Void Realm:
After a Chun Yeowun climbed to the realm beyond the Natural Realm, he reached the Void Realm. According to the “Myriad Thought Scripture 萬思經,” one of the ancient books known as the Three Great Books of the Central Plains, together with the Xuanbo Zhenjing (선백진경과), if one realizes the emptiness and residual meaning, one will shed the shell. The first step is also known as the realm of emptiness. The state of realizing the truth of the universe. The one who reaches this realm can use space swords and space moves, or you can simply eliminate specific spaces.1
Grand Duke Kaliaf and Duke Bevman didn’t have the eyes that could tell them the number of the opponent’s power. However, one can predict the opponent’s level when one reaches their level.
‘Strong.’
The first time they saw the subordinates of Night King, they seemed fine.
These prisoners were full of confidence, moving with force, and the extraordinary power oozing out of their bodies was above Duke level.
Slash!
For Chun Yeowun, it was just one slash. As Chun Yeowun was walking ahead, he lightly drew his sword, and their throats were slashed without even being able to exercise their power.
’… I feel it each time, but he’s really a monster.’
That was what the two of them thought, then what about the Night King who lost his men? The expression of the man who had infinite trust in his men went stiff.
‘One slash?’
If he hadn’t witnessed it with his own eyes, he would have never believed it.
Pak!
Something protruded from the chests of each demon who were cut down. They were the nuclei that moved into the hands of Chun Yeowun.
After pulling it out, the heartbeat in the bodies of the demons got weaker.
‘Nucleus?’
Night King frowned.
The match was already done. He thought about that because this is one of the many secrets of the dungeon. Unlike the other parts of the prison, this was the place where no one could regenerate after getting injured.
That was why the demons were fighting a life and death battle here; it was so that they would be stronger than the demons on the outside.
‘What is he doing?’
For that reason, the Night King couldn’t understand Chun Yeowun’s actions.
Woong!
At that moment, gloomy energy rose from Chun Yeowun’s right wrist. The nuclei he held in both hands were wrapped inside a blue light. The light then seeped into Chun Yeowun, and the nuclei broke.
Psss!
Chun Yeowun closed his eyes and trembled. The green eyes of Night King, who was carefully watching Chun Yeowun, fluttered more than before.
‘Right now, he….’
He doubted his own eyes. Other demons didn’t even notice it, but he knew.
“Ability absorption!”
The one-eyed demon standing next to him was puzzled by Night King’s words. It was because he didn’t know what it truly meant.
Phat!
At that moment, Night King moved ahead like the speed of lightning and went for Chun Yeowun. He tried to grab the neck of Chun Yeowun, who had been temporarily defenseless as he was absorbing the power of the nucleus.
“Who said you could?!”
Grand Duke Kaliaf stopped Night King at high speed and kicked him.
Pak!
Night King lightly grabbed the Grand Duke’s leg aiming for him.
Tremble!
As Night King caught the kick, he felt his right hand tremble. His eyes lit up.
‘He is a candidate for the Demon King title. Has he gotten used to the place already?’
The Grand Duke’s powerful kick was extraordinary.
Until recently, Grand Duke Kaliaf hadn’t adapted to the conditions here. But in just a short time, he managed to use great strength.
“You still have a long way off.”
Woong!
A green light flashed from his right hand. Ominous energy emanated from the green light along with a weird stench.
Night King threw it into a fist and launched ahead.
‘This is bad.’
Grand Duke Kaliaf, who judged that this energy was dangerous, tried to move away but then stopped.
Chun Yeowun was right behind him.
‘Shit!’
The moment he would move, Chun Yeowun would get hit by this bizarre energy. The Grand Duke immediately changed his mind and concentrated on the demonic power in his body to withstand this attack.
Bang!
And the first attack was on his abdomen.
The moment the green light touched the body, a scream erupted.
“Kuak!”
“Stupid bastard. Fighting me to protect the one behind.”
The secret of the green light was terrible poison.
Night King had the ability to deal with poison even before he was imprisoned. Once he entered Bamut, he used poison gas and extracted it around the prison to get stronger than before.
— shhh!
“Kuak!”
