Chapter 284 – Trivial Things

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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Great evil.

Seven Deadly Sins.

Noble ugliness.

There are countless aliases referring to itself.

However, there wasn’t a single one that sounded satisfactory.

Because it was born that way.

『I am envious.

Madly envious.

To the point of wanting to destroy what I cannot have.』

From the moment it was born to eternity.

Longing for something.

An existence born to have no choice but to live ‘envying’ something.

Seven Deadly Sins, Envy.

However, in the recent Arcana Continent, there was nothing to envy.

To the point its severed right arm became meaningless.

It could maintain its composure without difficulty.

『There are days when half-breeds are helpful too.』

The continent trampled by the half-breeds of the Demon Realm was silent.

Envy liked that silence.

What were those trivial things so happy about.

The endless laughter of humans couldn’t be heard either.

Because it didn’t have to watch their appearances that it wanted to destroy.

『I shall praise you, Kings of half-breeds.』

Especially the Demon Kings.

Even those who grated on its nerves by leading groups, claiming to be Kings of half-breeds. It didn’t know the reasoning, but they shrank back extensively and did not reveal their figures.

Envy looked at its severed right arm.

『Fucking Akshan. Fucking Demon Hunter…….』

Although it lost its right arm to that guy.

If it’s an Arcana Continent like this.

It didn’t necessarily have to turn its eyes to another world chasing after peace.

It wasn’t bad.

“Fucking hell……!!”

Overnight.

Until it fell into the adventurers’ world along with the Zero Mountain Range.

How did it realize that fact while being stuck in a cave?

Thump thump─

Because the beating of its heart was different from the start.

Just what kind of world is this?

The entire aggregate of negative emotions is on a different level.

Even if compared to the current Arcana Continent full of despair.

It was to the extent it couldn’t even be compared.

“……Karimzheva.”

So that greenhorn wasn’t trying to blindly summon it to this place.

However, while admiring it, Envy did not forget.

That in this world, Akshan’s survivor, the Demon Hunter, is alive.

Even the words that man left to it.

-“Demon who lost its right arm. I have remembered that fact.”

Envy looked at its own right arm.

“Tch.”

It’s a flesh raging with vitality.

A wound should have regenerated long ago.

The right arm severed by the Demon Hunter did not grow back.

If by any chance, it faces him in this state…….

‘……This time for sure I will be shoved into hell.’

Just like Seven Deadly Sins Greed and Demon King Decarabia.

That fear made Envy hide into an even deeper darkness.

It dug into an even deeper cave, a much more inconspicuous cave.

However, Envy’s reclusive life did not last long.

Because players existed in the Zero Mountain Range.

“I-It’s an appearance message……!!”

“Lord……!!”

“Great Evil, Seven Deadly Sins Envy, is it.”

I must kill them.

Envy thought so looking at the adventurers who entered the cave.

It had thought so since the Arcana Continent.

That there is no other race as trivial yet grating on the nerves as adventurers.

Crack crackle!

Envy’s flesh distorts hideously.

The flesh disguised as a human bursting out.

It transformed into the massive build of the original Envy.

“Trivial race, resent being born foolishly.”

Adventurers.

They were existences more foolish than the humans of the Arcana Continent.

Paling the authority called resurrection, which not even he himself possessed.

A race incomparably weak.

Even so, what was so joyful.

Those existences who gathered among themselves and roamed all over the continent.

Those existences who madly grated on its nerves.

Therefore, he would end their lives, he thought.

“……?”

However, Envy did not do so.

Because he didn’t feel any envy from the adventurer he faced.

It was an impression surprising even to himself.

“Lord, perhaps you should evacuate from this place……!!”

Lord.

The man called so was surrounded by countless people.

Countless humans throw their bodies to protect one man.

It was definitely a sight that should have twisted its insides looking at it.

‘How strange.’

Rather, its mind became composed.

To such Envy, the man.

Liu Ouzhunchun opened his mouth.

“Great Evil.”

“?”

“Are you not curious about the world of adventurers?”

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Envy draped a ragged mat and headed to World Unification’s assembly place.

Countless humans are gathered at the promised location.

Envy let out a laugh out of dumbfoundedness.

“The most foolish out of all foolish ones.”

Liu Ouzhunchun.

To regard him as their Lord and follow him.

The reason Envy felt composure from Liu Ouzhunchun was nothing else. Yes, because despite being a human, that guy possessed malice no different from a demon.

“There’s no way I would feel envy from that ugliness.”

That stimulated Envy’s interest.

“I do not know what kind of objective you have.”

Nevertheless, watching humans despair failing to reach their objectives.

Because it was always a joyful thing.

Above all, Liu Ouzhunchun had value.

He provided information without even grating on its nerves.

Liu Ouzhunchun.

If it weren’t for him.

