377. Variable
A giant hand is crushing Lucifer.
As if squashing a bug.
Lucifer, buried between the cracked and broken floor, struggles like a hedgehog with many thorns, spewing out magic energy.
‘ah….’
Jinwoo Park, who witnessed the absurd scene, is shocked with his eyes wide open.
‘No… no, no…!’
I denied reality over and over again, but that didn’t make the phenomenon that had already occurred go away.
While Park Jin-woo screams inwardly, the giant hand that was holding down Lucifer flinches and trembles.
Lucifer barely managed to escape the gap and quickly pulled himself out, gushing blood.
It was a completely different direction from the passageway where Jinwoo Park was flying, towards the open ceiling.
– Boom!
However, the huge hand, which was pricked by the thorns that had been raised in large numbers, struck the ceiling with the back of its hand as if not to miss.
The ceiling cracks and then falls like corn.
Amidst the falling debris, Lucifer unleashes a massive blast of magic in all directions.
It was a liberation from sin.
– Kwaaaaaaaah!
Even in a world that has stopped, magic spreads in all directions at a noticeably fast speed.
Just before he was caught by it, Jinwoo Park barely managed to escape through the passage and into the open space outside.
Perhaps because he was out in the open, Lucifer’s threatening magic suddenly faded and subsided.
Park Jin-woo confirmed that the momentum applied to his body was gradually decreasing, and he created a new ice spear and slammed it into the ground to significantly reduce the speed.
– Kwakwakwakwak!
Park Jin-woo barely manages to stop himself from falling down the mountain, leaving a long mark on the ground.
The demons that were loitering around, not daring to interfere with their master’s important ritual, looked back with surprised eyes.
However, the moment they showed their fangs and tried to rush in, Park Jin-woo’s ice spear had already been swung mercilessly.
With a single swing, the corpses of demons and monsters who lost their heads fall to the ground like rotten straw.
– Keuheuk!
Meanwhile, a high-ranking demon who had been waiting for an opportunity in the darkness vomits blood and rolls around on the floor.
– Oh, how… are you… alive?
A voice booming through the darkness is mixed with shock.
But that was only for a moment, as soon as the high-ranking demon sensed something, his complexion changed and he raised his head.
Soon, he started to fidget and started to look at Jinwoo Park’s face like a puppy that was looking for something to do.
But is a high-ranking demon still a high-ranking demon?
When Jinwoo Park, feeling that the enemy has disappeared in the emergency situation, points to the compensation room with the tip of the spear, the high-ranking demon who was looking at Jinwoo Park with a stern expression runs straight there.
The distance had narrowed to a point where he could reach the high-ranking demon with a single swing of his spear, but Jinwoo Park deliberately did not cut down the high-ranking demon.
In the current situation, there was no need or reason to ring the bell.
– … … Huh! My, my lord… !
The high-ranking demon who reached the entrance to the passage saw something and cried out in a voice filled with shock.
Starting with the back of a high-ranking demon disappearing inside.
– Krrrrrrrr!
– Guaaaaaaah!
After losing control of Park Jin-woo, the monsters that had been stationed here and there on the ridge, waiting for orders, all begin to jump at once.
Park Jin-woo was right in front of them as they charged, so it looked like they were all attacking at once.
– Doo doo doo doo doo doo…!
The monsters that had been advancing while making the axis shake soon passed by Park Jin-woo and advanced closer and closer towards the summit.
The subordinate demons who heard the scream-like cries of the high-ranking demon also seemed to have noticed the situation, and although their hostile gazes toward Park Jin-woo remained unchanged, they ignored him and headed towards the compensation room.
Some demons showed suspicion that Park Jin-woo had done something, but they were only a very small number.
As they were also demonic creatures who were born sensitive to the flow of energy, such as magic or magical energy, they could not have failed to recognize the ‘indescribable power’ that suddenly appeared in the compensation room.
It was at that time that those who had been sticking their spears outwards turned their spear tips towards the room of compensation.
– Boom-!
There was a dull thud, as if something was hitting the floor.
– Khu… khu khu khu khu-
It evolves into a ground rumble and gradually grows in size.
The entire mountain shook as if it was going to collapse, and the ground was already unstable as it had been split in half, so it wouldn’t have been strange if it collapsed at any moment, but now spiderweb-like cracks were appearing all over the mountaintop.
