episode_0283

“You are a child blessed by Lux Aeterna’s grace. I swear on my divinity, if you use that power sleeping inside you, you will die on the spot.”

Not only the plaza explorers but also Jeong Yushin heard the changeling’s voice.

Jeong Yushin’s expression twisted hideously.

“Fuck.”

Outer God Lux Aeterna.

Could there be such a cruel god?

Pouring overflowing divinity into one person, ordering them to restore the labyrinth’s seal, and then die.

Does that even make sense?

Even a fool could tell.

Cyan was not a hero but a sacrificial lamb.

Will I let Cyan go like this?

No.

Whether it’s the crown prince, the emperor, or the will of Lux Aeterna, I don’t know.

I can’t abandon Cyan like this.

‘I will save her.’

How?

There is a way.

Jeong Yushin immediately reached out to the slime next to him.

The blue slime stuck to Jeong Yushin’s arm, melting his flesh.

Screeeeeech!!!

Blue otherworldly fire blazed in Jeong Yushin’s eyes.

Engraving activated.

[Revenger]

‘That’s it.’

He immediately tore off the slime and threw himself into the pit.

Thud!!!

As soon as he landed on the ground, he saw Cyan.

She was throwing her hands into the bonfire. Burning her life force and divine power to restore Ezrath’s seal.

“S…ca?”

Cyan raised her head and looked at Jeong Yushin. Tears were streaming down her face.

He went over and grabbed Cyan’s hand, pulling it out of the bonfire.

“For today only, I will become the black-haired hero.”

Cyan opened her mouth, then glared at Jeong Yushin.

“H, Hero? Stop it! I must bear this mission alone!”

“Don’t be ridiculous. This kind of seal restoration? It’s something I can do too.”

Cyan shook her head fiercely.

“N, Nonsense! It’s impossible! You haven’t received the blessing of Lux Aeterna!”

“Who said that?”

“…?”

“I received it too.”

“…!”

Another great shock swept through Cyan’s mind.

How on earth?

The question couldn’t continue.

Jeong Yushin kissed the gaping Cyan.

Slurp.

With a sudden deep kiss, Cyan’s eyes widened.

Blood and screams swirled outside the pit, but the two men and women exchanged saliva in front of the bonfire.

Cyan’s eyelashes fluttered.

‘Divine power is being sucked out?!’

A situation where something that shouldn’t happen was happening.

The embarrassed Cyan struggled, but Jeong Yushin held her body tightly.

‘Ah.’

Cyan could feel it.

Deep inside Sca’s heart.

The tiny, hidden source of Lux Aeterna was absorbing all of her divine power.

How much time had passed?

Sca took his lips away.

Smooch.

Sticky saliva stretched like a thread from the lips of the two men and women.

Cyan stared at Sca with a dazed look.

Sca’s appearance had changed.

His black hair was shining brightly.

A round halo floated behind his head.

Proof of a saint.

It was similar to that of His Imperial Majesty whom she had first seen.

Cyan, whose magic and divine power were depleted, couldn’t move.

Sca laid her down and slowly reached out to the bonfire.

Cyan tried to stop Sca.

“N, No! Sca, you’ll die!”

Sca chuckled.

“It’s okay. I won’t die.”

“W, What on earth… Ah?!”

Jeong Yushin put his hand into the bonfire.

Just in case, he had been running the Incubus engraving to the extreme, and Cyan’s magic flowed in refreshingly.

Not only that.

Even the divine power of Lux Aeterna stuck to him like glue.

As if he had been waiting for this moment, the divine power rushed in like a huge wave.

From the divine power of Lux Aeterna, he felt joy, regret, and a hint of affection.

‘Stop.’

As Jeong Yushin muttered inwardly, Lux Aeterna’s emotions quietly subsided.

Jeong Yushin poured the divine power he had received into the bonfire.

‘Burn.’

The divinity filled with hope became a miracle and began to restore Ezrath’s seal.

Oooooooooong!!!

He could feel it.

The spirit god’s and Lux Aeterna’s divine power were slowly intertwining, and the crumbled seal was being restored.

At the same time.

