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(T/N: You guys will sooo hate this chapter)

"Miss YuNa, Miss YuNa? Are you alright?"

"Wao, I would have fallen for you long ago if you were this kind all the time."

Yu IlHan repeatedly called out to her in fear that she may disappear altogether, but the person in question was actually quite calm.

"I'm not dying so you don't have to worry."

"What do you mean you're not dying, then just what is...."

"That magic formation, doesn't seem like it directly causes harm on Earth. It looks like it had done something not to Earth but to the people of it, in an unknown, profound, and annoying way."

"It's the same feeling as when I'm going over to Breya. But unlike when I'm going over of my free will, it feels like someone's forcefully sending me there."

"Forcefully? Who?"

"Who knows~? Probably Earth? I'm scared since I don't think I'll be able to come back once I go."

Na YuNa replied playfully but Yu IlHan couldn't laugh. To understand the situation, he had too little facts.

"It looks like all the others were ejected like me. I can feel that the Earth itself is rejecting me. This curse... I'm holding out with the holy power of Lady Leytna, but... ah god dammit. It doesn't work. It's not a curse I can do something about.

The most capable priestess on Earth had given up! Yu IlHan grabbed her tightly in panic, but that did nothing to stop the phenomenon. He became more and more worried, but Na YuNa didn't understand his feelings and spoke even more.

"I get it now. When we interrogated the people that set up the formation in Lanpas, I heard that the fallen angels told them to 'increase their allies' by going to as many worlds as possible. We only thought that that meant that more magic formations will be installed, but that was the mistake. We should have thought about that more carefully...."

[...So that's it. It was an infection.]

Liera also seemed to have realized after hearing that. She explained further with an absurd expression.

[The magic formation was not on standby. It was already active! By spreading the curse inside it among the humans…..!]

"Curse? That purple fog thing...?"

[That's also just a disguise. By covering the actual curse with a highly offensive one….. it's the basics when using curses. Uu, I knew this when I was beating up mages all the time!]

There were such curses? But he didn't even know that... perhaps Yu IlHan had rejected most of the curses approaching him thanks to possessing a high level of higher curse resistance, so he might have not realized it as he had rejected all of them.

Na YuNa added at this time.

"Mr. IlHan. You said I smell good, right? I think that was the curse. Their objective must have been spreading that among the humans... and perhaps the Earth doesn't like this smell?"

Na YuNa's predictions were relatively on the mark.

The sole purpose of the installation of the magic formation was to spread a special type of curse aura among the people of Earth. She, along with Kang MiRae and co, was absorbed in destroying them, but by the time the magic formation was destroyed, it was already game over.

In the fallen angels' view, they didn't even care about if the humans destroyed the magic formations or not. No, in fact, they probably wanted them to. The curse that would stick to them would proliferate onto others when they went back to Earth.

The ones installing the formations would spread the curse, and the ones destroying the magic formations would spread it once again. And after 2 years, there was no one on Earth who was not cursed.

If it was possible, they would have installed these formations directly on Earth, but then, they would have been destroyed before they could even activate. That was why, they used a method to do it from other worlds, and the result, was very successful, as you see here.

And the trigger was none other than the 3rd Great Cataclysm. The power of Earth, outgrowing the speed of the humans that live on it, was expelling the people of Earth to the worlds they were connected to. As Yu IlHan was seeing now, the people who could freely go back and forth were disabled from coming back to Earth.

It was funny that Yu IlHan had the ability to reject that curse when he didn't have anywhere to be expelled to.

It was truly ironic. Just during the 2nd Great Cataclysm, countless gates connecting Earth with other worlds were generated, but now that it became the 3rd, the people of Earth were being expelled precisely because of that.

"But curse is your field. Can't you dispel it?"

"It's, uh, a high dimensional curse that is hard to recognize even as a curse, since it has no offensive power at all. It's more like a prank that makes my mana emit a certain aura. I think I can do something about it if I get my 4th class, but right now I can't….."

[Don't come.]

Before Na YuNa's words even finished, a voice of quiet and deep wrath, resounded across the region. Na YuNa instantly shut up due to the 'league' contained in the voice, but Yu IlHan was unaffected.

"Dammit, it's that guy!"

He remembered hearing that voice once before – inside the hellish dungeon that he had opened gate to.

[Everyone should go away. And don't come back.]

With that, Na YuNa's blurred even faster. Just what was that guy, just what was that guy to the Earth? Yu IlHan became nervous and sensed for his presence, but it was impossible after all. He couldn't sense him no matter how hard he searched.

Moreover, from the point in time they heard the voice, the transformation of nearby buildings and landscape also started accelerating. Even though it hadn't even been 3 years since the 2nd Great Cataclysm, and the landscape change due to the effects of that hadn't even finished yet, an even more vigorous change was occurring.

"Then, the fallen angels' objective was to eject everyone out of Earth? And that's why it's 'Freedom'? Just why did…..!"

"Mr. IlHan."

Just as Yu IlHan was racking his brain, Na YuNa spoke to him. Her holy powers were amazing so she was still holding out when others would have been ejected long ago.

"You have to come to Breya to find me."

"By what method?"

"At times like these, you need to say 'Believe in me!' and give me a deep kiss!"

"I'm not that cool, and I won't do that."

"You're already cool, sheesh. I've said that multiple times before."

Na YuNa, who grumbled at Yu IlHan's words, smiled again.

"Like I said, you will be able to do it if it's you. So you need to come find me, okay? I'll also do my best to get 4th class."

[Do you think 4th class is some hill on your garden? It's not as easy as you say... uh, hey hey hey hey hey!]

Liera suddenly started shouting. However, Na YuNa had already taken advantage of Yu IlHan being in shocked to steal his lips.

"Uvvvvv!?"

"Uuuup, up." (I leave this to your imagination fellas)

It was just a moment, but it was a violent kiss that even caused sound effects. This was a moment when Yu IlHan was thinking about the schemes of the Army of Brilliant Light and the Destruction Demon Army, and he instantly came to his senses!

That was no wonder, since obviously, it was his first kiss! The place where her soft and moist lips touched his instantly turned hot as if he was burned, and the complex thought process inside his head all crashed in an instant. His lips trembled.

"Just what did you do..."

He looked down at Na YuNa with dumbfounded eyes. It looked as if her transport to Breya was already commencing as her body was becoming translucent. However, even Yu IlHan could know that her face was bright red. It looked like even she was embarrassed.

"Fufufu. Mr. IlHan, did you kiss Liera yet? Not yet, right~?"

"..."

"Mr. IlHan's first kiss is not Liera, but this Na YuNa! Ufufufu!"

And immediately after that, Na YuNa disappeared from his arms. The shocking surprise attack as well as the sudden disappearance had no where to deduct points from.

"Just..... what...!"

Yu IlHan was stiff at that spot even after she had disappeared. Instead, Liera was enraged.

[To think she was hiding such a trump card! IlHan, wash your lips with murky water, right now!]

"To think you'd joke over my first kiss. Uaaaaah."

He was worried about the future of Earth, as well as his parents, Mir and the others, and also worried about how to deal with the master of that voice, but right now, Yu IlHan had temporarily forgotten about them all. He was dealt a serious blow by Na YuNa.

And she just ran away like this… He had to look for her even if it was to get it back or something! In the end, only Na YuNa had profited! Yu IlHan thought that she was one clever woman.

[... Perhaps she wanted to give you assurance.]

It took a little time for Liera to speak seriously about this.

[Speaking honestly, you won't even believe it even if other people say they like you.]

"....You know me too well."

[But that woman likes you, no? So she put the stamp on after looking for opportunites. So that you won't doubt anymore. So that you will completely be sure of it.]

Saying that, Liera ended up laughing. It was frustrating to see Yu IlHan being done in like that, on one hand, she thought that she (Na YuNa) was cute.

[Thinking that you'd believe in her feelings just due to a small kiss. She's such a kid. Looks like she did grow up in a sheltered environment.]

"Huh?"

[Huh?]

"Huh....?"

[Huh....!?]

After a conversation with just nuances and no proper words, Liera acquired a realization. Yu IlHan was currently, was truly thinking that Na YuNa was liking him! Well, it was true!

"....She doesn't?"

[No, it's true...]

"Right?"

[....]

Seeing Yu IlHan, who was acting worse than a 10 year-old kid despite having lived for over a millenia, Liera was shocked, while Yu IlHan was coming to himself by tapping on his cheeks.

'Let's think about that later. Miss YuNa is a big problem, but there are more important problems that I need to attend to.'

Didn't Na YuNa say so? That he had to come looking for her. Rather than wasting time like this, she would probably want him to take action.

Of course, it wasn't like Yu IlHan wanted to move according to her words, but it was indeed the correct thing to do right now. Not only Na YuNa, he had to place all the expelled people back to Earth. Living one thousand years alone on Earth was enough!

"The problem is, how do I go about it."

[Ah, I can't communicate with Heaven either. Erta and Spiera are also there right? Wow, Earth is completely closed off. Unless Earth become a higher world or something, I'm all out of options...!]

"Don't throw new bait. My head aches just as it is now."

Yu IlHan sighed and raised his head. Looking around, there was no one there, of course. He felt like he could greet Na YuNa like nothing had happened, but reality was too cruel.

