The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 400

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Episode 400
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In Mugan, the theme changes every ten floors.
Not that there were floors that didn’t fit the theme, but fundamentally they were all similar.
Yet from Floor 1 through Floor 79, there had never been a single floor with just one boss standing alone like this.
It felt peculiar.
While the entire Michael Party felt only that strangeness.
Only Yoo Sung-hyun could sense something was amiss.
None other than the aura emanating from the boss and Floor 80 itself.
It was an aura Yoo Sung-hyun could not fail to recognize.
‘The Abyss?’
Not the faint Abyss energy diffused throughout Mugan, but a distinctly palpable Abyss force.
The Abyss power that even Yoo Sung-hyun wielded only through swordsmanship.
A power with which he could barely mimic a lord’s strength using his Multifaceted Lord abilities.
Yet it permeated this entire floor—that was certainly anomalous.
The Abyss was never something easy to handle.
It shouldn’t be possible.
And yet it spread throughout this floor, and that boss clearly possessed Abyss attributes—so Yoo Sung-hyun remained sufficiently vigilant about it.
The Demon Goat Giant began to move.
Boom!
Boom—!
Boom———!!!
With each step, the Demon Goat Giant moved as if shaking all of Mugan itself.
It was proof of just how immense its weight was and how formidable its strength.
Michael stepped forward first at that movement, gripping a sword wrapped in light, and advanced before the creature.
As a parry-type tank, I took the front position to face the Demon Goat Giant.
The Demon Goat Giant swung a colossal broad blade toward Michael.
As the broad blade came flying with a wobble, Michael deflected it with his light-infused sword.
Clang——!!
As the massive broad blade, as large as Michael himself, was knocked upward, Noar seized the opening and rushed in to target a vital point.
However, the Demon Goat Giant, far from retrieving the raised broad blade, used that momentum to spin its body in a complete rotation, striking Michael with its leg in an instant, and knocked the airborne Noar away with the back of its free hand that didn’t grip the blade.
Boom———!!!
Crash———!!!
With sounds like artillery fire, Michael and Noar were sent flying.
Yet in that instant, a dark veil of shadows enveloped them both, and they crashed into the wall without major injury.
Had Yoo Sung-hyun not swiftly defended them with darkness, they could have been eliminated in a single blow—Michael and Noar felt their spines chill.
Combat sense on an entirely different dimension from ordinary bosses.
An ordinary boss would have panicked the moment its attack was parried and stopped, allowing Noar’s strike to land.
This creature was different.
-What the heck??????
-Wow, what incredible combat sense;;;;;
-This is insane, a hidden raid boss-tier creature????
-The Demon King always faces creatures like that, but the Michael Party can’t help but be bewildered.
-This is crazy????
-That combat sense is no joke.
The viewers felt it too and flooded the chat.
That’s when Michael shouted.
“Everyone, be careful!!!”
Michael called out, and Rowell belatedly fired arrows to attack the Demon Goat Giant, but the creature swung its broad blade again, blocking the arrows with mere wind pressure before.
It swung the blade once more, unleashing a sword strike.
As blade energy erupted and shot forward with razor-sharp force, a curtain of dark shadows materialized before Rowell, blocking the attack.
Kwagagagagagaga———!!!
A long, destructive sound echoed, but the shadow curtain seemed to absorb all the impact—the blade energy remained completely intact against it.
The blade energy then shrank and dissipated.
Watching this, the viewers continued to marvel.
-Wow, the Demon King just blocks that so easily.
-If Michael and Noar hadn’t been there earlier, the party would’ve been half-wiped, I think?
-The power is seriously no joke, and the speed is pretty fast too;;;;
-How are they even supposed to catch that?
As the viewers expressed their concerns, Michael too was breaking into a cold sweat as he stared at the Demon Goat Giant.
You could say the gap in power was immense.
If my original party’s mage had been here instead of Yoo Sung-hyun, could we have defeated that creature?
There’s no way.
In the first place, among those who’ve crossed into the Ninth Region, there probably isn’t a single party capable of defeating this boss.
Mugan’s limit is a maximum of six-person parties, after all.
That’s precisely why it felt so overwhelming.
Just as Michael was thinking that.
Yoo Sung-hyun stepped forward and spoke.
“I’ll handle this one. With a little preparation next time, we should be fine.”
Hearing those words, Michael instinctively tried to stop him.
The condition was not to summon Minions, so was Yoo Sung-hyun about to summon them now?
But Yoo Sung-hyun rose naturally into the air, meeting the gaze of the five-meter-tall Demon Goat Giant, and moved first before Michael could even stop him.
The Demon Goat Giant was currently wielding power with the Abyss attribute.
That power was gradually draining the strength of all Michael Party members by using the ground itself.
Nothing less than the power of the Abyss.
Yoo Sung-hyun saw this and took flight, and as he demonstrated this, the viewers eagerly flooded the chat with anticipation.
-Oh, is it starting???
-Can’t summon Minions?
-If there are no Minions, the Demon King can’t do anything lol lol lol lol
-The Demon King is finally starting!?
-This is what I’ve been waiting for lol
Everyone watched eagerly as Yoo Sung-hyun stepped forward, their eyes glued to the screen.
As expected, Yoo Sung-hyun began to manipulate the darkness.
The elongated blade of darkness that erupted from the ground was twice the size of the Demon Goat Giant that exceeded 5 meters, and the moment it saw the blade, the Demon Goat Giant gripped its club with both hands to block the darkness’s strike.
However, in that instant, the darkness at the point where the Demon Goat Giant raised its club vanished, and the blade of darkness passed through the club and flew toward the Demon Goat Giant’s body.
