The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage-Chapter 409

6.

When the Lord of Despair’s Eye manifested in Mugan.

The shockwave of that manifestation could reach all the way down into the depths of the Demon Realm like ripples spreading across a lakeshore.

The Demon Realm Grand Duke, seated on a throne that was not quite a throne, felt that ripple and lifted his head.

The wounds he had suffered from the previous Overlord, Helena, had not yet fully healed, and yet—

At that familiar wave, the Grand Duke’s eyes half-opened.

At the same time, his expression deepened as he recalled his humiliating past.

Feeling that energy which had once belonged solely to the Demon Realm.

【Despair... what a longed-for energy.】

It had originally belonged to the Demon Realm, but it was one of the Six Sins that hateful, terrifying Helena had stolen away from the Demon Realm.

The Grand Duke could clearly feel that the lord who contained that energy was awakening.

Despair, which had become the Overlord’s and had been sealed deep below by Helena’s disciples with a clever stratagem at the time of her death, had now awakened.

Now that it had manifested in the present world.

Letting that despair spread across the world would be nothing.

When, before long, that despair covered the whole continent—

【I must return it to the Demon Realm.】

He had to absorb the Lord of Despair—or, no. Even if not the Lord of Despair itself, he at least had to absorb the energy of Despair.

Only then would he be able to stop Black Star, the strongest existence in the present world.

Thinking that, the Grand Duke was about to reach out to the Sword Saint in the present world when he abruptly changed his mind.

The Sword Saint was not in his right mind at the moment.

If he took away Despair, that madness could flare up and make him uncooperative even toward the Grand Duke.

In that case—

【I shall summon my noble.】

Count Marmon, whom he had once sent up when a chance arose.

Thinking that he would have to send an order to that one, the Grand Duke lowered his raised head and closed his eyes again.

For now, the most important thing was to recover his wounds as quickly as possible.

Leaving everything about Despair to Marmon.

He devoted himself once more to healing.

In the present world as well, there was the variable known as the Overlord, but—

【There is no way some mere baby Overlord, who has only just taken his first steps and is not even Helena, will absorb Despair.】

Unless he was born with a talent surpassing Helena, it would be impossible.

And a talent surpassing that hellish nightmare known as Helena?

There was no such thing.

No, there must not be.

7.

A single eyeball was floating in midair.

Its diameter, roughly 1 meter, was not particularly large in Eternal World, where enormous monsters were lined up one after another.

But the mere fact that a single eyeball was just hanging there in otherwise empty air was grotesque in the extreme.

Everyone might not have looked exactly tense, but their vigilance was raised to the utmost.

They wanted to launch an attack on the Lord of Despair’s Eye, whose manifestation was not yet complete.

But it seemed that, system-wise, it was being treated as an event deity, so the act of attacking itself was forbidden.

And so everyone could only stand there, unable to move, watching in silence as the eyeball manifested.

Seong was watching like that as well.

Then, all of a sudden, grayish lumps like chunks of flesh began to °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° bubble up around the eyeball.

Bubble, bubble, bubble.

As if the flesh itself were boiling, it multiplied, wrapping around the eyeball, and around the eyeball gray flesh like ash popped up and began to transform into tentacles, while on the ashen flesh that encased the eyeball, countless small eyes sprouted.

When dozens, hundreds, no—possibly even thousands of eyeballs popped up,

Most people frowned at the sight.

– Ugh.

– This is easily the most disgusting boss of all time.

– What the hell is that even supposed to be;;;

– Shouldn’t they mosaic-censor that or something;;;

– That’s seriously disgusting...

The viewers were going crazy as they expressed their nausea.

Of course, there was no time to worry about that.

In a situation where no one knew when the event deity would end, Seong repeatedly drew up the power of darkness again and again, and once all of the thing’s tentacles had fully blossomed—

Darkness rose up around Seong.

The entire capable backup squad began to move one by one, taking that rising darkness around Seong as their cue.

But of course, the fastest one was Seong.

Darkness surged up, claimed the surroundings, and soon took shape and gradually solidified.

The darkness that bloomed at Seong’s fingertips gleamed like a single mineral, like obsidian, sharp and glossy, showing a hardness capable of cutting through anything as it shot toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye.

That darkness, which could not even be compared to some mere blade of darkness, flew in like obsidian growing outward, and the Lord of Despair’s Eye swung its tentacles toward the obsidian-like darkness.

Ssshhhhhhhh———!!!

Psssssssss.

Innumerable tentacles lashed out, and belated sounds rang out in all directions, and the obsidian, shattered at some unknown point, scattered everywhere.

At the moment when Seong’s attack had come to nothing—

Luna was the first to fly toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye through the shards of darkness glinting black in the air.

As the Primordial Barbarian Lord’s tough fist, packed with primordial brute strength, shot toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye, the countless small eyes attached to the Lord of Despair’s Eye all fixed their gaze on Luna.

Ziiiiing——.

In that moment, Luna’s body halted for an instant, and a single tentacle whipped toward her like a lash.