Demon Hunter.

That name.

Alias.

Even what kind of existence he is in the adventurers’ world.

It wouldn’t have been able to know.

Being able to freely roam the mountain range like this was also thanks to the information he provided.

“He probably cannot feel my presence.”

Because right at this moment, that guy would be stuck in a cave in the Zero Mountain Range.

Seizing that gap to devour the prepared sacrifices was an easy task.

The sight of adventurers visible from afar.

Envy smacked its lips.

“I shall accept them gladly.”

Then it thought.

‘Snatching that guy’s body wouldn’t be bad either.’

Liu Ouzhunchun was un-human-like in many ways. Thus, possessing his body and living in the world of adventurers didn’t seem so bad either. Above all, because it would be able to conceal this right arm.

In front of Envy who set up a plan, players blocked the way.

“What kind of bastard is this now?”

Red insignia.

Liu Ouzhunchun’s subordinates.

A few showed blatant hostility.

‘They’d have no choice but to do so.’

Because they would be in a state highly provoked due to discord.

How pitiful.

That everything up until now was Liu Ouzhunchun’s scheme.

To offer them as sacrifices to itself.

Not even knowing that.

They were about to die, looking at it.

Crunch─

Instead of an answer, Envy expressed the malice it had hidden.

A massive hand popping out of its ribs.

Instantly crushing and absorbing those surrounding it.

“Ughhhhh……?”

Humans rolling their eyes back along with death throes.

“!!!”

Even those who drew their weapons, extremely startled by the sight.

They posed zero threat to Envy.

It was inevitable.

“Weak. Boundlessly weak.”

Even players classified as the upper ranks in World Unification were barely level 500. Considering the recently resurrected Greed was level 600, there was not a bit of lie in Envy’s words.

Crunch!

Crack crackle!

Crunch!

However, Envy did not complain.

The Demon Hunter who severed its arm, Lee Ho-yeol.

Having fallen into the same world as him right now.

‘I must devour indiscriminately.’

It had to quickly increase its power.

In that sense, the world of adventurers.

Reality was an extremely suitable place.

“Good. The spices compensate for the inadequacy of the ingredients.”

It was the moment Envy formed a smile, albeit small.

In this place which should be filled with fear.

Why is it.

An incomparably hearty voice was heard.

“This is an unexpected situation, then!”

“What’s different? We were all gonna die except for us later on anyway. I don’t know what kind of circumstances are tangled in that complete bullshit, but isn’t it fine as long as the result is exactly the same?”

“Uhaha! As expected, you have a side that clicks with me.”

Gulp.

Envy swallowed the human it had been holding entirely.

It looked at the two men.

Then moved its gaze and looked at the惨상 (tragic scene).

Scattered flesh and blood all over the mountain range.

A sudden situational change.

If they were humans, they would have no choice but to be frozen, stricken with terror.

The two men were excessively fine.

As if they were completely accustomed to such a tragic scene.

Scratch scratch.

The large man, Rakkid, scratched his head.

“So there’s no newly transmitted plan?”

“Hahat! Since when were we proficient in magic.”

“Asked something useless.”

Rakkid, himself and Henderson were martial artists.

Meaning they were laymen regarding magic, naturally they couldn’t communicate with Wolf’s side. However, in such a situation, as if Wolf would have a dog’s shit of a plan.

“Even so, it’s troublesome if everyone dies, right. Isn’t there a limit to that gloomy woman reviving corpses with magic too?”

“Gloomy woman? Isabelle Marl? The person hearing it would feel sad. Haha!”

“Stop giggling and let’s do something about that bastard first.”

Swish─

Rakkid threw off the rabbit mask and hoisted his axe.

A race that makes you feel unpleasant just by looking at it…….

As expected, it could only be demons.

Clang─

Just like Rakkid.

Henderson hoisting his hammer.

Rakkid said to Henderson.

“Hey, make sure you don’t get scared.”

“Uhaha. Please, I wish I could experience that.”

“As expected, I said something useless.”

Clash!

The battle commenced simultaneously with that.

That entire situation was being shared with the Shadow Mercenaries through Nadivo.

Alkali intentionally let out a groan.

“……Hmm.”

The only one who realized the meaning was Vice Commander Wolf.

“I was vaguely thinking about it.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Liu Ouzhunchun. Wondering if the Monarch of Adventurers really didn’t know his group was rotting away. Because this went beyond ignorance and was rather at the level of instigating it.”

“Hmm…….”

“Thanks to that, my mind has cleared up now instead.”

But what if they considered that oddball as a demon?

All doubts are resolved.

Liu Ouzhunchun and that demon are in a symbiotic relationship.

Assuming Liu Ouzhunchun tossed his own subordinates to the demon according to their mutual interests, that is.

