Episode 215 [ Ruler of Steel – 2 ]
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“Pfft—let go of this!”
The one who was screaming so desperately was the necromancer,
“Hey, you bastard, if you don’t stay quiet, you might break a few more teeth.”
The thing was tangled in the white chains that Emilia Müller had created, twisting its body around and whining.
However, it did not dare to break the chains.
It was made of ‘Holy Light’, so Dark players would most likely be unable to escape on their own. Not only that, the more you struggle, the more the chains dig into your body.
“Ugh!”
As the Necromancer was virtually neutralized, the Ghosts and Undead that were under his control also stopped.
In other words, the battlefield came to a standstill . Soon
, Lee Hyun-wook was next to him. It flew down and landed.
And as he slowly raised both hands…
Hung— Hung— Hung— Hung—
Dozens of Moglei were lined up above his head, and of course the direction the sword tips were aimed at was the Necromancer.
‘More time.’ Kills immediately without dragging.’
According to Lee Hyun-wook’s will, the Mogleis began to approach the head of the necromancer, who was kneeling like a madman’s sword. Sigh – Sigh
–
As each was a massive lump of metal weighing a ton, just swimming in the air was strange. Because it resonated… It felt as bloody as a pack of wild beasts approaching with a low howl.
“Aaaaa——!”
In response, the necromancer buried his face between his legs like a herbivore surrounded by a pack of wolves and let out a miserable scream.
At that time—
“Stop——!”
a shout rang out and made the entire Seoul tense.
It was a voice filled with deep dignity.
And of course, that identity was the devil.
In the distance, the Demon King Castle, which was motionless and surrounded by a black protective shield, began to fly quickly in this direction.
‘…That guy was quite embarrassed too.’
Until now, he had been floating in the sky over Seoul, sending out his subordinates to kill time, and only doing the work of ‘harvesting souls.’
However, he boldly stopped the work he had put so much effort into and started running hurriedly, as if he were running out in socks.
The Necromancer was the Demon King’s main weapon.
‘…Gordon Price, both when he was in human form and after becoming a demon lord, took care of things with necromancers at the forefront.’
In other words, he was in danger of losing the core force that had driven his victory, and if that happened, he would not be able to plan for the future… He was trying to change the situation somehow.
“If you come any closer, this guy will die.”
Lee Hyun-wook’s voice was not that loud, but the Demon King seemed to understand, and the approaching Demon Castle slowly stopped. In
order to buy time for the ‘Gauss’ that can shoot down the Demon King Castle, Lee Hyun-wook did not kill the Necromancer right away, but took him hostage and took the Demon King’s castle as a hostage. I blocked the approach.
At this point, I could have dropped the Demon King’s Castle in one go.
“I have a proposal for you.”
The guy seemed to be in a hurry, so he made a proposal out of nowhere.
“How about you stop this fight and make a deal with me? ?”
In other words, it meant stopping the fight and negotiating.
Lee Hyun-wook snorted at those words.
“Ha— I wondered what you were talking about… It’s an obvious ploy.”
Lee Hyun-wook turned his head as if there was nothing to see.
“If you listen to what I say for a moment, you will change your mind.”
The solemnity he had shown when dealing with the world was gone, and he was the devil who held his trouser legs and ejaculated as if hanging down. In response,
Lee Hyun-wook He sneered.
“Well, I don’t get anything from you, so how can a deal be concluded?”
No matter how you look at it, this was probably a ploy to waste time.
I couldn’t give myself an excuse to lose even one necromancer that I had captured.
And as the Gaussian arrived nearby,
Hyunwook Lee dropped his left hand without hesitation.
But—
“This is the true nature of this game——!”
The Demon Lord shouted at that split-second—at that powerful single word, Hyunwook’s Moglei narrowly stopped in front of the Necromancer’s forehead.
“Ugh—black—black—”
The necromancer burst into tears.
“This game’s… identity…”
That was one of the ultimate goals that Hyun-wook Lee was pursuing, so Hyun-wook Lee stopped Moglei without even realizing it.
As if he thought his move had worked, the Demon King spoke again with a strange smile.
“You must have also received something called the ‘main quest.’ huh? “Am I right?”
When Lee Hyun-wook surpassed the metal control of his previous life, the name of the unidentified quest that appeared before his eyes was the main quest.
The contents are….
[Main Quest]
– A Second Chance at Life Duty Destiny…
Congratulations! You are doing great with your second life opportunity.
Thus, we were given the destiny to advance to the ‘ending’.
Witness the key elements of this world and take a step closer to the truth!
1) Track down the ‘Black Gate’ that is open somewhere in this world.
2) Past life—Defeat the ‘dimensional shifter’ who will come from the first world. (2/3)
3) Encounter ‘■■■’ who knows the truth of this world.
