Should I Become a Villain?

Radmilo took a deep breath as he regretted not arriving late to the guild building. If only he was five minutes late, then he would not get involved with the gate problem. It was quite troublesome since he had to hide his power.

However, he had no time to regret it because Dianella asked him to inform the hunters. At least he had to do the request if he wanted the gate problem to be resolved quickly.

As soon as Radmilo came out of the guild building, he could see the hunters from Team C had gotten out of Dianella's car. They helped the people around to escape immediately. It seemed they did not know that the gate inside the building was about to explode.

"Miss Dianella asked me to come to you," Radmilo spoke after arriving in front of the hunters. "She said you should come to the building! I thought something terrible was going to happen."

The hunters thanked Radmilo before sprinting towards the guild building. Dianella would not ask them to go in there if the gate that appeared was still at a safe level.

"Are there other hunters in the building?"

"Yes, there is. Team B is on the second floor. They're getting ready for the raid in an hour."

"Looks like they're securing the people on that floor. Then we will take care of the gate while waiting for them to finish doing that!"

Radmilo looked at the hunters entering the building, then turned his attention to the windows on the second floor. The windows shattered and several people jumped from there. They were the hunters from Team B that were talked about a while ago.

They jumped while carrying the people. Among them, Radmilo could see Carl and Jim, the leader of Team B he had met once. They were busy rescuing the people inside the guild building.

A moment later, there was a loud sound followed by smoke coming out of the building. Everyone did not have time to dodge when irons appeared around them and formed a circle. Those who were weak were instantly pushed back by the explosion of the gate.

Radmilo was also pretending to be pushed back because people still recognized him as an ordinary person. As the smoke slowly dissipated, he could see how big the circle of the gate was.

People could be a little relieved to find out that the gate that appeared was not that big. That meant the monsters inside the dungeon were few and not big. However, a medium gate circle did not always mean the gate was easy.

That was why The Dungeons and Gates Security Council made a danger rank list for all gates that have exploded and become dungeons. They hoped people would always be aware of the surrounding dungeons.

"What's this?"

Radmilo asked himself when he saw water rising from the ground. The people who were trapped there also realized this and immediately moved away from the water. They did not know what kind of monster would come out.

However, Radmilo and the hunters realized that the dungeon monsters this time were aqua-type monsters. The monsters live in the water and most of them were fish.

"W-why didn't the monster appear yet?" One hunter asked nervously. He was worried that it was a small or medium monster with strong attack power.

Everyone waited while staring at the puddle. A moment later, a medium-sized salamander appeared from there. It was Axolotl, the Walking Fish, a species of salamander.

The axolotl had the shape of a tadpole with a white body, but it also had feathery gills sprouting from its head like manes and four webbed feet. The people who saw the monster were stunned.

"That monster looks cute though."

Radmilo and the hunters glared when they heard someone say that. Ordinary people would think the smiling axolotl was cute. However, their thoughts would change once the axolotl opened its mouth and ate them.

Before that happened, the hunters immediately took action and moved people to places far from the reach of Axolotl. Some hunters gulped nervously knowing that the monster was hard to beat.

The Axolotl would always regenerate every time it was attacked. No matter how strong or how many attacks the hunters gave, the monster would regenerate and return to its original form.

'Why did this annoying monster have to appear?' Radmilo let out a rough breath because he knew the monster could only be defeated with poison.

And the problem was that the poison for defeating the Axolotl was no ordinary poison. It was poison got after defeating Empusa, a female monster with one leg of a donkey and the other made of bronze, while her hair was fire, and had the wings of a bat.

Radmilo remembered that this year no one had made poison from the cores got after defeating Empusa. He had poison in his inventory because he went back in time with nothing to lose, except for his physical form and the money he saved in his previous life.

'I don't want to use that poison to help them. However, no one can defeat this monster other than me.'

Even though Radmilo could not accept it, he had no other choice. Hunters who entered the Axolotl dungeon would be trapped there forever if they did not have Empusa Poison. Entering the dungeon of the Axolotl was a nightmare for hunters.

They could not beat the Axolotl, who was the only monster there. In the end, they had only two choices: to fight back or let the monster eat them. They could not get out of there unless they had an expensive item to force them out of there. They were lucky if the rescue team came on time.

Just as Radmilo was about to take Empusa Poison out of his inventory, he suddenly heard a strange sound.

"Human, why do you want to kill me?"

Radmilo backed away after learning that it was the voice of the monster Axolotl. He glanced around and the hunters were still saving people. It seemed they could not hear the monster's voice.

"Low-ranked humans like them can't hear me. You can talk to me through your mind."

It was something that Radmilo never imagined. In his previous life, he could not talk to a monster through his mind. He looked at the Axolotl and asked in his mind.

'Why can we communicate? I'm not someone who awakened with the power to tame monsters.'

The Axolotl smiled broadly. "That's because I like you. All monsters may make connections with humans they like. Don't you remember we met a few times?"

Radmilo had done many raids in his previous life, but he still remembered that he often entered the Axolotl dungeon. After the dungeon boss was defeated, the dungeon would return to normal a few days later, including the monsters inside.

At that time, the IRO ordered Radmilo to raid an Axolotl dungeon for a long time. He had to do that because the IRO wanted to research the Axolotl monster that could regenerate. The IRO hoped to get something and made humans could regenerate too.

​ Unfortunately, that did not happen because Radmilo got nothing after researching the Axolotl monster for a year. When he thought about it, he realized that the Axolotl monster in front of him was the same monster he had researched in his previous life.

"I like you because you are the most powerful human who has ever fought me. Your attacks made me have to wait a few minutes before regenerating. That's why I want to have a relationship with you."

Radmilo frowned in confusion. 'Are you a masochist?'

"No, I'm not!" The gills on the Axolotl's head turned red. "I wanted to follow you because I'm tired of being here. Would you like to make a contract with me?"

Before Radmilo could answer, the Axolotl's head was suddenly cut off. He knew Dianella had used her invisibility power and was moving towards him since a while ago, but he was still surprised that the girl suddenly attacked the Axolotl.

Aqua-type monsters like Axolotl were not aggressive. Axolotls would calm down when they were not hungry or other people did not bother them. Hunters already knew about it. They preferred to wait for the right time to attack, rather than attack first, as Dianella did.

The girl immediately dragged Radmilo away before the Axolotl monster regenerated. "Go to the right. There is a safe place for you," she said, after throwing Radmilo to the ground.

Radmilo did not have time to say anything because Dianella went straight to the Axolotl monster. Turned out he was the last person to be saved. He immediately knew why Dianella had suddenly attacked the monster. Surely the girl wanted to confirm how fast the Axolotl could regenerate since this was the first time she had faced such a monster.

Even though Axolotls were the type of monsters that hard to beat, the hunters could not help but feel attracted to them. The researchers were also interested in the ordinary Axolotls, which were not dungeon monsters. Their ability to regenerate always made people curious. Moreover, the Axolotl monster was more powerful and perfect in regenerating compared to the ordinary axolotl.