Why I Quit Being the Demon King

Why I Quit Being the Demon King Chapter 40

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10. Meet the Underground People (1)

“Have you enrolled your younger siblings in a private dormitory now?”

The carriage rattled.

Lying in the luggage compartment at the back, Deus spoke to Zeke.

He could have bought a travel wagon, but Deus seemed to like this wagon more. Is it possible to lie down and see the sky? In fact

, it was easier to travel through the city with

a pack horse than with a clumsy passenger carriage .

It was rare to individually investigate who was on board.

Because it was a structure where the inside was clearly visible anyway.

“yes. “We both went into the dormitory.”

“I’m going to spend an hour.”

“Yes. Even when you go on an adventure like this.”

“How old did you say you were?”

“The younger sister is now 10 years old and the boy is 5 years old.”

“5 years old? “Still going into the dormitory?”

“yes. People from prestigious families tend to live in dormitories starting from kindergarten.”

“It’s hard that way too.”

“I will get through it well. “Because they both have higher aptitude as warriors than me.”

“I wonder what it will be like…

“But my lord, do you really plan to go underground?”

Alex turned his head and looked at Deus.

“Then should I come all the way here and take back what I said?”

“That’s not it.”

The carriage shook again.

The rough field along this road was lined with pillar-shaped rocks called devil’s chimneys.

As the name suggests, the rock stood tall above the ground like a chimney. It even spewed out black smoke.

“Underground… it’s dangerous.”

“Are you scared?”

“What are you saying? However, the underground dwarves are not afraid of anyone. “They are not even afraid of the devil.”

Alex gave some strength to the word ‘demon king’.

“I was scared.”

“No.”

“Then keep going.”

“Ha, you don’t even listen to what your servant said. “You were wrong to become a saint.”

“what? You don’t even want to do it? Just drive straight. “Don’t let it rattle.”

“Is there a yes or no?”

“Are we all getting old and rebellious?”

It was about 30 minutes later that the shaking carriage stopped.

The center of a plain full of devil’s chimneys.

This is what people called this lava vent between the tail and butt of the horse-shaped continent, a crack in the ground where sticky red lava is rising.

-Devil’s whisper.

“What are the devil’s whispers? “It’s a fucking hole.”

“Oh, of course… This location is the starting point of the tail-shaped Horsetail Peninsula and the end of the horse’s buttocks, but…

“Horse’s X-hole.”

“Isn’t it too confusing to name a geographical area?”

“Isn’t the hole where you eat your body full, but the hole where you cum does not?”

“Yes, no.”

Yulgeum, who was listening, got angry.

“Stop talking about holes.”

“sorry.”

“As if Ji wasn’t cumming…

Yulgeum’s palm gently stuck into Deus’s back.

“What are you saying to the lady? By the way, I don’t have to go pick flowers.”

“What are you picking flowers for?”

“Say it like that.”

“How do you distinguish between large and small? Are you going to pick fruit too?”

“That’s why I don’t like this kind of talk!”

Yulgeum covered his ears. Meanwhile, Deus jumped out of the carriage.

“Then, let’s go into the horse’s X hole.”

“It’s the devil’s whisper…

“Are you even making a sound here? “Well, it’s natural for a hole to make a sound.” The

dark red lava that flowed from the lava vent

flowed into the nearby sea, creating huge steam.

The steam collected in the underwater cave for a certain period of time and then spewed out all at once, creating a huge fountain that rose from the beach into the sky and made a loud sound.

Puang!

“Is that still a whisper?”

“Ah… yes.”

“That’s exactly it. You know that feeling where your stomach starts to swell and then comes out in an instant? “You know that girl who doesn’t even go out to pick flowers, right?”

Yulgeum covered his ears and made an ahh sound with his mouth.

To prevent the conversation from getting any more scandalous, Alex hurriedly led the way.

“The road to the underground is this way.”

“I think I know roughly. “It’s not going to go into the hole.”

“It’s next to that.”

“It’s either there or there.”

Once again, the thermal water erupted, rising into the sky, and the sound shook the air.

Zeke

burst out laughing when he heard that sound.

After listening to Deus’ words, nothing came to mind other than ‘that sound’.

“As expected, I’m 14 years old. “Only innocent kids like this kind of sound.”

Deus gave Zeke a thumbs up.

Zeke and Alex had fairly large backpacks on their backs.

Since the road was impassable for carriages, food and equipment for sleeping on the streets were needed.

In addition, Zeke wore three Dooms series equipment. The shield was

attached to the back of the bag and he was wearing gauntlets and black equipment.

Using those two as guides, Deus and Yul Geum walked down the narrow path next to the lava as if they were taking a walk.

Has it been about an hour?

For the first time, the scenery changed.

At some point, the naturally created road between the rocks became a road made of stone slabs.

Soon, a magnificent stone statue of a giant appeared. The giant carved in relief on the rock was carrying a huge rock on the ceiling.

“It is the land of the dwarves.”

“I think you can tell just by looking at it.”

The road leading from there was fairly well paved and could accommodate a horse-drawn carriage.

However, it was narrow and low in height, so I thought it would be limited to a cart pulled by a single mule.

