The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 49

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Episode 49
Episode 49
5.
A single swing.
With just one stroke, he dispatched every monster.
Truly overwhelming in its majesty.
Yet only one thought crossed Yoo Sung-hyun’s mind as he witnessed it.
‘Why would someone this strong wear underwear….’
He did feel genuine admiration at the display of strength.
But the question lingered nonetheless.
He was undeniably strong.
Though Baltar had fallen to the same level as Yoo Sung-hyun, he remained a true demon knight.
Strength was only natural for him.
What truly astonished me was this:
‘He’s not consuming any mana at all.’
Despite Baltar employing such a technique, there was zero mana expenditure.
According to the explanation, demon knights draw upon their own inherent mana.
He was the most powerful summon I could call forth.
A demon knight.
It should have been impressive.
So why was it?
‘It doesn’t look cool at all.’
I regarded Baltar with a questioning gaze.
Baltar seemed to feel the sting of it, clearing his throat awkwardly as he muttered.
-Ahem, ahem. Successor, did you observe well?
“Mm, yes.”
-As waves continue for several more rounds, I shall conserve my strength and engage in combat accordingly.
With those words, Baltar extended his hand toward the monsters he had just felled.
The green and crimson blood of the monsters billowed upward into the sky.
It coalesced into a single sphere, then was absorbed into Baltar as a thin stream.
[『Blood Demon Knight, Baltar』 uses the skill 『Bloodline Origin』.]
[Mana is recovered.]
He was absorbing the mana he had just expended.
Yet the quality seemed poor, and Baltar’s expression darkened as he clicked his tongue briefly.
-Tsk.
Though Baltar appeared displeased,
in the wave that followed, he moved without relying solely on skills.
With nothing but his sword and body, he overwhelmed and slaughtered the vast army alone.
The crimson blade moved with fluid grace, scattering through the empty air.
His swordsmanship itself was of exceptional caliber.
What stood out even more was that each sword technique contained no wasted motion.
Every movement had its reason, and the blade fulfilled its purpose with perfect efficiency.
Even with my multiple memories, the depth of this swordsmanship was difficult to fathom.
It was truly formidable.
[You have perfectly blocked 『wave2』.]
[Recording.]
[Accumulating vast experience points.]
[All experience points will be acquired after final recording.]
[You have perfectly blocked 『wave3』….]
….
….
[You have perfectly blocked 『wave7』.]
The wave count climbed in an instant.
Yet I still had no need to step in.
Baltar remained steadfast even alone.
I wondered just how far Baltar could climb on his own.
I stood at ease, watching with anticipation.
A thought suddenly occurred to me.
At this rate, I wouldn’t be able to use the shadow transfer I’d recently acquired.
‘Hmm.’
Perhaps I could test it out once I reach higher floors?
Maybe.
How far would we go?
I watched with eager eyes as the thief—no, Baltar—cleared the waves alone.
6.
Few office workers actually enjoy their morning commute.
If they do, they’re either a workaholic or simply an unpleasant person.
Lee Won-sang didn’t quite fit either category, yet he certainly didn’t enjoy his commute.
Letting out a sigh heavy enough to crack the earth, Lee Won-sang took his seat.
“Sigh…”
I’d tried to report to Ji Hye-jung yesterday but failed.
It wasn’t that the report was rejected.
It was simply that Ji Hye-jung happened to be out on field work yesterday, so there was no opportunity.
To be honest, I desperately wanted to just send it via email with a quick bang.
But seeing what Yoo Sung-hyun had obtained, I couldn’t do that.
Yesterday was one thing, but what is this today?
‘How did he even find out about that?’
He’d gone to Oren Village and even discovered a hidden piece in Rocks’ Tomb.
At this point, I could only accept it as inevitable.
Though I shouldn’t think this way, I’d secretly been rooting for Echo Willow at Rocks’ Tomb.
Of course, that hope never came to fruition.
I suppose I should be grateful it stopped there.
Lee Won-sang left work carrying such worries with him.
The commute home felt impossibly heavy.
But when I returned to work the next day.
Somehow I’d already discovered where Kah-hoo-koo’s Second Warehouse was located and devoured everything inside.
Even the spirits would weep at this absurdity.
I’d obtained the Demon Knight summoning skill, but I paid it no mind.
‘After all, before the second class advancement, the Demon Knight won’t obey orders—that’s just how it’s set.’
Such was the nature of the Overlord class.
A kind of game mechanic.
If I could subjugate even the Demon Knight before level 100, I’d have no equal.
