The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 102

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Episode 102
Episode 102
“Gasp!?”
The broadcast alarm confirming his suspicions made Uncle emit a strangled sound as he gazed skyward, his body trembling.
Then the Young Man nearby rushed over urgently and asked.
“Oh no, brother! What’s wrong!?”
“That, that young man!?”
“Ah, the Demon King? Impressive, right? Man, he really seems like he’s from a completely different world than us.”
“That’s, that’s not it….”
I already knew who the Demon King was.
How could I not, when I loved watching Eternal World videos?
I had even subscribed to the Rapid Guild channel.
So when I realized that the young man who had spoken to me earlier was actually the Demon King, what did I feel?
I was gasping, my breath catching in my throat.
And then I recalled what I had said to the young man.
That since he seemed to have no guild and was alone, wouldn’t he want to join me?
I had spouted such foolish words.
Could he have also heard what I said afterward—that if he found it hard going solo, wouldn’t he come back?
‘Is, is he going to retaliate!?’
I had seen the Demon King’s bare face.
He was a handsome young man without a single flaw.
There was nothing particularly off-putting about his appearance.
But his reputation was that of the Demon King.
In the videos, he faced monsters with a cold, emotionless demeanor.
As those images overlapped in my mind, I trembled.
One couldn’t judge a person by appearance alone.
‘Ugh! Why did I have to stick my nose in!?’
While Uncle was lost in such useless thoughts.
Everyone else was staring blankly toward where Demon King Yoo Sung-hyun stood.
A black sun accompanied by jet-black thorns scattered across a vast range.
And from those thorns bloomed deadly black flowers.
The moment that tsunami of calamity—the legion bearing that very name—was held back, not only the users present here.
But other guilds as well, having issued live tickets in preparation for the event’s start and opened broadcasts.
Never expected the Demon King to intervene like this.
It was completely unforeseen.
Since it had been conducted in strict secrecy even within the Rapid Guild.
There was no way to know, and no one could have imagined the Demon King had already filled his level.
And to pull off such a surprise with a new skill right upon appearing.
“Is, is that really the same level as us?”
“It’s gotta be way over 120!?!?”
“Merely enough to hold back that many advancing forces for a moment….”
“Th-those black flames descending from that black sun are burning everything….”
“Insane….”
“Y-yes, it wasn’t for nothing that we cleared the Fortress of the Past.”
Everyone stood in shock, their minds reeling.
Several guild officials quickly regained their senses and gazed upward.
And there, brazenly occupying first place with an almost ridiculous margin, was a single name.
[Merit Point Ranking]
[1st Place 『Yoo Sung-hyun』 – 1,783 Points]
[2nd Place None.]
Seeing Yoo Sung-hyun’s name etched there alone, the guild officials cried out urgently.
“What are you doing just watching!? C-come on, move out! Hurry!”
“Charge in right now!!!”
“Throw skills!!! From range!!!”
“Don’t forget to feed him merit points!!!”
As the guild officials shouted in a frenzy of excitement.
Multiple guild personnel sprang into action.
The first to react were the three who burst forward even before the guild officials had finished shouting.
Unmistakably, they were Jun-hyuk, Kurosawa Ren, and Merlin.
Jun-hyuk, true to his Elemental Gladiator class, wrapped multiple elemental attributes around his body and wielded an enormous greatsword, launching himself forward while manipulating lightning and wind attributes to maximize his speed.
Kurosawa Ren likewise utilized his Storm Shadow class, riding the wind before transforming into shadow alongside it, disappearing and accelerating further.
And finally, Merlin.
True to her title as the Spear of Dawn’s First Light, she grasped the spear that opens the dawn in empty air, hurled it forward, mounted it, and soared through the heavens toward the calamity legion.
“Wahahahaha!!! Let’s compete!!!”
The three charged toward the calamity legion.
Especially the noisy Merlin.
Seeing this, I adjusted my suffocating mask.
Unlike before, I now wore a black mask.
The reason was simple.
Unlike edited videos, real-time editing during a live broadcast wasn’t easy.
This was a large-scale event.
I had to be exposed before many people.
So following the opinions of An Yoo-jin—or rather, Rapid, and my older sister Yoo Mi-na, I covered my face.
If my face became known, it would be inconvenient, they said.
‘They’re not wrong about that.’
