I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 228

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Chapter 228. The Fall of Olympus (2)
After retrieving the third Lemegeton from the 444th Floor and devouring Artemis’s divine avatar, I made my way directly to the Floor of Rest.
Floor 500. The ceiling that no player among those who entered the Bottomless Pit had proven worthy enough to surpass, now sealed away.
〚A true successor has reached Floor 500!〛
〚The sealing formation that bound Floor 500 has been released!〛
〚All players who entered the Bottomless Pit are awarded 10 bonus points!〛
And the moment I reached Floor 500, the message that appeared before every player’s eyes carried a singular meaning.
The ceiling had shattered. Those players who had waited long on Floor 500, hoping for this ceiling to crumble or for other reasons, erupted in joy and amazement.
Simultaneously, they began searching with fervent eyes. To discover who the true successor of the great Demon God was.
Naturally, only an infinitesimal number of players had ascended to Floor 500. With all their power sealed away, reaching Floor 500 was a dream impossible to achieve with ordinary talent.
Even if seals could be released at the Floor of Rest every 100 floors, there were definite limits to what could be overcome.
Naturally, all eyes converged upon me. With my appearance came the message, so it would be strange not to notice.
The players on Floor 500 and the organizations they belonged to began calculating the unique status of “successor” and the benefits they could gain through me.
Simply by reaching Floor 500, I had gifted all players 10 stat points—how much more could be obtained by standing alongside me?
Even trapped by the ceiling and unable to advance further, the reason they endured and remained in the Bottomless Pit was for greater power and hidden pieces, so greed was inevitable.
Within gazes that fixed upon me with the ravenous hunger of starving hyenas.
I did not spare them a single glance, instead focusing my eyes on the messages that appeared solely for me.
〚Successor confirmed!〛
〚Successor’s qualifications verified!〛
〚Confirmed possession of fragments of Apocalypse!〛
〚Item: Ring Containing the Wisdom of Creation confirmed!〛
〚Authority: Ars Goetia confirmed!〛
〚Authority: Ars Theurgia Goetia confirmed!〛
〚Authority: Ars Paulina confirmed!〛
〚Authority: Master of Ten Thousand Demons confirmed!〛
The powers related to the Demon God Solomon grew in presence within me, further imprinting their existence upon the System.
〚The finest and greatest successor confirmed!〛
〚Arrangement is granted!〛
And the System confirmed through this arrangement that the path I had walked was not mistaken.
〚All authorities and items are unified into one!〛
The Demon God Solomon… no, the primordial Demon Salomon’s first power to be inherited for his death, and the fundamental force that would become his legacy.
〚Concept: Demon has been created!〛
The ring adorning my hand transformed into light and was absorbed into me. Simultaneously, my eyes widened.
“What is this?”
The conceptual fragments of creation and mimicry contained within the ring, as if they had been waiting, separated from Concept: Demon and were absorbed into the sealed concept within me.
Though bewildered, I could only nod in acknowledgment.
“This is a power based on the Creator’s strength, after all.”
The vast concept of embracing all things directly chosen by the Creator: Sky. I did not understand it before, but now I do.
Though Uranus’s power became the origin point of this concept, it is now entirely colored by my own essence.
And thus I have become a great vessel capable of embracing the Creator’s power.
“It has evolved further.”
I nodded, sensing the concept of creation operating with several times greater efficiency than before.
“Not much remains until completion.”
In fact, if I forcibly unsealed all restrictions right now, I could become a Concept Divine Seat, and the constraints imposed by the Golden Tower would dissolve, granting me perfect completion.
‘But not yet.’
The power to dominate and command all creations, to borrow their strength as my own. It frustrates me that I cannot wield it immediately, yet my instincts speak clearly.
Now is not the time. More! I must fill this vessel with far more before then! Only after that should I achieve completion.
And I was not foolish enough to ignore my instincts. The intuition and premonition of a being who had accumulated this much stature were indistinguishable from foresight itself.
〚Current stature has not reached the level of a conceptual entity!〛
〚Concept: Demon partially sealed!〛
It was only natural—with merely the stature and power of a high-ranking constellation, I could not fully absorb the concept. But it mattered not. If I climbed just a few more floors and devoured more…
‘I could reach a Concept Divine Seat.’
So I needed to ascend quickly. Ignoring all the gazes upon me, I entered the shop at the city’s center and spent every coin I possessed to unseal my abilities.
Though I called it all my coins, my abilities were so absurdly broken that the cost was astronomical, and I could not even unseal half of them.
Yet the moment I reclaimed a portion of my power, an indescribable sense of omnipotence enveloped me, and I reached the realm known as the Divine King, the supreme constellation.
I had accomplished everything that needed doing on Floor 500. All that remained was to eliminate these foolish insects.
I turned my gaze toward the exterior of the shop. There, a gathering of players’ auras fixed upon me.
They made no attempt to conceal their undisguised emotions.
“No matter how much power they suppress…”
The players dwelling on Floor 500 were so stupid they could not even perceive the gap between themselves and their enemy.
As I unsealed my restrictions and the racial factors within me awakened once more, transforming me from human into something half-transcended, I stepped confidently from the shop.
As if they had been waiting, four players approached me—the strongest among those gathered.
‘At best, they are low-ranking constellations.’
Mere refuse, scarcely equivalent to the transformed bosses of the 400th Floor Layer. I slowly took them in with my eyes and licked my lips.
