John! If I really have the potential you covet, I will definitely awaken you! So I will definitely tear you to death!
Then came a faint whisper, like an hallucination.
Tring!
-… is watching you.
Kang Woo asked Yohan to set up his workshop.
Yohan was delighted that Kangwoo finally had the will to do so, and he gladly set up a workshop for him.
kang! kang! kang!
From that day on, the workshop’s hammering did not stop for 24 hours.
Most of the abilities of the original Awakeners are fixed to the level at which they were awakened.
Crossing that wall is literally picking stars from the sky.
However, the human sacrifice that Yohan had made for Kang Woo broke his limitations.
Among them, it was the weapons he obtained by sacrificing his precious people that particularly improved Kang Woo’s abilities.
Kang Woo analyzed them with mad eyes.
These were the source of John’s strength.
Tring!
-Increases understanding of Destruction God’s A-class ‘Sword of Destruction’.
-Increases understanding of the God of Destruction’s S-class ‘Destroyer Spear’.
-Understanding the S-class ‘Death Armor’ of the God of Destruction…
From a certain moment, strange sounds began to be heard.
It is a system notification sound that only S-rank or higher can hear even among creation hunters.
However, Kang-woo, who was already half-mad, didn’t care about that.
Tring!
-congratulations. The ‘Hunter Shop’ has been awakened.
-From now on, you can use the ‘Hunter Shop’ by paying the price.
-G (Gold) is the commonly used currency in the Hunter Shop.
And finally, Kang-woo opened the Hunter Shop, which says that only some of the S-class creative hunters can be awakened.
The weapons and items that could be purchased at the Hunter Shop were beyond imagination.
There were overflowing items that seemed like they could get revenge on that monstrous John if they used them well.
However, Kang Woo did not have the gold to pay to the Hunter shop.
Wow!
Kang Woo gave strength to the hammer in his hand.
Although there was no gold, Kang Woo had the knowledge of studying the weapons of the God of Destruction.
Kang Woo raised his hammer towards the system window of the Hunter shop that appeared in front of him.
Whiik!
The hammer just brushes through the air and doesn’t touch the system window.
But he didn’t stop and repeated it hundreds of thousands of times.
When days and days passed like that again.
kang!
The hammer, which would never have been able to reach it, reached it through Kang-woo’s madness and tenacity.
Tring!
– ‘Guardian of Fire and Blacksmith’ keeps an eye on you.
* * *
One day, Yohan’s men pulled out Kang Woo, who was hammering like crazy.
Kang-woo, who was being dragged along like a piece of luggage with a blank face, smelled the fishy smell of blood and the stench of rotting flesh.
Kang Woo thought for a moment that it was finally the day he would be freed from this hellish life through death…
“Hahaha! rejoice! Brother, the day has finally come!”
It wasn’t.
Deaths that were not his were flooding in front of Kang Woo.
A mountain of thousands of corpses was piled up on top of a huge magic circle that looked like it was drawn with blood.
“ha ha ha!”
At the top, John, not wearing a single thread, was mad.
“Unfortunately, you have not yet awakened to the grace of God, but I will gladly share this glorious moment with you. We are brothers blessed by God!”
Johann was mad and stared at the being wriggling ferociously under the magic circle.
“Now look! A great being who will purify this filthy world! The appearance of the one and only great god I serve!”
Squeak Squeak!
As John cast an incomprehensible spell, the corpses piled up like a mountain were sucked into the magic circle as if they were sinking into a swamp.
-Kurrure!
Kurreung kukukung!
The cries of hungry beasts resounded within the magic circle, and the ground began to vibrate wildly.
John exulted as he raised his arms high.
“Oh oh! Ohhh! great god! Please come quickly and purify this filthy world…!”
In an instant, John’s face hardened like stone. He stared in disbelief at the huge golden eyes wriggling inside the magic circle.
“City God? What the hell…? Aww!”
Tsutsutsu! Shuwook!
Suddenly, John’s hair turned white, and his youthful, vital body began to wither like a mummy.
It’s like throwing away an object that’s no longer useful.
“Quaaaaaagh!”
“Apostle Yo John!”
The men who were holding Kang Woo panicked and ran to John.
Whiririk!
However, he was unable to reach him and was entangled in tentacles protruding from within the magic circle.
“Live and save… Ugh!”
Wow!
They, who had at least the power of a B-class hunter, couldn’t even resist, and their tentacles quickly lost their vitality, and quickly turned into ashes.
Great! Blasphemy!
-Kurrrrrrr!
Cracks formed in the magic circle, and the monster, which had swallowed thousands of sacrifices and even devoured its own subordinates, was about to descend to the ground.
Even in a situation where he was half-mad, Kang-woo had a hunch.
I can’t let the guy inside that magic circle come out into the world.
“…activate the Hunter Shop.”
A Hunter shop window appeared in front of Kang Woo’s eyes. Among them, Kangwoo chose the magic tool he had been eyeing.
“Select ‘Fafnir’s Breath’.”
It is a magic tool made by condensing the destructive poison of Fafnir, the evil dragon who was subdued by Siegfried, the legendary warrior of Northern Europe.
Its performance is enough to destroy a radius of hundreds of meters.
Kang Woo originally intended to use this to self-destruct with Yohan.
-The purchase price of ‘Fafnir’s Breath’ is 30000000G.
Of course, Kang Woo, who was in custody, did not have such an astronomical amount of gold.
However, he renovated the Hunter shop in the meantime.
John applied the principle of offering sacrifices to the God of Destruction and obtaining armor, and transformed it into a purchase possible at a price other than gold.
What Kang Woo sets as a new price is his own lifespan.
“purchase.”
