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The dark barrier created by the Black Tower Master shattered, and his shoulder was torn apart along with the Demonic Spirit Barrier.
"Arrrghh!"
Unable to bear the pain of his flesh being cut, the Black Tower Master slumped over. Bright red blood spurted from his shoulder.
"Ultimate Technique."
But Chamber didn't stop her magic incantation even after seeing this scene.
"P-please..."
He extended his finger forward, looking at the Black Tower Master who was begging him to stop.
"Space Break."
"Damn woman!"
The Black Tower Master gathered demonic energy to expand a magic barrier, but he couldn't draw a perfect technique because his arm had been torn apart. The spatial wave raised by Chamber cut through the magic barrier and blew the Black Tower Master's skull apart. His headless body crumbled like a sandcastle.
"Haaa..."
Even though the Black Tower Master had fallen, Chamber didn't lower her hand or release her magic technique.
'I need to do it one more time...'
Most mages create a ring in their heart to accumulate mana. The Black Tower Master wouldn't be an exception, so she had to make sure to destroy his heart.
"Kuhak..."
As he tried to use magic again, black, dead blood gushed from his mouth.
'I feel like I'm going to die.'
There was still mana left to use Space Break, but her mind and body felt like they were about to burst. A pain that felt like her head was splitting emerged, and her vision blurred. But she couldn't stop here. Even if she died on the spot, she had to make sure to cut off the Black Tower Master's breath.
"Ultimate Technique."
Chamber raised her trembling finger, pointing at the collapsed Black Tower Master's heart.
"Space Break."
As soon as she finished her incantation, forcefully maintaining her concentration, the Black Tower Master's chest, protected by the Demonic Spirit Barrier, exploded, and dark, red blood gushed out like a fountain. The Black Tower Master didn't move, as if his breath had truly been cut off, and the demonic energy he possessed began to melt away.
"Heurgh..."
Only after destroying both the head and heart of the Black Tower Master did Chamber lower her trembling hand.
'Is it over?'
She had thought she might die before killing the Black Tower Master, but luckily, she was able to eliminate him first.
'I was lucky... No, it's thanks to those kids.'
Indeed, she didn't know she could fight so intensely. It seemed that she was able to hold out until the end thanks to the spirit shown by Raon and the other kids during this operation. If she hadn't seen everyone's fight first, the person buried here would have been her, not the Black Tower Master.
"Now I can feel the pain..."
Chamber bit her lip, enduring the pain. Despite having wounds where her skin was torn and bones were visible, her head and heart ached even more. It meant that she had truly been on the verge of death.
'Now I just need to return, close the Devildom Pathway, and deal with the remaining stragglers.'
She wanted to lie down and rest here and now, but she was worried about the kids left in the Black Tower's dimension.
'Even with Raon and Karoon there, the damage will be great.'
The Silent Spirit World was a magic that revived demons and demonic beasts. That state would remain until the Devildom Pathway was closed, so she had to return as quickly as possible, close the gate, and save even one more person.
"Just a breath of rest..."
Chamber straightened her back and closed her eyes. As she recovered her body and mind through mana breathing, a sudden chill ran down her spine.
'Wait a minute.'
She opened her eyes again and looked at the blood-soaked corpse of the Black Tower Master.
'The movement of the demonic energy is strange.'
When a demonized human dies, the demonic energy they possessed slowly dissolves into natural mana, like unburnt garbage. But now, the Black Tower Master's demonic energy was disappearing abnormally quickly.
'It can't be?'
Chamber raised flames over the Black Tower Master's corpse. Even though the Black Tower Master was dead, the Demonic Spirit Barrier should have continued to function, but it was burning and melting too easily in the flames. That meant his corpse wasn't real.
"Damn it!"
Chamber gritted her teeth and turned around. She crossed through space without even wiping the blood flowing from her mouth.
* * *
Raon bit his lips as he looked at the Devildom Pathway.
'There's only one chance.'
The Devildom Pathway was growing larger even at this moment. Because its condition wasn't normal, if he missed this opportunity, he would never be able to close that gate again.
-Look directly at the gate.
Wrath climbed onto his shoulder and nodded.
