Chapter 423

The Despair Lord's spear-like staff began to wave in the empty air like a baton tuning a melody.

At the sight of the Despair Lord floating in the empty air stepping on despair, Seonghyun swung his blade shrouded in darkness toward the despairs rushing toward him.

Paradoxically, the despairs were slashed and split by the darkness, and a gap opened up, but.

They began to materialize matching the tip of the conducting Despair Lord's staff.

The giant despair absorbed negative energies such as people's despair, misfortune, and fear, and began to emit a dark momentum without even a single ray of light.

And with that, the despair formed a giant shape and flew toward Seonghyun.

For a despair far too giant to be blocked with merely a sword, Seonghyun extended his hand instead of his sword and used his power.

'Split.'

As he reached out his hand thinking so, the giant negative energy belonging to the despair was sucked into Seonghyun, and a hideous and distorted giant hand of a specter appeared and swallowed the giant despair.

To a despair ghost that grows by eating darkness and despair, despair was merely like a snack.

The despair ghost swallowed the despair and became even more giant, but soon its belly squirmed, and the despair tore through the despair ghost's belly and came out.

Puuuuuuk———!!!

Although it was a specter without shape or substance.

It writhed in pain, and its very existence disappeared just like that.

The despair that tore the despair ghost's belly absorbed the specter as it was and devoured the despair, attempting to manifest as Seonghyun's despair.

Michael, who was watching that, opened his eyes so wide they seemed ready to tear and shouted.

"Ahhh!!! What is going on!? The specter Seonghyun-nim summoned died in an instant!?"

"I-Is he being pushed back!?"

Michael and Lowell were making a fuss and worrying, but.

Helena was watching with a smirk, as if it was nothing.

Of course, the viewers were closer to Michael's side than Helena's.

Because just looking at it right now, it appeared Seonghyun was being pushed back.

Besides, hadn't Helena said that Seonghyun was being pushed back a bit.

Because of that, their worries couldn't help but increase.

-What is this?????

-Isn't he going to lose at this rate? T_T

-Win, Demon King T_T

-Please win T_T

-Can't Helena go and help T_T

-I really wish he would win, please.

Although people were wishing for it.

Helena didn't have the slightest intention of interfering.

Far from it, she was rather cheering Seonghyun on.

There were quite a lot of things Seonghyun could do right now.

It was just that Seonghyun wasn't using them.

Because of that, Helena didn't take any action, as if trusting Seonghyun.

Because Seonghyun also noticed that everyone was watching, he couldn't help but ponder a little.

Showing his full power on the broadcast might seem good at first glance, but it could also mean exposing a significant weakness or his full strength.

However, he didn't particularly care.

The thought that it didn't matter even if it was exposed was bigger anyway.

'Because if I win here, I'll obtain three Monarch's powers.'

Since he could obtain even more diverse methods instead.

Seonghyun quickly racked his brain, made that calculation, and engaged in battle.

The despair of the Despair Lord, who tuned despair, became a giant spear and flew toward Seonghyun, and Seonghyun tried to block it by materializing darkness.

But at that moment.

Chwajajajaja.

The giant spear of despair divided in an instant, splitting into hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of spears, and flew toward Seonghyun.

As Seonghyun watched that and hardened the darkness, glossy ores of darkness like obsidian appeared and flew toward all the spears.

The obsidian blades of darkness flew toward the tens of thousands of spears materialized from despair.

However, perhaps the durability of the obsidian blades of darkness was lower than the spears of despair, as they shattered into pieces and disappeared upon colliding with each other.

It was truly despair itself.

However, Seonghyun's obsidian blades of darkness weren't merely tens of thousands.

Hundreds of thousands of blades flew into the empty air, and for an instant, the surroundings seemed to be dyed in darkness.

If one wasn't enough, then two; if two wasn't enough, then four; if four wasn't enough, then over ten blades scattered toward the spears of despair, and just like that, the spears of despair began to disappear one by one.

The tens of thousands of spears of despair soon vanished, and only darkness took its place as the blades formed a storm and flew toward the Despair Lord.

"Come."

As the Despair Lord raised both arms and shouted confidently toward the darkness.

Once again, the surroundings became dyed in despair.

And then.

"Since darkness is also a part of despair."

Along with those words from the Despair Lord, the energy of darkness became dyed in despair, and half of the flying blades, dyed in despair, flew back toward the obsidian blades of darkness, causing mutual destruction.

Seonghyun also clicked his tongue at the Despair Lord's utilization, freely wielding the concept of despair.

At the exquisite skill of creating this situation using the very concept of a despairing situation, Seonghyun could only smirk.

His control was quite good.

Seonghyun also thought he wouldn't fall behind in control, but.

'If it goes like this, it'll turn into a war of attrition.'

If it became a war of attrition, the Despair Lord, who could summon underlings with despair, was at a bit more of an advantage.

