Me and my six companions and the other nobles were prostrating themselves before a cocoon inside the Demon King's castle. This cocoon continues to emit a red aura that makes it look very scary.

We are all prostrating in this place not without reason, we are all prostrating and waiting for the revival of the Demon leader. A majestic figure and the only one who has the right to be our leader, the Demon King Omega.

Two hundred years ago, the Human Hero succeeded in sealing the King and repelling our army. But luckily I managed to retrieve the King's sealed body before the humans destroyed it.

After waiting for a while, the cocoon finally started to tear and something inside was trying to come out.

Aah..... The wait for myself and all the demon races for 200 years has finally come to an end.

*kreakkk.........*

The sound of the cocoon tearing signaled the end of our wait. And there was the figure we had all been waiting for.

"Welcome back, My King..."

We all greeted the King when his body came out of the cocoon.

"Ahh... I'm finally back..."

We all felt very happy after seeing and hearing his voice again.

I walked over to him, bringing him a pair of clothes for him to wear. The king happily accepted it and immediately put on the clothes I had given him.

I bowed again after giving the clothes to him. After the King finished putting on his clothes, he walked towards the window to see the sky which was so bright at noon today.

"My seven loyal subordinates! Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta. Let's erase the existence of humans in this world again..."

With a very manly voice, the King said this while looking up at the sky.

"Yes, My King!!"

We all immediately answered this request in a very loud voice.

Everyone in this room started to grow smiles on their faces after hearing the Demon Lord's words. I feel very happy because the Omega King I know is still the same as before.

After our little reunion ended, I immediately rushed to a room in this castle. I descended the stairs, reached the third floor, and immediately entered a room that was there.

I opened the door of the room and immediately went in there, someone who was in the room immediately prostrated after knowing that I was the one who came to this place.

"Mr. Alpha! Nice to see you..."

With an even gaze, the person continued to prostrate in front of me.

"Roe! The King has risen again, that's why I have a mission for you..."

The person started to show his happy face to me after hearing that the King had risen again.

"I will gladly accept the mission."

I also smiled after hearing his statement, as expected from one of my best subordinates.

"Destroy one of the cities on the border of the Star Kingdom, and take 500 demons with you. We'll see how strong the humans are today..."

"YES! I won't let you down."

Since the defeat, we have to focus on rebuilding this empire. So I didn't really pay much attention to human development at that time. That's why I sent Roe to make him the benchmark of the Human Race's abilities.

That person immediately left the room after saying that.

****

Today the Hero Party begins our first journey, this time we have a mission to take back a city that has been occupied by a group of demons. Rigel city is located quite far from the capital, so we have to travel for 2 weeks to reach the city.

We all went through many new places that we have never been through such as the forest of monsters and the valley of darkness. The valley of darkness is also the border between the Star kingdom and the Moon kingdom. 

We greatly accelerated this troop's speed very quickly, so that our troop only needed 12 days to reach the city of Rigel.When we got there, many houses had been destroyed and many human corpses were scattered everywhere. It really surprised and scared me.

What is this?...Is this what the demon does? And now we have to fight them...

If this is indeed what demons do, then I understand the reason why humans are so eager to exterminate them.

Now that we have divided our troops into two, the hero party along with Xorra and 1000 soldiers will face off against the demons in Rigel city; while the remaining troops will guard the refugees who are now stationed in the city of Atria.

We have received reports from soldiers who have been conducting reconnaissance in this city. From the results of the reconnaissance, we learned that there are only 500 demons led by one level demon leading them.

As soon as we got around the city of Rigel, we immediately made a camp as a resting place. The thousand soldiers here are divided into 5 divisions, 3 divisions as assault squads, 1 division as medical teams, and 1 division in logistics.

In this place, we immediately made plans with the division captains.

"Okay everyone, listen to me. The Hero Party and I will be bait for this plan, our group will distract the demons and the rest of the troops will attack as soon as our group gives the signal.”

The division captains seemed to be nodding their heads in agreement with this, but not our group.

Mark immediately raised his hand and made himself the center of attention.

"Why should we be the bait?"

Well done Mark! I also have the same question.

