Chapter 186 – Dream of the Demon God (6)

The split space closed again and the magic circle that had been glowing also lost its light.

[All tasks completed. Good work, everyone.]

After the ego’s last voice that seemed mixed with a sigh was heard, the magic circles on the tables lost their light in turn.

The last legacy of the Magic Empire that had operated for over a thousand years now stopped operating.

Even while such a regretful moment passed, Sun-woo couldn’t pay attention to such a scene.

It was because of the orb rolling at his feet.

It was an orb of murky light that gave off a feeling of clearly being a dangerous item.

“It definitely came from the space where the demon god was imprisoned, right?”

At Sun-woo’s question, Yeonhwa nodded.

It seemed like something that shouldn’t be touched carelessly. Sun-woo took out his sword and carefully brought it to the orb.

Seureuruk.

The murky energy that started from the orb climbed up along the sword.

When startled Sun-woo removed the sword, about half of the sword had become contaminated with a murky color.

“Can’t even touch it?”

Sun-woo glanced at Yeonhwa sideways and then secretly tried flowing demonic energy into the sword.

Fortunately, the demonic energy Sun-woo had and the contamination caused by the orb mixed together well.

Sun-woo absorbed the demonic energy he had flowed into the sword back in.

‘Ugh! It’s too strong!’

Indeed, it was worthy of being an item from where the demon god had been. Unlike the demonic energy Sun-woo had as a skill, it was a small amount, but it wasn’t easy to control.

Sun-woo who struggled for a while and barely absorbed the contamination into his own demonic energy couldn’t stop Yeonhwa’s sudden action.

Yeonhwa had calmly picked up the orb.

Naturally, contamination began to spread through her hand to her arm, and the moment startled Sun-woo hurriedly tried to knock away the orb,

Hwaak!

Light burst from Yeonhwa’s body.

It was the same light as that which had transformed the contamination diffusion agent before.

However, the light seen before had burst out small from her hand, but now her entire body was emitting light.

Startled Sun-woo hurriedly stepped back.

As the light burst out, gray airflow began to spew from her hand.

The demonic energy with contamination materialized spewed out from the orb.

And the gray airflow that jumped out from the orb and the bright light bursting from Yeonhwa’s body began to fight each other.

Keureurung!

Though no actual sound came out, the gray airflow, the demonic energy, moved tearing through the light as if a beast was rampaging, and the light bursting from Yeonhwa’s body did its best to protect her.

With the collision of demonic energy and light, the murky contamination that colored Yeonhwa’s arm kept moving back and forth.

When the light grew stronger, the contamination retreated, and when the light was eaten by the demonic energy, the contamination climbed up her arm to her shoulder.

It was as if divine power and demonic energy were fighting over her body.

But as time passed, the light gradually lost strength. Yeonhwa’s stamina couldn’t endure.

Yeonhwa who had been sweating like rain was now gradually staggering.

At that sight, the demonic energy became more excited and began to rampage, and finally made Sun-woo move.

“I don’t know if it’ll work.”

Sun-woo activated his skill.

Murky demonic energy covered his sword.

Sun-woo checked his sword covered in demonic energy and tilted his head.

The feeling of the demonic energy was slightly different from before.

The demonic energy didn’t seem as murky as before, unlike before. Rather, a holy feeling?

Sun-woo shook his head at the absurd thought and swung his sword toward the void where the demonic energy was rampaging.

Kyaaaak!

At that moment, Sun-woo seemed to hear a tremendous scream.

The rampaging airflow was split in half by the sword and scattered in all directions.

Sun-woo was startled by the unexpected effect.

He had attacked based on the idea that even a demon king was injured by a sword covered in demonic energy, but the effect was much better than expected.

Sun-woo couldn’t think to attack anymore and quickly canceled the skill and erased the demonic energy on the sword.

With one attack, the orb’s demonic energy completely lost its power.

The tide completely reversed. In an instant, the light purified the remaining demonic energy.

The contamination that had been digging into her upper body was also completely pushed out, and a moment later demonic energy was visible nowhere.

Exhausted Yeonhwa opened her eyes.

Yeonhwa had a different feeling from before.

Before, she was a bit mysterious but had quite a blank feeling, but now it felt like seeing a saint possessed by a goddess.

“Please take it.”

Yeonhwa extended her hand toward Sun-woo. In her hand lay the orb with the demonic energy gone.

He didn’t know what happened, but anyway the orb seemed to be purified.

Sun-woo received the orb and put it in his inventory. He planned to check the contents later.

“Rather than that, the atmosphere seems to have changed…”

At Sun-woo’s words, Yeonhwa tilted her head and thought for a moment, then opened her mouth.

“Um… So, ah, right. I leveled up.”

Yeonhwa stretched out her hand toward Sun-woo and made a V.

“From divine maiden to high priestess.

The Supreme Lord acknowledged it. It’s different from my teacher who’s nominally a high priestess. It’s the first appearance in hundreds of years.”

Sun-woo let out a sigh. Though her rank went up, she wasn’t different from before.

Thinking of the word level-up seemed more important to her than growth that skipped a stage.

It was when Sun-woo was making a helpless smile in the stone chamber where only torches gave off red light.

Kureureung!

Thunder was heard from the distant sky.

“It’s not over yet.”

Sun-woo let out a sigh and came back up through the stairs.

And he could see people standing in the street blankly looking at the sky.

The clouds that had imprisoned the island for a long time were moving.

