Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 229

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 229

Heavenly Dokkaebi (4)

‘Wh, why did that bastard have to come out from there of all places!!’

Beldana felt her insides churning as she quickly escaped from the Hidden Boss Room.

‘Damn it… I need to get out of here as fast as possible. But where should I escape to? Where should I go…!’

Even though her physical body was already destroyed, she felt her heart pounding frantically.

Thump thump thump thump thump.

Beldana still couldn’t forget Lee Hyeon’s gaze that she had seen while alive.

Those cold eyes looking down at her while wrapped in blue-white lightning.

The intense axe technique that could casually shatter even Molec’s flames.

Everything about him was overwhelming.

‘He’s not just physically strong. That intimidation, that presence… He’s someone who could endanger even our Babel someday.’

Beldana bit her lower lip tightly.

‘For now, all I can do is pretend to be dead and stay quiet… I have no choice but to scatter my subordinates as much as possible. First, I need to hide the materials I found.’

The materials Beldana found at the research institute were research logs and things related to the collar.

Those documents that the Sima Society apparently failed to incinerate in time clearly contained decades of their research results.

So if she could somehow take just these and escape the dungeon, it would be of great help to the Babel Tower.

If that happened,

The Tower Master would surely grant her a new body again.

The Tower Master was the only one on this surface who had achieved true omniscience and omnipotence.

‘The fortunate thing is that he absolutely doesn’t know I’m alive…! Time is the most important factor.’

Whoosh!

“Grab the hard drives here too!”

“Even if they’re broken, put them all in the inventory! Don’t forget to throw some decoys so the other bastards don’t catch on!”

The place they arrived at.

She could see her subordinates moving frantically as instructed.

[Gathering the smoke of ashes to form a spirit body.]

Just as Beldana returned to human form and was about to say something to them,

“…Was there a room like this here? Anyway, the temple structure is confusing even for me.”

‘…!?’

Beldana’s spine went cold at the chilling voice that suddenly came from behind her.

‘When did he get here!’

She hastily ignited flames and tried to shoot energy blasts in that direction, but,

“Thanks to you, I’m getting something good. You worked hard.”

Before that, Dueokshin’s fangs swiftly sliced through the top of her head.

Explosive lightning incomparably more powerful than when her body was destroyed spread in all directions.

Kwa-kwa-kwang!!

Kiiiaaa-

Lightning energy was demon-subduing power. Beldana’s specter made of evil matter instantly met annihilation, and,

“Je, Jet!!”

“Damn it!”

“Hide it! Quickly…!”

Upon discovering Lee Hyeon who had appeared cutting through the darkness, the Babel Tower’s Maeins moved frantically, but,

“I’m sure I warned you clearly?”

Lee Hyeon grinned widely, showing his fangs.

“That if you acted against my wishes instead of cooperating here, I’d kill you all.”

Along with the muttered words ‘If that’s what you want, I should oblige,’

Kururururung-

Tremendous thunder roared as if it would destroy the research lab.

Flash! Flash! Flash!

Kwarururung-

Lee Hyeon generously threw Dueokshin’s front teeth at the fleeing bastards, then launched his body to blow away their upper bodies with his fangs.

Even when several tried their best to resist, it was insufficient to handle the lightning exploding in this narrow indoor space.

Eventually, the Maeins died instantly…

“You crazy… bastard…!! If you destroy everything like this, you… you won’t be able to take anything either…!”

A Maein dying with front teeth embedded in his neck screamed with eyes filled with spite.

As he said, the research lab was completely ruined.

Most of the documents and disks had all turned to ash, making their original forms unrecognizable.

Pfft.

But Lee Hyeon chuckled lightly and approached the bastard, crouching down.

“I don’t know which of you might come back to life, so I need to block that possibility thoroughly. And there needs to be a scapegoat who stole the materials and ran away, don’t you think?”

“…You, don’t tell me…!”

Lee Hyeon reached toward the front tooth stuck in the bastard’s neck.

“You hypocrite bas… Guk!”

Swoosh!

