Children of the Holy Emperor Chapter 2

002. He became the 3rd prince of the Seonghwang family. (One)

Mores Klein, the 3rd prince of the Holy Empire Delcross.

Symbol under the amulet.

An unprecedented shame for the Seonghwang family.

Unlike his father, who was considered the most powerful emperor of all time, this bastard prince was an unlucky son who did not inherit even a ounce of sword talent or divine power.

Above all, his fiery temper and coarse words and actions, which did not resemble the calm-tempered Emperor in the slightest, could not be overemphasized as merely an immature ploy by a young prince.

It would not be unreasonable for some cardinals and high-ranking priests to whisper that Prince Mores may not be the Holy Emperor’s biological son.

However, an opportunity for change also came to Prince Mores, who seemed like he would be a fool forever.

One day, he suddenly collapsed with a severe fever and suffered from a high fever that felt like life or death for four days. When he came to his senses, he became a completely different person.

‘After almost dying, people change so much.’

Everyone thought so and ignored it, but in fact, the prince suddenly changed his mind and became a new person, and there were secrets that could not be easily revealed to others.

The person who woke up from the body of Mores, who was dying of fever, was actually an Earthling named Seongjin Lee.

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Lee Seong-jin was a child with strange persistence since childhood.

Because of his stubbornness to finish something he started as a baby, his parents had to experience extremely difficult parenting even though he was an only child.

“Who on earth does he resemble to be so stubborn?”

His mother had tears in her eyes as she watched her son stubbornly sucking on a piece of paper even after he was 4 years old. This was because she was worried that her teeth might be damaged.

Fortunately, the baby teeth grew beautifully and evenly.

As soon as I became a kindergartener, I thought I had lost interest in chiropractic, but now I started insisting that I would not go home during class time.

I offered to give him snacks at home and tried to coax him to go see him, but it was no use.

My mother could only smile awkwardly at the kindergarten teachers who looked at her with suspicion, wondering if she was being abused at home because she hated coming home so much.

In the end, the mother and father took turns carrying the child around the playground until Seongjin fell asleep, and then went home late at night.

His parents finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw their son becoming a bit more confident as an elementary school student. But now I think we’re at an age where we can communicate.

That is, until he stole his classmate’s crayons and returned home, and was called by his homeroom teacher the next day.

It was a short peace.

“He knocked over my crayons and broke them all. “I got it instead.”

“Seongjin. “Hyung-cheol said he was sorry, but it’s bad to take a friend’s things by force.”

The child’s eyes became sharp.

“Is it okay if I just say I’m sorry? “What about my crayons?”

“Mom can buy me more crayons.”

“Hyeong-cheol did something wrong, so why did Mom buy it for me? The person who caused the accident should be held responsible.”

The mother was speechless at her son’s repeated response. Because it wasn’t wrong from her child’s point of view.

After hesitating for a moment, my mother had no choice but to say this.

“… Seongjin. Friendship with friends is something that cannot be compared to the price of crayons. From now on, if your friend apologizes, accept it first, and if Seongjin still feels unfair, discuss with your mom what to do first. huh?”

The child looked dissatisfied, but reluctantly nodded.

“But the broken crayons are in 24 colors, so why did Hyeong-cheol take 56-color crayons?”

“That was compensation for my mental damage. Of course you should get something better, right?”

I couldn’t tell if my son was harsh or smart.

Seongjin, who had such an unusual childhood, became a quiet child like a lie when he reached middle school.

His parents carefully watched their son, who was a little different from others, to see if he was adjusting to school life.

However, my son’s school uniform and textbooks were always neat, and no evidence of possible bullying was found.

I finally got the hang of it.

Seongjin’s parents were very happy.

In fact, it was only quiet on the surface, and in reality, Seongjin’s school life was full of construction, but his parents could not notice at all.

Although the son failed to achieve the social skills his parents wanted, he was at least able to acquire the skill to conceal incidents and accidents without his homeroom teacher and parents knowing.

For example, he was unlucky enough to be captured by the Iljin, and after three months of fighting for just one person to die, the Iljin group finally became angry and declared a truce.

After stalking one of the leadership team members who started an argument for no reason for a week, he made him avoid others and become paranoid, causing him to miss school for a long period of time.

It was a turbulent school life that straddles the line between justice and crime.

Although he was not a very outstanding student, after studying diligently at school, Seongjin entered a suitable four-year university in Seoul.

After dating for a while, I went to the military in my second year, and after graduating, I got a job at a suitable small to medium-sized company.

-This assistant manager has a creepy side to him.

-is it so? Aren’t you diligent and good at your work?

