#1

A blow of satisfaction was given, but Ruler had no intention of ending the battle yet. He didn’t take the chance and just relaxed. Black and sticky energy gushed from all sides and they clung en masse to the scene of the explosion before they went off once more.

Boom! Boom! Boom boom!

The continuous sound of explosions vibrating the sky and the atmosphere caused even the distortion of space, pounding the entire Baekdu Mountain area. Originally, he would have saved this skill until the very last minute but at the same time, he was a strategist who knew that if he kept saving, it would get wasted.

Even if it was a handshake.

Currrrrr…crack… crack…

The deep, steep valley of Mt. Baekdu collapsed under the shock. The clouds above the sky were dug up in all directions around the origin of the explosion. This shows how powerful the shock was. A thick cloud of dust flew up. This was after a pile of rocks broke apart and a small mountain peak hit by a waterfall was broken.

“Haha…” Ruler smiled confidently like a winner, this was because the trick he prepared worked perfectly. It was one of his proven attacks that he used several times in the past.

But his smile didn’t last that long either. Although all the dust had not subsided, the energy of his existence that should be in the middle of it all had disappeared.

“Hmm?”

Was he turned to dust?

His presence was wiped clean, Ruler can’t find Jaehwang anywhere else. Was Jaehwang hiding under the ground to escape the explosion? It’s not even funny. Hiding in the ground was not something he could understand. His attacks weren’t so sloppy, one could tell by just looking at the heavy dust that had settled down that he just created a black hole.

The earth did not diminish his attack by little, and his attack shrewdly targeted his very defense, but Jaehwang was gone. Then, a strange phenomenon occurred between the spaces in the middle of the heavy wick.

A finger appeared in the air. Then, he tore them from top to bottom and spread them from side to side as if he had torn leather.

It was Jaehwang, who looked as if nothing had happened. What’s unusual was that thousands of tiny letters were spinning over his exposed arms.

Ruler’s face wriggled with anger. “That’s an interesting trick.”

“Basic.”

“Did you know?”

“I expected that this kind of attack would fly in once.”

“Ha…! The magic of dealing with space. You got me this time.”

It’s just a trick, not magic, but Jaehwang didn’t bother to correct it.

Jaehwang was a little surprised by this attack. In fact, it was not without a blow. For the first attack, he had to withstand it entirely with basic defense. Then, he developed the trick, forcefully ignoring Ruler’s insidious, murderous strength. This was what Goongi’s visceral response to his long combat experience with various opponents had paid off.

“You are a great fit as my opponent.”

Jaehwang appeared intact, but Ruler was not discouraged at all. Rather, it was raising his speculation and fighting power. He fought against numerous beings in the Dark Earth for tens and thousands of years. Over the years, his longing for a battle, which had fallen asleep, was resurfacing through a formidable opponent named Jaehwang. He was also the god of battle in the Dark Earth.

BOOM!

Ruler took advantage of his size and quickly compressed the space around him. Making one’s own merits into another’s faults – it was the basis of battle. It’s Ruler who reached Jaehwang’s front in just three steps. The storm caused by his tremendous speed crashed into Jaehwang first. At the same time, all the offensive means of Ruler, who appeared to fold up space, flew toward Jaehwang. The dragon’s mouth came as if to engulf Jaehwang and two powerful forelegs flew as if to tear the space it stands in. The dozens of hands on his back cast a ball of various colors and then began throwing it into the space where Jaehwang was. The tentacles squeezed in between them and aimed persistently at Jaehwang’s body.

Boom!!! Boom!! THUD.

Zaaaaap!! Zaap!!!! POW!

Ruler charged, and Jaehwang rushed in without feeling intimidated. At first sight, there was an overwhelming difference in mass, which would make Jaehwang never be his proper opponent, but in the eyes of Jaehwang, there was no fear at all. Jaehwang was also the god of fighting on Earth.

Quaqua bang!!! Boom boom!!!

The clash between the two gods pounded Mount Baekdu. The top of the mountain fluctuated as if a tidal wave had happened and smashed its valleys to pieces. The two didn’t dare to retreat. If Ruler had an overwhelming size and a colorful attack, Jaehwang was responding to it with speed. It looked like a fight between fighters.

Jaehwang responded to Ruler’s attack with red force and arrows while keeping a certain distance. The 100-meter-long giant rushed to the scene with his mouth wide open, and the cave seemed to swallow Jaehwang in one gulp.

But Jaehwang didn’t panic at all and clenched his two fists at it.

“Invincible Spirit of Heaven”

Rumbling!!!

With a thunderous sound, a huge fist of strength extended from Jaehwang’s fist. This was the skill solely performed by Kwon Je. Kwon Je’s fist hammers if Goongi’s attack was sharp. A small arrow was spinning wildly in the grip of his hand, which was hidden behind, pulling itself back with a rebound of invincible power at the same time.

SWOOSH!!!

The arrow, which was shot in secret, hits Ruler’s eye.

“AWK!!”

Ruler screamed, not only the arrow penetrated his eye, but it wandered through Ruler’s head. Though it was not a quick attack, the clever blow made the black energy gush from Ruler’s whole body, pushing Jaehwang away.

Jaehwang stepped back in conformity with the spirit and for every step that he took, Ruler’s magic would fly towards him. They seemed to back down and attack while constantly injecting the wrong information into the enemy.

It’s really like a battle of gods.

“Stopping at using your little tricks, huh?”

“Not as much as you do.”

Ruler, who appeared in good shape as if he had never hurt his eyes, sneered at Jaehwang’s words. Jaehwang grinned at his answer. Honestly, if it’s someone who was using tricks, Ruler was the one doing it.

