The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 295

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Episode 295
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At the sudden summoning of the Minions, the Demons all gaped in unison, their mouths falling open.
Each one was formidably powerful—Minions of terrifying strength.
Even if only two of them engaged a single Demon, that creature would be utterly overwhelmed.
And there were easily more than ten of them.
I’ve made a terrible mistake.
I thought he was merely a knight.
To think he commands such Minions.
And only then could they comprehend it.
“That… that creature… is a Lord.”
“…Like the Sword Saint?”
“No, weaker than the Sword Saint, but…”
The very fact that he was a Lord left them profoundly unsettled.
Watching the Demons cowed by that presence, Yoo Sung-hyun turned back with some difficulty to observe his Minions.
His swordsmanship and body were considerably weakened.
So why?
When Yoo Sung-hyun simply stood there, composed and unmoving.
Helena, quick to catch on, approached him.
“Think you could handle them alone?”
“Hmm, perhaps?”
“Then we’ll just watch. You wanted to experiment with the Galaxy Sword Art anyway, didn’t you?”
At those words, Yoo Sung-hyun found himself nodding.
He had hunted with the Galaxy Sword Art these past few days.
But he hadn’t conducted any definitive experiments.
One might say he’d barely tested half of it.
So perhaps this was the opportunity he sought.
As Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes gleamed with purpose.
The Minions each took a step back.
Understanding their master’s will, they yielded to his intent.
As the Minions retreated a step.
‘…?’
‘They’re withdrawing?’
‘He means to face us alone?’
Foolish.
The Demons thought thus and released a bitter laugh.
Had he used the Minions, they would have perished without recourse.
But now, if an opening appeared, couldn’t they escape?
With such thoughts, the three exchanged glances and nodded to one another, and seeing them thus, Yoo Sung-hyun himself chuckled inwardly.
‘I can see right through them.’
I don’t possess the superpower to read minds.
Yet here, thoughts become visible to me.
Yoo Sung-hyun drew his blade with evident amusement.
A weakened body and diminished swordsmanship skill.
Moreover, mana and stamina no longer regenerated naturally.
How often would such an opportunity arise to test one’s true strength within these constraints?
Yoo Sung-hyun closed his eyes briefly, then opened them.
When his eyes reopened, galaxies swirled within them, just as they did in Hindel’s gaze.
The Demons, unbothered by this sight, each drew forth their weapons.
The Demon who had been Edian summoned a staff rising from his own body, one of the other two thickened his entire form like iron plating, while the last grew elongated nails that transformed into twin blades, which he seized.
“Hmm.”
“Kekekeke. So you intend to play tricks with a weakened body and diminished swordsmanship.”
“How foolish.”
“We’ll make you regret restraining those behind you.”
The Demons cried out thus, and the Twin Blade Demon rushed forward first.
Remarkably swift.
Swift enough to strain even a weakened body to keep pace.
Yet Yoo Sung-hyun wrapped his form in a radiance where starlight shimmered.
His weakened body rapidly strengthened, becoming indistinguishable from the Demon’s movements.
The Twin Blade Demon was somewhat startled in that instant.
But this much was expected.
Thinking that disaster would have struck had he not weakened them, he swung his twin blades wreathed in demonic energy.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The strikes emphasized raw impact, producing dull sounds that cleaved the air, and Yoo Sung-hyun’s galaxy-tinted eyes blazed as he swung his blade.
A mysterious light like a cerulean cosmos flowed through the blade, which soon shot forth like rays of brilliance, swiftly striking away the Demon’s demonic twin blades.
Clang——————!!!!
A sharp metallic ring erupted as the Demon’s twin blades were sent flying upward, and both of his arms rose with them.
Unable to resist that force, the Demon’s eyes widened in panic as the recoil sent him skyward.
Yoo Sung-hyun gripped his blade anew and assumed his stance.
In the posture that followed—as if a meteor were descending from the heavens—the Twin Blade Demon’s pupils dilated.
“No, this can’t—”
“Huuuh.”
