"Can you repeat that?" Caleb asked after several minutes.[The demon king is dead.]"That's what I thought you said," he muttered to himself as he tried to process what he was hearing.Caleb couldn't believe that the demon king was dead. It wasn't that he never considered it happening. Since he played the game, he obviously knew it could happen. It was the whole objective of the game. It would be weirder if it never occurred to him. However, after so many years in this place, he didn't think the summoned heroes could do it.With most of them dead, having a small party of heroes kill him seemed unrealistic. He knew very well how powerful the demon was after meeting him, so it blew his mind that they could do it. The demon king had been the one to help him jump so many levels and boost his stats to get closer to his goal of getting home. If it weren't for him, it would still be a distant dream.His stats were in the Rare or Epic range, which was more than he could expect for himself as
Caleb could honestly say he could never imagine that he would one day be looting from the demon king. Under normal circumstances, this would be the same as asking to be killed. Only someone crazy or delusional would try to pull something off. Of course, the demon king being dead wasn't a normal circumstance. As he stared at the remains of the castle, he had mixed feelings.It had taken a long time to travel here. Even though he wanted to go right away and even had the skill [Teleport], it couldn't be used on a large group yet. At most, he could teleport a dozen of them, and there was an extremely long cooldown right after using it. Not to mention that the distance he could teleport was short. This was after he had leveled up the skill quite a bit after using it as much as he could.In the beginning, he could only teleport a few feet by himself before he had to wait a week to use it. He was just grateful that the cooldown hadn't been longer, like a month. It would honestly not surprise
Caleb took his words back. Even though she was a hero and he was a demon rat, they hadn't really been enemies. She hadn't raised a hand against him, nor had they said anything that could be remotely considered hostile. They had only been enemies in name. He was certain that Gloria and the others would mourn over her death. They had been quite attached to her.He probably shouldn't bring it up with them since it wouldn't change anything. She wouldn't miraculously come back to life if they all knew. It was best to bury her quietly, which meant doing this alone. His demon rat form wasn't going to cut it since it never grew in size. That was another detail he hadn't been happy about. It made no sense for him to still be tiny.However, the system refused to touch the subject whenever Caleb brought it up. Instead, it would either remain silent or act like he hadn't said anything. Caleb had no doubt that it was a glitch preventing him from growing bigger. With a huff, he transformed into his
Caleb wasn't amused, but the system wasn't going to budge, which meant he needed to figure this out and quickly. Once his followers showed up, it was going to be chaotic when they saw who it was. The only good thing was that he didn't bring everyone who knew her here. He wouldn't have been able to deal with eleven of them circling and hounding him."Okay, instead of focusing on what I can't control, I should focus on what I can do," he muttered to himself.Ignoring the first three requirements, he studied the last two. Out of all the requirements, these were the only ones he could do something about, no matter how ridiculous they were. Gathering demons in the Epic range would take a lot of planning, effort, and time. There was no point in repeating how dangerous it was. He could make it work, even if it took several years.The thought of working his butt off to gather that many made him sigh. He was only considering the idea because of who it was and the reward he would get for comple
In hindsight, Caleb should have known that things would inevitably get chaotic. It was literally inevitable. He had wanted to hide Grace's body from the others and had used his body to shield her from view since he had nothing else and was short on time. It wasn't the smartest, but he would like to see how someone else would react in his place.Of course, he had muttered apologies to her in his head. If she were alive, she would probably be disturbed to have someone suddenly get on top of her to hide her. He certainly would have. Death didn't change that either. No one deserved to have someone get all handsy with their corpse. When he brought her back to life, he really hoped she wouldn't know about this.It would certainly make this awkward. If she did, he would make sure to apologize for what happened and hope it didn't suddenly make them enemies. It would be pretty messed up if he res
After spending a long time inspecting the door, Caleb finally caved in and attempted to open the door. He honestly didn't expect it to work since his followers had said nothing they did work. Imagine his surprise when the door swung open, like it had been unlocked the entire time. The group stared at the dark interior before Caleb turned to look at Matthew.Understanding the question in Caleb's eyes, Matthew frantically said, "It really wouldn't open when we tried. It wouldn't budge."Caleb didn't think he was lying, but it was strange that the door would open so easily. The only difference he could think of was that Caleb was in his human form instead of his demon rat form. However, if that was the case, he couldn't figure out why that would be the case. It seemed like poor security to allow a humanoid figure to open the secret treasury so easily.Deciding it was best not to think about it, he ordered one of his followers to open the door. He made sure to send the weakest first. It w
Caleb was glad that Grace's corpse was light. Having to carry it such a long distance would have been difficult otherwise, and dragging it across the floor was just disrespectful. Of course, he could have had Matthew carry her on his back. The demon rat had followed him back, even though Caleb told them to stay in the secret treasury until he returned.As he set her down on the floor, he asked, "System, what now?"Instead of an answer, he was shown the emergency quest details. The system hadn't done that before, and Caleb scanned the text. Out of the five requirements, two were complete. The second one was where she had to be in the demon king's castle, and the fifth one was about ten Legendary angelic items. Well, he hoped that last requirement was fulfilled.He wasn't going to check every single item in the room to make sure there were at least ten of them. The third requirement was something he could do right away, but the other two requirements worried him. The system still hadn't
"That makes it number ten," Caleb said as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.Currently in his human form, he stared down at the demon corpse in front of him. This was the tenth one he had managed to bring back to the demon castle. It was such a huge hassle to kill the demons, or at least find the corpse of one and bring it back with him. Transporting them wasn't easy, and he needed to do it nine hundred more times.With a groan, he sat down on the ground as he observed his surroundings. None of his followers were with him as he told them to wait outside. Their presence wouldn't help him in his current situation, as they didn't have the hands to drag a corpse. His eyes eventually fell onto Grace's corpse, which had yet to decay despite how long it had been.After all this time, there should have at least been signs of her body breaking down. However, her body looked the same as when he had last seen her. It was strange, as he couldn't recall any skill that could keep a body from deco