Chapter 304

[Translator - Kie]

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Chapter 304: Memory (2)

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"You reopened a dimensional portal...?"

Dorugo murmured in shock at Damien's sudden appearance.

"How did a knight open a dimensional portal? Did he have helpers? Or did he use an artifact? Either way, it’s amazing."

It was unexpected that Damien had followed them here.

But it wasn’t a major problem. Even with the Imperial Supreme Sword in a near-death state, Damien Haksen alone wouldn’t be able to change the outcome of the battle.

"You should have stayed buried there and died quietly. To come after me... You’ll regret this."

Suddenly, an intense headache struck Dorugo. It was the worst pain she had ever experienced.

"Ugh, grr... Aaaagh!"

Dorugo grabbed her head with both hands, desperately hoping for the pain to pass.

With the headache, strange memories began to surface. Dorugo began to read the memories in a daze.

"What... what are these memories...?"

The memories gradually increased. Eventually, Dorugo recalled everything from her previous life.

"Damien Haksen... Death Knight... The Seven Authorities... I remember now. Finally, I remember. Why on earth did I forget such crucial things until now?"

Slowly, Dorugo fixed her gaze on Damien.

"Damien Haksen, my loyal knight. I never imagined we’d meet again like this."

"...Did you regain your memories?"

Damien asked suspiciously. Dorugo nodded.

"Yes, I remember everything now. Who we were... what we did together."

Dorugo's eyes began to change as she looked at Damien.

Her once calm eyes started to tremble, rising like a fire caught in the wind.

"How dare an undead like you kill your master?"

Dorugo screamed in anger.

"Do you know what you’ve done? The grand plan that I painstakingly prepared for over a thousand years, was all destroyed because of you!"

Dorugo’s eyes flared red as she raged uncontrollably.

"That ritual! The time-reversal was never meant to be used now! Someone like you shouldn’t have used it! Argh! Aaaagh!"

After a while of raging, Dorugo forced herself to calm down.

"...No, the ritual can be prepared again. As long as I take control of this world, preparing the ritual again will be easy!"

Dorugo glared at Damien once more.

"Damien Haksen, this time I’ll turn you into the perfect slave. I’ll break you so thoroughly that you’ll never even think of defying me..."

"Hahahah."

Dorugo’s words were suddenly interrupted by laughter.

Dorugo looked at Damien with a face full of confusion.

"Don’t tell me... you're laughing?"

"Haha, hahaha!"

Damien threw his head back and burst into laughter.

"Dorugo... Dorugo remembers! She has also regressed like me!"

Dorugo couldn’t understand why Damien was laughing so joyfully.

"Ha... haha..."

Meanwhile, Damien's laughter gradually died down.

As he lowered his head and stared at Dorugo, his eyes overflowed with both delight and bloodlust.

"I’ve been regretting it all this time. I killed you far too easily."

Killing intent radiated from Damien. The sinister aura sent a chill down Dorugo's spine.

"Epsilon!"

Unable to withstand the murderous aura, Dorugo instinctively cried out.

"S-Stop Damien Haksen! Don’t let him get close to me!"

The Four Great Demon Kings immediately stood in front of Dorugo and formed a barrier to protect her.

When Damien saw what they were doing, his lips curled into a sneer.

"You think you cheap knock-offs can stop me? Good. I've been wanting to crush you all for a while now."

Her skeletal form had no nerves, so she shouldn’t have been able to feel any pain.

But Damien's swordsmanship was special.

During his time as a Death Knight, Damien created a new style of swordsmanship specifically to kill Dorugo.

A technique that could sever the soul along with the physical body.

The reason Dorugo was feeling pain now was because her soul had been severed.

"It seems you're in quite a lot of pain." Damien said calmly.

Now that he was standing before Dorugo, his mind felt cold and clear.

"You’d better get used to it quickly. You'll die slowly and painfully as I torture you."

Damien raised his sword once more. As Dorugo saw her death flash before her eyes, she screamed for help.

"Do you think you’ll be safe after this? In the end, you’ll submit to me! And when that time comes, you and your family will all be dead—"

Intense killing intent exploded in Damien's eyes.

The plan to kill her slowly and meticulously vanished from his mind.

Damien swung Dawn at Dorugo's neck, but his blade couldn’t cut through her.

Suddenly, a longsword appeared and blocked Dawn's strike.

Damien followed the blade with his eyes, and there stood Hela.

“My dear, I’m sorry. I don’t particularly like this creature either, but I can’t just let her die.”

Hela said calmly.

“When I saw you last time, I should have killed you then. That was my mistake.”

Damien's voice rumbled low, like a ferocious beast.

Hela smiled and replied.

“You wish to kill me, don’t you, Dear? But before that, there’s something that needs to be finished. Those ones aren’t dead yet.”

As soon as she finished speaking, an enormous pressure erupted from somewhere.

The Four Great Demon Kings rose to their feet.

Their bodies started growing larger. Their human forms quickly vanished and were replaced by monstrous figures. They had finally revealed their true selves.

Behind Damien were the Four Great Demon Kings, and in front of him, the leader of Pandemonium.

Even though he was surrounded by such powerful enemies, Damien chuckled.

“So, I can’t kill Dorugo until I’ve dealt with all of you, is that it?”

“Exactly, My dear. But I wonder if you can face us in your current condition.”

She wasn’t wrong. Damien had nearly depleted his stamina and mana from overusing the authorities. The small amount of mana he had left had been consumed when he used third wheel.

“What a horrible feeling to be pitied by a trash like you!”

Damien said with a sharp tone.

“But don’t worry. I have plenty of ways to kill you.”

With that, Damien removed the bracelet from his wrist.

The dark mana sealed within it was unleashed.

“...Dark mana?”

Hela murmured in confusion.

“Why would a knight possess dark mana? When you can’t use it, can you?”

“Stop him!”

Dorugo suddenly screamed in panic.

Hela tilted her head in confusion.

“Stop him? From what?”

“Stop Damien Haksen from absorbing that dark man!”

Dorugo shouted desperately. But it was already too late.

Damien gathered all the dark mana dispersed in the air and absorbed it into his body.

He stopped using the Five Wheel Harmonious Art.

Dark mana and regular mana were different forces. To control dark mana, he needed to use a different mana cultivation technique.

It was a technique Damien hadn’t used in a long time, but one that was all too familiar to him.

A technique not born of his desires but created during his time as Dorugo's slave, slaughtering countless people.

Nameless mana art.

The power that once wiped humanity from existence, the power of the Death Knight now reawakened.

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[Translator - Kie]

[Proofreader - Kawaii]