The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 424

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Episode 424
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Michael cried out.
Rowell asked.
“Wait, do you recognize that swordsmanship?”
Even as Rowell posed the question, his gaze shifted not to Michael, but to Yoo Sung-hyun and the Despair Lord.
From Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade strikes, starlight and darkness cascaded like a galaxy, weaving together in an exquisite and wondrous swordsmanship, while the Despair Lord, no longer able to dismiss such attacks with mere despair, raised his spear to parry the technique.
Rapid successive starlight poured down like a meteor shower, pressing the Despair Lord relentlessly.
Yet he countered every thrust, each one as vast as the Milky Way, using the spear art of despair.
The Despair Lord too displayed exceptional spear mastery, responding to Yoo Sung-hyun’s swordsmanship.
It was truly an absurd battle to witness.
Michael, his eyes carrying a measure of certainty, gazed at Yoo Sung-hyun, swallowed hard, and answered Rowell.
“Ah, no. I think I was mistaken.”
Under normal circumstances, the viewers would have pressed him about what he was hiding.
But this was not such a moment.
If they had time to chat, it was far more advantageous to focus on Yoo Sung-hyun’s battle.
Elegant swordsmanship cascaded forth, blade strikes directed at the Despair Lord.
Yet using his long-reach spear, he parried Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade with varied movements—employing the spear tip, the shaft, and even the butt end.
Though both fought suspended in mid-air, they moved as freely as if battling on solid ground, yet their movements were far more intricate.
They attacked and rebounded, kicked off the void to rush forward faster, thrust and parried, countered relentlessly—hundreds of exchanges occurring within mere seconds in this ultra-high-speed clash.
A single moment of inattention would cause one to miss a tremendous amount.
So the viewers said nothing, and neither did Michael.
They could only watch.
‘Quite impressive.’
Should it be called the spear art of despair?
It was despair incarnate in spear form.
The utility of that despair—painting and transforming the surrounding space into its own domain—was truly remarkable.
Yet Yoo Sung-hyun was no less formidable.
The Galaxy Sword Dance, transforming the surroundings into darkness and starlight, shattered despair itself and pressed the Despair Lord relentlessly.
One could genuinely sense the Despair Lord growing increasingly anxious.
No matter how masterfully the Despair Lord wielded his spear, he could not compare to Yoo Sung-hyun, who had absorbed the memories of the Former Hero Hindel and mastered countless swordsmanship styles.
If Yoo Sung-hyun had been pushed back slightly at range, in close combat it was entirely the opposite.
“…So this is what an Overlord truly is.”
As Yoo Sung-hyun unleashed his full power, the Despair Lord furrowed his brow and muttered thus, then, deciding it would not work, thrust his spear forward with all his might—only to see the despair energy hurtling toward Yoo Sung-hyun transform into a colossal hand, prompting him to swing the Galaxy Sword Dance.
He employed one of the Galaxy Sword Dance’s opening techniques: the Meteor Tail.
Like a single tail forged by a meteor itself, an elongated blade strike extended forth, and the Despair Lord’s colossal hand was cleaved cleanly in two.
Screeeeeech.
Along with the scorching heat born of the meteor tail, a scar was left upon the void, and Yoo Sung-hyun gazed upon the Despair Lord.
The Despair Lord, seeing Yoo Sung-hyun thus, retreated a considerable distance and leveled his spear, as despair began to manifest.
At this moment, he widened the distance, shifting to the ranged combat where he held confidence, and Yoo Sung-hyun moved his body toward the Despair Lord.
As I activated the Galactic Sword Dance’s movement technique, radiance coiled around me, and I flew toward the Despair Lord like the tail of a long azure comet.
My speed became incomprehensibly fast in an instant, but the Despair Lord, who had retreated to a distance, summoned a giant using despair.
The giant of despair was so colossal that the word “giant” itself seemed insufficient—with a body reaching at least hundreds of meters, it swung its massive arm toward me.
Truly, the very arm of despair itself.
Seeing the enormous fist alone exceeding 100 meters, I swung my blade in bewilderment.
Shhhhhhhhcrack!
From the fist alone measuring 100 meters to half the arm of the giant, my sword strike cleaved through—but.
The Despair Lord, as if unconcerned, decomposed the giant of despair except for the arm, made the despair his own, and launched an attack toward me.
The despair took form and rushed toward me—but.
I grasped a blade intertwined with darkness, the Galactic Sword Dance, and everything else, my eyes blazing with light.
Then I employed one of the Galactic Sword Dance’s ultimate techniques, led by the power of destruction.
That very technique Hindel had once attempted to use against me but was stopped.
A colossal technique comparable to the secret art of the Galactic Sword Dance—one with destructive power enough to collapse an entire galaxy rather than merely a star.
As despair greater than the giant of despair rushed toward me, a sword technique that collapsed all things unfolded.
[Galactic Sword Dance Ultimate Technique 『Galactic Collapse』]
By that sword technique filled with the aura of annihilation as if an entire universe were perishing, space rippled, and in an instant it collided with the Despair Lord’s despair, and impossibly, a massive hole appeared in its center.
