Chapter 329
Chapter 329: Cataclysm (2)
Lupus moved first.
No, even the expression 'moved' was insufficient.
It was closer to teleportation.
The massive figure over 5 meters tall disappeared, leaving only an afterimage.
Kwaang!
Kim Minwoo's sword cut through the empty air.
It missed.
No, he blocked it, but was pushed back.
Hell Rhapsody rang out as if screaming, and Kim Minwoo's body bounced backwards.
He pierced through two buildings.
“Keuheup.”
Kim Minwoo stood up from the debris.
Blood was smeared around his mouth.
Even though they had merely clashed once.
‘So this is the Seven Lords.’
The powerhouses he had faced in the Demonic Cult's Ranking Battle.
The monsters called proxies. Those guys were quite something too. But the beast right before his eyes now was on a different level.
It wasn't just a matter of being on a different level.
They weren't subjects of comparison in the first place.
Lupus walked over slowly.
“You're holding out, though.”
His golden pupils shone as if interested.
“Usually, they burst in one hit, you see.”
Kim Minwoo raised his sword.
“Cedric.”
As soon as the command fell, the Legion Commander charged.
The aura of death condensed at the tip of his spear. At the same time, Vulcan's whip aimed for his flank, and Olivia's fingernails dug into his back. Merhen's arrow aimed at his head.
A coordinated attack pouring from all directions.
Lupus smirked.
“Is this all?”
He reached out his hand.
That was all.
Kwaaang!
A red wave exploded.
The authority of blood.
With Lupus at the center, a blood-colored shockwave spread out in all directions.
The four Legion Commanders bounced away simultaneously.
“Weak.”
Lupus cracked his neck.
Ttuk, ttuk, the sound of bones rang out.
“It's no use no matter how many mere undead come.”
Kim Minwoo's eyes narrowed.
‘Boiling Blood. A physical enhancement skill.’
Facing it directly was different from knowing it only through information.
The Demonic Cult's proxies?
The comparison itself was ridiculous.
That was simply a disaster.
“So this is the level of taking a penalty, you mean?”
“Did the name of the Seven Lords seem like a joke to you?”
“Not really.”
Lupus's eyes narrowed.
As if mocking him, he growled while looking at Kim Minwoo.
“Did you delude yourself into thinking something just because you ran wild a bit in the lower districts, kid? Ifrin? At best, she's just an ordinary person of District 2.”
Interest disappeared from Lupus's eyes.
A deflated expression.
“Was this really all it was?”
He took a step.
Jjeoeok─!
The earth cracked.
The crack spreading out radially shattered the road, the building debris, and the asphalt to pieces.
Massive atmospheric pressure encroached upon the surroundings.
The air became heavy. It was suffocating.
“I will slowly put an end to this.”
“Try it, then.”
The confirmation of his fighting power was roughly finished.
It seemed he would have to use everything to even rub against him.
Then, he has to use it.
The crown above his head spewed light.
[Using ‘Authority of the Emperor’!]
[All stats of summons increase by 200%!]
[Using Guidance of Destiny (SSS)!]
[Selecting target, Park Siwoo!]
[Current Favorability: 95]
[A future point in time equivalent to ‘95’.]
[A possession rate equivalent to ‘95’ is applied!]
[Your sword strike reverses causality, preempting the ‘result’!]
‘And here…….’
[Using skill, Descent (EX)!]
[Your divinity descends to the lower realm.]
[It takes the form of death.]
[Taking the form of a Low-tier God!]
Kwaaaaa―!
Pitch-black darkness exploded from Kim Minwoo's body.
The Descent he had utilized in the fight against the Dragon Lord.
The manifestation of death itself, which all existences with life must instinctively revere and fear.
Now having grown from a Lowest-tier God to a Low-tier God, the power of Descent had also become incomparably stronger than before.
‘Of course, it's a bit weaker than when the Death Lord helped, though.’
A suspended world where even time had hardened like a solid stone. The Blood Wolf's intimidating presence crushed his entire body.
However…….
‘He is much weaker than the Dragon Lord.’
The Dragon Lord was on a different level altogether.
If that existence was like the sun itself, holding the power of compression tightly within its body to the point where looking straight at it would blind you.
Lupus's presence was…….
‘A moon at best?’
To say how much of a difference there was between the sun and the moon would only make one's mouth hurt.
Lupus's eyes narrowed.
‘What is this.’
His instincts warned him.
The guy who was clearly prey just a moment ago had suddenly transformed into a different existence.
The overwhelming gap narrowed in an instant.
No, it wasn't just narrowed.
It had become equal.
“Divinity, huh…….”
Lupus's fangs were revealed.
“A mere Necromancer imitating a god?”
It was a voice mixed with a growl.
However, the emotion contained within it was not anger.
Wariness.
His instinct as one of the Seven Lords was speaking.
That this guy was dangerous.
That at this very moment, if he let his guard down, he would die.
“Good. You had your own move, is that it?”
Lupus's body heated up to a bright red.
Veins bulged out from beneath his skin.
His muscles expanded. His bones creaked and rearranged themselves.
The massive figure that was 5 meters swelled to 6 meters, 7 meters.
Kwajiik. Kwajijik.
The sound of joints twisting rang out.
‘To think I would have to burn my true origin energy…….’
A blood-red mist soared up.
Scarlet smoke swirled with Lupus's body at the center. The moisture in the air evaporated in an instant.
