2021-10-02 22:48:35“This is the most important mission the knight of the order will do for many years. After the discovery of the demon king's dungeon. The king already permits us to launch an attack. Many years have passed, we feared the existence of the demon king. People have died. Women and children are no exception to his evil. Now the knights will rise and took the demon king's head. And continue the legacy of the first hero who save the world hundred years ago.”
Knights of order grandmaster said in front of hundreds of knights listening to him.
Including our squad standing proud.
“This is the time to take his head.”
Commander Bladedarts muttered in a slightly angered expression. Having the same expression as Commander. Zeff clenches his fist to the point his hands bleed blood.
“Heal!”
Our healer named Maylene cast a healing spell on Zeff's hands.
“Don’t let your anger swallow you. That’s what you always told me right? Let’s have revenge on the demon king as we promised to our homeland.”
“That’s right… I should not be so hasty. Thank you, Maylene.”
“Fufu… getting sweet to each other.”
Yunis teased Maylene and Zeff. After Yunis teasing them. Both of their faces get bright red and they look away opposite to each other.
“... I think it's fine… Zeff is already 22 years old. Maylene is also at a marriageable age. Being interested in people of the opposite gender is normal.”
“Don’t come near me. You reek of alcohol.”
“Don’t be like that… Retto please tell Zeff to join me in my drinking.”
The big man cling to Zeff and put his arms to his shoulders. Zeff has a disgusted expression on his face and continues pushing the big man named Rokun away from him.
Despite being a drunkard. Rokun is the vanguard of the fourth knight squad. He can swing his giant sword like a feather. He's one of the strongest among the entire knights of the order.
There are times he saves my life from danger.
I have lots of respect for him.
“Retto is like Zeff… He can’t tell Yunis what he truly feels.”
“Retto already told me his feelings.”
“Eh!”
“Does that mean Yunis and Retto are already dating?”
It pulled the interest of my squadmates.
“Nope, I’m not giving my answer to Retto yet. I want him to work hard first before getting my sweet yes.”
Yunis answered.
We already kissed before. Yunis as a girl doesn’t want to make things hastily. Just like her, I wanted to move at our own pace. A relationship is a form of responsibility.
We’re working as knights and we’re not sure if we’re going to be alive the next day. Having a relationship in our position is hard.
“... But I promised Retto to stay with him when we defeated the demon king.”
Yunis said looking at me with her sweet smile.
It makes me feel very happy.
The girl I love says those words I wanted to hear.
“It’s great to be young… But don’t forget… We need to stay focus on the mission. I know everyone in my squad is not weakling. I do know that everyone here is powerful. We defeated many monsters already and demon king minions. With the help of the other 12 squads. These battles will be tough don’t let your guards down.”
“Captain Bladedarts is right! Finally, the peace will come to our kingdom.”
All of us Fourth knight squad looks optimistically to our bright future.
The knight grandmaster continue and told us the detailed plan of infratating the demon king dungeon. All the knights are going to attack in all directions. Barriers will be chanted. Connecting the demon king on his dungeon. With the power of all knights.
The knights will take down the demon king like heroes.
Like heroes in the heroes story, I’m reading when I was a child.
After that long explanation and meeting. I was looking up at the stars in the sky. The night was beautiful. The stars are all shining bright. Brighter than in usually do.
This might be a good sign that some good is about to happen.
Seating on the roof I took a rice ball and took a bite.
“What are you doing late at night here? You should be taking your rest. The mission will start tomorrow.”
“Same with you, why you're still awake?”
“I can’t sleep… Tomorrow is a big day after all.”
Yunis appeared behind me and walked closer. She seat down next to me and took one of the rice balls.
“Hey, that’s mine.”
“Don’t be selfish… After these battles, I’m going to become your wife after all.”
If she said that. I don’t have any reason to argue.
“Why look so troubled? The grandmaster's plan is flawless. Because of his wise decision. The knights reach this point. Even though our kingdom doesn’t have a hero. The knights climb their way to the demon king dungeon.”
