Martial Arts Returnee's Game Broadcast-Chapter 421: Proper Use of Power

 The power he had gathered with such effort was now wasted.

He was sure that with the Goblin King's level, no matter how this power was used, it wouldn't reach the great demon.

The Goblin King, too, had come to realize the harsh reality.

[How do you see my power?]

[Do you think it can reach the great demon?]

There was no choice but to answer.

The Silent Swordsman shook her head, signaling her opinion.

When it came to difficulty, the Cloud Spirit King was several times harder to deal with.

[How humiliating.]

[To have acted like I owned the world with such insignificant power in front of a true powerhouse.]

Indeed, it was disappointing.

But that was not enough of a reason to underestimate him.

【Interaction Options】

[1. You’re not the problem. I’m just that much better.]

[2. It’s the limit of someone without talent.]

[3. (Demanding submission.)]

[▶1. You’re not the problem. I’m just that much better.]

The Goblin King was strong.

He had simply been held to too high a standard.

Her response made him fall into shame.

[Before facing the great demon, I vowed to ascend to divinity and become the peak of all monsters, a demon king.]

[Now, I know how futile and fleeting that dream truly was.]

The Taeguk-honwon-palgwa-clouds.

With a single move, the Silent Swordsman made him realize the truth.

Gathering energy to place restrictions and stop the advance was the limit.

He lacked the strength to surpass the great demon.

Everything he could do, the great demon could do as well.

But everything the great demon could do, the Goblin King could not challenge.

The Silent Swordsman, human as she was, couldn’t even protect her own power, and yet the great demon would easily strip it away from her.

It was truly a devastating defeat and humiliation.

It was almost a relief.

At least, this defeat was at the hands of the Silent Swordsman, not the great demon.

[A millennium of training, only to be completely stripped away by the great demon? Just imagining it sends chills down my spine.]

[Thank you for the lesson. Without you, the great demon would have consumed my power and risen as the most terrifying of the three great demon kings, one beyond anyone’s reach.]

The viewers who knew the future of the half-demon race were shocked by this new discovery.

So that’s why the field gets suddenly stronger after the Goblin Field?The great demon took the power here.The Goblin King’s defeat event wasn’t just to hold back the great demon’s advances and buy time for us.I didn’t notice that in the lower difficulties.Now everyone knows the great demon’s can absorb the Goblin King’s .

The followed by .

A crucial event that stopped the advance of the late-game field had an unexpected trap.

It was a secret hidden in the lower difficulties.

Everyone now realized that the great demon’s could absorb the Goblin King’s .

Even if we know, what can we do about it?Yeah, normally you wouldn’t be able to move up this fast.Only the Silent Swordsman could pull off such a speed run.If it were a later playthrough, the specs would have upgraded, but this playthrough? Nobody could follow this.Conclusion: Only the Silent Swordsman or players on at least their 30th playthrough could handle this.

The Goblin King acknowledged the Silent Swordsman as a formidable opponent.

Now, a new opportunity arose for her.

[Silent Swordsman. You possess terrifying strength, but unlike the great demon, you hold mercy in your hands.]

[If my goblins were to help you, would you assist me in my ascension?]

The Goblin King’s offer.

This was an extraordinary opportunity to recruit a being with such immense magical power, potentially helping the great demon ascend to become the demon king.

The Goblin King as an ally?Can the Goblin King, who always loses, survive this?

It wasn’t a forced defeat.

He simply couldn’t reach the destination in time.

The Speedmaster didn’t get such an event back then, right?It’s because Sensei was always moving on too quickly.He was already past the field before he even saw the Goblin King.

An event trigger that no one knew about.

Unlike the Speedmaster, who only had speed, the Silent Swordsman possessed both speed and power, making this event possible.

[▶Reject the Goblin King’s offer.]

A miraculous feat. An incredible achievement. The first conqueror.

Even with glory within her reach, she decisively rejected it.

‘The offer was wrong.’

She had proven the hierarchy.

She had shown who was superior.

Yet, for them to offer cooperation as if they were equals? Wasn’t that wrong?

‘If we were true friends, it might be different.’

The Heavenly Demon, Parchelin.

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She had accepted the runaway of her own kind, the devilish woman she had once been, understanding that their worldviews, their way of treating people, were not so different.

The Goblin King was different.

Heung Heung didn’t feel any affection for him.

The goblins were wicked, and he was indifferent.

He had sown disaster all over the half-demon realm, which only led to more suffering.

Where was the friendship in that?

‘Huh?’

Contempt. Disgust.

As she nurtured those feelings, she became aware of a sense of discomfort.

