Chapter 252: The Ruler of the Heavenly Realm

Episode 252

*Boom!*

“?!”

“What was that?!”

The entire Eclat Alliance turned their heads towards the sound of the collapsing building.

Their eyes widened in shock.

“It’s Master Jinsung!”

“What’s that monster?”

“Are they fighting? I can’t even see their fists…”

“They’re moving too fast!”

As they exclaimed in surprise, their gazes followed the two figures as they soared higher and higher into the sky.

Kim Jinsung and the monster were fighting, ascending towards the heavens.

“What is that thing?”

“I don’t know.”

Park Do-joon and Hong Hyeonjin were also watching the scene unfold.

“What should we do? Should we provide fire support?”

“…No. Let’s leave them alone for now.”

He shook his head, rejecting her suggestion.

“If it’s a monster that Kim Jinsung can’t handle, then we wouldn’t stand a chance anyway.”

“……”

She fell silent and looked up at the sky again.

All the hunters of the Eclat Alliance, along with the captured and surrendered hunters from the existing alliance,

were watching the duel.

* * *

Yoo Jun-ho, transformed into a blood monster, possessed incredible physical abilities.

Even Kim Jinsung, with his ‘Flash’ trait, was struggling to keep up, forced to focus solely on dodging.

‘It’s like all the executives’ physical abilities combined.’

He thought to himself as he dodged the attacks.

He wondered how much it would hurt to be hit by one of those fists.

Even he, the mighty Kim Jinsung, might be crushed in a single blow.

‘Well, this is what a final boss should be like.’

He smiled slightly.

The extreme tension of a life-or-death battle was pumping adrenaline through his veins.

“Hmph! Don’t force a smile! You can’t even counterattack!”

Yoo Jun-ho scoffed, seeing his smile, and taunted him.

But despite his words, he was panicking inwardly.

‘How is he dodging all my attacks?!’

His current physical abilities were practically the peak he could achieve in his lifetime.

He wouldn’t have another opportunity to absorb the bodies of so many Rankers.

His attack speed, enhanced by the physical abilities of dozens of Rankers, was faster than light. Even Demon Gods wouldn’t be able to dodge all of his attacks.

But Kim Jinsung was doing just that!

‘Is he really this much of a monster?’

It was unbelievable.

Kim Jinsung’s reaction speed was even faster than the combined abilities of dozens of Rankers?

“Are you surprised?”

Kim Jinsung suddenly spoke.

“Curious? How am I faster than all the Rankers combined?”

He spoke as if reading Yoo Jun-ho’s mind.

“Unfortunately, that’s a secret.”

*Boom!*

As soon as he finished speaking, a deafening explosion erupted between them.

Kim Jinsung, who had been dodging all this time, blocked Yoo Jun-ho’s attack with his sword.

And then his sword moved at an unimaginable speed.

To Yoo Jun-ho, it was just a flash of light.

But the effect of that momentary counterattack was devastating.

Yoo Jun-ho’s massive blood body was instantly sliced into over a hundred pieces.

“……!!”

His eyes widened in shock.

His body, strengthened by the abilities of countless Rankers, had been sliced apart so easily?

“I know how to deal with beings like you who don’t die easily.”

Kim Jinsung’s voice reached his ears.

“Usually, I just burn the pieces to ashes.”

His figure blurred.

It was as if something translucent was enveloping him.

Yoo Jun-ho’s gaze, as his shattered body crumbled, shifted to the top of Kim Jinsung’s head.

‘…Spirit Summoning?’

A crimson figure with a burning body.

He immediately recognized that Kim Jinsung was using Spirit Summoning.

[…So it’s you.]

The summoned being spoke directly into Kim Jinsung’s mind.

“You’re Aim, right? The Demon God who burns everything.”

[Should I burn that monster before us?]

“Yes.”

His right hand raised automatically. Aim, the Demon God residing in his body, was controlling him.

As his right hand extended forward,

blue flames engulfed Yoo Jun-ho’s shattered body.

