Chapter 205 – Who Are You (8)

by Heavenly Cat

[Min Sun-woo: Grade Outside]

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The skill window on his phone held in his hand had completely changed.

Levels and grades had all disappeared.

Sun-woo looked at his phone for a moment, then displayed a magic circle above it.

The phone immediately disappeared into the magic circle.

He’d used enhanced magic to put the phone into subspace.

The phone’s skill window was no longer needed. The phone given by the Summoners couldn’t check Sun-woo whose divine status had risen through the Demon God’s Core.

But Sun-woo didn’t feel regretful at all. Now he could fully perceive his abilities without looking at the phone.

All the abilities he possessed and even their strength.

The abilities he already had had risen to nearly the maximum he could obtain.

The surroundings were in a very chaotic situation unlike before.

As soon as he opened his eyes, demonic energy automatically wrapped around his body, but powerful divine power leaked between the demonic energy and shook the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord who’d been out of his mind in pain was suffering even more pain from the divine power felt inside his body.

The flesh masses that had been quiet were flowing violently, and the flesh that had been burning here and there now brightly scattered its light.

Sun-woo briefly checked his body.

Besides the mighty divine power, a mighty force was moving.

A new power different from the existing internal energy and divine power. Unlike before when he created demonic energy using internal energy, the demonic energy wrapping his skin now was drawing power from that new force.

‘Is this demonic power?’

The power that created demonic energy he’d seen in the Demon God’s memory of the past. And the energy that was the source of all demonic energy.

However, since that power itself wasn’t large and wasn’t refined now, it was being pushed back by divine power and internal energy, but Sun-woo could tell how to grow this power.

‘Successor…’

Repeating the words the Demon God’s thought left behind as it disappeared, Sun-woo started moving his demonic power.

Though he didn’t know if it would turn out as he said, first he had to deal with the Demon Lord who’d devoured him.

As demonic power started circulating through his body instead of internal energy, the demonic energy wrapping his skin changed its form.

It changed from a form protecting him to a form attacking enemies.

Like tentacles, or like snakes with teeth, demonic energy rose from his body and started devouring the flesh masses’ demonic energy.

[Wha, what! Who are you! Who on earth are you! Kraaaak!]

The entire flesh mass trembled and screamed, but Sun-woo didn’t care at all.

He merely continued contemplating inside his body like a pilgrim seeking enlightenment.

***

Demon Lord Bifrons, who’d been shooting tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of flesh masses into the world and increasing his bulk, at some point shook greatly then stopped his movement.

The Demon Lord’s fragments that had fallen across not just Eastern Europe but Germany, France, and Russia, causing countless damage, stopped their movement the moment the main body stopped and started burning.

“Did it stop?”

The summoners blocking flesh masses at the forefront sat down on the ground with exhausted expressions as the flesh masses stopped moving and started burning.

That’s when it happened. Nanseol who’d been leading the summoners dashed forward.

“It’s dangerous if you go that way. The main body is still intact!”

Another summoner shouted toward Nanseol, but Nanseol didn’t stop.

“Just leave her. Seems the main body isn’t expanding further either.”

Another summoner stopped the man trying to dissuade Nanseol.

“But is it over?”

“Probably, right? That summoner said it wouldn’t last long.”

“Then what about him. He got eaten.”

Everyone frowned toward the summoner who muttered quietly at the end.

“No, I’m saying it because I’m sorry. Don’t we know he helped us escape until the end?”

At his apologetic additional words, everyone sighed.

Only about thirty people remained around. Of the nearly hundred people who space-jumped, less than half survived.

Moreover, more than half of those remaining were injured.

If it had been an organized unit, calling it annihilation wouldn’t be wrong.

Still, even this many surviving was fortunate.

All thanks to Sun-woo who blocked the party’s rear until the end, and Nanseol who led the party behind him.

Thanks to flesh masses shooting endlessly far away, space-jumping wasn’t easy either. Thanks to that, even Sophia couldn’t escape and remained with the party.

Sophia looked with a sad expression toward the direction Nanseol ran.

***

Nanseol raised her speed even more, ignoring her body that wanted to rest.

Her whole body complained of fatigue and pain, but she didn’t notice it at all.

‘He’ll be alive. Certainly.’

Unlike others, Nanseol didn’t believe in Sun-woo’s death.

No matter when, in what crisis situation, Sun-woo had returned.

And she believed and believed again he would this time too.

But that belief was greatly shaken when she arrived before the Demon Lord’s main body.

The giant flesh mass already burned black was so large it looked like a huge mountain range.

On the surface of the charred flesh mass, remains turned to ashes were glimpsed.

All traces of people eaten by the Demon Lord.

How great the aftermath of the Demon Lord’s death was, it was still shaking.

Nowhere did it seem Sun-woo would be alive.

In Nanseol’s head, the image of the giant flesh mass falling toward Sun-woo rose again.

Nanseol with a rigid expression raised her sword and started striking down the hardened flesh mass.

Thud! Thud!

The hardened flesh mass was gouged out by her sword.

But Nanseol had already reached her physical limit.

