The Crazy Battle God Has Returned - Chapter 76

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A Mad Swordsman Returns – Chapter 76

The battle unfolding in the Tower was nothing short of a cascade of horrors.
Such was the sentiment of those who witnessed the clash between Han Yu-sung and the Blood Demon.
Not a single Player dared to utter a sound.

Crackle! Crackle!
Crack, splinter, crunch!

The spectacle before their eyes was simply too gruesome.
Han Yu-sung’s fist collided directly with the Blood Demon’s.
My fist shattered, blood erupting forth. Yet I pressed on without hesitation, surging forward with renewed aggression to close the distance between us.
Then I unleashed a regenerated fist, saturated with absorbed blood.

– Roooaaahhhhh!

The Blood Dragon Fang shot forth from my fist, tearing into the Blood Demon’s flesh.
Massive chunks were ripped from its body. It shrieked in fury and unleashed its blade.
The sword edge rippled like mist, then transformed into dozens of sword auras that assailed me from all directions.
Blood scattered through the air.
The Blood Demon seized the opening, pressing forward relentlessly.

Whoooosh!

– You… worm…!

Then, shadows erupted from all around, engulfing the Blood Demon.
Shadow thorns enhanced by the Mask of Chaos, along with countless shadow blades, pierced straight through the Blood Demon’s advancing form.
And seizing that moment, a hidden blade was launched.
The Blood Demon tried to swat away the shadows without concern, but—

Squelch!

– Ugh… wh…?!

The dagger pierced through the Blood Demon.
In that instant, the Blood Demon sensed something was wrong.
A feeling as though strength was draining away.
And it was no mere illusion.

[Heuk-a reduces all of the enemy’s stats by a total of 10%.]

– Krraahhh! Insect, you dare try such tricks?!

The Blood Demon roared in fury at the shallow stratagem, stamping the ground beneath him.
Blades crossed with blades, fists collided with fists. Their bodies shattered and regenerated, shattered again and regenerated once more.
Everything visible on the screen was drenched in crimson.

“Is he… insane?”
“How is he even fighting like that…?”

The players watching in shock murmured among themselves.
Han Yu-sung and the Blood Demon—both were fighting without regard for their own bodies.
The Blood Demon, a mindless monster devoid of reason, could afford such recklessness.
But.

“How is this Han Yu-sung even capable of fighting like that?”

A player like Han Yu-sung should not be able to do such a thing.
Even if wounds could be regenerated, pain could not be erased.
The agony of having one’s body destroyed would be transmitted in full, gradually wearing away at the human mind.
Until it surrendered to suffering.
And what of fear?

‘The Blood Demon is a monster of impossible strength.’
‘Against such a monster, even with the ability to regenerate wounds…’
‘One mistake and death follows. A monster so fearsome that it wouldn’t be strange to die in a single blow, without even a chance to regenerate.’

Knowing well what a life-or-death battle entailed, they could not comprehend it.
The Tower guarantees no lives. Death there is the end.
Yet he fought on, risking his existence with every moment.

“You seem to be enjoying yourself.”
“Does it appear that way, Alliance Leader?”
“Well, I can’t see his expression. But to my eyes, it certainly looks that way.”

Jain, the leader of the Korean Player Alliance, nodded slowly.
Han Yu-sung’s face remained hidden. Yet it was unmistakable in his movements, in his every action.
That man was savoring this moment—relishing the battle itself.
There was no other way to fight as he did.

“I’m not certain it will be fine. That regeneration won’t last forever. The battle’s momentum isn’t favorable either—if we’re careless, we might lose a talented warrior…”
“Is that what you see?”
“Pardon?”

Jain laughed aloud at Park Yu-ha’s concern, as if amused by it.

“Your instincts have dulled. You’ve been away from the front lines too long.”
“Then your assessment differs, Alliance Leader?”
“It does. From where I stand…”

Jain smiled, her gaze fixed on the broadcast screen.
A brutal battle—merciless and unforgiving.
A cycle of destruction and regeneration. Merely watching it threatened to break one’s spirit.
Yet Han Yu-sung was ‘adapting’.
Adapting to the attacks of that beast-like monster—the Blood Demon.

“Before long, I’ll have reason to visit him in person.”

That was Jain’s premonition.

* * *

Blood cascades.
A rusted blade tears into Han Yu-sung’s shoulder as his fist drives forward.
Then his back. A fist grazes past as his body twists, blood pouring freely.
Yet he pays it no mind.

Crash!

“Gah, haaah…!”

Blood Wind Severance struck the Blood Demon’s abdomen with devastating force.
The impact caved inward, and the crimson tempest tore through his body.
I absorbed the blood to mend my wounds, then seized my wavering form with shadow and pressed forward with relentless ferocity.
The Blood Demon met my assault head-on.

Crash! A resonant boom!

Fists and blades collided in a symphony of destruction.
Fighting the Blood Demon felt like treading the edge of an abyss.
A battle of annihilation and regeneration—one where death could come at any moment.
At first, the Blood Demon held overwhelming dominance.