“Aaaargh…!”

He screamed in agony.

[It’s the ‘Eternal Flame’. It never goes out until the user extinguishes it.]

“Good work.”

Seeing the burning pieces, Kim Jinsung deactivated the skill.

“Ugh…!”

A pained groan escaped Yoo Jun-ho’s severed mouth as over half of his pieces were incinerated.

He gritted his teeth.

“I won’t be destroyed like this!!”

He shouted, and

*Whoosh!*

The flames engulfing his pieces intensified.

It was as if the pieces themselves were made of fire.

The flames coalesced, forming a giant fire monster.

“Kuhuhuhu…! It’s a good thing I forgot Duke was a fire ability user!”

Yoo Jun-ho’s face, twisted into a sinister grin, appeared amidst the flames.

“Let’s start again, Kim Jinsung! Let’s see who gets tired first!”

He shouted confidently and tried to charge at Kim Jinsung again.

But his body wouldn’t move.

“…W-what?”

He panicked, feeling his body stiffen.

It wasn’t just a feeling.

His entire body was turning into gold.

“What do you think? It’s gold.”

Kim Jinsung replied, another Demon God now residing in his body.

“The Demon God, Berith, can turn anything into Demon Realm gold. The only drawback is that no one but a Demon God can cut it…”

As he trailed off, Berith disappeared, and a third Demon God descended.

“Glaciallabolos, the Butcher of the Demon Realm. You can cut through that metal, right?”

[Of course! Kuhahaha!]

Glaciallabolos’ laughter echoed in his mind, and his right arm, holding the sword, moved automatically.

He swung the sword dozens of times in a blur, and Yoo Jun-ho’s giant golden body was sliced apart like tofu.

“Now, for the last one. Come forth, Baal.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a fourth Demon God descended.

It was Baal, the leader of the Demon Gods.

[What is it?]

“You created the Demon Realm. You can open all the dimensional gates within it at once, right?”

[…It is possible.]

Countless dimensional rifts started appearing around him.

Seeing hundreds of dimensional gates open, he said to Yoo Jun-ho,

“I know you’ve hidden your soul core somewhere, just like me.”

He gestured with his hand,

and Yoo Jun-ho’s shattered golden body started levitating.

“If I can’t find your core, I can’t kill you.

So I have to use a different method. A method that will prevent your body from ever reuniting.”

“What…?”

“If I scatter your pieces into these countless dimensions, you’ll never be able to reunite, right?”

“……!!”

He smirked, seeing his wide eyes.

“Become an eternal dimensional wanderer, torn to pieces.”

“W-wait! Wait!!”

Yoo Jun-ho’s shattered mouth shouted desperately, but it was too late.

His pieces were flying into the dimensional gates, one by one.

“No! Aaaaaargh…!!”

His screams were cut short as his mouth piece entered a dimensional gate.

After confirming that all the pieces had been scattered, Kim Jinsung released Baal.

The dimensional gates disappeared.

“Come to think of it, you can’t even absorb blood anymore. Your entire body is Demon Realm gold now.”

He muttered to himself and looked down.

Seeing all the hunters staring at him, he slowly descended.

‘Now, all that’s left is to meet the ruler of the Heavenly Realm.’

* * *

The war was over.

The existing alliance’s clan members, having lost all their leaders, had completely lost their morale.

They started fleeing, scattering in all directions.

The battle, which had been expected to be the largest in the history of the New Continent, ended with Eclat’s overwhelming victory, thanks to Kim Jinsung’s two sword swings.

* * *

Hong Hyeonjin, after checking the Baekdu Clan’s casualties, returned to the executives.

The soldiers working nearby all saluted her.

She was now the undisputed leader of the New Continent, the head of the Eclat Alliance.

“Ah, Master Hong.”

Park Do-joon, who was giving instructions to the staff, greeted her.

“I checked, and the former Korean Clan headquarters building seems to be the best option for the Baekdu Clan’s new headquarters. There aren’t many better buildings, and the Alpha Clan headquarters, which was the best, is half-destroyed…”

“Alright. Let’s do that.”

