Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 185
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The Broken Ranker
Devours Myths
Chapter 185
Jiao Demon King (4)
Whoooosh!
As Lee Hyeon moved through space, he read the gazes of Bull Demon King and Sha Wujing.
Eyes that asked what exactly he had done.
“I didn’t do anything special.”
“That makes it sound like you did something even bigger?”
“Kekekek! It was just for a moment, but it seemed like you mixed in sealing formulas? And it was full of Curse Incantations too?”
Sha Wujing’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.
Lee Hyeon grinned.
“I simply reinterpreted the Jar of Light in my own way and sent it through the electric current. Bull Demon King’s mental image happened to be wide open, so I took a stab at it.”
His Golden Eyes of Truth flickered mysteriously.
Strange patterned emblems floated above his pupils.
Sha Wujing nodded.
“As expected. You branded his mental image with that.”
The sealing formula left by Raphael was an excellent technique capable of imprisoning Jiao Demon King.
Originally, there would have been no opening for Lee Hyeon to intercept it.
But when Bull Demon King forcibly used the sealing formula, a gap appeared. Lee Hyeon immediately exploited this gap to quickly take the elements he could claim.
What was born from this was precisely,
‘Lightning Jar.’
[‘Event: Lightning Collector’ has activated and successfully collected the sixth lightning!]
[Currently collected lightning (6/99)]
– Dueoksini (Specter)
– Zeus (Diovis)
– Indra (Vajramudra)
– Thunder Duke (Thunder Law)
– Jade Emperor (Divine Punishment)
– Raphael (Jar of Light)
[You have understood the attributes of the Absolute Good lineage. The demon-breaking and evil-warding nature imbued in Lightning attributes is strengthened.]
[Successfully reassembled Raphael’s ‘Jar of Light’ and implemented it in magical form.]
[Various Curse Incantations have been additionally combined to enhance its power.]
……
[New magic ‘Lightning Jar’ has been born and dealt damage to Bull Demon King.]
[You have achieved an outstanding Achievement in magic.]
[Your rank increases.]
[Your stats slightly increase as a reward.]
[The demon-breaking and evil-warding nature becomes more solid.]
……
The eighth magic Lee Hyeon created left powerful wounds on the opponent’s mental image.
Because it left clear brands as if struck by lightning, terrible pain would follow like a curse for life.
‘Even if that Bull Demon King there isn’t the real Bull Demon King but part of a mental image, the main body must have taken quite a painful hit. That’s enough.’
Lee Hyeon had heard Bull Demon King’s entire story.
But the thought that came after was simple.
‘So what?’
Lee Hyeon had also lost his brother who was family.
Son Wukong had also lost his people. The fifth among the Seven Great Sages, Tongfeng Great Sage, had met annihilation.
But even so, they didn’t harbor resentment against the world.
While they held revenge in their hearts, they tried never to lose themselves. And they stood up straight again.
But Bull Demon King was completely soaked in resentment, directing all arrows of blame toward Son Wukong.
In that process, he even showed the unsightly behavior of casually exploiting old connections.
Naturally, it was incomprehensible.
‘Or is there some other reason? No, even if there is, it doesn’t matter. Now that we’re enemies, we’ll just clash.’
For a brief moment, thoughts of Kim Min-jeong crossed his mind,
‘The Bull Demon Killing Intent that Min-jeong obtained belongs to Bull Demon King from before he was consumed by demonic nature, so there shouldn’t be any worry… Still, just in case, I should keep watching over her.’
“Kekekek! You launched a counterattack right from there, so even Bull Demon King must have been startled. It seemed like senior brother didn’t miss the opportunity and immediately pressed the attack.”
Just then, Sha Wujing’s laughter interrupted Lee Hyeon’s thoughts.
Bull Demon King remained silent for a moment.
As if pondering deeply about their eldest brother’s corruption.
“…….”
In her arms, the limp Jiao Demon King was still being carried.
And…….
Whoooosh!
The party finally completed their movement to the rabbit hole.
[You have entered a new dungeon.]
“Please wait a moment.”
Thud!
Lee Hyeon landed lightly while adjusting the Mask of the Golden Arhat.
He couldn’t know what state Heracles or the City Cartel, who had been trapped here, were in.
‘There’s definitely a smell of blood.’
“Parte?”
A familiar voice.
Queen Hella emerged boldly, parting the grass.
She looked like she had been in a major fight until just moments ago.
In one hand, she was dragging something along.
“It is you. It seems you have companions too. But…….”
