The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 256

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Episode 256
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A crown forged from black crystal appeared, grasping the Fallen Fragment of Asu.
Yoo Sung-hyun couldn’t comprehend it for a moment.
When you defeat a Raid Boss, items should appear as rewards.
Especially now, during a massive world event.
Until Apophis is completely defeated, they should appear as contribution points.
So why did this suddenly appear?
While I was puzzled.
A message appeared that would answer that question.
[You have defeated the Hidden Raid Boss, ‘Fallen Savior Snake, Fragment of Asu’, guardian of the Hidden Stage, ‘Apopis’s Heart’.]
[You have cleared the Hidden Stage, ‘Apopis’s Heart’.]
[Yoo Sung-hyun, level 200+, acquires all contribution points.]
[The Apophis-related bosses of the mega-scale world event ‘Temple of Apopis’ are weakened.]
[Clear rewards are included in the event rewards.]
[Drop items are generated from defeating the Hidden Raid Boss, ‘Fallen Savior Snake, Fragment of Asu’.]
[Drop items are separate from reward items.]
[You have acquired the drop item, ‘Obsidian Twilight Crown’.]
[A new set item has been added to the Remnants of the Great Dark Mage set.]
I disregarded the messages about rewards being integrated into event rewards and bosses related to Apophis being weakened, focusing instead on the last part.
It was added to the Remnants of the Great Dark Mage set?
‘Obsidian Twilight Crown?’
At first glance, it looked promising.
Could this be Helena’s set?
With that thought, I examined the effects.
I immediately checked the item’s effects.
‘Obsidian Twilight Crown’
→《Almighty》
→A crown of twilight forged from obsidian as black as pitch, created by a great Dark Mage of unknown identity who perceived the twilight.
→At the end of the night that swallowed all light, only one sovereign is worthy of wearing this crown.
→Exclusive item for Overload.
→All Dark Magic skill cooltime reduced by 30%.
→Dominion over all Undead strengthened by 100%.
→Skill ‘Twilight’ usable.
→When using skill ‘Twilight’, recover mana and health by sacrificing Undead.
→The item grows on its own under certain conditions.
‘Remnants of the Great Dark Mage Set (5/8)’
→Dark Magic skill power increased by 20%.
→Damage increased by 20%.
→Mana regeneration increased by 10%.
→Dark Magic skill cooldown reduced by 20%
→Dark Magic skill power increased by 30%
→[Locked]
→[Locked]
→[Locked]
‘This… what is this…’
Even the normally composed Yoo Sung-hyun found himself at a loss for words at this item.
It seemed like the first time I’d seen options of this caliber even among Almighty-grade items.
If my sister Yoo-na saw this, she’d surely question what kind of insane item this was.
And on top of that, this wasn’t even the end—there was potential for growth later?
I thought the reward was other Overlord-class skills awakening.
But they’re giving me an item like this too?
‘Phew.’
Just how much is Overpalace going to give?
They seemed pleased to finally be able to give properly this time.
It was truly absurd.
Sung-hyun swallowed hard as he looked at it, then equipped the crown.
Wearing the crown in perfect harmony with the other items, Sung-hyun scratched his cheek.
‘Now I really do look like a Demon Lord.’
People calling me a Demon Lord was already somewhat embarrassing.
But looking like this, wasn’t I just accepting the title outright?
It was a bit shameful, though.
The effects were good, after all.
Besides.
‘It actually looks kind of cool?’
The crown made of black crystal and obsidian certainly did look impressive.
Sung-hyun scratched his head with such thoughts and rose from his seat.
As I was thinking about where to go next, there was still something left.
-Ssssssss?
Sung-hyun smiled faintly and reached out his hand toward the small, pure white snake still lingering near the fallen Fragment of Asu.
The creature’s memories flowed into Sung-hyun like a panorama.
Apophis and Asu.
The two were a pair of snakes—both separate incarnations and siblings, yet a single entity.
However, Apophis was called calamity, while Asu was called salvation.
Though both were born simultaneously from the same place.
They were called by such different names.
True to the epithet of the Savior Snake, Asu had even tried to save Apophis.
But Apophis instead devoured Asu and rebelled against the gods.
As a result, they were thoroughly defeated, and the snakes fell into decline—such was the tale.
As Sung-hyun read those memories, I gathered the soul of Asu.
‘I never expected to obtain a soul of this caliber here.’
Simultaneously, I cast the remaining corpse of the Fragment of Asu into the Underworld and claimed its soul for myself as well.
Just as when I first entered this place, my vision gradually blurred at the edges and enveloped me, and I naturally accepted it, being pulled into that space.
8.
The path to the Corrupted Heart opened!
Users positioned at different locations immediately sprang into action upon witnessing it.
Everyone knew they couldn’t defeat Yoo Sung-hyun, who was in the 200s level range.
But being unable to win and being unable to do anything are not the same thing, are they?
At this rate, even the Corrupted Heart would be stolen away.
They all ran with desperate determination.
Along the way, signs of tremendous battle were visible.
But they deliberately ignored it.
Surely even a Demon King couldn’t clear the Corrupted Heart alone.
Believing this, they ran.
Among them, those who could be called the fastest vanguard.
“We’re almost there!!!”
“It’s the Corrupted Heart!!!”
“I can see it…!!!”
With those words, they ran.
But at the moment they arrived, a single message appeared before everyone’s eyes.
[The 『Corrupted Heart』 has been destroyed.]
[『Yoo Sung-hyun』 of the 200 level range acquires all merit points.]
[The hidden stage, 『Apopis’s Heart』, has been cleared!]
