CH 511

The sky above the gruesome battlefield that shed the blood of one, two, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand people and soaked the capital of Baroque Kingdom suddenly turned dark, enveloping everyone in a deep sense of dread.

“What?”

“What the hell?”

“Th, that…”

Seeing the unusual change in the battlefield, even the troops of Lumae Kingdom felt terror, while the troops of Beyond the Heavens Kingdom turned ever so vigilant.

Crazy Tyrant Akhan was floating in the skies with a deep, unsettling smile peeking from underneath his skull mask. Akhan already had a history of putting the players of both the Chinese and Korean servers in danger by releasing the frenzied Black Dragon Vormon in the Continent Cloud. This time, he opened the Gates of Hell.

Hell was a place that housed beings that went beyond transcendence, over tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years ago. Then, a huge black gate appeared and hovered in the dark skies. There were thousands of arms made of bones that blocked the gate from opening.

“Kihyaaaaaack!”

“Kiiiiiiiiiiiiik”

“Kiyeeeeeeeeck!”

The skeletons shrieked. These skeletons were the ones that received the punishment of preventing the Gates of Hell from opening. Their screams and shrieks signaled danger, it meant that the Gates of Hell would soon be opened.

‘My level has been reduced by thirty, but it doesn’t matter.’

Akhan smiled thickly despite the enormous penalties that he would incur for bringing a being from hell to earth. On top of his level being reduced by thirty, he would be banned from accessing the game for two weeks in the case of death. And even if he was able to reconnect, his EXP value would be reduced to less than 40% for another two weeks.

However, Akhan was literally the epitome of crazy. He was a complete and utter lunatic that did not care for those kinds of things.

Of course, the penalties were not the only thing needed for the opening of the Gates of Hell, it also needed a sacrifice. To open the Gates of Hell, Akhan needed the blood of tens of thousands of beings, which were the knights, soldiers, and monsters, as well as the blood of a great and noble existence, the dragon that had just died.

Hundreds of broadcasting stations immediately zoomed in on Akhan’s face as he grinned wickedly and said, “This will be your end.”

Then, at that moment…

Vwooooooooooong—

The gigantic Gates of Hell shook as the skeletons that held the gates shut fell down one after the other and disappeared into ashes. Then, another knock…

Vwoooooooong—

Screech—

Tremble, tremble, tremble—

Tension and nervousness increased in everyone present with every knock that shook the Gates of Hell. And finally…

Vwooooooooong—

The Gates of Hell opened as a thick red arm reached out from its depths.

Craaaack—

“Kihyaaaaaack!”

“Kiheeeeeeeck!”

“Kikikikikiki!”

The skeletons desperately grabbed the arm that popped out from the depths of hell. They tried so hard to block it from coming out, but the arm was already holding the gates. In the end, the skeletons failed to hold on, allowing another arm to appear and slam the Gates of Hell open.

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Shwaaaaaaa—

With the opening of the Gates of Hell, the skeletons slowly turned to ashes, disappearing into the wind. Then, a gigantic red figure slowly stepped out from the gates.

The figure was wearing thick full-plated armor with two bloody red and huge greatswords in each hand. Then, something very shocking happened. The figure’s head and arms suddenly multiplied. The man’s head became three while his arms became six. However, as if it was all an illusion, the shocking figure disappeared as swiftly as it came to be while the notifications rang in everyone’s ears.

[Demigod Asura has descended.]

[Those that will bring Demigod Asura back and seal him with the Gates of Hell will receive the appropriate rewards.]

“Demigod Asura…?”

“Did it say Asura?!”

“That, that Asura?!”

In reality, Asura was one of the eight deities that protected the Dharma in Buddhism, also infamously associated with the ’Asura Field’. Any normal person would relate the Asura Field with carnage and ruins.

But the true meaning of the Asura Field was Asura’s battlefield, a field that was filled with blood.

“Did it say Asura…?”

Even the dragons that were caught up in their battle were all left flustered after hearing the notifications.

Asura was the demon of the battlefield that slaughtered tens of millions of people more than ten thousand years ago. As he continued to slaughter his enemies with his sword, he gradually left behind the human realm and reached the level of a transcendent, eventually reaching the ‘Demigod’ level.

The problem was what he did once he became a Demigod. All he did was ‘slaughter’. When the man killed tens of millions of people, the gods had no choice but to move. However, even they could not control Asura. Only after joining forces with the Continental Gods were they able to send Asura to hell. Even then, the ruler of hell, the God of Death, also had a hard time controlling Asura.

A fact that indicated how violent, cruel and powerful he was.

The commentators hurriedly gathered information on Athenae’s Asura and relayed it to the masses.

