Chapter 467 - Attack

Chapter 467 - Attack

He dreamed of a burning sky and a distorted land. The soaring hill was filled with corpses. No, the hill itself was made of corpses. The hill of death felt familiar for some reason.

It was Seoul, the city he had lived in all his life. It was reduced to ruins but a little of its form remained.

‘A-Aaaahh.’

Someone was on top of the mountain made of corpses in the ruined city.

‘Who... are you?’

A nightmarish being... a despair-inducing being was smiling brightly as they were munching on the corpses.

Crackle.

His vision distorted as his consciousness sank— no, it was resurfacing.

“Gasp!” Kim Tae-Hyun fell from his bed. “Huff, huff!”

He panted heavily on the ground. His eyes felt like they were burning. Tae-Hyun touched the area around his eyes.

“Huh?”

Only then did he realize that blood was flowing from his eyes.

“Wh-What the hell?”

Tae-Hyun touched his face drenched with tears of blood. The fact that blood was pouring out of one’s eyes was enough to make anyone stricken with fear. He wiped the blood away with his shaking hands.

Tae-Hyun remained silent as he looked down at his hands smeared with blood and uneasily gripped the Eye of Nostrian around his neck.

‘Is it a side effect from using its power?’

He didn’t know; he had never experienced something like this even after using Foresight many times until now.

‘Did something go wrong during the duel?’

Since the duel had been closer to a death match, it was not strange for there to be lingering side effects. Tae-Hyun had been bedridden for the past few days after his duel with Kim Si-Hun.

“Haaa.”

Tae-Hyun took some tissues from his desk and wiped the area around his eyes. He threw the tissues drenched with blood into the trash can.

‘What could that have been?’

He wondered if the vision in his dream would be what the end of the world would look like. The burning sky and the distorted land were engraved in his mind.

“It has to be a dream... right?”

Tae-Hyun shook his head to get the horrifying scene out of his head, but he couldn’t shake off the uneasiness that had made itself home in his mind. No, it might have been because Tae-Hyun knew deep down that the scene of the end of the world wasn’t a dream.

Tae-Hyun remained silent as he bit his lip and stood up.

‘I have to... let hyung know.’

He needed to tell Kang-Woo about the horrifying future he saw. Tae-Hyun went out the door.

***

“You saw the end?” Kang-Woo asked.

“Yes.” Tae-Hyun nodded with a serious expression.

Kang-Woo narrowed his eyes.

‘The end, huh?’

He would have told them to cut the bullshit if it had been anyone else, but it was a different story if it came from Tae-Hyun, who could see the future.

‘Could it be... Bael?’

That was naturally the first individual Kang-Woo thought of. It was not hard to imagine how the entire world would become Bael’s meal if Kang-Woo were to lose.

“Hah,” Kang-Woo smirked.

‘How interesting.’

Kang-Woo already knew that he was severely outmatched; he was unfazed by someone prophesizing the end of the world.

Kang-Woo lifted Tae-Hyun with the Authority of the Sky and flew out from the window.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!” Tae-Hyun screamed.

Kang-Woo ignored the screams and flew across the sky at supersonic speed.

“What the hell is that?”

He saw a massive red Rift several kilometers wide above Seoul. It was as if the sky was burning red.

“Shit.” Kang-Woo clenched his fists. “They’re done playing around, is it?”

There had been countless signs ever since the abnormal Gate phenomena first began. No, something like this was inevitable from the moment the Gaia System collapsed. Otherworldly invasions were the fate of a world with no protection.

“Alright.”

Kang-Woo bared his teeth as he frowned aggressively. He swept up his hair and smiled.

‘They dare covet this world?’

It was the world where he and the people precious to him lived... as well as the home of kimchi stew.

“Not a chance, you sons of bitches. This is my world.”

The Demon King bared his teeth at the red sky.

***

Fwoosh!

Smoke covered the sky as intense heat filled the streets.

“Kyaaaaaahhh!!”

“S-Save me!!”

Screams rang throughout the burning city.

“Karakarakarakara!”

Monsters that looked like giant cockroaches were hunting the running humans. The three meter-long roaches were scurrying across the streets at incredible speeds. One of the insects grabbed a middle-aged man and opened its mouth.

Crunch!

It ate the man alive without hesitation.

“A-Aaaahh.”

The woman who had been running with the man collapsed on the spot and looked up at the monster in despair.

“O-O light...” She recited the prayer of the Church of Splendor that she heard about recently, despite knowing that it wouldn’t change anything. “O-O li—”

The roach that ate the man alive turned to her before she could finish her prayer.

Slash—!

Just then, a golden light fell like lightning and split the roach in half.

“Fucking hell, that’s disgusting.”

Viscous green fluids were flowing out of the roach’s split halves.

“Let’s see.”

The man enveloped in golden light lifted one of the halves and opened his mouth widely.

Crunch.

The predatory insect was being eaten instead.

“Ptooey. Ew, that tastes like shit.” The man who took a big bite out of the insect’s corpse frowned and spit on the ground. “There are so goddamn many of them.”

The man covered in golden light sighed and turned around. Countless insects were falling from the Rift above Seoul. The man slowly raised his hand.

Snap.

“Let’s kill about half of them.”

Golden flames engulfed the swarm of insects like a tsunami.