"Among all of us, you five are the strongest. So I want to keep the demons busy with you guys…”

We finally understood after Xorra explained why.

Finally our group succeeded in making a plan to liberate this city from the results of the surveillance that had been carried out. From this plan, it had been decided that the Hero party and Xorra would be the bait in this plan.

Honestly, I'm a little bit against this plan. I mean, we've never fought a demon and I wonder why we have to be the bait....?

But Xorra always reassures us, so we all agree on this. And finally, we started this plan tomorrow at dawn.

We immediately rested in our respective tents as soon as we finished making plans, and prepared to attack the next day. The next day, we immediately headed for Rigel's city sneakily and hoped that the demons wouldn't notice our arrival.

We and Xorra entered the city of Rigel, and the demons immediately arrived as soon as we entered the city. The remaining soldiers are also standing guard around the city and waiting for the signal from our group.

"Let's do it"

We all immediately got ready in our respective positions as soon as we heard Xorra's signal.

“Unique Skill [Holy Barrier] activate!”

Julia activated her unique skill and created a huge barrier that covered the entire city of Rigel.

This barrier has the effect of weakening the Devils trapped within and granting increased strength to those within the barrier. As soon as this barrier was formed, we all immediately attacked the demons who were weakened by being trapped by this barrier.

The other soldiers also immediately entered the city after the barrier was activated. Thanks to this plan, in the end many demons were killed easily. Our party also tried their best to kill the demons that tried to attack us.

“Magic sword skill [Fire Slash]”

“Magic sword skill [Wind Slash]”

“Light magic [Purgatory]”

“Sword skill [Double Slash]”

Various magical and non-magic attacks were launched at the demons, and it made their numbers decrease drastically.

Julia also continued to consume magic potions to stabilize her power and maintain her [Holy Barrier]. Rikka also stayed close to Julia to protect her.

This plan was proceeding smoothly, until suddenly a scream from a devil took us all by surprise.

“RAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!”

The shout came from one of the demons who seemed to be the leader of these demons. Even though it's difficult, the demon continues to run as hard as he can towards all of us.

The demon raised the large ax in his hand and slammed it into the ground.

*BOOOOM!!*

The ground began to shake after the huge ax hit the ground and smoke began to billow profusely into the air. When the smoke began to dissipate, the figure of a large demon with many scars was seen on its body.

Due to the attack, Julia lost her concentration and had her holy barrier shattered.

The demons who saw this opportunity immediately counterattacked all of us. I didn't think one demon person could make our plans fall apart just like that.

“kuhahaha.... So you guys are the humans designated as Heroes.”

I don't know what the demon said, but from the tone of his voice it was as if he was mocking us.

We immediately prepared as soon as the demon stood in front of us.

“My name is Roe, one of the captains of the Demon Kingdom's army.”

The demon said this with a very sly smile and gaze.

I also just realized, it turns out that the demon spoke in human language and introduced himself to us. I was also quite surprised when a demon like him could use human language.

*CLAAANNGG...!!!*

Roe suddenly slammed his ax on Xorra and sent herself flying several hundred meters.

“Sword magic [Ice Slash]”

I used this attack to attack the devil named Roe.

“Sword magic [Fire Slash, Wind, Light]”

Mark also issued various attacks to Roe.

“Unique skill [Psychokinesis]”

With his unique skill, Axel moved the surrounding debris to hit Roe's body.

All of our attacks hit Roe, but they didn't have any effect on him. The three of us were very surprised after seeing this.

Why!? Are our attacks weak...?

What kind of body does he have that our three attacks don't even scratch him? All these questions make my head spin.

“So this is your only strength… pffft, weak!”

With such a fast movement, Roe grabbed one of Axel's legs and immediately threw his body at Mark until they were both thrown quite far. I just froze when I saw this incident.

Suddenly Roe was standing behind me and pointing his big ax at me. I, who was surprised by this sudden attack, tried to block the attack with all my might. With the sword in my hand, I tried to block the attack from the ax though to no avail.

With its power, the demon easily broke the defenses and sent me flying from the attack.

Damn it!!

I was thrown into a building that looked like a bar. After looking at some of the scattered alcohol bottles, I suddenly started to think of a way.