He was left alone again on Earth. And this time, the Earth itself had expelled everyone to other worlds.

Just why was he left alone so many times in his life? Though, it was very fortunate that Liera was by his side.

"Huh."

It was at that moment that Yu IlHan realized something.

"How about Mir? He was born on Earth."

[Ah.]

"There are also other children who were born after the Great Cataclysm, what happened to them? Even if they were cursed, they have no worlds to be expelled to!"

[... Right, you're right!]

Liera also realized that. She couldn't think up of this since she thought that the entire mankind was connected to other worlds, and just thought of it now thanks to Mir!

"Shit."

This was no time to be standing still. Yu IlHan urgently unfolded Ruin Calling.

"Just the children without any parents in a world where the 3rd Great Cataclysm is happening.... Uoooooh!"

Bringing out every last bit of his power, he leaped and at the same time, spread out his sense as far as possible. He was under the mission that he had to find and protect the children!

However, that was all in vain.

Despite having made several round trips on Earth, Yu IlHan could not find a single human other than him.

Author's notes

Your first kiss is not OOO, but this XXX! : A famous line from the villain Dio Brando, from the first volume of Jojo's Bizzare adventures. Let's wash our lips with murky water if we get kissed with this line.

Until when does Yu IlHan have to be dropped out! The reason for the fallen angels expelling the people from Earth!? These will be revealed throughout the novel.

Several hours passed after Yu IlHan had to send off Na YuNa.

He saw that the skies were getting redder. It was not a natural sunset, but an unpleasant one as if it was colored using blood.

"Why aren't they here?"

Muttered Yu IlHan while sighing. No matter how much he searched, there was not a single human being other than him on Earth right now.

Likewise, the only higher existence left on Earth, Liera also had to carefully select her words to console him.

[Perhaps they were sent along with their parents?]

"It would be good if that was the case, but who knows….."

Yu IlHan thought that she was thinking too optimistically. Whoever was behind this, he did not think that this person would have enacted such mercy.

Children had no worlds they were connected to, but was still cursed by the formations. Just what happened of them? He felt stuffy just thinking about it.

"I don't want to think this is true, but if those children are trapped in that dungeon that I was in..."

[I don't even want to imagine.]

Yu IlHan didn't care about other people dying from outside his reach, but he was no man of steel that only worried about himself facing this large scale disaster.

Of course, the one he was most worried about was none other than Yumir. It would have been good if he was the one to go to that dungeon, but would his son be able to endure when he hadn't even grown fully as a dragon? Thinking about that, his lips felt dry.

"Mir had higher curse resistance too. To think even he could not endure it….."

[Well, you have a high level of higher curse resistance, thanks to spending 2 years in hell, but Mir is not like that... Calm down first. You know how strong Mir is.]

"I think I have to go to that dungeon."

Nothing would be better if he could create a gate using the vortices that were appearing on Earth, but while going around the Earth, he did not meet even a single vortex.

Would the Earth make vortices in the future? Yu IlHan thought that the answer was no. Perhaps the appearance of the vortices after the 2nd Great Cataclysm was a part of the Earth's growth process?

Earth could directly and indirectly acquire records of countless worlds through them, and as a result, it had grown fast enough to cause the 3rd Great Cataclysm to descend.

[And finishing the growth, it expelled all the humans. As if it doesn't need them anymore.]

"Is that possible?"

[If it was any other world, it would have been impossible, but like what you said, it might be possible for the current Earth since it had absorbed a vast amount of records. It will reach a higher world by growing alone.]

Yu IlHan felt bitter after listening to that. Growing alone? Wasn't that similar to what he was pursuing?

The biggest difference that unlike Yu IlHan, who had the talent to be alone in a large crow,d Earth had expelled all the others because it wanted to be alone. The scale was so big that he couldn't even get angry.

Since the method to create a gate through vortices didn't work, the only remaining method was Warp. He didn't want to use this as it used too much resources, but right now, it was no time to care about that.

"....Huh."

But there was a problem with this as well.

He could not activate warp.

[Why?]

"I can't leap into that dungeon."

[It's impossible even with your warp? How?]

"Although it's very annoying to admit, it looks like I'm not in full understanding of that dungeon..."

Wasn't this too much? He had basically lived there for 2 years and it was impossible? Yu Ilhan couldn't believe it himself and tried activating Warp several times, but the result was the same.

No, strictly speaking, the places he could Warp to was only parts of Earth, places which had big traces of him.

Erta mentioned about how Yu IlHan was drawing sketches with his Warp when other higher existences were writing complex formulae, but she was wrong. For Yu IlHan to use Warp, he had to draw a hyper realistic picture, whether it was a portrait or a landscape!

Yu IlHan realized that and fell into half a panic. His final thread of savior was cut off.

"WHat do I do. Now I really can't do anything even if Mir is there..."

[Get it together.]

Liera pulled on Yu IlHan's hair.

[Mir will be fine. If the newborns are with him, then those kids will be safe too.]

"But what if he meets an enemy he can't face...?"

[If you start thinking like that, there will be no end to it. Here, cheer up. The only one who can do anything about this situation is you, IlHan. Am I wrong?]

"..."

Yu IlHan raised his head. Her words were unchangingly clear and positive even in this chaotic mess, and made him a little cool-headed.

She was right. Now that he couldn't find any traces of people of living people on Earth after going around several times, only he could do something about this situation.

[This time, it's different from a thousand years ago. You must not only develop yourself, IlHan. You need to act proactively.]

"....Right."

He took a deep breath and gripped his fist. His irregular breathing regained its calm, and his pale face also became lively again. Now that he was aware that he couldn't solve anything like this, he realized that it was no time to be in despair.

[Let's move first. In the end, it was Earth that did this, right? Then what you must do is simple too.]

"Yes, you're right."

Now that he had completely regained his self-awareness, Yu IlHan immediately took out the Eight-tailed dragon spear and muttered.

"I only need to beat the crap out of Earth."

[It's so like you to reach such a conclusion…..]

If Earth played on large scale, he could only reply back with the same! If he destroyed everything he saw, he would be able to find a single dungeon alright! If his eyes couldn't find it, then he'd drill a hole to find it!

After finding the dungeon, he'd enter to find Yumir, as well as the others children that may be with him, and destroy anything and everything that he considered enemy. Right now, he decided to not think about the possibility that Yumir was not there.

Yes. After that....

Yu IlHan tilted his head and looked at Liera. He grumbled all the time about how the angels weren't of help, but at times like these, he could only trust in his Guardian angel.

"Then what…..? Is there, really a way?"

[...It's not that there isn't. You just need to make Earth into a higher world. Then, the Earth would naturally become open to all and become a war zone, but in any case, the people of Earth would be able to come back to their homeland. They would be given a choice, to come back to Earth, or to live on in that world.]

And somehow, Liera had a clear answer this time. The word that Yu IlHan told her to not throw baits about, higher world. Funnily, that was the only word he could rely on right now.

"That's easy. I literally just have to break everything."

[...I'm sorry. It's actually not that easy, IlHan. Well, with your ability, you'd be able to counteract no matter what happens on Earth, but the problem is the period of time that is taken for Earth to evolve into a higher world. The birth of higher worlds require much, much more time and luck than the birth of a higher existence...]

The evolution of a world speeds up due to various elements such as the development of mankind, birth and deaths of monsters, as well as the quantity of mana the world harbors.

Until now, Earth had fulfilled more than enough of those requirements, and had an incomparable growth speed compared to others, but now, humanity was out of the calculation.

Despite that, Earth would be able to evolve plenty fast, but now that the crucial element of mankind was gone, it was natural that it wouldn't be as fast.

To higher existences the concept of time did not mean much to them, so it would be of no problem even if Earth's growth was delayed. That was why they could do such things.

However, to Yu IlHan and the other humans, it was a very big problem. Not to mention the other people who had could live for tens, or even perhaps hundreds of years, even Yu IlHan was a mere human, despite living for a long time. Unless he became a higher existence, he would eventually die.

[They are probably wishing for that to happen. After humanity goes extinct in other worlds, they would approach leisurely, and stick their flags on this free territory known as Earth. Considering that this is a plan from those disgusting seeds of the Army of Brilliant Light and the Destruction Demon Army, it's simultaneously a perfect plan... and we were completely done in by it, unfortunately.]

"No, it's fine."

However, Yu IlHan denied her words. It was unbelievable to think that he was panic-stricken just a moment ago.

"I will make it fine."

[How...?]

"I'll just do it alone. Like how I did until now, it will be so in the future."

[....]

Did Yu IlHan ever rely on other people? In decisive moment he himself was the only one he could trust in.

Evolution would be delayed since mankind was not here? Die of old age? If so, if Yu IlHan could cover for the billions of people, then there would be no delays in the evolution. Simple answer.

[...I always think this at times like these, but I'm quite scared that you might actually end up achieving that.]

"It's not that I might end up achieving something. I will."

He had always walked, endured, and achieved everything, alone.

So, he would be able to do it this time as well. Nothing had changed. Nothing.

Thinking until there, Yu IlHan realized something and smacked his own head.

"No, Liera. You were always by my side. I was about to forget that again."

[Yes, don't forget that. I will always be by your side. This was decided from a thousand years ago.]

