## Chapter 1046 – The One With Many Questions

What flowed in through Vugal wasn’t just the power of a Great Demon. It was… yes. Andromalius’s boundless curiosity. That curiosity was partially absorbed by Vugal, and the sword’s transformation soon affected its owner.

“KIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!”

The endless desire for knowledge flowing through the sword…!

Unbearable questions surged through my grip, shaking my very core!!!

ㅡI’m so curiousssssss!!!
ㅡIt’s a land of curiosity, dejaaaaaaa!!!
ㅡI suddenly want to watch something a little risqué!!!!!

Thoughts flooded my mind…!

Is this really what a Great Demon is like?

That bastard Belial I sliced up last time was too weakened to have anything, but the true power of a Great Demon was this! An energy strong enough to corrupt Vugal, a pure, clean, and righteous life-saving sword, in an instant!

“Why can you usurp power!!! Answer Andromalius’s question!!!!”

Even with a sword plunged into his chest, he roared with madness, as if confirming the phenomenon caused by Vugal was more important than anything else. Soon, he was firing off his arms in a fit of rage.

Too late, you bastard.

ㅡThwack!

“Kuaaaagh!!!”

I poured mana into the hilt of Vugal, pushing it in hard, and his chest exploded, sending him flying. He’s still struggling even with a sword stuck in his chest.

ㅡThud!

Unable to withstand the impact, Andromalius stumbled back, regaining his balance with practiced ease.

ㅡWham!!!

I kicked off the ground again to resolve my questions… I have to ask! I have to ask! I need to hear all the questions this bastard can answer right now! If he dies, the opportunity is gone! These bizarre impulses, which didn’t feel like my own, seized my mind, but there was no time to shake them off, and I decided to ignore them since I could control them perfectly.

“Biseeeeeeeeeeeeeeok!!!”

ㅡAbout the Stele!!!

The flames of the sword blazed even more intensely, burning fiercely and scattering. As if representing my curiosity.

“What the hell is that black stele!!!! It seemed to be used to open these Demon Gates, Andromalius!! You would know what the stele is, right!!! That black stele with unknown characters inscribed on it!!!”

ㅡThump!

Andromalius, slamming on the brakes, surrounded his fists with a black aura, forming claw shapes, and swung his arms like a nimble boxer.

ㅡWham!!!

Vugal and his fist collided.

Being pushed back by force?
That’s impossible for me.

“Tell me the identity of the stele, Great Demon!”
“Kuooooooo!!!”

I deflected his fist with force, lunged into his space to stab him again, but ㅡThump! He stepped back and blocked my attack with a follow-up strike from his other hand.

ㅡThump!

As the attack was blocked, I kicked off the ground, drawing a crescent moon as I sprinted to get behind him. Just as I was about to rotate my body and slice his calf with all my might.

ㅡKhaaaaaaaang!!

He also turned his body and brought down both fists to defend against my strike. The crater created on the ground was quite menacing in size.

“Krrr…”

ㅡWhoosh.

The bastard, creating flames of darkness from his fist embedded in the ground.

“What the hell is that stele!!!!”

ㅡKhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

He roared and raised his hands in the air.

“Andromalius asks!!! What is that stele!!! Did you know why the gates were opened!!!”
“What!!!”

This bastard!!!!

“What is the stele!!! Tell me now!!!”
“You little shit!!! You’re the one who should be telling me, you fucker!!!”
“I’ll get it out of you by force!!!”
“I’m the one asking, damn it!!!”

What does he mean, he’ll get it out of me by force!!!

I can’t understand!!!
I feel like I’m going crazy!!!

ㅡWhoosh!

The bastard, who had been gathering energy, struck down fiercely with his fist.

ㅡKhaaaaaaang!!!!!

The massive fist collided with the ground once again, and hundreds of lightning bolts struck down, while dozens of pillars of fire soared up.

“This bastard specializes in AoE attacks!!!”

Of course, I dodge them all! The initial strike is simply avoided with a backstep, the subsequent lightning with footwork. I just need to see the signs and move away from the rising pillars of fire.

But!!!

Even though I dodged!!!

“My curiosity hasn’t been satisfieddddddddd!!!”

ㅡDejaaaaaaaa!!!

“Stele!!! What the hell is that stele!!! Tell me, human!!!”

A land of curiosity.

No.

In a backdrop that had become a hell of curiosity, Andromalius fired his massive body like a cannonball and charged at me.

“Why!! Why don’t you know, why! Why! Why!!! Why don’t you know!!!!”
“Please tell me!!!! Tell me before Andromalius tears you apart!!!!”
“I’m the one asking, you bastarddddd!!!!”
“You human!!! Please resolve my questions!!!!!!!!”

It wasn’t an attack or anything.

It was just a longing person reaching out to me. To ask me what I wanted to ask, and then go into a fit, this bastard was indeed a curious friend.

“Why…!”

