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solo leveling s03 part 13
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00:00of appearing again even after a nation of his kin had been annihilated completely.
00:04Of course, it'd be no different than killing himself to fight against a combined army of
00:08the chaos world that easily numbered in the 10-plus millions with just over 100,000 of his
00:13servants. However, if he was planning to run away from the get-go, he wouldn't have tried
00:18to threaten the Dragon Emperor even at the risk of exposing his current whereabouts.
00:22Could he be aiming for something else? The Dragon Emperor grew more anxious as time
00:26continued to pass by. Could it be? He's waiting for the annihilation of his kin so he can convert
00:32them all into his shadow soldiers. However, turning humans who didn't know how to wield
00:36mana into his soldiers wouldn't be much help against the army of destruction.
00:40Humans are coming, my liege. But, didn't all the humans of this nation capable of wielding
00:45mana, hunters, die? If so, what could this be? The Dragon Emperor formed a puzzled expression
00:51and raised its head, and with excellent timing, countless missiles rained down from the sky.
00:56This was the final struggle of the weak creatures, so pathetically meaningless that even the
01:00sovereign of destruction felt sorry for them. Humans knew that their weapons not imbued with
01:05mana couldn't even touch a single hair on the army of destruction, yet they stubbornly refused to give
01:10up. This is getting boring. The brows of the Dragon Emperor quivered slightly. Anxiety morphed into
01:16annoyance, and soon, annoyance transformed into anger. The Dragon Emperor warned its underlings not to
01:22make a move and for the first time ever since setting foot in this world, revealed its true
01:26appearance. These fighter pilots had flown here while risking their lives in order to buy time,
01:31however little it'd be, for the civilians to evacuate. But then, after seeing the truly
01:36nonsensical size of the personified calamity approaching them, every single one of these brave
01:41men and women became completely speechless. Mommy, the terror and shock of these pilots only lasted for a
01:47brief moment. Soon, the breath of pure destruction fired out in a straight line from the jaw of the
01:52calamity, swallowing up all of the fighter jets in the air. In less than one minute, the lives of
01:58these pilots couldn't even buy one minute, and their sacrifice was ultimately in vain. Unfortunately,
02:03the Dragon Emperor wasn't satisfied by these humans' sacrifices and raised its head to spew out a
02:09terrifying roar at the heavens. That was the Sovereign of Destruction declaring war against the Shadow
02:14Sovereign. Jin-woo also heard that roar. His eyes, closed in stillness so that he could organize his
02:19thoughts, quietly opened up. It's time. The moment his eyelids lifted up, the sight of the lodging
02:25Beru had constructed immediately entered his view. Darkness and silence seemed to have taken over the
02:30dominion of this needlessly humongous room. Was it because the current atmosphere resembled the
02:35moments of eternal rest? Jin-woo didn't dislike the combination of darkness and silence as experienced
02:40within this empty, wide-open space. He felt guilty about scolding Beru initially after clapping his
02:46eyes on this white fortress for the first time back then, so he quietly summoned the former Ant King to
02:51his side. Hey, Beru. Thanks. Beru had been silently waiting in Jin-woo's shadow until then. He sneaked his
02:58head out of the darkness below to speak. Oh, my king. Yeah, I know. Jin-woo cut off Beru's sentence even
03:04before another word could be uttered. This time, Belian rose up to the surface from the sight of
03:09the Ant King. It's far too dangerous, my liege. Even Ygritte emerged from below too, as if he was
03:14waiting for this chance. He knelt down and lowered his head, his voice sounding earnest. I share their
03:20opinions, my liege. All three marshals were trying to dissuade Jin-woo from enacting his plan.
