Chapter 76: End; Death dancing in the Masquerade (4) (2/2)
Yu Jitae sounded way too nonchalant that Wei Yan tilted his head with a sneer.
“An ant does not know the ways of a human. I don’t know what a random superhuman like you would know, but I would like to personally teach you.
“There’s a Grand Schema for me.
“It will take 15 days or so to restore the closed fissure. That is more than enough for us to raid Melissia, fulfill my wish, kill you, kill others and finish cleaning up.
“History will remember this as an unfortunate event. My surviving cadets of the Azure Dragon study group will be seen as victims, while also being commended as heros. And I will receive acknowledgement from my lord and be gifted with a tremendous power. Isn’t that awesome? Isn’t this a perfected Grand Schema?!”
His eyes were filled with madness, as he raised his voice.
“And you will be the one that marks the start of this Grand Schema. Isn’t that an honourable thing?”
Wei Yan’s eyes shot wide open, and the insanity of a demon that had been suppressed, exploded out in its instinctiveness. Matching that, an enormous amount of fragments of Hostility were conveyed to Vintage Clock.
“You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this day do you? For an extremely long period of time, I have controlled myself; control, control, control, control and controlled myself! All that effort! There’s no way alowlyhumancouldevendarecomprehendit!”
Perhaps because of all the fragments that had gathered in a short period of time, Wei Yan rose from his seat with exaggerated movements and threw his arms into the air.
“Ahh–! My lord Seirapuan! Yourfirstlivingsacrificewouldbegivenbyburningthebloodandskinofthisaccursedhuman,”
[[Hostility]’s Trace Fragment gathered: 34.5%…]
[The Authority, [Vintage Clock (EX)] has finished collecting all the Hostility of the other side of the Horizon from the target, [Wei Yan].]
“Yu Jitae–!!”
Wei Yan pointed at Yu Jitae with [Peace Invoker].
Suddenly, something smacked him on his face.
—–!
Due to an unknown jolt, Wei Yan flew backwards. His body ripped through the tent and didn’t stop even after breaking the shoulder segment of the operator’s armour that was hanging outside. Only after smashing through the walls of the underground dungeon and reaching the end of the room – the walls of the alternate dimension separating the worlds, did he fall on the ground.
It was an intense shock and despite him earning a physical body which could stand against disaster-ranked demons, his facial bones had been fractured, with one of his eyes exploding to nothingness.
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Crumbled on the ground, Wei Yan only came to his senses after a fair bit of time passed.
He couldn’t tell how much time had passed, and his body had trouble sensing what was around him. Black blood was oozing out of the seven orifices of his face.
In the corner of the dark dungeon with not a single trace of light, the first thing Wei Yan noticed was the odour unique to the habitats of monsters. Blinking his bleeding eye, Wei Yan faced the world with a hazy gaze.
Inside the dark sewage, an even darker shadow was gazing down at him. There was a scimitar hanging in his hand.
“Ha…… fuuckk.”
Since his mouth had been crushed, Wei Yan had to mumble his words.
“W… who aree you…”
“You woke up.”
The shadow approached him.
“Then get up, actor of this comic act.”
Coughing out black clots of blood, Wei Yan shook his head left and right. When he did so, more blood flowed out from his nose, ears and eyes.
Yu Jitae walked up and crouched down in front of him.
“I should have crushed you like this ages ago.”
With a dry voice, and a tone that resembled that of a broomstick dusting the earthy ground, the man was looking down at himself with an emotionless gaze.
In addition, there was this incomprehensible strength.
Who, in the world,
“Whoo, are youu…!!”
Squeezing everything he had inside his body, Wei Yan screamed viciously. His cracked voice desperately echoed across the sewers.
“There was no need to close the dungeon gates.”
“Whaat…?”
“I was going to destroy it anyway.”
It was hard to understand.
The fissure into the dungeon, was in the end a dimensional fissure. By paying a tremendous cost, it was possible to seal it for a short period of time, but the expression ‘destroy’ was not appropriate for it.
“The rats have entered the trap, so naturally it should be sealed tight.”
He threw something over to Wei Yan’s body.
“…”
After slowly coming to his senses, Wei Yan looked at the thing that had landed on top of his stomach.
It was a handheld radio transmitter.
– Buzz
Just in time, the transmitter received a signal.
– Urgent news! Urgent news!
A message arrived from the main command centre located at the entrance of the dungeon.
– The Grand Fissure, the dungeon entrance is crumbling down!
His voice sounded at least twice more astonished than before.
In that place near the entrance, there were puppets of the demons,
– The dimensional fissure is being destroyed!!
And at the same time, there were Yu Jitae’s puppets as well.
Only then did Wei Yan widen his remaining eye and look up at him. There was not a single human in the world that could destroy a dimensional fissure.
At the very least, that was what he thought until now, but if there was an exception…
“Ha, haha… huhaha…”
After realising something, Wei Yan laughed powerlessly.
They, the undetectables, had ‘one single enemy’.
The enemy had an unclear objective, mysterious ability, and a concealed strategy. He was the murderer of Prototype X; the murderer of Hasegawa. Despite those cases having shook the entire demon society, the enemy had not left a single trace behind.
“It was… you huh…”