The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 422

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Episode 422
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“Ahem. Then would it be alright if I asked Helena a few questions?”
It wasn’t just the viewers who were curious about Helena in response to Michael’s words.
Every member of Sung-hyun’s Backup Team was listening intently to Michael’s interview.
Even though many were exhausted after their fierce battle with the Lord of Destruction and their victory, they couldn’t help but be deeply curious.
In fact, the primary reason the Backup Team couldn’t travel alongside Sung-hyun was his overwhelming strength, and his Minions played a significant role in that power.
They couldn’t help but be curious.
Especially since Helena was the one Sung-hyun had chosen without hesitation from among the Minions he could summon—only one at a time.
Everyone couldn’t help but be curious.
The level of focus was such that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it the interview of the century.
The interview was beginning before nearly 300 million viewers.
But what was surprising was.
“So I should just look here and answer?”
As Helena spoke thus, looking directly at the camera—which was completely invisible to NPCs and monsters—she addressed it with perfect precision.
The viewers couldn’t help but feel chills run down their spines at the sight.
-?????????
-What, what is this??????
-Even if Minions have intelligence, aren’t they treated as NPCs?
-Yeah that’s right????
-But how is she looking directly at the camera???????
-What is this?????
Everyone was typing in the chat, shocked.
It was inevitable.
Neither NPCs nor monsters could ever see the camera.
This was a game mechanic influenced by the system itself.
It was something that could be considered natural, yet Helena casually ignored it and stared directly at the camera.
It could have been a coincidence.
Michael, suppressing his chills as best he could, looked at Helena and asked.
“Oh, did you perhaps see something and look there?”
“Hm? Well, I can’t see it exactly, but I know something is watching me, right?”
“Yes, yes?”
“The Outsiders are watching us through this right now, aren’t they? Right?”
“…???”
Michael’s expression was as if he’d seen a ghost, utterly terrified.
And the viewers were no different.
-??????What is this???
-What is this really??????
-So she can’t see it but can feel it??????
-This is seriously scary???
-But she’s an artificial intelligence… How is this possible??
-Was that urban legend about the Eternal World being a different dimension actually true?
Everyone typed away in the chat, their skin crawling with unease.
Well, it was only natural.
A beautiful and enchanting woman conducting an interview while holding two severed heads—speaking as if an NPC had suddenly become aware that this world was a game world—would send chills down any gamer’s spine and terrify them.
Perhaps sensing the atmosphere?
Helena spoke as though it were nothing of consequence.
“I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but I do know that someone is watching me. Sung-hyun mentioned it to me before as well.”
“Ah~! I see, I see!”
“Right, most people wouldn’t notice. But at my level, I can sense it.”
At Helena’s words, Michael’s expression softened somewhat, and he could finally relax.
Seeing that he was reassured simply because Sung-hyun had informed him, Helena thought to herself as well.
‘I need to be a bit more careful.’
It felt like the old days were overlapping—when the residents had been startled and called her the Demon King. So she had simply brushed it off vaguely.
Well, it was the truth anyway.
After all, these outsiders had come to this world for amusement, so it was only natural they would be surprised if she said such things.
Helena positioned herself as though ready to continue the interview.
Michael, having managed the situation for now, posed a question to Helena.
“You took on the Lord of Abyss alone—were you confident from the start?”
“Hmm.”
At Michael’s question, Helena was about to answer without hesitation, but then she recalled the earlier atmosphere and paused to think.
She decided to conceal for now that she was a being from the past, and gave a measured response instead.
“Well, yes. I had the advantage in terms of compatibility.”
“Wow!? That’s incredible!”
“It’s because Sung-hyun created me so well.”
“As expected of someone worthy of being called the Demon King, you’re truly remarkable.”
“Ahahaha! Our Sung-hyun is the truly amazing one!”
When Michael suddenly began praising Sung-hyun, Helena also laughed pleasantly and nodded in agreement.
Everyone already knew that Sung-hyun was extraordinary.
The viewers couldn’t help but agree as well.
-He created such a minion???
-Not restored, but created? That’s absolutely insane;;;;;
-Just how strong is he???
-I’m curious what materials went into it.
-What did he put in there to create an Almighty Lord-class minion???
-More than that, it’s strange—the Backup Team struggled against the Lord of Destruction, who was similar to the Lord of Abyss;;;
-And she defeated him alone.
As people chattered away in their excitement.
Michael also asked while organizing the situation.
“You’re truly remarkable. To have accomplished creation—I can really feel your greatness. But are you yourself also a Lord?”
“Yeah, I’m a Lord too. But I can’t tell you what kind of Lord I am. Unfortunately.”
