Chapter 256 – It Is Not a Request, It Is an Order (1)

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Acquiring [Aesthetic] or [Tenacity].

Or just like when unlocking the [Title] system.

Knowledge regarding the [Legend] dug into my mind.

But, it is a bit difficult to explain this in words……?

Unlike the aforementioned stats, its effects were not clear.

Why, should I say it lived up to its name as a Legend.

Just like how all the legends you commonly hear are vague.

The effect of a [Legend] could not be easily described either.

‘Still, to explain it simply.’

This was undeniably a growth-type system.

‘The more widely it is known, the more its effects multiply…….’

If it were an ordinary player, wouldn’t they rejoice at this point?

You gained a new ability.

And it is not a one-time thing, but a growth-type ability.

Above all, its name was also incomparably grandiose as a [Legend].

However, at this moment, I could not rejoice in the slightest.

[You acquire the Legend, ‘Dark Dragon Lee Ho-yeol’.]

To think the name of the legend is Dark Dragon Lee Ho-yeol……!

In order to improve this ability.

I have to spread that horrifying legend even more widely……!

If it were up to my true feelings, I would just want to sit down right here and do nothing.

‘……I cannot walk around with my face held high.’

The dog-like suffering I went through in reality flashes through my mind.

I am precisely the Dark Dragon.

Just how much had I fretted to hide that fact?

Yet, making all that suffering pointless.

On the Arcana Continent.

To think rumors had already spread to the point of becoming a legend.

‘Just who on earth is it!’

I called upon Hiel.

From his days as a Lesser Spirit, Hiel was well-versed in the news of the Arcana Continent.

If it were news about me being talked about enough to become a legend, he should be able to find the source of it without difficulty.

Shortly after, Hiel revealed himself from thin air and bowed his head as always.

“Hiel greets his Liege, the Dark Dragon.”

……Hiel, even you are doing this?!

Just Liege alone is immensely shameful.

Please, do not add that cumbersome alias, I beg you.

However, there was a valid reason for that title.

‘Eunaxus, the Dwarves, and the Emperor……?’

The legend of Dark Dragon Lee Ho-yeol.

Because that was a collaborative legend created jointly by dragons, spirits, dwarves, and humans! The moment Hiel finished speaking, I calmed my mind down first.

‘……It’s not like I can demand an answer from anyone anyway.’

Because there were too many people involved.

Meaning I could not hold anyone accountable.

Moreover, their intention.

That intention was incomparably satisfying to Granfel’s standards.

“A wise judgment.”

To think they would suppress the momentum of the demons through the legend of the Dark Dragon.

Everyone hasn’t been eating their years of experience for nothing.

To think they would reverse the momentum of the Arcana Continent.

In a way I hadn’t even imagined.

‘In the end, this was also out of goodwill.’

Isn’t this Granfel, the very same person who generously tolerated even the Tower Master’s cat-like handling of work?

Inasmuch as it was a situation stemming from goodwill.

Regardless of how I, Lee Ho-yeol, felt.

I shouldn’t be able to show any signs of dislike.

However, I still could not understand.

Let’s say Eunaxus, Chainwalker, and Hiel are one thing.

Since those three are on my side.

On top of that, having been completely blinded.

They are holding me in excessively high regard, so I can understand.

But Emperor, just why did you do that……?

‘Why did you participate in the idolization process?’

According to Hiel’s words.

The Emperor had apparently officially declared it in front of the people of Antonium.

That adventurer Lee Ho-yeol was precisely that Dark Dragon.

‘……Should I consider it fortunate that I wasn’t there.’

Since it was publicly declared in the name of the Emperor.

Considering the flow of time on the Arcana Continent…….

It was no wonder that my tracks had been reborn into a legend.

More than that.

“Thanks to that, it seems everyone is prostrating themselves looking quite good.”

The medicine of the legend was no joke.

I am not talking about the effect of the newly unlocked system, [Legend].

The presence of demons that can be felt only because I am a Demon Hunter.

Compared to when I just stepped onto the Arcana Continent right before.

It meant that the presence of the demons had visibly softened.

‘Even so, I can’t really complain, honestly…….’

What can I do, in the end, this must be my fate as well.

However, with this.

I must be desperate not only in reality but also on the Arcana Continent.

Why? Because I will have to block this damn legend drifting across the Arcana Continent.

