17. Traveling to the Demon World (3)
“Now, something delicious.”
The demon world was full of living beings.
It’s just not a human with two legs and two arms.
From many legs to none.
The many races, each with the tail of a snake, the legs of a spider, the head of a bird, and the lower body of a fish, each led their own lives.
The only thing they have in common is that they have no place in the human world.
Neither his diet nor lifestyle suited him, so he ended up serving seven different monarchs.
“No, I understand that there is no such thing as a lifestyle. So, something delicious.”
It was inside the restaurant that Yulgeum was angry with a stern expression.
There were seven dishes on the table, all showing off their colorful scents and colors.
Baked, steamed, fried and boiled.
Meat and Fish Bird Green Vegetable Bulbs.
It was a feast of delicacies made from various ingredients.
The problem was that none of them suited Yulgeum’s taste.
The braised hellfish was so bad that the iron utensils melted.
It was the ultimate delicacy for Nagas, but for other races, it melted or had their noses paralyzed by the strong scent.
“Isn’t it delicious?”
“Hey, Deus. Please give me something worth eating. “I’m speaking in palace script right now.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m serious.”
“How about this? “Hell pork sweet and sour pork.”
“No, isn’t there anything that’s just made of pigs? “It’s so hard that even a crocodile could eat it.”
“It’s so tricky. “Eat whatever you give me.”
“So, please give me something I can eat.”
“Why are you acting delicate? “The body can chew through metal.”
“You keep pretending that you are a dragon, but that doesn’t mean you are a dragon.”
“Is that so?”
“That’s what they say.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I already miss Zeke’s cooking.”
“That’s right. “Your aptitude as a warrior is none of my business, but your cooking skills are top notch.”
Deus picked up the hell pig sweet and sour pork and put it in his mouth.
“It’s a bit tough.”
“Even if it was made of rubber, it would be softer than that.”
“Anyway, I kept my promise. “Travel to beautiful places and eat delicious food.”
“I shouldn’t say anything.”
“So you have to keep your promise, too.”
“What promise?”
“We must find Alex and Daroche together.”
“That’s why we’re going together like this.”
“I didn’t need a grumpy glutton. “In fact, the only thing they did in the Demon World was to destroy my first idea, right?”
“What’s the idea?”
“It was a good idea. “If the continent is
split and chaos comes, it will crawl out on its own.”
“Causation is unclear.”
“why? Cause confusion arises. As a result, the Duke of Duma, who was thought to be dead, appears.”
“Anyway, that’s not possible.”
“Why would you side with humans? Aren’t the dragons neutral? “Whether the continent of Jose is destroyed or not, it will not affect the dragons’ world.”
“Is there a lot of trouble?”
“What’s the problem?”
“Think about it with common sense.”
“If I had common sense, I would have run away from home?”
“Ha… In terms of how shameless he is, he’s probably the best demon king of all time.”
Deus drank a drink that was emitting green smoke and looked straight at Yulgeum.
“Well, I already knew that damn woman would be so desperate to stop it.”
“of course. “Because I am a person with common sense.”
“No, I guess that’s not why.”
“what?”
“Because they are the ones who strictly keep order
.”
“Well…
Yulgeum relaxed and unconsciously took a drink.
Aside from the sour smell, I couldn’t even take a sip because I felt like my lips would melt.
“for a moment! Then why did you do that in front of me? “Knowing that I would stop it.”
As Yulgeum looked at Deus smiling round and round, an idea occurred to him.
“Could it be… you owe me a debt?”
“Since you ruined my work, it’s your turn now, right? Are you saying you are a person with common sense? “That’s common sense.”
“Ah, a real villain…
It was the moment when Yulgeum started to spit out his dissatisfied words.
Suddenly the bar building shook.
“what?”
It started with a small vibration, causing dishes to rattle and even people toppling over on chairs.
Many demons that filled the tavern were so scared that they crawled under the table.
It was chaos.
“earthquake?”
Yulgeum looked at Deus with a worried expression as the earthquake was so strong that the building shook.
His expression was extremely calm. The smile on his lips was a bit self-deprecating.
“The sky is covered by the human world, new volcanoes always erupt on the ground, and earthquakes occur frequently. That’s life in the demon world. “Isn’t it understandable that they want to take over the human world?”
“That is,
“Or are we bad because we covet what belongs to others?”
Yulgeum, who had been silent, opened her mouth again.
“Aren’t you interested in things in the demon world? So you quit your job and ran away from home.”
“That’s right.”
Deus silently drank his drink.
The liquor was strong enough to corrode metal at once, but it had no taste.
“This world is…
“twisted?”
“You’re one of the beings created like this, right?
you also.”
“is it?”
“You won’t say I don’t know because you’re Jin Geum-yong, right?”
“I don’t know. “I’m 14.”
Yulgeum stuck out his tongue and opened his mouth again.
“I got a good idea. “I don’t know about Alex, but… isn’t Daroche still making poison somewhere?”
“If you’re alive, right?”
“Is there a poison that is difficult to hunt in the demon world? “It’s a monster so powerful and precious that the duke himself has to step up to it, and it’s highly toxic,
but it’s not intelligent, so it’s hard to call it a demon.”
“That’s good.”
“how is it?”
“there is. Something appropriate. Fire grouse. “They live on Io Volcano.”