Replied Liera while blushing. Unlike a thousand years ago, right now, any communication with Heaven was severed so she couldn't even contact them. They were completely isolated, but despite that, she did not feel anything. It had been too long since Yu IlHan had become the biggest priority in her life.

"Then now."

Yu IlHan looked at his surroundings. In fact, this was no time to leisurely wait in one spot. Earth was changing real-time due to the 3rd Great Cataclysm.

Intact grounds suddenly sank or shot up, continents moved, causing enormous earthquakes, violent whirlpools appeared in the middle of the sea and made giant bridges of whirling pillars of water, while some parts of the sky was generating dungeons of its own by creating magical space. This was an even more violent change than the 4th Great Cataclysm in Dareu.

Yu IlHan boldly spoke in the middle of that, while extending his Ruin Calling.

"Let's go back to the mansion first."

[Yeah. Nothing would change even if we hurry, so let's think about it after a night's rest. ... You will let me sleep next to you, right?]

Liera was hitting up on him now that Yu IlHan had regained his calm. Although she was suppressing it due to the situation, she was very bothered by Na YuNa's kiss. So, she was trying to make up like this.

"No, I won't be sleeping."

Yu IlHan shook his head.

"For the next two months, I have something I have to work vigorously on."

[…..IlHan, don't tell me you.]

"Yes."

Answered Yu IlHan.

"I'm going to make a flying fortress."

Author's notes

IlHan's mentality is indestructible

The protagonist finally fights! No, wait, he was fighting all this time, wasn't he?

While Yu IlHan was undergoing season 2 of Earth-alone, in Heaven's Army, Erta was currently listening to an unbelievable news from the other angels.

[Did I... hear wrong?]

[No, you've heard correctly.]

The 6th class high angel Tibera spoke in a serious voice.

[The Heaven's Army, through negotiations with the Army of Brilliant Light and the Destruction Demon Army, has decided to neglect Earth. The expulsion of humans with the 3rd Great Cataclysm was also carried out together with them.]

[How!]

[It is to decrease the sacrifices of Earth as much as possible. Are you not aware of it as well? The scene of the original humanity in a newly ascended world. In that aspect, Earth was lucky. The 'majority' of them could depend on other worlds.]

Erta lost her words at the firm reply.

Well, it was indeed Heaven's Army's duty to protect humanity. However, they expelled all the people on there to other worlds to do that?

No, before that, how could they even join hands with the Army of Brilliant Light, whatever the cause was? The angels should know better than anyone the reason they were corrupted!

[The children... What happens to the children that are born after the Great Cataclysm?]

Erta asked while thinking up of Yumir. Tibera coldly replied.

[That's the minimum number of sacrifices we have to bear. ... Yes, those children will probably die.]

[Those poor little lambs that cannot even differentiate good and evil of their own accord... you will sacrifice them? Just with the reason that you have to decrease the sacrifices on Earth...?]

[It's much better than all the adults dying as well due to Earth's ascension. Is it now?]

Erta felt her heart ripping when she heard that. The figure of Yumir looking for his father lingered in her eyes.

Although she tried not to show it, Yumir was perhaps the most important existence to her, even more than Yu IlHan himself. In the 2 years and 9 months in the Abandoned World, how much help did she get from him? But now, she had to leave him to die?

[Their souls will all become new life and be born. You do not need to feel despair. That is the law.]

[Law…..]

Yes, souls reincarnate. That was the unchanging law, and also a concept that all angels believed in. However, that did not justify the sacrifice of many living life.

Life was beautiful because it bloomed, and because it wilted at the right time. Erta could not accept this kind of sacrifice. This was not how the God she believed in, worked.

[Opinions may differ on this. And so, we proceeded with this without telling the lower angels. However, I'm telling you this now because you're being promoted soon into 6th class, and because you are the guardian angel of that man, Yu IlHan.]

Looking at the enraged Erta, Tibera added. It was as if saying 'I have given you special treatment so accept it and get over it'. However, that only made Erta more enraged.

If she knew this would happen, she wouldn't have cheered at the words '6th class' and fly over! She would have ignored whatever orders Heaven gave her and stick next to Yu IlHan like what Liera did! She should have looked after that child, Yumir!

[And Liera? Is she aware of this?]

[She does not know anything. She was too tainted by humans. She was focusing more on that single human than her work as a member of the army... It's obvious how she would react if she heard this.]

Erta also could predict what would happen. If it was her, she would try to flip over the entire Heaven. Then it would be Earth. She would not accept that Yu IlHan would be in that state. However, Erta was instead envious of her boldness.

She unhesitantly did everything she wanted to, and that was very similar to Yu IlHan.

Look at it now. Erta thought that acquiring 6th class would be of more help to Yu IlHan and had come to Heaven, only to be put in a state where she would never perhaps meet him again. However, Liera disregarded all rationale and reason, as well as the priority of her work, and stayed with Yu IlHan, honest to her feelings to stay next to him. And the result? She was next to him right now, wasn't she?

'Yes. The two matches so well. Unlike me, who goes over everything, thinking about rationale and what not, and eventually end up failing...'

Erta felt a sense of self-loathing. She felt miserable, tragic and above all, she wanted to see Yu IlHan.

[It is not like we accepted this plan from the get-go. However, the growth of Earth is too fast. We thought that at this rate, a massive disaster would fall upon Earth…..]

[Did….. did 'The Lord' intend to do this?]

There was only one 'Lord' that the angels referred to. Tibera nodded without hesitation when Erta asked that.

[Yes. The Lord even directly talked with the leaders of other factions to proceed with this.]

[Then...]

I do not have a choice.

Erta couldn't say the latter parts. She still could not accept it. Sending the people of Earth to other worlds of their own accord just because 'it was obvious that they are going to die?' What was dictatorship if this wasn't?

She thought until that point, when she remembered that Heaven was committing dictatorship from the time they sent humans to other worlds for 10 years of their own accord.

Yes. What had changed was not the Heaven's Army, but Erta herself.

Her gaze pointed towards the angel standing next to Tibera. The one who stood there was Spiera. She was the one who brought her to Tibera despite saying that she had a lot of work. Perhaps this was a consideration for Erta in her own way, but Erta was annoyed above all.

[Spiera, you knew this, didn't you?]

[It has not been long. And I also felt very unpleasant. That is because the one who lead this joint scheme was none other than the traitors.]

[But you accepted it.]

[It was not something that could be changed with my disagreement alone.]

Spiera was a high angel of 6th class that had nothing to fear in this world, but there were plenty of others who were comparable to her in power in the Heaven's Army. She was right. Nothing would change even if she disagreed.

[And so, I wanted for Yu IlHan to become an angel as fast as possible. If a citizen of Earth becomes an angel, there is no need for a war on Earth, and we could immediately make Earth Heaven's territory. Yu IlHan grew rapidly according to my expectations, but unfortunately, time was lacking. Earth... has exceeded all our expectations.]

[...Haha.]

Erta ended up laughing after hearing that. The despair she could not feel frequently from the time she became a higher existence, enveloped her body. It was as if she had become a complete fool while everyone was acting on their own judgement.

'What do I do, Yu IlHan? It was me who always told you to believe in the Heaven's Army, and its angels, but now I'm like this…..'

While Erta was at a loss on what to do with her sense of guilt about Yu IlHan, Tibera spoke without even knowing what she was thinking.

[Erta, you will become a high angel of 6th class soon. So, you need to get rid of your thought processes when you were with a lower existence. Once Earth becomes a complete, higher world, then all higher existence factions will clash upon Earth once again…..]

[...No.]

Erta shook her head after a moment of silence. Tibera tilted her head in confusion, but Spiera instantly realized what Erta meant.

[Erta, are you... serious?]

[Yes.]

Erta tried her best to hold in the rage in her heart and replied curtly.

[My abilities... are not yet suitable to become a high angel. When I judge myself to be suitable to become a high angel, I will ask you again then.]

[Erta, this was our decision after judging that both your magic, as well as your abilities are sufficient.... But if the person in question does not think so, then I cannot help it. Understood. Let's do it that way.]

[Yes, I would appreciate it.]

No matter how much she tried to suppress it, her rage was so large that it was virtually unhidable. Tibera also noticed her emotions.

[....Are you not perhaps thinking of something strange?]

[What specifically do you mean by something strange?]

Tibera could not reply to that, and Spiera only made a bitter smile on the side. Facing the two high angels, Erta acknowledged that with a laugh.

[Yes. In fact, I am indeed thinking of something strange.]

[Erta!?]

Spiera shouted in shock, but it was too late. Erta couldn't hold back her raget to the end, and a thin strand of rage slithered like a viper. Her words were sharp as if she was going to bite the two high angels to death.

[I believe and admire the Lord, but also think that not everything will work his way. This matter is the same. This plan only has meaning after all the people of Earth dies, and Earth has wholly evolved into a higher world alone... but.]

[It will become like that. Is it not obvious?]

[It is indeed not obvious.]

Erta's eyes glistened. Even she couldn't believe it, but she was tearing up right now.

[You have said that Earth has always exceeded our expectations no? However, there was an existence that exceeded our expectations way before that. Yes, you're right. It's Yu IlHan. He will become a higher existence one day, and rule over Earth of his own accord. And no one would be able to acquire Earth!]

