The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 61

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 61

The battle was over.
Wei Hao, who had reigned as the number one Destroyer, fell helplessly to death.
Utterly one-sided, without mounting any proper resistance whatsoever.

“W-Wei Hao is…”
“D-Dead? Really?”

The Destroyers who had been watching lost their will to fight.
Among them, who was the strongest? It was Wei Hao.
How could they possibly defeat an enemy that Wei Hao could not overcome? And crushed so overwhelmingly like that.

“R-Run…!”
“Hatchling. No—Dragon.”
– ROOOAAARRR!

The Destroyers who had lost their will to fight attempted to flee.
But the only exit, the doorway, was blocked by rubble, and more importantly, Han Yu-sung had no intention of letting them escape.
Soon the Dragon Lord’s breath engulfed them.
That was the end of it.

“It was worth raising him. I never imagined he would grow to this extent.”
[Mmm, mmmmmm.]

I gazed up at the Dragon Lord with satisfaction.
A physique that filled half of the vast cavern, two pairs of wings, and scales that gleamed like molten rubies.
Now there was not a trace of youth left—only the form of a fully matured dragon.
Yet Kakasha seemed dissatisfied, letting out a groan.

[Ugly, it has become…!]
“What kind of nonsense is that?”

I let out a long sigh.
The Dragon Lord tilted its head at the sound.

[I preferred you as a Hatchling! Hatchling! Hatchling!]
“But I can’t regress a fully grown creature, can I?”
– Kururu…?

The Dragon Lord tilted his head repeatedly.
It seemed he still retained habits from his Hatchling days.
Han Yu-sung ignored Kakasha and rifled through the corpses of the fallen Destroyers.
Since they were high-level players, they carried quite a few items.
Among them, the gauntlets that Wei Hao had worn were particularly noteworthy.

[Dark Flame Gauntlets (Legendary)]
· Slot: Weapon (Gauntlets).
· Attack Power: 170.
· Strength +8, Martial Arts Skill Damage +15%.
· Flame Attribute Skill Damage +20%, Mana Consumption –10%.
· Blessed by the 【Lord of Darkness】. If a covenant holder offers a sacrifice, these gauntlets are enhanced to Mythic grade and grant the covenant holder tremendous power. However, the weight of that sacrifice will be heavy.
· Currently damaged; all effects are significantly reduced.

Gauntlets blessed by the Lord of Darkness.
In my previous life, Wei Hao’s great exploits were largely thanks to this.
He had wielded this trump card exceptionally well.
But for me to use it was somewhat awkward.
Since I hadn’t made a covenant with the Lord of Darkness, the core options were essentially useless.
It was merely an item far inferior to the Blood Soul Arena.

“Kakasha. Is there a way to use these gauntlets?”
[Hmm, well! They’re blessed by that sinister one. It will likely be difficult. But using them is certainly possible!]
“How would you use them?”
[Those gauntlets are a kind of sacred artifact. A lord can absorb another lord’s sacred artifacts and make their power his own.]

Kakasha’s flames bloomed from the tips of Han Yu-sung’s fingers.

[I can absorb the blessing contained here and transfer it to your gloves. Of course, the effect will change.]
“Useful. For the first time, I felt you were actually worthwhile.”
[What!]

Kakasha was taken aback by Han Yu-sung’s praise.
Either way, it was fortunate.
I had wanted to utilize gauntlets of this caliber somehow, and now I had a way to do it.

[Sworn one, you’re finally proving useful, I, I suppose….]
“Well, it seems we’ve finished what needed to be done here.”
[Don’t ignore me!]

Han Yu-sung casually dismissed Kakasha and checked the message.
It was a message he’d set aside to deal with Wei Hao.

[You have completed the Epic Quest, 【The King’s Path】.]
[The trial’s content has been altered, and a new Battlefield has been created.]
[Will you transition to that Battlefield first?]

Now that I’d eliminated him, it was time to respond to the message.
I looked up at the Dragon Lord standing before me.

“You know well what will happen after this.”
– Kuuuuuu….

The Dragon Lord nodded.
The Statue had spoken of it—when a new Dragon Lord was born, the entity that once destroyed this world would reveal itself once more.
That confrontation would be the final trial.
The last battle awaited.

“Fight and win. Think only of that. I’ll help you.”

