Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 356

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Episode 356

KWA-BOOM!

The explosion ripped across the battlefield.

In the midst of the chaotic battle, both monsters and humans alike couldn’t help but witness the spectacle.

THU-UUUUUUNG!

A force that seemed capable of splitting the continent.

No, it was clear that the force, which had undoubtedly cleaved the continent, erupted, and Lee Cheol was directly hit, sent flying into the distant horizon.

KWA-BOOM!

Lee Cheol crashed into the ground.

That impact alone created a massive crater, and the ground cracked and collapsed.

THWOOM!

But Lee Cheol bounced back up.

Clearly, it was an immensely gigantic primordial monster.

Yet, Lee Cheol, standing against it, was merely a small man, not even reaching 2 meters.

The immense power enveloping Lee Cheol made him appear as a being hundreds, thousands of times larger than his actual size.

BANG! KWA-BOOM!

The mere fragments of the sword energy being swung were enough to obliterate an entire mountain.

Neutralizing, countering, colliding head-on.

‘Ah…’

Everyone could only exclaim in awe.

The brilliant sword light and the soaring spirit.

It was truly a battle that seemed straight out of mythology.

WHOOOOOSH!

The power of purification blazed like flames from Lee Cheol’s body.

Lee Cheol, shrouded in black mist.

And the primordial monster, similarly possessing an indescribable power.

However, their qualities were different.

Lee Cheol’s dark energy resembled the night.

A gentle surge, a force that seemed to bring stability and rest to the world.

The primordial monster’s dark energy was the epitome of strangeness.

A seething chaos, filled with a deep, abyssal confusion like the depths of the ocean.

The same yet different light.

Their powers were canceling each other out.

Lee Cheol existed because of the primordial monster.

And the primordial monster existed because of Lee Cheol.

‘Can we win…’

At that moment.

Everyone thought one thing.

‘…can we?’

A miracle was happening.

Right before their eyes.

A living apocalypse was being blocked by the power of a single human.

* * *

I surrounded everything I touched with the power of purification.

Instantly.

The primordial monster’s power detonated.

KWA-BOOM!

I couldn’t block it. My body crumbled and collapsed.

Excruciating pain surged.

“…! …! …!”

“…!”

I heard someone shouting.

But due to my burst eardrums, the sound was muffled and unclear.

‘My father wouldn’t shout like that, so it must be the warriors of the main family,’ I thought.

‘It’s okay.’

Even amidst the excruciating pain throughout my body, my mind was clear.

I looked down at my right ribs.

They were severely cracked, and sticky blood was flowing out.

I used magic to reattach the ribs that were broken and piercing my lungs, forcibly pouring magic into them to cauterize the blood vessels.

I shot up! Thankfully, the black hand hadn’t escaped.

‘So now, it’s okay.’

It’s a life-threatening injury, but I can still fight.

“Ah…”

I opened my blood-soaked lips.

No, they were already beyond being called blood-soaked.

A shout that wasn’t quite a shout burst out from between my tattered lips.

“Haaaah!”

KOO-GOO-GOO-GOO-GOONG!

At that moment, like a typhoon, fierce black particles swirled and rushed toward me.

Each of those particles contained enough power to erase an entire city from the map.

Facing such power, I raised my sword.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

The primordial monster’s power split with a single downward strike.

That power, exerted with all my might, bisected the incoming black typhoon.

HOOO-WOOK!

Instantly, the bisected power swept around me like a typhoon.

It was an extreme poison among extreme poisons, offering all kinds of diseases and death.

But.

WHOOOOOSH!

The power of purification neutralized it.

───────────!

A terrifying wave of psychic energy surged from the primordial monster’s wide-open mouth.

-KIEEEEEEEEEK!

Even the monsters that originated from it screamed at the immense power.

SUH-GUH-GUH-GUH-GUH!

But again.

It was bisected by a flash of sword light.

The power of purification was neutralizing all of its authority.

