Chapter 240 239. Tchort's Ploy.

(AN: Omniscient POV)

"Get ready! Time's up!" Katline's loud yell sounded from above. And at the abrupt warning, Seol So-Young got a bit more anxious and clenched the sword in her hands.

Katharine, who was staring at Seol So-Young, couldn't help but shake her head at her clumsiness; those were the few moments that had actually been able to cheer her up after her parents' deaths. Even unbeknownst to Katharine, Eshwar's presence had made her mind at ease, and even she didn't know how; she just thought that being in Katline's, her friend's home, was easing the heaviness in her heart.

Katharine then smiled slightly and walked towards So-Young, tapped on her shoulder, and said, "Don't worry too much; I'll protect you, and you'll protect me, and even though she acts like that, she'll help if you are in a situation where you cannot handle it by yourself." Katharine said with a bright assuring smile.

"Katharine....." Seol So-Young exclaimed with a bright face.

"You do know that your words caused the stress in my mind to increase rather than decrease?" So-Young's face instantly turned into a deadpan one while she said that.

Katharine, who had gotten slightly smarter, now knew when to ignore people's words, so she did that. ".... Take care of me, partner." She ignored Seol So-Young's words, walked in front of her, and mumbled.

"Hey! Hey! Get back here, you said that you'll protect me! Where are you going?" So-Young's yells sounded from behind, but of course, she was ignored, completely.

*

While Katline, Katharine, and Seol So-Young were joking around and lifting the tension in the air, the people on other sectors were tensed out of their minds and preparing themselves for the demonic wave to come at them.

The Player Association, under the command of SS-rank player Seo Hana, had spread out their forces to all the sectors to lower the number of casualties as much as they could, because if they couldn't even do that, why should they exist in the first place? Of course, those were only the naive thoughts of a few people, including Seo Hana.

[Wave (level 2) commencing.]

It was the same as last time: but slightly stronger demons spawned, pixelated. Though the people were able to kill them, their numbers were still a problem, and there were even times when, exactly like the name suggested, the demons swarmed in on the humans in a massive tide.

But still, with the help of the forces of the association, humans were able to defend themselves against the wave of demons, and now it was time for the second phase of the level 2 wave.

[Phase 2 of the Wave (level 2) commencing.]

[ERROR]

RUMBLE!

This time, the sky and land began to tremble; maybe it was because the same thing happened at the second phase last time too, and the people had readied themselves for something like this, so they weren't that worried about it.

SWISH

And then abruptly, a literal army of demons spawned pixelated, everywhere. Not even an alleyway was spared; the demons had spawned everywhere. When they noticed closely, they saw that demons had their hands placed on each other's shoulders and had spawned entirely, and somewhere in mid-air, a handsome white-haired man with pitch-black sclera and bright white eyes stared down at the human domain with an ominous grin on his face.

"I was right!" The Demon King, Tchort, mumbled in delight.

"The demons in my domain are selected at random and are selected according to the wave's level! So, my idea worked! Hehehehahaha!!" He laughed hysterically at the sight of demons covering the entirety of the human domain.

He had thought of a way to use the wave's spawning mechanism and understood that the "spawning" worked just like a gate, and opening one wasn't that big of a deal to him, the Demon King, so since he "knew" everything about gates, he "understood" its mechanism quite easily.

The location of the demon domain becomes the entrance of a gate, and the human domain becomes an exit at the time of spawning. Then all Tchort had to do was "command" the demons to place their hands on each other's shoulders to form a "link", and they complied with the command as none of the demons had the ability to ignore the Demon King's command, and even if his thoughts turned out to be wrong, a few weaklings would die, and there was nothing that Tchort had to lose in the experiment.

But still,

"It feels so great when the entire plan comes into play very nicely." Tchort mumbled and grinned ominously.

The ploy in his play was that a few ranked demons and one high-ranked demon were among the demons that had spawned right now, so he just couldn't wait to see the despair-filled faces of the humans when they found out the real horrors of the demon domain.

"What will the humans, the Elves, and the Dwarves do now that the chaos of the demon domain has been unleashed into their domains?" Tchort mumbled, raised his head, and dropped it back, gazing at the direction where the Elven domain existed.

"Hehehehahhahahahaha!" He laughed hysterically and disappeared.

Meanwhile in the human domain.

People were trembling in fear at the insane number of demons spawned right in front of them, and before they could regroup and form new plans to, at the very least, put up a fight against the demons, a war, no, a massacre would be the right word, a massacre began.

And among them, with an easy-to-forget face, a black-haired demon sat atop a dead human's body, his sword piercing the body's chest. The black-haired demon had bright hazel eyes, two goat-like horns protruding from his forehead, demonized arms and legs with armour stuck to them, and a blood-red bipyramid-shaped crystal embedded in the middle of his bare chest.

If considered from the "player's" perspective, the demon could easily be ranked SS, but in the demon domain, he was the weakest of the "high-ranked" demons, and his name was Tuwile.

There were other five high-ranked demons still in the demon domain, together with another army of a similar size to the demons present in the human domain right now, but a lot stronger.

Which was also the army that Tchort had planned to use while invading the human domain, in a year at most.

Maybe the humans got confused and assumed Tuwile to be a human, there were some foolish people that yelled at him to run while they hold back the demons from attacking him, what kind of fool? No, if those humans just looked a bit closely, no, even without looking closely, one could tell at a glance that Tuwile was a demon.

"Does this pest think of me as one of its own?" Tuwile mumbled under his breath and glanced at the human's back that was protecting him. Tuwile's face twisted in madness at the sight of some "thing" trying to show him its pity; in an instant, he unsheathed his sword from the human's body that he sat atop and slashed it 360 degrees, horizontally.

SLASH!

SPLURT