Chapter 408 (1/2)
Shu-wuwuwu…
The illusion soon disappeared.
The light gleaming in Su-hyeun’s eyes deepened, but it wasn’t because he was simply thinking about how to answer that question of whether he could win or not.
He was currently calculating what might happen if he battled against the version of Fafnir he saw just now.
He could wage a war of numbers using his Death Aura and use attacks that relied on the divine Flame, the Palm Leaf, amplification through the Explosion Style, as well as various magic circles. As for defense, he could rely on the Somersault cloud, as well as various skills that enhanced his magic resistance, and even the Immortality skill that gave him the cushion of regeneration.
If he relied on every single one of them, then…
“I’m not sure,” Su-hyeun shook his head.
This was the conclusion he arrived at after thinking about it with a cool head all the while leaving out his emotions.
“Honestly speaking, I’m not confident of it.”
It was as the Bull Demon King said.
He had no reason to feel that he had missed his chance just because the Yogoe decided to prevent Fafnir’s invasion. On the contrary, Su-hyeun should bow his head to express his heartfelt thanks to the Bull Demon King for stepping in.
It’s not that he saw himself losing. However, the odds of him emerging victorious didn’t seem all that high, either.
Besides, even if he defeated the Predator, that would also present another problem on its own.
He recalled the battle between the Bull Demon King and Fafnir.
If Su-hyeun had to fight such a battle for one full day, then without a doubt, half of planet Earth would be laid to waste.
“It might end up as a situation where winning isn’t a win at all,” he thought.
Su-hyeun’s quest for vengeance against Fafnir wasn’t as simple as getting even. No, his quest was to ensure that the future he knew—the destroyed world—would not happen again.
But now, the potential battle against Fafnir had become a serious problem that could easily destroy the world Su-hyeun called home.
Even if he won, Earth would be destroyed. No, wait—maybe it wouldn’t be complete destruction, but still, the planet would no doubt suffer a devastating impact close to utter annihilation nonetheless.
Having considered all of these, he was left with two choices now.
“Either I fight that bastard in a different realm or kill him most overwhelmingly.”
It could very well be that the Bull Demon King foresaw this, and that was why he dragged Fafnir to another planet before the Predator had a chance to reach Earth.
“That creature is not something you can deal with right now. But paradoxically, he is also the one you must deal with by yourself.”
Those words came across as hard to grasp; to do so was like trying to catch floating clouds. But Su-hyeun had no choice but to accept them.
The Bull Demon King’s eyes could see through the “truth,” allowing him to peek at the blurry visions of the future. According to such an individual’s opinion, the role of killing Fafnir did belong to none other than Su-hyeun.
Squeeze…!
He tightly clenched his fists again, but the emotions that caused him to do this were different from the frustration and anger directed at the Bull Demon King earlier.
“I’m not strong enough.”
The Ten Great Evils were the third-strongest rank for the most dangerous Predators in all of the realms out there. That indicated that a creature belonging to this rank would surely possess strength that easily surpassed the average highest-tier gods.
Indeed, it was as exactly as the Bull Demon King implied: Su-hyeun was simply not strong enough.
“How much time did you buy for me, First Brother?”
Only now did he fully realize the Bull Demon King’s true intention.
The Yogoe prevented Fafnir from coming to Earth because Su-hyeun still didn’t possess enough strength to kill Fafnir, but the Bull Demon King certainly did.
Maybe that was the reason why the Bull Demon King chose to stop Fafnir since he was fully aware of this situation.
“Do you believe it’s doable simply because you now have extra time?”
“It’s not? Then what?”
“Come with me, then. There is a place we should go to.”
Right after he said that, the Bull Demon King seemingly vanished from the spot.
Su-hyeun also followed after him. Of course, to the eyes of Lee Ju-ho who had been cautiously observing the interaction of the two from the corner of the tea room, it did look like they had vanished into thin air.
“What on earth is going on here?” Lee Ju-ho muttered to himself with a confused face after he failed to understand those two’s conversation.
He had been carefully preparing the boxes of tea bags to hand over to the Bull Demon King, but the two of them had finished their chat in that brief time and suddenly vanished from his view.
Not only that but while chatting loudly enough for Lee Ju-ho to eavesdrop on everything, too.
“B—but what about your interview?! And I’ve already got the tea ready, too…Hmm?” Lee Ju-ho looked at the gift of tea bags in his hand.
He was thinking that something felt rather empty for some reason, but when he took a look, the boxes of tea bags that should have been in his hand were all gone.
“Huh?”
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Swhooooosh—
Su-hyeun continued to chase after the Bull Demon King.
The Yogoe traveled hundreds of meters with every step. Even though he looked leisurely and unhurried as if he was out strolling, he remained far ahead of Su-hyeun who was quickly dashing forward.
“That’s the famed Earth Shrink Technique?”
The “Earth Shrink Technique” was like a magic spell that “folded the land” to move rapidly forward, and it was quite similar to space-movement skills that Su-hyeun knew.
If there was one clear difference between them, then while the awakeners would need quite a lot of magical energy and preparation time to activate those skills, the Bull Demon King could freely move around on the folded space.
It was as if he was performing teleportation with every step he took.
Bang—
The Bull Demon King stepped on the air and went up. Su-hyeun used Leap to follow after him. And so, as they continued upward, they saw a small “heat haze” ahead of them.
Giii-iiing…
It was purple.
Su-hyeun froze up and came to a stop right there. However, the Bull Demon King stepped inside the haze without any hesitation whatsoever.
“Is that a dungeon?” Su-hyeun thought.
Although its size was small, it had to be a dungeon, a purple one at that. It was the same thing as the dungeon with the highest difficulty where Fafnir was supposed to show up from.
“Aren’t you coming in?” the Bull Demon King said from the inside.
Su-hyeun hesitated slightly before also entering the purple haze. When he did, a completely different world to Earth revealed itself to him.
And it happened to be the same purple dungeon he had conquered not too long ago.
“Isn’t this place…? But how…?”
“This way.”
Su-hyeun turned his head toward the Bull Demon King’s voice. That was when he discovered yet another purple-colored heat haze over there. The Bull Demon King stepped inside it, so Su-hyeun also went through it.
This time, he was taken to yet another familiar scenery. “Isn’t this…?”
Lots of craters of varying sizes were pockmarking seemingly everywhere, the land was cracked and broken, and the skies above were pitch-black.
“Yes, it’s the place where I fought that creature,” the Bull Demon King began his explanation. “And also, this is a dead world. A world that lost its power…It will gradually lose its form and crumble to dust.”
Pah-susu…