“It is true… But it's still the demon king. We can’t let our guard down easily on his presence.”
“I heard Bladedarts wife and daughter was raped by the demon king. Zeff and Maylene’s town was destroyed by the demon king’s experimentation. Not only them most of the members on our squad have personal anger toward the demon king.”
“How about you Yunis? Do you resent him?”
“Of course, I do… I’m from the bloodline of the hero after all.”
“This is the first time hearing these.”
“I kept it as a secret… The first hero do his best but he was defeated by a traitor. I want to continue his glory and make a better place. A peaceful place for everyone…. Everyone is anxious because of the presence of the demon king. I want to serve as new light for the people in our kingdom. I’m going to be a hero.”
“I don’t have some grand reason like Zeff and Captain, but the people are suffering. Me too… I’m going to be a hero. A hero of this kingdom.”
“After these let's get married.”
“That’s a great idea.”
After the mission. Yunis and I planned to get married.
Just like how the stars shine brightly in the sky.
I look forward to it.
...
Early in the morning. The moon is still shining brightly. The Knights Of Order made move toward the demon king dungeon.
Previous Chapter
Related Chapters
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 3: Falling to Nothingness
Knights of Order with their squads invade the demon king's dungeon. In all possible entrances, the knights entered creating devastating damage to the dungeon. The knight commander of the second squad and the third squad. Used their magic and killed every demon minion guarding the demon king's castle with their might. “Absolute Snow Avalanche!” “Flaming roar!” Chaos and cries were heard from the demons who were directly hit by the magic attack. The sixth squad specialized in attack magic. Started their chant from a decent distance from the dungeon. From the right side of the dungeon. The fire explosion magic resulted in destroying the walls and the demons inside. “That’s dangerous… How about the knights inside the dungeon?” Zeff said to Commander Bladedarts. “It’s fine. The right side was given to the Sixth and seventh squads. Looks like they planned to destroy and annihilated the place first before the seventh squad entered the dungeon.” “That’s a great plan because the demons
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 4: Making friends
"Just looking at them makes chills run down my spine. It's your first time seeing one so I won't blame you. For now, you should eat and have energy. I have to go..." Glenn said and get bread in his bag. He tosses one toward me and he gets one for himself. He seated on the big rock and started eating. I stared at the bread and sniff it. "There's no poison on it... I won't poison a fellow human." "I'm sorry for my behavior earlier... I was confused. Many terrible things happened today." I apologize with my head lowered to the ground. "It's the same as me... I understand you, the first time I woke up in this dungeon. I was at loss. I don't even know what I'm going to do... Your reaction is just normal..." Glenn looks so calm and ignored my action earlier. He acted cool on it and started chatting with me. "... What's your name?" "My name..." "Introduction... Since we're already talking to each other. Let's call each other by our names. It's easier that way. It is a great way to b
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 5: Extraterrestrials
"I thought they are harmless! That one is surely trying to kill us." "I'm only referring to the giants. That serpent is another creature. The Splitjaw Serpentis a giant, elongated, legless, carnivorous, scarlet red reptile of the serpent species. It's supposed to live in a higher area. I wonder what's happening?" Glenn explained. I turned my head back and saw the Splitjaw Serpent chasing us. It's open its jaws widely. Light particles were collected on its mouth in form of an orb. Followed by that it throws a laser beam that pierced the surrounding. The rocks were melted into lava in instant. "Such power..." "It's not the time to be impressed... We need to do something." "You're an immortal right? Why you're running like your life was at stake?" "Are you stupid or what?" He answered my question with another question. Glenn then continued while looking his fixed gaze at the serpent.