Lee Hyeon swung his front tooth to blow away the Maein’s entire head.

Thud!

Roll roll…

Lee Hyeon lightly shook off the blood on his front tooth and tore off the inventory circlet the bastard had, throwing it into Kibisis.

And then,

[Activating ‘Sacred Relic: Lightning Eye Purification’ to quickly read the memories remaining in surrounding objects.]

[Gingoa rotates to convert all read memories into data and store them separately in the brain!]

Lee Hyeon’s eyes shone brilliantly, and Gingoa rotated on his crown.

The things the Babel Tower’s Maeins had found here, and though not much remained, the scattered traces of Sima Society’s research,

Vast memories flashed across his retina and were stored.

‘I should get a separate storage device to save data later.’

Reading and storing thoughts using Lightning Eye Purification and Gingoa seemed like it would be quite helpful in the future.

During this process,

He was able to discover several interesting things.

[You have obtained hints about how to use ‘Yarhibol’s Ember’.]

[You have obtained hints related to the ‘Elixir of Immortality’.]

…

‘Elixir of Immortality? Isn’t this what Anwei was talking about? What the Sima Society was actively researching.’

[You have partially obtained hints about immortality and transcendence.]

‘…Chairman Peng, you were researching quite a lot. These are things obtained from studying the Seven Great Sages and Three Law Kings.’

Lee Hyeon intuitively knew that all this data was the result of sacrifices made by Son Wukong’s group.

Undeath and eternal life. Immortality and transcendence.

These were always the subjects Feng Jinghao was obsessed with.

Then,

what exactly were they trying to obtain at the end of this research?

[Gingoa spins rapidly to increase thinking speed. Organizing acquired data to derive several hypotheses.]

[Deriving.]

…

[You have obtained a hint about Jade Nectar !]

‘Jade Nectar?’

The moment Lee Hyeon’s eyes flashed like will-o’-the-wisps,

[No more hints can be obtained.]

[More information and analysis are required.]

‘Jade Nectar, Jade Nectar….’

Lee Hyeon muttered quietly while looking at the message window.

He knew what Jade Nectar was too.

The ultimate stage of alchemy.

It was the divine elixir of 【Heaven】, also called the nectar of the gods.

[Jade Nectar ]

The nectar of the gods that comes from the purification of heaven and earth. It is said that it can only be drawn from a well prepared in the palace of the Jade Palace where the Jade Emperor resides.

Along with the peaches of immortality (, peaches that ripen every 3,000 years) raised by the Queen Mother of the West, it is the most favored elixir of the gods of 【Heaven】.

Legend says that drinking it once grants eternal life and immortality, drinking it twice elevates one’s status, and drinking it three times allows one to comprehend the principles of heaven and earth.

-Origin: Literature ‘Baopuzi’

‘Drinking this can achieve immortality and transcendence? But they wouldn’t go through all this trouble just to obtain a divine elixir…. Above all, there would be no reason for the Jade Emperor to keep Chairman Peng around.’

In fact, it had remained a question in the back of his mind all along.

Authoritative gods like the Jade Emperor generally find it very unpleasant when their inferiors challenge their superiors.

Yet even when Feng Jinghao continued to dig through the Seven Great Sages to uncover secrets about immortality and transcendence, he didn’t particularly restrain him and overlooked it.

No, rather, in some aspects he even seemed to encourage it….

It didn’t seem like it was simply a ploy to target Son Wukong.

As a result,

he eventually arrived at one hypothesis.

―What if Feng Jinghao’s research was actually something the Jade Emperor had separately ordered?

―What if he allowed the research on the Seven Great Sages to obtain ‘something’?

―What if Feng Jinghao was able to accumulate knowledge about immortality in exchange for this?

‘Jade Nectar is nectar that can only be obtained from a well managed by the Jade Emperor, right? The Jade Emperor used this to manage the gods of 【Heaven】.’

At that moment, his reasoning reached one point.

‘But what if this well had dried up…?’

Flash!!

Flames shot up above Lee Hyeon’s eyes.

“Wukong, it seems you might unknowingly possess some secret.”

