Hoarding In Hell [EN]: Chapter 320

320. The Best Future (7)

“It’s the day of the end! Truly the perfect day for the final day! Let’s kill them all, build a tower with their skulls, grind their bones into dust, and play in the sand! Then, let’s knock it down like a sandcastle!”

“No.”

“Butler, everything is bound to collapse anyway! Sooner or later! Life, the universe—it’s not about how to live, but about how to die!”

“I prefer it slow.”

“That’s why you’re just a butler! Even our master seems lackluster right now!”

Renian burst into laughter again.

I couldn’t see the Teacher’s face as he collided head-on with Hyun-mu, but I imagined he was just as annoyed.

Renian’s voice was so loud it could drown out thunder.

I knew she was a ‘man-eating fairy who dreams of destruction,’ but I didn’t realize she truly dreamed of destruction.

Who knew such a bizarre being would emerge from a mosquito egg? But from the start, her existence was alien.

A being that Ren General’s monocle couldn’t detect, whose abilities had no limits or identity.

Perhaps I was deceived by her cute appearance, only interested in brains.

A bolt of lightning split the space between Hyun-mu and the Teacher.

“And thunder!”

Perhaps because we were close, the sound of thunder echoed along with Renian’s cheerful voice. Soon after, the Teacher’s displeased voice was heard.

“Everything’s fine, but can you shut that beast up or get rid of it? I can’t concentrate at all.”

“I don’t abandon my pets. You vile abandoner.”

The title for a beast that brings about the end of the world was excessively cute.

The Teacher seemed speechless. But Hyun-mu couldn’t dismiss Renian, even for practical reasons.

The reason Hyun-mu could stand against the Teacher and secure control over the abyss was thanks to Renian.

Although his life was hanging by a thread, if Renian didn’t grow any larger than she was now, he felt he could maintain consciousness and stand against the Teacher.

However.

Conversely, the Teacher was relieved to see Hyun-mu controlling Renian.

***

‘This is an opportunity.’

When Hyun-mu pierced his own heart and awakened Renian, the Teacher even considered turning back time.

But the situation changed as Hyun-mu succeeded in controlling Renian.

The reason he had to turn back time even after killing Hyun-mu was because of Renian.

Even if he killed Hyun-mu, it would be pointless if he was swallowed or killed by Renian.

‘But if Kang Hyun-mu dies in a state where he has only partially manifested Renian, I can deal with both of them at once.’

Of course, there might be variables he hadn’t considered.

But if that happened, he could just turn back time then, correct his mistakes, and face a new future.

For the Teacher, opportunities were endless. He was merely creating a seemingly even situation while waiting for an opportunity.

At that moment, a sharp spear pierced Hyun-mu’s abyss.

It didn’t cause much damage because of his large size, but it could be dangerous if it hit his body directly.

“Young Master Park!”

Having escaped from Hyun-mu’s faction, Young Master Park was once again sniping at Hyun-mu from a distance.

He looked tired and unwell, but he seemed to have the strength to fight.

‘If that guy’s ambition was only as much as Lee Ji-tae’s, I would have kept him by my side.’

Young Master Park was a man with radical and dangerous ideas.

That was why he had taken him in, but he couldn’t keep him close.

Because somewhere deep inside Young Master Park, there was a desire to stab even the Teacher to death.

‘But he might be helpful now.’

The abyss surrounding the Teacher’s body suddenly swelled.

All sorts of bizarre shapes emerged from the bubbling abyss.

They seemed to resemble animals, but they didn’t resemble any animal at all.

The sound of Renian’s cackling laughter was heard.

“What are you trying to do with such shoddy things! Are you even summoning beasts of the end?”

Compared to Renian, they were far inferior beings, but the Teacher had his reasons.

“Go.”

The black monsters flapped their unbalanced bodies here and there.

One of them, particularly fast, rushed towards Young Master Park in an instant.

Young Master Park, seemingly flustered by the sudden appearance of the beast of the end, was swallowed without being able to do anything.

The beast of the end, twitching as if digesting him for a moment, transformed into a dark figure resembling Young Master Park.

The monster twisted its arm and threw a spear even faster than before.

Bang.

The spear, breaking the sound barrier, left a heavy impact as it pierced Hyun-mu’s abyss.

The accuracy was terrible, but if it kept throwing things like that, it seemed Hyun-mu would be at a disadvantage.

Other monsters also began to absorb the survivors around them, taking on new forms.

“What is this!”

“Damn it, get lost! You monster!”

The fight between Hyun-mu and the Teacher was fierce, but there were quite a few hunters hiding around, outside the range of the damage.

