Chapter 142
Chapter 142
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 142
Chapter Title: Endless Onslaught
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Rumble.
The signal came immediately.
Along with the quaking earth, a horde of pitch-black demon beasts was approaching.
"Hah."
Go Yohan clicked his tongue.
"You've been hiding this many?"
He knew that demon beast seeds, demon seeds, and a new type of demonic drug touched by demons were being mass-produced and distributed in North Korea and China.
He had plugged the entrance and blocked their spread as much as possible.
"......"
It seemed they had been used inside here.
Deep underground, there was a will to deceive everything from both outside and inside to prevent the regime's collapse.
Rumble.
The Demon King was also beginning to descend, fusing parts of North Korea with the demon realm.
The demon beasts and demons pouring out from within were close to 'infinite' in number.
"Grrr...."
The once mighty Travania had fallen completely in less than five years for that reason too.
Even with an elite legion that could sweep away demon beasts.
"Hellhounds, what do you fear?"
Even with knight orders and mage corps that hunted horned demons.
"You are infinite, and I am alone."
The endless onslaught, gleaming with malice and murderous intent, had ultimately broken human wills and torn them apart.
"Why so afraid?"
Yet among them, only one had fought on without breaking.
"Cough!"
It went without saying that it was Michael.
The hellhounds began charging.
"It'll be a long fight."
Unlike the Black Gate.
This was different from targeting a clear objective and assaulting it.
'Right.'
In Earth's terms, it was a kind of defense battle.
Demon beasts and demons pouring out like waves.
A battle to see how long he could hold them off and sweep them away.
Just as in the past.
Boom!
Go Yohan thrust his fist forward without touching Space Slash or the Divine Eye's domain.
Crack!
The hellhound's skull shattered under his fist.
Whoosh!
Its head turned to ash and scattered.
Meanwhile, three more hellhounds lunged.
Bang! Bang! Whoosh!
They lost their heads to Go Yohan's light punches and casual movements, tumbling away.
They hesitated momentarily at that overwhelming power, but Go Yohan was right.
"Bite them to death!"
"Are the demon dogs afraid?"
"Kill it!"
Go Yohan was alone, and they were infinite.
"Craaawr!"
The hellhounds and demon beasts charged relentlessly under the demons' whips.
Bang! Bang!
Go Yohan's movements looked like the hammer strikes of a legendary blacksmith.
In restrained motions pursuing ultimate efficiency.
Bang!
Their power and effectiveness were unmatched.
Baaang!
He smashed the surging black dogs, smashing and smashing again.
"A long time ago, that time comes to mind."
Heh.
His white teeth flashed between the heads of demon beasts turning to ash and scattering.
Travania's Demon King descent.
The battle with the Demon King, summoned by sacrificing an entire kingdom's people, had raged for a full hundred days without rest.
"All of you...."
Bang!
"Come at me."
In that tangled chaos, it didn't matter who was demon or human.
It was then.
Tremble.
His skin prickled.
The signal had come.
'They're here.'
The reinforcements moving for the objective were arriving one by one.
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Kim Sehyun and Taehan didn't look back.
They instinctively knew that the demon beasts and demons Go Yohan would face alone accounted for nearly eighty percent of what would appear in North Korea, but it didn't matter.
Tata-tat!
The world had only witnessed a fraction of Go Yohan's revealed power.
To those who had lived with him for so long, his apostles turned priests.
"Rather than rushing, it's better to be thorough."
He was Go Yohan's invincible, tireless incarnation.
Taehan's guild members nodded at Kim Sehyun's words.
This side of Kim Sehyun was different from when she faced Go Yohan.
Shing.
She had often been evaluated as fierce in the past.
That label stuck even during her player activities, stemming from her passive, doll-like past.
Ripple.
Days cowed by her changed parents.
It remained innate and unchanged, but those who had seen her fight said otherwise.
Ggggrrrk!
The swung sword couldn't advance easily, blocked by something.
Boom boom boom!
The ground rumbled as if the earth's crust would flip.
Far off, demon beasts hunting humans and a few demons.
Before them.
Spurt!
As if slicing through the obstruction, Kim Sehyun's sword moved.
Roooar!
Blood erupted like lava, sweeping them away in a tsunami.
