Chapter 315: End of THE WORLD (6)
Chairman Yoo warped to The World.
As soon as he exited the portal, he was greeted by the Pope and the Crusaders.
<Fallen Crusader>
“Our true God. We worship you.”
In the middle of The World’s map, the place where the Demon King is sealed.
And the place where the second Demon King was officially resurrected.
There, the Crusaders, their whole bodies infected with pitch black, were kneeling toward Chairman Yoo.
In the end, even the Crusaders were consumed by the Demon King’s curse and became Chairman Yoo’s subordinates.
Just as he planned.
Now all that’s left is to take over The World.
“Hehehe. Good. I will accept you as my blessed children.”
Chairman Yoo spread his pitch-black wings wide, showing his majesty, and walked towards them.
Then he stopped.
“How about it, Kyung-joon? Will you become my child too?”
He stopped in front of Kyung-joon, who was captured by the Pope.
Kyung-joon, who abandoned the Vladivostok base and fled to The World, was eventually captured by the Crusaders who had sided with the Demon King.
“……”
Kyung-joon did not answer Chairman Yoo’s words.
He just stared straight at Chairman Yoo.
“Hehehe. You’re making that face until the very end. How foolish.”
Chairman Yoo turned his gaze to the infected Pope right next to Kyung-joon.
“The Hero’s Mark?”
As soon as Chairman Yoo spoke, the Pope took out the Hero’s Mark from his inventory and handed it over politely.
“God. This is all I have recovered. But do not worry. The 7 Heroes are exhausted from half a year of endless battles and have been driven almost to a corner. You will soon be able to get your hands on the remaining artifacts.”
“Hehehe. Well done.”
Chairman Yoo received the Hero’s Mark from the Pope and absorbed it into his body.
[Currently possessing Mark No. 0, No. 1, No. 3, No. 5, No. 6, and No. 7.]
[Currently not possessing Mark No. 2 and No. 4.]
Chairman Yoo turned his gaze back to Kyung-joon.
“Do you understand now? You’ve lost, Kyung-joon. You’ve lost more than half of the Hero’s Marks, your last resort, to me, and you no longer have the strength to find them. Both you and The World, and even reality, are already in my grasp.”
Step. Step.
As Chairman Yoo approached Kyung-joon, the Pope made way.
Just like he crushed Kyung-joon’s head in the Sinsa-dong Garosu-gil Square, Chairman Yoo placed his hand on top of his head.
Kyung-joon closed his eyes.
To accept what was about to happen without reservation, he simply closed his eyelids without fear or trembling.
Chairman Yoo seemed to tighten his grip for a moment, but then.
“Hehehe. The more I see you, the more amazing you are.”
Chairman Yoo did not do it.
He lowered his hand and slightly lifted Kyung-joon’s chin.
“Honestly, I’m impressed. I never imagined things would turn out this way just a year ago. Do you understand what I’m saying, Kyung-joon?”
Chairman Yoo asked Kyung-joon, but Kyung-joon remained silent.
Chairman Yoo continued speaking, as if he knew it would be like this from the beginning.
“You may really hate me, but I like you more than anyone else. That’s what I mean.”
Chairman Yoo removed his hand from Kyung-joon’s chin.
Then he started to step back.
“In my 70 years of life, there has never been anything unpredictable. There has never been a single time when something happened beyond my expectations. Everything was within the margin of error.”
Chairman Yoo turned around and looked down at Kyung-joon again.
“But Kyung-joon, you were different! You really exceeded my expectations several times! Not just once, but many times!”
He shuddered with excitement and raised his voice.
“Why are you opposing me so much?! No, what do you want, Kyung-joon! Is it because of Yoo Seol-ha? I can give you Yoo Seol-ha! Is it because of money? I can give you as much money as you want! Or do you want to know more? Of course, I can give you all of that too! I can make you the head of The World Research Institute! Everything we’ve been researching at Seolha Group for over 10 years! I can show you everything if you want!”
Chairman Yoo stretched out his hand and sent a pitch-black energy towards Kyung-joon.
“I called you L001 in reality, didn’t I? I’ll take that back. I was once again surprised when I destroyed the base you built in Vladivostok in less than a year. I no longer see you as a test subject. Kyung-joon, you are no longer a test subject. You are the one who will experiment with The World with me.”
The pitch-black energy forcibly lifted the bound Kyung-joon and instantly released his restraints.
“Think about it, Kyung-joon. What did you feel when you first logged into The World?”
Chairman Yoo continued speaking without waiting for Kyung-joon’s answer.
“This is our new home. I still remember the day I first logged in here. Fresh air. Clean wind. Clear nature. This place is truly clean. Even the demons you think are so vicious are so innocent compared to the con artists on our Earth. On the other hand, look at this Earth, this world you live in.”
Chairman Yoo spread the pitch-black energy all around.