Unlike other monsters, the beasts of the end, which were immune to attacks, quickly devoured the hunters.

The Teacher felt his power increasing. But his satisfied expression didn’t last long.

“You old, dirty, and filthy thing!”

A piercing, venomous voice was heard. The Teacher remembered her voice.

It was Song Yeo-un, a hunter from the Almighty League.

She had somehow appeared and was rapidly whipping the beast of the end.

The attacks of other hunters didn’t work on the beast of the end, but her whip tore it apart so miserably and quickly that it scattered.

The fragments of the beast of the end, with only its head remaining, covered Song Yeo-un, but she bared her teeth and bit into the beast of the end’s neck.

Song Yeo-un, chewing the flesh with her teeth, swallowed the fragments and gleamed her eyes.

From the start, she was already a beast of the end. And beasts could grow stronger by eating the same beasts.

“It doesn’t taste good, Seo Ji-hoo! But I can still eat it!”

And such scenes were happening all around.

Before they knew it, many of the Almighty League hunters were skillfully hunting lower-level beasts of the end.

It was a mistake to summon only lower-level beasts of the end, thinking that ordinary hunters wouldn’t be able to handle them.

“I told you, what are you doing with such shoddy things!”

Renian cackled again.

The Almighty League hunters, who had absorbed the beasts of the end, hunted other beasts with much greater power.

But the Teacher didn’t feel much beyond annoyance.

“Right. Did you think I would be satisfied with such shoddy things?”

The small beasts were just a smokescreen.

The Teacher took a long breath. The air in the area gathered towards the Teacher to the point where the abyss itself swelled.

The Teacher, having taken a deep breath, howled loudly towards the sky.

The moment a sound like a wolf howling echoed, the same sound burst out in response from beyond the horizon.

With a sound that shook the earth, the horizon began to move.

Something far larger than Renian and the Teacher’s abyss combined was rushing towards them.

Hyun-mu could immediately recognize the silhouette.

It was the giant monster that the Teacher had brought with him when he first came here, carrying his allies.

It had fallen when Adam pushed it over, but logically, a monster of that size couldn’t have died from just falling over.

Hyun-mu now realized the Teacher’s intention. He had been preparing it as a final weapon.

“It’s the only beast I thought was useful among the beasts I used in that terrible world. I buried it in the mountains because there was nowhere to hide it, and people thought there was a tectonic shift.”

The beast, which had a long neck and a wolf-like torso, had now transformed so grotesquely that its shape was unrecognizable.

Thousands of tentacles swayed towards the sky, and unbalanced legs with hooves pounded the ground irregularly, echoing like drums.

TeEEEEEEEE!

The mismatched, bizarre cry was even more eerie. It was like a newborn baby screaming, instinctively unpleasant and chilling.

It was an alien existence that drove people insane just by seeing and hearing it.

The monster, with its mere majesty shaking the earth as it approached, was enough to stop the hunters who had been fighting the beasts of the end for some time.

The lower-level beasts of the end also stopped rampaging. As it approached, they became silent without a sound, overwhelmed by the approaching horror, and only the sound of hooves grew louder.

“Wow, that’s going to be a bit difficult.”

Even Renian muttered as if she had lost her words.

“Of course, with the butler’s current level. How about starting the world’s destruction now? Isn’t destroying what you can’t have what a butler would do?”

Hyun-mu didn’t answer.

If the Teacher directly absorbed that giant beast and started fighting, the situation would definitely become much more difficult than it was now.

Hyun-mu frowned and muttered.

“If that thing really comes crashing down, it would be a disaster.”

“Crushed to death, exploded to death, trampled to death. Well, the choices are diverse.”

The Teacher answered with a sneer. But Hyun-mu looked at him as if he were pathetic.

“I wasn’t talking to you.”

A gust of wind blew.

The Teacher felt the rain-soaked body was cold. Then he suddenly realized that the rain had completely stopped.

Even though the sky was still dark and shaded.

The Teacher then realized the anomaly.

The sky shattered silently.

The clouds were smashed into fragments and fled in panic. As if removing a curtain and a new stage appeared, something black was cast in the sky.

The Teacher tried to figure out what was happening with his eyes wide open.

But what was happening before his eyes was so huge and unrealistic that it didn’t feel real.

Then, huge pillars first slammed into the ground.

Some of those pillars kicked the Teacher’s monster that was running towards them.

The monster was kicked away like a dog, letting out an unsightly sound of Teeng!

Only then did the Teacher realize what was happening.

“Cheonru [Heavenly Pillars]?”

Two Cheonru, intertwined in a miserable state, were rushing down as if to crush the ground.

