Overgeared

A slow and sluggish tone...

Lean flesh without muscles...

Only walking a short amount before needing to gasp...

A fragile heart that couldn’t even trample on a single ant...

People hated every aspect of me. Between those who ignored me and those who mocked me for being pathetic, I always felt guilty. I thought I was wrong. I thought my existence was a nuisance.

Then I met her.

“You’re not wrong.”

She told me.

You are cautious, not slow. You aren’t weak. You’re just different from others. The reason you can’t hurt an ant is that you know how to be considerate and respectful.

“You aren’t guilty. It is the other people around you who are mean.”

She was my lighthouse. She was my only home. I relied on her arms, and she protected me. Even when those beasts humiliated her, she smiled and assured me that she was fine. A hundred times, a thousand times...

No, she would’ve been a million times more scared and pained, but she...

“Ah...”

He couldn’t reach again. His arms and legs were too slow, unable to stop her from flying from the window. His dull mouth couldn’t speak, and he couldn’t apologize to her—the one who was sad. Like his heart, the arrow was already piercing Euphemina’s heart. Her appearance resembled that of his former lover falling from the window.

“Ahh...!”

He already knew. Reality and the game were different. Death in a game was trivial and different from death in reality. In the first place, they were different. Even so—

Even so, why was he...

“Kuaaaaak!” Agnus’ scream echoed in the burning forest. He recalled the end of his former lover through the collapsing Euphemina and completely lost his mind.

“Human... I won’t forgive you.” It was the person who fired the arrow at Euphemina. The voice of the dark elf Beniyaru, whom Agnus had been searching so desperately for, permeated Agnus’ ears.

“You...! You!!” Agnus’ eyes filled with hatred was drawn to Beniyaru. At this moment, Agnus was blaming himself, not someone else. Why did he keep repeating the same mistake? Why did he give her leeway? Even though he knew there shouldn’t be anybody sacrificing for a trash like him, why?

He was a plague. No one should come close to him.

“Die!” Agnus roared like a beast as he flew to Beniyaru. However, Agnus’ current status was less than that of a normal player because he had reached his limits facing Marie Rose and Zibal in succession. Beniyaru escaped from his slow attack and fired an arrow that shattered Agnus’ ribs.

Stagger. Agnus’ unseemly body bent forward. Beniyaru’s dagger aimed at his face.

“Agnus!!”

Agnus pulled out the dagger stuck in his forehead and growled at Zibal, “Get lost!”

He wanted to be alone. There was no need for a new relationship. He just wanted to resurrect his old lover and atone for her life. As his vision flashed red, he recalled a skill he had always ignored.

[Assimilation]

[Part of the ego of the 1st great demon, Baal will descend to your body.

be converted to Great Demon’ and control of the flesh will be transferred to

Trigger Conditions: Enter a new

Skill Duration: 2 minutes

Reset every time 3,000

to give others control of his body. Who in the world would transfer their body to someone else? It was only a

day for the rest of your life. Your

the easier it was to harm him. Therefore, he didn’t have time to run and hunt humans every day. Of course, a solution existed. He could slaughter the relatively weak. Visit a small village and destroy it or drop a

weak. In particular, he was extremely reluctant to harm innocent children. It wasn’t because he was particularly kind, but it was the nature of humans. This was the decisive reason why Agnus turned away from the

had changed. Agnus lost his temper and was no longer bound by his previous conscience. He had lost everything because he was weak. Even the

awakened in a negative

[Assimilation has been used.]

ruler of hell,

is this? I didn’t

“Don’t be sarcastic!”

to compliment you. Very well done. In rare cases, you make the right

Baal’s ego has entered

nasty air not only harmed the hurt and collapsed Euphemina but also Zibal and

“What...”

was happening all of a sudden? The confused gazes of Euphemina and Zibal turned to Agnus. They could see that Agnus’ entire body was covered in demonic energy. The blackened whites of his eyes made his cold, gold pupils

from his forehead and held it like a sword. At the same time, Beniyaru fell. There was a big hole in her chest. The horn that

rat in the forest?” Baal ridiculed Beniyaru as he narrowed the distance to her. He held Beniyaru’s hair in a vicious grip and whispered in

Bang!

a chance to

“...”

flinched. Her bloodied and bulging eyes were so horrendous that Zibal couldn’t bear to

“Hrmm.”

as he approached Euphemina. It was a really refreshing smile, but his

“Agnus...?”

blue eyes lost their light, and

I’m going to make your dream come true from now on,” Baal said to himself as he threw away Euphemina who was beginning to turn to gray. Then he inserted the

three more hands remaining. Every one of them unleashed a sword technique. Link, Kill, Pinnacle—it was a familiar

the sky as he blocked the three sword techniques

“Agnus!!”

“Pagma’s Descendant!”

the gaps in his hair were full of anger and hatred. “Son of a bitch!

Beniyaru. The first sight that Grid saw after arriving here was Euphemina’s death. His colleague faced a lonely death while

swung the Enlightenment Sword again. He was a transcendent—a player. Grid judged that Agnus, who was relatively weak in melee, could easily be overpowered. Agnus easily blocked Grid’s attacks with a small dagger. The

‘So strong?’

aware of this. Still, wasn’t there something called a gap? Grid wasn’t convinced this was due to Agnus’ growth, considering he had yet to even

“Blackening!”

thought as he gathered his demonic energy. Although he was filled with great anger, he

“...?”

was destroyed like it was a lie. Blackening stopped, and the skill effect didn’t occur. Baal grinned at the baffled Grid. “It is stupid to rely on demonic

“...?”

noticed? Unlike Pagma, you

fangs as well as eyes which had blackened whites, Agnus’ appearance was different

energy has reached the

“...!?”

fighting energy was already full...? This was the

are you?!” Grid got goosebumps. The feeling of

Grid’s question,