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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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In a dark cave. A shadowy abyss stirred in the corner. One of the pale corpses scattered on the ground twitched.
|Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!!!|
The corpse opened its eyes and began to curse. Luna’s spirit had possessed it. The Archdemon emerged from the abyss, its pitch-black eyes opening.
|What happened?|
|That damned human! That bastard! Aaaaagh!!!|
|Calm down and explain.|
|Calm down?! How can I calm down?! My Kali! Ah! My perfect Kali! Aaaaaah…|
Luna clawed at his face, and the Archdemon, realizing that a rational conversation was impossible, retreated back into the abyss.
A long time passed.
Luna had finally calmed down after destroying several corpses in his rage. The Archdemon emerged again, facing the panting Luna.
|What happened?|
|Yoo-jin… that bastard… he took my Kali…|
|Explain it clearly.|
|The body of Kali, which I resurrected with my great magic! The remnants of the body that was torn apart by that crazy bitch Solra are now in Yoo-jin’s hands! And somehow, he even managed to get Kali’s soul and put it inside, and he’s toying with her!|
Luna’s screams echoed through the cave. The Archdemon was speechless. It was certainly a reason to lose control.
Luna’s obsession with Kali was well-known, both in life and in death. He had thought Kali was dead, unable to regenerate after being torn apart by Solra, but he hadn’t imagined that a part of her body had regenerated and fallen into Yoo-jin’s hands.
|This is dangerous…|
This was also troublesome for the Archdemon. Kali was a crucial member of the Heavenly Kings, responsible for commanding the monsters. If she was in Yoo-jin’s hands, he would be privy to all their information.
Of course, they could restructure the chain of command, but the loss of information regarding the Heavenly Kings and ‘Him’ was a critical blow.
They were already at a disadvantage in terms of power, if they also lost the information war, they would be hunted down.
Their only hope was Kali’s loyalty…
The Archdemon shook his head and gave up. He knew Kali was obsessed with handsome men. Yoo-jin would easily extract any information he wanted from her. She had practically switched sides.
|Kali is waiting for me! I have to save her! I have to help her! I have to get her out of there!|
He decided not to tell Luna that. The poor fool was still delusional, trapped in his unrequited love.
|We’re initiating the plan!|
|Calm down, Luna. We’re not fully prepared yet…|
|I don’t care! I can’t lose Kali! Who knows what he’ll do to her! I can’t wait any longer! I have to get her out before he brainwashes, enslaves, imprisons, tortures, and trains her! Before she shows him an ‘unknown face’!!!|
Luna was losing control. The Archdemon knew he couldn’t stop him, no matter what. He gave up and decided to join the premature execution of the plan.
|Perhaps this is for the best…|
It made sense. Now that Kali was in Yoo-jin’s hands, they had to eliminate him before he obtained any critical information. It might be better to act now, even if they weren’t fully prepared.
|We’ll start with Elvenguard, overflowing with life force!|
It was time to unleash death upon the land of the elves.
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“Is that true?”
“So they say.”
Kali mumbled and shoved a piece of bread into her mouth. She was ravenous after almost collapsing from hunger. She hadn’t realized how much a human body needed to eat.
Yoo-jin, sitting across from her, was deep in thought.
“So… the other world isn’t a world, but ‘His’ soul?”
“Yes. ‘He’ exists as a spirit, too. But his life force is so strong, it creates the illusion of a physical world. We, as lower-dimensional beings, can’t distinguish between illusion and reality, so it’s practically real to us.”
The other world wasn’t a world. It was the inside of Draken, who existed as a spirit. The intense headache and pressure Yoo-jin had felt in the other world… it was the oppressive presence of a massive spirit.
‘It’s a good thing I erased those memories. I almost went insane.’
Small spirits, like elementals and ghosts, didn’t usually have a significant impact on the real world, but greater spirits could interfere with reality. And if a spirit was the size of a ‘world’… it would have the power to create reality.
That was the true nature of the other world and Draken.
“‘He’ is very interested in this world. He constantly sends us his ‘will’…”
The other world was called the “other world” because it was located on the opposite side of the dimensional wall, a mirror image of this world. But that was wrong.
The reason it seemed so easily accessible, just beyond the dimensional wall, wasn’t because of its proximity, but because of Draken’s interest.
He had created a pathway for his ‘will,’ transcending the vast expanse of the dimensional void.
That’s why it seemed like opening a single door would lead directly to the other world.
“I’ll be right back. I need some water.”
“Okay, Mijung.”
Yoo-jin felt a wave of nausea. He felt strange, his stomach churning. The unpleasant sensation wouldn’t go away.
He had always thought of the other world as a separate world, but it was actually Draken’s doing, pulling him in with his power every time he opened a dimensional rift.
Draken was far more powerful than he had imagined. He had been using the wrong analogy. A boss monster in a room with invincibility cheats?
No, Draken was the cheat code, a being whose very existence defied the rules.
Yoo-jin was starting to question whether the term monster even applied to him anymore.
‘Defeating Draken seems further away than ever, but I have a clue about how to deal with the Heavenly Kings.’
The cataclysm from a few days ago… Yoo-jin had speculated that it was Draken withdrawing his power, and Kali had confirmed it.
That meant the Heavenly Kings couldn’t receive Draken’s assistance or even contact him. They had been abandoned, unemployed, their purpose of guarding the dungeons gone.
‘They’re on their own now.’
The problem was, villains like Luna and Belphegor wouldn’t just sit quietly after losing their jobs. The Heavenly Kings had made too many enemies.
They couldn’t live normal lives anymore.
They would be plotting their next move, a desperate attempt to regain their power. And there was only one plan powerful enough to turn the world upside down without Draken’s power.
‘The undead army.’
It would require extensive preparation and time, but it was the perfect plan to wreak havoc on the world.
Without Draken’s power, they would definitely try to conquer the world with this ‘one shot.’
“Where… is this…?”
“Elvenguard. Remember?”
“I… I think I’ve been here before… but I don’t remember what I did…”
We arrived at a forest filled with magical power, a giant tree towering in the center. Kali answered awkwardly. It was a lie, but not entirely. She really didn’t remember. But she had a guess.
‘I must have tried to destroy the World Tree…’
Elves had always been a nuisance, hoarding the abundant life force of the World Tree, worshiping it as their god and monopolizing its power.
She had to destroy Elvenguard and allow the World Tree’s roots to reach the ends of the planet, spreading its life force and magical power throughout the world.
That must have been Kali’s belief. And she must have killed countless elves in the process, as casually as swatting flies.
But for some reason, Kali hesitated to mention it, as if she shouldn’t tell Yoo-jin about the elves she had killed.
‘Why…?’
Yoo-jin was a Heavenly King, too. He should see humans as insects.
Why was she hesitating? It was an instinctive feeling, difficult to explain.
She had a premonition that if she told him she remembered killing elves, her life would be forfeit.
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