I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 191

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Chapter 191. Treasure Mountain of Greed
〚Item: Divine Object—Treasure Mountain of Greed blooms!〛
The world trembles. Scattered treasures hide themselves throughout the mountain’s expanse, and the subordinates of Greed who had slumbered awaken from their deep sleep.
-Kiaaaaah!
-Grrrrgh!
-Kieeeek!
A shadow falls across the sky. A pair of crimson eyes meet mine before vanishing. A colossal form disappears as though it had never existed from the start.
“Hah? What is this?”
【Kuhaha! If you’re frightened, give up here! Then I’ll take Longinus, and I’ll acknowledge you as the master of the Seven Sins!】
“Why don’t you just advertise that you’re pulling tricks? So much for being a neutral observer.”
【Kuhaha! Haven’t you heard the saying? Never trust a contract with a demon!】
“I never trusted it to begin with.”
I simply accepted because I could win anyway.
〚The game begins in 5 seconds!〛
A message appears and the countdown starts. Simultaneously, the tremendous roars gradually fade to silence.
‘This is an absurd game.’
From the start, acting as the master of the sin of Greed, that creature seems obsessed only with seizing Longinus.
That’s precisely why it will lose. The moment the countdown began, I opened my inventory.
5
4
3
With 3 seconds remaining, my body was engulfed in black light and space shifted.
〚Teleportation to the starting point is complete!〛
〚Victory goes to whoever secures 50 or more of the 100 treasures first!〛
〚Begin!〛
This bastard’s trickery never ends. It was obvious I’d been dumped in some corner of the Treasure Mountain of Greed. I let out a hollow laugh even as I finished what I was doing.
As my inventory fully opened, the subordinates within began to reveal themselves.
Having attained mythic-grade status and acquired power rivaling transcendent-class beings, many of those who had regained their strength now manifested.
Belial. Kamighin. A vampire. And our dragon servants as well.
Furthermore, as the authority level of the Golden Tower rose and the power of demons grew stronger, I utilized the minor abilities that had been added.
“Hehehehe.”
With the Infinity Gate connected to my inventory, seven Celestial Demons revealed themselves through that passage. They too had grown far more powerful as the price of adapting to my growth and the System.
“You called for us. Hehehehe. We are honored.”
“You’ve arrived. Apocalypse Celestial Demon. I needed to borrow your strength for a moment. And since I’ve acquired new abilities, I thought I’d test them out as well.”
“How could we refuse a command from the great Celestial Demon?”
I summoned the seven Celestial Demons who had remained in the Jigo Murim. My ultimate hand. The ultimate hand that Mammon could never have imagined.
“Your task is simple. Ensure that those creatures—not the ones here—cannot do anything. I’ll handle the killing. Subduing them is all that’s necessary.”
Indeed, the perceptive Apocalypse Celestial Demon quickly grasped what manner of place this was and nodded.
“A demon’s domain.”
“You understand demons?”
“After the System came into being, we extended our reach into several dimensions as well. Though they were all crushed to dust… they were fascinating entities. Beings wielding power similar to demonic energy, creatures akin to Demon Gods. But compared to a Demon God, they’re nothing more than mayflies—utterly insignificant.”
From the moment I learned the true identity of Solomon, the Demon God, I found myself nodding along to those words.
“Well, there’s no need for excessive caution. Among the seven opponents, one has a god of those demons descending into them. Since the Game restricts most of that power, it shouldn’t pose a problem, but still—exercise care.”
“Do not worry. Then I shall stretch these limbs after so long. I’ve been sitting idle lately, and my body has grown stiff. Well then. I’ll dispose of them quickly, so simply send the signal and come finish things immediately.”
The seven Celestial Demons departed. Watching them leave with a smile, I turned my head and issued commands to Belial, Kamighin—now reduced to merely sixteen members—and the vampire Bertas.
“Go to that location and retrieve the treasures. Bertas, take those lackeys with you and put them to use.”
“Understood~.”
“….”
“Understood.”
Once I relayed to my subordinates the location Akasha had revealed, my work was complete. The numbers were different now. Even if only Belial, Kamighin, and Bertas each retrieved a single treasure, that would be eighteen.
I would have preferred to include my other subordinates as well, but having witnessed what manner of guardians protected this mountain, it was impossible for mere humans with only a slight elevation beyond their kind.
They’d die for nothing. Though I could resurrect them even if they fell, there was no reason to waste my strength needlessly.
Rather, attaching them to Bertas—the weakest among them—to eliminate variables was what mattered most.
With this, all preparations were complete. My victory against Mammon was assured.
As if reading such thoughts, a message materialized before me.
〚Hidden Quest: Sin of Pride Quest content has been modified!〛
A message I had forgotten about. Was it because my opponent was the master of the same Sin? Or was this too part of some predetermined rule?
〚Hidden Quest: Sin of Pride
Rank: ?
Grade: ?
Description: Sin of Pride is a mighty force that seeks to stand above all things. Prove yourself the complete master of that power.
Objective: Achieve victory over Sin of Greed
Success: Authority: Complete Awakening of Pride,
Failure: Authority: Pride Deleted〛
I smiled wickedly. So this is how it would unfold. It would end easily.