A fascinating story that depicts the ending of this game and tells the truth….
‘Are you saying that the devil, Gordon Price, also experienced this? In that case, he will also regress… No, that’s not true. If so, they would have expected that I had regressed and responded, but there has been no such movement at all until now.’
Soon the guy continued speaking.
“…Even though the details of the main quest are somewhat different, I also received and completed it at one time. And that means only one thing.”
“…….”
Lee Hyun-wook looked at the Demon King in silence.
Its huge eyes were staring at Lee Hyun-wook.
“You… are the test subject that receives the most attention from ‘them’ in this dimension.”
Lee Hyun-wook frowned at that point.
“…What do you mean, it’s an experiment?”
I received the same answer when I tortured the second dimension shifter, ‘Blood Lord’ Ricardo Oliveira, and asked him many questions.
The purpose of this game is said to be an experiment, and more precisely, to create a transcendent…
But Ricardo Oliveira didn’t seem to know any more than that.
“This game is an experiment, and we are the test subjects.”
To that extent, Lee Hyun-wook also expected it.
Hyunwook Lee asked about the information obtained so far in context.
“…Are you saying this is an experiment to create something like a transcendent?”
The title of Transcendent seemed to be the reward that players could face at the end after clearing this game.
And what that means is….
“Haha—as expected, you can communicate well. Yes, transcendence… that is, becoming a god.”
Everyone in the world was now hearing this absurd and shocking story about
God .
And I heard the members of the Wight Tree Guard standing behind Lee Hyun-wook muttering.
“What? Poetry gods… does such a thing really exist?”
“But… I can’t explain it without the power of God.”
“Yes, gods exist. In the first place, who is this game that can create such a ridiculous and at the same time miraculous phenomenon?” Around the
time when ‘games’ were applied to this world and began to be influenced by such extraordinary phenomena… Modern science is like no other. It collapsed without even providing an explanation.
Then, people’s attention returned to religion, which had been treated as superstition, and numerous religious groups began to offer different interpretations… Each of them said that the ordeal was sent by the god they believed in.
Likewise, when interpreting the identity of this game, what cannot be left out is the absolute divine being.
‘Since this phenomenon cannot be explained with the knowledge possessed by mankind, it is natural to go with the easy interpretation that it is God.’
Hyunwook Lee asked a slightly more fundamental question.
“…..Are you saying that this game is the process of being reborn as a god? Then why are the gods who created this game trying to create a new god?”
“Well, I’ve only met them once. Anyway, for some reason, they’re selecting beings who are equal to themselves among us humans, and this game is an experiment and a contest, and the dimension shifters and I… To put it simply, we can say that we’re the qualifiers. 」
“…So, you destroyed one dimension and became a ‘quasi-transcendent’, and this time, if you destroy our dimension, you will become a transcendental person, that is, a god?”
“Yes, it means that you too will eventually walk this path.”
Lee Hyun-wook had no choice but to stop at that point.
‘The path I will walk… is the path the devil walked?’
He thought he was carving out a path with his own will. However, on the other hand, it could be that he was being manipulated by a huge inflection point called ‘regression’ in the first place. ‘Am I, after all, just a pawn on the game board…’ Lee Hyun-wook is
somewhere
. When he seemed to be conflicted, the Demon King tempted him as if he had been waiting, saying,
“So… I will guide you to the path of transcendence. I will pass on my knowledge to you, so follow me and be chosen by the gods. That is best for you.”
At that point, Lee Hyun-wook chuckled,
“…are you saying that you are ultimately going to destroy this world?”
“Yes, that’s the ending you will face anyway. You will become the final winner in this life-and-kill experiment. So… when you and I hold hands and arrive at the ‘ending,’ I will become a transcendent and you will become a quasi-transcendent. In other words, we You both win.”
The expressions of Emilia Müller and the White Tree Guard, who were listening to the conversation, could not help but harden.
They looked at the back of Lee Hyun-wook’s head with expressions full of tension, and Emilia Müller came closer and asked quietly.
“No way, that guy . “You don’t… believe the sound, do you?”
Lee Hyun-wook thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“…Honestly, I believe it to some extent.”
He knew that the Demon King’s words were not a complete lie.
“Huh? What is that….”
“What I experienced is consistent with what that guy is saying. I can’t explain it all, but it is.”
“So you’re not trying to agree to that, are you? Well, you don’t have to worry! Because the person I know is not that kind of person…”
But Lee Hyun-wook could not answer.
He was worried.
If that is true, then he really hoped that an absolute being chose him and walked the path to becoming a transcendent… One world If you want to destroy…
‘…can I resist that will?’
“Hey, don’t think too hard about Steele. You can’t resist anyway. You either follow the route set by this system and see the ending… or get deleted.” “Delete….” “Due to a failed deletion
experiment
, It means that it will be discarded.”