Tring!
Tsutsutsu!
Along with a notification sound, a metal sphere with ominous energy was created in Kangwoo’s hand.
Jureuk!
At the same time, deep wrinkles appeared on Kang-woo’s face in return.
“Buy ‘Fafnir’s Breath’.”
But the rain didn’t stop.
Tring! Tring! Tring! Tring!
With the sound of the alarm ringing incessantly, a metal ball that he could no longer hold with his hands rolled under Kang-woo’s feet.
“Kkeukkeuk!”
Gangwoo, who was holding Fafnir’s breath with both hands that had turned into old trees before he knew it, glared at the monster beyond the magic circle that might be his true enemy with mad eyes.
“Let’s die together, monster.”
And he hit the breath of Fafnir in his hand.
Kwak! Kwak Kwa Kwak!
Kurrureung!
Dozens of Fafnir’s breaths exploded in succession, engulfing the magic circle where the God of Destruction was about to descend and the entire abandoned city where John’s base was located.
In that way, Kang-woo died after stopping the arrival of the God of Destruction.
no he should have died
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T-ring!
– ‘Guardian of Fire and Blacksmith’ is watching you madly.
– ‘Guardian of Fire and Blacksmith’ highly appreciates your feat of stopping the 1/100 alter ego of the God of Destruction.
-Your consciousness is connected to the workshop of ‘Guardian of Fire and Blacksmith’.
At the moment right before death, Kang Woo saw a vision.
Wow!
kang! kang! kang!
The figure of a gray-haired giant hammering madly in front of a furnace that seeths like a furnace.
Although there was a difference in size, the image of him hammering with mad eyes resembled Kangwoo like a mirror.
Swoop.
Then the giant glared at Kang Woo with burning eyes and opened his rocky lips.
-Is that you, my chosen apostle this time?
I’m the king of martial arts alone
! kang! kang!
Kang Woo looked up at the unknown giant tapping the hammer in front of him with confused eyes.
It was bizarre.
His sporadic white hair covers the floor in white like a snowy field, and even moss grows on his body like an old rock.
How many years had that giant been banging his hammer there like a hammer?
Kang Woo asked in a trembling voice.
“Who are you?”
Strangely, hearing the flames burning in the furnace and the sound of the giant hammering, I feel that my half-crazy mind has been purified.
kang! kang!
said the giant, not stopping hammering.
-I am the one who gave fire to all humans from the beginning and I am your god.
Kang Woo thought this was a vision he saw right before his death.
However, there was one word that could never be overlooked.
“…my god?”
-Yes. The craftsman’s hammering is a prayer offered to me, and the arms made by the craftsman are offerings offered to me. Therefore, all artisans can be said to be my followers. Among them, you are by far the most qualified to be my apostle.
Kang Woo was an atheist.
It had to be.
If there really is a God, how could he inflict such hardship and suffering on human beings?
This will be a vision seen right before death.
But even so, Kang-woo couldn’t stand the rising resentment.
“If you are really my god, why didn’t you help me! What did you do when my family and the woman I love were slaughtered and died like animals!”
The giant continued hammering without even looking at Kang Woo.
-Even God is not omnipotent. It’s just that you have a bit more strength and authority than your creatures. Compared to this vast cosmos made up of countless worlds, the things we call gods are mere dust entangled in causality. The only beings that can truly be called gods are the Creator God who created this great universe and the Destruction God who devours it.
The iron that the giant had struck was thrown into a furnace where red flames soared fiercely.
-And I helped you as much as I could.
“Help me…?”
-Yes. Even though it’s just a degraded version of the ‘God’s Shop’, didn’t you use it to take revenge and prevent the God of Destruction’s alter ego from descending?
Kang Woo’s eyes shook.
“Could it be that you… are the one who made the Hunter Shop?”
-Everything is not made out of nothing. Even though the original name is different, the source reaches me. Although it is hopeless than a single candle in the vast sea swallowed up by the darkness, it is the greatest goodwill I can do for your world, which is about to perish.
The giant took the iron from the furnace and hit the hammer again.
-Besides me, many gods are already doing good to your world. Don’t you think that the source of the power you use is entirely your own? Of course, there are evil gods who parasitize and harm your world
.
But even in the midst of that, there were words that could never be overlooked.
“Are you saying my world is about to end?”
-Yes. You sacrificed your life to prevent the descent of the god of destruction. It was certainly a noble act, but your world is still in the process of destruction. The remaining time is only one year, your time.
The giant indifferently declared the end of the world.
Kang Woo’s heart swelled.
it was anger
He was so resentful that the sacrifices of his precious people were just dog deaths.
The giant’s hammering stopped for the first time. His eyes, blazing with fire, turned to Kang Woo.
-Are you angry?
“That’s right! I am so indignant!”
-Then, where would you struggle?
“…yes?”
-Innumerable worlds and gods were eaten by destruction and disappeared. I am also one of them. My feelings are also not different from yours. In order to get revenge on him, I forged causality right here for 100,000 years. And finally, one sword was completed.
Roaring!
The steel forged by the giant turned into flame and took the form of a sword.
-Fire destroys everything, but it also regenerates. This is the sword of causality that I made by gathering only those essences. I’ll give this to you if you want.
Kang Woo swallowed dry saliva.
“Can it save the world?”
The giant shook his head.
-no. Compared to that brutal destruction, this sword I forged for 100,000 years is nothing but hope. Only the thorny road of suffering will unfold in front of you. In the end, you will end up despairing and frustrated.
Kang-woo fell silent for a moment at the giant’s words, which inadvertently poured out curse-like words.
After a while, he bit his lips as if they were going to bleed and stretched out his hands in front of him.