Hyun-mu and Renian burst into laughter together and shouted.

“I love you, Yoo-min!”

“I love you, Butler’s girlfriend!”

***

The Teacher stared at the Cheonru rushing towards the ground with a dumbfounded expression.

He had heard from Lee Ji-tae that Hyun-mu had controlled the Cheonru. But he judged that he would no longer be able to control them because they had been sent into space.

In fact, he had even confirmed the appearance of the Cheonru in space through satellite observation.

But, in reality, it was Yoo-min and Renian attached to Yoo-min who were controlling the Cheonru.

Renian on Yoo-min’s side could pull down and move the Cheonru at any time.

Bang.

The belatedly rushing wind shook as if to tear apart everything on the ground.

Even the Almighty League hunters who had been hunting the beasts of the end could not withstand the wind and tumbled or lay flat on the ground.

“Kang Hyun-mu, you crazy bastard. What the hell are you…”

Then the Teacher saw Kang Hyun-mu’s expression.

He was wearing a smile full of joy, pleasure, and ridicule.

“Crushed to death, exploded to death, trampled to death. Well, the choices are diverse.”

Hyun-mu repeated the words the Teacher had said verbatim and answered.

The Teacher realized that Hyun-mu was serious. Hyun-mu was really planning to crush him with the Cheonru.

“You crazy bastard, there are your subordinates here besides you! Are you saying you’re all going to die together?”

“Why would I die?”

Hyun-mu burst into laughter and answered.

“You can just turn back time!”

The Teacher was speechless.

Hyun-mu was not only using the Teacher’s regression, but he was also encouraging regression.

If you don’t want to die, regress.

He was threatening by dragging in himself, Renian, and his comrades.

The hostage was only one.

Only the Teacher’s life.

But the Teacher couldn’t give up that one hostage.

“You goddamn bastard!”

“So, be careful with your language. It’s like spitting in your own face.”

The Teacher gritted his teeth and tried to find a way.

To buy enough time to escape from the Cheonru here, he would have to turn back time considerably.

He regretted not saving Lee Ji-tae later. If it was Lee Ji-tae, he could have taken him and escaped from here.

But there wasn’t even enough time to regret. The Teacher shouted again.

Then the monster that had been kicked by the Cheonru’s tentacle staggered and ran again.

The Teacher quickly moved the abyss and merged his body with the monster. Forming a much larger and grotesque form than before, the Teacher stretched his hand towards the sky.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

No matter how huge it was, the Teacher was wielding the power of the end and those beasts. He wouldn’t die just by being pressed down by weight.

But there was no reason for Hyun-mu to just watch that.

“Kill him! He’s a bourgeois capitalist pig trying to monopolize the future!”

“That’s some ridiculous…”

“Wow! Bourgeois! Wow! Get hit by the people’s bamboo spear!”

The first to rush in as if excited by Hyun-mu’s ridiculous command was Song Yeo-un.

Song Yeo-un rushed at the Teacher without a moment’s hesitation and scraped the huge body with her whip.

Song Yeo-un was just the beginning. The Teacher discovered the monsters raining down from above the Cheonru.

Difficulty: Hell, they were the subordinates that Hyun-mu had scraped together.

The Teacher’s skin began to be scraped off, cut, and pierced.

Eventually, without time to prepare, the Cheonru’s massive weight pressed down on the Teacher.

“Cough!”

The Teacher coughed up blood at the unexpected and tremendous weight.

It was a weight that he could barely withstand even if he gathered all the power he could use now.

Of course, there was a way if he pushed himself a little harder. If he used that power, he could tear the Cheonru apart.

However, he couldn’t use that power, so he ruled it out altogether.

Even in the midst of all this, there were crazy bastards who didn’t know that they would die if they killed the Teacher and were tearing apart his body.

“You bastards!”

The Teacher roared in anger and instantly grabbed Song Yeo-un.

Even while entangled in the giant tentacles, Song Yeo-un bared her teeth and bit the tentacles.

The Teacher crushed Song Yeo-un as if crushing a bug. A blood clot burst out without a scream.

Numerous hunters and monsters, such as Seo Ji-hoo, Kirson, and Kazat, died similarly in an instant. But the Teacher couldn’t last long.

While the Cheonru was crushing his body, Hyun-mu cut off his abyss, which had become almost neutralized, and quickly uncovered the part where the Teacher was hiding.

The Teacher gritted his teeth and glared at him.

“Say hello to the previous me.”

Hyun-mu winked and instantly plunged the abyss towards the Teacher.

Just before the abyss pierced his body, the Teacher had no choice but to turn back time, roaring in anger.