03:25Wordlessly, their master studied the trio. Shadow soldiers would never die unless their sovereign was
03:31killed off. Which meant that they would always worry about the safety of their sovereign first
03:35and foremost. However, sometimes one had no choice but to make a move even though he knew of the
03:40dangers waiting for him on the other side. For Jin-woo, this was one such occasion. Osborn,
03:46the former shadow sovereign said that he liked this aspect of me. That would be the aspect of him
03:50willing to tackle the seemingly dangerous problem head on first to see what's what. Even though he
03:55looked cold and calculating on the outside. Jin-woo continued on. If he was in the same
04:00situation as I am now, what would he have done? Bellion recalled the past actions of the former
04:05shadow sovereign and realized that he couldn't readily provide an answer. Osborn, the former
04:10shadow sovereign, was someone who stepped up all by himself to try and stop the rebellion of every
04:15other fragment of the brilliant light marching forward to kill their creator, the absolute being.
04:21If it was him, he'd never give up on his duty regardless of the situation facing him.
04:26Once Bellion's thoughts arrived there, he raised his faltering head up high.
04:29Jin-woo was smiling back at him. They resemble each other. Jin-woo's face overlapped with that
04:35of Osborn's and Bellion's eyes. Just then, as expected, Bellion lowered his head again and made
04:40an earnest pledge towards Jin-woo. I shall accompany you till the end, my liege. It seemed that other
04:46marshals shared his sentiment because they no longer bothered to dissuade Jin-woo. Perfect. You should
04:51have come out like that from the beginning, you know. Jin-woo grinned refreshingly at them. He felt
04:56that there really wasn't much time remaining and pulled out his phone from the pocket. This might
05:01prove to be his last chance to speak to his family. In the end, though, he couldn't bring himself to
05:06tap the call icon. He thought that if he heard the voices of his loved ones now, he'd not be able to
05:12take another step forward. That's the feeling he got. The crushed phone slowly fell from Jin-woo's hand.
05:17It'd be perfectly fine to delay listening to their voices until the end of the upcoming battle.
05:22Woo Jin-chial squeezed his eyes shut. He just didn't feel confident of continuously watching
05:27the unfolding tragedy happening on the other side of the planet. Through Jin-woo's memory,
05:32he had witnessed the grand scale of the enemy's invading forces. He was being serious here,
05:37that was a calamity nothing in this world could defend against. The nation boasting the greatest
05:41combat strength, the United States of America, was crumbling helplessly at the hands of those DMN
05:47monsters. And right now, the only thing humanity could do was to pray for a miracle.
05:52Unfortunately, just what kind of a miracle would it have to be to stop those creatures?
05:56Please, I beg of you, don't. Although there would never be a reply,
06:00Woo Jin-chial still looked up at the ceiling of his office and whispered softly,
06:04Don't forsake us. A fighter jet's engine was destroyed in an instant and its pilot hurriedly
06:09attempted to eject from the plane. As this pilot made his rapid descent towards the ground,
06:14he began screaming out in despair as he watched his friends and colleagues getting massacred in the
06:19blink of an eye. Booming exploding noises and flashes of fireballs filled up the sky.
06:24The pilot continued to cry out the names of his dying friends even as the disorientating chaos
06:29pushed his head into a dizzy spin. The ground approached at the rate of knots.
06:33Just before he was about to become a flat pancake, his parachute unfurled itself in time.
06:38He messily tumbled and rolled around on the ground several times before coming to a stop.
06:43Even though the surroundings were filled with the acrid stink of blood and stinging fumes of
06:47chemicals, monsters still managed to sense the breathing of a life form from far away and began
06:53rushing towards his location. The pilot hurriedly cut himself loose from the parachute's straps and
06:58yanked out a pistol mounted on his hips. Die, die, you sons of BT-chez. Several ear-piercing gunshots
07:04echoed in the air, but as expected, they were simply inadequate to slow down the monsters by one bit.
07:10Now that he ran out of bullets, the pilot instantly began regretting his actions.