By now, I had come to understand the status of Eternal World somewhat.
At first, I thought people wouldn’t watch game footage this much.
But apparently my subscriber count had increased by nearly a million.
It was better to be cautious.
In any case, this was what Rapid and I had been preparing.
None other than a live broadcast.
-????????What is this?
-It’s the Demon King’s broadcast!!!!
-Finally it’s open!?
-Insane!!!! What is that skill!?
-Is this it right now?
-Insane! He’s here!
The viewers who had purchased tickets and been watching the Rapid Guild broadcast from the beginning couldn’t help but be astonished.
Within moments of his arrival, they witnessed the Black Sun and the Thorns of Absolute Darkness.
-???????
-Wow….
-These are the skills of a single person???
-Insane;;;;
As the viewers marveled at the display.
They could also see the trio descending through the air.
-Huh? It’s Jun-hyuk from Sick Brothers!?
-Kurosawa Ren from Tempest Wing is here too!!!
-Insane! It’s Merlin!!!
-Merlin!?
Unlike the other two.
Merlin bore no guild name.
This alone spoke volumes of her exceptional renown.
Though Yoo Sung-hyun, under the management of the Rapid Guild, refrained from reading the chat.
His reaction was not so different from theirs.
‘So that’s her. The one Yoo Mi-na called the Boisterous Spear of Light….’
The Boisterous Spear of Light that Yoo Mi-na had mentioned.
At first, I had no idea what she meant.
“Wahahahaha!!! Light! Spears! Descend upon them!!! Wahahahaha!!! This shall be an entertaining battle!!!”
I watched as Merlin cried out, and countless spears of radiant light materialized around her.
The assault of those spears possessed considerable power.
I tilted my head slightly as I observed them.
Certainly, formidable strength indeed.
However.
As she drew closer, I naturally felt the decibel level rising.
Now I understood why she earned that epithet.
Her boisterous and spirited demeanor fit the description perfectly.
I had wondered what Yoo Mi-na meant.
But no more fitting description existed.
‘The Boisterous Spear of Light.’
I committed the name to memory and began assessing the trio’s capabilities.
The Korean wielding a greatsword infused with the power of multiple elements stepped forward first—Jun-hyuk.
Weaving storm and lightning together with the earth, he plummeted from the sky and drove his greatsword down into the ground.
As the blade struck the Battlefield, brown, silver, and golden light erupted outward in all directions. The earth fractured, and within those chasms, a tempest raged, lifting the very ground itself.
The storm swept across the terrain, consuming everything in its path, while the remaining creatures caught within were electrocuted by the lightning woven through the gale, disintegrating to ash.
A formidable area-of-effect technique.
Yet it appeared lacking.
‘Hmm, it’s a bit disappointing.’
He had attempted a skill chain, after all.
The elemental forces seemed to interlock with one another.
But to my eyes, they were operating independently.
A stark contrast to the build I was currently employing.
As I was beginning to feel that dissatisfaction.
Another fighter emerged.
Next came Kurosawa Ren.
He materialized like a shadow within the wind, slipping between the ranks of the Calamity Legion, and wielded the pair of short swords in his hands with ferocious speed.
A tempest erupted.
Unlike Jun-hyuk’s storm, which had been overlaid with silver light, a dark, shadowed gale tore through the air, cleaving everything in its vicinity to pieces.
He relied on raw power alone, forsaking any skill chains.
‘Ah, using a single skill like that… it’s certainly.’
Without the chain, the power fell short.
Though the range was broad, far more creatures escaped compared to Jun-hyuk’s assault.
I hadn’t seen much myself, but.
Why was it?
It was painfully obvious to me.
Perhaps it was thanks to the memories and experiences of the ghosts who had dwelt in this world since ancient times?
I could see that their fundamental approach to technique was flawed.
Finally, the last one—the radiant spear wielder, or rather, Merlin.
She soared upon the Dawn Spear, commanding a procession of luminous spears that trailed behind her back, and spread her hands wide open.
The spears embedded themselves in succession among the Calamity Legion below, and I watched calmly to see what would unfold.
“Wahahahaha!!! Light, oh light!!!!!!”
Responding to Merlin’s boisterous cry, the embedded spears of light began to resonate.
Trembling, they unleashed brilliant rays in all directions.