[That is not possible. No matter how exceptional of a human, one cannot become a higher existence on one's own. He, who is trapped in Earth, cannot come into contact with any of the higher existence factions, and no one will see him.]

[There were three in this long history. It won't be strange if there is another one! Wait no, perhaps it's four? There is a possibility that even the one we serve was once a mere creation, no?]

[Blasphemy!]

Shouted Tibera, and Spiera also gripped on her spear in rage. However, Erta continued speaking even with the two stronger beings in front of her, without hesitation.

[You have mentioned that none of the Heaven's Army, Army of Brilliant Light, Destruction Demon Army, and the Garden of Sunset, will not look at Yu IlHan, but it is the opposite. Not once did Yu IlHan gave a glance to us higher existence factions. The us he sees is only a bunch of cowards who group up in fear of standing alone! He will become a higher existence on his own!]

[...Let's say that the promotion never happened. It looks like your training of the heart is still lacking. You need to cool your head.]

[I'd love to. Then I'll take my leave here. I'd appreciate it if you do not look for me.]

Erta didn't lose out with her words until the very end, and unfolded her wings. Then she flew away before the high angels could even grab her.

'Idiot. I'm really an idiot.'

She couldn't even control her emotions and said something blasphemous, and even provoked her superiors. She was disqualified as a higher existence. However, at the same time she also thought this.

'So, I have to be careful not to make bigger mistakes in the future.'

She thought of Yu IlHan. She believed that he would become a higher existence of his own and become the lord of Earth. No, perhaps she only wanted to believed in that, but she was that desperate.

'I need to prepare starting now.'

Resolving on the inside, she flapped her wings again.

Only she knew where she was heading.

Author's notes

The path Yu IlHan walks, the path Liera walks, the path Spiera walks, and the path Erta walks. Looks like they're all different.

Translator's notes

Get rekt Tibera. No one likes you

aaaaaaand 6/6 Queue cleared! (Though, $9 until next one)

The past 6 chapters have been a hell of a ride haven't they? Na YuNa's kiss, Erta's character development, (hey who knows, she might have a thing for Yumir).

Anyway, enjoy your read!

I was not going to do sponsored chapters…. but as I said before. I'm not gonna be able to handle them if they keep coming at this rate, even when this semester is over… Gotta keep doing them I guess…

With his wings, Yu IlHan arrived back at the mansion in exactly 1 minute 30 seconds. Although he had predicted this, no matter how many mountains sunk and lakes dried, Bittersweet Persona as well as the mansion grounds were holding out fine. It could only be considered a chaos-ranked artifact if accomplished that.

The problem was the monsters surrounding the region.

[Wow, that's insane. Earth is completely insane!]

"I agree with you."

During the 2nd Great Cataclysm, no 4th class monsters were born directly on Earth. All 4th class monsters were either that evolved from 3rd class to the 4th, or those that passed over the gate to Earth, or those that were born from the effects of Overflow. However, none were innately born as 4th class.

Yu IlHan was thinking that the 4th class monsters that should have been born were all taken to the hell dungeon and were turned into demons, but seeing hundreds of 4th class monsters on his mansion grounds, it didn't seem like it was quite that.

[We need to destroy this.]

[The only remaining man made structure. We need to destroy it.]

[Make it so that he can't step on this land again.]

[Regain peace to this land.]

However, from their words, it seemed that they came to this place not due to the attraction of the mana from Bittersweet Persona, but in knowledge that this was Yu IlHan's house. Yu IlHan only laughed after hearing that.

"I'm thankful if all of you come."

Yu IlHan gripped onto his Eight-tailed dragon spear and poised himself. He extended Ruin Calling as far as possible, and suddenly accelerated with a super sized shockwave!

[Critical Hit!]

[You have earned 610,395,305 experience.]

[Attack power increases by 0.85% for the next 5 minutes due to the skill, Deathgod. Duration and percentage increases if you kill more monsters within 5 minutes without concealment wearing off.]

He instantly halved a 4th class monster, that was just about to intrude by dropping down from the sky at lightning speeds. The clean hit killed the monster without any hint of resistance, and naturally, his concealment did not wear off.

"That was easy."

[So now you can easily instakill 4th class monsters.... Even without the pile bunker or the Spear of Untraceable Trajectory! Even though you're 3rd class!]

"Don't get angry."

[I'm not! I'm just slightly frustrated and annoyed!]

Now, Yu IlHan was right before his 4th class. Although he hadn't acquired it yet, with his OP skills and titles, it became natural for him to insta-kill lower level 4th class monsters.

If the current Yu IlHan fell in the past Dareu, the dragons would have been annihilated without even using a single dragon breath landing on him.

[Here, he's here!]

[But we cannot see him. We cannot feel him.]

[Eeeeek... Let's destroy this mansion! We cannot find him, but we can see this mansion!]

The monsters seemed to be surprised at Yu IlHan's appearance, and soon took extreme actions. Of course, 'extreme actions' were not much different from what they usually did, and Yu IlHan only laughed at them and commenced his hunt of monsters.

[Kuaaaaaak!]

[Kihaaaaaaak!]

If the Bittersweet Persona played music with the various traps and artifacts, Yu IlHan danced on the top with his spear, sometimes with his hammer, or axe, or greatsword, or whip. Blood scattered in all directions as the necks and hearts of monsters were perforated one by one.

Now that he was training in the Great cosmos-severing spear, he did not need to differentiate between weapons. He had the confidence to insta-kill the monsters with any sort of weapon. And in actuality, Yu IlHan's concealment did not wear off even once during this time.

[You have earned 543,285,486 experience.]

[You have earned 491,009,315 experience.]

[You have earned 635,581,102 experience.]

[You have....]

"But these guys. They don't give much experience because they're only bigger stage 4th class."

To him, 500 to 600 million was nothing at all. However, as there was a large number of them, he felt that he could acquire around 100 billion experience after killing all of them here.

[Ugh, uh…..!]

Liera had to try her best in order to not get angry. Well, Yu IlHan did level up rapidly while killing those demons in hell, so it was natural that the amount of experience he gained here was considered insignificant for him. Yes, she had to accept it like that.

[Kuaaaaak!]

[Destroy. We need to erase the traces of this damned human…..!]

No matter how fast they moved, Bittersweet Persona did not miss them. And once the monsters were restrained, Yu IlHan would instantly fly over and kill them. Many 4th class monsters died with every passing minute.

However, that was only doable when he could see the end, but no matter how many monsters he killed with the help of Bittersweet Persona, he still felt tired after glancing at the seemingly endless waves of the monsters.

Of course, he had the confidence to continue kill monsters for hours, but he couldn't hunt like this forever!

"This is no good."

Yu IlHan took back his spear and struck on the ground. At that moment, hundreds of spears made of dragon bones embedded themselves in various parts of the garden. Yu IlHan then picked up the Thunderhammer, and activated the lightning storm option on the Dragonic bracelet on his hand.

The power contained inside the bracelet, which could store up to 3 times worth of these lightning storms and release them all at once, was let loose upon a tiny point at the end of the hammer, causing a resonance between all the dragon bones.

At that moment, the hundreds of dragon bones in the garden all resonated with the hammer and spat out frightening amounts of lightning to attack the nearby monsters!

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical Hit!]

[Critical ...]

As the monsters he had faced until now were too strong, he never had the opportunity to use this, but this was the strongest wide-area combo that Yu IlHan had prepared to fight against a large number of 4th class monsters!

At this moment, the mansion grounds was akin to a sea of lightning. An absurd level of lightning was born due to the resonance between the bone spears and the thunderhammer, and that lightning would transfer over to other bone spears and enhance their powers, while frying every monsters in its path.

[Kergh!]

[Khaaagh!]

Although Yu IlHan's location was revealed as he couldn't kill all the monsters at once, the monsters couldn't even attack him. The lightning storm at the tip of the Thunderhammer was a result of a large enough amount of mana to cause typhoons, compressed into a single point. So it wouldn't end anytime soon.

[Some might think you're a mage.]

"Good, I used it. I finally used it!"

Yu IlHan joyfully moved his body. Now, it was time to finish them off himself with the Thunderhammer that had started the typhoon.

Not even 10 minutes after that, Yu IlHan succeeded in cleaning all the monsters inside the dungeon. However, the insanely increasing number of monsters due to the 3rd Great Cataclysm, were all rushing over real-time as if they were all aiming for him, so at this rate, it would only be a repetition of what happened just now.

[IlHan, now!]

"Got it!"

Yu IlHan rushed into the mansion and activated the Hourglass of Eternity, at that moment, the intruding monsters were all ejected, and the mansion and its grounds was enveloped inside the barrier of the Hourglass.

"Fuu."

Yu IlHan checked his own state in this stopped world before sighing. Meanwhile, Liera checked on the outside world and muttered with a laugh.

[This reminds me of the time you were first left alone on Earth.]

"My miserable state is still the same as ever."

[No, whether it's then or now, IlHan, you're cool.]

Liera sounded like an older sister with a large gap in age with her brother, praising him. However, it didn't feel so bad, so Yu IlHan disarmed himself with a smile.

[Are you going to start right away?]

