Chapter 194: 194

The Dark World- Black Forest . It was one of the ten best skills that Su-hyeun knew . This skill was particularly famous for its wide-range effect . There weren’t many skills that could cover physical, mental, and magical damages . In particular, the Psychomancy ability of the Dark World skill had the widest range of all the psychological skills .

“Hey, Thomas . Your job is to protect people . When people are upset and try to attack each other, then instill the opposite feeling in them, okay?” Su-hyeun had told him .

“Is that protecting?”

“Yes . Protecting them from fighting each other . But it’ll be hard work . There will be a lot of people, and you have to use your skill very widely . ”

“It’s okay! I can do it . ”

“If you wait for us, we’ll finish our work quickly . I believe in you, Thomas . ”

It was a job that only Thomas could do . Su-hyeun was strong, but he didn’t have any mental skills . Even if he had one, he wouldn’t be able to handle that many people like Thomas could . Thomas was the only one who could do it in the world . It might be a heavy burden for him .

Su-hyeun thought .

Kee-hee, hee-hee-hee, hee-hee—

Su-hyeun broke the ground beneath him and went into the dungeon with Hak-joon . The structure of the dungeon was a vast castle . It was so huge it was hard to even figure out how big it was . Inside, the castle was filled with laughter that they had heard before . There was a lot of anger in the laughter . Just listening to it made them frustrated, and they felt a burning feeling inside .

“This could be dangerous,” Hak-joon commented .

“If you think you can’t handle it, you can just wait outside,” Su-hyeun snapped .

“No, I’m not talking about me . I’m talking about other awakeners . Unless I lose my focus, I’ll be fine until then . ”

Su-hyeun nodded at Hak-joon’s answer . In the beginning, he brought Hak-joon because he had thought he would not be much affected by it .

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Especially, awakeners who had weak willpower and concentration were easily deceived by the laugh . The tragedy that had happened in Su-hyeun’s past life was way worse than what happened in Paris a few days ago .

Su-hyeun thought .

An outbreak was a phenomenon that occurred after the boundary between the dungeon and reality gradually faded . What had happened was the emotion inside the dungeon had flowed out during the outbreak .

“What the hell is this laughing?” Hak-joon looked around the huge castle .

In the empty castle, there was no sign of anything except the laughter . He knew it wasn’t a typical dungeon, but it was definitely strange that there wasn’t a single monster .

“That’s what we have to figure out . ”

Su-hyeun only knew about this dungeon from information from his past life . Therefore, he had no choice but to check the details from now on .

“How?” Hak-joon asked .

“What do you mean how?”

Whoosh, whoosh—

Su-hyeun laughed as he brightened up the dark castle with his Flame skill . “We don’t have much time, so we just have to go for it . ”

“…?”

Act 9

Boom, boom, boom—!

Craaack—!

Gyaong, gyaooong—!

Miru cried with excitement as he saw the burning castle . Hak-joon, riding on Miru’s back for the first time, looked around the castle with a scared face .

“Are you really going to break everything?” he asked .

“Yes . But it’s more well-built then I thought . It won’t break easily . ” Su-hyeun stroked Miru’s head . “Miru, use your Breath . ”

Gyaong—?

“Break everything . Anything you see . ”

Gyaong—!

Miru answered with gusto and gathered the Breath in his mouth .

[Breath . ]

[Breath . ]

[…]

Whoooosh—

Breath from Miru’s mouth turned the castle on its head .

Hak-joon was astonished at the sight . “Didn’t you say three times was his limit?”

“Well . He’s grown up a lot . Also, he got an item called the Cintamani . ”

“Cintamani? What is that?”

“In short, it’s an item that amplifies the power of a dragon . Thanks to that Cintanami, he can use his Breath skill more times, and he can use other skills as well . ”

“That’s so cool . ” Hak-joon admired Miru’s abilities .

The last time Hak-joon saw Su-hyeun’s fight was at the Ranking Wars, against Gordon Rohan . They hadn’t attacked dungeons together many times, so he didn’t have much chance to see Miru’s abilities . Now, he finally saw Miru fight as a team beside Su-hyeun . Hak-joon felt proud of Miru . Miru’s buff ability and the power of his Breath skill could be considered above even S-Rank awakeners .

Whoosh—

Rumble, ruuumble—

Miru’s Breath was blocked by a door and disappeared . It was the door to the top floor of the castle . It seemed to be blocked by a transparent barrier .

“I guess this is it,” Su-hyeun said, taking the spear from his back .

Whoosh—

[Dragon Slaying Spear . ]

[Flame . ]

[Wave Spear- Explosion Style . ]

“Be careful not to get hurt,” Su-hyeun warned .

Miru put defensive magic on his body as if he were familiar with doing this . Hak-joon also used a skill to protect himself .

Rumble—

The spear left Su-hyeun’s hand . He threw it from quite a close distance . The spear shone as it left his hand—

Craaaaack—!

Wham, wham, wham—!

—Dragon Slaying Spear shattered into numerous magical pieces and hit the door .

Hak-joon thought .

He knew that Su-hyeun was a spear user as well, and he had seen his throwing a few times before . But he never saw that a spear with magic could scatter into tens of thousands of pieces like this .

Crack—!

Eventually, the spears broke the door . Louder laughter came from the hole in the doorway .

