Chapter 77_ Behen Archipelago (4)

Greed's wildly beating heart became faster but he still became like a stone statue. Greed is not much the type to actively utilize his brain so he suddenly felt dizzy with the sudden revelation of the white-haired teenager owning four of the nine legendary classes. Because of this, his confusion is overloading.

"Since we're about to face a big war, I hope I can depend on you guys."

Lexus eagerly spoke with a smile. He's truly excited about how they could develop after giving each of them a single God Hand that could double every ten days.

"I'll live up to your expectations, your majesty!"

Piaro resolutely replied. He knew the value of the God Hand he received as he witnessed its utility on their first encounter. The ruler of this kingdom is truly generous. Definitely, he will repay his grace and will whole heartedly support him in the future.

Seeing Piaro's reaction, I inwardly thought.

'That's right. The more my forces grow, the more shock I will give to the empire.'

Somehow he looks forward to the day when the arrogant attitude of the empire to be shattered by a kingdom they looked down. Of course, Lexus wanted to make things more interesting. Although Greed is already stronger than the novel at this stage, he wanted him to be stronger that what he was currently is. What's fortunate was that, Lexus could do something that never happened in the novel.

"Pagma."

With a soft murmur, Death Knight Pagma made his appearance. His sudden emergence greatly surprised the three people around but he didn't mind and continued to speak.

"Nurture your successor. He's someone who could face Baal in the future."

Lexus gave his order with a smile. Ah, he truly like this. Doing what Lexus wants, being carefree about mostly everything is truly pleasant.

「 As you wish, master. 」

Although Pagma wanted to express something, he followed what his master wanted him to do. He refrained from saying something as he knew that his master wanted to do something– eager to try out what he had in mind.

"That's all for me. I hope you'll entertain me by the time we meet again...."

Without much explanation about why he summoned Pagma, Lexus suddenly disappeared from where he just stood. While talking, Lexus was compressing the space between his location and next destination. None of them were able to react as Lexus leisurely casts teleport.

Naturally, since Lexus was so hasty that he immediately teleported my way out, he wasn't able to witness the notification that appeared.

[1st Great Demon Baal has recovered most of his powers.]

[He chuckles as he gave the you a deadly demonic curse.]

[....!]

[1st Great Demon Baal who was widely smirking was shock to his core that you have perfectly resisted.]

[You are the first human to make a fool of the Demon King of Hell.]

[All stats will increase significantly for the transcendental achievement reward.]

•~×~•

There were countless players hoping to cross to the East Continent.

There were those who wanted to get ahead of everyone else, those who aimed for a reversal in a new land, etc. All types of people tried to reach the East Continent. The wealthy even invested an astronomical amount of money.

However, most of them failed to reach the East Continent. They became stuck at the Dead Sea and were unable to pass the trials in the Behen Archipelago.

As Lexus made his way towards the Behen Archipelago, he decided to try something that entered in his mind earlier. Something he want to witness before he start the conquer.

[Limitless Missile Lv.Max]

[Originally a magic missile developed by the legendary great magician who has completely overturned the activation formula which combined all elements of magic in a magic missile.

It boasts tremendous power, but consumes a lot of resources. It deals damage equal to ten times your current magic power to the target. It also ignores the enemy's magic resistance.

* When hitting a target, summons a vortex that sucks in nearby enemy. Affected enemies cannot move, attack, or cast skills for 2 seconds.

* The target that is affected by the summoned vortex will receive two times the damage from an additional limitless missile.

Resource Consumption: 50,000 Mana.

Skill Casting Time: 1 second.

Skill Cooldown Time: 10 seconds.]

Magic Missile was the type of magic that launched after specifying the target. It immediately flew to the target as soon as it was used. Limitless Missile retains this characteristic but the only difference is, the speed is 10 times faster.

Lexus revolves his mana around him. When reaching level 300, intelligence stats gives 2.5 magic power and 8 mana for every point. His intelligence stats alone would allow Lexus to deal 325,000 magic damage in every cast of this spell. A heaven-defying damage which made the spell comparable to the highest legendary spell that symbolizes the Great Demons, Meteor of other people.

The mob was hit by the Limitless Missile and died without even screaming. Not caring about its death, His gaze turned to the others. With a single thought in his mind, 30 God Hands emerged from his inventory. The artifacts that perfectly reproduce all of his skills so casting the same magic is also possible for them.

The mobs saw more than thirty missiles made of tremendous magic power aiming at them and stiffened. The limitless missiles poured down. It was a rain of light with different kinds of colors as the limitless missiles are composed of all elements of magic.

A single round of simultaneously casting Limitless Missiles with all of his God Hands drained 1,500,000 mana. The mana cost is truly massive but the catastrophic damage on the other hand, has satisfied Lexus.

