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Reincarnator – Chapter 243 :Unsealing (5)

Hansoo scoffed.

'This is why the players who found this previously couldn't use the flail huh.'

He had thought something was amiss when he heard about it in the past.

Because the flail wasn't in the hands of the person who had found it.

Back then, he had thought that there might've been a specific reason but he knew now.

'He wasn't good enough probably.'

Hansoo mumbled.

Those players probably didn't have the ability to withstand the test of the physical body nor had the ability to accept their deal.

That's probably the reason why they went to find that man.

'Jang Oh.'

Hansoo laughed in a cold manner as he thought of the previous owner of the flail.

Jang Oh didn't declare a war against the empires.

But the seal itself had been broken properly and the 6h Great Change had still occurred.

Jang Oh had used the weapon and pissed many people off and was able to use the strength..

Which meant that they had some form of deal.

Which meant one thing.

'That this isn't a necessity.'

Hansoo laughed coldly as he spoke.

"Yeah? Then let's not do this."

Hansoo nodded as he looked at the spirit which had a shocked expression.

'Heh, pretending to be calm.'

They had said it themselves.

That it's been 800 years since somebody came in.

Well, there had been a reason to it.

The powerhouses of the kingdoms and empires who exceeded well over the limit of level 250 never even had the thought of obtaining the flail for themselves.

They wouldn't dare breaking the seal they set up themselves.

And the players, who had a level limit, couldn't pass this test.

Even if they could pass the test of the physical body, they would never be able to pass the test of the soul.

Which meant one thing.

'Could you guys really reject me? A ray of hope that finally came after 800 years?'

Even if it wasn't him, the seal here would break in about a year anyway.

Since he wasn't the only person in this world who could pass this test.

But in these spirit's point of view, the story is a bit different.

Since they wouldn't know about such a thing.

Hansoo continued to speak.

"I understand that the strength you guys can give me is enticing. But have some conscience. You know how powerful the kingdoms and empires are for yourself but you want me to destroy all of them with just this?"

"Making an enemy out of all the kingdoms and empires, it's better to just give up this strength. It's not like I'll fall behind anybody in terms of strength anyway."

Actually, he couldn't give up the flail.

Since he had to release the seal on the Ains no matter what.

But these guys didn't know that.

Logically, someone like him wanting to break the seal on the Ains is a pretty stupid thing to do.

As he expected.

Unlike the expression of the leader, the faces of those behind him started to turn dark.

The expression of the leader turned grim as well but he soon sighed.

Since all of Hansoo's words were correct.

<…Fuck off then. Bastard.>

They were trapped here so they knew.

Though they had the strength from the mana node, the magic brigade of the kingdoms could easily suppress them.

It was indeed one of the 3 godly treasures but this also meant that there were two other objects in the empire just like it.

They had a tremendous amount of hatred held inside them but they were still losers.

They would only burn in rage while being trapped in here.

That man wouldn't be able to smash apart the kingdoms and empires with just this flail.

'Maybe if it was the legacy of that person who almost destroyed the world.'

Then.

Hansoo continued to speak.

"Well, it's not like I'm not interested in this strength either. It's really tempting. Having more strength is always a good thing as you know."

<…What are you trying to say?>

The leader spat out as if he was trying to hold onto a last bit of hope.

Though the man was saying such words, there was no greed within his eyes.

He had the eyes of someone who had nothing much to lose.

Hansoo laughed as he spoke.

"Let's have another deal. Something you and I can both agree on."

<…Say it then.>

The leader didn't like this situation but it wasn't like he could do anything else.

He couldn't give up this chance that had finally come after 800 years when he didn't know when the next one would be.

Hansoo laughed as he looked at the man.

............…..

Boooooooom!

A blade covered in flames flew towards Kamiyou.

An attack which burnt all the surrounding atmosphere.

The flame held within the spirit stone, .

A head on fight was not possible.

The war fortress wasn't a famed location for no reason.

The spirit stone was something that distinguished people even at the master player level.

Then.

Whooosh!

Seven different skills exploded out from Kamiyou's body at the same time.

The skills which exploded out worked together with each other to twist the space and push back the air and pulled Kamiyou's body back.

Zwoooosh!

Sharon Stiller frowned as she looked at Kamiyou backing off with an amazing amount of control.

'Not bad…'

Sharon Stiller made an annoyed expression as she looked at Kamiyou in front of her, who was buying time.

At first she was quite happy.

The one she was the most worried about was nowhere to be seen and the bug players who might've ran away were all gathered here and were prepared to fight her.

Dealing with everyone here and then receiving a reward from Arthus Krancheska above would be the perfect outcome of course.

If the Scarlet Demons helped her to push them back then it would be easy to swipe them all off.

But this damned bastard was holding on with all his might.

The bug players having great control was an obvious thing but the attitude of these guys was the issue.

They were working with each other and blocking the Scarlet Demon's attacks even by giving up a leg and an arm for their comrade as they slowly reduced the numbers of the Gold Demons.

'Though we would still win at this rate…'

Sharon Stiller frowned as she looked at Kamiyou spinning around her at an extremely fast speed and looking for an opening.

She would still win at this rate.

Though these guys were fighting back pretty well, the dead Gold Demons could just rejoin them with the Stone of Immortality.

Since their numbers were slowly decreasing.

But one thing was on her mind.

Chiiiiiiik.

'That. What the fuck is that thing.'

Sharon Stiller stopped fighting and then looked at an object in the center of the crosses.

A red, egg shaped object that was surrounded by something stood in the center of the crosses and was radiating heat in all directions.

Not just heat but steam and smoke as well.

The heat was so intense that it was burning up everything around it and was even covering the entire space with smoke.

And this smoke was also interfering with the fight.

Unlike themselves, who were quite dependent on vision, the bug players were not.

They were much more advantaged in a place like this, filled with smoke.

Well, the smoke itself wasn't that much of an issue.

Sharon Stiller was actually feeling something off from that mysterious object.

The person who she was the most afraid of was nowhere to be seen.

And instead there was a strange ball of red veins.

'I thought we were going to end it quickly but…They're holding on quite well.'

Sharon Stiller frowned as he looked at Kamiyou who was making strange sounds and gestures and giving people orders.

Because of this man's leadership, the bug players were being even more annoying.

'Just a traitor…Pretending to be a leader. Annoying.'

Then.

Sharon Stiller smiled faintly.

'Heheh. Just a traitor indeed. '

Don't the ones whose accounts were getting erased over there have any right to know?

Sharon Stiller surrounded her body in flames and shouted.

"Hahaha! Aren't you guys curious? How we found you guys so easily?"

'Fuck.'

Kamiyou used a few more skills to block Sharon Stiller's mouth but it was all futile.

The thick wall that had been born from the flames melted all of Kamiyou's mana.

And Sharon Stiller stared at Kamiyou's actions and smiled as she spoke.

And as she expected.

A look of curiosity appeared in the faces of the adventurers.

'No way. Kamiyou?'

'Our leader betrayed us?'

There's no other reason but this.

Since they were all suppressed by Kamiyou's trait, .

If a traitor existed then Kamiyou was the only suspect.

Then.

"Bastards! Trying all sorts of methods because it's not going your way! Get lost!"

Einchel suppressed her uneasy mind and shouted.

Even if that bitch's words were right, she couldn't accept them now.

In a situation where every bit of strength of mattered, even a bit of doubt could be extremely fatal.

If they found out that their leader was a traitor, who would listen then?

'It's not too late to ask… After we finish.'

The most important thing right now was surviving through this situation.

Then.

Sharon chuckled and signaled Olsen.

Whooosh!

A tremendous amount of chill exploded out from Olsen's body and rushed towards Kamiyou.

'Ugh.'

The moment Kamiyou was about to dodge the wave of frost by jumping up.

Whooosh!

Large amounts of flames exploded out from Sharon Stiller's body and stopped Kamiyou's movements.

'Fuck!'

In the small moment Kamiyou was stopped from both of their attacks.

Crackle!

Kamiyou's artificial leg was frozen from the ice spell.

And then the storm of flames rushed over his body.

And Kamiyou clenched his teeth as he smashed his artificial leg.

Boom!

The fake leg broke from Kamiyou's hand and he jumped into the air after he was set free from Olsen's ice.

Tatak!

Olsen and Sharon Stiller failed their attacks and Kamiyou escaped but their expressions reflected the opposite.

Sharon Stiller laughed towards Kamiyou who had a grim expression as she pulled out Kamiyou's artificial leg and started to melt it with her flames.

Drooop.

Soon.

The artificial leg couldn't handle the expansion and deflation from the heat and the chill and broke apart.

And something fell out from it.

A strange-looking artifact.

Sharon Stiller showcased the artifact in the air a few times and then spoke with a smile.

"Isn't having such an amazing tracker like this within one's body a fantastic proof of him being on our side?"

Mumble mumble.

In an instant.

The mumbles of the surrounding people got louder and Kamiyou clenched his teeth.

'Fuck.'

The last shackle that those guys had put on him.

Kamiyou made an expression of despair as he thought of Himura's laugh in the past.

Reincarnator – Chapter 244 :Unsealing (6)

Rummblee.

As the conversation ended.

The leader of the spirits, Akun, nodded after hearing Hansoo's words.

His terms weren't quite satisfactory but he couldn't do anything else.

Since he didn't know how long he would be stuck in here if he didn't seize this chance.

Hansoo spoke to Akun.

"Let's hurry with the test."

Though he was trapped in here, an uneasy feeling kept bothering him.

Probably meaning that the outside situation wasn't going that well.

He needed to handle things here quickly and get out.

Akun nodded to Hansoo's words.

There was no need for the test to be complex.

It just needed to be hard.

And the test of the soul was extremely hard even in comparison to the test of the physical body.