Unable to withstand the shocks that burst out one after another from within, it eventually breaks into pieces and collapses.
– Kwarung! Kwarung!
– Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa-!
Natural disasters do not discriminate between superhumans and monsters.
Landslides are unavoidable, even for the toughest monsters, whether they are piles of dirt, small pieces of stone, or huge boulders.
However, the monsters that had to avoid it had a hard time keeping their bodies still because the entire ground they stepped on was shaking like crazy.
Park Jin-woo was also on the verge of being swept away by the waves of land that had surged right up to his nose, but his improved specs as “Warden” were not so weak that he could be affected by simple earthquakes and landslides.
Park Jin-woo, who kicked the ground and jumped into the air, escaped the aftermath of the ground shaking with the help of the magical power of the Unryongdae Palsik, and the debris at his feet swept away everything as if it were going to turn the world upside down.
Unfortunately, the demons had removed all the obstacles such as the forest and solid rocks that were blocking their view, so there was not enough power to stop the landslide near the summit.
– Ugh… .
– Keu-heu… .
The monsters’ desperate screams.
The final words uttered by demons.
They last less than a second before they are swept away by a loud crash as the ground falls.
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The mountain collapsed in an instant from the summit to the middle, leaving it in shambles.
Park Jin-woo looks down at the mountain that has turned into hell while floating in the sky, and suddenly a shape on the mountainside comes into view and he stares at it.
It looks like demons and humans, who should originally be unable to eat each other, have joined forces and are avoiding each other’s bodies.
In the meantime, the Demon King and the saints quickly exchange blows, finding an opening between each other.
“The kids….”
[Answer. Over there, Master.]
Park Jin-woo, who was looking at the place that Akasha had marked above his vision, was able to see his friends who had safely escaped from the area affected by the landslide.
A quick glance shows that everyone has escaped safely.
I let out a sigh of relief, but unfortunately, that was the only time I could look away.
There were voices making a fuss as they discovered Park Jin-woo floating high in the sky above the ground, but Park Jin-woo’s gaze could not help but be turned towards the collapsed peak, almost by force.
– Boom!
A black figure rising out of a collapsed pile of dirt.
Lucifer circles the air with his black wings spread wide in all directions behind his back, and black smoke-like magic flowing from his body.
Then, high-ranking demons that don’t die even if buried in a landslide, a small number of strong-muscled and tough subordinate demons, monsters, etc. crawl out through the ground.
However, not all of them were dead, but they were all seriously injured, with parts of their bodies broken or twisted in strange directions, making it difficult to move.
“under…….”
But Park Jin-woo’s gaze wasn’t there.
“Lucifer, you f*cking retard… … .”
Park Jin-woo grits his teeth as he stares at the place where the compensation room was originally located, buried under fallen rocks and mounds of dirt.
“I guess….”
A deep valley forms between Park Jin-woo’s eyebrows, and hot breath escapes from his clenched teeth.
The appearance of a person who has been suppressing all the anger inside them because they can’t seem to let it out, as if it will explode at any moment.
It had to be that way.
Even though it couldn’t be seen with the naked eye, the underground appearance reflected in Park Jin-woo’s magical power was truly despairing.
“Hey! You f*cking retard!”
Jinwoo Park, who could not hold back his anger, stopped turning and shouted at Lucifer, who was standing still in midair, looking down at his feet.
“Do you see now what you have done?”
“… … .”
Lucifer has no answer.
From the beginning, he didn’t even look at Park Jin-woo, and just looked down at his feet with sunken eyes.
However, Jinwoo Park couldn’t stop blaming Lucifer.
“Did you stop when I told you to? Or, what, you just die, I die, and we all die together? Is that what you want, the destruction of the entire world?”
“… … .”
“I’d rather have Cheonmajeokryong. That little bastard would rather just wipe out all life!”
“… … !”
As if he couldn’t ignore those words, Lucifer raised his head the moment he heard the name ‘Cheonma Jeokryong’ and looked back at Park Jinwoo.
The gaze looking at Park Jin-woo is filled with burning anger that seems ready to explode at any moment.
However, Jinwoo Park meets that gaze and grins as if he finds it funny.
