The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life [EN]: Chapter 599

Then, Kim Pan-seok arrived.

Karte looked at him strangely.

The powerful beings knew him better as Park Min-woo, the White Mage.

He was certainly the next most skilled human representative after Roman Dmitry, but for the absolutes, this kind of comparison did not matter.

Roman Dmitry was strong enough to beat the absolutes. But that did not mean other humans were as strong as him.

But Karte was angry to see Kim Pan-seok acting so bold.

Karte somehow knew that Roman Dmitry had finished in Germany and was going to England.

Just as Karte feared, they hoped Roman Dmitry would come to Australia right away.

Everyone around was filled with despair. Kim Pan-seok ignored their stares and raised his magic power.

The nine circles of magic spun fast. Kim Pan-seok’s power suddenly filled the air.

Usually, humans are weak against nature. A normal person would be scared. But Kim Pan-seok was a powerful magician, a 9th circle mage. Nature meant something different to him.

The water hit with a sound like a bomb. Right away, Kim Pan-seok used another magic.

Magic power can never be stronger than the absolutes’ power.

Magic uses nature’s power for a short time. But the absolutes can control nature itself.

So, they were completely different.

He made flames just like Kim Pan-seok did.

He made flames from the hottest place in the universe. These flames were so hot, they could burn anything, even worlds.

Just looking at them hurt your eyes.

When the flames touched Kim Pan-seok’s magic, it disappeared.

If 9th circle magic could hurt them, the absolutes wouldn’t think they were gods.

The absolutes were weak now and trying to survive. They needed someone besides Roman Dmitry to fight them.

Roman Dmitry was trying to do everything himself. Kim Pan-seok wanted to show him he could help.

So, he had to beat this absolute. If he won, the absolutes would be very confused, because it wasn’t Roman Dmitry.

His mind split, becoming many. His magic power grew huge. He focused all of it into one spell.

“…Surely you don’t intend to stop me alone, do you?”

He expanded his senses.

In case Roman Dmitry might suddenly appear while he was buying time, he raised his magic power and finished preparing to escape immediately.

To his dismay, the situation was different from what he had expected.

The words conveyed beyond his consciousness informed him that Roman Dmitry had resolved the situation in Germany and was heading to England.

The soldiers of Australia wore desperate expressions.

Like the part Karte was worried about, they hoped that Roman Dmitry would immediately help Australia.

However.

Looking up at Karte, he did not back down in the slightest.

“That’s right. I’m going to stop you alone.”

“Ha.”

“Oh dear.”

Sighs erupted from the surroundings.

The White Mage was indeed a great master, but even his fellow humans did not see him as a match for an absolute.

It was obvious.

An absolute was a being comparable to a god.

No matter how much the White Mage had been active, he had not shown as overwhelming results as Roman Dmitry.

But to face an absolute alone? They were grateful for the fact that he had come to support them, but they did not think that they could survive with Kim Pan-seok alone.

They would die.

In a situation stained with despair, Kim Pan-seok raised his magic power without paying attention to the gazes of the people.

“It’s so damn infuriating. You ran away because you were afraid of His Imperial Majesty Roman Dmitry, so why are you acting like a god here where there are no rivals? Hey, you son of a bitch. Don’t cowardly run away, let’s fight.”

Kwa-rung.

Rumble!

Magic power boiled explosively.

The nine circles rotated fiercely, and Kim Pan-seok’s magic power instantly dominated the surroundings.

“Why? If you’re scared, run away again.”

The words spat out.

Karte’s expression twisted fiercely.

There was no reason to run away.

Now that he had grasped Roman Dmitry’s movements, Karte gladly accepted the challenge of the presumptuous human.

“Humans are creatures of forgetfulness. I will show you now. The desperate reality when the absolutes first descended upon this world, when humanity had to revere us like gods.”

He flicked.

And then.

“Try to endure it.”

Flick.

Bang!

Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham!

Suddenly, tidal waves erupted from all directions.

It was a sight that was hard to believe even when seen with one’s own eyes, and a wave so huge that it made humans look pathetic tried to swallow Kim Pan-seok’s existence.

Humans kneel before the greatness of nature. If he were an ordinary human, he would not dare to resist, but to a magician who had reached the realm of the 9th circle, the meaning of nature was different.

