Chapter 276

Chapter 276

I Became the Only Non-mage in the Academy.

Episode 276: Absolute Evil (5)

Creeping.

The blackness stained the space, as if declaring it its domain. It devoured its own body.

Seeing this, Mad Evil felt an instinctive fear.

A sensation of having its own essence consumed. A feeling of its strength being corrupted by that blackness.

It devoured its body, its time, and its powers.

It was something more terrifying than death.

The Great Evils, servants of the Evil Gods, were fundamentally bound to the Evil Gods. For them, death was not eternal rest.

Since their lives were bound, as long as time existed, they couldalways resurrect.

For humans, that would be an incomprehensibly long time.

But still, they could look forward to that distant future.

Mad Evil.

Thus, it struggled.

There was no reasoning with it.

None.

But as it devoured others, it began to find emotions. The being that despised lifeforms began to follow its instincts.

It regurgitated its domain.

Forcibly using its powers, it started to spread its own domain within this entirely black world.

This domain was endlessly vast and absolute. However, it was too enormous, too bloated.

It was so vast that deploying the entirety of the domain within its own body wouldn’t make anything seem out of place.

Mad Evil struggled to escape from the blackness.

“Foolish attempts.”

A being wielding a sword as black as if it could swallow everything sneered with a crooked smile.

The blackness consumed its own strength. The blue spread the power of the blackness.

Rumble…

Lightning erupted from the blue, tearing through its body. If this continues, it will lose all its power to that being. If that were to happen, then before that…

It would summon its own death…

Crack.

A sound came from within its body. The sound of something breaking.

Crack crack crack.

A fracture that began internally. And it realized that something was breaking through.

One of the personalities it had sealed was beginning to awaken.

-No, stop.

Under normal circumstances, resealing it would have been no problem, but now it lacked the strength.

From the swamp of black, ruined corpses…

One personality awakened.

-Krrh.

A being consumed by Mad Evil.

Vicious Abomination.

-The air outside sure is refreshing.

It smiled and devoured Mad Evil.

The sudden appearance of Vicious Abomination left me stunned.

Why was that thing here?

‘No, I guess it makes sense.’

I had suspected it was too strong.

It was not easy to possess strength comparable to an Evil God, but if it consumed the Great Evils, it was certainly plausible.

‘Did part of Mad Evil get devoured by the blackness, causing it to awaken?’

That was the only hypothesis I could form in the current situation.

Mad Evil lacked reason.

It was merely a being that instinctively felt hatred toward the living and roamed to kill them.

That’s probably why it was so easily devoured…

-Hahaha… What a ridiculous power. I thought no one could surpass me in strength. But this goes beyond that.

Vicious Abomination spoke in a voice full of exhilaration.

The vortex of corpses began to shrink. It compressed and compressed, transforming into a human-like shape.

Roughly five meters tall.

Though human in form, its face resembled that of a beast. A mix between a dog and a bull. It bore massive horns and wings.

-The overall strength has diminished, but… it’s shifted from a beast that doesn’t know how to fight to a human who does.

‘It seems that way.’

-What do you think?

‘Annoying. Just prepare yourself.’

-Understood.

It had become more troublesome to face.

Vicious Abomination was tenacious. Even if its body burst apart, it relied on the regeneration unique to a Mine and kept fighting.

Even if it wasn’t that, the focus was on killing the enemy.

‘Similar to me.’

The fighting style was similar.

-First.

Vicious Abomination spread its arms wide.

-I must avenge Daji.

“And you think you can?”

-Hah. A brat who didn’t even catch my attention six months ago has grown this much.

Vicious Abomination laughed with a savage expression.

-Feel the power of something new.

Vicious Abomination clenched its fist.

Screeeeeeeech.

A dreadful sound like scraping metal echoed. Space rippled.

Simply by clenching its fist, space warped.

‘To achieve that with sheer physical force?’

I also clenched my fist. Since I was in a spirit form, the impact wasn’t physical.

-You’re bolder than I expected.

Boom!

Vicious Abomination approached me, fist clenched. It swung its fist forward. I met it head-on, throwing my own punch.

Boooooooooom────!!!!!

A deafening sound, like dozens of bombs exploding, reverberated. Space began to ripple.

The domain created by Mad Evil’s desperate struggle started to shatter under the clash of fists.

-Hah.

“Hmph.”

The victor was me.

Vicious Abomination’s hand was shredded to pieces, while my body remained intact.