The black energy that spread everywhere reflected the image of Earth.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The appearance of a continent where people can’t breathe without wearing oxygen respirators.
The South and North Poles, already half melted.
A desert where vegetation used to be lush, but now devoid of life.
Humans waging endless wars there.
The Earth’s crust becoming increasingly empty as they draw black water from the ground.
More than 70 billion liters of dirty sewage being discharged into rivers and oceans every day.
At the same time, innocent creatures are becoming increasingly deformed due to radiation and its effects.
Like this.
The Earth was gradually wearing away.
“This place is so dirty. People are even dirtier. The world is corrupt and filled with rotten air. I hate these things so much that I don’t even go outside except for work.”
Chairman Yoo pulled the pitch-blackness back into his hand.
And he showed it to Kyung-joon and showed him a completely new future.
It was the image of The World.
However, the people living there were not the residents of that place.
Foreigners.
Isekai people.
Players.
It was a world where they were now called the residents of the World.
That was the future Chairman Yoo showed him.
“Kyung-joon. You and I need to join forces to make this place our new home. This infinite power I possess! Administrator Privileges and that infinite knowledge you possess! Infinite Knowledge Seeker If we combine these two, we can completely dominate and control World.”
Chairman Yoo withdrew his hand and the future he showed also disappeared.
He asked Kyung-joon one last time.
“Now, think carefully. Depending on your choice, you could become the first person to die twice in The World and reality, or you could enjoy wealth and glory with me as the administrator of The World and get everything you want. Kyung-joon, what are you going to do?”
Chairman Yoo’s long persuasion ended.
“……”
Kyung-joon had been silent with his head bowed since earlier.
He seemed to be in deep thought.
―He wasn’t.
“Ah.”
He was just taking a short nap.
Kyung-joon raised his head and looked at Chairman Yoo again.
And he said.
“Confiscate dentures for 700 years.”
Blink. Blink.
Chairman Yoo blinked his eyes at the completely unexpected answer.
Silence followed.
Chairman Yoo thought about what confiscating dentures for 700 years meant.
After about a second, the answer came.
“You little……! You’re making a foolish choice until the very end! Someone! Burn him at the stake and bring him back to life so he can feel eternal pain! No matter how strong your will is, if you feel the pain of your flesh burning twice, you will confess everything to me! You will not even get the rest of death until I find out everything!!”
Chairman Yoo gave the order to the Crusaders.
The Inquisitor approached Kyung-joon with a giant executioner’s sword.
He raised it high and was about to strike Kyung-joon when.
That was the moment.
[The effect of the Demon King’s curse ends.]
The Inquisitor changed the direction of the executioner’s sword.
It was towards Chairman Yoo.
This wasn’t the end.
[The effect of the Demon King’s curse ends.]
[The effect of the Demon King’s curse ends.]
[The effect of the Demon King’s curse ends.]
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The Crusaders, who were enveloped in pitch black, began to regain their holy power one by one.
The speed was instantaneous.
“Cough……?! W, What is this?!”
Chairman Yoo was more flustered than ever in his life, and by the time he was.
“It is time for us all to atone.”
The Demon King’s curse was completely lifted.
The Pope pointed the Holy Spear at Chairman Yoo.
Then all the Crusaders did the same.
The Pope said.
“Listen, my lambs! Although it was a small betrayal for a greater service, in the end, this is an act that adds one more sin to all of our original sins! This place right now! This is the cathedral of salvation where you will shed your sweat of confession and blood of atonement! Once again, testify to your faith and be saved! Purify evil and triumph!”
“For my salvation!!”
“For!!”
All the Crusaders gathered all the holy power they had gathered so far and charged towards Chairman Yoo.
“Ugh……?! What is this……!!”
Something he never imagined.
Something he never predicted or expected.
Something he had erased from his mind and never even thought of was happening right now.
Kyung-joon looked at the flustered Chairman Yoo with his usual expressionless face.
“Chairman Yoo. No, the second Demon King. Did you think your predecessor, the first Demon King, would be so easy?”
It started with the information he heard from the Demon King six months ago and has come this far.
Everything so far has been planned and carried out by Kyung-joon.
To do so, he deceived those around him, deceived the World, and even deceived the world.
As a result, Chairman Yoo played in the palm of Kyung-joon’s hand, but mistakenly thought that Kyung-joon was in his own hand.
Kyung-joon smirked as if to provoke him.
“I’m sorry, but it wasn’t me who was in the palm of your hand all along, but you, Chairman Yoo.”
“You, you bastard……!!”
Chairman Yoo’s face turned red and the pitch-black energy covered the sky.
[Administrator Privileges (Mythical)]
[Black Thunder]
Crackle! Boom!
Black thunder struck from the black sky.
The ground where Kyung-joon was standing disappeared in an instant without even a fragment flying.
“You’re 0.132 seconds late than the time I told you.”
