Chapter 245. Still don’t know me? (part 2) – PLAYER WHO RETURNED 10,000 YEARS LATER
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Chapter 245. Still don’t know me? (part 2)
A huge cave covered with transparent ice.
“This is…” – he raised his head and looked around.
It was pitch black, but he was sure he saw the demon’s eyes in front of him.
The guy took an uncertain step forward.
– А !
Some incomprehensible feeling touched his feet. He stepped in exactly the same way as always, but the feeling was completely different.
“What’s this?”
A blue notification window in the corner caught his eye. He grimaced after reading the message about the interference of absolute force in the actions of the system.
– And one level…
This was not your usual strength boost. Kang Woo frowned and opened the status window.
[Status window]
Player Name: Oh Kang Woo
Level: 1 (Rank 1)
Special Ability: Power of the Devourer (Rank: ???)
Strength: 1
Agility: 1
Stamina: 1
Mark: 1
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Holiness: 1
Magi: 1
Intelligence: 1
Wisdom: 1
– Fuck! – he immediately swore.
“What the hell is this?”
All stats went down to one.
He felt like something was pressing on him, some power. Since he possessed a demonic body, he was still superior to a human, but still he felt a lack of strength.
“Is this absolute strength?”
He heard that absolute can interfere with the system’s actions, but still it was overkill.
“It wasn’t so bad when I first returned to Earth.”
Even then, not all stats went down to one.
– What’s going on?.
Even the system guarding the Earth could not completely seal his powers, so what happened that all the characteristics dropped to one?
“Some nonsense.”
Thoughts in his head are confused. He had the feeling that he was holding a piece of the puzzle that did not fit the rest of the picture.
Wet, shuffling steps, as if someone came out of the water.
The guy crouched down and turned around. He noticed something walking in the gloom and pressed his lips together tightly.
A half-broken head, brains hanging from it and gushing blood… The pus hanging hand reached out to Kang Woo as if to hug him.
– Ha, – he chuckled.
This is definitely not some kind of evil spirits. The body of the demon who approached him had disappeared a long time ago.
– God-e-in… – a pitiful voice called him.
A demon with half his head missing was walking towards Kang Woo. The guy knew his name:
– Paimon?
A demon who was his servant for a while… Kang Woo remembered him for his special modesty not suitable for a demon, because of which he was often oppressed by Pallock.
He remembered how he even smiled at Pallock several times.
“Only a smile doesn’t suit demons at all.”
Paimon…
Kang Woo thought about him.
“Fool”.
During the battle with Satan, to gain time, he rushed to the enemy troops with a bomb in his hands. And in the end he died.
The humble asshole and the one who endured Pallock’s taunts.
– Mister…
He turned around.
Paimon was not the only one moving in his direction. Footsteps began to echo from all directions.
– Agares.
Someone whose facial expression has not changed under any circumstances. It burned down at the hands of Mamon.
– Berdin, Calzas…
Eerily noisy guys. Both were caught by Asmodeus. Kang Woo remembered how he killed them.
– Master…
– Ah-ah-ah…
Hardly audible voices.
Beaten and drenched in blood, they walked towards Kang Woo. A scene perfect for a second-rate zombie movie.
– This is what happened… – he took a breath.
He understood why the level and characteristics dropped to one, why the absoluteness was able to do with him what the system protecting the Earth failed, and why his powers were sealed.
“This… this is all not real.”
He was somewhere on the verge between reality and illusion. In a place that looks like a nightmare.
“So the message that I was in a nightmare first came up?”
The picture in my head began to take shape.
Kang Woo raised his hand and summoned the Blade Force, but immediately clicked his tongue. The force was not working.
The place where Man Ma Jong was gradually plunged into a state of rest.
“No,” he shook his head.
He not at all felt Man Ma Jeong. He had the feeling that he was completely human and plunged into a nightmare. Although the status window indicated the Power of the Devourer, he felt nothing but a small amount of Magi.
Kang Woo sighed and bit finger.
“The pain feels the same as always. In that case…”
He squinted.
