Chapter 1394 – 1394. God’S Atlantis
「The Living Hell has advanced to Stage 2.」
「The range of the Living Hell expands.」
「You can select the characteristics of the Living Hell.」
「Please select the characteristics of the Living Hell.」
As soon as I arrived in the Living Hell, a notification window popped up.
The Living Hell had advanced to Stage 2. Perhaps because the stage was low, the stage increase was incredibly fast.
‘It was worth filling the Living Hell with prisoners.’
I looked at the characteristics I could choose. Unlike last time, I could choose one of two characteristics.
「Corruption: The bodies of the prisoners rot. You can set the speed of corruption.」
「Parasites: Parasites grow in the bodies of the prisoners. The parasites eat away at the prisoners’ internal organs. You can set the type and behavior of the parasites.」
Corruption and parasites.
My deliberation was short.
「Select the ‘Parasites’ characteristic.」
In the case of corruption, the body rots. In other words, it becomes unsightly. On the other hand, parasites live inside the prisoner’s body. It means that they look fine on the outside.
“David.”
“Yes.”
David, the manager of hell, bowed politely. I handed him 127 new prisoners.
“These are the guys who dared to defy me. Torment them intensively for the time being. And pay special attention to interrogating this bastard. Extract all the information he knows.”
“Leave it to me. I will extract any information.”
David said with a confident tone. He had the unique ability to detect lies. It was the perfect ability to extract information.
“Barun. I look forward to seeing how long you can last in this Living Hell.”
“I will never open my mouth. Heavenly Demon, your end is near! Karok will plunge a knife into your heart!”
Barun shouted vehemently.
I chuckled and kicked him in the face.
And an hour later.
Barun’s attitude had changed. His once proud face was now filled with fear, and his stiff posture was nowhere to be found. He knelt respectfully before me and buried his head in the ground.
“I’ll do anything, anything! Please, get me out of here. Please…!”
I stomped on Barun’s head. I was annoyed, so I put too much force into my foot without realizing it. Barun’s head shattered. But as if time was rewinding, the fragments of his shattered head gathered and began to regenerate. It didn’t even take five seconds for his shattered head to regenerate. It was the effect of the Living Hell. The prisoners of the Living Hell do not die no matter what they suffer.
“If you had been this cooperative from the start, it would have been easier for both you and me.”
“You can kill me! Please, just get me out of here.”
“Kill you? It seems you still haven’t grasped your situation.”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! It was my fault! Please, get me out of here!”
“You little shit. You should have behaved when I was showing mercy.”
I was venting my anger by kicking Barun to death when I turned my head and looked at David.
“Did you get all the information?”
“There wasn’t enough time to extract all the information. But I did extract information about a rebel named Karok.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. I verified it three additional times.”
“Tell me.”
David summarized the extracted information and told me. He also summarized it as much as possible so that it was easy for me to understand. David was quite capable after all.
“Tsk. There was a cult behind the rebels. I didn’t think those guys would reach out to the barren west….”
The only good thing was that the cult hadn’t started moving in earnest.
‘They must have been planning to quietly settle down after dominating Reltia and slowly proselytize from below.’
The cult was a group of fanatics.
They believe that when a new world appears in the depths of the sea, all existing worlds will perish and disappear. They engage in religious activities to become residents of the new world.
The cult calls themselves the Deep Sea Star Sect. And they call the new world ‘R’lyeh’.
‘They’re annoying.’
I clicked my tongue.
I should deal with the rebels before I get more deeply involved with the cult.
•••
To deal with the rebels, I led the Heavenly Demon Cult’s Mafung Corps out of the city. There were less than 500 people, but I was among those 500.
I rode the Black Wolf at the front.
A wolf with black fur.
It was originally a desert wolf with brown fur, but as it mastered the Mafung Divine Art, its fur turned into a stylish black. It was also bigger than an ordinary desert wolf. And of course, it was a female.
“Let’s go, Black Wolf!”
“Krrong!”
The black wolf ran across the desert.
Two hours passed. We arrived at our destination. It was closer to Reltia than I had thought.
Enas, standing next to me, looked ahead and said as if in disbelief.
“I didn’t think their base would be this close. They were hiding the village using a barrier.”
“Since the cultists helped, this isn’t surprising. The village looks busy.”
“They’ve noticed us and are preparing for battle.”
“Well, it’s natural that they noticed us since we came here so openly.”
Enas’s face hardened as he watched the rebels’ village. It was because rebels had also risen from underground.
“…There are too many rebels. At a glance, it looks like there are 20,000. Half of them are not desert people.”
“Not only did they gather warriors from scattered desert tribes, but they also gathered mercenaries from outside.”
“Heavenly Demon, let’s retreat to Reltia and gather troops.”
“It’s fine. I’ll take care of these guys. You guys retreat.”
If there were a reasonable number, I would have fought leading the Mafung Corps. But 20,000 was too many. Even if it was the Mafung Corps, they couldn’t handle a 40-fold difference.
