ALL NOVEL Ch. 18
Kaltara lifted Agnes in her arms.
Then, Agnes spoke in a sharp tone.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“What do you think? I’m moving you. It’s hard to protect you in this mansion where everything is blocked.”
“Put me down. I’m waiting for Deltain.”
“He’s not coming.”
“He will come.”
Kaltara squeezed Agnes’ buttocks tightly.
“Hngh…!”
Agnes’ body stiffened.
Kaltara laughed heartily.
“You’re firm. It’s enjoyable to touch.”
“Don’t touch me recklessly. I’m Deltain’s.”
“Oh my, so I’m going to be a brother-in-law to the boss?”
“What are you…”
“Try running your mouth one more time. It won’t end with just this.”
Agnes clamped her mouth shut.
She glared at Kaltara with an unusually fierce expression.
Kaltara was pleased with all of her reactions.
Of course, she couldn’t help but be delighted thinking that the current appearance of Agnes was her true feelings that she had always hidden.
“Whining about having no regrets in life but trying to hold on to everything. No kid is as childish as this.”
Kaltara left the mansion.
Outside, Levadine’s knights, fully armed, were waiting.
“Sir Kaltara. The young lady…”
“I’ll take her! The boss ordered me!”
As soon as people started gathering around, Kaltara began acting foolishly.
And in a truly barbaric manner, she pushed through them.
However, her posture was carefully adjusted so that oAgnes in her arms would remain comfortable, showing how meticulous a knight she was.
Out on the street, as soon as the people around disappeared, Agnes spoke.
“Where are we going?”
“We’ll head to Count Hebron’s residence. We need more hounds.”
“I want to see Deltain.”
“Hope the demon gets caught soon. I look forward to seeing the princess trembling in shame and crying.”
“I’m going to sleep with Deltain. He said he’d sleep with me if I begged on my knees.”
“Give it a try.”
Kaltara admired internally.
‘Amazing.’
It wasn’t about her true feelings, but about her resistance to temptation.
Agnes Levadine’s resistance to temptation was pathetic.
Among the people Kaltara knew, there was no one as vulnerable to temptation as her.
In short, she thought.
‘Not just her body, but her heart is like glass.’
If it weren’t for this being the capital, and without Deltain’s
While she was lost in such thoughts.
[Kaltara.]
A crackling voice was heard.
From above their heads.
Both Kaltara and Agnes looked up simultaneously.
“It’s Deltain.”
Agnes smiled brightly and murmured.
But it was not Deltaine who was there, but an Auto Drone.
His magical tool.
[… what’s with her?]
“She’s soaked in temptation! Her resistance is at bug level!”
A voice that sounded like a sigh came from the Auto Drone.
[… fine, that’s enough. The demon that came to the surface. Did you catch it?]
“Of course! I caught it by throwing a pen!”
[Good, keep catching it. Release all the other hounds as well.]
“What will the boss do?”
[I’ll shut down the Saint Hall. Demons will swarm, so move as busily as possible. Even the imperial forces will be dispatched.]
“What about the princess?”
[Throw her into my mansion. It will be safe there.]
“Understood! Take care!”
The Auto Drone rose into the sky without replying.
Agnes watched the departing drone with a face full of regret and said.
“Deltain left.”
“He never came. Now, let’s go.”
Agnes’ shoulders trembled finely.
It was a sight where emotions had now taken over her body.
From Kaltara’s perspective, she looked as if she had regressed into an infant.
*
Count Hebron’s residence.
Entering Deltain’s bedroom, Kaltara laid Agnes on the bed with the utmost care she could muster.
“In terms of guarding against the demon, this place is safer than the emperor’s quarters. Stay quiet.”
Agnes didn’t listen to Kaltara’s words.
From the moment she heard that this was where Deltain slept, she started smiling widely, burrowing into the covers, and sniffing the bed.
Kaltara clicked her tongue, scratched the back of her head, and left the room.
With a click, the door was locked.
‘Hmm… the boss will take care of the rest.’
She had no fear that Agnes would commit suicide while left alone.
The keen ears of the departing Kaltara could clearly catch the moaning sounds coming from the bedroom.
*
The space flipped.
Deltain, who had been closing his eyes deep within the underground waterways, opened his eyes again in the skies above the capital Tardan.
A sigh escaped his lips.
It was because of the state of Agnes he had seen through the drone just before.
‘It’s worse than I thought.’
At this rate, he had to consider the aftereffects of temptation.
It wasn’t just about the shame that would arise once her reason returned.
There were cases where a significant emotional upheaval would affect cognitive abilities for some time.
Deltain clicked his tongue and spread his mana.
‘The problem was me from the start. No, it was Saint Hall.’
He could now be sure.
Why the demon named Gaias had not been caught until now, and why demons were appearing on the surface through the Saint Hall.
‘There was a clue from the beginning. In the omens, in the quests.’
Those tempted by Gaias hear his name in their dreams.
And they felt pain in their hearts.
That wasn’t all.
Deltain looked at the DLC’s material list instead of the tag game.
What was written there was the phrase <2. Heart of Gaias (Incomplete)>.
‘The heart. The heart itself is Gaias’ power.’
Deltain recalled the organ he knew as the
‘Center, control, management. The beginning and the end.’
