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Have you ever seen streetlights illuminating a tree-lined street during the summer night under a thick night sky?

Or have you ever seen a rotting dog that had been hit by a car and died for three days?

These two, so different from each other, have one thing in common: they are crazy crawling with bugs.

On the light there are moths, mosquitoes and other flying insects, and on the dead body there are ants, maggots and other cleaners on the floor.

Whenever I happened to come across that scene on the street, I would feel a strange tingling sensation all over my body.

But now, I was thinking that it was rather a medicine.

Well, they weren’t measured in meters.

Booo!!

The holes that Lily had blocked were opened.

At the same time, the bugs that had been pushed behind him began to rush in haphazardly.

It only took a few minutes for them to fill the entire audience room. Various poisonous insects were flying in the sky, and insect-like monsters as tall as a person were strutting around on the ground.

In the meantime, some bad news was heard.

“Coolook···!”

Adele was poisoned.

Bright red blood flowed from her mouth. Startled, Lily stopped reciting the spell and asked Yuris to purify her.

At those words, Yulis, who had been burning bugs with his power, hurriedly checked Adele’s condition.

“The condition is not good… I think it will take 2 minutes to purify!”

“What? 2 minutes each?”

2 minutes. Normally, it would pass in the blink of an eye.

But in the middle of a battle, two minutes felt like longer than an eternity.

Camilla spoke to me again about the huge power loss.

“The warrior can’t be stopped any longer!”

“···Let’s move to a corner. We don’t have to worry about the monsters coming here anymore, so let’s protect our party members first.”

I said, swallowing my saliva.

There’s no way around it. Given the urgency of the situation, I had no choice but to let go of something.

If I move to a corner, at least I won’t be surrounded by bugs. However, since I won’t be able to block monsters, my burden will double.

I continued.

“No matter what happens, don’t let the monsters go towards Lily and Yuris. So that they can focus.”

But there was still a corner of me that believed.

Lily’s magic. With her powerful one-shot attack, she will be able to land a definite effective blow on Chungwang.

In addition, if you combine it with Yuris’ buff, it is not impossible to land a decisive blow on him.

So what to do from now on was simple.

Camilla protects Lily as much as possible, and I mow down the guy so she can land the killing blow.

That’s when I was thinking that.

Phew!

“Ugh···!”

Suddenly, a heavy shock is transmitted to my side.

When I turned my head, a stag beetle as tall as me was burrowing into my side.

“This is a dog···.”

Crunch!

I swung my holy sword and cut down the guy, then looked at his side for a moment.

Fortunately, no bones were broken, but the pain made it difficult to move.

Of course, it would get better soon because of the regeneration··· but right now, every second was precious.

I looked ahead again.

Before I knew it, I saw bugs and monsters filling the air around me.

Chungwang was hiding among them, gasping for breath.

That guy isn’t normal either.

The swarm of insects swarmed as the man had intended, but the king was already cornered to the point of death.

I rushed back to give the guy a sure death.

Booo!

A swarm of insects appeared, filling the field of vision.

The guys were struggling to somehow restrain me.

A myriad of attacks from various parts, including thorns, pincers, and teeth, rush towards me.

Boom, bang, bang!

I avoided what I had to avoid and took what I had to take.

I don’t have time to worry about each and every one of these things.

Faster, more accurate.

Somehow I find the guy’s gap and attack him.

During that time, I seemed to have come to a realization.

No matter how many people come together, there is always a ‘tie’ in what is united.

Just as gathering grains of sand together doesn’t make a wall.

If you squeeze through the gap, the main body will eventually touch it. All I have to do is find the gap a little better.

“Eww!!”

[Congratulations!]

[The level of ‘multicasting’ has increased!]

Tiring! The distance widens as the system’s alarm sounds. My skill, ‘Heavenly Martial Arts’, is working hard even in this situation.

The movements of bugs attacking me, monsters burning their own bodies to protect the king.

Their movements became more clearly felt.

In the meantime, I noticed that their cohesion was particularly weak. As expected of a bunch of bugs, they were stupid enough to even gather together.

I swung my sword towards it as if I was being led there.

and.

Crunch!

“Keuk!”

The sword touched.

The holy sword slashed diagonally and cut off the guy’s thin leg.

Phew.

Between the noisy flying insects, the left leg of the guy circling in the air is visible.

I cheered inwardly.

‘Okay.’

It took away the guy’s mobility.

Now I won’t be able to avoid it like I did before.

And taking away its mobility means it’s a great place to land a solid hit.

“Get out of the way.”

After struggling like that for a while, a voice rang out from behind them.

A calm voice, not particularly raised, but clearly audible even in this chaotic situation.

Suddenly, I looked back and saw Lily emitting a blue magic. Above her head, a red ball of fire as bright as her hair was burning.

It is a tiny ball of fire the size of a grain of rice, despite being extremely bright.

But I wasn’t worried.

Although she can freely use the four elements, her roots are ultimately in fire magic.

Its precision and perfection are said to be incomparable to any other magic.

“I command all things in the universe to burn yourselves right now and turn everything to ashes.”

Finally, she threw the fireball at King Chung.

The fireball that flew slowly landed on the seriously injured Vulcan quite naturally.

And burned the world.

“Kaaaah!!”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

It didn’t take even a second for the tiny ball of fire to engulf the guy.

One of Lily’s high-level skills.

Mana combustion.

Everything in the world contains mana.

If I can use my own mana to influence the mana around me, wouldn’t it be possible to use magic that is greater than my abilities?

It was a magic developed from such an idea.

