Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Chapter 109:- Demon Noble (2)

Seeing that Laris was coming towards him, strength left his body and he fell on his knees “L-Leader p-please forgive me, it was a mistake please… please…”. Without waiting for him to speak further, Laris roared in rage “You bastard, I’ll kill youuuu“.

Laris was a level 321 [Dual-Weilder] in contrast to that the man was only around level 250. The difference between their strength was vast and there was no way the person could even dodge one of laris’ attacks.

BANNNG… without holding back even an iota of his strength, he plummeted the man deep into the ground with an axe kick. The appearance of the man could only be said as tragic as his whole body was beaten black and blue while most of his bones were broken and blood leaked out from all of his orifices, but the man was still alive.

The other adventurers looked at the man and felt pity, even those that were caught up in the radius of his magic felt sorry for him. However, nobody sympathised with him as they were all aware of how much importance the leader had given to this mission. They weren’t clueless about how relevant that little girl was to their leader and despite his warning, the man went up and used a lethal magic to kill the girl, he had this coming.

All the adventurers looked at their leader who seemed so red with anger and frustration that he could even eat a person whole and gulped as cold sweat drenched their bodies. Now that their target had been swallowed by fire, the mission was already failed.

There was no way a Forest Spring Spirit could survive magic this strong not to mention that the target of the magic was a little girl no more than five years of age.

Surely by now, she must have turned into ashes. All the adventurers thought the same but nobody voiced it out. Who would deliberately put their neck on a lion’s open mouth?. They were all waiting for their leader to calm down.

Laris clenched his fists tightly and looked at the area covered in flames with wrath and discontent. All his lofty ambitions had gone up in smokes because of one single mistake.

The heavens had given him a second chance but even then he wasn’t able to grab it. To make sure that they catch the Royal Spirit this time, he even came up personally but even then the endeavour resulted in a failure.

The land, the trees everything was consumed into flames. Just when everybody thought that it was all over, the flames started flickering and burning with intense fervour.

Stunned at this sudden change, they all stared at the area covered in flames. No matter how many times they thought, they always concluded that the little Forest Spring Spirit couldn’t come out alive from that attack.

However, they still hoped for a miracle. Though these adventurers did not know what a Forest Spring Royal Spirit was but given by the importance placed on her by their leader, they knew that the girl was special even among her clansmen. And such a precious treasure was destroyed right in front of their eyes. They could only imagine the feeling of loss that their leader is going through right now.

The flames flickered intensely and a black shadow rose amidst the flames.

‘Could it be that the girl survived the magic?’ were the thoughts of the adventurers who were watching the scene with bated breath.

Laris looked at the area covered in flames with elation, if the girl survived that attack then there would be a chance he could harvest her Royal Spirit Orb before the girl ends up dying from the injuries. However, the black shadow that could be seen occasionally amid the flames was unusual, to say the least.

BOOOM… the flames spread apart and a silhouette of a person rose from within.

A lean body compact with muscles was bathed in flames, his pitch-black hair looked like the embodiment of night. Two jagged horns and a devilishly handsome face, protruding from his back were a pair of demonic wings that were more than three meters wide.

When the adventurers laid their eyes upon the entity, they felt their whole body shudder for an instant. Its crimson eyes seemed to be penetrating through your very soul.

The figure of the five-year-old girl was no longer there and instead what appeared amidst the flame was a demon. The way Simon appeared, to the observing adventurers it looked like he was born from the flames.

Laris had a completely gobsmacked face and his mouth was wide open. It was not only him but all the surrounding adventurers were also making a similar face.

The silhouette of a petite little girl had suddenly turned into a tall, lean demon. How could they not be surprised? If somebody right now told them that they were hallucinating, they would have no doubt believed that.

There was no way the adventurers would have believed that they were chasing after a demon who had morphed into a little girl all along.

Simon observed his body which was bathed in flames and couldn’t help but knit his brows. He wasn’t concerned that his body was bathed in flames after all he had fire resistance skill and wasn’t afraid of being hit by a novice tier fire magic.

He was Demon Viscount and along with his high defence stat, there was no way he would be damaged by a single novice tier magic. What he was concerned about was his body reverting to his original form.

“It appears that the minuses of the Elixir of Metamorphosis are the same in this world” Simon surmised. During the times when Simon was developing the game, he had programmed the effects of Elixir of Metamorphosis to be cancelled when the user is attacked or when the user willingly dispels it.

It seemed that when he was hit by the novice tier fire magic, the effect of the elixir was cancelled.

While Simon was still delving in his thoughts, the observing adventurers came back to their senses. They looked at each other and murmured “Hey do you also see a demon standing there or are my eyes playing tricks on me?”.

The other adventurers said, “It seems my eyes are the same they must be playing tricks on me. The girl turned into a demon”.

“What are you saying? how can a little girl turn into a demon?” said the other.

“Then are you saying that you can still see the girl?” the adventurer asked.

“N-no, I see a demon standing there”.

“Did the girl really turn into a demon after being chased by us?”.

“That is ridiculous. How can a Forest Spring Spirit turn into a completely different race?”.

Discussions as such continuously rang among the adventurers. Simon turning back into a demon from a little girl was too much of a shock for the adventurers as they continuously rubbed their eyes and slapped each other’s faces to see if they were hallucinating or not.

One of the adventurers who had enough slaps on his face approached near the demon and asked in a frustrated tone.

“Oi you demon, where the hell did you pop up from?” seeing that he was not getting any kind of response, the adventurer became bold and advanced closer to the demon. “Hey, can’t you hear me? Where did the little girl go? Did you devour that girl… Uggghh”.

Before he could complete his sentence, the adventurer was grabbed by the demon and lifted up. The difference in their height was already quite a bit hence when he was lifted up, his feet left the ground and he was suspended in the air.

All of the surrounding adventurers reacted too late and couldn’t foresee what happened next. RUMBLE… flames, and lightning gather between Simon’s hand which was holding onto the adventurers, and like watermelon, his head was popped open as the amalgamation magic of flames and electro penetrated through it.

BANG… there was an intense flash of light along with a rumbling sound that assaulted the ears of everybody present. A streak of intense light and heat penetrated through the head of one of the adventurers and passed through the forest and into the sky in a straight line.

Everything in the trajectory of the bolt was blasted apart into smithereens.