Chapter 158 – Why Are You Making the Kid Cry

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Undead necromancer Carmen was hurrying north toward Moscow.

The situation had changed rapidly.

This was not the time to disperse the troops.

She had to join her master, who was currently holding out inside Moscow.

Because of the counterattack of the European Imperial Army led by Emperor Alex Caesar?

What was there to fear from those bastards?

They were only feed for fattening the undead demonic-beast army.

The variable that had arisen was something else.

Kim Tae-ju.

Her master’s archenemy.

A powerful soul linker.

He had appeared.

The elders who had been newly born through their master’s grace were being annihilated one after another.

Jonson, Matsumoto, and Abrahim as well, all of them had died.

– Before it’s too late, hurry…

However!

Shuuuuut!

– Aaaah!

A human riding a single sword blocked the army’s path.

– …Kim Tae-ju.

He had appeared at last.

The undead demonic beasts faltered and could not move forward.

Even Carmen felt a chill in her chest.

She had not felt like this even when she was human.

Scary.

It felt as if her whole body would be ripped to shreds.

It was impossible even to measure how strong he was.

Just like her master.

One undead demonic beast, unable to overcome its fear, charged at him.

But,

chijijijijik!

It melted before it could even get close.

– M-my God.

Was that not the aura-protective barrier of a beyond-elite demonic beast?

How could a human possess such power…?

The undead rushed in like moths to a flame.

It was impossible even to control them.

Chijiji, chichik! Chijijijik!

All of them melted.

Together with the acrid smoke.

* * *

Originally, Poison Qi Emission was a technique that spread poison into the air.

For the purpose of poisoning, very faintly, so faintly that the opponent could not notice.

But after awakening the Poison Spirit, Poison Qi Emission had become different from before on another dimension.

He could compress and compress poison qi densely and manifest it in the form of an aura-protective barrier.

Chijik, chijijik,

the undead were erased by merely touching it.

But as expected, it had the drawback of consuming a great deal of strength.

‘Poison Qi Emission is enough for now.’

A war with no profit.

A hunt with no fun either.

If you killed demonic beasts, at least crystals would come out, but perhaps because they had turned undead, nothing at all came out.

‘Let’s finish this quickly.’

Seuseut! Seuseuseut!

Hidden weapons came pouring out in a stream from the Infinite Space.

It was time for Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.

He imbued more than ten thousand hidden weapons with poison qi, aura qi, and even immortal qi.

Tseupipipipit! Tseupit!

A rainstorm of hidden weapons fell from the sky.

Pupupupupuk!

Tae-ju slowly walked toward Carmen.

The Poison Spirit was carrying out its role excellently, so aside from the expenditure of strength, there was nothing else for him to do.

He only had to watch.

If he manifested killing intent toward a specific target, the Poison Spirit designated the target on its own.

The only thing he had to do was shoot the hidden weapons high into the sky.

Hududududuk!

Pupupupupuk!

They never missed.

Even if they fled, the hidden weapons chased after them on their own.

Ahead of him, he could see Carmen, the black magician he had killed once before.

Now she had turned undead and looked terrible.

When Tae-ju walked toward her, undead demonic beasts desperately blocked his way.

‘Open the path.’

The Poison Spirit was not the only thing Tae-ju moved.

The hidden weapon with a spirit, the treasure of Immortal Cheoljang.

Tseupit!

The Divine Spirit Throwing Knife flew.

Pupupupuk! Pupupupupupupuk!

It pierced through the undead blocking the path, pierced through them again, then came back and skewered them once more.

At the same time, in the sky, Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.

Hudududududu!

The path opened wide.

And there she was, trembling with her legs shaking.

Carmen was out of her mind.

She had to do something, but her body had gone rigid.

It felt like facing a being of absolute authority that one absolutely must not dare approach.

Was that person a god?

Was not this Earth a dimension devoid of divinity?

Her black demonic qi had been tightly bound.

Just from meeting his eyes.

“You came back to life again.”

– Y-you, you…

“Try doing something. Why are you only trembling like a rat? Am I that frightening?”

– Wh-what would I have to be af-afraid of from the likes of you?

“You are frightened.”

There was no need to check the Judge’s Ring.

Her actions proved it.

“I’ve already killed you once, so I do feel a little sorry about killing you again.”

– Y-you bastard!!!

“Goodbye. If I can see you again, then I’ll see you.”

– N-no! Our master’s g-great undertaking still…

“Wait just a little. I’ll send that master along with you too.”

Tae-ju placed his hand on Carmen’s head as she could not move, like an insect caught in a spiderweb.

– Kyaaaaaaak!

Chijijijijijik!

Her head melted.

Her upper body collapsed, then her lower body as well, and her whole flesh became a mere handful of poisonous water.

And the undead demonic-beast army?

The battlefield was full of hidden weapons, and whenever hidden weapons filled with aura qi and black-darksteel ingots flashed, everything went paseuseu and vanished.

It did not take very long before it was all cleaned up.

‘Phew,’

he completely emptied the Poison Spirit again.

‘One left, then?’

