Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 485

“You did well, Rowoon.”

It was that voice.

-You did well.

The voice I heard after the grueling training and teachings.

And….

“……”

That bright yet captivating, gentle smile.

That was the pillar that kept Lee Rowoon going.

If the Martial King’s teachings were pain, the Sword King’s were endurance.

The Demon King’s teachings were….

-Healing.

That’s what Lee Rowoon had thought.

He had spent a long time with his masters.

And their relationship had only deepened.

With the Demon King….

-Here, lie down with your head on my lap.

They had grown even closer.

The human emotions he thought he had forgotten had begun to resurface.

-Your wounds, your ashes, are from the pain.

Every time.

-New flesh will grow, and the wounds will heal.

The Demon King had always comforted him.

The memories of that time, when he had fallen so deeply.

That’s why, more than anyone, he had missed the Demon King.

Crunch!

Lee Rowoon was not at all happy with this reunion.

A chilling sound echoed from inside his mouth.

“……”

Lee Rowoon couldn’t say a word as he looked at the Demon King.

‘I thought I had made up my mind.’

He thought he had decided to accept the fate given to him.

He thought he would face the truth hidden in fate.

No.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

His heart, which he thought had stopped, was pounding like crazy.

“Did….”

Lee Rowoon finally opened his mouth.

“Did you fare well?”

The Demon King’s smile deepened at that.

“Are you still talking so stiffly?”

“……”

“Now….”

A voice that tickled his ear.

It was like Forzia’s, but the depth was completely different.

“It’s time you spoke comfortably, isn’t it?”

It was a moment when everything seemed to melt away.

But then.

Kwaaang!

The Demon King’s figure was swept away by an explosion, wavering.

“I told you.”

The voice that was heard was Chaos’s.

“I’m better than you.”

His eyes and hair dyed red, the flames of the holy fire burning above them, showed that he had entered the state of a Divine Demon [a being of immense power].

Guung.

With the blood-red aura gathering in his fist.

Kwaaang-!

He had no hesitation in attacking Verzenna.

“Th….”

He tried to tell him to stop.

But.

“Did you just realize it now?”

Chaos’s voice was heard.

“Do you think she’d even get a scratch from this?”

Fassss.

As the smoke cleared, Verzenna was revealed, without a single scratch.

-She is the strongest among us.

She was the strongest even among the masters.

And that Verzenna was….

“And you know.”

It was the moment when a red divine annihilation magic circle was drawn all over his body.

“Are you just going to die like this….”

Fuhpuhpuhpuhpuhng!

The divine annihilation magic circle that had trapped him like a prison began to explode, emitting a red light.

The figure of Chaos, revealed as the divine annihilation magic circle faded, was miserable.

“Die… are you going to die….”

Only then.

Paat!

Lee Rowoon was able to come to his senses.

Verzenna, her most powerful ability was divine annihilation magic, but that was not all she had.

-Charm.

The ability she had since birth, at some point, had captured his heart and paralyzed his reason.

“I… I have to admit it.”

Lee Rowoon finally said, taking a stance.

Not all of Chaos’s words were correct, but still….

“You are better than me.”

He had no choice but to admit that he was a little better than he was now.

“Yeah.”

Chaos’s staggering figure was miserable.

But as the Divine Demon’s aura rose, his wounds were quickly regenerating.

“If it stays like this, you’ll die. Of course, me too.”

And that was.

“That’s not what either of us want, right?”

The gazes of Chaos and Lee Rowoon.

Verzenna standing there.

“Yeah. Do whatever you want.”

She said with a bright smile.

* * *

From Chaos’s fist, the energy of a Divine Demon, mixed with blood and holy fire, was pouring towards Verzenna.

The full power without any hesitation, the Martial King’s fist that could split mountains and break them, was about to hit Verzenna directly.

Woo-oong.

A divine annihilation magic circle appeared all over Verzenna’s body.

It was as if she was trying to use divine annihilation magic defensively, just like Lee Rowoon had done.

However.

Jijijik-!

That divine annihilation magic circle began to distort and break.

Lee Rowoon, who was standing on the other side.

“Now!”

He reached out and broke Verzenna’s magic circle.

The gap in Verzenna that had finally appeared.

Through that gap.

Ggeugeugeugeuk!

The Divine Demon’s fist began to penetrate.

Chaos.

-You don’t want this kind of ending either, do you?

He was right.

What was felt from Verzenna now was a true killing intent.

A clear will to destroy both Lee Rowoon and Chaos.

So Chaos, having barely gained his freedom, turned his fist towards Verzenna to avoid being annihilated again.

“……!”

Lee Rowoon, to avoid death.

‘Chaos is awakening.’

To prevent Chaos from awakening again.

So….

“There’s still a way.”

