Free Web NovelChapter 2642: Chapter 1778: This Hero Is More Like a Demon King (There Are Many Tasty Things at the Nearby Supermarket)
Frieren took a leave of absence, which wasn’t surprising to Duanmu Huai. As for whether things might go wrong over there, Duanmu Huai didn’t think so. After all, he had assigned Frieren a reconnaissance fleet and a battalion of Night Guards. In Duanmu Huai’s view, it was more than enough to clean up the demons on that planet from top to bottom.
Still, I hope to gain some experience.
Duanmu Huai frowned and sighed silently. What he needed wasn’t his own experience but for all the members of the Tribunal to grow quickly. However, a human world on the brink of destruction wasn’t something that appeared easily. Currently, the Tribunal’s forces were overwhelmingly powerful in most places, only in diverse worlds like Faelun would they yield even a little to other deities.
Of course, not that much.
Although reconnaissance fleets had been dispatched, the universe was still too vast... Duanmu Huai sighed silently and stood up.
However, at that moment, a notification popped up in front of him from the system.
[Alert: Detected a call for support, would you like to connect?]
A call for support? From who? Where did it come from?
Looking at the ambiguous and unclear system prompt, Duanmu Huai frowned. But after thinking for a moment, since he was free anyway... why not take a look?
With that thought, Duanmu Huai equipped himself and reached out to click confirm.
The next moment, Duanmu Huai’s figure vanished from his desk.
When Duanmu Huai opened his eyes again, he was standing in a pure white space, and in front of him was a blonde woman. Her lips were pale, her face ashen, and she was staring at Duanmu Huai with wide, terrified eyes.
"Hey, woman, what is this place? Who are you?"
Duanmu Huai glared at her, asking in a low voice while releasing a hint of pressure.
"Eek———!"
Feeling Duanmu Huai’s pressure, the woman let out a terrified scream, hurriedly covering her mouth, and spoke in a voice as if she were about to cry.
"Nice, nice to meet you... I, I, I am Lisetta, the goddess residing in this Unified Divine Realm. For some, some reason, I summoned you here... I, I hope you can save Gaia Brand from the Demon King’s clutches..."
Though on the verge of tears, the self-proclaimed goddess woman stammered through the entire speech — why did it sound like some kind of set line?
"Why me? Aren’t you a god? Why don’t you save it yourself."
"That, that’s the rule! We want humans to prosper through their own strength, so the one saving a human world must be a human!"
"Oh?"
Duanmu Huai looked through his helmet at the woman and then strode over to her side. She was trembling all over, biting her teeth tightly. But Duanmu Huai didn’t care about that. He grabbed her shoulder, staring at her intently. After a moment, he withdrew his gaze.
Hmm, I can sense the aura of a human soul, at least this deity should have once been human... but I can’t let my guard down, since I still don’t know what the situation is.
"Tell me the detailed situation, one by one."
"Y-Yes—————!!"
Afterward, with the explanation from the woman named Lisetta, Duanmu Huai understood the situation of this world.
This world is called the Unified Divine Realm, home to deities, and Lisetta is one of them. She was born in the Divine Realm a hundred years ago. The gods’ job in this world is pretty simple: summon heroes to save human worlds that are plunged into crisis.
Of course, the threat level of each world is different. Lisetta is just a newbie with experience in summoning heroes to save worlds only five times before. This time, she took on the task to save a world with S-level difficulty, which is why she wanted to choose a strong summoning target.
And as a result... she summoned Duanmu Huai.
"Oh?"
After listening to the woman’s story, Duanmu Huai’s eyes lit up immediately.
"I’d like to ask, when you say saving the world, does that mean human worlds?"
"Of course."
"Then how do you know these worlds are in need of salvation? And how do you determine the difficulty level?"
"I... I’m not really sure either, but whenever a human world is in crisis, we can always sense it..."
This place is great, I want it!
Upon hearing that, a light flashed in Duanmu Huai’s eyes. He had been pondering how the Tribunal could quickly discover other human worlds in crisis before. Now it’s clear. If he could occupy this Unified Divine Realm and have them work for the Tribunal, they could receive alerts about human world crises immediately!
But before that, he needed to figure out how this world operated.
Then... consider whether to work with them or directly occupy them. If this ability stems from the world itself, Duanmu Huai would even consider wiping out these deities and completely annexing the world.
For the sake of humanity, the Tribunal would do anything.
