Chapter 20
Chapter 20.
-Oh an Elf
-An Elf appears in Iron?
-She's pretty, is she a girl?
-Even if she turns out to be a guy, it wouldn't be strange with Elves keke.
The chat window became even noisier with the appearance of the Elf.
And for good reason, Elves only occasionally appeared in Gold grade and above.
Originally, they were beings you couldn't encounter commonly.
But in Iron.
And in a place like 'Forest Path' at that.
Just when the viewers were focusing their attention on the Elf.
"Elf? No. Chieek…… I'm an Orc!"
The Elf twisted her expression severely.
And called herself an Orc.
Along with 'Chieek', the Orc language.
-??? What Orc, damn it, doesn't she look in the mirror?
-With an Elf face going 'chieek' feels kind of broken shudder shudder
-But even when her nose flares, she's pretty keke.
-Her voice is definitely female no matter how you look at it!
An Elf calling herself an Orc.
At first, Lee Ganghan wondered what was up with her.
'Well…… more importantly, being able to communicate is what matters.'
He focused on the fact that the Elf had understood his words.
In the Tower of Infinity, beings you could communicate with were named enemies.
Looking at how this Elf could hold a conversation, she seemed to be no ordinary existence.
Furthermore.
'I can make her bow.'
Rather than capturing Orcs who only went 'Kuruk' and 'Chieek' and making them bow.
It was better to subdue this Elf who could communicate clearly.
To do that.
'First, I need to bring her down from the tree.'
Swish!
When Lee Ganghan rushed toward the Elf.
"Chi, Chieek……! Don't come!"
Bang! Bang!
Several explosions occurred in mid-air.
The Elf nimbly jumped from branch to branch.
Then.
"Just you wait!"
With those final words, the Elf disappeared into the golden mist.
Due to the sudden explosions in mid-air, he hesitated in his landing.
In that brief moment, she had swiftly escaped.
"Damn it……. This won't be easy."
She claimed with words that she was an Orc.
But hopping around on tree branches, she was unmistakably an Elf.
While Lee Ganghan regretted missing the Elf.
"Heavenly Demon, if it's a Named like that, she might appear again on the upper floors."
The Goblin Chief suggested they go up to explore the upper floors.
"Right. I need to capture her and make her bow."
-Can Elves also become minions?
-Elves are acceptable yeah yeah, it'll be more eye-cleansing than just dragging around monsters
-But will she submit easily?
-How did you make the Chief submit?
Viewers who hadn't seen the scene where Lee Ganghan subdued the Chief.
When people asked how he had initially made him submit.
Swoosh.
Lee Ganghan simply raised his fist.
-Ah...
-He persuaded (physically)...
-Nothing stands before the rod
Having convinced the viewers like that, Lee Ganghan.
"I'll go first, so follow as you can."
"Yes!"
Lee Ganghan left the Goblin Chief behind and went up to the next floor.
Thus, the 8th floor.
"Grrrrrr……."
Without even glancing at the wolves blocking the Forest Path.
Swish!
Lee Ganghan immediately leaped into the forest.
He swept through the forest once using the Heavenly Demon Reign Step.
'She's not here.'
This time, he couldn't see the Elf from earlier.
However, when he reached the left end of the forest.
About ten Orcs were exiting the forest with their eyes turned blood-red.
'Has she already escaped?'
Seeing them running somewhere as if entranced with their eyes dyed blood-red.
It seemed the Elf from earlier had charmed them.
Lee Ganghan considered securing these ones for now.
'Looking at their rolled eyes, they don't seem like they'll bow. It's better to catch the Elf who can communicate.'
He decided to focus on securing the Elf for now.
'Earlier it was also this left end of the Forest Path. Next floor, I should head straight here.'
Since he had discovered Orc groups on this side on both the 7th and 8th floors.
When he went up to the next floor, he should check here first.
With that thought, Lee Ganghan went up to the next floor.
"Grr……."
Swish!
Immediately ignoring the wolf blocking the path.
Lee Ganghan rushed to the previous location.
'I need to catch her before Heavenly Demon Divine Art ends.'
Thinking of the Elf's movements hopping from branch to branch.
When the duration of Heavenly Demon Divine Art ended, catching her would be impossible.
He had to catch her now.
When Lee Ganghan went to the previous location at full speed.
Clang, Clang……!
The bell sound the Elf had made on the 7th floor could be heard.