A sharp hiss of displaced air!

I regenerated my fist and drove an uppercut into the Blood Demon’s jaw.
Beast-like as he was, his strength was undeniably genuine.
Even with the buffs from blood relics and skills, my physical prowess was being overwhelmed.
That’s why the early stages of combat saw the Blood Demon dominating me.

[The durability of the Blood Demon’s Stigma is approaching its limit.]

The regeneration count alone told the story.
When our fists collided equally, the Blood Demon sustained relatively minor damage, while my knuckles shattered badly enough to require regeneration.
Yet I refused to yield, fighting instead with escalating intensity.
So fiercely that cracks began spreading through the blood relic, unable to withstand the constant regeneration.
And so, the Blood Demon continued to dominate me.

A sharp whistle of wind!

But as time progressed, the tide of battle gradually shifted.
From the Blood Demon’s overwhelming superiority to mere advantage.
His attacks began to miss with increasing frequency.
A punch aimed at my head cleaved empty air, and my counterattack severed his arm clean off.
A blade meant to pierce my body struck only an afterimage.

A thunderous crash!

“Gack! Grrrrgh…!”

As if waiting for the moment, 【Annihilation Flame】 was unleashed, striking the Blood Demon with devastating force.
My chest caved inward, bones shattering, and blood gushed from the Blood Demon’s mouth in a torrent.
The Blood Demon spat blood and counterattacked, but the pattern remained unchanged.
The Blood Demon’s attacks were not reaching Han Yu-sung.
The reason was deceptively simple.

‘I can see it.’

The Blood Demon’s movements.
The way it threw its fists. The angle at which it planted its feet.
The body mechanics when swinging its blade. Even the counterattack when that blade was blocked.
Han Yu-sung deliberately showed the Blood Demon an opening.
The moment the deceived creature brought its blade down, I twisted my body and struck upward with tremendous force.

“Kuhaaaack!”

【Rupture】 pierced through the Blood Demon’s entire body like buckshot.
Such wounds meant nothing. The Blood Demon regenerated as it unleashed its blade.
The wavering blade transformed into hundreds of sword strikes, descending upon Han Yu-sung.
But they did not connect.

Whoosh!

Han Yu-sung kicked off the ground.
With minimal movement, I evaded the sword strikes converging from all directions, then became a fierce tempest that rushed toward the Blood Demon.
And as the Blood Demon’s fist came flying, I sidestepped and severed its arm.

“Hgh… Why… how is this…?”

It unleashes its blade. But it is deflected.
It fires its energy. Yet it does not land.
Its swung fist never reaches, only to be cut by my blade.
No matter how many times it regenerates, no matter how many times it attacks, it cannot connect.
Han Yu-sung evaded every single attack from the Blood Demon and turned them against it.
There was only one reason this was possible.

Scritch!

“Grr, you read my movements…?!”
“After taking hits like that so many times, you should be used to it by now.”

My movements had been completely read by this prey.
Was such a thing even possible?
The Blood Demon’s power remained overwhelmingly superior—enough to tear Han Yu-sung to shreds many times over.
Yet it was the Blood Demon who was being overwhelmed now.
Han Yu-sung’s experience, his honed combat instincts, made it possible.

A thunderous boom echoed through the air!

“Ugh, aaaahhh!”

The Blood Dragon’s Roar slammed the Blood Demon into the wall.
The scene mirrored exactly what Han Yu-sung had endured moments before.
The difference was that the Blood Demon possessed no hidden trump card.
Blood spilled from its mouth as its organs ruptured, struggling to regenerate its wounds.

A piercing chill swept outward with a sharp crack!

Then, a biting cold engulfed the surroundings.
It was Frost Nova, unleashed by Han Yu-sung.
The spreading chill froze the blood within the Blood Demon’s absorption range.
This meant Han Yu-sung could no longer regenerate his wounds either.
But it didn’t matter.

“I’ll finish this before then.”
“You…!”

The Blood Demon’s face twisted upon hearing those words.
A vicious madness clawed through its mind. Though reduced to something bestial, a thread of confidence as a warrior remained.
The Blood Demon snarled, gripping its broken blade.
An enormous surge of blood energy began gathering upon the weapon.

“Insolent worm! Don’t you dare mock me!”

The blade cleaved through the void.
A single slash.
Yet what erupted were hundreds, thousands of slashes.
Innumerable fragmented sword auras embroidered the empty air.
Their target was Han Yu-sung.
Countless sword auras wrought of blood essence hurtled toward Han Yu-sung.

‘I cannot block them, nor can I evade them.’

Then I would simply pierce through them head-on.

Thump!

My heart thundered violently. The mighty dragon’s power dwelling within my heart pulsed, unleashing a tremendous torrent of mana.

[The dragon’s power dwelling in your heart pulses.]
[Mana surges uncontrollably.]

【Mana Surge】.
A buff that amplifies the magic being cast while drastically reducing its incantation time, enabling ‘multiple simultaneous incantations’ of magic.
The stronger the effect, the steeper the price. When the buff expires, mana becomes completely depleted, and magic cannot be used for a certain duration.