The sword without sword energy screamed colliding with the hard flesh mass, and blood formed on Nanseol’s hands and fell to the ground.

But Nanseol just kept striking down the hardened flesh mass.

The flesh mass continuously being gouged out.

Nanseol staggered, having lost strength.

Thanks to that, her sword struck the air, escaped from her hand, and rolled on the ground.

But she didn’t give up and tried to strike down the flesh mass with clenched fists, but her body couldn’t endure.

Staggering, she ended up sitting on the ground.

Even sitting on the ground, as her body shook wildly, she finally felt puzzled.

Kugugugugung.

At that moment, the spot where Nanseol sat sank deeply below.

Thud!

Someone caught Nanseol whose eyes became surprised at the sudden fall.

“Were you surprised?”

Sun-woo standing below the hole caught her.

Held in Sun-woo’s arms, tears welled up in Nanseol’s eyes as she blankly stared at Sun-woo.

She silently embraced Sun-woo’s neck. Her tears soaked Sun-woo’s clothes.

“Breaking through wasn’t easy. I barely escaped underground. If I’d known your energy was this depleted, I wouldn’t have surprised you. I’m sorry.”

Sun-woo frantically worked hard to comfort Nanseol.

From the fingertips of Sun-woo who caught Nanseol, murky energy continuously appeared then disappeared.

The reason Sun-woo came here by digging through the ground was because of this murky energy, demonic energy.

Sun-woo who’d stolen demonic energy from inside the Demon Lord’s body and finally killed it faced a quite troublesome situation.

Though he’d devoured the Demon Lord’s demonic energy to grow demonic power, there was no proper place to put the devoured demonic energy.

In the current situation where Summoners and gods shuddered at demonic energy, if he appeared wrapped in demonic energy like the Demon God, they’d certainly issue a mission targeting him immediately.

So when demonic energy completely disappeared from inside the Demon Lord, he hid his body deep underground where the Summoners’ hands couldn’t reach.

And below there, he’d desperately tried to hide the demonic energy inside his body.

Fortunately, before long, he succeeded in creating a core to gather demonic power at his body’s center, like internal energy installed in his dantian.

After that, Sun-woo noticed Nanseol approaching while pushing demonic energy into the core.

Sun-woo, who noticed Nanseol’s condition thanks to heightened detection ability, hurriedly dug the ground to approach her, and now pulled her underground.

‘Phew, barely stabilized.’

Sun-woo sighed looking at his finger where the murky light disappeared.

It wasn’t yet time to be caught by gods and Summoners.

Sun-woo had barely won against a weakened Demon Lord. To this degree, it was hard to pick a fight with gods and Summoners.

‘Next, reduce divine power too…’

Fortunately Nanseol didn’t notice, but until just before, Sun-woo was even emitting radiant light due to divine power.

‘Tsk, made it up to Phase 3, I guess?’

Phase 1, a martial artist at enlightenment boundary with both divine power and demonic power sealed. Phase 2 with divine power opened. And Phase 3 with both divine power and demonic power fully opened.

Even setting it himself, finding it absurd, Sun-woo ended up shaking his head.

‘Does boss monsters becoming stronger while transforming all have a reason?’

Sun-woo who’d drawn closer to godhood was still a complete beginner at handling women.

Unable to find a way to comfort Nanseol crying in his arms, he was escaping by continuing other thoughts.

Still, he couldn’t keep staying in the hole like this.

Coming to his senses, Sun-woo started going up while filling the hole with sorcery.

Simultaneously, he channeled internal energy into Nanseol’s body. Nanseol, who’d been shocked and exhausted, eventually fell asleep as if fainting from exhaustion when Sun-woo channeled internal energy.

Sun-woo who went up on the ground looked around with a complicated face.

Though he already knew through sorcery and senses, seeing with eyes was different.

The Demon Lord’s size, which had been tens of kilometers in diameter when it ate him, had now grown into a mountain range of hundreds of kilometers.

A Demon Lord that had devoured half of Romania and used millions of contaminated people as food.

Though damage could be considered less since it was already a contaminated area, he couldn’t know how much damage was done by flesh masses shot up to places around the world.

“How much could it have devoured until death?”

Though it would’ve eventually died from suffocation, there was a high possibility all of Europe would’ve been buried in that flesh mass.

Sun-woo shook his head and stopped thoughts trying to become gloomy.

Anyway, this world had now succeeded in blocking attacks from contaminated summoners and the Demon Lord.

Compared to becoming contaminated in all worlds like the Empire, it might be relatively(?) little damage.

“Then shall we go back?”

The abilities he possessed rose in Sun-woo’s head.

Abilities he already had and new abilities gained while killing the Demon Lord.

Absurdly, Sun-woo gained the abilities of countless ability users the Demon Lord had eaten instead of the Demon Lord.

The coordinates of the place he wanted to go rose in his head.

“Seoul.”

The newly gained space-jump ability unfolded in Sun-woo’s hand.

“What kind of existence will I become?”

With Sun-woo’s last question, the two’s forms disappeared from Romania.

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