Hoarding In Hell [EN]: Chapter 321

321. The Best Future (8)

“Teacher, at least release Kang Hyun-moo from custody…….”

Lee Ji-tae watched the Teacher’s expression. The Teacher was trembling, emitting a terrifying murderous aura.

Lee Ji-tae tensed, wondering if he had made a mistake. He had never seen the Teacher so angry.

The past point that the Teacher decided to revert to was the situation ‘right before Lee Ji-tae died.’

That was the ‘minimum point in time to rewind to modify the situation’ that the Teacher had considered.

“Teacher, Teacher? Are you alright…….”

Before Lee Ji-tae could finish speaking, Hyun-moo, confined in the Abyss, immediately noticed the ‘anomaly.’

He realized that the Teacher had been injured and ‘rewound,’ and immediately moved the Abyss to attack the Teacher.

And as the Abyss’s blade stabbed towards the Teacher, Lee Ji-tae naturally blocked it.

“Get out of the way, you idiot.”

Just as the same situation was about to repeat, the Teacher quickly snatched Lee Ji-tae and pulled him back.

The Abyss, which narrowly missed, changed its trajectory and relentlessly aimed for the Teacher.

“Get lost!”

However, with the Teacher’s shout, the Abyss scattered with a thud.

Hyun-moo, regretting not being able to inflict damage, condensed the Abyss to prepare for battle.

Lee Ji-tae looked at him with a surprised expression at the fact that the Teacher had saved him, but the Teacher didn’t care.

“We need to get out of here, Lee Ji-tae.”

“Yes? But…….”

“Where are you going?”

Hyun-moo quickly moved the Abyss and poured out attacks. The Teacher quickly wrapped his hands around the tentacles rushing towards him and pulled.

Hyun-moo’s Abyss began to be taken away as if unraveling a skein of yarn.

Hyun-moo quickly cut off the encroached Abyss before more was taken away.

It was clear to anyone that the Teacher was overwhelmingly superior to Hyun-moo. But the Teacher kept urging Lee Ji-tae.

“Hurry!”

“Understood.”

If the Teacher said so, then it was so.

Lee Ji-tae still did not doubt that the Teacher would lead everyone to the best future.

Lee Ji-tae quickly wrapped the Teacher with the wings of radiance and left the spot. Hyun-moo could not catch up with Lee Ji-tae, who was flying away quickly.

“Go that way.”

Lee Ji-tae obediently took the Teacher and flew in the direction he indicated.

As Kang Hyun-moo became a dot on the horizon in an instant, Lee Ji-tae carefully opened his mouth.

“But Teacher, if we can’t kill Kang Hyun-moo like this, the Leviathan mission…….”

“If you’re so worried about that, why didn’t you kill Kang Hyun-moo?”

Lee Ji-tae couldn’t answer.

The Teacher felt his insides churning.

Lee Ji-tae’s righteous and moral character was the future the Teacher dreamed of, but at the same time, it was also the cause of his upset.

“I have a plan, Lee Ji-tae. Stop around here.”

The place where the Teacher stopped was where the monster he had brought, ‘Kirin,’ was.

Although not recorded in history, it was the strongest of the few monsters that the Teacher could bring as a familiar [a summoned creature or spirit].

Although Kirin was defeated by Adam, it had simply fallen over, and in reality, it was to disguise an accident and deal with those who would hinder future goals all at once.

Lee Ji-tae was speechless at the miserable sight of the corpses crushed by Kirin.

The Teacher said it was the path chosen for the best future, but he couldn’t help but be shaken when he saw it with his own eyes.

The Teacher had painstakingly persuaded Lee Ji-tae.

“Wait, Lee Ji-tae. It will be over soon.”

The Teacher approached Kirin. And he pushed a handful of Abyss he had brought into the kneeling Kirin.

The Abyss quickly devoured Kirin, sublimating it into a Beast of the End. It was like bacteria turning a host into a giant colony.

“Teacher?”

At that time, Lee Ji-tae opened his mouth. He looked very nervous.

The Teacher turned his head. He felt the presence of people around him. They were quite powerful energies.

