Genius Blacksmith’s Game - Chapter 265

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The Genius Blacksmith’s Game
Party of the Supreme Ones (5)
Before Bahala launched his assault, a subtle exchange of glances passed between them.
A fact known to everyone present in this place.
‘If even a single Summoned creature of level 500 or higher appears, the seal will fail.’
And when it was summoned, there was a high probability it would be when Gremory sensed danger.
Moreover, the Hell Path was undoubtedly a threat to her.
Hyeon-su watched them trapped in their isolated space and prepared Absolute Dominion.
The moment the Hell Path scattered, an aura of calamity enveloped the three-headed Cerberus.
‘The summoned creature’s level is higher than I expected.’
Cold sweat began to pour down my face.
If Hyeon-su had not possessed the power of Absolute Dominion, we would have faced both the demon and Cerberus, and we would have been annihilated.
But that overwhelming force now works in our favor.
[Cerberus’s Fangs]
[Cerberus’s bite force undergoes exponential increase.]
Black demonic energy spread from Cerberus’s mouth as the creature’s inherent trait unleashed its power.
[Cerberus’s bite force increases six times its normal strength!]
Humans exert fifty kilograms of bite force, while even an ordinary wolf reaches four times that at one hundred eighty-four kilograms.
Furthermore, Cerberus’s razor-sharp fangs were originally capable of wounding even dragon skin.
Now, exerting ten tons of force, it clamped down on Gremory within its jaws and bit.
Craaaaaack—
The transcendent being’s body convulsed.
Gremory had allowed Bahala three attacks and suffered only four percent HP damage.
Weakened by falling into Asura’s Hell Path, she had endured Blink and sixteen consecutive stabs, losing ten percent of her HP.
With twelve percent HP remaining, she had regenerated two percent.
But now.
[Gremory’s HP drops below four percent.]
Ten percent of her HP is erased.
“How does it feel, being bitten by the dog you raised?”
Her mind goes white.
The creature with the most pathetic power.
Yet, just as it had caused an anomaly by deleting eighty percent of her HP with Babylon,
now with a single successful attack, it dealt damage equivalent to Asura, heir of the Sword God.
And Hyeon-su harbored rage and hatred toward her.
She had attempted to destroy Atlas for amusement and tried to make him her servant.
Shreeeeek—!
The upper and lower jaws of Cerberus, still clamping Gremory in its mouth, open wide once more.
Just as it was about to bite again.
“Summon release.”
The party had achieved its initial objective and saw the possibility of successfully sealing her away.
Yet that possibility crumbled in a mere second.
Gremory, with less than 4% of her HP remaining.
There is a saying that demons are generally beautiful and handsome.
That is merely the aesthetic judgment of those who have seen only the shell.
The true appearance of demons who shed their shells is bizarre and grotesque.
[Demonification is progressing.]
[Cannot approach.]
Kuuuuuaaaaaaang—!
All four were sent flying backward at once.
“Ugh…!”
“Ungh…!”
Her shell melted away, revealing the true form of Gremory beneath.
The fact that she remained bipedal was unchanged.
As was the fact that she possessed an alluring female upper body.
However, her lower body had transformed into the dark legs of a black camel, and a massive camel’s face emerged, disproportionately large compared to her elongated neck.
[Gremory risks danger and reveals her true form.]
[Demonification in the Human Realm incurs a penalty.]
[If sealed, the sealing duration increases from 6 months to 2 years.]
[She can no longer regenerate.]
[All attack power rises significantly.]
[She has been borrowing 50% of the power of the Legion Commanders’ traits.]
[The effectiveness is upgraded to 70%.]
She cannot regenerate, and the sealing duration extends.
For a demon, an extended sealing period is a grave blow.
During that time, other demons establish their hierarchy.
Yet she risked it regardless.
Even for Gremory, the power of the Legion Commanders she could use while wearing her shell was limited.
She had used two in just over a minute and had nearly reached the point of sealing.
Yet this demonification partially negates the usage count based on that time interval.
The trait of the second Legion Commander.