Lee Hyun-wook raised his head and looked around.
This world was a second world to him.
The half-ruined city center of Seoul… But in this life, it was a space that he had protected and could protect in the future.
He was that city. He looked at me and opened his mouth,
“But… do you know that Gordon Price—”
At that moment, there was silence.
And the Demon King’s big eyes shook slightly.
“…What?”
That’s because he didn’t tell anyone who he was. But since his old name was mentioned… he couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
“You guys now… “What did you call me?”
Lee Hyun-wook looked up at the Demon King.
“Did you say I would be deleted if I didn’t follow the same path as you?”
「….」
“Then I have already been deleted once.”
His left hand was raised…
“That too by you
. ”
At that moment,
Mowglei, filled with the power of the Holy Sword, cut off the Necromancer’s neck and then rotated once, splitting his body in half. … The Necromancer died instantly without a word.
“No!”
The Demon King’s scream shook the entire world. At the same time, many tentacles at the bottom
of the Demon King’s Castle were raised and rays of light were released at the same time.
—and——!
Those rays tore the city center to pieces, the tall skyscrapers collapsed, and buildings collapsed one after another.
“…But why on earth was it restored like this?”
Lee Hyun-wook was deleted. But it was restored again.
That was something that still cannot be explained…
‘Maybe what the being called God wants is not the kind of half-baked ending advocated by the devil.’
Lee Hyun-wook thought so and used a skill.
Then, a large amount of mana exploded from his body and covered the area.
At the same time, a system message appeared in front of everyone.
– Caution! There is a ‘steel zone’ in the area. It begins!
This is the third skill among Lee Hyun-wook’s final skills [Lord of Steel], and it opens a ‘zone’ that allows unlimited metal control within a certain area within a certain period of time. In other words, there are no longer any limits
.
‘ —I can feel it. Every single piece of metal around here feels perfect.’
He slowly closed his eyes.
His senses were touching everything within 2km:
the steel bars embedded in the thick concrete, the copper wires of the high-voltage lines running underground… and all the objects and metals scattered around the building. …
He sensed all the metal in this space.
‘And…
he slowly opened his eyes.
‘… I can control every single one of them.’
Woouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu its its name.
Also, before he knew it, Prydwen, which had been waiting behind the building behind him, rose to higher altitude and a Gauss ship was mounted underneath it. -Chick— The Gauss ship is ready to launch!
It
receives power from the Prydwen and runs on rails. The area was heated to a blue color, and then—
T-U-U-U—I
fired a single bullet at the Moglei. A
single flash of light stretched all the way to the Demon Castle.
The straight space was crumpled by the shock wave.
Even in this melee, the buildings that had been lucky enough to hold on stumbled, and all the windows were broken and flying around at once. As
they were crushed into small pieces once again, more than a hundred Mowglei began rushing towards the Demon Castle.
Soon, the Mowglei fired from the Gauss Gun Hit the Demon King’s Castle— The black magic shield was torn apart. One by one, the Moglai fell through the gaping cracks.
Then, as the shock waves exploded one after another, the huge Demon King’s Castle was pushed back and landed on the roof of a building.
Boom——!
” “T-you mean I’ve killed you before?”
“Yes, I did…”
Lee Hyun-wook’s body slowly rose into the air.
Following his gesture, the Mogleis were thrown all over the Demon Castle, where the magic shield was broken, and blood spurted out.
Eventually, the Demon King lifted the ‘castration of the sky’ and the red chains that were sealing the sky began to break.
After that, a black portal was created in the sky.
Go—oh—oh—oh——
“…Lee Hyun-wook, I don’t know what bullshit you’re talking about, but if you know me, you know that I won’t give up so easily. So, I will make sure you regret it.”
The guy said his goodbyes as if he was planning for the future.
But Lee Hyun-wook had no intention of accepting that greeting.
“Do you remember what I said to you when you killed me?”
Lee Hyun-wook raised his head and looked up at the sky.
At that moment, a shadow appeared behind him and began to rise… something so large and incomprehensible was soaring into the air.
The shadow completely engulfed the entire area.
“—Huh?What is that!”
“Wow, it’s an amazing scene…”
Ku—gu—gu—gu…
Those were the buildings that had collapsed in the battle so far.
Each of them was tens of thousands of tons of rebar and concrete… ….
They began to rise in droves, dropping pieces of concrete, and lined up behind Lee Hyun-wook.
“You used to taunt me, saying that if I had grown up a little more, I could have made a building fall on your head like a meteorite….. ..”
Soon, the buildings followed Lee Hyun-wook’s hand and soared higher—
“Now— what you said has become a seed.”
Like a meteorite, it began to hit the Demon King Castle.
