Chapter 117
Chapter 117
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 117
Chapter Title: Satan's Fall
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Indeed, my hunch had been spot on.
Lucifer harbored a mad hatred for Leviathan and Beelzebub, who had trampled him underfoot in the depths of Hell.
On one hand, he saw it as his chance to sever ties with God, but in the end, he had become the very evil he despised so intensely.
No wonder his rage boiled over on multiple levels.
"For a guy like that to become the source of all evil... Lucifer's really something else, huh?"
Satan shrugged his shoulders.
"Think whatever you want. Now then—will you tell me Leviathan's whereabouts?"
"Leviathan? Right, I should."
"Where is he?"
"...Right behind you."
Satan glanced back in surprise, then let out a sigh of relief.
"You're quite the joker."
"Oh, sorry, my bad. Not behind you—below you. My slip-up."
"...Mr. Kim Cheonjae?"
"Yeah?"
"Enough with the jokes. I've fulfilled every condition you demanded."
"Not joking."
"...?"
I twirled one of the wandering spirits of Hell around my finger and spoke to him.
"See these souls?"
"I do."
"One of them's Leviathan's soul."
"...What do you mean?"
"Ha, seriously! I thought you were sharp, but you're just as dense."
"Dense?"
"If I'm pointing at souls and mentioning Leviathan, what do you think it means?"
...
Satan hesitated, then his face twisted in shock as realization dawned.
"Leviathan's dead?"
"Yep. Now his soul wanders Hell until resurrection, right?"
"...Is that true?"
"True as it gets. What, you think I'd lie?"
He wore a strange expression—hard to tell if he was pleased or upset.
On one hand, a foe he'd planned to deal with himself was already gone, so that should be good news. But on the other, it meant someone strong enough to kill him lurked in Hell.
A massive threat.
"Who took down Leviathan?"
I pointed right at myself, boldly.
"Me."
"Don't mess around."
"Not messing around."
Satan furrowed his brow. The conversation wasn't going his way.
His reactions were identical to the PC version.
Exactly like when I'd revealed Leviathan's location via VR gear.
['Satan' uses the 'Heavenly Eye' skill on you.]
He stared at me for ten seconds or so, then his eyes rolled back. Realizing I wasn't lying about killing him, he'd try to take me out now.
Not that he stood a chance.
"Mr. Kim Cheonjae, looks like you'll have to die here."
Woooooong—
A sound like a plane taking off echoed, and the space around us shook. It warped like a vortex.
He was using 'Mirror Room' to drag me into a third space.
I smirked.
"Not gonna work anymore."
I drew my scythe long from behind my back and swung it wide.
Crash!
Satan's swirling 'Mirror Room' shattered with a deafening crack.
Transparent glass shards rained down, blanketing the ground.
Satan, mid-incantation, looked flustered.
"Wh-what is this?!"
"That ability doesn't work on me anymore."
"What?"
"You know its weakness?"
...
"Hit the warped space with aura, and it breaks."
"...Damn it."
Exactly.
If I knew where he activated the skill, shattering the space was child's play.
"You didn't even realize while using it? Figures—if you knew, you wouldn't have tried it so openly."
Satan's face contorted.
He clasped his hands, gathering black aura between them.
With a roar, he launched a spherical orb into the sky.
Boom!
The black aura rained down like a storm. No clue the range, but everywhere in my sight was pelted.
[The northern demons summoned by 'Satan' begin gathering at the Yellow Tower.]
[Block the incoming demons and take out Satan.]
He gestured like a shaman, and gargoyles swarmed from all directions. In moments, they formed a circular formation around me.
Trying to overwhelm me with numbers—pathetic.
"Come on in."
* * * * *
Subduing Satan and his minions didn't take long.
The tower's exterior was perfectly held by the skeleton soldiers I'd prepped.
Stray enemies breaking through were blocked by the demon squad I'd revived inside with Revive.
The only ones close enough to touch me were Satan and his gargoyles at the tower's peak.
"Disappear."
I placed a hand on a gargoyle corpse and chanted.
['Corpse Explosion' cast.]
Boom!
The blast obliterated the monsters ahead.
Gawain and Park Gyuhwan danced through, slicing down the rest effortlessly.
No match at all.
Satan's main weapons were his disorienting 'Transformation' ability and 'Touch of the Fallen,' which unleashed tiny invisible demon parasites to dominate minds.
Abilities that did nothing to me. The parasites needed my health to drop below 15% to enter—and that wasn't happening.
"Kill that guy!"