07:15He should have reserved the last shot for his own final moment. His hands powerlessly sagged to the
07:19ground. The very first monster to arrive his location as he stood there dazed and numb was a
07:24denizen of the chaos world that resembled a giant cockroach. After seeing the insect-type monster
07:30utterly filling up his view, all strength in the pilot's legs abandoned him and he sunk down to the
07:35floor. A despairing moan leaked out of his mouth. Right at that moment, all those insects rushing
07:40at him were suddenly torn apart at once as if a claw from a gigantic creature took a swipe at
07:45them. Jesus Christ. His tearful eyes anxiously sought out the origin of that miracle. And soon,
07:50he found a single Asian man gently landing in front of his eyes. Although it was only his back,
07:55the pilot found it not too difficult to guess this man's name by looking at the pair of uniquely
08:00shaped shortswords in his hands. Xiang Jin-woo. Hunter Jin-woo Xiang. Jin-woo took a look at the pilot
08:06behind him. There was an incredibly intense scowl on his face that made it hard to tell whether he
08:11was an ally or an enemy. But, his eyes definitely said, run away, now. Sure enough, a horde of
08:17monsters far outnumbering the ones that got killed was rushing towards them from the distance.
08:22Jin-woo furiously swung Kamish's wraths, resulting in the monsters to get torn apart into bits and pieces
08:28like dolls made out of paper. He had cut down dozens upon dozens of enemies with those two attacks,
08:33but that was like shaving a tiny piece off a massive iceberg. Enemies hundreds of times
08:38greater in number seemed to have latched onto the smell of combat that had taken place here.
08:42This would be the first steps of the war. His first victims would be with these insect-type
08:47monsters. Jin-woo sucked in a quick but deep breath, and in the direction of the chaos world's
08:52soldiers rushing towards his location. He spat out the two words that would become the turning point
08:57in this war. Rise up! As soon as Jin-woo issued his command, all those insect monsters that got
09:03torn to shreds just now stood back up as new shadow soldiers. In the past, he also revived monsters that
09:09got killed during the battles and added them to his stock of soldiers, but these new additions were on a
09:14different scale altogether compared to those guys. Quite far removed from the recent past when the system
09:19suppressed the powers of the shadow sovereign and resulted in the creation of shadow soldiers that were
09:24weaker than their living counterparts. Jin-woo was now the bonafide king of the dead, and the
09:29restrictions of the system no longer affected him. The dragon emperor, having never let its guard down
09:34once, finally detected the presence of the shadow sovereign. Towards the eastern front, right at the
09:40eastern end of the gigantic army spreading out with itself as the center, that was where the shadow
09:44sovereign decided to make his appearance. The king of demonic specters, the sovereign of
09:49transfiguration, addressed the dragon emperor respectfully. However, the latter raised its
09:54hand up and abruptly cut off the words of the former. Even though they were separated by an
09:59incredible distance, the emperor of dragons didn't miss the crucial fact that the shadow sovereign's
10:04loyal soldiers were not present within his shadow. What was the shadow sovereign thinking of by stepping
10:09into the battlefield without the army to protect him? At a casual glance, this seemed to be the most
10:14perfect opportunity to eliminate him for good. However, they simply couldn't mobilize the entire
10:19army when it was unknown what their enemy was scheming right now. In a way, doing precisely that might be
10:25the true aim of the enemy, to begin with. Anxiety akin to a veil of fog clogging up one's vision
10:30grabbed hold of the dragon emperor, and it couldn't readily make its next move. The sovereign of
10:35destruction shifted its glare back towards the eastern battlefield, where Jin-woo was going on a rampage
10:41at the moment. The number of the chaos world's soldiers were decreasing at a noticeable rate.
10:46And at the same time, that Beastard's own forces were increasing rapidly. The decision needed to be
10:51made right now. The quicker the better. Too bad. The dragon emperor couldn't readily make a choice when
10:56the battlefield's direction was unfolding in an unexpected direction through one man's actions that
11:01seemed to defy all attempts to predict what his next moves would be. From a certain point onwards,
11:06Jin-woo gave up on consciously cutting down on the vast sea of enemies. There were simply
11:11far too many of them for that. The number of his own allies was increasing at a rapid pace,
11:16but still, the scale of the enemy forces was just so ridiculous that it almost rendered all of his
11:21actions so far inconsequential. After he sucked in a deep breath, Jin-woo entrusted himself not to his
11:27logical reasoning, but to his senses. When he did, reflexive movements that seemed to have transcended
11:32the limits of human anatomy began repeating as if he was a machine created solely to murder
11:37and destroy. Just one strike from him tore through hundreds of monsters. And then, rise up. Then,
11:43hundreds of new shadow soldiers joined his army. Screams of monsters reverberating from all corners
11:48completely filled up the battlefield. And so, just how much time went by in this manner?
