He discarded the things that had filled him, one by one.
The things that had been filled with higher quality than anyone else’s began to melt away slowly.
Then.
Hwaaaak-!
A power unlike any before surged forth.
The fatigue that had been washing over him every moment was washed away, and his mind began to clear instead.
One step.
The moment he took that step.
Kuuung.
The Demon God’s face was right in front of him.
Time zone.
It was a difference so slight that it was difficult to count with numbers, but it was the first moment he had gained an advantage in the time zone.
Kwaaaang!
Rowoon’s fist flew in without a trajectory, and a roar echoed the moment it struck the air.
Soon after.
Kwaaaang-!
The roar that had echoed reached the Demon God’s face and echoed again.
Kwaddeudeuk-!
It was the first moment the Demon God’s head turned.
It was a moment when something that even the power of the Divine Demon had not been able to do had happened.
However.
Geugeugeuk-!
The Demon God was not just standing still either.
With the red light rising all over his body, he began to catch up with his time zone.
The gap that had barely been widened narrowed.
Kuuuung!
The Demon God’s fist was reaching out towards Rowoon.
‘Not yet.’
He could tell.
‘It’s not enough yet.’
He still hadn’t abandoned everything.
He had to shed even more.
He had to abandon himself, who was filled with too much.
Even more….
‘I shed it.’
He still hadn’t shed the Divine Demon.
He forgets the Heavenly Demon, erases the Blood Demon.
And so.
-He erases the Divine Demon.
It wasn’t that he was going to forget his teacher, who was like his father.
It was that he was going to erase the tattoo that he had given and engraved on him.
It wouldn’t be easy.
However.
Gooong-!
This was his time zone.
It was a time zone that flowed slowly.
The moment he moved, the Demon God would catch up with his time zone, but if he let go of everything and entrusted himself only to time.
That, geu, geugeuk…. geugeugeuk.
Everything began to flow too slowly.
Now, the time zone with the Demon God would be out of sync.
The difference with the Demon God was stark.
That guy.
No.
‘Berzena cannot abandon anything.’
She was the one who had even brought back the Demon God, who was her enemy in the past.
She, who was already complete and fixed, would collapse the moment she abandoned something.
But he was different.
Kkigik.
The gears began to misalign.
What made him up was not each of his teachers.
‘Everything.’
All of them were gears, parts that made him up.
And the moment he gave up one of them.
Teok!
The gears would also begin to misalign.
Like Berzena, he would also begin to collapse, but….
Kwang!
He had the power to fill that void.
An explosion rising from within.
The lower dantian [energy center below the navel], which contained the Blood Demon energy, began to collapse.
Following that.
Kwaaang-!
The middle and upper dantians [energy centers in the chest and head], which contained the Heavenly Demon energy, began to collapse.
It was all a chain reaction, a natural and obvious thing.
Soon, what had to happen began to happen.
The moment he abandoned the nothingness he had built up in his innermost self.
Tik!
The rotating ring of the emperor began to creak.
He had to concentrate even more, and at the same time, he had to not be conscious of it.
What he wanted was to abandon what he had and fill that place with something new.
Never.
‘I won’t be consumed.’
It wasn’t that he himself was becoming chaos.
He was filling the empty space with chaos.
It was a difficult and arduous task.
The time required for that was.
‘It’s the same.’
It would be the same as the time he had learned and filled himself with nothingness and swords from his teachers.
It was fortunate.
“Hoo….”
Because this time zone was his.
* * *
Concentrating and not being conscious at the same time.
It was by no means an easy task to execute those two contradictory things.
But he was someone who had done everything he could as a human.
Also.
‘I’ve also experienced things that humans shouldn’t have to experience.’
As an opponent who had faced chaos.
As a destined one who had embraced chaos.
‘I am….’
He was someone for whom nothing was impossible.
He didn’t know how much time had passed.
Just tens of seconds, just tens of minutes, just tens of hours.
‘Just a few days, just a few months….’
Just a few years might have passed.
But that time gave Rowoon no meaning or emotion.
It was also because he had spent several times that time more difficultly.
But what was truly okay was that it was possible because that time was about abandoning something, not filling it.
He abandons.
Appetite, sleep, even the sense of feeling time.
‘I abandon it.’
That was why it didn’t matter to Rowoon how much time had passed.
How much time had passed?
‘It collapsed.’
Finally, the foundation of the Divine Demon collapsed.
But that didn’t mean he had lost the power of the Divine Demon itself.
The newly established dantian.
That which was located in a place that was ambiguous to call either the lower dantian or the middle dantian was….
-Magic core.
It could be said to be right next to where the magic core was located.
And in that place, there was something smaller and more compact than anything he had filled in so far.
-Chaos.
But it wasn’t like the one he had been borrowing until now.
It wasn’t a power that he had taken and used, a power that wasn’t his own.
Goooong-!
Chaos that had become completely his own.
