Chapter 45
The name of the Demon King.
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[You have entered the boss stage.] This is the second time.
This is the second time I entered the boss stage.
Comparing then and now...
A lot of things are the same, and a lot of things have changed.
[The challenger is the King of Death.
There is only one person.] [Good luck to you.] First, a notification sound.
Just like when I challenged the 'Mansion of Inferno', I am still the only challenger.
was a solo player.
At the tower, as always, he quietly prayed for the challenger's luck and mine.
But.
There was definitely a difference from back then.
[Clear rewards will be given.] [Compensations are all settled from the 11th to the 19th floors.] Now, I was no longer a simple challenger.
He was a conqueror who conquered the 11th to 19th floors and climbed up to here.
At the tower, the country greeted the conquerors and blew nine trumpets warmly.
[Settling the 11th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 12th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 13th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 14th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 15th floor clear reward.] [Settling the 16th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 17th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 18th floor clear reward.] [Setting the 19th floor clear reward...] I took a step [Settlement completed.] While listening to the melody that welcomes my footsteps.
[The Tower recognizes your feat.] [You are given the right to modify your skills!] [Unless you are EX level, you can enhance any skill.] It was like a hymn that blessed me.
At the top, the stage was prepared in advance.
The route of the quest was also determined.
But I did not walk the already paved road.
I created a whole new stage, and I broke the stage in my own way.
The tower acknowledged my strategy.
As if trying to say 'that's good'.
[Adjust the powers of the four kings!] It was the same again this time.
[You are granted limited Apostle's authority.] [Only for this reward, you have limited management rights.] [It is up to you which skill to enhance and how!] Undetermined stage .
An unpredictable strategy.
Therefore, of course, the reward was not predetermined.
'···indeed.' I nodded in my mind.
'Are you leaving the choice to me?' I don't know why the tower was built.
I don't know who built the tower.
I don't even know why the tower is filled with life from another world.
There's still a lot we don't know.
However, I can now guess what kind of existence the tower is.
'An existence that watches over our choices.' And he was the one who remembered my choices.
'great.' Shreung! I pulled out my knife.
'I'll show you my choice again this time.' A relic that was written by the founder of the empire.
[Lephanta Aikim's Guardian Holy Sword] resonated with my aura and shed a white light.
I aimed my sword at the [enemy] in front of me.
"Ego." The entrance to the twentieth stage.
It stood on the road leading to a small village.
“Now is the time to make your conclusions.
Devil." -·········.
It growled a little.
It was like an animal that had suffered irreparable wounds.
The beast caught in the flames of the world and cast out by the flames had only a very small refuge.
It was the road leading to the village.
-my······.
A road with acacia trees on either side.
In the middle of the road with white flowers, the beast stood alone.
- It's my town! it howled -Don't you dare destroy my paradise! And the voice rang out.
[The boss stage begins.] The stage has begun.
A stage where you defeat the weakest boss in the world.
"············".
I looked up at the sky for a moment.
It was clear.
it was blue The sky was originally a blue territory.
Looking up at the cloudless sky, I was convinced.
today.
it doesn't rain 3.
Acacia petals flew in white.
The petals did not make a sound when they flew.
The pavement was whitewashed with silent petals.
Only the breath on the road filled the void in the world.
- Unforgivable! The sound of breathing that filled the world was harsh.
-Never forgive me! I still have burn marks in my eyes! Burnt smell is engraved in my brain! those flames! you guys! Do you want to forget the malice of my niggas? It screamed while wielding a red sword.
Every time someone screams, the world gets smaller.
The twentieth stage was particularly cramped.
20 heh.
If you look at the minimap, it's less than 1/100th the size of other stages.
Checking the world map doesn't change anything.
There is only a 1-pixel red dot on the world map.
That was the boss stage on the 20th floor.
- Back again! Turn back time! It was just an ordinary rural village.
-Are you going to burn down my paradise again? The narrowest stage in the world.
and.
The weakest boss monster in the world.
-Again! You guys, you guys are like that! Always like that! On the road where the acacia petals fell, it was howling.
There was only one scream.
It was a thin voice.
However, this world was cramped enough to be filled with the screams of one person.
small world.
small town.
“The position has been reversed.”
I slashed the demon king's sword.
The knife and the knife sharply collided.
“Remember? On the 12th floor, you were the Demon King and I was the hero.
You invaded and I stopped you.
Hey, the world is so complicated.
is not it? Now you are guarding it.”
-die! “I’m sorry, Demon King.”