[The blood and tears shed by the tens of millions of people that he killed flooded the world. His sword did not show any mercy and would kill anyone, even emperors and kings. In the end, even the gods feared this evil being…]

People began to publish articles and information about Asura.

[Demigod Asura. A man known as the God of the Battlefield and a figure that eventually achieved godhood.]

[Asura is also known as the God of Slaughter in the Athenae worldview.]

Once they gathered the information and put two and two together, they all reached one conclusion.

[Isn’t this saying that he’s a god of killing?!]

[Right now, there’s an evil god over there…?]

[Akhan, you’re a f*cking crazy bastard!!!]

Before Asura could make his move, the dragons hurriedly told Akhan, “Why did you open the Gates of Hell? Are you going to turn this continent into a sea of blood?”

Yes, the dragons attacked this place for a reason of their own, but they did not intend to attack and trample on the entire continent. Their purpose was to push Baroque Kingdom, destroy Beyond the Heavens Kingdom behind them, and take the hatchling away.

“I believe this is the best solution for the situation right now.”

“We’ll step away from the battlefield for a while.”

The dragons were clever. To put it in another way, they were afraid. This was because they might not be able to survive if they participated in a battlefield where Asura was present. That was just how terrifying Asura was. Asura might be a demigod, but his power far exceeded that of any other demigod.

“I see.”

Akhan cackled after seeing the terror in the dragons’ eyes. However, the dragons did not care and only stepped away. Then, Akhan bowed to Asura.

“Are you the one that freed me?”

“Yes, that’s right. O’ noble one, the great Asura, I know what you wanted to achieve in the past.”

Akhan knew why Asura cut down tens of millions of people. This was because he wanted to exterminate all existences in this world.

“Even if you’re only here for a moment, please feel free to fulfill your dream of that time.”

Asura remained silent and only looked around nonchalantly. Asura saw the soldiers and knights trembling from fear, and a huge kingdom right behind them.

“What a joy,” Asura smiled strangely as three heads flashed and disappeared.

Gulp—

Genie gulped dryly. She wondered what the hell was going on in Akhan’s head. He was a complete and utter crazy bastard. Then, Asura took a step forward.

“Everyone stay on alert,” Genie ordered her guild members as all of them turned to look at Asura. The troops from Lumae Kingdom and the ones from Beyond the Heavens Kingdom all stopped what they were doing and looked vigilantly at Asura.

Prince Votto cried loudly, “Wh, what the hell are you doing?!! Our troops will die like that…!!!”

But before he could even finish his words, tens of thousands of skulls stretched out from Asura’s bloody red greatsword. The dark sky turned red like blood as tens of thousands of skeletons popped up from the ground. After that, Asura threw his greatsword towards the ground.

Thud—

Red buddhist beads that hung from the handle of the sword clacked together.

[Asura’s Realm.]

[Asura’s world of fighting and carnage has unfolded.]

A red stream extended from the greatsword and stretched out in a wave and devoured everyone.

Fwiiiiiiiiiish—

The soldiers and knights that were first devoured by the red stream collapsed on the ground with blood dripping down from their eyes, ears, mouths and noses.

“Heok?!”

“Hiiiiiiiik!”

While everyone was terrified, the bloody wave continued to spread and devour people.

Fwiiiish—

Fwiiiiiiiiiiish—

The troops continued to spurt out blood one after the other, collapsing on the ground. It swept away the knights and soldiers of Lumae Kingdom and even crept forward to the troops of Beyond the Heavens Kingdom.

[The Asura’s Realm has unfolded.]

[All of your stats will decrease by 20% and your movements will be restricted.]

[Asura’s great power has bound your body.]

[Your attack success rate as well as physical and magical defense will decrease by 30%.]

[The damage that you will receive is dependent on your resistance to abnormal status and conditions.]

“…!”

Genie and the guild members of Beyond the Heavens Kingdom all made eye contact. Amidst this gruesome war that spilt blood and dyed them red with it, all of them thought of only one thing.

‘Protect the NPCs!’

Then, as if to replace the greatsword that he threw earlier, Asura pulled out a new bloody red greatsword. And when Asura slashed his two greatswords towards Baroque Kingdom…

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

…Blood geysers exploded every eighty centimeters and rushed at the members of Beyond the Heavens Kingdom. On top of the tremendous force, the radius of the explosion was also around seven meters. The troops of Lumae Kingdom that were barely supporting their bodies were also swept away by the explosion, their bodies bursting gruesomely as their remains rained down from the skies.

This was Asura’s Field, a skill that triggered a tremendous force that was enough to bring down the thick walls of Baroque Kingdom and even have enough power to devour the capital that it protected.