Akun pointed towards the tens of thousands of souls behind him and spoke.

The 3 godly treasures of the empires.

Rangkal's stake dispersed.

Arhal's Wall destroyed.

And God's Flail… Absorbed and saved.

All sorts of powers.

So the flail itself, which existed as the core of the seal, had a tremendous amount of energy and hatred stored inside it.

But in order to break the seal and use the flail properly, a procedure of absorbing all the strength was needed.

Absorbing the 66,666 souls within the flail.

Including the energy of the mana node contained within all these souls.

Controlling all the energy and hatred within the souls.

That was the basic requirements of controlling the God's Flail.

One needed to handle all those souls being inside them and to be able to control them.

If they failed one of two things would happen.

Either their entire body would blow apart.

Or they would go crazy.

The leader, Akun, continued to speak.

Hansoo cracked his neck and stepped forward.

"Begin."

The moment those words came out.

Akun nodded and signaled behind him.

Then.

Tens of thousands of red souls charged towards Hansoo.

It was something one would need to focus their entire minds on.

If people disturbed them from outside, it would become even harder.

...........

Everyone stopped fighting.

And suspicion grew from their eyes.

Of course they all knew how much their leader, Kamiyou, had cared for them up until now.

It couldn't be all lies.

Well, if they were indeed lies in the first place, he wouldn't have fought with his life on the line like that.

But it was indeed suspicious.

How they were found.

And how such a thing was hiding inside their leader's leg.

It would be impossible to put such a thing inside Kamiyou's leg without knowing him.

A sentence appeared inside their minds.

'…Should we really follow that guy's commands? Is he going to just give us up at the end?'

All sorts of ideas appeared inside their minds.

He might be just pretending to be fighting with all he had and instead he might be trying to tie them down instead.

Or there might be something else.

They didn't know everything about this world either.

Kamiyou and Einchel grinded their teeth while looking at the scene.

'…Fuck.'

They could almost hear it.

Sounds of things falling.

Being united itself was not enough but if they are suspicious of each other, the result was clear.

Their opponents were no joke.

Then.

Boooom!

"Kuuhuuk!"

"Fucking hell!"

The Scarlet and Gold demons saw an opening and started to shred everything apart.

Through the cracks that appeared between their relations.

"Fuck. No!"

Kamiyou balanced himself on his one leg and tried to hurriedly rush in to fight but was blocked by someone.

By Sharon Stiller who he was against.

"Hahahaha! Where are you trying to go?"

Booooooom!

Soon a loud noise exploded out from between Sharon Stiller and Kamiyou.

Kamiyou moved away from Sharon Stiller and shouted.

"12th group move this…"

But the moment he saw the expressions of the adventurers.

Kamiyou realized that he had lost to Sharon Stiller.

Kamiyou realized he had made a mistake as he saw the eyes of his comrades which were filled with suspicion and uneasiness.

'I should've strongly denied that claim.'

Whether it made sense or not, he should've denied it first.

The evidence was too clear.

And the guilt that was inside his mind.

These two things made Kamiyou hesitate and as a result confirmed it.

The fact that their leader might've really betrayed them.

Then.

Booooom!

A flame dragon exploded out from Sharon Stiller's body and smashed into Kamiyou.

"Kuhuk!"

"Hahahaha! This is the end!"

Sharon Stiller laughed as she looked at Kamiyou who was surrounded by a tremendous amount of flames.

'Ahhh. Stress relief.'

Sharon Stiller's lips slowly crawled up a smile as she saw the expressions made by countless bug players right before their deaths.

She had hidden it from others because of her image at first but she had a very bad habit.

A very bad habit that made her into a bug killer.

'Well. I wasn't a bug killer from the start.'

Sharon Stiller thought of her first days in this game.

Because she had some ability, she had advanced quite fast.

But there was something she had overlooked.

That the game she had started because she liked, had become tremendously stressful to her.

The moment her hobby became her work, the hobby was no longer a hobby and both the reality and the game were the same.

But she couldn't give up her wants and needs so Sharon Stiller faked a smile on the outside and lived in stress.

Then.

Sharon Stiller coincidentally saw a bug killer killing a bug player.

And their expressions of being hunted.

The ones being logged out in rage.

Those who had received a large amount of strength but only had one life in exchange, the expressions of such people dying.

Then.

Sharon Stiller realized which path she had to take.

'How nice.'

Sharon Stiller made a content expression while looking at Kamiyou who was lost in despair.

Though they were in despair, she was not.

She could just revive.

Their expressions allowed her to confirm how safe and stable her position was.

Watching their expressions from a safe location was extremely enjoyable and Sharon Stiller finally realized how she could relieve her stress.

From that day onwards she searched for these bug players and even studied about them.

She then purposely annoyed them and then killed them.

And as this continued, she became the leader of the Scarlet Demons.

Sharon Stiller laughed.

'Now…I need to finish things off. I'm done playing around.'

This incident was something that wasn't quite common even in her life.

Enjoying her time leisurely would be good but that bright red glowing object kept making her feel uneasy.

Sharon Stiller pushed the power of the spirit stone to the limits after deciding to end this quickly.

Whoooosh!

The flame from the Scarlet Flower burnt at an intense rate that no flame up until now could even be compared to.

To the point of making Kamiyou in front of her feel pain.

'Ugh…'

The injuries caused by Sharon Stiller's blades cracked open from by the heat and caused intense amounts of pain.

Kamiyou clenched his teeth and made an expression of despair.

Not from the pain but from the people dying away in his surroundings.

They were trying their best to stay alive but they were nowhere close enough.

Only he, who could use the power of the trait and control them, could command them to their fullest potential.

"Please! At this rate…!"

Kamiyou shouted urgently but only was only met with suspicion.

Kamiyou sighed.

There were no leaders who could gloss over the gap created by loss of credit.

Since he couldn't control a human's emotions with the contract.

They were now even being wary of those who they were usually friendly with while fighting.

Their full battle potential would not come out like this.

Kamiyou clenched his teeth and touched his wrist as he saw the people from the Ant Tunnel and even Einchel fighting while being on guard.

Well, the symbol on his wrist.

'Could I win… With this?'

But Kamiyou shook his head.

He couldn't use this just because he wanted to.

The person who had given this to him had told him so.

And the situation right now wasn't that good.

Kamiyou gave up and instead clenched his sword.

'Let's try to hold on. Just a bit more…I just need to hold on a bit more!'

Thump. Thump.

The beating sound from the object in the distance could be heard from everyone.

As if something was about to happen.

The problem was that Kamiyou wasn't the only person that was watching this.

Sharon Stiller frowned.

That thing.

That thing that was beating over there was the one thing that kept people from falling into their respective holes of despair.

As if it was the final strand of hope they had.

'It's getting on my nerves. That thing breaking…Will I finally be able to see the expression I need?'

It bothered her.

They were dispersed so victory was already within her grasp.

'Well. This guy isn't a nuisance anymore either.'

Kamiyou, who was dealing with her, was already half a mess and the vice-captain Olsen was quite relaxed.

Sharon contemplated up to this point and then sent a signal to Olsen.

One spirit stone was strong enough but using two properly would cause an even stronger destructive force.

Like how she had broken Kamiyou's artificial leg just before.

By freezing and heating it up.

Heat it and freeze it.

Expand, contract, expand and so on.

According to her experience so far, there was nothing that could withstand this combo.

'Full power. Me first.'

Then.

Boooooom!

The flame that was burning Kamiyou's skin just from the heat alone flew out.

Towards the ball of veins in the distance.

The tremendous amount of heat pushed past Kamiyou and cleared a path towards the ball of veins in the distance.

Kamiyou clenched his fist while he looked at the powerful attack that made hundreds of people stop in their tracks and scurry away from it.

'…No.'

He couldn't be disturbed.

The thing Hansoo was doing was the last bit of hope they had remaining.

If that hope got crushed, it was the end for all of them.

But there was no other way.

'Fucking hell…They were playing around.'

Kamiyou fell into a daze from the firepower that was dimensions apart from what he had seen up until now.

The conversation he had with the prophet in the past was playing back in his head.

The prophet then added two other words of advice.

First.

There was somebody who had received this blessing in the past and they might've gone into the Spirit Lands already so if he met them, he was to ask them for assistance.

Kamiyou smiled bitterly as he thought of the Prophet's words.

Him being tied down in the maze, he was in the same situation as them.

If he had left for the Spirit Lands back then, he might've gained that strength but all the other people in the Ant Tunnel would've died.

By the hands of Himura who would have assumed his betrayal.

The prophet then gave the second piece of advice.

Well, it was more of a warning.

Kamiyou smiled as he thought of the Prophet's words.

'What a perfect timing.'

He didn't believe that there was a good time for someone to die.

But the current timing was perfect.

The condition was created by the opponent, he only needed the resolve.

'Since I caused this…I need to deal with it.'

Kamiyou laughed sadly and then raised his sleeves.

Then.

Whoooosh!

Kamiyou gazed at the flame that was rushing off while melting the maze down.

He then jumped in.

Towards the flame.

Then.

Booooooooom!

Kamiyou and the flame collided with each other and screamed out.

Kiiiiiiing!

The symbol started to shine brightly while he was being covered in the intense heat of the spirit stone.

Reincarnator – Chapter 245 :Unsealing (7)

The curse of the Ains.

This was a curse that one would receive once they killed Ains below the 5th floor.

The moment the Ains were killed, a strange aura came out from their body and surrounded those who assisted in killing them.

Then a strangely shaped symbol would remain in their body. The players called this the Curse of the Ains due to it being the final trace they left behind.

Of course the players didn't give a single damn.

Maybe if this caused some form of penalty but there were none.

The protection elixir that dropped from killing them was more important than some lousy curse so they continued to climb down to the 5th floor and killed off Ains.

