Chapter 60: Storm of Blood, Heavenly Frenzy Gale
Rank 1.
That was the current standing of the Monster World Gallery.
Of course, since it had so many users, hitting first place did happen from ti to ti.
But not to the point where, like right now, a page would be completely wiped clean every five seconds with a refresh.
Truly overwhelming firepower.
What made it even more remarkable was that every single post was buzzing about one topic.
[Did you guys hear what the golem just said? Sothing about a seal???]
—I've never seen a line like that in all my ti playing, what is this?
—Aren't you sure you just misheard?
—8,000 people are witnesses, for real, absolutely not lying
—I was watching the stream too, it said exactly that
—For real, what is this? The word "seal" was never in there before
[This is exactly what it said.]
—"One who seeks to break the seal. Show strength worthy of that."
—? That's not the original line, is it?
—Did it really say that?
—I've faced the golem dozens of tis, never seen anything like this
—That's actually insane lol
A boss's lines don't change.
Except for a very special handful of cases, they're considered fixed.
The Stone Golem was no exception.
Intruder. Eliminate.
That short one-liner before entering combat was the common knowledge all users had held until now.
But just a mont ago, everything flipped.
The newly discovered easter egg sent everyone into a frenzy.
Since the Monster World Gallery had hundreds of live users, speculation moved fast.
[I've been thinking, and... isn't there a chance you can actually open the door in the back?]
—Yu Ye-rin got the sa old line but Mu-yeong got sothing different. With all this "seal" talk, it's definitely a thing.
—This actually sounds plausible?
—Wasn't that door just unimplented? No one's ever opened it
—That's exactly why we're freaking out right now lol
—What on earth is the prerequisite condition for this?
—I've been watching Mu-yeong's stream from the start and I can't even guess lol
[In my opinion, it's 100% because he killed the snake]
—There's no other explanation. He was the first to discover it in the first place, and the first to kill it.
—Then what about Yu Ye-rin?
—For real, she took the quest with him and cleared it together.
—Could it be that it only opens for the person who landed the last hit?
—That feels a bit too much;
[[Upvote request] What if the talisman the Village Chief gave was actually the key???]
—There's tons of evidence.
—Is this for real?
—Oh, soone else had the sa thought as lol
—Is your job detective or sothing?
—This is literally undeniable lol
—How did you even figure all this out?
The post shot up to trending rapidly.
Just as the view count was about to surpass 1,000 in an instant, the Gallery's atmosphere shifted again.
[Breaking: Battle started lolololol]
[Mu-yeong running around like a madman lololol]
[Is a 10-minute clear actually possible here lololol]
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Zzzzzing!
A crimson beam erupting from the golem's eyes.
The hard stone floor and pillars cracked apart like sheets of paper.
A scorching, acrid sll stabbed at his nose.
—Lololol
—Wow, that pattern showed up right away? lol
—Wasn't the laser supposed to only co out after Phase 2?
—Hell Mode ON lolololol
—If that grazes you even slightly it's instant death lolol
"Damn it."
Mu-yeong swore under his breath and deployed the Ghost Shadow Steps at Full Power.
He tried every which way to escape the golem's line of sight, but the laser showed no sign of peeling away from his shadow.
The mont he slowed even slightly, it would catch up imdiately.
Being tailed like that wasn't a pleasant feeling.
"I don't know how a blockhead can swivel its neck so well."
—Bro's got aim assist lolol
—It's auto-tracking, that's why lol
—Nobody's a match for AI lolol
—Still, if you keep running, you can survive? lol
—Stop and you die instantly, that's the thing lol
If he could take several hits and endure it, Mu-yeong would have charged in aggressively.
But that attack was clearly lethal to anyone watching.
Even a graze would split him clean in two.
He was running around until the eye laser disappeared when Yu Ye-rin, who had been hiding, leapt.
"Hap!"
Having landed on the golem's shoulder, she began swinging her sword at its cheek.
Kang! Kaang! Kaang!
First Form, Second Form, Third Form.
By the ti she had unleashed the Tenth Form of the Twenty-Four-Form Plum Blossom Sword Art, the creature's health had dropped by roughly 1%.