The heart pumped blood throughout the body.
And it purified the blood mixed with waste again.
If this were applied to a demon, it would be like this.
‘Gaias is a sovereign-type demon. One who increases his power by commanding other demons as his subordinates.’
Deltain looked down at the capital.
There, even in the dark night, a brightly shining city was visible.
‘With my infection, Saint Hall must have been affected. Saint Hall itself has become Gaias’ bloodstream.’
Now, the source of the players who sprang up from nowhere became clear.
‘They came from Saint Hall.’
Gaias had invaded Saint Hall and altered the nature of its magic.
Deltain confirmed the changes in Saint Hall’s magic system and let out a hollow laugh.
‘The anti-demon magic is broken.’
The magic had been cleverly twisted to hide demonic energy.
Deltain’s golden eyes glowed darkly.
‘Quite…’
He felt a major blow to his pride and raised his hand.
Four players remained.
Considering that Kaltara and the drone had each taken down one, the number matched perfectly.
Probably, once all those demons were dealt with, Gaias would appear.
Deltain praised Gaias’ cunningness.
“You’ve used your head quite well.”
Muttering thus, he unleashed his mana.
It was mana with a clear sign of anger.
A thick blue mist spread boundlessly, filling the sky above the capital.
The knights fighting below turned their heads to the sky.
The sky was brightening.
Boom!
A thunderous roar came from the sky.
Deltain wielded his mana with a wave of his hand.
‘If Saint Hall is the problem.’
Just turn it off.
The lights of the city went out.
From the central part of the capital, which was the designed center of Saint Hall, four demons emerged.
At the same time, screams were heard from outside the capital’s walls.
*
Kaltara laughed loudly as she saw the sudden appearance of a demon.
“A familiar face!”
What was before her was a demon of strife.
Six muscular arms, a long waist, and sixteen sleek legs extending from a pelvis like a tail were a welcome sight to Kaltara.
No wonder, for it was a demon that wielded physical strength, which was rare among demons.
“A high-ranking demon!”
The demon, with a face reminiscent of a noblewoman, looked down at Kaltara.
[Uhhh…]
The surrounding knights took cautious steps back.
It was due to the grotesque form and the demonic energy emanating from the demon.
In the midst of this, Kaltara faced the demon with an excited expression.
No other words were exchanged.
Kaltara clenched her fists tightly and charged at the demon.
Thud!
Flying up, Kaltara struck the demon’s cheek with her fist.
Then the demon hugged Kaltara with its six arms.
Immediately, thorns sprouted from the demon’s arms.
There was a tearing sound as flesh was crushed.
“Sir!”
One knight screamed in a shrill voice.
The scene before his eyes was horrific.
Kaltara was impaled.
Five on the head, two in the neck, eight in the chest and arms, and finally the legs were pierced at the knees and ankles.
As fear etched deeply on the knight’s face.
“It’s fine.”
The senior knight said.
“She’s doing it on purpose.”
The knight looked at Kaltara with a gaze as if seeing a monster.
He knew how Kaltara fought.
Crunch.
Kaltara, impaled all over, rolled her eyes.
Despite being in a state where she should have been dead, she only smiled brightly as if nothing was wrong.
“It hurts!”
Her brain was pierced.
Her respiratory system was pierced, her heart was pierced, and her digestive organs were pierced.
Even so, Kaltara did not die.
The knight who had initially screamed in shock was now dumbfounded.
It was an incomprehensible cause and effect for him.
Meanwhile, the senior knight spoke.
“Leave this place to her. Saint Hall has stopped. We need to support the gate.”
“But…”
“Do you know why she’s called a masochist?”
The knight fell silent.
It seemed inappropriate to say such a thing in this situation.
The senior knight continued in a voice filled with unease.
“Because she becomes stronger in pain. And because she never dies unless her entire body is ground to dust.”
With those words, Kaltara’s muscles tightened.
The thorns that had impaled her body broke with a crack.
As the senior knight had said, Kaltara was feeling stronger than before.
She smiled as if delighted by it.
“Hmm, good.”
This was enough.
Judging so, Kaltara unleashed her mana.
A red aura erupted from her entire body.
The demon sensed this and tried to distance itself from Kaltara, but it was too close.
Kaltara reached out and grabbed the demon’s neck.
And clenched her other fist.
“Die!”
Boom!
Her fist sank into the demon’s face.
The face that had resembled a noblewoman was crushed and caved in.
Kaltara did not stop.
She swung her fist again.
And again, she swung and struck.
In the continuous barrage of blows accompanied by a thunderous sound, the demon could do nothing but take it.
The surroundings fell silent.
Everyone, except the senior knight who knew her, was speechless at the sight of her fighting barehanded, without any formality.
“That’s…”
“She’s a lord-class knight. And the leader of the hounds.”
The masochist Kaltara.
One of the only three lord-class knights in the empire and the leader of the
Despite being a barbarian, she was recognized for one reason.
Because she was that strong.
An S-class mercenary in the game.
A weapon nurtured meticulously by Deltain since the early days.
The strongest among them.
Was there any need for more words?
She was undoubtedly Deltain Hebron’s masterpiece.
Boom!
With a sound, the demon fell.