The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 369

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Episode 369
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Even as Yoo Sung-hyun muttered to himself, he couldn’t hide his disappointment.
Had he ever felt this regretful using Explosive Combo before?
Thinking about it, he hadn’t.
In fact, since he’d started using Explosive Combo, this was the largest scale he’d ever attempted.
He had used tens of thousands of undead before, but this time he’d employed approximately 60,000 Death Legion corpses plus the existing corpses scattered throughout this Unexplored Area—an astounding total of over 70,000 bodies for this Explosive Combo.
Yet.
Fuuuuaaaaahhhhh———!!!
As the ground fractured and the surrounding terrain transformed into a Lava Field, a lava pillar created by Belzarak rose from the epicenter of the explosion, standing unscathed.
Belzarak emerged from between the surging lava pillars, his ominous form revealed.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes narrowed as he observed Belzarak.
From every angle he examined, there appeared to be no significant damage.
‘This isn’t easy.’
Was it due to the high bone density?
While some surface wounds were visible, no critical injuries appeared.
Those black bones seemed to boast far greater defensive power than before.
Would a concentrated explosion rather than a wide-area one have made a difference?
Or if this were a Hidden Raid Boss instead of a World Raid Boss, wouldn’t that single strike have ended it without even transitioning phases? Such thoughts crossed his mind, but now that he’d already used Explosive Combo, such regrets were pointless.
Yoo Sung-hyun regained his stance despite the disappointment.
His Minions and the entire Death Legion took their positions and unleashed skills toward the airborne Belzarak.
Skills flew forth with even greater intensity than before.
Yet compared to the previous 100,000-strong legion, the number of skills was noticeably fewer.
-Grrrrrrrrr———!!!
Multiple skills struck home.
Its roar erupted, and a massive shockwave scattered and dispersed several skills.
That it could display such power with merely a roar was astounding.
Yet Yoo Sung-hyun and his Minions all charged forward with unwavering focus.
As the colossal Belzarak shrank by hundreds of meters, it became even more compact, and its movements grew far more formidable.
Unlike before when it merely loomed massive and immobile, now it moved with alarming agility.
Its claws tore through the earth, carving massive furrows, and the ground itself inverted.
A considerable portion of the Death Legion was swept away by this.
Yet the Minions intercepted and halted the assault, protecting the legion from Belzarak’s attacks while counterattacking, and Yoo Sung-hyun himself wielded countless powers of the Sovereigns.
Utilizing multiple Sovereigns, he deployed Darkness, Hellfire, Blood, Spirits, Fear, Mirror Blade Arts, and even Helena’s exceptionally formidable swordsmanship as he confronted the creature.
Though the creature was colossal, Yoo Sung-hyun’s own physical scale was equally massive.
Darkness swirled ferociously, Hellfire dominated the surroundings, Blood sharpened like a blade and struck relentlessly, Spirits coalesced and swelled to block its advance, and Fear infused them with greater power.
While wielding all of these, he reflected its attacks with Mirror Blade Arts and counterattacked with Helena’s exceptionally formidable swordsmanship.
-Kwaaaahhhhh———!!!
It leveraged its massive frame, swinging its body with skills unleashed.
Its elongated tail whipped like a lash, scattering Yoo Sung-hyun’s attacks, and as the tail extended further, it cleaved an entire mountain in half.
A colossal battle scene that belonged only to mythology.
I was utilizing everything while still holding back the Galaxy Sword Technique, but honestly, I was being pushed back.
Narrowing my eyes, I glared at Belzarak, who pressed me even harder.
My Minions were helping me as well, but we were still being pushed back slightly.
The viewers could see this too, and they couldn’t help but be awestruck by the tremendous battle.
When would one ever witness such a battle?
A battle that felt both desperate and urgent.
And more than half of the Unexplored Area was laid to waste.
-What is this???????
-A spectacle created by a single user????
-Wait, if he’s fighting a World Raid Boss and it’s like this, aren’t they evenly matched????
-This is insane… most level 250 players would just die if they got caught up in that?????
-I’d die before I even got there….
Everyone chattered like that, realizing my greatness.
But behind my mask, I furrowed my brow and muttered.
‘This won’t work.’
There were many things I was utilizing in combat.
Excluding the Galaxy Sword Technique, I was using the Overlord’s inherent techniques, the power of the Lords, and even swordsmanship all together.
The very act of dividing time into fragments and splitting my will to handle countless abilities was an absurd display of power.
Moreover, even while displaying such power, each individual attack exceeded the strength of a Raid Boss.
It was truly an impossible sight.
But I could clearly feel it.
At this rate, we would lose.
My Minions were helping, but their absolute power was insufficient.
‘I am dealing damage, but….’
Belzarak wasn’t invincible either—parts of his bones were gradually crumbling and collapsing—but even so, compared to the beginning, the difference wasn’t that significant.
While his wounds had increased considerably, when looking at the overall scope, there wasn’t much difference.
Watching this, I realized that handling multiple things wasn’t the answer.
Wouldn’t it be better to make one thing more powerful instead?
Like perfectly merging them into one, as with the True Void Sword.
