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Chapter 197
Chapter 197
1.
[Field Choices]
- Return to the entrance of the shrine where the light has gone out.
- Enter the mysterious cloud bridge.
- Find the graveyard where the sun never rises.
- Ah, hahaha, the quiz show section has appeared.
- Damn Sphinx trauma on.
- But isn’t the bridge kind of narrow?
- Yeah, true.
- Can giants even pass through there?
- No idea?
- Someone would have to have taken a giant to know.
- Haha, true.
A minor issue had arisen.
Even if she decided to move forward, if her subordinates couldn’t join her on the path ahead,
then this would not be a path she would choose.
- You foolish fool! How could someone who has become a Heavenly Demon abandon their followers just because the situation is tough?
- The Heavenly Demon is the sky to a million followers. To be forsaken by the Heavenly Demon is to be forsaken by the heavens. Did they commit sins so great that they deserve such punishment?
- No, it’s not that. If weakness is a sin, then this one is a person revered by all the weak. There is no need for such cruelty in the world of the Heavenly Demon!
Pacheonrin, the Heavenly Demon.
She had faced many setbacks on her journey to conquer the Central Plains, but she never abandoned those who followed her.
Not until her intoxicated subordinates betrayed her and her faith first.
‘Please extend your hand.’
With just a hand on her arm, the giant undead, sensing her intention, reaches out his hand.
‘The Heavenly Demon is one who never lets go of those who enter her embrace first, isn’t that right?’
Pacheonrin’s teachings still linger inside her.
A being more dignified than anyone else.
A longing that is even more beautiful because it does not chase convenience.
A determination that shines brightly, unafraid of challenges, no matter how impossible they seem.
‘If I climb higher, will I be able to get closer to her mindset, even just a little?’
Standing on the giant’s hand and climbing onto its shoulder.
Even though it was only a 10-meter difference,
that 10 meters would make her higher than anyone in her army.
‘This is the summit. The highest place. The place above everyone else.’
She knows it’s a foolish thought.
Just by doing this, she wouldn’t truly become the Heavenly Demon.
She doesn’t even have the Heavenly Demon’s divine skills—can she even be considered one?
But her mindset,
the unwavering will that has solidified like a sharp, cold wind.
‘Even if it’s foolish, sometimes I need to get used to looking down from a high place.’
Beyond the ridge of the rocky mountains,
following a path that doesn’t even exist in the field,
she marches deeper into enemy territory.
This realization opened new possibilities for her.
- Crossing the Mountain Range of Hardship.
- Wow! Hidden field!
- It’s not hidden.
[? Crossing the Mountain Range of Hardship]
- Hahaha, she found the path before falling off the cloud bridge.
- Was that where it was?
- Yeah.
- Isn’t it a field where survival is nearly impossible even without falling damage? She’s going there?
- The Silent Swordsman is a newbie. Doesn’t know anything about strategies.
- ;;
- Hard to believe, but she really is a newbie.
The Cloud Bridge of Heaven and the Mountain Range of Hell.
A fork with two extreme difficulties.
The system didn’t even recommend it, hiding the choice.
But the Silent Swordsman made her choice of her own will.
“If the master desires.”
“Our role is simply to follow!”
[Story mode]
The Cloud Bridge of Heaven.
Chasing after the Peach Blossom Fragrance of the demons, those who cross the bridge.
Not everyone can cross that bridge.
The weak,
the terrified,
the unworthy.
We call those who fell from the bridge by one name.
[Fallen Ghosts]
The only bridge to heaven.
For the demons who fall from there, no other identity is necessary.
Whether they slipped, were pushed, or were thrown out,
they are beings who have lost hope before their eyes.
They have no bridge.
[The pitiful dwellings of the demons who have lost their bridges]
[The hell of the blind who dream of glory beyond their worth]
[This place is truly the Mountain Range of Hardship.]
[To those who dream of revival, do not stop.]
[To those who dream of survival, go forward.]
[Before your two legs and life are stolen]
[By the filthy failures crawling in the darkness.]
[Player mode]
The Mountain Range of Hardship.
The shade and coolness were so thick here that the dense trees of the melting forest were practically visible.
Beasts’ yellow eyes gleamed from the darkness, and occasional growls and screams would echo in one’s ears.
Thud, thud, thud!
Thump! Crash!
Riding on the skeletal horse, the cavalrymen, who patrolled the area and thrust their spears, were just prey in the face of such threats.
“Master, reconnaissance complete!”