Hella examined Lee Hyeon’s party and trailed off. She had spotted Jiao Demon King in Bull Demon King’s arms.
Her eyes gleamed menacingly.
Lee Hyeon also didn’t answer for a moment.
The one caught in Hella’s hand was someone he knew too.
‘Bruno Calisa.’
The head butler of the City Cartel and the Drug King’s right-hand man.
Unexpectedly, a big fish had been caught in the trap.
He was still breathing.
‘I wanted Heracles to be captured too. Did he unfortunately escape?’
Judging by the wounds remaining on Hella, it seemed she had engaged in a major battle with him as well.
“First, shall we move somewhere else and have a talk?”
* * *
The Jiao Demon King’s eyes snapped open.
Then he reflexively tried to raise his upper body, but,
Clank!
“……!!”
His body was bound with new chains.
Black-gold colored chains.
“Why won’t they come off! Why!!”
The Jiao Demon King desperately tried to tear off the chains, but they only tightened their restraint even more.
“They won’t come off easily. Those were made from Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang. You know, right? What the Ruyi Jingu Bang originally was.”
At that moment, a long shadow fell across the iron bars that imprisoned the Jiao Demon King.
It was the Peng Demon King, smiling bitterly.
“……Third sister! Yes! I knew you’d come to save me! This! Please untie this! That youngest brat has imprisoned me again and is trying to do something foolish……!”
“From now on, second brother will continue to be imprisoned here.”
“…….”
“Until your corrupted mind is completely healed.”
A bitter but calm voice.
At that moment,
The Jiao Demon King’s excited eyes suddenly sank deeply.
“……I see. You’re saying I’m not in my right mind now, so you’ll keep me tied up until I calm down? I’ve shown you all such a pathetic sight.”
The Peng Demon King’s eyes widened slightly.
“Brother?”
“For someone who calls himself the second…… to be swayed by something like this in front of his siblings, haha…….”
“Brother!”
A different appearance from the madness the Jiao Demon King had shown until now.
This was the Jiao Demon King that the Peng Demon King remembered. She was startled and tried to approach, but,
“Don’t come.”
The Jiao Demon King stretched out his hand to stop her.
“I don’t know when the madness might strike again. My mind keeps going back and forth, my memories are hazy…… Is it because I escaped from eldest brother’s restraints? Anyway, I might turn violent and cause harm at any moment, so don’t come.”
The Peng Demon King bit her lower lip tightly.
This was the real Jiao Demon King.
Fierce when facing enemies, but gentler and more affectionate than anyone in front of his siblings…….
“The youngest saved me?”
“That’s right.”
The Peng Demon King nodded heavily.
“Haha. He’s much younger, but he’s truly remarkable. His own situation can’t be easy to handle, yet he stepped forward to take care of me too.”
“Because we’re brothers.”
“……Brothers. Yes. That’s what brothers are. While I was only coveting the treasures that kid left behind. Should I give up my position as second?”
The Jiao Demon King pondered the word ‘brothers’ for a long time before smiling bitterly.
“What about the other brothers?”
“Tongfeng is dead. Jiushen is being treated.”
“I see. So everyone ended up in such a mess. I tried my best to prevent it somehow…… Then only Yishan remains now?”
Yishan Great Sage Sata King.
Fourth among the Seven Great Sages.
“Yeah. That’s right.”
“Yishan…… Yishan. There was something I wanted to say about the fourth…… Something related to eldest brother,”
The Jiao Demon King frowned as if trying to squeeze out something, then suddenly shouted loudly.
“You’re going to imprison me, third sister? Me, in such a wretched place?”
“……Brother.”
“Me, who was torn apart by the Main Gods and helplessly beaten by mere angels!! Me, who was also toyed with by eldest brother!! This can’t be! You can’t do this to me! How much I cherished you!!”
The Jiao Demon King’s madness struck again as he began raging. The Ruyi chains stiffened, increasing their restraining power on him.
“…….”
The Peng Demon King bit her lower lip tightly.
If she could, she wanted to grab him and ask.
What was he trying to say.
What exactly was the Bull Demon King trying to do to the Sata King.
* * *
“……Is this really the best way, Pater?”
“Ymir’s heart has already been completely digested and can’t be returned. Then we need to find another method.”
In a corridor not far from the underground prison.
Hella frowned with a displeased expression.
In fact, she also knew that Lee Hyeon’s words were right.
She was just displeased that the royal family’s ancient treasure had disappeared.