The magical power with the fire attribute was soon transmitted to the world, burning the surroundings.

The power was beyond imagination, as it burned using not only his own magical power, but also the mana spread across the heavens and earth.

Kkaaa···.

For a while, King Chung’s screams echoed through the fire.

I put down my sword and let out a deep sigh.

*

···It’s over.

The thought occurred to me naturally.

As far as Luke knows, there aren’t many who could survive a fire like that. And even if they did, it would be difficult to fight any longer.

Anyway, we have already used up our last survival tool called ‘Shedding’.

Luke could take some time off.

Camilla and Adele sighed in relief at the sight of the bugs suddenly stopping their movements. Even if they were fighting a limited number of monsters in a corner, they were starting to reach their limit.

They stared blankly at the burning figure of the king.

Lily was proud of her final blow.

It is a single blow that was created by pouring all of one’s skills and magical power into it for about 5 minutes. Unless one is able to defend properly, there will be few who can survive this technique.

She was confident of their victory.

And, Yulis was secretly delighted.

‘Okay.’

Finally, finally.

‘it’s okay!’

You can escape from this horrible space.

I was able to defeat King Chung, who had been so fearful and terrifying.

“I did it. I did it···!”

She already hated bugs. That didn’t change even after she remembered the past. Adapting to them and hating them are two different things.

No, rather, because there were memories of the past as well as the life of the past two months.

Because she had personally experienced the power of King Chung.

I couldn’t be happier about this victory that I feel right now.

Everything was much better than in my previous life.

Unlike last time when I was able to get through it, this time I was able to block the bugs for a whole 15 minutes, and during that time I was able to steadily cut down the Chungwang.

By overcoming all the skills he had shown in his previous life, the warrior was able to save his life.

Of course, I can’t say that there weren’t crises here and there…

From her perspective, it was a complete victory.

It was hard, but I won.

There were hardships, but we overcame them.

The warrior and his party members were each feeling their own emotions and were intoxicated with their early victory.

but.

There is one thing that has been overlooked.

Despair blooms quietly when hope shines brightest.

“······I lost.”

King Chung (蟲王) was a genius.

A genius who created his own unique magic called insect magic from a young age and became successful at it.

No one ever ignored his skills.

But at the same time, you could also say he was ordinary.

Although he had overflowing talent, compared to the other Four Heavenly Kings who were different from others from birth, he was born as nothing more than an ordinary person.

Compared to the dragons that could fly, the monsters with supernatural powers, and the giants that could tear apart the earth, he was ultimately just an ordinary demon.

It must have taken a tremendous amount of effort for him to later ascend to the position of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Studied black magic.

He created creatures such as the one-eyed bug and the dimensional thorn bug.

What he lacked in strength, he made up for by summoning insects all day long, and when his lifespan ran out, he even sacrificed his own body to turn himself into a lich.

As I honed my insect technique to the extreme, it soon reached the realm of power.

King of insects.

A person who dared to claim the title of king by exploiting the most insignificant beings. A monster who started from the bottom and reached the top of the list of disasters by relying solely on his own abilities.

“···But, I can’t die like this.”

His stubbornness and obsession may be closer to that of a madman.

“I can’t let down the expectations he gave me like this. Even if my entire life has to be burned down, you guys will never be able to pass this place.”

moment.

Hwaaah!

A magic circle was laid on the floor.

A very large magic circle that fills the entire spacious audience room.

“What?!”

“Hey, wait a minute. What is this!”

“I can feel the evil energy.”

The party members began to panic at the ominous purple light that filled the room. It was no different for a saint.

‘What, what is it?’

This is a scene I have never seen before, even in my previous life. In other words, this is King Chung’s first casting.

An incredible amount of magical power, incomparable to anything seen before, rises above the magic circle.

The saintess looked at the warrior with confused eyes, hoping that he might know something.

That’s how the warrior, Luke’s face looked.

“···Fuck.”

It was filled with absurdity.

“Stop being so annoying···.”

Anger, bewilderment, emptiness, and other emotions flashed through his eyes. He stared at the magic circle for a long time as if he was transfixed by something.

Then he muttered quietly in a voice that no one could hear.

“Why did the Solitary Summoning Magic appear on the first boss···.”

At that moment, all the bugs and monsters in the audience room are sucked towards the summoning circle. No, not just the audience room, but all the bugs in the castle.

“A transcendent being born in ancient times, and the worst life form. I release the ban placed on you and call you.

I’ll give you what you want. I’ll let you eat as much as you want.

If that’s not enough, I can give you half of my body.

I will bring all the delicacies of the world to you.

So, show up here now.”

Not only that, but even parts of King Chung’s body were burned.

He is now trying to summon loneliness by offering everything he has accumulated.

The summoning circle, which had been begging for so long, summoned ‘something’ here.

Quagaga River!

The audience room collapses.

The audience room, which was as big as several sports fields combined, collapsed in an instant.

A boulder falls from the ceiling, and the closed sky opens up.

It was now night outside. The hazy moonlight seemed to shine on us, but soon something obscured the sky again.

Baby baby baby!!

It was one giant earthworm.

A gigantic earthworm that must have been several kilograms in size. Luke froze for a moment at the sight of its overwhelming size that filled the night sky.

He knew very well what that was.

The third of three solitudes confined in the world.

A ghost with a hunger for food.

His endless greed will one day swallow up the world.

Chungwang, who had merged with the demon and had only his upper body floating above the demon’s head, muttered a word.

“Today here I was defeated. But there will be no winner either.”

[WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!]

[Forced fate!]

Above Luke’s blank retina, bright red spears blinked furiously.