Sungyoon’s mind went back to the conversation he had with Lee just a few hours ago .

  ‘Is this the fear he was referring to?’


  Sungyoon thought it was incredible that he could assess himself in such an objective manner in this state . However, this didn’t mean he was free from the effects of the fear . This fear was like a chain around his body and weighed his body down .

  But Sungyoon knew he had to move .

  Kevil swung its whip, and the red flame looked like a viper flicking its tongue out . The demonic monster’s eyes headed toward Sungyoon’s companions, who had just arrived .

  Sungyoon attacked Kevil with his sword .

  Tuh-uhng!

  However, it was futile . The demonic monster easily grabbed the sword with its hand -

  Amazing . You can move to this extent while feeling his presence?

  The sarcasm had disappeared in its voice, and true admiration had taken its place . However, this admiration was akin to what a person felt when seeing a monkey use a tool . Kevil didn’t see Sungyoon as a threat and treated him very lightly .

  Hoohk!

  The sword its hands were grasping disappeared, and Sungyoon immediately swung his ax .

  Tuh-uhng!

  The attack was blocked once again, but Sungyoon let go of the ax . While Kevil still held the ax, Sungyoon stabbed its side with the spear blade of his halberd .

  Puh-uhng!

  Kevil deflected the spear blade, and Sungyoon used this moment to create some distance .

  “Ms . Emily! Ms . Grace!”


  The two women were moving into action even before his shout .

  Woo-oong!

  A light surrounded Sungyoon’s body as Emily cast her support spells on him . She had gone all out and used all the support magic that she had on hand .

  Grace also activated the spell that she had been preparing .

  Zuh-zuh-zuh-zuhk!

  It was the frost spell . Grace assumed Kevil was a fire-type monster due to the flame whip . Even if this opponent was out of their class, a fire-type monster was weak against ice magic .

  The ground froze as cold energy tried to cling to Kevil -

  Hmmph!

  Kevil snorted .

  Boom!

  It moved its foot, and Grace’s face turned pale . Most of the monsters with high resistance to magic had to break through the ice freezing on their body . But the ice hadn’t even been able to touch Kevil’s body .

  Grace didn’t give up and started preparing her next spell .

  “Please get away from here right now, Ms . Jimin, Ms . Chelsea!”


  When Jimin heard Sungyoon’s words, she immediately grabbed Chelsea’s arm .

  “W-we are running away by ourselves?”


  “Do you really think you’ll be of any help to them?”


  Jimin’s response was cold . However, the unrest in her eyes revealed her true emotions, and it was obvious that she was mightily struggling with this decision .

  Chelsea decided to listen to her friend . She looked back at Sungyoon before leaving .

  “.…… Please be careful!”


  Sungyoon kept his eyes trained on Kevil as he nodded -

  Who said I’ll let you go?

  Along with the frightening voice, Kevil moved its hand .

  “Run!”


  Sungyoon desperately moved forward while shouting . Jimin and Chelsea turned around and dashed into the distance .

  Boom!

  The fire whip flew toward the two of them . The attack left a deep crevice on the ground, but thankfully, the fire was too far away to damage them . Jimin and Chelsea had succeeded in going down the hill .

  Kevil stared at its fire whip for a brief moment, then turned toward Sungyoon .

  “Koohk!”


  “Just bear with me! It’ll take only a moment”


  Emily stuck close to Sungyoon, whose arm was charred black .

  At a glance, one could tell Sungyoon was in dire straits . His shield had been destroyed, and the armor around his left arm was broken and scorched black -

  You were able to react to that attack?

  Sungyoon hadn’t been able to react to the first attack by Kevil . However, this time, he had deflected the fire whip sent toward Jimin and Chelsea . Of course, it had dearly cost him -

  Interesting .

  Kevil brought the fire whip back . In a smooth movement, the whip extended straight upward and transformed into a frighteningly large sword .

  Grace swung her staff once again .

  Hoo-ooh-ooh-oong!

  A tempest erupted in the region, and the winds that had been silent up until now as if they had been afraid of Kevil started to move . Kevil was the center of a large tornado . This spell was a new addition to Grace’s arsenal after Sungyoon had evolved her Gems .

  Puhl-luhk!

  Kevil swung its wings .

  Puh-uhng!

  The tornado had been so fierce that it appeared as though it would uproot the entire hill . Yet, Kevil had dismissed it with just a flap of its wings . This development stunned Grace .

  Hoo-oong!

  Kevil swung its sword and sent a crescent flame at them .

  “Shit!”


  Sungyoon didn’t have the time to continue healing . He quickly grabbed the two women and jumped to the side .

  Puh-uhng!

  An ominous sound rang out in the direction of his right leg, and a burning pain washed over him . He rolled across the grass .

  “Mr . Sungyoon!”


  Emily yelled .

  Sungyoon was dizzy from the pain, but he suppressed the pain to look at his right leg . His thigh was on fire, and he couldn’t see anything beyond that .

  Grace quickly took off her robe .

  Puhk! Puhk!

  She smothered the flames using her robe, while the teary-eyed Emily started healing whatever was left of Sungyoon’s leg -

  Hmm . Your reaction speed became a bit faster again .

  Kevil had recognized it . That person’s power was flowing more and more into Sungyoon’s body .

  ‘The same thing happened with the previous trash . As expected, they have a sympathetic link . ’


  However, the sympathetic link was more active with this particular sacrifice, and it was growing with time .

  ‘I have to stop playing around . This trash’s power is insignificant, but it’s a different story if he starts using that person’s power . ’


  Kevil took a powerful step forward and pushed off the ground .

  Hoo-oong!

