Chapter 87: Hell Gate (2/2)

He didn’t have a clear grasp of what was happening now, but he knew well of the fact that he had to move right away.

“Break it! Destroy it! Sweep it all away!”

At Bandaizel’s yell, the demons began to move again.

Bandaizel spread out his large wings and spurred the chariot.

Jude and Lena split up to play their respective roles.

Lena was the only one who could stop the numerous monsters that were flocking towards the tower.

Thus, Jude’s role was naturally fixed.

“3 minutes.”

Round 1 against Bandaizel.

“Cordelia.”

Jude recited Cordelia’s name once again as if in prayer before he began moving. He flew towards Bandaizel who was charging straight towards the tower.

Black Dragon Cross Strike!

He showed off his strongest skill from the very beginning.

Bandaizel stopped his charge as the mighty black cross broke through the air. He swung his iron whip on the black cross that was rushing towards him.

Baaaang!

The black cross was instantly destroyed. In addition, the air was torn apart, and above the ground, flames rose along the trajectory of the whip.

A Named Demon.

An unsealed and powerful monster that just came out of hell.

The demon smiled.

He sighted Jude beyond the place where he destroyed the black cross.

“Hi.”

Jude said, and the monster went mad. He generated black waves that were like flames, and then charged towards Jude.

Crack!

The iron whip cracked through the air again.

And everything in its trajectory was destroyed.

Ruuuumble! Booom!

It wasn’t thunder. It was the sound of the buildings collapsing at once.

Jude kicked the ground. He ran through the rubble of the collapsing building.

‘Let’s focus on evasion.’

He had to act like Outboxer.

He had no chances of winning in a head-to-head confrontation. He had to fool the enemy with his mobility.

Faster.

A little faster!

Boom!

A huge hammer smashed the place where Jude had just stood.

Bandaizel had a warhammer on his right hand.

He was about 7 meters tall.

He was like a giant to Jude, but he was not slow.

Bang!

There was a loud noise again.

It was Jude this time. Rather than widening his distance from Bandaizel, he narrowed it down as he created a whirlwind and became a gale.

Running around wasn’t the only way to get its attention.

Hell’s Blood Slash.

The red sword slashed Bandaizel’s waist.

It was a shallow slash.

But the slash was enough to cause bleeding.

“You little rat!”

The enraged Bandaizel furiously shouted and turned around as he flung his whip towards Jude.

A sharp and fast attack.

His attack was inescapable.

Therefore, Jude did not avoid it. He did not deviate from the trajectory of the iron whip.

Crack!

The ground was destroyed.

But Jude wasn’t. He ignored the attack through the use of the Fairy Steps.

After the attack passed through him, he began sprinting.

“Baaastard!”

Bandaizel spread out his wings.

It was a fast action.

So Jude had to be faster.

Twenty-Four Gale Steps – Black Wind’s Advent.

A pitch-black wind blew.

The black wind moved between the buildings, breaking and splitting some of the buildings.

“Uoooh!”

Bandaizel raised his speed. His iron wind tore apart the space itself, and his angry roar shook the black wind as well as the air.

“Ack!”

The running Jude got thrown on the ground. He couldn’t completely avoid the wave-like attack, so he rolled on the floor and Bandaizel appeared in front of Jude, swinging down his hammer at that moment.

Boom!

He rolled and avoided it.

But once was his limit.

When Bandaizel flung his iron whip again, he had now way of escaping this time.

The iron whip cracked through the air.

It rushed to turn Jude into a pool of blood.

He had already used the Fairy Steps.

So he had to use something else.

He had to avoid the attack somehow.

What should I do?

There was no time.

The Black Dragon Cross Strike took too much time.

It was impossible to avoid the iron whip that struck the surroundings by a few steps.

What should I do then?

How do I do it?

In that moment.

In that crack of time.

Jude calculated.

No, he didn’t calculate it.

At that moment, he felt it instinctively like Cordelia.

It was new and strange to him.

It was such a short time, but he was able to think in that moment.

It was even possible to recite the mnemonic chant.

So Jude acted.

He added the mnemonic chant of the Ninth Heaven’s Nine Doors to the Thirty-Six World Steps, not the Twenty-Four Gale Steps.

Just as the Holy Cross Punch advanced to the Black Dragon Cross Strike, it gave new power to the Thirty-Six World Steps.

And the result…

Baaaaang!

It was like thunder.

The fearsome iron whip struck and swept the surrounding area, destroying everything.

But Bandaizel couldn’t smile.

His face was distorted.

Because not everything was destroyed.

There was a man who stood alive amidst the storm of fearsome destruction.

Jude was standing.

He didn’t move far away.

He stood on the spot where he originally stood.