For now, only our group can face off against this Devil named Roe. This is because the soldiers who joined us on this mission to capture the city are also still busy with other demons.

Having managed to get rid of the three of us, now the demon was walking towards Rikka and Julia. The two of them seemed to be preparing for an attack from Roe, although they still had frightened expressions on their faces.

I also understand their feelings right now… we're all dealing with demons for the first time, so it's only natural that we all feel scared.

A knight ran very fast towards Julia and Rikka, then he immediately pointed his two swords at the Demon. Yes, that person is Xorra.

"Hey demon! If you want to beat them, then you have to go through me first.”

With a very serious gaze, Xorra openly challenged a Demon.

“Unique Skill [Hundred Sword]”

Xorra activated his unique skills and created hundreds of illusory swords, these blades started to attack Roe making him look like he was in trouble. Roe continuously parried these swords so they wouldn't hit him and hurt him.

Julia and Rikka also immediately moved away from the place where they were fighting after seeing such a fierce battle. Of course I didn't keep quiet about this situation, I immediately threw a few bottles of alcohol at Roe and managed to hit his face and upper body.

"Rikka! Burn that asshole!!"

I shouted and ordered Rikka to burn Roe's body which had been exposed to alcohol.

Rikka realized what I was doing and immediately aimed her fire magic at Roe.

"Fire magic [Fire Ball]"

Roe's upper body was completely burnt and he looked in a lot of pain.

Yes...!! Our attack was successful.

"Dark magic [Shadow Bind]"

Axel also immediately used his dark magic to turn off the movement of the demon Roe. Currently Roe looks very sick and is still trying hard to escape from Axel's magic.

“AAAARRGGHH......... FUCK YOU HUMAN”

Roe, who looked in pain at first, suddenly changed his expression to anger. And at this time he started releasing magma balls from within his body.

The magma balls began to fly in all directions and burn anything they touched. Seeing the attack, Xorra immediately grabbed Julia's body and immediately walked away from where Roe was.

Mark and Rikka also immediately went away after seeing the magma balls start attacking blindly. Axel, who was very close to Roe was silent when the balls came out.

Huh!? What is he doing there?

I immediately returned to save Axel. With my unique skill, I moved very fast and managed to grab Axel's body. But there was one magma ball that flew very fast towards the both of us. I who saw it immediately released Axel and pushed him to avoid the magma ball's attack.

And finally I hit the magma ball so that my left hand was scratched and burned. Rikka immediately activated her earth magic and created a shield around me, Julia also came straight to me and immediately healed the wound on my left hand.

"Yoru.. are you okay?"

"Shhh... ahh..."

I could only wince in pain after being hit by the attack.

"Okay calm down, I'll heal you soon."

Julia immediately cast healing magic on me, and the pain in my hand slowly disappeared.

“Huft… thanks Julia, you always save me.”

Julia just returned my thanks with a smile on her face.

After a while, finally the attack of the magma balls released by Roe began to stop. Maybe he ran out of mana, I don't know either.

Rikka and Mark started to attack Roe with various kinds of magic, I also readied myself to prepare to attack. Even though Roe had stopped his magma attack, he was still trying to free himself from Axel's magic.

After trying hard, Roe finally managed to escape the magic that bound him. The demon immediately ran towards all of us with an extremely horrifying expression. Roe immediately raised his ax into the air and prepared his attack.

“Ice magic [Ice Arrow]”

Rikka cast her ice magic and managed to freeze Roe's hand which was holding his big ax. Once again, we managed to keep Roe from moving.

Seeing that, I immediately activated my unique skill and combined it with the sword technique I had mastered. With very fast movements plus sword skills, making this attack very difficult to dodge.

“Feel this!! [Ultimate Slash]”

With this attack, I managed to cut Roe's right arm off. Suddenly the demon's face turned very pale; I don't know what happened, but he looked really scared.

After seeing his severed hand and falling to the ground, Roe immediately rushed into the sky and left the city of Rigel. The remaining demons also immediately left the city after seeing their leader flee.

With the cooperation of all of us, the city of Rigel was finally free from the invasion by the Demon Race.