The Grand Duke’s armor began to melt after it was hit, and the color of his abdomen turned black. Grand Duke Kaliaf didn’t back down despite the pain.
“Still, in the name of the former Demon King candidate, you must be working hard to not move despite the poison in your stomach.”
The Night King praised him.
For a being who had already been through numerous fights, he confirmed his power.
Even Duke-level demons go beyond trembling. Their bodies shake with just a single hit of his fist, and then they will melt away.
‘What amazing power.’
It was acknowledged that the demonic power in Kaliaf made him known to be a monster.
“What is making you protect him?”
Grand Duke Kaliaf was close to being a king. However, it didn’t make sense to protect a simple human.
Trembling, Grand Duke Kaliaf said,
“He is… the Grand Duke’s… master.”
At that, the Night King shouted.
“Master? Ha! You mean that the Grand Duke Kaliaf has a human master! Is it because he has Larisha’s sword?”
Night King noticed the power of Chun Yeowun.
He was convinced that Chun Yeowun had Arisha’s sword from when he absorbed the nuclei.
Grand Duke Kaliaf didn’t answer. It was already taking him a lot of strength to control the poison seeping in.
“You are still the same. Kuk. Do you not know me?”
Night King asked.
However, Grand Duke Kaliaf had no idea what the other was saying. Green wrinkled face and glowing green eyes. None of the people he knew were like this.
Disappointed, Night King said,
“Enough. I was going to kill you anyway. Just die now.”
As if he didn’t want to talk any further, Night King pulled out a fist full of poison.
Night King’s fist quickly aimed at Grand Duke’s chest.
It was then…
Pang!
Just as he was about to punch, his body bounced back more than 10 meters by some counter-repelling force.
Papapak!
“Kuak!”
Night King looked at the Grand Duke with bewildered eyes.
‘Did he kick my fist?’
His fist still had poison on it, but he couldn’t understand what had happened.
The force which deflected him didn’t come from Grand Duke Kaliaf.
Chun Yeowun placed his hand on the Grand Duke’s back.
“I see you got what I entrusted you to, Kaliaf.”
The Grand Duke tried to smile.
“Of course…”
Chun Yeowun smiled bitterly.
Actually, he didn’t take long to absorb his new powers, but he wanted to watch how the Grand Duke would act. Whether or not he was suppressed by force, if his loyalty was true, or if it was only in the form of words.
And he passed the test.
“The poison… I’ll take it out.”
“What?”
Woong!
“Uh?”
Chun Yeowun placed his hand on the back of the Grand Duke and breathed internal energy into the body.
It was entirely different from demonic power, but it would avoid affecting the body if he handled it as if he was lightly inducing it.
Papak!
Chun Yeowun lightly patted the Grand Duke’s body, and the poison came out.
“Ack!”
The smoke even came out of Grand Duke Kaliaf’s mouth.
‘He released the poison?’
Grand Duke Kaliaf frowned at the ability of Chun Yeowun.
This wasn’t some strong poison, but it was still his first time seeing someone detoxify the poison this way.
Chun Yeowun looked at Night King and said,
“You must be the leader of this place.”
He could tell that just by looking at the attitudes of the other demons.
Night King, who was glaring at Chun Yeowun with his gleaming green eyes, said,
“What are you? How can a human have that kind of power, and why do you have Larisha’s Sword?”
“Larisha’s Sword?”
Chun Yeowun’s eyes narrowed at the mention of Larisha. Even Grand Duke Kaliaf was the same.
The only people who knew of Arisha as Larisha were the current Demon King who disappeared and him.
“Who are you?”
At the question of Kaliaf, the Night King laughed bizarrely.
“Ahahahaha. You are interested now? So late. You should have immediately recognized me, the Duke, the moment you saw me and apologize for not performing your duties as the servant.”
“Duke?”
Grand Duke Kaliaf looked confused, and Night King slammed his hand to the floor.
Pak!
“Everyone! Die!”
At that moment, a stench and poison began to seep from the floor. Chun Yeowun quickly waved his hand, and Kaliaf and Duke Bevman behind him were thrown off and flew back.
“Huh!”
And the green light began to shine out from the floor—the light, which was poisonous, filled around a 50-meter radius reaching the ceiling.
“Master!”