“Why? Am I wrong? Or say something. If you have a mouth, say something to make an excuse!”
“… … . Prophecy, this-.”
The ugly excuse that Lucifer, who had nothing to say even though he had a mouth, managed to squeeze out was the ‘prophecy’ that led the situation to this point, namely the Revelation.
But for Jinwoo Park, who knows nothing about the Apocalypse, this is nonsense.
“Prophecy? Did you just say prophecy? Huh… Hey, is that also in the prophecy?”
“… … .”
“Why? You said you called because it’s written there, right? Haha, really… . A prophecy? A prophecy?”
Park Jin-woo snorted with a distorted face.
The moment Lucifer’s gaze turned away from Jinwoo Park and towards the ground as the accusations continued.
“So, you followed the prophecy? If you do that, you’ll be able to ascend to the constellation? Because it’s a prophecy that you’ll ascend to the constellation?”
At the next words from Jinwoo Park.
“If that’s the case, why don’t you just leave all the thinking to prophecy?”
Lucifer looks at Park Jin-woo again with wide eyes.
Jinwoo Park’s eyes, soaked in anger and red with burst blood vessels, pour out all the accumulated anger without paying any attention to Lucifer’s gaze.
“Well, that’s why it looks like this. Oh, really, ha- What should I do with this idiot?”
Simply selling and criticizing is unproductive and inefficient.
However, Jinwoo Park felt like he would go crazy if he didn’t somehow release the anger that had built up in his heart right away.
What happened in the Room of Rewards, what they went through to escape there and get back, and the life-threatening battle that took place inside.
All of those actions had gone down the drain, and all of Park Jin-woo’s efforts had been in vain, so it would be strange if he didn’t feel extremely angry.
“Hey, you idiot.”
However, Jinwoo Park was not the type of person who could control his anger and would just keep pouring it out until he collapsed from exhaustion.
Rather, it was closer to properly releasing the accumulated resentment while simultaneously drawing a picture of the dark future that would follow and preparing for it.
“You’re not planning on lying flat on that, are you?”
Park Jin-woo’s question was simple.
Submission, submission.
“Even the most thoughtless devil head wouldn’t have the pride to turn over like a dog over something like that.”
“Something like that? Do you… , in your eyes, see something so great and indescribable as that?”
“Where is the greatness or anything since you shook me? It’s all the same.”
Park Jin-woo clicked his tongue as if frustrated, and watched the ‘great thing’ struggling to get out of the narrow, incompletely opened passage.
“I get it now.”
Only then did Jinwoo Park realize that he had been mistaken, and a look of relief crossed his face.
Lucifer noticed this and frowned like a scholar who had discovered a creature he simply could not understand.
“It wasn’t even the main body that came.”
“…entity?”
“Yes. It has the same characteristics as what I saw, but it’s quite different.”
“Falling behind… That thing?”
“It’s probably a clone or a baby or something like that. Anyway, the main body wasn’t summoned. Fortunately, I persistently interfered with it, so the summoning wasn’t complete. The crack also opened unstably.”
“… … .”
At the word ‘disturb’, the tips of Lucifer’s eyebrows twitch.
“I don’t know what you were thinking when you tried to climb the constellation through that, but shouldn’t you at least clean up what you’ve spilled?”
“It’s unpleasant.”
Without letting go of his frown, Lucifer lowered his voice as if he was displeased.
Park Jin-woo thought for a moment, ‘Did I scratch too much?’, but it was just a worry.
“Did you think I would run away so irresponsibly?”
“Well… that’s not it.”
“That’s it. Take your men and get out.”
“what?”
Jinwoo Park asked back at the unexpected words, but Lucifer continued to say what he wanted to say.
“I will take your head one day, Cheon Sal Seong. It’s just a shame that it’s not now.”
“What the hell is this? Who ran away?”
Rather, when Jinwoo Park speaks as if he is displeased, Lucifer turns his head and glares at him.
Park Jin-woo said.
“I’m going to deal with that god or alien creature first, and then I’ll beat the crap out of you. Why are you running away?”
“A mortal who can’t even overcome time? You’ve become quite interesting since I last saw you. To the point where you’re even talking about dealing with that alien god.”
“You still want to let your guard down after being so arrogant and ending up like this? Well, if you take away arrogance from the Demon King of Arrogance, what would be left? He’s just a former angel who fell to the ground.”