But BKamiyou heard something else.

That was how he got the blessing.

And this blessing had one purpose.

'Being able to partly control the ability of the Ains… Who were born with the right to control the spirits and elements.'

Well, this had no meaning.

They only had the right to use the strength, they had no spirits to control.

It was more like a license.

A license given to those who were allowed to control the tremendous amount of strength the spirits contained.

But the story was different now.

Since that strength was in front of his eyes.

Whoooosh!

The symbol in Kamiyou's body started to devour the flames.

The fragment of the strength created from the that was created from the congregation of a spirit during its destruction.

"Uh? Huhh?"

He could see Sharon Stiller staggering with a shocked expression in the distance.

'She probably never even saw such a thing happening.'

Kamiyou mumbled as he looked at Sharon Stiller.

Of course she hadn't.

All the players here had lost their rights to receive the blessing the moment they killed the Ains.

It was obvious they haven't heard about somebody being able to absorb the power of the Spirit Stones.

But Kamiyou couldn't laugh in victory.

He realized.

Why the prophet had warned him against borrowing the strength of the Spirit Stones before going into the Spirit Land.

'Kuhuk!'

Kamiyou coughed out blood as he felt something breaking apart in a corner of his body.

License, the blessing of the Ains protected one from their bodies getting destroyed and melting down from the powers of the spirits.

But handling this strength was a whole another matter.

A power birthed from the essence of nature.

It was not something the humans could handle.

He needed something to control this power.

And outside the spirit stone, there were no such kind beings that would help Kamiyou.

At least there was a bit of thought existing within the Spirit Stones so it helped people in controlling their power but Kamiyou didn't even have such a thing.

And he had forcibly stolen that strength and stored it within his body, there was no way his body would remain intact.

The powerful scarlet energy that raged inside his body like a crazed bull.

The effects of that energy.

His insides were getting destroyed at a rapid pace.

'Well…I sealed one at least.'

Kamiyou mumbled as he coughed up blood.

He could see Sharon Stiller freaking out as she saw her Spirit Stone slowly turning dim.

Of course his body was breaking down.

The story might've been different if it was a tiny spirit stone but he had absorbed the power of a S-level Spirit Stone that had reached the peak of its power.

Even if it was him, this was far beyond the limits of his body.

And his body was already about to break down.

His body slowly turned red as if he had swallowed lava and was creating smoke.

Even if he could let out all this energy, his body would still slowly melt and break down.

To the point of him not being able to recover.

But there was a method to actually use the tremendous amount of energy in his body.

'I'm going to die anyway.'

Kamiyou gazed at the Scarlet and Gold Demons who were staring at him in a daze and then signalled Einchel who was looking at him in shock.

He could still trust Einchel.

Since she had helped him for so long, there wouldn't be much of an issue.

"Wait…!"

Even before Einchel could reply.

Boooom!

Kamiyou gathered the overflowing energy into his one remaining foot, blew it up and then jumped into the air.

Towards the center of the Scarlet Demons who were staring at him in a daze.

Kamiyou closed his eyes while watching the Scarlet Demons who were trying to cut him down even in the midst of all this.

It didn't matter anymore.

'Finally, I can rest in peace. It's been a while since I saw them.'

Things had been way too hard both mentally and physically up until now.

The guilt from betraying the other adventurers and the uneasiness of not knowing when Himura's Ant Eater clan would crash in.

The thing that filled his day was not the comfort of surviving another day but anxiety about what would happen tomorrow.

He was holding on day by day because of the adventurers who had gathered while believing in him and his friends who were captured by Himura but he wanted to rest now.

Since all the hostages would've been dead by now.

'I'm going Hansoo. And Einchel, please treat her well.'

As he finished his thoughts.

Kamiyou followed his urge and released the Ain's blessing that suppressed the intense amount of energy that was holed up inside his body.

Towards the Scarlet and Gold Demons in front of him.

Kamiyou smiled as he felt that energy exploding out from his body.

Then.

Boooooooooooom!

A tremendous amount of heat exploded out from Kamiyou's body and into the Gold and Scarlet Demons.

................

Chiiiiiiiiiiiiik.

A large amount of steam and smoke filled the entire area.

And Einchel stood within that smoke looking towards the location where the explosion took place.

The explosion was so powerful that she and the other adventurers couldn't escape it but that flame didn't hurt their bodies even a bit.

No, the flame instead covered their body and warmed them up.

As if it could distinguish between enemy and friends.

Christopher was shocked at this.

'The attacks of the spirits…I heard they could target specific people.'

It was different from their skills that didn't discriminate and caused damage to everything.

The power was secondary, this was a strength that could distinguish between friends and foe in detail.

That was why it shone in a fight like this where the opposing sides were scrambled.

'…But it seems there was a limit in discerning the foe huh. At least to him.'

Christopher thought of Kamiyou with a pitiful expression.

He didn't know about the effects of the symbol but it was clear that there was a limit to it.

Since if there wasn't such a limit, he wouldn't have decided to go to such an extreme length as self-destruction.

Christopher sensed the meager amount of heat and then sighed in relief.

'Well… We can at least hold on now.'

Though they still had the Stone of Immortality, those guys over there would've probably used the stone once already from the explosion.

They could handle this much.

'And… It seems their suspicions died out now.'

Everyone's expressions were frozen from Kamiyou's sacrifice.

But it was clear that the suspicions and the uneasiness had been wiped away.

As Christopher made an expression of relief.

Whoooosh.

A chill ran up Christopher's body.

And he stopped.

'…A chill?'

Even if the heat didn't have any effect on them, there was no reason for them to feel chilly.

As Christopher made an uneasy face.

Crackle crackle.

The sounds of something freezing could be heard over the smoke in the distance.

And as everyone put their guard up and clenched their weapons.

Whoooosh.

The smoke dispersed and everyone could see the new scene.

The entire area was frozen.

Thousands of icicles and ice walls.

This frozen land was the reason why they felt the chill.

'Fuck. No way…'

Crackle.

"Fucking hell. Is anyone in their right minds? Who the hell is this?"

Somebody broke out from the ice in the distance while cursing out loud.

As if proving that this chill was the power of a spirit, he came out spotless.

Crack Crack.

'Fuck.'

Christopher grinded his teeth as he watched the players coming out from the ice.

..............

Cracccckk!

Along with the sound of something breaking, the blue lights of the gauntlets in the man's hand disappeared.

As if something that provided it with strength had broken.

The man, Olsen, looked at his glove and got pissed.

"You bastards. Do you even know how expensive this is? It's an entire house. An entire fucking house."

That Spirit Stone's price was as expensive as a house in the center of the capital.

No, the price wasn't the issue but rather the supply.

But just a bit ago the Spirit Stone had broken from him using .

The final card the Spirit Stones had which allowed them to exert a power numerous times more powerful.

'…It's not like I couldn't use it either.'

Olsen grinded his teeth.

The attack he had to withstand just now was most of the energy from Sharon's spirit stone.

If they faced it head on then most of the people here would've been logged out.

And the ones in front of their eyes would've ran away using that small time frame.

And that wasn't something he could afford for just a single spirit stone.

'Well. The clan leader will probably buy it back for us.'

Olsen blew out the remaining bits of smoke and then shouted.

"Yo! Come out! Continue what you were doing up until now!"

The Gold and Scarlet Demons behind him gritted their teeth as they walked out from the ice.

They were a bit rattled from the previous explosion.

'Well, this is the end at least.'

As Olsen walked forward.

Tak.

Something got in the way of his right foot and Olsen frowned as he looked at what it was.

Kamiyou, whose body was bubbling all over and looked like he was about to die, was laying on the ground half dead.

'He's alive?'

Since he hadn't actually turned himself into a bomb and instead had overheated, he could actually survive if he was lucky.

It was more than possible if the chill from his spirit stone chilled his heated body.

'Well. It's not like this guy should be happy or anything.'

Although he had survived thanks to the chill, everybody else here would die.

The same thing would happen to the guy by his foot.

Kuduk.

Olsen smiled as he kicked away Kamiyou laying on the ground like a piece of rag and then spoke to the bug players watching him with terrified expressions.

"You bastards. Let's not meet each other again. And don't be so sad over it. Just think of it this way, you guys will stay with us."

"This fucking bastard…"

Olsen laughed coldly towards Christopher who had cursed out loud.

At least it wouldn't be a worthless death.

They would disappear into artifacts and experience.

'See how far we go. This is just the beginning.'

As Olsen mumbled.

Words came out from the clouds of smoke that filled the area which was created from the collision of heat and frost.

"Staying with you guys…Not bad."

"What…"

Even before Olsen could finish his reply.

Kwadddddk!

A hand appeared from the smoke.

'What the…! How did he get so close!'

Olsen freaked out and tried to swing his gauntlet.

Crunch!

A tremendous amount of force flicked away Olsen's fist and grabbed his neck.

Kwaaadddddduk!

"Uggghhh…."

Chiiiiiii….

The thick arm which had grabbed Olsen's neck lifted him high up and the scarlet hand started to burn the area around his neck and face.

Hansoo, who walked out with his scorching hot body, laughed in a cold manner.

"It's just beginning, now."

'Become fertilizer.'

Crunch.

As Hansoo poured strength into his hands.

The scorching hot hand smashed Olsen's head.

He wasn't pleased with just this.

A voice could be heard inside his head.

Hansoo made a content expression at the loud voice in his head.

He had completed his 1st task.

He needed to raise his strength as much as possible before he started the 2nd task.

'I'm going to kill you all.'

Hansoo, whose entire body was colored blood-red like the colors of the souls, looked at the entire maze greedily.

…

Great Maze, deep underground.