I felt tears welling up in my eyes.

Is this what it feels like… to not be able to satisfy one’s curiosity?

In that hazy gaze. I reached out to Andromalius, who was charging at me with his arms outstretched, as if trying to embrace me.

“Why…! Why doesn’t even a Great Demon know about the stele…! Then did the Lich try to open the gate with a stele that even Andromalius doesn’t know about!!”
“Why don’t you know it!!!! Khuaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! If you don’t know, who does!!!”
“Heretics.”

Is it… only the heretics who know this?

The Great Demon before my eyes couldn’t resolve my questions.

ㅡWhoosh.

The knot of unresolved curiosity gathers in my grip. The tears stopped. The haziness and longing all disappeared. Instead, what filled the void was extreme concentration and a desire for destruction.

Why must I destroy?

The incompetent Great Demon who can’t resolve my questions and curiosity.
ㅡBecause I won’t forgive him.

This was the perspective of this Great Demon of curiosity. He pities those who cannot resolve his questions, while also fervently wishing to destroy them all. It was as explosive as his thirst for knowledge. This unique perspective of the Great Demon broadened my vision.

In that widened vision, I saw the end of the wall that formed my limits.

ㅡGooooo.

In the turbulent world, I held the realization from just now in my hand.

“Ghoul Blood Demonic Severing Palm.”

Adding the Nine Heavens Extinction Killing Fist to it.

“Annihilation Calamity Demonic Mara Palm.”

Furthermore, mixing the Light Heaven Demonic Mara Fist into it.

ㅡSqueeze.

Clenching my outstretched fist.
I grasp a fragment of power that will shatter the heavens.

“Heretic!!!! Did you just say heretic!!!! What context did that come from…! Andromalius commands you!!!”

When Andromalius, who had been charging, reached me.

“Tell meㅡ”

I imbue the ultimate techniques of fist and palm.

“ㅡHeavenly Demon Shattering Sky Palm.”

The world stops.

“…!”

The fist that shot out.

ㅡCrack crack crack…!

Shatters Andromalius’s arms as it advances.

“Th, this is…!”

ㅡThwackaaaaaaaang!!!!!

At the same time, the launched Heavenly Demon Shattering Sky Palm shattered space and annihilated Andromalius’s waist. Not only that, but the fist, stretching out even further, pierced through the pillars of darkness and black lightning scattered behind him, as well as all kinds of trees and rocks. And the terrain itself.

Heavenly Demon Kim Kat’s victory.

“Now, you’re going to be the thinking chair, Andromalius.”
“Th, this Andromalius is a thinking chair…!”

Become the chair you created.

“I can’t accept it!!!!!!!!”

ㅡKiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!

At the moment of his roar, Andromalius, separated into upper and lower body, did not fall to the ground. A dense aura of darkness momentarily dwelled in his body.

ㅡFwoosh!

From behind his back. Massive, black wings sprouted, befitting the title of Great Demon. With wings, Andromalius had nothing to fear.

Just once.

With just one flap of his wings.

ㅡSwoosh!

He soared high into the sky.

“Hey, you crazy bastard, where are you going!!!!!!”
“Where should Andromalius go!!! More importantly, humaaaaaan!!! What is this thing you call a heretic!!!”

Even then, the bastard, fixated on the word heretic I had mentioned, shouted madly.

ㅡSwish.

It was at that moment that Cloudi, who had been sucking in the atmosphere somewhere, appeared as a flash of purple light.

ㅡChwazazazazak!!!

Her elegant and beautiful strike, firing her body by consuming mana from her entire body as if exploding, passed through, severing not only Andromalius’s wing roots but also his neck.

“Keuheok…!”

That was the end.

The lower body left on the ground, the severed wings, and the upper body without a head all melted into a liquid like black tar.

ㅡSplatter!

The Great Demon’s head fell there.

The fallen Andromalius sank into the black swamp that was originally his body, babbling in an unknown language and chattering his mouth. Long ago. In Greece, there was a man named Erysichthon. Cursed by a goddess and reduced from a human to a mere denture castanet, he was said to have made a chattering sound by clashing his teeth forever.

His terrible end was right before my eyes.

“…”

At the same time, I felt the pounding of my heart.

ㅡThump…!
ㅡThump!

What would happen if I plunged Vugal in here right now?

ㅡVrrrr…!

Vugal vibrated more intensely than ever, urging me to resolve the question immediately. Violently, like a vibrating dildo in a hot hole urging an orgasm. To absorb the power of that giant demon right now. And to make himself an even more powerful being.

And to obtain the authority of these questions and curiosities.

ㅡQuickly… quickly!!! What would happen if you absorbed that!!!
ㅡI have to resolve this question…!
ㅡGet it now, friend!!! Aren’t you curious about what will happen!!!

The cries I heard.

“Don’t order me!!!!!!”

I shook it off.

ㅡGah!!!!!!!!!!

