The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 212

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Episode 212
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The Spider had shown such noble resolve in her final act of defiance, but the moment she became a Ghost, her affection for Yoo Sung-hyun flipped as easily as turning over a palm, and she was about to speak—
It was absurd, bordering on grotesque.
Yoo Sung-hyun paid it no mind.
I figured it was something that could happen, so I simply let it be.
Besides, I could have known if I’d wanted to.
“You don’t need to say anything.”
-Yes, understood!
Yoo Sung-hyun said this and absorbed the Spider’s memories and experiences.
However, I did not read her memories to discover who her master was.
[You displayed an ability beyond your current stats through an ‘Unknown Power’.]
[Strength +6 permanently increased.]
After all, Helena would answer if I asked her anyway.
So I absorbed the memories and experiences and gained stat increases.
Then came the Hidden Raid Boss elimination message.
[You have eliminated the Hidden Raid Boss, ‘Gilbert, Servant of Darkness’.]
[This is an exclusive Hidden Raid Boss for the ‘Overlord’.]
[Rewards have been replaced with special items.]
[You have cleared the ‘Overlord’ Story Quest, ‘Wooden Drum Village’.]
[You obtain your reward.]
[You gain an enormous amount of experience!]
[Level Up!]×3
[You are now Level 168.]
[As an elimination reward, you can now replay ‘Diary Memory 2’.]
[Replaying ‘Diary Memory 2’ will lead to the next Quest.]
[As an elimination reward, you obtain the Legendary-grade material item, ‘Aura of Darkness’.]
[As an elimination reward, you obtain the Legendary-grade material item, ‘Spirit Tree’s Flesh’.]
The last Quest had given minimal experience rewards.
This time, I received quite a generous amount—enough to gain three whole levels.
After that, I could see the message about being able to read the diary memories, along with the newly acquired material items.
The same items I’d obtained before.
The Aura of Darkness and the newly acquired Spirit Tree’s Flesh.
‘Spirit Tree’s Flesh?’
My eyes gleamed as I looked at it.
Among the items I’d obtained from Ninyaru before, there were materials for creating Silvanor’s body.
I’d been putting it off because I was short on materials.
But with Spirit Tree’s Flesh…
I should be able to create Silvanor’s body.
Wouldn’t it create a body that perfectly suits an Elf?
Yoo Sung-hyun shelved the matter with that expectation in mind.
For now, he would create Silvanor’s body later; viewing the diary’s memories took priority.
“The Dark Lord.”
“…I’ve never heard of them.”
“I haven’t either.”
-I-I’m not sure either.
-Hmm, this is my first time hearing of it as well.
-If my lord commands me to learn of them, I shall do so at once!
-Muttering to myself.
Listening to his flustered Minions’ chatter, Yoo Sung-hyun opened the gate to the Underworld without concern and sent most of them through.
He kept Nocturnium and Serpina behind—the former possessed exceptional detection abilities, and the latter’s powers excelled in darkness.
Ideally, he would have sent them all.
But certain ones would complain about who would attend to his needs otherwise.
So he kept at least these two.
“I shall scout the surroundings, my lord.”
“Mm, the Dark Forest is new to me.”
Nocturnium and Serpina, pleased to be kept behind, immediately began surveying their surroundings for the task at hand.
Leaving those two to their work, Yoo Sung-hyun activated the memory from the new diary.
Just like any other event scene, his body transformed into a ghostly form and was transported elsewhere.
Yet the scenery hardly changed at all.
‘Interesting.’
Save for the presence of a young Helena, it was still the Dark Forest.
The surroundings hadn’t truly shifted.
The only real difference was.
The darkness here was far more oppressive than it was now.
It was proof that Yoo Sung-hyun was weaker than Helena had been in her childhood.
But he paid it no mind and focused on the unfolding story.
The narrative began after Helena, much like Yoo Sung-hyun, had defeated Gilbert, the servant of darkness.
Precisely speaking, Helena hadn’t killed him as Yoo Sung-hyun had.
Rather.
“Grrrraaahhhhh!”
“You wicked Tall Thin Man!!!”
Helena cried out with a sharp sound and stretched out her hand, absorbing all of Gilbert’s darkness in one go.
The already lanky Spider’s body grew progressively smaller.
Reduced to nothing but a powerless spider.
Stripped of his darkness, the creature had become smaller than a thumb joint—utterly harmless—and immediately fled into the forest.
Helena waved her hand toward Gilbert as he bolted away like an arrow.
“You mustn’t do bad things ever again!”
Though she had employed her Minions.
He wondered how Gilbert had managed to survive Helena when he’d been defeated so easily—far more easily than expected.
So that’s how he managed to survive.
Gilbert, who had fled after being drained of all darkness, had spent a full three thousand years recovering his strength.
Because it was Helena who had done it to him.
That’s why it took three thousand years.
If it had been anyone else, he might have become something far more terrifying by the time those three thousand years had passed.
After that, Helena wandered deep into the Dark Forest again.
But she found nothing of note.
That day, she failed to find Narsha and Berto and returned empty-handed.
Helena returned to her own home, not to Wooden Drum Village.
As the story replayed, time flowed swiftly.
And it transitioned to the next day.
Helena arrived at Wooden Drum Village again and played merrily with the Spirit Trees, seemingly having completely forgotten about the Lord of Darkness, and she didn’t venture any deeper into the Dark Forest.
‘Oh dear.’
It seemed she had forgotten about Narsha and Berto.
It was somewhat pitiful, really.
I thought that since Helena was still young, it was understandable that she might forget.
How much time had passed after that?
As Helena returned to her home.
The darkness grew thick once more and attacked Wooden Drum Village, and it spoke.