After the Overlord’s second class advancement, I’d slowly subjugate the Demon Knight, and only when approaching level 100 would a Quest finally unlock allowing me to truly dominate it.
That’s how the Overlord’s second advancement worked.
So I wasn’t worried about the Demon Knight.
Not even when Baltar, among the highest-ranking Demon Knights, was summoned.
Lee Won-sang was able to maintain an unfazed expression.
“Wow, isn’t that Baltar!?? This is incredible, seriously!!”
If only my junior partner Oh Jin-hyuk wasn’t making such a fuss beside me, it would’ve been easier.
Such is my regret.
But I even subjugated that Baltar.
“???”
“Wow, how did you do that?! Do you know some weakness or something? Baltar’s supposed to be a prideful bastard with status comparable to a demon realm noble, isn’t he!?”
Lee Won-sang really wanted to do something about Oh Jin-hyuk.
But I couldn’t.
So I just squeezed my eyes shut.
He was already assigned to my team.
I couldn’t change it now, so I drew the character for patience dozens of times in my mind.
A notification popped up on the monitor—Ji Hye-jung had arrived at her desk.
The moment Lee Won-sang saw it, he stood up from his chair.
“Huh? Senior? Where are you going?”
“…To report. Want to do it instead?”
“Gasp! N-no, I don’t!”
At times like this, his instincts were sharp as ever.
Lee Won-sang sighed, casting an irritated glance at Oh Jin-hyuk before trudging toward Ji Hye-jung’s desk.
I could see Ji Hye-jung, who’d just returned from her morning fieldwork.
As Lee Won-sang arrived at Ji Hye-jung’s desk.
Ji Hye-jung looked at me, as if asking what the matter was.
“…?”
“That….”
I couldn’t bring myself to speak.
Where was I even supposed to start?
I had completed the rendezvous with Overpalace, obtained the items needed for my second advancement, raised my total stats by 40 through some strange power, and consumed all manner of hidden pieces.
I couldn’t exactly report that, could I?
I carefully chose my words and reported to Team Lead Ji Hye-jung.
It was an urgent report made without a written document, but still.
Team Lead Ji Hye-jung understood everything and nodded slowly.
And Team Lead Ji Hye-jung let out a long, heavy sigh as well.
“Sigh… So it came to this after all. Even though Black Star found it first, I managed to block it beforehand so they couldn’t intervene significantly.”
“Ah. Well, that’s a relief at least.”
“Yes, but the fact that you’ve already subdued Baltar is what concerns me.”
“…That’s correct.”
The Overlord’s second advancement is extraordinarily difficult, befitting its Almighty rank.
To be precise, it’s the most extreme difficulty among all Almighty-rank advancements.
However, that difficulty stems directly from the Demon Knight.
If the Demon Knight had been subdued, the difficulty would have plummeted dramatically.
It’s unavoidable.
It would be unfair to artificially raise the difficulty in other ways now.
“For now, I understand. Please continue to monitor the situation.”
“…Yes, I understand…”
As Deputy Lee Won-sang turned to leave after responding that way.
Someone came rushing frantically toward Team Lead Ji Hye-jung’s desk.
“??????”
“…?”
Both Deputy Lee Won-sang and Team Lead Ji Hye-jung looked puzzled.
It was Employee Oh Jin-hyuk.
Why was he rushing over like that?
“S-Senior, s-something terrible has happened.”
“…What, what is it?”
“Th-that user Yoo Sung-hyun has entered the Fortress of the Past.”
“…And?”
What was the big deal about that?
Deputy Lee Won-sang felt irritation beginning to surge.
Employee Oh Jin-hyuk spoke.
“He’s already cleared Wave 10.”
“What???”
“…Already?”
It hadn’t even been 10 minutes since Deputy Lee Won-sang reported to Team Lead Ji Hye-jung.
Yet in that short span, he had already cleared Wave 10?
At Employee Oh Jin-hyuk’s words, the gazes of Deputy Lee Won-sang and Team Lead Ji Hye-jung met for an instant, and their pupils trembled violently as they shifted their focus from the second advancement.
“Baltar!!”
“B-Baltar!!”
“Oh, oh? How did you know!? He’s been summoning only Baltar and sweeping through Wave 10.”
“Ah, ah…”
Lee Won-sang gripped his head with both hands as if in despair.
If Baltar was involved, then this…
“Lee Won-sang, please calm yourself and check the details.”
“…Understood.”
He didn’t ask what needed checking.
Lee Won-sang hurried back to his desk as if it were obvious, naturally dragging Oh Jin-hyuk along with him.
As they went, Oh Jin-hyuk asked Lee Won-sang with a puzzled expression.
