The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 475

It was a shocking sight.

Red Moon.

A massive guild representing Incheon.

Red Moon was a very big group in Incheon. People thought they might even become powerful in Seoul. But one person destroyed them completely.

Dead bodies were everywhere you looked on the ground.

It looked like people had tried to run away from the building, but they fell dead just a few steps from the door.

And that wasn’t all.

The direct squadron leader, Lee Tae-sung approached and said,

“We found Cha Dong-chul’s body. But…”

He trailed off.

Cha Dong-chul’s appearance revealed a shocking truth.

“Based on the traces left on the body, it seems Cha Dong-chul was tortured before his death.”

“Tortured?”

“Yes. The reason for the torture is unknown, but the wound where his abdomen was gouged out is definitely not something that would occur during a fierce exchange of blows. If that’s the case, the problem becomes much bigger. As you know, Cha Dong-chul was quite skilled. If one person can kill Cha Dong-chul and all of Red Moon by himself, it probably means this unknown Apex Hunter has a group helping him. This is absolutely impossible for a single individual to accomplish.”

He stated firmly.

Lee Tae-sung was also an Apex Hunter.

Knowing Cha Dong-chul’s skills well, he couldn’t see it being within the realm of possibility.

Kim Jun-hyuk agreed.

The sight before them was too dreadful to be the work of a single individual.

‘…A faction.’

His head ached.

An unidentified individual who had formed a faction.

He had been planning to recruit him, but if he had a faction backing him, he might have hidden motives unknown to Kim Jun-hyuk.

Kim Jun-hyuk pressed his temples. It was a habit he had whenever his head ached. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a cigarette.

Click, click.

“Hoo.”

He exhaled the smoke he had deeply inhaled.

Not yet.

It wasn’t time to jump to conclusions.

He had to prepare for the worst, but the corpses scattered on the ground couldn’t reveal the truth.

Just then, a member of the direct squadron spoke in an excited voice.

“We’ve secured the CCTV footage! Everything that happened is recorded inside!”

They moved to another location.

The direct squadron member said,

“It seems the system was damaged by an external impact, so there’s no sound. But there’s no problem in confirming what happened here.”

“Play it.”

“Yes.”

He played the CCTV footage.

Soon, the situation when the Apex Hunter first visited the Red Moon building, before the massacre, was replayed.

It was different from what he had expected.

Lee Tae-sung had said he would have brought a faction, but the Apex Hunter had entered the Red Moon building with only Kang Min-ho.

The atmosphere inside was not good.

It seemed they had revealed Go Sang-ho’s death, as the Red Moon guild members swarmed around them. They were guided to the reception room, but the atmosphere was such that a fight could break out at any moment.

Even without sound, one could tell.

The guild members were whispering.

Go Sang-min’s face was flushed.

Their constant fidgeting with their weapons proved that the Apex Hunter was a very unwelcome guest.

Finally, Cha Dong-chul appeared.

From then on, the situation progressed rapidly.

Cha Dong-chul spoke with a fierce expression, and at his signal, the Red Moon guild members rushed in all at once.

“…No way.”

Kim Jun-hyuk’s eyes shook.

His expectations were wrong.

The outcome he had thought could only be achieved by a group was being created by the Apex Hunter alone in the CCTV footage.

Kang Min-ho didn’t even step forward.

He simply watched from a few steps away, like a bystander. The Red Moon guild members, rushing in from all directions, were dealt with by the Apex Hunter alone.

It was a one-sided massacre.

The Apex Hunter slaughtered everyone who rushed at him, and effortlessly blocked Cha Dong-chul’s sudden surprise attack.

The clash with Cha Dong-chul. Cha Dong-chul unleashed powerful attacks as people remembered, but he failed to land a single effective hit, and one of his arms was severed.

That was the end.

Cha Dong-chul collapsed.

The Apex Hunter’s torture.

After achieving his goal, the massacre resumed, and Kim Jun-hyuk had to look away from the monitor.

“Mayor.”

It was Lee Tae-sung.

Kim Jun-hyuk knew what that simple address implied.

Lee Tae-sung stood straighter and said, “Yes, the unidentified Apex Hunter is definitely A-rank. Such a result would be impossible otherwise.”

He felt a chill.

A-rank.

The unidentified individual was one of the special beings, of which there were fewer than 30 in South Korea.

His mouth went dry.

If he had ignored Kang Min-ho’s warning and approached the Apex Hunter, the Incheon government would have had to bear the brunt of his anger towards Red Moon.

But then there was something that made even less sense. Where on earth had an A-rank Hunter appeared from? They tried desperately to catch even B-ranks, but an A-rank was beyond compare.

A position that would receive VIP treatment in any country.

Even if he requested naturalization in a superpower like the United States or Russia, they would offer him untold riches to welcome an A-rank Hunter.

‘Judging from the conversation with Kang Min-ho, the unidentified Apex Hunter is definitely unaffiliated. That’s why he gave us a month’s deadline. Should I report this to the central government? If the central government learns of the existence of an A-rank Hunter, they will immediately send people to recruit him.’

He pondered.

This incident.

It wasn’t the Apex Hunter’s fault.

The scale was large, making it difficult to handle, but as the CCTV footage proved, Cha Dong-chul had ordered the attack first.

He wasn’t thinking about right or wrong anymore. Kim Jun-hyuk, who had been pondering for a long time even though the CCTV screen was black and white, looked at Lee Tae-sung and asked,

“Direct Squadron Leader.”

