The Heavenly Demon Can't Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 99

The Hector Kingdom soldiers were tired and frustrated. The chase went on, but Roman was always ahead.

When they arrived, the bodies were already cold. Roman was gone.

The damage was severe.

The soldiers started to feel fear.

The leader of the Ranger unit.

That is, until Jackson appeared.

“Roman Dmitry, your escape ends here!”

He had picked up the trail.

Seeing Roman facing Hector’s soldiers, Jackson didn’t hesitate. He summoned his aura and attacked.

Rumble!

Jackson roared, and his aura burst out like a wave of fire.

In that instant.

Roman knew it instinctively.

Jackson was a Four-Star Swordsman.

Clang!

Clang! Sparks flew as their swords crashed together again and again. Each strike was fast and powerful.

Roman’s sword aura was strong. It blocked Jackson’s attacks again and again. Jackson’s face showed his surprise.

Roman Dmitry was known to be a Three-Star Swordsman.

Yet, the skill with which he was blocking his attacks suggested he was at least an equal.

‘Roman Dmitry has been underestimated.’

A shiver ran down his spine.

His actions thus far.

He understood now why Hector’s soldiers had been unilaterally slaughtered.

Reaching the realm of Four Stars was a disaster in itself, and there was no way for ordinary soldiers to stop Roman.

Just like now.

“Help Captain Jackson!”

“Attack!”

Hector’s soldiers.

They seized the opportunity and charged.

With Roman engaged in a fierce battle with Jackson, their intention was to strike a fatal blow from the rear. Clearly, their attacks targeted the blind spot with precision.

They thought Roman wouldn’t have time to look back, so intensely was he occupied with Jackson’s assault, but Roman deflected Jackson’s attack and, without even looking, swung his sword behind him.

Thwack!

With a single strike.

The soldiers fell like dominoes.

Having dealt with the threat as if it were nothing, Roman kicked off the ground and immediately pressed his attack on Jackson.

‘This fellow!’

Jackson’s expression hardened.

The fact that Roman could fight soldiers while also fighting him calmly…

The fact that Roman was more skilled than he had anticipated was disconcerting, but his instincts, honed through many battles, sent warning signals from another direction.

Jackson was a Four-Star Swordsman.

Only his position as the leader of the Ranger unit was publicly known; the true extent of Jackson’s strength as an aura swordsman was not.

Therefore.

Jackson’s name was absent from the Hector Kingdom’s rankings.

Jackson had chosen practicality over fame, and he expected Roman Dmitry to react with dismay to his attack.

Contrary to expectations.

Roman remained calm.

It wasn’t just that Roman expected Jackson to be strong. It was like he didn’t even care that Jackson was a Four-Star Swordsman.

Even as Jackson relentlessly pressed his attack, he felt strangely uneasy.

A strange feeling made Jackson uneasy. He couldn’t understand why Roman was so calm. Something felt wrong.

‘It doesn’t matter what tricks you have up your sleeve. The moment you met me, there was no way for you to escape.’

He suppressed his doubts.

The battle was over.

The one minute Jackson had bought.

Beeeep-

“There!”

“Surround Roman Dmitry!”

Behind Jackson.

Numerous lights were rapidly increasing.

It was a perfect encirclement.

A sea of people.

Enemies were rapidly gathering around him.

“It’s over, Roman. Surrender. You have no way out.”, Jackson said, his eyes narrowed, showing his anger.

If he resisted to the end.

They would have to kill Roman, even if it meant taking casualties.

It would be ideal for the Hector Kingdom if he surrendered willingly, so he gave his opponent time to choose.

“‘Surrender?'”, Roman laughed, a cold sound. “You really think I would surrender to you?”

As Jackson had expected.

Roman wasn’t particularly surprised by the appearance of a Four-Star Swordsman.

From the start, he could anticipate that they would bring skilled individuals to attack the Cairo Kingdom, and the fact that the opponent was Jackson wasn’t a variable worth considering.

That was why he hadn’t panicked when Jackson appeared and was able to face him.

He certainly wasn’t an easy opponent, but it was within the expected range.

Jackson.

He was confident of victory.

The confidence that filled his face was based on his own experience, and he was certain that he had cornered Roman.

Seeing this.

Roman said mockingly.

“Even if I surrendered, you would kill me immediately because I’m a threat. But tell me, didn’t you find something strange while chasing me? Why would I enter a place where my opponent had set a trap? Why would I roam the mountains, drawing your attention? There are three reasons for that. First, the fragments attached to my body can’t restrain me.”

Whoosh.

Roman focused his inner power, mana, and sent it through his body. The light pieces fell off very easily.

It was a shocking sight.

Jackson’s eyes wavered.

The reason Roman had been caught.

It was because his ability to hide in the darkness had been neutralized by the fragments of light.

But if the problem could be solved with such a simple method, the current situation made no sense.

A sense of foreboding began to grow.

He dreaded what Roman would say.

“Second, I am confident that I can escape any encirclement. You will see that soon enough. No matter how much you surround me from all sides, you will never be able to catch me.”

And.

It was the last one.

Roman looked straight into Jackson’s eyes and said.

“The last reason is that I wanted you to be distracted and forget something important. Jackson, leader of the Ranger unit. The fact that you, a skilled member of the Hector Kingdom, are here means that Edwin Hector’s security must have become very lax.”

In that instant.

Jackson’s eyes widened.

His heart sank.

With ominous thoughts exploding in his mind, Jackson hurriedly kicked off the ground, trying to stop Roman’s intentions.

But Roman knew it now. It was too late to stop him.

He finished speaking and then, with a powerful push from the thick tree trunk, Roman jumped. He moved with an amazing lightness, a skill that seemed impossible for a normal person. It was the highest level of his special ability to move quickly and quietly.

