Disciple Of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 484

“You are far too weak.”

The guy spoke to Lee Rowoon.

“Now admit it. That I am better than you.”

The rage aimed at his neck.

Thud!

It was slowly starting to dig into his skin.

“Admit it.”

The guy said once more.

“You too, now….”

Smirk.

“Don’t want to give up all that you have.”

“……!”

“Your world, your friends, your forces.”

Though the starting points may have been different.

“Those things that have now become yours. Even your life.”

Before meeting his masters, Lee Rowoon’s life was not his own.

When he was born and grew up, it belonged to the orphanage.

When he ran away and became a hunter.

‘The Guild.’

It belonged to Eun.

They could take his life at any time if they chose to, so even if it was his life, it could not be said to be his own.

“If this continues, you will lose everything again. Do you want to feel that despair again?”

The guy’s voice seemed to be piercing directly into his mind through the rage.

“I am you. That’s why I know. How painful that despair is, so….”

Sizzle.

The rage dug in even deeper.

“Now, hand it over.”

Clearly, the guy was smiling.

But his eyes.

‘Chaos.’

They were so complex that they seemed to describe the guy’s existence.

“What is it?”

Lee Rowoon finally opened his mouth.

“What are you hiding?”

He could sense it.

The guy, who was said to have been derived from chaos, was clearly hiding something.

“Why….”

The guy seemed to be saying that he was desperate.

It was as if he knew his own desire not to lose the precious things he had regained.

But that wasn’t it.

The guy, the guy was.

“You’re the one who’s desperate, aren’t you?”

Desperate.

Rather, it was as if the guy was desperate and begging him now.

“What is it?”

That’s why he was certain.

“What are you hiding?”

That he was hiding something.

And….

“You can’t take away the initiative, can you?”

He realized.

“Even if you hunt me, even if you win against me, you can’t take me over.”

That the guy could not forcibly take away his initiative.

And also.

“Why do I value them more than myself?”

That the guy truly wanted to protect the precious things that had come to him, more than anything else.

He could understand to some extent.

The guy was an existence derived from him, and what was precious to him could also be precious to the guy.

But the part that didn’t make sense was.

“You are chaos, aren’t you?”

The guy’s essence was chaos.

Unlike him, destruction, slaughter, and disorder should be the guy’s true nature, but it didn’t make sense that he wanted to protect something precious.

Thump.

Lee Rowoon grabbed the blade of rage.

And.

Thud!

It was too easily slipping out of Lee Rowoon’s neck and being pushed away.

“What the heck!”

Lee Rowoon shouted.

The guy was retreating powerlessly.

“What are you hiding….”

No, he realized that the question was wrong.

“What am I ignoring?”

The guy was also himself.

What the guy knew, he also knew.

Unconsciously.

He must be pushing away and ignoring the questions and truths that were sleeping somewhere in his subconscious.

“I….”

And that was.

“What are my masters hiding from me?”

The questions and doubts that had arisen from some point.

The moment he was finally about to bring them out.

Crack-!

Black lightning struck between Lee Rowoon and the guy.

Clearly, the time in which the guy and he existed was a time that had become as slow as it could be, even in the realm of transcendence.

This black lightning.

Jijijik-!

It had flown through that time zone.

Without being flustered by it, the moment he was about to take action while looking at the black lightning.

Woo-oong-!

Strange-shaped magic circles began to appear around the black lightning.

“……!”

Even Lee Rowoon couldn’t help but be flustered by it.

The magic circles that were appearing contained enormous power and incomprehensible formulas.

“A magic circle of divine annihilation?”

It was Berzena’s exclusive property, the magic circle of divine annihilation.

Lee Rowoon’s gaze quickly turned to the guy.

However.

“……!”

The guy also couldn’t hide his bewilderment.

But the important thing at this moment was one thing for sure.

At this rate.

‘I’m going to die.’

He had to survive the magic circle of divine annihilation at all costs.

Kooo-!

* * *

In the early days of Gehenna, the existence of the demon king was not called the demon king.

-Demon God.

It had existed under the name of Demon God.

The reason was simple.

It was not that they had any will to rule Gehenna or create order.

-A mass of power.

They were just a mass of enormous power, beings that should only be avoided and worshiped.

After that, there were those who claimed to be similar to the demon king, but their ends were all the same.

-Demon God.

Unless they could defeat it, they would never be able to become the true masters of Gehenna, so they had to challenge them and be killed.

The magic to defeat such a Demon God was….

-The magic circle of divine annihilation.