Lee Hyeon muttered so quietly that even the Bull Demon King couldn’t hear.

It was still just speculation,

but if he slowly examined the research journals and thoughts, it seemed he could become more certain.

However,

he didn’t feel like his speculation would be wrong.

‘Perhaps what I’ve grasped here isn’t Satawang, but the Jade Emperor’s leash….’

A bitter smile played around Lee Hyeon’s lips.

* * *

Whoooosh!

[The narrative of 【Death】 breathes dragon’s breath!]

Lee Hyeon incinerated all remaining traces for cleanup.

After doing so, even the lingering traces of magic remained, making it impossible to distinguish whether Beldana or Lee Hyeon had left them.

「Do you intend to pin everything obtained here on them?」

The Bull Demon King’s voice suddenly appeared.

Lee Hyeon briefly considered sharing his speculation, but decided he should confirm it more certainly before telling him and didn’t mention it.

‘…I don’t doubt the Bull Demon King’s sincerity, but the place called 【Gehenna】 still has many suspicious aspects.’

In fact, the society called 【Gehenna】 was a place almost unknown to the surface.

As a result, there was almost no information, so for now he had no choice but to observe.

“They were guys who tried to stab me in the back without knowing the grace of being saved, so I don’t need to be courteous to them, do I?”

Lee Hyeon smiled coldly and turned his head toward where the voice came from, then made a strange expression.

A sphere of condensed black mist was floating around.

「Why are you looking at me with those eyes? This isn’t the first time you’ve seen this small form, is it?」

“…Bull Demon King, you’re not an SD character?”

He had thought the Bull Demon King might transform into a baby bull with big eyes.

Apparently that didn’t apply to him.

「SD? What’s that?」

The black sphere tilted slightly to the side.

Looking closely, it looked just like a ball of fur.

…This is cute in its own way too.

Brothers were indeed brothers, it seemed.

Lee Hyeon let out a light chuckle.

“It’s nothing. There’s something like that.”

「…??」

“More importantly, let’s clean up and get out of the dungeon now. We have a lot to do.”

「Let’s do that.」

The Bull Demon King looked at Lee Hyeon with a very suspicious tone, but nodded without saying anything else.

It was time to return to the surface.

* * *

“Hey, Manager Kim? Snap out of it, you fool! Open your eyes, Min-jeong!”

A voice heard from afar.

Kim Min-jeong forced her eyes open.

“Senior Oh…?”

Oh Su-heon and all the Z Team colleagues were standing around her, breathing sighs of relief.

“I really thought something big had happened and got scared….”

“Where is this?”

“Where else would it be, you girl. Outside.”

“You were ambushed by the Babel guys and almost got into danger, but the team leader rescued you.”

“…??”

Kim Min-jeong blinked, not understanding the situation for a moment.

Why is Babel suddenly appearing here?

Surely she should have been in the Hidden Boss Room with Lee Hyeon?

Then, looking toward Lee Hyeon, she saw him nodding slightly from behind his companions.

Meaning to play along with the story.

‘Seriously, really…!’

Kim Min-jeong frowned slightly, then ended up being genuinely surprised.

‘…All my senses have completely changed.’

The feeling from her mana circuits was completely different.

Heavy.

A feeling of being packed full with dense, weighty magic power.

The purity was incredible too.

‘All my magic power has changed to Bull Demon Killing Intent too. How is this even possible…!’

Kim Min-jeong unconsciously swallowed dry saliva.

It was hard to even imagine how excellent the efficiency would be when firing her magic gun like this.

It was practically equivalent to achieving a second awakening.

[Bull Demon King observes you.]

[Bull Demon King warns that if you show him a performance that doesn’t meet his expectations, he will take back the inheritance on his own.]

‘Oma King… How did Senior Jang know about such an existence and think to connect me with him?’

Kim Min-jeong was now finding Lee Hyeon fascinating, but Lee Hyeon didn’t seem to have any intention of sharing that secret right away.

‘He must be carrying a lot on his shoulders. There are many concerning aspects too. But now whenever he has the leisure, he’s slowly trying to share things one by one with the people around him.’

