The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 370

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Episode 370
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The aura that Yoo Sung-hyun had woven together using multiple Lords was incomplete.
Yet that distinct aura unmistakably revealed the presence of something tangible.
Death Lord.
I could vividly feel the power of the Lord who was death itself and governed all death.
Belzarak Draxion, the Deathborn Dragon, had lost his soul and his reason had been cast into the abyss’s depths, but the instincts remaining in his body were sharp enough that he could only tremble as he sensed the power Yoo Sung-hyun now displayed.
It was inevitable for Belzarak, who possessed the bones of death.
The aura of death felt so vividly real.
The power of death that had been used to create him manifested before me.
Though small and incomplete, it was death nonetheless.
Belzarak’s movements halted in an instant.
—Aaaah.
Watching Belzarak stop with that strange cry, I shaped that aura of death.
Realizing that this incomplete power, forged by binding three Lords’ forces together at once, could not yet be wielded completely.
I wrapped the Death Lord’s power around my own body.
And then.
A cloak of black ink—darkness yet not darkness—and a staff of dread—fear yet not fear—suddenly materialized in my hands.
The moment my minions and legions beheld my transformed figure, they all bowed their heads toward me.
Not from some welling of will or devotion of loyalty.
It was merely an instinctive movement.
Roooaaahhh——!
Absorbing the death that permeated the surroundings and revealing to all that only I was death, Belzarak could only feel the power of death draining from him.
Feeling the greedy grasp of the Lord who even stole death already granted, Belzarak understood.
Instinctively, he recognized me as his master.
Yet for some inexplicable reason, he could not resist this irrational and inscrutable situation—that he must defy such a master.
—Krraaaaaahhh!!!
Whether a roar or a cry of anguish, Belzarak’s wail echoed mournfully through the surroundings, and I extended my staff toward him.
Ordinarily, I would have been far more accustomed to a sword than a staff, but that was not the case now.
I simply grasped and extended the staff as though it were second nature.
A magic circle materialized before the staff’s tip.
Normally, a Lord can wield the forces they govern with perfect freedom.
But I could not yet fully command the Death Lord’s power, so what I could use was limited.
Yet even that felt sufficient.
The moment Belzarak saw the magic circle unfold before my staff, he moved first.
Had he sensed the danger?
The colossal Belzarak, massive despite his diminishment, swung his enormous foreleg and raked through space itself with a titanic claw.
Just before his four sharp talons could touch me.
My magic circle fully deployed.
From the completed magic circle, grotesque masses of flesh swelled forth.
I thrust my lips forward toward the swinging foreleg and cried out something unintelligible.
The murmured words from my lips sang of death, and the wave extended toward Belzarak’s foreleg. The moment Belzarak sensed it, he felt that his end had come.
[Overlord Secret Art 『Death Lord – Finale』]
My eyes, which had been shining with a cyan-green light, gradually became stained with an ominous black hue, and as I fixed my gaze upon Belzarak.
Though Belzarak had swiftly lost one arm, he retreated backward, exhaling the aura of death toward me while summoning countless black bone spears in the void and firing them forth.
As darkness painted the world and night fell, the black spears blanketed the sky.
Another magic circle unfolded upon my staff.
Skills that could only be used in the Death Lord state.
And another one among them unfolded.
[Overlord Secret Art 『Death Lord – Guidance of the Grim Reaper』]
Then a colossal arm burst forth from behind my back, and as if drawing a curtain, it gently grasped the void and moved, whereupon all the black bone spears swarming like the night were erased as if space itself had been reclaimed.
Watching the spears vanish along with space itself, Belzarak felt something unreasonable.
And he was not alone in feeling this irrationality.
Tens of millions of viewers watching me.
-???????
-What am I even watching???
-What is this??????
-He deleted the skill????
-Is that a Secret Art????
-Where does such a Secret Art even exist??????
-No matter how much of a Secret Art it is, what is that….
As if witnessing terror from a phenomenon they had never experienced before, the viewers swallowed hard at the incomprehensible sight.
It was already incomprehensible that I was fighting evenly against a World Raid Boss.
But a Secret Art that could delete the skills of such a World Raid Boss?
It was impossible not to disbelieve.
Moreover, I was even unfolding Secret Arts that produced effects like bodily dismemberment.
It was no wonder that the viewers were seized by fear at what they witnessed.
-Is this really Ranker-class strength now??
-Can a Double Ranker actually defeat a World Raid Boss in the 250-level range alone?
-Does that mean the Demon King already possesses the power of a Single Ranker?
-Regardless, it seems difficult to just watch without doing anything.
-Just how deep is the Demon King’s hidden strength?
Now they were comparing me to Single Rankers and making the comparison, and people could not deny it.
