Chapter 74
Chapter 74
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 74
Chapter Title: Archdemon Galandril
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Like a meteor had crashed there, Go Yohan emerged from that spot and spoke.
“More waiting I can do.”
A voice utterly devoid of warmth.
“I didn’t wait to hunt trash like you.”
His tone and aura had completely changed.
“If this is all….”
At that moment.
Crunch.
A sound like something tearing rang out.
When the demons surrounding Go Yohan in a triangle formation blankly looked down.
Wobble.
They could see their bodies tilting, half their torsos ripped away.
“Kuaaaak!”
“Kuaak!”
The demons screamed.
“Disappointing.”
In an instant, half of the triangular demons no longer moved.
At that moment.
Kuuung!
A fist compressing the air like a piston fell toward Go Yohan’s head at the speed of light.
It was the fist of Galandril, named an Archdemon.
Thud.
But the impact sound that echoed was far too small.
Fwaaaaaah!
The shockwave, in contrast, was overwhelmingly fierce.
The battlefield swirled like a storm had raged through.
“Putting on a show, are you? Knight.”
Galandril’s voice boomed and reverberated.
Behind him.
Flash!
It split vertically in two, revealing a massive wing on one side.
Smirk.
His grotesquely twisting lips—Galandril’s mouth and the mouths on his forearms—all smiled in unison.
“Those short dwarf bastards and repulsive elf scum were right.”
At Galandril’s voice.
“Urk!”
Choi Jio clutched her ears and collapsed.
“You’ve weakened.”
Go Yohan stood firm, having deflected Galandril’s fist.
“Weakened….”
Go Yohan repeated Galandril’s words.
‘You’ve weakened.’
Kartul had said the same.
And to some extent, it was true.
Compared to the peak of his power in Travania, his current flesh was indeed lacking.
But.
“My suspicions were correct.”
On the contrary, it had revealed something.
“……?”
“You demons don’t seem to communicate properly among yourselves.”
“……!”
“Or perhaps.”
Thud!
The moment Go Yohan kicked off the ground.
Screeech!
Tentacle-like arms and legs, armament twisted into grotesque forms, surged toward him.
“Are you waging a civil war among yourselves?”
Crunch!
But with that familiar noise, the things pursuing Go Yohan were torn apart and scattered.
Even so.
Flash!
True to demonic flesh, they regenerated and targeted Go Yohan once more.
[Occupation: Black Knight changes to Knight of Sloth.]
[Authority, Non-Action activates.]
Drip.
They hung limp, devoid of strength.
Not enough with that, the triangular demons sprawled on the ground like slimes.
“Guh… heuk, heuk….”
As if they’d even forgotten to breathe.
The tattoos writhed.
Their eyes dulled.
As if they’d fall asleep any moment.
“Galandril.”
But by then, Go Yohan stood before the Archdemon Galandril.
“Do you think I waited just to call out trash like you?”
“……!”
Archdemon.
He had assumed that, given it was a trap targeting him, they’d prepared at least this much.
But.
Snarl.
Go Yohan’s face twisted.
“Is the best your hidden cowards can muster just scum like you?”
Just Galandril.
Go Yohan’s face showed genuine disappointment.
“Gaaaaah-!”
Galandril erupted in furious demonic energy.
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Galandril was a monster over five meters tall, his entire body covered in eyeballs.
Seven horns protruded from among them.
Whoooong!
Light began gathering in every single eyeball.
The moment it converged.
[Gaze]
Zing!
Hundreds of eyes simultaneously fixed on Go Yohan and spat out beams of light.
[Non-Action]
The moment slimy green energy leaked from Go Yohan, the beams heading toward him lost their power and began to sag.
But.
Flash!
They quickly regained their strength and poured toward Go Yohan.
The power of gazes converged at one point was strong enough to shred even dragon scales.
Crunch.
But at Go Yohan’s gesture, they twisted direction once more.
[Space Sever]
Having warped space, the beams that couldn’t reach Go Yohan ricocheted upward into the sky.
Meanwhile.
Crunch!
Go Yohan tore into Galandril’s flesh with his other hand.
[Hand of Non-Action]
Regardless of the flesh ripped away, the eyeballs sprouting across Galandril’s body half-closed.
Drowsiness poured in, slothful emotions corrupting them.
“How can you wield the power of Those Ones-!”
Galandril cried out in horror.
Even as an Archdemon, the hierarchy was a truth he’d already learned in Travania.
Archdemons had seven horns, but they weren’t all equal.
Fwaaah!
Heat from behind his back.
The gazes twisted their trajectory without missing their target, aiming for Go Yohan’s back.
Crunch!
Go Yohan seized it and fired it back at Galandril.
Whoooong!
The gazes halted and clumped before Galandril.
