Overlord of Blood and Iron

...This was where you were, embarrassing all the Overlords in Pangaea?

Kang Chul-In was struck speechless and froze for a few moments.

He had said that he was kidnapped by a tribe of Werewolves, but to think that it was here, within the foggy forest.

In the huge expanse that was the Pangaea region, to think that Dorian was here out of all the possibilities. There were countless other fox-human and werewolf tribes, but to think that he would be here out of all places.

“This guy, I can’t tell if his luck is good or bad.”

Kang Chul-In muttered to himself.

Dorian had requested for Kang Chul-In’s help but had forgotten to tell him where he was being caught.

But coincidentally, the area that Kang Chul-In traveled to was where Dorian was. It could only be said that Dorian had ridiculously good luck.

If you live as a kind person, they say that you get good luck! Hahaha.

Kang Chul-In remembered what Dorian had said previously. Maybe this was actually true…

Don’t tell me…

Though Kang Chul-In seriously contemplated this thought for a while, he shook his head soon.

There was no way that was true.

It couldn’t be that God would give such good luck to an idiot, right?

Or maybe he gave good luck to idiots as a form of re-compensation?

These were the thoughts Kang Chul-In had, due to Dorian’s ridiculous luck.

“S-Sorry, fox-humans…”

Without realizing that Kang Chul-In was present here, Dorian started to apologize while beating up the fox-human rangers.

“Kuhuk…”

“Kyak!”

Every time Dorian apologized, the rangers fell one by one.

“Sorry!”

“Kuk!”

Pow!

One male ranger fell to the ground, clutching his stomach in pain.

“Sorry…”

“Y-You’re saying sorry, but… Ow!”

Pow!

Another ranger clutched his seemingly broken legs.

“Really… I’m sorry.”

Amy, the leader of the rangers…

Bang!

Dorian’s shoulders crashed into her, and she was sent flying through the fog nowhere to be seen or heard.

“D-Dirty bastard… If you’re going to hit us, just hit us… Why do you apologize?”

One of the injured fox-humans spoke while clutching his injuries in pain.

It made sense.

It would be quite annoying to even get beaten up by a stranger in the first place, and it would be even more infuriating to be beaten up by that stranger who constantly apologized. 

“W-Well…”

Dorian scratched the back of his head.

“I-I also have my reasons for this… I really don’t want to attack you guys, but… Sorry.”

“Just… shut up and kill us.”

“Really… I’m sorry.”

“Where did a madman like you…”

“M-Madman?”

“You… are a psychopath.”

“...That’s rude…”

“F*cking psychopath…”

Pow!

Dorian threw a small rock at the fox-human who called him a madman and psychopath, knocking him out temporarily. 

“Hmph, talking as if I want to do this. I’m being forced to do this too…”

Dorian grew upset.

What was funny was that even at this point, Dorian was unable to recognize Kang Chul-In.

“Let go! I said, let go of me!”

And as this was going on, someone screamed.

“Huhu, you sexy little b*tch…”

“Let go! Let go!”

“Ha, you’re going to struggle in your current state? Huhu… Once I return I’ll strip you naked…”

Amy was being dragged away by a werewolf. It was quite a hideous sight.

“You’re worse than a beast!”

Amy cursed.

“What?”

This angered the man.

“Shut up, you beast-like woman!”

Pow!

With his huge arms, the werewolf smacked Amy in the face, causing her face to swell up.

“Huk… You indecent beast!”

Even while her face was swelling up and her lips were torn, Amy still roared back at the werewolf.

“You beast-like woman, know your place!”

“How dare a stupid werewolf like you call me a beast!”

Amy and the werewolf stared at each other and bared their teeth. It was surprising that the werewolf didn’t kill Amy yet.

And looking at this sight, Kang Chul-In smirked.

You guys are the same, so why are you cursing at each other for being beasts?

That’s right.

In the eyes of Kang Chul-In, the lycanthrope and fox-human race were the same, and there wasn’t much of a difference. They were both beasts.

At that moment.

“You idiot!”

Another werewolf came and kicked Dorian’s butt.

Pow!

“Oww! Hey! Why’d you hit me!”

Dorian argued back.

“There’s a guy left over there, and you dare to play around?”

The werewolf pointed towards Kang Chul-In.

“Aren’t you going to work already? Or, that dog of yours…”

“F-Fine! I’ll do it, man. Do you really have to be like that for something that I just missed?”

Dorian clenched his fists.

To think that you’d struggle so much over that stupid dog of yours…

Looking at this, Kang Chul-In shook his head.

If Dorian made up his mind?

20 Werewolves wouldn’t even be a warm-up for an all-out Dorian. It was all because of his beloved dog, Jackpot.

“Hmph, treating someone like me as a slave!”

Though Dorian complained, he still walked towards Kang Chul-In.

“Ha, sorry. I really don’t want to… W-Wait a minute…”

Dorian tilted his head.

“Am I seeing things?”

With a stupid expression on his face, Dorian blinked multiple times. He didn’t believe that Kang Chul-In was actually in front of him.

“Dammit, this stupid fog. There’s no way that Kang Chul-In is actually…”

“Idiot.”

Kang Chul-In spoke, smirking.

“I think you’re the one who goes around lowering what an Overlord should be like.”

“K-Kang Chul-In!”

Finally realizing it really was Kang Chul-In himself, Dorian’s eyes seemed like they would split open.

