𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟓𝟑: 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐫 2
A sweet taste spread throughout his mouth.
The light pink flesh melted thickly.
The white magic that had turned into a magical power slowly flowed down towards her lower abdomen.
His lower abdomen, which had been in a mess due to his inability to open his 6th core.
“Whew. . .”
White magical power filled the space and began to breathe new life into all her nerves.
Siwoo slowly felt his strength returning.
The throbbing mana veins and pain that had been wracking his body subsided.
His head felt cool.
“Are you okay, master?”
Lo-an asked him with a worried expression.
The elixir he had taken when fighting Siwoo in the arena had restored 20-30 percent of his energy, but the skill he had just been given, [One Peach], was on a completely different level.
100 percent.
A spell that temporarily increased even the potential within it.
However, Lo-an had a simple reason for not using [One Peach] despite its dreamlike abilities.
It consumes your life.
From the moment the skill is activated until the elixir’s magic runs out.
The person who consumes it will rapidly lose their life force until they die.
“Master. . . .”
Siwoo’s life was now hanging by a thread.
A final burst of light.
A state where flames bloom brilliantly before the end.
“Thank you, Xiaolong.”
A clear voice.
Siwoo stood up and patted Lo-an on the shoulder.
Lo-an’s anxiety grew rapidly at the sight of him looking so normal.
“Master, we still. . . need you.”
Siwoo’s lips curled into a faint smile at his disciple’s uncharacteristic protest.
“Xiao─ no, Lo-an.”
“Yes.”
“Tell Sion, Ah-ming. . . and Si-joon that I miss them.”
“M─!”
Before Lo-an could call out to his master, Siwoo’s body shot out like a bullet.
Siwoo flew to where Bablehner was in an instant and glared at him as he chuckled in the air.
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
『As expected of my only rival. I intended to kill you, but you managed to survive.』
Bablehner looked at him with a face as pale as a sheet of paper.
Siwoo’s piercing gaze was fixed on his pitch-black pupils.
『I don’t know what kind of magic you used, but you’ve regained your momentum. Do you really think you can face me with that kind of power?』
“Well, all the guys I’ve faced so far have had plans. At least until they got hit by me.”
Siwoo quickly opened his cores.
The doors opened one by one, starting from the 1st core.
Ether energy poured out like a waterfall, turning his entire body a light blue.
‘4th core, 5th core, 6th core. . . !’
Kugugugugugug──!!
As that incredible force surged, Bablehner’s smile hardened.
Because he could feel an incomparable power as the 5th and 6th core doors opened.
『Kekekeke─ You keep amusing me until the end, Min Siwoo!!』
However, Bablehner was not afraid or nervous.
He had a strong belief and conviction that he would be the ultimate victor.
Because─
‘You should always keep your trump card for the end.’
Bablehner bared his long fangs and lunged at Siwoo.
Immense power and force collided in the air.
Jjiijijijijijijijij─────jijijiji!!
Sharp lightning bolts tore through the darkness, their screams echoing like thunderbolts.
Suddenly, Siwoo, clad in black armor and wielding the Dragon Slayer Sword, attacked Bablehner.
“Hwaaaaaaaaap!!”
A trajectory that seemed to slice through space was etched in a semicircle.
Bablehner spread his palms towards the direction Siwoo was flying.
An immense demonic energy condensed into a single point, forming a pitch-black black hole.
Kuwaaaaaaa──────gagaga!!
A single flash of light shot out from the black sphere that had collided with the Dragon Slayer Sword, followed by thousands of thorns that rushed towards Siwoo.
Siwoo widened his eyes and infused his black armor with the power of ether.
Tudatadatada!!
A barrage of thorns rained down like a storm, trying to pierce Siwoo through his armor.
『Your grave is here, Min Siwoo. There is no way to escape or get out.』
Bablehner cursed in a chilling voice.
Then, he spread his hands and began to manipulate the demonic energy he had scattered.
The thorns that had been raining sharp attacks on Siwoo instantly merged into one and wrapped around his body like a dark curtain.
Bablehner clenched his fist.
Telekinesis, his specialty that had crushed countless enemies.
Kwaaaaaaa──────!!
The dark curtain that enveloped Siwoo erupted with thousands of thorns that pierced through its interior, and Bablehner’s telekinesis crushed Siwoo along with the curtain.
It was a power that even demon kings could not withstand.
Bablehner watched the scene without batting an eye, only lifting his lips.
He would not have died.
He was the only rival he had ever acknowledged.
The first being to push him to the brink of death.
Bablehner had no intention of killing Siwoo outright.
He felt that he would only be satisfied if he returned the terror and despair he had experienced dozens, hundreds of times over.
『I hope it doesn’t end too easily. You need to entertain me a little more, like the old Min Siwoo.』
But that musing was short-lived.
Two magic circles filled with the power of ether shone in the air like suns.
[Divine Spear: Gungnir]
[Incineration: Pillar of Fire]
After finishing the double casting, Siwoo twisted the spell circuit and reconstructed the arrangement of the characters.
The dark curtain that had surrounded him shattered into pieces, scattered by the surging power of the dragon.
“Alright, I’ll entertain you.”
Siwoo threw his shoulders back and shot the divine spear [Gungnir] forward in his hand.
A blazing pillar of fire wrapped around the divine spear, releasing heat into the area.
Jje───────eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
The divine spear that had hit Bablehner let out a fierce scream.
A shockwave shook the heavens and the earth.