In long-standing legend, Io was a volcano in the sky.
The huge volcano, named after a now-vanished mythological god, is said to have spewed fire 365 days a year. Io, the volcano in the demon world from which it took its name
, was a gigantic peak
reaching 14,000 meters in height .
Because the terrain was rough, it was not easy for demons without the ability to fly to climb even halfway up the hill.
However, it was not a land that could be easily conquered by flying.
Because of the rising air currents created by the powerful heat of the volcano, clouds were always hanging over the summit like a tent.
The black cloud containing volcanic ash was an intense thundercloud. Lightning struck the ground continuously, drying up even a single blade of grass.
It was the grouse that lived
in the lava pool at the summit of Io .
It seemed to instinctively like fire and lightning, bathing in lava and flying through the lightning.
The grouse were forming a flock and drawing a large circle in the sky.
There seemed to be about 30 of them.
It was a pretty big crowd. They were forming a gap in the formation with incredible concentration, as if they were hunting.
Deus said while looking at the grouse.
“It might be stronger than a dragon.” Yulgeum got angry and responded.
“Nothing more than an unintelligent animal.”
“You may win with culture, but if you fight with force, the grouse will win, right?”
“Fighting isn’t just about strength.”
“You’ll say that after you beat me, right?”
“Shall we join one more time?”
“Is that what you say?”
“ah! “It’s disgusting!”
As the two were bickering, the leader of the grouse group suddenly dived into the lava lake.
With him in the lead, dozens of grouse fly in a single line.
The grouse were not afraid of the boiling magma and instead jumped into it without hesitation.
It seemed like the prey was under the lava.
Yulgeum, who was watching this, opened her mouth.
“An archaic dragon…
“An archaic dragon?”
“huh. “It’s a type of ancient dragon.”
“Is it a dragon?”
“No, it’s different from a dragon. Close to a distant ancestor of dragons. “Just as humans without intelligence are monkeys,
dragons are what they were before they had intelligence.”
Swimming beneath the red water was a monster with black scales.
It looked like a cross between a fish and a lizard, with a long crocodile-like snout, short front legs with claws, and a catfish tail.
Although it was a monster hundreds of meters long that freely swam through lava, the grouse was no ordinary spiritual creature.
A red-feathered grouse with a wingspan of about 15 meters dived to the depths of the water where the archaic dragon was and
pecked at its eyes and scales.
The archaic dragon stirred and bit a grouse with its crocodile-like mouth.
It breaks in two at once and swallows the half.
The leader of the grouse divided the squadron into two.
The quick-moving guys formed a group to disturb the Goyeodragon’s vision, while the rest launched a hand-to-hand attack.
The power of the Goyeodragon was tremendous.
Even that grouse
was instantly reduced to rags when caught in the teeth of an archaic dragon. But in the end, this battle ended in victory for the grouse.
The archaic dragon lost its scales and floated on the lava, turning over on its stomach, revealing its red flesh.
The grouse pecked the caudal fin of the archaic dragon and pulled it up to land.
There, dozens of strange birds began tearing open the archaeodragon’s stomach and eating its internal organs.
“It’s the animal kingdom.”
Deus
watched the monsters’ fight with his arms crossed from beginning to end.
“The Elder Dragon species are still alive in the Demon World.”
“What’s surprising about that?”
“No… if you think about it, it’s probably natural. “Because this was the home of humans.”
It was my first time hearing this story.
Deus looked at Yul Geum with a slightly surprised expression.
“The Demon World is the home of humans?”
“A long time ago.”
“So, is that up there some kind of New World?”
Deus pointed his finger upward. The continent of Jose, a disk-shaped world floating in the air, was there.
“That’s the way it is.”
“Anyway, is Daroch really coming here?”
“I think there’s a good chance.”
“Well, since it’s Jin Geum-yong’s guess, it seems quite plausible.”
Deus looked around.
It was a bleak place full of volcanic rocks.
“If I had known it would be like this, I would have brought Zeke.”
“Tell me to make something to eat. “I’m bored waiting.”
“You’re a rude man to say that dating isn’t fun.”
“Are you still doing that?”
“Because I’m traveling!”
“Oh really?”
After that, during their two-day date(?), all they saw was a scene of a larger, stronger animal preying on a smaller, weaker animal.
The next day, a group of grouse failed to hunt and became food for an archaic dragon
.
It was a grouse that moved in and out of the lava like water, but it was brutally cut to pieces by an archaic dragon, and all 20 of them were killed.
Still, it was quite a fight, and La Deus was able to alleviate the boredom of the ambush.
And on the third day.
Deus has been swearing since early morning.
“That bastard.”
Yulgeum was also looking at the same place as Deus.
“Am I amazing?”
Even though he asked playfully, Yulgeum kept his mouth tight.
“If he’s not dead, we should kill him. “That’s because he’s dead.”
“Aren’t you scared?”
” I?”
“no…. he.”
What Yulgeum and Deus are seeing.
That was none other than Kyogoku Alex, one of the Seven Dukes of the Demon World.
Deus’ body disappeared from Yulgeum’s sight.
Immediately after that, Deus reappeared
right in front of Alex. But Deus could not capture Alex.
Almost immediately he disappeared, leaving no trace, as if he were an illusion.
There was only one thing Deus could gain.
—How could you….
was all Alex blurted out in surprise.
