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◈ Our Precious Demon King ◈
Chapter 61: Connecting the Belheim Dungeon
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Pop-pop.
When Kim Junyong entered the Demon Realm, a beach appeared instead of the familiar white space.
Whoooosh.
Earth’s god came out of a hut on the beach, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and carrying a cocktail in each hand.
“Well, if it isn't my big bro Junyong!”
“What's all this?”
“Hahaha, you seemed like you wanted to visit the beach.”
“...?”
Kim Junyong frowned.
Could this bastard read minds like me?
“Haha, I might not know much about what's happening on Earth, but I know everything that goes on in this metaverse. You looked so happy in that hammock last time.”
“Hmm.”
He certainly had thought about going to the beach.
“I'm going to a real one, not a fake.”
“Aw, Big Bro! That hurts. What do you mean, fake?”
Earth’s god used their power, and dolphins leaped out of the rolling sea, performing tricks.
Pwooo.
The droplets thrown up by their jumps sparkled in the sunlight, scattering beautiful light.
“Real or fake, what's the difference? Online or offline, it's all Earth. Hehe.”
The difference was that Earth’s god could intervene and devote their efforts to the online world, but couldn't do so offline.
That was why they needed a friendly executor like Kim Junyong.
Hadn't Junyong taken it upon himself to discipline the G-ranks, whom the god had been helplessly watching until now, and bring back divine orbs?
“Aren't you wasting a lot of resources on this?”
“Hehe, building the waves does take some resources.”
Quite a lot, actually.
A few dungeons on Earth had probably broken open by now.
“You'll cause dungeon breaks for nothing.”
“As practical as ever, Big Bro!”
Pop-pop.
Earth’s god used their power, and everything vanished.
The wet sand, the waves, the dolphins, and the hut all disappeared.
Only Kim Junyong and Earth’s god remained in a space as white as a blank canvas.
“Hehe, your humble servant can hardly wait.”
“You like these that much?”
Kim Junyong took out three divine orbs.
“Oh, absolutely!”
“Not so fast.”
Earth’s god eagerly held out their hands, but Kim Junyong snatched the orbs back into his fist.
“Ahh.”
“Equivalent exchange.”
“Yes, sir. I've designed some divine magic I thought you'd like.”
[Treasure Shop for Big Bro Junyong]
New Base Ticket 1p
Base Expansion Ticket 1p
Belheim Dungeon Link Ticket 2p
Belheim Dungeon Base Conversion Ticket 7p
“What? What's this?”
Kim Junyong was startled.
Earth’s god was quite pleased with his reaction.
“Hehe, I knew you'd like it.”
“This is possible? What does linking do?”
“Exactly what it says. It only connects them. You can't travel back and forth yourself, but you can use the dungeon as subspace, just like before.”
“...”
A dark mage's dungeon.
It connected a “space” to the dark mage's “consciousness.”
That was what made “subspace” magic possible, allowing the mage to retrieve objects from that space as easily as recalling a thought.
Every dungeon connected to Kim Junyong's consciousness was effectively his subspace.
He currently had only one on Earth, but he had nine dungeons in Belheim.
Once he linked a dungeon, he could retrieve everything inside it, just as he used to.
“So it really was possible.”
“You suspected as much, didn't you? But keeping spaces in different dimensions connected at all times does cost a few points.”
“What about base conversion?”
“Instead of making the dungeon into subspace, it turns it into a proper base like Big Bro Junyong's House. You'll be able to travel back and forth freely.”
“...”
Earth and Belheim existed in different space-times.
In other words, they occupied spaces in different dimensions.
“That's insane. Full dimensional travel.”
“Hehe, starting to feel the power of a god?”
Earth’s god lifted their chin and puffed themselves up.
Kim Junyong shook his head.
'They sent ten million people over there. It was never beyond their power in the first place.'
Sending people beyond the dimensional boundary.
Still, they had only sent their “souls.” Converting a dungeon into a base would allow a complete physical body to travel back and forth. That was impressive.
There was just one problem.
“It's expensive.”
“Oh, Big Bro. It's really not. We're keeping an actual warp gate open all the time. It takes at least seven to maintain it.”
“Tsk.”
Even so, where was he supposed to get another seven?
“But I've got good news for you.”
“What?”
“I'll be doing a major update to the metaverse soon, and it'll be difficult for me to step in while that's happening.”
“...?”
“Dungeons will be breaking open all over Earth. Haha.”
“...Aren't you being a little too casual about that?”
“Oh, those humans need a taste of real trouble.”
From a god's perspective, human lives were nothing more or less than “resources.”
They needed careful management, but losing some wasn't much of a waste...
“How is that good news?”
“You need to earn some points, Big Bro. Hahaha.”
“...”
Earth’s god was definitely out of their mind.
“Let's suck Belheim dry.”
“...”
Earth’s god seemed to like Kim Junyong's Belheim sacred relic even more than he did.
'I'm not a vending machine.'
It was a little annoying to be treated like a divine orb vending machine, but then again, they treated each other the same way.
“One Link Ticket and one Base Expansion Ticket.”
“An excellent choice, Big Bro!”
He paid three divine orbs and bought two tickets.
The crafty god had probably shown him the Belheim Dungeon Base Conversion Ticket, which required a whole seven orbs, to motivate him.
'You want me to look after Earth while you're away?'
