I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 135

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Chapter 135. The Fourth Seat, The Lord Who Devours Death—Kamighin (5)
【Wretched vermin of the Lower Realm! From the depths of the underground, death has risen to gift you despair! Bow and grovel, begging for the mercy of death!】
With a roar I had heard before, Kamighin appeared alongside the calamitous jaws of his demonic servants. But it was too late.
Longinus had already begun its charge, its target locked with absolute precision.
【Kahahaha! Cursed sacred relics of those wretched doves!】
The puppet—a body inhabited by Kamighin’s consciousness, not Kamighin himself—gazed at Longinus hurtling toward him with an ambiguous expression, neither clearly wrathful nor joyful.
【Kehehehe. This is why such wretched, primitive vermin are contemptible. They cannot even learn.】
Knowing that Longinus could not be retrieved and hurled again, the creature stretched his hand forward as if inviting an attack, responding with arrogant confidence.
Unaware that this was his fatal blunder.
Kamighin flashed a bloodstained smile toward me. In return, I hurled my own scorn at him.
【Huh?】
He sensed something amiss. But it was too late.
Longinus passed straight through Kamighin. As if he had never been the target, as if his scheming meant nothing.
【What is this?!】
Kamighin spun his body around in haste, watching helplessly as Longinus disappeared into the smoke of the Underground Prison, having passed through him in an instant.
That brief opening. The gap created by his carelessness and confusion achieved precisely what I desired.
【This is impossible!!】
In less than five seconds, Kamighin finally comprehended that Longinus’s true target was the Life Vessel—the very source of his power and life, which he had been forced to summon while creating his new body.
Kamighin’s body lost all strength and plummeted from the sky. His consciousness had transferred to the new body holding the Life Vessel.
The Chaos Eye revealed everything within the smoke—the entire situation of the Underground Prison.
【No… this cannot be!!!】
Kamighin desperately unleashed his demonic energy at full force, attempting to shield the Life Vessel from Longinus. The few demonic servants and prisoners remaining around him threw themselves forward, determined to block Longinus by any means.
But witnessing their efforts, I…
“You have no chance.”
I sneered at them. Longinus. The mightiest spear ever forged for slaying the Divine. And it was operating at over eighty percent activation.
The demonic servants crumbled to ash and vanished before the sacred and overwhelming radiance of Longinus.
The prisoners resurrected through necromancy returned to death, their souls purified and sent to the abyss.
Longinus slowed its speed for the first time, held back by Kamighin’s overwhelmingly powerful and colossal barrier of demonic energy.
But that alone was insufficient. The demonic energy suffused with the power of death shattered.
Longinus never lost its momentum, charging forward only toward its target.
【Damn it! No!】
With a Demon King’s anguished cry laden with desperation and terror, his attempt to block with his very body ended as his right upper torso was torn away. Longinus pierced through every obstacle without pause.
Crack!
At last, it touched Kamighin’s Life Vessel. Unlike when I had slain Azazel before, there was no tremendous shockwave, no space collapsing into oblivion.
Because a single object alone bore the full brunt of all that impact.
Crackle. Crackle-crack. Shatter.
Kamighin screamed in agony at the sight of his body hollowed out from his severed right chest to his arm, but he quickly suppressed the pain and turned to look behind him, where an ominous sound echoed.
It was breaking.
Cracks rapidly spiderwebbed across the beautiful orb, stained black.
【No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO!!!!】
I rushed forward, yanked Longinus free, and desperately tried to catch the orb with my remaining left hand to prevent it from shattering—but I was already too late.
The Life Vessel shattered into countless fragments, and with it, Kamighin’s life force and the vast powers contained within crumbled away.
【Ah….】
Death. Annihilation. Whatever name one wished to call it.
Kamighin stared at the shattered Life Vessel with an expression of futility, indignation, and disbelief before slowly rising to his feet.
【I am Kamighin. The great Demon King of the Fourth Seat. I, who devours and commands all death itself, cannot possibly fall.】
Yet the truth was evident. The demonic energy flowing from Kamighin was draining at a catastrophic rate, like a dam bursting open, and his body—held together by sheer will and power—was beginning to crumble as if losing all strength.
Could he last more than three minutes?
Kamighin’s death was now assured. I had toppled a Divine Being who had descended in their complete form.
Exultation, ecstasy, and accomplishment surged through me from my toes to the crown of my head. Not a mere fragment like Azazel or Solomon’s avatars—I had cast down a complete and perfect Divine Seat from the highest heavens into the deepest depths of the earth.
But joy was fleeting; I immediately recovered Longinus without lowering my guard.
‘It is not over yet.’
That’s right—not until that creature’s breath ceased entirely and its body vanished.
Obliterating thirty percent of the Demon King’s upper body had yielded considerable gains.
〚Item: Spear of Godslaying—Longinus. The seal bestowed upon it is formidable and deep; it absorbs the blood of great demons and partially unseals!〛
〚Unsealing Rate: 2.7%〛
Before my regression, it had been little more than a doll, yet when I had slain one Demon King’s body, the rate had climbed to nearly ten percent—this was insufficient by comparison. But I was not impatient; if the Demon King dies, its body remains, so there is no rush.
In fact, leaving two bodies behind could push the rate beyond ten percent.
As expected, Kamighin—having fully accepted and acknowledged his own death—abandoned the powerless fragments of the Life Vessel scattered on the ground. He rose to his feet, turned his body, and fixed his gaze upon me hovering in the sky.
【I acknowledge it. Insect. You have felled a great Demon.】
Demonic energy began to roil from Kamighin’s body. His emotions were more restrained than ever, his rationality cold and unwavering.