Thinking this way, I suddenly recalled the True Void Sword I had unleashed at the beginning.
A technique where I merged darkness and fear with the power of the Lords and unleashed it through swordsmanship.
Then.
‘Wouldn’t it be possible to merge the Lords’ power into one and fight?’
Until now, I had only thought of merging that power and releasing it through a sword.
And that was merely materializing a sword and firing it, hardly true swordsmanship.
True swordsmanship required more technical aspects.
Cutting along the grain, or something like that had to be involved.
That meant I had created a sword with ability.
As I continued my thoughts further.
Helena noticed him and shouted toward the other Minions.
“Yoo Sung-hyun is in the midst of his enlightenment, so let’s hold on as long as we can.”
At that noble and elegant voice, all the Minions’ eyes blazed as they cried out.
“Everything for the Lord/Master/Overlord!!!”
At that cry and fighting spirit, Belzarak’s body trembled for a moment.
The overwhelming aura made him flinch, but the Minions seized that opening and rushed forward.
Dracanoss drew his sword first, glowing crimson-hot.
Belzarak saw it and swung his massive foreleg to block the blade, but instead Dracanoss unleashed a massive sword aura filled with blazing heat, blocking that foreleg.
Rather, Belzarak’s foreleg was stopped by Dracanoss’s sword.
The other Minions stepped forward and swung their blades at the creature.
Leonik, Baltar, Silvanor, and Barphor appeared simultaneously, unleashing sword strikes and attacks, and as they all targeted a single point, a rib on Belzarak’s side cracked with a sharp sound.
-Krrrrrr——!
A roar filled with agony.
But they were far from finished.
Nocturnium, who had created a massive hand from the creature’s wing bones in Phase 1, suddenly attached the Battlefield to a colossal skeletal hand rising from the ground, making it even larger, and seized and crushed Belzarak’s neck.
Kwaaaaaaaa————!!!
A tremendous impact rippled across the Battlefield as the creature’s body and head were driven into the ground.
Seizing that moment, Belladrina, Serpina, Fiora, Anemor, and Kalisha unleashed their respective powers from the air and crashed down upon Belzarak.
The Black Sun and Red Moon, the dragon’s breath, a massive cyan lightning spear, and a black wave materialized into a colossal hammer that fell.
A tremendous explosion erupted as everything shattered.
A dust pillar rose far greater than the explosive combo that had burst seventy thousand corpses at once, and the impact alone created the illusion that the surrounding terrain was caving in.
The ground was crushed by the impact alone, and a deep chasm formed where Belzarak had been, creating the illusion that the surroundings had become even higher mountains.
If the explosive combo was dispersed, this five-way attack was a concentrated assault converging on a single point, so even Belzarak could not escape the impact.
The viewers, naturally, erupted in chaos.
-Are these insane Minions really going all out???
-Wait, how is each single Minion ranker-class???
-Right now each one could take down a triple ranker????
-Yeah, even I’d say they’re at least double rankers???
-Where does he get all these Minions from;;;;;;
-Just give me one;;;
-Is that even possible????
Everyone was astounded, but Yoo Sung-hyun was still consolidating his enlightenment, and Belzarak had cracks in his bones here and there from the assault but remained largely intact.
However, the Minions appeared quite exhausted, and Belzarak seized that opening and charged forward.
-Kraaaaaaaa!!!
The creature still brimming with power took flight.
The massive hand of Nocturnium that had been restraining it shattered, and the Minions looked at Belzarak with weary expressions, though not ones of crisis.
And between the Minions and Belzarak, a mysterious and indescribable light mixing ash-grey and brilliance poured forth, blocking the way.
Kwaaaaaaaa————!!!
A truly devastating attack was unleashed but was blocked by Helena’s translucent barrier.
Helena herself was straining somewhat, cold sweat beginning to form, yet she smiled as if thoroughly enjoying herself.
Belzarak surged forward in indignation, scattering the essence of death through the air and materializing it into form.
As the essence of death took shape as blades and shot toward her.
Helena dissipated the intermingled abyssal essence and wielded only the celestial energy in its purest form.
She established a favorable position through elemental advantage, then intercepted each blade of death with radiant spears wreathed in brilliant light.
Crash—crash—crash—crash———!!!
Celestial power and the power of death collided, laying waste to everything around them.
Even a complete novice watching could see it.
Despite holding the elemental advantage.
-Her power seems weak???
-She’s getting pushed back;;;;
-The other servants seem drained and can’t help???
-Isn’t she going to die like this???
-What is the Demon King doing;;;
As everyone fired off such comments.
Helena, who was blocking the blades formed from the essence of death, let a subtle smile cross her face.
Sensing the energy she felt behind her back.
“You’ve grasped it, Sung-hyun.”
With those words, Yoo Sung-hyun appeared behind Helena, wreathed in sinister darkness and nodding.
Enveloped in darkness of an entirely different dimension than before, Yoo Sung-hyun murmured.
“Now I understand how to use it.”
At his words, Helena spoke with satisfaction.
“This resembles the technique I once wielded.”
As Helena spoke, Yoo Sung-hyun nodded, reading the text visible only to his eyes.
[Overlord Secret Art『Death Lord』]

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