'There she is.'
This time he would catch her.
When he ran toward where the sound came from.
Like before, a group of Orcs with reddened eyes.
Were escaping toward the golden mist area.
And above them.
"Chi, Chieek! What!? How are you here already?"
The Elf in green robes looked at Lee Ganghan in shock.
"Come here."
"Eek!"
Bang! Bang!
Multiple explosions erupting in mid-air.
Earlier, he had hesitated due to the explosions and failed to catch her.
'I can't let her escape.'
This time, he didn't care whether explosions occurred or not.
He just kept running.
Then.
Whoosh……!
The t-shirt he was wearing caught fire and burned.
Rip!
Tearing it off and throwing it away, Lee Ganghan continued after the Elf.
-What's with the topless shudder shudder
-His muscles are insane...
-No way, having a body like that and then lying about not exercising keke
-Real keke
-Wow, but his body really is good...
While viewers admired Lee Ganghan's upper body.
"Chi, Chieeeek!"
The Elf, whose robe had been caught.
Flustered, she made chieek sounds.
-Why is she making chieek sounds with that face sigh sigh
-She says she's an Orc keke.
-Why is the Elf so desperate to be an Orc;
-Maybe she was raised by Orcs?
-Is she the Elf version of Tarzan? keke.
While viewers couldn't adapt to the chieek-ing Elf.
Whoosh!
Lee Ganghan dragged the Elf down from the tree.
Thud!
And slammed her straight onto the ground.
"Ugh, ughhh……."
"Elf."
"Chieek……! Not an Elf! I'm an Orc!"
"Got it, you're an Orc."
If she wanted to be an Orc that badly.
He'd acknowledge it.
Lee Ganghan lightly accepted her words.
"Do you want to live?"
"……What are you trying to say?"
"If you want to live, bow."
"Bo-, bow……?"
"Yeah."
As Lee Ganghan struck the ground next to the Elf's head.
Crash……!
His fist sank deep into the earth.
The ground was gouged out.
-This is how the Chief was persuaded...
-No mercy even for an Elf?
-Not an Elf no no, she's an Orc keke
-I want to know why she insists on being an Orc keke
If you don't bow, I'll smash your head like this too.
Lee Ganghan's simple persuasion method.
However,
"Chieek……! I am a descendant of the Gershu Royal Family! A disciple of the Great Sorcerer!"
The Orc-aspiring Elf wasn't as easy as the Goblin Chief.
"Even if I die, do you think I'll submit! Kuruk!"
She had been making chieek sounds until now.
The Orc language changed to Kuruk.
When she said that.
"Kuruk, Kuruk,Kuruk……!"
"Chieek,Chieek……!"
The Orcs who had been fleeing to the golden mist area.
Turned around and began running toward this direction.
Not just their eyes.
Even their skin had turned blood-red.
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-Look at the Elf resisting
-Even persuasion (physical) doesn't work on everyone keke
-She's actually rebelling, even mobilizing Orcs
-Will he have no choice but to kill her?
The persuasion method that had worked easily on the Goblin Chief.
But this Elf was no pushover.
To the words 'bow if you don't want to die'.
She was rebelling even more.
-But what's the Gershu Empire? Do Orcs have an empire too?
-The enhanced Orcs that appear from Gold Towers are called Gershu Empire Orcs
-Ah, Red Orcs?
-Yeah yeah, they're similar to those guys
The Orc group charging toward them with blood-red skin.
Lee Ganghan frowned at the sight.
'She won't go as easily as the Chief.'
The castrated Goblin Chief.
Looking back now, that guy was truly an exemplary Named.
He had complied with persuasion obediently.
'First, I need to block those guys.'
Lee Ganghan looked at the red Orcs charging at him.
Whatever the Elf had done.
Opponents charging in an enhanced state.
Of course, the enhancement wasn't perfect.
Pop……!
Some Orcs exploded on their own while charging.
Still, in the current situation where he had to hold onto the Elf, they were quite bothersome.
'I should have the Goblins handle them.'
Lee Ganghan opened the [Summon] function of Ten Thousand Demon Battle and summoned all the Goblins.
Paaaat……!
Then a huge portal opened behind him.
"Heavenly Demon Eternal! Ten Thousand Demons Prostrate!"
Fifty Goblins, without being told.
Bowed deeply to Lee Ganghan as soon as they were summoned.
"Block those guys for me."
