180
I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.
Chapter 180
Geotech desperately stretched out his hands to burst Caesar's head, but he couldn't achieve his goal.
Geotech's both hands were bound by dark green chains that appeared in the air, making them immobile.
Soon, a magician with green eyes appeared behind Caesar.
The magician restrained Geotech's limbs by deeply embedding his two legs into the ground, preventing him from moving.
"Aaaaaaaaargh!"
Geotech screamed.
However, due to the sound block magic, the scream only echoed inside the cave and couldn't escape outside.
Caesar pushed the thunder deeper into the guy's heart.
He didn't even have the strength left to scream.
Caesar grabbed the guy's horn and shook it after embedding Thunder in his heart.
"You can scream for a lifetime, but no sound will escape."
"You, you bastard, doing this to me..."
"Well, this won't kill you."
Raven walked steadily deep into the cave.
Then, magical stones emitting brilliant turquoise light appeared.
"But if you keep running away, you'll only get hurt again."
Raven started chanting magic.
The magical stones began emitting powerful light as magic circles were being engraved.
"So now you won't run away. Let's fight until one of us disappears from this world."
Rumble rumble!
The entire mountain, including the cave, started shaking.
It was concerning enough to worry if the cave might collapse.
But soon it quieted down, and mist slowly began rising from beneath their feet.
"All preparations are complete."
Caesar pulled out Thunder embedded in Geotech's chest.
Geotech collapsed, spewing blood.
Geotech glared at Caesar while crawling on the ground.
"You... Caesar...!"
"I'm not Caesar anymore."
Caesar transformed into Barre's appearance.
Geotech's eyes widened.
"You..."
"Remember this appearance. It's what you'll see every time you die."
Barre crushed the guy's head by stepping on it.
The mist rose up to Barre's head.
However, it didn't particularly bother Barre and Raven's eyes.
All thanks to Raven's magic.
"How many do I need to kill?"
"About 100,000."
"I hope his mind doesn't collapse before that?"
"Mind?"
Barre cracked his neck.
"When I looked at him a bit with psychometry, his mental state seemed a bit dangerous."
"What happens if his mind becomes strange?"
"One of two things. Either his self collapses and he becomes a 'disaster' or his horns increase to five."
Barre slowly headed towards the cave entrance.
"Well, either way, there's no way to stop us two."
These two are ones who have hunted even a demon king.
It would be shameful if they couldn't kill just one four-horned devil.
***
Geotech was born by tearing open the belly of the troll priest.
Despite being reborn, Geotech had to crawl on the ground like a bug due to terrible pain.
"Urrrrrgh...!"
The agony of blue flames crawling through his veins and eating away at Geotech's heart and internal organs was indescribably horrible.
Geotech frantically scratched at his heart area.
The itching was so intense he felt he would go mad.
Even as flesh got caught under Geotech's nails and turned to rags, the black blessing continuously supplied Geotech with blood and flesh.
The strange mixture of itching and pain that arose during the healing process bound Geotech's mind and body.
-Arrrggghhhh!
-Uwaaaahhhhh!
Just then, screams were heard from far away.
They were the screams of followers.
The problem was that those screams were getting closer and closer.
Geotech looked around.
But no matter how much he looked around, there was only gray fog everywhere.
"Wh-where are you?! My followers, where on earth are you?!"
"Aaaahhhhhhh!"
The screams got closer.
Geotech ran frantically through the forest of gray fog where he couldn't see an inch ahead.
It was in the opposite direction from where the screams were echoing.
"Arrrggghhhhh!"
But the more Geotech moved forward, the closer the screams became instead.
Rather, it felt like he was getting closer to the source of those screams by running.
Geotech had no idea what to do.
The cause of those screams was clearly that red hair... No, 'him'.
Geotech grabbed his trembling hands tightly and reached toward the sky.
"Oh heavens!"
Lightning poured down from the sky like rain.
Trees burst and the ground and rocks exploded.
Geotech loved thunder.
At least during the thunder, he didn't have to hear those terrible screams.
