Chapter 3
Chapter 3 . Lord of the Nine Thousandth Circle of Hell . Return to Earth (Part 3)
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Editor: Cherish
— What went wrong? — The open passage had definitely been leading to Earth .
Yet the feelings were exactly the same as ten thousand years ago on his way to Hell . The situation didn’t add up . Kang Yu was desperate for answers .
— Kiyya! — The monsters shouted even louder and rushed towards Kang Yu, pointing their crooked swords at him .
Kang Yu used his black dagger to fight them off . Within moments, the monsters’ hands had fallen to the ground .
After successfully defending himself by injuring his opponents, he sat on the ground to inspect his sword . Although almost all of his Man Ma Jung was sealed, he was still the great ruler of the Nine Thousand Circles of Hell . It was easy to handle such insignificant opponents, even with only a sword .
‘I’ll deal with these guys first . ’ With monsters screaming wildly and attacking from all sides, he did not have time for reflection at the moment .
Kang Yu was more relaxed than ever . He looked at the monsters . An anger with the aggression of a predator began to rise inside him .
The monsters also felt his anger . Their legs began to fail them .
‘There seem to be eight of them . ’ If Man Ma Jung was available, he wouldn’t even have to move . He would have just brought them down with the help of the Power . However, things were different now .
‘How unusual it is, having to move again . ’ He pushed his foot off the ground, instantly deflecting the monsters’ attacks . Then, he sliced off their heads .
The experience accumulated by thousands of years in countless wars had helped him turn the crowd of monsters into a pile of cold corpses .
[ Ding! ]
[ Level E Goblin successfully murdered . ]
[ Experience points increased . ]
[ Level increased by 3 . ]
‘I leveled up?’ By killing the monsters that attacked him, or more precisely goblins, the Status Window had appeared again .
Kang Yu confirmed that the level really had increased by three points . So had his energy per unit .
And it wasn’t just an increase in numbers, Kang Yu could feel that his body had become stronger .
‘It doesn’t matter now, raising the level, raising the energy, it doesn’t matter at all right now . I need to find out what this place is, whether it’s Earth or not . At the very least, I need to know if there are people living here . ’
‘Oh, it would have been a lot easier with the powers of Alec,’ he smiled involuntarily as he remembered the Power to Fly . That ability allowed one to defy the law of attraction, but as it turned out, required much more power than Kang Yu now had .
Right now, he only had enough strength to fly as high as he could jump .
Despaired by how weak he was in his current situation, he was ready to fall dead after the goblins .
‘I need to gather more information . ’ He needed to learn more about this unknown place .
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Kang Yu extended his hand to the dead bodies of the goblins and barely opened his mouth .
— Devourment .
The Power of a Devourer .
The unique ability that had made him ruler of the Nine Thousand Circle of Hell has awakened . The dark power coming from the hands of the young man completely wrapped around the dead bodies of the goblins .
— Aaaaaah! Aaaah…— As the creepy voices faded away, the dark smoke that had absorbed the energy of the bodies dispersed .
Gradually, Kang Yu began to gain information about the goblins .
The power of a Devourer didn’t allow him to read minds, but it did allow him to absorb information from the bodies he devoured .
He learned about goblins’ body features, their habits, lifestyle and weaknesses .
But the information he was most eager to learn was not there . There was no information about this place .
‘Damn it . ’
Now that the battle was over, Kang Yu allowed his frustration and disappointment to take over him .
‘Huh?’
Among the energy that he had just absorbed, there was also an incredibly familiar power .
— This is… — That energy was barely visible, but it was impossible to deceive his instincts .
Kang Yu’s eyes were shining as he uttered: “Magi . ”
The bodies of goblins contained very little, but still some amount of Magi .
[ Ding! ]
[ Magi level has increased by a unit . ]
The moment Kang Yu thought about the Magi he’d just obtained, a notification window appeared . At the same time, he felt a small amount of force entering his body .
— Damn it! — Though he now had more strength, he swore yet again .
Magi was the power that the creatures of Hell have . That meant that if this place was Earth, there shouldn’t have been Magi here . The likelihood that this wasn’t the Earth increased .
‘No…’ There was anxiety on his face .
The reason he’d wanted to be the strongest in Hell was so that he could someday return to Earth .
Here, there were only endless massacres .
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In his mind, in that long period of time, all he had done was fight . After all, no one in Hell was interested in anything but victory over the enemy .
‘For me, there is no such thing . ’
Even in the battles with the Great Demons, Kang Yu had remained uninterested, for he won every time . As such, he felt no satisfaction from his victories .