I twisted the blade.
“That line is the most meaningless word to me.”
My sword pushed the demon king's sword away without difficulty.
The power itself was different.
The demon king's strength was already insignificant.
The demon lord couldn't stand my push, and as a result, he gave up his waist like an open road.
gap.
My blade easily cut through the demon king's upper body.
- Whoa! red blood gushed out.
[The presence of the demon king of the autumn rain is blurred.] Blood was flowing.
The white of acacia that fell on the roadside.
Red scents dripped down and buried the petals.
“I’m weak.
The Demon King of Autumn Rain.”
walked one step forward.
Red petals trampled on my feet.
“I am really weak.”
-Ugh, big...! “But still not enough.”
I swung my sword.
"Be weaker." -This....
"Much more than now." The blade split the demon king.
The white petals became a little redder.
[The presence of the demon king in the autumn rain fades.] The road to the village The road that stretched out beyond the demon king's back was bare.
But the road that runs behind my back is getting redder [The presence of the demon king in the autumn rain fades.] One step [The existence of the demon king in the autumn rain fades.] One more step.
Each time the demon king takes a step back, the white of the petals decreases.
Each time, Acacia's single road became a little redder.
It wasn't just that.
-Ugh..., Uhhh...
The whole body of the Demon King was revealed little by little.
-No....
The demon king's toes were exposed.
-No...! No more, no more....
Two legs that had stepped on the road were exposed.
-Ugh...
The left and right arms were fully exposed.
The lower back and the upper waist were exposed.
The long neck was exposed.
-Top, no...
No...! I swung my sword.
[The presence of the demon king of the autumn rain becomes blurred.] The chin, lower lip and upper lip, pharynx and tip of the nose, both cheeks.
[It fades] Red eyes, white forehead [The presence of the demon lord in the autumn rain fades.] Finally, [The presence of the demon lord in the autumn rain fades.] Hair resembling a lion's mane.
, lost the black color.
Even the final mourning water flowed down.
-Ahhhhhh..
It groaned.
The slender forearm trembled.
It was no longer able to withstand the weight of the sword.
The one standing under the acacia tree was no longer the Demon King.
No one in the world called him the Demon Lord who could not even lift a sword properly.
And.
[The Demon Lord of Autumn Rain can no longer maintain his authority.] Tower also did not call it the Demon Lord.
.] [Deprived of the nickname of the Demon King of Autumn Rain.] Being the Demon King trembled.
-no······! A white light enveloped it.
It struggled as if surrounded by a swarm of bees.
-Can not be done···! Can not be done! No, no! But to no avail.
The light engulfed it without any fading in the slightest.
[Notice once again.] Executed.
[Removes the nickname of the Demon King of Autumn Rain.] [Removes the authority of the Demon Lord of Autumn Rain.] It screamed.
-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Fallen Heaven.
The constellation that boasted absolute inaction has now fallen.
-Ah ah ah ah ah! ah ah ah! It almost reached out as if trying to catch the scattered light drops.
I randomly tried to catch the light.
But the light was not caught.
It just leaks between your fingers.
The white light scatters and scatters again.
- Oh, there.
“Ahh,”
only one fragile beast remained.
Not the Demon King of Autumn Rain.
Not the master of nightmares.
Not a saint on the outskirts.
A slender existence.
I grabbed the hilt, "Now you're weak enough." "Don't come...don't come closer..." “Then stop it.”
Tub.
took one step forward “What are you going to do with it, words? with a knife? block it with anything Otherwise.”
One more step.
“I will stand in front of you like this.”
It took a step back.
Coming to me, it said hard.
“You .
.
.
you to me, my children .
.
.
On a subject like that, I deserved to do this,”
“wrong.”
went one step further.
“As you said, I am a stranger from another world.
okay.
All the people living in this world, including the union of Ain and the temple, the king and the emperor, united and burned you and your village.
Let's say that there is not a single person on this continent who is free from that responsibility.
But, I am not.
'Cause I'm a complete stranger Hunters like us are free from responsibility.”
“ .”
“You have no right to hold me accountable.
And of course,”
I took a step back and took it one step further.
“There is no more power to stop me.”
It trembled.
The tremor leaked out of his lips.
"I...
I'm nothing..." "Are you saying I didn't do anything bad?" "I am! I just care for the sick…”
“[Esdel] was just as afraid as you are now.”
It flinched.
“I screamed for help.
I cried out that I didn't want to die.
I found my father.
How did you deal with such a misunderstanding?”
