Chapter 1004
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“Kugh…”
Even with his neck severed by Heavenly Drive and the Wooden Wheel Sword, and his heart blown apart, The Fallen One groaned, his golden eyes shifting.
Whoosh!
He wasn’t just alive—he was reattaching his severed head and neck, piecing together the fragments of his shattered heart, forcing himself back toward his original form.
“Crazy…”
Raon let out a dry laugh as he watched the regeneration.
‘He’s regenerating even in this state?’
“He’s more tenacious than a troll. He reminds me of the Pamas Clan.”
Wrath grimaced in disgust.
‘I need to finish this for good.’
Raon raised Heavenly Drive, flames of Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation coiling along the blade as he prepared to split The Fallen One’s head—
Thud!
His body was shoved back. Even like this, the bastard used Transcendental Thought to repel him.
“You worm!”
Evelyn frowned in revulsion and formed a spell with her Mana-infused hand.
“No, a worm is cuter than you!”
As she completed the incantation, The Fallen One’s regenerating neck and heart solidified as if cast in plaster.
“M-Merlin…”
“Just die.”
Evelyn extended a finger. Mana concentrated.
The Fallen One’s half-regenerated body lost strength and plummeted.
“Explode.”
Evelyn didn’t stop at sealing his regeneration. She unleashed a chain of high-level fire spells.
Kuwahhhhh!
Giant meteors of flame crashed down, engulfing his head and torso.
But The Fallen One erected defenses—magic and spells layered together—preventing total annihilation.
“Raon!”
“I know!”
Raon was already moving. He closed in and swung Heavenly Drive.
Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation: Heavenly Flame – Flame Dragon Break.
A fire dragon erupted from the silver blade, swallowing The Fallen One’s head and torso along with the spellwork shrouding them.
Crack!
The spells trapped in the dragon’s maw were torn to pieces.
Kwaaaang!
As if waiting for that instant, Evelyn unleashed another high-level spell, obliterating The Fallen One’s exposed body.
Whooooosh!
Heavenly Flame: Flame Dragon Break and Evelyn’s magic burned his body to ash.
Not a single speck remained.
Below, the ground had burst open into a bottomless black abyss. It looked as if not only his body, but even his soul, had been burned away.
“Haa…”
Evelyn sank to the ground, not even wiping the cold sweat from her forehead.
“He was disgustingly persistent.”
Only then did she lower her head, relief finally breaking through.
“Are you okay?”
Raon approached, sheathing Heavenly Drive and the Wooden Wheel Sword.
“Are you worried about me? How wonderful!”
Evelyn beamed at him, delighted.
“Ugh…”
Raon frowned. That tone. That ridiculous joy.
Merlin was definitely back.
– “She is a crazy bitch. I feel sorry for her, but she is crazy.”
Wrath shook his head.
‘That’s true.’
Raon chuckled faintly and nodded—
“Ah…”
Evelyn groaned and suddenly toppled to the right.
“Evelyn!”
Raon lunged forward and caught her.
“I… I might have overdone it a little.”
Evelyn wiped blood from her mouth and smiled faintly.
“Honestly, spell interpretation isn’t easy.”
She shook her head, saying The Fallen One’s spells were unbelievably complex—confusing enough to demand enormous mental effort.
“If I hadn’t awakened and been able to read the flow of light-and-darkness magic, it would’ve been dangerous.”
She took a deep breath, saying she had barely been able to keep up thanks to reaching transcendence.
“I guess so.”
Raon nodded, wiping sweat from her forehead.
‘It must have been brutal.’
Even awakened, Evelyn couldn’t match The Fallen One in Mana, magic, or experience.
Yet she had overturned that disadvantage by interpreting and dismantling his spells.
Her mind must have been burning.
“Ha…”
Larian scoffed down at them.
“You actually caught him?”
She shook her head, as if it still didn’t feel real.
Still, her eyes darted around, as if she didn’t fully trust his death.
“Rest for a moment.”
Raon waved at Evelyn and stood.
“I need to deal with what’s left.”
He looked at the Eden fiends The Fallen One had brought and drew Heavenly Drive again.
‘This won’t be too difficult.’
There were Masters and Grand Masters among them, but they weren’t a threat to him now.
And Larian was holding off the Wraith-masked one with ease.
He could finish it quickly.
“I’ll be right bac—”
“Leave the cleanup to that old lady.”
Evelyn tugged Raon’s sleeve with a fingertip.
“Carry me on your back.”
She pouted, saying she couldn’t get up.
“Huh…?”
Raon blinked at her as she hunched her shoulders.
“Carry me. I can’t get up.”