KWA-BOOM!

The power, split in half and bisected, swept away the rear.

I could see the distant ground being shattered as if lava had erupted.

The power that was deflected and the power that was blocked were both forces that could reshape the world.

But it didn’t matter.

I deflected and blocked.

‘It won’t work. You monster.’

The primordial monster, wielding transcendent power reminiscent of a god.

But my now awakened power of purification dragged it down from the realm of the divine and onto the ground.

Now we stood on equal footing.

Now it was merely a being with great power and a massive body, just ‘strong’.

And I.

‘I have cut down countless beings stronger than myself!’

One step.

I stepped forward.

As my will directed.

According to the power of my will, the realm I had attained would grant me strength.

‘Again, one step!’

BOOOOOOOOOOM!

Instantly, my sword contained a hazy cluster of light.

With it, the sword was drawn straight from top to bottom.

At that moment.

WHOOOSH!

The position of the ground where I stood changed.

Cutting through space, I moved to right in front of the primordial monster.

Esoteric Art, the Limitless [a technique that allows the user to bend reality with their will].

This realm where I overwrite the rules of the world with my will.

All the power I had built up until now was imbued in this one strike.

I could perform any miracle as I willed.

I turned my head and looked down at the distant ground.

Father.

There was Lee Tae-shin.

The Sword Saint, who had been matching Lee Cheol’s pace and reducing the burden on him, responded to his call.

Pave the way.

Lee Tae-shin heard that voice, which resonated like a divine revelation.

“Understood.”

Lee Tae-shin’s sword vanished in an instant, leaving only the hilt.

WOOOOOOOOOONG!

The swords of the two transcended father and son stretched out.

Lee Tae-shin’s sword cleaved through the monster’s tentacles.

His sword was neither Black Night nor possessed the power of purification, but simply used immense physical force to break through.

In the meantime, Lee Cheol shot out.

Lee Cheol’s sword, emitting a hazy light, was soon raised to the sky.

Muk-빛 [dark light] sword light and a sword stance with the momentum to cleave the sky.

Finally, it fell.

‘Go, my son.’

Lee Tae-shin glared.

And.

“That won’t do.”

A voice was heard.

A voice that should never have been heard at this moment.

* * *

Lee Tae-shin’s eyes widened as if they were tearing, and he turned his head to look beside him.

“You’re being hasty, children. ‘That thing’ has become cunning. It has learned how to hide its power.”

That voice pierced through all the noise of this chaotic battlefield.

There was a being that everyone had forgotten.

In the worst moment, in the worst situation.

He had come to this place.

Leisurely, walking as if he were out for a stroll.

All the humans here knew him.

The first son of the Soongmoo Lee family, the Twin Star Lee Myung-jung.

And the one who had taken over his body.

The origin of the Soongmoo Lee family, a vengeful spirit from thousands of years ago consumed by obsession.

It was Lee Hyul-hyun.

“Look. Child. That thing has been conserving its power until now.”

Lee Tae-shin’s head turned to Lee Cheol.

Like an observer, he watched Lee Cheol charging towards the primordial monster.

Lee Hyul-hyun’s few words, spoken from a distance, made Lee Cheol’s magnificent leap, which would be recorded in legends, feel like a moth jumping into a flame.

And that feeling was accurate.

Hope soon faded into despair.

* * *

Esoteric Art, the Limitless, had manifested.

All the enlightenment I had walked until now was condensed.

I could clearly feel my sword stretching out and cutting through the primordial monster’s torso.

CHWAAAAAAA!

Black blood poured down like a flood.

All the forces that stood in the way were neutralized by the power of purification, and I could see the massive body splitting apart.

However.

I felt some small.

Very small cracks.

I felt my will, full of confidence in victory, wavering.

‘Why.’

What did I miss?

What was lacking?

No.

It must be a mistake.

All of this was an illusion, and I had to carry out the final struggle to the end.