The Gladiator Cultivation.

Back when she used force to bully others and created trouble all around the world.

What was different between herself and the Goblin King back then?

Why had she committed such acts?

[You are now conscious of <False Entry - Demon Seduction>.]

[You have realized the illusion of the current energy. The energy you have been tampering with is accompanied by severe danger: the corruption of your character.]

[Originally, demons have no empathy or understanding for humans or other beings.]

[Accepting that power means you will experience the loss of humanity much faster and more intensely than others.]

[Even if you are aware of it, do not be too confident in being able to escape it. The cost of power is not light.]

“!!”

Yes.

Even if she used her energy and purified it with mental training, she couldn’t control the enormous power she had gathered.

Some of the energy that hadn’t been purified was slowly affecting her, pushing her to make the same mistakes as the Goblin King, whom she so despised.

‘It’s not something to be reassured about just because it’s from the game world.’

While she was lucky this time and made mistakes in Gladiator Cultivation, what if next time, she made the same mistake in the real world?

Right now, she had committed hypocrisy for the sake of her own faction and people, but what guarantee was there that she wouldn’t betray her own faction and people for her own sake?

There was no guarantee.

No such guarantee existed.

‘This risk is beyond the limit.’

Unlike the visible pressure of the Qi of corruption, this energy didn’t physically burden her. Instead, it secretly warped her character.

That’s why it was even more dangerous.

If she didn’t realize it, she could do nothing, and slowly, just like rain soaking through clothes, she would change.

[Hah. So you’ve reached that level and gained wisdom? {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} How frightening. The growth potential of humans.]

Huh???Are you saying she’s getting stronger live??Stop lying, that’s not human.The Dragon King isn’t human either.Stop getting stronger, you psychopath!Yeah, think about those following you.

[You, Silent Swordsman’s subordinates. Leave the entrance to the fortress immediately. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee your lives.]

Is there anyone who can really follow the Silent Swordsman seriously? That’s more surprising.Habei Pyeongga, Pyeong Hwirong.Oh, I see.The man who saved the Demon-faced Master.That guy’s been off the streams lately, training in isolation.You can tell they’re from the guild just by their attitude; always showing off and then disappearing during breaks, lol.The only player to have ever killed the Silent Swordsman—Whisper.Even though he captured a hostage, Whisper is the only one who managed to pull it off.But isn’t the Black General stronger than the boss?That guy sometimes streams but always ends up playing these strange games with low buy-ins, always at the bottom.He’s been in the underground for so long, he only plays the weirdest games from the depths.

[Oooh. This is... like the Mandala that the White Spirit King once mentioned, isn’t it?]

The Silent Swordsman, eyes closed, entered the state of Qi cultivation, and swirling energy surrounded her.

Unlike before when she used her internal energy to manipulate the external atmosphere, now not even a pinch of energy leaked out, but the force was far more dangerous than before.

Kuuguuugugu

Clouds rose, wrapping her like a wall.

Countless lightning bolts struck down on her, and bright white flashes repeatedly pierced the dark clouds.

A scene so unbelievable that it was hard to believe this was a human awakening.

Suddenly, the Demon King rises?Is this really a player’s awakening scene...?

Paaah!

With bright light, the dark clouds cleared.

Dense fog spread, forcing the surrounding energy beyond a certain radius.

The power of purification.

Sacred lightning and the holy light of the sun.

The purified body now had deeper and more refined internal energy than before.

[You are breaking free from <False Entry - Demon Seduction>.]

Heung Heung wiped away her cold sweat.

‘It was a close call.’

If she hadn’t used the Goblin King as a model, she might not have realized this and would have accepted even more energy.

Back then, she could have been just like the great demon of the half-demon realm—able to become a nightmare of the current world with just her presence.

‘Fortune was on my side.’

The Cloud Fortress, where misfortune and fortune coexisted.

Had she not been in this place, at the center of consciousness and the gathering of fate, she might not have realized the discomfort.

‘That’s why I’m even more certain.’

Even after purifying once, the risk of this power hasn’t changed.

Energy gained through Qi.

Each time she used it, it slowly consumed her humanity, like the Qi of corruption or demonic energy.

Coexistence between humans and demons.

Now, she understands how absurd that idea truly was.

‘In the battle ahead with the great demon, relying on this energy will only worsen the corruption even more.’

There was a solution.

She had experienced something similar before.

She would use the spirit’s power to seal it within two horns.

Just like when she handled the spirit energy.

She would need a similar form of isolation.

‘I’ll have to seal the energy in a new energy mechanism.’