The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 228

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Episode 228
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“Helena?”
“Ahahaha! Told you I’m indispensable, didn’t I?”
Breaking through the severance, Helena made her entrance.
No matter how skilled Yoo Sung-hyun was.
He couldn’t help but be astonished at the sight of her.
I thought I’d lost the Demon Sword for certain.
Yet she appeared at precisely the right moment to seize it!
“Thank you!”
Yoo Sung-hyun spoke with slightly elevated emotion in his voice.
At his sudden expression of gratitude, Helena let out a small cough and averted her gaze.
She had merely assisted Yoo Sung-hyun as his Minion and as his senior.
Yet he expressed his thanks with such genuine joy.
Helena felt a bit embarrassed, so she turned her head away and spoke.
“W-well, it’s only natural that I should do it, so what!”
At Helena’s words, Yoo Sung-hyun let out a soft laugh.
Simultaneously, Helena pretended not to notice as she quickly cast skills toward the Demon Sword.
Binding it with the Abyss while simultaneously wrapping it in another layer of Celestial Power, she infused it into the Demon Sword.
A message soon appeared before Yoo Sung-hyun as well.
[Your Minion, 『The Lord of Heaven and Abyss, Helena』, seals the Demon Sword, 『Nemesis』.]
[『Demon Sword – Nemesis (Sealed)』 cannot resist.]
A message confirming that Helena had sealed the Demon Sword.
After that, a long string of messages suddenly appeared.
[You have defeated the Hidden Unique Raid Boss, 『Master of the Demon Sword, Ragna Ecrion』.]
[You have cleared the Hidden Quest, 『Ragna Ecrion』.]
[A portion of clear rewards is granted.]
[You acquire vast experience points!]
[Level Up!]×6
[You have reached Level 185.]
[Achieving a level milestone in multiples of 10, the Almighty-grade item, 『Overload’s Grimoire』, is activated.]
[Achieving a level milestone in multiples of 10, the Almighty-grade item, 『Codex of Blood』, is activated.]
[Achieving Level 180, a new skill of 『Overload』 is unlocked.]
[You acquire the Almighty-grade skill, 『Malevolent Thunder』.]
[Additional rewards can be received from Leon Banzar.]
[Contribution exists only to a single individual.]
[Classified as a solo raid.]
[Defeated solo.]
[Rewards are enhanced.]
[First clear.]
[Rewards enhanced.]
[Since this is a solo raid, all rewards go to the user Yoo Sung-hyun.]
[For defeating the boss, you obtain the Almighty-grade item, 『Demonic Blade – Nemesis (Sealed)』.]
[You have defeated the Hidden Unique Raid Boss, 『Master of the Demonic Blade, Ragna Ecrion』 for the first time.]
[You obtain the title, 『Demonic Blade Slayer』.]
[You obtain the keywords 『Demonic Blade』 and 『Weapon Imbued with Demonic Energy』.]
As expected of a Hidden Unique Raid Boss, the reward message was quite lengthy.
What I gained from the rewards were experience points, the demonic blade, a title, and keywords.
I would have been disappointed if the demonic blade had escaped.
Thanks to Helena, I was fortunate to obtain it.
With that thought, I examined what I had acquired.
Let me skip over the keywords for now.
‘There’s no point in checking them right now anyway.’
And what caught my eye first was.
None other than the demonic blade that Helena had brought back.
What on earth was this?
『Demonic Blade – Nemesis (Sealed)』
→《Almighty》
→A demonic blade imbued with malevolent spirituality.
→Nemesis, a demonic blade obsessed with vengeance, can only be strengthened by human blood, and when enhanced, all of Demonic Blade – Nemesis’s stats and abilities increase.
→Currently in a sealed state.
→If you lack the skill, title, or ability to wield a demonic blade, you will be consumed by it.
→It may possibly guide you to other weapons imbued with demonic energy.
Since it was sealed, I couldn’t see the detailed options.
But it was certainly a formidable effect.
It was only natural, given that it was an Almighty-grade sword.
‘It can only be strengthened by human blood.’