Grrrrrrrrrr—

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang—

In just an instant, around 2,000 troops died. Asura was not a person that distinguished between allies and enemies. The dragons knew this part of him, that was why they backed off.

Meanwhile, the guild members of Beyond the Heavens Kingdom ran fast to protect their NPCs when they saw a force gathering at Asura’s greatswords. The moment Asura brandished his greatswords, six swordlights and gigantic bloody beads fired at everyone accurately as if they were homing bullets.

In the short moment that he was here, Asura had already figured out who the core figures of his enemies were. His power was fired directly at Conir, Elpis, Aruvel, and Cerberus. Seeing this, Locke immediately opened his arms and blocked the attack for Cerberus.

“Kids, run!!!”

“Grrrr!”

“Grrrr!”

“Grrrrr!”

Cerberus might laugh and joke around calling Locke as ‘ugly and pitiful’, but it had already recognized him as one of its owners. That was why it had to protect him, instead of being protected by Locke. So, Cerberus pushed Locke away, as the center head fired a white light that tried to extinguish the red bead.

However, it was useless. Even the leftmost head and the rightmost head fired streams of fire and ice but to no avail. The red bead still continued to push forward. All they could do was block it with their bodies.

“Graaaaaaa!”

“Kaeng! Kaeng, kaeng, kaeng!”

“Kiiiiiiiiiiiing!”

“These, these idiots…!”

The moment the red bead slammed and exploded in Cerberus’ body, it felt a powerful damage ravaging its body and tremendous pain that it had never experienced in its entire life.

Genie threw herself to protect Conir while Khan punched another with his fists. However, they were all shocked at the tremendous damage that the beads inflicted.

[Your HP has dropped below 10%.]

[More than 60% of your HP has disappeared in one go, you will lose consciousness for three seconds.]

Khan’s vision immediately turned blurry. It was just as Akhan said. This was truly the end for them.

***

Three seconds later, Khan shook his head and finally woke up from his fainted state. His head was still dizzy and he did not have any energy in his body. He was even dripping blood all over the place. All he could do was look around and assess the situation in front of him.

“You idiots! Why, why… you…!”

“Kiiiiing…”

“Kiiing… kiiiiing…”

Locke was hugging Cerberus as tears fell down his cheeks.

“Ge, Genie noona. Sorry. Conir is sorry… noona is hurting. Noona can’t be hurting!”

“Conir… Don’t cry…”

Genie, who had fallen on the ground, had lost her left arm. Even Aruvel was shocked to see Ascar and Mei Wei bleed profusely as they blocked the bead that came for him.

“Why… why…!”

“…Are you alright?” Ascar asked before finally losing consciousness.

Khan bit his lips as he looked at Elpis, who was behind him. Elpis looked like he had also suffered considerable damage from the attack just now.

“Why…!”

“Hey, Elpis,” Khan called out as he looked at Elpis with a smile. “You must survive.”

Then, Asura’s red beads began to soar into the skies once again. Seeing this, Khan thought that he had to stop this in one go. Contrary to his thoughts, his body could not move.

‘Potion… I don’t have any potions left…?’

There was no potion left. Khan had already used up all of the potion in his inventory. All he needed was a bottle of top-quality potion to recover 30% of his HP. If he had that, then he could block the attack one more time.

However, the red beads did not wait for them. In the end, it still flew towards them. Khan felt his head spin. All he could do was close his eyes in frustration as he tried to think of a way to protect Elpis.

‘I’m sorry, I can’t protect you.’

But then…

“Oy,” Someone briefly yet loudly called out to him.

Roll, roll, roll—

Then, something rolled in front of Khan. It was a bottle of top-quality potion. Khan raised his head and saw the guild master of Ares Guild, Ares, standing in front of him.

Ares was one of the top ranking fighters in the country alongside Beyond the Heavens Kingdom’s Khan. If Khan was known for his fists and punches, Ares was known for his kicks.

“Are you already sitting in frustration? That’s very unbecoming of you as my rival,” Ares said, his face expressionless as he stretched his hand out to Khan.

“Why…”

Ares looked back at the red bead with an ugly expression on his face, “Just because.”

When Khan looked around, he saw Iris Guild’s Callian protecting Genie while Avalon Guild’s GoM protected Locke. There were also Korea’s top rankers making their stand all over the place.

Khan could not understand the situation right now. All of them were known to be hostile and antagonistic towards their own guild. But…

Grab—

Khan grabbed Ares’ big and sturdy hands as he stood up and drank his potion.

Gulp, gulp, gulp—

Khan looked at the approaching red bead and said, “Oy—“

“…”

Ares looked back at Khan.

“—Thanks.”

Ares smirked and replied, “Damn you.”

Then, the two of them rushed forward and aimed for the flying red bead.