The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 319

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Episode 319
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When darkness, violet flames, and terror collided with Sermagra’s fist of distortion, a violent shockwave erupted, shaking the entire Mine.
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The shockwave rippled outward, and everything it touched vanished without even leaving ash behind.
Within that space of annihilation, Yoo Sung-hyun and Sermagra were both driven backward by the force of each other’s power, leaving only a massive spherical crater where they had collided.
And then, belatedly, the Mine trembled violently.
Kuuuuuuuuu——!!!
A shock as if a massive earthquake had struck swept through the Mine.
Yet neither Yoo Sung-hyun nor Sermagra paid it any mind, their eyes locked on each other.
Both could discern from that exchange what had just transpired.
They had both unleashed attacks that were merely probing in nature, designed solely to gauge each other’s strength.
And through that exchange, both felt it.
‘…This is no joke.’
‘This is no ordinary opponent.’
Yoo Sung-hyun watched as the darkness, violet flames, and terror were completely annihilated, and felt a chill run down his spine.
That fist of distortion itself twisted and destroyed everything.
Upon realizing it was a fist that shattered and destroyed everything the moment it made contact.
‘Even a graze would be fatal.’
I could understand that much.
I had used a skill, yet for him, that was merely a casual blow—a basic strike.
That made it all the more shocking.
Of course, that casual blow was a technique that could be called his first and last resort.
But setting that aside.
This opponent was still far from easy to handle.
Meanwhile.
Sermagra stared at his trembling fist, his mouth twisting into an expression that was neither quite a smile nor quite a scowl.
It looked like a smile at one moment and a grimace the next—a contorted visage.
Yet one thing was certain.
‘He embedded terror in my fist.’
In other words, his fist had not completely destroyed everything with his blow; the terror had penetrated through.
But then he poured forth even more demonic energy.
The trembling that had plagued his fist ceased.
He had shattered the terror embedded within his fist.
Though he had neutralized it easily enough.
Sermagra’s expression did not relax.
For the first time in ages, he had encountered a worthy opponent.
As they both sensed this, their eyes met once more.
In that instant, light flashed.
A fist that warped the very space around it extended toward him.
Yoo Sung-hyun drew forth the darkness, first filling that realm with it.
Within it, the fist of distortion advanced, shattering the darkness that surged forth, like a single beam of light cleaving through the void.
Crack! Crackle——!
Crackle———!!!
Cracks formed in the darkness that possessed no physical form, shattering it completely. Yet as the violet karmic flames of Hell that followed sought to consume the world, Sermagra could feel it in that instant.
This was no ordinary fire.
In a moment, the karmic flames transcended their violet hue, becoming transparent, merging with the surrounding darkness, and then reabsorbing the shattered darkness, making it their own.
As the damp darkness melted away.
The now-transparent karmic flames of Hell possessed a searing heat and a secrecy visible nowhere else.
‘…Hah.’
As if in disbelief, Sermagra gazed upon that flame—or rather, sensed it.
The invisible fire now burned all around, beginning to cover the interior of the Mine with lava as if to melt everything away.
The heat was so intense.
Even the mighty body of Sermagra was beginning to perspire.
But the moment he sensed it, Sermagra condensed his demonic energy deeply, reinforcing his fist.
Uuuuuuung——!!!
The fist infused with condensed demonic energy twisted the air even more violently than before, and soon the fist extended forth with space warped like a spiral.
The demonic energy immediately carried the power of distortion as it extended, advancing with the momentum to shatter all things.
And so the Mine that had melted into lava was instantly decomposed and annihilated.
Everything was erased without even leaving dust, like an eraser wiping away the world itself.
‘Insane.’
The moment I saw the fist extending toward me, I stretched out my left hand, wrapping it in darkness, and immediately vanished from that place.
Crash——!!!
The distorted demonic energy that barely grazed my hand began to propagate through my left arm, shattering all things.
Sensing it, I quickly swung my sword with my right hand and severed my arm.
Whoosh.
The severed arm shattered in midair and vanished.
Not even dust remained.
Feeling once more that even a graze could mean death, I laughed awkwardly.
It had been so long since I faced an opponent this lethal.
Feeling that, I gripped my sword.
I had lost an arm.
But that was fine.
As I smiled thus.
Sermagra, about to rush at me who had moved through the darkness to deliver the finishing blow, suddenly.
Felt something amiss.
A stillness.
“…?”
A damp fear had infiltrated him.
Only then did Sermagra realize that one of his legs had vanished.
“Hah.”
If Yoo Sung-hyun had lost an arm, then Sermagra had lost a leg.
Watching this, Sermagra let out an amused chuckle.
Truly, a bizarre existence wielding the power of three lords.
I couldn’t even sense when my own body part was devoured.
“It seems the fist rode in and consumed the leg.”
“Accurate.”
Both realized neither could regenerate, so they paid no mind to their severed limbs.
Sermagra’s mobility had diminished somewhat.
Yet he didn’t care.
Sensing this, Yoo Sung-hyun gripped his blade and drew forth the power of the galaxy—stellar force infused the sword as the remaining stellar energy orbited around him like satellites.
Feeling that this too was no ordinary power, Sermagra shook his head.
‘Such stellar power indeed.’
The more formidable his opponent, the more he would relish this.
Sermagra bent slightly on his remaining leg.
Then.
Craaaaaack———!!!
As the fist warped space itself.