“… … I warned you that one day that mouth would become a big trouble. Don’t you think now is that time?”
“If you have a conscience, shouldn’t you be willing to take some abuse? I’m still bubbling with anger inside. Really, you don’t have a conscience because you’re a devil? Anyway, these devil bastards are no different from cockroaches…”
Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble.
Lucifer, unable to handle Park Jin-woo’s rapid-fire speech, turns his head first.
Park Jin-woo stood behind him and laughed silently as if he had won the fight, then his expression hardened as the pile of dirt shook violently as if another earthquake was about to occur.
Then, the moment I was about to create an ice spear and hold it in my hand.
“Take it.”
– Okay.
Park Jin-woo caught something bright red that had inadvertently flown towards his face, and made a surprised expression as he realized that it felt very familiar.
It was none other than Park Jin-woo’s lost favorite song, Ruin.
“you…?”
“That was the key. It amplified the signal that was being transmitted to the outside. It was also useful in greatly expanding the crack.”
Lucifer pauses for a moment, gathering a handful of pitch-black magic energy, and then resumes speaking.
“… I was able to pull it out before the crack was forcibly expanded by that alien god, but even that was only a waste of time. Once a crack has formed, it cannot be repaired.”
“The guy who knows that-.”
“I will leave the Holy Spirit to you, Thousand-Sal-Seong. But that is all. This is not your mortal realm. Know your place.”
Lucifer, who had said that, as if he would not even listen to the answer, immediately spread his wings wide and glided down, crashing down towards the ground like a comet.
While Jinwoo Park was laughing in vain at Lucifer’s arrogant remarks that continued one after another, a new movement finally occurred in the pile of dirt that had been shaking and raising dust.
Boom, the sound of a bomb exploding rang out as a massive, muscular fist with dark green skin and tiny, twitching tentacles sprouting from its gaps burst through the ground.
A morning star falling from the sky.
A giant fist rising through the broken ground.
The collision was already inevitable.
– Kwaaaaang!
The collision of two huge energies eventually led to a huge explosion.
* * *
– Boom!
The palace fell far away in a parabolic arc, and Nick barely managed to land on the ground, rolling.
However, perhaps because the force applied to the body was stronger than expected, no matter how many times I rolled, there was no end in sight.
After rolling dozens of times and hitting my back against a rock, I was finally able to stop rolling.
“…Keuk!”
– Thud.
The spilled blood stains the floor red.
In his blurry vision, Nick somehow managed to hold onto his mind, which was starting to darken, and lifted his upper body by holding onto the ground.
Bleeding from all over the place – mouth, neck, shoulders… – quickly creates small puddles of blood on the floor.
“Ugh… .”
Nick, who was struggling to get up while groaning, flinches for a moment.
Only then, as if remembering something, does he turn his head and look at his right hand.
Instead of the hand that should have been there, there was a half-eaten, horribly mutilated chunk of flesh.
The loss of an arm is a symbol of near-impairment.
Originally, it would have been a serious injury that would have been transported straight to the rear, but Nick finished the treatment by taking out a vial from his bosom, drinking half of it and spraying the other half on the wound, and rested for a while there.
– Euaaaaaaahhhhhhhh…!
Just then, Nick saw a tiny dot flying quickly towards where he was.
The moment he quickly rolled on the ground to escape, it crashed down right where Nick had been.
“Ugh!”
Joo Hyun-ho rolls on the ground, groaning in pain, holding onto his side where he hit a rock.
“Oh my, I’m dying! What kind of suffering is this in my later years? Oh my! They say that as you get older, your natural healing power declines…!”
“… … .”
However, he stops moving after seeing Nick looking at him with pitiful eyes right next to him and his messed up right arm.
Soon, he coughs in embarrassment and slowly gets up from his seat.
“Hey, were you here?”
“Okay. You look really sick.”
“No… I’m not joking… This is, the effects of binge eating are actually quite a bit more…”
“I know that too.”
“… How’s your hand… . Is it… okay…?”
Joo Hyun-ho asks quite cautiously.
Although each city brought in their best, it was impossible for a healing specialist to follow them this deep into enemy territory.
