Conquest of the Other World (4)
‘What is that?’
Questions about the existence of the unknown.
At this moment, only such thoughts were circling around in the mind of the Infinite Demon.
[Kuwaraaa—!]
“Kill him!”
[You rotten corpses! Throw them back into purgatory!]
[I dedicate this world to the King of Death!]
A great war was currently taking place on the vast plains in front of the castle he had made his base.
It was a fierce battle that was sure to keep you on the edge of your seat no matter where you looked, with high-level demons and undead clashing everywhere, blowing away entire areas in a single blow.
But such things did not even enter the eyes of the infinite being standing on the wall.
Because there was only one thing that caught his attention right away.
[Are you the Infinite Demon?]
Something that looks down on the world from above the head of that great army.
It was an incomprehensible being that looked like a nightmare incarnate, wearing a bizarre mask and with an abyssal energy emanating from its entire body.
[What the heck? What the hell are you? How can an impure being like you exist in this world?]
The distance between them was quite great, but such spatial constraints meant nothing to them.
Infinite, who faced him, could instinctively realize.
That it was never born in this world.
‘Until the heartbreak and destruction came crashing down, I had hoped that it might be true.’
Although he has now emerged from hell and is bound by many restrictions, he was once an absolute being who observed the world from a high position.
There was no need to examine in detail how heterogeneous ‘that’ was.
‘A monster born in another world, who grew in strength by devouring the karma of death and divinity that came his way.’
The momentum was reminiscent of the ‘Great Demon of Death’ who once reigned supreme among the great demons of hell.
No, maybe it’s closer to the alien invaders who murdered him and took his existence away…
[Kuuuuu, are you talking about me?]
At that moment, as if responding to his words, the incarnation of death floating in the sky softly opened its mouth.
[The name of this body is Hannibal Strauss. The king of all lions, the end of the world—.]
A self-introduction that seems to contain some inexplicable resentment.
But before I could even grasp the emotion contained within, the words that followed blew away such trivial doubts.
[—The death of your demons.]
[···cheeky.]
The corners of Infinite’s mouth twisted at that arrogant declaration.
I know very well that the other person is someone that cannot be ignored.
But he too is a being standing at the pinnacle of this devourer.
Isn’t this absolutely not a position to kneel?
Besides, I didn’t like the fact that the other person’s argument was ‘death’.
It might have been different in the past, but now he was clearly the strongest representative of the great demons.
[Huh, good. I guess I don’t need to say any more. I don’t know how someone like you came to this world, but it’s for the best.]
The blood-red tattoos and red eyes that were densely engraved on the infinite black body that he was spitting out slowly began to glow.
It is a luxury to save strength in the face of such a powerful opponent.
I had to give it my all from the beginning without leaving anything out.
Paaaaat—!
A red light emanated from his body and shot high into the sky.
The aftermath shook space and a violent storm swept across the battlefield.
[Huh?]
Hans didn’t stop it.
He had already realized that his current body was nothing more than a terminal.
‘There’s no point in destroying the terminal. To deal with it properly, you have to hit the main body.’
And just as he expected.
From a fissure in the sky split by red light—something huge began to slowly reveal itself, tearing through space.
An enormous eyeball peering down at the ground through the ashen clouds.
Around the pupils, which were so large that they defied perspective despite being at an incredible distance away, countless rings of tiny eyeballs were densely packed and rotating in a dizzying manner.
‘···So the main body was hidden in the cracks of the world? This is a cosmic horror like no other.’
As he expressed such sentiments, a voice like a revelation from heaven resonated throughout the battlefield.
[This body is infinite! It is immortal itself that cannot be ended by death! I will destroy you now and prove to the world that infinity is above death!]
The bodies of those who were comparatively inferior to that overwhelming presence staggered and fell down.
Some people, who were injured and had weakened their resistance, were crushed to death on the ground.
But neither Hans nor Muhan paid any attention to such trivial matters.
‘Anyway, once we deal with that guy, everything will be over.’
Just then, a common thought crossed their minds.
————!
The air between them was shattered with a silent shock.
Although it was soon restored thanks to the world’s healing power, the space was unable to withstand the aftermath of the collision of near-infinite energies radiating from both sides.
‘This can’t go down to a simple power struggle.’
I could tell with just one fight.
The power that the Infinite Demon can summon is as infinite as its name suggests.
If we continue like this, the world will end faster than we can subdue him.
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‘Well, I’m pretty confident in a power struggle, but that’s not what’s important right now.’
After several more clashes, a pitch-black aura began to spread out from Hans’ body.
Black magic mixed with the power of the abyss.
It resonated with the thick death that spread throughout this battlefield… no, that permeated the entire world, slowly eating away at the world.
