The crimson half-moon fell. All who were staring blankly watched as it descended and struck.
Thwack!
Like a guillotine blade, it severed the black monster’s neck.
Pshoooosh!
Black blood erupted, scattering in all directions.
Thud thud thud!
The black blood rained down, soaking the earth.
The second form of the Blood Moon’s Second Style, which even split souls.
The Upper Moon had finally severed the black monster’s soul.
The red moon had vanished without a trace.
Now, all that remained was the black monster, split in two.
“……!”
Then, everyone’s eyes twitched.
“How vile….”
Black tentacles emerged from the severed sections of the black monster, writhing and reaching towards each other.
What that meant was clear.
‘Recovery.’
The black monster, even in this state, was not completely dead and was moving to recover.
It was an unbelievable life force.
The red half-moon, which emitted a sinister and destructive power that could never be felt again, had struck it, yet it was still recovering to survive. In a way, it was a sight that inspired deep fear.
If even that red moon couldn’t kill it.
Gulp.
It felt like an invincible life form that could never be killed.
“Ro-woon…!”
But Lee Ro-woon was already moving again.
He was climbing the mountain, getting drenched in the pouring black rain.
Specifically, he was on top of the severed head of the black monster.
Swoosh.
He gripped the greatsword, Fury.
His hair, soaked by the falling black rain, was falling haphazardly, and his rain-soaked face looked as if he was shedding black tears.
However, his eyes.
“…….”
They were still filled with their usual languidness.
Pfft.
Lee Shin-woo and the others couldn’t help but smile.
Just a moment ago, they had felt suffocated by the hopeless reality.
“To think that his languid gaze would be so comforting.”
Seeing Lee Ro-woon’s languid eyes made them feel at ease.
It was as if his eyes were saying:
-This is nothing either.
Those eyes made it seem like all of this was just a dream to him, like a meaningless and ordinary part of his daily life.
Lee Ro-woon, under everyone’s gaze….
Thwack!
He plunged Fury into the severed head of the black monster.
It was at that moment.
Whoosh!
It felt as if a circle was forming around the black monster and Lee Ro-woon.
Fwoooosh!
That circle spread out in all directions, scattering the power the black monster possessed.
Lee Ro-woon’s eyes began to gradually turn black.
Squish! Squish!
The greatsword, Fury, pulsed like a living blood vessel, sucking up the black monster’s fluids. Then.
Sluuurp.
Lee Ro-woon’s languid eyes were slowly closing.
“……!”
The group was surprised, thinking he was falling asleep.
“Don’t… worry.”
Lee Ro-woon said, looking at them with his eyes half-closed.
The thing they were worried about wouldn’t happen.
“I’ll be right back.”
With that farewell.
Sluuurp.
Lee Ro-woon’s eyes completely closed.
* * *
He looked up at the sky.
There, a bizarrely shaped sun was floating.
A sun that had a shape like a face.
Swoosh.
Turning his head, he saw five moons positioned like stars.
Here, where the sun and moon coexisted at the same time.
“…….”
This couldn’t be reality.
The chaotic sights were the same as the scene before him.
On top of the blazing lava, sleet was falling.
In the distance, a small rock was situated.
Lee Ro-woon slowly took a step forward.
“…….”
Hot heat and bone-chilling cold.
Various sensations that could not be described in words were felt simultaneously, then disappeared, repeating.
Lee Ro-woon’s eyes were lowered.
Boom!
With an explosion, magma erupted.
It soon.
Swoosh!
Froze and became a pillar.
Crash! Crash! Crash!
Like that, dozens of ice pillars were positioned as if they were creating a path.
Lee Ro-woon silently walked through it.
And finally, he arrived at the rock.
On top of that rock, which emitted a brilliant light like a diamond.
Smirk.
There was a guy smiling.
A small boy wearing clothes like a flickering shadow.
He was a boy whose face was almost half-covered by a black mask.
Tip-tap.
The boy came down from the rock too comfortably and stepped on the lava.
The boy, who was approaching Lee Ro-woon without hesitation.
Clink!
Stopped at some point with the sound of chains.
Smirk.
He was smiling.
He was showing a bright smile with his mouth half-exposed.
“…….”
In a way, he was a strange boy, and in a way, he was a cute boy.
But Lee Ro-woon could never take him lightly.
-Keehee.
The laughter that was heard.
“Kee….”
Slowly.
“Keeheehee.”
It was heard as a voice.
“Keeheeheeheehee.”
Only laughter was heard.
Lee Ro-woon slowly opened his mouth towards him.
“You’ve fully awakened.”
He had been trapped, and he had been asleep.
But after transferring his consciousness several times, he had finally awakened.
“Chaos.”
He was Chaos.
“…….”
Chaos stopped laughing and looked at Lee Ro-woon.
The boy’s outstretched hand.
Clink!
Was once again bound by an invisible chain and could not reach.
“What are you thinking?”
Finally, a playful voice was heard from the boy’s mouth.
Thud.
The boy, who had sat down, rested his chin on one hand and looked at Lee Ro-woon.
“Why would the guy who tried so hard to keep me locked up, release me?”
“…….”
“And on top of that.”
Tap!
The boy flicked the other hand that wasn’t supporting his chin.
And with that, a huge black mountain popped out behind him.
“You even brought me food.”
The black monster.
The severed monster was dying behind him.
“What are you thinking?”
The boy, who had rested his chin again, spoke to Lee Ro-woon.
“…….”
