The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 107

Chapter 441

Part 2, Episode 107.

Buzzing-

Woo-ahhhhh!

The entrance to the Tower of Disaster was now filled with fervent excitement.

It was unclear whether this was due to the sheer number of people gathered or the overheated atmosphere from the unprecedented situation.

“I heard from a friend that Babylon is gathering here too?”

“Me too. There’s no way news wouldn’t spread with this chaos. I heard they’re furious and gathering all their guild members.”

“Wow, so it’s a full-blown war?”

“This is freaking exciting.”

Anticipation, excitement, anxiety, curiosity.

All emotions were boiling in one place, creating an intriguing atmosphere.

However, one thing was certain…

“War… this is insane, really.”

“And Kaiser might even get involved. I can’t believe I’m witnessing this live.”

“Awesome. Who do you think will win?”

“Well… the Outlaws will probably win.”

“True.”

Most people were predicting the victory of the Outlaws.

It was inevitable.

“It’s not like the Top 10 Guild title is just given out, and Babylon is still Babylon… but the difference in numbers is just too great.”

“Even if Elanis has the most guild members, it’s only about a third of the total… so maybe around 3,000? That’s too much of a disadvantage.”

“Babylon is lucky to have this many members. Other guilds wouldn’t even be able to gather 3,000.”

“Those villain bastards have insane numbers. How do they have over 10,000 in Elanis alone?”

“I don’t think they’re all here yet. I heard they originally have around 20,000.”

“Crazy.”

The difference in numbers was just too extreme.

It wasn’t just double, but more than triple the amount…

They would need a strategist like Zhuge Liang [a famous Chinese strategist] to do anything, but they were just waiting in front of the entrance, so there was no room for strategy.

The only option Babylon had was a frontal assault.

“They’re being so underhanded. How can they gather and wait for us like this while we’re trying to climb the tower?”

“They’re villains. They don’t need to care about their image, they just need to win.”

“Too bad… this isn’t really a war, it’s just a one-sided ambush.”

“Can’t they call for reinforcements?”

“Have you seen guilds teaming up since the New Continent update? If Babylon loses, they’ll gladly absorb them. And there aren’t many guilds on Babylon’s side anyway.”

“What about the Heavenly Demon Church?”

“I’m not sure about them, but they’re not in Elanis. They only follow the Heavenly Demon. It’s amazing they’re even a Top 10 Guild with that structure.”

“Those villain bastards…”

As they were talking, a user who had been disparaging them as villains suddenly stopped talking.

He sensed something was wrong.

‘…Why do they look like that?’

The faces of those he was talking to had turned pale.

They looked like frightened lambs.

He was about to ask why they were suddenly like that, but he couldn’t.

Swoosh-!

“Aaaagh!!”

The sound of something being cut was heard, and suddenly one of his companions had his left arm severed from the shoulder.

The sight of his comrade’s arm falling to the ground was truly shocking.

Even he, who had killed countless monsters, was momentarily stunned.

Because in God of Second Era, where the body isn’t actually damaged even if the neck is cut or the heart is pierced, it was rare to see a user’s arm being cut off.

“Wh-what?”

“What’s…”

And just as he was stunned, the companions beside him had similar reactions.

Swoosh, Thwack!

Swish-

That hesitation soon led to a terrible result.

The user, stabbed and cut several times by a sword made of blood, eventually turned to dust and disappeared.

A tragedy that happened in the blink of an eye.

“Gasp.”

“!”

The companions who had gasped quickly covered their mouths.

The red-haired, slit-eyed man who had killed the user turned to look at them.

Especially the youngest of the group reacted more strongly.

‘…!!’

Before he knew it, the red-haired man was right in front of him, his face close.

A distance where he could feel his breath.

The chilling sensation, as if a dagger was pointed at his throat, stopped him from stepping back.

It wasn’t bloodlust.

Swish.

“You’re quick. If you had taken one more step back, you would have died.”

“……”

The blood-stained sword was indeed floating in the air behind him, ready to pierce his back.

The man froze, unable to even breathe.

The red-haired man brought his face closer again, slitting his sharp eyes even further.

“I’m going to kill you anyway.”

“Wh-what, cough!”

Thwack!

Before the man could react, the blood-stained sword floating behind him easily pierced through his back and heart like tofu.

Seeing his wide eyes, the red-haired man silently took out a dagger from his chest.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

“Wh-what’s going on all of a sudden…”

“D-did he really kill him? For no reason?”

