Chapter 304: Seventy-Fifth Floor, the Old Man and the Spirits (9)
[Resolve the old man’s regrets. Time remaining: 8 hours 37 minutes.]
It happened in a flash.
An axe flickering with blue lightning traced a crescent in the air. A series of concentric arcs followed it, the afterimages carving the earth like a series of lightning moons. Beneath the torrent of lightning, the remnants of the Creeping Madness, the first Evil, split in half and spilled out.
Only a handful of people on the battlefield could even make out the faintest trace of the axe’s trajectory.
Oh, God.
Muk-Hyeon was among them. Even he couldn’t fully perceive the strike from beginning to end, but that hardly mattered. He stood, mouth agape, gazing out across the plain.
The sphere of lightning that had gouged the earth was fading away, its glow growing dim.
Muk-Hyeon let out a soft sigh as a heavy sense of longing settled over him.
Boom—!
A moment later, a dull shockwave erupted. Swept up in the gale that burst forth from the heart of the Creeping Madness, monsters were flung into the air.
Unlike the chaotic battlefield, the top of the fortress wall was quiet.
That was until someone cried, “Th-the god has struck down the Creeping Madness!”