Chapter 1344

Chapter 1344

The Western Continents and the Gaia Continent had to find a way to coexist. However, God of War Ares abused his power, violated the rules, and acted against the people of the Western Continents. Because of that, the gods decided to make him pay for his sin and lock him in the prison located deep beneath the land of Olympus. This left God of War Ares stewing in anger toward the man, Minhyuk, who sent him to this godforsaken place.

But then, Ares heard something from one of the guards.

“What?”

Ares gnashed his teeth.

‘Minhyuk is commanding my troops? The guy who I want to kill and rip apart?!’

Nevertheless, Ares was confident that Minhyuk would eat shit and be sent back harshly. But then, one of the guards came rushing in and broke the news to Ares.

“Lord Zeus has declared that those who want to stay can stay while those who do not can leave.”

“GAHAHAHAHAHA!” Ares cackled madly.

Those soldiers were his dogs, dogs that he had raised since birth. And what did dogs usually do? They would wag their tail and follow their owner’s will, especially when their owner was angry. Did they think that his dogs would follow Minhyuk? Would they leave him, the God of War?

Alas, the situation seemed to progress strangely after a while.

“There’s a commotion in Olympus. That... That...” The guard mumbled cautiously.

Frustrated by the guard’s hesitant voice, Ares frowned and snapped, “Just spit it out, you bastard!”

“Hiiiiik! Lord Ares’ army has decided to follow the man named Minhyuk!”

“...?!”

Ares’ eyes immediately turned bloodshot.

That was the army he had worked hard to raise and nurture for a long time. That was the 1% that survived out of the million people he chose to groom initially. They were his source of pride and... they were his possession. But what was this?

“Open the cell.”

“I... I can’t. If I open the cell, then I will die!” The guard shouted, his legs trembling with fear.

“I will go and kill Minhyuk and all of those bastards who betrayed me. You punk, choose. Will you die by my hands or by the hands of the gods of Olympus?”

Creak...

Gripped with fear, the guard could not resist opening the cell that locked Ares up.

“Where are they training?”

“In the Land of the Titans!”

Ares grabbed his sword and armor hanging on the prison wall. Then, he descended and immediately went to find Minhyuk and his army in the Land of the Titans. This happened six hours ago.

***

Ares’ blood was boiling. He wanted to kill and tear apart his army, who betrayed him, and that bastard named Minhyuk.

‘It will be difficult to kill Minhyuk and the army, even for me.’

Ares, the jerk he was, recalled how his army had suffered huge damages and made countless sacrifices during their extremely short stay in the Land of the Titans. He had concluded that although the army was stronger than they were back then, the deep-rooted trauma that they suffered would result in a large number of victims.

‘It wouldn’t be bad to kick them down and trample on them after they cleared the Land of the Titans.’

If he appeared when they were still drunk on the sweetness of their victory, they would fall into fear and terror. The thought of their expression alone was enough to leave Ares feeling happy. This just showed how cruel and brutal Ares’ nature truly was. So, Ares chased after Minhyuk and the army, deliberately hiding himself from their sight.

One god was watching him through all this, and that god was Zeus. Right now, Zeus was feeling as annoyed and upset as Ares.

Who had set all of these events in motion? Of course, it was Zeus. He created this situation so he could poach the talents of the Beyond the Heavens Empire through Athena and make them move to the Gaia Continent. Alas, the result was the complete opposite of what he expected.

Athena’s Growth Rate was extremely lacking when compared to Minhyuk’s. And because Minhyuk was able to steal the hearts of Ares’ Elite Troops, they immediately vowed to move and leave the Gaia Continent.

Zeus had already laid out his plans to Athena. He had told her that if Ares’ troops applied to move to the Beyond the Heavens Empire, he would slaughter them all. In fact, he had already planned to hide one of the gods and disguise them as one of the soldiers of Ares’ Elite Troops to execute this plan.

However, Zeus changed his mind at the last minute. He scrapped the plan when he saw Minhyuk choose the Land of the Titans. He thought,

‘They’ll all get killed there anyway.’

The Land of the Titans was taboo. It was a place that no one had ever conquered. Many had dreamt of conquering this land, but all of them failed. None of them had ever even seen the face of the so-called boss monster of that land. Because of that, they had concluded that the boss monster did not exist. However, that was false.

Like any other field, the Land of the Titans had a boss monster. However, the boss monster would only appear once they had hunted all the Titans’ Clones in the area.

‘That guy’s too much to handle even for the gods of Olympus.’

Somehow, Minhyuk had delivered himself to the tiger’s mouth. With this, Zeus was confident that the only thing he needed to solve was the matter with the Beyond the Heavens Empire soldiers that Athena was helping to grow and develop.

After sending a message to Athena, Zeus clasped his hands behind his head and lounged comfortably.

‘They have Ares in front of them and the Titan God behind them?’

There was no way that they would be able to get out of that place at all.

***

“Hey, you f*ckers. It seems like all of you decided to apply to move to the Beyond the Heavens Empire and abandon me, huh?”

[God of War Ares has descended!]

