The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 608

Roman Dmitry stopped walking suddenly. Kim Jun-hyuk’s voice crackled from the communicator, making him feel strange, like he was dreaming.

[Roman Dmitry, can you hear me? It’s Kim Jun-hyuk. We have amazing news! Because of the Dmitry Empire’s help, we are safe from danger. Chris asked me to tell you this: The Dmitry Empire will protect the Daehan Empire. They will send soldiers quickly to places where Absolutes show up. So, don’t worry about what will happen. Fight as you need to!]

Beyond dimensions, Dmitry had answered his call.

After his meeting with Henry Albert, Roman Dmitry had known deep down that the people of Dmitry were waiting for him.

Knowing now that their feelings were real, even after all this time, he began to seriously prepare for the final battle against the Absolutes.

However, joy didn’t come easily. The future Roman Dmitry had imagined had not included thirty years passing at all.

‘Thirty years… Did they really wait endlessly for thirty years, just because of that one promise that I would return?’

His chest tightened, and a cold feeling spread through him.

Thirty years. It was not a short time.

A baby could grow into an adult, start a family. Thirty years was the best part of a life for someone who lived a hundred years. They had given him that time.

Roman Dmitry felt a wave of guilt wash over him, making his hands clench into fists as he thought about the lives they had lived, the pain they had endured.

Three lives. Three connections. Roman Dmitry had met many people and said goodbye many times, but he had never felt anything like this before.

‘How foolish.’

They should have given up after 30 years. They should not have answered his call for help.

Kim Jun-hyuk described Kevin’s appearance, mentioning that Kevin, who was once a boy, had become a middle-aged man.

His heart ached.

If he had known that they would have to endure 30 years, Roman Dmitry would never have told Henry Albert that he would return. He would have chosen to be forgotten by them instead.

Even if they had forgotten him completely in the future, that would have been better than waiting for him for so long, for more than half of their lives.

‘I never lived for you from the beginning. I just thought I had accepted a few people into the fence I lived in. But now I see that wasn’t the case. If you hadn’t brought me into the fence, I, the human being Roman Dmitry, would have had no meaning in life.’

Dmitry. They truly yearned for him. They made a human who had lived desperately at the bottom of life live like a real person.

That was why. Even after gaining overwhelming power as the Emperor of the Daehan Empire, even after meeting new people who followed him, like Kim Jun-hyuk and Kang Min-ho, the thirst that burned in his throat was never quenched.

He didn’t realize he missed them when he first left Dmitry, but he felt it strongly as he lived his new life.

He wanted to meet them. He wanted to go back. It was a strong desire, no matter the cost, and the moment of reunion had arrived, even though there had been a wait of 30 years.

He thought it was foolish to be so worried about the past.

If the feelings of the people of Dmitry towards him were as sincere as the 30 years they had waited, he would now emotionally show them how he felt.

‘I will definitely return to Dmitry.’

The reunion was postponed for a while. Now it was time to break free from the chains that held him.

He had to plan carefully before, but now that Dmitry was involved, he didn’t need to worry about what would happen later.

He believed in Dmitry, just like when he conquered the continent. Roman Dmitry would tear apart all those who stood in his way.

Meanwhile, far away from Roman Dmitry, the Absolutes were in chaos.

After Chris defeated Monter, Kevin also found an Absolute and tore his limbs to pieces.

Six were already defeated. There were still six left, but Volfir could not accept what was happening.

[We have to stop Roman Dmitry… Ack!]

[Volfir! Tell us what to do! If we continue like this, it’s all over!]

Their minds were filled with despair. You could hear the Absolutes’ fear.

From the moment Roman Dmitry started to fight seriously, the Absolutes couldn’t even use guerrilla tactics. No matter where they attacked, Dmitry’s forces were holding them off. They were already struggling with that, but Roman Dmitry followed them closely, and another Absolute died instantly.

It was overwhelming. A direct fight with Roman Dmitry was impossible; his head flew off in just one second.

‘Could it be that we might really be defeated?’

It was terrible. The Absolutes had never even thought about defeat, but Roman Dmitry was pushing them to the edge. There were only five Absolutes left.

It would have been better to combine the power of all twelve Absolutes and attack Roman Dmitry from the start. Now, they were in the worst situation.

‘We are not perfect. Four Absolutes have died because we couldn’t handle Roman Dmitry alone, and three Absolutes have been defeated by other humans we have ignored. We didn’t live in some far-off world that humans were afraid to want. We could have been beaten at any time, but we thought we were like gods because we kept winning.’

He accepted reality.

The city burning beneath his feet was meaningless. Even if they killed more humans like this, the Absolutes would clearly be defeated if they couldn’t defeat Dmitry.

They could not run away. They thought of themselves as gods, so they couldn’t even imagine what life would be like after defeat.

Volfir’s eyes turned vicious.

‘Roman Dmitry, I acknowledge you. But we cannot fall apart like this.’

The final battle. They needed a last resort. Unlike the others, who didn’t need a plan to win, Volfir had a weapon in his heart.

