I answer the Demon Queen's call
I answer the Demon Queen's call
"Oh! The spirit is moving!"
"Spirit?"
The Red Snake Spirit came beside and called this golem a spirit.
"Who has awakened me..."
"It spoke..."
"A-a golem... how did a golem awaken..!"
When the turtle-shaped statue spoke, the Lich was surprised and hid behind me.
"Uooo... I am not a golem. I am a spirit."
"Spirit... then you two must know each other..."
The awakened turtle-shaped spirit looked at the snake-shaped spirit I pointed at.
The snake-shaped spirit, perhaps seeing another spirit of its kind for the first time at the summoning place, approached the turtle spirit and wagged its tail wildly.
"Hello!"
"Uooo... a little spirit, huh."
"Why are you here?"
"I made a contract here."
"If here, then this must be a dungeon..!"
The skeleton, whether it heard the turtle spirit's words or not, was also answering.
"That's right. I am a spirit summoned by the Demon King's power... but the Demon King who summoned me seems to have already died..."
"If you mean the previous Demon King... the Demon King of Rock..! Surely that one met his death at the hands of those demon bastards."
The skeleton was surprised and looked at the spirit with interest.
"Dead... then the contract can be considered ended."
"Ended? So you're going back to the Spirit Realm?"
"Uooo... I should return, but... I have no magical power to return. This place is the Demon World. The only beings who can gather magical power are those like the Demon King and demons."
"I see!"
The snake-shaped spirit finds it both fascinating and surprising.
But from my perspective, neither the skeleton nor the spirit was fascinating or surprising. If a beautiful woman so sexy that my dick got hard were sleeping here, that might be different, but I had no interest in something like this stone turtle.
"Uooo... you there... I can feel you are connected to a spirit. Make a contract with me~"
"No~"
I reflexively refused the turtle spirit's contract.
It was obvious that going around with such a huge bastard would make my life suffocating too.
Moreover, unlike the snake-shaped spirit, it was visible to others, so it was burdensome. Even that Lich over there was poking the stone turtle with his staff, and it really looked lame.
"Uooo... why? If you contract with me, it's good~"
"No~ I hate it because it's big and stifling. Also, I already have a partner."
"If you contract with a strong spirit, you can master high-level spirit magic. Moreover, I am much stronger than that little spirit~ Come on, choose me~"
"The spirit is trying to take my spot!"
The snake-shaped spirit instinctively realized that the stone turtle spirit was a thug. The snake spirit ran toward the stone turtle and sprayed the water it had in its mouth, getting angry.
"That tickles, little spirit. Come, contract with me."
It seemed that the stone turtle spirit, having eaten Demon World water, was different from ordinary spirits. It appeared to have no consideration for its own kind if it was for its own gain.
"Not happening."
"Uuuuooo! I beg you, please help me escape the Demon World. Then I will become your strength in the future."
"I'm telling you, I already have a spirit to help me by my side..."
"Uuuo! No choice then... Forced contract! Spirit Devouring!"
"Ah!! Save me, Jageun-eun!!"
"Spirit!"
The stone turtle spirit swallowed the snake spirit whole. At the sudden attack, I immediately activated Blood Magic.
"You bastard! Give back the spirit!"
"Uooo... I ate the contracted spirit. Now it's as good as having magical power. Since you have to send magical power to this little spirit, I'll hold on tight."
"Turtle... I won't forgive you."
I hit the bastard hard with a sledgehammer made from Blood Magic.
'Give back my cleaning tool!'
But it didn't budge. It was truly as firm and hard as a rock.
Only I was getting tired, and the bastard was mocking with 'Ooo' sounds.
No matter how much I hit, it was useless. Exhausted, I turned the sledgehammer into a chair and sat down.
"Haah... haah... if it comes to this... Sorry, spirit, I give up."
"Uooo... huh? What are you saying? Are you abandoning the spirit you were with?"
"It's unfortunate, but I can just summon the spirit again, so it's fine... It was a noble sacrifice, Snake Spirit... I will never forget you. Let's go, Lich-ssi."
"Huh? It seems like something quite troublesome happened... Anyway, is it okay to leave this spirit at the entrance?"
"It's fine. Let's use this stone turtle to draw attention. That way, fewer enemies will come into the dungeon."
"I see. As expected, Demon Person-nim uses ingenious tactics different from my own thoughts. Understood. Where to this time?"
"This time..."
"Wait! I spat out the little spirit again! It was a mistake!"
The turtle, flustered, opened its mouth. And the limp snake spirit came out.
"Euueng... I almost died!"
"You survived?"
The turtle spirit, spitting out the snake spirit, pretended to repent its mistake.
"I am not trying to get something big from you... I want to return to the Spirit Realm... That's all, so please don't abandon me."
The turtle cried loudly. More precisely, it was a spirit made of dirt flowing and piling up on the floor.
A spirit that wants to go home.
It did look pitiful. It seemed to have stayed here for quite a long time.
"Spirit, what do you think? Should I make a contract with him?"
"Hheu... He's taking my story... but it's okay! All spirits are friends!"
The snake spirit says it's fine. It felt like a burden, but truthfully, I was tempted by the bastard's power.
Since I barely have any combat ability, I thought that even just having a tank turtle to take hits in front would be very helpful.