But thunder couldn't pour down like rain.
Geotech felt all strength leaving his body.
"Huff... Huff..."
His breathing became rapid and a mad hunger came over him.
It felt like hunger was eating away at his intestines and drinking his blood.
No matter how well Geotech could handle lightning, he couldn't create it without paying a price.
Geotech searched for food amid the oncoming hunger.
But all Geotech's nose could smell was the musty mixture of dust and moisture in the fog.
There was no smell of beasts or blood.
Just then, two red glowing eyes penetrated through the wall of fog in the distance.
Geotech didn't dare meet those eyes full of killing intent.
"N-no, don't come..."
Geotech reached out to strike with lightning.
But no lightning was created.
Geotech tripped on a rock and fell.
"I said don't come!"
But the owner of the red glowing eyes instantly arrived in front of Geotech and immediately drove an axe into his heart.
"Arrrggghhhhh!"
Blue flames dug into Geotech's blood vessels.
Those blue flames flowed throughout Geotech's entire body through those vessels.
Geotech tried to reach out and pull out the axe but had no strength.
"Does it hurt?"
At Barre's growling voice, Geotech felt as if his hearing had been paralyzed.
It felt like all sounds disappeared and only Caesar's voice could be heard.
Geotech's purple pupils trembled.
"I'll turn this world into your hell."
"Uwaaahhhhh!"
As Barre put more force into the axe, holy fire dug into Geotech's spine.
The feeling of the axe digging into his spine and eating away at his central nervous system was too horrible to put into words.
But even so, Geotech couldn't die easily.
This was because the black blessing restored Geotech's flesh, blood, and nervous system in an attempt to keep him alive somehow.
The more it did so, the more Geotech felt his core rotting away.
Geotech looked up at the demon looking down at him.
The demon intended to watch with eyes dripping with killing intent until Geotech died.
For the first time, Geotech thought he wanted to die and be at peace.
***
Barre ran through the Red Mountains harvesting the heads of the Black Horn tribe members, not knowing how much time had passed.
While nothing would be visible to their eyes with heavy fog walls blocking everything, Barre could see their forms clearly.
This was because Raven had cast a special spell so that Barre wouldn't lose his way in this fog.
Their bodies glowed with a very distinct red color in this fog, and all he had to do was follow that red light.
Geotech glowed a special orange color, and whether Raven had cast a special spell on Geotech or not, it guided an orange path showing the shortest route to where he was.
With what felt like all game conveniences packed in under the name of magic, Barre could freely harvest their heads.
Thwack!
Of course, since they were soldiers who had received Geotech's black blessing, they didn't die easily.
Their heads would reattach to their necks by the black blessing that flew in from somewhere after being cut off.
When that happened, Barre would advance in the direction the black blessing had come from.
The black blessing doesn't come from the bodies of fanatics.
The black blessing flows from the 'skull staff' that Geotech empowered.
The moment Barre destroyed that skull staff, the black blessing would not manifest in that area, allowing him to easily kill the Black Horn tribe members.
Kyaaahhhhh!
Barre cut off the troll priest's head while simultaneously destroying one skull staff.
Then screams echoed throughout the foggy forest.
They must be the screams of the Black Horn tribe members whose bodies were being maintained by the collapsing black blessing.
'This should help reduce the time significantly.'
Just breaking the skull staff alone can prevent the resurrection of nearby Black Horn tribe members, so there's no need to kill Geotech over 100,000 times.
At that moment, Barre saw Geotech fleeing in fear from the screams that emerged when the staff was just broken.
However, he staggered around unable to find his direction.
This fog forest is based on the maze forest.
No matter how much you run, you just circle around unable to exit.
Rather, the more he ran, the closer he got to Barre.
Barre held Thunder in both hands and hung Lefty on his back.
Although there are about 7 bottles of holy oil taken from the holy knights, it's not enough to use on all Black Horn clan members.
So he was only applying holy oil to Thunder and using it solely for dealing with Geotech.
Barre shouted a battle cry.
