Chapter 1361

Chapter 1361

[Someone is attempting to destroy the first barrier.]

Crack, crack, crack!

Inel learned right away that someone was trying to break through his barriers.

“Who the hell...? But my barrier can never be broken.”

The evil men living in his kingdom had plundered and looted too much from the outside world. The Western Continents, desperate to capture them, had issued countless warrants and wanted orders for them. Regardless, none of them had been captured. Dimension Monarch Inel’s kingdom was in a completely different dimension, protected by powerful barriers.

“No one has ever broken through the barrier!”

“Who dares to try and break the barrier that not even the gods can break?”

“Who knows? Regardless, what we’re certain of is that whoever that is will soon be turned into roasted chicken!”

If whoever was trying to break the barriers failed to break through, the powerful magic that wrapped around the barrier would squeeze them with a potent force. But then...

[The first barrier has been broken.]

[The second barrier has been broken.]

[The third barrier has been broken.]

“...?!”

“...?!”

The barriers were broken in an instant.

Crack, crack, crack!

The loud and ominous sound of the ceiling cracking and breaking apart filled the entire party hall. The moment the ceiling collapsed, blazing flames rained down upon the entire hall.

Rumble!

A man stormed into the party hall faster than the flames could reach the floor. The man immediately hugged Philos, who the swordsmen, spearmen, and mages were attacking.

[The barriers have been destroyed.]

[Please reform the barrier as quickly as possible.]

Meanwhile, Philos thought that the man, Minhyuk, felt really warm as he hugged her tightly.

“Are you alright?”

“Yeah!”

“Did you get scared?”

“I knew that oppa would come!”

Minhyuk unleashed the Supreme Overlord’s Technique, burning the entire party hall.

“Huh... huh...”

Inel looked completely dumbfounded. He could not understand why Minhyuk, the Pillar of the Gourmands and the emperor of the Beyond the Heavens Empire, had appeared here.

“Did... did you just say oppa?”

Only when he heard Philos’ words did he realize that he had touched someone whom he should not have touched. For a moment, his head turned blank.

“Uwaaaaaaah!”

“Waaaaaaaaaah!”

More than seven million troops of the Pasden Kingdom’s royal army flooded into the party hall.

‘We can kill him.’

Inel assessed, confident of their power.

After all, the Pasden Kingdom housed gods who had been expelled from the Land of the Gods, and evil men who ran rampant in the entire continent.

‘Besides, I’m also someone who had a chance of becoming a Pillar.’

Inel possessed abilities that were on par with most Pillar Candidates. Although he did not receive any Pillar-grade powers because he did not awaken as a true Pillar, the current situation was still advantageous to him.

“This is my kingdom! My dimension! How dare you come here alone?! Did you think that you would be able to get out of this place alive?”

Minhyuk carefully put down Philos.

“Alone?” Minhyuk smirked as he looked at the charging royal army. “Philos has a huge family, you know?”

“What the hell? What bullshit are you on about?”

A powerful force surged out from Inel and fell upon the charging soldiers.

[Dimension Ruler.]

[The Dimension Ruler increases the attack and defensive power of all allies inside his dimension by 25%.]

“They do not share a shred of blood with her. Nor do they share the same hair or eye color. There’s also the fact that Philos is a foreigner, while they are people living in this land. Yet, all of them became her family.”

An overwhelming force appeared from within the spear in Inel’s hands as he prepared to throw it toward Minhyuk.

“They see her as someone whom they should protect and care for. Someone they should hug and cherish.”

This was the truth. Regardless of who they were, many people had jokingly claimed that they were Philos’ uncles, grandfathers, sisters, brothers, aunties, mothers, and many more when they first met her. They did not have any other reason or motive. It was purely because she was a child, a being that was far weaker than adults. Because of that, the adults naturally felt obliged to protect her.

“And her entire family is going to come soon.”

“You’re nuts! Even if they want to, not just anyone can come here...”

“Is it you guys? Are you the ones who bullied Philos?”

At that moment, someone appeared riding a giant bone dragon in the sky above them. It was none other than the master of the Kingdom of Death, Death.

Death had been suffering from a variety of mental illnesses, which included depression and social phobia. Although he had improved a lot and had been living a new life thanks to Minhyuk, the wounds that he had suffered in his heart were slow to heal. In fact, the healing process had even stagnated.