[Krut’s Power]
[Instantly recovers all HP to 50%.]
Her wounded body recovered rapidly.
Though she could no longer regenerate, possessing 50% of her HP alone dispersed all anxiety.
“Haaaaah….”
The demon’s breath, tinged with noise.
A refreshing sound as if emerging from a shower, yet it felt only spine-chilling.
[Demon Gremory’s level is updated.]
Ding!
[Demon Gremory Lv.636]
It could be considered a rise of around 30, yet it’s also an absurd increase.
Strength is relative, and a 30-point rise against opponents of similar caliber becomes genuinely dangerous.
However, for those relatively weaker, a 30-point rise becomes an insurmountable wall.
Of course.
[Sudden Quest: Seal Rewards Enhanced.]
The rewards upon raid success have improved as well.
A tingling sensation—
A flinch—
The bodies of the three who encountered her transformed state reacted instinctively.
They felt firsthand that she was far more dangerous than before.
Just as the four moved into their designated positions.
[Cassandra’s Power]
She unleashed it—the Legion Commander’s authority, now wielded without restraint.
Cassandra.
A dark sorcerer-class Legion Commander whose power rivals that of a human arch-mage.
Hellfire felt simultaneously beneath all four of them—undeniably perilous.
[Sword Saint’s Shield]
[Asura’s Blood Armor]
Bahala and Kabel manifested their power, exponentially elevating their defensive capabilities at tremendous speed.
A deafening explosion—!
All four were engulfed in the blast.
[HP drops below 45%.]
Hyeon-su was bewildered by the absurd offensive power. He also saw Kabel and Bahala’s HP plummet below 20%.
[Hellfire clings to you.]
[Attempting to move for 10 seconds will inflict greater damage.]
Hyeon-su, knocked back, observed the continuous damage accumulating.
Hyeon-su harbored genuine fear.
If I truly fail the seal here, everything collapses.
Yet I cannot move—any attempt would summon greater Hellfire to consume me.
‘I must wait for it to extinguish on its own.’
But Gremory would not spare them.
Bahala and Kabel likewise ceased their movements.
Moving would force them into a mandatory Logout.
In such a dire predicament.
A roaring inferno erupts—!
There was a man who ignored the Hellfire, growing ever more intense.
“I said I’d handle the front, didn’t I.”
A swift whistle—!
In one breath, he pierced Gremory’s heart.
His name was Lucifer.
[If you move, the Hellfire will spread more intensely.]
Gremory’s eyes widened in shock.
Hellfire inflicts not only catastrophic damage but also brings irrational agony.
Two, three times worse than being consumed by ordinary flames.
And fire was what caused humans the greatest suffering.
Yet Lesser Demon Luxiu was one who had waited for this day alone.
The encounter with Hyeon-su, the Sword he had been given.
And with each brainwashing that unraveled, he had built his foundation.
Each time the brainwashing broke, he polished a single swing, repeated it, and strove relentlessly.
Over a hundred years.
The power honed through infinite repetition and practice.
The number was incalculable, but it exceeded four million times.
A single motion perfected across four million repetitions.
Gremory’s eyes widened.
She sensed it instinctively.
Whoooooosh—!
“Gremoryyyyyy!”
The Lesser Demon who had burned with fighting spirit and pride even as his hair and eyebrows caught flame.
This single swing would be far more dangerous than anticipated.
In that moment, she became cunning.
[Kade’s Power]
Through the Legion Commander’s authority, she transcended space.
But she was wrong.
Kuhooooooo—
Lesser Demon Luxiu.
Demonic energy runs rampant from the Sword God Path of the undefeated knight.
Raising the resolve to slay the enemy even in death.
“Pull.”
With the power dwelling in his Sword God Path, he draws her toward him.
“…Kyaaaaahhh!?”
A bewildered scream tears from the now truly demonized form.
At last, the single blade containing the culmination of four million swings is unleashed from behind.
“Demon Severance.”
The brief silence scatters.
Skreeeeeeeech—!
With a clean cutting sound, her body is bisected diagonally.