The Demon shrieked in despair.
As Yoo Sung-hyun exhaled.
The blade erupted forth like rays of light.
A blade rising in a straight line—no, starlight shot forward like a meteor, seeking to pierce through the Twin Blade Demon’s skull.
The Twin Blade Demon, facing annihilation in a single moment of carelessness.
Yet in that instant, the Iron Wall Demon appeared, his body thickening as though an iron fortress had materialized.
Scraaaaaaaaagh———————!!!!
A piercing sound, as though something sharp were tearing through metal, reverberated in all directions, and fierce sparks erupted from the Iron Wall Demon’s body.
Yoo Sung’s blade, sheathed in starlight, sought to pierce through all things, yet the Iron Wall Demon barely managed to deflect it.
Crackle, crackle, crackle—
“Ugh—”
“Kgh—”
As Yoo Sung’s thrust sent the Iron Wall Demon and Twin Blade Demon reeling backward with tremendous force,
Edian’s magic surged in to fill the gaps.
A magic circle woven from demonic essence.
And from within it, Yoo Sung could see the grasping hands of rotted specters, born from malevolent demonic aura, blooming upward from the ground.
In that instant, he realized that touching them would mean something going terribly wrong.
‘Saturated with demonic essence.’
Observing those countless hands he absolutely had to avoid,
Yoo Sung surged upward like a comet, wrapped in azure light and radiance that spiraled like the Milky Way, trailing a mystical tail.
Yoo Sung launched skyward without even using flight.
Watching him ascend, Edian clicked his tongue in frustration.
The grasping hands of the rotted specters continued to stretch and rise, yet they could not reach where Yoo Sung had climbed.
Thus the hands vanished.
But the moment Yoo Sung rose into the air, he plummeted back to earth like a true meteor.
And in that instant, the Milky Way was drawn into Yoo Sung’s blade.
Once again the Iron Wall Demon attempted to block him,
but from behind, Edian cried out urgently.
“Danger!!!”
“!?!?!?”
“Dodge, dodge!!!”
At that desperate cry, the Iron Wall Demon belatedly threw himself clear,
and as Yoo Sung descended upon that spot,
the surrounding space warped as a violent radiance erupted, and the Milky Way bloomed in full splendor.
Boom—!!!
Immediately after, a cataclysmic explosion erupted like a meteor that destroyed all in its path,
and the Iron Wall Demon’s armor, unable to escape completely, shattered and crumbled.
Crack, crackle.
“Ugh—”
“Damn it.”
That Galaxy Sword Dance, perfectly suited against them, gradually wore the demons down.
Yet they seemed only to be plotting escape,
their eyes gleaming as they gazed not at Yoo Sung, but at his Minions.
Still showing no signs of readiness or movement.
Seeing this, Edian sent a telepathic message to the other two.
-They still don’t seem inclined to move. They’ll just endure and then flee.
-Wait, is that even possible?
-…Even I find it difficult to stop them.
However, the Twin Blade Demon and Iron Wall Demon responded to Edian’s opinion with skepticism.
Their expressions were filled with fear.
But Edian spoke as though he possessed absolute certainty.
-Our hearts are here in this place. We use spatial displacement with them. In a single moment, we seize the hearts and flee.
-B-but what about the Mambis?
-If we don’t have that, we’ll surely face punishment from the Great One.
-You idiots! What good does it do if we’re dead?!
Edian rebuked the two as they spouted such foolish words.
At his words, both of them came to their senses.
-Ah, understood.
-S-so we just seize the hearts first and flee, right?
-That’s right. Create as much of an opening as possible in the meantime.
The remaining two nodded at Edian’s words.
And as Edian observed them, he laughed silently to himself.
‘You fools—the moment you’re caught, I’ll escape alone.’
From the beginning, he had spoken with the intention of abandoning these two.
If they seized the hearts first, they would naturally become the targets first.
If he seized the opportunity and took the heart himself, no one could catch him.
For in stealth, none surpassed the Demons.
He would surely succeed.
The moment he thought thus.