Kee-hee, Kee hee hee hee hee—!

Ha-ha-ha—

And the laughter wasn’t the only thing that came out .

“Found it . ”

Translucent souls began to pour out of the cracked door . They were debris in the dungeon that created the emotions .

Rumble—

Su-hyeun’s sword began to form the magic . Only a sword with magic power could defeat these residues of feelings .

“Cut them all . ”

Su-hyeun rushed to the souls . Hak-joon who was sitting on Miru’s back jumped up high .

Whirl, whirl—

Hak-joon’s scabbard began to tremble . He grabbed the handle of his sword and swung wide as he drew it .

[Sword Drawing- Cutting the Full Moon . ]

Slash, slash—

Craaack—

The souls flowing out of the door screamed and disappeared under the wide-range attacks . Their screams rang through the whole castle . Su-hyeun and Hak-joon, once they got rid of all the souls, began to move inside of the door .

“…Phew . It’s getting hard to hold off . ” Hak-joon stopped walking and breathed deeply . “I’m sorry, Su-hyeun, but I’ll stay here . I don’t want to come with you and become a burden . ”

“Okay . Then stay here and make sure nothing passes this door . I’ll leave Miru with you just in case . He’ll be helpful . ”

“Got it . ”

“Miru, please look after him . ”

Gyaong—!

Miru replied with a loud cry as if telling Su-hyeun that he could rely on him . Su-hyeun kept moving his step inside of the door, leaving the pair behind .

Stomp, stomp—

The area behind the door was quite wide . When he walked further, a dark hall and a long passage appeared .

The vestiges of emotion were getting worse as he went inside . The rage-filled souls rushed to Su-hyeun to swallow him . He cut them down one by one and walked deeper in . Su-hyeun could feel the burning anger inside his chest . He raised his magic and made a thin shied around his body . It soothed him .

The emotional ups and downs were much worse than he had expected . Su-hyeun walked faster . He really wanted to break this dungeon and stop this horrible feeling quickly .

Kee-hee, hee hee hee—

Ha-ha-ha—

When he passed the long passage, another space filled with laughter appeared . It was another castle . The hallway was a bridge . It connected to the upper part of the castles . Su-hyeun looked down at the new palace that he just reached . The castle was open from the first floor to the top .

The castle that opened in the middle was covered with bloodstains . Bones that looked to be of humans were scattered all over the place, and paintings and decorations hanging on the walls were broken . There must have been some huge fight . This castle was filled with anger .

“You have a lot of rage in you . ”

Thump, thump—

A voice reached Su-hyeun’s ears . The voice and the sound of footsteps came from a higher place . It was coming from the highest place, the tip of the castle .

“Why are you so upset?” the voice asked .

“Well . You made me upset . ” Su-hyeun raised his head and stared at the owner of the voice .

It was a man wearing a robe . He wasn’t wearing a hood to hide his face . He was pretty handsome, with blond hair . He didn’t look like a man one would meet in a dungeon like this . He certainly didn’t seem like a monster, either .

“Is a spirit the boss of the dungeon?”

But Su-hyeun realized the moment he saw him that the man wasn’t a living human; he was a ghost .

“Dungeon? Boss? What are you talking about?”

“Yea, yea . You wouldn’t know . You guys do that . ”

The bosses of the dungeons did not recognize the meaning of dungeons and bosses . Sometimes, when Su-hyeun met bosses of dungeons who could speak human language, he tried to talk with them . But they were unaware of their existence . So, Su-hyeun didn’t expect much today, either . Also, Su-hyeun already knew who this blond guy was .

Su-hyeun said, “The first son of the exterminated duke’s family . The sword genius who lost his relatives, wife, and daughter overnight because of a false charge against him . ”

“…!”

“Wrath Gludmoon . The ghost of misery that embraces all the anger of the world in your heart . ”

A record of him was found in the dungeon while digging for Ether stone in Su-hyeun’s past life . That record had revealed the theme of the dungeon, why it was made, and also, who this man was . And Su-hyeun, who already knew the record, sympathized with the man in front of him .

“Who…are you?” the man asked .

“You don’t need to know about me . I know what happened to you, and I feel sorry about that . But…” Su-hyeun asked, looking at the numerous bloodstains and bodies on the first floor . “were they really your enemies?”

“You’re speaking gibberish . ”

“Yes . But anyone would say the same thing . Your revenge wasn’t justified . But do you know why everyone says the same thing?”

“Shut up…”

“Because it’s true . Killing everyone because you hate the world isn’t revenge . It’s just taking your anger out on someone else . ”

“I said shut up!”

Screech, screeeech—

With the shouting of Wrath, a high-pitched tone rang in Su-hyeun’s ears . Numerous souls were assimilated into Wrath’s anger . Su-hyeun didn’t bat an eyelid at it . It hurt his ears, but that was it .

“What do you know about me? You don’t know anything about me! You don’t know anything!”

“Yes, I don’t know anything about you . But what I do know is you are an old ghost that died a long time ago . So now,” —Su-hyeun lifted his sword— “Go back to where you belong . ”

At Su-hyeun’s words, Wrath held his face with his hands . Then, he started to laugh uncontrollably .

“Sword…sword…”

Schwing—

Wrath drew his sword from the scabbard .

“How dare you talk about the sword in front of me!”