Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 92

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 92

Peng Demon King (4)

 

 

 

[Myth. ‘Master of All Things’ exercises dominion over all ice attributes in the dungeon!]

 

The moment it was revealed that Xu Changyou (Seo Chang-woo) had possessed Zhang Baien,

everything stopped as if the world had come to a halt.

The murderous blizzard, the volcano causing aftershocks.

Xu Changyou’s inheritance was the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor was the chief deity of and the emperor who ruled over all things.

He could dominate and control everything he had obtained.

This was precisely why he could handle the Snow Queen’s sacred relic so well despite its completely different origin and attributes.

On the other hand, it was also possible to govern subordinates who had sworn loyalty to him.

His possession of Zhang Baien was exactly this kind of mechanism.

“…….”

“We meet after so long, so say something. It’s embarrassing trying to talk alone.”

But Lee Hyeon only stared silently at Xu Changyou.

If they were to meet again someday,

there had been so many things he really wanted to say…….

So many things he wanted to ask,

but it all felt pointless.

Rather, barely suppressing the rage surging from his chest was all he could manage.

 

[Suppressed emotions are erupting.]

[Dueoksini’s fury boils up even greater.]

 

Crackle, crackle-crack!

“Or maybe you’re so happy to see me that you’re speechless,”

“……You,”

So when he finally managed his first words.

Lee Hyeon’s voice was greatly cracked.

“You’re still the same.”

Xu Changyou laughed.

“Finally you speak. But still the same? That’s a good thing, right?”

“Shameless, only saying what you want to say……. So I’m really relieved.”

“Relieved?”

“Yeah.”

Lee Hyeon smiled while pushing his emotions deep into his chest.

“Since you’re still a bastard. I can just kill you without any worries.”

“What? Kill? You kill me? Pahahahaha!”

Xu Changyou’s laughter echoed thunderously.

A dual voice with his voice layered over Zhang Baien’s voice.

It was somehow eerie.

“That’s quite funny to hear? You’ve become quite witty while I wasn’t watching.”

Xu Changyou twisted his lips.

“How are you going to kill me when you couldn’t kill me 4 years ago? When all you could do was lose Su-chan hyung right before your eyes.”

Moon Su-chan.

That bastard had triggered Lee Hyeon’s trauma.

“So this time, who else will you sacrifice,”

Xu Changyou’s words couldn’t continue.

Lee Hyeon had already appeared behind him, fiercely swinging his axe.

“Don’t defile hyung’s name with that filthy mouth.”

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage explodes!]

 

Kwarrrrrung!

An axe strike filled with blue-white lightning.

Xu Changyou twisted his body while maintaining his leisurely appearance.

“Filthy mouth, what. Does hearing the truth twist your heart somewhere?”

The moment his foot stepped on the ground,

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Suddenly long ice spikes shot up from the ice sheet, blocking Lee Hyeon’s approach,

Whiiiiing-

Half a beat later, Xu Changyou spread his right hand wide and struck down forcefully.

A hand dyed white like a snowy field.

A great curse that froze everything it touched.

It was the Ring of Extreme Cold.

Paaaang!!

Lee Hyeon raised the axe in his left hand to block the bastard’s touch.

Lightning blazed roughly, but the freezing speed was faster.

Crackle-crack-crack!

Following the axe, even Lee Hyeon’s left shoulder.

His entire arm was instantly trapped in ice.

The cold penetrated deep into his muscles, freezing even his mana circuits, but,

 

[‘Great Curse: Ring of Extreme Cold’ inflicts poisoning as ice poison penetrates.]

[Curse Immunity (SS) dispels the Ring of Extreme Cold.]

[The detoxified ice poison is absorbed as magic power.]

 

The ice melted instantly and instead, only lightning sparked up more roughly as a rebound effect.

Kurrrrrrung!!

Xu Changyou quickly widened the distance from Lee Hyeon.

An ice wall shot up in the middle and shattered into pieces.

“As expected. My prediction was right.”

Xu Changyou narrowed his eyes while looking at Lee Hyeon.

“You’ve completely escaped from the Curse of Extreme Cold, haven’t you?”

Whether he babbled as he pleased or not.

Paaaaat-

 

[Activating Fury Strike (S) to attempt Bull Rush!]

