Side Story Chapter 135 - Thousand-Year War (8)

Side Story Chapter 135 - Thousand-Year War (8)

“Ah—”

Oh Kang-Woo’s brain froze. He could barely comprehend what he had just heard. His heart was pounding like crazy.

“Satan...?”

One of the seven princes of Hell, the demon of Wrath.

“Why is Satan...”

Kang-Woo stepped backward. He did not even need to compare his strength against the enemy’s. He would undoubtedly die if he were to fight against Satan. He had no chance of victory.

[I have come in search of you.]n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Satan raised his arm shrouded in darkness and pointed at Kang-Woo. His voice echoed directly throughout Kang-Woo’s head instead of sound waves entering the ears.

“In search... of me?”

[Yes,] Satan replied and nodded.

Kang-Woo bit his lip. It didn’t matter why Satan was here for him. What mattered was that Satan was here.

“Haaa, haaa,” Kang-Woo panted heavily. He did not have to think long before he turned to scream to the Halves, “RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!”

“S-Sir Kang-Woo!”

“Wh-What’s going on?!”

“SHUT THE HELL UP AND RUN RIGHT NOW!!!”

Kang-Woo pushed the Halves who were still disoriented from the chaos. The Halves soon turned around and began to run to the back of the cave. Kang-Woo also ran behind them.

“Zepar!! Where’s the emergency exit?!”

He had once heard from Zepar that he had created an emergency exit just in case.

“Over there!!”

“Hurry!!!”

Kang-Woo looked back as he frantically ran. He didn’t know if Satan had no intention of chasing them or was just full of leisure, but Satan was simply standing still and staring at Kang-Woo.

“SHIT!!!”

Kang-Woo’s thoughts were so entangled that he could barely think.

‘That’s a prince of Hell?’

He understood why Balrog had been so lost for words when he learned of Kang-Woo's goal. A prince of Hell was the essence of calamity.

‘I can’t win.’

Kang-Woo could instinctively tell even if he didn’t want to. The princes of Hell couldn’t be defeated. They were not born to be defeated. They were born to rule as absolute entities.

‘I was trying to fight demons like that?’

Kang-Woo could only call himself insane for daring to try such a thing. He could only imagine how much Balrog mocked him in his head. His blazing fury and desire to return to Earth were extinguished in a flash from the moment he came face-to-face with a prince of Hell.

“Haaa! Haaa! Th-This way!” Zepar shouted, pointing at a hole he had dug at the end of the cave.

“Get in!!!”

“Wh-What about y—”

“I’ll get in once everyone does, so just get the fuck in there!!”

Kang-Woo pushed Fel, who was staring anxiously at him, into the hole. The Halves went in one after another.

“Huff, huff.”

Kang-Woo looked back as he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Satan was still nowhere in sight.

‘Hurry, hurry, hurry!’

Anxiety was burning him from the inside.

“We’re all out!” Zepar said from inside the hole.

Kang-Woo also crawled into the hole and came out to a terrain filled with tall sharp rocks.

“This way!” Zepar shouted as he pointed at an escape route he had made at the opposite side of the cave entrance.

Kang-Woo followed after the Halves and came out of the windy escape route.

“Why...?”

His legs shook uncontrollably and he could barely breathe. He pinched his cheek like an idiot because of how unrealistic things were but the nightmare before him did not disappear.

[That aside, you sure have brought a lot.]

Satan looked around at the army of demons behind Belphegor and Mammon, as well as Lucifer, who was standing alone.

“So have you,” replied Lucifer as he smirked and glared at Satan.

Thousands of demons flew down from between the tall rock upshoots and landed behind Lucifer.

[Hmm. I guess I can’t fool a prince’s eyes.]

Satan nodded and spread out the darkness surrounding him. Satan’s army rose from the ground covered in darkness resembling black ink. The armies of the four princes gathered in the vast plain.

[Now, then.] Satan leisurely turned, his eyes gleaming at Kang-Woo— to be more exact, at the Halves around Kang-Woo. [Why don’t we eliminate the half-baked filth so that we can talk in peace?]

“W-Wait a—”

Satan suddenly vanished before Kang-Woo could stop him, and appeared behind a little demon trembling in pallor. It was a little demon with three branches growing all over him. Satan softly placed his hand over the little demon’s head.

“H-Huh? M-My body...”

Crack, crack.

The little demon stepped backward as he looked down at the spiderweb-like cracks forming on his body. Tears flowed down his cheeks.

“P-Please... save me,” the little demon said as he stared at Kang-Woo. He reached out toward Kang-Woo and muttered, “I don’t want to d—”

Shatter—!!

The little demon was broken into tiny pieces from his fingers throughout his body.

“Yes, that human is all we need.”

Lucifer nodded and snapped his finger, forming black balls the size of a ping-pong ball in midair. They were shot at the Halves’ chests.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!”

“I-IT HURTS!! IT HUUUUURTS!!”

The Halves hit by the black ball were crushed as they were sucked into the ball as if it were a black hole.

“A-Arghh.”

Kang-Woo bit his lip as he bore witness to the slaughter. It was so overwhelming that he could only watch as the Halves were brutally murdered. The princes of Hell were so powerful that he couldn’t even think of doing something.

“I-I have to... run,” he mumbled without realizing it.

He had been running this whole time but he meant it differently.

“I-I have to use this chance... to r-run.”

He needed to use the Halves as bait to run away.

“Haaa, haaa.”

If he missed his chance to run— he would die.

“KYAAAAAAAAHHH!!”

“S-SIR KANG-WOO!!!”

“PLEASE SAVE US!!!”

The Halves’ screams echoed inside his head. They desperately pleaded for Kang-Woo’s help as they were brutally killed by Satan and Lucifer.

‘Fuck that.’

He had no way of saving them in this situation. One would have to be crazy to face the princes of Hell. Kang-Woo ignored the Halves’ screams and turned around, getting ready to leave as soon as possible before all the Halves were killed.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Just then, a red giant fell from the sky like a meteor.

“Huh...?”

Kang-Woo turned to look back in shock. Balrog was leisurely cracking his knuckles as he stood in Satan and Lucifer’s way.

“Is slaughtering Halves all you came here to do as princes of Hell?” Balrog clicked his tongue mockingly. “The title of the seven princes of Hell sure has been dragged through the mud.”

Balrog smiled widely, baring his sharp teeth.