Although he occasionally received suspicious looks from older bosses, Seongjin outwardly performed the role of a sincere office worker with ease.

Slowly, people started to stand around him, and he started a relationship with a female employee from the same company.

Perhaps, if nothing had happened, she would have gotten married and lived a normal life.

August 2035.

Gehenna Gate incident.

Star gates connected to Gehenna in the Demon World appeared simultaneously around the world without warning, and armies of thousands and tens of thousands of monsters began to invade them.

In an instant, intact cities and infrastructure were destroyed, and the world fell into temporary anarchy for several days.

Humanity, which reorganized its system around some armies that had established a defensive line after the chaos, launched a counterattack, but the scale of human casualties that occurred in just a few days reached an astronomical number.

With most major cities destroyed, human civilization also suffered a major regression.

Seongjin, who was on a business trip to a local area at the time and happened to be able to take refuge in an air-raid shelter within the defense line, was lucky to survive. However, he suddenly lost his entire life, including his family.

In the face of this great tragedy of humanity, Lee Seong-jin did not cry. All I could do was watch the endless stream of monsters coming down from the gate and calmly reflect on who I should owe this debt to this time.

There were endless monsters to kill, but this persistent man never gave up on what he had targeted.

Seongjin Lee became a hunter. He became a hunter who hunted monsters professionally.

When a person touches the corpse immediately after killing a monster, something like a strange energy is sucked into the body, which hunters call the spirit of the monster.

People who absorbed this soon became able to exercise abilities beyond humans. As if absorbing part of the monster’s power.

Sometimes the ability was simple physical strength, sometimes it was a reinforcement system that created a hard shell, or it sometimes appeared as a supernatural power such as telekinesis.

The more they absorbed the energy of many monsters, the stronger the hunters became. Soon, superhumans began to be born who could kill thousands of monsters on their own.

Humanity, which had been pushed to the edge, began to push back the front line little by little, and from then on, a grueling war of attrition ensued for several decades.

The Demon World, which ambitiously invaded Earth, ended up being destroyed along with the Earth decades later.

As the hunter becomes stronger, the monsters that kill humans also become stronger. The front line, which maintains a steady balance of power, simply caused both sides to waste an irreversible amount of vitality.

When humanity’s last superhuman unit finally arrived in front of the Demon King hiding deep in the heart of the Demon World, the Demon King greeted them with a sullen expression and sighed.

“Is this what it is in the end? What have you been doing for the past few decades? “I feel ashamed.”

Of course, the Demon King’s lethargy was none of his business. Now, there was almost nothing left for both sides to stop the war of attrition and take a breath.

Complete annihilation of either side.

He was the only thing left between the demon world and humanity.

Regardless of his somewhat desperate attitude, the Demon King’s resistance was persistent until the end.

The superhuman unit and the demon king fought non-stop for three days and nights, but by the third night, only the upper part of the demon king’s head was still able to maintain its form, and among the superhuman unit members, there was only one human alive.

Lee Seong-jin, a man who never gives up until the end.

He forcibly raised his fist, which was no longer moving well, and aimed it at the Demon King’s head. The Demon King, who only had his head left, spoke with a tired expression.

“You persistent bastard. “I thought he was the most insignificant guy, but I never thought I would die by your hands.”

So what should I do?

Seongjin snorted and slammed his fist down.

Quang!

There was a crack in the dark red horn of the Demon King, the only one left.

“… Eh?”

Quang!

The bridge of the Demon King’s nose collapsed with the next blow, but this time too, there was not enough strength to crush his head in one go.

Seongjin took a deep breath and clenched his shaking fists again.

“hey! for a moment! wait for a sec!”

The demon king, whose nose was bleeding, was shocked, but he just kept his mouth shut and punched again.

Quang!

“Kek! Hey, this is a bit… … .”

Kuaaang!

“… “Wait a minute, you bastard!”

The fists no longer flew.

Of course, rather than listening to the Demon King’s words, I just took a moment to catch my breath to gather my fists, which no longer had any strength.

Surprisingly, the bridge of the Demon King’s nose, which had been flat in the meantime, began to rise gently. The speed is significantly slower than at first, but when you become a demon king of another world, you have the ability to regenerate your body even if only your body remains.

An ominous premonition that the final blow would take longer than expected passed through both the Demon King and Lee Seong-jin.

“Stop throwing unnecessary punches. It takes no effort at all! Hey, human. You won’t be able to kill me like this anyway. “Why don’t we call a truce for a while, cool down, and then fight again?”

It was bullshit.

If two well-equipped people fight, it is obvious who will be at a disadvantage.

