[Translator - Kiteretsu]
[Proofreader - Kyros]
Chapter 380
“This is our chance. Even if it’s not ideal, we need to take the gamble.”
“You don’t need to worry too much. I’ll wrap myself in the Genesis Device to conceal both my appearance and my information.”
The divine realm where they reside is an organized hierarchy.
Below the God,there is the Sovereign, the Demon King, and the Apostles.
Beneath them roam countless demonkin who have failed to transcend.
“Demonkin” refers to those who sold their souls and yet failed to ascend as Transcendents—thus falling into corruption.
These corrupted beings spend eternity as the servants of Transcendents.
It is nothing short of a horrifying fate.
Currently, the level of pure dark energy that Jeong-hoon possesses is 78%.
Demonkin can sense how much dark energy others hold.
Since all Transcendents in the divine realm wield the power of darkness, the absence of this energy would be suspicious.
“I really need to get my dark energy to 100%.”
The force that originally corrupted creations into demonkin is the Power of Darkness.
That power drives the process of demonization and turns beings into demonkin.
Of course, unlike them, Jeong-hoon is gathering pure dark energy, so such a fall won’t happen to him.
“Accumulate energy?”
Originally, the Absorption Technique could only extract attributes and experience from others.
However, now that his dark energy is reacting to the Power of Darkness, it forcibly absorbs it.
Of course, just because it’s forcibly absorbed doesn’t an he can use the Power of Darkness right away—it must be filtered by Jeong-hoon himself.
‘Hmm… I’ll keep that in mind and try it if I get the chance.’
For now, the priority is to accumulate divine energy.
Currently, his divine energy stands at 47.54%.
It hasn’t yet passed the 50% mark.
How much will he be able to accumulate during this visit to the divine realm?
[Would you like to move to the Divine Realm?]
He opened the gate to the Divine Realm using his authority as its master and stepped inside.
The portal swallowed Jeong-hoon.
* * *
At that mont—
The Harpha race had reached the first checkpoint.
“Oh, hey, this is our script, isn’t it?”
“If we complete the missing part of the inscription, the barrier activates?”
“Nice. Let’s do it right away!”
Unlike humans, the Harpha didn’t even need to decipher it.
As soon as they filled in the missing script, a circular barrier was deployed.
“They said they’d give us a special advantage… Guess they weren’t lying.”
The wounded Phros forced a smile with difficulty.
"She's still not healed?"
Chopper snapped at Laura, who was frantically trying to treat Frost beside him.
"Ugh, this doesn’t make sense. It's just a gunshot wound, so why isn’t it healing?"
Worse yet, the wound was quickly festering.
At this rate, they might have to amputate her leg.
"Leave it. This kind of wound can’t be healed."
Frost, drenched in cold sweat, refused treatnt.
"What are you talking about?"
"I’ve been a tank for years—I’ve taken injuries like this more tis than I can count. But this gunshot wound... it’s different."
"Different how?"
"…Since earlier, it feels like sothing hot is spreading through my body. It’s hard to breathe, I feel nauseous, my head is spinning, and my vision is going dark."
"You should’ve said sothing sooner!"
"Sorry… I thought I could hold out since I’ve got high regeneration. I figured ti would help."
"Cut off the leg, now!"
Chopper shouted, panicked.
Damn it, Frost, you idiot.
They thought it wasn’t that serious because it didn’t look bad on the outside, but this was worse than expected.
"Frost! I’m giving you anesthesia now!"
Laura quickly tried to administer anesthesia.
But for so reason, it had no effect.
"Khagh! L-looks like you’ll have to do it without anesthesia."
Every ti the anesthesia spell entered her body, it felt like her entire being was burning.
"…Got it. Frost, I’ll make it quick. Bear with the pain."
"Aaaaagh!"
* * *
[You have entered the Divine Realm: Village of Udarc.]
Jeong-hoon appeared in the village of Udarc, a remote area far from the center of the Divine Realm.
This village was ho to about a hundred demonfolk.
[3 hours remaining before you can return.]
Once inside the Divine Realm, one is unable to leave for three hours.
That ant he needed to keep a low profile for at least that long.
""
Tenebris muttered with a skeptical look.
The guy not only gave them information but also promised to shield them from the gaze of the Nad beings.
But why would soone who stabbed them in the back suddenly act so helpful?
No matter how you looked at it, this slled like a trap.
"The die’s already been cast. You're with , and just in case, I covered the Creation Device to conceal us doubly. We should be able to survive the three hours."
""
"More importantly, you said you hid sothing here?"
The reason Jeong-hoon specifically chose the village of Udarc—
It was to acquire a hidden opportunity Tenebris had stashed away.
He had a habit of hiding valuable things, which is why the five Nad often called him a bastard behind his back.
“…Can I really trust you?”
“If this blows up, it’s all on you.”
“Fine. Just tell the location.”
They had to hurry.
The goal was to absorb as much energy as possible while others bought them ti in the first round.
“Huh? Who are you?”
As Jeong-hoon made his way across the village toward the place Tenebris had pointed out, a demon wandering the streets suddenly approached him.
“……”
Jeong-hoon silently stared at the demon.
The demonification process had progressed to the point that it clearly resembled a devil.
The left half of its face looked as though it had lted completely, and it gave off a foul stench—making it the kind of demon no one would want to approach.
“I just wanted to ask you sothing.”
Though it was mumbling, Jeong-hoon could still understand it clearly.
He tried to walk past the demon.
Even though one could draw upon the power of darkness from a demon, Jeong-hoon didn’t want to provoke it unnecessarily—especially not before discovering the hidden opportunity Tenebris had ntioned.
There was still enough ti left, so ignoring it for now was the wise choice.
However, the demon had no intention of letting Jeong-hoon pass so easily.
“Hey, I said stop and hear out, didn’t I?”
The demon placed a hand on Jeong-hoon’s shoulder.
This is seriously annoying.
Jeong-hoon grabbed the demon’s wrist and twisted it slightly.
“Gyaaak!”
The demon scread and dropped to its knees.
“Shut up.”
With those words, Jeong-hoon kicked the demon in the stomach.
Thwack!
Its body folded in half and flew backward—slamming straight into a wall.
“What the—?”
“What’s going on?”
The small commotion caused doors of nearby huts to open, and one by one, other demons began spilling out.
To avoid their attention, Jeong-hoon used the Heavenly Demon Lord’s Dominion Footwork and quickly exited the village.
‘Will that be okay…? Maybe it would’ve been better to just kill him.’
Mukho muttered with a face full of regret.
“Killing him would’ve made things complicated.”
‘Complicated?’
“Yeah. They’re all connected.”
When Jeong-hoon had twisted the demon’s wrist, he’d noticed faint threads running from its body to sowhere else.
He imdiately realized those threads were connected to the Apostles.
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