Chapter 316 – The Intention is Impure

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“Hah……”

Breathing heavily, she tried to revive her memories.

But nothing came to mind.

To be exact, it was impossible because her head was so complicated.

“What on earth……?”

The muscles, skin, blood of the body, every single drop, everything was unfamiliar as if it were not her own. It was as alien as the scenery visible before her eyes now.

“Hah, hah……”

Nevertheless, as she tried to force her steps.

Squish.

“!”

Something sticky caught her step.

It was blood.

Cold, dark, sticky blood on her foot.

No, it was unpleasantly wrapping around her entire body.

“What?”

A question arose in her cloudy mind.

……Unpleasant.

Why did I consider blood unpleasant?

‘This is the blood of a sacrifice.’

Even in a dizzying situation, what she didn’t forget was her instinct as a demon. Negative emotions, the source of power. In a ritual offering something as a sacrifice, negative emotions were maximized.

So she should have welcomed being drenched in blood right now.

“Ugh!”

Beyond being unpleasant, it was disgusting to the point of retching.

In the midst of confusion, the mixed-blood demon staggered.

She barely grabbed the wall and looked around.

‘……This is not my hometown.’

It was like a fortress built of iron on all sides.

There were even unidentifiable complex machines attached everywhere on the walls.

Everything was things she had never seen in her hometown.

The mixed-blood demon, chewing over it, flinched.

‘……Hometown?’

Because she couldn’t immediately recall her hometown.

Two words floated around in her confused mind.

Demon Realm and Arcana Continent.

Ugh, her head hurt like it was breaking.

The moment she grabbed her head in pain, a voice was heard.

“I hate sacrifices.”

“……?”

The woman’s voice was high and sticky.

Enough to focus her senses in an instant.

It meant it was beyond enchanting, it was alluring. However, it was strange. Soon, what revealed itself from the darkness was not a woman but a man.

“It’s disgusting. Even if you give me human blood for free, I refuse.”

“……!”

A complex machine attached to the iron wall, CCTV.

What appeared on the recording screen was a demon.

An appearance that would invoke fear just by looking at it.

It was exactly the demon depicted in various media.

However, the mixed-blood demon swallowed dry saliva.

‘……Beautiful.’

At this moment, everyone looking at that demon.

Could not help but be fascinated regardless of its appearance.

Even a fellow demon was no exception.

The demon spoke.

“Now you must be like me, Queen of Mongrels.”

Queen of Mongrels.

“Ugh!”

At that word, her cloudy memories fluctuated.

Mongrel.

It was a word the Seven Great Evils of the Arcana Continent used to belittle the demons of the Demon Realm. And Queen meant. Herself, the only queen among the Demon Kings…… The mixed-blood demon remembered her past.

“Gremory……!”

Rank 56.

Apricot-colored hair.

Radiant skin.

The Demon King who bewitched even humans.

‘Yes, I am Gremory.’

The moment she realized. The past of the mixed-blood demon, Gremory, flashed through her mind like a kaleidoscope. At the same time, she realized what kind of existence the demon in front of her was.

“Lust, you son of a b*tch!!”

“Do you remember my name? I shall praise you.”

“Praise? Me, Gremory……?”

Gremory was a reigning queen.

Far from being welcome, praise should have been considered a humiliation.

Her body did not listen.

Even insults were incomparably sweet like a lover’s whisper.

‘Damn it……!’

Everything happened because of him.

Gremory was not greedy.

Dark Dragon, the Empire’s counterattack, the situation on the Arcana Continent was ominous. Above all, hadn’t she witnessed even the Demon Eye in the sky trembling?

She vowed not to stand out. So she even brought forward the human, the lord she played with to kill time, once again.

It was to disguise the Demon King’s Castle of Tears as a normal human castle.

What she desired was a long and quiet life as a queen, not a life of being hunted while running wild without knowing her place. However, all her plans went awry.

“How dare you deceive me?”

Lust.

Great Evil.

By the Seven Deadly Sins Lust.

Grit!

