While he laid low, it wouldn't hurt for him to seek out allies. Not everyone had fallen into line with what the angel's wanted. Several had been wary of what the angels had to say. If what his scrambled memories of the future said was true, several people had been very outspoken about not trusting the angels before learning more about the world. Those people would later die under mysterious circumstances.No one had noticed any connections between them since it happened over the first year and in different locations in different ways. One died from a demon attack while another died in a training accident. It was chalked up to be because of how dangerous the world was, and the angels insisted that they be careful so that they wouldn't end up like them.Considering how wide the angels' influence was, it wouldn't be surprising if they got the natives involved to get rid of anyone that could convince the rest of the summoned people to not listen to the angels.He would have to approach th
Luke took the man's hand and said, "My name's Luke."Grace who had been about to take the man's hand had her hand still raised up and stared at him. She was probably confused by why he did that, but he was determined not to let his future party member get snatched up by another party before he had a chance to recruit her. He didn't know why she chose to follow him last time, but he didn't want to take the chance she would go to someone else. Things had already changed from last time because of him."I like your grip, young man," Anthony said.When he approached them, Anthony had only intervened because he couldn't stand men harassing women for no reason. She had obviously been nervous and shouting at her when everyone was just as agitated was absolutely unacceptable. He hadn't expected her to have such a protective boyfriend. He must have made his move too quickly for the boyfriend to act. It was nice to see some people hadn't lost their heads in this mess."Thank you," Luke said as t
"Heroes, thank the heavens you are here."He was beginning to get tired of everyone constantly calling them heroes. He knew it was part of the act but hearing them say one thing when they actually meant another infuriated him since he knew what they were talking about. When they said hero, they were actually calling them sacrifices. Fools. Pawns.He released his grip on Grace as she recovered from the teleportation. Scanning those that had ended up with him, he saw that he had lucked out, and members of his party had been teleported with him. With the sudden urgency from the angels, he hadn't hoped they would join him. If they have been sent to a different country, he would have lost out on recruiting them since traveling between countries wouldn't be easy.He did note that the group was much bigger than he remembered unless he was mistaken. The angels must have increased the group size since they were concerned about the missing demon king that chose this place as his territory.Amon
"You expect me to do what?" she shrieked."Quiet down. Are you trying to tell everyone?" he said as he uncovered his ears."They won't hear us unfortunately. The moment I arrived, I made sure no one would hear or see what we're doing. They'll just think you went to sleep," she said as she crossed her arms.He stared silently at her for a second before saying. "Well, that's mighty convenient."If she could do that all the time, then this was the perfect chance for him to speak with the previous demon king. He wouldn't have to wait for the right time and place to speak with him."I know what you're thinking, but unless you want all the angels to descend onto you, you can't talk to him right now," she said as she flipped her hair.His eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?""Everyone is on high alert for the missing demon king. They assumed he used his ability to turn back time to avoid his death and has gone underground," she said.Their assumption wasn't wrong. They had been on the right tr
"What did you just do?" she asked in barely above a whisper.His brows furrowed as he said, "I refused to let you throw your life away because the system said so."She snapped. "You're a demon. Not just any demon, you're the demon king."He glared as he spat out, "I didn't exactly ask to become the demon king. Whose fault do you think it is that I'm like this?"Even though he knew he was a demon king and the ones in the know also regarded him as a demon king, he hadn't physically nor mentally changed. Everything about him was still human, but that could easily change in the future. He didn't know the exact details of what would happen to him, but he had already decided that if he had no way to return home, that he would become a demon king for revenge. It had been the only path left open to him. To listen to her prattle on about how she expected him to be evil just because he was now a demon set his nerves on edge."Do you want to be treated like a slave so badly? Is that it? Should I
"Hold still. I need to touch your head to do this," she said as she reached out to him. He grimaced. "I don't exactly like this either okay." "You didn't do this last time," he pointed out. "When we summoned all of you, the connection was made the moment you appeared. This time I'm trying to establish a different connection using the old connection and me," she explained. Another thing they did to them without their consent. At this point, he couldn't say he was surprised. It was probably how the angels monitored them. As long as they used the angel's system, there was no way to avoid their eyes. That brought up an important question though. He frowned at the feeling of her hands on his head and asked, "If the connection was established right away, how was I not caught?" "It's because the connection wasn't fully established." At his expression, she continued, "While it's true that we hook you up to the system as soon as you arrive, it's more l
As if reading his thoughts, she demanded, "What do you think you're doing?" "I'm seeing what your system has to offer," he said. "Stop," she demanded as she waved her hands in front of his face. She wanted to do more than that but had to settle for this. "Don't you dare do anything." He raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is there any particular reason why?" "Unless you want to be caught by the angels, you'd better do nothing." Hearing that, he put his hand down and waited for her to explain. "Even though you're making use of my access, if you try to use it in a way I wouldn't use it, the others will know something isn't right." That made sense. If there was any unusual activity on the account, normally people would suspect that something was wrong with the person using it or someone else was using the account. He had just assumed that the angels would be too arrogant to suspect that a human or rather a demon king would secretly use their system rig
Luke was completely unsympathetic. He didn't tell her to do it. She had decided to do it all on her own of her own free will even though he had stated before that they look for another way. Of course the reason had been because of the possibility she would lose her life thanks to the system controlling her and not lose powers, but the end results were the same. He didn't even need to try to ruin her life for his revenge. She was doing it all on her own, and it wasn't satisfying in the slightest because it implied that he got screwed over by such a pathetic person. If the other angels were just like her, he would snap. He refused to believe his enemies were all like this. They must have some kind of hierarchy, and she was simply a bottom feeder. That would also mean that she was actually quite useless to him. She probably only knew the bare minimum and not all the information he needed to take down the other angels. "If you're done whining over there, we need to plan