Besides, although these guys call themselves gods, they don’t seem very powerful. At least from Duanmu Huai’s perspective, the woman in front of him isn’t as competent as his followers.
So, what should I do first?
Staring at the woman in front of him, Duanmu Huai fell into contemplation.
While Duanmu Huai was thinking, the woman — Goddess Lisetta, was trembling in fear.
So scary, so scary, so scary, so scary!!
She’s just a baby born for over a hundred years, suddenly receiving the task to rescue an S-level difficulty world makes Lisetta very uneasy, so she’s desperately trying to find a hero with high statistics to assist her. Whether it’s a divine prank or not, Lisetta found Duanmu Huai in the vast data.
To be honest, at first glance at the data, Lisetta even thought she had made a mistake, because the person’s numbers were even higher than those of gods in the Unified Divine Realm.
Could it be that the divine realm’s system has a certain BUG or loophole?
With this idea in mind, Lisetta checked the data of other candidates, and none had the same situation. Although she felt the possibility of an error was high, with a mindset of trying anything, Lisetta still chose to summon this man.
The result.......
Is this a human?! This is basically the Demon King!
Looking at the tall figure before her, clad in terrifying black armor with a Skull Head helmet, Lisetta almost collapsed on the ground!
Why is there such a human being! Is this truly a human!? Wouldn’t she have summoned the Demon King himself! After all, the aura of destruction wrapped around this man is so intense that even Lisetta, a goddess, dared not approach!
Clearly, according to the process, some words should be said to boost the hero’s morale at this time, but standing here has already drained all her energy, unable to move a finger. She can only stand there like a mouse facing a cat, waiting for the final judgment.
Just when Lisetta was about to faint, that deep voice rang again beside her.
"Alright, take me to kill the Demon King."
"Eh?"
"What’s wrong? Didn’t you say there’s a world where humans are facing a disaster, needing to eliminate the Demon King? Just take me to kill the Demon King, won’t it?"
"Wait, wait, wait a moment!"
Hearing this, Lisetta hurriedly raised her hand to stop him.
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"Process? Is there any process needed for this?"
"Of course, as a deity, as a guide, I should first teleport you to a suitable area, and the divine power cannot directly transport to the Demon King’s side! It’s part of the rules, just like how we’re unable to defeat the Demon King!"
"Rules?"
Duanmu Huai’s voice suddenly sank.
"In my view, this is nothing but a child’s play game. If humans are truly in danger, shouldn’t you eliminate the threats to humans at all costs? And you’re still bothered about rules?"
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Facing Duanmu Huai’s questioning, Lisetta clenched her teeth.
"I, I can’t help it either, for violating the rules, deities will face punishment. And once in the human world, our divine power can’t take effect unless permission is granted from the divine realm, otherwise, all actions will be forbidden."
"What a hassle."
Hearing this, Duanmu Huai frowned, not expecting the divine realm to have surprisingly many rules. Looks like he has to rectify it well in the future.
But for now.......
"Alright, just take me to that world first."
"Ummm......"
At Duanmu Huai’s request, Lisetta got a bit stunned for a moment. After all, according to her past experience, even those summoned otherworldly people with quality lacked combat experience. Generally, deities would first take such people to relatively safer places, starting from eliminating low-level monsters to gain experience, step by step increasing their level and strength, and finally defeating the Demon King.
But the man before her......
Lisetta looked at him, feeling he might just head straight to the Demon King Palace, being the type who’d make the Demon King roll over and sit on the throne instead.
Besides, why is his armor so peculiar, with skulls here and there, looking anything but a proper person. Did she really choose the right summoning target this time?
Although Lisetta wanted to return him, she unfortunately didn’t have that authority. What she must do now is quickly take the summoned hero to save that world. Once the Demon King is defeated, thus easing the crisis in that world, the hero will return to his own world, and Lisetta’s mission would be considered complete.
But...........hopefully, she isn’t releasing an even stronger Demon King.
"What are you waiting for?"
As Lisetta nervously examined Duanmu Huai, the latter also stared coldly at her, shocking Lisetta to shiver. But soon, she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down,
"No problem, please follow me."
While speaking, Lisetta pointed her hand, opening a round Teleportation Portal.
"Just pass through this portal, and you’ll arrive at......eh eh eh, wait till I finish speaking!"
However, before the goddess could finish, Duanmu Huai had already walked in directly. Watching the towering figure vanish into the portal, Lisetta hesitated for a moment, but eventually followed him inside.
After all, it’s she who caused the trouble, and she has to endure it, no matter how tough.
