Reborn Soul Master: The Rogue's Counterattack

The bell tower in the center of Radomir City. A man in a white coat stands on the top of the bell tower, which is not open to the public, and overlooks the city.

His real identity is Cardin. Three years have passed, and his childish appearance has completely disappeared.

He seemed to be a little taller than when he was a student, with clearer facial features, exuding a mature masculine charm.

"A place like a factory?" Cardin looked out over the city and remembered what he had heard from the drunk earlier.

-There is a big cave behind the lord's castle. It is called a warehouse, but it is actually a prison for kidnapped refugees.

The lord of Radomir is a demon. It is said that the lord kidnaps suitable humans among the refugees who are looking for a safe place and turns them into demons.

-I was imprisoned for half a year. And I did see it. I became a refugee of the demon tribe.

Cardan recalled the man's words and turned his attention to the lord's castle at the innermost part of the city.

The towering lord's castle cannot be seen even from the top of the bell tower.

"Are there refugees imprisoned behind that castle?" Cardin frowned as he looked behind the castle.

"The demons really have a plan. They train the demons in this way." There are many restrictions on summoning demons in the demon world.

However, if the magic stone is used to transform humans into demons, demons without any restrictions will be created.

"The leader of the demon clan seems to want to turn this place into a demon world." He sighed briefly, and at this time a translucent spirit flew from the direction of the lord's castle and flew towards Cardin at an extremely fast speed.

-Confirmed! A rough count shows that at least 30 people are imprisoned. The true identity of the translucent spirit is the undead summoned by Cardan. Reese.

"Does everyone look okay?"

-Yes. Looks healthy. Of course, they all look like they've lost their souls.

Completely without the will to live? Reese told Cardin everything he had seen and heard in the hidden warehouse behind the lord's castle.

Every time he heard Reese's report, Cardin's brows gradually furrowed.

-And the demons who turned into monsters due to the side effect of demonization were also imprisoned.

When Cardan heard that even the demons had seen it, he smacked his tongue and looked at the lord's castle. "We have to deal with it quickly."

-There are a lot of guards in the prison. They all look very strong?

"Those guards could be demons. Or the lord's knights," Cardan replied expressionlessly despite Reese's warning.

"Anyway, thank you for your hard work." Cardin signaled to Race that he could go back.

Swish. Reese turned completely transparent and slowly disappeared.

After a while, Cardan arrived in front of the lord's castle without any disguise or preparation for battle.

"No one can pass through this gate without the lord's permission."

"If you don't have an appointment, please go back." When Cardan approached the gate of the lord's castle, the people guarding there formed an X with their spears, blocking Cardan's way.

"Luna. Are these people humans or demons?" Then Cardin asked the question to Luna who was behind him.

Three years have passed, and Luna's appearance has not changed. She is still the same cute girl.

"Both are undergoing demon transformation. It seems like a lot of it?" Luna replied with a frown, and Cardin nodded to show that he understood.

"Then let one live and the other die." Luna nodded after hearing Cardin's words.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" At the same time, a guard screamed and fell down.

The guard who lost his companion in an instant activated the power of the demon clan and fought Cardan wielding a spear.

"Go inform the lord," Cardan said nonchalantly to the spear-wielding guards.

"A madman broke in."

Boom! With a loud noise, the wall of the lord's castle collapsed.

"Enemy, enemy!"

"Ready to fight!"

"Keep calm! Find out how many people there are and who they are, and don't fight alone!" The sudden bombardment made the soldiers pick up their weapons and begin patrolling around the castle. But no enemy troops were seen.

"Why are there goblin corpses in the castle?" Unexpectedly, the castle was littered with corpses of goblins, orcs, imps and other monsters.

"Who did this?" "Clean up the bodies first!" Following someone's orders, the soldiers walked towards the bodies.

At this moment, boom boom boom! The corpses seemed to be waiting for this moment. As soon as the soldiers approached, they made a loud noise and began to explode.

"Get away, get away!"

"It's a trap! Don't get close! Just leave those bodies alone!"

Boom! Boom! Despite the soldiers' efforts, they could not stop the explosion of the monster corpses hidden in various places in the castle. Just as the lord's castle fell into chaos.

"Cardan. Where are you going?" Cardan and Luna were running quickly towards the back of the lord's castle.

"Here." Cardin suddenly stopped and pointed to the cave entrance. Then Luna's expression twisted instantly.

“This place reeks of nasty smell.”

"The soldiers guarding here seem to have also entered the lord's castle." According to Reis's report, there were soldiers guarding the entrance to the cave.

