Chapter 16 - Petition and last hero

When I finished cleaning and burning the bodies I went down and opened Alma's barrier.

-His majesty of him, great demon king-

The moment he came out he knelt down.

-Leave it, keep treating me like always-

-Understood master Alex-

Ah... our relationship will no longer be the same, well, it's better that he doesn't trust me.

-Master Alex, this servant has a selfish request-

-Tell me...-

-Please, release my parents, in exchange I will be her servant for the rest of my life-

There's…something else to do.

-Do not give your life so easy and, anyway, I have planned to free the nine races from slavery-

-So...!-

-But everything is going in due time, I am currently busy with the border, let me advance a little more and I will start the rescue in the main cities-

-With all due respect... can't you make an exception for me?-

-Of course I could, but imagine the situation in which I try to rob a slave of the nobles, first of all, I would have to do it stealthily, second, if the noble discovered me I would start a conflict, from there I either kill them all or That escape will alert all the nobles of the kingdom, what am I saying of the kingdom, of the three kingdoms and the empire, in the event that it does not alert anyone and the rescue is successful, the only thing that will do is for the nobleman to buy another slave, Basically I would be exchanging the suffering of one for another-

-And if he saves all the slaves?-

-That is very idealistic, doing so would alert the kingdom and reinforce its borders, or even worse, they would execute some slaves as a warning to others-

-But with me...-

-I'll be honest, I saved you on impulse, that was a silly mistake on my part that I won't make again-

-...-

Alma lowered her head and tears could be seen running down his cheek.

-But I will save them, maybe not today, but in the future-

I said as she stroked his head.

Here he was sincerely omitting the fact that I can control minds and thus save his parents without raising any suspicion.

I did it because the moment I agree to save one, I want to save another and another and another, all his requests would distract me from what is important, which is to save as many as possible.

-Come on, we lack a hero-

I took his hand and teleported to the dungeon at the end.

xxx

After searching I found the hero on the 39th floor, he was fighting level 39 monsters so he should be at minimum level 40.

A protagonist type character, my biggest enemy.

-Ha...ha...I leveled up-

When he finished defeating the monsters he started talking to himself, typical of a protagonist.

-Now I am level 43, I can be useful to President Xin and the others-

Well very nice and everything, but what we come to.

I undid the wind magic around us, appearing before the hero.

-Who the hell are you!-

He said to himself as he held up a…wooden stick.

-Don't be scared my son, I am the guardian of this dungeon, I have noticed that you level up at an inhuman speed, can you please tell me your main ability? I'll give you a reward for it-

-An easter egg! My fight paid off

Ehm... I'm listening to you, you know? It seems that this friend thinks that he is in a game.

-My main skill is "Weld Wooden Stick", every time I kill a monster with a wooden stick my strength increases by 1-

Wow, a slow onset ability, but at higher levels it breaks completely as it can kill hordes of minions, quickly increasing its strength.

-Thank you for your information, it was useful, have your reward-

-Yeah! What will it be... agh...-

Before he knew it our little hero was driven through the ground with diamond stakes.

In his last moments he looked at me with eyes that contained confusion, fear, agony and a touch of regret.

Just like with the previous group, I burned his body to ashes before leaving.

xxx

-I love Alex, where are we going next-

-Well, to bother the empire a bit, taking one of its port cities, hahahaha-

A great economic and military asset of the empire is the port city Morce, its defenses are almost comparable to a fortress, so it will be fun to conquer it.

-They won't have a chance against you-

-No no, I'll just be watching-

Time to apply modern tactics.