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 6: Divine Relic
Incredible... I took that laser beam but I don't feel any pain. This is the power of the divine relic. The tools used by the heroes to take out the demon king. The Spithead serpents around me turned their countless eyes on me. They turned their neck around the surrounding. Seems like they didn't notice that I'm inside the armor. The full-body armor makes me unrecognizable. I turned my glance on my arm. A black steel full body armor. It does resemble anything I wear when I was a knight. This armor looks extremely different and advance. "What are you waiting for Retto? The divine relic already chose you. All you need to do is use the relic's power and destroy those creatures away from us." I got lost in the excitement. But Glenn was right, I have to defeat these monsters in front of me. I kick the ground and charge at full speed. Toward the serpents. My body didn't react the way I wanted. Leading my body to fly at an extreme spee
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 7: The Witch of the dungeon
Finding the white girl laying in that thick moss. Her expression is someone whose in ecstasy. She is smiling while her eyes closed down and her mouth opened drooling. On her hand was a single mushroom. By appearance, she seems like a girl in her teens. She looks slender and pretty. While she is laying down on the ground. I can’t help to look down at her porcelain flawless legs. I shook my head and look on the other way. This is a sin to Yunis. I already have the girl I love. It's unnecessary to think about erotic stuff to other girls. While we are looking at her. She opened her eyes slowly and saw us looking at her. She immediately snapped out of it and screamed: “Perverts! Perverts! Two-man is planning to rape me!” She screamed and stood up from the ground and made distance away from us. I kinda understand this sequence because There is a time Yunis labeled me the same way. There is a time I accidentally opened the bathroom an
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 8: Invitation
An unnatural feeling surges through my spine. I have the feeling of continuing will only lead to astray. At the same time, I don’t have any option to chose.Going back and retreating is not something a knight would do. Even heroes won’t do anything like foolishly retreating in front of an evil presence.This Witch leak killing intent already after hearing Glenn being a black mage.The killing intent I sense is off the charts. The bloodlust is more powerful than the demon king.Currently, I’m hesitating to make even a single step from my position. I turned my head on my back. Clenching my fist and gritted my teeth while feeling helpless.The frightening feeling of near-death experience still engraves on my head. The traumatizing experience on the demon king castle and the disastrous power of extraterrestrials. After achieving the power of a divine relic. My survival rate in this dungeon was still slim to zero.“Glenn&h
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 9: Training
After Elaina joining our team. Elaina decided to bring us to the eighth stratum of the dungeon. The way we took is dangerous because of the darkness and extraterrestrials living in the sixth stratum. (Sixth stratum name: Dark purgatory.)Beside Spithead serpent, we also face Eight legged Mudfish, Twin long Rods, Worm beast,s and more. We avoid extraterrestrials as much as possible, but there were times that we need t fight our survival.Elaina was power up to the team. We manage to defeat Extraterrestrials easily with her on our team.Unlike monsters in the real world. Extraterrestrials don’t have rankings. But there are weak extraterrestrials and also the strong ones like Spit head serpent. It took 168 hours or about a week in the real world before we reach the cave leading to a lower level.While I’m fighting the extraterrestrials in Sixth with my sword. I realized something I need to do before I’m able to defeat the dem
Dungeon of Zero Chapter 10: Just like good people, evil people exist
My battle with Extratestrials in the ninth stratum concluded I traveled the route back, tracing distant memories in my head. At long last, the light of the exit came into sight, and I heaved a sigh of relief. Because of the absence of sunlight. My sense of time is ruined. The only thing that kept me on track with time was the watch given by Glenn. Looking at it, it was pointing at exactly 6:00 PM. I’m shocked at how much time has passed and hurried myself going home. I promised Glenn and Elaina to meet with them before 6:00 PM. “I didn’t notice the time at all.” Running rapidly. I suddenly stopped when a group of extraterrestrials appeared in front of me. I stare around and noticed their gleaming aqua-blue eye’s looking at me. Has a humanoid body, four arms close together, and ahead of a fish. Around me, there are about twenty of them in total. Ever since I started my training in this dungeon. This dungeon never failed to shock me with the variety of creatures living in this place
