The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 249

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Episode 249
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Nocturnium, a servant of the Demon King.
Those gathered here did not know that name.
But they certainly knew it was one of Sung-hyun’s Retinue.
And though it appeared frequently in the footage,
its abilities remained obscured.
Tension hung thick in the air among them all.
What should we do?
Listener, who could be called the team leader, deliberated for a moment.
A frontal assault?
But we don’t know how strong that servant truly is.
Of course, our team would break through.
But casualties are inevitable.
“No matter how much of a servant the Demon King possesses, it would be difficult for them to stop all of us alone, wouldn’t it?”
“…Hmm.”
Listener pondered at his teammate’s words from behind.
It was true, after all.
Especially since the Demon King was at this level, probably only around level 200 at most.
But those gathered now were in the level 240 range.
It made no sense to be stopped by merely the Demon King’s servant.
Of course, even so, they would need to use various skills.
So he had hesitated briefly, knowing such losses were unavoidable.
‘We must reach the Erosion Poison Spring no matter what.’
Since we’re already blocked, the choice is essentially made.
The moment Listener steeled himself to accept the losses,
Nocturnium spoke, gazing down at them.
“How foolish.”
With those words, Nocturnium’s two hands moved,
and simultaneously the floor and walls around them writhed, following the motion of Nocturnium’s hands.
Countless appendages that resembled arms erupted forth, and walls rose from the ground.
The walls that rose soon sealed off the vast Corridor where Nocturnium stood, yet the team members showed no particular alarm upon witnessing it.
This servant had been deployed to block this place.
Such abilities were within their expectations to some degree.
It had even shown its power briefly earlier.
It was within the anticipated range.
The moment Listener saw it, he began issuing commands in rapid succession to his team members.
“Ranged attackers!!!”
“Hyaaah!!!”
“Shwooosh!!!”
“Hyah!!!”
At that cry, the ranged dealers all reacted in unison, unleashing their skills as a dazzling array of projectiles streaked through the air, glittering with brilliant light.
But countless arms erupted from the wall to intercept them.
Clearly meant to absorb the skills in their stead.
So Listener cried out again.
“Tanks! Move in!!!”
“Hyaaaah!!!”
“Graaaah!!!”
“Krahah!!!”
Those bearing massive shields and heavy frames rushed forward, raising their hands to block.
Since each individual arm wasn’t particularly strong.
They pinned down at least ten or more arms per tank, allowing the skills to collide with the wall unobstructed.
Crash-crash-crash-boom——!!!
Rumble-rumble-rumble——!!!
The wall shuddered under the tremendous impact, causing the surrounding area to quake violently.
Yet the wall remained stubbornly intact, and seeing this, Listener’s expression darkened.
He hadn’t expected it to crumble on the first assault.
But he never imagined it would remain so unscathed.
As he glared at the wall with growing irritation.
Listener’s eyes caught the floor writhing.
“Center! Everyone, dodge!!!”
At that cry, everyone reflexively scattered out of the way.
A colossal arm erupted from the convulsing center.
Nocturnium’s massive limb.
Thanks to their quick evasion, no one took damage, but Nocturnium’s assault didn’t end there.
The giant arm drove an enormous fist downward toward the ground.
Where the ranged dealers were clustered together.
Whoooosh——!
The arm was so massive it almost seemed slow.
Yet far too fast for the ranged dealers to all dodge simultaneously.
So Listener screamed desperately.
“Block it!!!”
At that command, tanks and melee dealers alike rushed forward without hesitation, attacking the colossal arm.
The ranged dealers also unleashed their narrower-range attacks in rapid succession.
The giant arm couldn’t withstand the concentrated barrage and crumbled to dust, vanishing.
Though the attack had failed, Nocturnium’s expression remained serene.
And precisely because of that composure, Listener felt his pride scratched, his expression twisting sharply.
‘So this is nothing to him?’
The thought that his team was being looked down upon was unavoidable.
As his pride crumbled, Listener stepped forward rapidly.
Even as he spoke, he joined the battle himself, closing the distance while shouting to pressure Nocturnium.
“Assassins!”
At his cry, a hairline fracture appeared in Nocturnium’s previously serene expression, and in that same instant, several figures materialized behind him.
Assassins erupting from the darkness.
Three of them in total.
The moment Nocturnium spotted them, he swept his hand, conjuring a wall between himself and the assassins before thickening it and forcing them back.
But in doing so, the Listener—whom he’d momentarily neglected—closed the gap and charged straight at him.
A flicker of urgency crossed Nocturnium’s eyes.
Whoooosh!!!
He hastily summoned a pillar erupting from the ground before him.
A cylindrical column rising toward the Listener.
Yet the Listener, rather than evading it, only accelerated further.
The distance narrowed steadily between the ascending pillar and the Listener.
And just as they were about to collide—
The Listener’s body became translucent, phasing through the pillar without losing any momentum, and swung his blade toward Nocturnium with undiminished speed.
The slash, executed alongside his ethereal form, carried with it a spectral power—a desolate force that assailed Nocturnium with piercing intensity.
The bleak energy honed into a sharpness that was startlingly keen, swung toward Nocturnium—
But in that instant, Nocturnium vanished into the floor, and instead, the blade struck the wall that had been pushing back the assassins.
Crash———!!!
The Listener left a deep gash in the wall, but his expression twisted in frustration.
And Nocturnium, appearing instantly above the ceiling, surveyed the situation and thought to himself.
