episode_0045

The moment Eirin’s head explodes.

Selena cast her spell with reflexes bordering on instinct.

It was an act of goodness that risked life to save the world.

It was also an opportunity for Neterto’s desire to achieve success.

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Boom, boom.

Blood and flesh dripping from her cheeks fell limply onto the white snow, leaving a terrible sensation. Baekryeon was lost in the unreality of the phenomenon. So she turned her head very slowly. From the side where Eirin was standing, to the front where the sound came from.

In the darkness, a figure appears. He is two hands taller than a healthy adult male. The figure that finally appears is a man.

What was different from an ordinary person was that there were dilated dark blood vessels all over the skin and the eyes were reversed.

He was a man whose violent tendencies seemed to be revealed without any filter. Soon, he opened his mouth in a feminine manner.

“Ah, I saw someone and stopped without thinking.”

“What…?”

Jenna reacted immediately. Using some unknown trick, he blew up his friend’s head, and then he spoke as if he had accidentally bumped shoulders. Confusion and anger could not help but flow through his blood vessels and reach his head at once.

At that moment, the man picked something up from the ground.

Something is happening. Baekryeon intuitively raised her shield and immediately rushed in front of Jenna.

Thud!

A loud metallic noise rang out. It was as loud as if a cannonball had been blocked.

Bam.

A small, solid object falls to the ground without any force.

Only then did Baekryeon realize that the man had merely flicked the rock with his thumb. Eirin must have been blown away by this technique.

It’s dangerous. The interest.

After all, he is the one who killed the king of demons.

Baekryeon quickly rushed towards the man, holding up her shield.

“Run away, Jenna! Selena!”

Fight!

The man was pushed back. As Baekryeon pushed, he retreated, making endless furrows in the ground.

“Ugh… Oh oh…”

The monster let out a sigh of admiration. He had never dreamed that he would be pushed back like this by a mere human, let alone a creature as gigantic as the King of Monsters.

“Haha…! This is the first time something like this has happened since I escaped to the Demon Realm!”

“Run away?”

“Don’t you know? Is Landler’s Butcher slowly being forgotten…”

Ouch.

In an instant, Baekryeon’s body stiffened. The butcher of Randler was a person she remembered.

He was a butcher who murdered numerous women on Landler Street in the capital and then fled.

The name is North. He is the villain that the Holy See of Neterto used as an excuse to infiltrate the Demon Realm.

‘Could it be possible for a contaminated human to become a monster…?’

The reason why we do not pursue the criminals who escaped to the Demon Realm is because humans cannot withstand the poison of the Demon Realm.

Long-term survival was impossible without a supporting wizard like Selena who could use purification magic. This was the generally accepted wisdom.

But ironically, the unlikely scenario came true. A human who was perfectly adapted to the venom of the Demon Realm was born.

Plus, this familiar feeling.

The Holy Netherto had a similar demeanor to the other Holy Nethers who occasionally visited him. Although he did not follow the right path in his training like the Holy Nethers, this evildoer was clearly a being that transcended humanity.

“Good! It feels like I’m alive for the first time in a long time…!!!”

The villain – North raised his fist. The fist that had been raised into the sky suddenly slammed down to the ground.

Wow!

The area around North collapsed. It was a fist that mercilessly sank the torso of the King of Demons.

Kookookookook… Woozikkun!

The ground collapsed, sweeping away rotten old trees. As the collapsing earth sucked in the lotus like an anthill, North kicked away a large rock.

A straight line of flight of rocks. There is Jenna preparing her magic.

It didn’t run away.

I couldn’t leave my burden to just Baekryeon, and I didn’t want to give up on my best friend’s revenge either.

“Ms. Jenna!”

A situation on the brink of disaster.

Another comrade was the one who saved Jenna from that overwhelming mass.

“It’s dangerous!”

Parts and pieces!

Selena deploys a shield woven with magical power. The hexagons, tightly packed like a honeycomb, engage in a battle of wits with the large rock.

The crisis was averted. Baekryeon, who realized this, kicked the crater and escaped, putting pressure on North.

It was desperate.

One life has already been wasted in vain.

With only a week left until my return, I feel embarrassed to go back to the border.

Every moment I faced the monster before my eyes, I felt my stomach acid reflux and my throat tighten like a needle.

‘Please… please… Jenna and Selena can’t die. I’d rather die myself…!’

Deflects enemy attacks with a shield. Leads to close combat and prevents the two people in the rear from being attacked.

Interest is not a monster. It is not an enemy with a large body. Even if they had supported it with magic, Baekryeon would have been swept away as well.

So, I want you to run away. I want you to put aside your worries and desire for revenge and turn around and run.

“You, did you just think of something else?”

North chuckled.

“Do you know what’s the most important thing when killing a woman and running away?”

“I wouldn’t know that…!”

“Strong legs.”

This time, let’s test our running skills.

Immediately after saying those words, he started running, bypassing Baekryeon.

Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!

There were no obstacles to North’s advance. Numerous old trees in his path were broken and trampled like branches.

“Stop…!!!”

Indeed, Baekryeon’s physical ability had long since surpassed the realm. Baekryeon caught up with North in an instant and was running beside him like parallel lines.

“Oh…”

The exclamation of admiration only lasts for a moment.

Kkuk…

North was suddenly holding onto something.

“I surrender. I can’t possibly win.”

The moment he started whining, a bell rang.

By snapping his compressed fingers, he shot out small stones.

There is no way two wizards would react.

Phew!

The pretty face that had been perched on Jenna’s shoulder disappeared.

Her once shiny blonde hair was now covered in blood and was fluttering across the snow.

I was only briefly distracted by the horrific sight, but the distance between the two was so vast.

“Please… run away, Selena!!!”

Selena was in a panic. Jenna had died helplessly, even though she was right next to her. The guilt and shock had cracked Selena’s psyche.

By the time the soul that had escaped returned, North had already approached Selena.

“This is the last for the woman…”

“Selena!!!”

The wizard’s body is soft. Even a gesture to shoo away a fly would kill him.

Despair broke down Baekryeon’s reason. And as her reason broke down, her nerves burned.

He moved his legs without any sense of purpose. It was as if he had escaped from the flow of time.

Baekryeon reached his side so quickly that even North couldn’t react.

“Eww!”

He swung his shield with an unfamiliar killing intent. This was the first time that the shield, which he had always used only for defensive purposes, struck someone.

Thud!

The air was knocked out of his lungs as the broad side of the shield struck the bastard’s torso.

“Cough…?!”

Kwaaah!

North rolled around in disarray.

That’s ridiculous strength.

I had learned from several fights that his physical abilities were extraordinary, but his attacks filled with murderous intent were on a whole other level.

“Coolook!”

It spits out black blood. It is so poisonous that it causes ordinary people to melt just by touching it.

Baekryeon approached, stepping into the puddle of blood without a care.

“Wow, that’s amazing. Are you sure it’s a masterpiece?”

He laughed cheerfully. There was resentment in Baekryeon’s eyes. Even after the battle, the young man who had a rather kind impression suddenly had completely different eyes.

It was funny because I felt like I was some kind of demon leading the corruption.

“Killing is… fun. Once you get addicted, you can’t get out. I hope you realize that too…”

“… Shut up.”

“Shut up or keep your mouth shut. Huh, puhahahaha!”

He killed two of his colleagues. It is a situation where he should be indignant. However, unlike the prostitutes who rebelled against him, the immature young man in front of him is unable to even spit out proper curses.

The killer’s eyes sharply saw through Baekryeon’s true feelings.

“You’ve never killed anyone, have you? No, you don’t know violence. Right? ”

Instead of answering, Baekryeon held North’s neck tightly with her shield. However, this action caused North to burst out laughing.

“Kuhahahaha! Kill me! Quickly! Are you planning on subduing me and escorting me away? With your kitty?”

Selena walks in from afar.

He believed that Baekryeon had been completely subdued. This perception was somewhat justified, and in normal times, it would not have been a problem.

“Yeoniya…!”

The view was clear because so many old trees had been broken. However, North rolled his eyes and tugged at the corners of his lips as if he was being subdued.

“Ahh… What a pity.”

“What…”

“I wanted to kill you.”

The moment North expressed his regret.

“Booo!”

Suddenly, a unicorn leapt out from the forest on the other side and pierced Selena’s chest.

Phew!

The unicorn flapped its front legs in excitement like a rampaging horse at a rodeo, showing off Selena’s corpse impaled on its horns as if it were a trophy.

They ended up fighting too loudly.

It destroyed the forest, shattered the ground, and agitated the monsters that had nested nearby.

The dark vision, to make matters worse, dulled my senses.

That was the result of the tension being released and the reaction speed being slowed down.

Turup.

North grabbed the White Lotus shield. Then, he slowly began to stand up, exerting his strength.

“I guess I should stop playing around here. I’m tired.”

We never really fought in the first place. It was just a game.

That was the meaning implied in North’s words.

Above all, Baekryeon, whose mind was broken by Selena’s death, is not worth dealing with.

As if to prove what he had said, North’s body began to transform.

A foul venom rose to the surface of his skin, turning his body black, and horns grew all over his body like a monster.

The outward sense of oppression also became incomparably heavier.

“It was a little fun…”

North’s words could not be continued.

Blue light gushed out from under Baekryun’s feet. And the lines drawn by the light connected geometrically, creating a formula.

It was Selena’s magic.

A last resort when life is in danger due to injury, triggered under the condition of burning the remaining life.

The official name is subspace transmission magic.

Since it requires a huge amount of magical power just to activate it once, it was effectively a useless auxiliary magic.

A bright light filled my vision.

After a while, when the light from the magic mirror disappeared, the white lotus’s appearance disappeared like an illusion.