I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 127

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Chapter 127. The Demon King’s Descent (2)
【KRAAAAGH! HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU!】
The Demon King’s crimson eyes—those of Sai-han, steeped in rage, agony, and humiliation—fixed upon me as I hurtled forward.
Those dreadfully profound eyes froze my body in place, and breathing became labored.
〚Unique Ability: Self-Overcoming Strength (自勝者强) [Mythic-EX+] activates.〛
All attacks born from the gap in our grades are completely blocked. Yet even that distinctive oppressive aura cannot be entirely erased. This is because I experience the pressure as something virtual, not tangible.
It is, in essence, instinctive fear. My body recognizes death and applies its own brakes—a beneficial act of self-preservation.
〚Heavenly Fortune contributes even a dust-like amount of power!〛
Heavenly Fortune had only recently exhausted its reserves, breaking even my savings to gamble everything away, so it offered little aid. But it didn’t matter.
‘My role right now is not to kill that Demon King here.’
I couldn’t kill him even if I tried. How could I possibly grasp divinity? Even wrapped in such absurdly impossible negations, he descended as something stronger than a Legendary-grade calamity.
A gamble with Self-Overcoming Strength? Impossible unless I poured every last thing Heavenly Fortune possessed into it. And after exhausting everything last time, I cannot even grant minor fortune now.
Besides, that creature is not a false divinity created by ability like some avatar—he is a true god.
That doesn’t mean the avatar was fake. It certainly possessed Mythic-grade status and corresponding power.
It was simply pathetically weak compared to true divinity. No matter how far Self-Overcoming Strength elevated me beyond reach, that avatar was handicapped, unable to use even a single proper ability.
The loss of reason caused by the Puppet Master was not the problem. The avatar was simply designed that way.
As evidence, wasn’t this title manifesting for the first time?
〚Title: Godslayer (神殺者) activates!〛
A Mythic-grade title that had never once activated until now—obtained after slaying Azazel’s greatest fragment.
The effect was simple: massive correction against all things when facing a god.
‘Why didn’t it activate when facing the avatar?’
I don’t know. But it’s undeniable that it helps me right now.
〚After 184 days, 7 hours, and 44 seconds, your power will settle within you!〛
〚Rune: Time-Hourglass erases the side effects of that ability!〛
Power surged through my body. It was the same magnitude of strength I wielded when facing the Puppet Master’s colossal construct on Underground Level 5.
Normally impossible, but thanks to the massive correction of Godslayer, it became reality.
S-rank Hunter. When Pride and Infinity stats reached C-grade, that level of power emerges.
My current stats are E-grade; power from stats elevated six entire ranks flooded my entire being, granting my movements considerably more freedom.
I steadied my mind and moved my body. Since my body had merely frozen from instinctive emotion, there was no problem moving once I regained mental control.
Thus I arrived at the Colosseum and beheld Kamighin, furious as he finally wrenched free the Spear of Longinus.
【KRAAAGH! LONGINUS! A HOLY RELIC OF THE HEAVENS! HOW COULD SUCH INSIGNIFICANT VERMIN POSSIBLY POSSESS SUCH A SUPREME HOLY ARTIFACT!? MOREOVER, THE HEAVENS SURELY BANISHED LONGINUS TO A PLACE THEY COULD NEVER FIND!】
The Demon King, standing in opposition to the angels of the heavens, seemed to possess knowledge of Longinus.
Kamighin gripped the Spear of Longinus as though to shatter it, then hurled it toward me.
【Rather than clinging to what I cannot possess and indulging in greed, it is far more efficient to tear apart and kill you—the one who inflicted this humiliation upon me.】
Thus he was well aware that he could not forcibly seize the Spear of Longinus from me.
I recovered the Spear of Longinus and was startled.
〚Item: Spear of Godslaying—Longinus. The seal upon it, profound and mighty, is partially released by the demonic blood it has absorbed!〛
〚Release Rate: 0.3%〛
The seal releases through demonic blood? Yet I dealt a fatal blow to the Demon King and absorbed his blood, and only 0.3% released? This explained why the seal wouldn’t release through Ma-in or lower-grade demons.
At minimum, I would need to strike the demon’s true form and absorb its power to expect even 0.1% release. The activation was already brutal, and the seal release is proving equally difficult.
I didn’t place Longinus in my inventory and checked the remaining time on Self-Transcendence.
Even with the mythic-grade title’s bonus, I could only enjoy this tremendous power for less than a minute.
The problem was that even this immense strength was nothing but an insect to that great and magnificent Demon King.
‘Longinus’s wound truly cannot recover immediately.’
I reasoned that even with divine status, as the Demon King and bearing wounds from a sacred artifact’s power, this made sense. Otherwise, Longinus being a spear capable of slaying the Divine Seat wouldn’t make sense. Sealed or not.
But he would recover. There was no way he wouldn’t. For that creature, erasing pain and healing wounds would take priority over seeking revenge on me.
As expected.
【Irritating. How irritating. Pain is such a refreshing emotion to feel after so long. Yet it is an emotion I wish never to experience again.】
Unique Ability—Domain Manifestation: Dirge of the Dead
A black domain unfolds around him. A domain so vast and expansive it dwarfs my own Realm of Destiny’s Bitter Cold, engulfing the entire Holy Kingdom beyond the Colosseum.
The beautifully shining sun vanishes, the bright and clear sky is erased, and in its place, only black darkness and thick miasma fill the space.
A song echoes forth. Gloomy, spine-chilling, and sinister music.