Once again, he mounted the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword and headed for his final destination, Moscow.

He flew quickly.

Swaeaek! Kwa-kwa-kwaang!!! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwaang!

The closer he got, the larger the booming sounds became.

He had no choice but to stop flying for a while.

‘Impressive.’

He could see it even from afar.

Moscow had become a sea of fire.

And rockets and missiles were falling without rest.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwaang! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwaang!

It seemed Emperor Alex Caesar was serious.

Seeing that he was concentrating such immense firepower.

‘Hmm,’

At this rate, a nuclear bomb might fall.

That was also why Samhan’s Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon had tried to stop him.

What would he do if, in a situation where the Imperial Army and the undead were fighting, the European Imperial Army went mad and launched a nuke?

It was a fair point.

And was it only the European government that had nuclear weapons?

That bastard Drek Karax might possess them too.

He had already detonated them several times.

‘If I go in there now and get hit by even one stray missile…’

There was no need to force it.

They were pounding the place so intensely that a result would be decided before long.

Let me just watch the show and eat rice cakes.

Aside from the undead demonic-beast army, there would be no one left inside Moscow.

Tae-ju landed in a spot with a clear view of burning Moscow.

He took out a camping chair from the Infinite Space, sat down, and crunched into an immortal peach.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwaang! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

The bombardment still continued.

Once they dropped enough, combat units centered on the awakened would likely be thrown in.

He had done everything he had to do.

He had wiped out every last undead demonic beast the European Imperial Army had left alone.

He had also stopped their attempt to invade the Kiev Union and saved the citizens’ lives.

Thus, the southern front had been resolved.

The only battlefield left was that ruined Moscow.

‘Is it still far off?’

It was the European Imperial Army, after all. They were pouring in that enormous firepower, and Alex Caesar of Europe, said to be as strong as Samhan’s Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon, had personally joined the war.

At that moment!

Jjiririr,

a delivery signal that cared nothing for time or place.

“It’s here.”

As expected, an enormous quantity of celestial-realm flowers and black darksteel.

‘No hair, though.’

Well, it was hair that grew from Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s body.

Could he just yank it out whenever he wanted?

Inventing hair-growth medicine was urgent.

In truth, it was only a matter of time.

Until now, celestial-realm flowers had only been used in the manufacture of MRC.

And even then, only two kinds, Purity Flower and Yin-Yang Flower.

But another type of celestial-realm flower had gone into the raid-use doping potions he made this time.

It was a flower called Plantain Spirit Flower.

That flower had greatly reduced the side effects of the doping potions.

He intended to proceed with hair-growth research as well centered on celestial-realm flowers.

After switching out the goods,

and because the sparkle time of the shared storage had increased, he had some leeway.

What he would send this time was five thousand units in the second batch of dedicated Immortal Realm smartphones.

Along with an additional data server containing all sorts of materials.

And even a desktop computer containing the smartphone app program development tool Ghost Valley Immortal had requested.

Kim Dong-hun had worked day and night for this.

So busy that he could not even participate in the social gathering.

Of course, Tae-ju had separately gone to see him and handed over immortal peaches and Immortal Liquor.

‘Still, the space has grown unbelievably huge.’

The Infinite Space and the shared storage both.

‘If it gets just a little bigger from here, I could probably even fit a house inside.’

For example, a luxury container house fully equipped inside with a living room, bedroom, sink, toilet, and so on.

When he returned to Gurye, he should get one and put it in.

It seemed like it would have many uses.

Tae-ju leaned back comfortably in the chair and organized the Infinite Space.

He sorted the celestial-realm flowers that had been all mixed together by type, and stacked the black darksteel neatly so he could take it out in one go.

In one corner of the space, golden clumps of hair could be seen.

The treasure that could summon Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s clones.

There was still plenty left.

‘I’m bored anyway…’

Carefully, he took out just a single strand,

whit!

pung!

and one golden monkey appeared.

“Unakit?”

Looking at Tae-ju, it asked what work it should do.

“I’m just bored. I wanted to play together.”

“Kkigigigigik!”

The clone turned a single somersault in the air.

Pung, punggung! Peopeopeopeopeopeopeopeong!

The monkeys increased through division.

Thus, one hundred clones gathered.

Kwa-kwa-kwaang! Kwaang-kwaang!

Whether booming sounds were heard or not, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven clones started fooling around and playing with each other.

“Hahahaha.”

Tae-ju laughed loudly.

With the clones together, there was no such thing as boredom at all.

Kwaang-kwaang! Kwaang, kwaang-kwaang, kwaa…,

it even seemed as if the bombardment was calming down a little.

* * *

Alex Caesar finally made his decision.

“That’s enough. Stop the bombardment.”

Up to now, things had gone very smoothly.

They had reduced the number of undead considerably and pressed Drek Karax back into Moscow.

And the awakened special forces and the tanks had completed the encirclement of the city.

“Now I will settle it.”

“We have been waiting, Your Majesty!”

The two thousand awakened soldiers who would fight with him were fully prepared as well.

At minimum they were superior experts, and most of them were masters, the finest awakened elites.