11:53Jin-woo finally detected the approach of existence is quite different from the forces of the chaos world
11:58that he'd been fighting so far. He raised his head to spot hundreds of sky dragons, as well as
12:03dragonutes possessing humanoid appearances riding on top of them. Completely blanket the sky above.
12:09Is the army of destruction finally making its move? However, he still couldn't sense the presence of
12:15the dragon emperor yet. Not yet, huh? There was no need to be disappointed, though, because he had
12:20plenty of time on his hands, after all. Besides, if that beastard was reluctant to make a move, then all he
12:26had to do was to give it a good enough reason. A dragon that was previously hidden from his view by the
12:31swarm of sky dragons revealed itself. And he witnessed a cluster of energy gathering in the
12:36flying creature's jaw. Sure enough, the horrifying breath of a dragon made up purely of flames fell
12:42from the sky, having accurately fired the breath attack on the target. This dragon then increased its
12:47altitude. The enemy's presence couldn't be detected. Could the human have been melted away by its breath,
12:53then? Thinking that it had reached a safe enough altitude, the dragon stopped flying up and looked
12:57down at the ground to confirm the fate of the shadow sovereign. The raging flames died down,
13:02and the black smoke dissipated. But, but, not a trace of the shadow sovereign could be seen anywhere.
13:08Where is he? It was then. A presence could be felt on top of the dragon's head. A chill-inducing
13:13sensation brushed past the back of this creature's neck. But by then, it was already too late.
13:18You be starred. Even before the dragon could look up, Jin-woo standing on its head stabbed down with
13:23Kamish's wrath. Sharp black aura shooting out from the tip of the short sword penetrated clean through
13:28the dragon's head and exited from underneath its chin. Rather obviously, the dead flying lizard lost
13:34its ability to stay airborne and helplessly fell towards the earth. Rise up. Just like that.
13:39The dragon and hundreds of dragonutes began rising up again right behind him. The dragon emperor also felt
13:45it. Its own army shouldn't even be compared to the ragtag bunch calling themselves soldiers that belong to
13:50other sovereigns. But now, a portion of its proud army had been lost to the shadow sovereign.
13:56With that, the situation was now beyond the point of wait and see in regards to whatever schemes the
14:00beast art had cooked up. The event of the army of destruction being swallowed up by the shadow
14:05sovereign must be prevented at any cost. The dragon emperor issued a new order to the ancient class
14:10dragons waiting for their chance to participate in the war. And just in case, it issued a different
14:16command to the sovereign of transfiguration. Hundreds of gates connected to the battlefield
14:20and the east suddenly materialized in front of the dragon emperor and the ancient class dragons.
