The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 320

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Episode 320
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The two locked eyes, their fierce auras clashing against each other.
Yet neither remained unscathed.
Sermagra’s body was drenched in ashen gray, stained by the abyss itself, trembling violently.
Though I had blocked most of the attacks, I could not prevent fear from seeping through—and as that terror gnawed at my body, my trembling intensified.
My wounds multiplied with each passing moment.
And Yoo Sung-hyun’s body was crumbling on one side, gradually turning to dust and fading away.
But in that instant.
As if resurrecting, my body came alive once more.
[You have sustained severe damage!]
[Your health has been reduced to 0.]
[The effect of 『One Unchained』 activates.]
[You revive at 50% of maximum health.]
[Upon revival, you enter an invincible state for 5 seconds.]
Five seconds of invincibility.
But I did not move, calculating this carefully.
Even when I used mobility skills, I gained brief invincibility—yet Distortion ignored even that and struck through.
Against an opponent who could ignore invincibility itself.
I dared not move recklessly.
Sermagra remained a formidable foe, even corroded by fear.
As I stared at my opponent.
Sermagra stared back at me.
And we both felt it simultaneously.
‘This next strike.’
‘Will be the last.’
We had exchanged countless blows.
We knew it well.
Though I still had roughly 50% health remaining.
If Sermagra landed his attack, 50% or otherwise, I would be obliterated in an instant—meaningless.
The same held true for Sermagra.
A body already riddled with fear.
I had damaged him too severely to simply erase it with Distortion.
Of course, I could try—but then I would exhaust all my remaining power.
So instead, I would kill Yoo Sung-hyun.
With that resolve, we charged at each other.
‘Grimoire of Ruin.’
As I clenched my newly regenerated left arm in the void, the Grimoire of Ruin materialized.
And Yoo Sung-hyun immediately unleashed a flash of light that erased the world itself.
Eraser.
The flash of annihilation shot forth with the momentum to erase everything, and Sermagra extended his fist of distortion toward him.
When the Eraser—that flash of annihilation which obliterated the world—collided with Sermagra’s fist of distortion that warped and shattered all things, the impact was cataclysmic.
Sermagra’s fist cleaved through the light.
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle!
The fractures twisted the radiance.
Extinguishing the light of annihilation.
In that moment when the extended fist of distortion had lost even a fraction of its power.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes, stained with the abyss, gleamed as he channeled his strength.
The true power of the Lord of Abyssal Terror—a force he had never had the opportunity to unleash until now.
The terror deeply embedded within Sermagra’s body, a creature riddled with dread.
As Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes, stained with the abyss, transformed—one side swallowed by darkness, the other blazing with violet flame—the metamorphosis was complete.
From Sermagra’s body, which had been reaching toward Yoo Sung-hyun, spikes of darkness erupted, while violet flames that melted flesh surged forth.
Aaaaaaahhhhh———!!!
Darkness and fire burst from his body, tearing his flesh asunder and dissolving it away.
Yet Sermagra would not yield, extending his fist forward until it finally ‘reached’ Yoo Sung-hyun.
In the next instant, Yoo Sung-hyun’s body began to collapse, and seeing this, Sermagra smiled.
Instead, Yoo Sung-hyun laughed, and both his eyes were stained once more with the abyss.
Then, as the Lord of Abyssal Terror, he absorbed all of Sermagra’s remaining power.
In turn, he felt his own distortion force flowing back into him, and Sermagra felt his own body collapsing in reverse.
Sermagra spoke, looking toward Yoo Sung-hyun.
“Magnificent!”
Witnessing the true form of a demon warrior who acknowledged his opponent even as death claimed him, Yoo Sung-hyun could only collapse to the ground.
“Hah.”
I barely won.
Truly.
Simultaneously, messages flooded his vision relentlessly.
[You have defeated the superior demon, Sermagra.]
[You have single-handedly defeated a Legendary-tier hidden raid boss exceeding level 100.]
[You possess a weapon imbued with demonic power.]
[You are within the Scenario Book.]
[All experience has been converted, and you have absorbed one of the superior demon Sermagra’s abilities.]
[You have acquired the demonic skill ‘Distortion’.]
Seeing the message about acquiring a new skill, I had no time to rejoice, shaking my head wearily.
It had been ages since I’d fought a battle that drained me so completely.
As I turned my gaze.
I observed the pillar of black light gradually beginning to fade.
Sensing its imminent conclusion, I rose to my feet.
Exhausted beyond measure though I was.
I could not leave Will, whose awakening as a lord was nearly complete, unattended.
‘Where should I go.’
7.
The Subjugation Force soldiers stood frozen, their mouths agape as they witnessed half the Mine vanish as if cleaved by a colossal blade.
How could they not?
This was no ordinary mountain—it was a Mine.
Had anyone ever witnessed half of the largest Mine in this entire region simply disappear as if bisected by a sword?
Such power was something only Heroes whose strength touched the stars could achieve.
Yet Cairo, intimately familiar with the Sword Saint’s capabilities, understood that this was precisely the kind of feat he accomplished—as if the Heroes who touched the stars were nothing in comparison.
Still, those capable of wielding such overwhelming force were exceedingly rare.
While not comparable to the Heroes themselves, this was a realm granted only to Lords or those who had glimpsed the threshold of transcendence.
Cairo found himself swallowing hard.
‘Is this… truly the power displayed by the Hero’s disciple?’
Even Hindel, who had already transcended and now stood a step above the Heroes themselves.
His disciple possessed such formidable strength.