When Lee Seong-jin trembled and raised his arms again, the Demon King continued speaking in an urgent voice.

“No, let’s just not fight anymore! I will leave Earth and Gehenna forever. “I’ll never show up again, huh?”

“… … .”

“I will be spared, and you will have both Earth and the Demon World. Think of the potential of two worlds fused together! “You could have power comparable to the Demon King!”

“… … .”

“If you kill me like this, Gehenna, who has no owner, will disappear, and the Earth, which has lost its supporting axis, will also be slowly sucked into the gate. Both worlds will end! What does that mean to you?”

Seongjin finally answered the devil.

“What’s important to me is not this world. “Whether you’re finished or not, that’s all.”

Since the result will not change anyway, trivial appeasement is out of the question.

The Demon King watched with a pale face as he slowly curled his fist.

How many times does it take to get hit by that fist for it to end?

“Hey, hey! Or at least can’t you wait for me to die on my own? It’s because I keep losing energy from auto-playing. Give me just a moment, and I can burn my soul on its own with the flames of Gehenna. “It will disappear on its own without you having to try hard!”

“… … .”

“that… I’ll close the gate too. Even if the Demon World disappears, the Earth will not be involved!”

The offer was quite tempting. Seongjin Lee nodded his head.

“okay. “I’ll kill you first and then think about it.”

“How can we talk when he’s dead…” More than that, you can’t kill me that way! “No, this guy doesn’t understand what I’m talking about!”

The Demon King screamed.

I don’t know how long the endless zero-sum punching continued, but as Seongjin was catching his breath for a moment, a whimpering sound began to be heard.

“Hey, you damn bastard… . I really tried not to do something like this… … .”

Grumbling.

Suddenly, a red flame appeared in the air, and the Demon King’s head was engulfed in flames.

Meanwhile, the Demon King’s skin, which had been steadily regenerating, begins to distort in the dark red flames.

“This… … .”

Flame of Gehenna.

The deep burning of the demonic world that burns away the very existence of things.

It seemed to be true that not only the endlessly regenerating body of the Demon King but also his soul could be destroyed.

And that means.

“I can’t commit suicide because I don’t have enough strength. Everything you said was a trick of yours.”

When Seongjin Lee grins and raises his fist again, the Demon King flinches and screams again.

“… what! why! what! What’s the difference? Still, I tried to disappear into another dimension as if I were dead, well!”

Even Lee Seong-jin of the world was momentarily speechless at the strangely confident attitude of a subject who was shedding tears.

“But now it’s all wrong. Hehehe! okay. I will die as you wish. But I won’t go alone.”

The flame that was burning the Demon King gradually grew bigger and transferred to Seongjin’s body.

In an instant, along with the intense heat, his body was also engulfed in dark red flames.

“This is a coffin flower made from the soul of this noble demon king! I will definitely get rid of your son of a bitch! “I’ll burn your soul to the ground!”

The Demon King was smiling as he was so happy to see flesh distorted and bones exposed in the flames. It seems like he felt so unfairly treated for such a long time.

“Well, this…” … .”

“Hahahahaha! How are you? The pain that burns even to the soul! Mpuhahahahahahahaha!”

While his soul is burning as well.

Lee Seong-jin looked at his burning body while listening to the devil’s laughter, which was almost sobbing.

Indeed, the body, which had been hardened by absorbing the essence of the monster for decades and was not even damaged by any significant physical force, is melting away in vain.

Even though the body had become numb to pain after going through strengthening after strengthening, the process of burning the dermis and exposing the muscle fibers was extremely painful.

Although he had fought countless times until now, Lee Seong-jin could feel that he was definitely dying this time.

But whatever.

Finally, the culprit behind the invasion of the demon world, which Seongjin Lee had targeted throughout his life, comes to an end.

“Haha! Puhahaha… … .”

The Demon King, who was laughing like crazy, was shocked for a moment and closed his mouth. This was because the sight of Lee Seong-jin, engulfed in flames and the corners of his mouth turning up, gave me goosebumps without me realizing it.

“Okay, whatever. “In the end, I’m finished too.”

Now the muscles that remain in the skeleton slowly move and raise the fist engulfed in flames.

“So, let’s take one last hit.”

“what!? You bastard! It got to this point… … .”

“Think of it as compensation for mental damage.”

Kuaaaaang!

“Kwaaaaaaak!”

The tearing screams soon subsided.

Seongjin closed his eyes after seeing the Demon King’s face completely crumble and turn into ashes.

As I was losing consciousness, I felt like I could hear something crackling and breaking in my head.

That was Hunter Seongjin Lee’s last memory.