She wanted to tear the guy in front of her apart in her heart.

‘I can do it.’

The reason she considered blood unpleasant was still unknown, but anyway, she could feel that her body had become stronger with that sacrifice. However, she could not.

“Want to kill me? If you could, you would have desperately resisted when I dragged you into the Rift. But, you couldn’t, could you? I still clearly remember that expression you had, enjoying it even while being dragged by the hair……”

“Shut up! Shut up!”

“No, the one who should shut up is not me but you.”

I have to stay shut up even after hearing such insulting words?

It was the moment Gremory raised her nails.

Lust continued.

“I saved you, Queen.”

“……What?”

“It means all the Demon Kings are dead except for you and the Ten Seats, what else could it be.”

Ten Seats.

Excluding the foolish fathers and herself.

All the Demon Kings were dead?

She couldn’t believe it.

“……Is it true?”

“Of course.”

“Nonsense.”

The first thing that came to mind was the last survivor of Akshan.

It was him.

That Demon Hunter dropped Gamigin of the fourth throne into hell.

With that formidable combat power and cruelty……

There was enough possibility that he had hunted all the remaining Demon Kings.

However.

Gremory spoke sharply.

“I was unconscious for that long? Bullsh*t.”

Since she was also a Demon King, she knew well.

A Demon King is not called the king of demons for nothing.

Gremory continued.

“They would have survived even by hiding or begging.”

Even if the Demon Hunter had such ability. Hunting all the Demon Kings in a short time was an impossible task even if Akshan resurrected.

Lust answered as if he had been waiting.

“Exactly. You weren’t unconscious even for a day.”

“As expected, you’re deceiving me……!”

“But the Demon Kings weren’t hunted either; they were swallowed by the Omen.”

“……Omen? Swallowed?”

She couldn’t understand what he was talking about at all.

However, Lust had no intention of explaining kindly.

The Demon King who escaped the Omen, Gremory.

With this, it became certain.

“As expected, one must not be trapped in a mold, Claudi.”

“Must not be trapped in a mold? What does that mean?”

“It means my blood is circulating in your body.”

“……Wh-What?!”

“Don’t you feel the change? To retch at the sight of blood. Isn’t it clearly different from the mongrel instinct engraved in your body? That change would be the proof.”

Lust muttered with satisfaction.

“As expected of Claudi.”

Demon of the Demon Realm, Gremory.

Demon of the Arcana Continent, Lust.

By mixing the blood of two completely different demons, she became a mixed-blood demon.

It was worth throwing himself into the Rift, a gamble.

“And I like it quite a bit.”

This land was a world more two-faced than the Arcana Continent.

It looked plausible on the outside, but.

It meant it was rotting inside.

Above all, he could easily obtain high-quality sacrifices called adventurers. He could guarantee it. There was no place more suitable for executing his plan than this.

Lust looked at the sprawled corpses of players and spoke coldly.

“Gremory, from now on, it would be beneficial for you to at least struggle.”

“Struggle? Me? Why?”

“By now, Claudi…… No, a mongrel wouldn’t understand. Yes, the last survivor of Akshan must be tracking you. It means do not carelessly waste the blood and life I have given you.”

“……!”

Lust turned his body and disappeared right then.

‘It’s too much even thinking about it again.’

To think there was a survivor in the Claudi family.

And that Claudi threw himself into Akshan.

To become the last survivor even in Akshan.

“There’s a limit to the pranks of fate.”

Tremble.

Lust shivered in fear just recalling that fact. Yes, there was an inevitable reason for Lust to make such a gamble.

“It is time to make a decision.”

If it continues like this, he will be hunted before long.

Because Lust had realized it.

He threw away his pride as a Great Evil, Seven Deadly Sins Lust.

Then a way out was visible.

If it’s a mixed-blood ritual……

More accurately.

‘If I can mix blood with a high-ranking Demon King.’

The possibility of grasping the power to oppose him, who carried both Claudi and Akshan simultaneously. Of course, Gremory, who was nothing but an experimental subject, could not know that fact.