She stretched out her arms, urging him.
“Don’t talk nonsense! Clean them up before they escape! And…”
Larian frowned and stabbed a dagger between Raon and Evelyn.
“I’m not an old lady!”
She bared her teeth.
“Haa…”
Raon sighed.
“If you still can’t get up after I’m done, I’ll carry you.”
He told Mark Gorton to stay with her, then stepped toward the Eden fiends.
“Let’s finish this quickly. We don’t have much time.”
Flames and a frost rose along Heavenly Drive and the Wooden Wheel Sword.
Petals of heat and cold scattered endlessly, washing over the Eden fiends.
Kwaaaaaa!
They tried to counterattack or flee, but his aura—now in the realm of transcendence—packed the power of an unparalleled expert into every tiny petal, burning them to ash or freezing them solid.
“Crazy…”
“H-He’s not just a simple transcendent.”
“We can’t even escape…”
The Eden executives swallowed hard, retreating from the terrifying dual element attacks.
“He’s quite impressive indeed.”
Larian smacked her lips, muttering that she wanted to research him.
“Kugh…”
The Devouring Fiend regenerated his punctured body the moment he fell back from Larian.
“Is regeneration a basic skill for Eden’s guys?”
Larian chuckled.
“Well, it’s no different from a chimera that mixes everything together.”
She said it wasn’t even worth researching—and then her head snapped around.
“Raon!”
Larian shouted, staring behind Evelyn.
Thud!
The instant Raon heard her, he looked at Evelyn instead of behind him.
Whoosh!
The Fallen One—wearing a gray robe—rose from Evelyn’s shadow.
Unscathed.
As if time itself had been rewound, he stood whole, golden eyes gleaming.
Thud!
Raon moved before thought could catch up.
Supreme Harmony Step.
He stepped in and blocked The Fallen One’s hand as it stabbed for Evelyn’s neck.
Clang!
Thanks to the dagger Larian had embedded in the ground, he stopped The Fallen One from tearing Evelyn’s throat.
But he was too rushed to use his full strength.
His right arm throbbed as if it would snap.
Internal muscles and blood vessels had ruptured.
“Kugh…”
Raon pulled the bewildered Evelyn back and placed himself in front of her.
“You…”
He bit his lip, staring at The Fallen One, who stood calmly as if nothing had happened.
“What the hell are you?”
He couldn’t understand it.
Neck severed. Heart destroyed.
And still he returned.
“It seems…”
Evelyn drew a ragged breath and rose slowly.
“He’s created a new resurrection method, perhaps?”
She frowned, saying it felt different from before.
‘This isn’t good.’
They had poured a ridiculous amount of stamina and Mana into killing him once.
If he could revive immediately, the situation was hopeless.
“It’s okay.”
Larian snorted down at The Fallen One.
“Time reversal isn’t a spell he can keep using. Your attacks definitely worked.”
She nodded, saying The Fallen One looked exhausted too.
“You can step aside if you can’t fight. I’ll finish him.”
While pressuring the Devouring Fiend with five daggers, Larian flicked her fingers.
“Thank you for the offer, but…”
Raon shook his head.
“I—no. We will finish him.”
He tightened his grip on the sword.
“Can you do it?”
He asked Evelyn without looking back.
“Of course!”
Evelyn brushed dust from her hands and smiled brightly.
“I was disappointed it ended so quickly, actually.”
She resonated ten Circles, drawing in nature’s Mana without end.
“Hoo…”
The Fallen One looked down at Raon and Evelyn and exhaled coldly.
“It seems I underestimated you.”
He clicked his tongue and glanced at Larian. He had likely planned to dispose of them quickly and then face her.
“From now on, I will take you seriously.”
He pressed his hands together, extending only his thumb, index finger, and pinky.
An ominous spell bloomed from the joined fingertips.
Oooooong!
The ravaged mountainside shook as if ready to collapse.
Behind The Fallen One, a giant sun and moon rose.
The sun gleamed bright white.
The moon was dyed jet-black.
‘This is…’
Raon swallowed hard.
‘The one I saw when fighting Grandfather…’
The sun and moon The Fallen One had unleashed—claiming it was his full power—when Glenn had arrived.
He was truly trying to kill them.
Kugugugugu!
At The Fallen One’s fingertips, the sun and moon began to overlap like mirrored reflections.
Light sun. Dark moon.
Lightning erupted as they merged into a single sphere.
Gooooooo!
The light turned into a hollow gray, forming an absolute current that sucked everything in like a black hole.
Kwaaaaaa!
The sky split like a spiderweb.
Lava surged from cracked earth.
