I Entered an Academy in a Ruined Game

Chapter 289 : After the End (3)

"I should hurry."

Looking at the army of demons marching toward the Human Fortress visible in the distance, Su-hyeon said.

"Are, are those all demons?"

Looking back at the frightened Kim Sang-jin, Su-hyeon said.

"I'll send someone once the situation is resolved. Please hide for a while."

"Oppa, when will you come back?"

Su-hyeon stroked Kim So-eun's head and smiled.

"I'll be back before So-eun gets hungry."

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Andromalius.

The forces led by the demon who descended with hundreds of vipers easily broke through the already largely destroyed outer walls and delivered merciless death to the humans defending the last barrier.

"Aaaahh!"

"Kuaaak!"

"Please, I don't want to die..."

"Mom."

Humans were powerless.

Worn out from prolonged fighting, lacking in nutrition, and completely exhausted.

Their once iron-like will had worn down so much it was no longer sharp.

"Just like rotten straw!"

Andromalius, enjoying the sight, burst into laughter.

"Indeed so."

"Thanks to the Great Overlord's strategy!"

"You guys are too obvious with your flattery. It's not pleasing to my ears."

Demon Andromalius said, cracking his neck.

"A sweet drink would not be out of place in this moment."

Crunch! Crunch!

Andromalius, who chewed and swallowed a viper's head whole, drank its blood as if it were wine.

"I like the sharp taste."

He belched with poisonous energy and waved his hand.

"Go. Make sure I don't have to step in."

"Understood!"

"Focus! Maintain the defense line!"

Crash!

2nd Unit Captain Seo Jun-seong tore demons apart with his telekinesis.

"Keeeek!"

"Hold your positions!"

"Wounded, retreat quickly to the back!"

4th Unit Captain Min Hae-na and 11th Unit Captain Lee Yu-jin, who were in charge of the left and right wings, slashed at the demons climbing the wall and knocked them down.

Whoosh!

3rd Unit Captain Seol Ji-yun, who was the strongest Captain after Commander Gong I-an and currently served as the leader among the new Captains, pushed back the demons with a wall of flames.

"Now!"

"Yes!"

Crack!

Zzzap!

Ice freezing and lightning from 6th Unit Captain Hwang Ji-su and Deputy Captain Kim A-yun, who prided themselves as the best in firepower combat, froze and electrocuted the demons trapped in the flames.

However.

"Hehehe! Quite stimulating!"

"I was actually feeling hot, so this is perfect."

"Can I drink this ice instead of water when I break it?"

"Shut up."

The Captains' firepower could only handle low-level demons.

Demons with rank avoided or blocked attacks with their powers and were pressing in heavily.

"Damn it."

10th Unit's new Deputy Captain 'Fist Authority' Oh Chang-seong clicked his tongue watching the scene.

"These bastards are endless."

"How boring! Isn't there anyone more audacious!"

At that moment, a demon with two pairs of massive wings spread flew into the sky.

"Damn!"

"I'll block it!"

"I'll support you."

10th Unit Captain 'Fist King' Jin Seong-geun stepped forward, and 8th Unit Deputy Captain Hong In-hyeon created wind to lift Jin Seong-geun's body.

"Die!"

A blade-like whirlwind of wind swallowed the demon.

"Not even itchy!"

But the gargoyle-like demon continued flapping its wings and rushed toward Hong In-hyeon.

"Damn!"

The demon that broke through the interference of the wind-controlling Awakened.

Hong In-hyeon barely avoided the demon's fist and sent Jin Seong-geun flying behind it.

Bam Bam Bam!

An exquisite combination attack pounded the demon's body.

"Kuuu, quite spicy!"

But that was as far as it went.

Crack!

One counterattack, delivered while withstanding all those attacks, sent Jin Seong-geun flying far away.

'The output is too different.'

That demon, solid even while receiving combined attacks from one Captain and one Deputy Captain.

The power of the forces led by the Great Overlord consisted of how many beings like that there were.

"Damn it."

Meanwhile, strong individuals were attaching themselves to other Captains, making things difficult.

'This is dangerous.'

Hong In-hyeon's expression hardened.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Want to switch if it's too much?"

"Shut up! Just watch from there!"

