“It’s Plaka.”
“Thank you.”
“Once the two regions are sorted out, I think I’ll be a bit busy too, so let’s talk more in detail next time.”
The promise of support from the Dragon Lord.
The fact that the dragons, who had pushed back the Outer even without meteorites or the power of destruction, were willing to help was a great source of strength.
Seun was invited to a party at the Frost Fortress, but he ignored it and went straight to Plaka.
‘I hope they’re safe?’
Seun immediately spread his wings and flew up.
Thanks to knowing the location well, he was able to quickly reach downtown Plaka.
‘The battle seems to be over.’
The presence of the Outer was not felt.
Instead, only the ragged breathing of the players could be heard.
“Master… have you come?”
Harry was the first to greet Seun.
His whole body was covered in sweat and dirt as if he had rolled on the floor, vividly demonstrating how difficult the battle had been.
“What’s the situation?”
And the answer came from the giant man behind Harry, not Harry himself.
“Hahaha! I heard similar things happened elsewhere! To deal with these monsters alone and arrive so quickly! Truly amazing!”
Brin Jarr.
The meteorite battle hammer in his hand was so dangerously cracked that it looked like it would break if he swung it just one more time.
If it was equipment made from meteorites by Go Chang-seok, the durability would be guaranteed, but to make such a hammer look like that…
I couldn’t even guess how many Outer heads he had smashed with that hammer.
Harry nodded at Brin Jarr’s enthusiastic reply and continued the answer.
“The situation here has barely been sorted out. The last attack force appeared about an hour ago.”
“What about Yoo Seo-ah?”
“She headed to the spawning grounds as Master said, with Kang Han-cheol and Arcana. Judging from the explosion, the battle seems to have already begun.”
“Explosion?”
“It seems the plan has failed, but we don’t have accurate information yet. There’s no word in the guild chat, so I think they’re still fighting…”
KWAANG-!!
Before Harry could finish speaking, an explosion was heard.
The location was, of course, the spawning grounds that the Outer had infested.
“You can handle the cleanup here, right?”
“Of course, Master.”
Taat!
As soon as he finished speaking, Seun’s figure quickly soared again.
On the way, he picked up a meteorite sword that someone had dropped on the floor after collapsing from exhaustion.
Although divinity is slowly recovering, if a monster like Kaier appears, there’s no way he can deal with it with this amount of divinity.
‘They’re still fighting.’
Although his divinity has fallen, his senses are still sharp.
Various presences were felt in the spawning grounds, but only one stood out.
In particular, the huge presence was, of course, that of the Outer.
‘It’s weaker than Kaier’s, but still strong enough.’
A formidable enemy that made him doubt whether he could handle it with the divinity he had left.
But if he used the authority of sloth and wielded the meteorite sword, wouldn’t he be able to manage somehow?
As he thought that and moved forward, he saw Outer who were dying, crushed flat as if they had been trampled by a giant.
‘Is that Kang Han-cheol?’
Next, an egg sac that was half-destroyed as if melted by poison.
Beyond that, a giant Outer could be seen on the tree.
“Kureureureureuk-!”
The moment Seun crossed the forest, squeezing out the remaining strength to strike the Outer as soon as he arrived, he saw the Outer’s end.
Pubeuk.
– Player Yoo Seo-ah dominates ‘#$!?%’.
The pupils of the Outer, who had been dominating the queen, turned red.
Even the Outer could not escape Yoo Seo-ah’s unique authority of domination.
“Kureu-”
Stopping resistance and ceasing movement.
Even before her sword could reach it, it sensed the danger and curled up like a grub, thoroughly covering its vulnerable abdomen.
Deudeudeuk-
Even though Yoo Seo-ah’s power had grown stronger, the time she could stop that giant Outer was only a few seconds.
The Outer also realized that this situation would end soon and desperately curled up and trembled.
“Han-cheol!”
The Outer made eye contact.
With the man who had somehow entered its arms, swelling his thick muscles to the fullest.
– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Commencement of War’.
KWAANG!!
His fist struck the Outer’s lower jaw.
Even though it had stiffened its body tightly, its head bobbed and its curled-up body loosened slightly.
Before it could even feel relieved that it had somehow endured.
– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Advance’.
Kang Han-cheol’s attacks.
– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘Collision’.
KWAKWAKWANG!!!
Poured in relentlessly.
The fist imbued with the power of destruction slowly unfolded the Outer’s body, and then, the moment Yoo Seo-ah’s domination reached its limit.
– Player Kang Han-cheol uses ‘End of War’.
Kugung!
The shape of a crocodile that pierced through the ground struck the Outer’s lower jaw.
The Outer’s body, which had been crouching with great effort, was fully unfolded, revealing what could be said to be the most vulnerable part.
And a gentle voice heard from above.
“You’ve worked hard~”
Arcana, who had been floating in the sky on a card, waiting for an opportunity, fell.
The Joker card in her hand changed into the form of a scythe, and then 52 trump cards, excluding the Joker cards already used, stuck to the scythe.
Chwareureureu-
A giant scythe was created, as big as the giant Outer that had swallowed the queen, or even bigger.
“Kureuk-”
The Outer stared at the scythe that had come right in front of it, without even having time to avoid it.
Shyaaaak!
