The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 270

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 270

All I needed was a single opportunity.
But seizing that chance proved far more difficult than anticipated.
Kakasha exhaled wearily.

‘It’s frustrating, but I cannot close this gap in power.’

Her body bore countless wounds that festered and decayed.
Needless to say, they were inflicted by the Lord of the Dead.
I had burned away his attacks as much as possible, but my strength was insufficient to incinerate everything.
I felt the Lord of the Dead’s authority gradually corroding my body.

‘It was something I had already anticipated.’

The Lord of the Dead sneered at Kakasha and swung his massive scythe.
Space fractured into countless shards in an instant.
Through the rifts, countless spectral forms infused with the Lord of the Dead’s authority materialized and poured toward Kakasha.
Kakasha burned through the assault while making rapid calculations.

‘The momentum is unfavorable. At this rate…’

Defeat would come soon.
If I fought desperately, I might buy more time, but the cost would be severe.
If that happened, even creating an ‘opportunity’ would leave me too depleted to exploit it.
I had to preserve my strength for the moment of reversal.

‘How much longer, Han Yu-sung?’

The Lord of the Dead summoned power once more.
Countless bone fragments materialized in the void, coalescing into the form of a colossal meteor.
Then, the overwhelming bone meteor descended upon Kakasha.

‘Not yet…’

Kakasha’s wings erupted in fierce flames.
Her blade, crossing the sky at tremendous speed, cleaved through the meteorite.
As it split, the power of the Dead contained within was released, attempting to corrode Kakasha’s entire body.
She burned away the power with flames, gritting her teeth.

[Ugh…!]

Intense pain pierced through my mind, and an involuntary groan escaped.
I had endured until now, but this cry was one I could no longer suppress.
Hearing it, the Lord of the Dead burst into wild laughter and surged with power.
He was certain of victory.

– Kakasha.
[…!]

Then, a voice resonated within Kakasha’s mind.
It was the voice of the Apostle—the one she had waited for more than anyone.
Hearing that voice, Kakasha summoned all her remaining strength without hesitation.
In that moment.

[Ugh…?!]

With a deafening roar, the flames exploded, and everything around ignited.
The power of the Dead that filled every direction, the acrid miasma of death itself.
The flames that consumed everything converged into one.
A single concentrated hellfire streaked across the sky and was unleashed.
Directly toward where the Lord of the Dead stood.

Whoooosh!

The fierce hellfire used the explosion as propulsion, closing the distance.
In an instant, the hellfire reached the Lord of the Dead’s position, transforming into the form of the Lord himself, then into Kakasha’s form wielding the War Flame.
A blade of fire curved through the air and was unleashed.
The heat contained in the blade incinerated the air itself, and the space the blade passed through melted away.

[…!]

That speed was beyond even a Lord’s ability to react.
The Lord of the Dead instinctively unleashed his power, and the aura of death condensed before him, forming an ominous barrier.
Then came the collision—blade against barrier.

Whoooosh!

The heat infused in the blade incinerated the barrier.
No—it burned away the ‘death’ contained within it. The Lord of the Dead swiftly erected a second barrier while making his judgment. Completely blocking this attack was impossible.
So then.
Then.

“If I give him more damage than the damage I’ve taken…!”

But it was far too sudden. By committing everything to the attack and launching this ambush, Kakasha had left himself completely defenseless.
Had the Lord of the Dead failed to react at all, it would be one thing. But because he’d succeeded in responding with a barrier, Kakasha’s entire body was now exposed to counterattack.
If the Lord of the Dead hadn’t reacted at all, it would be one thing. But because it succeeded in reacting with a barrier, its entire body was exposed to the attack.

“Give flesh, take bone.”

The blade came crashing down, shattering the newly erected barrier.
That barrier had bought but an instant—a fleeting moment.
Yet for a transcendent like a Lord, even an instant was sufficient.
And for transcendents like the Lords, even a fleeting moment of time was sufficient.

Now!

The blazing blade pierced through the Lord of the Dead, and in that same moment, a concentrated surge of death’s aura shot through Kakasha.
The blazing blade pierced through the Lord of the Dead, and at the same moment, the condensed death energy that was shot through struck Kakasha.

CRASH!

The heat of battle and the aura of death spread in all directions, creating a tremendous shockwave that shook the entire Sanctuary.
Billowing dust obscured all vision.
And when that dust finally settled.
And when that dust settled.

[….]
[….]

The forms of the two Lords became visible.
Kakasha stood in the sky, while the Lord of the Dead was driven into the earth.
At first glance, it appeared as though Kakasha had claimed victory.

[Ugh, cough!]

But the reality was entirely different.
The Lord of the Dead exhaled ragged breaths.
A tremendous impact shook his entire body.
The fact that he had crashed to the ground unable to withstand the shock spoke volumes of its magnitude.
Yet he had not sustained the fatal damage that Kakasha had.

Whoooosh!

[Ugh…!]

From Kakasha’s body, suspended in the sky, dark crimson flames leaked out like blood.
It was the result of the Lord of the Dead’s attack. That strike had carved deep wounds across his entire form, and from those wounds, the Lord’s power was hemorrhaging away.
While the Lord of the Dead had not escaped unscathed, his injuries were light compared to the damage Kakasha had sustained.

‘What exactly did that fool do? Why would he resort to such a thing….’

And so doubt crept in.
What was Kakasha truly aiming for with such a reckless act?
Was he attempting to overturn the tide of battle with a surprise assault?
But this was nothing short of gambling—and gambling with odds so infinitesimally low.
Was he foolish enough to stake everything on such a gamble?
No, that could not be.
Surely, there was something he was scheming….

