550
Chapter 550
'The ancestor of the Draker?'
The known ancestor of the Draker family was Dragon Slayer Terakan Draker.
However, through secret history, Zeke knew that the true ancestor of the Draker bloodline was Solomon, the King of the legendary city Carcosa, the first God Slayer and Irregular.
But now Harvey West was claiming that he was the true ancestor of the Draker bloodline.
'This makes no sense from the start.'
Seeing Zeke's disbelief, the High Priest nodded.
"Yes, it's hard to believe. But this is the truth."
Zeke smirked and pointed his sword at Harvey West.
"Whether you're the ancestor of Draker or Jiemens, that's not my concern. What matters is that by eliminating you and absorbing the sealed soul of the Arrogant Savior, I can stop both the Demon King and the Lords of Hell."
Harvey West shook his head at Zeke's words.
"So you've been deceived by the cunning tongue of Mephistopheles."
He snapped his fingers again.
SNAP
An image appeared behind Harvey West.
A majestic and dignified cityscape.
In the center of the city stood a tower that seemed to pierce the heavens.
"This is Babel, the City of Salvation built by the Arrogant Savior for the demon realm."
Babel's scale was incomparably more majestic than the Pandemonium that Mephistopheles had shown.
Compared to Babel, Pandemonium was hardly worthy of being called a city.
Harvey West looked at Zeke and said.
"Mephistopheles, that wicked devil, conspired with other archdemons to deceive the Arrogant Savior and sell him out to the material world."
RUMBLE! RUMBLE
As he spoke, enormous power rippled from Harvey West's body.
"The Arrogant Savior had no choice but to go to the material world under various restrictions, believing the words of his friend Mephistopheles."
Zeke frowned at Harvey West's words.
They contained completely different facts from what he had heard from the Princess and Arataso.
'So the Lords of Hell deceived the Arrogant Savior to drive him out and take his place...'
The demons of Hell were certainly capable of such treachery.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE
When Zeke didn't respond, Harvey West's red eyes flashed an eerie light.
"That's the nature of devils. Zeke Draker, if you fall for Mephistopheles' deception and try to interfere with the great work, I will annihilate you. However."
Harvey West looked straight at Zeke and said.
"If you follow me, you can stand on stage with me as a protagonist of the final chapter."
From Harvey West, who was offering his hand, Zeke could sense an unparalleled twisted madness.
It was something he had never felt from any being before.
'I must eliminate him here.'
Without hesitation, he raised Ascalon and pointed it at Harvey West.
"I've heard enough of your mad ravings. But I don't need to hear any more."
Simultaneously, Zeke lunged forward and unleashed a sharp sword strike.
CRASH! CRASH!
Seeing the sword strike flying towards him, Harvey West raised his hand.
Then the energy bursting from behind him gathered and created a black hole.
Soon, a red eye emerged from within.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
As light flickered in the red eye, crimson lightning surged forth and negated Zeke's sword strike.
CRACKLE !
The red lightning that shot out from the eye not only nullified Zeke's attack but also swept through the area behind him, engulfing the Golem Knights, Arataso, and Nebilos.
BOOM! BOOM!
The destructive lightning bounced around, devastating everything in its path.
"URGHHHH!"
Arataso and Nebilos, who had exhausted their strength fighting the Skeleton Corps, couldn't properly block the lightning and retreated.
As a result, the undead army summoned by Nebilos turned to ash and vanished instantly.
The Golem Knights with their tough defenses stood in front to protect them, but even they were insufficient to block this.
As the Golem Knights shattered and were reverse-summoned, unable to withstand the lightning, a shadow suddenly spread out in front of Arataso and Nebilos, blocking the red lightning.
"Arataso! Nebilos! Come this way!"
Following Zeke's command, Arataso and Nebilos retreated in the direction he indicated.
Though he was blocking the lightning with Shadow Armor, the power flowing from the eye was far from ordinary.
As he observed the eye to determine how to respond, Arataso spoke to Zeke.
"This power is also the 'Eye of the Destruction God' that the Arrogant Savior possessed. The red lightning flowing from the eye grows stronger the more it destroys."
Zeke furrowed his brow at Arataso's words.
"Lightning that grows stronger with destruction. Is this another power of the Arrogant Savior?"
Arataso shook his head at those words.
"It's the power of an artifact that the Arrogant Savior created long ago by plucking out the Eye of the Destruction God."
Then Arataso continued in a tone of incomprehension.
"However, this artifact was also known to have been destroyed in the war of the demon realm. First the destroyed Skeleton Army appears, and now a destroyed artifact..."
Zeke asked Arataso:
"Arataso, do you know what the Arrogant Savior's power is? This seems related to it."
He responded with hesitation:
"The Arrogant Savior stood at the apex of all fallen constellations. No one knows the true nature of his power."
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
Even as Zeke and Arataso conversed, the Destruction God's red lightning continued to grow in power, filling the entire space.
The lightning blocked by the shadows bounced off the walls and struck down towards Zeke.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Seeing the destructive lightning growing stronger with time, Zeke drew Leviathan.
Then he said to Arataso and Nebilos:
"I'll handle him, you two get out of here. Meet up with Boris and tell him to destroy this place."
Surprised by Zeke's words, Arataso asked:
"Destroy it? How will you escape if this place is destroyed?"
"I'll figure that out. What's important is keeping that High Priest trapped here."