Though their bodies were translucent like a lingering smoke, the existences which would have a look of a human if their bodies became clear looked towards the trembling ceiling.

The damned ceiling that stopped them from heading up into the sky.

The woman who was standing at the deepest part mumbled.

Reincarnator – Chapter 246 : Ain (1)

Rumble.

'What the hell is this.'

Sharon Stiller muttered with a dumbfounded expression.

Their trump card had been used and IKamiyou's plots had been blocked.

Only massacre remained.

Sharon Stiller, who had thought that everything was done and she just had to go back, was in a daze at the unreal scene in front of her.

Sharon Stiller was a very greedy person.

The problem was that she was a bit too ordinary.

She wasn't able to fulfill her desires because she didn't have any talents or anything in the real world.

The bag she wanted, the clothes she wanted, the man she wanted.

And because she couldn't have any of this in real life, she decided to invest most of her life into this place, Exodus.

Since the only mediocre talent she had was at gaming.

And her guess was correct.

Since she climbed this far.

And today was the highlight, the climax.

Though she was a bit annoyed when Kamiyou retaliated, she was having calm thoughts since all his plots had been used up.

As long as she accomplished this it was clear that Himura would give her a befitting reward.

Both in game and in reality.

'But what the hell is this?'

Sharon Stiller was in a daze with a dumbfounded expression.

Everything changed in a single moment.

The happy thoughts she had inside her head started to get demolished by the harsh reality in front of her eyes.

Because of one person, that one person who came out from the smoke.

Olsen's level was already at the limit.

Along with the high quality artifacts and protective skills that he had strung around his body.

Even if his spirit stone broke, he was somebody who shouldn't die in such a manner.

Well, he could indeed get killed.

But that should be by a top quality skill, not just some random hand.

An unreal amount of power and destructive force.

He didn't have that level of power when he had killed her before.

'These fucking bastards… What kind of hack is this…'

Hansoo's flaming body itself was not a simple matter.

It looked like something filled him up and was even overflowing.

Sharon Stiller could feel a chill run down her back from watching this.

She clenched her teeth.

'What the fuck, this is just a game…'

Sharon Stiller could hear a whisper.

From Hansoo who had raised Kamiyou from the ground.

"Good job. I'll…Take it from here."

She didn't know what he was going to do.

But the moment she heard those words.

Her entire body trembled.

And even before she could react.

Hansoo's left hand moved.

A simple gesture.

A light movement that seemed like it was shaking off some water from his hands but the effect of such a movement was not that light.

The moment the tip of his fingers moved within the smoke.

Boooooooom!

A tremendous sound created by an explosion rang throughout the area.

A force that should be associated to just a simple movement of one's hand.

"Huh?"

"What?!"

The moment the Gold and Scarlet Demons shouted out in shock.

Whooooosh!

Something flew through the smoke.

Towards Sharon Stiller and the other players who were standing in a daze.

The speed and the force behind it.

All the hairs on Sharon Stiller's body rose up.

'I have to block…'

Sharon Stiller instinctively tried to raise the weapon which had the Spirit Stone embedded in it.

In order to block the object flying towards her.

The weapon which had a spirit stone embedded in it was many more times more durable than other weapons.

Logically it should be able to block an attack created by some slight hand movements.

But Sharon Stiller suppressed her instincts and instead performed another action.

'No! I must dodge it!'

Boooooom!

From the might of the object flying towards her, it was clear what she should do.

That was not something she could block.

Sharon Stiller's entire body quickly reacted and started to shrink.

And thanks to her body which had been tempered through all sorts of experiences, she had been able to react to it.

Sharon Stiller's body moved outside of the trajectory of the object flying towards the Scarlet Demons.

Towards a location where she would just barely be hit.

'Good. Then the main target wouldn't be….'

As Sharon Stiller sighed in relief.

Whooooosh!

The red object made a sharp turn and curved like a snake.

At an angle that was impossible with its speed and mass.

'What the fuck!!'

A meteor being able to turn at that angle would look more realistic than this.

"No…!"

Sharon Stiller tried to scream out at the object that turned at an unreal angle and towards her but that was all she could do.

Boooooom!

Her head and the piece of metal collided and created a large explosive sound.

Then.

The meteor-like metal object pierced her head and turned her into gold powder.

It then pierced numerous tens of people behind her.

Whooosh!

Crunch!

Ududududuk!

"What the hell!"

"Uaaaaak!"

"Fucking he…"

Some tried to dodge and some tried to block.

The Scarlet and Gold Demons were all prepared for it in their own ways but it was all useless.

The ones who tried to block had their bodies blown apart and the ones who tried to dodge had their heads pierced by the snake-like metal object.

In a short moment that was less than a second, numerous tens of people disappeared into golden light.

"What the hell! This is…"

"What! What is this!"

The comrades standing next to them had disappeared into golden light after a single blink.

They were holding on because it was just a game, if this was reality then they would've all pissed their pants.

As people made dumbfounded expressions at this unreal scene.

The flail, which had pierced through multiple dozens of people, returned back to Hansoo's hand.

"Hmm…"

As Hansoo made a discontent expression while looking at the flail in his hand.

Akun, the leader of the souls, mumbled in his hand.

"Is that so…"

There was a missing sentence before this to the players but they soon figured out what Hansoo meant.

Since Hansoo himself spoke it out loud.

"I guess I'll have to smash with it directly."

Then.

Hansoo tightly held onto the handle of the flail with his left hand.

Then.

Whoooooosh!

Hansoo's body flew into the air along with a loud noise.

Towards the Gold and Scarlet Demons in the distance who were cursing.

Then his body fell towards the center of all the players.

And the players were shocked at this scene.

"This guy, is he looking down on us this much…?"

"He must be crazy."

The attack being powerful and the attack either working or not were two different things.

The thing they were most worried about was him running around while that weapon destroyed them.

They could catch up to him in term of speeds at least, but his weapon could not be tracked even with their eyes.

This was why they even had thoughts of ignoring him and going for the bug players in the back.

So they could at least get some experience while running around.

But for him to directly jump in.

They didn't have to fear that weapon if they killed him.

'Well. That's not the end.'

One of the Scarlet Demons made a greedy expression.

What if he got that weapon?

Top ranker.

What a wonderful title.

Even among the countless players, only 100 people in total had the rights to this title.

If he had that weapon, he might be able to become a top ranker.

A top ranker who was even more famous than a president and even had more fans than celebrities in the real world.

'Yeah. There's no owner to an item. There are no weapons I cannot use, I'm already at the max level.'

And as if he wasn't the only one who thought of this, the countless Gold and Scarlet Demons who were thinking about going for the bug players were now heading towards the location where Hansoo would land.

'Dumbasses. At least some need to attack him to disperse his attention.'

As a few Scarlet Demons were about to scream towards the Gold Demons.

"Dropping your guard?"

Whooosh!

Hansoo mumbled as he dropped and created a red arc by swinging his arm.

An arc which swung through the head of the Scarlet Demon next to him.

"Kill him!"

"Fearless bastard!"

Countless Gold and Scarlet Demons were charging towards him.

With their best attacking skills.

They knew about the strength behind his attacks.

It would just be better to have trades because of that power.

Which means they didn't have to worry about defending, since they couldn't, or about their mana since all they had was a single shot.

They only had to attack.

With their most powerful attack.

Whooosh!

Boooom!

Kuuuguguguung!

Numerous differently colored lights and shadows exploded out from the hands of the Scarlet and Gold Demons.

A might that terrified the adventurers watching.

High level skills which could easily shred them apart.

And multiple dozens of these flew towards Hansoo.

Towards Hansoo's scorching red body which had a similar color as a metal that had been heated up in a forge.

Then.

Booooom!

Kwaaagagagang!

"Yosh!"

"Direct hit!"

Though some had been dodged and some had been blocked, most of them hit him directly.

And the Scarlet Demon's expressions were even better.

As they had fought before, they knew that this guy wasn't an immortal like them.

Which meant that damage of this level would be effective.

But sadly, their expectations and hope had been shattered.

Whoooosh!

Through the loud noises and smoke, a streak red light leaked through.

A red light that was different from their attack skills.

And a humanoid form walked through that smoke.

Without any traces of damage on his body.

And the red light that was shining out from Hansoo's body seemed as if it wanted to explode.

If the light up until now was that of a heated metal, the light that was being emitted now resembled a rising sun.

And all of the Gold and Scarlet Demons were in a daze.

"What the…"

"…Come on, this is too much. Even if it's a hack."

Even if it was a hack, there should be some manners between gamers.

As the people lost their words.

Hansoo looked at the red light that was slowly fading away.

"Just this much huh."

A line delivered by a certain voice could be heard inside his head.

Hansoo thought about the remaining number in his head.

'No need to use it.'

Then.

Whooooosh!

As if it the warm up had ended, Hansoo's hands started to fly through the air crazily.

Forked Lightning in his right hand.

And God's Flail in his left.

And with this.

Booom!

Boom!

Kuududuk!

"Waaaak! This bastard!"

"Run away!"

"Where are you going you bastards!"

"Uwaaaak! Fucking bug players! Let us go!"

Plenty of different collisions and sounds of explosions rang throughout the entire area.

Along with the rage-filled yells and the players' screams.

.............

Korin Kingdom's fortress which faced the War Fortress in the Keil Kingdom.

A man stood on a tall mountain nearby.

"Haha. How nice."

'For that tiny spirit bomb to have this much of an effect. What an amazing benefit.'

The man, who had a hand over his eye and was watching the Great Maze, laughed heartily.

Well, he was actually looking at the frowning expression of Arthus Krancheska due to the seal starting to break apart.

There's nothing better than his work progressing well and annoying somebody he did not like.

Though everyone inside that maze would face the rage of Arthus Krancheska.

'One of the three godly treasures of the empires huh. What a nice title.'

