The End of Delusion (4)
A fleeting moment.
A silence fell over the whole world, as if it had stopped.
There was only one thought in the minds of the practitioners who were advancing towards Seongcheon Yun Ga.
By a very coincidence, everyone present had the same miraculous mind.
‘What is this?’
At first, I couldn’t understand it at all.
…No, no.
Actually, understanding it itself wasn’t that difficult.
As a practitioner who cultivates mental imagery while practicing chakras, it made no sense that I could not feel such clear mental waves.
It’s not that I can’t understand this…
It would have been more appropriate to say ‘unbelievable’.
‘I feel like I’m going to suffocate at any moment. What the heck is this…!’
An invisible storm of thoughts that rose like a tidal wave from the center of the city and spread in all directions.
In the face of that which swallowed up the entire area in an instant, neither the resistance that he had boasted about nor his heavily armed mental barrier were of any use.
-stop.
It’s just one word.
The will to fight, which had been running high as the forced will was engraved in my mind, suddenly subsided as if it had been splashed with cold water.
I couldn’t even take a single step because I was out of breath, let alone moving forward.
There were some who tried to resist that coercion in some way, but such attempts did not last long.
“Haa, haa···. Damn it! Si, the gaze···!”
“Ugh! Look this way! What the hell is that!”
Rather, the situation was better for those of lower status.
All of those who suddenly started to feel dizzy and show strange reactions were strong players who were confident in their abilities.
Those who dug into that ideology for resistance had no choice but to face something head-on at the end.
Something inexplicable and indefinable, something that secretly looks at us from beyond the connection called ‘communication’.
Even if you say you don’t intend to cause any harm, its massive presence alone is enough to be intimidating.
Soldiers who have lost their will to fight and are completely incapacitated, regardless of their ability.
The war ended as quickly as it began.
“···amazing.”
A miracle accomplished with just one word.
Ramyu, who had witnessed the feat right next to him, looked up at Hoon with sparkling eyes.
‘This is absolute power… absolutely necessary to bring peace to the world…’
Because she had opened the chakra of the ‘world’, she could feel things much more sensitively than others.
How much karma was contained in Hoon’s one word just now.
How much effort he has put into building it up.
‘It felt like it wasn’t just Hoon Oppa, but more than ten people were shouting at the same time.’
Of course, it’s a ridiculous misconception.
That would be proof that I still have many shortcomings.
She nodded her head vigorously, determined to work even harder in the future.
‘···It definitely seems to have been a stimulus.’
Hoon, who was glancing at Ramyu like that, tried not to show his satisfaction and folded his arms seriously.
A single blow so impactful it’s reminiscent of an astronomical performer.
It was a bit of a stretch to see the rewards of drawing on the mental power of other avatars.
“···Mr. Hoon? What the heck···.”
At that moment, Lucette’s voice, unable to hide her embarrassment, was heard from behind.
When I looked back, she was looking at them with bewildered eyes, with electric lights flashing all over her body, as if she had run in a hurry.
“You’ve climbed the astronomy…? No, that can’t be. It’s hard to believe that you’ve already climbed to the depths, but astronomy…. But this is now.”
She seemed confused and rambling, but then she forced herself to close her eyes and take a deep breath.
Of course, it was impossible for Yun Ga not to notice this powerful ripple that started from his home base.
They could not help but be amazed at the thoughts contained within it.
No matter how conservatively you look at it, the scale was so great that it was impossible for anyone other than an astronomer to achieve it.
‘Even if you lower the aggression, it’s still like that. Even a deep practitioner can’t easily ignore the mental waves that spread so widely…’
If that target had been me, I wonder if I would have been able to completely overcome it.
Honestly, even she herself wasn’t sure.
“It’s not astronomy yet. I just added a little bit of my otherworldly abilities. Well, you can just think of it as a minor talent.”
“···Is that so?”
Lucette, who had difficulty accepting the answer, smiled awkwardly.
If you think about it, he has a history of turning many upper-level practitioners into idiots without chakra, and even knocking down deep-level practitioners not long after he was initiated.
Now, it may be strange to be surprised by such things.
“Oh, and I think we might need some manpower… Is that okay?”
“Because of the aftermath here? Don’t worry. This is also our Yun family’s job. All departments are already working hard to respond.”
“Of course that happens too, but···.”