“You don’t have to hide it because you know that the longer you endure, the more disadvantaged I am.”

Ruler fell silent on Jaehwang’s words and a ghastly light flowed from his eyes.

“You don’t seem nervous even though you know.”

“Well, it is within the range of what I expected.” Jaehwang shrugged but in reality, this situation was quite serious.

Jaehwang knew the reason why Ruler was running out the clock now. The more monsters come over from the Dark Earth and the more people are afraid of them and the Ruler lurking behind them, the more the Ruler receives the divinity named fear and despair from the Earth. Ruler was also taking the divinity from the monsters that were pouring into each Dark Earth gate, just as Jaehwang had revealed his presence to Ruler in the Dark Earth and had gained credence with other beings connected to him.

“Within the range of expectations… I really don’t like you.”

The black energy from Ruler’s body materialized and wrapped around him. The fluttering energy made Ruler’s body even bigger. As if there was nothing more to hide, Ruler began to display his absorbed power.

Zap… Zap…

Ruler’s appearance began to change. The dragon’s head cracked up and down, his upper body changed and clung to his upper body. They all turned into dragon heads, big and small.

THUD..! THUD!

The long tentacles dug into the ground. The four strong legs on the ground were strained.

Alerted a little, Jaehwang hurried to prepare for his response.

Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The whole space they were standing was covered in darkness. Jaehwang popped out with a flash of light in the darkness, which devoured both light and sound. When Jaehwang, with red wings on his back, soar into the sky, dozens of black spheres follow him up. Jaehwang, who was flying away from them as if they were guided missiles, stopped in the air and fired back with the arrows he had produced.

However, the number of black balls thrown by Ruler was overwhelming. The number that flies in a row was already hundreds. At the number that arrows could no longer handle, Jaehwang frowns his forehead.

Jaehwang’s hands were gathered together before he pulled one back as if he was pulling a bow. Between them, an arrow of red strength was made and appeared with a flash.

Ping!

The opposite arrow flew back through the black spheres into the dark space. The arrow devoured the darkness and struck Ruler’s body a moment later. And…

BANG!!!!

The ground shakes and the atmosphere fluctuates frantically. The darkness spread and all the things exposed at it melted away. The waves of the air that soared into the sky spread out everywhere, ripping everything apart, and Jaehwang fell in an unstable manner.

THUD…

Jaehwang’s knees bent down when he landed on the ground. His face didn’t look so good, as Ruler stood upright where the darkness had disappeared. Though the attack was exchanged, it was actually Jaehwang who bore the damage.

“What do you think? Is this within the range what you expected?” Ruler asked sarcastically.

Jaehwang only glared at him without giving any answer.

“I’d like to talk to you more, but you don’t look well…”

Ruler curled up.

It’s a preliminary move for a rush…

BOOM!

“I’ll make it quick!”

#2

Swoosh…

The cold wind blew up and disappeared, taking away the clumps of dust. When the things that had been blocking the view disappeared one by one, only one giant black beast and one tottering figure stood in the middle of it all.

“You bastard.”

“So are you.”

Neither of them looked very well.

Ruler’s body had holes, where black gas was belching out. Tentacles and magic hands have long been knitted inside. Since he realized that the tentacles and magic were not very efficient in his battle against Jaehwang, he had not used them.

Jaehwang’s hair was also scorched. There was a thin stream of blood around his mouth, and his left arm was dripping with blood.

Rumble…

While Jaehwang fixes his left arm and wipes the blood around his mouth with a force close to regeneration, Ruler also repaired the holes in his body.

Both had divine capabilities in combat. They knew when to hit and go in, and they knew how to play a boring tug-of-war to make up for their strength. Moreover, they were in the position of a God, so they did not budge from mere external wounds.

It’s only been a little over ten minutes, but the two have had hundreds and thousands of clashes between them.

And the bottom line was that the two were neck and neck.

“I failed.”

His plan went wrong. Ruler actually knew that from the time Jaehwang appeared, his plan had failed. Considering their capabilities, his plan to take root on the earth would still be hard even if he won but now, he just spent his time without winning. Time was not on his side now.

“You wouldn’t let me go even if I said I would disappear for good, would you?”

“Of course.”

Jaehwang disappeared and blocked the Dark Earth gate.

“I never meant to let you go in the first place. You’re too dangerous to be sent back to the Dark Earth.”

“Of course.” Ruler nodded coolly. He wouldn’t let Jaehwang go either. If Jaehwang went back, he’d smash the dimensioning device right away. Jaehwang would know that too, but Ruler also had no intention of going back. No, he won’t just go back.

“By the way.”

“?”

“I can’t go like this either.” Ruler’s body began to change. The black energy slowly began to dissipate. At the same time, his presence began to fade away. It’s like he’s dying. When Jaehwang tilted his head…

THUD…

Ruler’s body slowly began to crumble. So, as if the iceberg had melted away, when it all broke and fell to the floor, there was a huge jewel in the air of the place where he was standing, emitting a gloomy black light.

It sank slowly to the floor.

And…

Woosh…

“I’ll end you with my own hands.”

From the jewels, an enormous amount of energy, which was incomparable to the past, began to erupt violently.

“Ugh..!”

Jaehwang lowered himself to resist his divinity. It was an enormous force to the point of shame compared to the previous one. Jaehwang wondered why Ruler had a neck-and-neck race against him when he had such power in the first place.

Swoosh..!

The Jewel slowly began to create a form. It’s not that big. It was only as big as a human boy at best.

“I am the beginning and end of all sources and an absolute Ruler over even death!”

Ping…

“Huk…”

The hand of the presence that appeared before him even before Jaehwang crossed his hands pierced his stomach.

“Awk…!”

“Regret that you made me get this appearance out.”