I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 166

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Chapter 166. The Heavenly Slayer Star Demon (2)
Crash! Crack! Smash!
Brutal. Merciless. The original trial of the 99th Zone—a demon-tainted creature summoned from another dimension by the Celestial Demons’ power is torn to shreds.
The trial of the 99th Zone, designed to forge only one final warrior into a Celestial Demon, carried immense difficulty. Yet for one already a Celestial Demon, such a creature was trivial.
Rather, the ability to warm his body, to indulge in slaughter, thrilled and aroused him—driving him to commit carnage with ever greater cruelty and ferocity.
At last, the creature’s breath ceased. In the slaughter ground, where only a corpse ravaged with brutal violence and dark blood remained, the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon turned away with an expression of amusement, his work complete.
As though his body had finally loosened, as though he could now accomplish something worthwhile, he drew a deep breath.
Shhhhhhhhh~~~!
Savoring the vast celestial energy flooding through the Bi-dong after so long, he smiled.
“Yes! This is the feeling! The sensation of being alive!”
The dimension of his rebirth had been utterly contemptible.
The atmospheric energy was nearly nonexistent compared to the Supreme Martial Realm; the humans’ level was pathetic, their talents unremarkable.
He had become their Emperor and cultivated their growth, yet bound by their species’ limitations, they stagnated at some point—they could not grow, would not grow.
So he destroyed them. If they could not satisfy his interest, they could only entertain him through other means. And that entertainment took the extreme form of apocalypse.
And then he returned. To the Heavenly Demon Flying Cave.
Accepting celestial energy into his body, his clouded mind clearing, his face becoming sharper and more composed, the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon turned slowly, his expression expectant.
As though nothing had transpired, he greeted the beings who had appeared behind him.
“Long time no see, you great and supreme Celestial Demons.”
At his brazen and confident demeanor, the Celestial Demons’ faces twisted in unison. Some had abandoned the Heavenly Demon Flying Cave and their homeland, the Supreme Martial Realm, bound by various reasons—or rather, excuses.
All except a minuscule few who had truly had no choice made that decision solely for their own gain, discarding duty for profit.
Naturally, the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon, once called the absolute ruler of Calamity, fell into the latter category.
Unable to accept death, consumed by the desire to reign eternal and immortal, he had transcended dimensions using the Bi-dong’s power.
Naturally, the Celestial Demons marked him for elimination.
Moreover, unlike other Celestial Demons who cautiously sought their own methods, he had audaciously exploited the Bi-dong’s power as he pleased.
The reason he had returned here when the Bi-dong opened was singular: to establish a new Celestial Demon, to use the power gathered in the Heavenly Demon Flying Cave to be reborn into a new dimension!
Knowing this, all the Celestial Demons had manifested as avatars before him.
“You’ve lost your mind. How dare you return to this place?”
At the words of the Seventh Celestial Demon, the Apocalypse Celestial Demon, the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon’s eyes turned toward him. Then, smiling as though delighted, he waved his hand.
“It’s been so long. I trust you’ve been well? Or is that question improper, since you’re dead? In any case, you seem to be managing.”
It was a greeting tinged with mockery and derision—as though insulting them for spending time so futilely bound to the Heavenly Demon Flying Cave. The Celestial Demons’ expressions hardened.
Such mockery toward the Apocalypse Celestial Demon, who was like a most devoted teacher in life!
From this single remark, one could discern precisely how the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon regarded the Celestial Demons bound to this Bi-dong.
“Insolent.”
The First Heavenly Demon, who had been observing all this from behind, stepped forward. He advanced confidently, drawing near to the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon’s face.
“Hehehehe! Amusing, isn’t it? Are you threatening me?”
Naturally, he felt no pressure. He had lived as an absolute being, remained one now, and would become one again—such was his conviction. Petty provocations like this would surely have no effect.
Furthermore, the dead Celestial Demons could never attack a living one. It was a constraint, a shackle, a law.
It was also one of the conditions by which the dead could remain here, even in spirit form.
“Foolish, foolish blood of Calamity. Lower your head, accept death, and offer yourself to the Bi-dong. Then I shall spare your life.”
At the First Heavenly Demon’s words, the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon could only burst into laughter.
How could I not laugh? An old man confined eternally to Bi-dong, unable to reincarnate, all because of a single shackle devoid of meaning and value—and now he dares threaten me?
“You’ve lost your mind. Completely lost it. Have you gone mad from existing in that conjugal state for so long? The First Heavenly Demon? How dare you speak to me that way?!”
The Heavenly Slayer Star Demon, having devoured the power of a demon tainted by demonic essence, unleashed a formidable Heavenly Slayer Star technique and seized the First Heavenly Demon by the throat.
One-sided dominance. Even with his original body’s strength, the First Heavenly Demon could never overcome the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon. In an avatar state with restrictions, it was utterly impossible.
“You will…regret…this.”
“Me? I, who was chosen by the great Star of Heavenly Slayer? I, the mightiest of all Celestial Demons!”
The avatar of the First Heavenly Demon, choking to death on those words, let out a faint laugh. Was there anything more absurd?
“Mightiest? A…pathetic…insect…dares…speak.”
Crack.
As the avatar’s neck finally broke, its spirit escaped, still mocking him.
—Foolish, feeble vermin who deems itself divine. Feel it. Witness it. The truly mightiest monster comes to find you, the one who dares obstruct its design.
Ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku.
Bi-dong trembles. When the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon tears through dimensions and rends demons apart, it pales in comparison to the overwhelming Heavenly Demon divine technique now crashing down upon Bi-dong.