Yoo Sung slowly emerged from the massive Crater.
Simultaneously.
‘The momentum has shifted.’
Until just moments ago, they had charged at him with the intent to kill.
But that tenor had changed slightly.
And at that subtle shift, Yoo Sung’s eyes opened sharply.
To think they harbored other thoughts before him.
They were indeed different from the other monsters he had fought thus far.
‘Cunning creatures.’
Even without burning with fighting spirit.
It was natural to expect them to contemplate some way to bring him down regardless.
But such signs were nowhere to be seen in the Demons.
Yoo Sung shook his head as he observed them.
Well then, let’s see what you attempt.
‘Do you think I’ll let you escape?’
As Yoo Sung’s eyes narrowed with a hint of anger.
The light of galaxies bloomed within them, casting radiance across the surroundings.
And as light erupted around Yoo Sung in an instant.
The Demons could not help but furrow their brows.
I had squinted, fearing the piercing light would steal my sight, but that hesitation proved to be a fatal mistake.
In that instant, Yoo Sung-hyun materialized before the Iron Wall Demon.
The Iron Wall Demon, startled, clenched at the empty air.
And there it was—a black sphere materializing in its grasp.
Yoo Sung-hyun understood instinctively upon seeing it.
That was the Demon’s heart.
As he seized the heart, the Iron Wall Demon’s collapsed, armor-like body restored itself, and its strength seemed to surge back in an instant.
But in that moment, Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade became drenched in a black galaxy, shimmering with deep blue, moving with the grace of a constellation studded with starlight.
Stars bloomed in the void, and between each point, starlight wove them together.
The stars were the light of Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade piercing forward.
And the starlight connecting them was the trajectory of his blade’s swing.
Thus the Milky Way created countless constellations.
Beautiful constellations blazed with vivid presence as they embedded themselves into the Iron Wall Demon’s body.
“Gack—”
Its entire body was pierced through, its entire body was severed.
Not a single part of the Iron Wall Demon remained unscathed.
And among the places swept by the constellations,
its heart was there too.
The heart, pierced cleanly through by starlight, could no longer fulfill its purpose.
The Twin Blade Demon felt a chill the moment the Iron Wall Demon fell, and hastily discarded one sword, then clenched at the empty air to seize its own heart, now a black sphere.
Then, unlike the Iron Wall Demon, it attempted to escape by warping through space.
But in that moment, Yoo Sung materialized before it.
“…!!!”
Just as it rushed to warp through space,
a blade that distorted space itself swung, wrapping the galaxy around it, and in a single instant, countless streams of starlight erupted like a river in full flood.
Following the blade’s trajectory, the Milky Way was drawn forth, touching the Twin Blade Demon’s body.
And then,
Shhhhrrrrk—
the starlight of the Milky Way severed and cleaved the Twin Blade Demon’s body.
And along that same trajectory, its heart was likewise severed.
“Ah…”
In that moment, the Twin Blade Demon understood.
That wondrous starlight, like the Milky Way, had not cut it—it had purified it.
The demonic energy and the Demon’s heart were simply washed away, as if by water.
Realizing this, the Twin Blade Demon’s eyes rolled.
There, Edian was already grasping the heart, fading away.
An attempt to escape beyond space itself.
The Twin Blade Demon watched the fleeing Edian and sneered, regretting its own foolishness.
‘…You taste it too.’
With that thought, the Twin Blade Demon, like the Iron Wall Demon before it, began to fade away.
Edian attempted to escape from that place.
‘Thank you! Because of you…, huh?’
In that very moment of his attempted flight.
For some reason, he felt his spatial displacement growing sluggish.
And Edian could comprehend it.
This was.
‘A transfer spell… Yeon?’
The instant he grasped that realization.
Yoo Sung-hyun materialized before Edian.
With a blade enveloped in starlight, one of Yoo Sung-hyun’s swordsmanship techniques.
The Torrent of Blades bloomed forth.
Literally countless waves of starlight cascaded down like the Milky Way itself.
“Ah….”

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