Chapter 428 - You Cannot Handle That Monster

Chapter 428 - You Cannot Handle That Monster

“Bael...” The collapsed Lucifer looked up at the boy with shaking eyes.

The boy known as Bael hummed as he smiled widely. “I’m surprised you’re still here. I thought you would’ve run away a long time ago.”

Lucifer remained silent.

He had thought about running away, but...

“I...”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. You have to get your son back, right? That’s why you’re not moving from where the heart is.” The boy nodded as if he understood completely. “Hihi, you should’ve educated your son better. You sure are having a hard time because of a moronic son like that.”

“Shut... up.”

Lucifer glared at Bael as he bit his lip and gripped what remained of his arm that Bael ripped off with his mouth. Black blood was pouring out of the arm.

“Bael... What are you trying to do?”

“Hm?” Bael tilted his head innocently. “What do you mean?”

“I’m sure you know what this place is!”

“Hihi, of course I do. Why would I not when I went out of my way to corrupt the World Tree to find this place?”

“Then...!”

“You see...” Bael hummed and continued, “I’m just trying to take back what’s mine.”

“What?” Lucifer’s eyes widened. “Take back... what’s yours?”

“Yeah. This is...” Bael slowly pointed at the forest being consumed by the red sand. “All mine.”

Silence fell.

Lucifer stared at Bael as if he couldn’t understand.

‘What... is he talking about?’

If what Bael was talking about was what Lucifer was thinking of, then...

‘No, that’s impossible.’

Lucifer shook his head, trying to shoo away his horrifying thought.

“Man~ That aside, it sure has been a while, hasn’t it?”

Bael smiled as he stretched. Anyone else would be stupefied if they saw Bael’s pure and innocent smile, but Bael was simply smiling from a demon’s perspective.

“The war... Yeah, I’ve barely seen you since th—”

“Bael,” Lucifer interjected. “I will ask you again. Why... have you come to see me? What are you trying to do?”

“Hm? I just told you, didn’t I?”

“That absurd nonsense does not count as an answer!” Lucifer shouted fiercely.

“Hmm.” Bael clicked his tongue in disappointment and slowly raised his hand. A suffocatingly colossal amount of demonic energy flowed out from him. “Too bad. I wanted to chat a little more.”

“You...”

Lucifer’s expression hardened; he could easily tell what Bael was about to do.

“Kuh!”

Lucifer quickly got up and extended his remaining hand at Bael, shooting black lightning at him.

“Heh.” Bael smiled and swallowed his saliva.

Crackle—!!

Bael lightly waved his hand. Black sparks flew around him and easily deflected Lucifer’s attack.

“You’ve changed quite a lot from before,” Bael remarked as he smiled widely.

He lightly charged forward, disappearing as if he had assimilated with nature. REaaD lateSt chapters at novelhall.com Only

Grip!

“Gasp.”

Bael appeared in front of Lucifer and grabbed his head before Lucifer had even realized it.

“So what?”

“He caught me off guard that time, but it’s different now. It’s my turn this time, okay? Do you understand?”

“So what?” Lucifer chuckled nonsensically and asked in genuine incomprehension, “What does any of that matter?”

“...”

“You know just as well as me, don’t you, Bael? Did you not see him with your own eyes in your final battle against him? You cannot kill that monster. There is no way that you can. As long as he possesses the Demonic Sea... He will not die, no matter what you do to him.”

“In that case—”

“In that case, what? That monster has survived even after being torn apart by the dimensional wall. He has come back alive after being driven to death thousands of times!” Lucifer trembled as if he did not even want to imagine it and bit his lip. “You... cannot handle that monster.”

Emotion vanished from Bael’s face. “Heh.”

Bael smiled once again and his eyes filled with madness returned to their blank state.

“We’ll see... if I really can’t handle him.”

Bael giggled as if something had broken inside him. Hearing that laugh sent shivers down Lucifer’s spine.

‘This is bad.’

Bael was not normal at the moment. It was not hard to tell what would happen to Lucifer if he stayed captured by Bael.

‘I have to run.’

Lucifer’s eyes shone as he bit his lip. He could not afford to die here.

‘Lucis...’

Lucifer closed his eyes and spread his twelve wings at once.

Crackle—!!

An immense lightning storm raged.

‘As long as I can get away from this crazy bastard’s grasp...’

There was no other being that was of any threat to him. He was sure that he would be able to find his son, who had fallen to Lilith’s temptations, one day.

“Huh?” Bael expressed confusion as he came to his senses after thinking deeply about something. “Where are you going?”

He frowned and grabbed one of Lucifer’s wings.

‘Now!’

Lucifer closed his eyes and twisted his body. The wing that Bael had grabbed was ripped off entirely.

“Gaaaaaaaahhh!”

Immense pain stormed within him, but he could not afford to waste the opportunity he had barely managed to acquire.

Boom!

Lucifer quickly leaped forward and flapped his wings to fly forward without even getting a chance to get a hold of himself. Then...

Slam!

“The hell?”

“K-Kang-Woo! Are you alright?!”

Lucifer bumped into someone as he was flying straight forward.

“Kurgh!” Lucifer was blown backward.

‘What was that?’

Whether it be trees, rocks, or monsters, there was no way that anything would be able to stop his full-power charge.

‘Who the hell...’

Lucifer looked up as he grimaced.

“A-Aaaahh.” Unending despair entered his eyes. “N-No...” He stepped back as he trembled and screamed desperately, “NOOOOOOOO!!!”

“Lucifer?”

The Demon King was right in front of him.