The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 367

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Episode 367
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Cyan-tinted portals opened across the Unexplored Area.
The legions pouring forth from those portals connected to the Underworld seemed to outnumber even the trees densely packed throughout the Forest.
Auras in the form of black darkness wreathed in cyan vapor billowed forth.
Military forces that could not be ignored in any aspect numbered in the tens of thousands, surpassing hundreds of thousands—an overwhelmingly vast army.
Though it seemed impossible for a single user to have created such a colossal force, Belzarak, befitting his status as a World Raid Boss, gazed down upon them with gleaming eyes.
The majesty of a scattered dragon cloaked in the aura of death and bearing eyes full of demise transcended all description.
Yet standing before that colossal being were Sung-hyun’s proud minions.
Barphor, appointed as the legion commander first, revealed his vicious visage resembling a Mole Beastman and led the beast-form legions alongside the beastkin, crying out.
-Crush them all———!!!
At that roar like a beast’s howl, the beast-form legions and the beastkin death soldiers trembled, and all responded in unison to that tremendous war cry.
Following that, the Skeleton Knight appeared, leading all the knights and swordsmen.
Leonik blazed with an ominous navy-blue aura and gleaming eyes as he cried out.
-Second Legion!!! Knights!!! Let us hunt down that arrogant dragon daring to invoke the name of death before our Lord———!!!!!
At Leonik’s cry, the knights and swordsmen raised their blades and emanated an ominous momentum, their auras honed like swords ready to descend at any moment.
And as Leonik’s momentum pierced the heavens, countless black shadows tore through the sky.
As each fluttered their wings in motion, it created a majestic sight so overwhelming that one could almost believe the very sky was being dyed in darkness.
Within that, the tearing sound that controlled them all, rending the heavens.
-Screeeeeee———!!!
-Caaaaaaaaa———!!!
Anemor and Kalisha roared, and all the winged death soldiers fluttered their wings, soaring through the sky and guarding the surroundings of Belzarak.
And simultaneously, as the magical legions moved, Serpina and Belladrina took the vanguard, and the two women spoke in unison as they led the magical legions.
“Let us dispose of this insignificant creature daring to defy the Lord.”
-Do not display incompetence before His Majesty.
As the two women declared thus.
The magical legions all emanated their momentum as if pouring forth mana, preparing to unleash their spells.
A massive military force numbering one hundred thousand.
Simultaneously, as Belzarak appeared and the power of his manifested authority faded, he began to reveal his true form.
Finally, hovering in the air, Sung-hyun surveyed the entire battlefield while accompanied by Helena, Silvanor, Baltar, Dracanoss, Nocturnium, and Fiora.
‘This won’t be easy.’
The moment Sung-hyun thought thus, Belzarak moved his massive body that had been crouched.
Then the earth seemed to tremble naturally, and legions caught in the shockwave of that single movement were pushed back.
A colossal frame whose very existence defied reason.
As that creature rose from its four-legged crouch, it revealed a frame vaster than mountains, and between the pristine white bones, black vapor spread throughout the area.
Whoooosh———.
Everything touched by the spreading black vapor lost its life and withered, and all living things including trees could not endure in that place.
Yet the Death Legion only grew stronger, their ominous cyan eyes gleaming even more intensely.
However, Belzarak’s effects were far from over.
Between the desolate ground where death spread, skeletal bones began to rise one by one, sprouting densely around like gravestones.
As those massive bones rose as if to announce his domain, the minions began systematically pushing the troops back.
It was a command the minions had remembered since the days of Helena, and simultaneously, those who had newly become legion commanders did the same, withdrawing their forces.
Just as expected, the colossal bones erupted upward, and one by one, they began transforming into knights.
‘Dragon Fang Soldiers.’
One of the considerably high-tier skills among necromancer-type abilities.
An undead legion created using dragon bones and blood, or teeth.
Belzarak was deploying them right now.
A proper display of a World Raid Boss’s might.
As Sung-hyun thought this, the viewers shared similar sentiments.
-Wait, Dragon Fang Soldiers?????
-Where else do those only appear as Raid Boss-tier enemies???
-Not even a regular Raid Boss;;; It’s a Hidden Raid Boss.
-And 20 of them just appeared like that?
-Is this actually supposed to be cleared????
-Well, it’s a World Boss so this scale does make sense….
-Only an idiot would summon the Demon King;;;
Most of the viewers here were supporters who came to cheer on Sung-hyun.
Yet seeing this seemed hopeless, so they filled the chat with nothing but despairing messages.
Sung-hyun wasn’t watching the chat anyway, but even if he had been, he wouldn’t have paid it much mind.
Rather than worrying about such comments, what mattered now was how to overcome this situation.
First, Sung-hyun, floating in the sky, began issuing commands.
After the Dragon Fang Soldiers appeared, Sung-hyun first separated fifty thousand troops—half of his forces—to engage them.
The forces rushed forward in unison against the twenty Dragon Fang Soldiers firmly protecting Belzarak.
Among them, Sung-hyun had Leonik, Baltar at his side, and Silvanor and Dracanoss lead the charge against the Dragon Fang Soldiers.
Four minions who began engaging the Dragon Fang Soldiers while also commanding.
Each one was a formidable knight, so they held their ground without being pushed back even against multiple Dragon Fang Soldiers.
In the midst of this, Sung-hyun observed Belzarak, who showed no particular movement.
