Chapter I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 174
I Killed the Demon King. It was a mistake.
Chapter 174
Raven was tense due to the alarm magic she had pre-installed outside the cave.
It meant someone was nearby.
Raven ordered all the beast people to stay quiet and used an observation spell.
A blue magical creature created by Raven flew across the forest.
“…!”
Raven saw the beast people.
The problem was that all these beast people were fleeing towards the cave, with Black Horn tribe members chasing behind them.
Raven’s mind raced.
This cave was quite large but had only one open direction and was blocked on the other side.
If these beast people brought the Black Horn tribe members inside, they would be massacred.
‘Should I abandon them…?’
Originally, the beast people and Raven had been in a hostile relationship.
Until just a year ago, they were at a point of wanting to kill each other.
He couldn’t let Raven die because of these beast people.
But…
-I swear to spare no effort to protect Caesar and you, Raven.
-I too shall spare no magic to protect you.
Raven and the beast people had sworn to each other.
To protect each other by sparing neither life nor magic.
This was a promise that had to be kept, regardless of past enmities.
Raven gritted her teeth.
“Beast people! Prepare to prevent the cave from collapsing!”
“What?!”
“I’ll give you 3 seconds! One, two…!”
Ten beast people broke through the veil of concealment and entered inside.
Raven immediately waved her wand.
“Awakening!”
As Raven’s wand swept, the ground exploded, causing a landslide.
“Aaaaargh!”
The Black Horn tribe members were swept away by the flow of hard wood and earth, sliding down the mountain.
The problem was that the cave couldn’t escape its effects.
As Raven’s Awakening magic activated, cracks appeared in the cave.
The mountain tigers immediately used magic.
Instinctively, they pulled out solid rocks from the ground to support the ceiling.
“Aaaaaah!”
Although the mountain tigers were supporting the ceiling with large pillars, the pillars were cracking, seemingly insufficient.
Puk!
Stone fragments falling from the ceiling hit the beast people’s heads and Raven’s forehead.
Without wiping the blood flowing from her forehead, Raven moved her wand again.
The cave entrance had collapsed, and the installed torches were extinguished, rendering everything invisible. But Raven had an extremely sensitive magic response and ultra-high-speed magical formula calculation ability.
Raven waved her wand once.
A complex magical circle emerged from Raven’s wand, illuminating the ceiling.
There were 14 major cracks, and Raven identified their coordinates in just one second.
Raven’s wand cut through the air again.
With the activation of a large magical circle, thick pillars rose towards the weak points of the 14 cracks.
Raven waved her wand again.
Instantly, a blue light swirled around the 14 pillars, hardening them like steel.
Grrrrrung!
Outside the cave, a sound like a huge snake sweeping across the entire ground could be heard.
Raven gritted her teeth and continued casting spells.
She was infusing enhancement magic into the rock magic used by the mountain tigers.
The cave was densely filled with stone pillars like a limestone cave.
Only when the ceiling showed no more cracks did Raven finally break into a cold sweat and sit down on the floor.
“Haa… Haa…”
Though she had passed through several near-death experiences in the Demon Realm War, this seemed like a situation she hadn’t encountered in a long time.
As Raven was cooling her heated head, the red foxes used flame magic to illuminate the dark cave.
“What exactly happened? Raven.”
“Ask the beast people who fled here.”
Raven took a deep breath and glared at the 10 beast people who had entered the cave.
She could understand that they were running here to survive.
But didn’t they bring too many complications?
She couldn’t blame them, but she couldn’t say they did well either, so Raven was slightly angry.
The beast people’s gazes followed Raven’s.
Then Raven could feel a strange and uneasy magic wave flowing from behind.
Raven tilted her head and looked back.
“…Why are you doing this?”
Raven surveyed the beast people’s expressions.
The beast people were beyond shocked and trembling.
Unease, fear, and confusion.
All negative emotions were mixed together, writhing like snakes inside a jar.
“Huh?”
A wolf beast people grabbed Raven’s nape and pushed her back.
“Avoid it. Raven.”
Raven finally sensed that the situation was not normal and pulled out her wand.
“…What are you all doing?”
“They are not beast people.”
“What?”
Was this nonsense?
Those were definitely the beast people they had sent to the northeast.
Five wolf beast people, four fox beast people, and one mountain tiger.
The number and composition were exactly the same.
“They are doppelgangers.”
Raven’s lips turned pale.
“…Doppelgangers?”
Then the beast people’s forms changed.
They transformed into different shapes.
Some became orcs, some became trolls, and some became humans.
The human who transformed pulled out a sword with only a handle from a small pouch.
Swish!
When he pressed the gem on the guard, a long blade appeared.
The beast people raised their sharp claws and spoke.
“What is it that you want?”
“What you want…”
The human checked the blade in a monotonous tone and swung it.
A flash of light cut through a pillar and passed.
The pillar collapsed, creating a crack in the ceiling.
“Death.”
The orcs and trolls began to break the pillars with their fists and bodies.
The more they did, the more rapidly the ceiling began to crack.
Raven immediately used magic.
Boom!
The collapsing ceiling was maintained by Raven’s magic.
But this was only a temporary measure.
As long as they continue breaking the pillars, this cave will definitely collapse.
The beast people couldn’t hold back and shouted.
“If this place collapses, you’ll die too! Why are you doing this?”
The human swung his sword with an indifferent reply.
“Because of orders.”
The beast people rushed forward, gritting their teeth.
“Aaaaaaah!”
The wolf beast people tried to blow away the orcs and trolls with wind.
But using wind magic in an enclosed space was not easy at all.