I felt deeply uneasy about it.
It was similar to Carmine’s spear, 『Blood-Hungry Carmine』, but the phrase about demonic energy being imbued was distinctly different.
Even the mention of malevolent spirituality being imbued.
So I decided to keep it in my inventory for now.
There was no one among my servants I could give it to.
Helena seemed to have had a similar thought, as she spoke to me.
“Good thinking. That one’s quite vicious.”
“Vicious?”
I thought all demonic blades were vicious.
“Yeah. Among those imbued with demonic energy, there are quite a few good ones. Some of them corrupt their masters not because they have malevolent spirituality, but just because they’re picky.”
“…?”
Wouldn’t corrupting one’s master make them a bad entity in the first place?
That thought crossed my mind.
Well, since Helena said so, I’ll just accept it.
I decided to move on.
Yoo Sung-hyun thought it best to proceed for now.
He examined the next title.
『Demon Blade Slayer』
→《Unique》
→A title bestowed upon the first user to defeat the master of a demon blade.
→You are immune to mental domination by demon blades.
→When facing weapons imbued with demonic energy, the power of all skills increases by +10%.
‘Oh.’
This one looked quite useful.
Though it was Unique rank, judging purely by performance, it could easily pass as Legendary.
And from this, I could understand something.
‘So there are Unique-rank demon blades too.’
The Nemesis I’d obtained was apparently a demon blade positioned higher than I’d expected.
I wondered if I should force myself to use it later.
But it could only be strengthened with human blood.
There didn’t seem to be any real need to use it.
I couldn’t just kill NPCs to become stronger.
Besides, I was already strong enough without it.
So I’d skip the title as well.
Only the skills obtained from leveling remained.
‘Evil Thunder.’
Using the Heavenly Annihilation Spear this time, it seemed a lightning-related skill had emerged.
I’d been hoping for a lightning-type skill anyway.
I wondered what kind of skill it would be.
Yoo Sung-hyun examined it with some anticipation.
『Evil Thunder』
→《Almighty》
→[Lv 1][Growth-type]
[Instant Effect][Active]
[Cooldown 10 minutes]
A thunderbolt that corrupts even the heavens, a cursed lightning strike that even gods dare not block, descends from above.
→Overload exclusive skill.
→Summons lightning imbued with curse and darkness attributes, striking down upon the target.
→Upon impact, all healing effects are blocked, and the target is paralyzed for 3 seconds by an irresistible electrical current.
*Integrates with Lord of Darkness.
‘Oho?’
Lightning infused with curse and darkness attributes.
Thanks to that, it integrated with Lord of Darkness, making its power exponentially stronger.
This much was satisfactory.
I had confirmed everything.
Now all that remained was to find Leon.
The long, arduous Quest had finally come to an end.
2.
When Yoo Sung-hyun achieved victory against Ragna Ecrion.
The NPC Management Team 2 watching it erupted into chaos.
“Wow!?! Insane!!!”
“He cleared it!?!?”
“Without any Minions!?!”
“And he hadn’t even used all his other skills yet!!!”
Everyone had believed it would fail.
Yet Yoo Sung-hyun had achieved victory.
It was only natural.
Honestly, he had been pushed back.
But to reverse it like that, using the terror of loss to paralyze his opponent—
Had he precisely identified the weakness?
Several employees analyzed what they had witnessed.
“Weapons imbued with magical essence wouldn’t all be rendered useless like that. The opponent was favorable.”
“It might not work against the owners of other magically imbued weapons.”
“But since the others lack that severance, wouldn’t they fight with Minions?”
“Certainly….”
They continued chattering away with such discussions.
Yet while everyone was talking, there was one person lost in deep thought.
None other than Lee Jae-kyung, the deputy manager.
He was one of those who had been rooting for Yoo Sung-hyun.
This situation could only be bittersweet for him.
He was also the team leader of NPC Management Team 2.
While he was grateful that other NPCs hadn’t suffered damage,
he contemplated the consequences that would stem from this.
‘Hmm. If things proceed this way….’