Nodding lightly, Ha Eung Eung listened to the report from the Knight, which was as expected.
“There are no threats to our army. The demons here are nothing more than pitiful failures who cannot even maintain their own bodies.”
“Dutta, there are scary things, too. Sometimes, mountain folk from the range wander into the burrows. They look weird and have a vicious atmosphere…”
- The mole is desperate.
- Agreed, haha.
Unlike the frightened Mole-Humans, the Knight and his undead soldiers were indifferent.
Having fought valiantly and defeated giants, they could easily play with these fallen demons with a single spear.
Clink
Ha Eung Eung pointed forward, and the march resumed.
The fallen demons were trampled under the skeletal horse’s hooves, impaled by lances, and their futile struggles ended in death.
But still, the fallen demons kept pouring out.
“There’s no shortage of them…”
Maybe because they were so unworthy of her attention, Boogeyman didn’t lift a finger.
The fallen demons of the second-field area were too weak to be compared with the undead soldiers.
- Why is it so easy??
- Is this really the Mountain Range?
- Feels off, right?
There was a small variable.
“About a thousand fallen ghosts detected ahead!”
“Some of the fallen ghosts have thickened their forearms. They must have grown stronger by crawling on their arms.”
Numbers, and strength.
The fallen ghosts were slowly growing more numerous and stronger.
“Those with thickened arms, respond with pikes!”
“Giants, throw rocks!”
Hundreds of spears soared through the sky.
Large rocks shattered the enemy ranks.
This was not a battle, let alone a fight.
It was a massacre.
That’s the only way to describe this battlefield.
- Oh, now I get it. We were alone, and the Silent Swordsman cowardly used sheer numbers to overwhelm us.
- Even if it’s one-on-one, the Silent Swordsman is the strongest among us.
- That’s how physical games work.
For the weak, it was an inescapable hell.
A place where the strong never let those with healthy bodies remain still.
But for the Silent Swordsman, had she chosen the cloud bridge above,
the fallen demons’ numbers and strength would have meant nothing.
They were just the tiny struggles of losers.
“These ones are on the trees!”
“Be careful, Master!”
The fallen demons, particularly the ones with strong arms, swung between the trees, moving with speed.
Before anyone, even the viewers or her subordinates, could truly realize it,
they understood how pointless worrying about the Silent Swordsman was.
Crack
Thud, thud
With a few light swings of her Massacre Blade,
a crimson trail was etched through the air.
The trees around them all tilted and fell to the ground.
None of them stood taller than her.
Not even the centuries-old trees could survive. The fallen ghosts, unable to even scream, were annihilated.
“Wow. Impressive, Master!”
“That was incredible!”
Upon reflection, it was obvious.
‘Even though they were defeated once, those who were not claimed by anyone, who gathered as failures,
can never be compared to those who keep military discipline even after becoming undead and never leave the frontlines.’
The fallen ghosts who simply fell, without any effort or resolve, were not comparable to the undead soldiers who had endured with a mission to save the nation.
Especially the presence of the Giant Undead was a living nightmare for the fallen demons.
‘The reason the fallen ghosts never appeared often near the Giants' Mountain is because they were afraid of the giants.’
Even the giants, now freely unleashed, could make them fear.
How dangerous were the Giant Undead soldiers, who had joined the undead army, learned military discipline, and embraced cooperation?
To other players, this place may be a nightmare they cannot escape, but to them, it wasn’t.
“Master, the fallen ghosts are retreating. What will you do?”
The Massacre Blade pointed toward the enemies.
The Knight raised his spear.
“Master wishes for their deaths!”
“Massacre! Massacre! Massacre!”
“For daring to threaten our Master, they will pay with their lives! Do not let a single one escape!”
The Knight and the undead soldiers, now roaring like they owned the field,
seemed as if they were the true natives of the area.
- Why is the Knight so strong at max level??
- The Knight is definitely the biggest beneficiary of the Silent Swordsman route...
Beyond the one-sided massacre,
the Knight, covered in blood, returned with his subordinates.
“Master, it’s a great victory.”
The group had grown in number since leaving.
Upon closer inspection, fallen ghosts were seen being dragged in ropes between the undead soldiers.
“We have captured 480 fallen ghosts as prisoners. There are 52 who wish to join our army. What should we do with them?”
The Heavenly Demon is the one who never lets go of those who enter her embrace.
That’s right?
Sitting on the giant’s shoulder, Ha Eung Eung gazed down at the fallen ghosts.
A curious light sparkled in her eyes.
It was the look of a child who had found a new toy.