Chapter 394: Champion? Or Ordinary Person?
Having finished gathering information in Alban, I leave for the Great Alban Mine on the steel horses, still in my humanised state, with Aro and the nightmare. Once we’re close, I release my humanisation and let the steel horses go free.
From here on, the priority is raising Aro and the others’ levels…and also, somehow or other, increasing our allies to form an anti-Demon Lord force. Up to now, I’ve avoided using [Fake Life] out of a personal sense of distaste for it, but… I might not be restrict myself like that any more. The scale of the enemy this time is far beyond anything I've fought up to now.
It’s not like I’m not hesitant over this plan of action. I saw a girl, Luon, in a state of it being unclear whether she even had her sense of self after her skills were taken away. Probably, in Alban, the same thing is repeating over and over.
That slime is endlessly producing more victims, just to delay things from coming to a head. It probably doesn’t care about the eventual collapse of the princess’s status. It won’t at all feel like there’s more it need to have accomplished with it.
Volk will end up the same. I haven’t known him for long, but I don’t dislike him. He’s a weirdo who came swinging at me the moment he saw me, and there are times I have doubts whether he really understands what I tell him, but he can be surprisingly caring. He has a firm grasp on his own heart, and is altogether a pleasant guy.
At this rate, Volk will probably die. Tomorrow, during the party, the lives of the adventurers as well as all the techniques they’ve developed over their lives will become the Demon Lords experience and skills. Knowing that, I am letting him go to die.
『You really are troublesome, you know?』
My partner’s thoughts fly into my mind. Glancing at her, I see her staring at me in exasperation.
『If you’re going to overthink this so much, then you should just hurry up and attack. No matter how many small fry there are, it doesn't matter. All you have to do is draw out the problem enemy and kill it with that suspicious woman.』