## Chapter 1277 – An Extremely Ominous Being

It’s not like I hadn’t considered this possibility.

Flesh Golems.

Evil Giants in the basement.

Vile Abominations, and so on.

The heretics were always creating something, like kids playing in the sand. Of course, that wasn’t evidence of any remaining childhood innocence. No, they were making weapons of mass destruction.

Weapons called the Undead.

Zombies. Skeletons. Ghouls. And Death Knights.
They made so many.

Maybe this thing in front of me is the *ultimate* one.

The ancient lich surely knows what I know. Just as I unearthed and devoured a shard of God, making it my power, he likely used it as well.

Isn’t that right?

The lich bastard has ancient knowledge.

If this Dark Knight is a Death Knight created with a shard of God… it makes sense. The immense power I feel from him now.

“My sharp insight has pierced your identity. Yes. You too possess a shard of God. Probably a shard of an evil god.”
“…”

I don’t really know what the difference between an evil god and a good god is at this point, but this definitely feels like the power of an evil god. Because this power was denying the very concept of life to an almost fanatical degree.

“Why aren’t you talking? Getting nervous now that you’ve been found out?”
“…”

—Shaaaaa.

In an instant, he unleashed his power.

—An extremely ominous and powerful energy.

Too embarrassed to answer with words? What a spineless bastard. I matched him by deploying my own power. Pushing back his impure energy.

—Mind Like Still Water.

My chilled mind endlessly analyzes his power.

Armor. Not ordinary. It’s a monster in itself. The sword is the same. It’s not just magic enchanted. It’s a nightmare beast that merely takes the form of a weapon.

Abilities? Various power-ups or magic projectiles, probably. I don’t know the power. But I need to hammer into my head that he has three or four unconventional and special trump cards. A bizarre, unconventional attack that surpasses my imagination could come at a decisive moment.

Of course, that’s not all.

Each of the things that seem to be his accessories are all like that.

—Deeng… Deeeeeng…

That bell ringing endlessly behind me… honestly, I still don’t know what it is. But if there’s any equipment he has that’s the most dangerous, it’s that.

And all I have is this light casual wear and Vিউgall, with only the hilt left. The conditions are the worst. So, how should I kill this bastard? I’m at a disadvantage since I entered the barrier, but, yeah. That’s enough.

I’ll tear you to shreds.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. No matter how strong you are. The moment you stood before me, you were as good as dead. Killing a guy who’s already died and come back to life is the best. Let’s go. Let’s go back to where you belong. To that hot hell that’s your precious family’s home.”

—Whirr.

First, it’s a probing battle.
I can’t know how strong his power is.

More than anything, I need to figure out what those cash items he’s wrapped in are before starting a full-scale fight.

Then.

“Arrogant. Presumptuous… utterly foolish.”

He said that in an ominous tone.

“A piece of trash who doesn’t even have the qualifications. Don’t you think you’re being too arrogant for someone just wielding power obtained by relying on luck?”
“Hehehe, this bastard’s been consumed by fear and gone crazy, you crazy black bastard.”

This bastard sensed his own fate and completely lost it, it seems.

Well, that’s only natural.

He has to face this God of Destruction, Kim Kat, from now on, so going crazy is the bare minimum. The next stage is sitting down, tearing at his hair, and crying.

“Are you that afraid of me? Yeah. Try to erase your fear that way. That’s the only chance you have left.”
“…”
“Of course, even if you face your fear. You have no chance. Even if you gain more transcendent power after countless years. There is no victory for you. Only eternal defeat exists. Kim Kat, standing before you, is that kind of being.”

To me.

You’re just insignificant.

“More than that, you’re pretty good at talking. Are you really a Death Knight?”
“…”

He shut his mouth like he’d swallowed a fly.

—Deeeeeng.
—Deeeeeeeeng.

Only the bell behind him continued to ring.

“…He’s gone mad. Couldn’t handle the power?”
“You’re the one who needs to accept reality. Going crazy before a battle. I’ve never seen such a childish bastard. A nobody like you isn’t even good enough for stew meat, you bastard.”
“…”

Silence descended.

“…As expected. All the trash must be cleared away. For the salvation of this world.”
“What? Salvation? What are you saying like you’re posing, heretic.”

Looking at this bastard, he’s just spouting nonsense. What does he mean? Well, there’s plenty of time to think. After the victory.

So, I’m just gauging the optimal attack timing.

“I killed hundreds of your friends with these hands.”
“…”

But.

—There’s less of an opening than I thought.

I can’t get a good sense of which way to go or how to launch a preemptive strike. I’m judging that if I go in lightly, I’ll get hit by that ridiculous greatsword. Aim for a counter? No… I don’t know what kind of power those cash items he has possess.