A colossal void of darkness penetrating space appeared, absorbing both despair and galaxies alike, exerting gravitational pull on everything with the momentum to annihilate all.
A power of an entirely different dimension from the existing Galactic Collapse.
My new secret art that could only be created through Galactic Collapse.
My secret art that only manifested when destruction and darkness, the Abyss and death, and finally Galactic Collapse merged together.
[Overlord Secret Art 『Black Hole』]
A transcendent gravitational force erupted, and the universe’s black hole, devouring all things in this place, manifested here.
The viewers watching it, Michael, the Backup Team, and everyone else could not even open their mouths.
Before that incomprehensibly overwhelming majesty, no one could speak, and not a single message appeared in the chat.
Despite nearly 300 million viewers present, not a soul typed a message—a miraculous phenomenon.
It was a record-breaking phenomenon worthy of entry into the Guinness Book of Records—but.
Anyone observing would feel the same.
For a black hole, the greatest unsolved problem in astronomy, had appeared here.
Upon summoning the monstrous black hole that devours even time and light itself.
My mana, vast as an ocean, drained away like an ebbing tide, and I created all gravitational forces to draw in the Despair Lord.
The Despair Lord, gazing upon that black void, the black hole, grew pale as if his complexion were draining away rapidly.
He tried to look at me, startled by the very fact that I had created such a secret art, but he had no such luxury.
The black hole, greedily devouring all things, was not something that could be simply blocked.
The black hole pulled in the Despair Lord even faster than my mana drained away like an ebbing tide, and the Despair Lord attempted to block it using despair against that transcendent gravitational force.
Shhhhhhhhoooooom———!!!
The black hole, consuming all things, devoured even that aura of despair entirely.
Truly a galactic collapse phenomenon that reduced everything entering it to nothingness.
No matter how the Despair Lord tried to block it, I, freed from the influence of that transcendent gravitational force, began to move.
The Despair Lord tried desperately to stop me—but.
With each despair he pulled forth, it was sucked into the black hole.
Paradoxically, the Despair Lord found himself in a desperate situation.
Yet the Despair Lord did not fear.
‘It will only last a short while.’
There was no way he could maintain such transcendent power indefinitely.
So surely Yoo Sung-hyun would approach to deal with him directly.
The Despair Lord believed this and tried to endure, focusing solely on blocking Yoo Sung-hyun’s attacks.
He was being pulled toward the black hole bit by bit by the transcendent gravitational force.
Yet even so, he desperately bound himself to space, holding out as long as possible.
Then he appeared.
Yoo Sung-hyun materialized with a long azure tail like that of a comet, and the Despair Lord, as if expecting this moment, bound himself to space with one hand while gripping his spear, desperately attempting to block Yoo Sung-hyun’s advance.
The instant he tried to deflect Yoo Sung-hyun’s Galaxy Sword Dance.
Whoooosh——.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s form wavered and vanished into the air like an illusion.
Seeing this, the Despair Lord turned around with a look of disbelief.
Yoo Sung-hyun was there.
Using the Mirror Lord’s power, he had created a phantom that matched his appearance 100%.
And the moment the Despair Lord belatedly confirmed his true location, Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade touched his neck.
From the Lord of Abyss to the Lord of Destruction, and finally to the Despair Lord.
To kill them, one had to either completely exhaust their energy or eliminate any opening that would allow them to recover through their power.
And this was precisely that moment.
As all despair was being sucked away, the instant Yoo Sung-hyun’s Galaxy Sword Dance inscribed a river of stars across the void and touched the Despair Lord’s neck, he could not even defend himself with despair and offered his neck with pathetic ease.
Shhhhhhhhwick!
A death of despair so anticlimactic.
Yet Michael and the viewers did not see it that way.
“Insane!?!?!?”
“Waaaahhh!!!”
“Huh!?”
“Wow.”
“Whoa.”
“As expected….”
Had there been no black hole, the Despair Lord’s neck would have regenerated even if it had been severed.
Naturally, Yoo Sung-hyun had calculated all of this before launching his attack, and the moment the Despair Lord’s head fell, the black hole vanished as if it had never existed.
Then Yoo Sung-hyun seized the Despair Lord’s head and thrust it toward the camera, declaring victory.
The viewers’ reaction upon witnessing this was.
-What exactly did I just witness????
-He created a black hole to prevent energy usage, then backstabbed and severed the neck????
-How did he even create a black hole in the first place????
-hahaha that’s what I’m saying
-I can only gasp in admiration.
That’s seriously terrifying/creepy as hell.
-I’m just in awe.
-Wow…
-He’s seriously so strong;;;
-Isn’t he single-rank tier now?
Amid the heated viewers’ chat.
Yoo Sung-hyun’s figure suddenly vanished.
Just as everyone wondered what was happening.
[Reward granted for defeating all Lords.]
A system message appeared.

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