He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 215

“The fire of creation, the spring of burning flames. It is the foundation of Hell, but at the same time, you too once felt its warmth in ancient times.”

Balthazar spoke of the fire of creation with a reverence akin to Prometheus.

As he said, perhaps it was the fire of creation for humanity in this world as well.

“It is time to purify it. Use that freezing fire you possess. Neutralize the fire of creation with it.”

Listening to his voice, I slowly moved toward the spring of flames.

“And thus, restore the flame to its ancient purity.”

*Whoosh—*

With frost flames enveloping my body, I slowly entered the spring of flames.

Soon, I felt the intense heat of the flames scorching Hell.

But quickly, the frost flames cooled the inferno. The wildly raging flames were being calmed by the frost flames.

[You have purified the fire of creation with frost flames.]

[By bathing in the fire of creation, all negative energy has been burned away.]

[Divinity has greatly increased.]

[You can now use illusion magic using flames.]

As the fire of creation was purified, even its color changed. The ominous green light turned into a pure red color, and I walked out of the flames without being burned at all.

“Feels like being reborn.”

It felt like a metamorphosis [a complete transformation]. Perhaps it was actually similar to that.

Because all the negative energies that had accumulated in my body were burned away by the flames.

I could feel that my divinity and capabilities had been greatly enhanced.

“Your Majesty.”

The Grand Duke and the knights who watched the spectacle paid their respects. No one else could have entered that spring of burning flames and returned alive.

“Grand Duke, look at that.”

“That is……”

The flames of the burning canyon, which had never gone out, were subsiding. As the source, the fire of creation, calmed down, even Hell was changing.

“We have even partially conquered Hell. It is thanks to your hard work. You can be proud.”

I changed Hell, and even the demons of Hell obeyed my orders. It was truly no different from conquering this place, at least in part.

Of course, only ‘partially,’ but how far does this extend?

“We are honored, Your Majesty.”

“However, there is still work left to do.”

“You mean the Ratmen.”

“Yes, we must defeat them with the demons of Hell.”

But the real purpose of coming here was to punish the Ratmen who were causing chaos in the North.

Now it was time to fulfill the original purpose.

“It’s time to hunt the rats.”

* * *

One thing to emphasize is that Balthazar’s demons and the Ratmen never trusted each other in the first place.

“The Ratmen attacked one of our fortresses. They were planning to betray us from the start if we ‘failed.’ But that fortress was bait from the start.”

The Ratmen were planning to betray Balthazar immediately if he failed to protect the fire of creation.

From their perspective, the failed Balthazar was useless, and his failure could be a justification for expanding their territory in Hell.

But Balthazar had foreseen that in advance and defected to us. And the important thing is that the Ratmen still don’t know that fact.

“They are all gathered in the fortress. They are practically trapped.”

“It would be fun to rain fire on those guys.”

A fortress is a solid defensive structure, but at the same time, it has the disadvantage of making it difficult for those inside to escape.

What if we could unleash a massive bombardment or firestorm on that place, and the enemy wasn’t even prepared for it? It would probably cause catastrophic damage.

“Grand Duke, gather all the artillery.”

“But the enemies will spot the artillery.”

“No, they can’t.”

*Tap—*

As I snapped my fingers, a flame illusion arose, concealing the artillerymen.

The artillerymen, who were briefly engulfed in flames and became translucent, seemed to gain confidence in the fact that they were invisible, even as they were surprised.

Although they were translucent, they could never be spotted from a distance.

“Move the mortars forward aggressively as well.”

They’re not small and light like modern ones yet, but large, crude mortars.

Since direct-fire or curved-fire cannons would hit the walls due to the angle of the cannon, mortars are the practical means of striking the Ratmen inside the fortress.

“But this alone is not enough. Balthazar, are you ready?”

“Of course, Emperor. Are you ready to spread fear?”

At Balthazar’s question, I smiled and answered.

“I’ll show you what real fear is.”

* * *

*Bang! Boom! Thump!*

Imperial shells began to fall on the demons’ fortress occupied by the Ratmen.

The shells hitting the walls were still iron lumps, but the ones fired from the mortars were exploding shells that detonated upon impact.

“*Keeeeeek!* It’s an attack! An attack!”

“Where is it! I can’t see the enemy!”

The Ratmen were already in a state of panic just from that.

But the hardship that would befall them was not the end of it.

*Whoosh!*

“Burn them all, kill them. Show the burning fear to the insignificant minions of the demons.”

The demons, all capable of flight, scattered hellfire from the sky.

Thanks to that, fire spread everywhere amidst the falling shells. It was like mixing incendiary bombs with explosive shells.

“*Kuaaaaak!* It’s hot! It’s hot!”

The Ratmen screamed. At the same time, they tried to evacuate to the tunnels, which were escape routes prepared for emergencies, but…….

“I can’t let that happen.”