“Then settle in with your clan members and come to the central plaza by 8 o’clock. There’s going to be a victory ceremony.

I think you should give the speech as the representative.”

“Me?”

She asked, surprised.

“Shouldn’t Jinsung be the one giving the speech?”

“He should, but he went into a dungeon to catch up on his backlog…”

A dungeon?

Realizing what he meant, she asked with a worried expression,

“You don’t mean he went to the top floor of the Trial Tower, do you?”

“Yes. He said he wanted to finish it quickly and rest.”

“Oh no…”

She was dismayed.

She knew what his final goal was.

She had planned to advise him to wait and prepare thoroughly, but he had already acted.

“This is a problem whether he succeeds or fails…”

“Well…”

He shrugged.

She was right. Failure meant Kim Jinsung’s death, which was a huge problem.

And if he succeeded, the ‘Trial Tower’ and ‘Demon World Dungeon’ might disappear completely.

Ordinary people would celebrate, but it wouldn’t be good news for the Eclat Alliance hunters who had just conquered the New Continent.

All their efforts would be in vain.

“What can we do? We can only wait and see.”

“…That’s true.”

She replied, resigned.

“We can’t stop him now.”

He was Kim Jinsung, who had annihilated the ability users, including Allobon, and the Ranker executives, who were like one-man armies, with just two attacks.

Who could stop him?

They could only hope that he would succeed and that the New Continent wouldn’t change too drastically.

* * *

Meanwhile,

Kim Jinsung was meeting the highest authority of the Heavenly Realm on the top floor of the ‘Trial Tower’.

“…What?”

He frowned, asking the authority,

“You can’t tell me the identity of the god of the Middle Realm?”

[Why should I tell you?]

The winged woman, who answered his question, was floating in the air, her figure translucent.

She was Seraphim.

[It’s forbidden for Middle Realm creatures and gods to meet openly. As a fellow god, I have a duty to protect the god’s identity.]

“…Fine. It’s not important.”

He took out a Mana stone from his pocket and channeled Mana into it.

The Mana stone transformed into a contract.

“This is a contract signed by the Demon Gods. If you remove the ‘Trial Tower’ from the Middle Realm, the Demon Gods will also remove the ‘Demon World Dungeon’.”

[So?]

“Remove the Trial Tower from the Middle Realm. Otherwise…”

His eyes gleamed with killing intent.

“I’ll have to resort to force.”

Seraphim smirked.

[How arrogant, little Middle Realm creature. Are you threatening the ruler of the Heavenly Realm with force?]

“Does it sound like a threat?”

He asked back, channeling his Mana.

“The word ‘threat’ doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. I meant what I said.”

As he finished speaking, the entire top floor of the Heavenly Realm started trembling.

It was his energy.

[Hmm…]

Seraphim let out a gasp of admiration.

[So you have something to rely on. Now I understand why you dared to come to the top floor. But!]

She also started channeling her Mana.

Their energies clashed, creating deafening thunderclaps.

[I am Seraphim, the ruler of the Heavenly Realm! A mere Middle Realm creature made of flesh and blood can’t do anything to me!]

As she finished speaking,

numerous angels appeared around Kim Jinsung, as if teleporting.

He turned to look at the angels surrounding him, and

[You want to remove the Trial Tower from the Middle Realm? Then prove it!

Do you think your arrogance will work against all the angels in the Heavenly Realm?!]

He felt a chill run down his spine at her words.

His body was sending him warning signals, sensing the overwhelming energy emanating from Seraphim and the angels surrounding him.

‘They’re on a whole different level than Allobon.’

It was an overwhelming pressure he hadn’t felt since awakening Omurga.

As the word ‘death’ flashed through his mind,

he smirked.

“I think it will.&”

He said, charging towards Seraphim with all his might.

His sword flashed out of its sheath at the speed of light.

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(To be continued in the next episode)