The wall behind collapses with a rumble, and finally, the demon Gremory’s knees buckle.
Thud—!
In this moment, one who was merely a Lesser Demon brings a true demon to her knees.
[Gremory’s HP has fallen below 30%.]
With twenty percent of her HP deleted, Gremory was taken aback.
The moment the blade of one who had led an era—more spectral than Asura, having undergone more Polishing than the Sword Saint—was parried.
“S-stop…!”
The demon, for the first time in its existence, succumbed to instinct and exhaled a voice trembling with fear.
It was not because of the damage he had taken.
A flash—!
It was the murderous gleam in the Lesser Demon’s eyes—that absolute determination to kill her at any cost—that descended upon him like terror itself.
Just as that blade was about to sweep toward his neck.
A dull thud—
Gremory exhaled in relief.
[Lucifer’s HP has fallen below thirty percent.]
Lucifer’s entire body darkened as he fell into an abnormal state, his strength abandoning him as he collapsed.
Gremory had truly transformed into a true demon.
She, who had been so taken aback, ultimately could not strike him down. Watching the collapsed Lucifer, she arrived at this realization.
Just now, Lucifer had created a variable.
There exists no one capable of moving within that Hellfire.
Thus, she cast aside her arrogance and employed the power to observe the current situation.
[Verisa’s Power]
Verisa.
The fourteenth Legion Commander—a being possessing “Verisa’s Eyes,” capable of comprehending the current situation.
Verisa’s eyes settled into Gremory’s gaze as she scanned everywhere, seeing through all.
That sight revealed the possibility of whether they could kill her if every attack they could currently land upon her succeeded.
Having witnessed this through Verisa’s Eyes, Gremory was seized by ecstasy.
“I have seen it.”
She seized the head of the kneeling Lucifer in both hands.
A sickening crunch—!
“Even if you land every attack, you cannot kill me.”
Verisa is known as the Legion Commander of Measurement.
In truth, Verisa’s Eyes are similar to the System itself.
They render analysis as precise as the System.
Even if they succeeded in everything, they would fall short by merely four, five, or ten percent—unable to seal her away.
Having forgotten all fear through that result, Gremory poured strength into both her hands.
A sickening crackle—
“No matter how you struggle, nothing will change.”
As strength flooded into her hands, blood streamed from Lucifer’s eyes and nose.
In the moment before he burst like a tomato.
A sharp whistle—!
Asura’s Dagger, which had bought time thanks to Lucifer, flew through the air and embedded itself in her chest.
A dull impact—!
Though the Dagger carried no great force, her consciousness grew distant.
[Murderer’s Puppet.]
[Depending on the target, it controls the enemy for as short as 3 seconds or as long as 3 minutes.]
It was Asura’s brainwashing ability.
Gremory burst into laughter.
“How pathetic!”
The duration Asura could control and brainwash Gremory through this manipulation was merely 3 seconds.
3 seconds.
Even if everyone landed a decisive blow within this brief window, she would not die.
Moreover, what could they possibly accomplish in those 3 seconds?
Then, completely ensnared in the 3-second mental domination, Gremory fell into a momentary darkness.
Like a human succumbing to anesthesia.
When 3 seconds elapsed and she broke free from the brainwashing.
She encountered an unexpected situation and was bewildered by the man before her—Hyeon-su.
He, who had been staring at Gremory, spoke.
“Never define anything as absolute. Possibility is something you create and forge forward.”
She was bewildered.
Freed from the brainwashing, she was performing strange actions.
‘My hand…?’
She was gripping the man’s hand firmly.
And the man’s faint voice that had echoed during the moment of brainwashing began to resurface in her memory.
The man who had grasped her hand had surely said this.
“Grant me your blessing.”
In that instant, Gremory’s eyes widened.
She was a transcendent being that no one in the Human Realm had ever encountered.
The body of Hyeon-su, who had shaken hands with her, was enveloped in tremendous power—his coat and hair fluttering violently.
And the man who had utilized her, a transcendent being.
Using her, he was overcoming his limits and growing monstrously stronger.

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