The mountain collapsed.
The Fallen One’s aura dominated the space—no, the entire region.
‘This is…’
Raon stared at the majestic gray sphere drifting toward them.
‘I can’t block it.’
With his current power, he couldn’t stop magic of that level. The instant his sword met it, he would be erased from this world.
“It’s okay.”
Evelyn stepped up behind him and gently nudged his arm with her elbow.
“I’ll try to create an opening.”
Her eyes flickered rapidly, reading the flow.
“There’s definitely one.”
Black blood spilled from her nose.
Internal bleeding from overusing her mind.
But she ignored the blood flowing from her nose, eyes, and ears, forcing all her attention onto The Fallen One’s magic.
‘Right.’
Raon stared forward.
‘I have to fight to the end too.’
If Evelyn wouldn’t back down, neither could he.
Even if he died to that emptiness, he had to struggle to the end.
Oooooong!
He resonated nine Rings of Fire, dragging out every last drop of Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and Glacier.
Heat and cold surged along both blades, giving him a confidence like he held Heavenly Drive and Soul Requiem Sword again.
“Upper right…”
Evelyn raised her trembling hand, pointing to the upper right of the gray sphere—now larger than a mountain.
“Break through there. I’ll make a path.”
She patted his shoulder gently.
“Okay.”
Raon kicked off the crumbling ground and charged.
‘Just looking at it is suffocating.’
This was far worse than the vortex earlier.
Even approaching it felt like his soul was being peeled away.
‘But I have no choice.’
Like cracking stone with an egg.
He trusted Evelyn and kept going.
Kugugugugu!
The sphere of emptiness filled his vision.
The undulating gray light alone made his heart feel ready to burst.
Still, he didn’t slow.
He raised his sword for the strike—
“Now!”
A red mark etched itself into the upper right of the gray sphere.
A thin crack formed.
Crack!
Raon didn’t miss it.
The Soul Requiem Sword—launched in advance through Sword Control—shot forward.
Oooooong!
Wrapped in wind and lightning, it stretched like a spear.
‘This won’t be enough.’
Even with the crack, the current Soul Requiem Sword couldn’t pierce that gray sphere.
‘This is a gamble.’
Raon bit down, opened his Mental World, and manifested every Sword Field he had seen and learned.
Sword Field Creation : Genesis Blade.
A golden sword strike carrying heaven’s wrath collided with gray emptiness.
Kwaaaaaa!
It was the pinnacle of swordsmanship.
Yet the gray emptiness refused to waver, erasing everything that touched it.
But the crack Evelyn had made couldn’t withstand Genesis Blade’s pressure.
It crumbled.
A small hole opened.
‘Now!’
Raon dove through the opening and charged for The Fallen One behind it.
“You crazy bastard!”
For the first time, The Fallen One forgot his honorifics.
He twisted his right hand, drawing emptiness again.
‘I read it.’
Raon read the pattern and cut down along its opposite flow.
Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation: Heavenly Flame – Flame Blossom.
Crack!
Golden flames tore through the wall of emptiness and savaged The Fallen One’s chest.
“Cough!”
The Fallen One staggered back, clutching the torn wound.
“Not yet.”
Raon pursued and split his neck with the Wooden Wheel Sword.
Swaaaaa!
The blade—imbued with the cold of Wrath’s ultimate move, Silver Aurora—froze The Fallen One’s head pure white.
“Kugh…”
Raon wanted to destroy him completely—
But after Sword Field Creation and consecutive full-power strikes, his body refused to move.
“I’ll do it now.”
Evelyn floated up and clasped her hands together.
Countless magic circles unfolded behind her, shaped like butterfly wings.
“Disappear!”
At the command packed with her will, innumerable spells rained down on The Fallen One’s severed body.
Kwaaaaaa!
Before the raging magic that could erase even emptiness, The Fallen One couldn’t leave behind a single spell.
He crumbled into dust.
Whooooosh!
Evelyn erased even the last mountain ridge and fell, her strength finally spent.
“Evelyn!”
Raon forced life into his trembling legs and caught her.
“Are you okay?”
His jaw shook as he looked at her bleeding from eyes, nose, and mouth.
“Finally…”
Evelyn smiled softly.
“You’re hugging me.”
She rubbed her face against his chest, relieved.
“Ah…”
Raon gently set her down and squeezed his eyes shut.
– “Hoo….”
Wrath slumped, sighing.
– “I have nothing to say except that she is a real crazy bitch.”
Even he sounded relieved.
“……”
Larian bit her lip, staring down at Raon and Evelyn.
“Go flirt somewhere else!”
(T/N : Hahaha)
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