Book 6-7.3

The lead warrior shouted toward Grace. Even if everyone in the Castle of Storm died, Grace had to live, and it was better to run while they still had the strength to fight.

Grace was breathing heavily as she looked toward the warriors and shook her head.

“How could I run away and leave all of you behind?”

“Grace-nim, please do not forget about your identity. Grace-nim is the Mother of Pareia. A Pareia without its mother will fall into chaos.”

“I have never heard about a mother who runs away and leaves her child behind. That monster-like human seems to be tired as well so please persevere a little longer.”

At Grace’s decision, the warriors clenched their teeth and pulled forth all of their strength to attack Asmodeus.

The remaining warriors at the castle gathered after hearing the commotion in the center, and even the shamans showed up to help support the warriors and pressure Asmodeus. They were finally starting to feel like they would be able to defeat Asmodeus, before that hope turned into despair very quickly.

“I use my power to open the gate. Come forth!”

Asmodeus made a gesturing motion and some things started to crawl out from next to him.

Skeleton.

They were not holding weapons because he had to call them out so quickly, but the warriors hesitated at the number of skeletons Asmodeus was calling forth.

The warriors started to fall one by one.

Grace got on Shopping to flatten and whip the skeletons away, but Asmodeus’s dark force only continued to get stronger.

If it continued like this, they would need to give the order to retreat.

“Grace-nim, now … please escape!”

The lead warrior shouted toward Grace. He could only give the order to retreat once Grace safely ran away. Grace seemed to know that as well as she bit down on her lower lip.

“Shopping.”

The moment Grace called Shopping over and was about to retreat, another change occurred in the battlefield.

There was a person who was making his way through the numerous warriors and skeletons. He immediately headed toward Asmodeus, and the skeletons were unable to prevent him from doing so.

“Ah~!”

Grace looked toward the familiar man who was easily defeating the skeletons and let out a sigh of relief. She was extremely happy to see him. He was someone she could trust as much as her husband.

“Senior.”

Grace let out a joyful shout as she looked at the person.

This existence that was like no other existence.

He had returned.

“Every time I go away and return, some unexplainable things seem to happen. I will receive your greeting later.”

Chun Myung Hoon leisurely waved toward Grace as he continued to move forward.

Asmodeus summoned a reaper’s scythe after watching the person quickly approach him. He then swung it toward the person.

Boooooooong.

“Senior!”

Grace shouted out in shock as the reaper’s scythe seemed to land on Chun Myung Hoon. But Chun Myung Hoon was perfectly fine. In fact, he split into two once he was sliced by the scythe.

Asmodeus seemed to be shocked as well at this unexpected development.

“A human magician? Sadly, magic does not work on me.”

“A monster like you taking on a human appearance while letting out a murderous aura and a terrible stench. Return to where you came from. It is boring dealing with someone like you.”

Chun Myung Hoon sped up as he approached Asmodeus, and Asmodeus swung the reaper’s scythe over and over to slash Chun Myung Hoon. However, the only thing that happened was that the number of Chun Myung Hoons increased with each swing.

“There’s always stupid idiots like this. They claim that there is no one that can be their match, blabbing on about how this martial arts doesn’t work on me, yadda yadda yadda. In the end, they end up on their knees and begging for their life. Guess they like to act like humans.”

“You stupid human!”

Asmodeus was flabbergasted as he shouted at Chun Myung Hoon, who had now been split to a total of eight. The eight Chun Myung Hoons flanked the gun, gam, gan, jin, son, yi, gon, tae, the eight cardinal directions, as they approached Asmodeus.

“Using something so trivial as Mirror Image ……”

Asmodeus scoffed at Chun Myung Hoon’s Mirror Images as he stopped summoning the reaper’s scythe and focused his dark force to try to get rid of all eight Chun Myung Hoons at once.

Asmodeus started to spin, and tens of black spheres formed from the focused dark force started to revolve around the eight Chun Myung Hoons.