If they wanted, they could easily double or triple their numbers to subdue the Captains and annihilate the fortress.

'They're playing with us.'

Hong In-hyeon's fist trembled with humiliation and despair.

Clearly, the demons were enjoying humans' futile resistance.

Above all else.

In a situation where they could barely handle the Great Overlord's subordinates, there was no one among them who could defeat Great Overlord Andromalius standing with arms folded in the back.

Lee Yu-jin, Hwang Ji-su, Seo Jun-seong, Min Hae-na.

Even Seol Ji-yun.

Even Commander Gong I-an, who was watching the battle situation from a high place.

"Kuuk!"

"Aaak!"

Slowly and surely.

Squad leaders and Deputy Captains, and even Captains began to die or become incapacitated.

"Seo Jun-seong!"

"I'm fine."

Seo Jun-seong, who was bleeding from the head after taking a hit, raised his hand to his worried comrades.

"I can still hold on."

But it was just buying time.

Meanwhile, Hwang Ji-su's body was starting to freeze due to the aftereffects of excessive ability usage, and Kim A-yun was staggering as her strength drained.

Slash!

Lee Yu-jin's condition was also precarious as she somehow managed to cut down enemies with a sword whose blade was nearly gone.

Crack!

Min Hae-na, who had lost even the strength to intimidate the enemy, was barely protecting her body with staff techniques.

"Well... it's about the end."

Andromalius, who had been watching the scene, stood up from his throne of snakes.

"Haha. When despair is prolonged, humans become powerless so easily."

Andromalius spread his bizarrely long arms with twisted elbows wide.

"You fought well for vermin. It's a pity. How will I alleviate my boredom once you fall today?"

"You crazy bastard!"

"Bullshit!"

"At first, you couldn't even look me in the eye and trembled, but I see you've become familiar enough to spit out curses."

He said with a genuinely regretful expression.

"Worms crawling on the ground like you cannot understand the heart of a hawk flying through the sky."

When he released the presence he had been holding back, the Execution Force members who had been cursing froze like mice before a snake.

"Huok!"

"Dominion, lordship is sometimes tedious."

However.

"For one who has ascended to the throne, tedium is familiar. Having finished this brief entertainment, it's now time to return to that long tedium."

"......"

He was about to pronounce death for everyone.

No one could escape that sentence.

"I'll step in too."

"Commander!"

"...At the very least, I should choose the place where I die."

Just as Commander Gong I-an was resolving for a meaningless last stand.

Boom!

With a tremendous explosion, a great commotion arose from the rear of the army.

"What's that sound!"

"What was that?"

"Could it be...?"

"Reinforcements?"

"Who on earth?"

Everyone's gaze turned to one place.

"Ah...!"

"That's!"

"No way!"

A great ripple spread, centered on the Captains.

Surprise, shock, disbelief, hope, joy, longing.

Receiving gazes filled with waves of numerous emotions.

A man walked down from the sky.

Jeong Su-hyeon.

There was no cadet who didn't recognize the face of that man surrounded by radiance.

"It's Su-hyeon?"

"Jeong Su-hyeon?"

"No way!"

[Sorry to keep you waiting.]

Su-hyeon's voice, carrying mana, echoed all around.

[I've arrived.]

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"Jeong Su-hyeon!"

The human who was said to have met the same fate as Malek.

The youngster in whom Belphegor, ruler of Nastrond and king of ten thousand demons, was interested.

But he should have already died without even leaving dust behind.

"How on earth!"

"This is impossible!"

"Impossible?"

Su-hyeon tilted his head to the side.

"Such small principles are just common sense like a straw mat that applies only to creatures like you."

"What?"

"This guy."

"Are you Andromalius?"

Great Overlord Andromalius, who received Su-hyeon's gaze, answered with eyes full of killing intent.

"You. You've transcended."

Only he realized Su-hyeon's rank.

"I don't understand. How could a mere human body?"

"Stop talking like that."

Su-hyeon cut off his words.

"It makes it sound like you're on the same level as me."

"...!"

Malek and Andromalius.

And the eight Great Overlords were quasi-transcendents who had somewhat thrown off the constraints of mortality.

But before true transcendents like Su-hyeon and Belphegor, they were merely fireflies under the moonlight.

And.