Volfir expanded his mind.

‘Absolutes, gather in one place.’

It was the last gamble.

They gathered in a cold, empty space, the silence broken only by their ragged breaths. The Absolutes gathered in that secluded place. As soon as they appeared, they started complaining with terrified faces.

“W-we’re all done for. Seven of our kind have died. It’s only a matter of time before the five of us die.”

“Volfir! If Roman Dmitry was such a strong human, you should have stopped us somehow. We shouldn’t have included this world and started the game in the first place. Because you forced us to play, we are all about to die now!”

“Please, tell me there’s a way. If you don’t have an answer, I’m going to run away beyond the dimensions right now.”

Everyone was consumed by fear. They were overwhelmed by emotions they had never felt before when facing such a powerful being.

Fear, despair, pain, and so on. They couldn’t think clearly. The beings who seemed to hold the world in their hands now looked as weak as the humans they had always looked down on.

“You pathetic fools.”

Volfir sneered. These were his kin, the so-called Absolutes. But there was something they didn’t know.

The Absolutes all thought they were born at the same time, but Volfir was actually the first one to appear in this world. The first Absolute. Volfir spent more time than he could remember alone, waiting for the other eleven to appear. It was a truly boring and tedious time. He spent endless time without even knowing what kind of being he was.

Then.

Volfir looked at the being before him – another of his kind. This second being was still unconscious. As Volfir watched him, a strange feeling grew inside him.

It wasn’t hunger, the usual emptiness he felt. It wasn’t anger, either. This was something new, something different. It was a clear, sharp curiosity.

Driven by this new feeling, Volfir moved. He attacked the other being, striking him hard. Even as his kin cried out in pain, Volfir tore at him, ripping off arms and legs. Then, he swallowed him whole.

This was why, unlike the others, Volfir was full of emotion.

The sight of his kin at that moment…

The fear and despair in his eyes, and the terrible screams, taught Volfir many emotions.

He would think about the other eleven later.

Now, Volfir made a decision.

Seeing the others staring at him, he used his magic for a moment and destroyed them.

“Aargh!”

“Vo, Volfir!”

“W-Why are you doing this?!”

The others struggled, trying to escape Volfir’s magic, but he had already trapped them.

He crushed them.

And then…

“By eating you, I will be reborn as the one and only god. So be grateful. Even if you die, we will not be defeated.”

Crunch.

Crack crunch.

Volfir began to eat his own kind.

He crossed into a new place.

When Roman Dmitry arrived, he found Volfir, who hadn’t escaped yet.

‘Five.’

He used his magic.

In a flash.

The moment Volfir saw Roman Dmitry, he attacked with his powerful sword technique without saying a word. Magic exploded.

Roman Dmitry attacked with the same move he used before.

The world was torn apart.

With a force that seemed to destroy everything, Volfir was thrown back without resisting.

But then…

Volfir smiled.

His lips moved, and he faced the sword technique head-on.

A huge explosion happened.

Volfir blocked the sword technique and broke through the magic, charging at Roman Dmitry.

The two collided.

Volfir’s grey body turned black, and he physically attacked Roman Dmitry, unlike his previous style.

It was an immense power.

Each time Volfir’s black fingernails hit, Roman Dmitry’s body shook, but he blocked every attack and watched his opponent.

Roman Dmitry had noticed something was different about Volfir right away. He felt a change in Volfir’s power. But Roman Dmitry was not worried.

Whether Volfir was stronger or not, Roman Dmitry had to defeat him.

He would defeat Volfir, who was no different from the others he had defeated before, and destroy all those threatening humanity.

Volfir was pushed back.

His face twisted, but he didn’t lose control like before.

“Truly amazing. I don’t understand how a human can have such power. But this time, things will be different. A long time ago, I ate one of my kind. It only happened once, but it gave me a special weapon.”

Crunch.

Crack crunch.

Volfir’s body twisted.

Arms, legs, and heads grew from his body, merging with the existing ones, forming a huge, black body.

It was a clear change. The beings were now entering another unknown world by eating each other.

“When I ate one, I became twice as strong. So, how strong am I now that I have eaten four?”

He smiled.

Volfir had always been stronger.

Maybe…

He thought that they should have been one from the start.

If he had truly wanted to become a god…

Volfir would have eaten the others long ago and grown stronger.

But now it was different.

He had changed.

At that moment, when Volfir’s power exploded, Roman Dmitry felt someone appearing.

‘Kevin?’

He knew who it was.

Kevin had been chasing them and had finally arrived.

Roman Dmitry had always wanted to see Kevin again.

The boy from the slums.

The one he had brought in after Hans.

But he did not turn around.

Not now.

It was not yet time to see Kevin and be happy.

He turned his body.

Roman Dmitry blocked Kevin’s path to keep him safe and said,

“I told you. I will repay you more than what I received.”

He used his magic.

It was different from before.

Against Volfir, who was so powerful, Roman Dmitry also planned to use his full power.

“You will die here.”

Full power.

It was time to end this fight.