Boom!

[…!]

Then, the earth trembled violently.
The Lord of the Dead turned his head, his eyes widening in shock.
What entered his gaze was a Player who had closed the distance.
It was Han Yu-sung, fluttering wings identical to Kakasha’s as he charged forward.
Judging by the distance, he must have begun his movement before the Lord had even crashed to the ground.

‘A human, charging at me?’

It was a situation I simply could not comprehend.
Of course, I harbored no intention of underestimating Han Yu-sung. That bizarre technique he had displayed against my Avatar in our previous encounter made such dismissal impossible.
But that was only when dealing with an ‘Avatar’.
What stood before him now was not an Avatar, but my true ‘Body’.

‘Audacious. Does he come willingly to his own death?’

A mere Player could be slain with a gesture.
Even Han Yu-sung, among the most talented of Players, would be no exception. The very gap between our tiers transcended dimensional boundaries.
Before a transcendent being who traverses the cosmos, humanity was nothing but ants.
No matter how exceptional the ant, the outcome remained unchanged.

[Yes, this is good.]

The Lord of the Dead unleashed his authority.
In that instant, the world around us drained of color.
The sky lost its hue, the earth twisted into ashen gray and fractured, and the air ceased its circulation.
The soldiers locked in fierce combat, friend and foe alike, froze in place, and soon crumbled into dust like withering leaves scattered on the wind.
The entire world was transforming into a monochromatic abyss.

[If death is truly what you desire.]

The Lord of the Dead concentrated his authority.
Then the ashen gray began to flow. The colorless sky, the earth twisted into ash, the crumbled forms of life itself.
Everything converged toward the Lord of the Dead.

[Then I shall grant your wish—I will kill you first…!]

From the Lord’s fingertips, a colossal wave of shadow extended forth.
One surged toward Kakasha, another toward Han Yu-sung.
It was the will to prevent the Lord’s interference while ensuring the pathetic enemy’s certain death.
And in the next moment.

Whoooosh——

The soldiers caught between the Lord of the Dead and Han Yu-sung perished.
They had no time to scream. In an instant, their armor crumbled like sand, their flesh withered, their muscles shriveled, and they were swallowed whole by the wave.
Countless lives, robbed of their vitality, scattered as ash.

What was contained in that wave was the formidable power of the undead.
A tide of death that absorbed the life force of everything it touched.
A tsunami-like wave surged toward Han Yu-sung in an instant.
And it consumed him entirely.

Whoooooosh!

Han Yu-sung perceived the wave of death that crashed upon him in an instant.
I could feel an overwhelming power so intense I couldn’t even breathe.
It was a level I myself couldn’t withstand.
The moment it touched me, all my life would be stolen, and I would scatter as ash.

‘There’s no way to evade it.’

It was far too late for that.
The wave reached right before my eyes the moment I perceived it.
Or rather, from the beginning—

‘I had no intention of evading.’

Boom!
Han Yu-sung stamped his foot with tremendous force.
With a deafening roar that shook heaven and earth, an enormous surge of magical energy erupted from my entire body.
A technique the Lord of the Dead had witnessed before.
It was a remarkable technique, but—

[Do you truly believe such a parlor trick can withstand my power!]

The technique was woefully insufficient to resist the Lord’s authority.
Especially since this was the true form, not an Avatar.
Han Yu-sung would be consumed by the wave and cease to exist.

[You have harbored the will to defy the heavens.]
[Defiance Against Heaven is strengthened. The skill’s rank increases!]

Had it been the ‘Reversal’ of before, it would have been so.
Han Yu-sung’s arm traced a slow spiral.
In that instant, the wave that had been rushing in to swallow Han Yu-sung ceased its movement.
A portion of the power contained within the wave was absorbed into Han Yu-sung.
The Lord of the Dead, witnessing an unbelievable sight, widened his eyes.
And then.

【Reversal】.

Han Yu-sung’s fist struck through empty space.

KWAAAAAAA!

The ‘Reversal Sphere’ that had absorbed the Lord’s power was unleashed with an intensity never before displayed.
It tore through the wave of death, carving a path forward for Han Yu-sung.
He did not squander the opportunity granted to him.

[What…?!]

Han Yu-sung charged forward along the path that had been created.
The distance between him and the Lord of the Dead narrowed in an instant.
Han Yu-sung shattered all of his ‘magical seals’, and an enormous quantity of magical energy erupted from his entire body.
That energy absorbed the remaining power of the Lord while converging toward his fist, compressed to its absolute limit.

‘What in the world is this ominous presence!’

The Lord of the Dead instinctively summoned the aura of death.
As long as he was human, there was no way this incarnate form could be defeated.
Yet he could not afford carelessness. This ominous presence could not be ignored.
Now was a time when even the slimmest possibility had to be considered.

SAAAAAAAA!

A thick, deathly aura enveloped the Lord of the Dead.
A barrier with enough strength to withstand even the Lord’s own attacks.
It was not something that could be pierced by a mere Player’s assault.
Surely, it had to be so.

[You have resolved to shatter the heavens.]
[Sky Breaker is enhanced. The skill’s rank increases!]

In that instant, everything froze.
Everything within my sight—the Sanctuary crumbling to ruin, the Lord of the Dead staring at me with eyes wide in shock.
Literally everything.
I alone possessed the ability to move within that frozen moment.
Then my fist, infused with the power of Sky Breaker, struck through the void.

Sky Breaker.

ROOOAAAAARRR!

Beneath that overwhelming force, heaven and earth trembled.

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