“Kang Chul-In, right? Haha! You’re my friend, Kang Chul-In, right?! Right?! Wow! How’d you manage to figure out I was here, and come to rescue me?! Kya… as expected of my friend!”

It seemed as though Dorian thought that Kang Chul-In had come here to the foggy forest in order to save him.

“Don’t call my name, it’s embarrassing.”

“I-I’m embarrassing? Hmph. That’s a little mean…”

“Yeah, then don’t get yourself caught by that stupid trash.”

Kang Chul-In pointed at the werewolves as he said that.

“W-Well… Because of Jack…”

“I don’t want to listen.”

“Ow!”

After kicking Dorian’s butt…

“Take care of the fox-human here.”

Kang Chul-In finally stepped forward.

“Huh? You’re going to take them out yourself? Can’t you let me…”

“No.”

“Wow!”

“They’re mine. Don’t touch them.”

Kang Chul-In didn’t want to let Dorian take his prey away from him.

Why? He was planning on taking the dead bodies of the werewolves and showing them to the Ninetails. If he did that, then wouldn’t their conversation be much easier? 

“Ah, I’ll let you have him.”

Kang Chul-In pointed at the werewolf who had threatened Dorian earlier.

“Really?”

“Of course.”

While Dorian and Kang Chul-In were chatting to each other, the other Werewolves laughed at them.

“Kuk, so you guys know each other? Well, it shouldn’t matter too much. I wanted to taste some human meat anyway.”

One of the werewolves said that and started to look at Kang Chul-In while salivating. It was obvious that he was very hungry.

“Huuu…”

Kang Chul-In sighed deeply, trying to calm his rising anger.

“It’s funny, how trash like you only knows how to flap your god-damned lips.”

Saying that Kang Chul-In clenched his fists.

“Consider yourselves dead.”

And as soon as those words left Kang Chul-In’s mouth, a terrifying slaughter commenced.

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W-What the hell? I can’t believe it.

Amy doubted her eyes.

H-How could he do that against such a large pack of werewolves? And so quickly too…

What she saw was hellish.

The 20 werewolves from before?

All dead.

Kang Chul-In had either beaten them up to death, or had ripped them apart with his bare hands. It was so terrifying that it seemed as if a Demon King had returned to life.

“S-So strong…”

One of the fox-humans gasped in shock.

It was obvious that they were scared and astonished.

A fox-human and a werewolf had powers of about 1:3.

That meant that for every werewolf, approximately 3 fox-humans were needed. By showing how easily he could defeat these werewolves, Kang Chul-In showed his true power.

“Hmph.”

Kang Chul-In kneeled on the floor, before ripping off the head of the werewolf pack’s leader. 

Plop.

The head of the werewolf rolled in front of Amy. 

“Here’s a gift.”

Kang Chul-In said.

“A...gift?”

“This is my token of appreciation to your queen, the Ninetails.”

“B-But…”

“Take it.”

“Thank you…”

Not knowing how to decline Kang Chul-In’s offer, Amy took it reluctantly. Just looking at it made her shudder involuntarily.

“Hmm…”

Kang Chul-In looked at what he had done.

It was a field of blood and flesh.

Chopped up bits of the werewolves' arms and legs were scattered around everywhere. There were even some bodies where the head itself was separated from the body.

“Trash should be like trash, right?”

Kang Chul-In said, not feeling a shred of sympathy.

Murder?

He didn’t consider this to be murder.

A werewolf couldn’t really be counted as a demi-human, although they were very close.

If a demi-human was considered to be close to humanity, a werewolf was closer to a monster than a human. 

They were unable to reproduce sexually, and could only spread their population through infection. This allowed Kang Chul-In to kill them without a single doubt in his mind.

“Kang Chul-In.”

Dorian spoke.

“What do I do now then? If the guys find out that everyone here’s dead and I’m alive, I’m afraid that Jackpot will…”

“What do you mean, what?

 Go to the city of the Ninetails with the fox-humans here.”

“By myself? Then how about you?”

“Me? I’ll have to bring that stupid puppy of yours.”

“...To think you’d call an S rank unit like Jack a stupid puppy…”

“Shut up and go already.”

After saying that, Kang Chul-In called one of the rangers that seemed to be the most unharmed.

“Can you lead me to where the Werewolves are?’

“S-Sorry? To where?!”

The fox-human stuttered, scared of what was to come.

“I’m not asking you to fight with me. Just lead the way there.”

“B-But… It’ll take at least 2 days to get there. And since it’s going to be time for the full moon to come up soon…”

“So?”

“Then it’ll be hard for even Lord Kang Chul-In to…”

“Shut up and lead the way.”

“And you.”

This time, Kang Chul-In pointed at Amy.

“Cut off the heads of the werewolves here, and hand them to your queen. Then tell her that Overlord Kang Chul-In will come to meet her soon.”

“Ok.”

“Very well.”

Nodding his head, Kang Chul-In turned and walked away. 

“Kuu… Dayum. He’s my friend, but it amazes me how cool he is sometimes.”

Looking at Kang Chul-In’s back, Dorian exclaimed and shook his head. Even to a man, Kang Chul-In was badass.

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At the same time.

“Don’t tell me…”

A woman with nine-tails behind her stood up from her throne quickly.

The reason…

Ting ting ting!

It was because a legendary item that had been passed down since a thousand years ago, the ‘sign of the emperor,' started to vibrate wildly, making sounds. This was the first time this had occurred in a thousand years!