However, Kyung-joon still existed.
On the opposite side of where the thunder struck.
There was Kyung-joon, who had teleported, and a fairy.
<Leader of the Fairy-Elven Alliance>
<Wings that Cleave Space>
▼Takiki (NPC)
“Anyway, it’s good that you dodged it.”
“If I hadn’t anticipated this and given myself a 0.15 second margin, I would be dead by now.”
“Sigh. Yes, yes. I was wrong. How can you be so much like your predecessor, even in nitpicking……”
The one who helped Kyung-joon avoid Chairman Yoo’s black thunder was the Fairy King who could handle spatial magic.
It wasn’t just Kyung-joon who rode her spatial magic.
“Strike the Demon King’s back! Let the earth drink the blood of that beast! Throw all your Holy Spears!”
The Crusaders, who teleported along with Kyung-joon, created Holy Spears and threw them at the second Demon King, Chairman Yoo.
“Ugh……!”
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
The power of holy power, the perfect natural enemy of the Demon King.
The power that comes solely from ‘faith’, not magic or science, pierced through the absolute invincibility of the indestructible object and inflicted significant damage on Chairman Yoo.
“You pesky flies……!!”
Chairman Yoo gathered the pitch-blackness again with a furious voice.
[Administrator Privileges (Mythical)]
[Black Wave]
Whoosh!
A pitch-black wave, like a tsunami, swept over the front.
Crash!
Everything around was swept away by the pitch-blackness.
However, none of the people in the middle were swept away.
Because a wall appeared in front of them.
<Leader of the Beastkin Alliance>
<Beastkin King>
▼Buried Bones (NPC)
“Hahaha! No matter how wide the range, it won’t be as many as our beastkin! We’ll block them all, no matter where they come from!”
A giant wall of beastkin surrounding Kyung-joon and the Crusaders.
<Leader of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan>
<Blacksmith of Flames>
▼Lothar Zwitter (NPC)
“Don’t forget that it’s thanks to the excellent shields and armor of our dwarves, Beastkin King.”
And the dwarves, armed just like the beastkin, appeared here through Fairy King’s warp.
“Don’t try anything funny!”
[Administrator Privileges (Mythical)]
[Invisible Black Hand]
A pitch-black hand stretched out to grab Kyung-joon, reaching over the wall of beastkin and dwarves.
However.
Clang!
The hand was forcibly bent and missed Kyung-joon.
<Leader of New Devil Corporation>
<Descendant of the Demon King’s Betrayer>
▼Lupera (NPC)
“You are the second Demon King. How ugly you are. I will now reclaim the power of the true Demon King that you stole.”
The moment Lupera said that.
A vertical line was drawn in the sky above Chairman Yoo, and.
Boom!
Something fell and crashed down.
It was a sword.
<Leader of the Free Mercenaries>
<Mercenary who Inherited the Name of Immobility>
▼Miharan (NPC)
“The target has been restrained. It will take 3 minutes at most for the sword to break in his pitch-blackness. If we can’t finish it within that time, we have no chance of winning.”
Miharan was driving the 700-year-old artifact, the Sword of Immobility, into the ground.
A circular formation formed around the embedded sword, and Chairman Yoo, who was inside, could not escape.
“Do you think anything will change now that you’ve come this far!! Die, all of you!!”
[Administrator Privileges (Mythical)]
[Dark Harmageddon]
The sky suddenly darkened.
In the already dark sky, pitch-black flames absorbed all the surrounding light and burned black.
Thousands of black meteorites, with countless waterways, were falling towards this place.
And in the middle of the meteorites, a giant Dark Meteor, as if proclaiming the end of the world.
Boom!
However, it was soon split in half and blocked by something, disappearing.
This wasn’t all.
“Hahahaha! War! Destruction! You are the next one to be sealed!!”
“Hehehe, I will take the Demon King’s blood and research it.”
“Be careful everyone, the coercive force he uses is different from the previous Demon King.”
“Is peace for our dragons as absurd as a dwarf flying in the sky?”
Red, black, white, and blue.
Four colors followed and guarded the sky.
“Follow the Four Heavenly Dragons!”
“Block the meteorites!”
“Activate the Grand Magic Circle Defense Barrier!”
Hundreds and thousands of dragons followed, enveloping the sky and blocking all the flames.
<Leader of the Dragonian-Elven Alliance>
<Half-and-Half Dragon>
▼Half-and-Half Dragon (NPC)
“The sky belongs to our dragons. Great responsibility comes with ownership. I will make sure the matters of the sky do not reach the earth. Descendant of Huma!”
The main players of the Demon King’s war 700 years ago and those who inherited their will gathered in one place.
And in the center of it all.
“Now then.”
The descendant of Huma and.
The Infinite Knowledge Seeker.
“Shall we bring this to a conclusion?”
Kyung-joon was there.
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