14:26I shall not let you escape. With that thought in its head, the dragon emperor and its eyes burning
14:30in the flames of rage disappeared into the gate. Finally, the army of destruction, shrinking back and
14:36not doing anything until now, was forced to make their move after the shadow sovereign successfully
14:41managed to provoke them. Quite unlike in the east where the violent storms of power were on a
14:45collision course, a comparatively quieter battle was coming to an end on the opposite side,
14:50on the western front. The American military that had set up their final defensive line here was
14:55tragically being torn apart by the fangs and claws of the monsters. What these soldiers had bet their
15:01last hopes on were the weapons used by the hunters. Unfortunately, there was simply no way that these
15:06regular people could effectively use the hunter-issue weapons that were originally designed for raid
15:11situations. And so, the American military rapidly crumbled away in defeat. The role of the marauding
15:17army's spearhead for the western front was also given to the insect-type monsters that possess great
15:23agility and sharp senses. Just before their sharp mandibles split open wide to swallow him up,
15:28a certain figure stepped before the platoon commander faster than any of the insects could and took the
15:33hand grenade away while blocking the attacks of the monsters with his bare back. The commander could only
15:39look up in a total daze at the man blocking his view, who was also at least a good two heads taller
15:44than he was. Thomas Andre. The surviving soldiers quickly recognized who these people coming to their
15:49aid were and bright expressions filled up their faces. Aye, it's the scavenger. They're hunters from
15:54the scavenger guild. Thank you, Lord. As befitting a guild consisting of truly exceptional hunters,
16:00the current situation was resolved in no time at all. However, they didn't have any breathing room
16:05whatsoever as yet another wave of monsters was madly rushing towards them. Thomas Andre's ultra-sharp
16:11glare swept across the incoming enemies. Orcs, ogres, trolls, minotaurs, cyclops, etc. All of them
16:18were monsters commonly seen inside dungeons. No matter how many of them were here, they didn't pose
16:23any challenge to him. Except, in the middle of this sea of weaklings, there hid a nonsensically powerful
16:28being. Just like how other monsters were scared by Thomas's presence, he too couldn't make a move
16:34because of that one presence. Eventually, this creature slowly walked to the front of the horde,
16:38as if it was done observing the situation. The king of monstrous humanoids formed a sinister grin.
16:44The sovereign of beastly fangs did indeed possess powers of a predator, but basically,
16:49it was more specialized towards hunting down its prey, instead. However, this particular king was
16:54different from its now-dead comrade in that it ruled over monstrous humanoids such as orcs and ogres,
16:59and its speciality was in up-close and personal physical confrontations. So, it was quite obvious
17:05that it'd find this human acting so flippant when he had only a pathetic little bit of strength to
17:10fall back on rather humorous to behold. The king of monstrous humanoids, the sovereign of iron body,
17:15began unleashing its enormous mono reserve, pressuring the opponent's fighting spirit through
17:20aura alone. This was a display of confidence from the sovereign, implying that it could easily kill off
17:26a measly human like Thomas Andre in a heartbeat. But then, in stark contrast to the hunters behind
17:31him with their rapidly paling complexions, the vessel of the rulers didn't seem to lose his
17:36relaxed demeanor at all. The sovereign began to wonder if this human had some sort of a scheme,
17:41a trick up his sleeve, but then, the darkness suddenly spread out from beneath his feet and in
17:46the blink of an eye, completely covered up the land. The sovereign's brow quivered greatly.
17:50Shadow, this was, without a doubt, the skill belonging to the shadow sovereign. At that moment,
17:56a familiar voice suddenly rose up from right behind Thomas Andre. The Grand Marshal Bellion
18:01sent his greeting in a polite yet still threatening tone of voice. And right behind him, over 130,000
18:07shadow soldiers, hiding within Thomas Andre's shadow while patiently biding their time,
18:12were rising up above the ground at the same time. The elite shadow soldiers numbering over 130,000 that
18:18managed to survive the last war under the guidance of their sovereign erased their presence as much
18:23as possible and hid within the human's shadow. It was a trap. Now suddenly finding itself coming
18:28face to face with the shadow army, the sovereign of Iron Body felt this dizzying sensation of being
18:34sucked into a quagmire. They got me. Currently, the army manning the western battlefront didn't possess
18:39enough power to face off against the shadow army. Not only that, the ones leading this army of the dead
18:44were Bellion and Ygritte. So the sovereign in charge now had to worry about its own
18:48neck. Instead, most likely, the shadow army, no, the shadow sovereign, was aiming for this result.
18:54I need to let them know. The sovereign of Iron Body urgently tried to communicate with the dragon
18:59emperor. However, some kind of power was blocking its attempts to send the word out. Could it be?