“The dwarves have accumulated wealth by mining minerals, growing mushrooms, and selling them to humans and demon dragons on the ground.”

“I really like explaining things to you.”

Despite being scolded by Deus, Alex continued to say this.

“Their kingdom has no map. This is because every day we dig the ground and build a new path. Since they themselves do not know the exact path, each clan does not invade each other’s land. Wars between clans are extremely rare, so some people think of them as an ideal community, but in reality, they are just greedy people who only care about their own business. “It is said that the number of people who dig caves to expand their houses collapse and kill their neighbors

is greater than the number of people who die in the war between the demon world and the human world that occurs once every 100 years.”

“What do you mean, even if you meet them, it will be hard to find any clues?”

“yes. “I wonder if I will be able to find a clue only if I meet all of the short charcoal people, if it’s 10 million or 100 million or 100 million.”

“Shouldn’t you have told me about it sooner? “Then you didn’t come.”

“yes’?”

“You said it was impossible?”

“That’s right.”

“Then what did you come for?”

“So I kept

saying… “I have to get to the point first. “Why should I listen to things like the history of the dwarves and the structure of the nation?”

“No, that’s why I kept explaining…

“That’s why talkative bastards aren’t fun.”

“It’s unfair! “My lord!”

“It’s your face that’s unfair.”

Yulgeum asked Deus.

“Then are you going back?”

“no. “Now that I’m here, I have to take a look.”

“You’re just teasing.”

“I’m not just teasing you. “It’s a joke full of sincerity.”

Alex continued to walk with a pouty face, and Deus trudged, looking around.

How much time has passed?

It must have been a good two hours since we entered the dwarves’ path.

Even at that point, the party hadn’t even encountered a single real ant, let alone a dwarf.

“Is it really hard to meet like this?”

Deus asked abruptly. What he was looking at was Yulgeum.

Yulgeum said that in the past, he had obtained weapons from short charcoal men.

He must know more about the dwarves than Alex, who only has a living mouth.

“I don’t think so…

Yulgeum also trailed off as if it was strange.

It was right then.

Zeke, who was walking ahead, collapsed on the floor.

Alex, who was next to him, was surprised and helped him up. His face was purple.

“I think I’m addicted.”

Alex looked at Deus in surprise.

The face of Yul Geum, who was walking with Deus, also changed color. Dark colors subsided beneath the cheekbones.

“Yulgeum too…

Yulgeum memorized the detox spell before Alex finished speaking.

The poison accumulated in her body disappeared in an instant. Then, she used her magic power again toward Zeke.

About 20 meters ahead from there. The first small cavity that appeared was an exchange with several houses gathered together.

And there was nothing alive inside it.

Deus summed up the situation in one word.

“It looks like someone poisoned the anthill.”

It was about an hour later that Zeke opened his eyes.

Despite Yulgeum’s detoxification magic, recovery was not easy.

It appears that the poison sprayed there was very severe.

“sorry! sorry!”

As soon as Zeke opened his eyes, he poured out words of apology.

“You’re noisy, man.”

Zeke came to his senses and looked around.

It was a place that felt like a town square. Although it was a village, it was small, with about 20 houses.

There was a street lamp placed in the dark cave.

Gas extracted from the ground was transported through thin pipes to light up streetlights. The sight

of pipes for lighting, heating and cooking

intricately intertwined was like a symbol of the village of short charcoal workers.

The name ‘charcoal workers’ itself was a word created by humans after seeing the charcoal they were digging out of the ground.

In fact, it was a completely separate resource called coal, not charcoal, but people at the time did not have enough insight to distinguish between them.

“Is this a charcoal village? here.”

“that’s right.”

“But…

Zeke saw Deus.

“sorry. I grabbed your ankle…

“Now that you’ve apologized, how do you feel?”

“I’m a little dizzy. Are you okay, Yulgeum?”

“Why Yulgeum without me?”

“Well, Deus-sama… I don’t think he will die from something like this poison.”

Deus tapped the beak of Zeke’s helmet and continued speaking.

“The toxicity is significant. “There aren’t many people who can make this level of poison.”

“Who is that?”

“Daroche, Duke of the Demon World.”

“Daroche!”

“You know too?”

“The seven operations are covered in detail in the basic warrior subject. Among them, Daroshu is said to be an expert in gluttony and is good at dealing with poisons and diseases. “The species is a reptile with the snout of a Lizardman crocodile.”

“I know.”

“ah! So, did the demon world attack this charcoal village?”

“Well, I don’t know that far.”

Deus said this and scratched his head.

The number of events in the demon world that the Demon King did not know about was increasing.

I didn’t really have any intention of becoming a demon lord, but I didn’t want my subordinates to cause trouble like this.

Alex said.

“There is no need to make any conclusions yet. Above all, none of the poison sprayed here bears Roche’s seal.”

Zeke nodded.

“ah! that’s right. It is said that his magic leaves a special mark that wizards can read

. “It looks like Yulgeum confirmed it.”

Yulgeum nodded and Alex opened his mouth again.

“The short charcoal workers are the fourth force living underground. They live scattered across a very vast area, so their power as a nation is weak, but their knowledge of the underground is a great legacy that no race can ignore.”

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