It could be said to be Berzena’s magic, the magic of divine annihilation.

Berzena eventually completed the magic of divine annihilation and defeated the Demon God.

The magic that had defeated the only true ruler of Gehenna that had ever existed.

Kooo-!

It was unfolding right in front of him at this moment.

Lee Rowoon was also well aware of the destructive power and abilities of the magic of divine annihilation.

A magic that denies existence itself and isolates it from the world.

The magic of law that went beyond the authority to erase divinity and reduce it to a mere trifle was the magic of divine annihilation.

Also, those who could use this and were qualified were….

-Demon King.

Those who possessed Berzena’s magic, or at least a part of it.

But the candidates were not.

They could imitate the magic of divine annihilation, but they could not perfectly express the authority it possessed.

But what was in front of him was the true meaning of the magic of divine annihilation.

Even more than what Lee Rowoon could unleash.

Kooo!

Lee Rowoon wrapped his whole body in magic circles.

He was planning to protect his body by using the same magic circle of divine annihilation and the force of its repulsion.

Meanwhile, the guy was pouring out all of his Shinma power through rage.

The explosion was.

Kwaaaaaaa-!

It happened in an instant.

With an explosion that flashed the world white, everything in front of him became dizzy.

He felt a pain as if his whole body was breaking, and a pain as if his head was being bleached white.

Even so.

‘I have to endure it.’

Lee Rowoon had to endure it.

It would be good to leave his body here, but he knew the result all too well.

‘Chaos… must not awaken.’

The return of chaos.

Because if chaos were to awaken again, it would turn this whole situation into an irreversible catastrophe.

And.

Saaa-!

As if such an explosion had never happened, the world was regaining its original form.

It was when the time that had slowed down after entering the realm of transcendence was returning to its place.

“……!”

Lee Rowoon’s pupils dilated.

The melted skin all over his body, the shaking magic and the source of his power, none of that mattered.

He didn’t care that his hair had been burned and shortened, nor that he had lost his eyesight due to the intense light.

In his blurry vision, Lee Rowoon could recognize a blurry figure.

“……!”

The guy was the same.

The guy standing behind the figure would also be surprised.

This was someone’s intervention in the fight between him and the guy.

And that existence was.

“It’s been a while.”

A being he had missed and longed for so much.

Perhaps his mother.

“Rowoon.”

Perhaps his lover, a being who was like family to him.

“Master…nim?”

The Demon King.

-Berzena.

Her figure began to become clearer.

It was clear that she looked different somewhere, but it was definitely her.

And when all of that became clear.

Kwaaaaaaa-!

From Berzena, a huge magic power that would cover the entire Gehenna surged out.

* * *

When the candidates, except for Pajira, thought they were serving a new demon king, he had thought of the fragments of chaos.

Because he had noticed that a part of himself had fallen off while crossing the gaps in the world.

But that wasn’t all that came to mind.

-Master-nim.

Berzena.

When the entrance to chaos collapsed, the masters had all returned to their respective worlds.

They would fall asleep due to the power they had gained over the long years and the chaos that had permeated them, but they would wake up one by one as time passed.

He knew that the Martial King had awakened.

He had also found traces of the Sword King.

But the Demon King.

-Gehenna.

Because the connection with Gehenna was not strong, he could not grasp the whereabouts of the Demon King.

After entering Gehenna.

-Have you ever felt any changes? Or….

He had also asked Porzia about the traces of the Demon King.

The same was true for Pajira.

But they didn’t know anything.

At that time, Pajira had mentioned the existence of another demon king.

‘Berzena.’

Lee Rowoon had also thought that it was the awakened Berzena.

Of course, seeing Pajira come to him, he thought there was a high possibility that it was chaos.

But that was the Demon King, Berzena.

And she was.

Kwaaaaaaa-!

She was now appearing in front of him, emitting a magic power that would cover the entire Gehenna.

The enormous presence he had felt before, a presence reminiscent of a god.

“Haa!”

Even in the time that had returned to its place, only the rough breathing of the candidates could be heard, and a silence as long as the stopped time was felt.

“Master-nim….”

Lee Rowoon frowned and spoke to her.

She was a master he had desperately wanted to reunite with, but therefore, a master he didn’t want to reunite with.

The last conversation they had.

-When we meet each other, we will have to kill each other.

That prophetic word came to mind again.

“Well, not everything goes as planned.”

A bright and seductive smile.

Lee Rowoon recalled a past memory of that kind, yet fatal smile.

It was definitely her.

“Still….”

She said.