‘Yet they have survived and climbed this far.’
That guaranteed some measure of talent. Though they failed to comprehend me and harbored foolish greed-driven delusions, their abilities were nonetheless genuine.
‘Devouring them would not be unpleasant.’
The four players who had approached me opened their mouths without concealing their avarice.
“Well, well. We meet someone of great importance. Having lived over a thousand years in this Bottomless Pit, I never thought I would truly witness Solomon’s successor.”
“And that this successor would be a being who is not even pure Demon Clan…!”
“Then does that not mean we too had a chance?”
“Ah! We have not introduced ourselves. We are those who have cultivated our strength and achieved harmony in this place. Together, we have established four guilds that govern this Bottomless Pit.”
At their blatant words, I let out a scoffing laugh.
It seemed they were even entertaining the absurd notion that if they killed me, they might obtain the successor’s qualifications.
Pathetic. So utterly contemptible and worm-like. I wanted to sweep them all away.
Having waged battles of life and death against Chief Gods called masters of entire Divine Realms, facing these insects trapped in a well, playing king of their petty domain, was far too repugnant.
“Why not come and speak with us for a moment?”
“You were not planning to ascend immediately past Floor 500, were you? The fact that previous floors have been corrupted suggests the upper layers may have transformed similarly.”
“Travel safely with us instead. In exchange, we shall share the advantages that a successor possesses.”
“Hahahaha! Indeed. We are virtually specialists of this Bottomless Pit. We shall personally impart our expertise to you.”
I couldn’t bear to listen any longer. Without hesitation, I extended my hand, and the primordial demonic essence surging through it, attuned to my emotions, obliterated the trash before me.
Splat!
A single finger—barely worthy of being called a strike—had burst the head of the strongest player among the four Guild Masters.
…!!!
Their shock was fleeting. Even rotten fish could still flail, and the three remaining Guild Masters immediately retreated, unleashing the power and force they had been restraining.
“You madman!”
“You dare oppose the Four Great Guilds?! You’re nothing but a half-breed Demon!”
“So be it! While we’re at it, we’ll strip you of that successor’s qualification you possess! Warriors of the Four Great Guilds! Show this enemy the might of our power!”
Hundreds of guild members unleashed their fury and greed without hesitation, their power exploding outward. The Four Great Guilds rushed at me to kill.
“Pathetic insects.”
Celestial Demon Divine Art
Secret Technique
Demonic Celestial Eclipse
A black sky engulfs even the burning sun. In a single slash, the entire Floor 500 is drenched in black demonic essence.
The Celestial Demon Divine Art, drawing upon the infinite primordial demonic essence of the Bottomless Pit, had evolved to a degree incomparable to before.
It was over. The black sky swept away the greedy spirits that had languished on Floor 500 for so long.
“Consume them. Even dust will be of use.”
The crimson spirit blazed with excitement, filling the space where the black sky had vanished.
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Boom!
The heavens and earth trembled. A deafening roar that obliterated everything around it. The battle here, too, had reached its end.
【Hmph. Foolish master of the Underworld.】
【Cough! Cough! Hack!】
As the forces of the Underworld were overwhelmingly slaughtered and the tide of battle turned against them, Hades, who had attempted to flee with his tail between his legs, was struck by Heracles’s fist and driven into the earth, coughing blood.
Heracles stood over him, his flawless body unmarred, gazing down with arrogant disdain.
He slowly extended his hand and seized Hades by the throat, lifting him into the air.
【So even that vaunted cunning of yours cannot deceive my eyes now, Hades. How laughable is that title—master of the Underworld.】
【Dare you…you should never have escaped Tartarus, Heracles! Cough! Heracles!】
【Why? Did you create me only to fear me now?!】
【Ha! Fear! Who do you think annihilated the soul and body of your mother, torn to shreds?!】
In an instant, Heracles’s face hardened. His previously expressionless visage contorted for the first time, and rage—genuine rage—erupted from within him.
【You…you didn’t!】
【Kekekek. That’s right. I completely erased your dead mother. I couldn’t allow such an inauspicious existence to enter my hell!】
Heracles reacted violently to the sudden provocation.
As Heracles, his cold eyes blazing with fury, tightened his grip, Hades—already pallid—grew even more ashen, his body trembling.
Just as Heracles was about to deliver death to the God of Death himself, he released his grip.
【I’ll spare your worthless life.】
【What mockery is this!】
He suppressed his rage. The one before him was his enemy—the sole enemy who had annihilated the soul and body of his mother, the only one who had stood by him.
Yet Heracles endured. Or rather, he did not endure, but neither did he kill.
I merely made a declaration.
【Persephone was destroyed by my child. You shall meet an end far more terrible than annihilation.】
【Impossible…gack!】
【Be imprisoned in a hell more dreadful, agonizing, and regrettable than the one I endured. That is the vengeance I inflict upon you.】
【How dare you! How dare you! Do you think I would sit idle! I will find that child you cherish this very moment and deliver death! And…!】
Heracles did not listen further. He hurled Hades to the ground and turned away.
【Your vaunted brothers cannot stop that child either, so what makes you think you could? Therefore, be eternally tormented by your own impotence, Hades. Feel every day, every minute, every second the anguish my mother endured.】
With that, Heracles departed the Underworld and hurled himself toward the Bottomless Pit.

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