-You must release all the wrath you possess at once to cut off that dimension.
He raised his chubby hand to point directly at where to cut.
-Think of crushing and blowing up that Devildom Pathway itself with my wrath. Brutally!
Wrath clenched his fist, saying that Raon needed to explode his power at once to close the Devildom Pathway.
"Phew."
Raon slowly regulated his breathing and resonated the Ring of Fire. He opened the three energy centers and entered the realm of transcendence. As he simultaneously operated the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and the Glacier, ice and flames burned on the Heavenly Drive.
He harmonized the two vastly different energies with Garunua's wind and raised the Heavenly Drive above his head.
-Don't worry about the demonic beasts. Focus all your attention on closing the gate.
'I know.'
Ignoring the demons and demonic beasts looking at him with their black eyes, he focused his gaze only on the Devildom Pathway.
-Now! Strike with wrath!
Hearing Wrath's words, he opened the realm of his soul. The Demon King's wrath, which had grown by receiving the demonic energy of the Devildom, rose, causing intense waves as if devouring his soul.
Operating wrath over his already exhausted state felt like his mind was freezing. Enduring with the Ring of Fire, he poured the wrath that was pressing on his body and mind into the Heavenly Drive.
The space around the Heavenly Drive twisted and split along the way. Dimensional cracks naturally opened due to the concentration of such overwhelming power.
'We're going to hold on.'
Just holding the Heavenly Drive made cold sweat break out. After a long battle and using the Sword Domain twice, his body and mind were in pieces.
'Hold on. Rensia must be watching...'
The desire to give up emerged, but he endured, remembering Rensia's face as she asked him to take care of her siblings even as she died. As if sensing that he was trying to close the Devildom Pathway, the demonic beasts and demons around began to charge at him.
'I must ignore them.'
If he dispersed the energy imbued in the Heavenly Drive now, he wouldn't be able to close that gate. Thinking that he would endure with his body, he took another step towards the Devildom Pathway. But the excited demonic beasts and demons failed to attack him.
Saint Olga and Karoon, who remained on the ground, raised holy power and sword blows to block the demonic beasts approaching him.
"Go quickly!"
Olga spat out the cigarette she was holding in her mouth, telling him to quickly close the Devildom Pathway. Seeing the black blood at the end of the cigarette, it seemed that she was also pushing herself too hard.
"Don't stop."
Karoon protected him as he blocked the resurrected Black King and high demons. Despite having several wounds that looked serious, his expression remained calm.
'Thank you.'
Raon bowed his head to the two of them and tightened his grip on the Heavenly Drive. Thinking of cutting not the Devildom Pathway, but the black sky itself, he swung the Heavenly Drive downwards. Azure Sky Sword Technique. Heavenly Flame King.
The wrath of the sky descended upon the silently falling sword blade. A terrifying wave emerged as if to erase everything in sight, annihilating all the surrounding demonic beasts.
The wrathful sword blow connecting flames and frost pierced the thick wall of demonic energy and fell towards the Devildom Pathway. The Devildom Pathway, which had been endlessly expanding its reach, stopped for the first time. Under the weight of the sword blow imbued with wrath, the gate that had been open like a demon's mouth slowly began to split.
'A little more!'
The repulsive force of the Devildom Pathway was beyond his imagination. It felt like cutting a huge zelkova tree with a thin saw. Enduring the pain as if his grip was being torn apart and his arm was breaking, he continued to lower the sword.
The Devildom Pathway struggled like a living being, concentrating its demonic energy, but it had no choice but to surrender its neck to even greater wrath.
The enormous gate that had covered the sky split along the way.
'Now!'
His head was so dizzy that he wanted to collapse immediately, and his wrist felt like it was about to break, but he could feel that this was the moment to cut through the gate. Gritting his teeth, he swung the Heavenly Drive downwards.
The Devildom Pathway continuously expelled demonic energy as if it desperately wanted to survive, but it couldn't reverse the already tilted momentum. As the gate gradually closed, the size of the demonic beasts coming from the Devildom also shrank.
"Stop it! Stop that bastard!"
"Kiaaaaa!"