‘A cost more than worth bearing.’

Shrieeeek!
Whoooosh! Crack!

Magic surged forth.
Towering shadows rose like colossal waves, colliding with the relentless onslaught of ice walls and slashes.
Without hesitation, I kicked off the ground.

Kaaaaang!

Successive shadow weapons erupted, countless ice spears carving away the slashes and creating openings in space.
I, transformed into a fierce gale, tore through the gaps.
The distance narrows.

Kwaaaaaang!

“Ugh, grrr… Stubborn, bastard!”

The Blood Demon’s fist struck through empty air.
Space tore asunder as a violent crimson wheel shot toward Han Yu-sung.
The distance was already sufficient. Once more, a colossal shadow surged upward.
Just as the crimson wheel shredded the shadow.

“…!”

Han Yu-sung had already vanished into the shadow.

【Decoy】.

Han Yu-sung, having swapped positions with the Blood Demon’s shadow, erupted from behind him.
And before he could even react.

Squelch! Crunch!

“Kuh, gaaahhh…!”

A fist wreathed in crimson wind pierced through the Blood Demon’s heart.
The sickening sound of a heart being crushed echoed forth.
Yet it was insufficient to kill the Blood Demon.
He spat blood and moved both hands, but.
Before that, Han Yu-sung’s blade slash came flying.

Slice!

A slash that severed the Blood Demon’s left arm.
His fist drove into Han Yu-sung’s abdomen.
It was a move I had witnessed countless times before. I dodged it with minimal motion.
Extinction Fire brought its full weight down upon the Blood Demon’s knee.
With a thunderous crash, the knee shattered.

“You, bastard…!”

The Blood Demon staggered, twisting his body as he thrust his blade forward.
A crescent-shaped arc of sword energy aimed for Han Yu-sung’s throat.
Han Yu-sung parried the attack and concentrated all his strength into his fist.
And then.

Boom!

A fist wrapped in crimson wind struck the Blood Demon’s face with devastating force.
With the sensation of shattering bone, his body was driven into the earth.
Han Yu-sung squeezed out his remaining mana to conjure an ice spear and launched it, the falling spear piercing straight through the Blood Demon’s entire body.

“Ggh… ugh…”

Impaled through his entire body, the Blood Demon was pinned to the ground.
Yet he still refused to die. He twisted his body, trying to rise, and in doing so, the shattered fragments of the ice spear tore through his flesh.
Han Yu-sung stood before the Blood Demon.

“Had you possessed reason, I might have lost to you.”
“Grrgh… shut… shut up! Blood… give me… blood…!”

He was a monster of overwhelming power.
But he lacked the reason to wield that power. Had he possessed it, the outcome would have been different.
A Blood Demon who fought using his own experience would be formidable indeed.
Perhaps it was a shred of conscience remaining in the one who created this Tower.
Han Yu-sung drew his sword.

“It was enjoyable, Blood Demon.”

Slash!

The descending blade severed the Blood Demon’s neck.
He thrashed, desperately trying to absorb blood, but only for a moment. Once he realized the blood had frozen solid, his movements slowed.
Soon, he went limp.

[‘Mad Blood Demon’ has been defeated.]
[Congratulations! You have successfully conquered the Top Floor of the Tower.]
[You have conquered the Tower of Blood Demon!]

A message materialized before my eyes.
Han Yu-sung exhaled only after confirming that the Blood Demon had truly perished.
It had been a satisfying battle, yet exhausting in every conceivable way.
He lowered his sword and attempted to steady his breathing.

“…!”

In that instant, my senses screamed a warning.

Clang!

Moonlight Blade deflected the sword that had been aimed straight at my heart.
The one wielding that blade was—

“Splendid.”

The Blood Demon, who should have been dead.
With a shattered heart and severed neck, the Blood Demon gazed at me with a smile, yet in those eyes burned not madness but cunning, ancient intelligence.
I sensed a formidable presence emanating from him.
Han Yu-sung felt a powerful aura emanating from that man.

“This Tower is where I buried my shameful past. I’ve come to see why a Tower that was never meant to be chosen was selected for some reason.”

And it was no mere illusion.
A Transcendent had truly descended into the Blood Demon’s body.
A Transcendent was literally ‘descending’ into the Blood Demon’s body right now.

“It’s because of the blood flowing through you. Thanks to that, I got to see something interesting.”

The Transcendent’s presence that had emanated from him dissipated as well.
The aura of a transcendent being that he had sensed from that guy as well.

“I’ll leave you with one gift. I look forward to seeing you again.”

With those final words, the Blood Demon vanished completely.

[Kyaaaaaaagh! Why, why must this happen again!]
[Kyaaaaaaah! Why, why is this happening again!]

Han Yu-sung tried to make sense of the situation.
Kakasha’s sudden seizure reverberated through his mind.
So violently that his head was shaken, overwhelmingly intense.

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