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Episode 44. Replica
The 'Demon's Horn', created through the 'Mashinseong (魔神盛)', a holy relic that also exists in <Let's Kill the Demon King Now>, grants the user great power, but it also has fatal side effects.
'Demonization.'
By accepting the remnants of the death thoughts of the demon Barbatos, you lose your self and become a demon who pursues only your instincts.
“Ugh, euaaaah…… Kwaaaaang!”
Crunch. Crunch.
The process was truly disgusting.
The user's body becomes enlarged with the sound of bones and muscles twisting, while purple mucus flows out from all of the orifices.
The screams filled with agony gradually changed into those of a beast, and at the same time, its eyes became filled with only murderous intent.
“What, what!?”
Joshua, who was watching the scene, took a step back with a look of shock on his face.
“Alphas… This crazy kid! You said I could gain the power of a demon, you didn’t say I could become a demon!”
“Aha! I guess that horn is the thing you brought.”
I let out a small comment as I watched Joshua talking as if the 'horn' was his own.
Since only the Dawn Order knows how to use the 'horn', I thought it was an item brought by a wizard who seemed to be a member of the Dawn Order.
“That, that is…….”
“Alphas, Alphas…….”
Still, thanks to Joshua's monologue, I was able to roughly guess how he acquired the 'horn'.
Alphas Mayhand.
A man among the 'Monsignors' of the Dawn Society who held a particular hostility towards Yurian.
It was not clear what kind of relationship there was between him and Joshua, but there seemed to be some kind of cause and effect.
'The good news is that the horns aren't real, they're replicas.'
A form similar to the demon in the slums we dealt with previously.
It's clearly an extension of the 'demon anomaly' that Eleanor came to me and asked about.
Of course, the 'replica', which is a copy, cannot even half imitate the performance of the horn created by the demon spirit.
A low-grade product that can only produce two-angle output at best due to impurities being mixed in.
“Kruk, kruk……. Kwaak!”
Of course, if it's at the level of a two-legged demon, Joshua, who is in good health, can deal with it to some extent, but it's not an easy opponent for him, who is already exhausted.
Joshua was terrified as he watched the demon gradually becoming more hostile.
Atrophy due to fear.
As if sensing it, the demon-turned-magician turned his head and looked at Joshua.
“Hey, if I win, I can live. I can live.”
Even if it is a replica that is not as good as the original, it does not completely turn into a 'demon' the moment it is used.
It seems that the unconsciousness that remained during that brief moment becomes the principle of action.
“Hee, heeeek!”
The raw, unpolished life.
As it turned towards him, Joshua's face became more distorted than usual.
“Yurien……! I, I was wrong! So kill that demon!”
“Isn’t one of them still alive?”
“You, you are a member of the ‘Cryphat Family’! You must protect me!”
The guy who ignored me, calling me a collateral, and then ambushed me in the mansion to kill me is now asking me to kill a demon.
While Joshua was terrified and begged Yurian, the demon approached him step by step.
The demon's eyes, which showed not a shred of humanity, looked at Joshua.
“I live, I live.”
Pot!
The demon, who had been repeating the same thing over and over again, as if he only had one thought in his head: to live, quickly leapt forward and closed the distance between himself and Joshua.
The wound on his shoulder that had been torn by Joshua's sword had healed during the process of becoming a demon, so there was no unnaturalness in the movements he swung his right arm.
“Ugh, euaaaah!”
Joshua, who had not been slacking off on his training, seemed to instinctively block the demon's arm coming at him with his sword.
“Oh, no!”
visor!
I lost my stamina and dropped my sword due to the impact.
The location where the sword fell was behind Joshua.
If you turn around to pick it up, it is obvious that you will be hit by a quick demon attack and die.
“Haha. If you don’t cheer up, you might really die.”
Joshua, who was looking back and forth between me and the demon who seemed to have lost his mind, started to cry.
“You, Yurian…hyung, hyung. Please….”
Brother? That's ridiculous nonsense.
At the wedding hall, he was the one who spoke passionately about being of lowly blood.
– Creak… … . Creak.
The demon had completely absorbed the horn's magic and turned into a fairy, and the sounds coming out of his throat were more animalistic than human.
As Demon watched Joshua, who had completely lost his will to fight, his eyes turned to me as if he felt something.
'After all, a demon is a demon.'
My body began to tremble as I saw the wizard completely transformed into a demon, losing the little bit of human form he had.
It must be Yurian's instinct as a 'demon hunter'. The disgust boiling deep in his heart soon turned into murderous intent, and it seems the demon sensed it towards him.
'What a fu*king punk.'
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How can you, who hates demons so much, not be able to use your legs to desire 'power'?
I lifted my sword, tongue-licking at the duality of the character 'Yurien'.
– Kaaaaaaah!
The demon felt fear at my life force pouring down on it and rushed at me at incredible speed.
It felt like a similar speed to the two-legged demon I had seen in the previous Julin Special Zone, but to me, who had already completed the 'Moonlight Sword', it seemed so slow that it made me yawn.
“There are bugs crawling.”
How dare you show murderous intent towards me.
Furious that the demon had shown murderous intent towards me, I cut off its leg with the moonlight sword that was dyed in moonlight.
The demon's heavy body was able to deflect Joshua's sword, but when the mana-infused moonlight sword made contact, it split like a piece of paper, and the demon fell forward.
– Ugh!
“Hee, heeeeeeek!”
A loud noise of unknown origin and the demon's purple blood spreading everywhere.
Joshua, who was watching it with eyes filled with fear, let out a strange sound in surprise.
I ignored him and swung my sword again at the fallen demon's shoulder.
– Kwaaaaah!
humming-
In the meantime, the <Natural Inspector> trait sent me a red signal. Sensing danger, I took a step back, and there, the demon's heavy hand cut through the air once.