"Yeah. If possible, it would be good if I had a 5th class magic stone, but now I have the magic engineering knowledge, so I think I can complete it with 4th class magic stones."

[The mansion? Then what else is there?]

"Armor and weapons. I definitely need 5th class magic stones for those. Moreover, I need to evolve the Language skill, I need it to become 4th class. Really, I would have no other wishes if I could kill 100 5th classes consecutively.

[To think my IlHan would grow so fast to say such a frightening wish right now…..]

Heading to the workshop, he immediately moved the Eternal Flame into the furnace.

He threw a single 4th class magic stone that was burning brightly as if it had finally returned to its home, and it received it gladly, and soon, a fire that could melt even dragon bones roared up. Yu IlHan nodded in satisfaction.

"Then should I start?"

[You said a flying fortress, but what are you going to do?]

"10 enormous parts to levitate the mansion and the grounds, 100 slightly smaller parts to control directions. Lines to connect all of them, as well as an operations room to control all of that. I also need to make around a thousand weapons that can attack both underwater, on ground, and in the air from anywhere."

The line up made people wonder if that was something accomplishable by humans even if they spent an entire lifetime, but Yu IlHan moved as if the blueprints were all in his head already.

His brain contained the blessing of the god of smithing, as well as all the knowledge of magic engineering that the magic engineers had acquired over their lives in Lanpas. And with the materials with infinite potential he had gained in the hellish dungeon, nothing was impossible for him!

"Good, then let's start with this."

Yu IlHan immediately switched into work mode and started hammering away on metals and monster bones, but Liera who was watching, didn't know what exactly was happening. She only felt that IlHan looked cool while he was smithing.

[So in the end, Nothing changed whether it was hundreds of years ago or now. IlHan takes action, and I watch...]

Muttered Liera and she seemed to laugh before she slapped her own cheeks. Thankfully, Yu IlHan couldn't hear her as he was absorbed in work.

[Fuu, good. Now I'm energetic]

Although their positions were similar to before, there was one fact that she must not forget. It was that the Earth was very different now compared to a thousand years ago.

At that time, there was nothing that could harm Yu IlHan. At most, it was the sperm whale he hunted.

However, things were different now. As if to prove that it was different from other worlds, hundreds of 4th class monsters appeared, and in the future, even worse things would happen.

'A naturally-occurring 5th class too... perhaps its possible. No, it will probably come out.'

She wanted to believe that Yu IlHan could take care of all of them, but the reason he won against the fallen angel was only because he had calculated precisely and strengthened himself accordingly. He couldn't be in that condition every time he faced a 5th class being.

And so, if, IF, Yu IlHan was put in danger against a 5th class being…

What would Liera do then.

There was nothing much to ask. The moment she received the blessing of the goddess of love, or perhaps even before that.

'That will be the time... I'll use the powers given to me by the goddess of love.'

Liera made a not-so-light resolve while looking at Yu IlHan's figure. She would make him live through the encounter whatever she had to do. Even if she had to pay a great compensation.

On the Earth where even the 3rd Great Cataclysm had temporarily stopped, only the repetitive hammering sounds resounded clearly and loudly.

Author's notes

Although it wasn't so obvious due to the perverted demons, IlHan has become very strong

What would be the finished fortress be like!? Look forward to it.

Aah, lots and lots of bait in the stopped world...!

When Yumir came to himself, he was in a world he had never experienced before.

"Huh?"

He tilted his head and looked at the surroundings. The skies were all red, and the lands glistened in bloody light. It was strange, this new environment that he did not want to get used to. Just being here made him unpleasant, but he still felt an odd sense of safety.

"Grandma? Noona?"

Looking for the ones he was with until just a moment ago, he spread out his mana, but it was in vain. Nowhere in this wide world could he sense their mana.

They definitely destroyed a magic formation together, came back to Earth, and just as they were about to go back to the mansion, he seemed to get dizzy before an unbearable pressure seem to assault him and blew his consciousness away.

And waking up, he found himself here. He did not know what was happening.

"Dad...."

Yumir looked for his dad first in this unknown situation. That wasn't in vain as he could feel traces of Yu IlHan in various parts of this world. Of course, those were just traces, and the person himself couldn't be felt, but right now, that was enough.

"So dad came here before."

Having reached a conclusion, Yumir felt calmer than before. Just with the fact that Yu IlHan had been to this place before, he could sense the connection between him and Yu IlHan.

Holding himself from crying on the spot, Yumir pondered. If it was his dad, what would he have done in this situation?

"I know, kill everything in sight!"

That was all he saw of Ilhan as he grew up, as well as the only viable conclusion he could reach! In fact, Yu IlHan was doing the exact same thing on Earth right now, so Yumir had completely seen through him.

Yumir first grilled the dragon meat in the magic bag that Kang MiRae gave him and ate them. And he became level 192. Really, he was not that far off from evolving into a true dragon.

"....Good."

Since he was full, Yumir tensed himself and spread out his senses again. This time, he wasn't trying to find other people, but trying to find the weakest enemies for him to kill.

However, the results were insane. He could only feel auras of strong beings that he had never felt before on Earth or any other worlds!

"Wow, so strong. Level 250, 253, 261, 274, 280 .... Hmmmm."

At his current level, level 250 was somewhat doable but anything above that, he thought it was impossible. Perhaps things might change if he became a true dragon after the 4th class... but since the world he came to were full of these freaks, Yumir was only confused.

"....Okay."

However, his disappointment did not last long. Many strong enemies meant levelling up faster through defeating them! His dad would be happier if he came back stronger, and he would also be able to fight against stronger enemies.

His instinct told him to dig a hole and hide as there were only stronger monsters than him here, but as he had grown after fighting monsters non-stop for a few years, Yumir knew very well that such embarrassment disappeared only after enduring through it.

"Then let's go with this guy fir…..st?"

Just as he was about to start defeating them with the lowest levelled one first, he found a new presence he couldn't sense before.

"....Huh?"

The presence of monsters he had found until now all belonged to freaks with a minimum level of 250, but the one he sensed now was of level 1, or at most level 2. And they were bunched up in one spot.

Humans. Yumir instinctively felt it. Weak, and young humans.

How? He didn't know, but he couldn't let this be. A frightening monster had sensed them and was fast approaching. However, it was fortunate that there was only one.

"Hhp!"

After realizing that, Yumir kicked off the ground. His chantless wind magic made his body lighter than ever.

At that time, he could hear a voice through the wind from not far away.

"Hik, Hiccup."

"I'm scared. I'm scared."

"Mommy, daddy...!"

It was the basics to hide one's presence once one was placed in somewhere unknown, but those foolish human children were crying their hearts out as if someone will come help them if they did. And as expected, the monster raised its speed after settling on the target.

"*Sigh*."

Yumir clicked his tongue like how his dad always did when seeing such people, and thought that this situation could be used to his advantage.

Now, Yumir's concealment had also reached the master stage. Although he wasn't confident that it would work against such high level monstered, if there were beings that could distract its attention from him, his chances of failure would decrease.

'The strongest strike. And another strike hidden in that strike. I'll be able to kill it if I do that.'

Thinking like that, Yumir took out a magic stuffed cookie from the magic bag and crunched on it. Yu IlHan's dragon cooking, magic stuffed cookies and other numerous types of cooking raised Yumirs cooking skill considerably as well, and perhaps thanks to that, his overall power increase with a single magic stuffed cookie was over 20%.

'Fuu, good. I can do this, it's possible…..!'

Strong power gathered on his fist. The aura of wind enhanced through the 3 class advancements, as well as the physical combat he had inherited from Yu IlHan and trained in, as well as Superhuman strength he had also inherited, was all the power he could use at once right now.

Yumir could find the humans soon. As he had predicted from the beginning, young human children had gathered up in one spot.

Babies that didn't even look 3 or 4 years old. In fact, they weren't that much different in age to Yumir, but their power level difference was rather deplorable.

"I'm scared!"

"Mommy, where are you!"

[Kuaooooooooooooh!]

Instead of the mommies they were looking for a monster replied to them. It was a horrifying one with a height of over 20m tall, and one that spat out flames from all over its body.

Yumir could not understand its body structure despite looking at it, but was also assured that it was not an enemy he could not win against. A full frontal fight was still impossible, but if he could take the advantage with a surprise attack, it was doable.

Yumir's innate attribute was wind. It was a sharper sword than anything, and at the same time, a sturdier shield than anything. He enveloped his body in wind in order to not get injured by the flames, and gathered all his destructive power into his fist.

'Sharper, sharper, sharper.'

As if hypnotizing himself, Yumir muttered like that and leaped with all his power.

Although he couldn't leap several kilometers in one go like Yu IlHan, the aura of wind below his feet acted as a booster, so his speed was not inferior to Yu IlHan's instantaneous speed. The results of his training to move as quickly as his dad had finally borne fruit.

[Kioaaaaaahk!]

"*Uwaaaaaaan*!"

"Monster, monster scary! *Uwaaaan*!"

The children cried, and the monster found them and was about to assault them in a joyous mood.

But at that moment, Yumir's frontal fist pierced through all the flames that guarded its body and hit the center of the head!

[Critical Hit!]

[Kuoooooh!]