The wind magic they launched did not significantly damage them.
Instead, the mountain tigers, red foxes, and shadow otters used magic.
The mountain tigers sharpened the stone fragments on the ground and sent them flying.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
The sharp rocks launched by the mountain tigers wounded the orcs and trolls and broke their bones.
At that moment, the human gave an order.
“Hide behind the pillars. They cannot attack recklessly.”
The trolls and orcs hid behind the pillars and continued breaking them.
During this time, the human who gave the order rushed towards the beast people.
The human flew with an amazing movement, cutting through the pillars.
Even for Raven, who had seen countless knights, she had rarely seen someone of this skill level.
His abilities were among the top-tier knights.
He approached the beast people in an instant.
Swish!
The red fox reflexively shot a fireball at him.
He scattered the fireball with his sword and then cut down the wolf protecting Raven.
Ding!
Raven precisely predicted the direction of his sword blade and cast a barrier.
Following this, the wolf beast people thrust their sharp claws and teeth.
He nimbly dodged all the wolf beast people’s attacks and cut the pillars.
Boom!
A large stone fragment fell onto the red fox beast person’s head.
“Cough!”
The red beast person bled from his head and collapsed, spilling blood under the pillar.
Stone fragments also fell near Raven’s head.
The shadow otter tribe shielded Raven from the stones, but instead, the shadow otter collapsed.
Raven felt like her head would split just from supporting the collapsing ceiling.
But if things continued like this, everyone would die.
Raven calculated one debuff spell.
“Sticky footsteps!”
Raven’s debuff magic hit him.
He momentarily seemed to have heavy legs and could barely move.
Eventually, the wolf beast people rushed towards him.
Despite his legs being immobilized, he showed amazing swordsmanship and cut off the beast people’s limbs.
Five wolf beast people collapsed in an instant.
However, one wolf beast people successfully bit into his nape.
Crack!
The doppelganger collapsed, bleeding with a sensation as if his neck was breaking.
The wolf applied more force, intending to completely break his neck bone.
At that moment, the doppelganger’s sword pierced the wolf’s heart.
Thud!
Despite the horrific pain, the wolf did not release its jaw.
Instead, it bit with all its might.
Afterward, other fox beast people rushed and broke his arms and legs.
“Ah… is this death?”
He struggled to keep his eyelids open, fully feeling the merciless pain.
“You are indeed fearsome…”
His grip loosened, dropping the sword.
Simultaneously, the wolf beast person with a pierced heart eventually collapsed.
Raven looked at the trolls and orcs.
They were subdued by the mountain tigers and shadow otters.
The mountain tigers had tied their arms and legs, and the shadow otters had placed water droplets on their heads to prevent breathing.
But the situation was not good.
Rumble!
A dangerous sound came from the ceiling.
Raven quickly reactivated her detection magic.
Fifteen cracks were detected on the ceiling.
But the number was gradually increasing.
15.
25.
34.
59.
Despair leaked from Raven’s voice.
“This is…”
Impossible to stop.
At that moment, one mountain tiger used magic.
The direction was towards the recently collapsed cave entrance.
“Aaaaaaah!”
The collapsed cave entrance began to slowly push outward.
“Everyone push!”
Raven immediately understood what the mountain tigers were trying to do.
It was impossible to protect the cave.
So they planned to break through the easiest-to-penetrate entrance.
Raven came to her senses.
She couldn’t die like this.
She couldn’t be killed so meaninglessly.
No, she couldn’t let these people die because of her mistake.
Raven supported the ceiling while using additional detection magic.
Landslides were continuously occurring outside the cave, and the cave was collapsing in real-time.
In such an urgent and complex situation, it was impossible to selectively process only useful information for breaking through the cave.
But Raven was different.
Magical circles appeared and disappeared around Raven like broken incandescent lights.
She felt a pain as if her brain was burning.
Blood flowed from her nose, and she was about to lose consciousness.
But Raven continued using magic… And finally found the thinnest and most vulnerable part connected to the entrance.
“Push here!”
The mountain tigers concentrated their magic on the part Raven marked in blue.
Gradually, the cave entrance began to widen and push outward.
But the ceiling collapsed even faster.
“Ack!”
A shadow otter fell, hitting their head on a rock.
Eventually, their spine broke from being crushed.
Some beast people were trapped under collapsed pillars.
But no one could help them.
Raven was also unable to do anything, pushing tons of rock masses in sync with the mountain tigers’ magic.
At that moment, an extremely thin hole opened at the cave entrance.
Light and rainwater seeped through the hole into the cave.
Raven’s expression brightened.
“It’s done…!”
Grab!
Raven felt herself suddenly lifted into the air.
A red fox beast person was holding and jumping with Raven.
“Huh?”
The red fox beast person carried Raven, taking the falling rocks with his body while rushing towards the cave entrance.
His head was cracked and legs broken by the falling rocks, but the fox did not stop.
The mountain tigers tried their best to block the rocks flying over the fox.
The cave entrance gradually opened wider.
“Wh-what are you doing!”
The fox spoke while spitting blood.
“Don’t think we’re dying for you, human.”
Raven read the determination flowing from his body.
“No…!”
“We’re entrusting our revenge to you.”
The fox beast person threw Raven towards the open entrance.
Raven rolled over the slimy, loose ground after passing through the hole.
Though disoriented, Raven turned her gaze towards the cave.
The cave entrance was still open.
Just as Raven was about to use a fixation spell…
Boom!
The cave entrance completely collapsed and sank.
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
Raven’s scream echoed through the mountain valley.
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