The Battlefield around Sermagra’s leg shattered into countless fissures.
And then.
Whoooooosh————!!
The air tore and burst asunder, unleashing sonic booms in all directions as he charged forward.
Witnessing Sermagra’s devastating speed, Yoo Sung-hyun gasped and wrapped the galaxy around himself, launching forth like a meteor.
Simultaneously, alongside the blade infused with the galaxy, the surrounding darkness spread like spears, and countless spears of shadow shot outward, carrying the scorching heat from Hell’s flames to encircle all directions.
Yet Sermagra regarded him with such contempt that he simply swung his left arm.
Space split and fractured.
The fissures spread in all directions, reaching the spears of darkness.
Then.
Craaaaaaaaack———!!!
The spatial rifts transcended the darkness itself, consuming and destroying the shadow spears within the fractures.
In the moment the galaxy-infused power enveloped Yoo Sung-hyun as he descended like a meteor.
Sermagra’s fist extended with the force to cleave even the galaxy itself.
But in that instant.
Sermagra felt a chill.
And discovered the Black Witch appearing behind him.
There stood the witch, holding a teal needle threaded with teal string, her smile twisted into something grotesque.
Giggle, giggle, giggle—
And the moment the distortion ceased.
The blade infused with the galaxy sliced cleanly through Sermagra’s fist.
Shhhhwack!
The moment the blade cleaved through.
Darkness enveloped the galaxy.
And in that same instant, Sermagra felt his sense of touch being severed along with searing pain.
One sense had vanished.
So when he tried to retreat.
Yoo Sung-hyun became steeped in darkness.
As if fast-forwarding, all speed itself moved abnormally, and then he slashed across Sermagra’s chest four more times in succession.
Slash! Blood sprayed in a torrent——!!
Long gashes were carved into his body.
Yet the wounds themselves were not particularly deep.
Even if the Distortion skill itself had temporarily vanished, the demonic energy he wore had not disappeared with it.
However, from the five consecutive strikes, all his senses had been stolen.
Touch, taste, hearing, smell, and sight—all of it.
When everything vanished.
He couldn’t even perceive that something was being done to him.
Normally, one wouldn’t dare move recklessly under such circumstances, but Sermagra was a warrior.
A warrior who had devoted himself to effort more than anything else among all warriors.
So even if all his senses had vanished, the effort he had accumulated had not disappeared with them.
He shattered the teal thread sealing his mouth with Distortion, then channeled Distortion once more and drove his fist down into the ground.
All sensation was blocked, so he couldn’t feel it.
Yet he was certain—it had connected.
As Sermagra felt this way.
Yoo Sung-hyun genuinely gasped in astonishment, watching it unfold and shaking his head.
‘He’s insane.’
When all senses were severed, one couldn’t even feel their own body flailing—making precise movement nearly impossible.
Yet Sermagra had accurately recalled his own movements and executed them exactly, forcing Yoo Sung-hyun to evade.
Unable to press the attack further due to the Distortion power spreading around him, Yoo Sung-hyun retreated swiftly.
And Sermagra, having shattered the darkness of Yoo Sung-hyun’s swordsmanship that had severed his senses, opened his eyes once more.
“Impressive.”
It was an odd thing to say while breaking free from such an attack.
Yet Sermagra’s sincerity was palpable.
Yoo Sung-hyun felt that sincerity too and adjusted his grip on his blade.
And Sermagra clenched his fist once more.
One-armed Yoo Sung-hyun and one-legged Sermagra though they were.
Both of them radiated fierce momentum as they charged toward each other.
Yoo Sung-hyun, descending like a meteor, once again wrapped himself in darkness and flame, secretly weaving dread within them.
And Sermagra, descending with all things distorted, came on crudely, his entire body cloaked in demonic energy.
Yet that crudeness shattered everything as he charged, and Yoo Sung-hyun unleashed toward Sermagra all his power—darkness, flame, and dread woven together.
It became a tremendous surge of energy that seemed to swallow the entire Mine, hurtling toward Sermagra.
‘Remarkable.’
Initially, even when three combined, they possessed only the strength of a single Lord.
But now, they had surpassed that.
As the battle raged on, I felt myself transcending that threshold with unmistakable clarity.
Sermagra could not help but be astounded.
And yet.
They were still far from reaching me.
Because of that.
“Krraaaaahhh!!!”
Sermagra unleashed a fist imbued with the distorting power that consumed the entire Mine.
The two energies surged outward from the Mine, erupting skyward.
In stark contrast to the black pillar that heralded awakening, it pierced horizontally through the Mine.
The collision of the two shook heaven and earth, bleaching the world itself.
Those watching from outside could only gasp in horror at the sight.
“What… what on earth is that…?”
“…The scouts… they’re safe, right?”
“What… what is happening…?”
The black pillar that first appeared was already extraordinary.
But this energy wave that followed, bleaching the very world itself.
Even from the Subjugation Force’s position, quite a distance away, the power was palpably felt.
If either of these energies—no, if one of these two touched them, it would be no surprise if the entire Subjugation Force was annihilated by such overwhelming force.
The interior of the Mine was indescribable from the collision of auras so visible even from outside.
Yoo Sung-hyun and Sermagra had been fighting above.
But now the upper section had been cleanly obliterated as if sliced away.
Half the Mountain had vanished as if carved off.
And from that place where dust clouds billowed up like cumulus clouds.
Two figures radiating fierce momentum faced each other.

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