The soldiers who had tried to surround him looked foolish as he easily escaped. They had thought they had trapped him, but Roman was too clever.

As he vanished quickly through the dense trees, Jackson screamed desperately.

“Damn it! Go to the Prince immediately! The Prince is in danger now!”

He was thinking in reverse.

Roman was gambling.

Roman was using guerrilla warfare tactics. He knew he had to fight like a guerrilla. Guerrilla warfare is about using small attacks and tricks instead of big battles.

There were limits to a strategy of slowly weakening the enemy.

Initially, he had great fun because the enemies didn’t anticipate his skills, but he knew it would be difficult once people like Jackson got involved.

Roman was not as strong as the legendary Heavenly Demon Baek Jung-hyuk, a warrior famous for being unbeatable.

If Heavenly Demon Baek Jung-hyuk was the one who could defeat all the Ten Great Masters of the world even if they all attacked him at once, the current Roman Dmitry was in mortal danger the moment several individuals like Jackson appeared.

Therefore, a plan was needed.

A plan to ruin the Hector Kingdom’s scheme while actively utilizing his abilities.

‘There is only one way to end a war with a small number of people. The head of the enemy. If I kill Edwin Hector, who planned this operation, the Hector Kingdom will lose its reason to keep fighting the war.’

He turned his gaze.

Edwin Hector was the most important person in Hector.

It was from then on that Roman deliberately made calls to scare the enemy, but also used the communicator to understand how the mana was flowing.

‘A magical communicator is a tool that transmits voices through the connection of mana (Mana is like magical energy). If I can figure out where the flow starting from the communicator reaches, I can find Edwin Hector’s location. If I succeed in contacting him even once, there’s no need to connect the communication again. If I remember the unique mana flow of the communicator Edwin Hector uses, I can find him easily with my abilities.’

He drew the plan for what he would do.

From beginning to end, Roman’s actions were carefully planned.

He made contact with a specific purpose, and after understanding the flow of mana, he deliberately fell into the opponent’s trap.

And then he dragged them around.

He wanted to make the enemies, who were convinced that they had cornered him, lower their guard, and to make the skilled individuals guarding Edwin Hector leave their posts to catch him.

He wagged his tail slightly.

Although he had the ability to escape from being chased from the start, Roman took the risk and faced the enemies.

It was a risky plan.

But it was worth trying.

High risk, high return.

On the battlefield, the bravery to win was the powerful weapon of the Heavenly Demon Baek Jung-hyuk.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The surrounding scenery passed quickly.

Lightness skill.

His body, empowered by mana, moved through the mountain as quickly as a wild animal, heading towards his target.

The flow of mana was felt nearby.

Edwin Hector was definitely there.

And as expected.

“Gasp!”

“It’s Roman Dmitry!”

Edwin Hector. He found him.

The nervous guards desperately stood in front of Edwin Hector, but in a flash, their heads flew off.

Splurt!

The wall crumbled.

Now, it was time to deal with Edwin Hector.

Just as he was about to cut off Edwin Hector’s head.

“……!”

Edwin Hector. His coldly sunken eyes stared directly at Roman.

Having made the decision to pursue Roman, Edwin Hector said.

“Roman Dmitry may have anticipated our pursuit and set a trap in advance. At first glance, it seems like he is dealing with us spontaneously, but the Roman Dmitry I have identified is never one to show up without any plan. This operation… sacrifices are inevitable. Many soldiers will die in Roman Dmitry’s trap, but even so, we will chase after them. Just one precedent… we need a definite achievement, not to be fools defeated by a mere two hundred soldiers, but to slaughter all the enemies who resisted to the end.”

A chill ran down his spine.

The moment he set foot on the mountain, the war had begun.

Regardless of who the opponent was or what plan they had prepared, Edwin Hector wanted to win every war.

Especially if the opponent was a monster like Roman Dmitry, he had to cut off his breath even more.

He was certain that if he just left him alone, he would definitely return as an even greater threat.

“Roman Dmitry is like a runaway colt. He definitely moves with a plan, but we cannot easily predict how he will act. If so, we must focus on one fact. The opponent’s purpose. If I were Roman Dmitry, what would be the most important thing? They are planning to prevent us from occupying the southern front within three days. But in fact, there is an even simpler way to end the war at once than setting traps to reduce our numbers.”

“……Could it be.”

Jackson’s eyes widened.

Their thoughts aligned. Edwin Hector and Jackson had the same thought.

“Yes. It’s killing me, the commander of the Hector Kingdom. In the chaotic process of pursuing Roman Dmitry, perhaps he might judge that killing me is the easiest way. It’s a risky plan that you can’t choose unless you’re crazy. But seeing Roman Dmitry revealing his hostility to me through the radio, I thought that guy might carry out such an absurd plan.”

It was a possibility. It might not be.

But if he did, Edwin Hector judged that he could use it as an opportunity.

“The soldiers of Hector have risked their lives for the kingdom. And I, too, will become bait for the kingdom. If Jackson reveals that I am defenseless by pursuing Roman, Roman Dmitry will think of the only possibility to end the war quickly.”

He also was a reckless man.

Knowing it was dangerous, he boldly gambled.

“The moment Roman Dmitry appears in front of me, we will have a definite opportunity to deal with him.”

And now, Roman Dmitry appeared.

It was as expected. A ridiculously bold judgment.

Seeing him rushing in after dealing with the guards faster than he had expected, Edwin Hector used the move he had prepared.

Whoosh.

Mana rose.

But that was completely different from the method used by aura swordsmen (fighters who use magical energy in their swords).

“Inferno!”

Whoosh.

Fwoosh!