Latest Chapter
Short story 12: Secret spy (Part 3)
“What is the status of the matter with the evil mage?” When I returned to the office, the boss was wearing another sour expression. “As expected… I brought down the evil mage with my own hands! Right about now, that woman ought to be dying of embarrassment in front of the whole city!” My plan is flawless. The evil girl in question is now dying with her stomach twisted after drinking my poisoned coffee. My acting is very good and I’m never suspicious. She’s now unable to go out because of her stomach being unwell. The poison I gave her will result in laxative diarrhea. She probably poops on her skirt earlier. Feeling so much shame that she would rather crawl in a hole and die. I’m truly a genius. I told my plan to the boss. And here’s what my boss had to say after silently lending his ear. “So I suppose you saw her dead in embarrassment with your own eyes?” “Of course not.” Seeing someone dying is something I don’t want to see. “...” At this point, my boss let out a huge si
Short story 12: Secret spy (Part 2)
“What is the status of the matter with the evil mage?” When I returned to the office, the boss was wearing another sour expression. “As expected… I brought down the evil mage with my own hands! Right about now, that woman ought to be dying of embarrassment in front of the whole city!” My plan is flawless. The evil girl in question is now dying with her stomach twisted after drinking my poisoned coffee. My acting is very good and I’m never suspicious. She’s now unable to go out because of her stomach being unwell. The poison I gave her will result in laxative diarrhea. She probably poops on her skirt earlier. Feeling so much shame that she would rather crawl in a hole and die. I’m truly a genius. I told my plan to the boss. And here’s what my boss had to say after silently lending his ear. “So I suppose you saw her dead in embarrassment with your own eyes?” “Of course not.” Seeing someone dying is something I don’t want to see. “...” At this point, my boss let out a huge si
Short story 12: Secret spy (Part 1)
A tough cookie like myself always begins his day with a nice cup of coffee. For us who dwelled in the shadows, making our living as spies, there was nothing better than taking up a cup of strong coffee to prevent our heads from feeling sleepy. Pumping ourselves full of coffee and drugs was the way of the world-weary. I mixed a drop of the medicine into my coffee and drank it down. This is my daily routine. I’d never been sure of what was in those drugs. I took them from a mail-order catalog. But they were super expensive, so I was convinced they were beneficial to my health. I took the cup and sipped it. “Bleh! So bitter…” This strong flavor was actually what banished sleepiness. Probably. That wasn’t written anywhere in the books, though. Coffee was bitter and gross and seriously tasted like mud, which triggered my gag reflex and made drowsiness my second priority. It didn’t taste anything like how they describe it in the spy novels. They wrote that black coffee was delicious or
Chapter 223: Voided Memories
Eden city, City hall. Dia clutched her temples trying to relieve some stress. “What is going on?” She whispered and stood up from her seat to get some tea. (I was gone for quite a while and problems pile up. Is that murderous Latina still doing her job? I take that back, she’s doing her job. She hated me more than anyone in this world. But she’s a big help, that’s for sure. I could not imagine myself doing this intense work without her.) Dia spawled back in her seat. She blow the hot steam first and sniff the relaxing aroma for a moment before she made her first little sip. She then shifted her sight to the paper laying on the desk. Most of them are report letters for spies Dia deployed to investigate other kingdoms' actions. The land that pull her interest the most was the neighboring country Ruki kingdom and The remote Islands of Youko. Youko wasn’t part of the world organization and they always push any offer from other countries as if saying that they could survive on their
Chapter 222: Our Fate and Bonds