"Woooriyaaaaaa!"
Thunder flew and struck Geotech's heart in one shot.
"Kuaaaaaaaaah!"
Geotech let out a terrible scream.
Bare used psychometry to check his mental state.
He was more focused on Barre appearing before him than the pain of being struck in the heart.
"Hello?"
"Uh, uwaaaaaaaah!"
Geotech wailed loudly while shedding tears.
"Just kill me already!"
The situation Barre wanted emerged.
His mind broke.
"You're giving up earlier than expected?"
Barre looked at his watch.
It wasn't even lunch time yet.
"Let's die one more time first."
Barre stabbed Lefty into his head.
***
Geotech was reborn from an orc's belly.
But Geotech's appearance had changed a lot.
His bones showed through his skin and he trembled like a newborn foal.
"Ugh... Uwah..."
Just how many times had he died?
No, how many times had he been burned?
Geotech tried everything to stop that red-haired one.
He tried striking with lightning, using seals, and gathering his believers to try stopping him.
But that demon broke through all methods.
"Just what should I..."
Kuaaaaaaaaah!
The cry of Geotech's believers was heard from afar.
Geotech's body trembled.
He's coming again.
He'll come and drive an axe into his heart again.
And the blue flames emanating from the axe will devour Geotech.
Geotech was scared.
He wanted to choose death, but in the moment of death, Geotech instinctively pursued life.
So he absolutely couldn't stop being born from his believers' bodies.
"Please please please please pleeeease!"
Geotech wants to die.
He doesn't want to be tormented anymore.
Step!
Then, the sound of someone stopping their footsteps was heard in front of Geotech.
Geotech slowly raised his head.
"Uh, uwah..."
Geotech could barely speak.
The demon who had killed Geotech countless times.
It was Barre.
Thud!
When Barre put down his axe, it stuck straight up as it was embedded in the ground.
Barre knelt on one knee and met Geotech's eyes.
"Are you afraid of me, Geotech?"
Geotech's hands trembled violently.
His body wouldn't move properly due to terrible phantom pains, and his mind was too captivated by Barre to speak.
But Geotech really had something he was curious about from this person.
"Wh-why... Why... Are you trying to kill me?"
"Hm?"
"I, I haven't done anything wrong to you."
Geotech's tears fell thickly to the ground.
"You suddenly came and ki-killed me, then killed me again... Bu-burned me...! I haven't done anything wrong to the doppelganger..."
Geotech wailed.
"Why are you tormenting me like this!"
Barre was using psychometry, and thanks to that, he could think from Geotech's perspective for the first time.
Come to think of it, whether it was Caesar or Barre, this guy hadn't done anything wrong.
Caesar suddenly came and blew off his head, and he just chased after Caesar out of revenge for that.
No proper explanation was given.
Then, Raven's voice was heard in his ear.
-What are you doing? Why are you just standing there?
Barre looked down at Geotech who was crawling on the ground crying.
"I was thinking we might be able to resolve this through talking."
-What are you talking about now?
Geotech flinched whenever Barre spoke.
Looking at Barre talking to thin air, his eyes said 'I've really run into a proper madman.'
"From his perspective, didn't we just suddenly appear and keep killing him? Thinking about it now, weren't we a bit too harsh?"
-...Aren't you approaching this too humanely? He's a devil. Plus, he's eaten beast-people too.
"I know. I know what you're saying. But we don't know when he'll die, and rather than wasting time on this guy alone, maybe compromising and taking a step back might be an option. We don't have time, right?"
While Geotech is the urgent matter, Elijah is what's important.
They need to quickly wrap up the Geotech issue and return to the main force.
So if they can just get confirmation that Geotech won't harm Agatha and the allied forces, there's no need to kill Geotech.
Barre handed jerky to Geotech as if giving it to a rain-soaked puppy.
"Our first meeting was a bit strange, but shall we have a talk?"
Geotech looked back and forth between Barre's jerky and eyes for a moment before nodding.
After all, Geotech's fate could only depend on Barre.