I said calmly about what it had done before becoming Esdel and before gaining human memory.
“I put a tooth on the leash of a struggling man.
I ate it and became Esdel.
is that only Swallows the newborn baby that his wife cherished and trusted.
You said you saved people on such a subject, and you pretended to be your own way.
You betrayed the woman who trusted you and gave you the baby.”
“I am… something like that.
It's not like that.
I..." He went one step further: "It's no use making excuses.
No one in the world knows you better than me.
What you've been through, how you've felt, and how you've changed, I know in detail." "...
," "I am!!" And it exclaimed in a paroxysm, “I, I didn’t know!!”
I stopped, clenched my teeth and trembled, it covered my face, and a cry rang out from the crevice of my fingers.
"I, I didn't know.
At that time, I did not have human memory...
because I did not have knowledge..." The meaning of the word asking for help.
No struggle.
No plea.
"At that time...
What it meant then, I..." ." "You mean you made a mistake by not knowing?" "Yeah! So I tried to say, "If only I had known, I would never have eaten Esdel," I said before that, "That's what humans do." It was at a loss for words.
you can do it No, I will definitely do it.
would you have actually done it? What did they say in front of you when you covered the world in blood?" I didn't know, we didn't know you had no ill will.
I thought you were just an evil witch.
"At last it was completely silent.
Towards the silence, I said quietly.
"I'm sorry, but I haven't learned much.
I'm ignorant.
There is only one justice in the world that I know of." One more step: “Rather than causation.”
It shrugged its shoulders: "An eye for an eye.
A tooth for a tooth.
If you believe you are a human being what you swallowed up as a shadow and vomited up again, okay.
Do the same to you.
At least that's not fair." “What are you talking about…?”
“Top!”
I looked up at the sky, "I want to use the clear reward!" I took out a golden card.
The clear reward obtained by breaking through the 11th to 19th floors.
I decided to use it for this skill.
Summon those you directly killed as monsters.
The dead do not inherit their abilities from their lives.
They do not inherit memories.
They are only summoned as monsters such as goblins, orcs, zombies, and skeletons.
※However, it can only be summoned once a week.
+ Summon a white spirit.
SS-level skill.
I grabbed the card and swung it towards the high sky.
"Obviously I told you I could modify the skill however I wanted!" [The Tower affirms your statement.] There was a voice in response to my cry.
[But overmodification is not allowed.] [For your understanding.
Top uses an example.] [The permissible range for an SS-level skill to evolve into an SSS-level skill.] I nodded, and I only asked for one thing from the beginning.
demand!”
[T.O.P asks your doctor.] "It's okay to not touch anything else in the other parts! However, I hope that the part that says 'memory is not inherited' will be remodeled! Only if I want to, the victim is still alive.
To inherit the memories of!”
It flinched.
"What are you...
what are you going to do...?" “How about it! Isn’t this a reasonable level of request!”
I ignored Esdel and shouted, "I'm not asking you to inherit the abilities of the person you killed! I'm not asking you to inherit the skills.
I'm not even asking you to reduce the cooldown.
Remember! It's just memory.
I, the lion I killed I want to remember what happened in my life!”
It was quiet, the sky was silent [Measures your level of demand.] [Currently measuring...] After a while [The Tower acknowledges that your request is at an appropriate level.] Permission was granted.
[Check the requirements.] [Would you like to use the privileges obtained from the rewards for clearing the 11th to 19th floors for the 'Summon White Ghost' skill?] “Yes.”
[The modifications you require for the Great Ghost Summon are as follows.] [If you wish, the lion will inherit the memories of his life.] [Are you sure of the above requirements?] “Yes.”
[Confirmation completed.] [Request Zrakua's approval.] [Approval completed.] And [Four King's request is approved.] White light wrapped around my skill card.
A storm of light blew once.
After everything subsided, I looked at the cards carefully + [Hundred Ghost Reincarnation] Rank: SSS Effect: Summon those you killed yourself.
The dead do not inherit the abilities they had while they were alive.
If you want, the lion will inherit the memories and appearance of his life.If you don't want it, the lion is just summoned as a monster.※However, you can only summon it once a week.
It was a new name for a class skill.
Everything I wished for came true.
I turned my head to look at it.
Their eyes met.
“From now on, I will kill you.”
"If you don't like the word killing, think of it as [swallow] your way.
Just as you thought of swallowing Esther, the sick and children as a shadow.
I also kill you the same way---" slowly.
I raised my sword.
“Don’t let me live in the same way.”
It trembled with terror.46.