A long, thin crack was drawn, dividing the Outer’s body into two.
The monster’s eyes rolled in different directions, denying its death.
And soon, the Outer’s body collapsed to both sides, bringing the battle of Plaka to an end.
“Haa, haa……”
The three collapsed as soon as the Outer fell.
Only the three’s ragged breathing could be heard in the spawning grounds.
In the first place, the enemy they had faced was not just that queen.
The Outer guarding the spawning grounds and the guards protecting the queen’s surroundings.
Defeating all those enemies and finally defeating the queen was what had just happened.
Even if they were the three most powerful in Diablo, it was natural that it was too much.
“Looks like you guys finished well over there too?”
“Yes? Ah, Seun!”
Arcana, who had managed to maintain her posture with some strength left in the midst of the chaos, was the first to discover Seun.
Yoo Seo-ah also greeted Seun, and Kang Han-cheol looked resentful that Seun had cleared the Outer faster and arrived.
“…Is it really over? The three of you?”
“Three of us? Everyone helped. Anyway, that’s the end of all the Outer in Plaka.”
To have really defeated all the Outer, beyond just holding out. And not just a few Outer, but all the Outer hidden in Plaka.
Seun had shared the power of destruction, but it was an unbelievable achievement.
“Did you see? I told you, believe me.”
Seun nodded without realizing it.
To think they would really clear out all the Outer in Plaka.
The power of Diablo, which he had only thought of as ‘assistance’, had become capable of confronting the Outer on its own.
“So, Seun.”
Yoo Seo-ah smiled weakly.
She had poured out all her strength, including the power of destruction that Seun had shared, the divinity that Baal had shared, and her own power, and it was already difficult for her to maintain her sanity.
“Can I… rely on you a little?”
“Of course.”
As he finished speaking, Seun looked at Yoo Seo-ah, who was quietly closing her eyes, and wrapped his arm around her shoulder to support her.
* * *
“Kureuk, kureuk-”
“Heh, in the end, you protected Kaier without giving up anything.”
The Deposed King, sitting on a black chair in a dark room, listening to the Outer’s report, let out a hollow laugh.
Frost Fortress, Kaier.
The Deposed King, who had already forced a choice between Plaka and Kaier, once again forced Seun to choose in Kaier.
Whether to waste power to protect Kaier, or to give up Kaier and defeat the Outer.
However, Seun did not choose this.
No, a new option appeared right in front of the choice.
“To think that those high-nosed dragons would believe the words of humans and lend their strength.”
Dragon.
To move the dragons, who had not played any role in the face of the cycle of destruction.
It was a surprising turn of events for the Deposed King, who had considered almost every possibility before moving the Outer.
“Kureuk, gureureuk-”
“Even Plaka was defeated? Even though the regressor left, just ordinary players joining forces?”
But the next news was even more absurd.
He had bothered to drop Seun off, but even the Outer of Plaka were all defeated.
Not ordinary Outer, but Outer who had maximized the knowledge learned from the spawning grounds personally selected by the Deposed King.
He had thought of several alternative plans, but all those possibilities were off, and only the worst outcomes were being reported.
“Kureuk, kureuk.”
“Kureureuk, kureuk.”
“Isn’t it dangerous? I certainly don’t feel good. I don’t feel good, but…”
The Deposed King gave a sinister smile.
Nothing went according to plan, but it wasn’t like there were no gains.
In the first place, the item of defeating Seun was not included in this plan.
He just wanted to destroy one of the Tower’s shelters as an example.
But.
“Wasn’t there a great harvest?”
The Deposed King recalled one of the items he had received a report on.
The outer shell of the Outer, the scales, which were newly created this time.
Even when attacked by the power of destruction, it was able to greatly reduce the damage by shaking off the scales.
His only concern was that Seun might grow even bigger and become a great adversary.
“In the end, an unexpectedly annoying guy appeared, but thanks to that, we were able to become this strong, weren’t we?”
Now that was over too.
If he used the scales well, he could withstand the annoying power of destruction even a little.
The attack he had suffered from the woman with the scythe in the empty meteorite of Death Hill before, if he used these scales well, he would not suffer the same damage even if he was attacked again.
“After all, all of this is just a step towards development. What’s important to us is the moment of collapse.”
Collapse.
Seun had experienced it before, the full-scale invasion of the Outer.
The Tower had collapsed with just the Outer who had not learned anything, but what if it was now, with all kinds of power and intelligence learned?
The first regressor and the regressor of the Demon God [Seun].
Can the future be changed by just two players flapping their wings?
‘There’s no way.’
Impossible.
If the Outer did not have the ability to learn, it would be impossible for them to change the future because the Deposed King was there.
“Above all, even if he is the regressor of the Demon God, it is doubtful whether he will be able to overcome the trials that the first regressor is enduring.”
The first regressor is waging a lonely battle in the tenth shelter.
He is holding on with the power he gained from regression, but that is also reaching its limit soon.
If the first regressor collapses, the tenth shelter will collapse without the Deposed King having to step in.
Even if the regressor of the Demon God arrives before that, it was not thought that he would be able to change the game.
“We are just walking towards the scheduled end with a happy heart.”
The Outer, who had been lying down as if dead around the Deposed King, wriggled as if applauding.
Chapter 588