Episode 663. Hall of Hyunjwol (3)

The power possessed by the god of this world was immense.

His body was still the Demon King, but just by revealing the power of a god, he had become a completely different being from what he was just a moment ago.

“Kuhh….”

Lee Hoyeon forcibly calmed his trembling knees.

Just by simply making eye contact, an explosive aura pressed down on the surroundings.

A strength so distant, one couldn’t even steal a glance.

The god of this world was such a being.

‘I’m going to die.’

Such a feeling naturally surfaced in Lee Hoyeon’s mind.

Even though he tried hard not to think about it, fear dominated his body.

But he did not run away.

The more useless thoughts arose, the more he bit his lip and regained his focus.

The moment he succumbed to that oppressive aura, he absolutely could not fight.

In the end, the one who had to fight him was himself.

Feeling fear wouldn’t help the battle.

Just because he’s a god doesn’t mean he can’t be beaten.

If he were truly omnipotent, he wouldn’t be doing such a bothersome thing in the first place.

He could simply erase Lee Hoyeon’s existence.

If he fought, there would surely be a weakness.

“You lowly worm! I’ll tear your very existence to shreds!”

The Demon King unleashed the god’s power filling his body, ‘divine power’.

The immense divine power, twisting the laws of physics, crushed Lee Hoyeon’s body like an insect.

Like a frog dying from a carelessly thrown stone, or a passing human stepping on an ant, it was the most natural law of the world.

The Demon King watched Lee Hoyeon’s final moments.

Just as he expected, he was crushed without even offering proper resistance.

Since he had unleashed his divine power, it was a natural course of events.

…However.

Paaang-

The next moment, Lee Hoyeon unleashed his magic power.

Lee Hoyeon’s magic power changed its properties in response to the Demon King’s divine power, achieving a perfect defense.

It was a seasoned response, as if he had experienced it dozens of times.

‘…A mere human blocking this?’

He frowned at the unexpected situation, but nothing changed.

That was just luck.

With intense killing intent, the Demon King gathered his divine power and struck down onto the eighth human.

This time he had aimed precisely, so there was no way it would miss.

Kwaaang-!

“Keuhk…!”

The killing intent emanating from a god was on another level.

Lee Hoyeon moved his magic power, holding his breath and unable to breathe properly.

He deployed a rune barrier, integrating space and himself into one.

Naturally bypassing the killing intent, he prepared for the next attack.

There were still many attacks ‘to be endured’.

“You sure have some luck…!”

The Demon King split his divine power into tiny fragments.

The eighth human’s ability was certainly exceptional.

He had blocked a god’s attack twice with a human body.

But in the end, it was merely bravado.

The human before him could never kill him.

That was the gap between god and human.

Kwadeudeuk-

He mixed the finely fragmented divine power into the Demon King Castle’s magic power.

Now that there were no interfering Succubi, the Demon King Castle’s magic power was a great threat to Lee Hoyeon.

Thousands of tiny darknesses unleashed by the Demon King combined with the divine power.

Each one was a darkness of immense power, capable of crushing human lives like insects.

They simultaneously targeted Lee Hoyeon.

Udududududu-

A human body is fragile.

The darkness combined with divine power could destroy a human body just by brushing against it.

In reality, the Demon King witnessed the eighth human’s body being torn to shreds.

No, he only thought so.

Taang-

Eyes shining golden read the paths of all the darkness.

The opened eyes analyzed the divine power whose properties had changed, combined with the Demon King Castle’s magic power, and modified the rune barrier accordingly.

The rune barrier, thinly spread over Lee Hoyeon’s body, absorbed the magic power of the darkness each time it deflected it.

“What is this….”

The Demon King, who had unleashed divine power, frowned.

A human could never block this attack. No, whoever the opponent might be, they couldn’t block it.

As long as one belonged to this world, the power of this world’s god should be unblockable.

But how could they keep blocking his attacks?

The Demon King could not comprehend this situation.

However, he did not stop attacking.

He put his divine power into lightning.

The lightning filling the space would be impossible to dodge.

Kurururung-!

Physical force manifested into the divine power-infused lightning.

With this much power, such a flimsy barrier could be crushed in an instant.