And soon, the spears erupted in radiance and brilliance, transforming the surroundings as if purifying them with light.
Light detonated, and the luminous spears swept across the area.
Kwagagagagaga——!
The explosion consumed everything around it before condensing back into light, which was seized in Merlin’s grasp as she descended from the sky to the ground.
Simultaneously, Merlin landed in a different location from where the radiant spears had just swept, and drove her spear into the earth.
Kwajjik——!
Bzzzzzzzzzeck——!
Light cleaved the ground, and from the fissures, a torrent of brilliant radiance erupted forth.
“Hmm?”
At a glance, it was clear I had deployed two skills in succession.
A flawless chain of Light Spear and Radiant Explosion, followed by a secondary combo where I gathered light once more, descended, and unleashed area-of-effect damage.
It was a performance without flaw, at least from my perspective.
Yet I was not alone in such thoughts.
“Damn it. Getting stronger by the moment. This is too much.”
“Tsk. I thought we’d caught up even slightly, but….”
The two who had been growing stronger in earnest watched Merlin’s magnificent feat with expressions of gloom.
With that single strike, two enormous gaps had been torn through the Calamity Legion’s formation.
The two gazed upward with eyes tinged with despair.
[Merit Point Ranking]
[1st Place 『Yoo Sung-hyun』 – 1,783 Points]
[2nd Place 『Merlin』 – 1,264 Points]
[3rd Place 『Jun-hyuk』 – 827 Points]
[4th Place 『Kurosawa Ren』 – 814 Points]
The point gap between Merlin and me had narrowed sharply.
Yet even if they doubled their own scores, I remained beyond their reach.
Rather than despair, they resolved to move with diligence and secure at least third place.
It was around then that Jun-hyuk and Kurosawa Ren began their desperate struggle for third place.
I too caught sight of the Merit Point Ranking, my eyes gleaming with interest.
The moment Merlin’s gaze met mine, she pointed with her index finger and cried out in a boisterous voice.
“Mawaaang!!! Did you see that?! Wahahahaha!!!”
As if in response to what I had done, was she demonstrating that she too could unleash an area-of-effect technique?
I smiled faintly at the sight.
It felt as though I’d been issued a challenge.
Well, this isn’t so bad.
Thump——thump!
The cyan heart in my hand suddenly pulsed.
The Calamity Legion that Jun-hyuk, Kurosawa Ren, and Merlin had been hunting were resurrected.
They rose as the Death Legion, wreathed in darkness and emanating cyan radiance.
The moment they were resurrected, they began generating a dense green mist.
A vicious, toxic green fog that melted everything it touched.
-Gwooooooo!
-Kyaaaaaaaa!
-Keoooooooo!
The Death Legion roared, their souls lost—over two hundred of them.
Even Merlin could not laugh at the sudden appearance of so many Death Legion; she merely stared in a daze.
And in that moment.
An even greater number of Calamity Legion surged forward than those we had slain.
But the Death Legion charged straight through the ranks of the Calamity Legion.
They began to shimmer as if igniting.
The Calamity Legion, numbering at least several times more than the charging Death Legion.
Yet the Death Legion charged forward as if defying death itself.
In that moment, I activated my skills.
As Virulent Toxin Burst and Specter Burst erupted simultaneously through the darkness within me.
Intense heat surged forth, releasing a brilliant radiance.
A colossal explosion, swirling with cyan, deep verdant, and ashen hues, engulfed the surroundings in tremendous heat.
——————!
And the delayed shockwave struck the ground.
Kwagagagagagaga———!
-W-what is that????
-Nuclear explosion?!?!?
-That’s insane;;;;
-This can’t be real….
-Is that really level 120 or below?
-Not 220?
As the viewers erupted in shock, their messages flooding the chat, the dust from the explosion dissipated.
A crater of considerable size.
Or rather, a chasm that could be mistaken for a ravine had formed.
And Merlin, without thinking, lifted her gaze toward the sky.
[Contribution Ranking]
[1st Place 『Yoo Sung-hyun』 – 10,029 Points]
[2nd Place 『Merlin』 – 1,264 Points]
[3rd Place 『Jun-hyuk』 – 827 Points]
[4th Place 『Kurosawa Ren』 – 814 Points]
Faced with such an overwhelming spectacle, Merlin found herself unable to even muster her trademark hearty laugh.

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