The monster screamed. However, Yumir accepted that as not a threat but a new opening and moved his body once again. While his momentum still existed, he kicked the head of the monster just like that!

[Critical Hit!]

Yumir's kick covered in advanced wind magic had a very good affinity against the flames on its body. Even the flames made to protect the freak's body was made his, as he proceeded forward. The perfect surprise attack made it lose all its flaming armor and allowed a near-fatal strike to its neck!

Of course, that was only possible because Yumir had a fantastic control over his wind magic. Yumir's ability in controlling wind to soften anything each time he faced an external shock, was already beyond that of a simple 3rd class.

[Kuoooooh!]

"Hmph!"

The monster that allowed 2 critical strikes to Yumir without even fighting back, roared and turned around. Although it wanted to eat those annoying crying kids, it was in too much pain to ignore Yumir!

"That's not enough!"

However, its flames could not harm Yumir at all. Yumir, born from the flames Yu IlHan had put his heart into, innately had a strong resistance against fire, and that resistance, paired with the advanced wind magic, went beyond just enduring the flames, and used the flames against it.

"Wow, that!"

"It's the hero!" 1

"Hero!"

The children who could express their words a little forgot about crying and shouted with glistening eyes. Yumir thought that idiots were really not to his liking, and applied more mana to his body. 2

[Kihaaaah!]

"Give me experience!"

The freak with critical wounds on its head and neck went against the completely intact Yumir.

These demons relied more on their attributes than their physical abilities, so Yumir, who had the ability to nullify its flames, could fight it head on without much difficulties. The children couldn't even think about running away from this battlefield and watched the battle, entranced.

"Eeeek! Iiiiii!"

[Khuaooooooooh!]

An unknown amount of time had passed since the cries of an infant dragon and the screams of a flame demon started intermixing. At one moment, Yumir's fist finally smashed against the giant head of the monster.

[Kihk, Kihi...]

The monster couldn't even shout one final word and collapsed on the ground. At that moment some unknown text appeared on the tired Yumir's retina.

[You have earned 37??91?782?4 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv 25? In??r??????.] 3

"Fuu."

Yumir sighed and landed on the ground as if he was collapsing. The battle was harder than he had expected. It was easy to inflict damage as the monster had a lower health compared to its level, but that was compensated by the strong mana it had possessed, so every single one of its attacks were dangerous.

"Uu, so difficult."

And painful. As Yumir was no God, he could not control all the wind perfectly at every moment, so he was burnt here and there, and where he was nicked by the monster's fist, his bones could almost be seen.

Although he was recovering fast with Dragonblood regeneration, unique to dragonkin, it looked like it would take a little time for him to make a complete recovery. Of course, this was a cheap price for winning against an enemy 60 levels higher than him.

"The hero won!"

"Hero!" "Hero!"

The children gathered around Yumir. However, Yumir ignored that and looked at the monster he had just killed. Seeing him silent, the children also stopped in their tracks.

"Hero...?"

And then, Yumir started taking action. He ripped out some flesh from the monster he had just killed, and took a bite.

"Kyaaaaak!"

"Kyaak! Kyaaaak"

"Hero is eating monster! Dirty!"

Yumir, who possessed Extreme poison resistance and higher curse resistance, ate away the monster even while bearing the pain. Looking at that, the young children were taking steps back, but a growl could be heard.

"I'm hungry."

"I'm hungry too."

"Uuuuu."

Yumir stopped eating and looked at them. He hesitated a little before grilling a considerably less poisonous part and asked.

"Wanna eat? But you need to listen to me if you eat."

The children, who were too hungry to refuse, gave into the devil's temptation and accepted the meat. The interesting fact was that they did not die even after eating the poisonous meat that contained a curse.

It was unknown whether this was due to some weird transformation in their constitutions upon coming to this hell, or something else, but Yumir couldn't think of that. He only thought that the other kids were able to eat them because he could do so.

Looking at the children eating away on the monster's meat, Yumir smiled.

Now that they ate, they could not refuse him. No matter how young they were, or whether they were babies who couldn't even walk, it did not matter.

They were all Yumir's subordinates now. Although he didn't know where he could use them, but making useless things useful was his dad's field of expertise. He believed that he could do it too as the next in line of the Yu family.

Dragon's Hell Army was born here.

Author's notes

Here's an episode from Yumir. Next chapter will be back to Yu IlHan.

Earth's Great Cataclysm was not ordinary. It seemed like Newtypes (Children born after the Great Cataclysm) were newtypes after all.

Translator's notes

Announcement: Sponsors are temporarily disabled (You can't donate) until the end of my semester (21st of June)

There's 411USD in the queue (wow), and I'll try to do them by Tuesday since it's a National Holiday in Korea that day.

1. Think 'Yuusha-sama'

2. Technically 'idiot' means acting like a 3 year old. And the oldest of them should still be about 3 years old.

3. From the raws, it looks like it's 'Inferno' something.

From the moment he opened the Hourglass, Yu IlHan had never stopped hammering away at the anvil.

He did not need a lot of sleep even when he was 2nd class. Right now, he could remain in his top condition with the rest energy generated naturally when not in battle, without even having to drink Breath or Bloodrink.

So, currently, Yu IlHan was closer to a machine than human 1 A machine that moved perpetually with the minimum amount of energy! Liera was watching over him for the first week or two, but seeing how Yu IlHan was not going to lie down at all, she tried to stop him for fear that he may have gone bonkers.

[You should not be able to ignore mental stress….. shouldn't you rest for a little bit?]

"I decided to not factor in anything that cannot affect my actual body condition. Humans will do fine with willpower alone. Even I don't feel like I'm human anymore."

Yu IlHan replied while moving the carving knife made of dragon bones towards the unknown gigantic lump of metal. However, Liera rejoiced instead.

[Yes, you finally want to stop being human, right!]

"But not an angel either."

[Why!]

This lump of metal was was so hard that it couldn't be damaged by normal weapons, yet brittle enough for him to smash it apart if he put some strength into it. But as he had an understanding on all types of metals with the blessing of the god of smithing, he was masterfully etching on the metal without damaging the internal structure.

He mixed and matched several magic languages that made the magic formations created by the fallen angels look like a joke, and etched them on the lump of metal. The power of Blaze and the Eternal Flame focused on the tip of the carving knife ensured a precise and beautiful etching.

However, the most important thing was mana crafting. If Yu IlHan's designs and the magic language did not harmonize well, mana crafting would immediately fail. Also, if the quantity of magic stones he used in mana crafting was less than that if required for the etched magic language, it would fail as well. Of course, the opposite was true too- mana would go berserk if he used too much.

Unlike what he was doing now, the creation of artifacts were something that usually took over 10 years.

And Yu IlHan poured out tens of 4th class magic stones in one corner of the workshop, precisely in order to commence mana crafting, prompting Liera to shout in shock.

[Why do you need so many 4th class magic stones?]

"I can't help it if I want to build a magic device that is permanent. If I don't want to spend any additional magic stones, I need to invest a lot at this point."

And Yu IlHan cleanly used all of those magic stones to succeed in mana crafting. It was a high level technique he couldn't even imagine when he first learnt the skill.

A mana crafting technique that bordered mastery, combined with a high level of magic engineering made this possible.

[They were all cleanly used up, wow. Insane….]

"The materials are good. You can see it as this being an alloy of all the rare metals from various worlds that I gathered through the auctions. It has incredible hardness, but what it truly excels in is its ability to absorb mana."

Normally, metal alloys were created only after countless failures and despair, but Yu IlHan had received the blessing of the god of smithing. Liera listened to his explanation, and felt an inexplicable emotion while looking at the mysterious artifact.

[Now that Earth is expelling all others, you are making a weapon using metals from numerous other worlds to go against it…..]

"I had no such intentions..."

When the process was nearly over, the giant lump of metal started levitating without anyone needing to touch it, and Yu IlHan collected it into his inventory with a satisfied expression. On the other hand, Liera became speechless after feeling a level of magic that was comparable to epic grade artifacts.

[You, this is…..]

"Looking forward to it, huh?"

Yu IlHan achieved the feat of shocking an angel with just a single part, but did not stop to rest and started refining another lump of metal. He felt like he was one step closer to finishing the fortress every time he finished a part.

Right now, he did not worry about Yumir, his kin, not the Earth. He only looked forward to the results he was going to make.

[What if a God ranked artifact is actually born from a human? It really is a pity for Earth to be closed off.]

"We don't know what is above chaos, perhaps god may not be the end."

[You're so easily saying there's something above a deity….. no, it isn't like it's anything new from you so I'll stop there.]

Liera became depressed and stopped speaking. Although the time she spent with Yu IlHan was overwhelmingly short compared to her whole life, that short period had changed her perspective on life.

Unpredicted change and mistakes on Earth, and Yu IlHan's actions which she had watched up close. Those raised doubt in her heart. She had never doubted the word 'absolute' before, but she didn't even know if such a thing existed now.

So, she could only say this.

[...Then prove it by making an actual one.]

"You think I can't?"

Yu IlHan snorted and picked up the hammer again.

There was still a month and a half until the Hourglass of Eternity ended. It was more than enough time to finish the flying fortress.

***

Yu IlHan's time flowed fast as always. Since he always found work to do without rest, he did not waste any time.

