The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 366

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Episode 366
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[『Rapid’s Demon King』VS『World Raid Boss』]
Rapid couldn’t hide her excitement even as she logged into the official E-World website, where the title was posted for the Eternal World service.
She had reacted nonchalantly to Yoo Sung-hyun, but honestly, there weren’t many things that excited her this much.
E-World had officially granted the guild an event slot.
In other words, after Yoo Sung-hyun’s event, she had essentially obtained the authority to properly promote Rapid on the official E-World homepage.
How many opportunities like this existed to grow a guild?
‘This is my chance to develop the branch guilds.’
Currently, the Rapid Guild’s headquarters on the East Asia Server was the strongest, but the other branches were relatively weak, ranking third among guilds.
It wasn’t for nothing that they were called an elite force.
Until now, there simply hadn’t been enough talented individuals.
But recently, wasn’t the guild gradually expanding through Yoo Sung-hyun’s activities?
With Reaper joining the Europe Server, the guild’s scale was steadily growing.
And if I obtained the event slot here?
‘I could truly grow it beyond my expectations.’
So Rapid, unable to conceal her excitement,
logged into the Eternal World and watched the video streaming from the official E-World channel on a massive screen.
The video hadn’t fully started yet.
The protagonist, Yoo Sung-hyun, hadn’t appeared yet.
But that was only temporary.
The moment Yoo Sung-hyun appeared, Rapid smiled mysteriously.
‘Huh.’
Looking at the viewers’ chat afterward, the response was exactly as expected—absolutely explosive.
-omgomgomgomgomg
-kkkkk it’s starting
-we hope he loses.
-WWWWWW hoping the demon king fails.
-lol we’re curious how he’ll fight 🙂
-if he’s the demon king, i think he’ll show his true power 😀
Chat messages flowing in from countries around the world.
And furthermore,
-kkkkkkk he’s korean but i bet on the world boss.
-there’s no idiot reverse betting on this, right?
-but the demon king’s odds are surprisingly high.
-oooo patriotic betting though.
-but since the foreign ratio is overwhelming, the odds are still….
-right?
-let’s go reverse bet!!!!!!
Even if she was the Demon King, I thought she couldn’t handle a world boss alone, and I continued typing in the chat.
Honestly, even Rapid, the guild master, was a bit worried about that aspect.
Of course, I hadn’t asked her about it, not wanting to burden Yoo Sung-hyun.
‘It won’t be easy, that’s for sure.’
But rather, Rapid went all-in on Yoo Sung-hyun while thinking.
If there had been no chance of winning at all, Eternal World wouldn’t have even conceived of such an event.
They were a massive enterprise, after all.
Because of that, they had no choice but to carefully consider every single event like this.
Even if it was an event created on the spur of the moment.
If Yoo Sung-hyun’s fight had been so one-sided that she’d lose pathetically, they wouldn’t have sent such a proposal in the first place.
For the viewers and Eternal World to watch the footage without embarrassment, Yoo Sung-hyun needed to put up at least a decent fight here.
Because of such reasoning, Rapid believed Yoo Sung-hyun had slightly better odds of winning.
‘So please, just win, Yoo Sung-hyun….’
I called out to her like someone who had gone all-in on a typical bet.
But Rapid was watching the footage carefully after Yoo Sung-hyun appeared.
And then.
In the middle of a vast forest that could be called an unexplored area.
A sinister aura began to spread.
‘What?’
Seeing that ominous presence, Rapid’s eyes gleamed, and the viewers began reacting similarly.
Excited chat messages flooded in as the battle seemed about to begin.
-What the hell is that???
-??????
-The scale is insane?
-An entire forest the size of a territory is rotting away???
-Can the Demon King even win against that???
-An entire territory’s worth of forest just vanished in an instant????
Just as the chat said, an entire forest the size of a territory vanished in an instant.
And what had felt like a mountain crumbled away, revealing something massive that trembled as if boasting its enormous size.
Where the mountain had been, pure white bone was exposed, and from within it, the aura of death rippled outward, turning everything around it to death.
The rocks and sand clinging to the mountain withered and crumbled to dust, and even the birds that had desperately taken flight into the sky along with the trees simply crumbled and vanished.
It took mere moments for the lush forest to transform into a gray desert, everything consumed by death.
A colossal dragon form with a massive skeletal body that had turned everything around it to death.
The resurrection of the Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion, made the world tremble as if shaking.
Kuguguguguuu———.
Kwagagagaga———.
The earth trembled and the atmosphere shuddered, releasing a sonic wave like thunder all around.
With merely raising its body, it summoned such a catastrophic and destructive sight that the viewers couldn’t even bring themselves to type in the chat.
Rapid too, while rationally understanding that Eternal World must have proceeded because they believed Yoo Sung-hyun had a chance, found that thought disappearing entirely at the sight of this overwhelming spectacle.
Could Yoo Sung-hyun really win against that?
While lost in such thoughts.
Rapid suddenly noticed something strange.
Watching Yoo Sung-hyun witness the resurrection of the Deathbone Dragon, she found it odd that he was looking somewhere other than at Belzarak.
‘What is he looking at?’
Yoo Sung-hyun’s inexplicable behavior.
But thinking that combat would soon break out, she waited, and then Yoo Sung-hyun regained his senses and turned his gaze toward Belzarak.
