The King of the Battlefield

Chapter 229: Als Nova (3)

“Just what…”

Bae Sungmin got serious.

A daughter?

He was a lich. An elder lich. The king of all liches. All the memories before that were vague.

He couldn’t think that he would have any ties with living beings excluding Muyoung.

But it wasn’t just a tie but it was his daughter?

“I can’t make a long explanation but Bae Suzy is indeed your daughter.”

Muyoung looked up the ‘castle’.

The castle that got out of the effect of the gravity field was floating up once again.

In addition, even more devils had appeared and their escape routh was being blocked.

Bae Sungmin flinched.

Mu young had no reason to lie. He always spoke the truth or at least he never lied to Bae Sungmin.

If Muyoung’s words were true.

It felt like the sky was falling down the moment he thought like that.

“So… the thing I have to find is.”

Bae Sungmin had always anguished.

He felt like he had lost something really important.

He always had the pressure that he had to find something.

But he had never imagined that that something was his daughter.

“I didn’t want to bring you confusion. No, actually I couldn’t make a judgement. You are someone that stands on death and Bae Suzy grieves for life.”

That’s right. Muyoung couldn’t make a judgement regarding this matter.

That was the biggest reason but it was also an excuse.

He just couldn’t judge what was right and what was wrong.

Bae Sungmin had died. Died and became a lich and also lost most of his memories of the past.

Muyoung couldn’t know how knowing that he had a child would affect him in that unstable state.

That’s why he kept reserving it for later…but he thought that he should tell him the truth when the two involved parties have met.

It wasn’t that he could evade it forever.

“Bae Suzy. Is that kid really my daughter…?”

“I will respect your choice.”

He left saving and not saving Bae Suzy to Bae Sungmin.

Bae Sungmin had become a completely new existence after he died. It meant that he didn’t have to rely on memories from when he was alive.

But Muyoung was going to respect his decision if he chose to grab onto his past.

Bae Sungmin was disoriented right now.

He was the one that drove Bae Suzy to the jaws of death even though she had requested it.

He didn’t feel a bit of guilt at that decision.

But would he have done the same if he knew that she was his daughter?

Most of Bae Sungmin’s emotions were dulled. A lich was originally a dry existence. It wasn’t probable that denial existed in him.

‘Why can’t I remember anything, why!’

But the current Bae Sungmin was experiencing extreme instability in his emotions.

He couldn’t remember anything even though he heard the truth.

But it seemed like a milder scene was being made when he put Bae Suzy in his memories.

He wouldn’t hesitate at all if memories did pop up.

“Is that kid…alive?”

“She is, but it seems like she is not in a good state.”

Muyoung and Bae Suzy were connected. But of course, he couldn’t know everything just because of that. However the clear thing was that she was weakening.

Bae Sungmin nodded.

“I, I will go find her. I have never seen that kid properly.”

When Bae Sungmin first saw Bae Suzy he had compared her as a ‘rat’.

And didn’t try to face her after that either.

Why did he do that?

It was because he got swept in unknown emotions when he saw her.

He had to face her properly at least once but he couldn’t do so.

‘I need to see her. Keep looking at her until a clear picture gets drawn in my head.’

It wouldn’t be late even after facing her, holding a proper conversation and coming to a conclusion.

But he had to first rescue Bae Suzy if he wanted to do that.

The work of rescuing someone that crawled to death. That was something that didn’t suit a lich at all as they were ‘death’ itself.

Muyoung smiled faintly.

“I will open up a path.”

Their escape route was blocked.

They couldn’t do anything against the tens of thousands of strengthened devils with just twenty thousand.

Flames!

The fire got wilder.

The six pairs of wings Muyoung had got swept in the fire and became so huge it could touch the sky.

And then, Muyoung closed his eyes and recited.

“That light has certainly existed.”

Beams!

A hole pierced the sky.

And light brighter than ever covered the ground.

“Graaaaagh!”

“Sa, save me! It hurts!”

“Please! Argh!”

The devils that touched the light struggled in pain.

The divinity Muyoung possessed got strengthened with a chant of Als Nova.

Als Nova was a gathering of short prayers.

If you possessed a divinity, you were able to show this much strength just by reciting a chant.

But not even Muyoung knew all of the prayers. He was able to memorize some strong chants when he first saw Als Nova.

“Burn like fire and roar like the sea.”

Swoooosh!

Muyoung’s wings got instantly bigger and then devoured all of the devils at its range.

More than a hundred thousand devils perished with just two attacks.

But there were still lots of devils left but they couldn’t help but get shocked at what happened in an instant.

Totter!

Muyoung tottered.

‘The chants of Als Nova consume a lot of strength.’

At most three times. That was the number of chants Muyoung could recite. He felt like his magic power and divinity wouldn’t be able to endure more than that.

Shiing!

Muyoung pulled out Anguish.

He had succeeded in bringing chaos to the enemy and also opened up a path. He couldn’t miss this opportunity.

“You won’t be late if you go now.”

Followed by that Muyoung raised Anguish high.