“Yes.”

Kim Jun-hyuk looked at Lee Tae-sung, his eyes serious. “Can anyone outside our group find out about this?”

“Not internally. The personnel monitoring the Apex Hunter belong to the direct squadron, and all the troops mobilized for this operation are also from the direct squadron. The direct squadron absolutely obeys the orders of the Incheon Mayor. If we keep quiet, the fact that Red Moon was destroyed will be revealed, but we can conceal who was responsible.”

“Then dispose of the CCTV footage. And tell people that Red Moon’s destruction was due to a suitable reason.”

“…May I ask why?”

Click, click.

He lit a cigarette.

Hunters didn’t smoke.

It was to avoid negatively affecting their bodies as much as possible, but Kim Jun-hyuk, as a regular person, didn’t need to do that.

He held the cigarette smoke in his mouth.

With a slightly gaunt face, he showed a sharp glint in his eyes.

“Isn’t it obvious? We will try to recruit the A-rank Hunter before anyone else knows of his existence.”

Meanwhile, far from the gruesome scene at Red Moon, Roman Dmitry was back in his quiet villa.

Go Sang-ho’s body had been cleaned up by a cleaner, and Kang Min-ho had brought the things he had prepared at Roman Dmitry’s request.

“Here are the materials you requested. These are the basics for now, and I’ll bring more detailed materials later.”

The truth of the Inheritor.

He needed to know it before the language.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t been studying, but it had only been a few days, so he didn’t know that Dmitry’s inheritance existed.

A measure to prevent something like this from happening again.

Roman Dmitry carefully examined the materials, focusing on the points he thought were most important.

First, the system.

[After the Absolute Being foretold the Great Disaster, people began to express the connection with the system as Awakening. This system, in the form of a game, pays out certain rewards each time a monster is dealt with, and most ordinary hunters become stronger in this way. If that is the majority, then Inheritors and the Chosen are very special beings, accounting for 0.01% of the total.]

Beings of exception.

Inheritors were as Cha Dong-chul had described.

If they were beings who accepted memories from beyond dimensions, then the Chosen were literally chosen.

[In addition to the first Absolute Being, there are similar beings who directly choose Awakened people and give them many things to help them become stronger. In a system similar to a sponsor, people who study the Great Disaster have speculated that this may be a game of the Absolute Beings. What is certain is that the Chosen basically possess more powerful abilities than the Inheritors.]

Absolute Being.

The Chosen.

It was a complex connection.

The Absolute Beings used Earth as a stage for testing, and by foretelling 10 Great Disasters, they granted special abilities to help them survive the disasters.

Perhaps, as people speculated, this was their game. The method of offering both carrots and sticks at the same time was incomprehensible in the realm of common sense.

The fundamental parts of this world.

He confirmed them all.

He couldn’t find a connection to his past life other than Dmitry’s inheritance, but Roman Dmitry read carefully. ‘So, this is how this world works,’ he thought.

‘During the subjugation of the Demon World, the Demon World once started a game of attacking the terrestrial world, following the unknown beings who had attacked the Demon World. It could be a similar context. These Absolute Beings are not for a special purpose to save humanity, but purely to enjoy the disaster of humanity.’

He couldn’t know the truth with fragmentary information.

What was certain.

Both the disaster and the power to prevent the disaster came from the Absolute Beings.

And the fact that they possessed that much power meant a very special possibility.

That was it.

Roman Dmitry wanted that possibility.

He called Kang Min-ho and asked,

“10 Great Disasters. After enduring all that terrible reality, what kind of future do you think awaits you?”

“…I don’t know.”

Kang Min-ho trailed off.

The future after the Great Disaster.

He hadn’t thought deeply about it.

Because he had to solve the immediate practical problems, the future after the Great Disaster was still just a fantasy that he couldn’t speak of lightly to people.

Of course, he desperately wanted such a future to come. But because hope and despair were proportional, he didn’t want to increase despair with vain hope.

Roman Dmitry said,

“People vaguely expect the future after the Great Disaster. Perhaps a peaceful world will come. Maybe so. If the Absolute Being did all this for fun, there would be no reason to massacre people after achieving his goal. The lives of ants that can be crushed with a finger are not so important to him, whether they disappear or remain as they are.”

Absolute Being.

A god-like existence.

‘All problems originate from the Absolute Being. The events currently taking place on Earth prove that the Absolute Being is a divine being. With the power of the Absolute Being, it might be possible. Just as memories from beyond dimensions affect Earth, the two worlds can coexist without collapsing. Then I must meet the Absolute Being. I must bring him down and create the future I want through his power.’

A new purpose.

The direction of his life was determined.

Absolute Being.

He had never shown himself even once since the first disaster.

There were records of similar beings appearing several times, but the first Absolute Being had never appeared in any way.

Then there was only one way to meet him.

Just as he had first appeared to declare the Great Disaster, there was a high probability that he would reappear if all 10 Great Disasters were prevented.

That was the opportunity.

Roman Dmitry said,

“I told you. From the moment I decided to live in this world, I would form my own domain. Now I’ve changed my mind.”

His presence swelled.

Looking at Kang Min-ho’s shaking eyes, Roman Dmitry revealed his existence.

“I will rule this entire world. So that people gather under my name and prevent all 10 Great Disasters. I will make it so.”

Kang Min-ho’s eyes widened. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Ruling the world? It was something he had never even dreamed of.