Closing the System, I rose from where I stood and surveyed my surroundings. Where darkness had once filled the mountain, light now descended instead, and that darkness settled upon the surface, manifesting as monsters.
Yet I felt neither fear nor dread. If anything, they seemed contemptible.
Pride. That word now seemed to dwell perfectly within me. But at this point, it mattered little what I became.
“I may as well be arrogant.”
For I am such a being.
“Well then. Shall I go settle this tedious karmic entanglement?”
Less than five minutes after departure, a Celestial Demon aura—perceptible only to Celestial Demons—suddenly spread across space.
Responding to that aura, my eyes gleamed, and I began moving toward where the signal originated.
The Game appeared to be 99% assured of my victory, exactly as Akasha had predicted.
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Flutter.
My twenty-four wings beat gracefully as I descended to the ground level.
“You have arrived, Successor of the great Demon God.”
“You resolved it quickly.”
“Yes. Then may I go have some fun? Ah, I heard we need to collect treasures—could you tell me the locations of a few? There seem to be some interesting things here, so I’ll play with them and collect what I need along the way.”
“Then I’m grateful.”
After transmitting the locations through Akasha, I watched the Celestial Demon vanish with the face of someone who’d discovered an amusing toy, and I looked down at the man writhing on the ground before me.
Pathetically, the first of my enemies to be caught by the Celestial Demon and have his limbs broken was Geuk-gwon Ha Il-gwon.
That fool who’d recklessly challenged me on Earth and was overwhelmingly subdued.
“Gahhh! You…you! Don’t look down at me with those eyes!”
Inferiority. Rage. Resentment. Irritation. Countless negative emotions crashed down, but the most overwhelming of them all was inferiority.
“Why! Why does your bloodline block my path so much!”
“You idiot. I didn’t block you. You stopped yourself.”
“Shut up! Shut up! I didn’t stop! How hard did I work to move forward! Do you even know the effort I put in! Talent! Because I lacked that talent…!”
Nothing but pathetic excuses from a loser not worth hearing. He lacked talent. Yes, that was possible.
I too had lacked talent, been short on luck, lived a miserable life at the bottom, and struggled through it.
But at least I never harmed others to compensate for those shortcomings. I never filled my deficiencies by hurting people.
“That’s your limit. You’re a half-baked creature who filled your inadequacies by harming others.”
“Shut up!!!!”
I drew a sword from my inventory and swung it at the enraged creature.
Squelch.
With a soft and cruel sound, both arms of the grotesquely twisted figure were severed.
“Others covet that position and lust for it, but I don’t do such things like you.”
I lacked talent. There was too great a wall before me. Setting aside such pathetic excuses, let me think.
“You were ranked second. Well, given your repugnant nature, you probably did all sorts of dirty things to reach that position. Was that position so insignificant?”
A position envied by all—above ten thousand, below one. Of course, since my Parents held joint first place, technically you should be called third. But everyone called him second.
“You should have known your place and been satisfied as second. How dare you attempt to eliminate my Parents?”
Squelch!
This time, both legs. As all four limbs were severed in an instant, I gave the creature one final decoration as it foamed at the mouth and lost consciousness.
“Ah. Before that.”
I opened my inventory once more. My Younger Sibling, who had been training in my territory until now, appeared.
The moment she crossed over from the Demon God Territory, she frowned at the sight of the man beneath me writhing in pain with severed limbs, and her eyes demanded an explanation.
“One of the seven who killed our Parents.”
He was alive, but I didn’t mention it. When things become more certain. When I can enter that space permitted only to the Concept Divine Seats, that’s when I’ll tell my Younger Sibling.
“This bastard….”
My Younger Sibling’s impression of the writhing mass of flesh muttering below was not so different from mine.
Emptiness.
“Do you want to do it?”
“No need. I just can’t believe a bug like that killed Mom and Dad.”
“We were young back then.”
If my parents had been even slightly less altruistic, perhaps such tragedy would never have befallen them. They were too kind, too naive, too devoid of greed.
That was precisely why they had been betrayed and nearly murdered.
They had failed to comprehend a fundamental truth: evil grows more vicious when treated with goodness.
“I am no such fool.”
Die. I had never entertained the notion of sparing you to leave behind seeds of your legacy.
Squelch.
With that final sound, no more unwanted noise reached my ears. One of seven. Vengeance achieved.
Naturally, I felt nothing. Was it pride? Or had my essence ascended to the level of divinity itself?
It felt like crushing an ant passing by on the roadside. Though, if I were being precise, it was more akin to killing an ant that had bitten my toe.
“How hollow.”
I let my blade fall slack for only a moment before signals from all directions reached me. Hollow though it was, empty though it felt, tedious though it seemed, vengeance had to be completed by my own hand.
“Come with me. This is something we must finish together.”
I stroked my Younger Sibling’s head, speaking in a low, calm, and resolute tone.
“Yes, it’s something we must do.”
That way, when we meet our parents again, I can tell them with confidence that we have avenged them both.
Thus, the quiet vengeance of the siblings who had lost their parents and lived imprisoned in misfortune and exile began to unfold.

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