His concept of time was already beyond that of a human's. Majority of humans scheduled their daily workloads, but as Yu IlHan moved towards achieving his objective, there was no 'night' nor 'day' in his working life, so the concept of 'date' had no real meaning to him.

Like that, 48 days passed, and 80% of the construction of the fortress was done, by his standards anyway. Yu IlHan finally started making the core devices of the flying fortress, the engines.

[Finally, you're making something I know!]

Cheered Liera. She looked as if she would press the launch button on a spaceship at any second.

"Are you really an angel? And not a person of Earth?"

[You don't think that we would work all the time during our long lives, do you? We are the king of disguising and enjoying human lives.]

"Yeah sure. That's why you saw some blood in SNS too."

[Don't talk about that!]

In fact, Yu IlHan also found the making of the levitation engine for the fortress, much more enjoyable than refining and alloying metals. It was a man's romance!

He made a gigantic engine, and implemented the power of the Leap skill he possessed through mana crafting, before ensuring continuity in the engines. And there was a total of 10 of these! The number of 4th class magic stones he had spent numbered over a thousand.

"First, I'll activate a barrier that covers the entire mansion region and install this engine below it."

[Will it really levitate with this?]

Now that the reality of the flying fortress was becoming closer, Liera's expectations also rose. Yu IlHan answered with a smile and kicked his creation of other parts up a notch. From now, it was time to make devices that attracted monsters, and weapons that dealt with them!

In actuality, these were already included in the parts of the current mansion, so Yu IlHan only needed to modify them in order to suit the flying fortress. Of course, 4th class magic stones were also used without holding back here.

[Looking at the quantity of mana, I think it can kill a 4th class monster.]

"The final objective of the flying fortress is to restrain and inflict damage to 5th class beings. It has to kill 4th class ones easily."

It was just a short while ago when he thought that installation type artifacts could not inflict a fatal damage to 4th class monsters, but such past was meaningless to him! Strong materials with high mana absorption ability increased by the day, and the number of magic stones also had increased a lot!

[But even so, you are being arrogant about that.]

"Fufu, will you be able to say that after you see this?"

What Yu IlHan took out along with those words was the body of the fallen angel.

[...]

Liera became speechless for a moment when she saw that, and smiled after seeing that he was pulling out the black feathers from the wings of the fallen angel as if he was plucking feathers from a chicken.

[Just what are you trying to make with that...?]

"The flesh and the muscles are honestly useless, but the rest are different. Especially their wings. When mana is imbued inside, it is expelled after changing its properties in a unique way and in a specific direction. What can we do with these characteristics?"

[We can reflect the opponent's mana if we use it on a weapon.]

"You fool! I won't be satisfied with such a passive method!"

[Hiik?]

Liera didn't even know why she was being scolded. However, to Yu IlHan who had entered work mode, there was not a single shred of mercy in him.

He imbued mana into a piece of a feather, and the feather that received the mana immediately shot out an energy wave with a diameter of 10 millimeters and put a hole through the wall.

The process of amplifying, gathering, and shooting the mana was so natural and quick that it made people unsure about what actually happened.

Looking at the scene where Yu IlHan's non-attributed mana was colored in black, and generating poison and curse attributes before shooting out in a straight line, Liera clapped.

[It's the first time I've see that since there is no way lower existences could kill higher ones. Well, it's nothing strange that you're surprised since higher existences are already beyond the realm of laws...]

"I don't care about other people! So, did you feel anything after looking at that?"

[Uh, I dunno...?]

Yu IlHan sighed. He could finally make a weapon that he had given up on until now as it would be useless against strong enemies, except, with these feathers. But Liera had such a lukewarm reaction!

He spoke in a serious and stern voice.

"It's beams."

[B, beams?]

"Beams."

Yu IlHan's eyes were full of stars. Liera thought that if expectations had any weight, the current Yu IlHan may be able to make the Earth collapse in itself.

"Condensing mana into a more destructive energy to shoot. It's the perfect beam weapon!"

[Well, yeah. Fallen angels do fight a lot that way…..]

Since it was such a natural thing to higher existences, Liera didn't seem to realize how amazing this was.

However, beam weapons would overwhelm all of Yu IlHan's other weapons that he had made from the Giant's Rubber Band or the magic gunpowder, in terms of speed. And not only that, even its destructive power would be superior to them. Beams were closer to Yu IlHan's dream ultimate weapon!

"Higher existences are the best!"

[I'm sorry but I don't think I can cheer so openly when you say that...? You won't pluck mine out, right, right?]

Yu IlHan first put together tens of feathers and a few 4th class magic stones before grinding them into powder. Then, he made a huge mirror that could reflect his entire body with some room left over using dragon bones and other rare metals, before applying the powder over the surface of the mirror.

On top of that, he used another 4th class magic stone to mana craft! Yu IlHan wished deeply and even more deeply while mana crafting.

"BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAM!"

[Your desires are leaking!]

And the process was finished.

The black mirror made of the feathers belonging to a fallen angel reflected sunlight and began glistening, when the information on the item that Yu IlHan had wanted so much, had finally appeared on his retina.

[Miraculously apocalyptic and Unbelievably curseful Destruction mirror]

[Rank – Epic]

[Attack power – 7,500 (increases according to the magic the enemy possesses)]

[Durability – 12,700/12,700]

[Options –

1. Indestructible, and power increases according to time.

2. 30% increase in attack power and critical hit damage.

3. Moves by sensing the enemy and automatically intercepts.

4. Inflicts continuous damage by imbuing an undispellable curse to the exposed enemy.]

[A miraculous weapon that a crafter of a lower existence had made using a portion of a higher existences body. It has the ability to move by sensing the enemies, as well as the ability to amplify the internal mana to shoot energy beams, and also possesses the ability to absorb enemy attacks to reflect them back at higher power. However, it needs to absorb the natural mana once it is drained of its charged mana. Just this could be a weapon considered to be beyond the realm of the original concepts, but there is a function that is not activated yet.]

[That's so OP!]

"Yes, it's OP."

Yu IlHan also acknowledged that. However, this was not the end. As the Akashic Record had explained, this was only a portion of an entire offense system.

"But it will become even more so."

Looking at the destruction mirror that followed him in the air as if it had recognized its master, Yu IlHan's eyes now contained an entire galaxy of stars.

Liera thought while looking at him.

The feathers, how many were there again?

Author's notes

Beams is one of a man's dreams

Translator's notes

(To early readers) Don't bother looking for typos anymore. Koukouseidesu is back

1. This line perfectly describes me, lol

Having gazed at the potential of the destruction mirror to his heart's content, Yu IlHan finally started what he really wanted to do – modifying the five shields that protected him, Aegis.

First, he coated the alloy on Aegis's surface, and etched a shallow carving, before inlaying a special ink made of 4th class magic stones, feathers of a fallen angel, dragon blood and finally solidifying it.

[My, how pretty.]

"Right?"

However, that was not the end. The modification process was only complete with another mana crafting after spreading out the remaining ink on the surface and mixing a few more feathers in it.

As it was smaller, and was intended for defensive use, it had inferior destructive power and quantity of mana, but there was a meaning to this since he could shoot down enemies without him moving if it came down to it.

[What are you going to use the destruction mirror for, then?]

"Those are to be installed in the Bittersweet Persona. I need some for personal use, don't I?"

[Don't you mean you just want a sidekick?]

"Shaddap."

Ignoring Liera who hit bullseye, he went into mass producing the destruction mirror. When he powdered all the feathers from the 4 fallen angels he had killed, he got about 20 liters, and Yu IlHan used up all of them to make exactly 100 destruction mirrors.

Since their diameter was 2 meters, just lining them up would get a 200m lane. Even Liera felt a sense of pressure while looking at them.

[Wow, it's scary just looking at it.... It looks like this will be dangerous even for me...?]

"The climax hasn't begun yet."

There was something that was as special as the fallen angel's feathers, and that was the bones of the fallen angels. Although he had a little difficulty making them into weapons since they didn't have metallic properties, their absurd regenerative ability was so splendid that Yu IlHan didn't want to throw them away.

What was even more special that this 'regenerative ability' didn't refer to health, but magic.

"So higher existences are OP overall."

[It's not us that are OP, but that's the standard for all higher existences. You can't put them on the same line as lower existences, you know?]

Among the bones, the shoulder blades were the central parts of their skeletal system, and were also organs that connected the wings to the skeleton to ease the realization of their abilities. It was natural that the fallen angel's abilities had taken a great hit when he destroyed those shoulder blades.

"The most important shoulder blades... are all broken..."

[Can you please not make an expression that you've just lost faith in the world? The reason you were able to kill fallen angels easily in the first place was because you destroyed their shoulder blades!]

Despite that, the bones of the fallen angels had the ability to resonate with their wings, and control them. Then, what did he have to do with this? The answer was simple. Just grind them all and gather them up.

Yu IlHan left a single rib bone and ground all of the rest of the bones into powder and gathered them up. After that, he made a dough-like thing out of it by mixing the flesh of fallen angels and the blood of dragons, before sealing it into a cylindrical barrel made of alloyed metals.

"That's one done."

[What is that for? I thought you were going to make the bones into your weapon.... You're not going to eat it, right?]

"Let's mature that for 3 years and..."

