The Regressed Demon Lord is Kind

way.” Lyla smiled slightly and lifted Elena’s body.
Like that, the two disappeared into the entrance.

*     *    *

Zich was running through the passageway with Hans and Snoc.
He could see Condel’s back from a distance away.
Condel was running away at a fast speed—almost at the same speed that Zich was chasing after him.

‘Hans and Snoc won’t be able to catch up to him,’ Zich thought.
As Zich predicted, the distance between him and Hans and Snoc was slowly increasing.
However, it wasn’t as if Zich could slow down to match Hans and Snoc’s speed.
‘If we miss him right now, it’ll be impossible for us to track him.’

Condel’s shadows could perfectly escape Zich’s sensing abilities.
It also seemed as if Condel could use it on himself since Zich could barely sense where Condel was.
If Condel moved a bit further away, Zich would no longer be able to sense him just like the shadows.

‘Well, since there’s only one path in this tunnel, at least I won’t get lost.’

Zich told Hans and Snoc behind him to try their best to catch up to him and maintain his speed.

Slide! Slide!

Two shadows popped out from beneath Condel’s feet.
Zich clicked his tongue.
‘This is going to be troublesome.’

Zich could no longer afford to increase his distance from Condel; he tightly clenched Windur and increased his speed.
In an instant, he approached the shadows.
The shadows changed shape as Zich approached them; one of them became sharp enough to pierce through Zich and the other spread wide like a net to crush him down.
Zich used all his strength and swung Windur.

Slice!

The shadow that had spread itself like a net was cleanly cut into two.
However, since Zich had used a lot of strength to swing Windur, his body was defenseless now.
The sharp shadow immediately pierced through Zich’s body.

Stab! Stab! Stab!

With a chilling sound, blood spurted out of Zich’s body.
The shadow had split itself into three sharp daggers and pierced through Zich’s body.
However, Zich did not even let out a groan; his eyelids just twitched once.

Slice!

Zich swung his sword down against the shadow and put a large amount of mana into Windur.

Bang!

The shadow burst with the explosion of mana.
When the shadow disappeared, blood came pouring out of Zich’s injuries; anyone could see that he had taken serious damage.
Yet, Zich paid no mind to his body and continued running.
Then, he took out a potion.

Zich had protected his vital organs like his heart; he gulped down the potion and poured it over his injuries.
His injuries began to patch up like magic.
People would have said that Zich’s methods were insane, but by sustaining heavy injuries, Zich was able to shorten his distance from Condel.
He was now able to also clearly sense Condel’s presence.
Zich also saw that Condel glanced back at him, and Condel gritted his teeth.

Zich loudly shouted, “Who are you trying to meet? Are you perhaps going to lay down flowers for your dead lover? I don’t care whether you’re going to cry or jump in joy in front of her grave, but you should go after answering my question! Did you really love Sia Rubrent!”

Slide! Slide! Slide! Slide! Four shadows popped out this time; it seemed as if Zich’s provocation worked.
The shadows crawled on the ground.
‘It would be a bit difficult to defeat four at once.’

However, Zich did not decrease his speed.
Before he collided with the shadows, he fused an enormous amount of mana into Windur and gave a large swing.

Ziiiing!

Air filled with mana hit against the shadows like a hammer.
The shadows halted, but it didn’t seem like they sustained serious damage.
However, what Zich wanted was that short opening.

Tap.

Zich pushed off his foot.
He jumped to the top of the ceiling and used the ceiling to jump again and land behind the shadows.
The shadows quickly attacked Zich, but he expertly manoeuvered past them and chased after Condel.
The shadows rushed after Zich, but they slowly grew further away from Zich.

‘Hans and Snoc can take care of them.’

Soon, Lyla and Elena would also join them.
On the other hand, it seemed as if Condel really planned to get Zich off his back.
Shadows began wriggling out from beneath Condel’s feet again.
Zich thought about how to defeat them when he suddenly sensed a new presence.

‘This is.’ Zich felt a presence in front of Condel; the presence seemed to belong to a human.

‘Is another person here to support Condel?’ Zich thought this for a moment, but he recalled a person who came into this tunnel earlier than him. 

‘Glen Zenard!’ Did Glen catch up to Condel? Or was he waiting to ambush Condel at the right moment? ‘But this doesn’t seem like Glen Zenard’s presence?’

Condel seemed to have also sensed the presence in front of him as he recalled the shadows that were about to come out.
He also slowed down a bit; it was clear that Condel was raising his guard.
Zich saw that someone was blocking Condel’s path—a woman with long, flaming red hair.

‘Lara Browning?’

Now that Zich thought about it, it wasn’t strange that she was also inside the tunnel; she always stuck close to Glen Zenard.
The strange thing was that she was by herself.
No matter where he looked, Glen Zenard was nowhere to be seen; Zich couldn’t even sense his presence. 

Zich saw that Lara Browning was shouting something to Condel; she told him to stop.
However, there was no way Condel would listen to her.
In order to remove the obstacle in front of him, Condel began releasing his shadows again.

‘Would she be able to fight him?’

From what Zich knew, Lara Browning was not that strong right now.
Her skills were incomparable to the times when she blocked his Demon Lord self like a huge fortress.
Zich didn’t think that she would be able to block Condel in her current state.

Crasssh!

“Ugh!” 

As expected, Zich saw Lara Browning gulp down a groan as the shadows surrounded her and attacked all at once.

‘Should I save her for now?’

She might also be a pitiful victim of Glen Zenard.
Zich jumped into the battle.