Clang———!!!
Sparks erupted as if metal had collided with metal, and the Demon Goat Giant, unable to withstand the darkness’s blade, was pushed backward.
Screeeech———!!!
Feeling the difference in power, two massive furrows were carved into the ground, and seeing this, Yoo Sung-hyun unleashed the darkness toward the creature once more.
Countless thorns of darkness erupted from the ground.
Seeing this, the Demon Goat Giant swung its club to deflect the thorns.
But in an instant, the thorns bent like flower stems and flew toward the Demon Goat Giant, and the moment they pierced its body.
They began to bloom like flowers, using the Demon Goat Giant as nourishment.
The beautiful flowers of darkness immediately burst into bloom, unleashing a tremendous explosion.
Boom———!!!
Boom———!!!
The explosions did not end with just one.
With successive explosions erupting, the Demon Goat Giant’s body, which had not even been scratched by the darkness’s blade, now bore scorch marks and gouges of torn flesh in multiple places.
Then.
“Roooaaarrr———!!!”
The creature let out a furious roar.
Kuuuuu———!!
The ground around it began to tremble.
The Demon Goat Giant’s aura spread outward.
Simultaneously, an oppressive aura of the Abyss spread forth, and the Michael Party could barely lift their heads as they felt gravity increase tenfold.
The viewers gasped in shock as they watched, their eyes fixed on Yoo Sung-hyun.
They felt that if Yoo Sung-hyun were caught in that, he would be allowing the Demon Goat Giant a single strike.
However, Yoo Sung-hyun unfurled an umbrella made of darkness and remained unharmed beneath the oppressive aura of the Abyss.
Seeing Yoo Sung-hyun like this, the Demon Goat Giant’s expression darkened, and it charged at him once more.
But the moment the Demon Goat Giant moved, a hand extending from the Abyss seized its ankle, and the creature, feeling as though it were being sucked into the depths, could not move an inch.
Kuuuuu.
Soon, the Demon Goat Giant knelt and remained pinned to the ground.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s darkness dripped steadily from the ceiling, and soon transformed into spikes that pierced toward the Demon Goat Giant.
Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud!!!
Spikes embedded themselves in its body as it shrieked in agony.
“Roooaaarrr!!!”
The viewers marveled at the sight of the suffering Demon Goat Giant.
-What on earth is that????
-He’s just toying with it???
-And he’s controlling darkness to that extent?
-He’s doing this without showing a single secret technique.
-That looks like he’s awakened a lord’s power. That’s insane.
-He’s been hiding it all this time, but seeing him reveal it so openly like this… honestly, it’s pretty cool.
While the viewers were captivated by Yoo Sung-hyun like that.
Yoo Sung-hyun smirked toward the live camera that Lee Geon-dong was operating, as if he could see the viewers’ chat.
-He, he smiled at me.
-Kyaaaaaaaa.
-That’s a killer smile.
-A smile before murder.
-Wow, he’s seriously handsome.
As admiration poured out naturally, Yoo Sung-hyun raised his hand in that moment.
The thorns embedded in the Demon Goat Giant’s body then sprouted thorns of thorns, extending spikes in all directions.
Spikes spreading across its entire body.
Feeling that, the Demon Goat Giant’s eyes widened, and in that instant, Yoo Sung-hyun clenched his fist in the air.
A massive awl burst forth from the Demon Goat Giant’s chest, caving in its torso.
At the same time, Yoo Sung-hyun opened his hand again.
The thorns made of darkness vanished without a trace.
The Demon Goat Giant’s form crumbled and rolled across the ground.
Pssssssss.
Watching the Demon Goat Giant’s corpse turn to dust and scatter, Michael, along with Rowell and Noar, dropped their jaws.
Witnessing such a feat firsthand right before their eyes was certainly warranted.
Seeing a hidden raid boss-class boss subdued in a single strike, they all swallowed hard.
Watching Yoo Sung-hyun dispatch it so effortlessly, they wondered if perhaps the Michael Party was too weak, but the viewers knew better than anyone that wasn’t the case.
-The Michael Party can subdue decent raid bosses too, but honestly among the average Ninth Region parties, they’re the best;;;.
-But that’s a monster the Michael Party couldn’t even subdue, and he took it down in one strike?
-How long did it take???
-10 minutes?
-It seemed shorter than that…
-Crazy, he took it down like this…
As praise continued for Yoo Sung-hyun, who defeated a hidden raid-class boss without a single secret technique.
Yoo Sung-hyun explained to them.
“There is a strategy. When I felt the power it was using, I noticed it was draining power from the ground. If I absorbed its power, it would grow stronger, so I lifted it into the air to make it easier to catch.”
“Ah…? Was that it?”
“I, I didn’t notice at all.”
“Yeah, that’s why it seemed weaker than at first.”
As the Michael Party each spoke up.
Yoo Sung-hyun nodded.
-Crazy, he figured out the strategy in that short time???
-Even if he figured that out, lifting it into the air and attacking it didn’t seem like it would be easy to catch????
-The Demon King said so, lol, just spam it!!!
-lol
-lol
The viewers were equally bewildered, but they reacted accordingly.
Yoo Sung-hyun glanced at the viewers with a subtle smile and spoke.
“Shall we head to the next floor?”
Everyone nodded at Yoo Sung-hyun’s words.
And so the Michael Party, with Yoo Sung-hyun leading the way, was able to descend to Floor 81 first.
Yoo Sung-hyun descended with a smile, anticipating what awaited them on the next floor.

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