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Chapter 101: Quest Almost Done...! Another Demon?
Chapter 101: Quest Almost Done...! Another Demon?
The party pushed further into the dark, murky caves. All light seemed to vanish with each step and twisting corners. Ryuji's eyes shone neon blue in the light, revealing his perfect vision. He sured to watch every crevice for movemt to protect his party members.
I can hear their disgusting little feet scampering a.
Ryuji's metamorphosis into a demon sped up after they escaped from the dungeon. The changes in his mind and actions underwt a drastic shift. At first, he was oblivious to the dungeon's dangers, almost leading his allies into harm's way.
"Be careful; don't speak too much because their hearing is extremely good."
Yet now, his ears, eyes, and nose focused to the max as he spread his sses like a net in order to detect ev the smallest bug movemt.
They skittered within the walls, their sinister intt clear—to circle and ambush the party.
"Yumiko, be careful of stepping too far forward, there is an oil trap two steps ahead of you." Ryuji's voice became clear, commanding and acute.
"Mm? You're right. It's hidd under some strange fur! Ryuji loves me the most, ehehe."
It made Liana and Yumiko more focused instead of his habit of adding jokes or flirting. Wh they tered a dungeon or dangerous space, Ryuji would transform from his aura to his voice and actions.
"Liana, shine your torch to the upper left of your body. Goblins are coming from that small crack."
"Eh? Are you sure?"
"I am. Please, attack now."
Ryuji's sincere and warm voice felt strange, like a soothing melody drawing the listers to follow his orders and words, making them desire to submit to him.
This attribute was a clear sign of his imperial demonic blood.
The demons are a violt race who love combat. How else would they follow a certain member or bloodline if not for a certain charm or ability to make the demons follow them with suggestions and an unbreakable control?
Liana's doubts about Ryuji were at their maximum, yet she still followed his orders, submitting to his demonic charm ev wh doubting his origins.
A crackle of black lightning formed a whip before she snapped her wrist, and the howls of pain soon followed, causing her eyes to wid.
In the darkness, where she could only see flickers of light, he could not only predict their movemts but the place and timing in which to attack them, using her magic and not his own, made Liana's body shudder.
Whether in fear or awe, she didn't understand.
[Rank - F Quest: Goblin Clearance]
[5/5 Goblin Scouts Killed] (Complete!)
[5/ Goblin Warriors Killed]
[0/ Goblin Shaman Killed]
[0/ Goblin Cavern Explored]
—Level Up!
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Status
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Name: Ryuji Vinczo
Title: Deathbringer (Kobold), Murderer (Human)
st Class: Berserker: Lv.5
nd Class: Demon Lord: Lv.5 (Hidd to Others)
Rage: 0/ (0 Reserved) [40% damage resist] [50% Fire Resist]
Rank: C / S (Hidd)
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Attributes
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Strgth: 63 -> 65 (+3)
Agility: 8 -> 9 (+5)
Stamina: 30 (+3)
Grit: 69 -> 7 (+)
Intellect: 48 -> 5 (+3)
[Learned new Berserker skill]
[Gained a new Demon Lord's skill]
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Skills
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[Berserker]
Blood Fever: Use up to 50 Rage to heal yourself for a moderate to significant amount.
It cannot stop death, repair organs, but can replace brok bones.
[Demon Lord]
Voice of Lunacy: Your voice can influce the target, able to increase or decrease their emotions or desires.
It cannot control someone's mind completely or force someone who hates you to like you, but it can affect the body of a target.
Effects can become permant if the target submits to the user.
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Hmm? This skill sounds quite interesting and also dangerous. How does it activate? Who or what are the limits of the vague words of emotion and desire?
"Ryuji? Is everything alright?" Yumiko's soft voice murmured from beside his face, her hand grasping his arm while gazing at him with a worried look.
"I just levelled up and it felt a little intse, don't worry." Ryuji used the voice, intding for his last words to have a calming effect that would relieve Yumiko and Liana. The momt he tried, the feeling and how to use the voice seemed to become second nature to him after using it once, which seemed to be the case with Demon Lord type spells or abilities.
Is it because that class comes from my blood and not from someone else? His curious words faded as the sound of goblins below became more erratic and caused him to become cautious.
"They're trying to flee, we need to hurry or another village or town might get hurt." Ryuji started jogging towards the noise after that, while Liana and Yumiko staggered and chased after him with concern.
"R-Ryuji, wait..."
"You're going too fast!" Liana added to Yumiko's worry as the pair felt his movemts and speed somehow surpassed ev Yumiko, whose speed attributes should be much higher.
"Oh? You're right. Sorry, I won't go as fast." Ryuji glanced back at them before slowing down his jog into a faster walk that they could keep up with, albeit by a small margin. He felt a strange uplifting ssation the momt he reached level five with his second class, like someone removed his seat belt or loosed some restrictions on his body, allowing him to move better...
This reflected because all of his attributes increased several points, which didn't seem normal ev to Ryuji. Another feeling was his thoughts became so clear and flowing the momt his intellect surpassed fifty.