[『Yoo Sung-hyun』 of the 200 level range acquires all merit points.]
“…?”
“…What, what is this…?”
“A, a hidden stage? There was something like that!?”
“N, no, more than that… what, what is this place…?”
Fragments of the Corrupted Heart scattered in all directions, and the corpse of a colossal black serpent lay torn to shreds, its remains strewn about.
A battlefield of horrifying devastation.
Standing brazenly in a place where it was difficult even to imagine what had transpired were two women.
Or more precisely, one woman and a girl who still appeared young.
In contrast to the red-haired woman in a black dress holding a parasol with not a single drop of blood on her body nor a bead of sweat, despite the utter chaos of the scene, stood a girl resembling a slime containing the cosmos itself, drenched in blood that poured forth from the Corrupted Heart, her entire body caked with gore.
The users swallowed hard upon seeing the two of them.
Yet nowhere was the Demon King to be seen.
Which meant.
“…You’re, you’re saying the main stage was cleared by just two minions…?”
“And, and he went to the hidden stage himself?”
“…Insane….”
The difference in caliber was incomparable.
Those words came to mind unbidden.
They too were guild members of ranking-tier Guilds, were they not?
Some among them were even called prodigies or rising stars.
Those who would soon join the first team and become rankers, making their mark.
Yet they had fallen behind mere Minions of the Demon King.
If those two stepped forward, could the users here even hope to withstand them?
At that thought, their bodies trembled.
They were simply too different.
It was not merely a difference in skill.
As the users gasped in astonishment and reverence for Yoo Sung-hyun bloomed abundantly within them.
A woman with crimson hair.
Helena gazed upon them and smiled with noble grace before speaking.
“Hmm, then we shall take our leave.”
-Y-yes, we’re going.
At Helena’s words, Fiora too offered a timid farewell before disappearing alongside Helena.
The already-destroyed Corrupted Heart and the users left forlorn in that place could only stare vacantly after them in hollow disappointment.
9.
While the event raged on, the level 350-tier event was being cleared by a single user alone.
One user facing that colossal black serpent entirely by herself.
Roooaaarrr———!!!
Even capturing the creature standing at a building’s height seemed beyond her capacity.
She had exhausted her skills fighting the single rankers, making the burden all the heavier.
None other than ranking 9th—or rather, now risen to 5th—Yoo-na was locked in combat with the massive black serpent alone.
Apophis’s true body, stripped of its soul.
Perhaps because it had lost its soul, its combat patterns were unremarkable.
‘Am I going to die?’
Given its sheer size, even a casual sweep of its tail approached instant death.
The situation was so bleak she feared she would lose at this rate.
She persisted, attacking while enduring with whatever skills remained.
She had managed to inflict considerable wounds upon it.
Yet despair still crept into her thoughts.
Then, the moment Yoo Sung-hyun cleared the hidden stage.
The creature suddenly began to shriek.
-Kreeeeeeee———!!!
“???”
It vomited blood and writhed in tremendous agony.
As expected.
[All vital organs have been destroyed.]
[The level 200-tier 『Yoo Sung-hyun』 acquires the achievement.]
[World Boss, 『Apophis’s True Body, Stripped of Soul』 is greatly weakened.]
Anyway, you’re impressive.
You even know how to help your sister.
“Oh, you pretty thing.”
Yoo-na spoke thus and gripped her sword.
This should be worth doing.
At the same time, I released all the power I had been conserving and rushed at the creature.
This much is sufficient.
‘I should give him a gift later.’
Yoo-na grinned and moved to cut down the beast.
10.
While they remained in such despair.
Helena and Fiora were escaping to another location using teleportation.
The reason they moved?
It was simple.
“Sung-hyun just arrived.”
-Yes, truly the Lord!
They had moved upon sensing Sung-hyun’s return.
As they moved swiftly.
Sung-hyun appeared near the entrance of the Corrupted Heart, and in that instant.
Sung-hyun, radiating dark energy and displaying the majesty of a king.
Helena and Fiora felt it simultaneously.
He has grown even stronger!
Toward Sung-hyun, whose qualities as a lord had become even more resolute, they both cried out.
“Sung-hyun!”
-L, Lord!
Sung-hyun, wearing the Obsidian Twilight Crown, turned his head.
Only then did he smile upon meeting them.
And before such a Sung-hyun.
-Murmur, murmur.
-My liege!
-Oh! Truly magnificent, Lord!
“Ah, you’ve grown even stronger.”
“My gratitude.”
-Squeeeee!
-Cawwww!
-Congratulations!
The Minions too gathered one by one to congratulate Sung-hyun.
Upon seeing the Minions I had not met in so long, I nodded.
Another message appeared before my eyes.
[『Apophis’s True Body』 has been eliminated.]
[Yoo-na of the 350-level bracket acquires all merit points.]
[The event concludes once all missions in other level brackets are completed.]
[All missions in the 200-level bracket have been completed.]
[All users in the 200-level bracket are transferred to the Waiting Room.]
[Merit points are being calculated.]
[Merit point rankings for the 200-level bracket.]
[Merit Rankings]
[1st Place Team ‘Yoo Sung-hyun’]
[2nd Place Team ‘Yoo Sung-hyun’s Backup Team’]
[3rd Place Team ‘Rapid Guild’]
…(and more)
[Rewards are being calculated.]
[Please wait a moment.]
Yoo Sung-hyun, who placed first as an individual, was recognized as a team.
Second place was Yoo Sung-hyun’s Backup Team.
And third place was the Rapid Guild.
In other words, the Rapid Guild had claimed every ranking—a complete victory.
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled quietly at the sight.
I wondered what the rewards would be.

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