Phew!
Frozen time flows again.
Suho’s spirit has returned to reality.
In the middle of a dimensional rift where shadow soldiers are currently wiping out demons in the rift.
To Seo Ji-woo, who is struggling with Harmakan.
That moment.
Fit!
Seong Su-ho’s eyes flashed, and then he disappeared from that spot.
The place where he reappeared was in the middle of the remaining gap demons.
Hurrah!
At that moment, ‘Kamishi’s Wrath’ emitted a crimson aura from Suho’s crossed hands.
‘Advanced Dagger Technique’
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp!
A crimson aura fills the entire field of vision.
The newly acquired skill expertly tore through the air.
… … Chomp chomp!
And then, when Suho’s feet, which were nowhere to be seen, slid to a stop far in front of me.
[The Demon of the Gap has been defeated.] [The Demon of the Gap has been defeated.] [The Demon of the Gap has been defeated.] [The Demon of the Gap has been defeated.]
… … .
All the demons that he had passed by were torn to pieces on the spot without even being able to scream.
The one whose eyes widened at that sight was none other than Ber.
[Keeeeeek?! Th-That’s not it!]
“… … Seongsuho Hunter?!”
Seo Ji-woo, who was behind, also looked at the daggers in Su-ho’s hand with a shocked expression, a step behind.
“Where did that weapon suddenly come from… …?”
From Seo Ji-woo’s perspective, there was no real magic.
In her eyes, it seemed as if devil horns suddenly appeared in Suho’s hand, and in an instant, they seemed to transform into two daggers.
Even at first glance, you can feel the powerful magic power of these daggers.
[Your Majesty! Where did you get this precious item?!]
Suho smiled and answered the question that Berga asked while flying in quickly.
“My father gave it to me.”
[… … !]
“……father?”
Seo Ji-woo tilted his head.
On the other hand, Ber’s eyes sparkled with a deeply moved expression.
There was no way Berga would not recognize Kamish’s wrath, which was once Sung Jin-woo’s main weapon.
[My lord! Do you know what this Kamish Fury is? Let me tell you about these daggers. They are the weapons you used to defeat other lords.]
With a deep expression, Ber began to talk earnestly about the memories he had with Sung Jin-woo.
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Kamish is a dragon of the highest rank among the demons excluding the monarchs.
‘Kamishi’s Fury’, made from the sharpest fangs of the mad dragon, even cut through the flesh of monarchs.
Except for one person.
[But even Kamish’s anger, which had cut off the heads of other monarchs, was useless against the Dragon Emperor.]
It was difficult to even break through the hard scales, and even if one managed to do so, it only left a small wound on the skin.
Kamish’s rage was not enough to strike a fatal blow at the dragon.
There was even a situation where one of the swords broke during a fight with the dragon.
However, when Sung Jin-woo used the Cup of Reincarnation to turn back time, he found that there was no weapon he could use normally, so he sought out Kamish and created Kamish’s wrath once again.
“Oh, as expected from an explanation bug.”
[Ahem. Sorry. I’m a bug that’s good at explaining things.]
As Suho gave a thumbs up, Ber shrugged his shoulders and continued his explanation with confidence.
[However, in the decades of war that followed, the blade was damaged like this. Especially when fighting the Dragon Emperor, it was inevitable… … .]
“Ahem. That’s only natural.”
Nod nod.
At Ber’s words, a small lizard was nodding its head with its arms crossed next to Suho.
Antares’s lips showed a very satisfied expression.
He clearly remembers the moment when Sung Jin-woo dared to attack him without knowing the situation and the blade broke.
“In the first place, it is impossible for a dagger made from a dragon’s tooth to pierce the body of this dragon emperor. I am Antares, the strongest dragon… … .”
[So these days, the king is wearing a dagger made from the ‘Fang of Antares.’]
“What, what?!”
Wow!
Antares’s eyes grew wide as if they were going to pop out, his mouth wide open at Ver’s words.
The sharp, pointed canines visible through the gaping mouth felt somehow painful.
Of course, it’s probably because of my mood.
But the clueless Ber Ant raised his thumb towards the dragon and praised him.
[I’ve made weapons from many dragon teeth, but the dragon emperor’s teeth were by far the best.]
“… … .”
Is this a compliment or an insult?
Antares gritted his teeth with very complicated emotions and growled lowly at Suho.
“… … Enough with the small talk, let’s resolve the reason we came here.”
“That’s right.”
At those words, Suho turned his head.
‘The Sea of Death’
Wasn’t the original purpose of Seo Ji-woo and the gap in this dimension to find a way to the sea of the afterlife?
[I will guide you!]
Ber first guided Suho in the direction where the ‘purified demon souls’ he had found were heading.
* * *
The dimensional gap itself is full of cracks.
The place where these cracks change in real time, appearing and disappearing at any given time was an unknown dimension called the Dimensional Rift.
In short, it was by no means easy to find the hole that led straight to the afterlife sea even if you figured out the direction.
So what you need is bait.
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It was the role of Seo Ji-woo suggested by the solvent.
“Keugh… … !”
While moving along the flow of purified demons’ souls, Seo Ji-woo suddenly became lost in thought and sat down on the spot.
Suho looked back at Seo Jiwoo in confusion.
“Hunter Seo Ji-woo? Why are you doing that?”
“Ugh, ugh… … . I, I can’t breathe properly… … .”
Something is strange.
Extreme fear.
Seo Ji-woo was overcome with fear that he would die if he went any further, to the point where he couldn’t even breathe properly.
“Harmakan! Find the cause!”
Suho immediately looked back at Harmakan and gave an order.