I immediately scolded Vugal and plunged Vugal into the ground.

ㅡThump!

By absorbing a portion of the Great Demon Andromalius’s power into Vugal just now, I opened the horizon of the sensation of curiosity. And from there, I activated the incomplete Heavenly Demon Shattering Sky Palm with the bursting rage.

It was, yes.

Good.

“A sword cannot control me!!!”

Do you think I’ll be devoured by that power!!!

“I control the sword!!! Don’t mistake that, Vugal!!! Even this insane curiosity will eventually melt away within me and turn into my power! Nothing can change this invulnerable Heavenly Demon!!!”

Then, the Great Demonic desire to resolve the curiosity and questions that had been raging until just now. The obsession. And the contamination of beliefs and ideologies were cleanly burned away, leaving only pure power.

In that state, I slowly walked and stepped on the remains of Andromalius.

ㅡSplatter.

And said.

“Think about it, Andromalius. Human heretics tried to use that stele. They tried to open the Demon Gate using that stele. Above those heretics is an ancient Lich, and that ancient Lich is currently cooperating with a demon.”

My predictions about what I’ve learned so far.

“…”

But Andromalius was silent.

“…This is what I’ve found out. Do you know more? Can you resolve this question?”

We were destined to never be able to resolve this question together.

“End… endless questions devour my consciousness.”

A faint voice.

“I can’t think anymore. Andromalius’s ego is collapsing… Why? Why is it collapsing? There’s nothing I can know. The answer. Tell me the answer. What happened to me? Am I going to become a chair like this?”

ㅡBubbling.

He poured out powerless last words while submerged in his own bodily fluids.

“Why the gate opened… Someone, please tell me. Please… Please… Human… Do you know…”

ㅡGurgle.

That was the end.

The light disappeared from the bastard’s eyes, which had been burning red.

“That’s what I want to ask you, you fucker.”

Didn’t you know anything, you bastard.

“Hey, hey! Did you win!!!”
“He’s standing over there!! Are you okay!”
“Kat…”

Then, I heard Karin and Liztina’s voices from behind. I turned around. Karin was running over with Cloudi in her arms in a princess carry, and Liztina was running alongside her.

“Oh.”

Faces that recharge my energy just by looking at them.

But behind them.

“…”

The terrain had long since changed. There were no plains, no trees, no cliffs, no hills, nothing. There were only craters spread out endlessly. The massive amount of great magic that had poured down earlier had shattered the terrain itself.

“Yeah… I won. Look at this.”
“You did so well, you bastard!!!”
“You won!!”

Karin, who had come closer, put Cloudi down, and I supported her.

“Cloudi, are you okay?”
“Yeah. I’m fine except for being a little tired. Haa… Still, you did very well. You won like this?”
“Hehe, it was a little tough. Ah, can you stand? Stay still.”
“It’s okay. No problem.”

Anyway, I looked at Andromalius’s corpse with her and the others, who were rejoicing.

ㅡ…

Only his head remained.

I could feel it. The power of the Great Demon Andromalius was contained in that head. If I took that, I could use it as evidence, and if I plunged Vugal into it, I could absorb that power into the sword.

Either way is fine.

As I thought that.

ㅡSwish.
ㅡTzz, tzzzzzzzz.

Suddenly, something like a black soul seeped out from Andromalius’s six eyes.

The smoke that seeped out gathered into a sphere-like shape.

What the hell?

“Huh? Hey! You, this!! What are you going to do with this! What do we do, damn it!”
“Oh shit!!! What do we do, Unni!!”

Suddenly a soul is flowing out here?
Then I have no choice but to absorb it!

ㅡ…

Eventually, the black soul-like thing of Andromalius, which had formed a sphere like a wisp, floated up. And then, very slowly. It flew towards the right. I don’t know what it is, but I guess I have to do this after all.

“Well.”

With no other choice, I grabbed Vugal, which I had plunged into the ground, and tried to follow it.

ㅡSwish.

From the right direction that Andromalius was trying to go, a group suddenly appeared. Ah, is this the Royal Knights who arrived late after seeing the commotion of the battle? Or the Holy Knights? Anyway, that’s good. I’ll just show them for a moment that I killed the Great Demon. It’s perfect timing.

“Huh?”

I only thought that for 1 second.

“Huh? Hey. That.”
“Wait a minute. That… that’s that time…!”

And.

“What the heck?”

What appeared was.

“No, what the hell are these bastards.”

It wasn’t the Royal Knights or the Holy Knights.

ㅡClatter, clatter.
ㅡClang. Clang.
ㅡClatter.

Familiar faces.

They were ominous undead warriors wearing black armor.

ㅡDeath Knights.

“Krrr…!”
“Ghueee…”
“Krrrlrrrk!!”

A group of fifteen Death Knights, burning with red eyes, was approaching us.

“What the hell are these bastards! More importantly, don’t pose, you little shits!!!”