This is the story of a magician and an elf girl.

“Tsk… Damn it…”

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

The hellhounds that attacked him naturally would not give Jack any chance to catch his breath. They were running at an extremely fast speed in the empty desert. It was more like they had surpassed the speed of cheetahs rather than hyenas. That was definitely not a speed that any living creature could achieve in a short period of time.

But the armor Jack was wearing could effectively prevent all surprise attacks. As long as he saw the moment when their attack failed, he would chop off the opponent's head.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

"Drink ah ah ah!"

“Whoosh, bang, boom!”

The hellhound emerged from the flying dust and launched a surprise attack on Jack with a terrifying figure. He immediately reacted by picking up the dagger left by Xiaofeng and throwing it. The sharp blade pierced the opponent's jaw, and Jack hit the handle with a punch. The blade penetrated into the skull and directly split the hellhound's head.

At the same time, the second hellhound attacked Jack from behind, trying to dig open his torso with its sharp claws.

"Clap!"

However, he had already swung out his long legs after performing a beautiful backflip, and then slammed his solid fists hard into the opponent's body to greet him back and forth.

“Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!”

“Aa ...

“HOOGA ...

The hellhound, whose entire body was releasing hellfire, wanted to use its skills to shine before dying - but Jack would not allow it to be so arrogant. He used his skills to materialize the outline of his claws on the spot, and the sharp afterimage swept across the center of the hellfire: "Three Flashes of Sickle Moon!"

"?!"

“Whoosh, bang, boom!”

Just like being hit directly by a bottle of dynamite, unimaginable heat emanated from the body of the hellhound. Jack rolled on the ground with the help of the defensive technique and was attacked by the third medium-sized hellhound without even having time to breathe.

“Don’t get in the way!!!”

"!"

But this did not pose any obstacle to Jack. Before being attacked, he had already used brute force to tear open the opponent's upper and lower jaws. At the same time, he also dug his sharp claws deep into the hellhound's throat and inserted them into its forehead to deliver a fatal blow. The bloody battle made him ignore the situation around him.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”

"Uhhhhhh!!!"

"!"

"Bang!"

An explosion of the same magnitude came from the direction Jack had just left, bringing with it a fierce hot wind - even if you can defeat a hundred people alone, can you protect your cherished companions?

"how come……"

"Gah-ga ...

Jack, unable to extricate himself, fell to the ground under the attack of another hellhound. The ferocious teeth kept biting at his neck: "Aa ...

“Ho ga?!”

A human shout came from deep in his throat. Jack broke free from his restraints with brute force and kicked the hellhound away, stabbing his sharp claws into its heart and then swung his claws to split its head open.

“Whoosh, bang, boom!”

"Physical barrier - don't underestimate me..."

"!"

After killing the hellhound in front of him with a physical barrier deployed behind him, Wanshou used the sickle moon series of skills, and the magical outline intertwined between the corpses immediately killed the opponent.

He ran to his companions without stopping, repeating the same thorny battle. While protecting himself, he also kept witnessing the moments when his companions died.

"Jack... Sir... I——"

"——Wait!! I'm about to——"

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”

“It’s in the way, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! Get out of the way, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

“Snap, snap, snap, snap!”

Jack, who had torn the hellhounds into pieces, ran straight towards his companions without paying any attention to the situation around him, but just before his hand was about to touch the other party.

The scorching breath of hellfire had covered the outlines of him and his companion, and the white fingertips were completely burned to ashes from the root to the tip. Jack, who was entangled by an ominous curse, only wanted to save his companions, so his intentions were distorted.

"Beast...beast..."

“Roar, ga ga ga…”

While he was blaming himself for the frustration, other hellhounds had already started eating the corpses of their own kind. The better Jack was at killing, the stronger they became. He was too obsessed with conquering others, and because of this strength - more adventurers lost their lives.

It was you who killed them.

"No...I...I...uh..."

The erosion of the curse will continue to worsen according to the mental condition. The more Jack feels that it is his own responsibility, the more his heart cannot withstand the erosion of guilt.

“Whoosh, bang, boom!”

The hellhounds that attacked next swallowed his figure in the valley of corpses in an instant. He was not hurt at all, but he felt his limbs being pulled back and forth by the powerful bite force. If it weren't for this armor, he would have been torn into pieces.

"Master Jack is in danger! Anyone who can help, come here quickly!!"

"It's coming! Master Jack! Hold on!"

"No...don't...don't come over here--"

“—Drink aa ...

The strength of the Hellhound does not lie in the number of individuals, but in its powerful regeneration ability and tearless team fighting ability.

They were suppressing Jack and had the power to flatten the area. They were biting Jack simply because they didn’t want him to escape. If other adventurers came over… Master Jack!!”

"Master Jack!!!"

“Idiot!! Get out of here!!! Don’t come over here aaaaaa——”

“—ROARGA ...

Just as the adventurers unleashed the Scythe Moon series of skills, the hellhounds that were hit also released the heat stored in their stomachs from their mouths, and the dazzling flames swallowed up the world in front of Jack's eyes in the blink of an eye.

“Bang bang bang bang bang!!!”

““Aaaaaaaa——!!!””

The adventurers who were completely caught up in the explosion lost their lives due to the damage caused by thermal radiation and hot wind. They didn't have time to deploy the barrier and only wanted to help Jack. Who knew that creatures like hellhounds would even drag their companions into the explosion in order to get rid of the adventurers.

Is this the difference between beasts and humans? Then what is Jack, who survived by using magic barriers and physical barriers?

“Um… cough cough… cough cough cough…”

Coughing and gasping, he crawled out from the corpses, and saw the bodies of adventurers lying naked in front of him. Some were killed in battle, some were bitten to death, and some were burned to death - all because their leader was not capable enough to protect them.

If it was an elf girl, no one would have died.

She could do things that Jack couldn't.

He was just a fool who wanted to do something that only geniuses could do, so he kept encouraging others to do it. In the end, he didn't succeed, but instead gathered all the "people who couldn't do that thing" together and thought that he had done that thing.

It's like fools and losers licking each other's wounds, agreeing with each other's words and blind ideals, justifying wrong choices, knowing that nothing they do can match one thousandth of a genius, but they still want to imitate or emulate the genius's behavior.

There must be a limit to arrogance, and ignorance should stop here. Reality is cruel. What you have done will only cause more people to bleed, spread the pain further in this world, and become the source of hatred.

It was you who summoned hell into this world.