The Seonhwang shook his head.
“What a truly amazing guy. To think you could shake my heart, even for a moment, despite the crafty tongue of the revolutionary not being able to!”
“Haha. That was really unfortunate. Our long-time rival, and our only chance to align our understanding just vanished.”
“However, there was value in your words. If all hundred dimensions are destroyed, humanity will never fully escape the Evil Dragon’s dominance. The Principal wouldn’t just sit idly by as the development of engineering outside of magic occurs. Humanity’s technological level can’t exceed the Evil Dragon’s dominion and allowance.”
“What future do you envision, if you aren’t ignoring reality and not even holding hands?”
The Seonhwang devoted his life to finding an answer in a future with no responses.
He sought to pave the way for humanity’s future, controlled by the Evil Dragon stronger than many gods, extending his lifespan and forsaking humanity, reigning as a tyrant.
How long and harsh were the sacrifices his great intellect and will had to endure?
Nothing changes.
He simply couldn’t achieve the fruits on his own hands and witness it with his own eyes.
Still, hope remains unchanged.
Because there is Oknodie, who will carry on his will even without him.
“There is a next generation. A new age beyond the Three Great Evils that doesn’t need us old folks, right?”
“…Don’t. It’s in vain. Have you not seen the strength of my ‘Destiny Power’ firsthand?”
“Yet, you’ve also realized the limit of that power. If your so-called destructive power is useless before pure physical strength, then your precious Destiny Power would be meaningless against the rampage of pure mental power, wouldn’t it?”
The Director’s essence attempted to disconnect quickly as it rose beyond the Giant Monster’s body, but it wasn’t able to return to its main body as it disappeared.
The Seonhwang’s mental power, having fully exhausted its might, didn’t allow any escape.
“If you commit such acts, you will be devoured as well!”
“Are you afraid of the awakening of the Giant Monster’s spirit? Hah. I am not afraid. If I feared death, how could I risk my life on an unachievable ambition? O greatest evil. Those without someone to entrust their dreams cannot overcome the courage that lacks the fear of the one who entrusted it!”
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Emperor Hiuqmag
Area Level 4 – Domain of Control
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The Seonhwang’s mental power forcibly initiated an infiltration into the Mind World.
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[Director First Wahyhiemhai’s Mind World]
Challenge Difficulty ★★★★★★★★★★★★(★12, CHALLENGE: The Greatest Evil)
[Instant Death Resistance Requirement – 50000]
[Mental Collapse Resistance Requirement – 100000]
[Corruption Resistance Requirement – 200000]
[Seal Resistance Requirement – 500000]
(x0.1 Correction List)
[Instant Judgment Bonus 185.2% from Understanding Situation (1852) Function]
[Combat Intelligence Bonus 81.3% from Thinking Ability (813) Function]
[Mental Focus Bonus 355.5% from Concentration (3555) Function]
(x0.2 Correction List)
[Madness Protection Bonus 1101% from Tyrant (5505) Function]
[Self-Control Bonus 620% from Mana Breathing (3100) Function]
[Transcendence Resistance Bonus 77% from Superhuman (385) Function]
[Total Requirement Reduction Bonus 2420%]
[Triple Assessment Addition Bonus from Hiuqmag’s [Pinnacle of Humanity] Title]
[-Triple Assessment Addition Bonus from First Wahyhiemhai’s [The Greatest Human] Title]
[Final Change Value 24.2 times (2420%) Reduced]
[Instant Death Resistance Requirement 2066]
[Mental Collapse Resistance Requirement 4132]
[Corruption Resistance Requirement 8264]
[Seal Resistance Requirement 16528]
[Hiuqmag’s mental power is below 16528.]
[Hiuqmag’s mental power is below 8264.]
[Hiuqmag’s mental power is 5005.]
[Emperor Hiuqmag’s mind is corrupted.]
[Emperor Hiuqmag’s soul is sealed.]
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A foolish challenge.
If there was any room left, it would have been appropriate to do so.
However, he had no more lingering desires.
Evil Dragon Omoshiroi.
He was certain that by entrusting the extermination of the monster to Oknodie, he could invest all his power.
All the pillars sustaining his inner universe collapsed, and the giant Mind World crumbled, weakening his level and his lifespan decreasing in real-time.
Countless weapons that had been asleep under the Seonhwang’s observation began to glow, while sealed secrets and taboos simultaneously triggered their powers.
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Emperor Hiuqmag acquires an additional 3000 mental power through [Exploding Level].
Emperor Hiuqmag acquires an additional 5000 mental power through [Hidden Energy Explosion].
Emperor Hiuqmag acquires an additional 10000 mental power through [Royal Revelation] energy exchange.
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Beyond the figure of 5005, the mental power soars to 23005.
The dust cloud that arose from the crumbling tower of all his life’s efforts reached heights far beyond any existence in the world.
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[Hiuqmag releases the corrupted state.]
[Hiuqmag breaks through the sealed state.]
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The awakened consciousness of the Seonhwang met the astonished gaze of the gods looking down upon him and crossed glances with the colossal spirit of Dragon Principal Omoshiroi.
-Did you exist in such a place?
-What a shame, Seonhwang. To discard such an opponent in this manner would be a loss.
Although he couldn’t draw his sword and slay the Evil Dragon, reaching this position was already telling.