Minhyuk had just gone over 90% of the growth rate and was preparing to hunt the last monster in the Land of the Titans when an unexpected guest suddenly appeared, leaving him very flustered.

‘There are no casualties but...’

Ares’ troops... no. They were now his troops, and they were exhausted.

Minhyuk had heard from Rance and the troops about the training Ares had conducted for them while they continued subjugating the Land of the Gods. The path that gave them the grand and mighty name of the greatest army was littered with countless sacrifices.

For these people, who was the person whom they were afraid of the most? The answer to that question was... Ares.

[Your allies have fallen into deep terror.]

[The extreme fear that they are feeling has left them unable to control their bodies.]

[The deep-seated and horrendous trauma that your allies had suffered from has come back to bother them.]

[All of their stats had fallen by 26%.]

[Their resistance to abnormal status has decreased by 40%.]

‘The decrease in stats is too much.’

The drop in stats was so high. In fact, this was the first time Minhyuk had seen such a significant drop in stats while playing Athenae. Of course, when encountering beings at Ares’ level, an abnormal status like this would be triggered and applied to them.

‘I can’t believe that it’s this bad. And that’s considering that no abnormal status has been triggered and applied yet...’

Some of the troops’ legs were shaking while some lost the strength in their hands and let go of their weapons. Most could not even bring themselves to look Ares in the eyes. They tried their best to avoid his gaze; otherwise, they would lose all strength in their legs and collapse on the spot.

Minhyuk said, “I heard that you should be in prison? So, what are you doing here? Don’t tell me you broke out of prison yourself? Don’t you know that you’ll get an even heavier punishment if you break out of prison and interfere with something that Zeus explicitly approved?”

“Do I look like someone who cares about that, huh?”

‘Ah. That’s right.’

Ares was a complete mystery. He was someone who did as he pleased. He was the type of person who would do things that sometimes went beyond common sense at any given moment.

One look at Ares now, and Minhyuk could already tell what he wanted to do.

Ares’ lips twisted into a smirk as he raised his sword and pointed it at the trembling army. He said, “Hey, you f*ckers...”

Just then...

Rumble!

The ground beneath their feet shook and trembled. At the same time, an unknown yet heavy pressure weighed down on them. Minhyuk, who stood among the soldiers, felt the goosebumps rise all over his body as the power swept over him.

Did the power come from the sky? The ground? No. A huge hand shot up from the ground.

Shwaaaaa!

The huge hand pressed itself on the ground, exerted some force, and slowly pulled an unknown being out in the open. Then, a huge head with a single eye emerged from beneath the ground.

[You have hunted all the monsters in the Land of the Titans.]

[Warning.]

[Warning.]

[The boss monster, Twisted Titan God, has appeared!]

[Twisted Titan God. Level 1,309.]

The eerie gaze coming from the gigantic eye swept around.

Shwaaaa!

Another hand shot out from the ground. With both hands out, the being could easily pull itself out of the ground. The being was six meters tall, his entire body covered with what seemed to be eyes. Strangely enough, even its face only had one eye and a mouth. It had no nose at all!

Minhyuk’s expression grew ugly at the sudden appearance of the Twisted Titan God. He almost wanted to scream,

‘Of all times, why now?!’

“Huh? What’s this?” Ares smirked as he looked at the Titan God.

With Ares at the front and the Titan God behind, the situation had definitely taken a turn for the worse. At the same time, the army's fear reached unimaginable heights.

“U... uwaaaaaaaaah!”

“S... Spare us! We made a mistake. Please, save us!”

‘I have to stop it,’

Minhyuk thought, kicking the ground and immediately triggering his Dual Swordsmanship Technique.

His sword, carrying the symbol of Destruction, wreaked havoc as he hacked and slashed at the enemy.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

[Attack failed.]

[Attack failed.]

[Attack failed.]

[Attack failed...]

Unfortunately, nine of the sixteen lightning strikes that fell were misses.

‘Its attack evasion rate is too high.’

Minhyuk was very familiar with this. After all, he was a player with a very high attack evasion rate. However, the Titan God’s attack evasion rate seemed to be countless times higher than Minhyuk’s own. The worst part? The Titan God did not seem to be startled by Minhyuk’s attacks at all.

“Frenzied Blade.”

Minhyuk nimbly evaded the Titan God’s enormous arm and used this opportunity to stab his sword and attack him from a distance. Nonetheless, the Titan God remained unfazed by the attack despite the Frenzied Blade’s heavy power. It only glanced at Minhyuk slightly with its single eye.

‘F*ck. Its level is too high.’

It wasn’t as if Minhyuk had never had the chance to overpower or hunt a being with an overwhelmingly high level like the Titan God. But there had always been a premise for that. Either he had his vassals by his side, or something had appeared that triggered a special power that he possessed. The problem was that he was in the Land of the Titans. And he couldn't summon his vassals in this place. He could not even ask for Obren’s help here.

‘I can use Overlapping Delight but...’

The duration of the effects of Overlapping Delight was too short. And of course, that was not the biggest of the problems at all. It was...

