no way he would do it, but it would end if we reached a personal agreement.

But is this civilization taking the lead and kidnapping many humans? Are you crazy?

In fact, it was an act of terrorism, and conflict was natural because of it. There is no country that will stand still when its citizens are kidnapped. Therefore, this is also included in the dimensional invasion agenda.

And… The dimensional invasion issue is so serious that all the Great Demon Lords have to be found guilty. I thought I knew why Nuri called me.

“I can’t get over this easily. Should I just call everyone in and find them guilty?”

“That’s true, but there is a problem with post-processing. If they were from the same civilization or planet, they would be considered to be within the margin of error and destroyed, but what about the kidnapped Earthlings?”

“Oh, is there a problem like that…”

When the Great Demon King judges, he does not consider people who are not related to the civilization in question. For example, even if there are foreigners from country B in country A, they are judged without giving them time to escape or escape.

If you want, you can judge without them… But it’s inconvenient and also serves as a warning. With the feeling of ‘don’t associate with people who will be found guilty by the Great Demon King’.

But not in this case. The people of Earth in that civilization are not in the position of being unrelated, but are in the position of victims.

“What will happen to us if we kill all the victims? So, first, we should just take the people of Earth and send them back to Earth.”

“But do you really need me? You can ask the Phantom.”

“I will send the victim who has been kidnapped once to another dimensional civilization. Even if I try, I will only gain wariness and hostility. Even if it is another Earth, it is ultimately Earth, so I will leave her there for a while as if she is a refugee and send her back to her home Earth when the work is over.”〈 Br〉

“Hmm, not a bad plan.”

Even if it is different, the Earth is the Earth. The Earth I live in now is different from the Earth I lived in during the first episode, but just as I feel nostalgic, those who were kidnapped and saw bad things happen will feel the relief of returning home. Even if that doesn’t happen, at least you’ll feel relieved that you’re in a familiar place.

What can I say, does it feel like a Korean going to a Korean town after suffering abroad? Well, that will be enough.

“I’ll have to go first and meet Ruri, the local informant. That way, I’ll hear the details.”

“I was told a separate meeting place and time, so you can go accordingly.”

“Even if the location is because of the coordinates, what about the time?”

“Because it’s just handling, time is limited?”

“… Just looking at it doesn’t mean it’s good.”

And we arrived at that dimension. As we entered according to the coordinates given by Ruri, the reporter, a blue star that looked like the Earth greeted us.

The L-shaped continent is quite noticeable because it is a single land mass. Perhaps the reason it is unified as one empire without any other countries is because it is all connected by land, regardless of the sea or something like that.

“Observe through Horizon and collect other information… Ah, since there is magic, I guess I should be careful.”

“The appointment time is at night by our standards. We have some time, so let’s get ready and go down.”

Collect basic knowledge through Horizon. Among them, languages ​​were registered immediately so that they could be used as interpreters.

I’m an idiot, so I can’t learn a language overnight… It’s not like there’s a way to hit me directly on the head, but I don’t want to do it because it hurts my head.

After a short preparation, we were ready to go down. The registered coordinates were detailed, so based on what Horizon observed, it seemed like it was probably inside a building somewhere.

Time is running out, so I immediately open the dimension gate and go to the meeting place. Then, a familiar-looking Ruri welcomes us.

“It’s okay…”

“Why did you say hello so softly… Oh, I see.”

I immediately put up a shield to block out the surrounding sounds. This is because I thought that if the sound leaked out, something annoying could happen.

Ruri, who reported the Great Demon King agenda to Nuri, was a young Ruri who looked to be around middle school age. If Ruri, a high school senior whom I met in the previous episode, had been a middle school student, would she have looked roughly like that? However, the problem was that there was a large scar near his left eye, which was closed.

… No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t seem like he was born blind or anything.

Ruri must have realized that I had used a trick to prevent the sound from escaping. Only then did she feel relieved and speak properly.

“Phew, I can finally speak more comfortably. Anyway, thank you for coming!!!!”

“Looking at you, it looks like you’re having a hard time. Did these guys here make their eyes like that?”

“About half. I did the other half myself.”

“Why?”

“Hmm, it takes a long time to explain this and that, but it’s a bit awkward to stand up. For now, just sit here, and I’ll talk slowly.”

The place where Ruri was staying was a small room. Her room is about 1 pyeong in size, but it’s not the same as a gosiwon’s, but it’s small enough to have a bed, a desk, and a closet, so it feels a little cramped since Nuri and I are there.

Is it really possible to live in a place like this? Wow, I already feel bad.

