Chapter 171 – Live Show

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Translated by Pratt

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He had expected it.

Vincent Moretti too would know that information agents had entered Cairo.

And that he was being tracked because of the failure of the Gurye experiment.

It had to be one of two things.

He had either already fled, or he was responding in some way.

It was not flight.

In the end, he had gone and caused something.

Tae-ju too, in preparation for any emergency, had packed the Infinite Space full of all sorts of hidden weapons and black darksteel ingots.

Their number alone came to as many as 100,000.

What was coming out of that ultra-large mirror gate were definitely not magical beasts.

Bizarre life-forms presumed to have lived in some unknown dimension.

‘There seem to be quite a few at beyond-elite level too…’

The Black-Evil Earth Dragon, the beyond-elite magical beast he had encountered on old Chinese soil.

Some monsters with a presence almost like that bastard’s.

Aside from that, there were plenty stronger than the main bodies of Ilbaek-Ibaek-Sambaek.

‘Good thing I didn’t bring them.’

Ilbaek-Ibaek-Sambaek aside, would awakened ones or even the military be able to stop them?

Not even half a chance.

One large one would instantly carve up even an army armed with modern weapons.

Where in the world had those bastards come from?

Whatever the case, it was certain Vincent was the one who had opened it.

Was that bastard some kind of dimensional gate specialist?

For now, let us deal with that first.

That tower rising from underground.

Swoooong.

Black darksteel ingots poured out from the Infinite Space.

Pababababak.

The black-darksteel torrent, transformed into a great stream, struck the base of the tower.

Kwa kwa kwa kwak. Kwa kwak.

The foundation supports of the steel-frame tower were gnawed away by the hidden weapons.

Tilt.

The large tower toppled over.

Yet the gate still did not disappear.

Rather, even more creatures came out through the gate.

‘As for Lord Sword Immortal…’

Tsupit. Tsupipipipit.

A splendid qi-guided sword show unfolding on the ground and in the sky, in all four directions.

Even by rough counting, more than 5,000 aura swords were slashing and stabbing creatures while each executed a different technique.

‘You’re doing well.’

The sword immortal.

No matter if they were creatures from another dimension, how could they endure the power of a god?

* * *

Vincent Moretti had wished Kim Tae-ju would not come.

Because if that bastard came near his hideout, he would ultimately have to open the forbidden door.

Then Earth’s destruction could not be avoided.

The random dimensional gate.

It was random in name only.

He had made an exact copy of the dimensional gate generator of Jacques Deluan, the same soul from another world.

In other words, a fixed dimensional gate with its location specified.

In truth, there was a somewhat different point from Jacques Deluan’s.

The power source of the generator he had made had been a genuine dragon heart.

On the other hand, the power source of the generator Vincent had made was fake dragon hearts made by compressing elite mana crystals.

Jacques Deluan’s gate had remained open for almost a week, but he did not know how long his own gate would remain open.

‘If only I had even beyond-elite mana crystals.’

Then he could maintain the gate for at least more than five days.

Once the gate opened, a nightmare unfolded.

Those fearsome creatures that had destroyed the world Jacques lived in would jump out.

Not only sapient beings existed in other worlds.

Mindless monsters, with whom no conversation was possible, and in whom only the instinct for destruction remained, far more dreadful than magical beasts.

Creature, that is, living beings.

There was no way to describe them other than that.

They were predators.

They devoured everything.

Even with the power of magic and magi-engineering, those life-forms could not be stopped, and in the end the world had become an apocalypse.

‘Once it opens, there won’t be a living thing left alive on Earth.’

They absolutely could not be stopped.

Even if nuclear weapons were poured on them, it would be useless.

In that other world, even when 9th-class magicians joined forces and cast Meteor Strike, they had not been able to stop those creatures.

Once he opened it, it was over.

Earth too would become like Jacques Deluan’s world.

An apocalypse, hell in the present world.

That was why he had hoped that bastard would not come.

Was he not an Earthling at his root too?

There were still many experiments he wanted to try in the future.

But.

‘…So in the end, you came.’

The human captured by the reconnaissance lizard golem.

It was Kim Tae-ju.

He had even brought along an old man.

‘This is something you brought on yourself. Don’t blame me.’

Vincent Moretti activated the dimensional gate generator.

Leaving only one of the eight fake dragon hearts, he inserted seven as the power source.

Jiiiiiiiiiing.

A tower rose from the underground bunker.

Pajujujujujuk.

Because of the energy shot from the tower, an ultra-large mirror gate came into being.

And the fearsome creatures revealed themselves.

‘It’s over.’

With a complicated heart, Vincent Moretti watched the beginning of Earth’s destruction.

The reconnaissance drone focused on Kim Tae-ju.

‘Now then, what will you do?’

Was there anything he could do?

At best…

‘I knew you’d do that.’

He’d destroy the tower first.

But it was useless.

The gate had already been opened.

And with this connection, a path had been opened.

‘It’s like making a needle hole in a giant dam.’

So even if it closed, there was a high chance it would open again.