It was natural to set up positions in the rear and help the wounded recover there, and adults also needed to retreat to the rear to treat their injuries.
But now that they had to deal with two demon lords, the loss of one adult meant a huge loss.
It was natural for Joo Hyun-ho to ask cautiously.
But Nick just smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“Don’t worry. I took the miracle drug. Soon…”
The moment he said that, Nick, who was holding onto his half-torn right arm, flinched.
When I looked down, I saw that new flesh was sprouting and bubbling.
Nick muttered in amazement at the sight of it growing so quickly, as if it had been sped up dozens of times.
“What on earth is the principle? It even automatically repairs damaged areas…”
“That’s why it’s called a miracle drug. The kids down there are convinced that the elixir will now be relegated to the backroom old man’s care.”
‘No matter what, comparing it to Elixir is a bit…’ That thought occurred to Nick, but he couldn’t continue his thoughts.
It was as if they were being treated as if they did not even have time to rest, because an unbearable vibration was transmitted through the floor and through my entire body.
In my ears, I can hear a faint ‘kwakwakwang!’ sound, as if something is exploding or collapsing.
“What what what what- what!”
Joo Hyun-ho looks around excitedly and opens his mouth wide.
Nick, like Joo Hyun-ho, was able to immediately pinpoint the source of the earthquake and the loud noise.
Because, out of Nick’s field of vision, who was watching the gluttony, the mountaintop was collapsing in real time.
“It was originally split in half and the ground was weak. It’s actually a miracle that it hasn’t collapsed until now.”
“Ouch… . Sigh~. How intense is the battle that’s been going on… . Wait, didn’t that get swept away by a landslide and buried?”
“You’re a space wizard, what are you worried about?”
“Well… Well, if it was dangerous, I guess I would have gotten out on my own.”
It is none other than the bloodline of the Savior.
He was not a tycoon, and in a situation where the term tycoon was a perfect fit, where would his bloodline have run away?
Joo Hyun-ho and Nick took their attention off Park Jin-woo and instead calculated how far the landslide would affect them.
Fortunately, the area near the summit where the head of the mountain was exposed had collapsed, so it didn’t seem like there would be a big problem as long as you were careful of large rocks and other debris.
“Still, it would be better for those closer to the mountain to retreat. Since they can’t fight anyway because their hands are like this, I’ll step forward and rally them.”
“Then I’ll go back to binge eating and beating you up… .”
It was a time when Joo Hyun-ho would talk nonsense and relieve the stress that had built up during that short period of time.
Before he could finish speaking, Joo Hyun-ho, who had been watching the gluttony in the direction of the mountain, opened his mouth wide to the point of embarrassment and expressed shock with his whole body.
Nick, who was hiding in the bushes near the mountain, waiting for an opportunity or checking the location of the superhumans who were fighting with monsters and demons, also looked at Joo Hyun-ho with a puzzled look as he stopped in his tracks as if he was going to run out at any moment.
Then, when he raised his head following Joo Hyun-ho’s gaze, Nick unconsciously lost the strength in his left hand and almost dropped the bow.
“What is that…?”
“… … .”
What the two saw in their vision was nothing other than the sight of a giant hand with green skin that was just beginning to rise and Lucifer, wrapped in a pitch-black current, colliding with it.
– Kwaaaaaaaah!
Soon, the aftermath seemed to reach the two people, and their hair and clothes, which were astonished, began to flutter in the wind.
Soon the smoke subsided, and on the mountaintop that was clearly visible, only the intact shape of an arm sticking out of the ground remained.
“Me too… I don’t know. But one thing is for sure… .”
Nick, who was looking around the summit with his eagle eyes, a characteristic of an archer, said.
“They are neither our allies nor the devil’s allies, but a third party.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“It seems like something big has happened. Whether Lucifer’s ritual was successful or failed, there was a result. That result is that giant hand.”
Nick stared at the giant hand with a serious expression for a while, then gritted his teeth and muttered.
“Damn it, that ‘then’ you were talking about was right now?”
Words he had heard in the distant past came flooding back to Nick, giving him a strange sense of foreboding.
The anger and resentment that had lost their place eventually converged on one person.
On the subject of vaguely foreseeing all of this, there is a party that is no longer present.
“Savior!”
Nick shouted out loud, without realizing it, filled with resentment.
