Chapter 188 : The End’s Revival
Chapter 188: The End’s Revival
【The deaths of the Avatars have been detected.】
【Corrosion Rate has increased by 60%.】
【Corrosion Rate has exceeded 100%.】
【Warning, the seal of 【Lamb】 has been released.】
【The End revives.】
The Leader of Pandemonium brought about the revival of the End by sacrificing his own life and the lives of the High-ranking Executives.
The Fragments of the End they possessed returned to their master.
A cold silence settled over the battlefield.
After absorbing the Fragments, the End stood with his eyes closed, not moving in the slightest.
It almost seemed as though they could sever his neck if they rushed at him with their weapons right now.
Yet no one tried.
More precisely, they couldn’t.
Their bodies refused to move as they wished.
An overwhelming presence that inspired awe even in those who had reached the pinnacle.
It was the Pressure emitted by a superior existence, much like Dragon Fear.
Only, its magnitude was completely different.
It made them want to fall to their knees before the existence in front of them.
They hadn’t even fought him yet, but they felt as though they already knew the outcome.
Death.
Park Siwoo couldn’t believe it.
‘That’s an incomplete revival?’
Then what kind of existence was the End when fully revived?
And what kind of beings were the Angels who had once opposed him?
Only now did it gradually begin to feel real.
The being before them was a conqueror and destroyer who had annihilated countless dimensions.
The pinnacle of the species known as Demons.
The End’s closed eyes slowly opened.
His gaze turned toward Park Siwoo and the others.
He was experiencing many emotions.
The strongest among them were rage and humiliation.
Even if this wasn’t a proper revival, to think he had been helplessly toyed with by a mere human.
And that wasn’t all.
His revival should never have occurred like this in the first place.
The Hell Gate should have opened, and he should have completely revived there alongside his armies.
That was why Pandemonium existed.
That was why the Demonic Humans existed.
Yet what was this?
Far from opening the Hell Gate, those who were supposed to bring about his revival had sacrificed themselves to force his incomplete revival.
They had fled after dumping everything onto him.
Rage surged within him at the current situation.
To think he, the one called the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, now had to act personally in order to achieve his complete revival.
It was behavior utterly unbecoming of the name Demon King.
And all of it was because of Yoo Seongwoo.
He wanted to tear the bastard apart immediately, but he couldn’t.
With the release of his seal, Yoo Seongwoo had disappeared into the immense torrent of power.
‘It doesn’t matter. There is something else I can do instead.’
The End already knew the best way to torment the bastard who had faded away after becoming part of him.
He would grant the worst possible deaths to those who had interfered with his revival.
With the seal of 【Lamb】 released, the Ocean of Demonic Energy that had been suppressed until now finally revealed itself.
Darkness spread outward from the End and swallowed everything.
Park Siwoo and the others kicked off the air and rose into the sky.
Reinforcements were arriving after sensing the End’s presence.
Cheon Ga-eun and Oliver Raiders, who had been holding back Tamuz the Giant.
Seo Da-hee and Yoo Yi-seo, who had been unconscious after their battle against Serphin, were there as well.
At last, everyone who could stand against the End had gathered.
The final Suicide Squad assembled against the End was in terrible shape.
It was because of the weeks-long war and the battles they had fought immediately beforehand.
They were covered in injuries large and small, and their stamina had hit rock bottom.
Even so, they stood before the End.
The End’s power was terrifying, but an even stronger sense of duty kept them in place.
The Sword Emperor suddenly remembered the first time he had ever held a sword.
He still remembered the trembling from that day.
The heavy sword and the cold chill radiating from it.
But hotter still had been the Monster’s gaze and the breath it exhaled.
The End stood at the center of the violently surging Ocean of Demonic Energy.
He stretched one hand toward the sky.
As though he had covered the heavens with that hand,
the once-blue sky turned black.
Greatsword of World Annihilation.
A sword that was itself a catastrophe merely by falling to the earth.
And not one, but five of them were descending.
Everyone moved immediately.
There was no need for any signal.
Each stopped them in their own way.
The Sword Emperor’s Mind Sword split one of the five greatswords apart.