He lacked the ability to prevent Dragon Principal Omoshiroi from soaring even higher.
His challenge would inevitably end in defeat.
Thus, he had neither regrets nor wishes.
He saw that a soul even more remarkable than his own, too big and grotesque to be stuffed into a small body, was curled up right next to the Principal.
Like a child sensing the tragic news of distant parents or relatives without hearing it, Oknodie’s anxious eyes scanned the surroundings.
At the same time, the ‘taboo’ being unleashed by the vessel of the soul sharing one memory with that child also reached him.
With mental power reaching its peak, it enveloped the entire Middle Realm, and the omnipotent spiritual sight looked down upon the ‘body’ of First Wahyhiemhai and the astonished gaze of previous hero Ni’alatotep who bore witness to all this malice.
Even the Representative of Man, who sought to gather the powers of forgotten ancient gods to challenge a new divinity, hid in darkness with fear of his mind, so what weight did the gazes of those smaller beings hold?
It was futile.
Everything was small and trivial.
With just a resolve, he felt he could transcend humanity right into a conceptual deity.
He noticed the opportunity to rise to divine class presented to those who surpassed 20,000 experience points, bestowed upon those who exceeded 10,000 functional experience points.
If he ascended to the divine class as a mighty spirit that does not exist in the world, all of humanity would be reborn as beings endowed with tremendous mental power.
It was futile.
Everything was vast but devoid of substance.
The massive sight stretching toward the universe gazed down upon a single soul.
Though their will to raise humanity above all beings remained the same, one that crossed the frontier dwelled down below.
A colossal mental presence that could carve divinity into the universe forcefully stuffed its grand mental presence into the inner world of a single individual.
-It’s useless. If you thought that I couldn’t accomplish everything you did, you’re mistaken!!
The Mind World of First Wahyhiemhai, filled with the essence of every hell on earth, shattered and exploded wherever the Seonhwang’s colossal spirit stepped.
A series of visuals worthy of describing the end of a world.
A great void was opened in the heart, and only the traces of white destruction were left, unable to find any meaning.
Yet, the scene of the last part of hell remaining unbroken was firm.
That was the reality of this world, ravaged by the god and the Principal as recognized by First Wahyhiemhai.
[Indestructible]
Knowing that he had harbored the same hell in his heart, the Seonhwang understood.
That was an indestructible Mind World.
-Not until the last moment when my mind vanishes will anything fill your inner world.
Thus, he confines it.
All the ‘blank spaces’ except for that world.
The ‘growth potential’ of the Director.
[The probability resistance of the Rune of Misfortune is impossible.]
[The probability resistance of the Rune of Misfortune is impossible.]
[The probability resistance of the Rune of Misfortune is impossible.]
A colossal destructive force that tolerates no resistance shrank the Director’s mind even tighter.
The lofty status shed layers of hell, and the purest Dark Mana gathered from the shadows of the Middle Realm was deprived of potential that even the Demon King could not fathom.
The spring of the soul that never ran dry ran dry.
The unsnapable sword of the heart snapped.
[The Mind World of First Wahyhiemhai has been significantly
First Wahyhiemhai shrank.
Its soul, its vessel, and even its potential as a human.
Yet the Emperor felt it.
-What a cruelly deep hell. Even my soul can’t fill this hell completely.
He realized that the seal was far more insufficient than he thought.
The venomous gaze of First Wahyhiemhai pierced into the Seonhwang.
-Humanity has lost both potentials because of you. To reverse today’s decline, an additional hundred years of tragedy and calamity will be necessary.
-No need. My child’s time will arrive far quicker than your time.
The soul of the Seonhwang smiled contentedly and closed his eyes.
The Director realized that his powerful mental strength, which had been controlling the [Black World Tree], could no longer dominate the World Tree.
Sealing the soul dramatically reduced the total amount of strength, even if they maintained the same hierarchy and level.
“Seonhwang, to think that he could commit such acts after 332 rounds and still not know the nature of a man’s heart, truly, it’s terribly complex.”
“Haha, haha. Do you think this is the end?”
“I won’t listen to your crafty words anymore. Share the burden of my past as well and vanish without leaving a speck of dust!!”
The airodilon of the 332nd cycle condensed planet-destroying levels of mana power.
Wrapped in brilliant light and facing the destructive energy spilling from the dimensional gate, a smile emerged on the Director’s face that wouldn’t sink.
There wasn’t the same comfort as before, but the smile of the Director, now deeply tainted with poison, held an inexplicable ominousness.
‘It’s just a pointless worry.’
The 332nd cycle stubbornly ignored that ominousness.
Mana power was unleashed, and the Director pulled out a power by pushing through the immense seal surrounding his soul.
[First Wahyhiemhai]
[Area Level 4 – Domain of Control]
The boundary of the collapsing dimensional gate.
The unleashed power shattered the dimensional void and was engulfed by the mana storm it had created.
“Now, the Seonhwang is no more. That awful mage-airodilon is gone too. Alien avatar, what can you do now?”
The body had shrunk in proportion to the diminished soul.
As power that overflowed from compression and compression disappeared, the body shrank like a young child.
Yet the cruel spirit in those eyes darkened even more.
Only then did the 332nd cycle realize.
The Greatest Evil hadn’t fallen yet.