Hoon, whose words were trailing off, turned his gaze and looked into the distance.
Even though Yoonga would find out soon anyway, I thought it would be better to say it now since it has come to this.
“I think that might not be enough.”
And just as quickly as he finished saying that.
Kuuuung—!
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The sound of an explosion that started in the distance echoed faintly.
Lucette’s face hardened as she sensed something was wrong.
Then, without even being able to say anything, her body, engulfed in lightning, disappeared from that spot.
“···Oh, there’s no need to overreact like that.”
“Isn’t it over? Shouldn’t we help too…?”
“Oh, it’s okay. It’s okay. It’s not like war. It’s just···”
Hoon shrugged his shoulders at Ramyu’s worried question.
Then, he stroked his chin, thought about what to say, and then lightly clapped his hands, raising the corners of his lips in a smirk.
“Yeah, the cleaning company is just disinfecting. You can just leave this to the professionals.”
“······?”
Whether she nodded or not because she didn’t understand what he was saying, he raised his head and stared at the sky.
“By the way, the weather is nice. On a day like this, it would be perfect to have a picnic under the cool shade of a tree.”
The sky is unusually clear and blue today.
The high sky was as bright as the future that lay ahead of them.
***
A shabby man with a bandit-like beard lay in the rubble of a collapsed building, staring blankly at the sky beyond the gaping hole in the ceiling.
‘···What the hell, it’s so damn sunny.’
How long has it been since I last looked up at the sky like this?
But that leisure time didn’t last long.
If I didn’t get up right away, I might end up lying down forever.
Become one with this land.
Kuuung—!
He instinctively tried to avoid it, but a thick leg slammed down on the spot where he had been lying.
Although the form was clearly just a simple cloud, the results it brought about were already beyond ordinary.
Jejejeok—
Cracks in the earth spread out like spider webs through the thick clouds of dust.
The building, which had been barely hanging on to the sinking ground, collapsed with a jolt of vibration as if an earthquake had occurred.
“Whew, whoa… I’m going to turn around. How did such a crazy monster get attached to me….”
He spat out the blood that had gushed out of his throat—the demon practitioner, ‘Human Baekjeong’, muttered softly as if he was at a loss.
The surrounding area was in chaos with buildings collapsed as if a major earthquake had already passed.
It was a split second.
The five deep practitioners and the double-digit number of upper-level practitioners who had participated in the Yun Ga expedition with him were all killed without even being able to put up a proper fight.
Feeling a sense of crisis, he immediately threw himself into the crack in space again to escape, but…
The problem was that the giant suddenly barged in and grabbed him as if he had been waiting for that moment, and they both crossed the space together.
“Cough! The attack isn’t working···!”
“Human Baekjeong! This damned bastard! What the hell did you bring here!”
“Kwaaaaak!”
The next thing that happened was like what you see now.
The hideout set up to assist in this Yun Ga raid operation was completely burned to the ground.
By one and only being.
“Hahahahaha—! All these bugs are gathered here!”
The muscles clearly visible in his savage attire twitched dynamically.
With a single wave of his hand, everything that stood in his way was torn apart, and no attack could weaken his sturdy body.
Although he was an opponent who had no chakra or any real weapons, the intimidation he felt far surpassed that of an average astronomer.
‘Damn, damn it. If it weren’t for that damn mind wave, this wouldn’t have happened.’
Being held back there and delayed in returning led to this irreversible disaster.
The situation had already deteriorated to the point of no return.
The best thing to do now is to run away as fast as possible and get away from that moving disaster…
‘There’s no way he’d let me go that easily.’
He glanced down at his shabby, toothless butcher knife and smiled bitterly.
“Hey buddy! What are you doing here? You did me the favor of inviting me here, so let’s hang out together again!”
At that moment, a hearty voice rang in my ears from nearby.
The human butcher reflexively swung the knife in his hand and cut the neck of the opponent who approached him, but…
Kagagak—!
That fatal blow, imbued with the deep chakra of murder and the middle chakra of slaughter, could not even penetrate the skin on the neck and only caused small sparks to fly.
The infamous cursed sword that inflicts fatal damage upon contact with a human!
‘···Heh heh, I was hoping, but this monster···. It really wasn’t human, huh?’
So it was natural that the power of murder, which was specialized in killing ‘humans’, did not work properly.