19:05Did the shadow sovereign plan this far ahead? The sovereign of Iron Body hurriedly activated its
19:10sensory perception to locate the source of the power interrupting the contact with the other side.
19:15When it did, it discovered a certain high orc shaman standing next to Ygritte, diligently murmuring out
19:20some kind of an incantation while holding onto something small in his hand. That DMN creature's
19:25spell was disrupting all forms of communication with the other sovereigns. The spell from the
19:30commander Great Fangs, now that he had experienced a rebirth as a true shadow soldier, as well as borrowing
19:36the power of the Beat of Avarice, was more than strong enough to perform that role. Fangs blushed slightly
19:41when his gaze met that of the king he used to serve. Even then, he didn't try to stop casting
19:46his spell. The king of monstrous humanoids, the sovereign of Iron Body felt as if it was being
19:51made fun of after looking at Fangs' smile. An uncontrollable rage welled up from deep within.
19:56No, hang on. This tactic was not something the shadow sovereign would have cooked up,
20:00never mind his shadow soldiers. Indeed, this was not how the shadow army conducted its business.
20:06This army used to proudly announce the approach of unavoidable death right in front of their enemies
20:11every single time. This was a human's way of thinking. The current shadow sovereign,
20:16the human, had perverted how the war was supposed to be fought. Didn't he possess any pride as a
20:21sovereign? Now thoroughly enraged, the sovereign of Iron Body expanded its muscles. As his body
20:26ballooned up to a near-bursting size, thick veins bulged up on its various muscles. The sovereign of
20:32Iron Body roared out. It then arrived right in front of Fangs in less than a blink of an eye.
20:37But its path was suddenly blocked off by Beru. The former ant king grabbed both hands of the
20:42sovereign and began a contest of pure physical strength. He glared at the enemy and growled in
20:47the language of the monsters. As a reply, the sovereign of Iron Body exerted enough power to
20:52twist and yank off Beru's arms while shouting out even louder than before. And when that happened,
20:57an ear-splitting screech exploded out from Beru's mouth as his entire body quickly expanded to double
21:02his previous size. The Dragon Emperor saw it. It saw the corpses of countless soldiers of the
21:08Chaos World that died during its brief period of hesitation, as well as the number of shadow
21:13soldiers that matched those that had fallen. Figurative flames erupted out from the Dragon
21:17Emperor's eyes as it strode outside the gate. The end of its glare was locked onto Jin Woo,
21:22currently swallowing whole a portion of the Chaos World's army after becoming a literal giant storm
21:27in their midst. The man that be starred must die. The Dragon Emperor didn't even have the necessary
21:33time to transform back to its original appearance, so it hurriedly fired the Breath of Destruction.
21:38Instead, it's him. Jin Woo's figure vanished from the spot. Right afterwards, all the soldiers of the
21:44Chaos World as well as the new shadow soldiers were exposed to the Breath and got incinerated without a
21:49trace. Jin Woo made his timely escape and settled down on a location not too far away, ending its Breath
21:55attack. The Dragon Emperor glared right at him. Countless gates opened up behind it and through
22:00them, ancient class dragons and dragonutes revealed themselves. And so, the King of Berserk Dragons,
22:06the Sovereign of Destruction, had entered the fray. What appeared now alongside it was the main
22:11portion of the Army of Destruction. Forces capable of destroying this planet in one day had been
22:16mobilized in their entirety just to deal with the lone shadow Sovereign. And in front of them stood the
22:21King of Kings, the Sovereign that lorded over other Sovereigns, the Dragon Emperor. Just like the
22:26Army of Dragons choosing to stand behind the Dragon Emperor, the shadow soldiers also stood right
22:31behind Jin Woo. Advance. Jin Woo had his shadow soldiers, initially brought to one location,
22:37march forward again. An expression of confusion floated up on the Dragon Emperor's face.
22:42He saw my soldiers, yet he wishes to confront me head on. Those were the actions of an insane fool.