‘I won’t be able to hold out much longer.’
This team was formidable, after all.
I couldn’t contain them indefinitely.
Of course, I didn’t need to hold them off for that long anyway.
As he entertained these thoughts—
The Listener spotted Nocturnium and rushed at him with ferocity, while the damage dealers assailed the wall Nocturnium had erected to block the Corridor.
Meanwhile, Nocturnium faced a coordinated assault from the Listener, the assassins, and several ranged dealers, keeping him thoroughly occupied.
How much time had passed?
[『Erosion Poison Spring』 has been destroyed.]
[The poison of 『Apophis, God of the Black Serpents』 weakens.]
[『Yoo Sung-hyun』 of level 200 acquires achievement points.]
A grim message appeared before the Listener’s team, who had been pinned down all this while.
They’d only been held in place for roughly ten minutes.
“Damn it!”
At that, Nocturnium smiled faintly, as though his task were complete.
Then, looking at the Listener standing before him, he spoke.
“Had you gone somewhere else instead of here, things might have turned out differently.”
With those parting words, Nocturnium vanished.
The Listener felt as though his insides were seething with fury—
Given the circumstances, I had no choice but to resort to other means, so I calmed myself as much as possible and shouted.
“We’re heading toward the Spine of Ten Thousand Soldiers!”
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Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
Writhe, writhe.
Screeeeeech———.
The massive spring of poison that had been melting and corroding everything around it stopped its work and began burrowing deeper into the flesh.
In that place, there were those who paid no mind to poison.
“Hmm, it’s easier than I expected, isn’t it?”
“Carelessness is unwise, but indeed, it seems so.”
-Y-yes, that’s right.
-Kahahaha! There’s no mercy for those who face us!
-Who could possibly stand against us, the Retinue of our master!
-Mumble, mumble, hum, hum.
-Piiiiieeeee——!
-Gaaaaaaah——!
-Huh, poison is nothing much either.
Each of the Retinue spoke their piece.
Helena, watching them, nodded in acknowledgment.
To be honest, it was rather dull.
For those who were immune to poison, there was nothing less thrilling than this.
It might have been different if another team had come.
But at least for them, it was not.
Ever since receiving the breath of poison from Yoo Sung-hyun.
Fiora could grant everyone poison immunity through her buffs.
It had all ended far too easily.
Still, when work goes smoothly, that’s a good thing.
No one harbored any real complaints.
“So, should we head to Yoo Sung-hyun now?”
At Helena’s words, several eyes widened.
Finally, after so long, the moment had come to make a good impression on their master, Yoo Sung-hyun.
However.
“No. We need to split up.”
“Hmm, split up, you say?”
“Ah, is that so?”
-Huh!?
-Hmm.
Various reactions burst forth at Helena’s words.
But none of them objected.
There was no one in this place who would dare contradict Helena.
Besides, there wasn’t a soul who didn’t know Helena’s strategies and power.
The moment everyone focused on Helena’s words.
“Fiora and I will go to Yoo Sung-hyun, Serpina, Leonik, Baltar, and Kalisha will head to the Spine of Ten Thousand Soldiers, and the rest—Dracanoss, Anemor, Silvanor, and Barphor—will go to the Stomach of Corrosion.”
Each of them nodded upon hearing the plan.
Their task once they reached those locations was simple.
“Destroy the Spine and the Stomach, then return.”
At Helena’s command, they all vanished as if dissolving into shadow.
Yoo Sung-hyun had appointed Helena as legion commander.
No one could object—they followed her orders without question.
As everyone moved into action.
Fiora and Helena began to move as well.
With seamless grace, Fiora transformed into the shape of a small dragon, and Helena mounted her elegantly, soaring toward the Corrupted Heart.
Yoo Sung-hyun had no concerns about them.
But.
‘I hope the ones I sent in other directions don’t get swept away.’
He’d distributed their strength appropriately, but he wasn’t sure if they’d manage well.
They were somewhat unreliable, after all.
Yet they were Sung-hyun’s Retinue.
Thinking they would do fine.
Helena smiled.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom.
The impact was so tremendous the earth itself seemed to tremble.
Thousands upon thousands of overwhelming forces.
Now only a dozen or so remained.
Though thousands had vanished.
The momentum of the remaining dozen was no less fierce.
“Damn it.”
“Hell, this is insane.”
“I’m losing my mind.”
Their eyes gleamed with sinister intensity.
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled at them, finding it somewhat amusing.
Were they the elite of the elite?
‘They blocked it.’
They survived the explosive combo.
To be precise, Yoo Sung-hyun could see it clearly.
They had multiple defensive skills, but they’d survived by using invincibility frames to slip through that narrow window.
Of course, even with invincibility frames, those who couldn’t exploit that brief opening would have died.
In other words.
‘Only skilled fighters remain?’
Even so, they had not escaped without casualties.
Some had been mangled by poison and attacks as the Death Legion swept through them initially.
Others had managed to defend against even that, emerging unscathed.
In any case, these were no trivial opponents.
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled at the sight, as though anticipation kindled within him.
Those facing Yoo Sung-hyun trembled at that smile.
With his serene demeanor, Yoo Sung-hyun appeared to be nothing less than the Demon King himself.
And so they hesitated for a moment, exchanging glances with one another.
They could not retreat now, not after coming this far.
That resolve crystallized.
More than a dozen figures rushed toward Yoo Sung-hyun in unison.

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