「 Kid, I think it's time for me to carry out my resurrection. 」

As Lexus was feeling satisfied with Limitless Missile that was created by the help and collaboration of Solomon, Braham and Mumud, he heard Braham which made Lexus wryly smiled but inwardly, he feels an influx of emotions.

"Well... Fine. Although I could help you with that, I doubt you would want me to when you can handle that yourself."

Braham is a prideful individual. Just like how arrogant Madra was. Since he already confirmed that Greed– Pagma's Successor had received the blessings of the gods with just one blessing left, he made his mind to proceed his planned resurrection without the help of Lexus. Braham read his feelings and sniffed.

「 This is a happy occasion. When I restore my body, I'll show you the abilities of the greatest legend of all time. 」

Currently, Braham is uncomfortable at the moment. He resented Pagma but he couldn't express because he became aware of what Pagma experienced in the hands of Baal. So he decided on leaving to sort his emotions that is currently in turmoil.

In fact, this wasn't the normal Braham. After being expelled from the world of vampires and living as a human, he became aware of feelings of affection. He treasured Pagma, felt jealous and worried of Mumud, and now he liked Lexus.

Paaaat!

A source of great power was nestled deep in Lexus's chest. Braham's soul started to stir. He was going to leave.

"Braham, I'll look forward to the time we meet again."

「 Bah! I have been waiting for this moment. Although I enjoyed watching over your journey, I want to recover my complete body as soon as possible. 」

Yes, Braham has delayed his plan for resurrection despite he could force Lexus to receive Yatan's Blessings like he did to Greed in the novel but he didn't. He genuinely enjoyed watching over the path that Lexus forged through.

「 Stay well kid. By the time we meet again, we will live in the same era. 」

Saying his farewell, Braham's soul fragment emerged from Lexus's chest. Braham's voice was no longer heard.

[Braham's soul fragment has left.]

Braham's soul disappeared into the sky without looking back. A blue soul moved as a beam of light.

A person who was undeniably building up a myth. He might not be close to Baal, Marie Rose or Nevartan, but it was undeniable that he was one of the world's potential powerhouses. That was Lexus, the new legend for Braham.

•~×~•

"That's strange. I can't curse him."

Baal, the 1st Great Demon spoke to himself with great displeasure. After Nevartan left Hell for the meantime, Baal was recovering after repeatedly experiencing death from the black dragon but there's just one thing that he was extremely displeased.

Although dying once or twice doesn't really matter to him since he has infinite lives as long as humans knows the concept of fear, being killed once by a measly human irritates him. He was the absolute in hell. There's a big difference between an absolute and a legend so dying once by the blade of a human legend is unacceptable for Baal.

He was also very angry about that human since Pagma's soul was liberated from his grasp. A soul that brought him great pleasure by torturing it for more than hundreds of years.

"Not even the lofty but cowardly gods can avoid being cursed by me..."

Baal frowned since his curses that could even affect Nevartan didn't worked on a human? After regaining most of his powers, the first thing he wanted to do was to make the human that killed him to be miserable. It was to cripple that human by an annoying curse.

[Baal's Demon Curse]

[The 1st Great Demon Baal is always watching over you.

Good luck and 200 levels will be deducted, experience gain will decrease by 1000 times for 5 years and all types of health recovery are reduced by 60%.]

A very lethal curse that will practically stop someone's growth. Casting this curse to anyone who's weaker than him is a simple thing to Baal with the perquisite of knowing the name of the victim.

Baal had seen through the identity of the human that Nevartan has summoned to kill him with his authority so he was initially grinning and looking forward to see the reaction of that human but what happened after baffles him.

He couldn't cast the curse because that person couldn't be cursed? Even if he has the abnormal status resistance that was a privilege of a legend, it shouldn't be able to completely defend from his curse. This phenomenon totally confused him. He was lacking in insight? No, that definitely wasn't the case but he couldn't find any words to describe it.

"Should I send some ego fragments to investigate this?"

Baal had a very convenient ability.

It was the ability to divide his ego into dozens or hundreds of fragments to create and operate clones. It was possible for him to climb up to the surface without many restrictions, kill humans, and bring them to hell.

Just then, deep smile spread across Baal's face.

"Kuk.....kukukuk! Yes, show me what awaits at the end of your feeble life. I will enjoy the pain and despair when I meet you in the future!"

To Baal, he just wants a means to appease boredom and to obtain pleasure. His arrogance pierced the sky. Additionally, in most cases, one's arrogance was proportional to their pride. It was the same sensation of joy he felt when Pagma formed a contract with him.

In the first place, wasn't it a setting that he had infinite lives? There was no chance that Baal would be defeated, even if billions of players invaded hell. Baal wasn't just an object of fear. He was also superior.

The wave of power caused by the smiling Baal was enormous. It was like he was in his prime. He was aware that the human managed to became a Demon Slayer for killing him so they were bound to meet again. He just need to be patient for a little while.

The demon slayer that was supposedly the nemesis of all demons, he look forward of what he'll do when they meets him.