The high-ranking Demon summoned to this Mine was said to possess power rivaling that of a noble-ranked Demon.
Yet witnessing it firsthand made it almost impossible to believe the sheer magnitude of that power.
However, it seemed the disciple had expended considerable strength in the previous battle against the Baron-ranked Demon, making the contest appear nearly evenly matched.
Or perhaps the high-ranking Demon’s power exceeded expectations.
Keeping such thoughts to himself, Cairo remained still.
Once more, space warped above the Mine as darkness and radiance erupted forth.
Soon, even the pillar of black light began to fade and dissipate.
When the pillar of black light finally vanished completely.
“Is… is it over?”
“It appears there was a noble-ranked Demon even more formidable than the Baron!”
“Alas, I fear for the safety of Hindel’s disciple…”
“We must hurry to rescue the scouts!”
Several soldiers regained their composure.
Cairo too snapped back to attention, observing the disorganized Subjugation Force members.
They stumbled about in confusion.
Seeing this, Cairo seized the opportunity and shouted.
“The scouts are in danger! Our Knights shall lead the way to their rescue!”
Though that was what he proclaimed.
The Knights understood Cairo’s true intentions perfectly.
After such a fierce battle, the scouts would surely be exhausted.
He intended to arrive quickly and finish them off.
Yet unaware of such sinister scheming, when Cairo raised his sword.
The Subjugation Force soldiers cried out, following in his wake.
“Truly befitting the Captain of the Solknight Order and Commander of the Subjugation Force!”
“Follow Commander Cairo!!!”
“Reform the ranks!!!”
“We leave no one behind!!!”
“Knights, advance!!!”
Everyone surged forward in a frenzy of excitement.
Naturally, the mounted knights charged ahead fastest, and while the others scrambled to keep pace, most inevitably fell behind.
Yet the Subjugation Force members voiced no complaints about the knights pulling ahead.
They trusted that the knights who arrived first would assess the situation.
However, anxiety etched itself across the faces of those knights racing forward.
Cairo especially felt it.
“If they’re still alive, we’ll have problems. We need to arrive first and strike them down ourselves.”
His plan to slaughter the Subjugation Force members and present their corpses as tribute had already evaporated.
The demonic aura was barely perceptible.
But more pressingly, if those scouts he’d sent survived, it could cause far greater complications ahead.
Cairo pressed forward with fiercer determination than anyone else.
Spurring his horse, he arrived swiftly.
His adjutant spoke to him.
“It appears we have roughly fifteen minutes.”
Nodding at his adjutant’s report of the time gap,
Cairo carefully selected the most skilled knights and searched the Mine.
Yet neither demons nor scouts were visible there.
As they continued searching intently,
fifteen minutes passed, and the reinforcements arrived.
“Captain, we found them!!!”
At a knight’s cry, I moved toward the location.
There, I discovered five corpses crumbling away after a fierce battle, unable to withstand the passage of time.
Hindel’s disciple, two of his companions, and two Solknight Order knights.
The count was exact.
However, since they were disintegrating, their forms were unrecognizable, so their identities couldn’t be confirmed precisely.
Yet everyone present could discern these were the scouts.
The Subjugation Force members gazed at the corpses with pale faces, their expressions tinged with regret.
Cairo, observing this, wore a bitter smile.
So they died after all.
Then, suddenly,
I tilted my head at the oddity.
‘But how could the corpses gather in one place like this?’
Such a question arose,
but I soon shook my head.
Humans possessed the habit of believing only what they saw and wished to believe.
Thus the Subjugation Force members held a moment of silence, honoring the scouts who had single-handedly eliminated the demons.
They granted the Subjugation Force members’ wishes to construct a tomb for them.
After that, Cairo abruptly departed to make his report elsewhere.
Though the plan had suffered a setback,
Still, there was a harvest to be had, and I continued my report with a glad heart.
8.
People stood at a considerable distance, gazing at the Mine that had vanished as if cleaved horizontally across the Mountain.
They were, of course, Will, Barbaros, and Yoo Sung-hyun.
Seeing that nothing unusual had occurred, Yoo Sung-hyun and Barbaros felt relief and gratitude, while Will, awakened to his newfound power, gazed upon himself repeatedly with wonder, as though perceiving the world through fresh eyes.
Yoo Sung-hyun smiled warmly as he watched Will and spoke.
“You’ve become a Lord. Congratulations.”
“Yes… it does seem that way. It appears to be the power that Helena left for me.”
At those words, Yoo Sung-hyun smiled knowingly.
Helena spoke in a voice only Yoo Sung-hyun could hear.
-I may have planted the power, but he awakened it himself.
Her tone seemed somewhat gruff.
Yet beneath it, a sense of pride could be felt.
In any case.
Yoo Sung-hyun and Barbaros gazed at Will with warm eyes.
And Will, looking at the two of them, spoke.
“Thank you for protecting me. Because of you both, I was able to awaken. I am truly grateful.”
Will expressed his gratitude twice over in his bow.
And with that resolve, Will looked at them both and spoke with determination.
“It seems the time has come for me to seek out Helena.”
“Go carefully.”
“I’ll be cheering for you.”
As the two of them encouraged Will in this way.
Will bowed in gratitude as well.
And then.
“If fate allows it, perhaps we shall meet again. But somehow, I have a feeling we’ll see each other very soon.”
At Will’s words, the two smiled knowingly.
And so Will departed.
Not long after Will had left.
A completion message appeared.
And a message that was invisible even to Barbaros.

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