And it looks quite powerful. After the bodies hidden by Cardan in various places in the Lord's Castle exploded and caused chaos, it seemed that the soldiers guarding the cave entrance all went to the Lord's Castle.

It was very quiet in front of the cave entrance. Cardin slowly moved his feet after confirming that there was no one around.

"This is..." Luna said with a frown as they entered the cave. The cave was full of iron bars, behind which lay about 30 people.

"Looks like they're in pretty good shape." As Reese said, the people in prison look very healthy.

I don’t know what they ate, but their skin is smooth, their clothes are about to be torn, and some of them even look fat.

But their eyes were undoubtedly dead. There was no hope. There was only despair and the end in their eyes.

Looking at these people whose souls seemed to have been sucked out and whose eyes were empty, Cardin smacked his lips and asked Luna.

"Luna. Are any of them in the process of becoming a demon or having magic stones implanted in their bodies?"

Hearing Cardin's question, Luna slowly walked closer and looked through the iron bars.

"No. Everyone is normal. They are all ordinary humans. I can't feel any demonic aura. The place where I can feel the demonic aura is..." Luna said, turning her head to look deep into the prison.

"Over there." There were also iron railings where she pointed, and many strange creatures gathered behind the iron railings.

"These are people who couldn't withstand the power of the demons and turned into monsters due to the side effects." Cardin seemed to have gotten used to these strange-looking people and looked at the monsters expressionlessly.

Boom, boom. The people who turned into monsters discovered Cardin and rushed towards the iron railings.

Clank! Clank! I don’t know what the iron bars are made of. Even though the monsters rushed into them, the iron bars didn’t break or even bend.

Cardin seemed to have expected the iron railing to be strong, and he didn't look surprised at all. He just walked towards the iron railing with a blank expression.

"Luna." Cardin said to Luna with a bitter expression when he reached the iron railing.

"Ah."

"Get it over with once and for all. Don't let them feel any pain."

"Got it." Luna nodded and activated her magic, and Cardin turned again and walked towards the iron bars where the people were imprisoned.

"Is it safer here now?" It might be more dangerous to rescue people and bring them outside.

It is disadvantageous to have someone to protect during a battle.

"What are you going to do now?" Luna quickly processed Cardin's request and asked Cardin.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"What? It's nothing."

"First of all, Luna you are here to protect these people."

"What about you?" Luna asked with her head tilted after hearing Cardin's words, and Cardin looked back at the cave entrance.

"Go meet the Lord."

"Are you okay on your own?" Cardin smiled and nodded at Luna's question.

Snap! As Cardan took a step, skeleton soldiers appeared behind him. The instantly summoned skeleton soldiers guarded Luna.

"I can do it alone."

"Just in case. If there's any danger, come to me immediately."

"Who's worried about who~" Luna signaled not to worry and to go quickly. Cardan smiled and immediately ran towards the lord's castle.

"The effect is quite good." Cardan returned to the lord's castle and looked at the wall that collapsed due to the explosion and nodded with satisfaction.

"Anyway, there are no complete humans here." Everyone in the lord's castle has had magic stones implanted in their bodies and is in the process of becoming demons.

In other words, they were not humans, but demons. Therefore, there was no guilt involved and the monsters could be exploded to their heart's content.

As a result, the soldiers affected by the explosion either died or lost their combat effectiveness, and Cardin was able to walk leisurely in the corridors of the lord's castle.

Of course, not all the soldiers in the castle died.

"Enemy! There are enemies on the third floor!"

"It's the Necromancer! Ignore the undead creatures and kill the Necromancer first!" Despite the continuous explosions, there were still soldiers alive. As soon as they spotted Cardan, they drew their weapons and rushed over.

"For the monarch!"

"Protect the monarch!" The soldiers' weapons could not reach Cardin. Knights with eerie green flames appeared out of nowhere and blocked the soldiers' path.

"Why, why are there so many Death Knights?" "30 Death Knights?" If they were skeleton soldiers, they could have ignored them and rushed straight to the Necromancer, but the Death Knights were different.

Even with the power of the demons, the Death Knights are still a formidable opponent. However, if there are 30 of them...

"Ahhhhhh!" The soldiers died before they could even launch an effective counterattack.

"At best, they are at the level of low-level demons." Cardin looked at the soldiers using the power of demons and clicked his tongue in disdain.

Even if the soldiers all used the power of the demons, they would not pose a threat. The Death Knight alone could easily deal with the soldiers, and no one could stop Cardan.

"Inside the lord's castle, you can use the power of the demons to your heart's content." Outside the lord's castle, the residents of the city of Radomir did not know that the people in the castle were all demons.

