Why I Quit Being the Demon King

Why I Quit Being the Demon King Chapter 42

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10. Meet the Underground People (3)

A warrior’s greatest strength comes from courage.

It was the warrior’s responsibility to defend the enemy’s fierce attacks at the forefront with a shield.

Zeke advanced forward, holding out his shield made of dragon scales called Doomsra.

Neither the Hydra’s sharp teeth nor the vicious acid venom spewing from its mouth

could break Zeke’s shield.

The poison that fell covered the ground like melted dirt.

It was no ordinary mud. When Zeke accidentally stepped on it, his leather shoes burned and shattered.

The moment I took my step in surprise, Hydra’s fierce attack hit my shield.

The shock shook Zeke to the point where his body was thrown away

.

The moment he was pushed away, Knight Commander Kielce

pushed Zeke’s back with his shoulder and held him together.

“Cheer up, Lord Zeke!”

Before I knew it, he had gone from being a boy warrior to being given the honorific title “gong.”

“thank you! “I will work harder!”

Zeke shouted and took a step forward again.

My shoes melted and my toes were exposed, but I didn’t care. He gripped the rough ground with his toes, hid behind his shield, and swung his sword.

Hydra swung its head again and attacked

.

Hydra’s attacks were all carried out through the head.

Like an elephant, its four thick legs support the ground and its long tail with a large weight provides balance.

Zeke and the Southern Root Knights were busy dealing with the head of Hydra and did not notice Alex’s presence.

The place where Alex reappeared was a truly unexpected place.

It was in a dark cave behind a Sanga Hydra, as if it had been dug into the ground.

“Wow, I can’t believe I have to deal with something like this.”

Alex, who was grumbling to himself, put his hand in his sleeve and pulled it out again.

He lived in the 666th century and was the king of the Beholders.

It had 100 tentacles with several times as many eyes.

The hand that came out of the sleeve again took the form of a tentacle.

The fingertips, swinging like whips, suddenly extended to several meters in length.

“Milam of a thousand blades!”

The whip changed completely. Small protrusions rose up,

and each one turned into a sharp blade.

The blade whip rotated on its own and made a creepy mechanical sound.

The Hydra was so startled that it took a step back.

Alex swung his whip with a grumpy expression.

In a quick twist, the blade cut off the weight attached to the hydra’s tail.

Immediately after that, Alex disappeared into the darkness again.

Only the severed tail flailed at the end of its life as if no one had been there

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As he was at the forefront of receiving Hydra’s attack, Zeke just did his best to endure the moment.

On the other hand, Kielce was the leader of the South Root Knights.

His perspective on the battlefield itself was nothing compared to Zeke’s.

The Hydra’s tail was cut off due to Alex’s attack, and its movements became noticeably awkward. As soon as

he sensed that the Hydra’s attack was weakening,

he ordered the knights to launch an all-out attack.

“Run! Little ones who have received the blessings of the soil that lives attached to the roots! Raise your ax high and aim for this damn monster’s neck!”

“Ayeayit!”

The dwarves ran out.

Six or seven dwarves who were hit by the poison spewed out by the hydra instantly melted.

However, several times as many knights dug into the Hydra’s side and chopped off its legs with an axe.

As the ax was struck with a thud, as if chopping down a large tree, the flesh on the leg was worn away and the bone was soon exposed.

Kielce’s martial arts skills were superior to other knights.

He jumped high and plunged the sharp beak end of the pickaxe into the hydra’s neck.

The reason he was able to show off his skills was, more than anything, thanks to Zeke’s performance.

Dooms Lagoon was solid and Dooms Rhino’s blade was sharp.

And the Doomsgauntlet, as if it had a life of its own,

gripped the two weapons even more tightly according to Zeke’s will.

It was thanks to the power of Doom’s Gauntlet that he blocked Hydra’s headbutt head-on and did not let go of his shield.

Because the weight of the tail was lost, the hydra’s movements became sluggish.

On the other hand, the Southern Root Knights were encouraged by Zeke’s strong shield and attacked the monster even harder.

one!

My head fell off.

Two three and four and five!

Five of the seven heads had already been cut off,

spilling terrible poison everywhere.

Zeke protected Baron Chielche by blocking the poison with his shield.

Baron Kielce thanked Zeke with his eyes and delivered an even more powerful blow to the Hydra’s neck.

The cruel battle reached its conclusion.

The best credit would have been Alex’s for throwing Hydra off balance, but no one noticed it.

About a hundred dwarves crowded into the body of the hydra and chopped the monster to pieces.

In the end, the monster’s heart stopped racing before it could even utter a deathly scream.

Defeated the monster.

An exhausted Zeke leaned on his sword, and Baron Kielce, a knight-errant, raised Zeke’s left arm.

“Salute to the warrior from the land!”

“Great warrior! Welcome to the Southern Root Clan!”

After experiencing the battle with Hydra, the

attitude of the dwarves of the Southern Root Clan towards Zeke and his group—more precisely, Deus and his group—completely changed.

Although he didn’t notice it during the fight, Zeke suffered major and minor injuries due to the intense battle.

The muscles in his arms were torn and had blue bruises here and there, and there were several areas, including his shoulders, thighs, feet, and neck, that were necrotic due to the poison.

