Chapter 215 – Demon Lord Berid (4)

Sun-woo had never wrapped demonic energy around his entire body before. So perhaps he had somewhat ignored the danger of demonic energy.

Being engulfed by contamination, and being engulfed by tangible demonic energy means revealing the deepest inner emotions of a human.

Even Sun-woo, whose divine status had risen, couldn’t withstand Demon Lord level demonic energy.

Sun-woo, who had been caught up in the destructive instinct he had suppressed and scattered demonic energy in all directions, began coming to his senses when Yang Hwa-su started stealing his demonic energy.

As the demonic energy spread throughout his body was sucked out, Sun-woo gradually began escaping from the madness.

[Wake up! You foolish master!]

And what awakened his faintly returning consciousness in one blow was his bracer.

The ego of the bracer, the spirit of the bracer, blew divine power toward his head.

The energy of purification, the energy of the forest awakened his mind, and Sun-woo became aware of his situation.

Behind him, his family’s enemy, strangely transformed, was muttering something while reaching his hand toward Sun-woo’s neck, and around him, the remaining demons were surrounding him.

The demonic energy that had been making Sun-woo ecstatic no longer remained in his body.

The mighty demonic energy had all been sucked out into his enemy’s hands.

Thanks to that, the enemy seemed to have power beyond that of one possessed by a Demon Lord.

But Sun-woo was satisfied with the current situation. After all, he couldn’t even digest the Demon Lord’s demonic energy he just consumed.

And Sun-woo possessed countless skills besides demonic energy.

‘Body Reversal!’

Instantly Sun-woo’s body reversed front and back.

No, to Yang Hwa-su and the demons’ eyes, it appeared that way due to the too-fast movement.

At the same time, Sun-woo’s sword, filled with sword energy, plunged into his enemy’s heart.

[Now. Just because. My heart is. Stabbed. I won’t. Die.]

Even in his stabbed state, Yang Hwa-su could still mock Sun-woo.

And as he said, Yang Hwa-su’s body was regenerating while pushing Sun-woo’s sword outward.

It was a body that had endured even a sword covered with demonic energy, so a sword without demonic energy was no problem at all.

Moreover, the Demon Lord’s demonic energy filling his entire body made him unable to even feel pain.

“This doesn’t work either?”

Sun-woo released his sealed divine power. Mighty divine power surged toward the sword.

From the sword that had begun being pushed outward, bright light burst forth again.

Kyaaaak!

At that light, the demons surrounding them covered their faces and screamed.

They felt pain from the mighty sacred power felt from the sword.

And Yang Hwa-su also trembled throughout his body. He had become a body that endured demonic energy, but divine power was another matter.

Moreover, the divine power bursting from inside his body was causing a massive explosion inside him as it met the demonic energy filling his body.

If it had been a Demon Lord or a Demon Lord’s mind, he might have been able to endure, but his mind was that of an ordinary human.

At the massive explosion inside his body, his mind half flew away.

Unfortunately, the Chimera Project that aimed to obtain only a Demon Lord’s power was a failure.

To possess mighty power, there had to be corresponding mental growth. Unless one’s status rose, one would only be swayed by power.

“Well, I’m not in a position to talk about others.”

For Sun-woo who had just been swayed by demonic energy, it was spitting on his own face, but now wasn’t a situation to worry about that.

Though completely different from before, the one before his eyes was definitely his and his family’s enemy.

The half-remaining face, the traces remaining of his presence, all told him that the monster before his eyes was him.

In the past, he would have killed him again and again and kept killing him to console his family’s spirits, but now he didn’t even feel like doing that.

Sun-woo’s light-spewing sword began moving.

The sword that exited through the opposite hip after cutting through the heart passed through Yang Hwa-su’s arms, legs, and neck.

Segeok.

Mighty demonic energy blocked the sword from moving, and his muscles that seemed to move alive prevented his body from being cut.

But as someone who didn’t yet know how to utilize demonic energy, he couldn’t block the sword movements of a swordsman who had reached the Manifestation stage.