The Teacher could immediately recognize the presence.

Monsters.

Familiars that Hyun-moo brought from Difficulty: Hell.

They, who had been chasing after Park Do-ryung, were now surrounding and besieging the Teacher.

“Cough, huh…….”

At that time, someone rolled down the slope of the hill.

It was Park Do-ryung, who was battered and bruised.

The Teacher couldn’t understand the situation. Clearly, in the future, Park Do-ryung had survived in a relatively intact state and was sniping.

But why?

“This guy suddenly ran away, so I wondered what was going on, but he followed you after all.”

One of the monsters opened his mouth. It was a human-faced spider wearing a fancy dress that didn’t suit battle, Ha-hyun.

He knew that Song Yeo-un would become a familiar of Monstrill in the future, but the two were nothing alike.

“This guy firmly believed that you were running away, but he’s stopped here? What’s the scheme?”

The Teacher sighed.

Once he awakens the monster he brought into a Beast of the End, it is not difficult to deal with them.

But the problem is being held back here.

The Teacher looked up at the sky.

He didn’t know how much of the Sky Ruin was there, or where it was.

“……I’ll have enough time to kill you all and prepare.”

***

The sky shattered.

The intertwined Sky Ruin, tearing apart the storm, fell towards the Teacher.

The Teacher roared as he watched the scene.

Around him, Hyun-moo’s familiars, torn to shreds, were scattered everywhere.

Lee Ji-tae and Park Do-ryung were also killed again in the process.

But now there was no one to interfere with him while he blocked the Sky Ruin.

“You’re going to kill me with this heavy thing?”

The Teacher scoffed and drew on the power of the Beast of the End.

It was not a hastily made fusion like before, but a state in which he had completely become one with Kirin through battle.

The Teacher felt the boiling power and thrust his horn-like blade into the falling Sky Ruin with all his might.

Inside the Sky Ruin’s massive body, the Abyss in the shape of a deer’s horn swelled long and huge.

Cutting and slashing through the Sky Ruin’s blood vessels and nerves, the horn grew even larger than its owner’s torso.

“I’ll crush you, Kang Hyun-moo!”

If he only smashed the Sky Ruin, he would have enough strength left to kill Hyun-moo.

The Teacher poured out all his strength, and the shape of the Beast of the End swelled as if it would burst.

Crack.

The Sky Ruin’s tentacles, which had been intertwined like the roots of a thousand-year-old tree, began to separate.

He felt tremendous pressure, but the Teacher was confident.

He could do it.

Tearing apart the Sky Ruin, now all that was left was to smash the guy’s head.

However, the Teacher realized something was wrong the moment the Sky Ruin began to split in half.

The intertwined two Sky Ruins were splitting too easily.

Besides, the fact that Kang Hyun-moo had not appeared until this situation made the Teacher uneasy.

Tear.

The Sky Ruin, which had been split from top to bottom, suddenly stopped.

The Teacher realized that he was completely caught between the two Sky Ruins.

Like a small bird caught in the jaws of a crocodile.

Whiririk.

Black Abyss spread like a net in all directions. The Teacher belatedly realized the situation.

Hyun-moo and Renian had turned the Sky Ruin into a Beast of the End while the Teacher was running away.

The Sky Ruin, which had become a Beast of the End, sewed its torn body together with the Abyss and began to crush the Teacher in an instant.

“Hello, Master!”

At that time, he heard a voice that sent chills down his spine.

“Say hello to the fairy of the past for me!”

Just before being crushed to death between the two Sky Ruins, the Teacher once again let out a roar of anger and turned back time.

***

The wind raged madly.

The Teacher was on top of the Sky Ruin.

The method the Teacher chose this time was to make the Sky Ruin itself his own.

If Kang Hyun-moo could turn the Sky Ruin into a Beast of the End, then of course he could too.

Lee Ji-tae, who had abandoned Kang Hyun-moo and followed him, was looking around with a worried expression.

“I clearly saw Kang Hyun-moo send the Sky Ruin into space. But how…….”

“There’s no time to think deeply. We have to strike first before he controls this.”