‘Hmm.’
Ten minutes remained until Belzarak’s power—his breath attack—would be available again.
Sung-hyun calculated that time precisely and mobilized all remaining forces to target Belzarak’s main body with an assault.
Countless skills rained down from all directions.
Unlike the minions of other necromancers who merely lent their bodies at the user’s command, each of these minions moved as mages superior to those necromancers and knights of comparable caliber.
Kuuuuuung———!
Pwoooooong—————!
Kugugugugugu————!
The earth overturned, black vapor scattered outward, and Belzarak’s body tilted sharply to one side.
These were skills unleashed by fifty thousand troops.
No matter how much of a World Raid Boss Belzarak was, if struck by skills infused with the full commitment of fifty thousand beings, he had no choice but to be knocked back severely.
-What?????
-Wow, it actually has that much impact???
-I thought even if there were many, each individual wasn’t particularly strong, but they seem stronger than ordinary necromancers??? Each one of them?
-But that many people are handling tens of thousands????
-There’s a saying about being a one-man army, but isn’t this beyond that?
-Huh… you could even call it a one-man guild?
-Wouldn’t even pulling together an entire guild at that level not be able to defeat a single Demon King???
-Nah, surely not….
The viewers couldn’t help but admire what they were witnessing.
It was a display of power that could rival an entire Large Guild single-handedly.
After all, they had made that colossal Belzarak falter.
The impact was predictable.
It wasn’t merely about numbers—each individual was powerful enough to be considered elite.
It was only natural that the viewers were astonished.
Yoo Sung-hyun observed this carefully, examining the Dragon Fang Soldiers.
Then he could see the Dragon Fang Soldiers desperately trying to rush back to Belzarak.
‘Wait?’
As Belzarak came under attack, the Dragon Fang Soldiers immediately moved to return to him, yet Belzarak himself remained motionless.
Each of these Dragon Fang Soldiers was a hidden raid boss—twenty of them in total.
Seeing this, Yoo Sung-hyun couldn’t help but smile faintly.
He suspected it was some sort of mechanic like that.
“Everyone, don’t kill the Dragon Fang Soldiers—bind them as much as possible.”
-How could we refuse, my lord!!!?
-Kahahaha!!! We obey the Lord’s command!!!?
“We shall do so.”
-Murmur murmur murmur grumble.
Leonik, Baltar, Silvanor, and even Dracanoss all responded to Yoo Sung-hyun’s command, and he called out to his remaining minions.
“Attack with all your might while the other minions hold them back.”
Yoo Sung-hyun said this while gathering his own magical power intensely.
Even so, the Dragon Fang Soldiers thrashed about, and his minions held them at bay.
Looking down from the sky at the helpless Belzarak, Yoo Sung-hyun grinned and muttered to himself.
“If they keep this up, I’ll need to use my strongest technique.”
Yoo Sung-hyun muttered this as he drew his sword.
He had originally thought this technique shouldn’t be used until the final stages.
But it seemed like an opportunity this perfect wouldn’t come again.
Yoo Sung-hyun unsheathed his sword and drew upon his power.
Having grasped the essence of the Galaxy Sword Dance he’d been using and the profound swordsmanship of Helena, Yoo Sung-hyun now recalled the powers he’d gained after awakening as a Sovereign.
He began pouring all his strength into his blade, now able to fully channel the Sovereign’s power into it.
First came darkness.
As pitch-black darkness that even light couldn’t penetrate settled into his sword, Yoo Sung-hyun smiled.
The Void Sword—the secret technique he had comprehended and used before.
To surpass even that, Yoo Sung-hyun now infused his sword with the power of the Sovereign.
A Lord’s power is ultimately a Lord who embodies the Lord’s strength and uses their face as a metaphor.
In other words, it means the Lord’s power can be contained in a single vessel.
By embedding the Lord of Darkness into a sword, the Lord granted the Lord of Darkness another face.
One of the five Lords who reign over the Abyss.
The Lord of Fear in the Abyss.
Since ancient times, all living beings have feared darkness.
But when that darkness finally grasped fear, fear writhed and consumed fear itself.
When primordial darkness and primordial fear merged into one, something indescribably grotesque and horrifying was embedded in the sword.
Darkness bloomed with severance, and severance awakened in living beings a terror beyond all comparison.
As they strengthened each other and their power condensed, it transformed into something vast and singular.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s sword, which had become something neither fear nor darkness, gleamed in an instant, and he carved out a true void that transcended both the fear and darkness incomparable to before, shaping it with his blade.
Was it because it was shaped by a Lord’s power?
Within that sword, faces twisted in agony and faces wailing in loneliness constantly tried to burst forth, yet they were trapped by the void and could not escape.
Would this be the manifestation of human loneliness?
As vile emotions condensed into one, Yoo Sung-hyun, gripping the sword, smiled and swung it.
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship’ proficiency increases.]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship – Darkness’ secret has been unveiled.]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship – Darkness’ is compatible with the Lord of Darkness.]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship – Darkness’ is compatible with the Lord of Fear in the Abyss.]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship – Darkness’ secret techniques are awakened.]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship – Darkness’ secret art, the Void Sword, advances further.]
Helena’s Incredibly Strong Swordsmanship Secret Art ‘True Void Sword’
The moment the sword was swung, the world was filled with solitude.

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