A pain that constricted his body surged in.

But Jeong Yushin didn’t even twitch an eyebrow.

Instead, he stroked Cyan’s head.

There was no need to bear the heavy burden alone.

Lux Aeterna had ‘chosen’ to offer Cyan to protect the labyrinth city, but.

His ‘choice’ was different.

Save Cyan.

And restore the seal.

Jeong Yushin gritted his teeth.

Endlessly being sucked dry of divine power and life force.

As the pain of his whole body being torn apart passed, his strength drained and his vision flickered.

He instinctively realized.

His life had reached the threshold of death.

Deeeeeeng.

A large bell rang in his head.

Engraving activated.

[Death Postponement]

An engraving ability that literally postpones death for a while.

At the same time, the bonfire began to burn fiercely. It was more brilliant and beautiful than any flame he had ever seen.

Confirming the restoration of the seal, Jeong Yushin staggered to his feet.

As expected, he had died.

Time attack from now on.

He didn’t know how long he would be alive.

The good thing was that there was still a little bit of Lux Aeterna’s divinity left.

The divinity of Lux Aeterna inside his body revealed its impatience.

It urged Jeong Yushin as if telling him to survive quickly.

“Kuaaaaaaack!!! N, No!!!”

The changeling’s voice echoed through the city.

Jeong Yushin raised his head and looked up at the rift in space.

That cunning Outer God.

He was dying to give him a punch, but there was no way to get up there.

At that moment.

Thud!!!

The Barbaroi Torgel fell from the sky.

“Sca?! Are you alright?!”

Torgel grabbed Jeong Yushin’s shoulder and asked.

Jeong Yushin’s body was strange. His hair had changed color, and the halo was flickering as it faded.

Jeong Yushin nodded and raised his hand to point to the sky.

“I’m fine. Torgel, I don’t have much time, so I’ll ask you briefly. Throw me over there.”

Torgel raised his head to look at the sky, then looked down at Jeong Yushin again.

“The rift in space will close soon. Sca, you need to rest now.”

Jeong Yushin frowned.

This bastard.

He was about to die.

“Shut up and throw me over there. I have to give him a punch to survive.”

‘What a temper.’

Torgel clicked his tongue inwardly, picked up Jeong Yushin, and aimed him at the rift in space.

“Sca, by the way, where did you get that greatsword?”

Jeong Yushin frowned.

“This Black Iron Greatsword? Do we have to talk about that here now? Read the mood.”

“…I understand.”

Torgel gave up the conversation and grabbed Jeong Yushin, gathering strength in his whole body.

* * *

Meanwhile.

Central Plaza.

“Kill them!!!”

“Push them a little more!!! It’s over now!!!”

The explorers and knights came to their senses and drove back the slime horde.

The Empire’s hero had sacrificed his life to restore the seal.

They couldn’t not know. A tremendous light had begun to pour out from the plaza pit.

The high-ranking clan members quickly caught and killed the subordinate who had devoured and disguised himself as an explorer.

If they had left it alone, the front line would have been pushed back in an instant, and the explorers would have been devoured.

If the half-blooded Barbaroi hadn’t held the high-ranking clan on the 20th floor, it would have been an even tougher fight.

The labyrinth knights were inwardly impressed by Sca’s insight.

Cain sliced through the slime horde, his eyes shining.

“It’s over.”

The explorers raised their heads and looked at the shrinking rift in space.

“Keeeuek!!! Remember!!! Mortals!!! This body will return again!!!”

The changeling’s declaration echoed through the city.

At that moment.

From the pit.

The half-blooded Barbaroi soared up.

His appearance of brandishing a broken greatsword while burning blue otherworldly fire.

However.

It wasn’t a normal appearance.

His black hair had turned white and was shining.

A circular halo was scattering brilliant divinity from the back of his head.

The explorers stared at Sca with their mouths open.

“Uh…? What?!”

The place where the Barbaroi was flying to.

Right into the eye of the Outer God changeling.

“What…?!”

It was a crazy thing that not only the high-ranking clan members but even the commander of the knights couldn’t dare to do. There was no one who had received the divinity to strike the Outer God.