Everything in the vicinity was scattered by the wind.
“Damn, what kind of fight is that?”
Choi Dae-soo, who had been fighting the Kraken in the distance, stuck out his tongue.
It was no longer a human duel.
Everyone was shocked at the sight of what seemed like ancient monsters or mythical beings fighting.
The same went for Siwoo’s disciples and the empire’s loyalists who had been watching him for a long time.
“Your Majesty─”
Kikl muttered in a voice mixed with respect and worry.
“Kugh!! Siwoo, are you okay?!”
“Master will be fine! We just have to do our part!”
Namir reassured Gandharva, who was worried.
She was just as worried about Siwoo, but for now, her priority was to follow Siwoo’s instructions.
“Whew─”
Siwoo took a moment to catch his breath after throwing the divine spear.
It was no wonder he was tired after using two of his most powerful spells at the same time, and on top of that, combining them.
However, he didn’t think he could rest for long.
“This is crazy.”
Siwoo gritted his teeth.
『Kekekeke. . . Min Siwoo. You have some very interesting skills.』
Bablehner looked down at him with a twisted smile, completely unharmed.
“It looks like it didn’t do much damage.”
At Siwoo’s sharp observation, Bablehner drew demonic energy from his body.
『That’s right, I couldn’t have taken no damage after being hit by such a crude attack. However, it’s not enough to defeat me.』
He was sincere.
Siwoo, who could read the opponent’s magic wavelength, realized that Bablehner was not bluffing.
Siwoo had also sensed it subconsciously.
‘I can’t win like this. If I drag this out, I’m more likely to get hit.’
Comparing his current 6th core to Bablehner’s full power, his opponent was slightly ahead.
‘To think he’s gotten this strong in the past 10 years.’
Originally, a demon race that could live for hundreds of years, and among them, a demon king who had reached the top, could not be compared to a human who lived for a few decades.
The given physical conditions were vastly different, and above all, the demonic energy they handled was far superior to magic power.
However, there were some outstanding Awakeners who could stand up to the demon race, and Siwoo in particular had been able to catch up to them because he had spent a hundred years traveling through the other world.
Siwoo checked his own condition.
‘I don’t have time to spare either.’
He could feel the life energy and lifeline he had stored running out with each passing moment.
‘There’s no point in a protracted battle. I need to go short and sharp.’
Normally, Siwoo’s fighting style would have been indifferent to whether it was long or short.
However, his opponent’s level was too high to afford him such leisure.
An enemy who would not be satisfied even if he burned everything down.
『Let’s see who the ultimate victor is.』
A huge magic circle unfolded behind Bablehner.
As if a mountain had been carved out, it was too large to take in at a glance.
Kugugugugug. . . !!!
Siwoo’s face contorted at the sight.
It wasn’t a magic circle simply spread out to kill him.
It was powerful enough to completely overturn the terrain here and wipe out his allies who were fighting scattered around.
『I wonder how you’re going to stop this, Min Siwoo.』
Pitch-black eyes, deeper than darkness, turned towards Siwoo.
Jjeojeojeo. . . jjeojeok. . . !!
Just the momentum of the magic that had yet to be activated began to crack the ground.
Siwoo let out a long sigh.
“This is it.”
If he could kill that guy, he wouldn’t mind giving up his life.
Siwoo clenched both fists so hard that they bled.
Along with the excruciating pain of his neck being seized and torn, the pain of the blade piercing his dantian struck him.
He opened the wall beyond the 6th core.
────────!!
It would be the first and last attempt of his life.
If he could drive out these disgusting demons, if he could cut off the necks of the 4th realm demon king, he would gladly accept this level of pain with a smile.
Siwoo felt blood gushing out of his eyes and nose as if his brain was being fried in oil.
An insane act that transcended the limits of humanity, and then the limits of that transcendence.
Was it thanks to the elixir he had received from Lo-an?
Kka───ang
The wall that had never been broken before shattered, and the power of the final 7th core flowed into his body.
Drop by drop.
Neither too heavy nor too light.
The heart of the seventh dragon he had absorbed breathed power into Siwoo.
“Keugh!!”
Magic power surged forth.
A torrent of immense power that he had never felt before coursed through Siwoo’s cells, burning like a flame.
Pre, who had been observing Siwoo’s condition, used his heal skill frantically.
Regeneration and decomposition alternated in thousandths of a second.
Bablehner noticed that Siwoo’s condition was changing strangely.
He decided that it would be better to finish this off now, before he could tell what he was going to do.
『One last struggle!!』
Bablehner poured magic towards the ground as if he had made up his mind.
If he erased this place from the map now, all the wars that had been fought would be over.
As a victory for the demon race and their king, himself.
That moment.
“Stop.”
A scene where everything seemed to freeze.
Bablehner thought it was a strange feeling.
The magic he had just shot out was suspended in the air, blinking.
But. . . how was that guy moving?
His pupils turned very slowly towards the man in front of him.
Siwoo stared at him as if he were going to kill him, his eyes glinting with a cold light.
“I’m sick and tired of your face.”
Siwoo, who had broken the 7th core’s wall, unleashed a fierce blow on Bablehner’s face.
────────────Kuwaaaaaaa!!!
The fist that had been thrust forward shattered Bablehner’s face and smashed the magic circle that had been spread out behind him.
The magic that had been shot out turned back into particles.
That single ray of light painted the air and slammed Bablehner’s body into the ground.
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