The Thirty-Six World Steps was a footwork skill that defended the user by evading attacks that came from all directions.

Moreover, the power of the Ninth Heaven’s Nine Doors was added.

Thus, Jude was able to escape.

No matter how violent the iron whip’s attack was, in the end, it was an attack that created a single line.

If he could pinpoint the direction in which that line landed, he could completely avoid that single line.

With the Thirty-Six World Steps, it became possible to fly in any direction continuously and deviate from the trajectory of the whip’s attack.

Thus, he finally avoided the attack itself.

“Ugh.”

Jude roughly breathed. Subsequently, blood flowed down from his lips, and his legs shook before he collapsed onto the ground.

‘It’s still too much.’

He couldn’t handle it properly.

Avoiding the attack was a miracle in itself.

Bandaizel was bewildered.

But he soon regained his reason.

It was true that Jude made a miraculous move, but he was now seated on the ground.

“Die.”

A cliché line.

The sitting Jude panted as he saw the enemy’s hammer, but he remained on the ground.

He recited the name of a person.

“Cordelia.”

It was time.

Three minutes had passed.

The tower began to shine.

Bandaizel realized it too.

He didn’t know that an immense amount of power was concentrated on the tower.

But he didn’t care.

He was in a hurry to kill Jude who was right in front of him.

He didn’t make the mistake of looking at the tower.

He just consistently held the hammer.

He wanted to strike and crush the enemy in front of him.

That was the right thing to do.

This was his iron rule that had saved his life many times.

But that was why Bandaizel didn’t see it.

The approach of a woman who valued Jude’s life more than the closing of the Hell Gate.

Instead of activating the magic circle as soon as she gained Endymion’s power, the woman rushed to the ground with clenched fists.

“Jude!”

Boom!

There was a roar.

Bandaizel was forced to look back, but it was already late at that time. An intangible force that was so powerful struck Bandaizel and blew him away.

Craaaaash!

The giant Bandaizel rolled on the ground and crashed into a building.

And Cordelia didn’t care.

Her whole body was covered with a pure and white light, and she landed next to Jude.

“Hey! Are you okay? Hey!”

“I’m okay, I’m okay.”

He was grateful for her concern, but it was rather difficult to breathe because she pulled on his collar.

“The seal, quickly…”

Jude said as he held Cordelia’s hand.

He was thankful that she ran to save him, but she had to hurry to close the Hell Gate.

Endymion’s power could be maintained for a few seconds at most. She also had to go back to the tower and activate the magic circle of the Heavenly Seal that Lena installed on the top floor of the tower.

However, it was before Jude could finish what he wanted to say.

Bandaizel stood up again.

At the same time he got up, he sent off a powerful air wave, and Cordelia hurriedly waved her hand to stop him.

Boooom!

There was a terrible loud sound, and Cordelia swallowed her scream. Because Endymion’s power was too strong.

If she continued maintaining that power, Cordelia herself would be destroyed.

Jude figured it out too.

So he tried to speak again, but Cordelia was faster.

She suddenly made a charming smile and said as she looked straight at Jude.

“Hey.”

“Yes?”

“Do you trust me?”

What is she talking about all of a sudden?

At the moment when Jude made a confused expression, the blown away Bandaizel broke the rubble of the building and stood up again.

There was no time now.

Jude stared at Cordelia.

Cordelia was looking at Jude herself with a smile that showed her front teeth.

As he stared at those blue eyes, Jude nodded.

“I trust you.”

“Then I’ll do it. Luke will take care of Kaplan, so don’t worry about him.”

“Huh?”

That was it. Cordelia didn’t talk about it anymore.

She was going to do it.

Jude trusted her, so she would do it.

Cordelia stood straight and looked at Bandaizel.

She spoke to him and Jude at the same time.

“I figured it out while I was looking at the map on the tower. There was a dragon vein flowing under here too, you know?”

A flowing dragon vein.

What do you mean all of a sudden?

Why all of a sudden-

He understood.

He realized it.

So Jude jumped up and shouted.

“Hey! Hey!”

No! Hey! No way! Hey!

But it was too late.

He already said that he trusted her.

“The second way to close the Hell Gate.”

And that was to destroy the place where the Hell Gate had opened.

“As a bonus, the demons are also defeated.”

Bandaizel still couldn’t comprehend it.

Instead of stopping Cordelia, Jude gave up and closed his eyes.

And Cordelia ferociously smiled as her teeth shined. She gathered all of Endymion’s power and created a before stabbing it into the ground.

The power of Endymion hit the dragon vein.

And what occurred because of it.

The stuff that was done by Cordelia.

“F*ck bang.”

The moment Cordelia gracefully spoke.

The dragon vein runaway along with a tremendous roar.

The last day of the underground city of Endymion had begun.