The clouds were swirling and surging upward as if being sucked into the sky.

“It seems to be over.”

Yeonhwa who followed Sun-woo up said while looking at the sky.

Yeonhwa’s growth wasn’t only in divine power. Her movement following Sun-woo was now hard to see as an ordinary person.

Anyway, as she said, the longest mission had ended.

As the clouds were sucked up and clear sky unfolded, the Summoner’s voice was heard in the group’s ears.

[You worked hard. You performed the mission splendidly. Results are being confirmed. Please wait a moment.]

[…]

[Results confirmed. Near-perfect achievement. The gods who requested the mission are all satisfied. Rewards will be given.]

[Dealt with intruding contamination source. There are additional rewards.]

When a god perishes, a similar successor god was supposed to inherit that power.

All the worried ancient gods had disappeared, and since quite a bit of that power was inherited, the outside gods couldn’t help but be satisfied.

And since the demon god that was a concern disappeared, the Summoner would have been satisfied too.

Thanks to that, the points that came down as rewards were very abundant.

The summoners checked the reward window with happy expressions.

However, different contents were unfolding before Sun-woo’s eyes.

[You completed the Limit Breakthrough Quest.]

[Will you perform limit breakthrough?]

[Warning: Limit breakthrough involves many dangers. Please be careful.]

“Are you telling me to do it or not to do it.”

It was clearly written like ‘We’re not responsible even if an accident happens.’

Fortunately, it didn’t seem necessary to do the limit breakthrough here.

Seeing that the same phrase was also up on the phone, it seemed possible to do it later.

The points that came to Sun-woo were 3,000 points. It was definitely a lot of points.

It was a long mission. Sun-woo who also closed the reward window waited for the Summoner’s voice telling him to return.

The Prince, Daniel, and Alda refused to return.

“We’re thinking of going back by ship. Since there are still many ruins we haven’t checked, we need to confirm as much as possible before others come.”

Alda, who was also an adventurer, seemed to have decided to help the Prince and Daniel explore the ruins.

“But if you’re planning to stay on the island, you should catch the ship. I don’t think those people will wait.”

The Prince who was expecting treasures from the ruins changed his expression at Sun-woo’s words and started running toward where the ship was.

“See you next time, Sun-woo.”

“Haa, you worked hard.”

Daniel followed the Prince running ahead, and Alda sighed and chased after them.

Daniel assisted the troublemaker Prince and Alda looked after the two.

“They’re a good team, aren’t they?”

Van Shingwan smiled while watching the Prince and his party running fast with the power of the wind spirit Alda sent.

“So the Prince will handle these islanders?”

“That reason is probably included among the remaining reasons.”

At Sun-woo’s words looking at the houses still with doors closed, Van Shingwan nodded.

There was nothing better than this island for playing the hero role.

Thanks to the storm that imprisoned the island disappearing, erasing memories was useless. This matter could only be handled as something the Prince dealt with.

A hero who opened the taboo imprisoned by a god, dug up the secrets of the ancient empire, saved imprisoned people, and dealt with the intruding demonic dragon.

It was the best event for resuming being a hero who had quit.

“You worked hard. The goddess will be very pleased. And congratulations to Divine Maiden Yeonhwa as well.”

Even while saying farewell to Sun-woo and Yeonhwa, Van Shingwan’s expression wasn’t very bright.

He seemed to have many worries after seeing the perished ancient gods.

And a moment later, Sun-woo and Yeonhwa returned.

***

Sun-woo who returned home checked the messages pouring in and then immediately escaped from home.

[Ming Wei came to the company and asked about your whereabouts.]

[I said you couldn’t meet because you’re on a mission, but she keeps asking me to at least tell her your house.]

[She contacted me again. It’s amazing. How did you seduce a movie star?]

[This woman is annoying! I said I don’t know but she keeps contacting me!]

[Oh no, sorry. It seems one summoner close to Yeonhwa gave her the address.]

The last message came an hour ago.

After Sun-woo hurriedly left the house, about ten minutes later, Sun-woo’s doorbell rang.

Click.

Yeonhwa opened the door,

“Um… this is where Sun-woo lives, right? I came to meet Sun-woo… Who are you?”

Ming Wei who came in through the open door and was hurriedly speaking widened her eyes seeing Yeonhwa who opened the living room door.

“I’m the woman living with Sun-woo?”

Yeonhwa who was wearing only a robe to take a bath brought out words that were perfect for misunderstanding without any thought toward her.

Ming Wei’s eyes became sharp.

***

At the same time, Sun-woo sat in the center of the training ground converted from a warehouse and took out his phone, completely unaware of the unfortunate situation happening at home.

He took out the dragon heart that Yeonhwa purified and placed it in front of him, and then took out the orb that came from where the demon god had been.

[Fragment of Demon God: Purified]

[A divine stone where the last remaining divine power was gathered before the demon god perished, characteristics changed because it was purified.]

[Skill identification impossible.]

It was an explanation on the phone screen that lengthily explained that it was unknown.

He couldn’t know well what effect it had, but since it was a divine stone, it would surely be good for the body.

Sun-woo mobilized all the knowledge he knew and drew a protection magic circle on the floor where he was sitting.

He did all the preparations he could.

Sun-woo carefully pressed the phone screen.

[Starting limit breakthrough]

Kwang!

With a huge shockwave, light began to burst from Sun-woo’s body.

The warehouse that had been diligently repaired completely flew away in the shockwave.