“Hmm.”
Even though his leg was cut off, he got up fine.
I stared at the demon's appearance with suspicion.
Clearly, I cut off the demon's leg cleanly with the 'Moonlight Sword'… … and bubbles are rising?
Hey? The flesh is regenerating again?
'A demon with regenerative powers.'
In the game's setting, a demon's abilities are usually maximized before being 'demonized', but in some cases, if the remaining consciousness is strong, those abilities are expressed as demon abilities.
William, who became a demon, had regenerative powers either because of his fear of Yurian or because he had a strong desire to 'live.'
“How am I supposed to kill something like that…!”
Unlike Joshua, who was flustered, I felt that things had become easier.
The guy who underwent 'demonization' was originally a wizard.
He was also a human who could use high-level magic of the 4th tier.
Normally, if it had been 'demonized', it would have mutated into a demon with extremely annoying abilities, but if it were simply the ability to 'regenerate'.
It's worth doing.
'Is it because of the <Insight> trait? I can clearly see the core.'
Even demons with regenerative powers are not immortal. Just like a human's 'heart', a demon also has a 'core'.
As time passes, negative human emotions, thoughts, and magic accumulate, and it becomes a 'soul stone'.
'You'll know when you check.'
Thinking so, I drew up my mana to strengthen my physical abilities and rushed at the demon.
– Krrrrrr!
The demon saw me running towards him and swung its right arm with a roar, but I raised my sword diagonally upward from below in time with its rhythm.
Choaaaak──!
– Kwaaaaah!
As I cut off his right arm with the sword imbued with mana, a sickeningly thick stream of blood spurted out, obscuring my vision.
The demon, who had been screaming as if in pain, lunged at me again with his strong left arm, but his behavior pattern was already engraved in my mind.
“You’re making a fuss for no reason.”
“You dare attack me, a ‘demon hunter’. You are truly a piece of ‘scum’.”
I felt sick of the 'Yurien'-like monologue that was blurting out without me knowing, so I turned my waist and swung my sword again.
This time, the left arm.
– Kwaaaaah!
Ignoring the demon's roar, I stabbed my sword at its head as instructed by my <Insight> trait.
Then, bubbles spurted out like a fountain from the demon's arms, showing a look of urgency.
The demon instinctively tried to block my sword by instantly regenerating both of its severed arms to protect its core.
“Die, you filthy worm.”
Surrounded by soft moonlight, I pierced the 'core' on the demon's head before its black, regenerating arms.
“I am the ‘Demon Hunter’ ‘Yurien’. Haha.”
– Ugh, crunch.
The bubbles stopped rising along with the demon's sound as if all its strength had been drained.
The moment the maddening eyes lost focus, it fell down limply like a rag.
‘… … Please die. What are you talking about?’
I looked at Joshua, shivering at the line that came out again like a habit.
“W, that’s ridiculous…….”
Joshua, seeing that sight, muttered in a daze.
I looked at Joshua with a bright smile on my face and shook the thick blood on my sword into the air near him.
Considering that he surprised me in the middle of the night, he deserved to be severely punished, but Joshua was now a man who had a huge stake in the 'Cryphat family'.
'So it might be a good idea to put the leash on in advance.'
Even if it's annoying.
“Please take a seat.”
I smiled brighter than I'd ever smiled before and offered Joshua a chair.
For some reason, above the guy's head was blooming the deepest purple haze I'd ever seen.
“Yes, yes! Brother!”
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“It’s a replica horn…….”
After I finished sorting out the incident, I cut off the demon's horn and put it in the storage box, muttering.
Who would have thought that the 'replica' I saw in the slums would be seen in the imperial capital at this time?
Even in the original story, the Dawn Society's hand extends to the system, and many problems arise because of this 'replica'.
“It’s too fast.”
Normally, this would happen after the sword master's disciple, Linne Rondobell, graduates from the academy.
This is because the object of Linnaeus's burning desire for revenge is closely related to the creator of 'Replica'.
Because of this, the story related to this 'replica' often revolved around her.
'I'm not a player right now, so I don't think I'll get deeply involved with her… … .'
Still, it feels like it's too soon to see a 'replica' in the system.
I took a step and moved towards the window.
A full moon rose in the sky with an open view and came into my sight.
“If this had been the planned procedure, it would have been the ‘Black Knight’ who stopped the development of the replica horn.”
Black Knight.
The main character in the game who hides his identity with a black mask in the Imperial Capital and secretly suppresses the activities of the Dawning Society with powerful force.
His true identity is that of the player's spokesperson and protagonist, the swordsman 'Hayden Reich'.
'If the 'Black Knight' had already appeared, the appearance of the replica horns wouldn't have been this quick, and it would be normal for there to be at least some rumors going around.'
How can the system be so quiet?
As the story progresses, he begins to shake off the nickname of 'Black Knight' after he stops the Bishop of the Dawn Society, 'Pintel', from retrieving the soul stone.
'Thanks to that, I remember Pintel's name clearly.'
The turning point in the game's story was 'Stopping Bishop Pintel'.
'But it's still too quiet.'
Has the 'Black Knight' not appeared yet?
'Then… … that's difficult.'
From my perspective of wanting to prevent the resurrection of the Demon God and disband the Dawn Society, the 'Black Knight' is a hidden comrade.
If such a ‘black knight’ does not act… … .
'No, that can't be.'
I shook my head from side to side, gathering my thoughts.
There is no way that the Black Knight 'Hayden Reich' would ignore the danger to his people. This stems from my trust in 'Hayden Reich', regardless of the story's progression.
Because he is the main character.
'Anyway, what's important now is… … .'
Shaking off my thoughts, I turned my gaze to the container containing the demon horn.
“It seems like we need an example.”