(Chapter 68)

After staring at the four dead friends for one last time while his mind is shouting to be angry, to be mad, and lastly.

'Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!'

But since he can't express this hatred, he only sighed then glared to the Beast Monarch with his dead eyes before walking towards him casually.

"Oh, you're not mad?"

The Beast Monarch was amused seeing that kind of eyes from this human.

'He can be compared to the Shadow Monarch but still not enough though...'

Shyrveen answered him as he slowly form his ice weapon on his right hand.

"Don't worry about that... But about your life..."

"Haha!- !!!"

The Beast Monarch laughs but soon crossed his arms to block the ice hammer after Shyrveen reappears beside him.

He was stunned because he pushed back again but much farther this time even though the ice hammer was shattered too, then he glared at Shyrveen before reappearing on his face with tiger claws.

He smiled after seeing the claws were cutting through the body but stopped in midway after seeing it was restrained by the body of Shyrveen that became ice and transparent.

He tried to pull the claws but he can't, making him confused for how durable the ice body, he pulled with all his might for one last time but he was thrown back because the restraining force that he expected disappeared so suddenly.

At that time that he senses a danger towards his back to where his heart his, then his eyes slit as he shifted his left foot before dodging the ice longsword in a stabbing motion, and Shyrveen became ice again.

As he reappears not that far away to the location, the danger reappears too with him but this time onto his neck.

He dodges again and saw an ice big scythe that trying to reap his head off from his body.

And as he expected, the danger follows him again but confusingly, the danger was all over his body.

That's when he decided to reappear far from the place and saw Shyrveen smashing the big ice morning star from midair and soon meet the ground that went up and debris flew after the two ice things meet.

But everything he saw was frozen in place except for the debris in midair before shattering into million speck of dusts.

The moment the ice dust melted on the ground, the freezing breeze became stronger but still nothing for the Beast Monarch.

Then the snow started to accumulate not that far from him and soon Shyrveen manifested from it.

"I can say that you're really too fast, Beast Monarch... But you know why you're wondering why you're on defense always?... Let me answer that while I'll demonstrate to you why my art is called Icesheath even though you don't know about it..."

Shyrveen said as he walked slowly towards Beast Monarch.

But after saying his piece, his pupils changed and shapeshifted into vertical line but soon it was finished adding some details that showing the final appearance of the snowflake.

And that's when the breeze became storm that enveloping them to the point of no return.

"C'mon... You're the Beast Monarch, aye? How I can explain this in action if you show me what it means to be a mere big kitty in front of me instead of being the Beast Monarch?..."

"You! Arg! ROAR!"

Beast Monarch was insulted and dashes and slashes, Shyrveen became the ice itself and manifesting every time on each side of Beast Monarch, wielding any kind of weapons.

And soon, the battlefield inside the ice storm was filled with Shyrveen's Ice bodies and Beast bodies of Beast Monarch that have been frozen in their positions.

Beast Monarch was enraged after knowing that he can't land a hit to the real body, but his eyes shifted to his left side after sensing the danger from the frozen statue that wielding the chain blades.

He was confused because the cut on its neck when he faced this statue was gone, but he realized why he was sensing danger from it.

The chain blades that have been frozen, as if the movie was resumed from being paused, it came alive and continued its swinging and slashing towards his neck this time.

He tilted his upper body backward to dodge but his eyes got widen after seeing the ice werewolf in midair came alive too and slashing its ten claws towards his face.

He roared and shapeshifted again into werewolf and shattered the ice werewolf with madness and hastily looked around and sense the stare of Shyrveen in a corner but he can't see him.

He followed his instinct and force his Mana to run in his Mana veins on his legs and disappeared from his position and reappeared as he stabs his right claw to what his instinct telling him where Shyrveen is.

He smiled after feeling the soft meats as his whole arms penetrated Shyrveen's body.

"... In the end, you're the weak one."

"You sure?... Don't you feel that it is too cold now, no?..."

But he heard the calm voice and he saw the same werewolf, which is him, but with the face of expressionless Shyrveen with ice on his right cheek and his frozen hair on his right side head instead.

Beast Monarch's smiled was frozen after feeling the warm blood of Shyrveen is started to become too cold and crawling on his whole right arm in a blink of an eye.

Soon, the Beast Monarch's arm was frozen and was covered by the red ice block and heard Shyrveen say again.