I sat down after the demons left the city and it happened to the others too. Although I feel happy that I managed to repel the demons, I can't hide the fatigue from this battle.

“Good job to all of you...”

With a very big smile, Xorra was constantly praising us.

“But undeniably, the MPV in this battle is Yoru...”

"You said he was mpv? We've all weakened that demon, and he's only doing the finishing touches. He's just using us to look like a hero."

"Huh!? What are you saying?"

I say this with a bit of emotion.

"You are weak!! In fact you always get hurt in every fight we do.”

What!?

I still continue to listen to his babble, even though my ears hurt when I hear this.

"It's fine... you two don't need to fight."

Mark was constantly trying to break us apart.

"Tch... weak stay weak"

*BUG... BAG... POW...*

I threw three punches at Axel's face at once and made him dall down. I couldn't hold back my emotions when I heard his chatter.

“You said I was weak, you said I was always hurt! If it weren't for me, you would have been burned by the demon's attack earlier. Even your carelessness in the dungeon back then, could have wreaked havoc on all of us. So who are you calling weak?”

I said all this while continuing to beat him, Axel just kept quiet and kept trying to hold myself back.

Xorra and Mark grabbed both of my hands to stop beating Axel, I finally stopped after the two of them separated us. Rikka couldn't help but stare at this happening, while Julia looked very worried and a little scared.

“Cuh...”

Axel spat out the blood that was in his mouth, still looking very angry at me.

“Yoru...”

Julia approached me with a very worried look. And of course, Axel looked even more angry when he saw this.

"Julia, can you stay away from me, you're a little annoying!"

I finally said this.

I honestly feel good when Julia is nice to me; but if Axel is always annoyed when I'm close to him, it's better for me to succumb to staying away from him.

Of course Julia was very surprised when I said that, even a little tears came out of her eyes because of this.

“Why are you saying things like that to Julia?”

“I just said something that has been bothering me for a long time”

*Plakk!!*

Rikka's hard slap landed on my cheek.

Ouch!... The slap was painful, but I guess I deserve this.

"I didn't think you were this kind of person."

"Huh!? Do you think that you have known me all this time? This is the real me...”

From the look in the eyes Rikka showed me, it was obvious that she was disappointed in me. But to be honest, this is how I feel right now.

After saying all that, I went to calm my mind for a while. Xorra tried to stop me from leaving, but Mark stopped him.

“What are you doing, Hero Mark?”

“...I think Yoru just needs some time to be alone right now…”

**

Rigel City is now free from the demon's threat, so all of us along with the soldiers and townspeople started looking for people who could be saved. But we didn't get anything, all the townspeople who were evacuated late had actually died.

It took us all twelve days to reach this city. So before we arrived, maybe the demons had already killed the townspeople who didn't have time to evacuate.

We have also been living in this city for two weeks and are helping to restore the city's state of affairs. The refugees have also started to come back, and helped rebuild their hometowns.

After two weeks of settling in, we finally decided to return to the royal capital. But only the five of us and Xorra returned to the capitol; for the rest of the army, they still had to be in this city to help with all sorts of things that were needed.

The six of us left the city of Rigel in the morning and started our journey back to the capital Arcturus. After several hours of walking, our group finally chose to stop when they arrived around the valley of darkness.

We saw a lot of bird fiber animals that went away from this location, the animals seemed to be avoiding something. That's the reason that stopped our journey; apart from resting, we also wanted to find out what the reasons were that made these animals go away.

Xorra once told us all that this valley of darkness has no bottom. Even in ancient times this place was used as a mass grave by the Star kingdom. They would throw the bodies into the bottom of this ravine, and that of course scared me.

"Okay, you guys wait here. I'll go take a look around."

After saying this, Xorra left us. Because I still felt awkward with them after we fought back then, so I decided to go find firewood.

“I'm going to go get some firewood...”

"Wait, I'm coming with you!"

What!?

Unexpectedly, the one who offered to come with me was Axel. I was hesitant at first when he wanted to come with me, but I let this go and in the end the two of us went to look for firewood together.

The two of us had walked for about ten minutes, but the wood we had gathered was far from sufficient. So the two of us went to the tree area near the ravine.

