Chapter 83: Chapter 80: Demon Archduke Rakshar (1)

[‘The statue of the great Rakshar’ has been destroyed.]

[Destroyed statues 1/3]

The first statue was destroyed and it was reported to all the hunters.

“It looks like they destroyed the statue on another island, sis.”

“Hmm…”

The statue discovered on the island where Ha-ri was located was found in a neglected place where bushes grew.

There were crab monsters resisting, but they were nothing more than fallen leaves in front of the power of the Maverick Guild.

“Let’s destroy it soon. We only have to destroy one more.”

The opinions of the Maverick Guild members were very reasonable. It was natural to clear the quest of the gate in order to close the gate.

But the TTG Guild members, who had seen the duality of the gate several times, doubted that this time would be different.

“Sis, do we have to destroy it?”

Soo-ho cautiously asked Ha-ri for her opinion. Now that Leon or and were not there, Ha-ri was the biggest decision maker.

“Sis?”

But there was no answer. Soo-ho turned his head toward Ha-ri, who was silent, and found that her face was pale.

“Sis, what’s wrong? You don’t look good.”

“No… no.”

Ha-ri couldn’t understand why everyone around her was peaceful. Surely they were looking at the same thing, so why didn’t they notice?

The terrible energy that the statue is suppressing.

“We… can’t destroy this. If we destroy it… something terrible will happen!”

“Sis?”

“Han Ha-ri?”

The Maverick Guild members, as well as the TTG Guild members, reacted with curiosity to Ha-ri’s intense reaction since they can’t feel the energy that the statue is suppressing.

“I, I, I know I’m saying something really weird, but this can’t be, this can’t be, there’s… something in here!”

She couldn’t tell what it was, or why she was the only one who could feel it. She could only wonder if something had changed in her since she had become a goddess of Poma.

“What are you talking about?”

“There’s something, there’s something! The statue is holding something back! You can’t touch this! Please tell them Poma!”

Ha-ri realized she couldn’t convince her on his own, so she turned to the gods. As much as she felt it, he must have felt it too.

[…….]

“Poma?”

But there was no sound of Poma’s voice.

Ha-ri tried to shake Poma, who was on her shoulder, but he remained stiff and unmoving, like something frozen in place.

“Ugh…….”

Ha-ri stood in front of the statue as if to protect the statue from everyone.

“Miss Ha-ri, what are you doing?”

The Maverick Guild members’ expressions hardened. No matter how they looked at it, Ha-ri’s reaction was not normal.

“This… can’t be touched, no one. Never…!”

Ha-ri’s declaration of intent puts Allen in a bind since he’s a hunter on assignment from the United States.

The U.S. government, concerned about the security of the Pacific, has asked him to do one thing: to close the East Sea Gate as soon as possible and eliminate the security threat.

He needs to complete the quest, and Ha-ri’s actions are getting in the way. But Ha-ri’s status is too subtle to dismiss and force her.

She is not a guild member of the TTG Guild. She’s an employee of the Korean Hunter Association.

That means she’s a government employee, and as a foreign Hunter, it’s a burden to harm a government employee of another country.

“Ms. Ha-ri, isn’t this a little out of line?”

Well, she had a point so Allen decided to take his time convincing Ha-ri. After all, raiders and soldiers in foreign countries have their own rules.

“Oh, I know, I know, I know, I’m so weird!”

Ha-ri couldn’t back down with a smile or a cry but Koo Dae-sung stepped forward to help her.

“I’m Koo Dae-sung, a member of the Ten Thousand Gods Guild. Actually, Deputy Han has a point.”

“Mr. Koo?”

The TTG Guild students looked at Koo Dae-sung, who raised his hand and stepped forward, with curious eyes. But he started to speak somewhat shamelessly.

“Actually, Deputy Han has a unique skill related to foresight. It’s more like intuition than perfect foresight, but it’s pretty accurate.”

“…!”

At that word, Ha-ri opened her eyes wide and looked at Koo Dae-sung.

‘I don’t have that ability?!’

‘…Please catch on.’

‘Ah!’

Allen asked with a suspicious look.

“Han Ha-ri, is that true?”

It was a chance. She hesitated for a moment, but Ha-ri responded to Koo Dae-sung’s ad-lib.

“It’s true! This is a pretty high-ranked unique skill! It’s not accurate, but something like intuition? Future foresight? That kind of feeling! Thanks to this, I survived several times!”

When foresight skills were mentioned, the Maverick Guild members also became cautious.

There were occasionally hunters who had skills related to foresight in reality.

They prevented great disasters and this was officially confirmed.

Just now, foresight skill holders from all over the world are predicting the ‘Wandering Demon Sword’ route and evacuating citizens. The number of lives saved by this will exceed hundreds of millions.

“I’ve never heard of a foresight ability in Korea…”

“She, she got her unique skill last year! She was our academy senior until last year!”

“That’s right. Senior Ha-ri, getting a prophecy skill was quite famous in our academy!”

“They said there was a lot of trouble with other guilds scouting.”

The TTG Guild students who caught on to Ha-ri and Koo Dae-sung’s play responded.

As the TTG Guild members responded one by one, Allen couldn’t just force them to destroy the statue.

He was a hunter who knew the situation and a gentleman.

“Okay, but I can’t wait long. The wave gets stronger as it repeats, and there is a limit to stopping it.”

