The Revenge of the Soul Eater

The moment I stabbed the Lord of the Flies between his eyebrows, an enormous amount of soul flowed into me, incomparable to the time I cut the maggots.

After trembling and enjoying the pleasure, I couldn't help but laugh as I remembered my words just before.

I couldn't help but laugh as I remembered my own words just before, "Oh my God, that's disgusting!　But you know what, I told you to say hello in the afterlife, but I ate all the souls of both kids and parents, so there's no way I'd be able to go even if there was an afterlife, hahahahaha!

While I was laughing like that, my body trembled greatly with a buzz.

With a joyful expression on his face, he displayed the level, and the number on it was '5'. I can't stop laughing more and more at the level that goes up as if it were interesting.

However, I couldn't keep on laughing.

If the level of the game rose, but I couldn't escape from the nest and died of starvation, I wouldn't be able to look at it.

The lack of side holes in this nest was confirmed when I had been hunting down the maggots. The only way to escape was to get out of the hole above my head.

''Well, I'm not afraid of that now.

Earlier, when I fought the Lord of the Flies, I had strengthened my physical abilities by wrapping my entire body in Jing Jing, which is a magical power that is created inside the body.

To put it simply, Jing Jing is the magic power that is created inside the body.

To borrow a sorcerer's phrase, it's called an odo. Incidentally, the magic power that exists in nature is called mana.

If you compare the magic that uses Odo and the magic that uses mana, the latter is usually superior.

It's like magic created by an individual vs. the world, so it's not surprising, but the story is a bit different in the Itto-ryu style of illusion.

The amount of odds and ends in the users of Itto-Ryu, which is based on the manifestation of anima, is on an order of magnitude greater than that of other people.

Of course, there are individual differences, but those who have mastered the mind-dressing technique will almost certainly surpass the magicians of their profession.

Naturally, the power techniques that used Odo were born and refined.

Mastery of the jade technique is an essential element in mastering the Fantasy Itto-ryu.

I've seen my jujin ability improve by leaps and bounds after mastering Shinsoo. It's like a never-ending fountain of power bubbling up in my body.

And the same is true for my physical abilities, which are clad in these powers. Now, he could even climb vertical cliffs without any tools.

Even trapped at the bottom of a deep vertical hole, he didn't feel desperate at all.

'More importantly, that's the problem.

Out of the corner of my eye I see a girl lying there. Like me, she was a victim of the Lord of the Flies' grasp.

Her age would be thirteen or four years old - if you think of her as human, that is.

She had a horn on her forehead. Even to the untrained eye, two antlers of obvious size were sprouting from her forehead.

There are non-human species in this world. The only one I know of directly is the elven Lunamaria, but it's not uncommon to see beastmen and dwarves in the city of Ishka, and rumor has it that there are lizardmen, fishermen (merman), and dragon-men (dragon-newt).

However, when it comes to those subraces, there is only one that I know of that has horns, and that is the Kijin.

I'm sure you're not the only one. I've never seen it before.

A hostile race of humanity that worships the demon gods, who are part of an illusory species.

Some say that the demon gods are the grown-up forms of the demon race.

Humans and demigods killed each other head-on in the Great War three hundred years ago, and that relationship continues to this day.

Nevertheless, after the demon gods were sealed off, the demon race was driven by humans and is now almost extinct. So in terms of threats, they are not as good as they were three hundred years ago, but the humans will still form a clique and attack the demon people when they find them.

I would like to say that it's because they can't help but be afraid of going back three hundred years in the past - but the truth is, there is probably greed involved.

The horn on the forehead of the demon tribe contained quite a powerful magical power, and was prized as a high-quality magical medium.

If roasted, it could be used as a medicine; if crushed, it could be used as an ingredient for advanced armor; and if hollowed out and made into a cup, the poisonous wine would be rendered ineffective.

It is said that a single demon horn can make a fortune, and in fact, from time to time, when it is found and auctioned off from somewhere, it fetches an eye-popping price.

When I thought about it, I remembered a rumor I'd heard before.

"There's an illusory species living deep in the forest of Titis. Maybe it's true,

I look at the girl's face while mumbling such things.

........To be frank, the girl was a little dirty.

Only her face and hair barely showed signs of having been groomed, but other than that, the level of a vagrant in an alleyway was better than that of a vagrant.

As for the clothes, they were nothing more than large leaves forcibly tied together with vines. When you're lying down, you're likely to see parts of you that shouldn't be visible - or rather, you can see them.

Well, since I don't know how demons age, they might actually look like this and be past twenty years old, but....

I shouldn't, I digress.

''Well, what do we do now?''

To put it bluntly, it's a chance to get rich.

Two horns of the devil. If it worked, he could get a lot of money that he could live with for the rest of his life. If you wanted, you could tie a rope around their necks and take them home. In a way, it's more profitable than selling the horns.

And this girl, although she's a little dirty looking, she has a rather pretty face. There is a feeling that she might grow into a more beautiful type as she gets older.

In addition, she has a mellow soul that you can tell just by looking at her like this. The desire to eat here has been on my face since a while ago.

Realizing this, I couldn't help but giggle.

I slapped myself on the cheek with a flop.

Ever since I excited my mind attire, I was strangely distant from the person I was before. And I don't hate that one bit. In fact, I even feel somewhat refreshed.

Is it the power of the mind's outfit that is pulling me down, or is this my true nature?

Either way, it doesn't matter. Either way, I can be proud to say that I am me.

But it is.

That's why I had to draw the "line" for wielding my power. If anyone wielded this power, they would eventually become drowned in power and become a monster. I'm not going to take that kind of future lying down.

That 'line' is, to be specific, whether or not the other party has any harmful intentions towards me.

No matter how much the other party is the demon race, I should not eat the other party who has not caused me any harm.

On the contrary, if they've caused me harm, whether they're a demon or a human, you can eat them!

Hey, hey, hey! Sword of the Falcon! You'll learn something when you get back!

As I was inwardly flaring up like that, a small moan escaped from the girl's mouth.

If you look at the girl, she is shaking her face from side to side with her eyebrows furrowed in anguish.

She must be close to waking up.

As predicted, after a short pause, the girl slowly opened both her eyes...