Grand Duke Kaliaf looked at the green pillars that were soaring high. If it had been a little later, they would have been engulfed; they escaped thanks to Chun Yeowun.
Night King giggled.
“Idiot. To sacrifice yourself to save those people….”
Grab!
Someone grabbed his head from behind.
“Don’t tell me you thought you could avoid me with this trick?”
Night King’s green eyes trembled as he heard the voice from behind. In that brief moment of his attack, he didn’t think the human would appear behind him by avoiding the poison.
“If you know Larisha, you must know a lot.”
Chun Yeowun gave strength into his hand, and the Night King said with a laugh.
“You made a mistake. You put your hands on my body.”
Paaak!
As soon as he said that, a green light erupted from the Night King’s head. It was poison.
He could use poison from his entire body and even make a poison beam from his eyes. In a cheerful voice, he spoke.
“Too late. It’s already on your hand, and the poison must be on….”
Crack!
“Kuaaal!”
Night King screamed as Chun Yeowun’s fingers dug into his skull. The pain was brief, but he was still giving out poison, so he couldn’t understand how Chun Yeowun could still do it.
“Y-You! Have you lost it? The poison will melt your han….”
“What do you expect me to do?”
“What?”
Night King couldn’t understand what was happening.
However, looking at the current situation and the expressions of the demons, a rough idea formed.
“No… way.”
“N-Night King’s poison isn’t working.”
The green light wasn’t entering Chun Yeowun’s body but was dispersing around.
Poison was also a kind of energy, and it would be of no use if the opponent had energy surpassing his.
‘No. I was planning to have it as a trump card.’
Grunt!
Night King clenched his teeth and endured the pain. He then tried to raise his hand to cover his face.
However….
Chak!
“Kuak!”
Before he could raise his hand, it was swiftly cut off from the elbow.
“T-this…”
Night King was shocked at how he was stopped before even doing anything. Chun Yeowun spoke in a tired voice.
“This is tiring.”
Then he lightly swung the sword, and the other arm of Night King was cut off.
Chak!
“Kuaaak!”
Night King, who could no longer depend on his poison due to the pain of the arms being cut off, soon reduced the poison discharge.
He only looked at his fallen arms.
‘H-he knows about Awakening?’
There was no other way to stop this man.
Chun Yeowun spoke in a voice full of ridicule.
“Thinking you can change with this Advanced Awakening… Well, I wouldn’t let you do that.”
‘!?’
Night King was shocked as it felt like Chun Yeowun could read his thoughts.
‘W-what is this man!?’
Night King thought as he couldn’t understand the situation he had never experienced before.
It wasn’t a matter of whether or not he succeeded in Advanced Awakening, but this man behind him could rip him off each chance.
Chun Yeowun asked while holding his head in his hand.
“What do you know about Larisha?”
At that, Night King’s expression distorted.
“You think I will just say something to you because you ask me repeatedly!”
The Night King wasn’t afraid of death. From the moment he came here, he thought he could die any moment.
“Kill me if you want to!”
Instead, the demons under him were shocked at his expression.
No one expected the one they worshipped as King to be so helpless.
With a distressed expression on his face, Night King decided to risk his life.
“World has to be round. Larisha. The one who couldn’t do anything for you….”
“If this is what you are, then you must know.”
“What?”
It was then.
Paaang!
A tremendous wind pressure raged from behind. Night King, who was held captive, was thrown to the floor and rolled down as he didn’t have arms to stop.
“Kuak!”
As he could not balance, he barely managed to get himself up.
‘!!!’
And the moment he was up, his green eyes shook.
“N… No way…”
Night King wouldn’t help but be shocked at what he was seeing.
The incarnation of black flame appeared in front of him.
The image of the one he always dreamt of.
“La… Larisha!”
Angel’s Corner
Since we’re almost reaching the end, I have a question for you.
What’s with DOTDG that made you keep on reading?
For me, it’s because I’m editing this, so I need to. Lol. Actually, aside from that, I like how the secrets keep on unfolding in every chapter. Also, I’m excited for Chun Yeowun to go home and be with his family! I hope he’ll be able to go soon after dealing with the MS Group. I can’t wait!
That’s mine. So, what about you? ?