All the spirits, undead, Ogar and Tacan looked at Muyoung.

“Follow me. It’s time to annihilate the enemy.”

* * *

“Who are you?”

Bang!

Enroth slammed down his staff.

At the same time, black tentacles surged up and covered the body of the infiltrator.

He couldn’t think that someone could pass through countless devils and reach the center of the castle.

Anyone besides Enroth would have been killed.

But it was precisely because it was Enroth that he didn’t get killed.

The infiltrator shut her mouth shut. Blood was flowing from her body but didn’t die yet. But the clear thing was that she would fall to a dangerous state soon.

Enroth shook his head while looking at the infiltrator.

“I made the wrong question. Let me state it again. Who is ‘he’?”

Enroth was looking at Bae Suzy but he was feeling that ‘someone’ that was beyond Bae Suzy.

He didn’t kill Bae Suzy right away because of that strong presence.

The one pulling the strings all of that happened. Perhaps, the real one that killed Shar-Shazar.

He was careless towards Bae Suzy or the lich but the real deal was the ‘someone’ that was beyond.

“Is he a demon god? Someone that was born in another world like Diablo?”

Bae Suzy was connected with that ‘someone’.

But he felt a gap that he didn’t know. A gap this big…There were none at least between demon kings. It was a gap he could only see in transcendent beings or demon gods.

But it was also new. He had never felt a gap of this kind.

Bae Suzy showed a small smile.

It was enough with that.

“In other words you are the kind that doesn’t understand with good words.”

Enroth was curious. He felt like dying because of that curiosity. That’s why he tried to take control of Bae Suzy’s mind.

Moving consciousness was Enroth’ specialty. Playing with the consciousness of a completely suppressed opponent was like child’s play to him.

He extended his hand and grabbed Bae Suzy’s hair. Then wrote some runes with his staff.

“I will ask you again. Who is ‘he’? Tell me what the existence that is inside you.”

It didn’t take long.

But Bae Suzy wasn’t answering.

She was just letting out a strange laugh.

She had fainted.

It didn’t matter if she fainted or not if the mind control worked properly.

Originally Bae Suzy should have answered Enroth’ question.

But there was only one case if she didn’t answer.

‘My mind control doesn’t work?’

He couldn’t believe it. His power to dominate wasn’t working!

The Demon King of Iron Enroth. The real power he had was to control and dominate.

That was also the reason he could strengthen hundreds of thousands of devils at the same time.

But it was obvious for Enroth’ strength to not work.

When Muyoung got out of the Blue Temple he planted a ‘self defense mechanism’ on Bae Suzy.

It was a measure to not let know of others the existence of Muyoung but the mechanism also had a strong ‘mental defense’.

‘Wung Chunglin’s’ brainwash was top class. It was also better than Enroth’ at some detailed parts.

Compared to Enroth that simply pushed with magic power and magic, Wung Chunglin had organized the mind in a really systematic way.

Muyoung had prepared for Wung Chunlin so there was no way it would get pierced that easily.

Only then did Enroth’ expression change.

“So I was the one that got baited…!”

Flames!

At that moment, a huge pillar of light shone on the castle and the exploding fire engulfed the castle once again. The barrier protecting the castle melted down just like that.

A defenseless state. The castle started to fall down thanks to the exchange of magic power that occurred in an instant.

It was a dreadful power. Not even Enroth would be able to imitate it.

This power, he was sure of it.

That ‘he’ had appeared.

Ha!

Enroth let out a roar.

It was really coincidental.

He was trampling down on the devils and himself after appearing like he was waiting for this moment.

Perhaps.

He may have been the one that got baited ever since the death of Shar-Shazar.

He had come to hunt but he was the one being hunted.

“I am Enroth. The great Demon King of Iron! Do you think I will be defeated that easily!”

He couldn’t admit it.

He was the one that placed the traps. Hunting was also something that only he should be doing.

Enroth denied the fact that he was the one to fall in a trap.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

But that wasn’t the end.

Something else was coming.

But this power didn’t belong to ‘him’.

Someone was piercing the castle now that it didn’t have the barrier protecting it anymore.

A fearful magic power.

He was piercing a hole by amplifying his magic power.

Enroth turned around.

And at the same time said.

“Elder lich…!”

An elder lich that was holding a staff appeared exactly at the middle.

It was absurd.

‘He’ could appear at any moment but a lich also appeared?

Enroth admitted his potential and had also thought of making him his subordinate but he changed his mind. A mere lich couldn’t defeat the Demon King of Iron.

If all this was his ‘script’, Enroth decided to kill that lich and woman to destroy that script.

“Do you think that you will be able to beat me!?”

“I didn’t come to defeat you.”

Bae Sungmin turned his head.

Bae Suzy was alive. She was in a terrible state but what was important was that she was alive.

It seemed like she had lost consciousness.

Bae Sungmin shook when he saw Bae Suzy. If he had eyes, then his pupils would be shaking with no stop.

Bae Sungmin looked at Enroth once again.

And spoke with deep regret.

“I…just came so that I didn’t have any regrets.”