## Chapter 307 – Lingering Scent of Flowers
I butcher the enemies like a Yaksha.
Subdue me without a scratch? Don’t be ridiculous. Even if you attack with all your might, you can’t defeat me before my stamina runs out!
Don’t underestimate me, who survived in this other world!
—Shaaaash!
—Shaaaaa!
So, no excuses are needed.
“Kkyaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!”
I unleash a roar, drawing up my stamina.
After all, there’s no future for me anyway.
I see heaven. I’ll probably die and go to heaven. But you guys will go to hell. —Thwack! I immediately retrieve the swung blade and slash the rear, simultaneously combining Blood Heaven Asura and Heavenly Demon Shattering Palm to smash the enemies on the left and right.
—Shushuk!
With a series of stabs, I skewer the incoming bastards like meat skewers, and as I pull them out, I slam an Asura Blood Fiend Fist into them, shaking them off.
—Shaaaaaash!!!
The strength of the Chief Officer Swordplay and Chief Officer Fist Technique is, after all, change and combination.
From sword to kick, from kick to fist. Returning from fist to sword completes the sword dance. If I could perfectly mix Taekwondo and Heavenly Demon Divine Art, I might truly reach the realm beyond the heavens…!
It was too bad that I couldn’t see that realm.
—Shaaaaaash!!!
Seeing their sisters being sliced apart, the Dryads fall into a frenzy and roar. —Kkyaaaaaaaak!!! I respond to that cry as well.
In this space now, there are winners and losers, but no cowards. Good! Warriors! Come at me until the moment you die! —Papat! Sharply shot fingernails aim for my carotid artery!
“Where do you think you’re going!”
—Paak!
I immediately knock away the fingernails with my gauntlet and stab a knife into the bastard’s armpit. —Shaaaash! She screams and disappears, turning into leaves.
—I’ve already cut down dozens.
However, the Dryads’ fighting spirit still hasn’t been broken, and there are still dozens of them rushing at me.
“Shit!”
How much longer can I last?
Even if I kill all the Dryads, there’s no hope anyway. But… now I can only swing my sword.
—Paaat!
The Dryads rush in again.
I banish my thoughts and raise my sword.
Just as I’m about to draw out all the potential of my body and unleash the sword dance again,
—Stop!!!
Alaune’s scolding-like shout is heard.
—Susut.
At that one word, ‘Stop,’ the Dryads, who had transformed into berserkers and fallen into a trance of battle, instantly withdrew their killing intent and retreated.
They went to the rear and formed ranks like well-trained soldiers. As expected, the queen is a queen. Such leadership.
“…I didn’t know you were such a ferocious child?”
Alaune said with a tone of regret and a little anger.
So, you were just planning to subdue me?
You have big dreams, you dumb bitch.
“Haa… haa… Thanks for giving me a break.”
I slowly breathe and check my stamina. Fortunately, the soaring mana was hardly consumed.
But… how far will my stamina reach?
“I didn’t want to use this ability. I became greedy, so I can’t help it… Well, it’s been a while since I came to my senses, so it would be good to test it. Now, black child.”
—Sarararak.
As if receiving falling rain, Alaune spreads her palms, and on top of her palm, something like a bright yellow tulip made of melted gold rises.
…A flower?
“What’s that?”
“Let’s make it easy now. With this, your consciousness will disappear. It’s a shame you won’t be able to enjoy it, but I’ll make sure to use your essence properly.”
—Pachut!
Suddenly, a brilliant light begins to pour out from the tulip!
“Wh, what!”
It was like a frenzied golden radiance leaking from the crack of the most secret treasure vault in the underground of the golden land of El Dorado!! The light was so intense that my eyes were about to be blinded!!!
“What is this brilliant light… Kuaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!!”
The light covered me!!!!!!!
“Kkyaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!!!”
In a world that had become more brilliant than touching the sun, I felt like I was being dragged into the darkness. Hot and cold at the same time… Could it be.
This is.
Death?
“I wish you had quietly followed my will… Tsk tsk tsk.”
It was clear that my essence was flying to the other side of an unknown world. The last thing I heard was Alaune’s voice clicking her tongue.
Not a good.
End.
****
“Unexpectedly, heaven was a lackluster place.”
When I opened my eyes to the cold chill, I instinctively realized that this place was the afterlife. Contrary to many people’s common sense, the scenery of heaven was not very colorful.
The River of Three Crossings or the Northern Mang Mountain would be more colorful.
The heaven I went to was, yeah.
It was a chillingly infinitely black and desolate space.
—Like my inner world.
“What?”
No, am I really dead?
Looking around, there was really nothing around me. No floor, no walls, no ceiling, just infinite darkness.
It was a familiar… space.
When I tried moving my body, it moved too naturally.
Above all, my attire.
Currently, I was naked. My body, honed to the extreme and stained with scars etched in the storms of time.
Fortunately, my fire rod was properly attached.
I was going to jerk off, but I stopped because it looked like someone was watching.
“Is my heart… beating?”
When I put my hand on my chest, I felt my heart throbbing powerfully.
…Am I not dead?
While I was thinking about this and that in confusion,
—Thud thud.