I took out a random magic scroll from my inventory.
[Random Magic Scroll
Tearing the magic scroll will activate a random magic. Immediately after activation, you can see what magic is activated.
Price: 3,000 points
※Caution
Depending on the magic, the user’s life may also be in danger. Use it carefully.]
Honestly, I didn’t know what magic would come out. But I had a high luck stat.
‘I don’t know if the luck of the Atlantis world will work on a random magic scroll. Well, even if it doesn’t, I have Heavenly Luck.’
Heavenly Luck.
A skill that can manipulate probability.
Using this, I would be able to draw the best magic as I wanted.
‘I use Heavenly Luck.’
[Heavenly Luck cannot affect the Play Life app.]
“Shit.”
Since the random magic scroll was a product of the Play Life app, Heavenly Luck didn’t work.
The plan went wrong from the start. But I didn’t put the random magic scroll back into my inventory. I was curious to see what kind of magic I could use by using the random magic scroll. 3,000 points. It was an excessively expensive point to use just for one magic.
‘Since this might come out again in a random draw later, I should try it out once to see how it works.’
Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天魔神功) Heavenly Demon Descent Step (天魔君臨步).
Using the Heavenly Demon Descent Step, I appeared in the center of the rebels’ village. The rebels were startled by my sudden appearance and shouted as they grabbed their weapons.
Tear!
The scroll was torn.
[Using a random magic scroll.]
[The Song of Destruction is activated.]
[The world will be destroyed in 30 seconds.]
[The form of destruction is a meteor collision.]
“What?”
I widened my eyes as I looked at the Play app notification window that only I could see. I had a bad feeling. Reflexively, I raised my head. My superhuman vision focused on somewhere in the sky. A blue light was flying towards us from far away.
My intuition was telling me that the meteor’s destination was right here. It was dangerous. I had to run away. But would I be safe if I escaped from here? With a meteor of that size falling here?
「The system is shocked!」
「The cause of destruction has been created!」
「Seong Yujin, what the hell did you do!!!」
“Ah, no. I didn’t know this would happen either.”
I flinched without realizing it.
「The system is glaring at you as if it wants to kill you.」
「The King of the Demonic Sky is chuckling.」
‘Are they going to sanction me? No, if they could sanction me, they would have done it already. The system doesn’t know about my abilities. That’s why they can’t rashly sanction me.’
Perhaps because it was a dangerous moment, my mind was working quickly.
I tore the scroll. And a giant meteor was flying towards us. The important thing here was that it wasn’t my power that was calling the giant meteor, but the power of the scroll.
‘If I were the system… I would suspect the divine seat. Someone gave me a dangerous scroll while avoiding the system’s eyes.’
That was reasonable as long as they didn’t know about the existence of the Play Life app.
「The Master of the Sky says.」
「Even if a cause has occurred, the result is not yet certain. Stop it. I will lend you my power if necessary.」
「The system refuses the Master of the Sky’s help.」
「The system exerts its power. It minimizes the cause of destruction.」
I looked at the sky and opened my mouth.
It was because I could see the size of the meteor getting smaller. The meteor turned into a meteorite and fell to the ground.
I held on as much as I could, but I couldn’t withstand the destructive power of the meteorite. That was because the meteorite fell exactly on top of my head.
My vision went dark.
[Death Resistance has been activated. You will not die for the next 15 seconds.]
[Using Full Recovery.]
I revived and looked around. The enemies and the village that had surrounded me were swept away without leaving a single cornerstone. I was in the center of a large crater, and the surrounding sand was scorching hot. Some of the sand had melted into lava.
“Kuaaaak!”
Two men jumped out of the hot sand. They were in terrible shape. One man was holding a sword, and the other man was wearing a black cassock.
“That attire… you must be Karok.”
“Heavenly Demon…! You…!! How dare you do such a cowardly thing…!!!”
“You, a rebel, are talking about cowardice. How absurd.”
I looked at the man next to Karok. He was probably a follower of the cult. He seemed to have survived the meteorite with some kind of power, but… he was coughing up blood, so he would probably die soon.
“Oh, oh…. The abyss…. The abyss is calling me…. R’lyeh… Ruin….”
The cult follower died after saying those words. It was a futile end for a guy who seemed to be at least a bishop.
“Damn it!”
Karok turned around. He started running away into the distance.
“Where do you think you’re going? You’ll die here too.”
Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天魔神功) Heavenly Demon Black Bullet (天魔黑彈).
The black energy bullet shot from my finger struck Karok’s back. It wasn’t difficult to kill a guy whose energy had weakened.
「The system proposes to you.」
「Tell us the source of the scroll. We promise a huge reward.」
「We will give you access to the Cosmic Furnace.」
“……”
I closed my mouth. I didn’t know how the system would react if it found out about the Play Life app. In times like this, it was easier to just remain silent.
‘They’ll be pestering me for a while. I’ve dealt with the rebels… let’s go back to reality.’
[Ending the play.]