“Is there a high probability that if I die in a nightmare, I will die in reality?. How exhausting.”
– Fuh, – Kang Woo sighed heavily.
The guy was slowly surrounded by his former servants. He looked at their faces, remembering the war that had lasted for a thousand years.
– Pallock…
He saw himself sitting on a mountain of corpses.
– I’m… I’m tired…
– Damn! – he twisted and shook his head, trying to forget about the past.
“I’m crazy.”
How long has it been? Dark moments of the past, which should simply be forgotten and thrown out of his head, haunted him.
– Fuck, how embarrassing…
Suddenly he was covered with a whole bunch of feelings, and the memories rushed on.
“What did Pallock say then?”
Though the time isn’t right, but he remembered their further conversation. The moment he completely plunged into the depths of his memory, there was a heavy sound of footsteps. Kang Woo turned and looked into the darkness. The darkness itself and the red demonic mask were moving towards him.
– How do you feel when you see the servants who died because of you? – the red mask laughed.
Kang Woo, looking at the laughing demon, said his name:
– Satan…
– Master! It’s been a long time since we talked like this in private, “he looked down at the guy. – I am impressed by your insane act. Because of you, my plan was shaken, – his emotions began to boil. “I don’t understand how you survived… but it’s not for long.
Satan raised his hand, in which a sword appeared.
Kang Woo asked:
– Where am I?
– In a place called “The Beginning of Darkness.”
– Do you think this is telling me something, idiot?
Satan trembled.
He barely contained his anger, took a deep breath and continued:
– A source of evil. Here is the body of the Devil Lord Baulli.
Remembering the Devil Lord, one immediately remembers a huge kilometer-long eye.
“Is this Baulli the same?”
He still did not know the name of the creature living in the depths of Man Ma Jeong. Thoughts were further confused, but he put them aside for later. There is no time to think about it now. You need to first understand what is happening now. He once again glanced at the dead, wandering in his direction, and asked:
– Let’s say, but it’s not real, yes?
“This is a space where reality and illusion mix,” Satan laughed. – Although this is not entirely reality, but if you die here, then your soul will really disappear.
In general, it is expected.
Kang Woo nodded to himself and Satan frowned.
– You are too calm, – he did not understand it. – Now you do not have an infinite number of Powers that can help you.
Only the guy’s soul got into this place, and everything that it remains – the Power of the Devourer and the Magi.
– Have you already resigned yourself to your defeat?
The winner and the loser have been determined in advance. Once he was here, all his skills lost all meaning.
After Satan lost to Kang Woo and lost his body, he learned to control the soul. For the last thousand years, he has been feeding on the source of power and has learned to use it in the place where reality and illusion intersect.
But everything was with the Master otherwise.
His power was Magi from Man Ma Jong and tens, hundreds of Powers. And since he was left without his body and Man Ma Jung, he was no different from an ordinary weak person.
Kang Woo is nothing answered, and Satan laughed.
– Okay.
Satan started walking towards Kang Woo. He had no intention of just killing the guy.
– I have suffered too much fighting you.
Memories comparable to a nightmare. Starting from those where he lost his title of the Great and ending with defeat. Then the Lord devoured his body and only his soul remained.
– Even on Earth…
Satan, in anger, grabbed him by the throat. He must pay the price and experience the same pain.
It’s time for sweet revenge. And Anger will help him in this.
There was only one thought in his head:
– You will be killed by your own servants.
Satan laughed loudly and clicked fingers.
– Aaaa…
Paimon approached him, followed by the other three demons. They grabbed the clothes of Kang Woo. Paimon hugged him with an arm dripping with pus. Tears flowed from his only eye.
– A-ah… God-and-n… it hurts…
Kang Woo was silent.
– So much… it hurts…
The guy pressed his lips tightly.
This is not Paimon. This is just an illusion created in a nightmare. A pitiful performance to evoke pity.
– Save…
Realizing that it was all a lie, Kang Woo held back his feelings.
– A-ah-ah, Master….
What’s the use of crying if it’s all in the past? Now nothing can be changed.