Even without forcing a connection.

Jacques Deluan’s world had been like that too.

And yet.

“Heok!”

Vincent was aghast.

He had known the tower would be destroyed.

‘That easily?’

The black mass of metal fired from the bastard’s hand.

It moved like a swarm of bees and toppled the base of the tower in a single strike.

“C-crazy!”

Kim Tae-ju, Kim Tae-ju, they said.

The strongest people of the dimension he knew.

He had guessed that bastard’s level would be around that of a 9th-class magician or Sword Kaiser.

But even that…

‘I underestimated him.’

After destroying the tower, Kim Tae-ju attacked the creatures this time.

The result was no different.

They melted like ice cream.

It was truly terrifying.

“…Wh-what?”

He was killing with absurd ease the dreadful monsters that had destroyed an entire dimension.

Could that person truly be called human?

‘No, in the end that bastard will die anyway.’

The creatures would come out endlessly, and Kim Tae-ju was only one man.

He acknowledged his power, but there was no way he could handle them all alone.

At that moment.

A thought suddenly came to mind.

Come to think of it, Kim Tae-ju had not come alone.

He had come together with an old man.

What happened to that guy?

So he turned the head of the reconnaissance lizard drone.

“…Uh?”

Vincent doubted his eyes.

“…Th-that makes no s-sense.”

Was he really seeing properly?

* * *

The modern age was the era of personal broadcasting.

Shorts videos, in which long videos were shortened so they could be watched in thirty seconds or one minute, were in fashion, but live videos in which celebrities showed their daily lives were also popular.

With a single finger, people swiped the screen quickly.

If it was interesting, they watched. If not, they skipped it.

In the midst of that, a live broadcast that someone had started grew larger.

Its beginning was tiny.

One viewer entered the channel.

– YourBoyfriendJustPassedBy has entered the channel.

At first, no chat went up either.

Only after a long while.

└ Bro? What is this?

The dreadful life-form revealed on the live screen.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa.

And the thousands of light swords slicing those things as though chopping tofu.

Soon another person entered.

– GayGayYa has entered the channel.

└ Huh? Is this a movie shoot?

└ Well, the location info says Sahara magical-beast dense region.

This time three entered at once.

└ ?

└ ??

└ Is this a magical beast?

└ No way.

After a short while.

Viewers entered one after another.

– user1475 has entered the channel.

– LovesGoldCards has entered the channel.

– AuroraBoomer has entered the channel.

– WhateverVacuumCleaner has entered the channel.

– user8878545 has entered the channel.

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.

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└ Wow! Is this a video with special effects added?

└ If it’s fake, the quality is way too high.

└ How could this be fake? It’s live, idiot!

└ ????

└ M-my god!

└ Who is filming this?

└ Dongbin?

└ What’s the name of this room?

Even movie shoots could not be filmed like this.

It felt as though one were standing in the middle of a large-scale battlefield.

The qi-guided phone.

The smartphone flew around like a drone.

Soaring high into the sky, from a long distance, then entering the middle of the battlefield for close shots, or from behind the Sword Immortal’s back.

The chat window exploded.

It scrolled upward so quickly that it could not be read with the eyes.

But who was the subject of the broadcast?

It was the Sword Immortal.

Dynamic visual acuity that no one could match.

Even while the smartphone flew around with the qi-guided phone, he was communicating with his viewers through Thousand-League Voice Transmission and Golden Eye Art.

“Heoheo, user32569, welcome. AuroraBoomer has come in too, I see. Kkakkung, BigShotJackpot, MZMinji, kimws, SoloJeongsuk, RedPig…”

As though rapping, he reeled off the nicknames of the people entering one after another.

He did not forget to answer questions either.

Through Thousand-League Voice Transmission, carrying his voice on his qi and sending it to the smartphone’s microphone.

“This is not a movie shoot. It is a real situation.”

“This is southwest of the Sahara magical-beast dense region, and that gate suddenly opened, and yokai are pouring out of it.”

“Ei, to call it fake, your words are too harsh. If you don’t believe it, then leave.”

“Proof? You can just come directly over here.”

That it was not fake was quickly revealed.

Among the viewers were awakened ones who were in Cairo forward city, Egypt.

Awakened ones and compatibles boarded raid-dedicated armored SUVs and drove toward the southwest of the Sahara.

Then, far off in the sky, they saw the giant mirror gate.

“Ah…”

“C-crazy?”

“It was real?”

But they could not get close.

How could they go there?

Verification photos and videos were uploaded to SNS.

Thanks to that, the number of viewers on the Sword Immortal’s live broadcast increased explosively.

Ding, ding, ding, ding…

Donations poured in too.

“Oh my, thank you for the donation, LovesGoldCards. NotFun, you gave 100,000 won, I see… heok! MiddleAgedSchoolgirl, 1 million won? Heoheoheo, as a sign of gratitude, I shall show you a qi-guided sword dance.”

One hundred aura swords, after cutting down creatures, began wriggling and dancing.

