Chapter 278
Chapter 278
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 278
Chapter Title: Chaos World
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‘Five minutes.’
The duration of ‘Celestial Wing.’
Its amplification was three to four times his original abilities.
Thanks to that, the duration had been halved.
But it was an unavoidable choice.
If he didn’t inflate his abilities to that level, he couldn’t guarantee victory against those two.
‘No, I’d lose.’
Mardetain wasn’t even worth worrying about.
The problem was Baron.
That guy was too strong.
The enemies’ eyes widened as they saw Seo Woo-jin’s energy suddenly swell several times over.
“Celestial……!”
Realizing what ‘magic’ Seo Woo-jin had used, they immediately began to draw up their demonic energy.
But it was too late.
Seo Woo-jin, not wanting to waste even a single second, moved first.
---!!!
No sound could be heard.
It was as if Seo Woo-jin had never existed in the first place—his figure simply vanished.
Whirateon, perched on his shoulder, had stirred up the wind to conceal his presence and boost his speed even further.
“Block him!”
Baron shouted a warning, and Mardetain hurriedly raised his arm to guard his neck upon hearing it.
Kwaaaaaang-!
“Keuk!”
They had been caught off guard.
He had assumed Seo Woo-jin would aim for his neck with a sword, but what struck was a simple kick.
Of course, its power was anything but ordinary.
With a pain as if his abdomen had been pierced through by the tip of the foot, Mardetain flew backward like a cannonball.
“Not bad!”
Baron didn’t even glance at his comrade.
Instead, spotting an opening, he charged at Seo Woo-jin’s side.
Chwararararak-!
Long claws extended from his ten fingers.
Each one was coated in demonic energy-reinforced aura.
Even from a distance, the ferocious momentum was palpable.
But Seo Woo-jin felt no sense of crisis.
It posed no real threat to him now.
From his extended kicking stance, Seo Woo-jin spun his body around to face Baron.
Then he swung ‘Karaniel’ upward from below.
Creeeeeng-!
“Kuuk!”
Baron’s face twisted.
His claws, which had never been broken since reaching the superhuman realm, had been pitifully severed.
On top of that, the massive energy from the clash made his insides churn.
“Damn it!”
Baron had no choice but to retreat.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Of course, Seo Woo-jin had no intention of just watching.
He closed in faster than Baron could back away and swung ‘Karaniel’ once more.
Seokeuk-!
A simple sword strike, no skills involved.
Yet the power and speed contained within were astonishing.
In the end, Baron’s arm was sliced by the blade of ‘Karaniel.’
“Keurururuk!”
Fortunately, it hadn’t been completely severed, but the wound looked quite deep.
‘He’s fast, as expected.’
Seo Woo-jin clicked his tongue inwardly as he watched Baron.
He had swung with the intent to decapitate him.
Yet the guy had dodged it.
Though he hadn’t avoided it perfectly—his arm was cut—that he’d limited the damage to that extent was beyond Seo Woo-jin’s expectations, thanks to his incredible speed.
‘This could be a problem.’
He had thought using ‘Celestial Wing’ would be enough to handle them.
That belief held firm even after kicking Mardetain away in one blow.
But Baron’s skills were better than anticipated.
‘Instinct...?’
Baron didn’t seem like someone who had undergone systematic training.
His movements were as irregular as a beast’s.
Not prediction, but instinct.
That made him even harder for Seo Woo-jin to deal with.
“I heard heroes are still green, but you’re different. Are you that Seo Woo-jin guy by any chance?”
Baron asked.
‘Cunning bastard.’
Seo Woo-jin saw through the intent behind the question.
‘He’s trying to waste even a little of ‘Celestial Wing’s’ time.’
But Seo Woo-jin wasn’t going to stand there and play along.
‘Quick and decisive!’
He had a little over four minutes left.
He had to settle it within that.
“Magic Nullification Proclamation.”
He activated the skill.
It was one he had never used before.
His chaos energy began to drain rapidly.
It felt like his very soul was being uprooted.
An enormous, almost absurd energy quickly began to pervade the surroundings.
At that moment,
Text appeared before Seo Woo-jin’s eyes.
As if viewing a status window.
[No ‘demonic energy,’ the required energy for skill ‘Magic Nullification Proclamation,’ is present.]
[A substitute energy has been detected.]
[Activating skill ‘Magic Nullification Proclamation’ using the energy named ‘chaos energy.’]
[Skill ‘Magic Nullification Proclamation’ is changed to ‘Chaos World.’]
Seo Woo-jin quickly scanned the text.
But he couldn’t quite grasp what it meant.
It seemed like his chaos energy was substituting for demonic energy...
Unlike other skills, no such messages had appeared before.
He had no idea why this change only happened with ‘Magic Nullification Proclamation.’
And the skill changing?
While Seo Woo-jin was bewildered, the skill named ‘Chaos World’ fully activated.
