Chapter 364:

Chapter 364:

The reunion happened too suddenly and in an unexpected way.

Yu-hyun had a lot of things he wanted to say to Kang Hye-rim. He thought that at least she still had some reason left, even though she was called the Black Thunder Lord.

But he was wrong.

As soon as she appeared, she caused more than 15,000 casualties and glared at him with a twisted face, hurling thunderbolts. At that moment, Yu-hyun realized that she was not someone he could talk to.

She was beyond reason.

Kwarung!

A huge thunderbolt collided with the protective device he wore on his body. He felt his insides shake from the impact.

Kang Hye-rim had become stronger. She was not called the Lord for nothing. In the past five years, she had transcended and grown to an unimaginable level.

She had become stronger. Ridiculously stronger.

He should have been happy for her, but he couldn’t. He was speechless in the face of this grim reality.

“Hye-rim.”

He still called her name.

Hoping that she would answer him with a smile, like before.

But reality shattered his hopes. Kang Hye-rim snarled at him with a murderous look.

“Shut uppppp!!!”

Her smile, which he could vividly remember even with his eyes closed, disappeared.

Black thunder writhed and moved around her body and gathered at her fingertips.

“How dare you! How dare youuuu!!! Don’t call me with that face, his face!!!”

She unleashed the thunder filled with her rage at Yu-hyun.

When he saw the hatred and anger in her eyes, his last bit of hope vanished.

Kwarururung! Black thunder struck Yu-hyun’s body.

If Baekryeon hadn’t quickly turned into a shield and protected him, he might have been seriously injured by the attack.

[Yu-hyun! Snap out of it! What are you doing!]

“...Yeah.”

He laughed involuntarily after escaping from a near-death situation. He couldn’t help it. How could he not laugh in this situation?

“But I still... had some hope.”

He thought that if he called her name, she would greet him with a smile, like before.

Like in the old days, when they were happy.

“What did I expect and wish for?”

Many people died by Kang Hye-rim’s hand.

Without any warning or dialogue, she indiscriminately unleashed her violent power and took countless lives.

The cruel truth that the person who did such horrible things was the one he longed to see and cherished, tore Yu-hyun’s heart apart.

“What? You’re still alive? You must be tough to trust that fake face.”

Kang Hye-rim spat out her tongue as she saw Yu-hyun standing up.

Yu-hyun lifted his head and looked at her again. His eyes were full of sorrow. As if he had a premonition of what was going to happen next.

Baekryeon returned to his sword form and Yu-hyun gripped it tightly.

“Hye-rim!”

“Shut up!”

“...!”

“You look at me with those eyes? How dare you, you fake? What are you going to do to me? No way! I won’t let you hurt me anymore!”

Kang Hye-rim screamed as if she had a fit and glared at the remaining Liberation Army soldiers.

The air around her boiled and a huge dragon made of thunder appeared.

The Liberation Army looked at the sight with pale faces. They couldn’t stop it or run away from it. The moment the black dragon bit them, their death was certain.

At that moment, Yu-hyun kicked off the ground and flew up.

A white flash cut through the air and split the black dragon in half.

“Don’t interfere!!!”

Kaang!

Kang Hye-rim drew her sword and swung it at Yu-hyun. Yu-hyun blocked it with Baekryeon and stared at her as he approached her closely.

There was no need for words anymore. Yu-hyun immediately put on Aporia’s mask.

The mask of the devil with four eyes. As soon as she saw it, Kang Hye-rim had another fit.

“How dare you! How dare youuuu!!! In front of me, you wear Yu-hyun’s mask?!”

Kang Hye-rim swung her sword furiously, as if asking how much more she had to anger him to vent her rage.

She swung and swung and swung again. Every time her sword strike, tainted with corrupted thunder, slashed through the air, thunder roared and thunder flashed.

Yu-hyun defended against all her attacks. He had no room for leisure. Kang Hye-rim had become incredibly strong in the past five years, and he knew he would die if he let his guard down even a little.

Knowing that he had to use his full power, Yu-hyun put on Aporia’s mask and faced her.

He changed his stance from defensive to offensive. He deflected Kang Hye-rim’s sword and blocked her thunder, then counterattacked.

Clang!

Kang Hye-rim hastily withdrew her sword and took a defensive posture. The swords clashed and a huge shockwave erupted, sweeping the surrounding area.