The fact that an S-class hunter like Seo Ji-woo had suffered such mental damage meant that there might be some kind of sorcerer from the underworld hiding there.
But even after hearing Suho’s order, Harmakan had a troubled expression.
[Master, this doesn’t seem to be someone else’s doing. I think this is… . . ]
At those words, Ber spoke while quickly scanning his surroundings with narrowed eyes.
[Your Majesty, I think we have come to the right place.]
For a long time, they had been surrounded by countless cracks, like shattered glass windows.
[Among these cracks, clearly… … .]
“There must be an afterlife sea.”
Antares glanced at Seo Ji-woo, who was suffering from hyperventilation, as he listened to Ber’s words.
“The fear that this human is feeling right now is an instinctive rejection that all living beings feel. In other words, it is a survival instinct. No matter how powerful a human’s magical power is, it is all fair when faced with death.”
“What? Then me?”
“… … you are not fair.”
Antares ground his teeth with a rotten expression in response to Suho.
Perhaps the first time since the beginning of time.
It was Antares, the king of the mad dragons, who began to discuss the unfairness of bloodlines.
Unlike Seo Ji-woo, who looked like she might faint at any moment, Su-ho looked completely unfazed.
“Anyway, it looks like you came to the right place.”
Suho, who had grasped the situation, immediately tried to make Seo Jiwoo step back.
But at that time.
Jeez-!
“… … !”
Suddenly above Seo Ji-woo’s head!
A crack appeared in the empty space, and a giant flower bud popped out.
[Nightmare Bud]
Whaaaaaah-
A hideous flower bud suddenly popped out, splitting into four parts and opening its crocodile-like mouth wide towards Seo Ji-woo, who was sitting right below it.
“… … !”
Seo Ji-woo, who was already struggling to breathe, couldn’t even scream at the sight, and his face turned red with fear.
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‘It’s this guy.’
I realized it instinctively.
That this strange plant was the one that had eaten his soul and dragged it into the sea of the afterlife.
And that he still can’t let go of his foolish attachment to himself and is drooling.
‘I’m going to catch and eat again… ‘
Kyaaaaow-!
The despair that befell Seo Ji-woo did not become reality.
“Where!”
Chomp chomp-
In that moment, Suho jumped up and cut off the stem of the thing that was trying to swallow Seo Jiwoo in one bite in midair.
“Kiaaaaak-!”
A grotesque, eardrum-splitting scream burst from the mouth of the thing rolling on the floor.
But as the dragon had said, the weeds that grew in the afterlife sea were persistent.
These guys in particular, the buds of nightmares, were so persistent that it was disgusting.
Thump, thump, thump!
Clang-
Even at the moment when the neck was cut off and only the head was lying on the floor, new stems, or rather, disgusting roots, grew rapidly from the severed stems of the nightmare flower bud.
Pavabavabat-
And using those roots, it quickly crawled across the ground like a bug with many legs and rushed towards Seo Ji-woo.
‘The power of the ruler!’
Wedge-
At that moment, Kamish’s anger flew straight from Suho’s hand.
Chomp chomp chomp!
And this time, instead of the stem, he mercilessly chopped off the bastard’s flower buds.
Hurrruk!
“Kkiaaaa… … .”
In the end, the petals of the flower, torn to shreds and tattered, burned as they were.
[The nightmare bud has been defeated.]
“Haaah… … .”
Seeing the bastard disintegrating into ashes before his eyes, Seo Ji-woo finally felt like he was finally able to let out his pent-up breath.
When he finally saw that the unknown entity that had been watching him from somewhere had disappeared, he felt an instinctive sense of relief.
Seo Ji-woo sat down in that spot, looked back at Su-ho, and asked with a weak smile.
“Did I do a good job of being the bait?”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Suho bowed politely and thanked Seo Jiwoo.
Seo Ji-woo shook his head.
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“No. I was the one who asked you to do it first.”
Seo Ji-woo still felt indebted to his colleagues who were sleeping due to insomnia.
Even at this moment, his comrades were slowly dying, and he was the only one who had woken up and was living as an S-class hunter. It was more pitiful and painful than he could have imagined.
But Seo Ji-woo’s role ended here.
“Harmakan.”
Suho raised his head, glared at the dimensional hole from which the nightmare bud had emerged, and gave orders to Harmakan.
“Fix the coordinates.”
[Yes, master.]
Flash-
At those words, Harmakan immediately created a magic circle from both of his hands.
Again, the dimensional gap is highly volatile.
Even if you find a passage to the afterlife sea, this is the dimensional gap where no one knows when the coordinates will suddenly become distorted and the connection will be cut off.
But even in this volatile place, there was a being that could create passages that connected dimensions… … .
It was none other than Jogmunt, the king of the demons and the lord of the underworld.
But the ability to connect passages was by no means an ability granted only to Yogmunt, even though the level of difference was the only one.
For example, the great sorcerer Candiaru, who was the second-in-command of the underworld.
[Harmakan activates an instance dungeon.]
The instance dungeon that was Candiaru’s legacy was a large-scale sorcery that distorted the existing dimension to create a ‘second world’.
This ability was the ability to twist dimensional rifts to create worlds beyond, but with just a little application, it could also be used to create simple ‘doors’ rather than other worlds.
Clang!
As Harmakan stretched out both his hands, the chains he had woven with magic stretched out before him.
The chains forcibly tied together the irregularly broken cracks, widening the hole and fixing the coordinates.
in result.
Paaaaat-
“……oh my god.”
Seo Ji-woo’s eyes fill with astonishment.
In front of them, a huge gate was created that gave off an ominous aura that made it feel suffocating just to look at.
Tiring!
[‘Gate: Sea of the Afterlife’ has been created.]
