The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 107

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Episode 107
107
The moment Yoo Sung-hyun fell away.
Glancing up at the sky without thinking.
[Once all members of the Calamity Legion are eliminated, the large-scale event ‘Calamity Legion’ will conclude.]
“Ah.”
I had forgotten about that.
This wasn’t the time to be standing around.
Why not test the Knights of Ruin there as well, killing two birds with one stone?
“I need to head back.”
The moment those words left Yoo Sung-hyun’s lips.
Leonik cried out.
-Return to the Battlefield!
In unison with Leonik’s cry, the Knights of Ruin rose as one and shouted.
“Ruuuuuuuuuuiiiiiin!!!”
The Knights of Ruin responded with an excessive chant, mounting the spectral steeds in perfect synchronization.
The sight resembled a scene from a film—quite magnificent.
Yet among them, one knight stood motionless and vacant.
‘What? Why isn’t he mounting?’
Yoo Sung-hyun looked at the knight in confusion.
He recognized who it was immediately.
The same Knight of Ruin he had spoken to first through Leonik.
But why wasn’t he mounting the spectral steed?
Then Yoo Sung-hyun noticed Leonik wedged between the other Knights of Ruin atop the spectral steeds.
“Ah.”
Yoo Sung-hyun nodded in understanding at the sight.
Leonik looked toward Yoo Sung-hyun and spoke.
-My Lord! Allow me to serve as your mount!
“Oh, um, yes.”
Yoo Sung-hyun mounted the spectral steed together with Leonik.
Leonik immediately turned the horse’s head and cried out.
-Knights of Ruin!!! We charge forth!!! Our target is the Calamity Legion!!!
“Our target is!!!! The Calamity Legiooooon!!!”
The Knights of Ruin responded to Leonik’s lead with a thunderous chant, following him at the vanguard as they urged their spectral steeds forward with fierce momentum.
Thud-thud! Thud-thud—!
The powerful hoofbeats of the spectral steeds dominated the surroundings, driving forward with tremendous force.
At this speed, it rivaled flying atop Anemor.
Far faster than Yoo Sung-hyun’s own flight.
And so Yoo Sung-hyun nodded in genuine admiration.
At this pace, arrival would come far sooner than anticipated.
‘Shouldn’t take more than three minutes?’
I’d worried that merely moving would exhaust the duration, but it seemed that wouldn’t be the case.
It appeared I wouldn’t run out of time.
Then, suddenly, something occurred to me.
How would a Knight of Ruin without a ghost steed arrive?
I turned my head briefly to glance behind.
There, I could see a single Knight of Ruin galloping furiously.
“Haaack!!! Heeeegh!!! Hiiiigh!!!”
The moment I saw the Knight of Ruin running at full speed with a voice that sounded like it was gasping for breath and about to collapse, I quickly turned my head away.
I wanted to tell it to ride behind someone else out of pity.
But everyone was deliberately ignoring it.
Why?
Because it was the one who had been disrespectful to Leonik.
When your rank is low, there’s nothing to be done.
With an apologetic heart, I turned my head away and deliberately ignored it along with the other Knights of Ruin.
“Guaaaagh!!! Hueeegh!!!”
I deliberately ignored the gasping sounds that continued to reach my ears from behind.
2.
A large-scale event.
At this point, it was no different from an actual war.
The number of players was staggering, and the Calamity Legion’s forces were equally enormous.
The collision between the two forces was truly like a cinematic spectacle.
Yet now, having entered the considerably late stages of this conflict.
It felt closer to reality than cinema.
“Kyaaaah!”
“Move the wounded!!!”
“Move them where!!! Just force log them out!”
“Insane! They’re pouring in again!!!”
A chaotic battlefield.
The complete lack of order resembled reality itself.
War naturally carried such an atmosphere.
And within this war, there were those who shone brilliantly.
Even in this chaos, they stood out to everyone’s eyes.
Those worthy of being called heroes.