‘It’s thanks to the effect of the Original Spirit God.’

The Original Spirit God: Black, painted over this mental world, allowed me to wield omnipotent power here, unlike outside.

‘Still, I won the contest of strength.’

I took one step forward. Though Vicious Abomination lost, it did not back down.

Screech.

A pair of arms emerged from Vicious Abomination’s body. Now, it had a total of four arms, with three raised toward the sky.

Three swords materialized.

-These are Dragon Edge, Terror, and Embryo.

Vicious Abomination grinned fiercely.

-These blades were once sought after by Gu Yazi of Yue and Gan Jiang of Wu…

“You talk too much.”

-Hah! Indeed, there’s nothing to discuss between us. All we can do is kill each other.

Vicious Abomination swung its sword.

An overwhelming force could be felt.

I stepped forward and grabbed my Sword of Four Seasons with my left hand.

-Have you heard of the saying, “Tear mountains and cover the world with might”?

[Skill, Tear Mountains and Cover the World (S++), has been activated.]

The Vicious Abomination struck the ground with its remaining arms.

Boom──!!

A massive wave swept across the land.

-They say my strength can uproot mountains, and my might can cover the world.

A colossal energy storm surged.

The conceptual world was being influenced. The domain created by Honak began to transform.

A vast expanse of land was revealed.

A blood-red sky appeared.

The scent of blood filled the air. It felt as though the area had turned into a battlefield.

At the center was a single mountain. No, it was closer to a mountain range—an enormous mass.

Thud──!!

The Vicious Abomination struck the ground again. The massive wave swept the surroundings.

From there, the mountain was uprooted, painted over with black power.

The Vicious Abomination swung its sword.

-Dragon Edge.

The white blade was imbued with a dark purple aura.

Malignant Energy.

The fundamental power used by the Evil Gods.

When the creator of the universe emerged.

And when that entity formed the cosmos.

This power, akin to a bug in the system, also appeared.

It targeted me.

I swung Black Heaven, layered with Dark Azure Blade.

Screeeeeech!!

The sound of distortion. The dark purple power was pushed back by the Dark Azure Blade.

-Embryo.

The Vicious Abomination layered another sword. Screeeeeeech! Even distorting time and space, the Dark Azure Blade began to consume the power.

-You truly… possess monstrous strength.

In a voice laced with quiet admiration, the Vicious Abomination added:

-Terror.

Three swords overlapped.

A colossal sword, matching the 5-meter height of the Vicious Abomination, was forged. The Malignant Energy amplified. The Dark Azure Blade vibrated. The blackness devoured the enemy’s strength, and the blueness amplified it.

And now,

The mountain created from Malignant Energy targeted me.

Crackle!

Lightning wrapped in blue struck the Sword of Four Seasons.

The black conceptual energy coiled around the lightning. With that, I swung the sword.

Slash.

A massive mountain, 10 kilometers tall, was split in two.

Inside the mountain were arms and legs of corpses.

“What a marvelous blade… But people often misunderstand. This is not the power of my conceptual world encroaching upon reality; it is an absolute spell.”

Vicious Abomination laughed confidently.

From the mountain of corpses, soldiers began to emerge. They carried spears and swords forged from blackened corpses—long objects made from arms and legs.

A sense of revulsion arose instinctively.

‘I don’t like this.’

-Nor do I.

Black Heaven echoed my thoughts.

‘What about now?’

-Ready.

Black Heaven responded.

I looked around. This was a domain newly created by Vicious Abomination.

I gazed up at the sky. The sunset projected in this conceptual world was displeasing. The blood-red sky felt oppressive.

These creatures always create the same blood-colored skies.

‘Let’s paint over it.’

With pure blackness.

-…What?

Vicious Abomination’s expression contorted.

The scenery of the battlefield began to change.

-This… this can’t be happening…

Vicious Abomination’s voice began to tremble.

The sunset turned into a noonday sun positioned at the center.

The blood-colored hues were painted over.

With the blackness that signifies the death of all things (Black Sun).

-Invading another’s conceptual world and painting over it? That’s… impossible. Even the lofty gods of the outer realms wouldn’t… wouldn’t be capable of this madness…

The voice started to shift, resembling that of a frightened coward.

The red clouds above were overwritten.

With the blackness that extinguished all life (Destruction of Heaven).

Shhhhhhh.

From somewhere,

The sound of waves could be heard.

The blackness that destroyed all matter was palpable (Destruction of Sea).