Kwaruru-
No more Outers emerged from the crack in the sky.
Instead, steam billowed out, and jet-black smoke rose.
– Master, are you okay? Is it too much?
In the center, Se-un, who was spreading his wings alone, gasped for breath.
He had used up all the power he had recovered with the Authority of Sloth, causing his hands and feet to tremble.
The circle was empty, his heart constricted, and the dantian [energy center in the body, according to traditional Chinese medicine], where his inner energy had run dry, also cried out in pain.
He had squeezed out every last drop.
“Turik… can you lower me a bit?”
– Okay!
With no mental strength left to control his wings himself, Turik moved them directly.
As the altitude gradually decreased, Se-un saw the shrinking crack in the sky.
‘Did I succeed?’
Even if all the contents of the crack were dealt with, he didn’t know how to close the crack itself, but he was relieved to see it naturally recovering.
“Are you alright! Get a hold of yourself!”
Fortunately, Kashalakaas, remembering his promise, hurriedly flew over and caught Se-un.
Turik’s wings were also maintained by divinity, so their power was gradually disappearing, but it was a relief.
“Dragon, calm down. He seems to have overdone it and is exhausted. I used to be like that when I was young. It’s good to collapse like that when you’re young.”
“Don’t you interfere! You little human!”
“Oh? It seems like I need to sort out the hierarchy first?”
Se-un noticed Kashalakaas and Francis Hamel bickering, but he didn’t have the energy to mediate.
His stamina was already exhausted.
However, just before losing consciousness, Se-un began to connect his mind to somewhere.
“Kashalakaas, I’m counting on you.”
“Kuaaaaa!”
“Haha, I’ll make an exception and let you off with a few scales!”
Faced with a situation that didn’t seem very reliable, Se-un slowly closed his eyes.
* * *
While pouring various attacks at the crack where the Outers were coming out.
Se-un realized that even if he couldn’t go inside himself, he could find a way to check the internal situation in another way.
So, the weapon he took out was.
[Spirit of the Thunder God, Kutunesirka]
It was this.
A spirit sword with the spirits of a winter wolf and a summer fox dwelling within.
Se-un used familiar magic on this and threw the sword into the crack.
And now, Se-un awakened the spirit dwelling in the sword along with the familiar magic he had planted in the sword.
“Krrr-”
“Uuuu~”
The wolf and fox appeared in translucent forms.
The fox, accepting Se-un’s will, nodded and scattered like the wind, permeating the wolf.
The fox’s power concealed the wolf’s appearance like a veil and blocked the sound.
‘Please scout.’
“Kreung.”
The wolf moved quietly. Quietly, like a wolf tracking prey and trampling through the snow in the middle of winter.
Meanwhile, Se-un was able to observe the environment inside the crack through the wolf.
‘Even if nothing else, the terror [scouting mission] was a success.’
The inside of the crack was a complete mess.
There was nothing left that could be recognized as its original form.
All that could be seen were craters gouged out by the impact, scorched ground, and the unique smell of Outers burning.
“Krrr-”
The wolf’s pace quickened a little.
This was because Se-un urged the wolf as the crack began to close.
Even though their minds were connected, if the crack closed completely, not even Mamon’s treasure or the power of magic could connect Se-un’s mind with the wolf any longer.
It was a priority to pick up speed now, even if it meant making a little more noise.
Shuaaa-
Scenery passing quickly.
The range of the terror [scouting mission] was wider than he thought.
Just as the desolate ruins continued, the scenery finally began to change little by little.
‘That is…….’
A black sea unfolded.
A sea so wide that the horizon could be seen.
The way it writhed as if it were alive in a place where not a single breeze blew proved that this entire sea was made up of Outers.
‘It’s full of hosts, too.’
The heads and upper bodies of unidentified monsters protruded above the surface of the sea.
The bizarre appearance made it seem as if they were artificially created.
That must be the Tyrant’s experimental subject.
It must be the host completed by experimenting to be most suitable for the Outers.
The hosts that were visible right now were only exposed above the surface because of their enormous size, and there were definitely more hosts below the surface.
‘Can I move without being detected?’
“Kreung.”
A chill flowed from the wolf’s claws.
The wolf soon created ice platforms in the air and ran through the air as if flying.
‘It’s wider than I thought.’
He thought he had annihilated quite a few Outers through the crack in the sky, but compared to this sea made of Outers, it was just the tip of the iceberg.
Wasn’t this the starting point for the Outers who attacked the tower before the regression?
As he was thinking that, a familiar face, different from the Outers, was seen in the distance.
“To think you’d touch the whiskers of a sleeping tiger.”
A man covered in a robe, a grating voice like scraping metal.
It was the man called the Tyrant.
“That’s a shame. This operation was really good. Whether to kill him or tie him up on the 96th floor. Did the luck of the woman he was with stick to him?”
He was stroking an unidentified monster with black liquid covering his hand like a glove.
To be exact, it was a remodeling operation.
Just as Baek-hyun was creating the undead, he was also remodeling a host suitable for the Outers.
“Kkulureuk-”
The Outer, listening to the Tyrant’s scolding, trembled.
A frightened puppy-like appearance.
It was an appearance that didn’t suit the Outer at all.
“It’s okay. If you used that much power, you won’t be able to move for a while. You succeeded in buying time.”
“Kkulureuk!”
The Outer rippled as if pleased.
That emotion soon spread throughout the black sea, and the sea surged even more violently.
Because of that, the Outers almost reached the sky where the wolf was standing and were almost detected.
“Above all, since we even obtained the ‘material’.”
Kugugugu-
Ripples arose throughout the black sea.
Then, water soared high as if a tornado was rising.
“Now, we will soon be able to reveal the true form of ‘us’.”
Kwaaaaa!
The tornado grew bigger and bigger, soaring so high that it reached the sky.
And at the end of it.
“Kkulureureureuk—”
An ominous voice that echoed throughout the space was heard.
As the black liquid flowed down, the outline of something that had risen, however blurry, began to emerge.
At that time.
“…How did you get in here?”
Se-un and the Tyrant’s eyes, no, the wolf and the Tyrant’s eyes met.
The wolf unknowingly took a step back, and following Se-un’s will, he moved his head to look at his body, and saw that a drop of black liquid had묻은