“How predictable. Aqua Punishment.”

Wham!

Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham!

9th circle magic.

Kim Pan-seok’s magic power erupted explosively, creating tidal waves from nothing, just like Karte. The two tidal waves collided with tremendous force.

The powerful water pressure was accompanied by a noise as if a bomb had exploded, and Kim Pan-seok immediately unleashed a follow-up magic.

“Hell Fire.”

Whoosh.

Roooar.

Flames of hell blazed.

The intensely burning flames evaporated the tidal waves, and it tried to swallow Karte’s existence in reverse.

“How dare you!”

Karte’s eyes flashed fiercely.

Two counterattacks.

He had not yet inflicted any meaningful damage on himself, but Kim Pan-seok’s power seemed to mimic the authority of the absolutes.

The power manifested by magic can never surpass the absolutes.

Magic is a way of borrowing the power of nature for a moment, while the authority of the absolutes is the ability to control and freely manipulate ‘nature’.

Therefore.

The fundamentals were different.

When Karte waved his hand, the flames of hell flying towards him disappeared in an instant.

And then.

“This is what the flames of hell are like.”

Whoosh.

Roooar.

He created flames in the same way.

The hottest place among the many dimensions, he summoned flames that not only burned the world itself but also overflowed beyond the dimensions into this life.

It seemed as if one’s eyes would go blind just by looking at it. As the flames flew at Karte’s touch, this time Kim Pan-seok’s magic power was all being decomposed.

It was overwhelming.

The presence of an absolute.

If they were only vulnerable to 9th circle magic, the absolutes would not have been so overconfident as to consider themselves gods.

“…Oh dear.”

Kim Pan-seok smiled awkwardly.

This mission.

He knew it was very difficult.

That’s why Roman Dmitry also asked Kim Pan-seok to stay in the Dmitry Empire, but Kim Pan-seok knew that in that way, Roman Dmitry would be taking on all the burdens.

He was certain.

No matter how powerful the absolute was, the moment they faced Roman Dmitry, they would be overwhelmed with despair and have no choice but to run away.

If so.

The disaster would be prolonged.

Against the absolutes who were scattered and trying to save their numbers, a weapon other than Roman Dmitry was needed to deal with them.

‘That must be me.’

His value.

He wanted to prove himself.

Even when Roman Dmitry was trying to solve all the problems with his own strength this time, he wanted to show him that this Kim Pan-seok existed.

If so, he had to defeat the absolute.

If they were defeated by him instead of Roman Dmitry, the absolutes would be plunged into great confusion.

“Okay, let’s fight.”

Hwa-ack.

Whirr! Whirr! Whirr! Whirr!

The nine circles rotated fiercely.

One consciousness split into two, two into four, and four into eight.

Numerous consciousnesses.

Explosive magic power.

And a single magic.

Looking at the approaching flames, Kim Pan-seok expressed his full power.

“Meteor Strike.”

Rumble!

A powerful blow.

It was an all-out strike.

A huge meteor appeared from the dark clouds. It moved with great power, like it wanted to destroy the powerful being with fire.

It was a strike stronger than any human could make.

This one spell had so much power it could destroy more than just a city.

However.

Boom!

Whoosh, crackle!

The meteor exploded. When it hit the hellfire, it broke apart very easily and was swallowed by the flames.

It was Kart’s power.

He was stronger than Kim Pan-seok.

The powerful being, Kart, showed that he was still just a human.

“Die, human,” Kart said with a smile.

Seeing that, Kim Pan-seok remembered something from his past.

Kim Pan-seok in his previous life.

He wanted to become stronger.

Like a powerful evil leader looking down on the world, he wanted to become like a god and make his memories real.

But he failed.

As Aleksandr, he created the Aura, and with the Demon King’s power, he reached a very high level of magic, but he knew he was not as strong as the Heavenly Demon, no matter how hard he tried.

It was useless. He had worked hard for many years, but he still couldn’t compare to the being he admired.

In the end, the Demon King left him because he had lost.

Kim Pan-seok fell into a very deep and terrible place. As his soul was being destroyed, he thought about one thing.

‘If I get another chance, can I become as strong as the Heavenly Demon Baek Jung-hyuk? No, that’s impossible. Can I at least become as strong as the Demon King who made me like this?’