Gugugugugugugu--!!!
The world warped.
Everything within the chaos energy-infested area began to mix in utter disarray.
Concepts Seo Woo-jin had taken for granted twisted wildly, creating new laws.
“Wh-what is this?”
Baron’s eyes widened.
But it wasn’t just him.
Freya, who had been poised to join the fight at any moment from the side, and Mardetain, who had just risen...
Even the holy knights and priests gathering here one by one.
They all froze, trying to comprehend the suddenly altered world.
But they had no way of understanding this phenomenon.
Not even the caster, Seo Woo-jin, had a handle on it.
“Be vigilant! Stay on guard!”
“Check your surroundings!”
Pure white holy power erupted.
They thought the Demon King’s followers had caused this.
Of course, since it wasn’t demonic energy-based, it had no particular effect.
‘Insane...’
Seo Woo-jin cursed inwardly.
‘Chaos World’ was a skill that perfectly matched its name.
Up and down flipped, gravity pulled in random directions, light and darkness flickered with opposing properties.
No, even that might be an illusion.
A world truly filled with chaos.
Yet Seo Woo-jin maintained his sanity within it.
His mind sharpened, his senses heightened.
It felt like he could do anything here.
‘Yes, omnipotence.’
A sensation he’d only felt during ‘Demon King Transformation.’
“Huu-”
Seo Woo-jin took a deep breath and tried calculating the remaining time on ‘Celestial Wing.’
‘Three minutes, two minutes, ten minutes, one minute, two hours.’
Time flowed erratically.
Some holy knights moved backward like reverse playback, others at double speed.
‘Celestial Wing’s’ duration fluctuated wildly—lengthening, shortening.
But Seo Woo-jin was certain.
As long as he remained in ‘Chaos World,’ ‘Celestial Wing’ wouldn’t dissipate.
Sssk-
A smile crept onto his face.
A time-limit-free buff spell, and a domain where everything was under his control.
“This is a fight I can’t lose.”
Invincibility.
At least until his chaos energy depleted and ‘Chaos World’ ended, nothing here could oppose him.
* * *
Freya doubted her own eyes.
She couldn’t comprehend what was happening.
She had understood Seo Woo-jin’s words about saving her in five minutes and was ready to move at any time, but suddenly everything around her changed.
Seo Woo-jin seemed to be at the center of it.
‘Just what is he?’
She could accept him reaching the superhuman realm as a hero.
Such beings existed.
She already knew the Holy King was an Apostle and had reluctantly accepted that they knew Seo Woo-jin’s name.
While she’d been secluded in the countryside, they could have their own history.
But a being who wielded such a technique? She’d never heard of it in her long life.
One who twisted all laws of a domain?
Frankly, it shocked her more than the Holy King being an Apostle.
Kwaaaauuuum-
An explosion occurred, then vanished.
As if time had rewound, leaving no trace.
But Baron, within its range, was affected.
He screamed, spewing blood as he flew backward.
‘No, downward?’
Even her sense of direction was lost.
Thanks to the superhuman realm, she could at least observe like this.
Others couldn’t even keep their sanity.
Only one person, Seo Woo-jin, moved naturally, unaffected.
As if he were born and raised here, utterly familiar.
Ssak-!
‘Karaniel’ severed Mardetain’s wrist.
He seemed to scream, but no sound came.
Demonic energy filled with rage erupted, unleashing overwhelming magic.
But none reached near Seo Woo-jin.
As if the space around him was distorted, the attacks veered off without approaching.
“Heh-”
Freya let out a hollow laugh.
Seo Woo-jin toyed with Baron and Mardetain like children.
The five minutes he’d asked for had long passed.
It seemed she wouldn’t need to step in.
Kwak-!
‘Karaniel,’ thrust by Seo Woo-jin, pierced Baron’s chest.
“Kkuuk!”
This time, sound emerged.
A groan full of agony leaked from his mouth.
“So you bastard really are the ‘King of Chaos’!”
‘King of Chaos?’
Freya tilted her head at the unfamiliar term.
Related to this phenomenon?
She drew up her mana to hear more.
Unfortunately, nothing else came through.
Seo Woo-jin kept his sword in Baron’s chest, conversing at length.
Meanwhile, Mardetain lunged from behind again, only to tumble from a single kick.
Seeing the pathetic state of the Holy King who’d ruled Aier, Freya felt her burning rage subside.
How much time passed?
Suddenly, Seo Woo-jin’s voice rang out.
“...You, just die already.”
It was a death sentence.
“Nonsense! You think I’ll just take it lying do......!”
Immense demonic energy exploded outward.
Even Freya couldn’t fathom its scale.
In her long life, she’d never sensed power this vast.
“Danger!”
Startled, Freya shouted toward Seo Woo-jin and moved to intervene.
Swish-
An utterly natural motion.
A fluid sword path, graceful as flowing water, traced out.
And...
Baron’s body split in half.