He was interrupted from his thoughts by a sound:
— Kiyya!
It was a scream from somewhere far away . The young man’s eyes lit up again .
“It’s…” This time, it wasn’t the voice of a monster or a demon .
He felt it intuitively . It was definitely a human scream .
And besides…
“A lady . ”
Kang Yu’s body was trembling . The tremor spread all over his body .
The shouting that came to his ears seemed to help cheer him up .
— Lady! — If someone had heard it, they would have called him a pervert for shouting like that .
But now he didn’t care what anyone would think of him .
Approximately ten thousand years .
For ten thousand years, he hasn’t seen any girls, not even in pictures .
In fact, it would be strange if he was able to retain his composure .
Kang Yu confidently took a step, then another one, and ran in the direction where the scream came from .
The Power of Acceleration .
It was a power that the demon Walefar used in his life, before it went to Kang Yu .
A black Magi emitted from his body, enveloping the young man’s legs .
Then it began to disperse a little, and Kang Yu rushed like an arrow .
By human standards, it was an incredible speed, but for Kang Yu, it was the speed of a snail .
If he could still use Man Ma Jung right now, he’d have arrived in the right place in only a second .
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It was frustrating for him to realize that he could no longer use his power at full potential .
— Ki-ee-ee!
— Kee-ee-yya!
The screams became clearer and clearer .
However, they were mixed with the sounds of Kang Yu’s recent attackers, the goblins .
‘As long as she doesn’t look like Lilith!’ He wouldn’t mind if she turned out to be old or overweight .
The important thing was for her to have two eyes, one nose and one mouth – that’s enough .
‘And no tentacles!’ Even as he thought this, remembering Lilith’s ugly tentacles, he was still focused on the Magi, now concentrated in his legs .
For the first time in a long time, he felt his breathing grow heavy .
It wasn’t even a fight to the death, he was only trying to run faster, but it was making him gasp for air .
‘I found it . ’ A wasteland stretched out of the thick forest laid in front of him .
And there were about a dozen goblins surrounding the girl, making her scream in terror .
She was sitting, clutching her bloody and obviously wounded legs firmly .
— Ah… — Kang Yu unwittingly exclaimed .
His body trembled when he saw those things surround the girl .
Black hair almost reaching her waistline, an unusual cut in the eyes . Puffy lips, a rising nose, and a small spot to the left of her mouth .
She was so beautiful that if Kang Yu had passed by her in the streets, he surely would have lowered his head in embarrassment .
But now, her beauty wasn’t important at all . Now, her extraordinary beauty seemed to be a very minor problem .
‘She’s human . ’ That was surely a human being .
Two eyes, one nose, one mouth were the characteristics of a human being .
She was not festering tentacles, nor wings like a bat . Not a monster covered in bleeding skin . No . It’s an ordinary human .
‘Oh, the Great…’ He couldn’t stand it anymore .
Kang Yu was so excited, that for the first time in ten thousand years of Hell, he wanted to turn to God again .
— Gyr-u-uh!
— Ouch…!
The girl looked at the untidy swords of goblins running around her, and was horrified .
Seeing the sword pointing in her direction, the girl must have reached a state of waiting . Waiting for death .
At that moment:
— Kiyya?! — the goblins, surprised, screamed .
Kang Yu broke their circle and started exterminating goblins one after the other with quick movements as if he were a predator .
— — А…? — The eyes of the girl who fell to the ground rounded .
She looked at Kang Yu with a look full of disbelief as he had brutally killed a herd of more than ten goblins in just a few seconds .
— Kihek! — The last goblin’s head fell thanks to the sharp black blade .
Rotating the blade in his hands after taking the goblin’s life, the young man walked towards the girl sitting on the ground .
— Thank you . — She stood up with her wounded legs and nodded in gratitude .
Kang Yu was a little shaken and took her in his arms to help her stand steadily .
— Ah… — She held his hands, and it was as if an electric charge ran through his body .
If he was in Hell, he would never have felt so good .
A human being .
Yeah, it was a human, a human he missed madly, a human he wanted madly to meet .
The sensations he was getting now were stirring his mind .
All the feelings he had endured for ten thousand years, suppressed for so long, spilled out . These feelings overwhelmed all others, completely occupying his mind .
— My name is Han Sol . Thank you for saving me . — She looked at Kang Yu, who was holding her, but she didn’t try to free herself and just bowed her head once more in gratitude .
Kang Yu looked at her and made a sincere offer:
— Let’s get married .
— What?!
— It would be great if we have three children .
— What?!