"Yumiko, in the fight focus on protecting Liana so she can handle the mass of useless goblins. Liana, although you find that magic a curse. I think your black lightning is beautiful..." His steps increased in pace, while Liana's face felt like it was burning, because nobody ever complimted her magic ev as comfort before.
"So use it all you like, ev if I must be your target dummy for new spells, I will gladly do so."
Ryuji felt that Liana's doubt towards him and her slight fear of the currt situation might lead to an accidt. Thus he told her something using his new Voice of Lunacy. Though useful in doing harm, he found it also worked for positive messages.
"Let's go!" Yumiko added as they all headed down the dark, gloomy tunnel.
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Down the large oping in the cter of the cavern, they could see the small goblins forming a circle a the ctre of the cave. Their disgusting and contorted faces gazed at a single place, a gre shaman with a more wrinkled appearance compared to the others. The goblin shaman held a bone staff with a large skull at the tip and shouted words in their language.
Ryuji's body seemed to fall forward as his legs exploded with explosive power. He dropped on top of a small goblin scout and smashed it like a ripe watermelon, splattering its disgusting yellow blood and guts everywhere.
His armor was a little thin and suited for light conditions, thus the blood splattered across his face and cloth armor, causing him to wince and bite his lip with anger.
He held his axe tight before swirling like a spinning top, tearing apart several goblins who couldn't avoid him. They soon turned into a mist of blood, splattering everywhere. The fight had begun, and Ryuji's body wt into overdrive.
"HAAH!"
Yumiko's beautiful attacks crushed the faces of two goblins that tried to sneak attack Liana, though the goblins seemed to flee it turned out to be a lie. They were trying to get Ryuji and the others to rush down into their ambush.
The vile goblins covered their large stone-tipped spears with waste and dirt from their own kind. This kind of substance would cause sepsis or disease that needed a high priest to heal the wound.
Goblins were vile creatures who used their dirty bodies and waste to defeat larger and stronger emies. They loved to use poison to weak their emy before killing them, while aiming to keep the females alive.
"Phew." Liana waved her hand while gritting her teeth and with a wave of her hands, a large black lightning formed a her. It was beautiful like a wave, or silk sheet of lightning. She spun her hands, making the lighting form into a ball in her hands before the crackling ergy shot forward, her black lightning arcing from the ball, as it tethered and wiped out the goblins in its path.
[/ Goblin Warriors Killed] (Complete)
"Liana is really amazing, huh?" Yumiko whispered under her breath.
Ryuji and Yumiko were not simple fighters, especially for a C-Rank Berserker and a Beast Warrior. Liana, who could transform her black lightning freely, seemed like a special existce and in the goblin caves, her magic was deadly.
Black Lightning could erase the goblin's weak flesh like a sharp blade, and thanks to the elemtal differce, her magic didn't become dangerous in the dungeon or underg, like fire could reduce oxyg or cause damage to allies.
"This is so easy, goblins are so weak." Liana boasted, before Ryuji's words echoed.
"Not yet. We're sured by the lowest vermin in the world. Be careful and stay focused." Ryuji's calm, commanding tone was a world's differce from his joking tone. Wh a person's life was on the line, people become a lot more focused.
The two couldn't help but glance at Ryuji, and as if ssing their gazes. He stopped in his tracks, sweeping across another group of goblins rushing at him with their dirty weapons, before looking back with a smile. His blue eyes burned bright like a blazing flame, which was reflected in the darkness.
"Don't worry, I'll take all their attacks, just focus on killing them."
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Meanwhile, in the same cave, a pair of eyes stalked in the darkness; a strange figure cloaked in darkness, with fluttering black wings and a long tail with a heart shape at the tip, floated into the goblin cave, her curled horns like a ram and a face that, wh revealed, could stun any man.
She was the infamous demonic race, loved and feared by all m. Being a succubus, she investigated within the kingdom upon detecting a certain mana signature.
"Human and Beastkin wom? Only a Demon can protect you." She licked her red lips and crossed her arms across her perky and plump chest with a strange smile on her face. "To think the true demon king would be hiding in a group of heroes. How amusing…but he looks amazingly delicious!"
Her soft pink hair and beautiful gold eyes shone like torches as she used the succubus' innate magic to appear invisible while floating a the battlefield.
Ryuji was destroying his emies and focused on getting closer to the goblin shaman, who controlled the other goblins to swarm him instead.
"I can't reach him! Yumiko, Liana, do what you can! I'm fine, my stamina will hold!" Ryuji yelled, while chopping several goblins in half with his axe while his other hand grabbed one by the neck and snapped it before tossing it at the shaman, blocking the foul bolt of necrotic magic it shot towards him, instantly melting the body into a rotting pile of mush.
"Such a powerful and sexy demon king... we hav't had a male leader in all of history... how amusing~ how wonderful for us."
The succubus giggled to herself while sitting on a ridge, watching the intse battle.