The energy felt from that power was enough to destroy the very world Rowoon had lived in.
The eyes that had been closed.
Seureuk.
He slowly began to open them.
The moment movement was felt, the time that had stopped began to flow again.
The first sight Rowoon saw when he opened his eyes was the Demon God’s fist.
It was the moment when it was about to finally reach him, after slowly reaching out for decades.
Before he closed his eyes, this was a burden to him.
It was a great power, and something he had to try to deal with.
But now.
Tuk.
Before the Demon God’s fist could even reach him, Rowoon placed his finger on it.
Even so, the Demon God was.
Geugeugeuk….
He was only moving very slowly.
Time zone.
Before Rowoon abandoned it, the Demon God had a slightly faster time zone than him.
And when Rowoon began to abandon something, Rowoon had a slightly more advanced time zone.
Finally.
“Haa….”
Rowoon’s time zone far surpassed the Demon God’s.
In the end, this was just a fragment of chaos, not chaos itself.
Even if the chaos that Berzena had was combined, what they had in the end was….
“Was it a borrowed power?”
A borrowed power.
It was just something that belonged to someone else, not his own.
But he was different.
The chaos he had completely absorbed.
Goooong.
Now, it allowed him to live in a completely different time zone.
The Demon God’s fist was pushed back.
And.
Hwaaaak-!
It was the moment he released the seal on the slowed time zone.
Kwaddeudeudeudeuk-!
A chilling scream began to echo from the Demon God’s arm where Rowoon’s finger had touched.
It flowed through the Demon God’s arm.
Kwakwakwang!
It exploded from the Demon God’s shoulder and chest.
All of that….
Tuk.
It was something that happened from Rowoon’s one finger.
Chwaaaaa-!
The rain that had not been falling began to pour down.
It was the moment when the Demon God’s flesh that had exploded was pouring down.
In that place.
“Berzena.”
She was there.
* * *
Something that happened in an instant.
But the power that Berzena and the Demon God possessed was too great to end in just an instant.
Chaeeeng!
A roar as if something was being repelled.
Along with that, the Demon God’s whole body, which had been shattering, began to recover.
Surrounding the Demon God’s whole body was the magic of God Annihilation.
The magic created to kill the Demon God.
Gooong!
Ironically, it was now being activated to protect the Demon God.
The Demon God’s fist stretched out, and countless magic circles of God Annihilation that had bloomed were aimed at Rowoon, and the distance between the two widened in an instant.
The Demon God’s appearance that was revealed after that was.
Jijijik-!
It was a figure wearing hundreds of God Annihilation magic circles like armor.
The power felt from the Demon God was exploding.
With the magic of God Annihilation.
“Is he burning himself as energy?”
A figure that had become a single magic itself.
It could be said that it was the Demon God’s, or rather Berzena’s, last resort.
Geugeugeuk-!
The space cracked, and dozens of God Annihilation magic circles appeared from the Demon God’s arms.
And the Demon God brought his hands together.
Geueueuk!
He began to gather the magic of God Annihilation into one.
What was created in that way could be said to be a shape like a large greatsword.
The magic of God Annihilation, dozens of them condensed….
-God Annihilation Sword.
The ultimate magic that Berzena had taught him.
It was the magic that had defeated the Demon God, and that was not enough to give Gehenna an unhealed wound.
And that magic was now aimed at Rowoon.
Geugeuk!
It cuts and tears through space.
And it burns.
God Annihilation.
In the end, the answer was one, annihilation, for that to be possible.
A power that repels and pushes away.
The ultimate destruction was now casting a large shadow and falling towards Rowoon.
Pat.
Rowoon also stretched out one arm.
What was in his hand was the greatsword he had created, Wrath.
It was his own sword, born with the help of the artisans of the Dang family.
It was a sword that contained the teachings of the Sword King and contained his own existence.
And.
Tatatatatat!
Gray flames began to burst from Wrath.
Rowoon had abandoned everything.
So, the time had come to abandon even Wrath, even greed, everything.
But Wrath, by being abandoned by Rowoon.
Hwareureureuk!
It began to burn even more.
Because it was the same as Rowoon, it had begun to contain what Rowoon had on its own.
And so, what was in Rowoon’s hand was a gray magic sword.
The next moment.
Tung.
The Demon God’s large God Annihilation Sword and Rowoon’s sword collided, making a noise.
In this one moment.
Everything would be decided in that moment.
Victory or defeat.
Life and death.
The fate of the world.
And.
Jjeoeoeoeoeok-!
The result began to be revealed.
Rowoon’s sword shattered and turned into light.
But it spread out, swelling its size.
Chwareureuk-!
It began to swallow the God Annihilation Sword.
The moment that power, which had spread out in an instant, swallowed the God Annihilation Sword and the Demon God’s body.
Chwaaaaaaaaa-!
The Demon God’s body literally began to decompose and scatter.