Just how big was this update going to be, if they wouldn't even have time to look after Earth? In the meantime, Earth’s god was quietly encouraging Kim Junyong to stop the disasters in their place.
Their intentions were obvious, but Junyong couldn't really resent them when he had nothing to lose either.
“Still, Big Bro, I'll wait until at least Seoul is secured as a safe zone before I start the update.”
“...?”
There was no way Earth’s god would offer special treatment like that for free.
“A safe zone? How do you make one?”
“Haha, your subordinates are working on it already, aren't they?”
All his subordinates were doing was hellish training.
They had entered the Demon Realm and were still there, wiping out devils one after another...
Kim Junyong's eyes lit up.
“Something happens if you clear every devil off a Demon Realm map, doesn't it?”
“Yep! I made it part of the system ages ago, but those lazy Earthlings never even tried. Ugh, those bastards. All that defending instead of attacking like I told them to!”
For a while, Earth’s god went on a murderous rant, debating whether to fry half of humanity to death or boil them.
“Ah, anyway, that's when I'll do the update. Keep it to yourself, Big Bro.”
“Okay.”
“Well, I'll be off, then. Oh, right!”
As if they had almost forgotten, Earth’s god held out five tickets.
[Hunter Awakening Ticket] x5
“Hehe, tell me if you need more later.”
“Okay.”
“Then take good care of Earth while I'm gone, Big Bro!”
“Honestly.”
Kim Junyong couldn't help chuckling.
For all their talk about killing everyone, Earth’s god must still have been worried, judging by their repeated requests.
Pop-pop.
The white space vanished, revealing the usual Demon Realm landscape.
A vast map modeled after Earth.
“Hmm.”
Kim Junyong opened the Demon Realm Conquest app and brought up the dungeon map.
Along with the map number, it showed red dots marking the devils' locations.
Swipe.
He zoomed out.
Once he had zoomed out far enough to see the entire square map tile, countless red dots filled the screen.
There looked to be well over a hundred.
“...That's a lot.”
So a single map had this many devils.
People were sent to a random map each time they entered the Demon Realm.
That meant that, once they entered, they had to kill every devil there to trigger the “system provision” Earth’s god had mentioned...
“Did you actually design this to be cleared?”
That god.
Did they have no concept of a gradual difficulty curve?
Kim Junyong sent a message, just in case.
Tap-tap-tap.
“That should keep them from leaving halfway through.”
He had done everything he needed to do.
Now it was time to use the tickets.
“Which dungeon did I leave the space expansion pouch in?”
Cheon Yubeom and Lee Mina were working hard, after all. He should give it to them as promised once they got out.
He began looking through the Belheim dungeons, which were still connected to his consciousness but remained “inactive.”
* * *
“Hmm.”
Luciel, the head butler of the Demon King’s Castle, had welcomed a new master and received an important task.
Fittingly for a butler, his first assignment was “pet training.”
Unfortunately, the pets belonged to the difficult-to-train “human species.”
They weren't particularly talented, but as an excellent servant, Luciel did not judge his master's tastes.
He had simply been ordered to train them. Producing satisfactory results would be enough.
Whoooosh.
“Die.”
Booom!
“Ghh, Deputy Department Head Lee. Two behind you.”
“Yes!”
Slice!
The trained pets' tricks were becoming quite polished.
Was I, Luciel, simply that good?
To think I had made humans with such garbage talent this useful.
Slash!
After killing the devils in the area, the two quickly ran over to Luciel and caught their breath.
“Huff, huff.”
“Whew.”
They were out of breath, but didn't seem overly strained.
Their teamwork was now good enough to handle a B-rank devil without Luciel's intervention.
Despite his satisfaction, the words that left his mouth were cold.
“It's disgusting to see you pleased with such pathetic results.”
“We're sorry!” they replied together.
“The battle ended ages ago, yet you still haven't reined in your killing intent.”
The look in Cheon Yubeom's and Lee Mina's eyes had changed considerably since they first entered the Demon Realm.
Anyone without exceptional nerve would have wet themselves just from looking into their eyes now.
“We're sorry!”
They hurriedly reined in their killing intent, switching from “combat mode” to “rest mode.”
Ding.
“Hah. Whose notification was that? I'm speaking.”
“It's the Adviser.”
Luciel's stern expression softened instantly.
His severe look vanished, and he spoke with a polite expression.
“Go ahead and check it.”
“Yes, sir.”
Cheon Yubeom and Lee Mina each took out their phones and stared at their screens in shock.
[Kim Junyong - Don't come out until you've cleared every devil off the map.]
“...!”
How could this be?
With just a little more training, they felt they could join an A-rank devil hunt, which had been their original goal.
“Ah, I've disappointed Master.”
“...?”
Luciel sounded heartbroken.
“How pathetic must I, Luciel, have looked to him?”
This was a reprimand.
His master was clearly disappointed in him for still not having finished the “pet training.”
“You worthless pieces of trash.”
“Gah.”
Luciel's sharp gaze turned on the untalented pet humans.
If only his master had raised something like dragons instead of humans. Then he could have finished their training already and returned to serving his master.
“Brace yourselves! From now on, I'll train you seriously.”
“...?”
“We'll divide each day in half. Half will be spent hunting devils, and the other half fighting me.”
“...!”
At Luciel's declaration, Cheon Yubeom's and Lee Mina's eyes filled with alarm.
'I want to go home.'
'God fucking help me.'
It looked as though their stay in the Demon Realm was going to last a little longer.
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