He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 277

I Became the Crazy Emperor – Episode 277

I Became the Crazy Emperor 277

Of course, the Beast King wasn’t exposed without any defenses.

Numerous aerial chimera blocked my path as I flew toward him.

I could have taken them down myself, but there were just too many.

If I dealt with them one by one, I might miss the Beast King, or waste my strength unnecessarily.

“His Majesty is breaking through towards the dragon-class chimera! We must follow!”

“Our squadron will take the lead!”

Tudududududut!

Pooshwoooong! Bang!

Just then, the Imperial Army fighters that had been following behind me rushed in. They noticed what I was aiming for and flew in without hesitation to assist me.

The machine guns installed on the propeller planes spat fire, and the small rockets attached to the wings were fired at the drakes.

However, their struggles alone weren’t enough to clear the way easily. Then, there was additional support for them.

“All armed floating islands and airships, be advised. Immediately support His Majesty and the flying squadron with all anti-air weaponry!”

Weeeeeeeeng- Pupeopeong! Pupeong!

Anti-aircraft guns and laser cannons fired from the floating islands, forming a barrage. The airships also broke away from their role as fighter launch platforms and formed an aerial battle line, creating a desperate breakthrough.

-Kieeeeeeeek!

Chwajak! Chwajak!

Kwaaaaaaa!

“Report from the 1st Armed Floating Island! Enemy aerial assault chimera have begun assaulting the floating island!”

“Repel them with the island’s defense forces!”

“Enemy anti-air fire is intensifying from the sea!”

“All ships, full speed ahead! Commencing close-range horizontal fire from now!”

The path gradually opened, but the cost was high. Countless Imperial soldiers shed blood to defeat the enemies of the Empire and protect it.

“Then I, too, will risk my life.”

Seokeok!

With a single strike of Silver Rose, the head of a giant drake was instantly severed. I flew past the drake’s blood spurting like a fountain and headed towards the Beast King once more.

Now, nothing stands between him and me. At least, temporarily. I would be able to reach him soon.

“Beast King!”

I called out to him, pouring all the resentment for all the Imperial citizens who had died because of him, and swung my sword.

Silver Rose flashed, aiming for his neck. But for some reason, the Beast King stood atop the giant dragon without dodging the blow at all.

Seokeok!

Just as the giant drake had been cut down in one strike, his neck was cut just as easily. So easily that even I, who had cut his neck, felt, ‘This was too easy?’

But, of course, that wasn’t the end of it.

Poohwaaaaaak!

“Hmm?”

From the Beast King’s severed neck, grotesque bundles of tentacles sprouted.

As if waiting for this moment, they stretched out, aiming for me. Some acted like spears, others as if trying to grab me.

Chwaak, Seokeok!

It was a very gruesome sight, but I nonchalantly cut them down.

The tentacles were sliced off before they could reach me, but that didn’t mean they suffered fatal damage.

The Beast King was regenerating his severed neck as if new flesh was sprouting.

“Long time no see, Emperor.”

Udeuk, Udeudeuk-

The Beast King twisted his neck from side to side, as if a severed neck was nothing, as if it had just stiffened. I chuckled at the sight and said.

“Did you become a monster while I wasn’t looking?”

“We have both transcended the limits of our species, so in that sense, aren’t you a monster too, Emperor?”

“I don’t know. I’m not the kind of guy who doesn’t die even if his neck is cut off. And usually, those kinds of guys aren’t normal.”

How many of those guys had I seen so far? Guys who easily abandoned their humanity or equivalent values in order to become stronger.

The Beast King before my eyes had simply become one of those guys.

“Well, it’s not surprising. You weren’t exactly a good guy from the start.”

“What is your standard for a ‘good guy’? Emperor? Are those who don’t please you such people?”

“No.”

Tadat, Shwoook!

A sword strike returned instead of an answer. The Beast King couldn’t dodge the strike that aimed for his heart in an instant. No, he didn’t dodge it.

“I just hate guys like you. Look over there, Beast King. Those who followed you are dying in droves.”

The chimera made using his beastmen people, and the beastmen soldiers riding those chimera.

The chimera were being torn apart by all sorts of artillery fire, and the beastmen who had been riding those chimera and then assaulted the battleships and floating islands were also dying and falling down in vain.

It was a tragic sight, even though they were the enemy.

“But you don’t even bat an eye at that, do you? You just see it all as a necessary sacrifice for you alone.”

“That’s right. But is that so different from you?”

Teop-

The Beast King grabbed Silver Rose, which had pierced his heart, and pulled it out with tremendous force.

Surprisingly, feeling that I was being pushed back in terms of brute strength, I twisted the sword and pulled it out. His heart poured out dark red blood, but the Beast King didn’t seem to care.

No, rather, his body began to swell abnormally.

“Your army is also shedding blood. Isn’t your confrontation with me also possible because there are those who shed blood for you?”

Udeuk- Udeudeudeuk-

“A great leader is such a person. Regardless of good or evil, they are all those who achieve their goals through the sacrifice of their underlings. You and I are not so different, Emperor.”

The Beast King’s appearance was changing as if it was distorted. He originally had a lion-like mane, but now he was even bigger, and wings sprouted on his back.