Kim Min-jeong began to understand Lee Hyeon’s feelings a little.

So she played along appropriately.

“It was such a sudden event that I don’t remember well… But I’m fine now. Thank you for worrying about me.”

“Right. Don’t push yourself too hard. If anything seems wrong, tell us. You understand?”

“Yes.”

Kim Min-jeong slowly got up from her spot with Oh Su-heon’s support.

Then someone else suddenly appeared from the opposite side and picked up Kim Min-jeong.

A face that looked like a bandit’s, with tears glistening in his eyes that didn’t match his appearance.

“Jjagi…”

“…Don’t do that.”

“It must have hurt.”

“…Please don’t do that here!!”

Kim Min-jeong pushed away Eom Gi-seon in shock, but once his tear ducts had burst open, there was nothing that could be done about the guy.

Laughter and cheers erupted from the surrounding area, but

Kim Min-jeong felt like she was going to explode inside.

* * *

“We’ll begin now.”

Following Lee Hyeon’s instructions, people gathered in one place.

In front of the altar located at the center of the temple.

Lee Hyeon lightly bowed before the statue of Yarhibol and placed something on the altar.

“Is that the offering mentioned in the dungeon mission?”

Lee Hyeon nodded at Manager Kang Yun-su’s question.

“Yes. I finally found what Beldana had been hiding.”

“She did well hiding it all this time while having it in her possession.”

“She probably wanted to gobble up all the achievement points for herself.”

The offering Lee Hyeon placed on the altar was actually something Bull Demon King had possessed.

More precisely, it was something the Sama Society’s research institute had been holding to maintain the dungeon, which Bull Demon King had seized and handed to Lee Hyeon.

[Agribol’s Ice Flower]

The moon god Agribol was the sun god Yarhibol’s companion and another personality who often took on the role of cleaning up after the capricious Yarhibol’s accidents.

For the twin personalities who were sad seeing the city that had collapsed by mistake, Agribol sent down the flower he had been cherishing to the surface to quell the flames.

Now Agribol wishes to retrieve that flower again.

-Type: Sacred Relic. Divine Object.

-Origin: Stone tablet ‘Palmyra Inscription’

The moment he placed the divine object that should have originally been obtained through various trials on the altar,

Flash!

[You have completed the third achievement condition.]

[You have cleared all dungeon missions. Congratulations! You have recorded tremendous achievement points…]

[All the dead spirits have ascended to heaven. The sun god Yarhibol and moon god Agribol offer you great blessings with grateful hearts…]

[As a reward…]

…

[The dungeon is beginning to close. All participants please retreat to the safe zone.]

[10]

[9]

“Waaaah!”

“We can finally get out!”

Everyone cheered loudly without exception.

Especially Maeins like Colonel Gaius who had been worried sick because of Beldana and Babel Tower’s stupid antics,

burst into tears of joy at the fact that they no longer needed to worry.

‘This is fucking awesome!! If I ride Jet Coin I can go all the way to Mars!’

‘Let’s gooooo!’

While Colonel Gaius and Captain Aesion’s silent cheers echoed,

[1]

[0]

[Count finished.]

[The dungeon is closing.]

Whoooosh!

As the curtain of light descended, reality appeared.

And…

All the survivors could see it.

Numerous military forces surrounding the Temple of Bel, as if they had been waiting for them.

“…!?”

“…Wh-what are all these people doing here.”

There were even armored vehicles and tanks, and helicopters visible in the sky.

Thud thud thud thud!

Someone slowly walked forward in front of the bewildered survivor group.

A person wearing military uniform but dressed freely, showing what kind of personality he had.

A man who had braided his hair long upward like a beast and drawn tattoos on his cheeks.

A strange light appeared in Lee Hyeon’s eyes when he saw him.

It was a familiar face.

‘Logan Redsky.’

A top Ranker that the United States takes pride in.

It was the moment when the man known as the Apostle of Justice among them appeared.

“Are you Jet?”

Logan stood tall in front of Lee Hyeon.

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