Given the difference in power, even if that had worked, it would have been difficult to achieve meaningful results.
“Oh, man, it’s so disappointing. It’s a bad habit to act before speaking. I’ll take this opportunity to firmly correct that bad habit.”
A cracking sound came from Harley’s rock-hard fist,
Speculation that begins to burn like a flame with him.
What happened next was almost expected.
“Let’s wrap this up, buddy. I’m a very busy person, even though I’m like this. I still have a lot of work to do.”
“Ugh! Ugh, ugh!”
Harley shrugged, her large hands gripping his neck.
The noise of battle that had been resonating loudly throughout the world had long since died down.
That was only natural, since he was the only one standing on two legs in this place.
‘I don’t know about the troops dispatched from Hongsan and Cheonghae countries, but there is no reason to spare the practitioners of magic who are only harmful.’
Unlike Hela, who is surprisingly versatile and can perform a variety of missions, Harley can only smash things.
It was only natural that he took up pest extermination.
‘Okay, so this matter is more or less settled. All that’s left is to contact Yun Ga and clean up this hideout.’
This is the stronghold where evil magic practitioners used as a hideout.
We’ve cleaned them up, but we don’t know what else might be hidden, so investigation and cleanup are essential.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you can do that annoying thing yourself.
In that sense, it was a very rational choice to pass the responsibility on to Yoon Ga, the person involved in this matter.
But in order to do that, I first need to tell Yun Ga the story…
“···Huh?”
Harley, who had been thinking, blinked her eyes blankly.
First of all, because the situation was urgent, I just passed the space without thinking about what would happen later···.
‘By the way, where am I? How do I get back?’
No, just going back can be done using “Hero’s Footsteps”.
The problem is that if you do that, it becomes difficult to properly explain the location of this place.
He was staring up at the sky blankly, then scratched the back of his head.
“Hahahaha! Well, sometimes things like this happen when a man tries to achieve something great!”
Harley burst out laughing.
Of course, there was still no real solution.
Fortunately, he didn’t have to resort to any tricks.
Lucette sensed the anomaly and went to the source of the noise, confirmed the traces left there, and immediately formed a tracking team.
This was possible because, unlike the previous raid, it wasn’t that difficult to reverse the spatial coordinates thanks to Harley completely destroying the destination point.
After capturing the commander-in-chief, Harley, who had been eating like a carnivore, was starting to be active in his own way.
Hela, who had been tracking the mastermind before that, was also achieving significant results elsewhere.
***
One of the many islands in the archipelago located south of the central continent of Sabacheon.
“Ha, hahaha… This is ridiculous.”
A dark-skinned black man sat down, his head bowed, and a hollow laugh escaped his lips.
There were a dozen or so black magic circles all around, and countless chains extending from them and wrapping around his body.
It was a realistic proof that he was ultimately defeated.
‘I never thought I’d end up like this.’
This was something that was unimaginable until just recently.
Whether it was General Yongseol of Cheonghae, General Jureung of Hongsan, or the Black King.
No matter who attacked, I was confident that I would eventually defeat them and win.
“Oh my, that’s a really tricky ability. I almost missed it.”
In front of him, a seductive woman sat with her legs crossed in the air, placing a hand on her cheek and letting out a small sigh.
Still, she seemed to be in a good mood since she had finally succeeded in catching it, as the folded wings behind her were fluttering, subtly revealing her enjoyment.
“The ability to freely change bodies through hosts. That’s why it was so hard to catch the true form.”
When they are about to be caught, they change bodies, and when they think they have caught one, they move to a distant host, so it is inevitable that it will take a long time to track them down.
If Hela had not been the Demon King, if she had not had at least one of the abilities to capture and track souls, let alone forcibly fix them…
They would still be continuing that lukewarm chase.
‘Demon King, Demon King? How can such a being exist in this world? And the secret he uses isn’t chakra. Could it be that he’s from another world? The Demon King? What the hell are you talking about!’
But complaining now wouldn’t change anything.
“Okay, then.”
She uncrossed her legs in midair and slowly approached him.
The dark force was completely subdued and unable to move.
To the Unknown, a being that has abandoned its name along with its original body.
“Let’s have a more intimate conversation.”
Hela’s eyes lit up with an eerie glare as she grabbed his chin and met his gaze.