– It hurts… it hurts…
– How hot…
– Hot… very hot…
The corpses started grabbing at the guy, and the smell of rot hit his nose.
Kang Woo was not angry or sad.
If it were even the real corpses of his servants, and not an illusion, nothing would have changed.
This was a war.
They died in opposition to the Great Ones. Of course, people die in war. His servants died in a fierce, unfair and rough fight, but this was natural.
And Kang Woo himself killed a huge number of demons.
Demons are sentient. Most likely, someone values them too.
– Mister… it hurts…
Therefore, they are not empty space.
– I’m… I’m tired…
He’s back in the past again.
The memories he was trying so hard to erase.
What a stupid cliché. He is haunted by memories that should be forgotten.
But…
– Ah-ah-ah…
An irresistible anger was read in the eyes of the corpses stuck to the body.
– I… I…
– You killed us!
– If not for you…
There was nothing but anger in their eyes and voice.
Paimon grabbed his shoulder and sharp claws pierced the skin.
– Die! Die!
Agares grabbed him even harder, exposing his flesh.
– It’s all because of you!
– If you hadn’t started that war! .. – he shouted fervently.
Berdeen and Calzas grabbed his arms, and they broke at a strange angle.
Kang Woo stared blankly at the servants tearing him apart, then opened his mouth and said:
– Remembered!
He remembered what Pallock answered then:
– Do you remember the day of our meeting? Then you said that you have one thing to complete. You said that evil breeds more evil, and murder leads to another murder. You need to devour everything in your path and move only forward.
– Fuck, how I was right then. We need to go back and thank Pallock.
Kang Woo opened his mouth and pulled Paimon into himself. He ate it all, along with the pus flowing out.
He used the available Magi and used the Force.
[Power of the Devourer]
Paimon’s body, drawn into Kang Woo, was definitely created from the forces of the spring and turned into Magi.
There was a loud notification sound :
[Magi increased by 27 units]
[You have swallowed the well of evil]
[You have fulfilled the second condition of the last stage of becoming the Devil Lord]
Magi filled everything around with explosive power.
– What? – Satan frowned.
He saw how things did not go according to plan and now it was not the dead man who was devouring Kang Woo, but he was devouring the dead.
– What now…
– Mister…
– Spa…
Their bodies instantly dissipated into thin air.
[Magi increased to 48 units]
Black liquid emanated from Kang Woo.
[Magi increased to 87 units]
A huge number of sharp teeth and black mucus.
[Magi increased to 129 units]
The guy continued to devour the bodies of four demons.
– That’s crazy… – Satan goggled.
He saw the Lord devouring an illusion created with the spring of power.
– How…
The Master had nothing.
Only one of each characteristic and an insignificant amount of Magi. Although he had the Power of the Devourer, but without some unit there he simply could not devour the source of power.
The Power of the Devourer and Magi are closely related. The simplest comparison is the size of the mouth. The more Magi, the more he can devour and the more “heavy” devoured demons can be.
But now he had nothing, except for the unit of Magi.
“However…”
He ate not something there, but a spring of power? Is it only your gums that you can chew on a bar of gold? There was simply no other comparison.
– You just talk, but in the end you don’t learn anything, – Kang Woo clicked his tongue.
His bitten and torn body began to regenerate immediately.
– N-n-really you…
– What do you, the Great Ones, think of yourself at all? You even raise the dead, how low.
This was his third awakening.
“Only Si Hoon needs an extreme situation for this, but I don”t.”
Satan’s plan was poorly thought out from the start. He should have foreseen several outcomes.
– You still don’t know me?
He rose, continuing to devour the bodies of the servants. The squirrels turned black, and the iris turned yellow, on which a black vertical pupil appeared.
– If you were going to kill me, – his lips twitched – then it was necessary to select everything to zero.
[Magi reached 150 units]
Read Light Novel PLAYER WHO RETURNED 10,000 YEARS LATER – Chapter 245. Still don’t know me? (part 2)
Author: 나비계곡
Translation: Artificial_Intelligence
