Your Commander-in-Chief – Chapter 68

Crack!

As I plunged my sword into the chest of the fleeing opponent, I glanced around.

Though the battle was brief, my chaos had shaken the enemy ranks, and the fight was drawing to a close.

At that moment, Helena met my gaze and used Blink to approach.

With a little burst of light from thin air, she manifested right before me and looked at the horns on my head, opening her mouth to speak.

“What’s that?”

“Oh, I’m reincarnated as a Demon Clan.”

“Oh, the Demon Clan…?”

Helena was taken aback by my answer and began to circle around me, inspecting me from head to toe with scrutinizing eyes.

“That’s all you got? Just the horns?”

“Yep.”

“What a relief…”

Helena let out a sigh of relief at my response, seemingly recalling an image of me transformed into that big demon from before.

I informed her about the effects of my reincarnation into the Demon Clan.

Helena’s eyes sparkled as she listened, and she exclaimed,

“I wanna be a Demon Clan too!”

“But you need to enter the Demon Clan village for that. Regular users can’t get in; the guards come running out and beat you up.”

“Hmm…”

I felt it firsthand. Just how ridiculously powerful the Demon Clan’s racial skill, [Magic Liberation], was.

Even though it had the condition of only being usable outside Hell, the advantages you could gain in this area made reincarnation as a Demon Clan not just a choice but a necessity.

I wanted to recommend Demon Clan reincarnation to not just Helena but all the guild members.

But that couldn’t happen. You had to first gain access to the Demon Clan village for that.

I had witnessed with my own eyes the sight of guards beating up users trying to enter the village.

“So the guards come rushing out?”

“Yep.”

But Helena, perhaps struck with a brilliant idea, started waving her fingers in the air with a small smile.

It looked like she was using Guild Chat.

Helena picked about ten healers in the guild chat to come help her.

She told them she’d pay a substantial amount of gold as a reward, so the healer users dropped whatever quests they were doing and came running.

“What exactly are you planning to do?”

“Demon Clan reincarnation!”

Helena set out with her ten healers from the Elite Zone hunting ground, heading toward the village where you could reincarnate as a Demon Clan.

I was also curious about her method, so I followed Helena.

Near the Demon Clan village, the corpses of human clan users who had tried to approach were strewn about.

Helena stood in a spot where the guards wouldn’t notice and looked at the village.

“If we get close, we’ll die. What’s the plan?”

“I’m going to cast the shield repeatedly.”

Helena gathered the ten healers and explained her strategy.

The plan was for Helena to lure the guards NPCs inside while receiving protection from the healers.

Once all the NPCs were gathered, she’d freeze them with an icy skill and then enter the village together with the healers.

Upon entering the village, they would rush towards the Demon Clan reincarnation stone, and the healers would keep casting the shield until Helena finished her reincarnation as a Demon Clan.

But would this plan really work?

I was skeptical.

“Let’s get started.”

Regardless of my doubts, Helena was relentless.


I stepped back and began watching the scene unfold.

Helena lured the guards NPCs while under the shield as planned.

The shield was designed to block all damage for a certain duration. She could withstand the guards’ attacks for a while with it.

Thanks to the effect of the item called the Sapphire of Elegance, Helena’s Blink cooldown was shorter than that of ordinary wizards.

Using her quick Blink, she gathered the NPCs and unleashed the icy spell, Ice Riptide.

Crackle!

The blue chill emitted from her hands froze the Demon Clan guards in place.

At that moment, Helena gestured to the healers who had been standing far away, and they began to dash into the village with her.

The shield persisted. When a guard broke free from freezing, Helena used another icy skill to bind their feet once more.

After a short run, Helena ultimately stood before the Demon Clan reincarnation stone.

I stood there, gaping in awe.

I wanted to show this scene to the wizards who complained about how powerful berserkers and barbarians were.

Helena placed her hand on the stone while still under the shield.

Just like when I used the stone, black magic began to pour out from it.

In that instant, the frozen Demon Clan guards rushed towards her.

Sharp swords and spears rained down towards Helena’s body, but the shield protecting her blocked all the attacks.

Fwoosh—!

The magic encircling Helena unraveled quickly.

The guards, who had been swinging weapons in her direction, redirected their attacks towards the healers.

They no longer attacked Helena. That meant she had successfully reincarnated into the Demon Clan.

Little horns, symbolizing the Demon Clan, sprouted from her head.

-Could it really be possible with this method…?

I was in awe of Helena’s absurd plan having worked.

Several healer users, who had yet to cast their shields, quickly casted their shields on themselves and rushed towards the Demon Clan reincarnation stone.

