The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 122
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122
Chapter 122
Pandemonium (3)
“Shall we start preparing?”
Kim Jun looked down at the battlefield.
The scene of Belphegor and Mammon’s Legion clashing as if grinding each other down.
In the middle of that battlefield.
No, from the sky that encompassed it all.
“Huuu.”
Kim Jun slowly steadied his breathing.
Wooooong-
He gathered his power.
Flicker-
A very faint heat rose from his fingertips.
A red flame.
The beginning was always like that.
A flame so weak it was barely noticeable.
But Kim Jun didn’t rush.
He knew time was needed.
And Belphegor would buy him that time.
Flicker-!
The flame didn’t go out.
Rather, it was gradually growing deeper.
Before the color changed.
At that subtle boundary.
*
Rumble rumble rumble-
Quagagagagagang-!
Pandemonium begins to transform once again with a tremendous scream.
The outer wall, the inner wall.
And all the structures.
A precisely calculated trajectory.
Like a massive disc spinning, the entire fortress began to transform its structure.
The bottom fell out.
The wall folded and unfolded.
The very shape of the battlefield was forcibly overturned.
Rumble rumble rumble-!
The passages inside the fortress have been rapidly transformed.
The narrow path became wide, and the high wall became low.
The existing defense structure has disappeared.
Instead.
A completely different form revealed itself.
Massive stone walls rose up in a circle.
A structure reminiscent of an ancient colosseum.
Pandemonium is now.
It has transformed into one giant arena of speculation.
In the center is a vast circular arena.
A circular fortress wall that rose in tiers, encircling the area.
The first to perceive the change were Mammon’s demon soldiers.
They immediately stopped fighting.
And without any confusion.
Rumble-!
They began moving toward the city wall.
Thousands, tens of thousands of demons climbed up along the circular city wall.
They stepped on the steep stairs and took positions atop the towering walls.
Like a crowd filling the spectator seats of a colosseum.
As a result.
Only Belphegor and his legion remained in the center of the arena.
All directions were blocked.
From above, Mammon’s forces looked down with thousands of gazes.
Bowstrings were already drawn.
Magic-infused spears had finished aiming in unison.
Catapults slowly adjusted their angles.
Heavy and massive weapons raised their heads toward the center of the arena.
With just a single gesture, everything would come pouring down.
Then.
Swoosh-
Mammon raised his hand.
However, that hand.
Was clearly not a signal to attack, but a signal to stand down.
At that moment, all the demon soldiers’ movements stopped.
The taut bowstrings loosened.
The flow of magic was cut off.
Even breathing sounds died away.
All of Pandemonium submitted to that single gesture.
Mammon slowly spread both arms.
“How is it.”
His gaze swept over the newly transformed fortress.
“Do you like it.”
It was an attitude as if telling them to admire his work.
He opened his mouth again.
“I heard the news, Belphegor.”
His voice contained blatant mockery.
“You became a human’s dog. A summoned creature, no less. Puhaha!”
Laughter leaked out.
No matter how much weaker he was than himself.
To submit to a mere human?
“The title of Grand Demon is wasted on you.”
But Belphegor didn’t react to that laughter.
He simply raised his dagger and aimed it at Mammon.
Step-
Mammon rose from his throne.
Slowly.
Leisurely.
He began descending the stairs of the circular city wall toward the arena below.
“Ah.”
He paused briefly in the middle of the stairs.
“I never thought I’d end up killing a fellow demon. What a tragic day indeed.”
“I’m the one who’s truly tragic here.”
Belphegor’s response was brief.
“Right. How does it feel to become a little doggy?”
Mammon continued his provocations even as he kept descending.
However.
“Pick up your weapon.”
Belphegor once again simply maintained his stance.
Mammon descended the last step.
The moment he stepped onto the plaza floor.
Weapons fell from the air.
Clang-!
Two spears landed precisely in Mammon’s hands.
Golden and black energy flowed and rippled along the surface of the spears.
On the opposite side, Belphegor gripped a dagger with a thinly honed blade.
The two Grand Demons faced each other.
At the center of the arena.
Under the gaze of tens of thousands of demons.
Lips curved upward and gazes crossed.
“I have been looking forward to this day, Belphegor.”
Not just any demon, but a Grand Demon.
If he killed a Grand Demon, how much power would flow into him?
“My beloved soldiers.”
Mammon’s voice rang out.
At that moment.
Snap-!
The demons on the city wall moved simultaneously.
No one asked questions.
No one hesitated.
They had known what that command meant for a long time.
They were those who had waited their entire lives for that command to be given.
Mammon’s voice rang out again.
“Take your own lives.”
The moment the command fell, blades moved.
There was no time delay whatsoever.
All at once.
Slash-
Slash-
Slash-
Thousands of blades simultaneously fell toward their own necks.
Necks were severed.
Bodies collapsed.
There were no screams.
There was no resistance.
Before Mammon’s command, such things were unnecessary.
Whoooosh-!
Blood erupted like fountains.
From the city wall.
Into the arena.
Like crimson torrential rain.
The demons’ corpses fell. Turned to dust and scattered. Shattered into pieces.
And the blood.
Was absorbed into the ground.
Like food going down one’s throat, it penetrated into Pandemonium.
Sizzzzz-
Red light flowed along the patterns on the floor.
As if alive.
Like a single living being.
Belphegor watches all of this from the center of the arena.
His eyes turned cold.
The fingers gripping the handle turned white.
His lips stretched into a straight line.