He would wait. That was the last compromise Allen could make.

And so began a strange standoff──

“What? Why haven’t you destroyed the statue yet?”

Minuteman and Maverick Guild members who had destroyed the statue arrived and said so.

‘It’s a strange situation.’

[Damn, it’s annoying.]

Reynold arrived at the second island and stared at the TTG Guild members who were in a standoff over the statue.

He knew the situation. A guild member named Han Ha-ri blocked the destruction of the statue with a unique skill as an excuse, and Allen decided to stop destroying it because he thought it made sense.

“A unique skill. It’s a tricky situation.”

Minuteman, who had the same authority as Allen, also became cautious when the unique skill was mentioned.

[Following the system too closely is also a problem!]

Modern humans blindly trusted the system and the awakened ones. They didn’t even know who created the system window, they just thought it was the salvation of humanity and didn’t doubt it.

It was natural. So far, the system has been the reason why humans have survived. There were those who doubted the system and its intentions, but they were very few of them.

That’s why everyone became cautious when Ha-ri mentioned her foresight skill. The Demon of Wisdom had to prepare a means to break it.

[We must hurry, it’s not like she can keep him bound forever!]

‘Since she’s claiming to be a unique skill, it must be destroyed.’

[Then the method is simple.]

There is the Demon of Wisdom and America’s leading archmage so it was a simple matter to expose the lie that Ha-ri came up with on the spot.

“Han Ha-ri.”

“Yes…Master of Magic Tower.”

“Can I do a unique skill appraisal?”

“What?”

[A system is a collection of information, after all. Figuring it out is no big deal!]

The Wisdom Jewel produced a skill appraisal on the spot from trivial items. It was a skill that surprised even Reynold.

“Sk, skill appraisal?”

“Yes, it’s nothing. It’s just to understand the skill and how the conclusion was derived. You won’t refuse unless what you said was ‘false’, right?”

“Ah…”

Because Reynold’s smiling face, and the Maverick guild members who were annoyed by the delay Ha-ri couldn’t refuse Reynold’s request.

Of course──

“This damn! She tricked us!”

“Why did you do this, Miss Ha-ri …?”

The lie was soon exposed and there was no such thing as an intuition-like skill from the beginning.

[‘The Statue of the Great Rakshar’ has been destroyed.]

Destroyed statues 2/3

-Kurururung!

Around Rakshar the light of the huge statue went out. In other words, it means that the island’s statue was broken.

“…”

Leon opened his eyes and stared at Rakshar. In the deep sea, he seemed to smile with a twisted smile.

[It’s my victory, Lionheart.]

“There’s still one left.”

[You are overconfident in your subordinates, Lionheart. Now there is only one left so I will now escape from this disgusting prison.]

The last of the seals that held him back glowed, and a giant chain seized Rakshar’s tentacles.

Rakshar moved his huge body to get out of the chain. Just by doing that, the traces of civilization were shattered and shook the continent.

When he finally couldn’t get out of the last chain, Rakshar raised his pincers.

-Kwadeuk

Rakshar cut off his tentacles and got out of the chain. Even though he cut off his own feet, Rakshar didn’t flinch and tried to soar toward the light.

-Kiiiiiiiiing!

It was then that around Rakshar the city that sealed him, ‘81’ statues that seemed to have stopped functioning, spewed out huge heat rays at Rakshar all at once.

Each one is comparable to a great magic…Final weapons that burn at the molecular level but even with their indiscriminate attacks, Rakshar calmly bit his lips.

His remaining tentacles wrapped around and threw and broke the statues.

The city could not hold Rakshar’s ankles.

When even the last obstacle failed to stop him, Rakshar pushed the ground and soared above the water surface.

-Kuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa────!!

Rakshar soared and nothing could stop him.

Giant deep-sea fish were died with their guts exposed by just brushing them, and the fish that couldn’t even think of running away died in groups.

The moment he finally showed his appearance above the water surface, the system recognized him.

[Demon Archduke of Chaos Rakshar has awakened.]

[His existence crushes everything alive.]

【 Aura of Chaos 】

◆Effect

: Weakness, Chaos, Creepy, Confusion, Tetanus, Scream, Fear, Confusion, Despair, Physical Decay, Mental Contamination, Soul Erosion────

【 Legendary Demon 】

◆Effect

: Unrecognizable.

【 Demon Archduke Rakshar 】

◆Effect

: Unrecognizable.

Traits continue to show up in message windows as Demon Archduke Rakshar affects everything alive in this gate just by coming up above the water surface.

Archduke of Chaos Rakshar declared for the first time in hundreds of years after coming up above the water surface.

[I am Rakshar…!]

Rakshar roar echoed throughout the sea as deep-sea fish trembled in fear and fish suffocated. Everything alive was afraid of his roar.

The sea, stirred by him, rose in tidal waves, and the shockwaves rose to the clouds.

-I am chaos that distorts your norms!

-I am despair that stops your beating heart!

-I am a scream that crushes your hopes.

Submit.

Kneel before this evil that you cannot resist!!

The world heard it and no one even thought of confronting this evil.

“…”

Leon had no choice but to stare at Rakshar leaving with his huge body.

“Not yet. Not yet.”

There is a prerequisite for his last move.

“Han Ha-ri, you foolish child, I’ll bet on you.”

Leon builds up his strength since this was not the time to act.