Even if there was, there was no one with the guts to rush in like that.

Jeong Yushin shot out like a bullet and raised his greatsword.

Lux Aeterna’s divinity settled in the broken Black Iron Greatsword.

Creak!!!

Jeong Yushin gritted his teeth.

His remaining strength was like dust, but he took a stance with an iron will.

Tens of thousands of downward slashes.

He was used to it now.

From top to bottom.

Whoooooooooosh!!!

The blow with all his might cut through the air.

“Y, You bastard!!! Lux Aeterna!!!”

The panicked changeling shouted urgently, but it was too late.

The greatsword imbued with divinity tore the changeling’s eye.

Tsuaaaaaaaak!!!

“Kuaaaaaaaack!!!”

Blue liquid poured out from the wound.

“Y, You bastard!!! How dare you, a mere mortal!!! I cannot forgive you!!!”

The changeling’s screams and curses shook the city.

However.

As if broken glass was automatically sticking back together, the rift in space soon closed.

‘This is the end.’

Jeong Yushin, who had exhausted all his strength, fell from the sky.

He didn’t have the strength to even flick a finger, so he dropped the Black Iron Greatsword from his hand.

It wasn’t subjugation.

He had prevented the invasion of the Outer God.

And.

He gave the changeling’s eyeball a punch and returned from death.

The otherworldly fire disappeared from Jeong Yushin’s eyes, and the darkness that had been rushing in from his mind receded.

‘I’m alive.’

But.

Won’t I die if I fall wrong here?

Jeong Yushin took a stance.

The same hero landing as before.

‘At this rate, all my knee cartilage will be gone.’

It was good that he gave the Outer God a punch.

But if he crashed pathetically into the ground here, that would be a laughingstock.

Jeong Yushin plummeted to the ground and punched the ground.

Whoooooooooosh!!!

Quaaaaaaaang!!!

The plaza floor shattered, and stone dust and dirt soared into the air.

The explorers stared blankly at Sca with their mouths open.

They couldn’t possibly forget what they had just seen.

He shot out like an arrow, injured the Outer God’s eye.

And he landed artistically on the ground, fluttering his thick fur coat.

It was a majesty that couldn’t be considered a low-ranking intermediate explorer.

Cyan, who had come out of the pit, ran quickly and knelt in front of Jeong Yushin.

“Sca!!!”

Jeong Yushin turned his head in a kneeling position.

“Cyan, you’ve worked hard.”

“C…cuh!”

Tears like chicken droppings hung from Cyan’s eyes.

“W, Why on earth are you helping me this far?!”

Jeong Yushin smiled.

“I told you. Together, we can overcome any difficulties.”

“…!”

Cyan couldn’t say anything and hugged Jeong Yushin tightly.

A deep sense of fatigue washed over him, but Jeong Yushin smiled.

He could see explorers and high-ranking clan members running from afar.

At that moment.

Clang.

Cyan’s plate armor fell to the ground. The plate covering her chest.

“…?”

It was because the acidic fluid of the slime had melted the seams of the plate armor.

Jeong Yushin’s eyes trembled.

The thin arming doublet was torn off along with the plate armor.

Jiggle.

Cyan’s cow-print bikini breasts were exposed.

“C, Cyan.”

“Sca, just a little more like this!”

Jeong Yushin called out Cyan’s name, but Cyan was unmoved.

“N, No, that’s not it. The armor…”

Clang. Clang.

When Cyan’s armor fell to the ground one by one.

The explorers who had approached stopped.

A hero in a cow-print bikini clinging tightly to Sca like a ‘lover’.

Moreover, she even had a ‘tail’.

“C…cough!!!”

“Heo.”

The explorers who quickly grasped the situation coughed and turned their eyes away.

One of the explorers made eye contact with Jeong Yushin and gave him a thumbs up.

“I, I admit it. The one who blocks the ‘hole’ is still the B, Barbaroi!”

Jeong Yushin trembled and closed his eyes.

It was difficult to maintain consciousness any longer due to the deep fatigue.

‘I don’t know.’

And darkness came.