As much as possible so it doesn’t overflow into reality!

‘To do that, first of all.’

The best thing to do would be to make Kitch keep her mouth shut.

Though it goes without saying, it was unknown.

In what location Kitch had dropped onto the Arcana Continent.

‘She’ll take care of it herself.’

Then again, Kitch isn’t a weak individual who needs me to worry about her.

Since the meeting place and deadline have been set.

Let’s worry about my own future instead of worrying about Kitch, Ho-yeol.

I asked Hiel.

“Have you heard any news regarding the elves, Hiel.”

“I am sorry to say that I have not received an answer.”

“There is no need to apologize. That must also be their ability.”

Hiel’s information gathering is carried out through nature.

Whether reading the memories of leaves fluttering in the wind.

Or likewise hearing the voices of pollen drifting through the air.

However, the problem was that elves also possessed a similar ability.

‘They enforced an ironclad gag order.’

Just what kind of shady deeds are they going around doing.

To the point they enforced a gag order even on nature.

I would need to check up on them while I’m at it.

In that sense, locating Agentress and the elves he leads is a priority. So, if you ask how I can pinpoint their location…….

I shall confidently show my inventory.

It is the [Telescope of the Demonic Eye] viewed from the Arcana Continent.

Why, wouldn’t it look even more vivid than viewing it in reality?

*

Crunch!

Agentress trampled upon a pile of rocks.

It was not some commonly rolling stone.

It was the remnants of a castle wall that could not be crumbled by an ordinary siege weapon.

“Please, just let me keep my life!”

Crash.

The one heavily smashing his head against the floor was a demon.

He was neither a demon categorized by a regular rank nor a True Name Demon.

He was the king of demons called a king, a Demon King.

Rank 30.

Demon King Shalkirawy’s mind was in chaos.

Trickle!

Just how forcefully had he slammed his head against the floor.

The blood flowing down his forehead completely covered his vision.

However, even in his cloudy vision, he could see it clearly.

‘Annihilation.’

The sprawled corpses.

An elite Demon King’s army of roughly ten thousand and thirty Demon Legion Commanders.

The time it took for his entire army, excluding himself, to be annihilated was merely half a day.

‘By a mere hundred of them……!’

Just as a wall existed between a Demon King and ordinary demons.

A wall also existed between the elves and himself.

And the thickness of that wall…….

‘Is thicker than the difference between me and a lesser demon.’

There was a separate term for such a wall.

Yes, this was a difference in ‘class’.

Shalkirawy was experiencing it firsthand.

‘With my current self, I cannot overcome this.’

That was why he tossed aside a Demon King’s dignity and banged his head.

He begged for his life from an existence of a different class.

Agentress looked at such a Shalkirawy indifferently.

“O King of demons.”

“King, you say. That is an absurd statement, Sir!”

“I did not expect to hear a Demon King call me Sir.”

Agentress let out a sneer.

“Unlike other kings, you possess the attitude to converse.”

A race as lowly as humans, demons.

The reason Agentress mixed words with him was simple.

Agentress continued speaking coldly.

“Tell me the whereabouts of the Great Evil, Gluttony.”

As time passed, the energy of life was fading.

The Demon King’s castle that collapsed in half a day was proof of that.

If it were back when the Mother’s blessing was fully intact, quite literally.

He would have caused it to fall in an instant.

‘My aging is progressing rapidly.’

Himself and his kin, all of them.

However, the one who was more urgent than anyone else was himself.

Because he, the Primordial Elf, had lived through a much longer time than his kin.

Therefore, Agentress made a decision.

That he himself would be the first to accept Gluttony’s proposal.

But unfortunately, things went awry.

“Where have you hidden that Great Evil.”

Since that day, Gluttony’s tracks were completely lost.

While chasing the whereabouts of the blessing, Agentress also chased after Gluttony.

And during that, he stumbled upon him.

Demon King Shalkirawy, who perhaps might know the whereabouts of Gluttony.

“I have no knowledge regarding him, Sir……!!”

However, the answer was below expectations.

No, since he hadn’t even held expectations for a lowly race.

Should he say it was exactly as expected.

Step.

It was the moment he was about to turn his body around without saying a word.

Shalkirawy intuited it.

The moment Agentress completely turned his head.

That he would instantly become a pincushion for arrows and have his breathing stopped.