‘···This is the first time I’ve seen such a good response. How many people must have died···. It’s ridiculous to lose under these optimal conditions.’
The battlefield was covered with the aura of death, granting endless power to the dead and eternal rest to all other beings.
The undead that had been destroyed by him instantly returned to their normal state, and the demons that had lost their breath suddenly stood up and turned the tips of their swords in the opposite direction, but this phenomenon was merely an additional effect of the exercise of power.
[You! What is this···?!]
The death of the world was concentrated in one point.
A lethal essence of death that can affect not only living things but also abstract concepts.
The Infinite Demon, feeling a sense of crisis at the mysterious flow that reached the realm of power, opened his eyes wide and spun his countless rings even faster.
‘Dominating the karma of death that overflows in this world.’
In power, the stronger power devours the weaker power.
If, just maybe, it was a once in a lifetime event, but the bastard’s ‘death’ surpassed his ‘infinity’…
[That’s ridiculous! That’s ridiculous!]
I knew that wouldn’t happen, but I couldn’t take that risk.
In the end, he quickly took out the secret weapon he had been saving.
[Infinity is eternal! Die crushed by the endless space-time!]
A strange pattern filled the huge pupil and rotated in an infinite spiral.
An absolute sentence that no one can resist, as it is closely intertwined with the laws of this world.
It is a power that even caused the Eternal Demon, who possessed the fraudulent power of stopping time, to give up on dealing with him.
It was a miracle that allowed him to survive until the end, even as other great demons were being killed by the ‘Angel of Destruction’ who suddenly descended upon Hell.
A pillar of light started from the eye floating in the sky and poured down on the two-dimensional invaders.
***
“Phew, phew. We finally got here.”
McCarthy staggered forward, his whole body covered in blood.
But all the while, his eyes were fixed on the large, ornate door located in the innermost part of the castle.
“at las···.”
The war between the undead and demons was not only fought on the plains.
Since the numbers on both sides were so great and the demons preferred to attack each other rather than attack the castle, the castle in the center was naturally caught up in the fighting.
The undead did not necessarily turn their swords against the humans inside the castle first, but they were not so weak that they would let an enemy strike first.
Infiltrating the castle while it was in such chaos was a very easy task for McCarthy, who was not only human but also had control over some of the undead.
‘But it got more difficult the further you went into the center.’
At first, he was able to get through by simply disguising himself as a wounded soldier with a bandage over his left arm and eye, but later he had no choice but to fight directly.
And in the process, McCarthy was able to realize just how much power he possessed.
Boom!
He walked slowly through the broken door.
Not only did he break down the door and make his way through it, but he was also escorted by undead guards who politely escorted him.
It was the end of a group that once enjoyed pleasures and committed evil deeds under the leadership of a great lord.
“···Lapua!”
McCarthy finally entered the room.
I found the target of my revenge standing at the far end of the window, looking out, and I gritted my teeth softly.
Even though I had come here knowing that he was here through my soul-seeing eyes, I couldn’t control my boiling emotions when I came face to face with my enemy like this.
“Tch, what a worm came crawling in here.”
A situation where a villain he had never seen before had come right in front of him, leading a bunch of undead.
But Lapua just glanced at them and clicked her tongue as if it was nothing.
“I can fight even if I die because I failed to properly complete my mission. However, I absolutely cannot forgive you for turning into an intruder’s dog and pointing a knife at me.”
Although they had been moving like his hands and feet according to his orders, the expression on his face as he looked at them was extremely cold.
“Treason is a collective responsibility. When this is over, we should hold a festival for those guys’ families. Since it’s right after something big happened, we should arrest all their acquaintances and prepare a grand celebration.”
“···Huh, these are just undead. Their bodies are just dolls, and they have no will left, so you’re going to punish them?”
“Hmm? What does that have to do with anything?”
McCarthy unconsciously made an excuse on his behalf, but Lapua simply acted as if he didn’t really care.
And immediately after that, his gaze turned towards you with his head slightly tilted.
“Isn’t now the time to be worrying about other people’s business?”
“Ugh!”
McCarthy was forced to face the floor under the intense pressure from above.
I tried to get up somehow, but I could only barely raise my upper body.
If it weren’t for his left eye and arm, he would have been crushed and turned into a handful of blood long ago.
Just like the undead that had been guarding him until now, they have now disappeared without a trace.
“Huh? That’s a strange power. Is that the sign of your oath?”
“Ugh···!”
Lapua, who had come close to McCarthy, who was barely holding on, looked at him with interest through his pupils that had strange patterns rotating around them.
It was an eye very similar to the giant eyeball floating in the sky.