Just as that tentacle, whose very presence slowed sound itself, was about to slice Luna in half, a bolt of lightning flashed down from the ceiling—despite this being underground—striking faster than the tentacle that made even sound sluggish, splitting it apart.

Sssshhhh——!!!

Craaaaaaack!!!

And when the flash of lightning spread out in all directions for a moment,

The entire cavern flickered, completely blocking the Lord of Despair’s Eye’s field of vision, Luna’s movements returned, and without panicking, she swung her fist, filled with primordial brute strength, toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye.

THU-KWAAAAAANG————!!!

The fist packed with brute strength slammed straight into the Lord of Despair’s Eye, and it couldn’t withstand that power in the end, shooting away like a cannonball and crashing into the wall.

All of this had taken less than a single second.

In that instant, which had been split apart, droplets of blood blossomed in midair, and those droplets shot toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye, which had been smashed into the wall like a cannonball, like needles.

Shu-shu-shu-shu-shu-shu-shu-shu-shu-shu———!!!

Countless, razor-sharp needles cut through the air as they flew, and innumerable spikes filled the wall.

In that time that had been split apart,

At the very moment when the blood needles surged like stretched-out taffy, the obsidian shards that had scattered into pieces seemed to stop in midair as if time itself, stretched out like taffy, had halted, and they flew toward a single target, revealing their sharpness without restraint.

Sse-sse-sse-sse-sse-sse-sse———!!!

That sharpness, which could cut anything, flew toward the wall, and the section of wall where the Lord of Despair’s Eye had been could only be shredded and turned into rags.

Even so, Seong still did not stop.

The blood magic fired from Embris’s team, who could fight at range, and the spells fired by Luna’s team’s Elzahar, along with the spears of light and shadow winds unleashed by Kyou’s team’s Mayrin and Kurosawa Ren, all flew in, and the wall completely collapsed.

As thick dust billowed up and they saw that the wall had been entirely destroyed, the onlookers still did not let down their guard.

It had been a combined attack that was practically like a joint strike of four people with insane Almighty-grade classes.

But there was no way the 96th-floor boss, which demanded a level of cooperation they had never seen before, would have gone down from just that.

Of course, regardless of what the party members thought, the viewers had no choice but to be shocked.

– Holy crap, what did I just see???

– Something just whooshed past, what was that?

– Can we get a slow-mo on this????

– No but ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ how are we supposed to watch this without slow-mo???

– Wow, not even a second passed and everything just went crazy.

– I clipped this, I’m definitely watching it in slow motion.

– For real, I have no idea what even happened. How did it end up smashed in there???

– Seriously, no clue.

The viewers hadn’t even been able to see what happened and could only be bewildered as the situation unfolded.

Either way, everyone was staring at the wall.

And sure enough, through the thick dust, countless somethings shot out.

Swoosh!

Shhwick!

Whoosh!

Just as the Lord of Despair’s Eye swung its tentacles, slicing through the murky dust and trying to attack everyone, darkness rose from the floor and bound all of those tentacles as if seizing them.

In an instant, all the tentacles’ movements stopped, and when the darkness pulled on the Lord of Despair’s Eye that had sent tentacles from the wall, the Lord of Despair’s Eye, which had been buried in the wall, popped out.

Bound and dragged out, the Lord of Despair’s Eye became the target as the group began to attack.

The melee fighters reached it first, swinging swords and daggers and firing arrows, while the ranged fighters cast ranged attacks to support them.

But in that moment, all the eyes attached to the Lord of Despair’s Eye began to fill with a gray energy.

As the power of Despair swelled and settled into the eyes, everything those eyes looked at became wrapped in despair and froze in place. In that instant when they all stopped moving, the Lord of Despair’s Eye tried to use that opening to sever the tentacles and attack again with tentacles that had already regenerated.

But only Seong endured Despair in its entirety and grinned.

He looked at the Lord of Despair’s Eye as if it had walked into a trap instead, and in that moment the Lord of Despair’s Eye realized something was wrong and tried belatedly to flee, but it was already too late.

Seong’s darkness rose up and surged toward the Lord of Despair’s Eye, and a massive spike of darkness shot up from the floor, piercing the creature’s body.

Puuuuuuuk!

The eyeball was literally pierced straight through, and it thrashed in pain, while Seong unfolded darkness toward it.

The darkness that had pierced the Lord of Despair’s Eye slithered along, wrapping around the Lord of Despair’s Eye in its entirety, and covered the thousands of eyeballs that had been attached all over it.

Then all of the backup teams, whose movements had been freed, sprang into action and focused all their attacks on the Lord of Despair’s Eye.

As the attacks landed, the darkness shattered into fragments that pierced the eyes, and countless shards of darkness embedded themselves in the creature’s eyes, leaving it riddled with wounds.

– Are they winning?

– Did they win?

– Already?

– Who the hell types something like that???

– Wow, look at this guy with no sense.

A few viewers jinxed it in chat.

And sure enough—

Bubble, bubble, bubble.

– Why would you raise a death flag like that;;;;