"Hey, turtle. I'll make a contract with you."
"Dirt... dirt... is that true..."
"But you have to listen well. If you bother me, you're out immediately."
"I'm good at staying still. I'm confident I won't be a bother."
Satisfied with the answer, I approached the bastard.
I closed my eyes and activated Blood Magic. I recalled the sensation from when I first summoned the water droplet spirit.
I shoved that power into the turtle spirit's mouth.
"Uoooo.."
As I shoved it into its mouth, the bastard trembled.
'Something feels wrong..!'
The turtle's skin, having ingested Blood Magic, began to crack like drought.
The lively gaze in its eyes disappeared, and it stopped moving.
-Tok tok
"Excuse me. Did you die?"
When I tapped its face, it flowed down like sand.
Seeing this, the snake spirit was also shocked and hid behind the skeleton to avoid me.
"Did you kill the spirit?"
"...Scary."
"Ah... No. I didn't kill it!"
The two, though they couldn't see each other, teamed up and pressured me.
Then, my head became heavy.
Looking up, I saw a small turtle had settled on top of my head.
"Uuuo... my body became light. Now I can return to the Spirit Realm even with a small amount of magical power. Thank you."
"You're alive!"
The snake spirit, perhaps happy, approached the shrunk turtle spirit.
"Spirit."
"Why?"
"Uooo, what is it?"
"Not you."
"Me?"
"Me? Ooh."
The two spoke simultaneously and looked at me.
It seemed that since there were now two spirits, they needed names.
Leaving the dungeon entrance and entering the first room again, I thought of names for the two.
Simply calling them Turtle and Snake seemed lacking. I wanted to give them names that sounded strong just by hearing them.
"Okay, from now on, your name is Hyeonmu."
"Uooo..! Understood."
"You are Cheongryong."
"I'm Cheongryong?"
From now on, I decided to call them that to avoid confusion.
"Hyeonmu."
"What is it?"
"Get off my head. You said you can fly now, like Cheongryong."
"That's correct. But I am an immovable spirit with the power of the earth. I do not move easily."
"Where was that contract cancellation clause again..."
"Now that I think about it, walking on four legs doesn't seem so bad, uetcha..."
Hyeonmu, having eaten Demon World water, seemed insane no matter how you looked at it.
"Hyeonmu, I have something to ask. What did you do while guarding the dungeon?"
"I buried corpses underground."
"You buried corpses underground?"
"That's right... When battles occur in the dungeon, countless corpses pile up. Then it was my job to dig the ground and bury those corpses."
"In other words, you're good at digging and filling ground, right?"
"That's right."
"Try digging here."
When I gave the location and dimensions through Blood Magic, the ground was immediately dug in a square shape.
"Amazing. It's like the ground just disappeared."
"Something like this is easier than moving my body."
"This... is incredible..?"
I thought I could make traps and such through Hyeonmu.
The Female Demon King, exhausted from the large-scale summoning, entered the boss room and rested.
And when her body recovered, her eyes slowly opened.
"...No time for this."
She didn't know when the demons would attack. She had left the aftermath to the Demon Person, but she couldn't trust him from start to finish. It seemed like his first time in a dungeon, and he even looked weak. As soon as she recovered even a little, she had to check the first room.
"Move."
The Demon King, who could move freely within the dungeon, appeared in the first room instantly.
"Heot!"
And seeing that the floor of the room had sunk hundreds of meters, her body began to fall vertically.
"Kyaaa!!"
-Cheok..
"Are you alright, Demon King-nim?"
Falling straight down, she ended up being caught by someone. The one catching her with both hands was the Demon Person.
The Demon King looked up while still held in the Demon Person's arms.
"Why... are you in a pit..!? No... why is there a pit!"
"I was making a trap."
"Trap..."
Looking at the countless blood-colored spikes laid on the floor, the Demon King swallowed slightly.
She had entrusted him with the first room, and he made the entire room into a trap.
The Demon King was both dumbfounded and amazed.
"Something this huge... did you make it alone?"
"Only the digging was done by me."
"Why did you make the first room itself into a trap..!"
"That's because I heard the enemies are numerous in number. So I thought we needed traps of this scale."
"A depth that can be made so simply..!"
The Demon King was speechless at the enormous pit trap.
'In the Demon Person's world, is this level of trap simple..!'
What was even funnier was that he pulled off such a huge thing and spoke so casually, which left her dumbfounded.
At first, she thought no matter how much of a Demon Person he was, he would do the work of two, or at best three, compared to other summons.
But that was a mistake. The Demon Person in front of her was showing more than that.
"Demon King-nim, you've arrived."
"Lich-yeo..."
The Lich, instead of its skeleton staff, was holding blood-colored spikes and planting them one by one on the floor. The summoned monsters nearby were in the same situation.
"You'll help too, right, Demon King-nim? Here, take these."
It was Jageun, creating dozens of blood-colored spikes in an instant and handing them to the Demon King.
The Demon King, flustered, ended up taking them.
"Now, just stick them in like this. With this, even if enemies survive the fall, they'll surely die from the spikes, don't you think?"
"I suppose so..."
The Demon King, empathizing with the Demon Person's words, unconsciously began to follow his actions.