An artifact from before the time of extinction.

Once the ancient artifact, God's Flail, got ripped apart, the hidden race would wake up.

And the stopped world would soon start to flow again.

The kingdoms, empires, Ains and even the players.

'It's rolling. It's finally rolling.'

As he thought up to this point.

The smiling man's expression died out.

'I need to prepare properly.'

Then.

Oooooong.

From the surrounding shadows, dark energy started to flow out.

Towards the man's body.

And then the man's body, which had now been shrouded in a large amount of darkness, disappeared.

Leaving behind the scenery of the War Fortress in the distance.

Reincarnator – Chapter 247 : Ain (2)

Rummble.

Einchel, who was looking at Kamiyou who had been turned into a mess and was unconscious, turned around and looked behind her.

Towards Hansoo who was cooling the heat off from his body.

Chiiiiiiiik.

The players had long turned into golden lights.

Only the adventurers were left in the area.

Einchel carefully asked Hansoo who was cooling his body, which had been heated up from the energy of the mana node.

"What are you going to do now? Didn't you say the seal would break soon?"

They knew that Hansoo was powerful.

But didn't Hansoo say before that the monster of the kingdom above, Arthus Francheska, might come down?

The curse of the Ains that these guys were afraid of also worked from the energy of the seal.

The seal breaking meant that the curse which worked from that energy would also disappear.

Arthus Krancheska might charge down right away.

'Well. He probably broke the seal because he had a plan…'

Hansoo shook his head at Einchel.

"The seal that had been sustained for hundreds of years cannot break in such a short amount of time."

The energy from the mana node got converted by the Flail and the souls and flowed into the magic formation.

And because of that magic formation, the seal would be conversed.

Though the flail, which connected the mana node and the magic formation, had disappeared, there was still a large amount of energy which had been flowing into the magic formation up until now.

Which meant that the curse of the Ains, which used up that energy, was still in effect.

'Which means that there's a bit more time until Arthus Krancheska would come down.'

He's probably going crazy outside.

Since the entire Great Seal had been broken.

He would've long wanted to charge into this place.

But he couldn't.

Since he knew that the flail wouldn't get pulled out by itself.

Going into the maze in a situation where the curse was still in effect and the person who pulled the flail was still inside was an act of suicide.

Any person with a brain would know.

"I'll finish it before then."

"…Finish? You aren't going down?"

Hansoo laughed.

"Yeah. I'm going to do it thoroughly. It'll be wasteful to leave them behind."

'…How.'

Einchel knew what he was talking about when it said it would be a waste.

But in a situation where they didn't know when Krancheska will come down, how will they kill off the people inside the maze?

Einchel made a confused expression.

.................

Rummble.

Tremble.

The players who were guarding the 4th floor were getting more and more uneasy as they felt the vibrations that were getting more and more powerful.

"Yo. How long are you going to stay here anyway? This doesn't seem that simple."

The players who were guarding the portal replied.

"Well. The exit on the 1st floor is blocked anyway. And that crazy Oldbeer bastard went to create a ruckus on the 5th floor."

"…Well."

The player, , sighed and talked to his friends who had annoyed expressions.

"15 minutes. Let's wait just 15 minutes more. If he doesn't come out then let's just go."

"…10."

"Fine."

Alphagoo received his friend's blunt reply and nodded.

It had already been 20 minutes since they started guarding the portal on the fourth floor.

And not just them, there were hundreds of people guarding the portal from the 3rd to the 4th floor.

In order to catch the blacklisted bug players whose rumors spread throughout the entire maze.

And there was more.

According to the stories from the players who had been assassinated throughout the maze, there was something else.

The bug player's nest that they had only heard rumors about.

Apparently hundreds of bug players came out from the nest and were roaming around somewhere in the 4th floor.

Though nobody who had seen them had lived, they could see traces which had remained behind so it being true was clear.

Alphagoo mumbled to himself.

'…The probability is half and half. Either 3rd or 5th floor.'

The chances were fifty percent.

Nobody could guess what the bug players were thinking.

But they had gambled on them going to the 3rd floor.

And he was feeling good for some reason today.

'If we catch them then…Jackpot. Heheheheh.'

Though hundreds of players were guarding the portal with him, he was confident in himself.

Confident enough to get one to two people by himself at least.

Since he was a high level player at level 240.

And from what he knew, the average level of the bug players was around 215 to 220.

Because of the Ant Eater clan chasing them down and killing them, he had heard that their levels weren't that high on average.

No matter how good the control of the bug players were, a difference of 10 levels was huge.

'Yeah. This is better than hunting for months in terms of rewards.'

As Alphagoo had his hopes raised thinking about the experience and artifacts the bug players would have.

"Heuk… Haa! Heuk!"

A mysterious person ran towards them while bleeding.

'Huh? Is it them?'

As Alphagoo was preparing to attack.

The person who had run out from the maze freaked out and yelled."Don't attack! Stop! I'm not a bug player! I'm a normal player!"

"…Player?"

Alphagoo made a depressed expression.

'Well. the bug players aren't crazy, why would they travel around by themselves.'

If they were going to go solo, they wouldn't have moved around in a group of hundreds of people from the start.

'What the. I know this person.'

But as Alphagoo made a dejected expression.

Kiiiiiiiiingg.

The sound of mana being collected could be heard.

The sound of a skill being activated.

And as Alphagoo turned around, he could see his friend preparing a skill.

"Hey! What are the hell are you doing!"

His friend replied with an embarrassed expression.

"Well. Just in case…"

Alphagoo quickly held his friend's hand and put it down.

"Don't, I know that person."

"Huh? You know her?"

As his friend asked him with a shocked expression, Alphagoo nodded.

"Yeah. We were in a party together in the past. The Id was… Einchel or something."

He remembered because this player was quite memorable.

'How did she get hurt like that.'

Maybe it was because he had set the settings to 19+ mode but the blood flowing out from her body was scarlet red and not golden.

As Alphagoo frowned while watching the woman, Einchel, who had injuries all over her body.

"Phew… Thank god. I almost died.".

Alphagoo made a confused expression.

His friend, Betagoo, asked Einchel.

"What, did you get PKed or something? Why are you so hurt? Where's your party…"

Einchel cursed out and yelled.

"Fuck. I got PKed. Really badly too."

"Huh. Some crazy bastard…"

The people started to murmur at Einchel's words.

Though there wasn't a system which suppressed PKing, the players were still reluctant to PK.

Since PKing didn't give many benefits and being targetted was very bad.

In a world where party play was the way to go, PKing would destroy the relations one had with others necessary for party play.

Like the Blacklist which managed bug players, the Redlist which managed PKers existed.

In a world where looking up one's username told everyone if they were a PKer or not, not many people were daring enough to PK for fun.

Alphagoo clicked his tongue and asked Einchel.

"Miss Einchel. It must've been hard. We've met before right?"

"Ah… You're the person I met before. Hello."

Alphagoo was delighted as he saw Einchel sighing in relief.

'Yes. I knew my luck was good today.'

Einchel was quite attractive.

He wanted to use the party play last time as a means to get closer but he failed.

But for such a chance to come rolling by.

'Did they say to create a rapport first? Or help her? I forgot… It was all in english…'

He could barely remember but Alphagoo found a chance to continue the talk so he kept on going.

"Who is that bastard? Hurry and put him on the Redlist. It'll become much more convenient that way."

Einchel chuckled.

"No need. He's already on another list."

"…Another list?"

The players' expressions changed at Einchel's words.

There was only one more list they could think of other than the Redlist.

The friend next to Alphagoo asked with twinkling eyes.

"Did this happen from those bug players?"

Einchel nodded.

"…I got attacked by surprise. Our party got demolished as well. My friends probably all ran away. Since there's about 50 of them…There was no way to beat them. They were seriously strong like the rumors."

The expression of the people brightened up at Einchel's words.

'Finally a clue!"

Fifty.

Though there were hundreds of people here, it was a good enough number to share.

Well, if there was more of them it might've been a bit hard.

But fifty.

It wasn't too much to deal with and it was a good number to share.

Alphagoo asked with a bright expression.

The question which everyone wanted to ask.

"Is it far from here? Their nest?"

"Huh? You're going to kill them?"

Alphagoo nodded at Einchel who was looking at him in doubt.

"Of course. They deserve to get killed."

"…How thankful. Then I'll guide you there."

Einchel, who had frowned from Alphagoo's sudden words, smiled as she replied.

.............

Boooom!

"Uaaaak! Ibanoph you bastard!"

"Fucking hell! You dare scam us?"

Ibanoph, who had convinced the players and dragged them along, scoffed as he cut their necks off.

Crunch!

"Heheh. Why are you so depressed. It's not like you die for real.."

'Heheh. Jesus my level rises quickly.'

The level which had stayed the same for a while was rising quite fast.

It wasn't hard either.

50 to 500.

The moment the players entered in groups of different sizes, he just needed to smash them apart.

To almost 800 bug players and Hansoo who stood in the front and swung his God's Flail and Forked Lightning, this amount of players weren't even snacks to them.

They got erased instantly and once they were gone the Watchmen would bring more.

They had already killed over 5000 players this way.

Since they didn't know when Arthus Krancheska would charge in, the couldn't set it up perfectly.

So if one looked at this system closely they might become suspicious but the players were still charging in like moths towards a flame.

They had nothing to worry about, they didn't die.

So they didn't weigh the risks that much and just followed the Watchmen here.

Even the ones who made suspicious expressions followed quickly because they didn't want anybody to get a headstart on them.

'At this pace… We should easily be able to get rid of everyone in the maze and hit the max level.'

Because of their levels rising steadily, the work was getting quicker and quickler.

Ibanoph made a joyful expression as he made a sound that only the Watchmen could hear throughout the maze.