The Teacher headed towards the heart of the Sky Ruin without hesitation.

The only way to control the Sky Ruin was there.

Kang Hyun-moo must have also tampered with something in the heart.

There were a few monsters guarding the heart, but they couldn’t withstand the joint attack of the Teacher and Lee Ji-tae.

Soon, they found a heart stained black in the heart they arrived at.

“Ha, he’s tampered with a ridiculous trick.”

The Teacher placed his hand on the heart.

The Sky Ruin had already become half Beast of the End. But the entity that had encroached on the Sky Ruin was in an ambiguous state, perhaps because it was unskilled in handling this power.

It was easy for the Teacher to take away the initiative.

The Teacher set out to find the entity that had the initiative in the heart.

In the vast and unfathomable deep sea, he felt tremendous water pressure.

And there, the Teacher felt a familiar presence.

The Teacher’s eyes widened.

[Wow! Master! Wow! Star of the End! For those who don’t know what the Star of the End is, the level is 99 and the strength, constitution, and agility are 99, so it’s very, very strong.]

“This damn thing.”

The Teacher quickly tried to take his hand away, but the Abyss quickly wrapped around his arm.

At that time, Lee Ji-tae hurriedly swung a sword surrounded by lightning and cut off the Abyss. But he couldn’t do anything about the hand that was directly touching the heart.

But the Teacher didn’t care that the skin of his arm and hand was peeling off and pulled out his arm in one breath.

Red blood was flowing down and some of the bones were visible, but he was still able to escape completely.

“Are you alright?”

Despite Lee Ji-tae’s concern, the Teacher did not answer and was lost in thought.

The personality of the ‘Beast’ was imposed on the heart of the Sky Ruin.

But that didn’t mean that the main body was dwelling there like Kang Hyun-moo. He had suffered an injury to his hand because he was surprised, but it wasn’t something to be afraid of.

‘I can take away the initiative.’

But it seemed like it would take a little time. The Teacher looked at Lee Ji-tae and said.

“Lee Ji-tae, protect me. 3 minutes is enough.”

“But Teacher!”

“Even in this situation, you’re talking back…….”

The Teacher was about to get angry, but he saw Lee Ji-tae pointing to the floor in a hurry.

From the floor of the heart of the Sky Ruin, he could see the situation on the ground.

And for the first time in his life, the Teacher saw the Earth in a round shape.

“……The Sky Ruin is really heading into space!”

“Kang Hyun-moo, you crazy bastard…….”

Kang Hyun-moo sent it into space as soon as the Teacher got on the Sky Ruin.

There was no need to fight. It’s not like the Teacher had a way to survive in space.

At the same time as the realization, the air inside began to escape quickly as if the Sky Ruin was exhaling the breath it had been holding back.

Along with the storm, the cold energy of the universe permeated. The Teacher could even see the Sky Ruin freezing.

He would be able to endure for about 3 minutes. But it would take at least dozens of minutes to get back to the ground.

The remaining choices were either to suffocate or to freeze to death.

***

He also failed to tame the Sky Ruin by turning it into a Beast of the End. It was impossible to face it directly.

At this point, the Teacher had to admit it.

He lacked helpers.

The Teacher had no choice but to turn back time a little more this time.

He had to recover the exhaustion of the power he had poured into blocking the Sky Ruin and heal the wounds he had suffered in various places.

He had no choice but to give up the results of driving Kang Hyun-moo. If he faced Kang Hyun-moo again in this state, it would only lead to the worst results.

“Oh my, good heavens. Teacher, are you alright?”

Before going to find Hyun-moo, the Teacher was looking down at the land full of clouds from the mountainside.

Lee Ji-tae was shocked to see the Teacher with one side of his face torn, his eyes shattered, and his hands ruined.

Originally, he should have had a broken mask, but the items he wore were also subject to the flow of time along with the Teacher.

The Teacher silently stood up with his bare face. Lee Ji-tae followed him with a worried expression.

The Teacher stood in front of his allies and looked down at them.

Those whom he had driven to death. Those who dream of the best future, burning with their own desires.