The healers who used shields to protect Helena could not shield themselves and soon met their demise.

But those healers who applied their shields were different.

Some received wings, horns, and tails, while others, like me and Helena, only had small horns sprouting from their heads.

Helena’s operation was successful.

She had discovered a way to reincarnate as a Demon Clan without raising the friendliness of the Demon Clan NPCs.

Helena walked over to me, a confident look on her face, accompanied by the healers who had become Demon Clans.

The crimson-hued horns sprouting from her head looked quite adorable.

“So? What do you think?”

“That’s amazing!”

This was a tremendous discovery.

There was no time to waste.

I pulled out the [Summon Order for Guild Members] item from my inventory.

Before using the summon order item, I asked in Guild Chat who wanted to become a Demon Clan.

Who wouldn’t want to make their character stronger?

With a few exceptions, nearly everyone online wanted to reincarnate as a Demon Clan.

I immediately used the Summon Order for Guild Members.

As soon as the summon order emitted a white light and disappeared from my hands, beams of light rained down around me, and almost a hundred guild members appeared.

No further explanation was necessary.

I had already summarized everything in the Guild Chat.

With this many people, there was no need to dodge the guards or make shields.

“Charge!”

At that moment.

[Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello, this is Deron Online.

On November 16th (Wednesday) from 19:20 to 19:40, there will be an emergency maintenance for 20 minutes.

For more details, please check the website.

A message appeared throughout the server.

Though there had been emergency maintenance notices in the past, they had usually given players a 10-minute leeway to log off safely.

But right now, there was not even a minute left before the server was shutting down.

The guild members rushing ahead paused, exchanging worried glances.

“Is this, by any chance, a patch to target us…? ”

“Seems like it might be.”

I hurriedly checked the website upon hearing the guild members’ words.

[Emergency Maintenance Notice]

Hello, this is Deron Online.

On November 16th (Wednesday) from 19:20 to 19:40, there will be an emergency maintenance for 20 minutes.

[Maintenance Details]

Emergency maintenance to fix an error in the racial reincarnation content.

[Notice]

You will not be able to use the game services during the maintenance, and it may end earlier than planned.

My ominous premonition proved correct.

In that instant, the game forcefully shut down, and I opened my eyes in the dark capsule.

Sighing heavily, I checked my phone.

The Deron gallery was ablaze as expected.

Since no one had properly used the reincarnation system, most were angry about not being able to play rather than the maintenance details.

[Deron Online Gallery]

[What does the one-minute notice even mean?] [1]

[First time seeing a one-minute notice while gaming LOL]

[One-minute notice before maintenance???]

[Did a copy error occur?] [5]

[This is just rubbish LOL] [2]

[F* you!!!!!!!!!!!!] [1]

[Got kicked during the raid; they better compensate us???] [2]

I nodded my head while looking at them.

They loved Deron more than anyone else, so they were truly angry.

For them, the maintenance details didn’t matter; they just wanted to play the game right then and there.

Since the maintenance time would not be long, the server would be up quickly.

I hurriedly logged in to check my status.

Fortunately, my character had not changed.

At that moment, other guild members began to materialize as well.

Since everyone had logged off beside me, the guild members began to appear around me.

Then, Helena appeared with a flash of light.

“Oh…”

Helena brushed her hair.

More specifically, she was referring to the spot where the horns of the Demon Clan had sprouted.

The small protruding horns had completely vanished.

“You reverted back to the Human Clan?”

“Yeah…”

Helena nodded, looking downcast.

It wasn’t just Helena. Other healers who had reincarnated into the Demon Clan with her had also reverted back to Human Clan.

Only those who had reincarnated in the proper way, like me and the warlocks, retained their Demon Clan status.

This meant that we had wasted the guild members’ time.

I bowed my head in apology to the guild members.

“Ah… It seems the conditions for Demon Clan reincarnation have changed. I’m sorry, everyone!”

“Well, to some extent, I kind of expected it, but the patch was too quick.”

“It’s fine.”

However, the guild members didn’t look too upset.

In fact, they laughed it off and waved their hands.

In light of the changes to the reincarnation conditions, I disbanded the guild members.

Helena also left to search for quests aimed at increasing the friendliness of the Demon Clan NPCs.

Left alone, I sat down on the floor, starting to sort through my inventory.

After the fight with the hostile alliance, I had picked up various random items.

While rummaging through my inventory for a while, I stumbled upon a fancy letter tucked away in the corner.

[Invitation to the Demon Fortress]

An invitation personally prepared by Vampiric, the owner of the Demon Fortress.

*Note: The invitation will be destroyed upon entering the Demon Fortress.