Chapter 67
Chapter 67
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 67
Chapter Title: Tower of Wrath (6)
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Beep! Bzzt! Beeeeeep!
The intelligence agency 'Alpha', dedicated to America's premier superhero and the world's strongest player, Jack Roar, detected the collapse of the sanctuary—Necropolis.
Bleep! Bzzt-bzzt-bleep! Beee...
It took a mere three minutes for that information to reach Jack Roar.
In just three minutes, they had verified every detail and relayed precise intel straight to him.
"?!!"
Jack Roar, who had descended upon Mexico City, couldn't hide his shock at the unexpected news.
He even wondered if he'd been fooled by the false information Arhim had planted.
But he quickly realized it. This intel was beyond doubt—undeniable fact.
"We're heading to Brasília right now!!"
Jack Roar didn't hesitate for a second. Missing this chance would just repeat past mistakes.
So he crossed over without even a courtesy nod to the nominal Brazilian government.
'...No second mistakes!!'
His target went without saying: Death Lord Arhim's life.
Blood circulation began at the heart, flowed through the head to hands and feet, and returned.
Thump...! Thump...!
Ailbern Swordsmanship, Fourth Form—Unity.
It was a perilous technique where he and the sword became one, transforming himself into a blade.
One shouldn't use it lightly, but now was exactly the time.
'...Just a bit more.'
The sword tip aimed at the giant—Agni. Mana surged blue-hot within him, blazing fiercely.
Its razor-sharp aura seemed ready to pierce anything.
Then a massive fist tore through the ashen clouds, plummeting from the sky.
Ruuuuumble...!!
This was wrath no one could deny—divine fury incarnate.
Survival instincts screamed. Flee this place now, they raged wildly.
Thump...!! Thump...!!
Yet Lee Sang-hyun didn't retreat a single step. He kept his sword trained on Giant Agni, eyes calmer and sharper than ever.
'...Now!!'
His unhurried composure shone when Agni's fist had descended halfway.
Lee Sang-hyun didn't think beyond this strike. He staked everything on this one blow.
「?!!」
It was a flash that crossed ten kilometers in a blink, a spear unleashing a roar fiercer than heaven's thunder.
A spear piercing the giant.
「Gr... ah... aa... ah...?」
Grrrumble... grrrumble...!
The chest wound was massive. Too big to cover with a giant hand—its hollowed heart lay exposed.
「A... ugh... ugh... ugh...!!」
Inconceivably, Giant Agni's heart was pierced.
Grrr... grrrumble... grrrumble...!!
Despair bloomed in Agni's left eye.
Having pierced Giant Agni's heart, Lee Sang-hyun plummeted limply to the ground, tumbling grotesquely for hundreds of meters.
The Knight King's magic sword lay shattered, reduced to its hilt.
"......"
Lee Sang-hyun lost consciousness for over thirty seconds. In that time, not a finger twitched.
"Urgh... ugh...?!!"
Regaining his senses, the sight that met Lee Sang-hyun's eyes was rage. A colossal fury blazed, ready to descend anytime.
「A... aaa... aaaaa... aaa...!!」
But what echoed was Giant Agni's scream.
Giant Agni's fingers shattered. Those digits that pulverized boulders over a hundred meters tall lost power and crashed to earth.
「Cr... aa... aa... aa... aa...!!」
The cracks didn't stop. They crept up the wrist, deeper still, ultimately destroying the entire right hand.
Grrrumble... grrrumble...!
The left hand fared no better. Cracks spiderwebbed everywhere, on the verge of collapse.
「This... can't... happen...!!!」
Despair echoed... despair that even eternal rage couldn't mask.
「Ugh... aa... aaa...!!」
Agni felt profoundly wronged and furious now.
Because he'd endured eons solely for vengeance... and couldn't believe that wait ended in futile death.
Crack! Craaaack!!
Was this truly the end?
To fail to destroy the world and crumble pointlessly...?
......
No. It couldn't be.
Absolutely not.
......
At the very least, that thing...
He would destroy it.
Take revenge!!!
「Cr... aa... aaa... aaargh...!!!」
In that instant, vengeful fury exploded from despair.
Faster than survival instincts sensed danger, Nameless spoke.
'Tunnel?!'
Lee Sang-hyun grasped instantly. He wrung out remaining strength to liquify the ground beneath his feet.
Squelch!
'Deeper...!'
The firm earth resisted liquefaction, but with life on the line, he forced it, burrowing underground.