After considering Zeke's words, Arataso nodded.
"Understood. I'll follow your instructions."
Zeke pulled out the shadow sword Caladbolg and threw it toward the opposite door.
Shadows formed a path around Caladbolg, blocking the red lightning.
As Arataso and Nebilos ran along that path toward the door, Harvey West raised his hand upon seeing this.
"Trying to use cheap tricks, I see."
Eerie energy gathered in his raised hand.
But at that moment.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
A magical reversal field began to spread from Zeke's body.
The magic Harvey West tried to use became unstable due to the reversal field's influence, showing signs of going out of control.
During this opening, Arataso and Nebilos successfully escaped outside the cavity.
Zeke said to Harvey West:
"You won't have time to focus elsewhere."
Simultaneously, he raised Lævateinn and drew upon his Hyonshingi power.
WOONG WOONG WOONG
Without stopping, Zeke immediately unleashed his Triple Spell power toward the Eye of the Destruction God.
Soul technique
Triple Spell
Will of Nullification
WOONG! WOONG!
Soul technique activated, carrying Zeke's will to nullify everything.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
When the will of nullification made contact, the seemingly unstoppable destructive lightning began to gradually disperse.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
As the rampaging lightning that had been filling the space dispersed, red light scattered.
Simultaneously, the Eye of the Destruction God that had been spewing lightning also gradually faded.
TSSS! TSSS!
Soon, like being washed away by water, the Eye of the Destruction God and the red lightning completely vanished from the space.
Harvey West's eyes widened at the remarkable phenomenon Zeke had created.
He thought he had figured out all of Zeke's abilities, but realized there were still realms beyond his reach.
As he was surprised by this, Zeke grabbed Caladbolg and charged at Harvey West.
WHOOSH!
Using Duke's Wind Technique to instantly close the distance, Zeke's sword fell toward Harvey West's head.
CLANG!
Surprisingly, Kaisir's homunculus, which was thought to have been destroyed, appeared before Harvey West.
Though puzzled by the homunculus swinging its sword with a completely restored body unlike before, Zeke immediately swung Lævateinn and unleashed Elemental Sword.
CRASH!
The powerful wind force pushed the homunculus back.
Kaisir's homunculus stood firm in front of Harvey West as if to protect him.
Pointing his sword at Harvey West behind it, Zeke said:
"The Arrogant Savior's soul that you possess. I think I know what his power is."
Harvey West's eyebrow twitched slightly at Zeke's words.
Zeke's lips slowly opened.
"The power of recreation that brings back what once existed. That was the Arrogant Savior's power."
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RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Feeling the vibrations shaking the entire labyrinth, Arataso and Nebilos quickly tried to escape the cavity.
At that moment, blue demon fire flickered in Nebilos's eyes as he fled with Arataso.
'Now is the time to escape.'
Nebilos, an Subordinate and high-ranking demon who received authority from the Master of the Abyss, the ruler of Abaddon, was one of the most notorious nobles even in the demon realm.
Among the high-ranking demons, Nebilos was the closest to being promoted to supreme-rank demon.
He was an unfortunate demon who responded to the summoning out of unnecessary greed to gather souls in the material world to secure his promotion to supreme-rank demon, only to get wrongly entangled with Zeke.
'I couldn't break these chains while sealed in the sword, but now it's possible.'
That's why Nebilos had been waiting for a chance to escape even while trapped in the sword.
Unlike Arataso who had grown loyal to Zeke, Nebilos harbored ambitions to return to the Master of the Abyss, report the complex situation in the material world, and secure his position in the demon realm.
Watching Arataso running ahead diligently, Nebilos stopped following and stepped back.
He then moved sideways to distance himself from Arataso.
'Good! I need to remove these chains and return to the demon realm.'
Solomon's chains that Zeke had placed bound even the soul, making it impossible to return to the demon realm in the current situation.
However, Nebilos, who had mastered all kinds of spirit techniques and dark magic of the demon realm, had already devised ways to break the chains.
Sensing Arataso's presence disappear, he began preparing to remove the chains in earnest.
"Curse you, Zeke Draker. I will return to the demon realm and report your atrocities to the Master of the Abyss, and exact my revenge."
Nebilos tried to break the chains binding his soul while burning with rage against Zeke.
CRACKLE! CRACKLE! CRACKLE!
He attempted to break the chains using magical power, but they were bound too tightly to show any signs of loosening.
"Stubborn chains, just like their master."
Nebilos decided to try another method he had thought of.
He would split his spirit body into fine particles to escape the chains' binding, then merge back together.
Though it was a dangerous attempt that could result in soul annihilation if done wrong, Nebilos, a noble high-ranking demon, had sufficient capability to succeed.
"Huff."
Nebilos took a deep breath and summoned his magical power.
Simultaneously, his spirit body began splitting into fine particles and dispersing like mist.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
The scattered soul reformed back into its original shape.
CLANG!
The chains binding Nebilos's body fell to the floor.
He raised both hands in joy.
"Success! I've succeeded!"
After freeing himself from the soul binding, Nebilos immediately tried to return to the demon realm but stopped. Something felt wrong.
'Why can't I return to the demon realm?'
Though he had escaped the chains, return was impossible.
Nebilos's mind became complicated as he realized something had gone terribly wrong.
But at that moment.
ROAR!
Something massive was approaching from down the corridor with an ominous sound.