It imdiately regenerated, of course.
—Seriously, is clearing this even possible?
—Looks like they can barely even scratch it lol
—You need to break the stone to even look for the core, but this is just lol
—For real, it's super rough
—Honestly Level 20 was always going to be a stretch
Even so, Yu Ye-rin didn't give up and kept on pushing through the Forms.
Countless plum blossoms rained down upon the golem.
The Stone Golem lifted its arm as if swatting away a nuisance.
Eliminate.
A tone utterly devoid of emotion.
The golem slamd its palm down onto its own shoulder where Yu Ye-rin had been standing, as if swatting a fly.
Kung!
It struck so hard that the shoulder it had slapped was left in tatters.
Yu Ye-rin, who had already launched herself into the air, called out with hawk-sharp eyes.
"Mu-yeong! It seems like the core isn't in the right shoulder!"
"Understood."
—Oh? What's this?
—Was that deliberate self-sacrifice?
—Operation success?
—That's actually smart
—That was legitimately well done lol
Without missing the mont, Mu-yeong charged forward.
No half-hearted probing. Even if it regenerates, finding out the core's location is the primary goal.
Kwaaaaa!
The internal energy stored in his energy center drained out like an ebbing tide.
A trendous amount of energy began surging and rolling across his sword.
He kept pushing it in without stopping.
He compressed it, and compressed it again, until at so point the haze vanished as if refined.
Sword Force.
A lofty realm attainable only by those who had reached at least the peak of the Supre Pinnacle, requiring the Transcendence Realm to fully master—and it was unfolding right there in Mu-yeong's hands.
As if sensing that energy, the golem turned its head back toward Mu-yeong.
Kung! Kung! Kung!
Belying its massive bulk, the creature ca bounding forward in great strides.
The golem, closing the distance with terrifying speed, jumped with full force.
—Whoa whoa?
—It's going to collide?
—Dodge!
—RUUUUN!!!
—This is done for?
—My points!!!!!
—Contrarian Bet wins HAHA
Mu-yeong looked up at the shadow falling over him.
Srung.
Crimson Sword Energy resting on a sword pointed at the sky.
Wind began to spiral around it as its center.
This is the first ti I'm using this on stream, isn't it?
Honestly, lately Mu-yeong had been wondering whether he should just freely use the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
For one, the only people who could use it were the Sect Leader and himself.
But would there be anyone who had directly witnessed this martial art being used in a life-or-death battle?
And even if they had, would they have survived to tell of it?
Frankly speaking, unless the Sect Leader had gone around bragging and showing it off for sport, that would be impossible.
On top of that, it's suspicious that the Martial Alliance Leader and the Divine Monk are staying so quiet.
The two of them would likely possess intelligence-gathering capabilities beyond imagination.
Yet even after watching the Annihilation Strike and the Heavenly Demon Flash of the Heavenly Demon Three Swords, there had been no reaction whatsoever.
That could only an they truly didn't know, or they were pretending not to.
In that case, wasn't it really fine?
His reason for hiding his identity in the first place wasn't to be wary of the Orthodox faction's forces—it was to prevent his cult mbers from donating mindlessly.
Having finished his deliberation, Mu-yeong properly let his killing aura rise.
Hwuuuung!
—Hm?
—Sothing's off here
—No way
—That's too much even for this situation
—He's trying to overpower the golem head-on with that?
—That's just free win ntality lol
The wind kept growing, transforming into sothing like a small hurricane.
A storm of blood-red.
The viewers who had been smirking monts ago wiped the smiles off their faces.
—What the
—What is this?
—Never seen anything like it
—Whoa
—;;
—……
—What even is this
A sight that made your skin crawl and your spine run cold even through a monitor.
Just as everyone had lost the ability to speak and had even forgotten to type in the chat—
"Going from the right side."
Mu-yeong, who had bent his knees, snapped them straight.
And it appeared on stream for the very first ti.
The final Form of the Heavenly Demon Three Swords.
Heavenly Frenzy Gale.
Kagagagang!