"Craawl!"
"Wh-what!"
They were swept away in one strike.
Those who saw Kim Sehyun's combat called her.
'Bloody Queen.'
The Queen of Blood.
With sword in hand, she was more indifferent and cold than anyone.
But for some reason.
Thump! Thump!
Just looking at her made hearts race and unknown emotions surge.
Kim Sehyun was cold rage.
Pahhat!
Several three-horned demons wrapped in black demonic energy emerged through the blood wave with the demon beasts.
Kim Sehyun charged without swinging her sword again.
Splash, splash.
Taehan moved.
Their nature wasn't much different from Kim Sehyun's.
Expressionless and cold, as if wearing masks.
Boom!
They wielded flails, battle axes, swords, and such against the demon beasts and demons.
"Craawl!"
The demon beasts couldn't overcome Taehan.
They weren't even top-tier, merely level 300 players.
Roooar!
All their combat styles and training were made to counter these foes.
The forged divine items co-created with Gluttony and Cheoljungbae granted abilities beyond their levels, overwhelming those infused with demonic energy.
Boom!
There was a reason they were called another kind of priestly existence, different from the other zealots.
"H-how?"
The flustered demons proved it.
"How can mere humans contain sin?"
The portion of sin implanted in them truly enabled them to 'hunt' demons.
Demonic curses or sins had little effect on them.
Flesh against flesh, will against will.
Fallen demons and beasts littered the ground.
Boom! Thud! Boom!
The combat priests crushed the heads and hearts of the fallen for confirmation kills.
Shivering.
Behind them were North Korea's trembling citizens.
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"...Hoo."
Go Minji exhaled roughly.
B-rank gate.
To be recognized as a ranker player in America meant conquering such gates without much difficulty.
S-rank were rare disasters throughout history, A-rank merely less rare catastrophes countable on fingers.
Practically, B-rank was the highest gates players tackled.
Top rankers partied up for them, major guild raid teams targeted them.
"Insane."
But even B-rank gates were canonically conquered methodically over time.
"Injury and casualty report...."
Just two hours.
The time to conquer a B-rank gate.
"No need."
Go Minji smiled bitterly.
The impossible conquest succeeded due to substantial divine power and peak condition, but mostly.
"Thanks to the consideration he tossed our way."
But above all.
"What we must do is simple."
It was because of the one now speaking.
"Protect the black pillar, the obelisk, hunt the surrounding demons, and rescue North Korea's citizens."
Lee Jaekyung.
One of the legends of divine power, a globally recognized player.
But after entangling with Go Yohan, his activities dwindled, leaving him a legend—some called him a has-been.
'Has-been?'
Go Minji wanted to ask anyone calling him that.
'You got a brain in there?'
She was overwhelmed.
Wielding Ograk's twin blades, she thought she could compete with America's top rankers, but Lee Jaekyung was different.
Sheathing his sword, he was just a slightly scary-looking uncle, but when he drew it.
'It wouldn't be retreat, it'd be monster.'
He became a terrifying monster.
Shing.
Now he drew his sword again without pause.
"I'll clear the path."
Not as much as Go Yohan, but how reassuring.
"We too...."
"No."
Lee Jaekyung cut off Go Minji.
"Focus on citizen rescue. You're better suited than me, Raid Leader."
Choking demonic energy poured from all sides.
'When?'
She only now realized demon beasts and demons had already surrounded and approached.
It was then.
Tap.
Lee Jaekyung's presence vanished as if erased from the world.
And soon.
Spurt!
Thin red lines appeared on nearby demon beasts, splitting open and spraying.
"......"
Even so, Lee Jaekyung didn't look satisfied.
'I still have a long way to go.'
No matter his efforts, he couldn't replicate Go Yohan's sword strikes.
Vowing one day he would, for now he swung his best.
"Let's go."
They moved.
Boom!
Bursting through the large camp gate.
He sensed countless people hiding, watching.
Nod.
Lee Jaekyung nodded to Go Minji.
Here, it wasn't his fierce face's turn, but Go Minji's, beautiful at least in appearance.
"...I am."
Go Minji stepped forward.
"Go Minji of Korea's Divine Guild. We've come to rescue you."