However, a young girl was able to heal a portion of Death’s wounds. When they first met, the girl helped him comb and clean up his messy hair.

Finally, they started. The performance of Philos’ Family, the new group that succeeded Bender and the Attention Seekers, had finally begun.

‘I wanted to show this much, much later.’

When God of Death Louis became a Pillar, Death inherited his position as the God of Death. Because of that, he was able to inherit new powers, too.

“Death Titan.”

The biggest disadvantage of a necromancer class player was that they were severely lacking when it came to physical abilities, much like the mages. But this power completely supplemented that.

The weapons in the hands of the madly charging royal army troops were pulled to the sky by a power that they could not resist.

“Huh?”

“What the...?!”

Death jumped down from the bone dragon, amidst the spears, swords, axes, staves, and blunt weapons soaring to the sky. They all gathered in one place, attaching themselves and taking on a certain shape, a gigantic great sword. The massive, yet rusty-looking great sword carried the power of all the weapons that it had gathered together.

Then, the armor and defensive artifacts that the soldiers were wearing were pulled away from them and soared to the sky. The soaring defensive artifacts began to surround and cover Death. The defensive artifacts morphed until they changed into an armor that suited Death’s body. In just an instant, it changed and formed into the gigantic titan’s arms and legs. Now, Death possessed a pair of enormous titan arms that could crush through anything and a torn and worn black cloak that fluttered with the wind hanging on his back.

Clank!

Finally, the defensive artifacts covered his face and created the titan’s head. The head looked similar to a robot, but it also resembled the face of a Death Knight.

Death lowered his hand and grabbed the gigantic great sword that was floating in the air.

Thud!

He took one huge step and swung the sword in his hand.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The sword light and the wind created by the swing of his sword tore apart hundreds of the soldiers, who had been reduced to only wearing their underwear. Of course, the enemies tried to attack Death from all directions.

“Hiiik?!”

“F-f*ck! I don’t have any weapons!”

“Uwaaaaaack!”

The soldiers who were stripped of their weapons and armor were torn apart in one go. The Death Titan completely held the overwhelming advantage on the battlefield.

Inel made eye contact with his men. Those who caught his gaze tried to move right away.

[Spear Master Baran. Level 733.]

[Sword Master Ragas. Level 754.]

It was now an era where many of the strongmen who stood at the top of the continent were above Level 700. Even the high-ranking players had already exceeded Level 680. Naturally, both the NPCs and players had grown together.

Dozens of the Pasden Kingdom’s strongmen rushed toward the Death Titan. They still held their weapons as if to prove that the Death Titan could not take away the artifacts in the hands of the strong.

Energy gathered at the tip of the spear of Spear Master Baran as he shot out like a bullet.

Bang!

The Death Titan staggered on its feet as the spear pierced through its shoulders. The people of the kingdom saw a glimmer of hope and immediately attacked together, putting pressure on the Death Titan. Meanwhile, three people had been torn to pieces by the Death Titan.

At that moment, Inel noticed something. He thought,

‘What the hell? Why is Death, the king of the Kingdom of Death, not summoning his Death Knights?’

The Death Titan’s body was broken and torn apart without any mercy. But Minhyuk remained still and just watched as the Death Titan continued to stagger on its feet.

Everything was going according to plan. They were going to let the world know who would appear if someone dared to touch Philos. And the people who would spread the word would be the players of this kingdom.

At that moment, a man squeezed out of the broken sword lying on the ground. This man was a blacksmith with one leg significantly thinner than the other.

[Warning.]

[Warning.]

[The Maker has descended!]

“...!”

Hephaestus jumped out of the broken sword’s debris with a massive hammer in his hand, like a spring breaking free from its restraints.

Boom!

The target of Hephaestus’ hammer was none other than the Death Titan’s teetering body.

Bang!

The moment Hephaestus’ hammer hit the Death Titan’s body, the hundreds of thousands of weapons and armor gathered together were broken. The more than a million fragments of the weapons and armor that looked just like shattered glass gathered together and followed Hephaestus’ command.

Swoosh!

The fragments of the broken artifacts rained down upon the kingdom’s strongmen.

Fwoosh!