Dozens of meters weren't safe. He needed at least a hundred down.
'It's coming?!!'
That very moment.
Even underground, the massive explosion engulfed the world.
Rumble-roooar...
It was razor-close. A split-second later escape, a fraction more power, and he'd have vaporized without trace.
"......"
Having barely saved his life, Lee Sang-hyun emerged from the tunnel to witness the blast's devastation with his own eyes.
"...Even every nuke on Earth detonated couldn't match this."
No exaggeration. The terrain had changed.
Ruuuuumble...
The volcano's mountain was gone entirely, turning thousands of kilometers into a vast basin.
"...Swept up, and I'd be dead for sure."
The aftershocks still scorched the land. Smoke—not clouds—filled the sky; quakes shook the earth; fallout blanketed everything.
"......"
Lee Sang-hyun quietly awaited the end. His condition was dire, but as a Berserker, he recovered swiftly.
Moments later.
Light from the heavens brought the system's voice.
'Let's go.'
Lee Sang-hyun ascended the stairs to the sky.
The collapse of Sanctuary—Necropolis due to that damned Eastern monkey bastard had him on the brink of madness, and now Jack Roar showed up too.
"Jaaaack Roaaaaar...!!!"
Completely cornered, Death Lord Arhim squeezed out his remaining life force for 'Death Rule'.
[Judgment - Execution]
[Death Sentence]
Shwooooosh!!
A horrific power halted every heart in range—swallowing even Jack Roar and the caster Arhim himself.
"Diiiie!!!"
Of course, for Arhim—closer to death than anyone—cardiac arrest was nothing.
It was familiar, almost beloved pain that constantly reminded him of his purpose.
Thump...!!
Not so for Jack Roar. Death was a near yet untouchable 'enemy' to him.
Crunch!!
Thus, heart failure could prove fatal. Even a hero was still human.
But...
"You're the one dying."
It failed. Utterly, not even a speck of dirt on his claw. Jack Roar nullified Death Rule completely.
The hero's power, no doubt. Turning even inevitable death into 'victory'.
Slice!!
"Grahhh?!!"
No time to panic—staff and right arm severed together.
Arhim didn't dwell on why Death Rule failed. He fled. Or tried to.
"What?!!"
The door wouldn't open. No matter how he pounded, it stayed shut.
"Abandon any thoughts of escape. This time, you won't get away."
"Ugh... uaaaaah...!!"
As a last resort, Arhim pulled out his 'Blood Sacrifice' to unleash on Jack Roar.
But as if anticipated, Jack Roar swung, cleaving the blood offering in two.
Boooom...
Split apart, it detonated harmlessly, not even 10% power.
Jack Roar's cold voice echoed.
"Is that all?"
Murderous intent filled his eyes.
Gambling was all Arhim had left.
"N... not... yet...!!"
Arhim bolted for the Tower of Wrath. Different laws there—maybe the door would let him through.
But...
Fate's cruel jest? One second before his hand reached it, the tower fell.
"Nooooo...?!!"
Rejected by the tower, Arhim pounded futilely.
Jack Roar sneered at him.
"Even the Goddess of Luck rages at your atrocities. Why else would a black tower fall?"
"Sh, shut up!! I...!!!"
Panicked, Arhim flailed his left hand wildly, but...
Stab!!
Jack Roar gave no quarter.
"This ends now!!"
And he didn't repeat foolish errors.
Shing!!
Countless slashes carved into Death Lord Arhim's body.
"A... ugh... ugh...!!"
Tremble... tremble...!
Arhim resisted to the last, denying death over and over, desperate to flee.
But he couldn't take a step before shattering into hundreds of pieces.
"Can't let my guard down."
Jack Roar stayed vigilant, purifying every chunk of Arhim's flesh with holy light.
Shiiiine...!
He didn't spare the severed right arm. Horror flicks belonged on screens only.
"Finally over."
Jack Roar sheathed his hero's sword.
Joy lit his face—past mistakes corrected. Regret and sorrow brushed by, soothing old wounds.
"...Now I can escape those nightmares, at least for a while."
Gazing at the crumbling black tower, Jack Roar hoped for peace in South America.
Rumblerumble...!!
"...Someone conquered the black tower."
Not wary or sharp. Players risking life on towers rarely turned evil.
Yet somehow complex. Like eyeing a superior rival...
His pride stung a bit.
Of course, Jack Roar himself felt no such thing.
"Can't wait to see who."
He welcomed the birth of a new 'hero'.'