"... Can't you feel your arm that is not in your control now, aye?"

He saw Shyrveen's left hand that grabs his right shoulder and his right wrist by Shyrveen's right hand.

Shyrveen's snowflakes pupils glim and Beast Monarch saw the grins on his face.

"No! NO!!!"

The Beast Monarch shouted madly after realizing what is Shyrveen trying to do and used his left arm to slash at Shyrveen.

But Shyrveen was faster than him after transforming into ice werewolf, Shyrveen snaps off the frozen right arm on the Beast Monarch's shoulder joint and shattered it into a million ice dust before kicking the Beast Monarch's stomach to dodge the incoming claw.

Shyrveen opens his icy hairy arms of ice werewolf and casually stated.

"... With this ice storm... I'm sheathing all your abilities to be mine..."

"ROAR!!!"

The Beast Monarch lost his final rationality and completely transformed into a big wolf and pounce on Shyrveen using it's three legs left and open his jaws to bite off the neck of Shyrveen.

But Shyrveen with the excitement of taking his revenge and desire to kill the murderer of his friend, sworn brother and lastly, lover.

He smiled evilly and stabs faster his left arm into the open jaw and forcefully rip everything inside before the Beast Monarch howled in pain after biting off the arm of Shyrveen.

Then the Beast Monarch received a claw slash to his left side belly forcing him to jump back away from Shyrveen.

"Too bad that I can't reach your heart..."

But Shyrveen's body became ice again and reappears not the far from the Beast Monarch that is growling at him

"Now, for the final show of Icesheath..."

Shyrveen's snowflakes pupil became David Star Snowflake before smiling bitterly after remembering the Absolute Being's warning in the Ice Soul Shard from the past.

["This is the last move of Icesheath, it relinquishes all those Ice Mana within you... Remember, don't use this move for you will be included as the center of the domain. Unless you unlocked the first Gene Lock, the chances of the possibility will be too high that that mortal vessel will be frozen alive to death..."]

Then took one last glance to the bodies of his sweety, sworn brother and two friends.

As he reminiscing the past memories with them and mostly for Yang Manli, he softly mumbles.

"... Absolute Zero."

And that's when the ice storm subsides and everything was frozen inside of the transparent ice dome, instantly.

Freezing the time inside, stopping all molecular momentum of a system, nullifying every motion of particles, halting any kind of kinetic energies, and lastly the temperature becomes Zero.

But Beast Monarch can't be seen in the vicinity and Shyrveen thought for the last time before the darkness consumed his consciousness.

'... Even in the end... He still followed his bestial instinct... What a pussy...'

One month later.

Eight super-massive Gate appeared in the sky all over the world, which followed the first super-massive Gate in the sky of Seoul, South Korea after spitting the extra shadow soldiers of Sung Jin-Woo that were added in his army.

But Shyrveen can't still be found after the ice dome in Japan was melted and traces of him can't be found only leaving the bloodstains on the ground.

Even Sung Jin-Woo was enraged after seeing the only four bodies of his guildmates inside the ice coffins after he went out of the Gate but Shyrveen is not in there too.

He tried to sense Shyrveen's location in the whole world but it was all for naught and thought that he went back again to God's Sanctuary to run away from this.

He can do the planetary scanning while using his Mana because the Beast Monarch destroyed his real heart and reviving as the real Shadow Monarch after his heart was replaced by the Black Heart.

After reviving, he killed the Monarchs of Beastly Fangs and Frost, before the super-massive Gate spew out his army led by Bellion, the Grand-Marshal Grade.

For a few days of being alone after the death of his four friends and missing Hyung.

His mind is filled with arguments for how it is possible for Shyrveen to happen, or for him to hide just like this.

'... Hyung-nim lacks emotions and the fear is out of the count... Wait... Unless the problem inside his mind was resolved already... Shit! It's bad news! The bad soul won and devoured their egos!... Fuck! Absolute Being awakened!'

But he needs to move on for there are still his mother and little sister and tried his best not to show his sadness to his family, though, they can still feel it from him.

The whole world saw what happened in Japan and how the humanoid monsters killed the four Ahjin Guild members like nothing before running away from the place after creating a Dimensional Gate before the ice world became a frozen ice world.