I tried to glance at the depths of the abyss because I felt a little curious. I was really surprised when I saw the very dark abyss like it was bottomless.

Wow! I can't imagine what would have happened if I fell in there. That must have been terrible.

After I fulfill my curiosity a little, I immediately collect the branches that are under the tree.

"Hey, come on, help me..."

I reprimanded Axel because he was just dumbfounded while looking at the abyss.

"Hey..."

“.....”

*WHOOUUSS...*

Unexpectedly, Axel cast his magic instead and pointed it at me. Luckily I managed to dodge this attack with my unique skill.

"Hey! What are you doing?"

Was he planning to avenge what I did that time? Or is he just doing this by accident? All these questions popped into my head as soon as Axel attacked me.

“Why are you always ahead of me, why are you better than me, and why do you always get more attention than her?!”

Axel kept muttering while continuously attacking me. He put on his unique skill and then flew the rocks and branches around to attack me.

I continued to fend off Axel's attacks using my sword skills. Until suddenly a black shadow came from above and shocked us both.

*BOOOMM!!*

“RROOOOOAAR........”

An extremely terrifying roar sounded from behind the towering dust. After the dust disappeared, there was a bear monster with a height of about three meters and very sharp nails.

“Grrr....”

*BRAAK!!*

The bear monster tried to attack both of us, but we managed to dodge and the bear punched the cliff wall to shreds.

Why is there a monster like this here?

Wait! Could it be this monster that made the animals run around? That is my assumption for now.

With a very fast movement, the monster managed to hit Axel until he hit a cliff. The bear monster also raised its hand and prepared to tear Axel apart with its long sharp claws.

I immediately ran towards Axel and tried to block the bear monster.

“Feel this, damn monster! [Ultimate Slash]”

With the same skill I used on Demon Roe, I managed to cut off one of the bear monster's hands and managed to save Axel.

“GGGRRRAAAAAA..........”

The monster looked in so much pain that it made him stagger.

"Are you okay? Let's go from here."

I immediately approached Axel and asked how he was. But instead of answering my question, Axel looked annoyed and pushed me away.

“What are you doing idiot!?”

"Why again are you the one who looks superior to me! Why...?"

I ignored his words and immediately pulled his hand to leave this place. But he just stood still and didn't move at all. Even though I hate him, I still have the feeling of not letting him die.

Aaaggghhh.... I really don't understand his way of thinking.

"Whatever, I'll go get the others..."

Because Axel was still silent, I couldn't help but leave him and go to the other friends' place to ask them for help.

“Maybe if you disappeared, Julia would start paying attention to me. Unique skill [Psychokinesis]”

Axel who looks angry uses his unique skill and makes several large rocks that are around fly towards me. The stones kept attacking me and I kept trying to block them with my sword.

Until finally there was one stone that managed to hit me until I was thrown into the body of the bear monster. Axel continued to attack me with rocks around and made myself fall into the abyss along with the bear monster.

God damn it! Apparently he really intended to kill me.

Of course I won't be silent about this, I immediately activated my unique skill and made the bear's body a stepping foot to jump on.

"Come on, I can do it. Unique skill [Lightning Step]”

I managed to do this jump, but my jump was only able to reach the edge of the cliff. I tried my best to stay in this position so as not to fall back down. I looked for various things that I could hold on to, until I finally found the roots of a tree growing around the ravine.

Hosh....hosh... I can't fall. I can do it!

I kept motivating myself, and tried my best to stay in this place. But it seems that luck is not on my side at the moment, the sound of footsteps from Axel can be heard approaching.

As soon as I looked up, he was already looking at me with such a horrible look.

"You better die!"

Axel kicked me in the head and threw myself completely into the abyss. To be honest I was very surprised by this; even though we hate each other, I didn't expect him to take action like this.

With annoyance and disappointment, I continued to fall to the bottom of the abyss of the very dark valley of darkness.

I swear! Either way, I'll come back and avenge your actions. I will never stop until I can truly avenge myself.

**

I woke up in a very dark and cold place, and I just realized that I was lying on the body of a bear monster who also fell along with me.

It seems that some parts of my body had broken bones. I fell to the bottom of a very dark abyss, so I made up for it. And yes, this bear monster is definitely dead.