Shalkirawy hurriedly opened his mouth.

“However, I shall dare to tell you, Sir!”

Agentress stopped with his body turned halfway.

Depending on the words he spat out, his life was on the line.

Shalkirawy continued talking.

“Even if you ask around the other Demon Kings including myself, you will absolutely never locate the Great Evil’s tracks. It is absolutely not that we are trying to protect them. Do you not know it as well, Sir? That demons are a lowly race capable of only thinking of themselves!!”

Agentress asks.

“The reason?”

“Because the Great Evil and we are fundamentally different.”

“Fundamentally different?”

“That is correct.”

Great Evil.

They were an evil that existed on the Arcana Continent.

Since before the Arcana Continent and the Demon Realm were connected.

Shalkirawy continued talking, still keeping his head flat on the ground.

“We humble Demon Kings and the Great Evil are not in a cooperative relationship. We are in a competitive relationship where we wish to bite into each other’s napes and forces at any time!”

Gulp.

Was it because he was exceedingly nervous.

When he finished speaking up to there, his throat burned.

Shalkirawy moistened his throat with his flowing blood.

Then he racked his brain.

‘……I can live if I sell out the Great Evil.’

It didn’t matter if the elf saw through his inside.

Since he did not speak a lie.

Shalkirawy spoke containing the utmost sincerity.

“It is unfair for me, Sir! It is unfair that I have to die by your hands, Sir, because of that Great Evil bastard. However, please know. That this unfairness is directed not towards you, Sir, but towards the Great Evil, Gluttony!!”

Shalkirawy knows himself well.

He was one of the very few demons capable of knowing their place.

That was the power that allowed the unexceptional Shalkirawy.

To climb to the seat of Rank 30 Demon King.

However.

Whoosh.

The problem was that he overlooked his opponent.

Agentress simply turned his body around.

Wondering what nonsense he was talking about.

“I am not curious about the personal stories of lowly things.”

In the end, he didn’t have the answer to what he asked, did he?

The moment Agentress completely turned around.

Twang!

The bowstring was released and.

Swoosh!

The arrow that shot out.

Thwack!

Pierced right through Shalkirawy.

It was instant death.

It was too insignificant to be called the end of a Rank 30 Demon King.

“It was a genuinely classless conversation.”

Agentress gestured.

The given time wasn’t long so they had to hurry.

At that, the elves lined up and finished preparing to move.

But their footsteps never fell.

“……!”

Five senses superior to all races except dragons.

The intuition based on that was sounding an alarm.

The cluster of magic light flickering from afar.

The existence slowly revealing itself was.

Incomparably dangerous.

Even so, no one raised their bow.

To be precise, it was because no one could move.

……My body is not listening to me?

Their entire bodies stiffened like stone so their feet couldn’t drop.

Nor could their fingers move.

They couldn’t even shift their gazes.

It was the utmost they could do to barely open their mouths.

“Lord Agentress……?”

If it’s Lord Agentress, surely.

He would find the cause and resolve it for them.

The elves were sending infinite trust to Agentress.

That was why they could afford to send hostile gazes.

To the man who soon completely revealed himself.

Thus, they did not know.

At this moment.

‘……I can’t believe it.’

What kind of expression the Agentress they trusted so much was making.

It was a shock that went beyond surprise.

It was a distortion that went beyond a frown.

However, no matter how hard he glared, nothing changed.

A brilliant silver light.

It decidedly belonged to Claudi, and.

The presence he felt was.

Undoubtedly the Mother’s blessing.

Agentress mumbled to himself without realizing.

“……This cannot be!”

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I have no intention of praising you for destroying the Demon King’s castle.

Because your impure intentions.

I’ve just confirmed all of them through the [Telescope of the Demonic Eye].

So don’t even think about leaving the scene.

Since you guys are all caught red-handed.

As long as the [Blessing of the First World Tree] exists.

The relationship between me and the elves.

Is a natural enemy relationship greater than that of a Demon Hunter and a demon.

Which means from now on, I don’t need to worry about taking responsibility for the words I spit out. It means it doesn’t matter how arrogant Granfel’s remarks are.

“Do not dare to discuss class in front of me.”

Since my ‘class’ is different from yours.

[The ‘Hierarchy of Blessings’ triggers for Elf, Agentress, and the elves.]