The lord here concealed the identity of the demons for a long time and turned this city into a factory for cultivating demons.

"In three years, the kingdom has become a mess." Cardin smiled bitterly as he recalled the past three years. Ever since the Hero Academy announced its closure, the war between the resistance army and the demons began.

At that time, Cardin did not join the resistance, but tracked Charlotte alone. Charlotte doesn't like to meet people. Is it because of this personality?

The remains of Charlotte only exist in places that are difficult for ordinary people to reach.

It exists in natural environments such as mountains, forests, and swamps, as well as in dangerous areas such as volcanoes, glaciers, dungeons, or monster habitats.

"If it weren't for the professor, we would never have found my father's remains." It is impossible to find Charlotte's remains using ordinary methods.

Thanks to the map Isaac left behind, Cardin was able to track down Charlotte's remains with relative ease.

"Although I knew that the demons wanted to control the kingdom, the kingdom collapsed to this extent in three years." Three years passed like this.

Cardin had to spend three years in nature, like a person who had left the world.

"I don't know whether to search for ruins or to train." Charlotte's ruins only exist in dangerous places, so Cardin inadvertently conducted unintended training.

Maybe this is also part of Charlotte's grand plan? Cardin thought so and smiled slightly.

"Necromancer! Kill the Necromancer!" When the Death Knights had almost dealt with the soldiers rushing towards Cardan, a group of armored knights rushed up the stairs.

"Different from ordinary soldiers." It seems to be the lord's elite knights. Cardan stopped thinking and extended his hand to the death knights.

So, it looked like half of the 30 or so Death Knights turned into black smoke.

Hiss! The black smoke immediately began to be absorbed by the nearby Death Knight.

After absorbing the black smoke, the Death Knight began to glow with green flames that were even stronger than before.

"Deal with it," Cardin ordered easily, reaching into his pocket.

"Stay like this, and the past will come to mind." The memory of being a gang member in a previous life and commanding his men to engage in regional gunfights suddenly surfaced.

"Back then, it was easy to wipe out guys from other organizations." It's no different now.

Instead of subordinates in suits, he gives orders to the Knight of Death. Using powerful subordinates to ruthlessly defeat the enemy is very similar to the past life and the present.

"Weaklings! Give your lives for your sovereign!"

"Filthy demon, kneel before me!" After using the Death Knight enhancement magic taught by Isaac, Cardan's Death Knights began to suppress their opponents with force.

Even the lord's knights were at least six stars and used the power of the demons.

"Ahhhhhh!" But facing the strengthened Death Knight, they were powerless.

Clank! Clank! The knights surrounded by green flames ruthlessly defeated the knights using the power of the demons and continued to advance.

In the end, the lord's elite knights who were brought in to kill Cardin were completely wiped out. Swish. Only the evidence of the magic stone remained, and it turned into smoke and disappeared.

Crack! Crack! The Death Knights seemed very familiar with this and began to trample on the magic stones left by the demons.

Cardin gave no instructions, but they acted as a matter of course, and Cardin smiled with satisfaction.

"It's been a while since I absorbed so much soul essence." Cardin looked at the soul essence floating in the air and licked his lips.

Whoosh. Then he stretched out his hand and began to absorb the essence of souls one by one.

At this moment, there was a sound of something flying through the wind from behind. Looking back, a sword wrapped in magic power was flying towards Cardin at an extremely fast speed.

"It doesn't look like a demon." The flying sword did not have any demonic power. The powerful sword only contained pure human magic.

Cardan didn't even think of dodging. This level of attack. Ding! The Death Knights will block it for him.

"Enemy who threatens the monarch!" The Death Knight who shot down the flying sword shouted, and the 14 Death Knights scattered nearby gathered in front of Cardan.

"You despicable demon bastard!" Someone's angry voice came from the direction where the sword came from.

Trample! Trample! Trample! Trample! The distance was shortened at an extremely fast speed. The owner of the sound quickly injected Aul'li into the sword in his hand and swung it at the death knights.

"Everyone retreat." Cardin sensed something was wrong and recalled the Death Knights who were about to defend.

Whoosh! The Death Knights turned into smoke and were sucked into Cardin's wrist.

Swish! The sword wielded by the owner of the sound cut through the air sharply.

The Death Knights suddenly disappeared, and the owner of the voice seemed to panic for a moment, but quickly readjusted his posture and looked towards where Cardan was.

"Do you think you can defeat me without your men? You damn... Cardan?" The owner of the voice who was about to rush towards Cardan suddenly stopped, took a breath, and called out Cardan's name.

"Kalia. Why are you here?" The owner of the voice was Kalia, Cardin's friend and classmate in the academy.