I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 134

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Chapter 134. The Fourth Seat, the Lord Who Devours Death—Kamighin (4)
〚Divine Artifact: The Holy Spear of Divine Slaughter, Longinus has reached 83% activation and is now fully operational!〛
〚Limited Special Authority: The Radiant Fall of Stars manifests with enhanced power!〛
〚Limited Special Authority: The Negation of Eternity manifests with enhanced power!〛
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As eighty-three limited special authorities each unleashed their power, I hurled them toward Kamighin, who was diving toward me.
And it was in that very moment that I felt an instinctive sense of wrongness and unease.
The instant the spear left my hand, the murderous intent and rage vanished. Simultaneously, Kamighin, who had been hurtling toward me, froze in midair, his eyes fixed upon Longinus.
【Kehehehe. This is why such primitive, insignificant vermin are so tedious.】
Kamighin extended his hand toward Longinus with arrogant certainty of victory, as though the very notion of defeat had never crossed his mind.
I was startled. I felt it.
‘He’s blocking it?!’
No, that couldn’t be. There’s no way that weakened, exhausted body could stop Longinus when it’s over 83% activated!
Moreover, I felt the power granted by the Divine Slaughter title resonating within my body, and I furrowed my brow once more.
No matter how I thought about it, there was no way. Even if he had prepared calamities by the dozen! Once Longinus has locked onto its target, it cannot be stopped.
Longinus tore through the heavens, scattering a beautiful tail of light as it surged toward the dark entity.
All eyes turned skyward. And Kamighin, extending his hand toward Longinus with leisurely composure and calm acceptance, was—!!!
Pierced through without any proper defense. There were no variables. A massive hole opened in his chest as Longinus embedded itself, and Kamighin’s body began to dissolve in a torrent of holy flames.
Yes, that unease and anxiety were simply unavoidable when facing a Divine Being.
Cheers erupted. The weak denizens of the Lower Realm had slain the Demon King of the Abyss Realm!!!
A magnificent and glorious Achievement!
Once his body had completely dissolved and I safely recovered Longinus, the tension drained from me and I collapsed to the ground. Only now did the tightness in my chest finally release, as if a great weight had lifted.
Satisfaction filled my body, coated in tremendous buffs. Yes, with this power and Longinus, such a Demon King would be no match anytime—!
My expression froze instantly. I instinctively leaped to my feet, drew the Omniscient Demon Blade, activated the Chaos Armor skill, equipped the Man-byeon shoes, spread the Wings of Arrogance, and took flight into the sky.
‘The buff isn’t disappearing.’
Kamighin was dead. I witnessed with my own eyes as both his body and soul were annihilated.
“Then why hasn’t the Divine Slaughter title buff faded?”
Only then did I grasp the true nature of my unease. There was only one reason the title buff hadn’t disappeared.
Sensing the instinctive danger, I screamed toward the battlefield.
“Everyone, take cover!!!!”
Kwaaaaaaang!!!!
With a deafening explosion, a presence manifested within the Underground Prison—a place where no living being should any longer exist.
【Hahahaha!】
It was the master of the Fourth Seat—the Lord Who Devours Death, Kamighin. Yet simultaneously, it was not Kamighin’s body.
【Foolish, foolish vermin. Despair. Falter. Rage. For the true Lord of Death has descended.】
I knew that face and body. I had seen them all before. People retched at the sight of Kamighin’s form.
A chimera. There was nothing strange in calling it that.
The base was a Cardinal Aoira doll. Grafted onto it were fragments of three calamities’ bodies. A monster born of such fusion—Kamighin’s other form.
【Surprised? I am the lord who devours death and rules over it. There exists no one capable of bringing death upon me. Do you think my Apostle created such a magnificent puppet through their own power? It was all my strength! That is why it was possible!】
What I had just killed was certainly Kamighin. Yet simultaneously, it was not Kamighin.
A puppet. He had transferred his soul from his true body into a puppet, exchanged his main body, and expended the hollow shell—now containing only power—to obstruct Longinus.
【I…】
His gaze turns toward me. No—it pierces through me. That stare held countless emotions, and all of them converged to comprehend everything about me.
【Now it is time to pay the price. For daring to steal the power left behind by our Divine Being. In the eternal, inescapable hell of suffering, I shall grant you endless despair as you flounder in the mire of agony.】
Eyes of chaos manifest. And I understood. Despite his leisurely composure and bluster.
‘He is weakened.’
He too had consumed and sacrificed an enormous amount. It was inevitable. The value of a Demon King’s body would be immeasurable.
Objectively speaking, Kamighin’s current power paled in comparison to the puppet—his original body—that I had slain with Longinus.
‘Yet it remains beyond classification.’
Beyond rank. If a tier existed above SSS+, that would be his exact level of power. However. Even so. He is an opponent I cannot possibly defeat.
Even if the Pope were here and could fight, victory would be unguaranteed—no, in all likelihood, defeat would be certain against such overwhelming strength.
“Damn it.”
I clicked my tongue and glared at Kamighin, who soared skyward to meet my gaze with a mocking sneer.
Upon his palm rested something resembling a black orb. The Eyes of Chaos immediately identified its nature and revealed it to me.
“A Life Vessel.”
【Oho! You recognize it? Did you truly believe that even a mere lich would lack a Life Vessel when I am the one who devours and commands death itself? My life and soul are not contained within flesh, but here, within this vessel. What you killed with that accursed spear was merely bait—my most cherished body with forty-nine percent of my soul embedded within it.】
In the end, he had indeed suffered losses. Yet by boldly sacrificing them, he had seized victory.