The air itself was dyed with the smell of blood.
Awoooo―!
The wolf's howl shook the entirety of District 6.
Every single window shattered completely. The pedestrians hiding far away collapsed while blocking their ears.
“I didn't expect to end up like this in a place like District 6…….”
His golden pupils were dyed blood-red.
“Thanks to you, I'll be using my full power for the first time in a while.”
The blood mist condensed.
Lupus's fingernails turned black.
No, it wasn't just his fingernails. His entire hands mutated into the claws of a beast.
Red fur sprang up along his forearms.
Complete beastification.
The true form of the Seven Lords' Blood Wolf.
“I will kill you, Necromancer.”
Kim Minwoo raised his sword.
Pitch-black darkness and blood-red mist collided in the empty air.
Death and blood.
Two authorities cut through the sky of District 6.
A menacing blue magic circle bloomed above the pitch-black ring worn on his index finger.
[Using Death's Imprint!]
[An ‘Imprint’ has been engraved upon Blood Wolf Lupus!]
[When the imprinted target dies, a portion of its stats will be permanently absorbed!]
At the same time, the crown flashed.
[‘Authority of the Emperor’ is amplified!]
[All summons share divinity!]
[The consumption of divinity increases rapidly!]
Black flames blazed from Cedric's eye sockets.
The mist of death wrapped around Vulcan's whip.
Olivia's fingernails were dyed pitch-black down to the bone, and black patterns bloomed on Merhen's staff.
Death, soon becomes a sword.
Hell Rhapsody was dyed pitch-black.
The moment Descent and Guidance overlapped, another layer of sensation peeled off.
Not a sword, but the severed ‘result’ itself.
[A confirmed future is granted to all ‘slashes’.]
Time slowed down, and slowed down again.
A screen split not by seconds, but by frames.
The timing of Lupus's muscles contracting, even the distribution of force placed on a single toe could all be seen.
‘He leaps in.’
The gap that existed between intention and result disappeared.
Simultaneously with the thought, he was already cut.
Seogeok―.
Blood burst like a fountain from Lupus's shoulder.
By the eyes, he was still swinging his arm, but below the elbow had already fallen to the ground.
“……?”
His golden pupils wavered.
An expression of not even realizing when or how he was cut.
The mist of death rose from the tip of the sword.
His instincts screamed.
Chilling fear crawled up Lupus's spine.
‘What was that, just now?’
The world seen with his eyes and the result felt by his body diverged.
He definitely threw a punch from the front.
However, the result was after his arm had been cut off.
[Demon Eye (EX) overlaps.]
[The ‘Time of Insight’ expands.]
Color drained.
The scenery of District 6 turned black and white.
Things that were moving slowed down one by one.
Lupus's blood drops were pooled in the empty air.
Between them, Kim Minwoo walked.
‘Heart, liver, cervical vertebrae, patella.’
The threads of causality were clearly visible.
The place to cut, the shortest path to reach ‘death’ if cut.
The tip of the sword pointed at Lupus.
Seogeok―!
Once again, the world resumed.
Kung!!
The massive figure twisted.
Lupus's knees buckled.
Without seeing anything, his leg was cut off in the empty air.
“Keuaaak―!!”
A bizarre scream erupted.
A roar to the extent of making the entirety of District 6 ring.
Blood soared like a fountain.
Even before he collapsed, the severed leg rolled, raising dust.
At that time, Cedric sprang up first.
The aura of death condensed in his eye sockets blazing with black flames and at the tip of his spear.
Kwajik―!
The spear twisted and lodged into Lupus's waist.
Not blood, but black mist burst out.
The flesh touched by the spear rotted away in an instant.
Cedric twisted his body and drew Lupus's gaze.
Sparks flew from the side.
Chiiiik―!
Vulcan's whip wrapped around his flank.
It was different from before.
The flesh touched by the whip crumbled to ash just like that.
Muscles and veins snapped off and fell to the floor.
Vulcan twisted and pulled.
The chunk of flesh that was caught was torn off entirely.
Merhen's staff tapped the floor.
Jjeoeok―!
Ice spikes surged from beneath Lupus's feet.
Piercing his heels, they bound his legs.
Black frost mixed with the blood mist froze his legs halfway.
“F*ck……!”
The moment Lupus tried to pull his legs up.
Seogeok─!
Olivia dug into the nape of his neck.
Digging in without a hint of presence, she drew her fingernails down his spine from behind.
Black flames bloomed wherever the four fingernails passed.
His spinal cord was cut.
The sensation between his upper and lower body was separated for a moment.
Lupus swung his arm.
A wave of blood exploded.
Kwaang!!
The four Legion Commanders were pushed back simultaneously.
They crashed into a building wall and were buried in the debris.
However, Lupus staggered as well.
His legs were half-frozen, his waist was rotted and crumbled, and more than half of his joints were blown away.
“Mere undead…….”
He panted heavily.
His regeneration was, slow.
Blood was clearly soaring, but the speed of reattachment could not keep up.
“It's my first time seeing undead fed with divinity too. It really is good.”
Kim Minwoo approached.
The mist of death rose from beneath his feet.
The tip pointed at the sky.
The four Legion Commanders stood up again.
Black flames leaked out from the gaps in their ruined armor.
“The composition isn't bad, right?”
At the same time, the sword slashed down.
The sky of District 6, was split by a black line.
Simultaneously, Lupus's body was also cleaved in two.