Towards Einchel who would be guiding the players this way.

Then.

Tatatatatatak.

Ibanoph and the others started to hide their bodies behind the hundreds of crosses as they heard the footsteps in the distance.

With excited expressions.

Ibanoph finished his preparations and asked Hansoo in leisure.

"Are we going to contact the Ains after we hit max level like this?"

Logically, if they released the Ains then meeting them should be next.

'And if those guys are really that strong…They should protect us from Arthus Krancheska or the other players.'

They had broken the seal for them, this was a natural conclusion to make.

And that meant that going down was the only way for them to survive.

But Hansoo destroyed Ibanoph's hopes.

"No."

"Then…?"

Hansoo pointed up at Ibanoph's question.

"We're going up."

"Huh?"

Ibanoph made a confused expression at the unexpected answer.

"Why upwards…"

Before Ibanoph could even reply.

Booooom!

"Hahaha! Is it here? Kill th…Uaaak!"

Einchel brought in another group of players and another collision occurred.

And Ibanoph made an annoyed expression while fighting the players.

Not because of these players but because of Hansoo's words from before.

'Go up? Why… He knows what's up there…'

............…

"…Yo, let's back up a bit. It's hot."

"Ugh."

The players who were surrounding the Great Maze slowly backed off.

Because it was getting hard to withstand the heat.

The heat that was radiating from Arthus Krancheska's body.

The heat that radiated out from a level 330's rage was not something they could handle.

Rumble.

"… I'm not just going to kill them… No I won't…"

Arthus Krancheska, whose body was surrounded by an intense amount of heat and red energy, grinded his teeth as he glared downwards in rage.

Reincarnator – Chapter 248 : Ain (3)

Boooom!

Kuudududuk!

Loud noises continued to fill up the area one after the other.

Along with the screams of the players.

"Uaaak! This bastard! A scam?! You're going on the Redlist!"

"That retard! They're already on the Blacklist…Uaak!"

Booom!

In a fight where they would still lose if they were on equal grounds, they were outnumbered and were getting attacked by surprise.

And the levels of those adventurers were rising very fast as well.

Unlike Hansoo, they weren't that low-leveled but the players they had killed so far was in tens of thousands.

Crunch!

Ibanoph sent a head flying at a speed and with a strength that wasn't comparable to the one he had in the past with a strange expression.

The him of now at level 240 was a completely different person from when he was at level 215 in the past.

But it was hard to actually sense how powerful he had become.

Due to another person going crazy right next to him.

Boooom!

Crunch!

"Aaaahh! What the hell is this!"

"Bug? This is a bug?!"

Ibanoph made a terrified expression as he looked at Hansoo who was sweeping off heads left and right.

'…He's a real monster now huh.'

The skill which turned him into a dragonoid before didn't seemed to be something he could maintain for long as it had long worn out during the fight.

But he was even stronger now than when he had been in his dragonoid form before.

Most people couldn't block the flail anymore and they became skewered two to three at a time from his spear.

He alone killed dozens of times more than them combined.

Of course he also devoured a tremendous amount of experience as well.

Hansoo, who had almost leveled to 250 all the way from 200, was now truly a monster compared to what he had been before.

Everytime Hansoo swept by them, the players disappeared into golden light.

Dropping an artifact every time.

Clank.

Clang.

'Look at the sheer amount that's dropping…'

Ibanoph mumbled as he looked at the large amount of artifacts that were scattered throughout the battlefield.

Usually, the chances of an artifact being dropped from getting PKed was not very high.

Of course the higher grade artifacts had a lower chance while the lower level grade ones had higher chances to drop.

It was similar to how the monsters in games rarely dropped items.

This is why the players didn't like to PK and instead swarmed towards bug players in a mad manner.

Unlike the players who only had a bit of chance to drop one of the low grade items they had, the bug players left behind everything.

But of course that was only true when considering small numbers.

He had killed tens of thousands.

Of course the artifacts that had dropped had accumulated to a frightening amount.

Then.

Boooom!

The final player left behind had his head blown apart and disappeared into golden light.

The place with crosses which had been filled with noise was swept clean.

And with that silence the adventurers started to move out.

To pick up the dropped artifacts.

'Why is he asking us to gather these…'

Ibanoph picked up a gauntlet on the ground, looked at it a bit and then threw it into the storage on his back.

The artifacts he himself had were of much better quality.

They say artifacts were important but with the tremendous amount of artifacts on the ground, it was more than enough to fully equip all the adventurers here.

Since they couldn't equip like five gauntlets or swing nine swords and axes, the remaining ones were all surplus.

In a place like Exodus where there wasn't an inventory system, artifacts like these weren't precious treasures but rather baggage.

Especially in a situation like this where they had to run away.

'Run…Running away huh.'

Ibanoph felt down as he thought about the reality.

Hansoo and them had become enormously powerful.

But that was it.

The reality did not change.

Since the maze would disappear soon, they had no more places to hide or take shelter in.

The only thing that was left to do was a head-on collision.

And their opponents were millions of immortal players and the extremely powerful residents of the kingdoms and empires.

'…They're really outside the standards huh.'

Ibanoph gulped as he thought of the 15 great clans of the players, Arthus Krancheska and the Great General Cykrus.

He then pondered for a bit and then spoke to Hansoo.

In order to confirm what he had heard before.

"…Weren't we going to contact the Ains?"

He thought the reason why they had broke the seal was to contact the Ains.

With their strength, it seems more than possible to fight against the Kingdoms, Empires and even the players.

But Hansoo shook his head.

"We can't yet.".

An alliance with the Ains was indeed his final goal and releasing the seal as quick as possible for them to have freedom was correct as well.

Since the seal had been broken, everyone's eyes will be on the Ains now.

But an alliance was something that would happen when both parties were at similar strengths.

'Though they haven't fully recovered from the seal breaking yet…They are still much more powerful than us.'

An alliance was not something done in kindness but something very pragmatic.

Something like an alliance would only be maintained when both parties needed each other and were a bit afraid of each other.

But what about now?

The Ains had the power to tie down the kingdoms and empires and even make them tremble in fear.

An enormous amount of might.

And another thing.

They had a prophet.

They could see into the future to a degree.

Hansoo's superior position came from his knowledge of the future and him being able to utilize this to a degree.

But here it was likely that these things won't work of these guys.

Since they might know part of the things he knew.

And there was a chance that they knew something that he didn't.

He had no clue as to how the Ains, who had both a large amount of strength and future knowledge, would act in the future, so he couldn't just go charging down rashly.

It would be like putting one's head into a tiger's den.

He needed the Ain's alliance for his plan in the future but there was no need to charge in while they were weak and give the other side a change to devour them.

Ibanoph groaned and backed away from Hansoo's words.

Since his words were all correct.

He didn't know much about the Ains but if they were humans like them, they had a similar goal.

Not living in harmony but rather the survival of their race.

Though it was a indeed a negative train of thought, even they would destroy the other side if that side was relatively weaker and they needed to do it.

Their opponents weren't nice enough for them to play around amiably.

No, their opponents were powerful.

As Ibanoph backed away, Hansoo checked his level and then odded.

His current level was 248.

Just short of reaching the max level.

'I guess I could go up now. The rest… I can fill it up on the way up.'

Hansoo thought about the situation as he looked around.

Everyone else had hit max level already and had sufficiently armed themselves.

Since they took all the artifacts on the ground as well, there was no reason to waste any more time in this place.

"Let's go up then."

The people chattered but still nodded and prepared to set off.

Einchel stared at Kamiyou on the ground who had received first aid but had still yet to wake up.

'Leader. Let's live for a bit longer. You said there's a lot more to do.'

Einchel moved her bag to her hand, lifted Kamiyou on her back, tightly grasped her weapon and followed after Hansoo.

.........…..

HooongOooongOooong.

Booooom!

A red meteor flew across the maze and blew apart the head of a player.

"Waaaak!"

, one of the hunting group of the Hydros clan, barely dodged the attack and shouted out in rage.

Both lower and upper floors were in a rage.

"Fucking hell! What the hell's going on!"

It was a normal day like the usual.

He was hunting Ains in the territory designated as his clan's and was extracting Protection Elixirs from them.

Though the average level of the Ains was at 245, there was a huge difference in numbers to begin with.

These guys roamed around alone or in small numbers of two or three, these guys couldn't handle groups of 50 people at level 230-240.

And even more so when the hunting group belonged to the Hydros clan, one of the 15 great clans.

'I heard that they were extremely strong before they got sealed but that's just the legend.'

[They were extremely powerful back in those days], these kinds of sayings had no meaning.

The important thing was that they were now killable and were worth killing.

That was it.

This was why they had continued to hunt the Ains despite the upper floors having gone into havoc.

They wouldn't be disturbed from some things from the 4th floor going crazy and he would be punished by his senior if he didn't fill up today's quota.

Well, that would be the best case scenario.

Ignoring the chaos above was a huge mistake.

'The fuck… Just the release of a seal made them this strong?'

Their levels, which were around 245 to 250, exploded upwards.

The members of the hunting group got retaliated against and got massacred in an instant.

By estimating from the rate which the hunting group was getting massacred at, their levels were at least at 290.

At least this much, it was clear that numbers wouldn't work against them anymore.

'Fuck. I need to live at least, the Immortality Stone is too expensive for me to waste it here.'

Maybe if he was at the level of the Scarlet Demons of the Anteater clans, another one of the 15 Great Clans, the story would've been different. But he, who wasn't even in the elite group of his own clan, was not at a level where he could just waste the Immortality Stone randomly like this.

So he ran away.

Even the Ains would feel pressured from the the tens of thousands of people in the entire maze.

And he had succeeded at running away.

He thought that he would be fine back then.

