100 Floors All Master - Chapter 271

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All Master of 100 Floors Episode 271
62nd Floor. War Between Hell and the Surface (3)
The Demons understood.
The World Tree’s domain that had protected the Elven Sanctuary had vanished.
And they grasped one more truth.
The Elves were using the World Tree to create an absolute sacred realm that the Demons could not breach.
There was no way they could accept such a thing. The Demons rushed forward at once to trample the sanctuary. And standing in their way was Kang Jun-hyeok.
“A human?”
“What is this?”
The Demons contorted their faces. Before tens of thousands of them, Kang Jun-hyeok wore an expression of utter ease—as if they posed no threat whatsoever.
Despite being alone, the Demons sensed something was amiss and did not rush to attack. Then a Demon scarred with terrible burns across his entire body turned ashen-faced.
“Ah, aaahhhhh! Aaaahhhhh! It’s him! Him! He’s the one who burned us all!”
“A survivor.”
A Demon who had somehow endured despite being within the Red Giant Star’s range. He recognized the face before him and cowered, stepping backward in fear.
“Wait.”
“Then…….”
The Demons held their breath.
They had all witnessed it.
The terrible heat that had suddenly engulfed them—burning the entire area to ash.
The Demons could not comprehend what had happened. They sought information from the few survivors, but all the wretches could say was that a human had appeared and summoned the sun.
They dismissed the survivors’ words. Impossible—a single human wielding such power. The survivors must be delirious, their minds shattered by trauma. On that reasoning, they had theorized that the Elves had gathered the strength of spirits to craft some final bomb.
Yet now, the one who had called down the sun stood before them.
The survivors had not been delirious. They had simply spoken the truth.
The Demons hesitated, unable to bring themselves to approach. Kang Jun-hyeok gazed at them calmly.
‘I hope they’ll just get scared and retreat.’
If the enemy were human, that outcome would be likely.
They would not make the mad decision to stand against one who could summon the sun and incinerate thousands of their kind.
But the enemy was Demon.
They were invaders attacking this world with their lives on the line.
“Regardless!”
“Kill him!”
“Make this world ours!”
“Waaaahhhhh!”
The Demons surged forward as one. Killing intent fell upon Kang Jun-hyeok like a flood.

