## Chapter 1426 – The Approaching Darkness

“You son of a bitch, I’ll pluck your mother’s pubic hair and make noodles out of it!!! You’ll stick a knife in your father’s ass!!! You goddamn, miserable, whore-son!!! A bastard like you shouldn’t have been born into this world!!! How dare a piece of filth like you do thisss!!!! Meeeeeeoooooooow!!!”

It felt like my insides were bursting open.

Intense joy bloomed from within.

Yes, I was intoxicated by my own voice. The most beautiful rhythm in the world. How could a human voice be so beautiful? It was as if the god of song had descended.

Come to think of it, I was pretty good at singing.

Memories of singing Seol Woon-do’s “Compass” bubbled up. They fragmented and floated before my eyes. Within those transparent bubbles was the warm sound of a music box from my memories, so close that if I just reached out…

I felt like I could grasp it.

ㅡShall we go to Jongno?

That rhythm echoed like a music box in my illusion. Good. It’s always good to hear. So good that I want to get drunk on it.

I became one with the beautiful melody and unleashed righteous curses upon the lich, the leader of the heretics. It is a very just and righteous thing to hurl extreme insults at the wicked. It’s a kind of service. A warm sense of accomplishment tickles my heart. I am doing something truly good right now. I am cursing at the ungodly lich.

I want to keep cursing and shouting at that lich forever.

But.

“…I.”

I can’t just stay drunk.

“I am the savior of this world.”

The Heavenly Demon Kim Katte.
That is who I am.

“You son of a whore.”

And I point my finger at the lich.

“Originally, even breathing in the same space as trash like you… would not be allowed. Do you know why? Because of your background? No. Actually, I don’t care about your background. The important thing is…”

I can’t stand it.

The fact that I exist in the same space as that thing. I can’t stand it. The fact that something like that exists here now. I can’t stand any of it.

“You’re a son of a bitch. And if your mother is a whore, you deserve twice the insults.”

ㅡWhoosh!!!

Intense murderous intent surged.

I’ve said what I needed to say.

Then, there’s only one thing left to do!

Kill that bastard and bring peace to this world! That’s all there is to it! Kill the evil lich and restore order and peace to this world!

I, Kim Katte, the seeker of Fusion Confucianism, vow to do so in this place!!!

“I’m going to kill you!!!!!! You lich bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

ㅡDejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!

I unleashed a roar!!!

“…”

Currently, the lich seemed dumbfounded, stopping mid-sentence. He clearly called me an evil god from another world. The heretics also called me a demon king from outer space.

Seriously.

I can’t understand it. Is that what someone who is trying to destroy the world and kill all humans should be saying? His very foundation is twisted.

“What!!!!! Say something!! Why! Is it because everything I said is true that you can’t say anything!!! Lich!!! Face your shame!!! Face your truth!!! Now!!! Repeat after me!!!”

Repeat after me!!!

“The lich’s mother is a whore!!!”

I bluffed like that while preparing to attack. I don’t think I can finish it in one blow. I have to land a proper attack. His combat power is at least on par with a demon king. He’s that strong, and he even has effective means of attacking me.

I have to fight properly.

Just as I was about to unleash an attack with extreme concentration.

「…Vanish.」

A heavy psychic wave was fired. A voice originating from the lich’s will. For some reason, I could feel a deep anger in that voice… That’s right. I hit him where it hurts. That’s why he’s angry.

Delightful.

“Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!”

So I laughed as I watched the sky shatter.

「ㅡCrackle crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!!!」

The dark sky, which seemed to have gained physical substance, shattered, and fragments fell like rain. Soon, the fallen fragments clumped together.

And began to burn.

「ㅡWhoosh!」

What was created was a giant fireball.

A giant fireball burning black. There were dozens of them, each tens of meters in size. Abnormally large dark fireballs broke through the sky and descended.

“Oh.”

Powerful.

I could feel it with a sense beyond instinct. I don’t know exactly, but the lich was now in a state of extreme power.