The Jiao Demon King was an object of mixed feelings for her.
A teacher who had taught her various secrets of the world, but also the enemy who had taken her father’s life…….
But then,
“Still, I’ll somehow find your origins for you.”
“Origins?”
Hella tilted her head at Lee Hyeon’s sudden remark.
“Ymir’s heart, and the halberd you’re holding now. Do you remember where they originated?”
“That’s…… That’s……? Huh?”
Just as Hella was about to say something,
Bzzt! Bzzzzt!
Suddenly, noise filled the area around her head before returning to its original form.
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‘As expected.’
Lee Hyeon’s eyes sank deeply.
Hella tilted her head.
She seemed completely unaware of what had just happened to her.
“My head hurts a bit. What was I saying?”
“That I’d find your origins for you. If I do that, I should be able to restore lost treasures or discover something about forgotten pasts.”
“I don’t quite understand what you mean, but…… you mean you’ll find our roots? Well, we only have records of suddenly pioneering the White Sea one day. Just discovering that would bring many advantages.”
Hella only glanced toward where the Jiao Demon King was, showing no further intention of approaching that direction.
“But such things can’t resolve the grudge of me or my clan. Someday…… someday I’ll settle this resentment somehow, so keep that in mind.”
“I won’t stop you when that time comes.”
“That promise is enough.”
Hella climbed the spiral staircase with large strides, heading upward.
Lee Hyeon also followed alongside her, deploying his Trajectory of Radiance.
‘She really has great capacity.’
The more Lee Hyeon looked at her, the more satisfied he was that she was truly exceptional.
Talent you could trust and delegate work to wasn’t something you could easily find.
“You said Heracles escaped?”
“If you’re talking about that strange human wearing a mask, yes. While fighting, he seemed to contact someone midway, then suddenly disappeared. He was a strange fellow.”
Magic that summons specific targets to the outside might have been used. I heard there’s one among Zeus’s sons who possesses such abilities.
‘Aiakos had similar legends… It’s a bit regrettable that I missed Heracles. If I had secured that mask too, I could have learned more about Astrape.’
But Lee Hyeon didn’t dwell on it much.
Someone like Heracles would have tremendous pride. He would definitely return for revenge someday.
It wouldn’t be too late to retrieve the mask then.
‘Or going to find him myself could be another option.’
Lee Hyeon recalled Perseus’s mask sleeping in the Kibisis, then slightly twisted his lips.
This Guam trip had yielded more than he had expected.
The Guam schedule was also nearing its end.
* * *
Lee Hyeon immediately moved outside.
He had considered waiting until Son Wukong returned,
but thinking that settling the conflict with the Bull Demon King wouldn’t end easily, he decided to finish this side first.
“Gwiroae! Gwiroae, where are you?”
“If you’re here, please answer!”
The place where Lee Hyeon appeared was the mining beach that led to the deep-sea dungeon.
Quite a large number of people were searching the area.
Sponsors including Ramon and Black Maria’s mercenaries armed with firearms.
They seemed busy dealing with the occasional sea monsters that appeared, but they were all looking for Lee Hyeon.
‘But if the Jiao Demon King, who was the source of the sea monsters, has disappeared, what will happen to those mines in the future?’
Lee Hyeon pushed aside the brief question that arose and suddenly appeared in front of Ramon.
“Lord Gwiroae!”
“Gwiroae!”
“Where on earth did you go! We’ve been searching for so long!”
“Are you injured anywhere?”
“No, more than that, what about the dungeon!? We definitely saw the message that the mission was cleared, do you happen to know what happened?”
It was chaotic with people crowding around and throwing questions from all directions.
But there were exactly two people who didn’t come close.
One was Luciano.
He seemed to have many things he wanted to ask about the mine.
He was just waiting for an opportunity to talk alone since there were too many watching eyes.
No hostility or anxiety could be felt from him.
On the other hand,
‘I thought that one might have just run away, but apparently not.’
He probably stayed due to anxiety from not being able to clearly grasp the existence called Gwiroae.
Still, Lee Hyeon gave a new high evaluation to the guy who was looking for a chance to approach despite his anxious gaze.
“Magnus.”
The double agent of Zeus’s sons. The guy who had inadvertently driven Lee Hyeon into a trap swallowed dry saliva and straightened his back nervously.
“Don’t we have something to discuss privately?”
“…Yes. I understand.”
Lee Hyeon planned to probe about Zeus’s sons and Zeus himself through Magnus.
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