Dashing at the dunes of the great desert back to Foire territory. I’m not planning on going to Fiore to ask for help from the knights. I’m merely going to use the route from Fiore to Yuno kingdom. Knights of order aid will be great, but I decided not to bother them. The last time I visited, I find out that they were having a long battle between the kingdom knights. The demon king might be gone, but the war continues. It will be inconsiderate of me if I ask them for a selfish favor. I have no exact plan on how I’m going to save Falfa. This might seem like jumping on a cliff, but I can’t help myself to jump. I have to save Falfa no matter what. This desperation is driving me to my limit. I’m still full of hatred for the recent events. Why Belle would do something like this? Belle is not the type of girl who will order such a cruel task. I believe in her. If ever I got a chance to get inside the Yuno Kingdom. I’ll make sure to have a conversation with her. Overthinking about it won’t br
Chapter 221: Seven powers
“Princess Alina… Your tea is ready.” Miko placed the cup of tea accompanied by several variations of sweets. As for the girl in question--Alina-- was busy glazing into the unknown. For what reason she’s looking high up in the clear blue sky? For sure Alina won’t be adoring the blue sky. She is not the type of person who likes beautiful things after all. The craziest part was that Alina was standing in the same spot in front of the giant window for one week. She’s not sleeping or eating anything. Her eyes were simply fixed on something. Miku deep in her heart was worried and would like to ask what is going on. But if she does, that might be the end of her. In other words, death. Miku simply support her in whatever Alina wanted. There’s still the tea she serves earlier and Alina’s favorite strawberry shortcake. Miku can’t do anything but have a deep breath and placed the untouched food back into her pushcart. “Good night milady.” Miku greeted her and bowed her head before leaving Al
Chapter 220: Witch Contract
“I’m dead!” I sat up as I woke up. Immediately I have my hand on my chest and check my wound. There are no wounds in my chest. My body is perfectly fine. I was skeptical myself and look around. The place where I found myself wasn’t someplace I know. There's no floor but I’m sitting. No walls or anything. The closest description I could ever think of was that this place looks like the starry night sky I usually gaze into. From some angles, this place looks majestic. I didn’t notice immediately, but there was a girl sitting on a throne in front of me. The face same as Elaina's. This girl was the Cosmo witch. “You really mess up there.” She said. “You here to help me again. Thank you so much…” “Help you?” The witch gives me a cold gaze. My limbs were torn apart and my head was skewered by a golden sword. “... Don’t get ahead of yourself. I’m not helping you or anything. Well, in some aspect we can say that I was helping you. I mean, you are dead right now and I’m the only one wh
Chapter 219: Two Orders
A 50-meter-tall dragon appeared out of nowhere. Monsters aren’t supposed to get through the barrier of Liana. The barrier of Liana is been protecting the whole continent for hundreds of years. While I was dashing in full throttle something from the past resurfaced in my mind. In the past, the time Falfa and I were still new on this continent. There was a case about the havoc of the horned bear. The main culprit for that was the wyvern that took their shelter away from the bears. I took care of them and finds out that a part of the barrier melted. The hole wasn’t clear to the naked eye and only I who had a gleaming yes could see it. Wyvern noticing the hole is simply dumb luck. However, there must be someone who can see the barrier just like me and… Is this event caused by my ignorance? I want to live life os selfishly thinking of my happiness with Falfa. I don’t want to live like a hero who will selflessly dive into danger ever again. I don’t want that feeling anymore. But why am
Chapter 218: Before the storm
“Hngf!”The breath burst from his throat when her back struck the ground. Retto yanked aside the cloth that clung to his face and struggled in the darkness for a few moments before recognizing that she was in his bedroom.He fell out of bed in his sleep.Retto collected his blankets and climb back into the bed.It was late June now, and although the sunlight was getting warmer, the predawn morning was still freezing. It was mostly because the town they live in was located on a plateau. The lush green forest nearby also gives off a heavy breeze making every morning cold.Retto doesn’t particularly sleep too much. But this time he goes back to bed to get some sleep. But after moments of staying in bed eyes closed. His unable to sleep and give up. He sat up and turned his head to his side where his wife was supposed to be sleeping.“She’s already up…”His someone trying his best to be a good husband and future father of their first child. Retto can’t afford the time to laze around like b