"Kikik! Kikik!"
The Goblin group eagerly stepped forward at Lee Ganghan's command.
"Do you think mere Goblins can stop our Orcs? Chieek!"
The Elf sneered at this, asking if they could stop 'our Orcs'.
Thud!
Lee Ganghan lifted her head.
And slammed it straight onto the ground.
He couldn't kill her since he had to make her bow.
But he needed to dampen her spirit somewhat.
However.
"Chieek! I will not submit!"
Thud! Thud!
"Bo…… w!"
The Elf's head hit the ground several times.
Eventually, the hood of her robe came off, revealing disheveled silver hair.
But her will to resist remained unchanged.
-She won't submit with just this
-When is the Chief coming? It seems like the Chief needs to do some flesh-stripping yeah yeah;
-Is he late because he's following from the 7th floor?
Seeing the stubborn Elf.
Viewers looking for the torture specialist Goblin Chief, thinking this wouldn't work.
The Elf's spirit showed no signs of breaking.
She began to waver.
"……Chieek. What is this?"
Starting from when she watched the battle between Orcs and Goblins.
"Kuruk, Kuruk!"
"Kikikik!"
Orcs and Goblins roaring at each other in a life-or-death struggle.
The enhanced Orcs were leading the battlefield.
But the Goblins desperately blocked their advance.
Fighting to the death to carry out the Heavenly Demon's commands, the Goblins' struggle.
Stopped the Orcs' advance.
Bang! Bang!
Red-skinned Orcs began exploding one by one.
"Chieek. What is this……? These aren't the Goblins I know……?"
The Elf looked on in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"Why, why aren't they running away? Goblins were always quick to flee from our Orcs' bravery!"
"Really? Well, since they revive even if they die, they probably lost their fear."
"Chieek. They…… revive?"
At Lee Ganghan's words.
As the Elf looked ahead with confused eyes.
"Heavenly Demon! I have arrived!!!"
The Goblin Chief came running in a hurry.
"Kihihihi! These guys are slacking off! Why aren't you fighting properly?"
Scolding the Goblins engaged in life-or-death combat with the Orcs.
"You'll come back to life even if you die anyway! So devote yourselves to the Heavenly Demon! Throw your bodies!"
The Goblin Chief stepped forward to face the Orcs.
No matter how enhanced the Orcs were.
They were no match for the Goblin Chief who had been a boss monster.
"Kuruk……."
When he joined the battle.
The tide of battle quickly turned in their favor.
Thud, Thud.
Excluding the Orcs that exploded on their own.
A total of six Orcs fell to the ground as corpses.
"Kihihihi…… Heavenly Demon-nim, may I 'dismantle' them for a moment?"
"You want to strip their flesh?"
"Yes, yes. That's right."
"But why do you do that? They're already dead."
"Kihihi…… I'll show you directly!"
The Chief approached the Orc corpses with a knife.
Scrape, Scrape!
The ominous sound of flesh being torn echoed.
Swoosh.
Soon, in the Goblin Chief's hand.
A golden glittering object appeared.
"……What. Is this gold by any chance?"
"Yes! It comes out better when you slice them while they're alive."
-Whoa shudder shudder shudder what, gold fragments
-The reason for flesh-stripping was to mine gold?
-There was a reason he kept doing it during the tutorial sigh sigh
-But how can you mine gold from a body? kekekeke
-A slaughterhouse is a gold mine to him
The castrated Goblin Chief rolled the gold fragment in his hand.
Hehehe.
He looked at the Elf lying down, subdued by Lee Ganghan.
"I've never stripped Elf flesh before…… I'm looking forward to seeing how much gold will come out. Kihihi!"
"I'm not an Elf. I'm an Orc!"
"Kihi? Heavenly Demon, please leave her to me. I'll make this crazy Elf worship the Heavenly Demon. And mine gold while I'm at it!"
The Goblin Chief aiming to kill two birds with one stone through flesh-stripping.
But Lee Ganghan was somewhat skeptical about this.
'She's the type who rebels more when suppressed.'
An Elf who would probably say 'Fine, just kill me' even under torture.
Now, rather than hardline tactics.
It seemed better to devise a way to appease her.
But how to appease her?
While Lee Ganghan pondered the method.
"……Chieek. Let me ask just one thing."
The Elf, who had been looking at the fallen Goblins.
"Do those Goblins really revive?"
Showed interest in 'revival'.