"Raon Zieghart!"
The demonized humans and demons, seemingly unable to imagine that the Devildom Pathway was closing, screamed and lunged towards Raon.
"Protect Raon!"
"Don't let them touch Raon at all costs!"
"Block them with your lives!"
The allied forces also ran, coughing up blood, to block the demons in front of Raon and protect him. No less intense than the battle between Raon and the Devildom Pathway, a fierce and desperate fight continued below.
-We're almost there!
Wrath patted Raon's shoulder, telling him to exert his strength to the end.
"¡Kraaaaaaah!"
It was when Raon, letting out a roar like an evil spirit, was about to split the almost-closed Devildom Pathway. ¡Woooong! A black being wrapped in a black robe jumped from the side of the Devildom Pathway. It was the Black Tower Master that Chamber had dragged along.
[You dare interfere to the end!]
The Black Tower Master, despite having no head and a hole in his chest, was not dead and extended his hand towards Raon. A huge amount of demonic energy gathered on his finger and shot towards Raon as if it were going to kill him.
'I can block it. But the moment I do, I'll lose the strength to close the Devildom Pathway.'
At this moment, he was pouring all his strength into destroying the Devildom Pathway. If his aura fluctuated here, he wouldn't be able to cut off all the demonic energy, and his sword would break.
'I must believe.'
This wasn't a battle he could win alone. Trusting Chamber, who had inflicted such wounds on the Black Tower Master, he focused on cutting off the Devildom Pathway. The moment Raon ignored the demonic energy fired by the Black Tower Master and swung his sword downwards to the end, a mature woman in a short robe appeared with a blue flash from the right.
The woman with waist-length red hair shone with her golden eyes and erased the Black Tower Master's demonic energy in an instant.
"¡Uaaaah!"
Raon roared to prevent the Black Tower Master from interfering again and swung the Heavenly Drive to its limit. As the tip of the Heavenly Drive descended towards the ground, red and blue flashes scattered across the black sky filled with demonic energy.
"Heurgh..."
Raon lowered the hand holding the Heavenly Drive and painfully raised his gaze.
'The, the gate...'
The Devildom Pathway, which had been large enough to cover the sky, split in two and froze in silver frost. However, a small space large enough for a person to enter was still alive and breathing, having escaped the wrath.
'...Did it fail?'
Despite having poured all his aura and wrath, he couldn't completely destroy the Devildom Pathway, and the pain in his mind became extreme. He wanted to give up and faint.
-Look properly.
Wrath shook his head calmly.
'Look properly?'
Raon directed his gaze following Wrath. ¡Chiiiik! The silver frost was descending very slowly, freezing the remaining Devildom Pathway. The demons outside the gate were looking with their hands lowered, seemingly bewildered by the wrath of Wrath imbued in the frost.
-If we keep protecting like this, the gate will eventually be blocked.
Wrath nodded, saying that it was only a matter of time.
-Of course, we'll have to stop that guy.
His gaze turned to the Black Tower Master who was standing as if guarding the gate. However, Raon's gaze first went to Chamber, who was standing in front of the Black Tower Master.
"Lady Chamber."
Chamber had returned not as a child, but in the form of a mature woman. She had grown, with her red hair, which was once short, now reaching her waist, an unparalleled beauty, but her magical power seemed to have grown even more than that.
"Are you alright?"
More than her strength, he was first concerned that she seemed to have pushed herself too hard.
"I'm fine."
Chamber smiled and shook her head as if to say not to worry. But seeing her trembling lips, she seemed to be in a difficult state contrary to her words.
"If you have enough strength to talk, let's focus on killing that guy."
Chamber raised her finger to point at the Black Tower Master who was clinging to the Devildom Pathway.
'The Black Tower Master...'
The Black Tower Master, despite having lost his head and having a hole in his left chest, was still protecting the almost-closed Devildom Pathway without falling. Being alive even with two vital points of a human destroyed, he seemed to have become a specter that even death avoided.
'Does the effect of the Silent Spirit World apply to him too?'
No, it hadn't worked perfectly. Perhaps because the Devildom Pathway was closing. The Black Tower Master's wounds weren't regenerating, maintaining his current state.