Merlin of Eclipse Order, Kurosawa Ren of Tempest Wing, and Jun-hyuk of Sick Brothers.
Those three were exactly that.
“Follow Merlin!!!”
“Clear the path that Ren has opened!!!”
“Jun-hyuk is advancing!!!”
The three acting as vanguard commanders.
The three who appeared to be heroes cut an impressive figure.
However.
In the desolate silence that blanketed the surroundings, another legion trampled the Calamity Legion beneath their feet.
They were not heroes.
A legion that marched forth solely for victory.
Baltar and Fiora, Barphor, and Nocturnium—all of them radiated an absolute presence, dealing death to everything and dominating this place like sovereigns.
Those four tolerated no intrusion and crushed everything beneath them, reigning supreme over this battlefield.
What was a fierce battle to others felt to them like nothing more than swatting insects.
As if this wasn’t even combat.
“D-don’t go over there.”
“W-won’t we die too?”
“W-well, from the Demon King’s live broadcast, I d-don’t think so, but….”
No one bothered to voice their uncertainty.
The Death Legion possessed individual reason.
No one knew how they might react if they heard such words.
Their prediction proved accurate.
The Death Legion heard the surrounding murmurs and chose to overlook them for now.
They hadn’t received orders to deal with these people.
However, those four executives were conversing among themselves.
-Hmm, we’ve certainly eliminated many, but the atmosphere is rather peculiar.
-Heh, hehehehe. Those, those arrogant humans are quite something.
-Hehehehe, this is a fine opportunity to present new things to our master.
-…Do not act recklessly. All things proceed by the Lord’s will. He will arrive soon.
At Nocturnium’s words, who had been surveying the surroundings, all of them paused momentarily.
Yet suspicious movements were evident.
They had no choice but to remain on edge.
Was it because of gossip about Yoo Sung-hyun or the Death Legion?
They wouldn’t grow this tense over something so trivial.
There was something else.
And it wasn’t only Yoo Sung-hyun’s subordinates who sensed this atmosphere.
“Hmm, something feels off? The atmosphere is really turning strange.”
“I felt it too….”
“Right. The atmosphere is strange across all guild units.”
“Wahaha. That’s what I’m saying. Most guilds, including ours, are hesitating a bit.”
Though Merlin spoke with a smile on her face, her expression had grown quite cold as she addressed Jun-hyuk and Kurosawa Ren.
It seemed she was plotting something in secret from the three of them.
The fact that this displeased them showed in all three of their furrowed brows.
And then a sudden realization.
“Now that I think about it, Echo Willow, which was supposed to participate, isn’t even showing their face.”
“Wahahahaha! I’d like to say they ran away with their tails between their legs, but.”
“That can’t be right.”
The villain guilds commonly known as Karma Guilds were mostly headquartered here in the Dune Wild Trail.
There was no lawless zone more lawless than this place.
That’s precisely why Echo Willow operated so boldly here.
Yet until now, neither Echo Willow nor any other Karma Guild had shown their faces.
Disrupting such festive gatherings was supposed to be their specialty.
When all three reacted to the strangeness, it happened.
From the west where the Calamity Legion had been approaching, another dust cloud began to rise.
Evidence that something was approaching this location at high speed.
Yet rather than tensing up, Merlin laughed heartily and shouted.
“Wahahahaha!!! They’re coming, it seems!”
“I was watching the live stream, and sure enough, they’re returning immediately.”
“This isn’t easy.”
All three spoke thus as they gazed at the dust cloud.
They could see the Knights Order at the forefront, and behind them, a single player approaching this location.
The player who could be called the protagonist of this massive event.
Was coming here in person.
And then it happened.
[Merlin—don’t act recklessly. Return to the guild side.]
“…???”
Seeing the message from the guild executives, Merlin tilted her head in confusion.
What was this about?
Kurosawa Ren had a similar reaction.
“…Did your guild also tell you to return?”
“…It seems something’s going on.”