I tenaciously picked out only the guys who were showing themselves and trying to crawl into the tunnels and threw the flames of purification into those places.

-*Keeeeeeeeek!*

The Ratmen who were trying to escape had no choice but to panic again.

As all the tunnels were targeted with pinpoint accuracy, they soon realized that even their escape routes were blocked.

“Switch to Black Rose.”

[Silver Rose is switching to Black Rose.]

[Transforms into the form of the Dark Dragon.]

Until now, I had been using the Imperial Soul, but I immediately changed it to the form of the Dark Dragon.

This was more effective in instilling fear.

The fire had burned enough, and now it was time to instill fear in them in a different way.

“They’re trying to escape through the gate. Do you think I’ll let them?”

*Whoosh, Kwang!*

I swooped down and fell straight towards the gate where the guys were gathered.

It wasn’t the ‘Burning Comet’ that I used often, but instead, a shadow storm arose around me at the same time as the fall.

The Ratmen caught in the shadow storm were torn to pieces, and that in itself stimulated their fear.

“*Keeek!* It’s an enemy! Shoot, shoot!”

The Ratmen fired the magic trigger guns they were holding all at once.

To be exact, they were shooting randomly, but they were definitely pouring fire towards me.

[Dark Shield activated]

[Absorbs the enemy’s attacks with the fear and dark energy absorbed from the enemy.]

But those bullets couldn’t reach me. Their fear further strengthened the Dark Shield, but they had no way of knowing that.

“You guys.”

“*Kuek?*”

“Surely, you were the troops guarding the warp gate.”

One thing. Another significance of this operation.

These guys are not troops that suddenly sprang up from somewhere.

They are the ones who guarded the warp gate and at the same time monitored Balthazar’s demons while traveling through the Hell dimension.

In other words, eliminating these guys means that the warp gate will naturally fall into our hands.

“*Kuek!* Do you think I’ll te- tell you that!”

“Oh, it doesn’t matter if you don’t tell me.”

*Swish!*

“*Keuheok!*”

“Because I’m going to kill you all anyway.”

I didn’t ask to get an answer. I just asked to probe a little.

*Shushushuk! Shushuk! Swish!*

A series of shadow blades scattered in all directions, and they became entangled and intertwined as if spinning thread.

When the spinning of the thread of death is over, the Ratmen try to escape in all directions, but it was useless.

*Thwack!*

In just one instance, it sweeps away as if whipping with a whip.

With just that, the Ratmen who were trying to escape were all torn to pieces.

“It’s over.”

Now the army is marching. The remaining small fry will be able to be dealt with without any problems.

The rat hunt ended easily.

* * *

“We got the warp gate easily.”

After hitting the Ratmen in the back of the head in Hell, we returned to the warp gate and occupied that place as well.

The Ratmen, who had lost a lot of troops due to one betrayal, were practically defenseless.

“Now, the Ratmen who were carrying out guerrilla warfare in various parts of the North are all isolated. It will be easy to wipe them out.”

“That’s good……. But then this warp gate is the problem.”

Even winning too perfectly is a problem.

We obtained the warp gate, an artifact created by those guys, with almost no damage.

Now the problem was what to do with it.

“How about destroying it? This unholy artifact must be destroyed.”

“But it’s too useful to do that. With just this, we can send troops to any distance. The supply problem can be solved at once.”

The army is a consuming group that requires enormous supplies.

The greater the amount of supplies, the greater the cost. Until now, we had been solving it by plastering it with money, but things would be different with this.

‘Even in places where I am not, it is possible to send high-quality troops to defend. That alone is of infinite value.’

The biggest problem in the current defense of the Empire is that neither I nor the Empire’s elite troops can be present in all places.

But if there is a warp gate, it can be quickly deployed to places where big problems have occurred.

In fact, even now, I alone can move to the Throne of Prosperity, but I couldn’t move the army.

“Now that we have connections in Hell, there’s no need to worry about energy sources. Let’s disassemble this and take it.”

“I understand. If that is Your Majesty’s decision.”

Of course, I was not without worries. It’s not that I’m worried because the artifact is unholy.

If necessary, I could tolerate unholiness as much as possible.

‘The only thing I’m worried about is…… how many of these artifacts the Creator God has.’

If they have more amazing things or the Creator God creates them, will we be able to respond properly then?

Even if we can respond, it is too late to respond after being attacked.

“Then we have no choice but to create it first.”

[Activated the Dice of God.]

[Special materials are required to create a divine artifact.]

Fortunately, we can also create it. With the Dice of God that I have.

“Go ahead and try, Creator God.”

Whatever you do, I will deal with it. And I will return it to you.

*-I’ll be waiting, Human Emperor.*

“……!”

At that moment, a whisper from some being was heard.

The Creator God, he was watching me and whispering.

“Ha, you’re looking forward to it, huh? Yeah, look forward to it a lot.”

Because you will be defeated soon.