“His subordinates were a kind of sacrifice, you mean.”

Wolf raised the corners of his mouth.

“My, to think there’d be another piece of trash matching us.”

Alkali chimed in.

“Considering the difference in the years lived, I wonder if he’s worse than us. An evil deed miles ahead of this old man’s thoughts. I have no choice but to admit it now, I underestimated the Monarch of Adventurers.”

It was not sarcasm but sincerity.

Alkali had observed the hegemony of the Arcana Continent.

The Monarchs who survived on the Arcana Continent did not survive because they were wise rulers. They survived because they were merciless to the extent of being called tyrants by some.

Alkali asks Wolf.

“So what do you plan to do, Acting Commander Wolf?”

The gazes of all the Shadow Mercenaries head towards Wolf.

“Well.”

Wolf imagined.

If it were the Commander, if it were Kitch, what judgment would she have made?

And then he shook his head.

If it were Kitch, she wouldn’t have set up such plans in the first place.

Because she would have tried to solve everything on her own.

In that aspect, he was weak unlike her.

‘Since I dragged in everyone the Commander wanted to protect.’

However, wanting to protect is the same on this side too.

Shadow Mercenaries, everyone.

Because we moved in order to find you.

Wolf opened his mouth as if it was obvious.

“First, let’s beat him half to death like us and then think about it.”

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Envy looked down.

“Just in case.”

The headcount is ‘nine’.

Unlike what it knew, one was missing.

However, it realized upon seeing the brand wrapped around the man’s body.

『The Shadow God’s Brand』

That they are indeed the Shadow Mercenaries.

Envy looked down at its own body.

Its mangled flesh continuously twitches and regenerates.

Envy evaluated objectively.

“Surprising.”

It didn’t expect to suffer this much damage against humans in a situation so advantageous to itself, a demon. Envy spoke, newly recalling the past.

“As expected, entrusting the request to you wasn’t for nothing.”

“…….”

Wolf clutched his torn side.

Not even the Commander…….

He felt like it was his first time blaming Henderson and Rakkid.

‘To not feel fear, that crucial emotion.’

Because they were overly nonchalant, he was mistaken.

Meaning he thought it was an ordinary demon.

Damn it, anyone could tell it’s no ordinary demon.

Suffering directly and realizing it wasn’t enough.

He could know from the words Kitch left behind, you see.

-“To verify that it’s a request from a Great Evil.”

Thanks to that, the moment the guy mentioned a request.

He became certain.

That guy is precisely a Great Evil.

However, the following words vastly exceeded expectations.

“Since you have also faithfully carried out that heavy request.”

The side was torn off.

“What……?”

Cough!

The damage to his organs including his lungs is severe.

Just twitching.

Just drawing a breath is fatal damage.

However, Wolf continued speaking even while vomiting blood.

Absolutely.

He had to ask.

‘We carried out the request perfectly, you say……?’

Kitch definitely said.

The request of a Great Evil.

That it was one of the malicious requests remaining in the ledger because it hadn’t been resolved for a long time. If she verified what the request of the Great Evil was, it would be of help to the General Commander.

Accordingly, it was Kitch who accompanied the General Commander’s entry into the Arcana Continent.

Only then did Wolf realize.

‘……You knew from the beginning, Commander.’

The one who can flip open the request ledger.

Is only the Commander of the Shadow Mercenaries.

There’s no way she would have been confused about the contents of the request or whether it was successful.

Wolf suddenly flinched.

‘……Wait a minute.’

Kitch concealed her traces.

Leaving behind only words to the General Commander that she would take all responsibility.

That point in time would be after verifying what the Great Evil’s request was once again.

The flow of thoughts flowing naturally.

Soon, Wolf arrived at a conclusion.

‘……The Great Evil’s request was related to the General Commander.’

Only now does Kitch’s behavior begin to make sense.

“Haha…….”

So that’s why she left behind such bullshit and concealed her traces.

“It got twisted up fucking badly, this…….”

Wolf recalled Ho-yeol then dropped his head.

Because Kitch’s behavior, which had been resentful, started to be understood.

Perhaps he would have made the same judgment himself.

However, he must ask this at least.

Wolf forcefully opens his mouth towards Envy.

“The contents of that request is……. What was it?”

“Do you not know regarding that?”

“That’s right……. It hasn’t been many days since I became Commander.”

A human of the Arcana Continent met after a long while.

Answering wasn’t a difficult thing.

It was the moment Envy nonchalantly tried to open its mouth.

“Clau…….”

A sound rang in his ears.

“……!!!”

That wasn’t the groans of the fallen Shadow Mercenaries either.

Nor was it Wolf’s voice.

Wolf.

It was the howling of a real wolf.

In other words.

“Awooooooooo─!!!”

It was a Tempest overshadowing the mountain range.