At those words, Michael, the viewers, and the Backup Team all expressed their disappointment.
Well, there was nothing to be done about it.
Anyway, moving past that, they asked various questions and inquired about Sung-hyun’s daily life and many other things.
How much time had passed like that?
Michael looked toward Sung-hyun, whose battle still hadn’t ended, and asked a question.
“Now that I think about it, what do you think about Sung-hyun still being in battle?”
He asked Sung-hyun’s Retinue about the state of the battle.
Among those present, Helena was the strongest.
He thought perhaps she could provide commentary as well.
Helena observed carefully and then spoke.
“Hmm, Sung-hyun seems to be getting pushed back a bit.”
“What!? Then, shouldn’t we go help him?”
At those words, Helena smiled brightly and said.
“Sung-hyun can handle it alone. Don’t worry and just watch. There’s been a veil blocking the view until now. Let me show you.”
As Helena spoke and snapped her fingers.
The space around Sung-hyun, which they had thought was invisible due to being too fast, began to come into clear view.
However.
“That, what is that?”
“Ahahaha! They must have fought quite fiercely.”
Helena laughed cheerfully, but the others could not.
Michael, the viewers, and the Backup Team all felt the same.
The floor and ceiling, and all the walls had vanished and disappeared, while only Sung-hyun and the Despair Lord floated in the air, pointing their weapons at each other.
Sung-hyun wielded a sword, while the Despair Lord held something closer to a spear-staff.
The viewers who witnessed this swallowed hard.
-Insane, what exactly happened????
-The Demon King doesn’t have a single scratch???
-The Despair Lord is the same;;;;
-What kind of fight have they been having?
-Seems stronger than the Lord of Destruction or the Lord of Abyss, but was it to this extent???
While the viewers were chatting like that.
Helena looked at them and spoke.
“Sung-hyun seems to have gotten pushed back more than expected.”
Along with those words, the Despair Lord began to move again.
Everyone watched intently.
And Helena spoke.
“But Sung-hyun will still win.”
Helena spoke cheerfully, as if humming a song.
And with Helena’s strong confidence and trust, everyone watched the situation unfold with anxious hearts, wondering if that trust might be broken.
Sung-hyun’s battle began anew like that.
7.
Just as the dimensional curtain fell away and Helena, the Backup Team, Michael, and the viewers watched Sung-hyun’s situation unfold.
Though Sung-hyun had been fighting continuously for roughly thirty minutes, he regarded his opponent with an amused expression.
Unlike the Lord of Abyss or the Lord of Destruction, this being was molded from despair itself—a shadow-like form devoid of even facial features or distinct characteristics.
Yet the sight of robes and armor adorning that formless visage was quite striking.
That twisted despair, radiating an aura both majestic and grotesque, existed on an entirely different plane from those Sung-hyun had faced thus far.
Considerably formidable.
Until now, he had fought using the power of darkness and the abilities of other Lords as well.
The fact that despite wielding considerable power, neither had sustained injury spoke volumes.
This creature called the Despair Lord.
‘Considerably formidable.’
And the opponent harbored identical thoughts about Sung-hyun.
It had intended to dismiss him as merely human.
Yet he proved stronger than anticipated.
And there was something else—an aura felt for the first time in ages.
Nothing about this sat well.
Though the dimensional curtain had fallen away.
Sound did not transmit through it, so those beyond could not hear the words that emerged from the Despair Lord.
“Are you the second Overlord?”
Helena, the first Overlord.
And Sung-hyun, who could be called the next generation.
Sung-hyun nodded in acknowledgment to that question.
“Yes, I am the Overlord of this generation.”
“…Then that woman from before must be Helena.”
“That’s right.”
Helena, whom it despised and feared without measure.
It had thought that upon breaking free from its seal, it would finally escape into the world beyond—yet how shocked it had been upon seeing Helena.
But the Despair Lord no longer dwelled on such thoughts.
“If I fall, I shall be absorbed by you.”
“That’s likely how it will be.”
….
After considerable deliberation at Sung-hyun’s words,
the Despair Lord spoke, regarding Sung-hyun.
“I am despair itself—that which crushes all and brings all to their knees. Nothing escapes from my mire.”
“And?”
“I shall kill you and transcend beyond. I will cast you into the abyss of despair.”
As it cried out those words, the Despair Lord began to unleash its power.
As the aura of despair—that which would ensnare all things in hopelessness—poured forth.
Sung-hyun nodded as though amused.
Grasping Hindel’s blade, he infused it with darkness.
Grasping a blade stained with darkness that embodied the concepts of severance and cessation, I paradoxically carved through despair itself with that very darkness.
Skreeeeeee———!
With that as the beginning, our battle commenced anew.

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