Kim Pan-seok did not give up.

Instead of looking at those weaker than him and feeling okay about his life, he looked up to those he could not reach.

The Heavenly Demon was out of the question. Seeing the Heavenly Demon as Roman Dmitry made him want it even more, proving that his memories were real.

However, the Demon King was different.

He wanted to be stronger than him.

If he had another chance, he didn’t want to lose to someone like the Demon King again.

He kept thinking about this even when he was Park Min-woo.

In the new world, there were powerful beings instead of the Demon King, and he always wondered how to beat them.

He trained a special point in his body for magic.

He created new magic.

He was stronger than people thought, but he pushed himself and worked hard every day.

He thought and thought.

He wanted the answer.

He wanted to improve.

And when he met Roman Dmitry again, and saw what he had done with his own eyes, Kim Pan-seok made a decision after thinking for a long time.

Time seemed to stop.

Facing the evil feeling that was trying to destroy him, Kim Pan-seok spoke sadly.

“I have learned one truth in my life. Some people are born with more talent than others. Someone who is born with nothing can achieve something by working hard, but to become like Emperor Roman Dmitry, or you powerful beings or Demon Kings, you need to be born with something special.”

Kim Pan-seok was a nobody.

Because he was born with so little, he had to spend many years training, unlike those who were lucky.

It wasn’t easy.

Most people get bored even with a hundred years of life, but Kim Pan-seok forced himself to deal with boredom and loneliness to achieve his strong desire.

That was all.

He was good enough to create the Aura and reach the 9th Circle, but he couldn’t overcome his natural limits.

“Yes, this must be my limit. I know my place, and I know I can never be better than this.”

Whoosh.

Crackle.

The hellfire flew at him. It had burned the meteor, and now it was coming for his life.

“But you know what? The only person I can respect is Emperor Roman Dmitry. I can’t stand to respect anyone else. So, I will now show you what I have achieved. I achieved this by accepting my natural limits. No one can look down on me except for His Majesty. Come out, Altar!”

Thud.

Rumble.

For the past 49 days, Kim Pan-seok had learned Nepir’s skill.

The dead were destroyed, but he could use the ‘Altar Skill’ himself.

Kart laughed. Even though Kim Pan-seok sounded determined, Kart thought it was silly that he was only using the Altar Skill.

“To fight back with a skill from us? How unbelievable.”

Nepir.

Altar Skill.

These were all powers of the powerful beings.

It was hard to believe, until he saw what was sacrificed on the altar.

“You stupid fool. The same skill can be different depending on who uses it. I will sacrifice the magic power of ‘this guy,’ one of your kind, who was beaten and torn apart by Emperor Roman Dmitry.”

“……?!!”

Kart’s eyes opened wide.

Kim Pan-seok had been allowed to act on his own as part of a plan.

While dealing with Kargas, Roman Dmitry had planned with Kim Pan-seok to leave behind some of the powerful being’s power that could be used as a ‘sacrifice.’

If they could get rid of even one powerful being because the enemy wasn’t careful, humans would have a new weapon besides Roman Dmitry, even if it could only be used once.

Therefore.

Flash!

Rumble!

A piece of flesh.

The altar took Kargas’s power.

Kim Pan-seok’s eyes widened as he was swept up in a storm of huge magic power.

It wasn’t complete power.

It was just a part of Kargas.

But that alone caused a big change. The nine circles were spinning fast and looked like they would explode. Kim Pan-seok felt a huge power that was beyond his natural limits.

Now he seemed to understand why Roman Dmitry, or the Demon King, was so strong. Being able to look down on the world and go beyond his limits led Kim Pan-seok to a completely different world for a moment.

“Ugh, ugh.”

He was bleeding from his nose.

He wanted to throw up.

It was a pain that normal humans couldn’t handle, but Kim Pan-seok gritted his teeth and swallowed it down.

Kim Pan-seok clearly faced his natural limits.

But he had been through the pain of having his soul torn apart by demons in the terrible Bottomless Pit, and he had become mentally stronger than any human could be.

His face turned red and reached its limit.

Flash!

“Aaaah-!”

The tenth ring formed in Kim Pan-seok’s heart.