“This can’t be happening.”

And then came the brutal butchery.

Even knowing it was a game, the users belatedly realized the audacity of the brutal actions.

That the ones in front of them were not guild members who had to care about their image, or ordinary users who cared about their backers.

They were villains.

Criminals from the Outlaws who didn’t care about image or backers.

It was already too late to step back.

Thwack! Swoosh-

Cough! Aaaagh!

The man’s death was like a signal flare.

The villains, who had been surrounding the tower, suddenly began killing the spectators.

“S-save me!”

“What the hell are you doing!”

“I’ll kill you villain bastards… cough!”

“This is insane…”

Some resisted, but they couldn’t possibly survive among the ten thousand villains.

Moreover, the villains trying to kill them were not just any villains.

Each and every user gathered here was a top-ranked combatant from the Outlaws, notorious in Elanis.

There were many spectators, so if they banded together, they could at least put up a fight…

“R-run. Those bastards have gone crazy.”

“Damn it. I was just trying to watch something fun, what a disaster.”

“You can watch it on broadcast later. The Outlaws or someone will upload it. You’ll only lose equipment if you die here.”

“Get out of the way!”

Ordinary users were terrified just by hearing the name of the Outlaws.

Not just a hundred or a thousand.

With ten thousand top-ranked Outlaw combatants gathered, who would dare to resist?

Like dozens of herbivores fleeing from a predator.

How long had it been since they started massacring the fleeing users?

“Stop.”

“Everyone, stop. It’s Commander Ryuk’s order.”

“Yes!”

“Understood, boss.”

The man who had killed the first spectator, the red-haired Ryuk, who had been watching silently, ended the unexpected massacre. Looking around, he saw that the number of spectators had dwindled to less than a fifth, they had run away so desperately.

Even that number included users who were still running away.

“Should I kill them all?”

“No, leave them alone. We need some people to witness the moment we bring the Top 10 Guild to its knees. It’s good to leave this many.”

“Understood.”

Ryuk, with his fiercely slit eyes, looked at the remaining users and opened his mouth.

“You better watch your mouths. We don’t forgive or overlook anything. We don’t give a damn.”

“……”

There was no answer, but he didn’t need to hear it.

The way they were averting their eyes in fear was the answer.

Ryuk, leaving a strong warning, walked leisurely through the crowd that had parted like the Red Sea. As he stood back in his original position, a cold voice greeted him.

“…Why did you do that?”

It was Lee Jae-hyuk, the commander of the 1st unit of the 1st division.

“They were running their mouths disrespectfully. Once I crack down like this, they quiet down. They should have done this from the start, they’re just asking for trouble.”

“That’s not what I’m talking about. If you hadn’t stepped in, I would have moved.”

“Then what’s the problem?”

“…Blood Lord. I know it has a limited number of uses. There was no need to waste it on something unnecessary before the war.”

“Oh, that. I’ll use my abilities as I please, what’s it to you?”

Ryuk was the commander of the 2nd unit of the 1st division.

Formally, Lee Jae-hyuk was in a higher position, but Ryuk didn’t care.

From the 1st to the 3rd unit of the 1st division, only the units were divided, and the combat power was similar, so there was no hierarchy.

Of course, the same was true for the commanders Ryuk and Lee Jae-hyuk.

“This isn’t a simple war. This mission is so important that the King himself will execute it. Wasting the only three severing effects like this is foolish.”

“Oh, come on. Always nagging.”

“Above all, the enemy this time is not just any user, but Kaiser and the owner of the Armory. Even if Kaiser is secondary, Babylon’s potential cannot be ignored…”

“Lee Jae-hyuk, that guy’s right.”

A voice suddenly cut in.

A man with bright yellow hair and a lightning-shaped scar on his eye, Kalchan, the commander of the 3rd unit.

His appearance, with his arm around Lee Jae-hyuk’s shoulder, along with his sleek, muscular body, was like a biker.

“Do you use your ultimate move anytime in an arcade plane game? No matter how I think about it, there’s nothing more idiotic than using an ultimate move on a 잡졸 [jjapjol – insignificant person/minion].”

“……Kalchan, why are you interfering? Do you want to die?”

At Ryuk’s murderous voice, a sneer appeared on Kalchan’s face.

“Can you kill me?”

“I’ll show you if you’re curious. I’ll show you where you’ll be cut off and die.”

“I don’t think I’ll die to a moron who uses ultimate moves on 잡졸 [jjapjol – insignificant person/minion]. Unless you accidentally kill me.”