He pointed his palm at his master, unable to kill her in a state where he had no will of his own.

The ending was set the moment Chaos awakened.

Verzenna, or his own death.

But if Chaos hadn’t awakened yet.

Kwaaaang-!

There might be a way to stop her without killing Verzenna.

This was the decision Lee Rowoon had made when he left Forzia’s territory.

-Even if we meet again, the predetermined ending is not the only one that exists.

If you have the power.

-You can even defy fate.

For the survival of his masters, not their deaths.

“Chaos will not awaken.”

It was the moment when Lee Rowoon joined forces with Chaos.

Thick smoke.

The moment the area was destroyed and dented.

Woo-oong.

There, Verzenna was floating, not touching the ground, looking at him and Chaos.

“It seems like quite a long time has passed.”

Verzenna, her body began to be dyed black.

It was like feathers were sticking to her, starting from her legs.

“You haven’t grown at all, have you?”

Towards Verzenna, who was wrapped in swirling feathers, Chaos unleashed the Divine Demon’s fist, and Lee Rowoon relentlessly fired divine annihilation magic.

Pa-a-a-ang!

The fist that had reached the pinnacle of martial arts, and the magic that could even kill a god.

“Damn it.”

The sight that was revealed was truly shocking.

The vortex of black feathers was only scratched and was still perfectly fine.

Pa-a-a-ang-!

The shockwave created by the exploding feathers pushed everything away, turning the earth and air upside down.

The appearance of Verzenna that was revealed was….

Saaa.

An elegant woman wearing a dress of black feathers.

But a monster that exuded a terrifying aura of death from within.

“If it stays like this, you’ll eventually face the predetermined ending, Rowoon.”

Not as a disciple, but by his name.

“Is the predetermined… ending, in the end, killing all of my masters?”

Verzenna smiled at that.

It was her habit of avoiding what she didn’t want to answer.

“What the hell!”

Lee Rowoon shouted.

“What do I gain by killing my masters!”

He wanted to ask.

At first, he thought that having to kill each other with his masters was to destroy the Chaos he possessed.

But if that was the case.

‘The masters should have joined forces.’

Because Chaos was something they couldn’t handle alone from the start.

But the masters had each targeted him, and in their actions, there was a strange hesitation, as if another plan was hidden.

“What is it that I don’t know?”

Lee Rowoon said.

“It’s a life given back to me by my masters, and it’s the power given to me by my masters.”

He had no intention of denying that.

“If you wanted, I would have died. But it was the masters who didn’t kill me, and my heart hasn’t changed even now.”

Lee Rowoon lowered his arm.

“What are you doing!”

Chaos shouted, but Lee Rowoon no longer showed any will.

“If you take all of this away now, I will accept it.”

What was left.

Precious things.

All of that wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for his masters.

“I’m saying I’ll accept it!”

So please.

“What do you want that makes you do this!”

Along with Lee Rowoon’s voice.

Puh-ook.

Something pierced through his chest.

Right in front of him.

“Rowoon.”

Verzenna was standing there.

She seemed to be smiling.

But Lee Rowoon’s eyes were clearly looking into her eyes.

An expression he had never seen before, her eyes filled with deep sadness and regret.

“We didn’t know we would love you so much either.”

“Wh…at.”

A tingling pain was felt in his chest.

“It’s a story you shouldn’t know. The ending won’t change. No matter what power you have.”

“So….”

“You can resent us as much as you want. So… Rowoon.”

Her smile deepened.

“Struggle with all your might. For you, not for us.”

“Verzenna!”

Lee Rowoon’s shout.

And.

Kwaang!

A blast was heard from her side.

Chaos.

And she began to be pushed back little by little.

Finally.

Gooooooo-!

A white aura.

It was the moment when Chaos began to use the power of Chaos, not the power of a Divine Demon or a Monarch.

He was a fragment of himself.

And one made of Chaos.

The fact that such a guy had started using Chaos meant that he was even prepared for his own death.

“Fight.”

A voice.

“Fight, Rowoon.”

Verzenna’s voice.

“Fight!”

Chaos.

“Fight-!”

Chaos’s voice.

Lee Rowoon closed his eyes.

The moment Verzenna’s hand pierced his chest, he felt a lot of things along with the severe pain.

That was….

‘The Demon King’s essence.’

It was possible because he had Verzenna’s essence.

And there was something that became clear with that.

“What they’re hiding.”

The masters had been hiding something from him from the beginning.

And the masters were.

“They have no intention of telling me.”

They had no intention of telling him at all.

Slowly opened eyes.

Now everything was clear.

The path he had to take, the things he had to do.

“Then.”

Gooooooo-!

“I’ll have to force you to tell me, Verzenna.”

The aura of a Divine Demon began to rise from Lee Rowoon’s body.