I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 173

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Chapter 173. Return
Light. Free. Playful. A high pitch to the voice.
The atmosphere and manner of speech were a complete 180 from the first Concept Divine Seat I had encountered: the Father of the Oldest Dream.
Of course, that didn’t make it frivolous. It was free and light, yet precisely because of that, an inexplicable sense of oppression permeated the air. Playful and high-pitched, yet resolute and arrogant.
【How should I deal with you, who destroyed my plaything?】
Words close to reproach. Words that carried the implication that anger would be justified.
Yet the Primordial Chaos of Disorder clearly harbored goodwill, curiosity, and fascination toward me.
From the words themselves, I sensed more playfulness than actual rebuke.
【That sleepy bastard’s plaything was you, wasn’t it? I can certainly feel his traces. Power that escapes the laws. Alien, and therefore magnificent.】
I couldn’t speak. But I understood. To these beings, I was nothing more—and nothing less—than a plaything.
Even elevated to the rank of a supreme deity, I was only called a plaything.
It didn’t feel bad. It was natural. Before such overwhelming difference, being called a bug instead of a plaything would have made sense.
【Fascinating. A curse that even the most pathetic things bound by laws could never overcome, a wager where our victory was 100% certain. Yet you overcame it.】
Wasn’t that fraud rather than a wager? Yet my head nodded of its own accord.
If I hadn’t regressed, I would never have overcome it. Perhaps I wouldn’t have even known I was cursed.
All of this was thanks to the Golden Tower. After returning to Earth and swiftly concluding my revenge, I needed to level up quickly in the Tower of Ascension.
As I thought this, hoping that Concept Divine Seat would withdraw soon, the atmosphere changed.
The light atmosphere grew grave, the gaze became incredibly heavy, and everything was scrutinized in detail.
【But plaything… what exactly are you harboring inside?】
The gaze grew endlessly more intense. Simultaneously, the Concept Divine Seat’s power grew stronger, and its will descended upon this place more abundantly.
The dimension screamed. A dimension that wouldn’t be strange to call supreme-grade, one that could immediately be registered to at least the Upper Realm or even the Abyss Realm if incorporated into the Abyss, couldn’t withstand the magnitude and presence of a single being.
Gahhh!
Naturally, the pressure that crashed down was even stronger on me, the only one maintaining consciousness in this dimension.
【A power I’ve never seen before. Yet such a magnificent and formidable power.】
What was it speaking of? I barely grasped my fading consciousness, biting my lip to awaken myself through pain.
【An unknown power that gathers everything. How I covet it. How fascinating. How can such an absurd power even exist? A power that can do anything! A power greater than our transcendent strength!】
The heavens open. Mist takes form. A finger, an index finger, points toward me.
The terror of death. In that overwhelming fear I hadn’t felt in ages, I couldn’t even resist—I couldn’t move, and I was simply paralyzed by dread.
And the moment that finger finally touched my head, before I could do anything, the power of the Primordial Chaos of Disorder seeped into me and attempted something.
That was the moment.
It was the first time. The egos of other authorities occasionally expressed their will and made demands or interfered in my mental landscape.
Yet the one whose movements had been barely visible—standing alone in lofty arrogance, reigning from the highest place as if of a different tier—finally moved.
The Heavenly Demon Territory ignites. The Heavenly Demon Territory is forcibly manifested. The two powers are forcibly amplified, creating an impossible miracle.
Behind my back, a form emerges. Just as the Asura Celestial Demon had projected the god Asura of the Asura Path, I projected a new being.
Saaaaaah.
A goblin possessing a beautiful body of golden light. The Authority: Golden Tower Ego revealed its will in earnest for the first time.
To punish this foolish, presumptuous existence that dared covet it without permission.
Without consent. Without choice. A stupid insect.
The ego’s thoughts transmitted to me. Therefore, I couldn’t help but be bewildered. Such thoughts from such a being?
I was certain my power would be forcibly seized. I didn’t know what power it coveted, but I thought I had no choice but to give it.
But the tide had turned.
The golden ego touches a finger. The finger made of mist twists. It dissolves gradually from the fingertip.
【Krrrraaaaaahhhhh!!!】
Pain. Fear. Terror. Trembling.
A great being like the Concept Divine Seat would never suffer over the mere dissolution of a finger—and not even the original body, but a constructed one at that.
Rather, it seemed something far more fundamental had been done, something that struck the original body directly.
Before I could even think “how is this possible,” the mist rapidly retreats from me.
【H-how? You… inside a mere toy of a body?!】
A scream-like shriek echoes out. I don’t fully understand what it means, but one thing is certain: the Authority’s ego, especially the Golden Tower Ego, is no ordinary being.
An ego capable of manifesting itself independently—I’ve never heard of such a thing. It’s a power that other Authorities wouldn’t dare attempt.
Saaaaa!
The golden light flashes once more. It looked like a warning. As if telling that presumptuous mouth to shut and know its place.
【I… I apologize…】
The words couldn’t continue. As if the ego was sick of seeing the arrogant insect, it scatters golden light madly, and the mist begins to dissolve completely.