Not a song for the living, but for the dead and those about to die. More than that, it isn’t even a song to console the dead, but rather a song expressing the Demon King’s excitement at devouring the dead.
My body grows heavy. Even with the strength of an S-rank Hunter, I cannot escape this domain’s power.
Naturally, the moment the domain manifests and the song echoes within it, ordinary people begin convulsing and collapsing one after another.
It began from near Kamighin. The spirits and flesh of the collapsed civilians are absorbed into him. More precisely, he devours the death they experienced and endured.
—Gaaaaahhh!
The spirits and flesh robbed of death and consumed are revived once more. As nothing but undead with neither will nor consciousness.
【Fresh death. How fitting for those who believe in such nauseating, arrogant beings.】
His wound heals. Simultaneously, the penalties and restrictions placed upon him begin to gradually loosen.
I furrowed my brow, but it was as expected.
I don’t consider myself a good person. But neither was I evil.
It meant I possessed the mindset to sacrifice the small for the great without hesitation.
‘My apologies.’
Our prepared trump card. The only way to kill that great god is through using one evil to counter another.
Unless one of the gods watching over this Holy Kingdom descends while bearing an enormous and catastrophic cost.
The card capable of killing him. It is none other than the calamities in the Underground.
I activate Longinus. As I use time acceleration with the cooldown perfectly aligned, the activation rate rises rapidly.
【Where do you think you’re going!】
Kamighin, as expected, doesn’t yield easily. The undead immediately rush at me in rhythm with his music.
He doesn’t step forward directly while healing his wounds. This was precisely what I aimed for.
“Belial!”
A single figure falls from the sky before hundreds of undead. A pair of wings spreads as the power of worthlessness radiates outward.
“You worms who dare defy the great laws of heaven. Now take your rest.”
I leave this to her and, with barely a minute remaining and Longinus charged to 5%, I hurl the spear once more.
Boom!
【A second time won’t work. It’s not even being wielded by an archangel, merely a mortal. A mere insect at that. I didn’t expect such a trivial being to properly use a great sacred artifact. How pathetic. Casting pearls before swine. To use a weapon feared by all gods so carelessly.】
It was blocked. Longinus trembles, cleanly caught by demonic energy. I had hoped to absorb more blood, but it failed.
Self-Transcendence also ended. I used it meaninglessly, but I harbored no regrets.
“I’ve bought enough time.”
I gazed downward. In a place no one had paid attention to, a location no one dared approach, there existed a single figure.
“Nibelung!!”
Our most crucial trump card. It was none other than Nibelung. Once the next Cardinal, he had fallen into disgrace and spent decades dying away in the Underground Prison, yet through all that time, he had survived using holy power—a being who still possessed tremendous strength.
“It’s over! Now it begins!”
Nibelung immediately channeled holy power into the descent magic circle that the Puppet Master had created and Kamighin had manifested.
The moment the Demon King’s descent was confirmed, we had formulated our countermeasure, yet all we could do was sigh at our helplessness.
It was inevitable. Our opponent was a Divine Seat—a being who had achieved mythical status and gazed down arrogantly at all things from the divine realm.
Even weakened by descent, it meant that mere insects on Stage-1 couldn’t possibly raise a fist against such an existence.
There was no way to defeat him. It was then that Nibelung had devised the strategy.
Honestly, without him, this operation would have been impossible to attempt.
“Go well. Great Demon King who presides over cruel death. To a place of darkness that suits you perfectly.”
Excluding him from the battle with the Saint was partly to conceal his identity, but also because there was much to prepare.
What we had prepared for him and me during those three days of the Holy Spirit Festival.
Interfering with the descent magic circle to summon the Demon King elsewhere instead. And the summoning location was….
“Go and play well with the calamities. I’ll come find you.”
Underground Level 5.
To install a corresponding summoning magic circle there and set up magic circles on the connecting gates to break the seals imposed on each level. Thinking back to how I had sneaked into that hell with my own feet again, my head still spins.
Brilliant light swept away the darkness, beginning from the magic circle.
【What are you doing…!】
You should have been more careful after being caught once.
“Did you really think I faced a great Demon King relying solely on the Spear of Longinus?”
Light devoured darkness. Darkness tried to resist the light, but it was futile.
The summoning magic circle and Kamighin were connected. Of course they were. He had manifested on this land through that very circle.
With a forced summoning using such a magic circle, how could he possibly refuse?
Well, if it had been a forced summoning using a different magic circle, he would have already shattered it and escaped.
In the end, the great Demon King was pathetically forced to descend directly to Underground Level 5.
The darkness faded. Death subsided. The grotesque and eerie dirge fell silent.
“Half a success, at least.”
Though he had recovered some of his power and status, unfortunately the calamity on Underground Floor 4 had also achieved mythical status.
“I’ll need to steel myself to face the other two calamities as well.”
No matter how he tries to escape, there are still two more calamities waiting.
I turned my gaze. The Colosseum was already in chaos. Most of the Drivers who had attempted to face the Demon King and over eighty percent of the spectators had already become undead.
In the midst of it all, the Saint who had been debuffing the Drivers on the Demon King’s side and her disciple had vanished the moment the Demon King disappeared.
Nothing but chaos remained.
“I need to gather what I can.”
I crossed through that chaos and picked up the sacred relic laid out neatly before the Headquarters.
The Holy Grail. I obtained the second sacred relic far too easily. It was a massive undertaking that proved quite troublesome and time-consuming, but I gained much from it.
“Now I capture the Puppet Master.”

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