That when he got to the 4th floor, there wouldn't be any more dangers.

But what was this.

The upper levels had long become hell.

'Fuck…This is what the bug players have done?'

Weren't the bug players just some prey?

For the entire player population which filled up this place to have been destroyed by the bug players.

KanuKanu, clenched his teeth and tried to resist the flail but there wasn't really a need to.

Since he would get logged out before that.

Kwaaaaaaa!

From the darkness.

An arm extended out from the darkness in front of him and smashed his heart.

Though he had been attacked in surprise, he wasn't that shocked.

He didn't know why he was here but he knew who it was.

"What the. When did he get here…."

As KanuKanu disappeared.

Hoooooong!

The flail that had been chasing him couldn't stop its momentum, flew through the gold powder and into the mysterious person.

All this happened in an instant.

But the mysterious figure wasn't surprised as he quietly raised his hand and deflected away the flail.

As if he was swatting away a fly.

Tooooong!

A loud sound rang out through the maze.

The flail that had been deflected stopped for a moment and then flew back the way it came from.

Towards the owner, Hansoo.

Though he hadn't thrown it at full force, it was still the God's Flail.

Hansoo frowned as he looked at the person who simply deflected it away.

There was a dark aura floating around that person's body.

A translucent body that looked like shadows.

There were no other existence that had a look like this.

The Ains.

The sealed existences of the maze below.

'They already came up here?'

Because the seal had broken, them coming up to the 4th floor from the 5th floor was obvious but this was too fast.

And from the expression of the mysterious person which told him that they were waiting, it wasn't a coincidence that they met.

How did they know that he would come this way?

Hansoo thought of something after considering it.

'Prophecy.'

The power to see the future.

'If something happens then I'll use the power.'

Hansoo clenched the flail in his hand as he looked at the Ain who was looking at him.

Reincarnator – Chapter 249 : Ain (4)

Rummblee.

The Ains.

A fascinating race which had a lot of secrets.

But they had a peculiarity.

Their physical bodies couldn't maintain their corporeal shape and consisted of a translucent shadow-like form.

Like enveloping a shadow with smoke.

This was why the humans couldn't distinguish between these people.

They could just barely distinguish between females and males.

'Looking at the body… It seems like it's a female.'

Hansoo mumbled at the blurry Ain and then clenched his hands.

Because his opponent was not weak.

The seal suppressed the Ain's strength.

At the same time it trapped them.

So the battle power of the Ains rising after the seal disappeared was an obvious thing.

But according to what he knew, the Ains could only use their entire strength after entering the Spirit Land.

Which meant that the Ain in front of him could barely use half her strength.

'But still.'

Estimated level 300.

Though she was a bit weaker in comparison to Arthus Krancheska above, she was still very powerful.

No, she was a monster.

Everybody who was following behind Hansoo was onedge.

"Woah. What the…".

"…Do we really have to fight that?"

The Ain blocking their path didn't hide her presence and aura so everybody could feel how powerful she was.

The shout of Akun, the leader of the souls, rang out through his head.

He could win.

But he would clearly have to use a lot of the mana node's energy.

'There's a lot of places where I need to use it.'

As Hansoo frowned.

The Ain in front of Hansoo spoke.

"I have no thoughts of fighting. I just came up to fulfill the Prophecy."

"… Fulfilling the prophecy?".

The Ain nodded as she replied.

"Apparently with your destiny you cannot die in this place. So I am here. To help you.".

"Hmm.".

Hansoo frowned.

As he found out that he didn't have to fight the Ain, he started to calm down and sighed.

"Well. If you're going to help you should all come… Why just one?"

If they were that strong, couldn't they just act together?

Einchel mumbled to herself but that small whisper couldn't escape the supernatural hearing of the Ains.

The Ain replied at Einchel's words with her ringing tone of voice.

"It wouldn't be that good for you then."

"Huh?"

The Ain smirked as she spoke.

"I'm saying that you shouldn't overestimate yourselves."

...............

Rumble.

The entire maze was trembling from the seal breaking.

Along with the giant mountain where the entrance lay.

"Uh? Back up more!"

"Shit. I can't even watch in peace.".

As the players, who were watching the mountain breaking, backed off.

Kwaaaaaaa!

Something flew in through the sky like a meteor.

Then.

Boooooom!

"Ehukk!".

"What is this!"

A line of light smashed down into the ground.

In between the shocked players.

And next to Arthus Krancheska grinding his teeth.

Arthus, whose rage had skyrocketed to the point of the fire becoming black, quickly calmed down the flames and reorganized himself.

The person who had landed was not somebody who he could dare be angry in front of.

Great General, Cykrus.

The guardian god who protected and supported the entire Kingdom.

And one of the few people who Arthus Krancheska, who had a tremendous amount of pride, truly admired and followed.

The rage got amplified inside Arthus Krancheska's body even more.

'This was a mission the Great General gave me personally… Fuck!'

Arthus Krancheska's expression crunched up as he kneeled on the ground.

To those who knew about Arthus Krancheska's pride, this was a shocking scene but it was nowhere close enough for Arthus himself.

Thinking about what this event would cause, he wanted to smash his head down into the ground.

Arthus Krancheska mumbled with a dejected expression towards the Great General who was staring back at him expressionlessly.

"Please kill me. Because I was inadequate…The seal got released."

Cykrus's eyes trembled a bit but then he shook his head and replied.

"…No. It couldn't be helped."

In a situation where the minor seal broke and the curse was in effect, even he himself couldn't go in.

Arthus Krancheska wouldn't have been able to do anything.

The final responsibility lay on himself who hadn't been able to manage everything properly.

Himself who had been wary of the Korin Kingdom's Great General, Dal Taran, and had paid little attention to this place.

Of course Cykrus was curious as well.

For the flail's seal to have been broken.

Even he couldn't have expected something like this.

'There was an immortal who could do this? Or…'

Cykrus shook his head after a few different thoughts.

Whatever the cause was, the water had been spilt already.

The seal had been broken and the suppressed Ains were released.

He wanted to sigh out thinking of the events that would happen because of this but he suppressed it and sighed inside his mind instead.

Everybody was looking up to him at the moment.

He had to take control and show a resolute look.

"Stand up. Stop wasting time down there."

Arthus Krancheska quickly stood up from the Great General's words.

Since his words were correct.

The events had occurred already and now they had to deal with it.

The Ains were released.

But this wasn't the worst case scenario yet.

Since they were only half as strong.

Cyrkus asked Arthus.

"What do you think those guys would do?"

Arthus replied instantly.

"…They'll try to go to the Spirit Land."

Their true, lost strength was inside that place.

Once they go in there then things would really turn for the worse.

The kingdoms wouldn't be able to handle it which meant the Empire, which was asleep in the distance, would awaken.

They needed to stop that from happening no matter what.

With all their might.

Cykrus nodded at Arthus Kranchesk's words.

"Call for reinforcements, it's an emergency. Tell them to bring all the knights and mages in the capital. As much as the warp gate can handle. I'll bring the defense brigade by the walls."

Arthus Francheska froze in place from the words of the Great General about how even the defense brigade would come into play.

The defense brigade was the shield of the kingdom.

If they came here then the wall facing the Korin Kingdom will become defenseless.

Cykrus spoke towards Arthus Krancheska after reading his worried expression.

"It's okay. I've dealt with that side already."

"…Ohm then?"

Krancheska's expression brightened up from Cykrus's words as Cykrus nodded.

"Yeah. Dal-Taran is coming as well. This… Isn't a time where we should be fighting."

It was not a time where they should be fighting for an extra penny.

If they couldn't block the Ains then things would really turn for the worse.

All the Kingdoms will freeze and melt down.

Including both the Korin and Keil kingdoms.

It was truly a full frontal battle now.

Cykrus mumbled towards the rumbling maze.

'You should've just hid inside calmly. Why are you trying to come out. At this rate… We can't sit still either.'

The time for him to see the clash between races which he hadn't been able to see in the past had now come.

Then.

Arthus Krancheska mumbled for a moment and spoke.

"Then what about the God's Flail?"

Cykrus rubbed his chin.

"Hmm…"

The flail was something that they needed to find.

Even more so now that they had to battle against the Ains.

Maintaining the seal wasn't its sole job.

Krancheska spoke to Cykrus.

"I'll bring it."

"You?"

Krancheska nodded as he spoke.

"The person who broke the flail's seal would probably be very strong. And…If they passed the flail's test then not anybody would be able to beat him. I'll go bring it personally."

Cykrus nodded towards Krancheska.

Though this guy was young, he had risen to the rank of captain of the magic brigade with pure talent.

His ability was more than good enough.

It was more than enough to deal with somebody who passed the test of the flail.

"Alright then."

Krancheska nodded with a confident expression.

................

"Our race will go to the Spirit Land now…"

'It wouldn't be easy…'

The Ain mumbled to herself after speaking to Hansoo.

The humans wouldn't have played around while they had been trapped here.

The feeble defense formation they would've set up wouldn't be easy to break through and it would only get tougher as time went on.

This was the best time.

They needed to break through during this time when the humans were wary of each other and when the defense formation was still very weak.

And they had to get to the Spirit Land where they could recover their true strength.

Before the humans could swarm in.

The Ain continued to speak.

"Seeing that you released us, you probably want something from us but… I believe we should be looking after our own race for now."

The Ain muttered while watching the countless humans behind Hansoo.

Hansoo replied to those words.

"So. What's the prophecy that you brought?"

A strange look appeared in the Ain's eyes from Hansoo's direct question.

The prophecy told them.

That this guy needed to live.

Most of the attention will fall onto their race and from this a gap for the humans to live would be made but it was nowhere enough.

Since the people above ruled the world.

So she had come.

If they were going to help the humans with strength then somebody stronger or a few more people would've come.