But the appearance wasn’t everything. Inside, he must be made up of endlessly regenerating tentacles.

He had clearly been ‘recreated’. It was obvious who had made him that way.

“Oh, saying such things, I’m starting to feel sorry for you, Beast King?”

That’s why I laughed at him.

“To sugarcoat becoming a monster while licking the Creator God’s feet like that.”

“Mocking me like that won’t make me angry.”

“You just can’t get angry, you pathetic thing. You’ve become that guy’s perfect pet now.”

Swish, swish, swish-

Instead of answering, the Beast King reached out to me. His hand transformed into a bundle of long tentacles and attacked.

Even a single graze would be fatal, with deadly poison and strong acid coating the blade-like tentacles. Cutting them down resulted in fragments scattering like shrapnel.

But none of it touched me. I had deployed a delicate magic barrier using the Imperial Soul [a powerful artifact or ability].

“Emperor, then how are you any different?”

Clang!

The Beast King charged like a beast. I immediately transformed into the Sylphane humanoid form [a specific transformation or battle mode] and blocked his attack.

His claws scraped against Sylphane’s armor. The armor prevented damage, but it still left long scars, even though it was harder than steel.

“This world, this entire universe, is just a model garden he created. You too are just a piece on the game board, controlled by him in that model garden!”

Clang! Clang!

He shouted as if venting his pent-up anger at me. I endured, blocking his attacks with my sword, the magic of the Imperial Soul, and my armor.

“Answer me, how are you different? How are you different from me! How are you different from all the challengers who have fallen!”

Oooooooo!

Bang!

With the Beast King’s roar, an enormous explosion of energy occurred. It swept over me. Sylphane’s armor was torn apart, and I bled.

Poison seeped through the wounds, and the armor became tattered from the continuous attacks.

“I am different from you.”

But I endured. I stood proudly before him despite the countless attacks.

“You ask how I am different from you? I know my place.”

I am insignificant.

I am incomplete.

My limitations are clear.

I am not a perfect being.

“That’s why I need others. I need everyone to support this crown.”

Splat!

Silver Rose [MC’s weapon or ability] scattered light and severed his arm. At the same time, I also bled from all over my body.

But the attacks continue. As long as the Imperial Soul supports me, I will not fall.

“That’s why I don’t fight to rule over them!”

Slash-

“I fight to be with them!”

Thud!

“Ugh……!”

Crackling, crackling, crackling-

The Silver Rose in my hand had already taken on a different form.

A black spear that seemed to suck everything in, ‘The End,’ pierced his heart.

Even the Creator God’s power within him was extinguished by that spear.

The Beast King, who had been regenerating from any attack until just now, could not regenerate his pierced heart.

“Kuh, heh heh… I see, Emperor. This power… I can feel it… the obsession and resentment of those who have fallen…….”

The Beast King, his heart pierced, staggered. Beyond not being able to regenerate, the curse and darkness dwelling in the End were engulfing him.

As if trying to obliterate his very existence.

“You might be able to do it. Defeat the Creator God… but Emperor… it’s still too early.”

Splat!

He pulled out the End. Surprisingly, he was enduring the curse of annihilation.

No, to be precise, annihilation was continuing, but he was rapidly increasing his body size.

His body became three or four times larger than the largest individual, the Dragon-class Chimera. His form itself was no longer a bipedal human but resembled a giant Chimera.

The wound in his heart left by the End was still there, so he was bleeding, but it would take time for the greatly enlarged him to die.

-If you are truly different from me, prove it by killing me! You will have to pour out everything you have now!

Whoooooooo-

He inhaled as if about to exhale a breath. The direction he was facing was the Imperial Fleet.

Kaaaaaaa!

Soon, an intense energy breath erupted towards it. If it had hit the fleet directly, a terrible disaster would have occurred.

But that didn’t happen. I was standing in front of it. I completely took all of that attack.

“Ugh…….”

Because I wasn’t in a normal state, the price for blocking that tremendous power was enormous. My body was temporarily out of control.

-Kahaha! How pathetic, Emperor, to end up sacrificing yourself to protect your own kind! This is the end!

The Beast King lunged his dragon-like head at me to finish me off.

There was no way for me to avoid it myself.

“You’re mistaken. I’ve already told you. I don’t fight alone.”

But I didn’t need to avoid it.

Koo-ooo-ooo!

-Kuh-ugh?!

“Entire fleet! Ramming speed! All airships and battleships, charge!”

“We must protect His Majesty!”

“For the Empireeeeeee!”

The Empire’s ships disregarded their lives and rammed into him. Those who couldn’t reach him fired plasma cannons incessantly, even though it was dangerous.

Some ships were half-destroyed by the impact of the ramming or self-destructed due to plasma overload. But they didn’t stop.

-Kuh-ugh, I, I…….

The Beast King was getting weaker and more cornered. I aimed the Silvan Cannon [MC’s weapon or ability] at him. This alone would be enough to finish him.

“It’s over. Be born better in your next life.”

-Aaaaaaaaa!

Kaaaaaang!

A burst of pure white light completely engulfed him.