It was the next moment.

The cracks came too quickly.

BANG! WHOOOSH!

A short explosion.

Following that, my vision was distorted.

My vision shook madly up and down, left and right.

KWADDEUDEUDEUK!

I heard the sound of fabric tearing and breaking.

‘What is it? What’s happening…’

For a moment, I didn’t understand what was happening to me.

With a dazed mind, I looked into the distance.

Numerous warriors of the main family were looking at me with faces of despair.

Why were they making such expressions?

THROBBING!

My whole body ached.

I turned my head and looked at my body.

My arm.

The arm holding the sword… was bent in a direction it should never have been.

My legs.

My chest.

All over my body… pain that couldn’t be expressed with the word ‘terrible’ was surging like a tide.

“Keuh, euk…”

Drip, drip….

The world was red.

Now that I saw it, it was blood.

The blood flowing from the primordial monster wasn’t red… whose blood was this?

“Ah, eugh…”

It was my abdomen.

In my abdomen, there was a large hole.

‘How… could… this…’

The sword had clearly cut the primordial monster.

But how, in the world.

“Did you think you could kill ‘that thing’ with the power that originated from it?”

Moving my blood-stained red vision, I looked to the side.

On the battlefield, far away.

I could see the figure of a man.

My first brother, no, Lee Hyul-hyun.

Was that person doing something now?

“No, no. I didn’t do anything. I just came to watch your brilliant end.”

Lee Hyul-hyun’s gaze turned to the primordial monster.

I also followed his gaze and looked at the primordial monster.

I could see the primordial monster with its core split open.

It looked like it wouldn’t be strange if it were dead, but its body was wriggling and moving.

WHOOSH!

At that moment, I felt an intangible energy enveloping my body.

It was the power of the primordial monster.

I didn’t understand when this power had taken root, why it hadn’t been purified.

“Where did the beginning of your power come from? Child.”

…Black Energy.

It was Black Energy.

“That’s right. You forgot just one thing. That one thing was everything, alas. It was destined to be this way from the start.”

What was he saying?

What in the world was that person.

“‘That thing’ planted its seed in the being who would become its adversary and sent it back to the distant past, and until this moment, when it finally blocked itself, it hid that fact.”

I examined my entire body.

“…!”

Only then did I realize.

What had twisted the final strike that had been stretching out.

The identity of this energy enveloping my body.

This was… my energy.

“It’s comical. Hahaha!”

It was Black Energy.

At the last moment, the primordial monster attacked me with the Black Energy that had taken root in me.

KOO-GOO-GOO-GOONG!

At that moment.

Behind Lee Hyul-hyun, the primordial monster began to move.

With its split torso drooping, it crawled.

My strike had clearly hit.

It was the final strike, in which I had given everything.

But…….

The Black Energy that supported that strike.

Since all my origins.

Originated from the primordial monster in the first place.

“Ah, uh… KAAAAAA!”

Clenching my teeth, I kicked off the floor and stood up.

The pain felt like knives were hacking my entire body.

I understood now.

But it wasn’t over yet.

Still, I could still fight.

“No, it’s over.”

GLUG!

Instantly.

I felt an immense sense of powerlessness in my gaping abdomen.

WHOOOOOSH!

Black Energy was gushing out like a fountain.

───────!

───────────!

───!

The primordial monster burst into tears.

As if responding to that cry.

My massive black energy, so great that it would dye the whole world, was sucked into the primordial monster.

“No, way…!”

I reached out my hand towards the Black Energy.

But there was no change.

All the power was being sucked into the primordial monster.

“Accept death in peace. Child. You have done well enough.”

Lee Hyul-hyun strode closer.

“So now I will take that body. The final battle with that monster will end because of me.”

Only then could I know.

Was it because of excessive bleeding?

Was it because of a life-threatening injury?

Beyond my fading mind, I could clearly see the situation I was in.

I… had been defeated.