Andromalius, who realized he couldn't fully measure Su-hyeon's rank even with his own eyes, burst into anger.

"A young human who hasn't even lived 20 years!"

"I can see your emotions clearly. It's inferiority. It's fear."

Demon Andromalius.

Commanding vipers, his body that stretches like a snake is imbued with ten thousand poisons.

Just brushing against it melts objects, causes unconsciousness, creates hallucinations, and kills in terrible pain.

A sturdy physique that nothing can invade, plus the presence of a predator that makes everything submit.

He was a being stronger than Great Overlord Malek, who had led the vanguard.

However.

"Having transcended a little, acting like the whole world is yours is laughable."

He posed no threat to Su-hyeon.

"Kuaaaak!"

And the battle began.

Crash!

Rumble!

Just the collision of fists made the earth shake and plants tremble.

The two flew through the sky as if it were natural, and swept their hands to skip through space as if it were natural.

The techniques of the demon, who had lived through countless ages in struggle, surpassed the techniques that humans had accumulated by putting their heads together and gathering time, at an infinitely higher dimension.

But.

Kuuk!

Post-initiative.

Despite extending attacks first, the one always bleeding was Andromalius.

Eye Power and Spiritual Sense, intuition and experience, and the gaze of a transcendent that sees through everything.

Su-hyeon had already far surpassed the dimension of anticipating and responding to attacks with shoulders and gaze, and was landing his counterattacks simultaneously with the beginning of attack signs.

'When one reaches a perfect level, evasion and counterattack would be identical.'

It was practically like magic that read the future.

"Aaaaaaak!"

Andromalius, with his arm torn off, eye burst, and leg lost, shot hundreds of snakes at Su-hyeon.

Hisssss!

The moment all of them met Su-hyeon's eyes, their hearts stopped and they died.

"!"

"You said lordship is tedium?"

Looking at the fear rising in the Great Overlord's eyes, Su-hyeon said.

"How does it feel to escape from the wearisome tedium?"

"You bastard."

"I wonder if your authority will remain the same before the terror of existence."

"Shut up!"

"Now I'll show you the difference in rank."

Rumble!

The radiance emitted by Su-hyeon's being made the demons cower in fear.

"Just as you bow your heads like mice before your king."

Su-hyeon looked down at them and said.

"The same will happen before me."

"Will you not shut up!"

"I don't have anything more to say anyway."

"Hiik!"

Cornered, Andromalius tried to draw out his final power.

"I'll make you regret it! Before the power bestowed by my king!"

Guooooo.

Ominous magical energy gathered in his body.

"Dangerous!"

"It's too late to regret! Why? The name of my power is...!"

"Not interested."

Slash!

The invisible sword that Su-hyeon swung split Andromalius's body in two from the crown of his head.

And then another strike.

The Great Overlord's body, which had been divided into four pieces, turned into six pieces and fell to the ground.

Thud, thud.

"...!"

Su-hyeon landed in front of the fortress, looking at the demons who were dazed by the Great Overlord's end, who died like an insect.

"I will deliver death to you as well."

Woong!

A massive cutting attack that severed space.

With just one slash, he bisected the waists of half of the humanoid demons and Ma-in.

The sight of thousands of demons having their heights halved and collapsing to the ground was truly spectacular.

Moreover, whatever power resided in Su-hyeon's sword, demons cut by it died trembling regardless of vitality or recovery ability.

"Some are still alive."

Su-hyeon, who flew into the sky, swung his sword once more.

Woooong!

Rather than cutting, a force closer to a pure mana wave passed through the demons' bodies equally.

And that was the end.

"...!"

Everyone kept silent in shock, unable even to scream.

"Everyone."

Su-hyeon, looking back at the people, raised his fist to the sky and said.

"Thank you for surviving."

"Wooooooaaaaah!"

Cheers that shook heaven and earth erupted.

At that moment, everyone realized that a final flame of hope had been given to humanity standing on the precipice of life and death.

"Aah...!"

People kneeling and praying, people wailing, people hugging each other and dancing.

Reactions varied, but the emotion that rose in their hearts was all the same.

Overwhelming reverence!

Beheading a Great Overlord and cutting down an army of demons with one sword.

Here and now, the name Jeong Su-hyeon became another myth.