On one side they mercilessly slaughtered monsters, and on the other side they performed a sword dance.

The viewers were ecstatic at content they had encountered for the first time in their lives.

* * *

Shushushushushushut.

The hidden weapons that had left Tae-ju’s Infinite Space formed clouds.

And then they rained down.

‘Monsters from another dimension?’

Then would they have resistance to Earth’s poison?

Of course, the hidden weapons would first need to pierce their bodies.

At a glance, the monsters’ skin looked hard like armor.

But.

Pupupuk. Pukpukpukpuk.

They embedded themselves lightly.

Well, it would make even less sense if hidden weapons imbued with immortal qi and aura could not pierce that much.

And poisonous qi was injected.

The poisonous qi created by the Poison Spirit was active.

It was automatically mixed into poisonous ingredients optimized for the monsters.

Pupupupuk.

“Kkiiiiik!”

A flying monster twisted its body in midair and fell.

“Kkueek!”

A monster crawling on the ground rolled around on the floor and melted.

Tae-ju’s hidden weapons flew not only toward the monsters but also toward the ultra-large mirror gate.

Some toward the monsters.

And some toward direct attacks on the gate.

The monsters’ corpses vanished in an instant.

Falling, collapsing, melting, scattering into powder…

At that moment.

“Hm?”

Tae-ju’s eye caught sight of a number of monsters turning their course toward Cairo forward city.

“These bastards…”

If even one of those bastards entered the city, a massive number of casualties would occur, something he did not even want to imagine.

More forces were needed.

He had to stop the monsters leaking out.

Tae-ju took out all the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s hairs that had been inside the Infinite Space.

He grabbed a handful and scattered them, then scattered more, and more again…

Pang. Pang. Papapang. Pangpangpangpang.

Countless clone monkeys appeared on the Sahara steppe.

“Ukki!”

“Ukkik?”

“Ukkiukki!”

“Kkireuk?”

And then the first split began.

They shook their bodies and clones appeared, then shook their bodies again and made clones again.

Papapang. Papapapang. Papapapapang.

Everything was brilliant gold.

So bright it hurt the eyes.

‘Could you take care of the monsters leaking out that way? Help Lord Sword Immortal with the rest.’

Papat.

The clones raised clouds of dust and charged all at once.

“Ukkigigigigigit!!!”

Urrrrrrr.

The large-scale clone army brutally slammed into the groups of monsters on the ground.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwak.

The monsters were thrown into the air.

Their bodies were torn apart by the combined attack of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s clones.

The Sword Immortal was thrilled.

As expected of Grand Hero Tae-ju.

Just when it had started getting boring, he provided new content like this.

“It’s content again.”

To think those stinking clumps of fur from the crafty yokai king, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, would be this welcome.

Swaeaeaeak.

The smartphone moved by qi-guided phone chased after the golden monkeys.

And thus, the troop of golden monkeys appeared on the live screen.

How could one possibly resist after seeing this?

└ Ukkigik! Charge!

└ The monkeys are here!!!

└ Let’s go!!!

└ It’s real. It’s real.

└ Isn’t this really the Great Sage Equal to Heaven appearing on Earth?

└ Um, there are more than that time.

└ Fuck, what are you doing? Send donations!

└ I just broke my savings account. I’m absolutely sending money.

Ding, ding, ding…

The donation alert sound rang continuously.

“It’s a hit, a hit!”

Ahhh.

The Sword Immortal’s chest swelled with emotion.

Even if he returned to the Immortal Realm right now, he would have no regrets.

Who had made a stage like this for him?

Was it not a fellow called Vincent Moretti?

How should he repay him?

If he killed him gently when the time came, that would be enough.

Tae-ju was impressed.

Myriad Heavens Flower Rain was a martial art that consumed an enormous amount of true qi.

So he was somewhat tired.

He had unfolded it while chewing poison and immortal peaches from the Infinite Space.

But the Sword Immortal?

Just look at that inexhaustible immortal qi.

He was worthy of the strongest of the Immortal Realm.

That man was a true immortal.

At any rate, once the clone monkeys joined the battle, a bit of breathing room appeared.

Creatures were still pouring endlessly like a flood from the mirror gate.

The root cause had to be removed.

That gate.

Woooooong.

The immortal qi boiling up inside his body.

After eating the Heavenly Peach, it seemed the nature of the Poison Spirit had changed.

To the point that it would not be inappropriate to call it an Immortal Spirit.

More than 100,000 hidden weapons filled with immortal qi struck the mirror gate.

Chaechachaeng. Chaengchaengchaengchaeng. Chaengchaeng.

Wooooooooong.

The mirror gate began to shake.

Tae-ju did not stop.

He poured in immortal qi.

That thing had to break for this chaos to end as well.

The reason he was able to do this.

Precisely because of the Sword Immortal.

He could not know how long that gate would remain open, but if it had lasted longer than a day?

‘I would have run away, or died here.’

It was a very good thing he had come together with the Sword Immortal.

It was a huge relief.

Crack.

A thin fissure appeared in the mirror gate.