Merlin’s expression, which had been laughing boldly, turned rigid, and so did Kurosawa Ren’s.
Meanwhile, Jun-hyuk.
“I got contacted too, and it looks like your two guilds have made a deal with Echo Willow.”
At Jun-hyuk’s words, Merlin and Kurosawa Ren’s faces flushed with shame.
Since they had contracts with their guilds.
They couldn’t refuse the orders.
But to think they’d joined hands with Echo Willow.
Their intentions were obvious enough.
“Damn it!”
“It’s frustrating, but unavoidable. Even if someone is a Demon Lord, could they face Echo Willow alone without anyone’s help?”
Merlin’s concern was understandable.
A Demon Lord?
Impressive.
But hadn’t they defeated this event’s boss and performed brilliantly here?
Now they had to face Echo Willow on top of that?
Can I really win this?
Such worries naturally bloomed in my mind.
“Jun-hyuk, how are things on your end?”
“Hmm.”
At Merlin’s question, Jun-hyuk scratched his head as if troubled.
“It seems we’ve sent an inquiry to the Rapid Guild….”
“Ah, so reinforcements are coming?”
“Ahem, if it’s support from Rapid, that would certainly be reassuring.”
At Merlin and Ren’s words, Jun-hyuk laughed awkwardly.
“Ah, no—there’s no reinforcement. The Demon King said he’d handle it himself, so we should just leave it be.”
“…???”
“…???”
Did the Rapid Guild really abandon the Demon King?
Without reinforcements, wouldn’t the Demon King struggle against Echo Willow?
With such thoughts, the three of us gulped nervously as we watched the Echo Willow legion approaching in droves.
Their numbers alone appeared to exceed several hundred.
Wasn’t this a scale that couldn’t be handled alone?
Even with Yoo Sung-hyun’s legion, mana isn’t infinite.
It seemed impossible to withstand.
Did the Rapid Guild really abandon the Demon King?
All three of us stared blankly at them, unable to comprehend.
3.
As someone who had always been quick to read the atmosphere, Yoo Sung-hyun could immediately sense something amiss.
I rose upward using flight, leaving the position where I had been riding behind Leonik.
Several figures were capturing members of the Calamity Legion and retreating to the rear, while the remaining Calamity Legion forces were being eliminated as they surrounded me and the Death Legion positioned around me.
It was something I couldn’t quite grasp at first.
But I could recognize them by their nicknames glowing red and the guild emblem they displayed.
‘Echo Willow, was it?’
Those creatures I had encountered before.
They were surrounding me and gradually tightening the encirclement, while other users were retreating on their own.
‘It seems they want to capture me?’
As I thought this.
A messenger arrived from the guild.
[Rapid-Echo Willow seems to be seeking revenge. Do you need support?]
At Rapid’s slightly worried message, I let out a soft chuckle.
Roughly estimating, the numbers seemed close to a thousand.
An ordinary user couldn’t possibly handle a 1 versus 1,000 scenario.
What if I had been a different Almighty-tier class?
In normal circumstances, I might have been able to win, but after such a large-scale battle, it would certainly be difficult, wouldn’t it?
However, I am an Almighty-tier class user, and among them, I reign at the very apex—an Overlord.
So I wasn’t worried.
[Sung-hyun—That can’t be right. I’ll record this too.]
After sending a brief reply, Sung-hyun pressed the record button and stepped forward.
From Echo Willow’s side, someone who appeared to be their representative also came forward.
It seemed they intended to negotiate.
Well then, let’s hear what they have to say.
With that thought, Sung-hyun advanced.
Their opening words were a disaster.
“Surrender quietly and hand over all your items.”
It wasn’t even worth listening to.
Sung-hyun shook his head with an amused expression, then snapped his fingers.
-Knights of Ruin!!!!!! Strike down these arrogant bastards!!!!!!
“Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuin!!!!!!”
The disciplined Knights of Ruin charged into battle.

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