The Dragon Lord’s victory was my victory.
I had no intention of defeat after coming this far.
Eliminating Wei Hao here was to remove as many variables as possible.
The entity that destroyed this world had grown weaker over the long ages, so the current Dragon Lord should be able to face it.

“All right, let’s go.”

Moments later, my vision shifted dramatically.

* * *

A message suddenly appeared before everyone’s eyes.

[Someone has completed the Epic Quest, 【The King’s Path】.]
[The content of future trials will be altered.]
[A new Battlefield will be created.]

Beneath a sky heavy with dark clouds, a colossal dragon spirit materialized.
It was the dragon spirit of the Dragon Lords that dwelt within the Dragon Lord’s Lair. They surveyed the ruined world before them, then beat their wings.
Their destination: the heart of the island.

A deafening roar echoed across the heavens!

The Dragon’s Altar.
The dragon spirits of the Dragon Lords descended upon the Statue carved in the image of a dragon, and vanished without a trace.
A crimson aura, threatening to overflow, gathered within the Statue.
Soon, a pillar of red light erupted from the Statue.

[The mightiest dragon spirit has been born. The Altar, deeming it unnecessary to evaluate the dragon spirit, has selected the mightiest one.]
[Summoning the dragon spirit awakened as a Dragon Lord and its Guardian.]

The Dragon Lord and Han Yu-sung materialized beside the Altar.
Han Yu-sung surveyed his surroundings.
Countless dragon spawn guarded the Dragon’s Altar here. Fortunately, unlike those in the Dragon Lord’s Lair, these spawn did not attack Han Yu-sung.
And moments later.

[The current number of surviving Guardians is 103,566.]
[All Guardians will be summoned to this location.]

The Guardians materialized in unison.
The sight of over a hundred thousand Guardians being summoned at once was magnificent.
The suddenly summoned Guardians looked about in confusion, trying to comprehend their surroundings.

“What… what is this? Where are we?”
“The Dragon’s Altar? We were in the Lair just moments ago, so why are we suddenly here…?”
“…I saw a message about completing an Epic Quest. Could it be…?”

The quick-witted Guardians grasped the situation immediately.
Their eyes converged upon a single point as they surveyed their surroundings.
Upon the colossal dragon spirit standing majestically before the Dragon’s Altar.

“He completed an Epic Quest in that short span of time?”
“That Dragon Soul….”
“It seems to be on a different level from the Dragon Souls we possess.”

The Dragon Lord.
The Guardians who witnessed that Dragon Soul felt the disparity in power.
It was a being of an entirely different dimension from the Dragon Souls they had contracted. Though it was a Dragon Soul like theirs, they could sense a chasm of power that was utterly beyond their reach.
Even among the Guardians who had survived thus far and contracted reasonably powerful Dragon Souls—some of whom had even bonded with S-rank Dragon Souls—the difference was unmistakable.

“Heh, my Dragon Soul is A-rank, but there’s no comparison?”
“What do you make of it, Leo? That Dragon Soul.”

Guardian Ranking 5th, Park Yong-ho, and Ranking 2nd, Yamamoto Yuki, approached the blonde-haired man.
He swallowed hard before answering.

“It’s overwhelmingly stronger than my Earth Dragon. There’s no comparison.”
“The same for me. Even though mine is an S-rank Ice Dragon….”
“To that degree? Then, is it a rank above S?”
“Surely S-rank was supposed to be the highest.”

Guardian Ranking 2nd, Leo Edelman, nodded.
His Dragon Soul was an S-rank Earth Dragon.
Despite being the highest grade of Dragon Soul, it felt like nothing when compared to that colossal Dragon Soul.
Could such a Dragon Soul even exist?
Then, who was the one who had contracted with that Dragon Soul?

“…He appears to be from the East. Yamamoto, have you seen him before?”
“No. I’ve never seen that face in Japan. If such a player existed there, I would have known long ago.”
“I don’t know either. I’ve never seen that face in Korea either.”

A man with a rough-hewn expression stood before the Dragon Lord.
A player neither Yamamoto Yuki nor Park Yong-ho recognized.
As Leo observed him, a certain name suddenly came to mind.