That magical sword had been obtained by Yoo Sung-hyun.
Precisely because of Helena’s intervention.
The other employees hadn’t noticed it due to their focus on Yoo Sung-hyun’s victory.
‘How did he break through the severance?’
Minions were typically considered part of the user and belonged to the User Management Team,
but now that Yoo Sung-hyun’s footage had been inherited,
he could review the previous recordings.
And he could see that the moment the severance occurred, Helena stepped forward and attempted to break through it.
Of course, she hadn’t accomplished it alone.
He had gathered the power of all his minions, condensed that force, warped the dimension itself, and shattered the severance to escape from the Underworld.
But it wasn’t something that could be accomplished simply by pooling strength together.
‘Manipulating dimensions….’
Without an ability to handle space itself, it would be impossible.
That’s why Lee Jae-kyung scratched his head.
If she were the real Helena, that would be one thing, but this Helena was clearly just a homunculus with only her external form copied—not Helena’s true body.
Not the original Helena who once toyed with dimensions as if they were playthings.
Accomplishing the same feat as Helena?
‘What in the world is this?’
He decided he needed to file a report on this incomprehensible phenomenon.
This wasn’t something merely on the surface.
There was definitely something more to it.
Perhaps.
‘It could be connected to that “unknown power” the user Yoo Sung-hyun possesses.’
Lee Jae-kyung made that judgment and was about to write up a report.
Suddenly, he looked at Yoo Sung-hyun and thought.
‘Now that he’s obtained the Demonic Blade, he might be able to establish connections with other weapons imbued with demonic energy in that vicinity.’
He would certainly gain keywords from this.
Lee Jae-kyung smiled as if Yoo Sung-hyun was truly entertaining.
Other managed users—the ranker-tier users or those with Almighty-grade jobs.
They weren’t users Lee Jae-kyung managed.
But he was beginning to sense that this user was on a different level than the other managed users.
‘Well, the chairman will handle it as he sees fit.’
With that thought, Lee Jae-kyung busied himself writing the report.
3.
Leon Banzar.
Yoo Sung-hyun, who had returned to the wounded knight, handed him the head of Ragna Ecrion.
“….”
Leon Banzar gazed at Ragna Ecrion’s head in silence for a long while before turning his gaze toward Yoo Sung-hyun.
Then he knelt on one knee and spoke to Yoo Sung-hyun.
“Thank you truly for avenging me.”
In those words, spoken with sincere emotion carefully contained, Yoo Sung-hyun felt a sense of accomplishment.
And Leon muttered to himself.
“So that creature wielded a Demonic Blade… I never thought it would be like that one….”
That one?
Suddenly?
At Leon’s reaction, Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes gleamed.
Could this be it?
“That one, you say?”
“…You wouldn’t know. In our Sysvalt, there was one who wielded objects imbued with demonic energy, much like Ragna Ecrion. Though that one wasn’t as sinister as Ragna Ecrion.”
“Oh?”
Upon hearing those words, Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes lit up.
[You have acquired a keyword regarding ‘Another Weapon Imbued with Demonic Energy’.]
Perhaps I could use this to track down other such weapons?
After all, the Demonic Sword Nemesis I obtained earlier possessed a similar ability.
It could guide me toward other weapons imbued with demonic energy.
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled at the thought.
In any case, Leon Banzar finished speaking and handed something to Yoo Sung-hyun.
“I’m not certain if you’ll have need of it, but it’s the best I can offer.”
[Leon Banzar grants you a Legendary-grade Skill Book, ‘Aura Blade’, as a Quest reward.]
Unfortunately, it was a skill Yoo Sung-hyun couldn’t learn directly.
A Legendary-grade Skill Book.
If I used the Grimoire of Despair, I could obtain it as a dark magic skill at Legendary grade.
And Yoo Sung-hyun pondered this.
‘So that makes six skills I can acquire with the Overload Grimoire? And the Grimoire of Blood gives me about three more.’
Yoo Sung-hyun murmured to himself with this in mind.
‘I should organize my skills while I’m at it.’

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