Knowing that, and because the Despair Lord was doing that exactly to draw out a war of attrition, Seonghyun had no choice but to smile as if troubled.

Now that it had come to this, he realized there would be no end to responding with long-range attacks.

Thus, to use his sword in earnest, Seonghyun imbued his body with darkness.

Not only that, he even mixed the power of destruction and the power of the abyss into the darkness.

Because he hadn't yet obtained despair through Helena's Super Strong Swordsmanship, he couldn't mix in despair.

“Hmm.”

Seeing Seonghyun donning the armor of darkness like that, the Despair Lord's featureless face distorted, if only slightly.

Although he didn't know exactly what move Seonghyun had come up with.

Because it was certain he had found a way to counter him to some extent.

The Despair Lord also began to prepare.

The sight of him wrapping himself in despair and equipping armaments.

He did so because he had the certainty that Seonghyun would no longer respond with long-range attacks.

Likewise, Seonghyun mixed two more things into this.

In Seonghyun's darkness, which should normally be darker and deeper than pitch black, lights began to appear one by one, and along with that light, a ghostly aura began to linger.

As Seonghyun's entire body changed to look like the universe, as if looking at a giant galaxy.

The thought occurred that something massive, something one wouldn't even dare to imagine, had imbued itself into Seonghyun.

The Despair Lord still frowned.

However, because the status itself was still slightly higher for the Despair Lord between Seonghyun and the Despair Lord.

The Despair Lord grasped his spear, not thinking much of it.

And those watching that sight.

“Ahhh, both are about to wage an all-out war. Seonghyun-nim, who seems to have become the universe itself, and the Despair Loooooord, who has wrapped himself in despair and become despair itself!!! The two clash!!!”

-Crazy, who will win? 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

-He was being pushed back a bit until now, will it be okay?

-Please win T_T

-I came to see him win!!!!!!

-That universe-like thing is freaking awesome;;;

-It really is cool though.

-What is that, so freaking cool;;;

The viewers fell for Seonghyun's transformed appearance.

Every single one of them cheered for Seonghyun, and although Seonghyun couldn't see or hear those cheers.

He flew toward the Despair Lord with all his might.

Seonghyun flew in as the trajectory of a galaxy, looking like a comet or the rings of a planet, was carved into the empty air.

Likewise, the despair flying toward Seonghyun rushed in as if attaching a long tail, leaving despair as traces of its movement.

Seonghyun swung his sword toward the Despair Lord flying at him, and the Despair Lord thrust his spear right back.

As the tip of the Despair Lord's spear collided exactly with the blade of the sword.

A massive explosion, like the one that first birthed the universe, arose to turn and swallow the universe, distorting the surrounding space and exploding with a momentum to annihilate everything it touched.

Peo——————————eong!!!

A heat like that of a star, which one wouldn't even dare to imagine, swept the surroundings, and although divided by layers, a heat transcending dimensions was transmitted, albeit faintly, to where Michael and the backup team were.

The heat transcending dimensions possessed a formidable heat, and the Michael Party could have been wiped out by just its traces.

However, Helena lightly deployed a shield to protect the exhausted backup team and Michael's team, and instead, they could see the floor, ceiling, and even the walls melting down.

Seeing that, Michael freaked out.

“Ah, ahhh! A terrifying heat has engulfed this place, enough for the heat to be transmitted even though the dimensions are divided!!! If it weren't for Helena-nim, we would have almost been wiped out too!!! The situation cannot be seen well because it is obscured by that explosion.”

Michael said so and continued the relay to the end.

However, because the situation over there couldn't be seen at all due to the explosion, he couldn't do the relay right away.

Even so, Michael did not rest.

“Ahhh, because there were several such clashes, that place became such a mess. It truly is a formidable power!!!”

The viewers also had no choice but to agree with Michael's words.

Just how strong must they be for the heat to reach out here like this?

Then, viewers started speaking one by one.

-I'm in Mugan City, and the temperature here suddenly went up;;;;

-Are you saying that's because of the Demon King???

-Hey, that's exaggerating a bit too much.

-Not exaggerating;;; Come to Mugan City, it really got hot. It's winter but suddenly it's summer temperatures;;;

-That's amazing;;;;;;

-I'm in Mugan City too and it's real. NPCs are suddenly going crazy.

-They're making a fuss saying it suddenly got hot;;;;

-Feels like an earthquake happened a bit too.

As testimonies continued to pour in one by one, even the people who initially didn't believe it.

They had no choice but to believe it.

Leaving behind the viewers who were freaked out by Seonghyun's battle that brought such massive heat.

Helena said.

“I see them there.”

Along with those words, as Michael and the viewers looked at where Helena pointed.

Truly, the two people emerged from there, still going strong even amidst that explosion.

They were still launching attacks, swinging their sword and spear.

“U-Uh!?”

Michael swallowed hard as if surprised seeing that, and said.

“That swordsmanship is……?”