Kwadeudeudeuk-

The lightning, which easily tore through the barrier, struck the eighth human’s chest.

Chwaak-.

The upper body, spewing immense blood, fell to the floor.

The wide-open eyes confirmed the eighth human’s death.

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And once again.

The Demon King put his divine power into lightning.

The unavoidable lightning rushed forward, targeting the eighth human’s chest.

However, Lee Hoyeon’s reaction was swift.

Lee Hoyeon immediately created a black sun to clash with the divine power.

‘I need to reduce the lightning’s power.’

Blocking the physically imbued lightning with a rune barrier is inefficient.

By colliding the Eclipse with the lightning to reduce its power, he caught the lightning that entered the Heavenly Sky Bow one by one using future sight.

Paaang-!

The lightning, after colliding with the Eclipse, lost its initial powerful force, and Lee Hoyeon dealt with it without difficulty.

“To block this…?”

Only then did the Demon King feel something was wrong.

Something was wrong.

“This is impossible. How could a mere human….”

The divine power the Demon King had just unleashed was not an attack a mere human could block.

The Demon King, unable to hide his bewilderment, moved his divine power.

A god’s authority is omnipotent.

Although he could still launch numerous attacks, a strange, inexplicable sensation enveloped him.

The Demon King forcibly ignored that unease and infused his body with divine power.

“You’re annoying me with your tricks. I’ll tear you apart with my own hands…!”

He embodied the vengeful spirit of the demon Karkus.

There was no longer a need to waste time.

He intended to end the life with his own hands.

Koong-!

Stepping onto the ground, the Demon King’s body pulsed with power.

The Demon King kicked off the ground and charged directly at the eighth human.

The god’s power further amplified Karkus’s strength too.

The Demon King charged at a speed difficult even for future sight to track, aiming for the eighth human’s neck.

Kkadeudeudeuk-

Demonic blades sprouted from both arms.

The divine power-infused blades cleanly severed the eighth human’s neck.

‘It’s finally over.’

The Demon King felt the certainty of death from his fingertips.

This human’s tenacious life had finally been cut short.

But at that moment.

Some foreign sensation enveloped him.

The Demon King frowned at the inexplicable sense of dissonance.

Before his eyes, the eighth human’s death was visible.

A death where the head was torn off.

A death where the body was split in two.

A death where the entire body was shredded.

A death where the heart was pierced.

Countless deaths obscured the Demon King’s vision.

“This…?!”

The moment the Demon King felt the anomaly.

“So you finally noticed?”

The eighth human, whom he thought he had definitively killed, spoke to him.

Seeing Lee Hoyeon’s wry smile, the Demon King only then discovered the crescent moon floating above his head.

‘A moon…?’

Since when had such a moon been there?

This place, created by the darkness of the Demon King Castle, was a space separated from the outside.

There was no reason for a moon to suddenly be there.

“Do you know how many times this is?”

“…What kind of bullshit is that?”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know. This much is enough.”

As soon as Lee Hoyeon finished speaking, an unknown magic power enveloped the Demon King’s body.

The crescent moon floating in the sky shone brightly, seeming to mock the Demon King, and in that light, he unconsciously closed his eyes.

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“You lowly worm! Your very existence! ……Your very existence?”

The anger welling up throughout his body felt awkward.

The Demon King blankly looked down at his body.

He had returned to the past.

His mind and body had returned to the moment he had forcibly unleashed his divine power.

“Th-this is unbelievable… Rewinding time? …No. That’s impossible.”

He was the god of this world.

If the timeline of this world were tampered with, there was no way he wouldn’t notice.

Then this is…

“An illusion?”

That fight just now was an illusion?

But even that made no sense.

The sensation the Demon King felt in his fingertips was real.

He had clearly felt the eighth human’s life fading away.

That was the flow of the world.

Just before death, he hadn’t felt the movement of magic power at all.

But how…

“You bastard. Don’t tell me….”

“That’s right. Even if it’s a fair bet, tricks wouldn’t work against the god of this world, right?”

To deceive the god of this world, he had to be thorough.

Lee Hoyeon actually faced death in the dream.