A tsunami. True calamity descends—something no human strength could withstand or evade.
—Despair and crumble. Realize that you are no absolute being, merely a wretched insect that commits slaughter.
It is felt. The Heavenly Slayer Star Demon’s face grows cold. Without intention, his body begins to tremble violently, and his eyes—stained crimson with Heavenly Slayer power—quiver.
A sensation never before experienced. The feeling of an insect standing before an overwhelmingly superior force.
—Face it. And submit. Greatest of all Celestial Demons.
Kwaaaaaang!!
The sky of Bi-dong collapses. And from that fractured sky, a woman emerges.
Naturally, arrogantly, majestically. Her stride was noble, magnificent, and effortless.
Heaven and earth exist for me alone.
There was no other way to describe the arrival of such a being.
Though all the Celestial Demons of Bi-dong were her seniors and elders, they bowed their heads in reverence, withdrawing their avatars to make space for her.
The nearly infinite Heavenly Demon essence that had permeated Bi-dong vanished in an instant.
She alone had overwhelmed the combined Heavenly Demon power of every Celestial Demon in Bi-dong.
“How dare a wretched fugitive.”
This monster, this absolute being, wrathful. Her fury directed at the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon who dared sabotage her design.
Heavenly Demon divine essence erupts outward, riding her wrath. Overwhelming presence seizes the 99th Zone.
The shattered sky of Bi-dong had already been restored, and Bi-dong was now completely conquered by her power.
“What…is this?”
The Heavenly Slayer Star Demon was bewildered. Gripped by terror. His body trembled at the scent of death.
He was divine. He looked down upon all things, commanded all things, could kill at will—he was a god!
Nothing should exist above him. He was the absolute being who had even shattered the Apocalypse Celestial Demon, the mighty seventh Celestial Demon.
Yet…what in the world was this monster before him?
“Pathetic.”
Words he had always spoken to insignificant humans.
“Weak.”
The reason he had thought while annihilating worlds. Things weaker than himself. Useless, so he killed them.
“Worthless.”
After annihilating an entire world, a thought bloomed in his heart. As an absolute being, everything else was worthless.
The absolute being Hosoin could not utter a single word before the true absolute. He merely trembled, consumed by terror, wearing the same pathetic expression as the insignificant warriors he had slaughtered.
“That such a trivial thing dared obstruct my designs.”
The Heavenly Demon Emperor, called the true absolute, descended from the heavens with frigid eyes and stood before the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon.
Weak. He seemed to have lost his power, but in this state, he was so feeble and contemptible that even the strongest of the Supreme Martial Realm could not be defeated by him.
A presence so insignificant that death would come the moment she extended her hand.
There was no hesitation. Why was an absolute being absolute? Because she was the strongest, the most arrogant, and the most magnificent—capable of anything, and therefore absolute.
The Heavenly Demon Emperor moved to extend her hand with indifferent simplicity.
There was no escape. Dare not. No insignificant creature could refuse the command of an absolute being.
Yet her hand could only stop just before the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon’s chest.
“How presumptuous….”
The Heavenly Demon Emperor gazed upon the avatar of the First Heavenly Demon that had seized her hand. The avatar, whose neck had been broken and whose body had become a corpse mere moments before, had recovered to its complete state using Celestial Demon techniques, and now blocked her hand.
The Heavenly Demon Emperor’s brow furrowed. In truth, she was one of the rare Celestial Demons who respected and revered the primordial ancestors among those arrogant and willful Celestial Demons of old.
Yet that did not mean she would overlook such insolence.
Just as the Heavenly Demon Emperor turned her gaze toward the First Heavenly Demon blocking her hand, about to open her mouth and condemn his disrespect and impose punishment, the First Heavenly Demon released the hand he held first, bowed his head slightly, and revealed the reason for his transgression.
“Forgive my rudeness, Great Heavenly Demon Emperor. However, he must not be killed.”
“If I decree death, then death shall come. Do you truly believe a mere phantom could stop me? It seems my respect for you ends here.”
“I apologize for speaking out of turn. But the Emperor must forgo this amusement this time. This one is the Successor’s quarry.”
At those words, the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s face bore emotion for the first time. With an expression of clear favor and intrigue, she withdrew her hand and turned her body fully toward the First Heavenly Demon.
“A new Celestial Demon desires this wretch?”
“The Successor has declared they will hunt personally. Thus, they commanded that he be confined to the 99th Zone.”
The Heavenly Demon Emperor nodded with satisfaction, and then laughed as she watched the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon, who could only stare with a sickened expression at the two exchanging words about his death.
“Remarkable indeed is the power possessed by such a insignificant insect.”
The Heavenly Slayer Star. One of the greatest powers of the star that illuminates only a single existence.
“First Heavenly Demon, a hunt requires spoils of war.”
Without a word, the First Heavenly Demon nodded.
“I shall deliver the most magnificent spoils to the Successor.”
The Heavenly Demon Flying Pavilion moved its power under the will of the First Heavenly Demon and thirty-eight other Celestial Demons. There was no way to block or resist. He faced imminent death—how could he?
A gamble staking his very source, the most powerful force that had elevated him to the position of absolute being—the Heavenly Slayer Star.
“Slay the one who sought to hunt you. Do so, and I shall grant you what you desire.”
And that alone was the only path for the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon to survive.
“I…I shall obey.”
The contract was forged under the Pavilion’s authority. And it became the last mistake the Heavenly Slayer Star Demon would ever make.

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