Sun-woo’s sword split the demonic energy flowing through Yang Hwa-su’s body and moved along the grain of his muscles.

Segeok!

Yang Hwa-su’s body disintegrated into pieces.

“Kwaaaaak! It hurts! It hurts!”

It seemed Yang Hwa-su came to his senses from the pain of his body being cut. A deflated scream came from the head flying through the air.

“You really became a monster.”

As expected, he didn’t die from just that.

Sun-woo had no intention of easily killing Yang Hwa-su. Moreover, having had what he ate stolen, he had no intention of just killing him and ending it.

Earth spirits flowed from Sun-woo’s body.

And the pieces of Yang Hwa-su’s body rolling around fell into the ground.

“I’ll eat that later.”

[Ek!]

At Sun-woo’s mutter, a groan flowed from the bracer.

At that voice, Sun-woo smiled.

“Thanks for earlier. Spirit of the bracer? Or should I say Forest Goddess?”

[That is…]

“Let’s talk later.”

It was a situation where they learned about each other anyway. When this was over, they had to reach a conclusion.

Sun-woo confirmed Yang Hwa-su’s head flying far away and looked back at the demons surrounding him.

They looked exactly like the demon realm creatures he had confirmed in the past Demon Lord’s memories.

The demons, surprised by the sudden change in situation, were only now coming to their senses and trying to attack Sun-woo.

But they were too late.

He, who smiled bitterly at his own appearance of rampaging like an idiot until moments ago, stabbed his sword in front of him.

The sword that had been glowing dimly with remaining divine power shone brightly again.

And that light spread to the surroundings in an instant.

The light that started from the sword, the sacred power, passed under the feet of the surrounding demons while creating regular lines and shapes.

Kwaaa!

The demons trying to attack Sun-woo floundered in surprise at the sacred power felt from under their feet.

And in that short time, the sacred power created a massive barrier formation imprisoning all the demons.

It was a sacred barrier formation he had just created with earth spirits while burying Yang Hwa-su’s body in the ground.

Naturally he should have activated the barrier formation using magic power, but

[If amplification stones in the form of supernatural powers work and spirit beast inner cores work, there’s no reason divine power wouldn’t. Hmm. Would demonic energy work too?]

Sun-woo, who was thinking of other new methods, snapped his fingers toward the demons who didn’t know what to do trapped in the sacred formation.

Hwak!

The entire barrier formation emitted bright light, and the sacred power amplified by the barrier formation struck the entire formation.

Kwaaaa!

All the demons trapped in the barrier formation screamed and began melting.

“As expected, fools must die.”

Sun-woo, who was tapping his own head with his drawn sword, glanced at the destroyed ruins and threw his body.

Several strands of red rays shot toward Sun-woo from the destroyed ruins.

Sun-woo immediately injected internal energy into his bracer to create a translucent shield to block the rays and threw the sword in his hand toward the ruins.

Shwooook!

After the sword flew to the ruins like a bullet, the ray attacks were abruptly cut off.

Soon after Sun-woo arrived at the ruins he had smashed, several giant eyeball monsters cut in half were scattered on the floor.

The cut eyeball monsters were the demons that had been shooting rays. But nowhere here could the appearance of other demons or Demon Lords be seen.

‘Did I miss them?’

He had definitely felt tremendous demonic energy until just now.

He felt tremendous Demon Lord level demonic energy even when the rays were shot, but in the few seconds after Sun-woo arrived, the demonic energy disappeared.

It was stronger demonic energy than the giant Demon Lord he just killed, so he had been fully tense, but the tense Sun-woo felt deflated.

Sun-woo stared intently at the massive hole drilled in the center of the destroyed ruins.

The sword Sun-woo threw was stuck next to the hole. Apparently when Sun-woo threw the sword, they quickly jumped into the hole.

“Is it really a Demon Lord?”