‘This bastard has the same intelligence as a human!’

One of the hundreds of eyes covering the Titan God’s body snapped open. At the same time, a strong earthquake erupted and made the ground beneath their feet crack. The crack extended and headed straight toward the thousands of Ares’ Elite Troops.

“Dodge!!!”

Alas, they had already lost their will to fight and could not move. Minhyuk ran as fast as he could, overtaking the splitting ground. He hurriedly pulled out his bowl and mixer and whipped his empty bowl.

[Cancel.]

“M-move!”

“He... help the commander!”

Some of them were able to come back to their senses. They hurriedly shot their arrows or stabbed their spears to help Minhyuk keep the enemy in check, but it was to no avail. Their arrows would curl and snap at impact, and their spears could not even leave a scratch on the Titan God’s skin.

Boom!

Then, the Titan God began to move. Every step it took left a deep crevice and created a loud sound. A swing of its arm would also create a strong wind that carried a power that crushed and tore apart the armor protecting the soldiers.

“Keuhaaaaack!”

“Keok!”

“Uwaaaack!”

At this moment, Minhyuk realized the biggest problem was the Titan God’s closed eyes. The next would be its shockingly high physical abilities. In just two seconds, thousands of soldiers were left with severe injuries, with some completely incapacitated and unable to move. And that was only by a swing of its arm.

Minhyuk activated Overlapping Delight and gulped down the food he had prepared in his inventory.

Gulp!

Flash!

He charged forward and used all his strength to attack the Titan God. Finally, the attacks were effective, sending the Titan God flying.

Boom!

Minhyuk, who had applied the effects of the black die on Destruction, did not miss the opportunity and swung his sword like crazy. The power of Destruction that had risen sharply with the effects of the Overlapping Delight struck the Titan God more than fifty times in a row.

Crackle! Crackle!

[Attack failed.]

[Attack failed.]

[Attack failed...]

The Titan God’s HP slowly fell. However, even with the increase in stats and the strengthened power of Destruction brought by the effects of the Overlapping Delight, Minhyuk could only cut down a tenth of its HP. At this moment, he realized something.

‘This bastard...’

There was a high chance that this was a boss monster that was impossible to hunt alone. The problem was that there was also a high chance that the soldiers with him would not be of help at all.

Anyone with high intelligence would try to take advantage of any opportunity and attack Minhyuk’s soldiers. Once the soldiers were dealt with, they could turn this into a gap to exploit to deal with Minhyuk.

At that moment, the corners of the mouth of the Titan God that was falling from the sky after being hit with Destruction curled up.

Blink!

One of its closed eyes snapped open. Seeing this, Minhyuk hurriedly took on a defensive stance.

Flash!

However, light suddenly flashed above him. Minhyuk frowned at the light. When it disappeared, the Titan God was nowhere to be seen. The light was none other than the light of Teleport.

Minhyuk’s gaze hurriedly scanned the surroundings. That was when he saw the Titan God appearing above the terrified soldiers.

“...?!”

Blink!

Blink!

Blink!

The hundreds of closed eyes covering its body snapped open. Minhyuk had already realized early on that each eye corresponded to a different effect, and right now, these effects were falling upon the soldiers.

The fifteen or so eyes controlled the gravity and dragged the soldiers to the ground.

Crack, crack, crack!

“Keuhack!”

“Heok!!!”

“Keok!”

Groans and screams were ripped from the mouths of the soldiers who were plastered on the grounds like frogs trapped on a dissecting tray. The enormous pressure on them made them feel like their eyes would pop out.

Then, a hundred or so eyes created thousands of weapons above them. These weapons shot toward the defenseless soldiers.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

“...”

When Minhyuk saw the falling weapons, he realized he was too late.

Rance looked up at the rain of weapons falling on their heads. For the first time, they had wondered if they could live a life different from the life they had lived as Ares’ dogs. At this moment, there were countless questions that Rance wanted to ask.

‘Ares, you’re seeing this now, right? Are you enjoying this?’

‘Are you laughing so hard that your stomach is cramping?’

‘We, who have been used as nothing but mere tools, are dying. Are you going to say that this is the natural outcome for those who had betrayed you?’

Perhaps that was the case. If it were Ares, he wouldn’t care about their lives. But then...

“F*cking bastard.”

[Master of the Battlefield.]

[He does not allow the existence of any other power on the battlefield that he stands on.]

The gravity that pulled them down and the weight that pressed on them suddenly disappeared. Even the tens of thousands of weapons that threatened to fall upon them shattered and turned into light that scattered into nothingness.

They saw Ares flying to the sky above them, his back facing the soldiers still lying on the ground. He held a spear made of light in his hands and stared at the Twisted Titan God. Then, he threw the spear in his hands.

Thud!

“Hey,” Ares called out, his voice cold and sharp. “How dare you touch my things without my permission?”

As mentioned before, Ares was crazy. No one could tell what he was thinking or what he would do next. Ares the Madman. That was the name that some called him by. And today, this crazy lunatic was doing something crazy again.