Anyway, I sit back and listen to Ruri talk about this place. I don’t know how long he’s been here, but Ruri says he’s been here for about half a year.

“About half a year ago now, I was suddenly summoned to this world. And I was brutally suppressed and had a slave emblem engraved on me by the wizards.”

“Slave emblem?”

“This is it.”

Ruri held out the back of her hand and showed it. She had a sentence engraved on it that felt like a magical spell, but the name and appearance didn’t look good.

By the way, a slave? Could it be that these bastards are not just kidnapping, but are also using the people they kidnapped as slaves?

“Looking at it, other people besides me have done the same. First, they engrave the slave emblem to force them to listen and at the same time eliminate the element of anxiety. The moment they are summoned, when they cannot properly understand the situation, they subdue it and engrave it, and when they do it, there are magicians with them, so in effect. It was a structure that had no choice but to suffer.”

“Using the summoned people as slaves?”

“When the people here first summoned the Earthlings, they said they treated them relatively well because they were intelligent and worth studying, but when they realized that the Earth civilization only developed science and had no magic, they started to take it lightly.”

I kind of understand it. If there are people with special abilities and ordinary people, naturally those with special abilities think that they are superior to ordinary people.

Even a new person with a special ability can defeat an ordinary person, and when he reaches a certain level, he can defeat an armed person with his bare hands. There was no way that the people of this place, where magic and magic engineering had developed, would view ordinary Earthlings without any special ability as equal human beings. The result was the Ruri that is right in front of my eyes.

“The Aiol Empire, whose policies began to change, periodically summoned Earthlings to this world. Then, they began to use the summoned Earthlings as slaves. Men do physical work, and pretty women… You know roughly, right?”

Although each Ruri is slightly different, she is basically a beautiful woman, perhaps because she is a member of God Ruri. Nuri, who was right next to Rulina, who looked like she was in middle school, was also quite pretty.

A beauty who can be used as a slave? Then the result is obvious. In that case, those eyes are there to avoid that.

“What about the eyes?”

“I like dirty things too, but I don’t want to be thrown into a gangster at this age!!!! So I resisted harshly and hurt my eye by deliberately hitting it during corporal punishment. I don’t intentionally put defective objects through the window. It’s a magic that can heal your eyes. I have it, but I won’t use it on slaves who are nothing more than expendables.”

“…”

The more I listen, the more angry I become. There are more of Ruri’s kids that I haven’t seen, but there are also Ruri’s lovers, so they’re not like other people. Perhaps that’s why I feel dirty, as if I heard that her cousin’s child was in trouble.

However, she decided to continue listening quietly for now. At the very least, as the Great Demon King who will judge this civilization, I have an obligation to listen to Ruri’s story of how she suffered for a while.

“Originally, I was planning to go to Changgwan, but a defect arose, and I was forced to work as a chore slave. I worked hard, met good people, and was treated well, so I was given a private room like this. Usually, like in a military dormitory, several people are put in one room. Leader.”

“Just thinking about it sucks.”

“Right?”

“What about slave life? Is it worth it?”

“The work itself is okay. They know that I can’t use magic, and they don’t teach me, so although they ask me to do a lot of work, it ends up being difficult, but not impossible. But that’s not the problem.”

“Then?”

“Can you roughly imagine how they would be treated if they had a slave who could openly ignore them and take out their anger on them? The government recognizes that.”

“Ah, it’s time to convene.”

Should I screw it up right now? No, hold on for now. The great devil in me.

At the very least, doing so within the same civilization can be seen as helping to promote human rights. Even on Earth, there were black slaves in the past, but wasn’t slavery abolished as human rights issues emerged? There is a lot to learn from past mistakes.

But these guys here are using it by bringing in people from another dimension. If we’re going to do it, we’ll just leave it as a matter between ourselves, and it’s just…

“Take a look around for yourself. It will be much easier to understand if you see it yourself than if I tell it to you.”

“I should do that. But what should I do apart from that? Shall I rescue him right away? There is some magic, but compared to Horizon’s technological prowess, it’s nothing special, so I can give him a slave emblem or something.”

“Not now. And there are other people too, so I can’t be the only one.”

“We’ll be collecting information here separately. I’ll leave the communicator behind, so call us if anything happens.”

Nuri, who had been silently listening to the story for a while and did not say anything, handed Ruri a small black crystal of freedom. If there is a situation where contact is difficult, it is handed over to be used for self-defense.

“Use it when necessary. This will easily remove your slave sentence.”