"Since the gate is closing, we have the advantage. Let's finish this quickly."
Raon nodded, pointing the Heavenly Drive at the Black Tower Master.
"Yes. Let's end this tedious fight."
Chamber wiped the dried black blood from her lips and brought her hands together.
"This time, I will completely erase you."
She concentrated on her trembling magical power while keeping her fingers together.
"Ultimate Technique: Space Break."
With Chamber's incantation, the space in front of her cut along the way. Just as the space-tearing magic was about to erase the Devildom Pathway and the Black Tower Master himself, a sacred light fell on his head. The golden light imbued with holiness twisted Chamber's magic, saving the Black Tower Master's life.
An angel with a golden crown descended with snow-white feathers over the distorted space. It seemed that she had blocked Chamber's ultimate technique.
"You are gravely wounded."
As the angel gently lowered her hand, the Black Tower Master's head grew back, and the wound in his chest that had been pierced healed instantly.
'What's going on?'
An angel was the least suitable being for the Black Tower Master, so Raon couldn't understand why she saved and healed him.
'Wait, could that angel be...?'
Karoon had said that he entered the angel's gate and met a woman with a strange atmosphere. He said that she came back to life right after being killed, and it seemed that this was that angel.
-An angel? I feel the aura of a high-ranking angel among the angels. However...
Wrath narrowed his eyes as he looked at the angel.
-Strangely, her temperament is somewhat different from the angels I know.
He frowned, saying that she was different from ordinary angels, just like when he had evaluated Zircon.
"Uff..."
The Black Tower Master touched his restored head and let out a sigh of relief.
"That was really dangerous this time."
He wiped the sweat flowing from his palms and twisted his lips.
"Damn it..."
Chamber bit her lip until it bled, seemingly bewildered that her ultimate technique had been blocked.
"It's okay."
Raon stood beside Chamber and shook his head.
"His wounds have healed, but his demonic energy is still the same. We can win."
While it was true that the wounds on the Black Tower Master's head and chest had regenerated, his demonic energy hadn't recovered. He was in worse shape than Raon.
"We just need to stop that angel."
Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at the gold-crowned angel floating above the Black Tower Master's head.
"......"
The angel looked at them with a slight smile, her thoughts indecipherable. Although she had protected the Black Tower Master, she didn't show hostility towards Raon.
"Who is that angel?"
Chamber drew a new magic formula as if she distrusted the angel.
"Do you know about the Birth Stones?"
The Black Tower Master pulled out a clear green gem with his regenerated right arm. It resembled an emerald, but a mysterious energy emanated from it.
"Within the Birth Stones of Origin dwell beings different from what we know. In the Peridot of July, an angel different from angels. And in the Zircon of December, a demon different from demons sleeps."
"Zircon? Don't tell me..."
"Yes. This is Zircon."
As the Black Tower Master twisted his lips and pulled out a transparent yellowish-brown stone, the black-handed demon who had died by Raon's hand stood on his shoulder.
"The Birth Stone of Origin..."
Chamber's lips trembled as if she knew the true identity of that Birth Stone. Her complexion turned pale.
"It's time to accept your fate."
"Of course."
As the Black Tower Master floated the Birth Stone of Origin in the air, the angel called Peridot of July knelt before him.
"Become one with me."
As he grabbed the hand of the angel Peridot and turned his gaze towards the demon Zircon, the Zircon Birth Stone of Origin floating in the air moved on its own and fell on Raon's head.
"W-what?"
"Zircon!"
Raon caught the stone in astonishment, and the Black Tower Master looked at Raon with shocked eyes.
From within the yellowish-brown stone, the demon called Zircon of December emerged and looked down at the distant Black Tower Master.
"Zircon! What are you doing! I am your master!"
"You are not qualified."
Zircon of December ignored the shouting Black Tower Master and stood before Raon.
"The one I should follow is this person."
Without a moment's hesitation, he knelt before Raon and bowed his head.
"Raon Zieghart!"
The Black Tower Master let out a monstrous scream, his eyes bloodshot, as if his final plan had been shattered.
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