ㅡFlap.

I could tell just by looking at him fluttering his ornaments and a cloak-like thing. He was aiming a black staff, with hundreds of magic circles floating around him… Not bad.

“He looks fucking strong.”

He’s prepared quite well.

If you want to face me, you have to do at least that much.

“Indeed. Is that magic that killed your own mother?”

And.

「ㅡKwagagagagagagagagag!!!」

As the lich moved his staff, dark fireballs fell. It would be fair to say that burning apartments were falling from the sky.

Above all, the fireballs were surrounded by the lich’s power.

If they touched me, I wouldn’t be safe.

“Powerful enough.”

But the speed of those destructive fireballs isn’t that fast. It’s fast, but there’s a limit. I can dodge them easily enough. And from my previous experience… I could feel it. How far I had to dodge to escape the influence of the lich’s power.

To destroy me, he has to hit me with something more powerful and destructive than that, but I don’t know if he hasn’t used it yet, but those slow things can’t harm me.

Yes.

It’s enough to dodge them, but.

“You little punk.”

The target wasn’t me.

Behind me.

ㅡWhoosh!!

The fireballs were flying like comets towards the city. He had no intention of hitting me from the start. He was aiming for the city where people were gathered.

Did they escape?

No.

They couldn’t. It was a distance they couldn’t escape at human speed. If those things fell, most of them would die. Even if they survived, they would be smashed to pieces in the next attack.

“Did your real mom die like that too?”

A malicious person wants to inflict the most terrible thing they have experienced on others. Was that it? Did the lich’s mother also die in that way? So the lich. Targeted the city instead of me.

“…”

The lich didn’t say anything.

He simply deployed magic circles and carried out a bombardment using fireballs. Yes. He couldn’t help it, huh.

ㅡFlash.

I was already flying towards the fireballs.

There were dozens of falling fireballs, each at least as big as an apartment building. It’s very difficult to defend against all of them, but.

Impossible doesn’t exist for Kim Katte.

“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”

Having reached the center of the bombing point, I looked up at the sky. It literally felt like the dark sky was breaking and a misshapen fireball was falling. If there was an end to this world, it would be right here.

But.

It’s just laughable.

Looking at the sky, concentrating my power.
Like that.

I shoot my fist towards the sky.

“Heavenly Demon Splitting Sky Palm.”

ㅡKwang!!!

The intense power that was released struck the atmosphere. ㅡThwack!!! A torrent of power. It was like a dragon ascending to heaven, but it wasn’t enough to stop the falling fireballs. The scattered fireballs gathered again. They didn’t collapse.

“Again.”

Concentrating power on the opposite fist!!!

“Heavenly Demon Divine Art!!!!!”

With even stronger power!!!
I unleash the Heavenly Demon Splitting Sky Palm!!

“Heavenly Demon Splitting Sky Palm!!!”

ㅡKugugugugugugugugung!!!

I feel the consumption of power.

But again!!

“Heavenly Demon Splitting Skyaaaaaaang!!”

ㅡKung!

If this bastard can suppress my power very effectively!!! I just have to slam an even stronger power than that!!! He can inflict extreme additional damage on me, and he can extremely reduce damage when he receives my attacks, but that’s all.

If he can’t nullify it.

I’ll win in the end!!!

“Hahahahahaha! You’re trying to face me with just this much!!!”

As soon as I read the odds of winning, I kicked off the air and shot my body towards the lich. Already, the barriers and shields of power that the lich had created were layered around this area.

ㅡCrack!!

Every time I broke through them with my body, blood burst from my entire body. It was just magical energy, but it felt like crossing a steel wall with thorns embedded in it.

I ignore the pain.

It’s not bad to settle the fight with a short battle.

“…!”

Like that.

I reach the lich.

“Cesarean Section.”

The technique that killed the demon king. As I flew towards the lich, I secretly drew my sword, and at the moment of impact, I secretly ejected it again. Extreme power was contained in my two hands and the blade.

The launched blade reached the lich.

「ㅡThwackaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!!!!」

The sound of space tearing apart erupted.

“No.”

The power drains away.

However.

“This bastard?”

The lich was unharmed. To be precise, my sword was blocked. ㅡCrackle crackle crackle!!! The magic circles installed far away. Black lightning simultaneously shot out from the magic circles that formed an octagon around the lich, wrapping around the blade of Byugal.

ㅡCrackle crackle crackle!!!

I try to push the sword in with the power of the Half-Godly Heavenly Demon, but I can’t. The repulsive force is too strong to stab the sword in. The extreme power contained in the Cesarean Section scatters in all directions. It completely offset the impact. Even more than that, the lich’s energy seeped into the inside of my forearm, blackening the skin of my forearm.

「…You vile and wicked thing.」

And the lich’s psychic wave echoes from point-blank range. ㅡWhoosh. The pupils of the skull burning red. The lich’s skull looked like it was made by intricately carving black jewels. It felt strange to be sharing a gaze with such a skull right in front of me.

「How dare you establish a kingdom and reign as a god.」

“Wow, damn. This bastard’s intelligence is something else. You figured that out?”

You figured that out…!
This bastard’s intelligence is no joke!!!

「…」

As I was admiring, he was silent for a moment.

ㅡCrackle crackle crackle!!!

Instantly, the current that had been wrapping around Byugal exploded, ㅡKwang! At the same time, I pulled my body far back. The distance instantly widened by kilometers.

It’s an amazing amount of power.

The reason I couldn’t move until just now was purely because Byugal was being held. I couldn’t win if I threw away the sword. I couldn’t throw away the sword, so I was just holding it, but thank you for letting go.

Wow, but seriously. To grab the blade of Byugal with Cesarean Section activated? As expected, he’s stronger than I imagined.

「I will no longer allow an alien being to devour this world. So that such a tragedy does not happen again…」

The psychic wave is fired at me as I move away.

This bastard.
What the hell is he saying.

ㅡFlash.

I keep the lich in my sight. Something like a black cube was created in the hand of the guy who stretched out his skeletal hand. ㅡClick! The cube opened.

“Kuaaaaaaaaah!!”
“Buaaaaaaaaaah!!”
“Kyakyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!”

Instantly, a dimensional gate was created, and countless demonic beasts from another world poured out from within. They were nightmarish monsters, each tens of meters in size. This fucking bastard, seriously.

“For someone who says that, Mr. Lich is summoning a lot of demonic beasts from another world, isn’t he?”

You won’t allow an alien being to devour this world? Judging from the circumstances, the lich seems to be wary of those fragmented gods in the sky. In other words, the outer gods, and he’s showing such behavior.

But what he’s doing is this.

Making holes in dimensions and calling monsters to use as his power.

“Say something, you bastard. Isn’t it you who is calling beings from another world and destroying this world? Not those fragmented outer gods in the sky.”

It was the moment I said that.

「How do you know that.」

The lich reacted as if he was flustered.

“Then how could I not know, you fucking idiot, you piece of trash!! The vile and wicked thing is you!!! A seed cursed from birth!!! Don’t confuse this world any longer and return to where you should be!!! Return to that hot hell where your mother is waiting!!!”

ㅡWhoosh!!

I restore the forearm that was blackened by the lich’s power!!! I burn the lich’s power that is trying to reach my heart from within, and once again deploy the Heavenly Demon Divine Art!!!

「You really… don’t know anything. Ignorant demon god. Greedy alien demon king…」

I refute the lich’s words!!!

“Shut up!!!! You evil son of a bitch!!! This Heavenly Demon Kim Katte will slaughter and dismember you in the name of justice!!!”

ㅡFlash!

Restoration complete!!!

“Because I am!!! The guardian of this world!!! Heavenly Demon Kim Katte!!!!”

ㅡWhoosh!!!

I explode the light of hope once again.

Cesarean Section didn’t work? You little shit, that’s no problem for me!!!!!

I’ll kill you!!!!