“That’s right—Han Yu-sung. Was that man him?”
“Han Yu-sung? You mean the person who was Guardian Ranking 1st?”
“He’s Korean. Wait, was there such a player in Korea?”
“Right. I had my suspicions, but still. So that man completed the Epic Quest….”

I had suspected it from the moment the Epic Quest opened.
A Korean player who had achieved overwhelming growth.
There was no one else but that man—a Guardian who had undertaken and completed the Epic Quest.
The Guardian rankers exchanged glances with one another.

“…Let’s go and talk first. We need to understand the situation.”
“Yes, that’s best. Let’s go and….”

We had to hear what had happened.
The Guardian rankers made that judgment and prepared to move.
And then, in that very moment.

Rummmmmble!

“U-Ugh?!”
“The ground…!”

The entire Dragon’s Tomb trembled as if struck by an earthquake.
The earth near the Altar split open, and from the crevices surged an ominous and sinister aura.

[According to the covenant, a new Dragon Lord has been born.]
[The entity that once exterminated dragons—judging that “destruction has not yet ended”—awakens.]

The ground crumbles.
The endless sinister aura that erupted consumed the sky.
Through the haze-like miasma, something revealed itself.
A Colossus—vast and radiating an overwhelming presence.

[The Colossus of Ruin rises.]

It was a colossal form.
A body composed of black stone and metal. From countless fissures across its surface, an ominous aura flowed endlessly.
That aura corroded everything it touched. The ground where the Colossus stood, the very wind that brushed past it.
All of it.

– Grrrrooooaaahhh….

The colossal giant that had been gazing at the earth lifted its head.
Its massive horned skull rose, and from the hollow sockets, a dark aura materialized like pupils—those eyes recognized its enemy.
Standing before the Dragon’s Altar was the Dragon Lord.
Intense malice ignited in the giant’s gaze.

– KUOOOOOOOOOO!

The giant’s roar shook the very earth.
The ground trembled violently, and a crushing force bore down upon the Guardians. Even the dragon souls without physical form were seized by terror at that roar.
The giant extended its right arm to the side.
Space tore open, and through the rift emerged a colossal blade.

– Immense, by will alone….

The giant’s ominous voice reverberated in all directions.
It aimed the ruinous greatsword at the Dragon Lord.

– I shall bring complete annihilation to this world.

The giant of ruin trampled the ground.
Immediately, teleportation reactions erupted from all directions.
The teleportation completed in an instant, and countless figures materialized.
There was no need to question who they were.

[Current surviving Destroyers: 135,981.]
[Summoning all Destroyers to this location.]

They were Destroyers.
Like the Guardians before them, they looked around in confusion at the sudden teleportation.
Soon, a message appeared before everyone’s eyes.

[The final trial begins.]
[The Last King, the Dragon Lord, clashes with the giant of ruin.]
[Guardians stand with the Dragon Lord, while Destroyers stand with the giant of ruin. The Dragon Lord and the giant of ruin gain additional power according to the number of Destroyers and Guardians who follow them.]
[Guardian Han Yu-sung, you stand with the Dragon Lord.]

A message explaining the trial about to unfold appeared.

[Every time a certain number of Destroyers are eliminated, the Colossus of Ruin weakens, and the Dragon Lord absorbs that power to grow stronger.]
[Additionally, Destroyers who surrender after losing their will to fight can be made into ‘slaves.’ These slaves are recognized as Guardians and are used to amplify the power granted to the Dragon Lord.]
[Should the Dragon Lord emerge victorious, this dragon soul will obtain a complete physical form and embark on a journey to rebuild the devastated world.]
[Should the Colossus of Ruin emerge victorious, this world will collapse entirely.]
[Rewards will be granted to the victorious faction!]

The defeated faction would receive nothing, of course.
Win everything, or lose everything. Beautifully simple.
And this was precisely the way Han Yu-sung preferred.

[Achieve victory alongside the Dragon Lord! Fight with honor!]
“You still remember what I said, don’t you?”

Han Yu-sung locked eyes with the Dragon Lord standing behind him.
The Dragon Lord nodded with unwavering confidence.
Han Yu-sung, pleased by that response, smiled and gripped his blade.

“Let’s go. To victory.”
—ROOOOOOOOOAR!

The last dragon of this world unleashed its roar.
A cry that seemed to shake the very heavens.

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