They were saddened of this disaster and the fears from this that were added by Sung Jin-Woo's news about the higher beings coming to the Earth to destroy it and to annihilate humanity, is now stabbing the hearts of all humans.

Everyone is running away as far as possible from the super-massive Gates after hearing Sung Jin-Woo's warning about it.

But some foolish Hunters are still insisting to stay and deny the claims of Sung Jin-Woo and shouting that he is monopolizing the Gates of its benefits.

Sung Jin-Woo shook his head and ignored this for his mind is filled with Shyrveen's whereabouts, the Monarch of Destruction coming to Earth, and lastly, the thing about the Absolute Being inside of Shyrveen.

And he decided to go to China instead to help Liu Zhigang and other Hunters for the incoming catastrophe.

They greeted him by the leading person of Liu Zhigang himself.

But when the time comes for the super-massive Gates to break, they were stunned and Sung Jin-Woo realized that those are not just normal monsters.

And hurriedly went to call for the Association and asked the situation in Canada.

Only for his thought to be a reality again and felt the signal of the soldier that he sent to Adam White, a senior staff in the Federal Bureau of Hunters in America, was killed with his friend, Adam White.

He saw it with his own two eyes after using the 'Sensory Sharing' skill to his soldier, for how the flames of the massive dragon extinguished the lives of all people in the vicinity before including his shadow soldier.

Three days of planning and he got the Rune Stone of Kamish on his hand.

Half of the world was already met its the destruction from the four remaining Monarchs that slowly creeping to the east side.

The Rulers in the body of their vessels were forced to go out from their hiding places to help Sung Jin-Woo against the Monarchs that he meet in China.

Sung Jin-Woo smirked to the Dragon's Emperor after expanding his shadow realm to transfer the Monarch of Destruction, alone, to the Japan according to his plans.

But unexpectedly, his shadow realm shattered, literally shattered like glass before hearing a voice saying.

"Now, now, now~ The party is now complete so why you will leave with Antares so early, Ashborn?~ Oh no. It's Sung Jin-Woo now, right?~"

Shyrveen, no, it's now Irveen, the Absolute Being's remnants said while smiling evilly and looking down at the remaining Rulers and Monarchs that are fighting in one place.

He appeared so suddenly in the sky that made all of them stops fighting and looked at him.

"This!..."

Sung Jin-Woo stunned after seeing the bad news that he thought that became reality, he gnashes his teeth and clenches hard the Kamish's Wrath Shortblades harder.

"Absolute Being!"

"Master!"

The Monarchs of Destruction, Plagues, Transfiguration, and Iron Body shouted in unison after feeling the same presence of the person who created them while shocked, stunned, angry, etc.

Even the four remaining Rulers shouted with the same wavelength of Monarchs as they gritted their teeth.

Seeing their expression, Irveen laughed so hard with arrogance.

"Hahaha! After I consumed all of you! I will go back to that place to be stronger than before! Hahaha!"

He claps nonstop and slow descend but not totally, he just went near them.

"So~ This will be another battle right, Rulers?~ You think I'll just let you all go after you pointed your swords towards me from the PAST!!! HUH!?... Huu..."

Irveen became enraged after remembering the past but he took a deep breath to calm down before continuing.

"But~ This time, even with only four shards... I'll be the one who will be the victor and... You monarchs!"

Irveen pointed at the Monarchs that raised their heads to glare at Irveen as getting ready to fight from seeing how tense their muscles in their positions.

"Will be included too!~ Hahaha! And you Sung Jin-Woo~ Your dear Hyung-nim isn't here anymore~ So, expect that I won't spare you from being killed! Hahaha!"

Irveen released the magical presence with the Genes of the body to suppress the people on the ground and let them feel the real power and much stronger from the past, The Absolute Being.

"Now!~... I, WILL, CONSUME, YOU, ALL!!!"

As Irveen stated strongly his desire as if it is the heavens law, everyone stops thinking of fighting each other and decided to kill Irveen first.

But as they bent their knees to lunge towards Irveen.

All of them were shocked after the space and time in each of their position shifted and Irveen became nine and each body appeared on their faces and kicked their stomachs so fast.

"It wouldn't be fair if it's 9 versus 1, right?~"

Nine Irveen said in a synchronized manner while smiling so evil and releasing the killing intent of the real Absolute Being while cracking his knuckles as they walk slowly to the individuals that flew in every different direction...