It’s rare for this Kim Kat to be thinking like this.

That’s how intense it is.

“They all died screaming… I think your dad was among them. Yeah. That’s right. That was your dad back then. I killed him while tearing him to shreds. It was a masterpiece. The sight of his shattered head resembled you now. It’s clear. Crap, you bastards. Father and son are just like two peas in a pod.”
“…”

I probe for his opening while provoking him with appropriate words.

He definitely ignored me and spat out insults. That means he has emotions. He’s not an ordinary Death Knight. He’s a Dark Knight. And one under the command of a lich. Judging from the circumstances, he’s a guy who worships the lich as a savior.

He has reason and ego.

Provocation might work on a guy like that.

—Patzutzutzut.

Did the provocation work?

Purple flames erupt from his entire body, his sword, and the bell behind him. I felt an amazing power from those flames. Can he amplify his power like that?

It felt like the opening that didn’t exist was completely disappearing.

—Whirr.

That’s the true power.

“Ah, but I found corpses in a nearby village. They all looked like they had been sucked dry and killed.”
“I killed them.”

The Dark Knight, engulfed in flames, said confidently.

“You killed them? What’s the reason?”
“Everything is.”

—Cheok.

The guy who raised the greatsword as big as his body.

“Only.”

While taking a stance.

“For salvation and deliverance.”

He mentions salvation again.

I’m so dumbfounded. This crazy bastard is spouting this nonsense so confidently. Is this that? Is death salvation? I know the heretics are all crazy bastards, but I wish they would at least know what they’re doing.

Cognitive dissonance has its limits.

“Hehehe, foolish black bastard. Salvation and deliverance are not something a guy like you can even mention.”
“…Yeah. I certainly don’t have the qualifications.”
“What?”

For a moment, I couldn’t help but raise my eyebrows at that voice that seemed to be tinged with sorrow.

“Someone like me doesn’t have the right to call himself a savior.”
“What… what obvious nonsense?”

I’m seeing a guy say that eating makes you full in this way for the first time.

“But that person… only that person is the true savior of our humanity. Only that person can speak of salvation and deliverance.”

The lich.

He said he was posing as a savior.

This bastard’s been thoroughly brainwashed.

“Did the savior of humanity tell you to kill the people in the village?”
“…”
“Why can’t you talk, you fucking bastard.”
“A guy like you… could never understand that person’s noble sacrifice.”
“It seems like the villagers made the sacrifice, not that bastard?”
“…Shut up.”
“Look at this bastard telling me to shut up because he has nothing to say. You’re not right in the head… I’ll kill you and that lich too.”
“I will not allow that person’s grand plan to be ruined. And I will not tolerate anyone who interferes.”

At that moment.

“That is the reason for my existence.”

The space.

Split.

—Swaaaaaaaaaaak!!!

While recognizing all of that, I accurately aimed and fired a Heavenly Demon Destruction Palm at the giant blade that was tearing through space.

「—Tu-Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!」

Blunt.

Heavy.

At the same time, a transcendent impact covers my fist. I saw the blade that collided with my fist bounce off. The bones in my fist are fine. Blood splattered, but that’s it.

“Oh my fucking god!!!”

But holy shit, I’m flying away like a homerun ball!!! I bounced the blade off, but I got blown away in one hit!!!

—Swaaaaaaaak!

Just as I was about to deploy my wings and land.

“What the Savior-nim ordered me to do is.”

Without any preparation. The Dark Knight, who was tidying up the sword that had been bounced off, rushed towards me as if he was fast-forwarding.

「—Swaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!」

The blade of the greatsword falling like a meteor. Landing? I’ll get split in half if I do that. Giving that up, I aimed my foot at the falling blade instead.

“Heavenly Demon Descent Step.”

I unleash the Heavenly Demon Descent Step.

—Kwaaaaaaaaang!!!

An exploding flash.

—Chijijijijijik!!

His blade was blocked by my foot. But, at the same time, I endured all that impact with my body and slammed into the ground.

—…!

With my back…! I landed! Pain that twisted my insides assailed me, but this is no time to whine. —Phat! I immediately flipped my body over to pull it out in order to avoid a follow-up attack.

—Kwagagagagagagang!!!

The tip of the greatsword is slammed into the place where I was lying just a moment ago. —Kwang! I immediately kicked off the ground and shot my body backwards. This bastard’s speed is beyond imagination.

“To lure you out, kill you, and recover that power.”

—Teudeuk.

He said that while pulling out the greatsword stuck in the ground.

“I will eliminate obstacles for the sake of humanity.”

Was this whole thing set up to lure me out?
He completely identified me.

