The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 292

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟗𝟐: 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞 1

The temperature fluctuated with every passing moment.

The ‘Undying Chimera’, a masterpiece of calamity and a cursed disaster that combined all of Baba Yaga’s mana and demonic energy.

Even she, ‘Misteltein’, had to give up her body to black magic and perform the ritual.

The monster was now frozen in a chilling blue ice prison without even being able to attack once.

Everything in the field of vision was cold, as if an ice age had arrived.

Baba Yaga felt a suffocating chill and realized that the ritual connecting her to the Chimera she had summoned had been cut off.

She thrashed about on the spot, her hands scrabbling at the ice wall.

All that remained now was the pitch-black darkness that matched her title of ‘Witch of Darkness’.

“Ack. . . Ack. . . Gah!”

Baba Yaga tried to escape the ‘ice wall’ that surrounded her with only one arm and one leg.

She couldn’t figure out what had happened.

As she had expected, the ‘Undying Chimera’ should have incinerated Min Siwoo in agonizing flames, and then roamed the continent, slaughtering people until all its demonic energy ran out.

This was a curse recorded by great witches in ancient grimoires, and it wasn’t a monster that could be easily killed.

Look at the price she had paid.

An almost lethal amount of blood, both eyes, one arm and one leg, and a huge amount of demonic energy.

Baba Yaga muttered to herself, “No way.” She touched the ice wall with her bare hands.

Click.

At that moment, she felt something with a different texture from the ice wall at the tip of her fingers.

Hard, sharp, and warm.

Siwoo grabbed her neck, which was trying to escape.

“Heo. . . Euk. . .”

“A rather anticlimactic end, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it have been much more graceful if you had simply died quietly earlier?”

Siwoo gave her a wry smile.

“I warned you from the start. 〈Pandemonium〉 will all be killed.”

“Keugh. . .!”

Baba Yaga shook her remaining arm and leg, struggling violently.

“Farewell, traitor to humanity.”

Siwoo, with his cold eyes, blew Baba Yaga’s head off with the shotgun he had materialized.

Kwaang. . . . . . .

A long echo reverberated through the icy valley for a long time.

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Kang Yeo-hwa bit her lip at the horde of zombies rushing in.

She had been shooting arrows at the zombies running towards her for a long time now.

Unlike other monsters, she couldn’t kill them by piercing their cores with her bow, so she had to imbue her arrows with magic power and blow their heads off one by one.

It was draining her magic power, but there were too many of them to handle.

“Damn it!!”

She grabbed the two magic potions she had left next to her and quickly poured them into her mouth.

A small amount of magic power surged up, not enough to fill her stomach, but this wasn’t the time to complain.

Kang Yeo-hwa pulled the bowstring again.

The index finger and middle finger holding the bowstring were already tattered.

Twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, twang, twang!

At that moment, a long Ruyi Bang swept in a semicircle, indiscriminately sweeping away a horde of zombies.

Lo-an, who had landed next to Kang Yeo-hwa, let out a short sigh.

“. . .They keep coming without end.”

“What? Don’t you have to cover the other side?”

“Min Si-joon and Choi Kang-yul are taking care of it. It seems that Samae alone will have a hard time handling the horde of zombies.”

“What?! Who said I’m having a hard time handling them alone!”

Kang Yeo-hwa glared at Lo-an.

“Aren’t you actually having a hard time?”

“That’s. . . because I missed the timing because I was drinking a potion.”

When Lo-an asked back, Kang Yeo-hwa flinched and made a flimsy excuse.

Lo-an ignored her words and pondered what to do with this large number of zombies.

The more he thought about it, the more difficult they seemed to deal with.

In the first place, since their hearts didn’t beat, their functions could only be stopped by destroying their heads.

And since they didn’t know what kind of magical device they had installed, they couldn’t afford to let them bite them.

In other words, they had to kill them all with headshots without causing any damage.

Not to mention the sheer number of them.

The Hunters had to carefully distribute their magic power and stamina because they had to deal not only with the zombies but also with the Reverse Gate.

That was why Kang Yeo-hwa had been using her divine bow to kill zombies without engaging in close combat in order to conserve her stamina.

“. . .Samae, take a break for a while. I’ll take over for a bit.”

“Hey! Aren’t you going to fight the monsters coming out of the Reverse Gate later? You’re the highest level among us, so what will we do if you get tired first?!”

“It will be a little easier if I use the artifact my master made.”

“Oh, come on! Don’t be so stingy with your stamina you punk!”

Kang Yeo-hwa made a face as if she was about to hit Lo-an, then pulled her bow.

Every time she released the bowstring, more than five zombies fell dead at the same time.

Lo-an waited for the right timing to swing his Ruyi Bang when they were clumped together.

He may not have been as energetic, but he couldn’t defy Kang Yeo-hwa when she was being so forceful.

It was true that they had to consider not only the zombies but also the Reverse Gate in the long run.

Lo-an clenched his teeth and gripped the Ruyi Bang.

It was then.

Thud, thud, thud, thud. . . . . . .

The thousands of zombies that had been rushing at them suddenly collapsed to the ground.

“Huh. . . ?”

A green beam of light that had escaped from the zombies shot up into the sky and flew away to one place.

Kang Yeo-hwa and Lo-an looked at the sight with blank faces.

“What the hell just happened?”

“It seems like something happened on Master’s side.”

“Huh?! Why Master?”

“How would I know? Anyway, we’re heading to the Reverse Gate.”

Lo-an seemed relieved.

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Breaking news from all over the world.

