CH 28

[It’s On, Buddy!]

[Y-Yuri-san’s brutality is unstoppable! I mean, please stop, Yuri-san?! You’re turning the inaugural event into the demon king’s attack eveeeeeeeent?!]

Navi, serving as the commentator, was saying some incomprehensible stuff, but incomprehensible stuff was usually stuff that didn’t matter, so I’d just ignore them!

In order to protect the honor of ‘Summoner’, the ‘bow’, and ‘Luck’ that everybody made fun of, I, the hero of justice, would leave no players alive!

Using violence was the best way to eliminate discrimination and create a peaceful society. Once the monster parade initiated by my special art ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’ was over, I had the Firebird resume his airstrike. In addition, I also fired Pontaro and the gang; combined with their ‘Dark Clone’ skill, it was like there was a rain of arrows going on.

“I got it, Summoner, the bow, and Luck are strong?! I got it already, so please stop?!”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I actually tried to attack Yuri-san by teaming up with several people, I’m sorry!”

“I won’t make jokes about Summoner, the bow, and Luck anymore, so please forgive meeeeeeeeeeee!”

The players were crying and scurrying away, but I would show no mercy for the sake of the future Summoners, bow-users, and those who walked down the path of extreme Luck. Justice meant sacrificing one person to save ten, so if I, the hero of justice, massacred ten thousand people, that meant I would be saving a hundred thousand people! Probably!

Therefore, I set the Goblin King and Wolf King—who had made such rapid growth after killing an uncountable number of players—after those who were running away with their backs on me.

In addition, 10 minutes had passed since I’d summoned Gigantic Dragon Plant, and he was now off cooldown, so I summoned him again. He burned down the town’s outer circumference, wiping out thousands of players who had been staying away from the center of the town for fear of fighting.

The survivors, now ragged and scorched, banded together to try to escape the resulting Scorching Zone, but before they could, I once again activated my special art ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’, airdropping a huge number of monsters upon them.

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・You have defeated 18260 players…!

Since you have reached level 40—high level domain—from now on, the lower the level of the opponent you defeated compared to yours, the lower the experience points you will gain.

Some opponents’ levels are lower than you by 10 or more, you do not obtain experience points for defeating them.

Yuri has leveled up to level 44. +18260 event points for Yuri…!

・The delayed processing has been completed.

Condition: ‘Kill 10 players’ cleared!

You have acquired the skill ‘Violent Murderer’!”

‘Violent Muderer’: Slightly increases the ‘impact’ delivered when attacking a player (easier to knock back).

Condition: ‘Kill 100 players’ cleared!

‘Violent Murderer’ has evolved into ‘Massacre Maniac’!

‘Massacre Maniac’: Increases the ‘impact’ delivered when attacking a player (easier to knock back).

Condition: ‘Kill 1000 players’ cleared!

‘Massacre Maniac’ has evolved into ‘Demon’s Surge’!

‘Demon’s Surge’: Increases the ‘impact’ delivered when attacking any type of enemy (easier to knock back).

Condition: ‘Kill 10,000 players’ cleared!

‘Demon’s Surge’ has evolved into ‘Demon King’s Surge’!

‘Demon King’s Surge’: Greatly increases the ‘impact’ delivered when attacking any type of enemy (easier to knock back).

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“Oh~, now that’s something you don’t see every day!”

The notifications Ms. Message displayed fully covered my field of vision.

I got rare skills thanks to my great rampage. Besides ‘Demon King’s Surge’, I also acquired a Summoner-only skill ‘Demon King’s Kin’ from having my monsters kill 10,000 players, and ‘Magic Bullet Shooter’ from killing 1,000 players with projectile attacks.

‘Demon King’s Kin’ buffed the stats of monsters that had become my familiars by 1.3x, and it worked around the clock—a super useful skill.

‘Magic Bullet Shooter’, on the other hand, apparently gave the homing ability to the weapon I threw or shot… but if I was being honest, it was useless to me. I was planning to keep relying on Pontaro and the gang going forward, after all.

“Pigyoooooooo…”

“Oh, Chuntaro, tired already? Thanks, you’ve been a great help.”

He could only fly for about 20 minutes with a player on his back.

After stroking Chuntaro’s fluffy back, I unsummoned him, then I landed on the square of the destroyed town.

The peaceful townscape was now gone. Numerous buildings crumbled to pieces, and fires burned brightly all over the town, making it look like the capital of the dead.

The number on the counter showing the total of remaining survivors at the corner of my vision was rapidly decreasing, but I couldn’t spot any other players as far as my eyes could see.

“He~y, Navi, am I the only one left~?”

[P-please wait a minute, Yuri-san—I mean, Yuri-sama! We’re still processing the data… oh, ahh?! There are still about ten players remaining! The battle isn’t over yeeeeeeeeeet!]

For some reason, Navi sounded so happy that she was about to cry.

Oh, it must be because she had taken to her job as a commentator, so she didn’t want the event to end too quickly.

“Don’t you worry, Navi! I wanna show off to everybody the power of Summoner, the bow, and Luck too; I’ll try my best to torture the remaining guys as long as possible~!”

[That gives me nothing but worry, though?! Aaaaaaaaah! Someone, anyone, please defeat this naturally fiendish, delinquent, and beautiful demon kiiiing!!!]

Hey, I’m an intelligent, righteous, kind, and handsome hero though? What the hell are you going on about?

Just as I was about to send Pontaro and the gang to shake Navi down for running her mouth off, all of a sudden, the pile of rubble behind me burst up with a bang…!

“Ha… haha!”

Amid the resulting thick dust cloud, a man emerged, covered in blood all over his body. Seeing him, a grin crept across my face.

Although he was dragging his feet, the moment our eyes met, he proudly snorted, “Heh, how naïve, Yuri! Didja think that was enough to kill me?!”

“Nah, I knew you’d make it out alive! Now, let’s do this, baldhead!!”

As expected of my buddy, he didn’t disappoint! The baldhead walked over towards me, intent to settle this with a duel between men!

At that moment, Whoaaaaaaaaaaaa a loud cheer exploded. It was the screams of the spectators that came through Navi’s microphone.

[H-he’s aliiiiiiiive! A powerful player is heeeeeere!

With the favorite for the winner Zansword-san out of the competition, I thought there was no one left having the chance to defeat the Demon King Yuri-sama! Yet when all hopes seemed lost, from the pile of rubble, one of the top players, Reinhard von Edelfield-san made his appearance!]

Navi, the commentator, screamed in delight (all while naturally treating me as the demon king).

Hang on a second?!

“Hey, baldhead… how could you pick that name when you look like that? Wouldn’t Gonzales be more suitable to you?”

“Who’s Gonzales! Now that I look back, you also called me a barbarian the first time we met… alright, I’ve made up my mind.

Yuri! If I win, ya have to listen to whatever I tell you to do for a day as punishment! I’mma make you help me with everything from defeating monsters to collecting items; you’d be crying and begging for mercy all night long!”

“Hah, then if I win, you listen to me! I’m gonna make you slave away day and night!”

“Good, that’s a deal!”

As we exchanged back and forth, we each took out a recovery potion and drank it.

Alright, my MP was now back to a full tank. All of the wounds on the baldhead disappeared too, and his whole body was radiating with fighting spirit.

After that, we threw away the potion bottles at the same time, and the moment a glass-breaking sound echoed—

““I would never be defeated, not by youuuu!””

Clenching our fists with burning enthusiasm, we began running toward each other at the exact same time!