The combined Dragon Breath of Helena and Oliver Raiders erased the second.
Park Siwoo and Dan Chun-woo joined forces and shattered the third.
Cheon Ga-eun and Eunha destroyed the fourth together.
Yoo Yi-seo and Seo Da-hee combined their strength and stopped the final greatsword.
The destroyed Greatswords of World Annihilation rained down like flaming hail.
Bang!
With a violent explosion, someone was blasted away and slammed into the ground.
Helena shouted when she saw him.
“Mr. Siwoo!”
Having drawn their attention with the Greatswords of World Annihilation, the End had already appeared in their midst.
He had used Spatial Authority.
A small sphere appeared in the End’s hand.
The instant it turned black, a powerful gravitational force dragged them toward it.
Everyone was caught off guard by an Authority Yoo Seongwoo had never used before.
Naturally so.
Yoo Seongwoo had only been able to use a limited number of Authorities by borrowing or stealing Demonic Authorities through 【Lamb】.
Because of that, they had never considered the possibility that he could use other Authorities.
But they had misunderstood one thing.
The power of the End that Yoo Seongwoo had used was nothing more than a fragment of the whole.
The being before them was the father of all Demons.
The Demonic Authorities used by Demons were originally powers belonging to him, and now that he had revived, he could freely wield countless Authorities.
An enormous hammer descended toward the Heroes drawn together by the powerful gravitational force.
An ominous hammer crackling with black lightning.
Mjolnir.
Kwarururung!
With a sound like the heavens being torn apart, it ripped space itself to shreds.
Yet his attack failed to wound the Heroes.
Where the black lightning had passed,
Yoo Yi-seo barely remained floating in midair.
Her hands had been scorched black.
That was a small price to pay for stopping the End’s attack.
The Heroes began their offensive.
As expected, the Sword Emperor moved first.
Swordsmanship that had reached the pinnacle of technique surged forth like a tidal wave.
It tore apart the End’s Demonic Energy and severed his limbs faster than he could regenerate them.
It was the same technique that had rendered the End unable to move when he had previously stolen Yoo Seongwoo’s body.
With his movements restricted, Helena and Oliver launched their attack.
Dragon Breath, saturated with Mana, blazed forth.
The End smiled dismissively beneath the Sword Emperor’s assault.
He wasn’t stupid enough to fall for the same technique twice, and the circumstances were different now.
Light erupted from the End’s eyes.
Authority of Stasis.
The Sword Emperor’s body, which had been relentlessly pressuring the End, froze.
At the same time, the End extended his hand and blocked Helena and Oliver’s Dragon Breath.
A shield of black Demonic Energy unfolded before his palm.
The End’s eyes curved ominously.
The most troublesome person present was unquestionably the Sword Emperor.
Having reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, the Sword Emperor’s blade surpassed even the End’s Authorities.
A crimson Demonic Sword appeared in the End’s hand.
Unquenchable flames of Hell engulfed the Sword Emperor.
Clang!
With a cold metallic sound, the End’s Levatein was knocked aside.
Cheon Ga-eun’s expression twisted from the horrific heat pressing against her great sword.
A vicious curse escaped her mouth.
Dan Chun-woo’s sword rushed toward the End from behind.
Its sword path closely resembled the Sword Emperor’s.
Delight flashed across Dan Chun-woo’s face.
His blade had reached the End.
The exchange seemed as though it would never end.
For the already exhausted Heroes, fighting him was nothing short of Hell.
Every single one of the End’s Authorities was astonishing, and merely blocking them devoured huge amounts of stamina.
And that wasn’t all.
The End’s body, revived through Yoo Seongwoo, was no longer human.
Most attacks barely affected him at all, and whenever they finally succeeded in inflicting a meaningful wound, he instantly restored himself through the Authority of Restoration.
As the battle continued, exhaustion accumulated.
Meanwhile, the End looked no different from when the battle had begun, gradually breaking the Heroes’ fighting spirit.
Cheon Ga-eun deflected one of the End’s attacks and shouted.
“Goddammit! How much can this bastard regenerate?!”
Cut off his arms, and he wouldn’t die.
Sever his neck, and he still wouldn’t die.