【An apology.】
Most of the mist vanishes in an instant, and the small amount remaining settles into me.
〚Authority: Primordial Chaos of Disorder acquired.〛
〚A being who has achieved a concept unto itself has transferred its conceptual essence to you!〛
〚Congratulations!〛
〚Great Power: You have taken one step closer to the concept!〛
It was instantaneous. The power of Pride within my body grows. Chaos—the mythic-grade stat I should have possessed originally, bearing the same name.
This was possible because a power reaching the source of that force, which had merged with The Sun and evolved into Pride at the cost of a mythic-grade divine artifact, now dwells within me.
Light and darkness. The radiant sanctity of The Sun and the pitch-black demonic energy of the abyss harmonize in chaotic discord.
Pride’s grade didn’t rise or anything like that, but one thing was certain: I had become far more powerful.
‘Come to think of it, Lucifer is also connected to chaos.’
In the ancient texts before my regression, there was mention that Lucifer was born from the embrace of chaos. Then was he a being created by the Concept Divine Seat?
I calm my confused thoughts and set aside questions I cannot answer immediately.
What matters more is…
“You.”
I turn my head and gaze at the Golden Tower Ego watching me from behind. What exactly are you?
I’ve always known this being stands in a different class from other Authorities. Doesn’t even Misfortune, the curse of the Concept Divine Seat, not dare to look at the Golden Tower Ego?
The fact that my mindscape became a pyramid-shaped tower was largely due to the Golden Tower’s influence.
Saaaaa.
The Golden Goblin, resembling Golden, looks down at me. There are no words. But the will is conveyed.
Grow. Make me grow. Then you will gain the power to do anything you desire.
I nod. Only then, satisfied, does it crumble and fade. But not before imparting one final will.
“Do not bow your head to something as trivial as the Concept Divine Seat.”
Does that even make sense? A small laugh escapes me. What have I been carrying all this time?
Fortune and Misfortune were the greatest powers I possessed, and by evolving into Destiny, I became a being that dominates one law. Or so I thought.
The Golden Tower, which calls beings who create concepts and become concepts themselves trivial…
“I suppose reversing time itself is absurd to begin with.”
I steadied my trembling legs and surveyed the world around me. Time, which had frozen, began to flow once more.
The hope I had created vanished after completely consuming my younger sibling’s body. The moment my younger sibling’s soul, glimpsed within the chaos, fused with Cheon Yu-hwa’s soul created by Chaos, it had already moved to Earth.
Now… it was time to return.
Was the world congratulating my resolve?
〚Dimension: The barrier of the Concept Divine Seat, Primordial Chaos of Disorder, that was imposed upon the Supreme Martial Realm has vanished!〛
〚The System settles!〛
The members of the Demonic Cult were startled by the System that suddenly appeared before them.
〚The Abyss opens!〛
Simultaneously, a massive and expansive Abyss gate opened before me.
〚The upheaval begins!〛
〚Enjoy! A stage of opportunity has opened to make your world even more perfect!〛
So Primordial Chaos of Disorder was interfering with the System. To think there existed a being capable of obstructing even the System itself.
I should not dwell on this. After all, it would be long before we met again.
Only after I had grown far beyond my current state could I meet such an existence.
“Beings I must inevitably encounter to bring my Parents back.”
When that time comes, things will be different. I will return as a being they would fear—no longer a plaything, but something even they would dread.
The celebration of the birth of a new Celestial Demon was stained with chaos, so I quietly departed from the Grand Training Arena.
〚Player Shin Ju-ha is rewarded with gratitude for dismantling the barrier of the Concept Divine Seat!〛
〚Title: World Destroyer rises to Origin rank!〛
The modest rewards were merely a bonus.
“Insane. And they call this a modest reward.”
I let out a hollow laugh and leaned back against the Celestial Demon’s Golden Throne, now my seat. How much time had passed?
The Celestial Demons who had escaped from the chaos outside gathered before me and bowed their heads.
“You have unfolded a great calamity.”
“A foundation for growth. A stage of opportunity as well. I did not do this. Though I was involved, it was the will of the world.”
“Remarkable. Then you are departing now?”
I nodded silently.
“Those who chose to remain shall stay. And those who wished to depart and live freely in a new life, enter that vast battlefield. A new world, new opportunities have been granted to you as well.”
“This status window makes growth itself quite easy.”
“We are grateful for the gift of freedom you have bestowed upon us.”
The Celestial Demons departed. Save for the seven who remained, all the Celestial Demons left in pursuit of freedom.
“We look forward to meeting again.”
Even the First Heavenly Demon, so faithful and resolute, chose freedom. Though in his case, his desire to seek out and explore traces of the Demon God was greater than his own freedom.
Thus the Supreme Martial Realm entered a new era. An age of upheaval.
“Then I entrust this to you. Apocalypse Celestial Demon. Do visit occasionally.”
“A thousand years, ten thousand years, eternally!”
And after witnessing the beginning of that era with my own eyes, I manifested my skill and transcended dimensions.

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