【That my most perfected body and half my soul were consumed by these lowly, pathetic worms of the Lower Realm. Moreover, I was even robbed of the Divine Fragment—the very objective of the great Upper Realm. What do you think I shall do to you?】
Kamighin’s hand extended toward me. Black demonic energy erupted like a tidal wave, seeking to devour everything I am.
By instinct, I manifest the Solar Sanctuary of the Sun Divine Art and wield the power of demonic dominion.
Crash—crack!
The cascading death-infused demonic energy freezes in mid-air. Simultaneously, blood pours from my seven orifices, and a tremendous headache strikes my skull.
Beyond my limit. The price of controlling demonic energy beyond my capacity.
【I suspected it from the moment you interfered with and seized my Apostle’s soul. But how did you manage it? How can you so perfectly inherit the power of a Demon?】
Kamighin closed the distance in an instant, seizing my throat with a grip that burned with chilling madness in his eyes.
Jealousy. Envy. Rage. His gaze was flooded with emotions entirely different from before, waves of feeling that bore down upon me.
“Like hell. I’d ever… tell you.”
【Kehehehe. Yes, a feeble worm should at least possess such spirit. Do not worry. As long as there is proof that the Divine power can be inherited, the Upper Realm will succeed. I have no need to possess the power myself. No, this is actually fortunate. The possibility of being discarded after the fact for possessing Divine power has vanished. I have acquired such an excellent specimen, and the Upper Realm will succeed. I have sufficient cause to demand compensation for my losses. And what I have gained here is far from negligible!】
Kamighin’s demonic energy crashes down upon me once more. Resistance was futile. My body was already under his control, and one misstep—one mistake—and the hand tightening around my throat would end me.
My vision darkens. The screams echoing from below and the figure of Belial diving toward me—with these as my last impressions, consciousness fades.
‘Damn it.’
I rage within my sinking consciousness. I had been cautious. I never anticipated that Belial would employ the puppet’s technique, nor that she would sacrifice her original body as the price.
Yet the result remains my defeat.
‘Am I to fall like this?’
No. No, I had no intention of dying so pathetically, so easily. I forcibly awaken my descending consciousness.
I push upward the consciousness being pulled into the mental realm. And within that realm, the wills themselves aid me, lending their strength.
“Self-transcendence… self-enhancement.”
I unleash the most powerful technique available to me!
Even a feeble struggle was worth attempting. To perish like this felt far too unjust, far too bitter to accept.
〚Unique Ability: Self-Overcoming Strength [Mythic-EX+] manifests.〛
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Through vision obscured and ears that barely heard, a System Message pierced through.
Power began to flow into my body. Fortune, having exhausted itself, could offer no further aid.
What revealed itself in its stead was…
〚Authority: Misfortune smiles with joy and rapture, applauding your final moments and pouring forth its power.〛
〚Tremendous power beyond limits is consumed!〛
〚Should you overcome Misfortune’s curse, Misfortune shall receive its due recompense!〛
〚The second shell protecting the curse of Misfortune granted to you shatters!〛
It was Misfortune. That creature poured everything into it, certain of my death.
Instead, power drained away. For the first time, my past self began to project forward.
Weakening, weakening, weakening—until I became the fragile version of myself from immediately after my regression.
Misfortune gazed upon me and hurled mockery after mockery, taunting me relentlessly.
Was even this final opportunity slipping away like this?
The voice echoing beyond the demonic energy would surely be laughter as well. Kamighin would undoubtedly mock even this last desperate thrashing as pathetically insignificant.
Yet in that very moment, I found myself smiling.
‘It’s done, isn’t it? You damnable thing?’
Yes, I never lost. What I aimed for was precisely this—Misfortune pouring forth all its power to hasten my destruction!
“Rune manifestation.”
My final gambit. You damnable things.
“Temporal regression.”
Even with regression, the power consumed by Misfortune and Fortune does not return. It is only natural, since I am the subject of regression, and they are authorities themselves.
Messages from Misfortune continue to flash, but I ignore them. I won again this time.
The world freezes. Everything halts, and the force pressing down upon me, the oppression—all released. Simultaneously, power begins to surge back into my body.
The demonic energy suppressing me retreats.
〚Rune: The first ability of the Temporal Hourglass manifests!〛
〚Regression manifests!〛
〚The Hourglass of Time inverts!〛
A colossal, irresistible hourglass flips. I gaze with exhilaration into the shocked eyes of the Demon King as rewinding time surrenders to my flesh.
At last, all the sand of the hourglass has fallen. The world begins to flow forward once more.
〚Regression to one hour prior has been completed!〛
I am activating Longinus again, and the sound of the Demon King’s rampage echoing from underground reaches me here.
“Haah….”
I know all the cards now. What remains is to overwhelmingly shatter that hand.
‘Life Vessel.’
Ultimately, to kill that creature, destroying the puppet called a body is meaningless. The Life Vessel—I must shatter that which holds its vitality and soul.
Longinus roared ferociously.
“Start immediately!”
Without hesitation, I unfurled the wings of Pride and soared upward, completing my preparations for the throw. I granted no time for delay.
As my Chaos Eye manifested, the Underground Prison came into sharp focus before my gaze.
“Damn bastard. Stop hiding.”
After approximately ten minutes had elapsed, the prison door finally shattered, and in that moment when the concealed interior came into view—
I caught sight not of the puppet before me, but of the Life Vessel held in the hands of Kamighin’s second body, watching this scene with arrogant amusement from the very back.
“Destroy it. Longinus.”
And with that, I hurled Longinus forward.

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