Suddenly, an unexpected variable appeared.
The forest near Yoo Sung-hyun was sliced down in an instant.
Knights wielding swords suddenly emerged from that location.
Swiiiiing—crack!
As if someone had swung an enormous blade, trees in one section of the forest were felled in a single moment, and knights raised their swords toward Yoo Sung-hyun, who floated suspended in the air.
It was not a single knight order.
Led by a knight order gleaming with golden radiance, three knight orders—the Red Guard, the Blue Guard, and the Gold Guard—rushed forward and raised their swords toward Yoo Sung-hyun.
Rapid and the viewers watched them with bewilderment.
-????????????
-Who are those guys????
-Why are knights suddenly appearing???
-??????Really? They seem to be saying something, but the Eternal World cameraman can’t catch it???
-Is this an event scene???
-Where did these knights come from all of a sudden????
As they posted their confused messages in the chat, Rapid blinked repeatedly when she saw text suddenly appear before her eyes.
[The Silverrain Countess House, a territory belonging to the Riescan Kingdom, declares war on the user ‘Yoo Sung-hyun’ and the ‘Rapid Guild’.]
[From now on, the ‘Silverrain Countess House’ and the ‘Rapid Guild’ are officially in a state of hostility and are considered to be at war.]
The moment Rapid finished reading those messages, she was left bewildered.
The broadcast took an unexpected turn.
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Just as the Gold Guard Knight Order, followed by the Red Guard and Blue Guard Knight Orders, raised their swords toward Yoo Sung-hyun floating in the sky and declared war.
Yoo Sung-hyun stared at them in utter disbelief.
They were declaring war at the very moment when the World Raid Boss, Belzarak, had awakened?
It made no sense.
It would be one thing if they declared war after Belzarak and I fought, but now?
With that thought, Yoo Sung-hyun looked at the knight orders in confusion.
The leader of the knight order shouted at Yoo Sung-hyun.
“If we just deal with that Deathbone Dragon of yours, you’ll lose your strength too!!!”
And I realized what kind of grand misunderstanding they were making.
While Yoo Sung-hyun floated in the air, the knight order was positioned closer to Belzarak than to him, and they were under the grand delusion that Yoo Sung-hyun had noticed their location and summoned Belzarak.
Upon realizing this, I couldn’t help but laugh and stared at the knights in disbelief, and then the Gold Guard Knight Order, followed by the other knights, charged at Belzarak with their swords drawn.
They declared war and then attacked the Belzarak that I was supposed to defeat.
“Ahahaha. Come to think of it, aren’t they actually good people?”
Helena chuckled amusedly at her own words, and I had to nod in honest agreement.
Let me see just how long those knights can hold out.
The Gold Guard Knight Order surged forward with overwhelming power toward Belzarak, and the newly born Belzarak recognized them as enemies, immediately unleashing an aura of death.
Kwaaaaaaaaa———
The aura of death spread outward.
It was a power that would reduce even a careless opponent to ash without a chance to defend, yet this wasn’t even Belzarak’s actual attack.
The moment he simply drew forth the aura of death, gathered it, opened a massive maw, and wove death itself from within.
A warning message appeared before my eyes.
[World Raid Boss, 『Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion』 is using a power.]
[Block the power, 『Breath of Death』 with an invincibility skill.]
As the warning appeared and Belzarak’s breath erupted, it extended like a black ray, and together with the three knight orders charging forward led by the Gold Guard Knight Order, it erased even the mountain that stretched in a straight line from their original positions as if they had never existed in this world.
Even I felt a chill run down my spine at that perfect ray of death itself.
Had I been hit by that, I might have died instantly without using an invincibility skill, and the effect of 『Breaking Free from Shackles』 might have activated.
The fact that even I felt such a chill said everything.
One could easily imagine how the other viewers felt.
-???????????
-Where did the knights go???
-The knights were deleted????
-Was that an event scene;;;?
-No??? Aren’t those the Gold Guard Knight Order from the Riescan Kingdom? They seem to belong to the Silverrain Territory….
-Why would they be there???
-I don’t think so???
Everyone was discussing the strangeness of it all.
But what did it matter anyway?
At the same time, a message appeared before my eyes.
[10 minutes remain until the power of World Raid Boss, 『Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion』 is available again.]
I couldn’t help but smile at the message that kindly informed me of the power’s cooldown.
Well, it was a World Raid Boss after all.
It was only natural that such messages would appear.
Hadn’t it been the same with Apophis?
So I loosened up my body lightly while watching Belzarak, who recognized me from far away and was growling softly.
-Krrrrr.
And around that Belzarak, there floated a true dragon that looked identical to Belzarak, but.
-My master, my Lord has come.
Watching Belzarak’s spirit rejoice without end, I chuckled and began drawing out my full power.
There was simply too much to gain if I won here.
I couldn’t afford to lose.
I set aside the knights’ declaration of war for now.
Right now, I could only think of battle with Belzarak.
And as if to signal the beginning, a message appeared.
[Battle with World Raid Boss, 『Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion』 begins.]
[Prepare for the World Raid.]
Upon reading that majestic proclamation, Yoo Sung-hyun drew forth everything he possessed.
The moment the Underworld opened, the battle commenced.

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