[Kyaaaaaaak!]

Liera shivered after hearing that and screamed, when Yu IlHan smiled and shook his head.

"I'm not gonna eat it. That's the final key to completing the destruction mirrors."

[Bad guy, Bad guy!]

"The destruction mirrors are great weapons, but it uses up too much energy every time it shoots a beam, so it cannot continue shooting forever. Then, what is the solution? Throw magic stones at it every time it drains? Or wait for it to do some photosynthesis using sunlight? No. We need to use the overflowing mana within the mansion."

[Then this barrel is…..?]

"It will be done soon. Look forward to it. It will be quite a sight."

Yu IlHan repeated that process to make a total of 20 barrels, and used 4th class magic stones to make them into artifacts. After that, he placed them all together with the destruction mirrors and commenced mana crafting. This was a large piece of work that required him to use more than half of his remaining 4th class magic stones, 2,000 of them to be exact.

[Did you even calculate how much mana those magic stones will emit at the same time? I'd rather spend magic stones every time rather than spending so much now!]

"Look further ahead, Liera."

He smiled while commencing mana crafting without the slightest bit of hesitation.

"We can't just stop at Earth."

[If you are that greedy, you're really going to fail... Ugyaaaaaaah!]

Light shot out. Seeing an overwhelming amount of light that filled the mansion and still had leftovers, Liera was shocked, thinking if this was really a phenomenon created by a lower existence, while Yu IlHan calmly harmonized the mana that looked like it would sweep over his body, and lead it in the correct direction.

[Hahaha…]

Liera could only laugh while seeing Yu IlHan leading mana as if he was conducting an orchestra.

Since when could he wield mana so well? Liera knew that he had talent, but still, it hadn't even been 3 years since he started wielding it.

However, he was currently having little difficulties in controlling mana that was enough to decimate an entire country, to make a single artifact. He was showing much more proficient control over mana than her, who only knew how to gather mana and destroy enemies.

Twenty barrels and hundred mirrors were exchanging energy while facing each other according to the lead of the magic stones. The wings and bones that were originally one, but now apart, were now being connected again, just in a different form.

An unknown amount of time passed since the light overwhelmed their vision. Just when Yu IlHan spent all the mana in the magic stones and continued using his own mana as all of that was still insufficient, was about to consider drinking mana potions, the light finally started dying down.

[Hundred Eyes is complete.]

Finally, a sentence that made Yu IlHan think of success, came up in his retina. Looking at the mirror and barrels that were emitting faint black auras, and were vibrating a little, he carefully called out the information on the weapon.

[Hundred Eyes]

[Rank – Chaos]

[Attack power – 8,800(Increases according to location installed, and according to enemy faced)]

[Durability – 316,000/316,000]

[Options –

1. Once every 24 hours, it is possible to shoot towards one target for 30 seconds, ignoring the remaining mana.

2. Grows permanently by absorbing the mana of killed enemies.

3. Automatically recovers durability by consuming stored mana when durability drops.]

[The destruction mirrors, which are frightening weapons on their own, were mass produced, and was enhanced with devices to periodically supply energy and enhance the power, was created as a masterpiece to overcome the record of a world. The only disadvantage is that it may not be able to use the full power if not installed in the proper location.]

Checking the information, Yu IlHan spoke with a sigh of relief.

"Good, for now I got Chaos."

[For now...? You just made a weapon that is even suitable to be installed in the front line bases of Heaven's Army and 'for now'...?]

"The real challenge starts here."

Checking that his artifact was successfully made, the smile never left his lips. However, the toast of victory wouldn't be too late for after the flying fortress was successfully completed! Yu IlHan endured his desires to test out the Hundred Eyes, and put them inside his inventory. He still had some work to do.

He spent around 500 4th class magic stones to create various stuff like additional arms, and traps on the walls and inside of the fortress, and only after his many 4th class stones were reduced to around 1,300, did his work end. By this time, there was only 2 days left in the barrier duration.

"Well then."

[Are you going to make something else? Oh, there was personal equipment, wasn't there?]

"Let's rest."

[What!?]

Liera was as shocked as if she had just heard that Yu IlHan was not a virgin. These two shared similarities in that they were not possible.

[Rest? You're lying, right? You said you didn't need any.]

"I said I didn't need one, but I never said I don't want one. Since I finished everything I have to do within this period, it will be fine if I give myself some reward. Rest is the best entertainment, after all."

While Liera became speechless at the words 'rest is entertainment', which would normally be said by higher existences, Yu IlHan headed to the bath in the mansion after exiting the workshop he worked in for 2 months. Then, he took out the Giant Bucket, which he had also worked with for the past two months, and poured hot water in it.

After the water levels became suitable, Yu IlHan boldly threw away his clothes and jumped in. However, just as when he was feeling a sense of strange satisfaction due to the resonance of the bucket and the water, Liera very naturally took off her clothes and came into the bucket.

[I can enter too, right?]

"You're already here though!"

[Yup, it's too late even if you say no.]

Liera always learned the bad things off Yu IlHan, such as making wrongs into rights, and being stubborn. Yu IlHan had to try his best to not eye the body that had a violent volume, which would probably quantify as 100,000 attack power if it was even quantifiable.

"Don't you have any shame? Even blood related sisters don't do that."

[It's fine since I'm not blood related.]

"That's even worse!"

Even though he was confident that he knew a lot about her, she made him panic from time to time with unpredictable actions like these.

[Huhihi.]

"Don't make strange laughs. You sounds like Miss YuNa."

[Ah, so refreshing!]

Yu IlHan barely held himself from staring at the blond hair that looked more vibrant due to the water.

From his estimations, Liera was treating him too closely, and that was because her emotions were going berserk due to having forgotten them for a long time. Though, what was actually happening, was that Liera was thinking about how to surpass Na YuNa naturally and take the lead once more. Only Yu IlHan himself was making weird hypotheses.

'This dumb angel must not know how her frightening chest makes a man think.'

Well, it was like him to think that Liera had no feelings beyond those of close comrades.

Precisely because he confirmed Na YuNa's feelings, the conviction that there was no way there would be two that liked him, was pervading his mind. Truly dumb.

[You should look at me since we're in together!]

"Hey, at least disarm yourself if you are going to enter a bath that someone's already in. Unless you disarm yourself, I'm not keeping any etiquettes."

[Arm? I'm not armed at all? Look, I'm in my birth state other than the wings.]

"That's what I call armed. So you shouldn't have come in at all."

[You're too much!]

Even while grumbling, Liera was all smiles. She knew that Yu IlHan couldn't chase her out despite all that he said. She liked the not-honest Yu IlHan. Of course, Yu IlHan couldn't calm down at all.

"No matter how close we are, there's a limit to how close a man and a woman can be….."

[IlHan, it's alright, right?]

Liera threw a completely sudden question to Yu IlHan just as he was grumbling. However, Yu IlHan understood her question, and was more upset because of that.

"Aren't you changing topics too nonchalantly now? And with a sneaky tactic, too?"

[It really is alright, right?]

Yu IlHan grumbled that Liera learned only the bad things off other people when she asked again. However, he replied in a more serious voice this time.

"Yes, it's alright."

[Okay!]

"Uaaaaaaaah!"

Liera suddenly assaulted Yu IlHan in this small bucket and hugged him!

The smooth and voluptuous body that made him feel awkward just by looking, was instantly drawn closer to him and stuck on to him. Yu IlHan couldn't move due to panic.

"Wh, what is it?"

[You said it was alright to hug!]

"You deceived me, Liera!"

[Hahahahahaha!]

Liera didn't care about what Yu IlHan had said and laughed as if she had acquired everything she wanted in the world. Yu IlHan had to struggle to get out, but he had to give up.

Not only was it hard to get out as it was so slippery, he instinctively felt that it would bring about a larger catastrophe (mainly on Yu IlHan's mentality).

"Yes, do whatever you want."

[No, I'll endure it.]

"You're not enduring at all!"

[I'm enduring an enormous lot!]

"Bullshit."

Although it was very violent and incomprehensible, it was probably her own way of consoling him. He could only focus on training the mind and accept that such an outgoing angel became his guardian angel.

[Fufu.]

Just as when Yu IlHan was wondering about what to choose between counting prime numbers and reciting the national anthem, Liera pushed her already stuck body even more and smiled even more brightly.

She had the same smile that made him able to endure the time he was supposed to be unable to endure.

[Everything will go well.]

"Hmph, I used up so many magic stones so that's natural."

Her finish was mean as well – thinking that, Yu IlHan replied.

"I'm fine so get off me now."

[Tch, even this doesn't work.]

The dense man who somehow ended up misunderstanding other people's hearts in some way or another, and the weak woman who couldn't be decisive when it came down to it, rested comfortably in the two days in frozen time.

And, the time finally arrived.

Yu IlHan perfectly installed all the artifacts and installation-type weapons inside and outside of his mansion, and commenced the final mana crafting.

[Destroyer's Flying fortress is complete.]

[You have created a God-ranked artifact. The title, 'Creator of Myths' s criteria has been fulfilled and has grown. Additional options are added when a God ranked artifact is created.]

This was the moment when the unprecedented artifact, and one that will never come about again even in the future, was born.

Author's notes

The flying fortress is finally activating!