Demon Lord Gallery

Two weeks passed by like an arrow.

Faster than any time I had spent in the past 20 years.

If there’s one thing that changed the most over the past two weeks, it’s that I visited the Demon Lord Gallery whenever I had spare time in between.

During these two weeks, I repeated a pattern of life where I would travel around the Earth, clean up debris, briefly check the gallery, inspect gates and clean some gate interiors, then check the gallery again, and finally check the gallery after dinner before going to sleep.

I didn’t make the mistake of staying up all night doing gallery activities like on the first and second days.

There was plenty of time left over even without doing such things.

And realizing the importance of sleep also played a part.

After seeing ‘something’ while doing gallery activities, I realized that nothing is better for mental stability than sleep.

“These guys are really crazy….”

Most Demon Lords were indeed crazy. Wolf Viscount was just a really, really, really rare minority among Demon Lords.

Logically, does it make sense to scan and upload a grimoire that causes mental damage just by looking at it to a community where many people are active?

If it weren’t for the quick handling and blocking by the armband wearers, and the scanned copy of a mental uplifting grimoire uploaded by the fixed nickname ‘Bookworm’, I probably wouldn’t have been able to get up for at least a week.

According to additional explanations from the fixed nickname ‘Bookworm’, it was originally a grimoire that caused mental fragmentation, corruption, and madness, but its effectiveness drastically decreased as it crossed dimensions.
Considering that I, who received less than 1% of the original effect, was bedridden all day, well…..

To think that even common *floating nicknames carry such things in this community. It’s definitely not normal.

*Floating nickname: Refers to anonymous community users who use temporary IPs (ㅇㅇ).

Moreover, besides this, there were magic circles that make people punch themselves by putting a suggestion on the viewer – this was originally a suicide magic circle, they say – links that forcibly drag the viewer into the arena, and dozens of trap posts overflowing.

After doing gallery activities for two weeks avoiding such posts, I really felt that it was the greatest luck of my life that such lunatics were in far, far away dimensions.

“I wonder what kind of posts have been uploaded today.”

Among the posts I read in the gallery over two weeks, there were just nonsense posts, funny humor posts, knowledge posts, and posts that were uploaded regularly like a series.

Among these, what I look forward to and wait for the most are the regularly uploaded posts.

To be precise, it was the posts uploaded by a Demon Lord with the fixed nickname ‘Survival Day n’.

The current time is 11:31 PM according to Earth’s Greenwich Mean Time.

For the past two weeks, that ‘Survival Day n’s posts usually came up around midnight, so there was a high chance it would be up on the gallery by now.
According to the post I saw last time, he said he writes the post just before going to bed every night or something.

At first, when I heard this, I briefly wondered ‘Do other dimensions share time too?’, but One-eyed Grandpa’s post provided an answer to this question.

[Second characteristic and property of the Demon Lord Gallery. The gallery is a relative but also absolute space, and has superiority over space-time]

At first, I thought this was nonsense, but after hearing Wolf Viscount’s personal answer, I could barely understand.

To explain roughly, it’s an awesome dimensional, space-time magic that chews up all time lag/time paradoxes and matches the time units of the user with the time units of other gallery users.

Damn magic silver spoons. If there was such a thing in this dimension, humanity wouldn’t have lost to the gates.

“Magic, or even just a status window if nothing else…”

Muttering such small complaints, I opened the gallery.

The first thing I looked at was, of course, the concept posts.

[We miss you, Main Manager][22]
[Demon Lord Martial Arts World Survival Day 94][106]
[Real-time Hero Gallery update…real][52]
[ㄴThis bastard is a hero spy][17]
[Recent arena fight records and comparisons][301]
[“Ah, the hero broke down”][33]
[Only those who know science and technology come in][48]

Well, today was a lucky day. How can the Demon Gallery’s hot posts be this clean?
Compared to how it burned every day with hatred, quarrels, fights, and discord, this level was almost as clean as the Hero Gallery.

Today I’ll be safe from disgusting images and madmen’s quarrels.

I opened one post with more peace of mind than ever.

[Title: Demon Lord Martial Arts World Survival Day 94]
[Author: Survival Day n]

[I’ve said this many times, but fuck, I don’t know why the balance in my dimension is like this….
Until yesterday, I couldn’t even enter within a 50-li radius of the city, let alone the city interior, because I was being chased by the Orthodox Sects, but today, fuck, they even spread the Thousand Li Sky Net from the Four Great Sects.
Somehow I managed to hide in Mount Kunlun with a surprising escape route, but I don’t think I can stay here long either…
No, the anti-demon barrier covers almost the entire mountain range, so it’s tough to squeeze in, and if I step wrong, it even sends a signal.
This is really fucking shitty…..]

[Comments][106]
[ㅇㅇ(666.329): What did you do to be chased by both the righteous and evil factions of the martial arts world?]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: I don’t know, fuck… No, suddenly they formed an alliance of righteous and evil sects saying they need to drive out the demon that invaded the continent, and then put a bounty on my head]
[World’s Prettiest: Didn’t you say magic doesn’t work there?]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: 6th rank and below can’t even be cast, 7th rank and above can’t be used due to mana shortage]
[Cult Leader: Just join the demon cult at this point]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: I forgot to mention, but the Heavenly Demon is the one who spread my identity in the martial arts world]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(666.411): There are things you shouldn’t forget, you crazy bitch]

“Pfft….”