【Surrender that child to me.】
The Spirit Trees desperately tried to resist.
But the Lord of Darkness possessed such overwhelming power.
They were forced to submit to the darkness, and all of them became tainted by it.
The event scene ended there.
I returned to normal.
And before my eyes, a message appeared.
[Overlord Story Quest, 『Assault of Darkness』 has been created.]
『Assault of Darkness』
→Just as the darkness of the past attacked Wooden Drum Village, it may do so again this time.
→Please wait at Wooden Drum Village.
→The assault of darkness will occur 10 hours from now.
A new quest.
Assault of Darkness.
It seemed the quest would unfold similarly to how the darkness had attacked Wooden Drum Village when Helena was young.
But now that young Helena no longer existed, I couldn’t understand why it would happen again.
Of course, I could find out by searching through Gilbert’s memories.
But since I could do that anytime.
I didn’t recall it now.
Well, even if I don’t know the reason, won’t it be revealed in time?
An assault of darkness, then.
‘But why doesn’t the Village Chief know about this?’
According to the Village Chief, Helena had gone into the Dark Forest of her own accord, absorbed the darkness, and returned.
Yet now I could see that she had also attacked the village.
He hadn’t mentioned that part.
I should ask him again just to be sure.
And this Dark Lord business.
‘This is turning into quite an interesting Quest.’
Yoo Sung-hyun thought this to himself as he returned to Wooden Drum Village.
They were finding me without me having to search for them.
Things had become easier than expected.
In that case.
‘I could actually set traps instead.’
Yoo Sung-hyun checked how many corpses remained from the previous war between Ninyaru and Basilica that he had left unused.
Satisfied with the surprisingly large number of remaining corpses, he prepared various things and was about to ask the Village Chief various questions in Wooden Drum Village when.
[An external notification sounds.]
[Sung-hyun!!! You need to come out right now!!! Immediately!!!]
His sister’s urgent voice came through.
What’s happening?
At Yoo Mi-na’s urgent voice, Yoo Sung-hyun rushed outside urgently.
[The Eternal World awaits you.]
4.
In the depths of the Dark Forest, wounded darkness writhed and spread ominously throughout the surroundings.
Once, it had been a great darkness that ruled over this entire forest.
Yet it still had not recovered from a wound inflicted so very long ago.
Because of this, the darkness trembled and muttered as it felt the power emanating from distant Wooden Drum Village.
-That cursed brat’s power….
I can feel it.
But it is extremely faint.
Far fainter than that brat I felt three thousand years ago.
So faint it is shameful to even compare it to then, yet the same aura.
Could it be a descendant of that brat has come seeking me?
It matters not.
Even though I was wounded then and my power was absorbed, leaving me unrecovered even now.
This time, I shall truly absorb that power and become an even greater lord.
The darkness opened its eyes wide with this resolve.
I could have spread vicious darkness to control the Spirit Trees of Wooden Drum Village.
But that arrogant brat absorbed the darkness dwelling in the Spirit Trees and also absorbed the memories, so the Spirit Trees lost their fear of darkness.
So now I could no longer dominate the Spirit Trees.
But it matters not.
-I shall attack and reduce the village to ashes.
Though the Wooden Drum Village had granted me a power that made approach difficult.
I am the Dark Lord.
If I go myself, that weakened sound from the Wooden Drum Village means nothing anymore.
This time, I will reduce that Wooden Drum Village to ashes with my own hands.
And I will also make that arrogant interloper who inherited the power of that cursed brat mine.
But the time is not yet.
-Just a little more… I need to gather just a little more power.
The Dark Lord gathered the darkness he had scattered throughout the Dark Forest, adding to his strength.
Having seen what happened to Gilbert, I must come out stronger than that.
If I continue like this, I’ll only repeat the past.
I must reclaim the power to be certain.
As the Dark Lord absorbed his power like this.
The darkness that had blanketed the Dark Forest began to fade gradually.
The darkness slowly began to disappear.
Yet the Dark Lord muttered as if even that was insufficient.
-More… I need more. All darkness, come to me.
0.
At the urgent sound of my sister calling, I came outside.
The Capsule opened and Yoo Mi-na appeared immediately.
What on earth was going on that she called me so urgently?
Yoo Sung-hyun came out looking puzzled.
Yoo Mi-na let out a relieved sigh and spoke.
“Phew. There’s electrical work at the apartment today and tomorrow.”
“What???”
“The power will be cut from 3 PM to 5 PM today. And tomorrow morning from 9 AM to 11 AM as well.”
“Huh?”
At those words, Yoo Sung-hyun checked the time.
It showed 2:50 PM.
It would certainly be problematic if the power cut while I was logged in.
“It’s not dangerous if the power cuts while you’re in the Capsule.”
“I see.”
Yoo Mi-na had experience from last time.
When the power is cut, the connection disconnects safely.
But the problem was that after the connection disconnected, the Capsule door needed to be opened, but it wouldn’t open because the power was cut.
Having had such an experience, Yoo Mi-na seemed to be reacting sensitively.
I have to admit, this is thoughtful of her.
Yoo Sung-hyun thought this way.
Yoo Mi-na asked Yoo Sung-hyun.
“I’m going to the Capsule room. What about you?”
“Um…”
The preparations were complete anyway, and with the attack still ten hours away.
There was no need to rush in right now.
“I’m fine.”
“Oh, really? Then I’ll be going—the raid starts soon and I need to hurry!”
Watching my sister leave with those words, I couldn’t help but chuckle at how typical she was.
Not long after Yoo Mi-na departed.
Yoo Sung-hyun watched the lights flicker off all at once and let out a quiet laugh, thinking to himself.
‘I should head out too.’

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