 

Lee Hyeon charged at him like an excited buffalo, smashing through all obstacles that tried to block him.

The ice sheet, ice pillars, and arrows too.

Lightning bolts struck relentlessly without pause, beginning their bombardment.

Xu Changyou laughed.

As if he couldn’t contain his excitement at finding this situation so amusing.

“And it’s not just that you’ve simply escaped that level,”

Whoooosh!

Lee Hyeon was like a gust of wind.

He had shattered all that solid ice and blizzard and arrived before Xu Changyou in an instant.

Most attacks couldn’t even reach the heat Lee Hyeon was emitting and were already melting away.

“Did you completely absorb it and make it your own? Something that took me quite a while to master?”

Slash!

The axe split the sword apart and went on to slice through Xu Changyou’s neck.

However,

Crackle—

The Xu Changyou that Lee Hyeon had cut down turned to ice and scattered, while he stood on an ice totem pole at a considerable distance away.

One of the Snow Queen’s skills.

It was an ice clone.

“To think you could handle it this way right away when your attribute is the complete opposite. Haha.”

Xu Changyou looked at his own hand with sunken eyes.

Just because he had avoided the attack didn’t mean there was no damage.

His right arm was turning blue and rotting away.

 

[Curse Incantations: Poison Infection, Magic Power Consumption]

 

By reversing the magic power that connected to the skill, Lee Hyeon had cast a curse directly on the main body.

A counterattack that would be absolutely impossible to attempt without deep understanding of ice attributes.

Crackle!

Xu Changyou blocked the poisoning by freezing the magic power in his right arm while calmly observing Lee Hyeon.

If he couldn’t quickly find a way to detoxify it or eliminate Lee Hyeon, this arm would become permanently unusable.

“Indeed… Not capturing you back then was my greatest mistake. Even when you became a cripple afterward, I should have somehow eliminated you like Cheongroe. If I leave you alone, you’ll quickly fill that four-year gap.”

The sly demeanor he had shown until now was no longer there.

Eyes narrowed into thin slits.

Only a cunning snake remained.

This was the Xu Changyou that Lee Hyeon remembered.

“Moreover, you’re gradually warming up your body to activate Thunder Ghost, aren’t you?”

Thunder Ghost.

The divine authority Lee Hyeon had been proud of.

Since all five skills were now open, the power to bind them together was ready to activate at any moment.

But Thunder Ghost boasted the characteristic of being a one-hit kill.

It was advantageous in short battles.

That’s why timing was most important.

“Fighting in this current state doesn’t seem like I’d have much chance of winning… How about this? Let’s part ways here for now and meet next time to settle things properly?”

Lee Hyeon no longer bothered to respond.

He simply,

Crackle! Crackle crackle!!

Continued adding more heat to the blue-white lightning.

Dueoksini’s Deep Breath used intense emotions as fuel.

As heating continued, the temperature broke through the maximum output achieved so far.

 

[Emotions have reached their limit. The temperature heated by Dueoksini’s rage is approaching the critical temperature.]

[The rage burns fiercely.]

[Magic circuits are overheating. Magic power transforms into lightning attributes and prepares to erupt at any moment.]

[‘Trait: Frozen Human’ is applied, beginning fine adjustments so the body can withstand the eruption of rage.]

……

 

[All 5 skills have been connected as one. Dueoksini’s Deep Breath (S+) has achieved 100% proficiency.]

[All requirements to unlock the sealed divine authority have been met.]

[Will you open the divine authority?]

 

Lee Hyeon had become completely enveloped in blue-white lightning.

Dueoksini’s rage, specter, collar… The boundary lines of all sub-skills seemed to have disappeared.

It looked as if light had been compressed to its absolute limit.

Through the blindingly flashing lightning,

Only the Golden Eyes of Truth flickered mysteriously.

“Even if you kill me here and now, it’s not me who dies but Bai Yin. But this guy, stupid as he is, is still a younger brother who trusts me. I can’t just abandon him here and leave.”

“……”

“So let’s do this. You take care of your companions and juniors here. I’ll take care of this guy and get out on my own. You can feel it too, right? If this fight just drags on, only this volcano will erupt. We need to put on the brakes, don’t we?”

The accumulated stimulation from when Zhang Baiyan moved to capture the Peng Demon King kept making the volcano boil.