“…This bastard.”
“Die, foolish destroyer.”

—Hwaak!!!

The only thing the guy who pulled out his sword can do is launch the next attack. The guy who drew a large circular trajectory with the greatsword while spinning his body around.

—Phat!!!

Closing the distance as if he used Blink, he attacks me using the power of that “circular trajectory” as it is!!!

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!”

Extreme thinking!!! Reading everything in my field of vision and moving my body even faster than that. —Swaaaak!! The blade of the greatsword flying in!!! —Kwagagang! So powerfully that the air explodes!! With extreme speed, I bend my waist forward to avoid that horizontal slash!!!

—Hwaaaak!!!

The blade grazes my back…! Evasion successful!!! As soon as I realized that!!! I kicked off the ground and entered his embrace!!!

“Heavenly Demon Destruction Palm!!!”

I slam a hastily made Heavenly Demon Destruction Palm!!!

「—Tu-Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!」

The fist that stretched out intensely strikes his chest.

—Kugugugugugugung!!

With that, he flies away. The artifacts? I keep a close eye on his figure, being careful that the artifacts wrapped around his body don’t do anything.

The attack was successful.

But.

I didn’t feel the sensation of breaking his armor.

Could it be that it didn’t work?
I’ll pray that it does.

Because that would be better.

“This bastard is completely out of his mind.”

Analysis. I analyze again. Speed? Unfortunately, it’s similar to mine. Power? Also similar. But. Decisively.

There’s a difference in reach.

He has a skull-headed lich, and I don’t. He has that big sword, so he has a long reach, but I don’t have a sword. I’m missing two reaches. That was what I thought for a moment.

There’s a decisive difference between him and me.

That is the presence or absence of a weapon.

“Vিউgall…!”

This useless bastard. Because this bastard is useless, I have to fight while losing distance. In the end, this is a fight of whether or not I can break through the gap, but… he hasn’t shown all the performance of the cash items wrapped around his body yet.

I have to be careful.

I can’t end it in one hit.

—Phat.

The guy who was flying away landed. Come to think of it, the bell that was flying behind him is flying away with him. Anyway, the guy who landed started walking towards me.

—Jelgeureok, jelgeureok.

While watching that, I provoke him to shake his mind.

“The savior of humanity is not that crazy skeleton, but me. This Kim Kat. Only this Kim Kat is the savior, the seeker, and the apostle of salvation.”

He believes the lich is the savior.

“You, who don’t know that, are beyond foolish… yeah. You’re a fucking moron.”

But that can’t be true.
If that kind of thing is a savior, then Leopold II is a saint.

—Igle Igle.

Red light blazes in the Dark Knight’s helmet.

“Why.”

The guy who was approaching while shining his eyes says.

“Are you the savior?”

That was a question full of anger.
I don’t know what it is, but he’s definitely pissed.

The provocation worked.

“There are many reasons. But let’s pick one simple one.”

I say while gauging the distance.

“I’ll kill you in this place now. And I’ll kill that lich bastard. Just that alone can save a lot of people. Wouldn’t you agree? All you guys do is massacre. So killing you is proof that I’m the savior.”

Of course, this is just one of many pieces of evidence.

That I am the savior.

“…Killing us is salvation.”
“Yeah.”

He seemed to be trying to think about something.

“If I kill you bastards, I can save a lot of people.”
“Is that all?”
“There’s a lot more, you bastard. It would take days to say it all. More than anything, you heretics are harmful. You kill people like you eat, make them sacrifices, and turn them into undead. You are absolute evil.”

Should I go first this time?

“…”

The moment I took a step forward while thinking that.

“…Shallow.”

The Dark Knight.

“Shallow. Very shallow. It’s so shallow that I feel ashamed to even say it.”

He said that in a contemptuous tone.

“What’s shallow?”
“True salvation. Deliverance. Seeking. Peace. Righteousness. Justice. Good.”

What.

“Those are shallow thoughts that only someone who has never seriously thought about such things would have.”
“Oh my. Goodness. Our X-Man who said that killed all the people in that village?”

Crazy bastard.

“…It’s pathetic. You, who have never even seriously thought about salvation, justice, and good… the very fact that you’re posing as a savior is terribly hateful. And disgusting. It makes me want to throw up.”

Eventually, he spoke while burning with hatred towards me.

“You’ve been interfering with our grand and noble plan while being intoxicated by such shallow logic and thinking of yourself as a hero.”
“No, you fucking bitch. Is that grand plan killing innocent people?”

This bastard is really frustrating.

“Trash… could never understand.”
“I can’t understand because you’re talking nonsense, you crazy bastard! Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!”

Crazy people never know they’re crazy!!!