‘I thought this would be my chance now that Muhan is away. I didn’t think it would be like this even without the devil…’
Devil Contractor.
It was a being that had been granted some of the devil’s power through a contract.
Also, it is quite obvious that the person who made the contract with the greatest demon in this world… and the ‘Infinite Great Demon’, could not be an ordinary person.
So much so that McCarthy, who had just acquired the ability, could not even dare to approach it.
It was his mistake to act hastily, blinded by revenge.
“It looks like you have a grudge against me.”
In fact, there are few people in this world who do not hold a grudge against him.
It was a position that had to be like that from the beginning.
The name is the Contractor of the Great Devil.
“Still, I commend you for coming all the way here to me. And it seems like you have a lot to do with this commotion.”
His shoe crushed McCarthy’s head hard as he barely managed to raise his upper body.
And then he started to slowly scrub the floor and mutter some sarcastic remarks in a calm tone.
“But that’s it. No matter what the identity of the demon you made a contract with is, it can never win against Infinity. Even if it’s death or eternity in the story.”
A whole hundred years.
It was a time when the Infinite Demon reigned supreme over this world.
The karma and fear he had accumulated over the years were literally beyond imagination.
Even if they come back now, it won’t be easy to close the gap.
“Hehehe, if you crawl on the floor and beg for forgiveness right now, I might specially spare your life. Of course, I’ll have to gouge out both your eyes and cut off both your arms, but if you do that, you’ll be able to enjoy a luxury you’ve never experienced before···.”
“fu*k, Bald.”
“······.”
The scale of reverse scale that had to be given up in order to make a contract with the Great Demon.
Lapua’s expression hardened coldly at the mention of it.
“···Yeah, it looks like you don’t want to die gracefully. Then I should grant you your wish.”
A fierce glare flashed in his eyes as he slowly raised one hand.
First, I was thinking of cutting off both arms.
So that you can see the results of your presumptuous words and actions and regret them.
And next is···.
“hmm?”
“uh?”
But at that moment.
A single, questioning word escaped from both their mouths at the same time.
“What is this!”
A shocked Lapua reached out again, but nothing happened.
No, that wasn’t all.
The pupils that had been spinning with strange patterns had become normal eyes, and the power that had been suppressing McCarthy had completely disappeared.
“Hey, wait a minute! Infinite! This is a breach of contract!”
This power is one that Lapua obtained by offering ‘everything he had’ to the Infinite Demon.
It was everything about him that should never have disappeared so easily.
Even more so because he had given up many of his existing abilities, such as supernatural powers and physical abilities, as a down payment.
Swish—
However, the current situation is nothing short of despair for him.
“I’m not sure what happened.”
For some, it was a moment they had longed for so desperately.
“Doesn’t it seem like things have changed?”
McCarthy slowly rose from his seat and slowly walked forward, his left eye like obsidian shining.
He was waving his left hand, which was glowing black.
“Hey, stop! I am the Great Lord Lapua, how dare you be a…”
Lapua, whose face was distorted, tried to use her power again, but nothing changed.
He just waved his arms around pitifully, as if he had become an ordinary country bumpkin.
“I hope you can last a long time.”
McCarthy clenched his fist hard.
The hand that was given in return for swearing loyalty to seek revenge—.
“Because I have no intention of killing you nicely.”
“Cough!”
It slammed right into the face of a long-time enemy.
***
“It’s definitely a dangerous ability.”
I tilted my coffee cup, took a sip of the warm beverage, and exhaled gently.
In one corner of my consciousness, there was a scene where Hans was sentenced to death by thrusting his hand into the center of a giant eyeball.
It was hard to believe that he had been frozen in time until just a moment ago, looking perfectly fine.
“Well, it doesn’t really mean anything to me.”
It’s just that one of the ten or more incidents is momentarily abnormal.
Of course, the load on the “Mind Hub” skyrocketed during the process, but it wasn’t that burdensome because Hans’s own level was added to his mental skills, including “Great Mind.”
‘But it’s true that I hit you once, so I have to make sure to return the favor.’
The ‘death’ that was rampant in Devore had one thing in common.
The sorrow and origin of the sacrificed humans, and the causality related to it are all intertwined.
In other words, it was a poison that was even more fatal to the devil, the main culprit who shaped the world into that state.
Immediately after the failed attempt to use that as a last resort, I was countered without even being able to properly prepare my defenses…
“Ah, it’s over. I was lucky. It was over sooner than I thought.”
The overwhelming majesty of the beginning was reduced to a pitiful, shrunken eye held in Hans’s grasp.
It was the moment when the immortal king, the invader, defeated the demons and took over the world.