Dozens of monitors attached to the wall were broadcasting news from different countries.

Some of them were not news, but live broadcasts from Hunter Tube.

Merlin stared at the numerous screens and gulped down strong alcohol.

This was his personal research lab where the Dimensional Gate project was being operated.

Kraken had unceremoniously dumped him here and returned to the Demon Realm after leaving him a few health recovery potions.

“It hurts so much. . . .”

Merlin poured a potion on the gunshot wound pierced by Kid’s magic bullet and cast recovery magic and healing enhancement magic.

The media was broadcasting the Reverse Gate and the zombie situation all day long, as well as Min Siwoo hunting down the traitor of ‘Misteltein’.

People who had been praised and respected worldwide, who had been the idols and role models of countless Hunters and the strongest of the strong, and on the other hand, people who were traitors to humanity and the 1st Hierarchy of 〈Pandemonium〉.

‘Witch of Darkness’ Baba Yaga, ‘Genius Great Mage’ Merlin.

The media endlessly aired conspiracy documentaries about their lives, including the deceased Saint Germain.

Merlin felt no sign of intoxication, despite drinking high-proof alcohol with an alcohol content of over 50%.

His throat was burning, but his head was colder than ever.

‘𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭?’

The anchorman said with an excited expression.

He twisted his face and threw the cup he was holding violently at the monitor.

Crash!!

The monitor shattered and fell noisily.

“How dare you talk nonsense without knowing the subject.”

Merlin memorized the anchorman’s face and name.

In the future, when the Demon King ruled the world and he represented humanity, he would give that bastard a terrible punishment.

He drank the rest of the bottle.

He wanted to get drunk, but he couldn’t get drunk at all.

At that moment, news outlets captured the green streaks of light with their cameras and relayed them.

Soon, about half of the monitors that filled the wall were reporting the streaks of light at the same time.

“That’s. . . Baba Yaga’s ability.”

Merlin muttered.

As soon as he finished speaking, breaking news followed that all the zombies had collapsed.

Some called it a miracle, and others said that the zombies had just fallen asleep and would soon rise again.

However, Merlin, who saw the news, put down the bottle and wiped his mouth with his hand.

No way. . . no, why already?

This was too fast.

It had only been a few dozen minutes since the Lux Project had started.

It wasn’t anywhere else, but a fight that would have taken place in her castle.

Even Merlin couldn’t defeat Baba Yaga there.

Baba Yaga, armed with all kinds of witchcraft, magic books, traps, and potions, was like a curse that no one dared to touch, and her castle was like her own body.

And now, after fighting a battle in such a place, Baba Yaga was already recovering her demonic energy?

‘𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘪𝘵. . . 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴? 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘪𝘸𝘰𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵, 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺.’

Everything that 〈Pandemonium〉 had done was crumbling down.

Saint Germain’s ‘New Human Project’, which was called one of the three major projects, had failed, and the remaining two projects were being implemented in a gamble with an unreasonable deadline.

The Reverse Gate was created with lower devils borrowed from Mephistopheles to buy time, but even that plan to catch ‘Misteltein’s’ ankle had failed.

If this ‘Lux Project’ also failed. . . . . . .

Would Kraken still trust him?

Merlin couldn’t take his eyes off the monitor with anxious eyes.

He hoped that the zombies would be resurrected soon and march through the city again.

At that moment, breaking news appeared on the screen with new information.

《SSS-rank Hunter Min Siwoo kills ‘Misteltein’ Baba Yaga》

“Aaaahhhhhh!!! Min Siwoo, this damn son of a bitch!!!”

Merlin slammed the bottle he had next to him on the floor and screamed until blood came out of his throat, unable to control his emotions.

On the screen, the mosaiced body of Baba Yaga was revealed.

Merlin gasped.

It wasn’t that he had any camaraderie or special feelings for her.

It was just that all his plans had gone down the drain.

And he was resentful and bitter that one person kept doing that.

“Baba Yaga. I’ll avenge you. Min Siwoo, that son of a bitch. . .!!”

Merlin clenched his fist so tightly that blood flowed into his palm.

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A huge and magnificent iron gate.

A man wearing a fedora pushed open the grand gate that was more than ten meters high and entered.

The inside was too wide to be called a room.

It was so desolate, dark, and spacious that it should be called another space.

Kraken walked towards the center of it as if he was familiar with it.

The only place where a single ray of light entered.

However, that didn’t mean that the light was bright or warm sunlight.

An extremely artificial and pale light illuminated the place beneath it, and there was a truly strange structure there.

A huge pillar and dozens of hoses protruding from the pillar in all directions.

And a strange being sitting on a cold marble throne connected to the hoses.

Kraken knelt on one knee when he saw the man.

“Did you call me, Demon King of the 1st Realm?”

The Demon King, who was wearing something like an artificial respirator, nodded and opened his mouth with a thin face.

『What about the project?』

“It failed, Demon King of the 1st Realm.”

Kraken answered shortly.

The Demon King of the 1st Realm trembled all over.

Then the pillars shook and the building began to vibrate slightly.

『What a bold answer.』

“Please calm your anger. As I told you from the beginning, 〈Pandemonium〉 will never become the vanguard of the demon race, Demon King of the 1st Realm.”

The Demon King glared at him for a moment, then stopped his anger.

『So it has turned out as you expected?』

Kraken nodded without hesitation at the other person’s question.

“Yes.”

『What was your purpose?』

The Demon King asked him with a faint smile.

Kraken’s red eyes shone through the hideous mask.

“To buy us time to prepare for war. That is the only value 〈Pandemonium〉 has.”

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