Even if they were just ordinary soldiers.
To consume them in such a way.
Disgust. Anger. And some deeper emotion filled his face.
“They’re just expendable anyway. Why are you looking like that? Hahahaha!”
Mammon saw that expression and muttered in a low, calm voice.
Indifference to what he had done.
Disregard for how cruel it was.
It didn’t matter to Mammon.
Only one thing.
The fact that his power was growing.
That was all that mattered.
All the absorbed blood flowed in the same direction.
To the deepest part of Pandemonium.
Following invisible channels that penetrated the interior of the Fortress.
To only one destination.
「Core of Greed」.
In the heart of the Fortress, a massive core was reacting.
To the absorbed power.
The life force that gathers.
Gurgle-
Once.
Gurgle-
Twice.
And.
Jiggle jiggle jiggle-!
The entire fortress resonates as if drawing in a breath.
That power flowed directly into Mammon’s body.
Thousands of powers.
The power of thousands.
Thousands of despair, rage, and resentment.
Mammon’s body began to change.
Golden light and dark energy swirled across his skin.
A state that is neither completely mixed nor completely separated.
Wherever the gold flowed, dark energy seeped in.
Golden light surged back through every gap where the dark energy spread.
They were entangled as if devouring each other while simultaneously pushing each other away.
Golden lines flowed halfway down his arms, with black smoke swirling and writhing around them.
In his chest, a golden light pulsed as if spreading out from his heart.
The dark energy surrounding it contracted and expanded like breathing.
“Kehehehe…”
A laugh escaped.
It was laughter that flowed out even when I consciously tried to hold it back.
Laughter that becomes impossible to suppress as the power builds up.
And finally.
“Kuhahahahahaha!”
Gwangso exploded.
The entire stadium shook.
The air rang out and the city walls trembled.
The current Mammon was no longer the Mammon of before.
A being who had sacrificed his own legion and absorbed everything from them.
He had reached a level that was beyond simply being called a demon.
“…”
Belphegor was watching that form while gripping his dagger.
The opponent he now had to face.
Had become much stronger than before.
“「Universal Greed」.”
He was greed itself.
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Mammon was relaxed.
From the moment he set foot in Pandemonium, he thought the outcome of this battle was already decided.
This fortress was not a simple castle.
It was the result of Mammon’s authority, greed itself taking form.
All battles that took place within were the same.
The more they fought.
The more they moved.
The more blood they shed.
All of it flowed to Mammon.
「Universal Greed」.
Those who entered Pandemonium were already within its sphere of influence.
The moment they exchanged attacks.
The moment weapons clashed.
Even the moment they caught their breath.
Little by little.
Surely.
Their energy became Mammon’s.
That’s why he wasn’t in a hurry.
Block.
Deflect.
Just wait.
But.
Belphegor was still attacking.
Whoosh-!
The air tore as his form disappeared and reappeared.
Fast.
Still fast.
The speed that the demon of sloth had prided himself on.
But Mammon knew.
That speed was gradually crumbling.
Every time the dagger touched the spear.
Every time their bodies grazed.
Belphegor’s energy was visibly draining away.
Even so, Belphegor didn’t stop.
He attacked again.
Disappeared and reappeared once more.
Mammon’s eyes narrowed.
‘He should know.’
Someone of his level would definitely feel it.
The fact that he was gradually getting slower.
Yet he continued to attack.
It didn’t make sense.
Had becoming a human’s dog made him abandon his judgment as well?
“Are you really the demon of sloth I used to know?”
Mammon snorted.
As long as they fought here, Belphegor could not win.
Absolutely not.
At that moment.
Mammon’s gaze briefly shifted away.
Outside Pandemonium.
At the edge of the battlefield, the Human was standing.
Without doing anything.
Just watching the battlefield.
‘What the hell has he been doing this whole time?’
He didn’t seem to have any intention of interfering.
There was no sign of him running away either.
Had he abandoned Belphegor?
Or.
Had he not yet grasped the situation?
Mammon turned his gaze back.
It didn’t matter.
He just needed to kill Belphegor.
After that.
He could kill that Human.
‘If he has enough power to keep Belphegor under him, he must have considerable strength.’
It wouldn’t be a problem even if the order changed.
Even at this very moment.
The fight was continuing.
And power was accumulating.
The one who grew stronger the more he fought in Pandemonium.
Was always uniquely.
Only Mammon himself.
That’s why within this fortress.
Even one who stood at the pinnacle of Hell,
Even Lucifer.
Could not treat Mammon carelessly.
But then.
Belphegor charged at him again.
Paang-!
The air exploded as his form was torn apart and then reconnected.
He was covered in wounds.
His shoulder was split open.
Blood was flowing down from his side.
His movements had clearly slowed down too.
Mammon raised his spear and easily deflected the attack.
Kang-!
Once again.
Energy flowed into him.
“Do you have no ability to learn?”
Mammon’s voice was still leisurely.
“Don’t you know that if you repeat the same actions, the result will be the same?”
Belphegor did not answer.
He just.
Ssiik-
Raised the corners of his mouth.
With his blood-stained face, he was clearly smiling.
‘Why?’
This was already a finished fight.
Yet that expression.
What kind of composure was that supposed to be?
At that moment.
There was something that pierced Mammon’s senses.
Something blue.
That something was approaching this place.
A blue trajectory crossing the battlefield.
It was coming straight toward him in a direct line, without a moment’s hesitation.
“You’re dead now.”
Belphegor was grinning brightly while raising his middle finger.
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