The fragments tore and cut their bodies. They were so small that they could squeeze into the gaps of their armors and leave the victims suffering from the tearing pain that they brought about.

That was not the end. This power extended beyond the strongmen and even crushed the tens of thousands of people inside the party hall.

Clang!

Clang, clang!

The fragments of the weapons and armors slowly fused until they were restored to their original form. Then, they slowly fell into the ground.

“Hi... hiiik...!”

Inel bit his lips.

‘This is the last one, right? No one will come after this?’

There was no way that someone else would come out, right? More importantly...

“Why the hell are you coming out one by one? You bastards!”

If they wanted to come out, then just come out all at once! But they just stared at Inel with a smile on their faces.

[The preparations are done.]

The sound that Inel has been waiting for finally rang. The evil men gathered in the kingdom had prepared for an invasion. They had already anticipated that someone would break the barrier protecting their kingdom one day.

They had modified tens of thousands of dragon cannons, which were twice as powerful as ordinary dragon cannons, in preparation for such a day. Those modified cannons had an 80% chance of hitting the enemies. It wouldn’t matter how strong these people were. It would be difficult for them to survive the bombing of these powerful dragon cannons.

‘You entered the tiger’s den on your own.’

Now, all the tiger needed to do was to chew them with its sharp teeth and swallow them whole.

“Fire!” Inel ordered the Dragon Cannon Troops that were stationed at a distance.

Boom!

A deafening explosion rang in the ears of everyone present as tens of thousands of cannon balls filled the sky of the Pasden Kingdom.

Meanwhile, Minhyuk looked quite relaxed and carefree.

Fwoosh!

He smiled at the tens of thousands of cannonballs that appeared in the broken ceiling above them. At that moment, a woman appeared at the center of the party hall.

“Sisteeeeer!” Philos called out excitedly, a bright smile on her face.

“Again?! AGAIN?!!!”

‘Why are these bastards appearing one by one?!’

The woman’s pupils were narrowed and formed like a slit, just like that of a snake’s own. Her hair was silver, flowing beautifully in the wind. She was none other than the one who controlled the system, the God of Snakes Elizabeth. She stretched her long, fair finger and pointed to the sky above them.

At the same time, the cannonballs that were slowly falling upon them stopped midair.

[God of Snakes Elizabeth is controlling the system.]

The cannon shells lost their momentum and power. Then, they floated out of the party hall and flew to the other side of the kingdom.

Swoosh!

Boom!

A deafening explosion erupted somewhere. Inel hurriedly tried to contact the artillery commander in charge of the dragon cannons.

[They can’t keep on cancelling our attacks. Keep firing...]

[Your... Your Majesty. All of the troops... have been eliminated. It’s Herakel!]

“...?”

It seemed like he appeared alone over there, too.

“F*ck! You f*cking bastards!” Inel’s expression twisted. “Why the hell do you keep on showing up alone?! If you want to come, then come all at once!!!”

Crack, crack, crack!

Then, at that moment, one of the walls of the party hall fell. Through the torn wall, Inel could see the Pasden Kingdom that housed over tens of millions of people and five million soldiers whom he had raised by himself. An unknown and mysterious black book was floating above the entire kingdom.

Flutter!

The moment the book opened, the people who had been hiding in their homes all over the kingdom were dragged out in front of the walls of the kingdom. Tens of millions of people struggled against the unknown force that dragged them out. But they could not do anything against it. They just flapped their hands and held their necks as if the force was strangling them.

[Kneel.]

An eerie, heavy, and gloomy voice, sounding like it belonged to an evil ghost, rang out. As if on cue, the tens of millions of people who had been dragged in front of the walls of the kingdom were forced to kneel.

“Who the hell are you?! Which crazy bastard came out alone this time...?”

At that moment, someone slung their arm on Inel’s shoulders.

[You’re the crazy bastard.]

A heavy and irresistible force immediately weighed down and suppressed Inel. A single arm slung over Inel’s shoulder left him paralyzed with fear to the point that he ended up wetting his pants.

Drip, drip!

The trembling Inel could not understand at all.

‘The Evil God can destroy this kingdom by himself.’

“Evil God.” Inel plucked up the courage to ask. “Why are you appearing one by one...? Why! Why...?! Why can’t you just appear all at once?!”

[Because we want to?]

‘Ah. Is that so? F*ck...’