It was a funny post that made me chuckle unconsciously.

Isn’t it amusing that a Demon Lord can’t use any power and is just running away?

Of course, besides this ‘Survival Day n’, posts about Demon Lords getting beaten by heroes or humans were common, but this Demon Lord was special.

How can it not be special to have the feat of being chased by the righteous sects, evil sects, and demon cults in the martial arts world?

Moreover, this wasn’t the only reason why this Demon Lord was special.

[力拔山氣蓋世: That’s why I’ve told you many times that you should have trained in martial arts like me. Magicians have clear limitations]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: How was I supposed to know I’d descend into a dimension where magic doesn’t work?]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: Come to think of it, it’s really infuriating]
ㄴ[Survival Day n: You muscle-brain bastard, I’ll beat you up if I see you later, fuck]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(666.787): Sudden outburst gallery entryㅋㅋ]

Reading through the survival logs and comments so far, it seems he was one of the relatively skilled and powerful Demon Lords in Manmajeon.
He was a Demon Lord specialized in magic, but he happened to descend into a martial arts dimension where magic doesn’t work, and that’s why he’s in this state now – this was the second special reason.

Roughly for these reasons, this Survival Day n has long been the clown of the gallery.

Of course, some Demon Lords gave serious advice, but what are Demon Lords in the first place?
They are beings who feel joy in others’ suffering.

I, too, was enjoying it, recalling a wise man’s saying that life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

[Title: “Ah, the hero broke down”]

[Author: ㅇㅇ(666.172)]

[No, I really didn’t do much, but the hero broke down.
I’ve been watching the hero since childhood, and they grew up not knowing the ways of the world, you know?

I was worried they might be ground up before even reaching me if they faced the cruel world with that pure heart, so I just gave them a few small trials.

The hero’s childhood friend betrayed them
They were used by a noble lady
The princess slapped them at a palace party calling them a country bumpkin
They were abandoned by the master who taught them swordsmanship, just this level of trials.

I thought if they endured this, they would be full of murderous intent towards the Demon Lord, so I was planning to throw the Four Heavenly Kings as meat shields to train them, you know?

But far from murderous intent, the hero broke down…..

I was grinning at the thought of finding a useful talent after a long time, raising them, and then having a showdown…
What should I do about this, demon bros?]

[Comments][33]

[ㅇㅇ(666.487): This crazy bitch is stabbing repeatedly with a knife and asking why they’re breaking down]
[ㅇㅇ(494.741): Isn’t it strange to expect them to be fine after stabbing them like that?]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(666.172): No, I thought doing this would make an emotionless killing machine hero come to kill me..]
[High School Girl: That’s why the hero breaks down when you torment them like that]
[EMPEROR: The cause of the Hero Gallery’s destruction has entered the galleryㅋㅋㅋ]

After reading the post to the end, I got goosebumps. Is this why they call it Satan, Satan? Even one of these events would leave a lifelong trauma for an ordinary person, but they hit them with four in a row, so how could a person not break down?
This pure malice was something I had seen many times over two weeks, but it was still impossible to get used to.
While admiring the malice and reading the comments, one comment particularly caught my eye.

“The Hero Gallery was destroyed?”

Wasn’t the Hero Gallery the community only for heroes that was frequently mentioned within the Demon Lord Gallery, positioned opposite to the Demon Lords?
According to the information I had gathered, it was a place with an atmosphere vastly different from here, with a good atmosphere, so why?

I had this obvious question and searched the gallery for an answer, and soon found a status report.

[Real-time Hero Gallery update…real]

[Author: Equilibrium]

[(Photo attached)
This is the current status of the Hero Gallery. As you can see, all posts in the community have been temporarily frozen and it’s been changed so that writing posts is impossible.

Originally, this was set so that only administrators could see the content of the posts, but since I don’t care, I looked around roughly, and it seems a hero went crazy and spread brainwashing command voice files and mental shattering magic circle scans all over the Hero Gallery.

Apparently, it was a newbie and promising talent who was quite well-liked that suddenly exploded, so they couldn’t deal with it and there are a lot of victims.]

[Comments][52]
[NatureWillRejectYou: Wow, this dual-sword bug hero spy bastard still hasn’t been caught?]
[Bookworm: ㅋㅋㅋ]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(666.332): This bastard, could it be..]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(449.519): Is it you?]
ㄴ[Equilibrium: I was wondering why a hero would have a mental shattering magic circle..]
[NeverWarAgain: ㅋㅋㅋ]
ㄴ[ㅇㅇ(666.476): It’s obviously this guy with the brainwashing command]

It was really astounding content. This is a snowball effect like no other.

A hero broken because of one Demon Lord blows up the Hero Gallery, and some Demon Lords carefully attach themselves to support the blowing up, and the corrupted hero who received support from Demon Lords commits terror against other heroes.
There’s no mastermind like this mastermind.

“Wow… Really… These devilish bastards…..”

Seeing the gallery users who were so fitting for the position of Demon Lord, I couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.

Yeah, this is the daily life of Demon Lords.