The Teacher tried to cut them all out and leave only one future.

“Everyone.”

But the Teacher postponed the plan a little.

“We go together.”

***

The sky shattered.

The surrounding wreckage was terrible. Many of the allies were killed by Kang Hyun-moo and the Beast of the End he summoned.

But Kang Hyun-moo’s side had suffered even greater damage.

Most of the Omnipotence Alliance hunters were dead, and the monsters were almost wiped out.

Even Lee Ji-tae and Park Do-ryung were alive.

The Teacher repeated the regression about 12 times to reach this result.

Until then, Kang Hyun-moo had smashed all of the Teacher’s right teeth, inflicted a penetrating wound on his thigh, and broken seven ribs.

Of course, the Teacher cut off Kang Hyun-moo’s neck, pulled out his heart, and pulled out his limbs.

But as a result, all that remained now was the Teacher’s injuries.

Nevertheless, the best result of the 12 regressions was now.

This was the best.

However, the Sky Ruin that Hyun-moo summoned and dropped was a card that could reverse all of this.

“Not much left!”

The Teacher shouted, encouraging his allies. Lee Ji-tae struggled to get up beside him.

He was also severely injured, but he was desperately surviving for this final battle.

If they push a little harder now, they can defeat Kang Hyun-moo.

“Towards the best future!”

The Teacher spat out a cry that he didn’t know whether he was saying to his allies or to himself.

The allies shouted in unison and poured out attacks on the Sky Ruin in their own ways.

The Teacher also rammed the Sky Ruin with all his might through Kirin, who had been sublimated into a Beast of the End.

Finally, as if the effort and wishes had worked, the Sky Ruin began to split. Because they fought quickly, Hyun-moo had no time to turn the Sky Ruin into a Beast of the End.

But the Teacher did not let his guard down.

This was because Kang Hyun-moo in his true form, who had been ambushing inside the Sky Ruin, was scheduled to appear right after this.

As expected, the moment the Sky Ruin split, Kang Hyun-moo and Renian ambushed the Teacher.

“Towards the best, future!”

But the Teacher, who had prepared enough for this moment, collided with Hyun-moo with all his might.

The Teacher was exhausted, but Hyun-moo was the same. Besides, he was dying and had no power.

‘I’m going to win this time.’

The Teacher was on the verge of going crazy from the repeated battles and exhaustion.

Difficulty: Nightmare had never continued to fight like this to this extent.

The Teacher gritted his teeth and poured out attacks on Hyun-moo.

But at that moment, the Teacher saw Kang Hyun-moo smiling slyly. His chest swelled greatly, and a loud shout erupted.

“Adam, bite!”

“Teacher, avoid it!”

At the same time, Lee Ji-tae’s cry was also heard.

But Kang Hyun-moo and the Teacher had already collided. To be exact, Kang Hyun-moo threw himself into the Teacher’s attack in a way that was no different from suicide.

The Abyss under Kang Hyun-moo’s control stuck to the Teacher’s Abyss.

The Teacher couldn’t understand the situation. In this state, Kang Hyun-moo would only have all of his Abyss taken away.

But there was no need to understand the situation. Something was piercing through the Teacher’s body.

Crack.

Along with intense pain in his chest, he heard a chilling sound.

The Teacher found a long spear that pierced through him and Kang Hyun-moo at the same time.

It was an Ego Weapon.

The Teacher’s gaze turned to the sky. And he saw dozens of Ego Weapons pouring down like rain.

The murderous spears, which could never miss, were flying towards the Teacher and Hyun-moo’s lives.

Only then did the Teacher understand Hyun-moo’s cry.

‘The Chepesh Case [referring to Vlad the Impaler’s method of execution].’

Adam Fault was glaring at the Teacher with his teeth clenched.

Adam Fault had been hiding his claws until this very moment.

Following Hyun-moo’s orders.

In that way, from the moment Kang Hyun-moo joined Adam Fault, the 44 Ego Weapons that had been prepared pierced through Kang Hyun-moo and the Teacher at the same time.

It was a cruel impalement.