Thank you bear monster. If it weren't for you, I'd probably be crushed.

I patted the bear's body several times and finally it came down from above him. Because it's too dark in this place, I activated my fire sword skill.

The sword began to emit a bright light and made the surroundings visible. Apparently the bottom of this gorge is completely empty, there is only a small river that stretches along this ravine.

I sat on the ground and thought about what steps I should take next. Although actually I already have one goal, which is to return alive to avenge Axel's actions.

Okay, so what should I do to get out of this place?

Around here there's a lot of water, so I'm pretty lucky I guess. But I have one problem, I have no food. I saw no sign of any living creatures and plants at the bottom of this abyss.

It seems that the bottom of this abyss has never been touched by sunlight, and that is the reason why the ecosystem at the bottom of this abyss doesn't work. For now, bear monsters are my only source of food to survive in this place.

*Grooooowwlll.....*

The sound from my stomach sounded very loud, and I immediately stroked my stomach when I heard this.

*Sigh...* looks like I have no other choice. I have to eat the flesh of this monster to survive.

I immediately skinned the bear monster using the only tool I had, namely a sword. After skinning it, I cut the bear flesh into several pieces. I also cut the nails of this monster to make a knife.

I burned the flesh of the bear monster that I had cut using a magic sword skill. With the heat generated by my sword, I used it as a grill and cooked the meat up there.

I flipped the meat several times using the knife I made using the claws of a bear; and after waiting a while, finally the meat was cooked. This meat gives off quite a nice aroma, so I guess it's fine if I eat it.

*Gulp...* I swallowed my saliva while cutting the freshly cooked meat.

All right... let's do it.

I took some of the meat and put it in my mouth. I even closed my eyes for fear that the taste of this meat wasn't what I expected.

Mmmh...? I don't think the taste is too bad, even I can say that this meat is in the delicious category.

After knowing the taste, I continued to eat this meat until it made my stomach full. Once my stomach was filled, I began to prepare various necessities to travel to find a way out of this place.

First of all, I packed my groceries using the outer I was wearing and I've changed its function into a bag. I also brought some knives made of bear claws.

I don't have a water supply device, so I can't carry a water supply on this trip. I just hope that the flow of this river will continue along my journey.

After finishing all the preparations, I also put on the fur of the bear monster that had been skinned by me as clothes. With bear fur so thick, I wish I could withstand the cold air in this place.

Using the sword as a light, I was ready to start this journey.

“I SWEAR!! WILL GET OUT OF THIS PLACE, AND REVENGE ALL YOU DO.”

I screamed really loud to motivate myself, and finally started this journey.

Now it's been about two or three weeks I've walked down this ravine, I don't know the exact time because this place is never touched by the sun. My food supply is also running low, maybe I can only eat for the next two or three days.

The bottom of this abyss turns out to be really empty. I've been exploring this place for days but have never found any signs of life from any animal.

I also have to sleep on the ground and rocks, but luckily I have bear fur that I can use as a blanket. If the feathers weren't there, I'd probably freeze to death in this place.

I used sword skills continuously, it drained my physical and magic power twice as fast as fighting. So as much as possible I have to rest myself as best as possible.

Even though humans have very low magic capacity when compared to other races such as Demons, Elves, Beastmen, and Fishmen. But humans are able to restore their magic power just by resting, that's the explanation the Witch Zeris once told me and the rest of the Hero party members.

Today I'm still walking down this abyss, I'm still determined to get out of this place even though I don't know how long. Until I finally found a light far ahead.

I immediately ran towards the source of the light without paying any heed to anything. I felt my steps were very light on the way there, maybe because I was too excited.

Way out! That must be the way out.

With very high expectations, I ran very fast towards that place.

I was really surprised when I arrived at this light source. The soil and rocks in this place shine so bright light, even the ground in this place has become like crystal.

Woah.... this place is so amazing.

I am endlessly amazed by this place.

“Hmm, this is weird. How come there are humans in this place?”

I was really surprised after hearing a voice coming from behind me. Her voice sounded so soft and beautiful, but also scary at the same time. When I looked back, a giant dark purple Dragon was looking at me with a very scary look.