Chapter 292: End of Round 18 (1) |
Ryu Min first left the Demon King’s Castle.
There were no demons blocking his way as he left.
Because he had killed them all on his way in.
Flap—
He spread his wings and took flight, heading toward the battlefield.
The war was still raging fiercely.
Two thousand demons and two thousand angels were crossing swords, splattering each other with blood.
But perhaps not much time had passed since he left, as the numbers hadn’t decreased much.
‘Good. Not much time has passed.’
He wouldn’t have been able to end the war on his own terms.
The demons might have used the momentum to defeat the angels.
If that happened, Ryu Min, who had sided with the angels, would be doomed to lose.
He would be unable to advance to the next round and be erased in vain along with his comrades.
‘That must never happen.’
That’s why he killed Artaros like squashing a rat.
To escape the void space, he had intended to make the bastard surrender.
But the bastard’s soul was more broken than expected.
As if to say don’t expect any surrender or whatever, he had given up on his own life.
‘Just how many times did he die to have not even a shred of attachment to life left?’
It’s not that he felt sympathy for someone like Artaros.
He was simply curious, as someone who had experienced death a hundred times himself.
How many more times must one die to completely abandon the will to live?
Who’s to say his own future might not be like Artaros’?
‘No. There’s no more reason for me to die.’
This is Ryu Min’s final opportunity.
If he dies now, it’s all over.
That’s why he had to protect everything he’d achieved so far.
He had to fulfill his goal of taking his comrades to Round 20.
To do that, no one could stop him.
Even if that someone was a god.
‘Nyx… Whatever that bastard is, the day will come when we meet.’
He didn’t know who Nyx was.
Nor where he was.
All he knew was that this god had ordered Artaros to kill him.
‘When we meet, I’ll kill you. I’ve gained the power to kill gods now.’
Artaros was no exception to death either.
Though he had only managed to kill him 31 times, and the bastard had a strange ability—blessing or curse—that granted him immortality, it wasn’t without a solution.
If that curse was removed, then he’d die for good.
‘Ah, can’t forget Plunictos either.’
There were many he had to kill, but for now, there was no clear method.
All Ryu Min could do for now was clear the round.
‘This won’t do. I need to become stronger than I am now.’
He thought he had become strong enough, but it still wasn’t enough.
Hadn’t he just nearly died at the hands of Artaros?
‘Even with stats over 100 million, I got pushed back. If it weren’t for invincibility, I’d really be dead.’
He needed to prepare for the next time he encountered that bastard.
Including that cursed void space and the ability to slow down time.
‘First, I need to kill as many angels here as possible.’
To grow stronger than now, he needed the angels’ stat points.
[You have used the Temporary Faction Change Ticket.]
[Player “Black Scythe”’s faction has changed from “Heaven” to “Hell.”]
After changing sides using the change ticket, he rose above the angels’ heads.
“Heavenly Judgment.”
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
Using up the Judgment Rune stacks, he cast an area skill. Those within the range dropped like flies.
[Angels killed: 1,587 / 100]
Seeing the numbers increase, it looked like he had killed at least 500.
Ryu Min glanced at the quest progress window.
[Remaining Troop Status]
└Heaven: 1,483 (29.66% surviving)
└Hell: 2,026 (20.26% surviving)
└Players: 286
‘I need to kill all but around 600. As long as it doesn’t drop below 10%, I’m good.’
Widening the blade of his scythe, Ryu Min swept across the angels’ heads.
Though they screamed at the sight of a human demon killing them out of nowhere, Ryu Min remained indifferent.
He cared only about the stat points piling up.
[Angels killed: 1,764 / 100]
…………
[Angels killed: 2,083 / 100]
…………
[Angels killed: 2,389 / 100]
…………
Like that, he wiped out thousands of angels and harvested their stat points.
The stacks for Demon’s Blessing had long since been maxed out.
‘Did I kill around 1,400?’
He left about 600 alive, and the stat points he gained were tremendous.
Of course, the Duke of Hell’s Representative buff was gone, so no bonus stats this time.
‘Even so, I got over 60 million stat points.’
Anyone would have dropped their jaw at this, but Ryu Min wasn’t satisfied.
He immediately went looking for John Delgado.
“Oh, Black Scythe-nim?”
“Can you revive the angels here?”
“Of course. As long as the corpses are intact…”
“A severed head is fine, right?”
“Yes. As long as the head is nearby, I can reattach it.”
“Good. Then revive them. Especially that one.”
The angel Ryu Min pointed to was Michael.
He had died with his head cut off, but if revived, he’d grant massive stat points.
“Rise.”
Uoooooooh—
As John Delgado used his skill, hundreds of angels stood back up.
Ryu Min killed them again to harvest stat points.
Though he only received about half of what he got the first time, it was still a substantial amount.
‘Good thing I kept John Delgado alive.’
Like that, Ryu Min gained nearly 100 million stat points and changed factions again.
[Player “Black Scythe”’s faction has changed from “Hell” to “Heaven.”]
Back on the angel team, Ryu Min now turned his scythe on the demons.
The demons, who had been celebrating just moments ago, flinched and stiffened.
“You trash who don’t even give stat points…”
Ryu Min’s anger turned toward them.
“If I want to win the round, I have no choice.”
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
It didn’t take long for the demon count to drop below 1,000.
[The demon army has dropped below 10%.]
[The war of Round 18 ends in a Heaven faction victory.]
With the message, the players vanished.
A war that felt long if long, short if short, had ended.
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