For the majesty I displayed now was not something even Single Rankers could easily manifest.
And what the viewers were feeling now, Belzarak was also feeling.
Realizing that there were only a few things he could do in his current state, he began to unleash everything he had.
[There is still time remaining before the Authority expires, but the World Raid Boss, 『Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion』 uses the Authority at the cost of sacrifice.]
[Please block the Authority, 『Breath of Death』 with an invincibility skill.]
A warning message that suddenly appeared.
The viewers who saw it could not help but be thrown into chaos.
-Are you insane???????
-Wait, that’s even possible?????
-I know that when Raid Bosses encounter truly unreasonable powerhouses, even they sometimes accept sacrifices and deploy their authority or powerful patterns, but it’s not just because they’re World Raid Bosses….
-The fact that a Raid Boss is doing that right now means the Demon King is that much of a threat???
-Insane.
-So that breath that annihilated those knights earlier is coming???
-Even the Demon King would have trouble blocking that????
The viewers flooded the chat with excitement at the system’s warning.
The World Raid Boss Belzarak Draxion was feeling fear and preparing to sacrifice himself to unleash his ultimate technique.
That was only natural.
However, Yoo Sung-hyun gazed at Belzarak Draxion with utter indifference and extended his staff, unfolding a magic circle in kind.
Then, into Belzarak’s massive maw surged an aura of death far more potent and condensed than before, and at a glance, it appeared anything but ordinary.
A breath that seemed far more powerful than before.
As expected, the system issued another warning.
[Upon contact with the World Raid Boss 『Deathbone Dragon, Belzarak Draxion』’s Phase 2 authority, 『Breath of Death』, all resurrection-type effects are blocked.]
[Death penalties are also doubled.]
At the absurd warning message, the viewers erupted into chaos once more.
-Can that even be blocked???
-Resurrection effects are blocked???
-Shouldn’t you be dodging??????
-It’s already too late!!!
-Ah, it’s firing!!!
As the viewers descended into pandemonium.
From Belzarak’s maw erupted a beam that would lead all things unto death.
If the previous breath had been like a breath, this time a beam-like force erupted forth—the very breath condensed to its ultimate form—and in that instant, Yoo Sung-hyun’s magic circle reached completion.
Vivid death unfurled through the magic circle, and the completed formation resembled a heart.
Then, from Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes, which had gleamed with ominous black light, a cyan radiance coiled softly, and in that moment, from the completed magic circle erupted a jet of liquid black as blood itself.
Compared to the condensed beam of breath, it seemed a mere stream of water—lacking both substance and force—yet why?
——————!!!
It tore through the fully condensed beam and, as if absorbing it, swelled and erupted forth with ever-growing mass.
The mysterious black liquid that devoured the beam—or rather, that which killed even the beam of death itself—grew ever larger, transforming into a colossal tidal wave, and stripped of all power by an irresistible calamity, the beam was utterly consumed. Then the liquid spread as a single wave and reached Belzarak.
Belzarak stood frozen, his maw agape, staring at it, and could not help but comprehend what it was.
[Overlord Secret Art 『Death Lord-Apocalypse』]
Confronted with that technique which brought even the world unto death, Belzarak was engulfed in that world of death, and even his vaunted black bone crumbled to dust as he felt death itself.
Normally, this would have been the moment to transform into a third form.
Enveloped in the world of death, Belzarak could perceive it.
Like his own breath of death, this was a power that could not be revived.
Then the system message appeared before Yoo Sung-hyun as well.
[Due to the Overlord Secret Art 『Death Lord-Apocalypse』, the Phase 3 of the World Raid Boss 『Deathbone Dragon Belzarak Draxion』 is deleted.]
Beyond unreasonableness.
It was an incomprehensible phrase, yet Yoo Sung-hyun accepted it as though it were only natural, exhaling as he deactivated Death Road. The viewers watching could not even type a single message in response.
An ultimate technique so tremendous it could erase an impossible third phase.
It was a situation where no one knew what to say.
Just as everyone stood dumbfounded.
A message appeared that the viewers could also see.
[As the cost of Death Road, your level will be reduced by 20.]
[You will fall to level 250.]
[Previous stats gained from the level reduction will be reclaimed.]
It appeared to be quite a significant risk.
Yet the viewers, upon seeing it, chattered away as though it were absurd.
-You’re telling me you can tear through a World Raid Boss’s third phase just by dropping 20 levels?
-This is completely broken;;;;
-This is insane….
Despite the 20-level reduction, most were realizing that Yoo Sung-hyun’s power was indeed broken.
And Yoo Sung-hyun himself felt the same way.
‘This is completely broken.’
Even he had to admit it was broken.

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