【But I will not go alone. I, Demon King Kamighin! To fall to a mere insect is unacceptable—and to have dealt not a single wound? This cannot be!】
Kamighin’s demonic energy spread outward, and the world inverted. It was a power I had already experienced once.
‘Domain expansion.’
No—something beyond that. Before I could even question it, a completely different world descended upon this place, warping reality itself.
It was a world of the dead. A world of corpses that hungered to steal everything from the living.
A gathering place of beings that despised life and worshipped death.
It was Kamighin’s domain—the very one he had wielded against Behemoth’s fragment—now manifesting here.
Skill: Fourth Seat—Partial Descent of the Demon Lord Castle of Death
【This is everything I am. Let us see if you can struggle even within this hell!】
The beautiful, radiant cities and temples of the Holy Kingdom transformed into a castle of death and vanished. Witnessing this, I furrowed my brow, let out a sigh, and then smiled faintly.
【You laugh? Truly, you are but an insect. Even if you annihilate me, this domain will not disappear for a full week. Your status is far too lowly! Domain summoning is a power only Demon Kings can wield! Without the skill of a Demon King greater than I, it will not fade!】
“Is that so? Then I just need to be greater than you.”
【Yes! Let us die together! Bury yourself in this death alongside me!】
Sorry, but that’s not happening.
I could only smile as I gazed upon the blackened castle of death.
“I have no intention of dying. And certainly not of being buried in this castle of death with something already fading away.”
【Empty arrogance.】
“Arrogance? No—confidence.”
My hand pointed toward the Demon Lord Castle summoned from the heavens to the earth, and I opened my mouth.
“Skill: Descent of the Demon God Territory.”
Eight Demon Gods exist within the Abyss. The Seven Sins who rule the Demon Realm—seven Demon Gods called the masters of the Seven Deadly Sins. And Solomon, the Demon God known as the god of all demons and the beginning itself.
And naturally, the ability called Territory Descent, permitted only to demons and those of Demon King caliber, was something the Demon Gods possessed as well.
And that power had been transmitted to me in its entirety.
The world warps. As if the Territory summoned by Kamighin were nothing at all, the magnitude of this distortion was dozens of times more formidable.
Crash! Boom! Crackle!
The protective barrier, created with the will to keep demonic presence from escaping beyond the Holy Kingdom, crumbles pathetically.
The actual size of my Territory was so small it was laughable compared to Kamighin’s Territory. Yet the difference in grade was incomprehensibly vast.
“Now things are different, aren’t they?”
The land infused with death vanished. The dead ceased rising and turned to ash, dissipating. The massive castle crumbles helplessly. And Kamighin’s face, witnessing all of this, was filled with nothing but shock and awe.
【H-How is this possible?】
To Kamighin’s bewilderment, Belial, who had finished disposing of all the ghouls, let out a scoff toward him and spoke a single phrase.
“How? Because my master is the successor of the Great King. It’s only natural.”
King of Kings. The parent of all Demon Kings and the primordial Demon. The Territory where that power was born and began had descended perfectly upon this Lower Realm.
The System flashes rapidly. It seems to be sending warnings, saying something, but I ignore it.
This is my power. Power I obtained through grueling effort. There is no reason I cannot use it.
That was when it happened. Countless gazes turned toward this place. Only then did I understand what the System was warning me about.
〚Divine Seat: The Dignified King bearing the falsehood of Mad Joy gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The master of black storms and lightning gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The ruler of black pestilence gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The false wing of foresight gazes upon you.〛
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〚All Divine Seats simultaneously change their epithets.〛
Countless gazes sent me messages, each bearing their own epithet, gazing upon me. And the moment I looked up at the heavens, they all changed their epithets at once.
〚Divine Seat: The Demon King of the 46th Seat gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The Demon King of the 5th Seat gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The Demon King of the 27th Seat gazes upon you.〛
〚Divine Seat: The Demon King of the 11th Seat gazes upon you.〛
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〚Divine Seat: The Demon King of the 1st Seat gazes upon you.〛
〚Of the 72 Seats of the Dark Magic Realm, a total of 66 Demon Kings currently occupying their positions gaze upon you.〛
The true trace of the Divine Being they had so desperately sought and yearned for had appeared. There was no way they—fervent believers and followers of the Demon God—could be unaware of it.
I clicked my tongue inwardly and withdrew my gaze from the heavens.
The Demon Kings had realized I had become the successor of the Demon God. How they would react was predictable.
‘Either kill me and steal my power, or wait and observe the situation until things become clearer, or acknowledge me as your successor and cooperate.’
Regardless of which path unfolded, the fact remained unchanged—I had become entangled with the Demon Kings Council.
I lowered my gaze to the figure below, where Kamighin now knelt before me with his head bowed, his eyes shining with reverence and worship, all traces of anger and resentment long since vanished.
【Ah…! Heir to the great Demon God! Only now do I recognize you, wretched and foolish as I am.】
A complete reversal from before. Where once he had regarded me as a insignificant creature who had forcibly stolen the Demon God’s power, now he seemed to truly acknowledge me as the legitimate successor.
‘So this one belongs to the third category.’
Those who acknowledge me as their successor.
But it was too late. Kamighin’s death was already sealed. There was no way to prevent it.
And indeed, it came to pass.
Kamighin’s body, stripped of all will to fight, all resolve, all rage, rapidly crumbled and dissolved.
【Please forgive my disrespect.】
With those words, he began to vanish. Or rather, he attempted to.
Had I not reached out and forcibly halted the dissipating soul before me.

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