It’s just that the battle itself was made into a dream.

“…Eighth human. How many illusions have you shown me?! How are you maintaining your sanity?!”

“Well. Actually, I wanted to make it a little more perfect.”

To think that he broke through the Hall of the Full Moon directly.

Deceiving the god of this world until the end seems to have been too much after all.

‘Still, this much is enough.’

The Hall of the Full Moon, manifesting his own dreams into reality.

Lee Hoyeon dreamed inside the Hall of the Full Moon.

More precisely, all of Lee Hoyeon’s deaths were turned into dreams.

That was magic that reached the realm of gods.

Dugeun- Dugeun- Dugeun-

Lee Hoyeon slowly stirred his magic power.

The 300 battles experienced in the dream.

He remembered all those battles.

“Human….”

Before his eyes, the eighth human’s magic power flickered.

Something was strange.

Clearly, the magic power displayed by the human before him was the same.

A dying creature’s death throes.

Nothing more, nothing less.

From the beginning until now, it had been so.

However.

His magic power was strangely heavy.

“Heavenly Sky Bow, deploy.”

Magic power responding to divine power took control of the space.

Appearing above Lee Hoyeon’s head, three arcs began drawing a magic circle.

“Kuhk!”

Kuung-!

The Demon King deflected the Rune Tracer, which had suddenly approached right before his eyes.

By the magic that pierced through his divine power, the Demon King unconsciously retreated.

“What, me…?!”

Despite the humiliation of retreating, without even time to feel his pride hurt, he blocked the magic.

The black sun created by Lee Hoyeon shook the Demon King’s vision.

“Just what is your identity! Even if you’re a higher-dimensional being, this shouldn’t be possible! I am the god of this world!”

“Tsk, it’s not over yet, bastard.”

Lee Hoyeon forcibly swallowed the blood rising to the back of his throat.

Letting his combat instincts take over, he unleashed magic adapted to divine power.

In hundreds of battles, Lee Hoyeon had overwhelmed the Demon King several times.

But in the end, he couldn’t suppress the magic power wielded by the god of this world.

His physical condition was the worst, and Lee Hoyeon was barely managing to block the magic cast by the god of this world.

The only way to defeat the god of this world was one.

The divine power familiarized through 300 deaths.

That power, poured into the dream space by the god of this world.

Absorb that divine power completely.

Woowoowoong-!

“Reverse Heaven (逆天)”

Centered around Lee Hoyeon’s heart, divine power erupted.

“Impossible!! What are you doing right now!”

Seeing that sight, the Demon King’s eyes widened.

Divine power is a power that only the god of this world can use.

How could a mere human imitate it?

Reverse Heaven.

The divine power flowing from Lee Hoyeon’s chest began to be absorbed back into Lee Hoyeon’s body.

The hundreds of battles that occurred in the Hall of the Full Moon.

During that long fight in the Hall of the Full Moon, the god of this world unleashed an immense amount of divine power. Lee Hoyeon’s dream accepted all that divine power.

The 300 battles were enough time for his opened eyes to analyze the divine power, and Lee Hoyeon was able to make the power possessed by the god of this world his own.

That was Reverse Heaven, defying the will of heaven.

Ppudeudeuk-

Broken bones returned to their proper place.

The battered magic circuits recovered, and the consciousness he had been barely holding onto became clear.

“Haa….”

For the first time in a long time, he breathed properly.

Could the air entering his lungs really be this refreshing?

Pain vanished, and vitality surged through his entire body.

The immense power, so strong it sent shivers down his spine, flowed through his magic circuits.

“Haa. Haa. Haa…. Kkuhk, ha, haha….”

Dugeun- Dugeun-

As his body recovered, his combat senses began to run wild.

To eliminate the enemy before him, every sense in his body sharpened.

The exhilaration from his combat senses turned into ecstasy, and unconsciously, laughter began to escape.

“You wouldn’t know, but I’ve taken enough beatings?”

He had died in countless ways.

Even if it became a dream, Lee Hoyeon remembered it all.

He had perfectly deciphered the divine power used by the god of this world.

No longer would there be failure.

“Now it’s my turn.”

Eyes shining golden glared at the prey.