Kim Yeonhee lunged at my throat with her blade. I glanced down and caught it lightly.
Crack.
"...Satan, sorry, but you underestimated me way too much. You had plenty of chances to gauge my power, but you were too busy playing games."
...
"If I were you, I'd have first analyzed Kim Yeonhee's abilities and figured out how to use them."
"I already know that woman's abilities."
If her skill list had Weapon Break,
she definitely had Armor Break too.
Meaning she could strip my Death Knight armor in one hit.
If Kim Yeonhee had truly meant to kill me, her blade would've aimed for my solar plexus, not my throat.
Targeting the throat meant Satan, controlling her, hadn't fully grasped her skills—and his commands were overly precise.
Down to specifying the strike point.
"You know, and still go for the throat?"
Clang!
I gripped hard, snapping her dagger with raw strength alone. Not just brute force—I'd induced a micro-resonance in my palm.
As the blade shattered, Kim Yeonhee recoiled.
Another foolish order.
If I were Satan, I'd have her embrace me as a sacrifice, then charge.
"...Playtime's over."
I leaped at Satan. He flapped his wings, soaring out of reach.
Thinking distance kept him safe, he dropped his guard.
Instead, he bared his claws for a counterattack.
'...Goodbye.'
Whirrr!
The Hell chameleon I'd brought shot out its tongue, wrapping around Satan.
It had hidden since entering the tower, waiting for this moment.
Perfect.
"What is this?!"
"Idiot."
The tongue coiled tight, yanking Satan down. If he'd stayed calm, he could've sliced it—but panic dulled his judgment.
"Damn it!"
I aimed my scythe at the reeling Satan, channeled aura into the blade, and swung hard.
Slash—
Satan squeezed his eyes shut. In a blink, head and body parted, hitting the ground.
Thud.
I thought he was dead,
but his health bar still glowed red. Demons had insane vitality.
Titan too—immobile, yet health remained.
Step. Step. Step. Step.
I walked to his severed head.
"Tough bastard."
"Kim Cheonjae..."
Satan, filled with fury, glared up with a vile sneer.
"Kill me, and that woman won't come back."
I glanced at Kim Yeonhee, then replied.
"Don't need her to. I already know how to remove your 'Touch of the Fallen.'"
"...What?!"
"You thought I didn't?"
"Ah, no. That's why you came all this way, right? Because you didn't know."
"Huh? Never said I didn't know. I just recited the summoner's rights from the Hell Bible."
...
"'Touch of the Fallen's weakness: The host dominating the target's body shares the summoner's life force and vanishes upon the summoner's death. Right?"
...
I grinned.
"Meaning! Everything you told me about death was a lie. Kill you, and the parasite in Kim Yeonhee vanishes. That's the truth."
"You knew from the start."
"Of course. If I'd admitted it, who knows what you'd do to her body with her under your control? So I kept quiet."
Satan let out a long sigh.
That was the final sight of the so-called Wrath Archdemon.
I placed a gargoyle corpse on Satan's head and chanted softly.
[Corpse Explosion]
Boom!
* * * * *
[System Message]
[Hidden event of difficulty '???' cleared successfully!]
[You are registered as the first to complete the seventh round's hidden mission!]
[The tale of 'Kim Cheonjae,' who vanquished 'Satan'—Lucifer's right hand, the Wrath Archdemon—has been newly inscribed in the Book of Lions of 'Land of Ruin: Last Game.']
"Phew."
[System Message]
['Administrator 1' smirks bitterly, calling Kim Cheonjae a Grade-A problem player.]
['Administrator 2' claps like a seal, cheering that it's truly amazing.]
['Administrator 3' asks to confirm if the difficulty is really set to 'Infernal Hell.']
I smirked and lit a cigarette.
'Problem player? Harsh words.'
[Reward: 'Satanic Item' imbued with the power of the Wrath Archdemon 'Satan' granted.]
[The gacha roulette spins!]
A circular roulette appeared before me, spinning rapidly.
A holographic dart hovered, twirling in the air.
[Throw the dart to claim your item.]
I scanned the icons before it sped up: gloves, necklace, ring, horns.
Whatever came out, it'd be fine—stats were similar across the board.
Still...
If I had a pick, necklace. Couldn't layer gloves over armor.
I gripped the holographic dart, focused. The spinning roulette slowed to a crawl. I rocked my hand back and forth, aiming carefully.
One.
Two.
'...Now.'
Three.
Fwoosh.
The dart sliced through the air.
Thwack!
[Perfect center hit on the roulette.]