Lee Ro-woon didn’t answer.
The corners of the boy’s mouth gradually curled up more.
“Unknowable guy.”
The boy, who had hardened his expression as if he was bored, stood up.
“I don’t know what you want, but it seems like you’ve finally decided to talk to me.”
The boy turned his back to Lee Ro-woon and began to approach the black monster.
The boy’s arm, which he had stretched out again as he had done to Lee Ro-woon.
Crunch!
Turned into a huge maw and devoured the black monster.
“How is it? Will you listen to my story?”
At the boy’s words, Lee Ro-woon finally answered.
“No.”
At the denying answer, the boy only turned his head slightly to look at Lee Ro-woon.
The corners of his mouth curled up again.
“Not yet.”
At Lee Ro-woon’s answer, the boy nodded his head at a bizarre angle.
“Do as you please. The result will be the same anyway.”
The boy no longer looked at Lee Ro-woon.
Lee Ro-woon was the same.
He turned his back to the boy and walked away.
The chaotic world was once again transformed into a gray-white land.
Crunch! Crunch!
The sound of Chaos devouring echoed throughout the world.
* * *
“Shin….”
A faint voice.
“Divine Warrior!”
“Ro-woon!”
At the voices calling him, Lee Ro-woon opened his eyes.
Lee Ro-woon’s gaze, slowly scanning his surroundings, soon checked his own condition.
He was sitting cross-legged.
Whoosh.
As he regained his senses, the power that had spread throughout the area seeped into him and settled within him.
“How long….”
Lee Ro-woon raised his body with a parched voice.
“How long has it been?”
The place he had been just now was the inner world.
If one had control over their inner world, they could gauge and adjust the flow of time there and the flow of time in reality.
But Lee Ro-woon did not have control over his inner world.
That place was no longer his domain.
‘Chaos.’
It was his domain.
That was why.
-You will not be able to sleep from now on.
The reason why Lee Ro-woon could not sleep.
Chaos was in the inner world, which he would naturally fall into the moment he lost consciousness, and every time he fell asleep, their consciousness would be switched.
“About three minutes….”
At Lee Shin-woo’s voice, Lee Ro-woon nodded his head.
“It’s still okay.”
Before, when Lee Ro-woon had lost consciousness to draw out Chaos’s power, it hadn’t even been a minute.
However, he had been asleep for a long time, and Chaos had awakened, and because of that, he had even assumed the worst-case scenario, but it had only been three minutes.
Not yet.
‘The control is mine.’
The control in reality, not the inner world, was his.
Unless this was repeated in the future.
It didn’t seem like something to worry about yet.
Lee Ro-woon looked at the ground he was standing on.
The ground, which had turned completely black as if it had died.
The melted corpse of the monster was spreading out, staining the ground.
Quake! Quake! Quake!
A huge power settled on the earth, killing everything.
“It’s not good.”
It was a situation that looked dangerous to anyone.
Lee Ro-woon was approaching the greatsword, Fury, which was stuck in the ground.
His staggering steps.
The group watched him with concern, but before they knew it, Lee Ro-woon was walking straight and placing his hand on Fury’s hilt.
Clunk.
Fury was slowly pulled out from the black, hardened ground.
Clunk! Clunk!
Like Excalibur in a fairy tale, Fury, which was pulled out, splitting the ground, fully revealed its form.
Fwoooosh!
An unknown energy began to spread out.
Coo coo coo coo!
The surface of the ground flipped over, and its color changed.
“This way!”
The group and the orcs stood to one side, setting up protective magic and formations.
Whoosh!
The surging magic power and inner energy protected them, isolating them from the surrounding influence.
Within that, they could see.
“The black ground….”
The black lion.
The ground that had been killed and had its life taken by him.
Bohol, which had become the black lion’s domain.
“Is it… returning?”
It was regaining its color.
As the spreading energy caused the vegetation to grow again, the bizarrely grown trees shrank and regained their color.
The blue light finally touched the corpses of the enemies that the group had defeated.
“……!”
The corpses that had been stained with black slime were returning to their original forms.
Lee Ro-woon slowly put Fury on his back.
From the pulsing Fury, waves continued to spread out.
Pat.
The black rain that had stopped earlier.
Thud thud thud thud!
It was raining again, becoming clean rain.
“Ah….”
They exclaimed.
“It’s beautiful.”
Hase-min too.
“This can’t be.”
Lee Shin-woo also admired everything he was seeing.
Bohol, which had become a land of death, a black land, was finally regaining its original form.
“If Bohol is a dungeon.”
Lee Ro-woon said.
“The black lion was the core of the dungeon.”
The core of the dungeon had settled in a mere animal, a lion, and had become an unbelievable monster.
And with the power it contained, it had turned Bohol into its domain.
The power that had settled in him….
‘Chaos.’
As the original owner took back the power that was the source, the world was regaining its form.
“Ro-woon.”
Lee Shin-woo said.
“If this place is a dungeon….”
He finally had the chance to ask the question he had wanted to ask.
“What fragment of what world was this, anyway?”
A dungeon was a fragment of a world.
A fragment of Silver, a fragment of Einheart.
Or.
‘A fragment of Gehenna.’
Lee Shin-woo thought this was the last fragment.
Gehenna.
The Black Orcs were like that, and so was the danger level of the dungeon.
But the answer that came from Lee Ro-woon’s mouth was completely unexpected.
“Chaos.”
Lee Ro-woon said.
“The world of Chaos.”