A blade storm coiled around the golem's right leg.
A sound like tal being scraped and a shower of sparks flooding the screen.
It was as if a stone was being ground apart in a blender.
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—Co on, with 95% damage reduction, breaking through that would be pure shalessness lol
—For real, does that even make sense
—No matter how strong Mu-yeong is, that's impossible
—Still, with sothing like that, there'll at least be a lot of scratch marks?
—Even so, it'll probably just peel off the outer armor
Everyone watched with sweaty palms, waiting for the outco.
Five seconds that felt like five years passed, and the wind died down.
The viewers who confird the interior were left in shock.
—?
—???
—Is this real?
—What the lolol
—Holy sh*t lolol
—How did he even do that lolol
—What even is this lolol
And no wonder—the golem's leg, which had been like the base of a five-hundred-year-old tree.
Had shrunk down to a size one adult could wrap their arms around.
—Wait, I thought there was 90% damage reduction????
—It also has its own passive reducing physical attacks by half?
—Bug found! Bug found! Bug found! Bug found! Bug found!
—Breaking: Mu-yeong legend updated again lololol
—Don't cheat, co on lololol
It was a scene that made no sense no matter how many tis you saw it.
Just how powerful did you have to be to overco all those debuffs and pull off sothing like this?
A display of martial prowess that only he could explain.
But Mu-yeong seed hardly concerned by it.
"The right side has none, for now."
"The right side has none, for now."
Mu-yeong casually flicked his sword clean as if it were nothing.
Mu-yeong casually flicked his sword clean as if it were nothing.
Then he watched the fragnts of stone slowly beginning to recombine.
Ssseussseuk.
It would keep repeating until the core was destroyed, but it didn't have many repetitions left.
Kugugunng!
Mu-yeong raised the storm again.
From within it, he thrust his arm forward while radiating an even deeper crimson glint in his eyes.
"Next is the left."
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"Ha ha ha......."
Dan Jung-seon let out an empty laugh, unable to find words.
At the lower right corner of his monitor, there was soone reacting in exactly the sa way.
[Shaolin Temple Captain]: Sword Force???? Sword Foooorce?????
[Shaolin Temple Captain]: He even maintained Sword Force while pulling off that insane Form with that power???
[Shaolin Temple Captain]: Alliance Leader, is what I just witnessed actually real?
Honestly, that was the question Dan Jung-seon wanted to ask first.
Mu-yeong's martial prowess?
He had been gauging it at no lower than mid-Supre Pinnacle, with a range extending even above that.
But Sword Force all of a sudden?
"Peak Demonic realm? Transcendence Realm? What do you think this is, a neighbor's dog's na!?"
Kwang!
Honestly, if he was being really honest, a part of him had already anticipated this.
But anticipating sothing and having it confird in reality was a difference greater than heaven and earth.
Dan Jung-seon, deep in shock, stared into the monitor as if boring through it.
Each ti Mu-yeong moved, the golem's form was changing.
Kagagagang!
The thickness of its left leg shrank to a third.
Both arms beca thin as toothpicks.
"The word 'genius' isn't enough to explain that."
A supre predator that reigns over a multitude of geniuses.
A monster.
That was the only word he could think of.
When was it that I broke through the wall of the Transcendence Realm?
Even he, called a genius among geniuses, had only reached that realm after turning thirty.
But Mu-yeong looks even younger than that.
No matter how many hidden reclusive masters there are in the martial world, was this even possible?
"Was it true all along that he has power that transcends his realm...?"
Dan Jung-seon let out a hollow laugh and pushed his chair back.
Just as he was trying to let his mind wander for a mont, what stopped him was a loud sound from the speaker.
Kugunng!
The golem that had been standing fine buckled to its knees.
—Just the main body left, let's go
—Once you check the torso and head, it's over
—3 minutes left, that's more than enough lol
—For real, everyone who made a Short Bet, declare yourselves dead lol
—Is this actually getting cleared? lol
—New record, here we goooo!!!
A snapped-back Dan Jung-seon pressed his face closer to the monitor again.
"...... Well, let's win the bet first."
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