“You son of a bitch…”

“Stop it.”

The atmosphere, which had been heating up endlessly as if two beasts were fighting, was doused with cold water by a frosty voice.

It couldn’t be helped.

There was no hierarchy between Ryuk, Lee Jae-hyuk, and Kalchan, but this man was different.

Like his frosty voice, he had white hair and bloodless skin.

Over 190cm tall, but his thin and emaciated appearance was reminiscent of a vampire.

“……Yes.”

“I’m sorry, Biemo-nim.”

The aide ‘Biemo’.

His face was not well known to ordinary users, but he was a symbol of terror and hierarchy among the Outlaws, comparable to the Black Nightmare Raon.

Due to the nature of the aide, who took on most of the work, he was often more terrifying than the King, whom they rarely had to deal with.

Swish.

Meanwhile, whether they were paying attention or not, Biemo turned his head as if he didn’t care.

His gaze was fixed on the entrance of the tower.

Biemo, staring silently at the entrance, spoke in his unique, emotionless voice.

“The King is coming.”

“……!”

“Raon-nim is……”

As he said, the atmosphere around them was unusual.

They were too frightened to shout out loud, but they had become noticeably noisy.

As they raised their heads, they could see.

Step. Hwaruk-

With each step, black flames burned the air.

Beyond the black flames that flickered as if his entire body was swallowed by flames, red eyes gleamed ominously.

“……That’s Raon.”

“Wow, the force is crazy.”

“Ah, it’s a tragedy that I can’t film this because of copyright.”

“Still, it’s something to see it in person. Let’s be careful what we say, just in case.”

Was this what it meant to be overwhelmed?

The atmosphere felt like it had changed just by his appearance.

The murderous intent was so strong that the red eyes, which occasionally met their gaze, shone like a madman, and the black flames all over his body blazed like a furnace.

Ryuk, Kalchan, and Lee Jae-hyuk also swallowed hard.

‘……He’s very angry.’

‘I need to be especially careful with my words today.’

‘Did something really happen between him and those guys?’

They noticed that their King was upset.

In the atmosphere where they couldn’t bring themselves to speak due to tension, Raon, who had carefully looked around, finally opened his mouth.

“You’ve gathered well.”

It was a voice that felt cold anger, in contrast to the surging flames.

“Today, we will strike Babylon and Kaiser. There are no exceptions. If you run away, I will chase you to the end and kill you. However, capture Kaiser alive and bring him before me. I will punish him myself.”

“Yes!”

“Today, the Outlaws will devour the Top 10 Guilds. This will be the first step in announcing our era to the world.”

Waaaaaaaah!

The sight of over ten thousand users cheering in unison was a pressure that surpassed imagination.

They weren’t even part of it.

Just being in this scene, where their ears were about to burst, gave them goosebumps and thrills.

Hwareureuk-!

As if feeding on the cheers, the black flames that burned everything blazed even more fiercely, threatening to swallow the sky.

‘……This.’

Looking at the overwhelming flames and the stomping of ten thousand villains, the users thought.

‘They might really do something?’

They suddenly had the thought that history might change today.

It was then.

“Uh oh?”

“Huh?”

“C-crazy! What is that!”

The users shouted in surprise,

Kwaaaaaaang-!!!!

Soon after, an enormous explosion erupted before they could even wonder what was happening.

And the users saw.

The moment they raised their heads to see the entrance of the tower, where the sound came from, they were greeted by something enormous.

—–!!

It was a distant shockwave.

Amidst the purplish-black energy that seemed to contain the universe, a massive shockwave, as if the Big Bang had occurred, was swallowing everything in front of them.

Kkyaaaaaaak!

The screams were buried, the explosions were buried, and soon even the vision was covered in light.

A thrilling one-shot.

“……Crazy.”

“What is this……”

When the light finally subsided.

What greeted them was a panorama of countless corpses and a landscape where the terrain was destroyed and deeply carved, leaving a crater.

“Oh, that was a good one-shot?”

“I told you, I’m the best with one-shots… Ah, what. Not as many died as I thought? They were spread out around. I expected it to some extent, but, tsk. What a waste.”

“This is enough.”

And what appeared leisurely behind them was…….

“……Kaiser?”

“The owner of the Armory……?”

-Liza!

-We’re here too!

-Hmm!

The moment Kaiser and his party made a spectacular appearance, striking the ten thousand villains first.