22:47As if to mock the Dragon Emperor's suspicion, the shadow soldiers simply rushed forward towards their
22:53enemies. Dragons immediately fired powerful, vicious flames at them. With that, shadow soldiers
22:59were enveloped in flames before disappearing away like expendables, with nary a hint of regeneration
23:04happening among them. Almost instantly, the Dragon Emperor realized that these were simply decoys to
23:10buy time. Where is he? It quickly expanded its sensory perception. The shadow Sovereign was using his
23:16shadow to escape to somewhere. Seeing this shameful sight, the Dragon Emperor formed a mocking grin.
23:21It seemed that the human beastard was planning to slowly shave down the forces of the chaos world
23:26by repeating the tactics of hit and run, but he had made one crucial oversight. Something he had failed
23:33to consider. And that would be the fact the leader of the enemy's forces could chase after him no problem.
23:38The Dragon Emperor easily traced Jin Woo's shadow now being connected to the Western Front.
23:43There you are. It had never let him get away. The Dragon Emperor quickly generated a gate connected
23:48to the exact spot where Jin Woo had fled to and jumped in without hesitation. Just as it took the
23:53first step out of the gate, it was greeted by the sight of the 130,000-strong great army surrounding it.
23:59That wasn't all. Jin Woo had been waiting for the Dragon Emperor's arrival and spoke in a calm voice
24:04when it did show up. Rise up! Just one command and every single creature belonging to the Western
24:10portion of the Chaos Army that were killed at the hands of the true shadow army rose up as new shadow
24:15soldiers. The Dragon Emperor took a sweeping look at the shadow soldiers that now numbered well past
24:20200,000 and spoke. Draw your enemy to the battlefield of your choosing and establish the upper hand.
24:26Since the shadow army was facing an overwhelmingly disadvantageous number of enemies, the current
24:31tactic could be seen as a must. But still, a mocking grin didn't want to leave the face of the
24:36Dragon Emperor. It finally understood what the scheme of the shadow sovereign was. Although the
24:41process of uncovering the plot resulted in the loss of the Western portion of the Chaos World's army,
24:46that was not a large cost to bear as long as the shadow sovereign could be killed here today.
24:51Even losing half of all the soldiers would not be a loss. Fear would bloom in one's heart when one
24:56couldn't predict the events of the future. But its opponent had been laid bare here. The Dragon
25:01Emperor chuckled and looked back at Jin Woo. In reality, there stood a certain sovereign that
25:06could be seen as the greatest sorcerer in the Chaos World waiting right behind the Dragon Emperor.
25:11Not too long afterwards, the Sovereign of Transfiguration waiting for the surprise attack
25:15from the shadow army created countless gates that connected two battlefields. Before long,
25:20a seemingly endless number of soldiers from the Chaos World poured out before the measly 200,000 or so
25:26shadow army. So, how do you feel now? With this, your plan has been smashed to bits. Your miscalculation
25:32will result in your death today. The Dragon Emperor stared at Jin Woo with a triumphant expression on
25:37its face. However, Jin Woo grinned as his reply. He actually smiled right back at the Dragon Emperor
25:43and his satisfied expression. He got suckered in. Indeed, the Dragon Emperor had acted exactly according
25:49to his will. The King of Berserk Dragons, of course, didn't miss that brief flash of a smile on the
25:54human's face. He smiled. Sure enough, the summoning of the shadow soldiers was cancelled in an instant,
26:00and they all got sucked into the dark shade below the shadow sovereign's feet. Just what was this
26:05human thinking? Withdrawing his soldiers now was no different from trying to kill himself.