It only hadn’t erupted because it had been continuously suppressed by the Ring of Extreme Cold.

But even after this, due to the extreme temperature differences of heat and cold continuously alternating,

The stimulation accumulated in the crater had now reached its threshold.

One wrong touch could cause an immediate explosion.

That could trigger a dungeon break.

However,

Crackle crackle!!

Rumble—

Lee Hyeon answered with action instead.

In an instant, blue-white lightning shot up violently from the ground to the sky like a pillar.

A waterspout-like formation reminiscent of a dragon ascending to heaven.

Unlike ground lightning that falls downward, a Blue Jet rising from the upper atmosphere to the thermosphere forcibly tears through the sky and is extremely threatening.

Lee Hyeon’s Blue Jet was the same.

The pillar that reached the celestial sphere spread outward in ripples.

Blue-white lightning bolts writhed horizontally where the clouds had been pushed away,

And the blue sky turned completely blue-white with the addition of white.

As the entire world filled with lightning,

Rumble, rumble—

Rumble rumble rumble……

The sky growled menacingly as if thunder and lightning would pour down at any moment.

A sudden weather anomaly.

Lee Hyeon’s divine authority,

Dueok Thunder Ghost.

 

[Divine authority has been opened.]

[Dueok Thunder Ghost (SS) has been created!]

 

[Dueok Thunder Ghost]

Dueoksini, meaning ‘the god who crushes heads,’ has had the strange legend of crushing people’s heads to death since ancient times.

The more severe the pain Dueok inflicts, the more it brings strange phenomena to the surroundings, dyeing all directions with disaster. Day goblins are merely a stage they go through to evolve into such Dueok.

-Type: Divine Authority.

-Origin: Legend ‘Curse of the Seven Star Rock’

 

“……Are you really going to see this through to the end?”

Xu Changyou frowned as the situation wasn’t unfolding as he intended.

But all that came back was Lee Hyeon’s laughter.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about. Seo Chang-woo. No, Xu Changyou.”

『I have no idea what you’re talking about. Seo Chang-woo. No, Xu Changyou.』

Each word Lee Hyeon spoke echoed with his voice.

A deep resonance.

This world filled with light and waves was echoing his will from all directions.

“You were the one who started wanting to go to the end first, not me.”

“…….”

“So let’s see here who’s the real madman.”

Kwaaaaang!!

Lee Hyeon, who had become a being of light, kicked off the ground fiercely and began to run.

The heat that had already crossed the critical point once overheated exponentially, and just by moving, it brought tremendous hot winds across an enormous area.

The high temperature was so hot that just standing far away would cause burns and cook one’s lungs.

The ice sheet created by Xu Changyou collapsed in an instant. The volcano could no longer endure and began to earthquake.

Doukkebi.

Dueoksin.

The disaster god said to always bring calamity wherever he appears had manifested right here.

“Yes! Good! I would have regretted backing down quietly here! I’ll kill you right here instead!!”

Xu Changyou twisted his face viciously like a malevolent spirit and drew his Magic Power to its maximum.

Hwaaaak!

As if rebelling against Dueoksin’s lightning and hot winds, pure white blizzards swirled around him as the center.

 

[The myth ‘Ruler of All Things’ seizes control of the active volcano to induce an eruption!]

 

[The Jade Emperor seeks to punish the insolent mortal who dared refuse the call and teachings of .]

[Uses the Heavenly Sky Path to consume part of the causality held.]

[The fire spirit sleeping in responds.]

[The fire spirit has exploded. A volcanic eruption occurs.]

 

[Warning! A Dungeon Break is about to occur! Evacuate the area!]

[Warning!]

……

 

Kukukukuku……!!

The volcano writhed. The speed of lava surging up through the cracked ice sheet accelerated, and the earthquake turned into violent tremors that shook the entire area.

Xu Changyou planned to make the volcano erupt completely, turning everything to ash and burying Lee Hyeon beneath that lava to kill him.

 

[Warning! A Dungeon Break is occur…….]

 

Just as a new red Dungeon message was about to appear,

Another message overlaid on top of it.

 

[The legend ‘Tale of Janghwa and Hongryeon’ releases Killing Intent!]

 

Taaaang!!

A gunshot faintly heard between the rough thunder and roaring sounds.

In an instant, Xu Changyou’s left eyeball burst out.

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