All of them were armed with the best equipment and weapons.

“Today, we end the war. We will kill that vile necromancer and protect the peace of Europe.”

“It shall be accomplished as you wish.”

“I will lead from the front. And not a single one of you is to die!”

Wawawawawawawa!

Cheers burst out.

A battle fought alongside the Emperor.

A war with just cause, for the peace of Europe.

The morale of the awakened soared to the sky.

Each one raised swords and weapons high,

jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiii…,

and mana blades shot up like lightsabers.

“For the complete eradication of the undead and the necromancer!!!”

Spat!

Alex Caesar and two thousand awakened charged toward Moscow at terrifying speed.

Hundreds of filming drones chased after them.

* * *

In the Immortal Realm.

Tang Gun-ak was chatting while drinking a martini with ice at Liquor Immortal’s bar.

“I don’t know what the Old Lord intends. He tells me to go to the upper-realm representatives meeting.”

Liquor Immortal, who had been shaking a shaker, let out a snort of laughter and said,

“It makes sense. There’s nothing to do, is there? No immortals causing incidents, and even the monsters are quiet.”

“No matter if there is nothing to do…, the laws and order of the Immortal Realm are about to collapse.”

“Laws and order, my ass. The laws and order of the Immortal Realm now reside with you, Poison Immortal. The Supreme Elder Lord must have judged the same, which is why he handed it over.”

But Tang Gun-ak did not agree.

As if no one would know what the Old Lord intended.

He had known from the moment the Old Lord bought a beam projector and a screen from the shopping mall.

It had to be his intention to indulge to the fullest in the laziness he had not been able to enjoy before.

“Anyway, it should be entertaining. Go there and flatten the Jade Emperor’s and Dragon King’s noses.”

“Eing!”

Tang Gun-ak frowned and took a sip of his martini.

At that instant!

“Poison Immortal.”

Ghost Valley Immortal, who had been in the main server room of the Immortal Realm intranet, came over.

“What is it?”

“I came to tell you because an unusual matter was discovered while tallying the shopping-mall sales.”

“An unusual matter?”

“A Swiss Patek wristwatch costing three hundred thousand coins was sold.”

“Hm?”

Who had bought something that expensive?

If it was someone who could buy a Patek…,

the people who came to mind immediately were the Queen Mother of the West or Yama.

The Queen Mother of the West had little interest in watches,

“Did Yama buy it?”

“No. Bright Maiden bought it in a lump-sum payment.”

“…Bright Maiden?”

That could not be!

Would Bright Maiden, who had no greed, covet a watch?

“And the delivery?”

“The monkey did it.”

Tang Gun-ak immediately called over Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

“You called for me?”

It looked as though he had come down from watching a movie at the theater.

He had a snapback cap worn crooked on his head.

A thick chain-style gold necklace on his neck, jangling gold bracelets on his wrists, gold rings on his fingers as well,

and he wore a white sleeveless shirt on top, sagging baggy pants like he’d soiled himself, and basketball shoes that came up to his ankles.

It would not be an exaggeration to call it monkey hip-hopper clothing.

Suddenly Bright Maiden’s eyes brimmed with tears.

“C-could it be, …am I going to hell?”

“Th-that’s not it.”

“Uwaaaah! I can’t go to hell. Waaah!”

“N-no, d-don’t cry,”

Bright Maiden crouched on the floor and burst into loud sobbing.

Then the immortals inside the multiplex were startled and rushed out.

“What? Which bastard made Bright Maiden cry?”

“Who was it? Even putting him to the ju-ri torture wouldn’t be enough!”

“I’ll drag him over and give him a thorough beating!”

Then they discovered Tang Gun-ak at a complete loss in front of Bright Maiden.

“…Poison Immortal?”

“Surely Poison Immortal did not do it?”

Tang Gun-ak stammered and made excuses.

“It’s a misunderstanding, I only wanted to find out why Bright Maiden bought the Patek watch in the shopping mall…”

But before he could even finish speaking,

“A watch? You made Bright Maiden cry over nothing but a mere watch?”

“Heo, you didn’t look like that sort. I’m disappointed.”

“Even buying her a hundred watches wouldn’t be enough!”

“Didn’t I keep telling you, was there not poison mixed into Poison Immortal’s very life?”

“Tsk tsk, we should have known from the moment you started teaming up with that monkey.”

Chaos broke out.

Criticism and finger-pointing poured down.

“You got put in the Immortal Realm representative position and now you’re arrogant!”

“How will you resolve this situation? Take responsibility at once.”

“He’s been steeped in capitalism clear down to the bone.”

“Let’s post this on Immortal Realm BopaeDream right now and begin a true-education session.”

“We’ll show you the power of the net immortals.”

The immortals took out their smartphones and busily posted things.

‘Uh…’

Tang Gun-ak asked Liquor Immortal, Ghost Valley, and Great Sage Equal to Heaven, with whom he had been talking earlier, for help.

To explain that it was a misunderstanding.

But they slightly averted their eyes and turned away from him.

‘These traitors!’

As expected, there was not a single immortal in the world he could trust.