The foot that had stepped on the poison also turned black.

He couldn’t even walk properly and was limping.

Yulgeum cast several recovery spells on Zeke’s body.

Although all the damage could not disappear in an instant, the wounds healed and healed several times faster.

“Lord Zeke! It seems we misunderstood you. We, the Knights of the Southroot, will never forget this battle with you. “I would like to call it the Battle of the Seven Heads, but would you allow me to do so?”

“The main contributor to this battle is the Southern Root Knights. Rather, I am grateful that I was able to help the Knights and gain experience in the Battle of the Seven Heads.” “

It’s amazing that he has developed outstanding skills at such a young age, but he is also humble!

“You must be a pure-blooded warrior.”

“Zeke van Hollywitch, that’s my name.”

“Holy beech tree! “That reputation has already resonated loudly during the great war of the 375th century, and is now being passed down to our Southern Root Knights!”

The problem was that it had barely escaped the bottom since the 375th century, but no one bothered to mention that fact.

“You must be a hero from a famous family! “It’s a shame that I even once doubted

such great lineage.”

“no. They were in a place where they could be suspected…

Zeke and Baron Kielce were building a friendship that transcended race.

Deus, who had been watching this in silence, opened his mouth.

“That aside, would you like me to guide you to the queen of the clan? “There’s something I’d like to ask.”

Baron Kielce snorted at Deus.

“Lord Zeke. How can your colleague

be so rude? “If he had even half of the good virtues you have, we wouldn’t have had this bad relationship of misunderstanding and distrust.”

“Why are you talking so much? “If it works, it doesn’t work. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.”

“I will report this to Queen Hugh. Follow me. Lord Zeke, I formally invite you and your colleagues to the capital of the Southern Root Clan.”

“thank you. Lord Kielce.” The dwarfs’ city

, which spread out like small roots in the ground,

boasted a scale as large as a human castle.

Although the road was divided into corridors and cavities like prayer beads and stretched hundreds of kilometers, it did not take long to get from the city to the end of the city.

While the human land was flat, the underground city had a three-dimensional structure.

To pass through the three cavities and corridors, one had to cross a road that was almost a kilometer long, but since the first and third cavities were located above and below, the straight-line distance in some

cases was only tens of meters.

The city of short charcoal workers, divided into a main passage and side streets, was extremely complex and intertwined, so anyone other than them could not even dare to explore it.

The central city of the Southroot Clan was a huge vertical cave centered on a large pillar-shaped tower.

The cavity, about 400 meters in diameter and 1 kilometer high, was leaning against a huge rock.

The tower was also maintaining its balance by connecting the bedrock and several layers of corridors.

That rock was like the lifeblood of this city, and it was the southern root, which was also the name of the clan.

The number of dwarves living in Southern Root City numbered in the thousands. It was enormous for an underground city.

When the warrior Zeke and his party ⑴ entered the city with the leader of the knights, the dwarves gathered there looking for something to see.

Baron Kielce shouted to them.

“Cheer at the return of the Southern Root Knights and their best friend, the human warrior Zeke, who have just returned from hunting Hydra!”

The dwarves were astonished at the word Hydra and screamed. But surprise quickly turned into exclamation.

Hydra!

The Hydra was too powerful a monster for only 200 knights to hunt.

It was proof that the warrior and his companions were highly skilled.

After receiving a farewell from the dwarves, the group headed straight to the queen’s throne room.

The city of short charcoal workers was dark. Even the queen’s throne room

was never brighter than the bonfire surrounding it on

New Year’s Eve .

“Great Queen, your faithful servant Haiza, the greatest knight of the South Roots, Kiel Che, has returned from hunting Hydra with his friends.”

The knights presented several trays to the queen.

These were useful materials collected by dismantling the body of a hydra.

“Excellent, Baron Kielce!”

“I would like to introduce my new friends to your gracious Majesty the Queen. This is the human warrior Zeke Panhli Jade Lord. Together with my fellow Deus Alex

Yulgeum, I helped our knights hunt down the Hydra.”

“You are an outstanding warrior! Hydra is the strongest monster we can encounter, but it can be hunted with only one team of warriors. “The name of Holly Bitch, an outstanding D-class warrior, will be remembered by our Southern Root Clan for a long time.”

Zeke hesitated and lowered his head.

At that time, Deus passed by and stepped forward.

The queen’s guards were surprised and

raised their ax spears. But the moment Deus made eye contact, their bodies froze.

There was no way an ordinary royal guard could withstand the devil’s evil eyes.

said the queen.

“Stop. “That’s rude.”

“It’s rude and I don’t think I’ll like it that much.”

“What are you saying?”

“Have you forgotten why you dispatched the knights in the first place?”

Kielce stepped forward and blocked the queen’s path.

“No matter how much you are a warrior’s companion,

be polite in front of Her Majesty!”

“Isn’t it because of the poison?”

Kielce nodded in response to Deus’ question.

“Yes. And we hunted the Hydra through a courageous battle.”

The queen praised Kielce’s achievement with a satisfied expression.

“That’s great. “Lord Kielce, your works are worth more than gold!”

“It’s okay, but that poisonous hydra didn’t do it.”

“Then Earth Dragon’s…

“Not that earthworm bastard either.”

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