“Aaah! Run away!”

“We’ll all die if we get caught!”

What kind of being was a lord? In the mixed world, only lords could hold territories as individuals. They were called lords because they were given a kind of qualification.

That qualification was nothing special.

Power. They had power that surpassed ordinary Divine Spirits, and that’s why they became lords. Lords were such beings. They had overwhelming force and stories.

He thought Yu-hyun was just a slightly stronger transcendent. Transcendents could not compete with lords unless they were at a high level.

But, what was that? The skills of the two were evenly matched.

It was not a one-sided defeat. Even if there was a winner, he would be covered in wounds.

‘But, all I can do is watch.’

He was just a fake that copied Yu-hyun’s appearance. The power he had was nothing compared to them. It was so pitiful that it would be fine to call it a firefly in front of the sun.

That’s why he was angry and sad. If he was real, if he had power, he wouldn’t have let Kang Hye-rim suffer like this.

Everything was cruel. This reality that gave her another trial after she was already hurt and broken.

Rumble!

In the meantime, the fight became more intense.

The momentum of Kang Hye-rim and Yu-hyun colliding and crashing became stronger. They showed all the skills they could use.

Yu-hyun’s eyes rolled around. Laplace, who could see the future, kept screaming his death.

If he didn’t have this power, he would have died in her hands long ago. He also used Maxwell’s power to interfere with probability to deflect or damage her attacks.

She had a greater pure power than him. He pulled her with his various abilities and dragged her here.

“Dieeee!!!”

Nine thunder dragons bared their teeth at Yu-hyun.

He cut or blocked six of them, but three of them passed by him and aimed at the liberation army far away.

Yu-hyun quickly stretched out his arm and shot out his energy. The three thunder dragons he let go exploded in mid-air.

“You’re trying to protect those trash in this situation?”

Kang Hye-rim’s eyebrows twitched and her mouth curled up into a smile.

“Then try to stop this.”

A fierce power gathered around her and soon formed a huge sphere.

Thunder Destruction Orb.

It was not one but three giant spheres of thunder that each had the power of a nuclear bomb.

Yu-hyun realized her intention and flared up in anger.

“Miss Hye-rim!!!”

She was not aiming at him in front of her eyes, but at the liberation army far away.

He decided to get rid of the other nuisances first, since the fight was going nowhere at this rate.

Yu-hyun struggled to accept the changed appearance of Kang Hye-rim.

She was going to kill all those people over there? Just because they annoyed her?

“How far are you going to fall!”

“I’m not falling.”

Kang Hye-rim sneered at Yu-hyun.

“The ones who are falling are you guys.”

She threw the Thunder Destruction Orbs. Three huge spheres, each over 100m in size, flew towards the Liberation Army.

Yu-hyun hastily raised his willpower and blocked one of the Thunder Destruction Orbs, but the other two passed him by like arrows.

At the same time, Kang Hye-rim rushed at Yu-hyun. She intended to prevent him from saving the Liberation Army.

She grinned creepily as she leaned her face towards Yu-hyun.

“Where are you going? Stay there and watch. Watch as what you tried to protect disappears in vain. And feel it. The agonizing pain of losing something precious.”

Yu-hyun clenched his teeth and tried to shake off Kang Hye-rim, but he couldn’t.

She changed her tactics. She didn’t try to match his strength, but instead bit and pulled at him persistently.

“Help!”

“Run away!”

The Liberation Army screamed and ran away as they saw the two Thunder Destruction Orbs flying towards them. They collided and tangled and fell with each other. Desperate cries filled the air.

No.

Yu-hyun stretched out his arm desperately as he watched the scene. But that was all he could do.

People were dying in front of his eyes. And by the hand of none other than Kang Hye-rim, whom he cherished the most.

At that moment.

Before the fast-falling Thunder Destruction Orbs hit the ground.

‘Huh?’

Yu-hyun saw two flashes of light flying from afar.

And then they collided with the Thunder Destruction Orbs, exploding in mid-air and destroying them.

‘Backup fire? Who is it?’

Kang Hye-rim’s smiling face turned cold as she recognized the attack.

Her eyes followed the direction of the flashes.

“Yoo Young-min...!”

She spat out his name with hatred.