The Sword Emperor’s Mind Sword had already carved apart the End’s body hundreds of times.
Helena and Oliver’s Dragon Breaths had burned his flesh.
Park Siwoo’s spear had pierced his heart.
Yoo Yi-seo’s lightning had scorched his entire body.
Yet the End remained perfectly fine.
At her furious shout, the End sneered.
Demons were immortal.
As long as Mana existed, the Authority of Restoration continued restoring their bodies.
Even if their Mana ran dry and their physical forms disappeared, so long as the heart remained intact, they could eventually revive.
Naturally, the End also possessed a heart.
They merely had to exhaust his Great Sea-like reserve of Mana before it could be exposed.
“Submit and accept it. Bow your heads before overwhelming despair.”
Judging by the situation, the Heroes appeared to have no chance of victory.
Several hours had already passed since the battle began.
The Heroes were growing increasingly exhausted and their wounds continued worsening, while the End remained unharmed.
Even when they exploited their numerical advantage to overwhelm him, their attacks were meaningless before his seemingly infinite regenerative ability.
Another exchange between the Heroes and the End began.
But the momentum behind the Heroes’ attacks had clearly weakened.
Once again, tremendous power condensed within the End’s hand.
Violent waves surged through the Ocean of Demonic Energy covering the ground, and fierce winds began to howl.
An Authority comparable in power to the Greatsword of World Annihilation.
The End intended to claim the life of one of the Heroes with this attack.
At that moment, the Sword Emperor’s eyes flashed.
This was the moment he had been waiting for.
The moment the End became certain of his own victory.
The moment even the Heroes themselves believed they were going to lose.
The Sword Emperor planted his foot against the ground.
The fragmented perception of powerful beings slowed endlessly until it stopped.
Within that frozen world, only the Sword Emperor moved.
He drew his sword and approached the End.
Mu-a (無我).
The ultimate technique of the Sword Emperor’s swordsmanship, created for the sole purpose of absolutely killing the opponent.
It was a technique bordering on madness, born from the unwavering conviction that if he failed to cut his opponent, he himself would die.
Countless gazes followed the Sword Emperor.
Though none of them could move within the fragmented time, they could still perceive his movements.
Even a Demon could not heal a wound inflicted during Mu-a.
The Sword Emperor intended to end everything with this single strike.
Before anyone realized it, he stood directly before the End and raised his sword toward the sky.
The End’s gaze followed the blade.
At that moment, the Sword Emperor and the End’s eyes met in midair.
The Sword Emperor’s gaze almost seemed to be mocking him.
The End did not know what hidden card the Sword Emperor had prepared.
But he knew very well the look in the eyes of those desperately seeking hope within despair.
And what the End enjoyed most was trampling that hope into nothing.
Authority of Swiftness.
Accelerating himself endlessly, the End’s body began moving within the infinitely divided time.
Everyone’s expressions filled with shock.
After reaching the realm of the Mind Sword, the Sword Emperor’s Mu-a had become even more complete, to the point that the time in which he moved was practically frozen.
Yet the End was matching that speed.
But the End was just as surprised.
Even with the body of a Demon, he felt tremendous Pressure.
It was as though he were trying to move at the bottom of the Abyssal Sea.
The End’s Levatein blocked the Sword Emperor’s blade.
At the same moment, frozen time resumed, and a tremendous roar erupted.
The Sword Emperor’s strike, into which he had poured everything, ended in failure.
All that remained was the overwhelming rebound that followed Mu-a.
Despair appeared on everyone’s faces.
Having exhausted all his strength, the Sword Emperor’s knees buckled.
The End raised his sword to deliver the finishing blow.
Then suddenly, the End noticed something strange.
‘Why is he smiling……?’
Even though his hidden trump card had failed, the Sword Emperor did not despair.
Instead, he was smiling.
The true blade that had hidden itself within the shadow of the Sword Emperor’s enormous presence was finally revealed.
Time stretched endlessly once again.
Having already used the Authority of Swiftness to counter the Sword Emperor’s Mu-a once, the End could not unleash that movement again immediately.
Dan Chun-woo’s sword carved an enormous wound across the End.