“Ah!!!! What should I do if I receive this and God-RuriRuri’s powers are released?!”

“Would you like to become a member of the Great Demon King’s family?”

“What is your salary?”

“You guys are Ruri too. At times like this, you just make jokes.”

“Mmm!!!!! Who are you fucking now!!!!!”

“Don’t say anything strange!!!!”

We parted ways with Ruri and returned to Horizon. I got some information at a glance, and there is also information collected by Horizon, so I just need to check it gradually.

The most important thing is that we experience it ourselves. Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, and it is better to see it once than to hear it a hundred times, so from the perspective of judging this civilization, I had to see it for myself.

He and Nuri waited until daybreak. It’s good to walk around at night, but it’s too late now, so it’s better to wait until daylight and then walk around from day to evening.

“The currency here is magically processed, so counterfeiting is troublesome… Do I have to exchange it separately to raise money?”

“I don’t process silver coins, but I only use silver coins.”

“Hmm, I guess so.”

The basic currency of the Aiol civilization was paper money and silver coins. However, banknotes are magically processed, so counterfeiting is cumbersome if not impossible in science-based Horizon.

So we decided to go around and only use silver coins. What should I say… If the banknotes are in units of 10,000 won and 55,000 won, then the silver coins are in units of 1,000 won and 2,000 won? Unless the price is extremely expensive, you will be able to spend enough to get around.

Since all you had to do was simply stamp a shape on a silver coin, you could quickly make about 1,000 silver coins at Horizon. I put all the silver coins in the pocket with space expansion technology, pretending that it was a subspace pocket, and prepared to tour the Aiol civilization.

“I know how to speak here after downloading it from the Ruri network, but you can’t? There is an interpreter, but it doesn’t feel uncomfortable, so try not to speak if possible.”

“Okay, then let’s keep it quiet. Feel like an attendant attending a lady from a noble family.”

“Oh, that’s not bad? I need an escort, driver.”

“Wow, it gives me goosebumps. What a pretense.”

“They say all women are prudes!!!!”

In the morning, Nuri and I went down to the Aiol Empire. The target is the capital of the empire, and the place where I met Ruri is also there, so I plan to look around there. Since it is the only country of this civilization and the center of its logistics, I can clearly understand its atmosphere and situation, so I sneak out of the deserted places and look around in earnest.

The atmosphere of Aiol civilization… What should I say, it was like a mix of arcane punk and 19th century Earth.

If you look around the streets, you will see people walking around dressed in stylish men’s suits, coats, or dresses with old-fashioned designs. What’s unusual is that people who appear to be wizards wear capes.

However, the surrounding buildings had not only duplexes but also tall high-rise buildings. Among the buildings visible in the distance, the city center was so dense that it reminded me of a forest of buildings.

And as you walk around, you’ll see TV-like images coming out of crystals or things like flying cars moving around overhead and making noise. If I hadn’t come here for work, I would have enjoyed walking around and seeing the unique civilization here.

Of course, I will be judging this place soon, so I can’t look around with that mindset…

Perhaps thanks to Nuri, people’s attention is focused on this. If you hide the black crystal of freedom, you will be an ordinary beauty, so not only will men pay attention to you, but flirting will also occur.

“Hello Lady, I am…”

“You are a beautiful person. I have never seen you around here. Where are you from?”

“My name is Thored Darman, the eldest son of Count Darman. If it is okay, may I ask your name?”

Nuri, you are so popular. I also do this quite often when I’m a woman, so it doesn’t seem like it’s anyone else’s story.

Noori dealt with the flirtatious behavior of those people appropriately and got over it. It seemed like this wasn’t the first time she smiled and looked like she was a girl from the countryside.

“Oh my, I’m sorry. I just came from the countryside and don’t know a lot about this area. I’m enjoying the capital right now… So if you tell me your name, I’ll come and see you later.”

“Oh, I see. I’m attending the academy…”

“If you find Count Darman’s villa, you will be able to meet me right away.”

“I am…”

It’s really hard to be a pretty girl. If I had been a woman, I would have lessened the burden on Nuri…

Anyway, now that we have looked at the level of civilization itself, what remains important is how the people here use the kidnapped Earthlings. As we passed by, we got to know part of the atmosphere of this place through the image reflected from the crystal.

-Merculis Earthling Arena!!!! A battlefield where Earthlings who do not know magic fight barbarically and with blood splattering!!! Come here and see their barbarism!!!!

“…”

No, these bastards are not Earthlings from the Stone Age, but at least they are from the 21st century. What are they doing here?

My teeth are grinding because I want to summon them immediately.