Just how did he move?

The moment it seemed like the Chun Myung Hoons turned faint, all of the black spheres surrounding him disappeared instantly. The moment the shocked Asmodeus tried to release more dark force, Chun Myung Hoon ran toward Asmodeus in a speed that transcended human limits.

Stab.

Chun Myung Hoon, who surrounded Asmodeus on all sides, stabbed a sword into Asmodeus’s body.

“What……”

Asmodeus could not believe what was going on. How did a human’s blade manage to pierce through his body?

And the blades that stabbed him all over the body had stabbed into his Monster Core from all sides.

‘He is able to destroy my core while using the blades of Mirror Image clones?’

Asmodeus started to bloat up, as if he was trying to make his final stance.

“Still trying to do something? You are worthless. Go back to where you came from.”

Chun Myung Hoon put some strength into his hand as he started to hack away at Asmodeus. The surroundings quickly became covered in dark red blood, but not a single drop landed on Chun Myung Hoon’s clothes.

……

There was not even a scream. Asmodeus just died like that.

Once Asmodeus died like that, the skeletons he summoned started to disappear as well. All of the warriors became shocked and could only stand their with their jaws open at what they just witnessed.

“Senior.”

Grace was the first to come back to her senses. She quickly ran toward Chun Myung Hoon to greet him.

“You must have suffered a lot. Where is this punk that he does not even know how much trouble his wife is facing?”

Chung Myung Hoon patted Grace’s hand that was holding onto his hand as he started to smile.

“Senior, just … where were you gone all this time? Both my husband and I have been worried about you.”

“I just went to have some fun. I heard a lot about what was going on through rumors.”

“There were a lot of things that happened.”

“It seems to be the case. By the way ……”

As Chun Myung Hoon did not finish the sentence, Grace decided to ask.

“Senior, is something wrong?”

“Hmm hmm. I seem to be very hungry. You already know how the continent’s food doesn’t taste very good to me.”

Seeing Chun Myung Hoon let out some fake coughs as he said that, Grace started to smile brightly as she responded.

“I will make a lot of Dongpo Pork for you tonight.”

Chun Myung Hoon’s face lit up after hearing Grace’s words.

Yulian was starting to get anxious as the war continued to drag on.

He had determined that Pareia would hold an overwhelming advantage if they could handle Venersis, and while this was true, it was not very easy to handle Venersis.

Yulian wanted to fight against Venersis one on one again, but Runa and the other Greatest Warriors solemnly opposed his decision and he could not do so.

– The Glow and Venersis are at different levels of importance right now. If something was to happen to you right now, it really would be the end for Pareia. Unless you are absolutely certain of your victory, please do not fight one on one against Venersis.

Runa and the other Greatest Warriors were concerned because of the severity of the injuries he received the last time he fought Venersis one on one.

Honestly speaking, there was only about a piece of paper’s thickness of a difference between Yulian and Venersis in terms of abilities. Because of this, nobody could tell who would win in a one on one battle. That was why even though Yulian wanted to fight, he himself knew it was not a wise decision. That was why the war just continued to drag on, like a never-ending game of tug-o-war.

‘Although Pareia may hold the advantage, if we continue like this, all there will be left after the war will be scars. There is no reason to lose so many warriors like this to unify the desert.’

That was what Yulian was thinking ever since he returned from the Hero’s Land.

‘Our enemies right now should be those monsters, not other humans. What decision do I need to make right now?’

Yulian couldn’t help but be anxious over and over. If he did not know about the monsters, he could probably focus on the war, but the situation was not like that.

He had been more anxious ever since the monsters from the Monster’s Desert invaded the Castle of Storm and threatened Grace.

‘We need a solution.’

Yulian made up his mind and gathered the Greatest Warriors for a meeting.

Once Runa and the Greatest Warriors all gathered together, Yulian started to speak.

“I plan on withdrawing our warriors.”

Yulian’s statement came like a bomb for the gathered Greatest Warriors.