“How…!”
Galandril cried out again.
Though they had seven horns, those created through rituals or sacrifices were mere powerhouses without substance.
Vast demonic energy filling their massive frames.
That was all they had.
Of course, that alone was plenty threatening.
“Galandril.”
Go Yohan moved like light, seizing the clumped gaze-light before Galandril’s chest.
Whoooong!
The immense power flared intensely as if resisting, but was crushed by even greater force.
Whoom!
Compressed just like that.
[Occupation: Knight of Sloth changes to Knight of Jealousy.]
[Authority, Wraiths of Regret activates.]
His silver-white hair grew even whiter, his sky-blue eyes clearer.
Silver-white plate armor seemed to envelop Go Yohan’s body.
Rumble rumble.
The Mark of Sin trembled wildly.
Greater demons called Archdemons—only they truly qualified as such.
Above them existed the Primordials, and these curses were the powers and authorities of those Primordials.
Kwaaaang!
The compressed gaze-power collided with its owner, Galandril, and exploded.
“Do you not remember?”
Kuuung!
His massive body was pushed back powerlessly, crumbling.
“Does the past not come to mind?”
Kwaaaang!
Standing atop the fallen Galandril’s chest, Go Yohan spoke.
“Your past, when you begged me for your life.”
Whoooong!
[Mark of Sin transforms into form of Great Sin.]
In Go Yohan’s hand rested a light-sword the size of a palm.
Galandril beheld it and trembled in terror.
“N-No….”
Stab!
The form of Great Sin pierced an eyeball.
“Kuaaaaaak!”
Galandril’s scream erupted.
“You. Are even worse than Kartul.”
Go Yohan looked upon Galandril with pitying eyes and spoke.
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“Remember, Galandril.”
Once more, the form of Great Sin pierced another of Galandril’s eyeballs.
“Even then, you begged me like a dog.”
“Please…. Please!”
All of Galandril’s eyes widened in agony.
-Please! Please!
It had been the same back then.
Mere humans—those called heroes, champions.
In no world could they stand against an Archdemon with seven horns.
-To dare.
But the knight he faced in Travania was different.
-Pitiful human worm, what are you called? Hero? Champion?
An existence to mock and crush to death.
So he thought.
-I am.
But that one was different.
-The Goddess’s First Knight, noble Paladin.
He was neither hero nor champion.
Just some nameless knight serving an unknown god.
-Kuhahaha!
He laughed.
He’d seen countless who claimed to serve gods.
Rip out their arms, pull out their organs.
-Sp-Spare… .
Where was their god? They forgot everything and wept, begging.
Pretending noble, holy, even to the end seeking their god—he’d gnaw their flesh and tear apart their families, asking.
-Where is your god, and what is it doing?
The hollow eyes and burning rage he saw then were among Galandril’s greatest pleasures.
Some even stepped forward to help destroy their own worlds.
Offering their gods, begging to be taken to them.
He thought that knight would be the same.
-……?
He couldn’t understand.
The one broken should have been him, the one wailing a human.
-Kuaaaak!
The one screaming was Galandril.
Different.
God?
No such thing.
“Galandril. Remember.”
That thing was a monster.
Mad humans fanatically following a goddess that didn’t exist.
A monster that surpassed even demons.
“Now….”
Smirk.
Go Yohan twisted his lips and said.
“It won’t end with just tormenting you anymore.”
Stab!
The moment the blade of sin embedded.
“Gheuk!”
Galandril couldn’t even scream.
Indescribable terror and pain, past memories vivid once more.
“Now you remember, it seems.”
“…Gulk, ghueuk.”
He could move if he wanted.
He could resist if he wanted.
“What should I do? Galandril?”
But the terror etched then resurfaced, shattering Galandril’s mind.
“Spare… spare me….”
Galandril cried out.
“Mercy, please! Please!”
Unable to kill the demon, memories of binding the regenerating flesh and gouging out hundreds of eyeballs again and again.
-My god is here.
That voice, those fingertips, those locks of hair—nothing forgotten.
-Is your god there?
That absolute terror.
“Spare-!”
“Wrong.”
Go Yohan’s icy voice rang out.
“You should beg to be killed.”
Stab!
Great Sin pierced through his chest.
Ironically, at that moment, peace settled in Galandril’s eyes.
“Ahh.”
Fading flesh.
[Archdemon Galandril perishes.]
[Acquire a large amount of Karma Points.]
[Occupation: Knight of Greed unlocks.]
[All Archdemons gaze upon this place.]
“Ahh.”
Like Galandril, Go Yohan sighed.
“Goddess.”
For that great one.
Slash!
Without hesitation, Go Yohan severed Galandril’s neck.
[You have acquired a Fragment of the World.]