—Thud thud.
—Thud thud.
In the space of nothingness, I heard a footstep that I could never forget. That sound and constant stride… Yeah, I know that guy.
—Tsssh.
“Are you Bulverza?”
Its identity was Bulverza.
No, why is Bulverza here… Is this really heaven? Could it be that I have to go to heaven with the guys I’ve killed from now on?
—Shaaaaa.
While I was seriously contemplating life and death,
“Oh my god…! You’re that Dryad from back then!”
The Dryad I met during the promotion battle appeared.
—Kyuuuuusaaaaaaat…!
“And you’re the Kobold Guardian!!!!”
Bulverza, a Dryad. And even a Kobold Guardian!
My friends-like beings came to greet me! I was genuinely happy and started to feel happy. These bastards! They were waiting for me as friends!!
“You motherfucking bastards! You came!!!”
When I waved my hand, they each took out their weapons.
“…”
Yeah.
That’s right.
We weren’t really on good terms in the first place.
“Yeah, long time no see. My friends, I’m so glad to see you. Aren’t you guys glad to see me, you bastards?”
At some point, armor was put on my body. Armor was put on, and a familiar sword was held in my grip. —Tsssh! —Shaaaaaash! —Kyuuuuuu!! And Bulverza raised his axe. The Dryad raised her fingernails. The Kobold Guardian raised his fist.
—Thud thud.
I approached them.
“No words needed.”
—Paaat!
The battle began.
These bastards and I are destined to fight forever. They are the guys I’ve been killing endlessly in my inner world. I’ve memorized all their patterns and habits for a long time.
—Pachit!
I deflect Bulverza’s axe, block his improvisation, and then shove my sword into his mouth. —Pshik! The Dryad is nothing to talk about. I’ve been killing her like crazy until just now. I kill her in an instant and stick a Thunderbolt Rakshasa Palm into the Kobold Guardian’s heart.
I, who have become stronger than before, was able to cut down the three guys without much difficulty.
“Fucking cunts, really.”
Black blood flowed from the corpses of the fallen bastards.
Then.
—Kyuuuuuu!
—Kuwaaaaaaaa!!
—Kroooooooo!
—Orororong!!!
—Techyaaaaaaaat!!!
Behind the corpses, there were infinite beings of evil filling the horizon.
The guys who screamed each were all the robbers, monsters, and monsters I had killed so far.
“…It seems that this place is.”
—Clatter clatter.
The armies full of hatred and resentment marched towards me.
There were so many that the entire earth seemed to be a procession of monsters.
“It seems that this wasn’t heaven, but hell.”
—Buooooooo!!! Old Man Bogey howled from the east. —Kuoaaaaaaa! What was roaring from the west was the last monster that survived the Struggle of Solitude, and —Kkaaaaaak!!! What was screaming while flying in the air was the Black Birdman. —Piriririri! Even the Pied Piper Demon is playing.
Enemies filling the horizon.
The beings that originated from my nightmares and fears.
Those monsters, mixed in with the army, approached me.
—Kuaaaaaaaa!!
—Jueeeeeee!!!
Following them were the giants of the heretics and the Flash Golem. Even the owner of the mountain range, the Ogre, appeared, and even the fishmen of the seabed rose up.
They’re planning to kill me.
“My karma is deep.”
The monsters filling the world screamed endlessly, spewing out ferocious howls and advancing.
There are many.
Too many.
“It’s like a scene from the Struggle of Solitude.”
I could no longer tell whether this place was a world derived from my mind, heaven, or hell. All of that was the same and also mixed together.
“Good.”
However.
I have a sword in my hand.
And they are marching to kill me.
Then there’s only one thing to do, isn’t there?
Grip the sword.
Take a stance.
After all, this is all I can do in this other world.
“—Wabarat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Kuoaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
The demon army covered me. The ones that were pouring out hatred from all directions were twice as ferocious as the Dryad army I had faced earlier. The girls, who were even more crazed than before, were truly no different from the berserkers in mythology.
It doesn’t end there.
Alaune, who was completely enraged, summoned dozens of giant vines and shot them at me like snakes trying to devour the world.
A desperate attack.
However.
“I.”
ㅡDeclare.
“I am the Heavenly Demon, Kim Katz.”
ㅡGrip the sword.
“A being beyond the heavens.”
The power of omnipotence seeps into every joint of my fingers.
This was the power of Buddha, King David, and the true Hwanung.
“Did you really think you could win with such a scarecrow-like army?”
Heavenly Demon Death Beam.
It was merely a fleeting taste of the ultimate realm, achieved through Alaune’s illusion, which had reached its zenith, and my own infinite inner world. That illusory strike vanished completely as my inner world collapsed.
But, that sensation.
Certainlyㅡ
“ㅡRemains in my hand.”
Mana and muscle explode.
“True Mounting Sword Art, Second Esoteric Secret Technique.”
What follows is the ultimate slashing technique that transcends my abilities to the extreme.
“Mounting Incision.”
ㅡSwish.
Drawing the sword.
That was all.
ㅡThe ultimate swordsmanship severed the world.