“What, what exactly did he ask you to check???”
“…The Fortress of the Past rewards.”
“Eek!?? There was even a clear concept for that place!?”
“Well, it seems like Yoo Sung-hyun might be the first to do it…”
The first user in Eternal World to summon and subjugate a Demon Knight.
And the first to clear the Fortress of the Past—appearing in a single day.
He never imagined both achievements belonged to the same person.
‘Please let it be nothing serious…’
Though Lee Won-sang well knew it couldn’t be.
He clung to a sliver of hope.
Returning to his desk and hastily checking the rewards, Lee Won-sang pressed his forehead with a pallid expression.
Witnessing the worst outcome he’d feared, he squeezed his eyes shut.
Unable to bear looking with open eyes.
Yet.
“Wow… That item drops here!? And moreover, what kind of skill is—”
Should he have plugged his ears too?
7.
Today, Jinu came as an interviewer.
For large guilds like Rapid Guild, it was commonplace for guild executives or equivalent members to level alternate characters and serve as interviewers.
Jinu had originally disliked such tedious work.
But he’d caused an incident, so there was no helping it.
Yet now, he felt he’d made the right decision coming.
Because of Kim Che-gun?
Hardly.
By now, Jinu had long forgotten he was supposed to conduct interviews.
Would Kim Che-gun feel disappointed or resentful?
“Oh? When did you arrive?”
“…Uh, ah, I came earlier.”
Kim Che-gun, far from it, was simply watching Yoo Sung-hyun’s gameplay as if observing a spectacle.
The massive wave shook the earth so violently that even standing atop the fortress walls, I felt the tremor reverberate through my entire body.
A small unit of roughly fifty soldiers—utterly insignificant before such a colossal army.
Yet the momentum they radiated was no less than the massive legion charging from afar.
If anything, they overwhelmed it.
Leading that small unit was a demon knight with crimson skin.
The moment he stepped onto the battlefield, the entire tide began to shift.
The small unit that followed moved with organic unity, like a single organism, employing tactical formations to fight.
Amid all this, only Yoo Sung-hyun observed the battlefield with apparent composure.
It wasn’t mere pretense or an illusion of ease.
In truth, there was nothing for me to do on that battlefield.
The demon knight and the commander overturned the field, scattering the formation, while lesser demons, skeletons, and goblin undead swept through the chaos, tearing it apart.
Whenever mana ran low, the three-colored whistle replenished it.
It was truly flawless.
There was no other word for it.
Anyone witnessing this would assume it was still the early stages of the wave.
At that moment, Jinu’s gaze and Kim Che-gun’s gaze lifted upward.
And there, unmistakably visible, was the wave number.
『wave 34』
[0 : 57 : 38]
Not even an hour had passed.
Yet I was now just one step away from Yoo-na’s first-place record.
Even if I gave up right now, second place was already secured.
And still, the battlefield seemed effortless.
‘Does this even make sense?’
I couldn’t even grasp what I was witnessing.
Kim Che-gun felt the same.
Time passed—how much, I couldn’t say.
Yoo-na’s record had long since been shattered.
Only when my soldiers alone began to struggle slightly did I step forward.
And the moment I did, the battlefield became manageable once more.
I wielded the sword of Hindel, the apprentice hero, and fought alongside Baltar, the blood demon knight, using the same sword techniques.
When danger loomed, I deployed poison, corpse explosion, and explosive toxins to inflict massive area damage, then escaped via shadow transfer.
That impossible battle could only end swiftly.
[『wave 40』 has been perfectly defended against.]
[Your record is being registered.]
[All waves have been successfully defended against.]
[For the first time in Eternal World history, you have cleared the record-type dungeon 『Fortress of the Past』.]
[Your fame spreads throughout all of Eternal World.]
[You acquire the title 『One Unchained』 as a clear reward.]
[You gain an enormous accumulation of experience points!]
[You have acquired the job-exclusive Legendary skill, ‘Turning Darkness’, as a clear reward.]
[You have acquired the job-series Legendary-grade item, ‘Tome of Despair’, as a clear reward.]
[Level Up!]×16
[You have reached Level 57.]
[Upon achieving Level 50, a new skill for ‘Overlord’ has been unlocked.]
[You have acquired the Almighty-grade skill, ‘Seal of Death’.]
[Beyond Level 50, second advancement is now possible.]
[The Overlord-exclusive second advancement item, ‘Overlord’s Compass’, resonates.]
[Using ‘Overlord’s Compass’ will transport you to the second advancement location.]
There were no more waves left to clear.
‘Huh?’

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