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‘Well, of course.’
The Demons would never retreat quietly. Kang Jun-hyeok clicked his tongue with annoyance.
‘Not that it matters much.’
“Die!”
“For the Demon King!”
Countless waves of Demonic Energy surged toward Kang Jun-hyeok.
Kang Jun-hyeok reached out his hands. In one, he gripped a blade technique; in the other, an axe.
And then he stepped forward.
His form vanished.
The Demons missed him and froze.
Slash!
And dozens of Demons’ limbs were severed.
He had cut them down at a speed their senses could not even perceive.
“Guh, gaaahhh!”
A Demon hastily regained his wits and thrust a spear. Kang Jun-hyeok twisted his body lightly and drove force into his shoulder.
Iron Mountain Shoulder Strike.
Crack!
A tremendous force crashed down upon the Demons. Their bodies were crushed flat as they collapsed.
Slash-slash-slash-slash!
Kang Jun-hyeok’s hand moved, and the heads of nearby Demons fell clean from their shoulders.
Kang Jun-hyeok was not using Internal Energy, nor Mana, nor Divine Power, nor anything else.
He was annihilating them using nothing but pure physical strength and speed.
“Uuuhhhhh!”
In mere minutes from the battle’s start, hundreds of Demons lay dead.
Yet the Demons did not break. Moving with the resolve to fall upon this creature even at the cost of their own lives, some of their attacks succeeded in reaching Kang Jun-hyeok.
Clang!
“……What?”
And their faces turned rigid.
They had struck true, yet dealt no damage whatsoever. Their heads were simply severed from their bodies.
Kang Jun-hyeok’s current Defense was 177.
Attacks from beings of the 1st Tier and below simply did not register. Even had he stood motionless and done nothing, these creatures could not have harmed him.
Realizing this truth, the Demons swiftly changed their strategy.
“……Restrain this one at all costs!”
“The rest—strike for the sanctuary!”
Hold Kang Jun-hyeok back, even at the cost of their lives, while others attacked the sanctuary directly. It was not flawed reasoning.
Only—it was impossible.
Boom!
With a deafening blast, the Demons rushing past Kang Jun-hyeok simply exploded.
“Ah…….”
“Ugh, ahh.”
Despair settled across the Demons’ faces.
Whoosh!
A dense torrent of Demonic Energy erupted from across the field. For the first time, Kang Jun-hyeok moved to evade. Ten figures appeared, and the other Demons’ faces brightened.
“Ahhhhh!”
“At last they’ve come!”
All ten of the Demons bore two pairs of wings.
Lower-tier Demons.
Formidable beings of the 2nd Tier.
They had been laying waste to other regions of the planet when news reached them, and they had rushed here in haste. They unleashed their fury upon Kang Jun-hyeok.
“A mere human!”
“We shall slay you!”
They gathered their strength to crush him. In that moment, Kang Jun-hyeok gently drew together his Internal Energy.
[Instant Acceleration.]
Whoosh.
His form appeared behind the Lower-tier Demons.
And then.
Splurt.
Five of the Lower-tier Demons’ necks were severed clean through.
“……What?”
“Guh, ah!”
The surviving Lower-tier Demons desperately tried to defend themselves, but it was meaningless. All of them perished within mere minutes. Kang Jun-hyeok wiped the blood from his blade.
“I’m afraid you’re still not enough.”
The gap between Tiers was absolute.
And the higher one climbed, the wider that chasm became.
That Kang Jun-hyeok had managed to wound a 4th Tier Dragon at all had been hailed as something approaching a miracle.
Only beings of equal Tier could stand against the Kang Jun-hyeok of today.
And several days later.
A Mid-tier Demon bearing three pairs of wings appeared.
Kang Jun-hyeok’s expression grew serious. Mid-tier Demons were formidable beings of the 3rd Tier—his equal. The Demon’s gaze settled upon Kang Jun-hyeok with cold assessment.
“……I came as swiftly as I could when I heard the news, and now I see the reason. Human. What is your name?”
“Kang Jun-hyeok.”
“I am Obonos.”
No further words passed between them. There was no place for dialogue between Demon and human. Obonos’s body turned black.
“Physical Enhancement type.”
Kang Jun-hyeok murmured. The Black Magic of Demons was infinitely varied. Obonos appeared to be the type who enhanced his very flesh itself. Simple—but all the more devastating for it.
Whoosh!
Obonos charged forward, unleashing a fist.
A tremendous impact shook the surroundings. A force incomparable to all that had come before crashed down upon Kang Jun-hyeok.
Kang Jun-hyeok, breathing lightly, tightened his grip on the blade in his hand.
Clang-clang-clang-clang!
Strength collided violently. The watching Demons gasped in wonder. At last! At last this human might fall! They gazed at Obonos with fervent hope.
For each of Obonos’s fists carried a force that could topple mountains.
Deafening collisions rang out across the field.
Yet before those attacks, Kang Jun-hyeok did not yield an inch.
Clang!
As the battle wore on, Obonos’s face began slowly to harden.
“……You.”
“Is that all you have?”
Kang Jun-hyeok lightly flicked his wrist.
And his form moved. Obonos hastily crossed both arms to guard himself.
Clang-clang!
“Ghgh!”
Obonos was driven backward with a groan.
“You’re strong enough—just barely.”
Only equals could contend with equals.
But that did not mean their strength was equivalent.
Kang Jun-hyeok numbered among the highest ranks of the 3rd Tier.
Obonos, at best, belonged to the mid-lower tier.
He could be fought—and fought he was. Yet his strength was overmatched by Kang Jun-hyeok even in his Black Magic enhancement.
Clang!
“Uuuhhh!”
Cuts both great and small bloomed across Obonos’s entire body. He traded injury for counterattack, yet his blows found no purchase.
Kang Jun-hyeok stepped forward.
Three Steps of Dominion.
First Step.
The force Obonos unleashed vanished.
Second Step.
The power surrounding Obonos’s body dispersed.
Third Step.
The power within Obonos reversed, flowing backward through him.
“Uuuhhh!”
As Obonos fought to suppress the backlash, Kang Jun-hyeok’s blade pierced his chest.
Obonos seized the blade desperately, attempting one final strike with all his remaining strength.
But Kang Jun-hyeok’s hand touched his body.
In that instant, all strength fled.
Obonos let out a hollow laugh.
“Strong…… one.”
“I’m sorry it came to this.”
“The defeated have no words. To meet my end at the hands of one such as you—I am grateful…….”
Obonos fell.
[Your Divine Technique proficiency has increased.]
[Your Mental Cultivation Method proficiency has increased.]
Despair swept across the Demons’ faces.
Their last hope had crumbled to dust.
“Ugh…….”
“Ah.”
They were Demons.
They could freely surrender their lives to trample the surface.
Yet that did not mean they wished to die meaninglessly. They had now grasped the truth—that even if all of them stood as one, they meant nothing to Kang Jun-hyeok.
Hundreds of thousands of Demons stood arrayed before a single human.
For the Demons, this was despair. For the Surface Dwellers, it was a profound shock.
“The world…… !”
“How can such strength exist!”
Most of them had regarded Kang Jun-hyeok’s proposal with skepticism.
They had accepted it only because no other path remained—a gamble more likely to fail than succeed, they had thought.
But the strength Kang Jun-hyeok now displayed suggested it might truly be possible.
Looks of shock and awe turned toward him. Within them lingered a faint gleam of reverence.
[Your Lost God’s Divine Radiance proficiency has increased.]
Though small, his Divine Radiance proficiency was rising steadily.
The Demons held back, hesitant. Life itself mattered little to them, yet neither did they wish to die a meaningless death.
If matters continued thus, the Quest would clear without incident.
But Kang Jun-hyeok knew better than anyone that it would not be so easy.
Before the sanctuary could be completed, the Demons would launch a final assault.
And his prediction proved accurate.
When one week remained until the Quest’s completion.
Kang Jun-hyeok’s eyes grew grave and serious.
“They’ve come.”
[Hmm.]
[They’ve made their decision. This will be quite dangerous.]
Manbyeonggi and Eldyria murmured.
Across the distance, Demons bearing three pairs of wings became visible.
The aura radiating from them was formidable. One could sense it instinctively.
They were clearly stronger than Obonos—beings of the highest ranks even among the 3rd Tier.
Formidable ones who would require Kang Jun-hyeok to expend considerable strength to fell.
Four such Demons were walking toward him.

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