Gremory shouted at the back of Lust’s head.

“You f*cking b*tch. Where is this place that you’re telling me to struggle! It would be different if it were the Arcana Continent…… The world of adventurers. What am I supposed to do in this beggar-like land……!!”

“What do you think mixed blood means?”

“?”

“Wasn’t it the power you craved, mongrel. My authority.”

“!”

Gremory’s expanding pupils.

It wasn’t that she was furious at being called the Queen of Mongrels.

Lust’s authority.

To the extent of submitting even herself, a Demon King.

Stimulating primal instincts powerfully.

If, she could grasp that authority of enchantment……?

Gremory muttered while looking at her blood-soaked body.

“……It might not be bad?”

A bright look returned to her face for the first time.

*

I stood in front of the mirror and adjusted my attire.

From my, Lee Ho-yeol’s perspective, it was still an excessive outfit and sharp creases, but.

Humans are adaptable animals, so I’m getting used to doing this too.

Flutter─

Finally, I draped the Dawn’s jacket over my shoulders and turned my body.

If you ask if I’m going to live up to the name Dawn from early morning.

I wouldn’t be able to refute it.

When I’m already busy enough.

I unintentionally shouldered another burden.

‘I should watch. The Great Mage training.’

Jesse and Mary.

As of today, the Great Mage class quest begins in earnest. I haven’t heard the specific quest goals from Jesse yet. But seeing Mary chose the Zero Mountain Range for the location, it definitely won’t be an easy quest.

‘Since it’s a Great Mage, not any other class.’

A class of a different tier.

Even the Demon Hunter’s class quest becomes unimaginably difficult in the latter half. Of course, it’s absolutely not that I’m worried about that and accompanying the two of them to meddle.

Swish─

I came out of the office and looked at the Mage Tower’s stairs, down below.

The Mage Tower’s stairs were generated in real-time every time I took a step. Since it was early morning, there were no people, and there was nothing blocking my sight to the lowest floor, so I saw the portal right away.

The top priority was that.

It was exactly that portal.

More precisely, the modification of the portal.

─ Advancement Toward the Bizarre (In Progress)

● Grasp the origin of the Mage Tower. (Success)

● Track the unknown origin, the Omen. (Failure)

● Open up a new solution. (In Progress)

Since I witnessed the possibility in twilight magic.

It meant I had to find a way to add twilight to the portal’s interference process.

‘Actually, I was planning to get it for free.’

The last day on the Arcana Continent.

I, who repeated mana exhaustion and recovery, was able to return to reality with Mary’s assistance. So I thought Mary might be able to easily modify the Mage Tower’s portal.

-“Exploration, interference, manifestation…… There was such a foundation.”

But after a brief conversation, I realized it would be impossible.

To give a simple example, twilight was primitive magic.

It meant twilight magic and mana were more primal, and therefore, rampaged intensely.

So I made an estimate.

‘Rather than Mary learning the current magic.’

It would be much faster for me to learn twilight magic. That’s why even while being faithful to my duties. I’m moving my steps from early morning to learn even by stealing glances over their shoulders.

The Mage Tower in the early morning was quiet.

The mages of the Mage Tower were also human, so they had to sleep.
For they were closer to superhumans than humans, didn’t they not need sleep?

‘There is an excellent counterexample to that question.’

The cat, the Tower Master, who just sprawls out and naps day in and day out.

Of course, I, who suffer from the [First World Tree’s Blessing] effect, am an exception. My body was always in top condition without even having the time to complain of fatigue from lack of sleep.

Thanks to that, I did not miss it.

“……!”

Grrrr─!

The quiet Mage Tower at dawn.

The presence moving impurely.

There really was no time for it to be quiet since early dawn.

Swallowing a sigh was also momentary.

As the Chief, I could not turn a blind eye to what happened in the Mage Tower.

“I believe you are prepared for interfering with the procedure from the start.”

I moved my steps without delay.

The lowest floor of the Mage Tower where the presence was felt.

To the Infinite (無間) in the basement of the Mage Tower.

Clack─