Though she was strong, she wasn't strong enough to deal with the entire situation.

But she had come for another reason.

Not for strength but intel.

To give these guys important information that would be of help.

In order to deal with the currently unfair situation.

The Ain spoke.

"The first prophecy says that you guys will have to dodge a small sun that would soon arrive."

"…A sun?"

As Einchel and the others made a strange expression.

Kwaaaaa!

A tremendous amount of mana started to rain down from the ceiling.

Mana that was incomparable to that from a spirit stone.

So powerful that it even affected them multiple floors below.

'Oh god…The curse was released.'

Everyone freaked out.

Hansoo mumbled as he felt the presence of the person charging towards them.

"A prophecy about 10 seconds into the future. How helpful."

"…Instead of sneering, let's go. There's no time."

Hansoo spoke towards the Ain.

"Which way is your race heading?"

The Ain pointed towards a direction from Hansoo's question.

Hansoo pondered for a moment and then pointed with his own finger.

Towards the opposite direction of the Ains.

"Let's go this way then."

Einchel frowned at those words.

'…Does he have a plan? The opposite direction?'

If he had a plan then he wouldn't choose to go onto the exact opposite direction of the Ains, he would've chosen to go towards the Ains for protection.

But Einchel soon realized this wasn't the time for her to think about such things.

The deadly aura emitted by the mana was getting closer and closer even now.

She didn't know what it was but they had to move immediately.

Then.

Hansoo's group and the Ain started to run towards a direction in the maze.

Reincarnator – Chapter 250 : Power (1)

Tatatatak.

Einchel panted and cursed inside her mind while running.

'Fuck! Melting down the entire maze to go down! Isn't this cheating?'

Surprisingly, Arthus Krancheska was doing something that was unbelievable.

He had felt that it was a waste of time to look for the three portals that would lead him from the 1st to the 4th floor and had started to just melt down the ground under him.

From what she knew, there were hundreds of meters of land between the floors which meant that Arthus was melting through kilometers worth of hard granite to reach them.

Einchel shouted.

"Fuck! Is that supposed to melt down so easily? Why did we use the portal instead of creating a passage like that?!"

The Ain replied kindly.

"It's not that we haven't but that we couldn't."

The Great Seal.

It wasn't a trap to hold down moles, would they have set it up in a way that could be dug through?

The Great Seal which used the mana node amplified the strength of the granite to the extreme and supplied it with a tremendous amount of regenerative powers.

It would regenerate very quickly even if it was destroyed.

It would be possible to go through it if one poured more energy than the mana node into it but no living creature could do such a thing.

Whether they were a Great General, a monster of the Empire or even the Ains.

Going through the granite with brute strength was an impossible feat up until now.

The seal even locked the space so teleporting through it was impossible so they could only use the portals.

But the situation was now different.

The seal had been destroyed and there was no more energy flowing in from the mana node into the maze.

It was possible to break it with strength now.

One of the adventurers shouted from behind.

"Fuck! Can't we dig a hole through as well then?"

The Ain made an amused expression at the man's words.

"And if we go up from here? It's the center of their territory. You want to go into the center of the War Fortress?"

"Ugh…"

The people running realized.

That they couldn't go up.

The land above was a death zone where countless residents of the kingdoms and players were waiting for them to come out.

They needed to dig up after going out from under their territory at least.

'The Ains are probably doing the same thing.'

Hansoo mumbled to himself.

Though the underground area of the maze was vast and wide, there was a limit to a structure.

It would be easy for the Ains if the maze reached all the way up to beneath the Spirit Land but sadly there was quite a distance between the edges of the maze and the Spirit Land.

And since the Kingdoms, who had created the maze, already knew this, they would move their forces that way as well.

The Ains would have to battle them while climbing up.

Toooooong!

"Uwaaaak! These bastards, why are they here…"

"Run away! It's the bug players!"

Boooom!

Though the maze was wide, there were a lot of players as well.

There were a lot of players in their path and Hansoo turned them into golden light whenever he saw them.

'Continue like this.'

Hansoo couldn't suppress his worries and stole a glance at the lingering Ain.

Then somebody else behind them shouted.

"Fuck! How is that crazy bastard chasing us so well!"

Ibanoph shouted with an uneasy expression.

It was because it wasn't only the mana that they could feel.

They could now even feel the intense heat pushing at them from behind them.

And despite having run so much, the heat only continued to rise.

The maze was extremely large, how was he chasing them so well?

The moment Einchel heard Ibanoph's shouting.

She started to frown.

'Wait…'

Einchel carefully asked Hansoo.

"Is he… Following that?"

Einchel pointed towards Hansoo's hand.

Well, towards the God's Flail in his hand.

Hansoo nodded at her words.

"Yep."

"…You knew?"

Einchel was dumbfounded at Hansoo who replied confidently.

A calamity of a person was chasing them.

Straight at them.

But for Hansoo to still hold onto the object that that calamity was chasing.

'Shouldn't we throw it away?'

Einchel made a confused expression.

She understood that it was an amazing object.

But if Hansoo could win with it, he wouldn't be running away like this.

Which meant that their opponent was someone who he would have a hard time dealing with even with the flail.

No matter how precious it was, it shouldn't be more precious than his own life.

Then shouldn't he throw it away?

With it, Hansoo was in a tremendous amount of danger.

Though they could hide, Hansoo would be chased until the end.

'Fuck…Should I move out alone?'

She shouldn't have such thoughts as Hansoo had helped them a lot but the tremendous amount of mana behind them was that vicious.

Heat that told them that they would burn no matter what if they got caught.

'Fuck it. I still have loyalty.'

Einchel gave up running away and decided on the second choice.

To persuade Hansoo.

Einchel carefully asked Hansoo.

"Can't you just leave it behind?"

Einchel got a reply instantly.

Not from one but two person.

"No."

"No."

The Ain and Hansoo replied at the same time.

If they left this behind and it got into the enemy's hands, retrieving it was almost impossible.

Since they would have to go through their entire army, knights, defense brigade and their magic brigade.

So they couldn't.

This was something that was very important for the future.

Einchel had nothing to say to both of their answers and cursed after a bit.

"Goddamit!"

One heard the prophecy and moved according to it.

The other had shown through action instead of words and hadn't been wrong until now.

Both of them answering at the same time meant that it was a very important thing.

"…To run with this… Where are we going anyway?"

'Fuck, they don't seem like they're going to give it up.'

Einchel muttered quietly.

If that object was such an important thing to them, it would be important to the other side as well.

Hansoo stopped suddenly at her words.

"Uhh? What? Why are you stopping?"

"We have to keep… What's going on! Why did you stop?"

Everybody started to ask with uneasy expressions.

They needed to create as much distance as possible but Hansoo had actually stopped in place.

Hansoo looked around for a bit and then spoke.

"It doesn't seem like he is going to give up. So we should fight."

Arthus wouldn't give up.

Which meant he needed to get rid of him before he becomes more of a nuisance.

'This should be enough.'

If it was too close then it would be an issue.

Others would replace him and chase them again.

This is why he had run in the opposite direction of the Ains.

To get rid of the person chasing them at a distance where the others wouldn't be able to sense it.

Hansoo touched the flail in his hand and made an amused expression.

He had obtained a shocking strength.

But before he could even see how powerful this strength was, a monstrosity had started to head their way.

'Sheesh. They won't even give me time to show off with this strength.'

Thinking about it, it has always been like this.

He ran, got stronger and faced an even stronger enemy.

'Well. It's the way it is.'

If he wanted to show off his strength then there was plenty of time to do so.

But he kept on losing that chance because of all the things he needed to do in a set amount of time.

While Hansoo laughed inwardly, everyone around him freaked out.

"Uh… Against that thing?"

Shocked phrases blurted out from the adventurers' mouths.

................

Rummble.

The walls melted and the ceilings collapsed.

From the blazing tail that came out from the man's body.

Arthus Krancheska, who had been breaking through the maze walls and was chasing the flail, stated to frown.

'…Their movements stopped. Did they give up running away?'

Krancheska scoffed and shook his head.

Not possible.

There was a reason why he was releasing such a large amount of mana while chasing.

He was telling them to hurry and give up the flail.

Since they were quite smart, they would've understood by now.

'It's a pity that I can't melt them all down but… I'll just retrieve the flail and go.'

He wanted to burn everybody who broke the seal and ran away with the flail but the situation wasn't quite great for him to let his emotions run amok.

The Ains and the army of Cykrus would've collided by now.

He needed to deal with the issue here and go back as quick as possible.

He needed to retrieve the most important thing, the flail, and go back.

'But… I'll definitely find you later and smash you one by one.'

Krancheska increased his speed after finishing his thoughts.

But after a bit of running, an unexpected scene happened.

"Huh?"

Two people were caught in his perception.

A human holding a flail.

And an Ain.

They were both very strong.

So strong that they couldn't even be compared to the others.

This made him even madder.

These two remaining behind meant only one thing.

That they wanted to have a go.

'Insolent, they dare to try and fight me?'

Krancheska's eyebrows twitched.

Though they were busy, the flail was very important.

But they still sent him alone.

What did that mean?

It meant that he was more than enough.

But these guys had chosen to stay behind.

This was the same as looking down on him.

'They dare?'

As he thought of that.

Arthus Krancheska's pride was hurt as he let out an enraged shout.

"You fucking dog shit bastards!"

Though about eight hundreds bugs were out of sight, this didn't matter.

Since they would burn up the moment they got close anyway.

'Erase them in an instant.'

As he shouted out in rage.

Booooom!

The orb that was transplanted near Arthus Krancheska's heart, , reacted to his rage.

The prison which would only get transplanted on the chosen.

The spirit of fire inside the orb, , squeezed out its power to the extreme.

Towards the two charging towards him.