26:10If he had no soldiers to buy him time, then he'd not even be able to escape to somewhere else,
26:15either. Even if he didn't want to lose his precious shadow soldiers, no one would have taken him for a
26:20fool who would expose his back to his mortal enemies while hurriedly scurrying away. Before Jin Woo could
26:26do something else, the Dragon Emperor closed the distance first. At the same time, the entirety of
26:31the forces of the Chaos World also pounced towards Jin Woo's direction. The gazes of tens of thousands,
26:37hundreds of thousands of soldiers still breathlessly emerging from the gates were locked on Jin Woo,
26:42and Jin Woo alone. It was then, just as the Dragon Emperor arrived right before Jin Woo's nose and
26:47reached out towards him. At that moment, Jin Woo's eyes changed to resemble a dragon's. Only then
26:53did the Dragon Emperor realize that something had gone terribly awry. A moment of stillness came and
26:58went. From Jin Woo's mouth, a loud and vicious roar exploded out. It was the cry from the soul that
27:03pushed every single being near him, every single being weaker than him, into a state of pure despair.
27:09It was the dragon's fear, the vilest and cruelest skill of dragons he learned from Kamish's rune stone.
27:14He hadn't been interested in it since its powers didn't differentiate allies from enemies. But now,
27:20but now, it's different. The skill that drove hundreds of elite hunters gathered to hunt down
27:24a dragon to the pits of hell had now been used against the dragons, instead. Just like how Kamish
27:30had done to the human hunters all those years ago, the Shadow Sovereign froze up all the soldiers of the
27:35Dragon Emperor, too. There was no being alive that could break from the effects of fear produced by
27:39the near-bottomless supply of mana belonging to the Shadow Sovereign, save for one lone individual,
27:45and that would be the Dragon Emperor. After making every single one of the enemy forces freeze up in
27:50an instant, Jin Woo reached out and grabbed the Dragon Emperor's arm next. The brows of the King of
27:55Berserk Dragons crumpled. Jin Woo gripped the arm tighter as a grin suffused on his lips.
28:00You, come with me for a sec. Having succeeded in his endeavor of inviting the Dragon Emperor to the
28:06true battlefield of his own choosing, Jin Woo quickly distanced himself away from his opponent.
28:11And now, finding itself in a location very far away from its underlings, the creature began scanning
28:16the surrounding scenery with mystified eyes. A place on the opposite side of the world from where
28:21your army is. What particularly drew one's attention was this huge white-colored fortress
28:26built up on the top of a hill. The Dragon Emperor pointed at it with a black flag flapping in the wind on
28:32top. Something like that. Why did Jin Woo briefly feel apologetic to Beru all of a sudden? Of course,
28:38there was no reason to get suckered into his enemy's pace now, was there? Well, I think that
28:43building's just about the perfect size to commemorate your death today. Only then did the gaze of the
28:47Dragon Emperor fix on Jin Woo. He didn't try to avoid meeting that glare. The Dragon Emperor had been
28:53surrounded. However, its expression was not as gloomy as one would hope for in the current situation.
28:58The thing was, although it didn't mind the types of battles where it'd use the overwhelming numbers
29:03to completely massacre its enemies, it also found the exact opposite of that situation quite enjoyable
29:09too, where it'd get to overwhelm the enemies alone. In short, it was an existence born solely for
29:14warfare. It was the incarnation of destruction. One who would not mind its own demise if it was all for
29:20the sake of blood, screams, madness, and destruction swirling in a dizzying storm of warfare. That was why
29:26the Dragon Emperor could smile brightly. At the end of those words, that smile vanished from the
29:31creature's face. Jin Woo also sensed something at the same time. His senses that had far surpassed
29:36the limits of a normal human continuously rang loud warning bells. Along with a chill running down his
29:42spine, goosebumps broke all over his skin. It was then, like a scene from an unrealistic movie,
29:47a truly frightening roar scary enough to stop one's heart just from hearing it exploded out of the
29:52Dragon Emperor's mouth. This was the Dragon Emperor's fear, the ruler of all dragons. The level
29:57of terror previously never experienced before slammed into the shadow army like a massive shockwave.
30:03A seemingly endless chain of ripples began shaking the atmosphere. Even the ground quaked violently,
30:09as the shaking akin to an earthquake rocked the world. Jin Woo detected an extreme amount of terror,
30:14pain, and confusion from his soldiers and he urgently brought them back inside his shadow.
30:19During that process, vicious dizziness assaulted him and he wobbled unsteadily for a moment.
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