  As Kevil moved, the air hitting his body screamed . In a flash, Kevil arrived in front of Sungyoon’s party and brought down its sword . The party felt as if a screaming sun was falling toward them .

  Kwahhhhhhhng!

  This was merely a playful swing of Kevil’s sword, not its strongest attack .

  The nameless grass, the shy flowers, the sparse trees on the hill, the twinkling stars, and the sound of waves, all combined gave this location a picturesque view . Yet Kevil’s single attack ruthlessly destroyed this view .

  The attack formed a deep ravine as long as twenty meters in the middle of the hill, and the melted earth flowed downward as lava . The rest of the hill also became engulfed in the flames .

  “Huh-uhk! Huh-uhk!"

  Sungyoon took shallow breaths even though he didn’t need to breathe to live . It was just a natural reaction from his body trying to compensate a little bit against the fear and pain .

  Somehow, he had been able to dodge the terrifying attack . But his right thigh was nowhere to be seen now, and a large chunk of his side had been ripped away too . On top of that, his whole body was covered in severe burns .

  “Oooooooooh!”


  “Ahhhhhhhhh!”


  Sungyoon heard the groans from the two people next to him . He had covered Emily and Grace with his body, so they hadn’t suffered critical wounds . But they did have burns all over their bodies and were paralyzed from the shock .

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  Kevil approached them as if it were a messenger sent from hell . Its gaze fell on Emily and Grace, whom it didn’t need .

  “Koo-oohk!”


  Using his halberd as a crutch, Sungyoon got up on his remaining leg . He didn’t have time to heal his wounds .

  Hoo-oong!

  Kevil didn’t pay attention to the injured trash . It silently swung its sword at Emily .

  Kwahhhhhhhhng!-

  Huh?

  The halberd blocked its flame sword, and Kevil was surprised . Until now, the trash had barely been able to survive its attack, yet he had now dared to block its attack .

  “Ooh-ahhhhhhhhhhhhk!”


  Sungyoon screamed and tried to squeeze out all the power in his body, then pushed back with his halberd . Kevil snorted as it made a fist . It planned on destroying both arms of this upstart trash .

  Boom!-

  What?

  But Kevil was once again surprised .

  ‘I was pushed back?’


  One step . It was just one step, but Kevil couldn’t believe it had been pushed backward in a contest of strength . Moreover, it was done by a severely-injured piece of trash .

  However, it wasn’t the end .

  Twoo-hwahk!

  Sungyoon’s halberd finally pushed back the flame sword, and Kevil was sent back a good distance . The demonic monster flapped its wings to regain its balance, then looked at Sungyoon with a dumbfounded expression .

  However, rage soon engulfed its face -

  Bitchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

  Kevil forgot that Sungyoon was a sacrifice that it had to take back and only thought about its pride being trampled . Its body overflowed with the desire to kill Sungyoon .

  Kwahhhhhhh!

  The flame sword expanded upward to become almost ten meters tall, and the sight looked as if the sun had descended onto Earth -

  Dieeeeeeeeeeeee!

  Leaving behind a trail like a comet, the flame sword fell .

  “Ooh-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhht!”


  Sungyoon swung his halberd head-on .

  Kwahhhhhhhng!

  A large explosion rang out . Flames erupted in all directions and pushed superheated air outward . Kevil assumed the trash had died with this attack, and it was getting ready to gloat . However, something pierced through the flames, and Kevil subconsciously swung its arm .

  Poo-oohk!

  The sharp spear blade of the halberd pierced through the hard spikes and stabbed into Kevil’s arm .

  Blue blood gushed out, and Kevil felt pain . However, the shock it felt was bigger than the pain -

  What!

  The demonic monster was so surprised that it couldn’t react as Sungyoon pushed through the billowing flames and grabbed the shaft of the halberd .

  “Hahhhhhhhht!”


  Kwah-doo-doohk!

  The halberd pushed deeper into Kevil’s arm, and at the same time, Sungyoon’s wounds healed a little -

  You trashhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

  Puh-uhk!

  Kevil swung its enormous fist toward Sungyoon’s face .

  Kwahng!

  Sungyoon was sent flying like a leaf in a tornado . His body traveled through the flames and hit the ground .

  With an annoyed expression, Kevil extracted the halberd and threw it on the ground -

  He isn’t dead?

  To Kevil’s surprise, Sungyoon got back up even though his body swayed -

  Let’s do this! I’ll turn you into minced meat!

  Kevil once again grasped his flame sword, but it didn’t immediately attack -

  What’s wrong with this?

  As it eyed the flame sword, Kevil was taken aback . The flame sword was still burning fiercely, but its intensity was weaker than before -

  Is it because of the magical energy?

  Kevil realized it had been fighting for far too long in a location with no magical energy . The situation irritated the demonic monster . It was already annoyed by the fact that its power had been reduced, yet it now found that the power had a time limit too .

  The demonic monster looked at Sungyoon, who held an ax in one hand and a hammer in the other . It could see that the trash hadn’t lost his will to fight . If this trash had been normal, Kevil could’ve easily killed him .

  However, Sungyoon was different right now .

  ‘His sympathetic link to that person’s power is getting deeper . ’


  If Kevil wasn’t careful, it would be the one to die . However, it wasn’t afraid of death, but rather, failing its mission -

  Tsk!

  Even though this decision would hurt its pride, but since the battle was getting in the way of its original mission, Kevil decided to retreat -

  Hey, trash . You’re lucky today . But I promise you this . You’ll become one of the sacrifices, and I’ll come back for you later . At that time, I’ll make you suffer so much that you’ll wish for your death!

  Kevil picked up Lee, who had miraculously survived the battle . With Lee on its side, Kevil unfurled its wings and flew into the night sky .