For Sun-woo who had only seen bizarre, strong, and ferocious Demon Lords until now, he couldn’t understand a Demon Lord who assessed the situation and ran away.

Sun-woo, who reached out to retrieve his sword, glared at the passage connected to the demon realm drilled in the floor.

The dimensional passage, whose interior couldn’t be seen due to swirling crimson fog, was frightfully spewing demonic energy.

“Should I pursue?”

Roughly looking at the situation, there was a high possibility that the escaped Demon Lord was the mastermind.

If it was a Demon Lord who withdrew despite having such mighty demonic energy, it was definitely not one who handled matters with strength but used schemes.

If he let them leave like this, there was a high possibility of getting backstabbed later.

But throwing himself into the demon realm so readily was also a difficult situation.

Sun-woo’s dilemma continued a bit longer.

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Red sky. A ruined field. And massive land floating in the sky.

And a large hole that suddenly appeared in the field.

The demon realm. Below Demon Lord Berid’s territory.

Standing on the abandoned surface, the Demon Lord glared at the hole.

[Come out quickly. You insect.]

Berid was grinding his teeth while glaring at the hole with a distorted face.

Betrayal and lies. Though Berid was the embodiment of hierarchy, he was also a Demon Lord.

Retreating to avoid a human who wasn’t even a fellow Demon Lord or demon was tearing his pride to shreds.

Though he withdrew because it wasn’t a situation where he could fight one-on-one for a complete victory, the anger boiling inside didn’t easily subside.

The demonic energy spewing from the enraged Demon Lord was distorting the entire field, and the thousands, tens of thousands of demons and demon soldiers lined up behind the Demon Lord couldn’t even breathe and were frozen stiff.

The personnel gathered here were all the Demon Lord’s elites.

They were the Demon Lord’s forces assembled to organize other dimensions, but now they were chess pieces to be used to kill the human who insulted him.

[Come out quickly. I’ll clearly show you what kind of place the demon realm is.]

It was definitely a human using demonic energy.

Strangely, it was a human who could also use divine power, but in any case, it was a human who used demonic energy and could absorb a Demon Lord’s demonic energy.

Since he slightly showed demonic energy and showed himself running away, eight or nine times out of ten, they would definitely chase him and cross over here.

He glared at the hole for a long time, but the hole, the dimensional passage, had no movement at all.

[Damn, did they give up.]

Unfortunately, it seemed to be a cautious human.

[Can’t be helped. I’ll have to push everything in and finish it.]

Kugugugugung.

But things didn’t go according to his thoughts.

The hole, the dimensional passage connecting the demon realm and the Empire, began gradually closing.

[How?]

Berid, whose eyes became huge at the sight of the passage closing, hurriedly pushed his subordinates into the passage.

Gyagyagyagyak!

However, all the demon soldiers who jumped into the hole were caught in the dimensional gap and disintegrated into pieces, and moments later, the hole completely disappeared.

[No!]

Kwaaaaaa!

It was the moment when all that long effort turned to bubbles.

Berid’s body distorted and began roaring toward the sky.

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Same time.

The aerial castle where Berid transforming into a monster looked small.

Land floating in the sky. A human was sitting on the outer wall of Berid’s territory, looking down.

“As expected, it wasn’t his true form.”

The demons patrolling the walls had already lost their lives hidden in dark corners, and he was wearing demon clothes roughly and observing below.

“That was close to death. As expected, deciding to block it was the right answer.”

The man standing on the wall was Sun-woo.

Though fixed dimensional passages didn’t easily break, they ultimately couldn’t withstand Sun-woo who could handle spatial movement ability, barrier formations, and both sacred power and demonic energy simultaneously.

[That means it was extremely difficult.]

Sun-woo, who smiled at the bracer’s voice that now openly objected, spread his hand toward the back.

Woooong!

A person-sized black circle appeared above the wall.

“Anyway, since I blocked the big crisis, let’s return.”

Sun-woo jumped into the black circle, and only Berid’s screams continued above the empty wall.