Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 154



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Episode 154

Ma Hyeon-woo pushed his face close to Chu Hyeong-in.

But Hyung-in still couldn’t remember who he was.

“I… I don’t know who you are.”

“Then, if you see this, will you remember?”

Sigh.

This time, Hyunwoo raised one hand and pushed it towards Hyung-in.

The back of his hand was branded with the mark of a pact with the devil, and he only had four fingers.

Because my ring finger was cut off.

Only then did my brother come to mind.

That the one who cut off that finger was himself.

“You, you… … !”

“I remember now! That’s right! During the Salvation quest! That’s when we first met!!”

The conditions for the Salvation quest were simple but cruel.

Among the gathered applicants, only one winner will move on to a new position.

Hyunwoo and Hyeongin met during that quest.

Hyunwoo spoke as if shouting at his brother.

“You told me that back then, right? If you wanted to live, cut off one of your ring fingers and give it to me. Do you remember now?”

“Ugh, huaaaak… … !”

Clank, clank!

Hyung-in moved his body urgently to get out of this place.

But my body didn’t move.

This was because his limbs were tied to the bed and his muscles had been completely relaxed due to the injection of muscle relaxants.

“Please! I still wanted to save you!!”

“Yeah. So I’m going to keep you alive as long as possible.”

Hyunwoo stood up, walked towards the wall, opened a cabinet, and started taking something out.

“Hey, should I tell you something interesting? That place you’re lying down in isn’t a bed.”

“… … ?”

Hyunwoo approached his brother-in holding a saw and said.

“It’s a table.”

* * *

“Ugh.”

Ma Hyun-woo picked his teeth with the tip of his fingernail.

There was nothing left on the table where Chuhyung-in had been lying just a few minutes ago.

All that was left was a bloody set of clothes lying in a corner.

“Hoooooo… … .”

Hyunwoo’s face was complicated.

Should I say it’s refreshing or empty?

Of course, the relief was greater.

He wiped out from the world the man who had brought shame on him and even cut off his finger.

And what’s more, he even succeeded in swallowing it and using it as his own power, so how could he not feel relieved?

But even so, I couldn’t help but feel a bitter aftertaste lingering in my mouth.

“Is this the taste of revenge?”

After failing the quest to become a killer and making a pact with the devil.

Hyunwoo continued to search for Chuhyung-in.

The guy who defeated me in the quest and cut off my finger.

Of course, tracking wasn’t easy.

It wasn’t easy to find someone I’d only seen once in the quest zone, and at the time, I didn’t know their name but only their face.

But Hyunwoo still managed to find it.

I was lucky.

Because Chuhyung-in was running around like a casino and all, he was relatively easy to spot.

If Hyung-in had really been hiding somewhere quietly, it would have been nearly impossible to find him.

It was good to find materials like that.

But this wasn’t the end of the matter.

Hyunwoo’s goal was to kill his brother.

That’s where the problem started.

My brother was too strong.

To the point where I’m not sure I’d win even if we fought.

Besides, Hyung-in wasn’t only strong in body strength.

The power he built was also a problem.

The scale of the force was large, and the strength of its members was by no means weak.

Of course, Hyunwoo also had Hyunwoo’s power.

However, when Hyunwoo’s forces and Hyung-in’s forces collide, the expected result is mutual destruction at best.

That’s why Hyunwoo just hovered around Hyung-in and waited for an opportunity to kill him.

Then, the opportunity came completely out of the blue.

‘Cheon Yeong-su?!’

Suddenly, Cheon Yeong-su came to Chu Hyeong-in’s castle.

‘Why did you come here?’

Even though he only glanced at it from afar, Hyunwoo felt goosebumps run down his back.

It was because the trauma was stimulated.

Because it was Yeongsu who cut off one of Hyunwoo’s arms and one of his eyes.

And not long after, Youngsoo and Hyungin started fighting.

And Hyunwoo was shocked once again.

‘He was that strong… …?’

A series of bloody battles where anyone who carelessly interferes could actually die.

Moreover, from the moment Youngsoo broke the seal on the Blood Jade, the situation became one where no one could even dare approach it.

The power of blood that overwhelms and crushes all life.

Hyunwoo was really fed up.

‘Where on earth did you get that kind of strength…?’

Hyunwoo felt one emotion upon seeing Youngsoo’s power.

It was despair.

Because there was such an overwhelming gap.

‘I lose.’

no.

‘Die.’

If you confront Youngsoo, you die.

That was Hyunwoo’s conclusion.

‘But why? How come?’

After losing his eyes and arms to Youngsoo.

Hyunwoo struggled desperately to become stronger.

They have been hunting and eating the strong in the field and secretly growing their power.

Instead of relying solely on his own talents like before, he constantly worked hard and made progress.

Still, he couldn’t catch up with Youngsoo.

“… How much more effort do I have to put in?”

A low sigh escaped me on its own.

Of course, there were some benefits to be gained from Youngsoo’s intrusion.

No, on the contrary, the benefits were great.

Thanks to that, I was able to catch my brother.

But the fact that he couldn’t catch Hyung-in with just his own strength was like a thorn in his neck.

dripping-

Just then someone knocked on Hyunwoo’s door.

“Come in.”

The door opened and a boy came in.

He must have been around 17 years old at most.

Hyunwoo saw the boy and smiled faintly.

“Oh, Haesu is here.”

“Are you done eating, hyung?”

“That was great. But what brings you here?”

“I found something with you guys. Come and see.”

“… … ?”

The two went out of the room.

Outside the room was a huge space.

This is a very old underground temple.

Of course, it wasn’t something that originally existed in Korea.

This is a relic that was created after the Great Battle.

This was the place that Hyunwoo was using as his base after wiping out the monsters that were there.

And Hyunwoo and Haesu weren’t the only people living here.

“Huh? The teacher is here!”

“teacher!”

A large number of people gathered and called Hyunwoo teacher.

Even if it wasn’t possible, it looked like there were at least 200 people.

They were Ma Hyeon-woo’s followers.

Those who have dropped out of their previous quest and become useless.

Those who almost died after being caught by thug-like players, etc.

They were outsiders of society, either lacking the power they should have or never having had power to begin with.

Hyunwoo gave them magic and gave them the strength to live.

And it created a community to live together.

Because I saw my old self in them.

I’m talking about the image of myself who failed the quest to become a killer and was in desperate despair.

Of course, there was also the intention of creating one’s own power like a ‘fortress’.

Anyway, was that how he rose to the position of leader?

His old selfishness had been greatly diluted, and he now had the air of being the leader of an organization.

Hyunwoo asked, naturally mingling with his people.

“I heard you discovered something.”

“These are the guys.”

There were captured players there.

Already beaten up and in disarray by Hyunwoo’s minions.

One of them said as if he were praying.

“I, I, I got lost and ended up here! I never intended to hurt you!”

“What class are you in?”

He trembled and spoke at Hyunwoo’s sudden question.

“Hey, I’m a technician.”

“Who is the person next to him?”

“I am a palace, a palace maid.”

“Hmm. Anyway, they’re all players, right?”

“Yes? Oh, yes.”

Crunch.

As Hyunwoo swung his hand horizontally, the engineer’s neck fell to the ground.

The archer next to him screamed.

“Whoaaaa!”

“I hate players.”

Shukak!

With another swing of the arm, the heads of the remaining three also fell to the ground.

Hyunwoo said, wiping the blood that had splattered on his cheek.

“I will wipe out all players from this land. Arrogant people who were lucky enough to obtain power beyond their means.”

Hyunwoo said as he got up and left his seat.

“Have some snacks.”

The followers moved towards the dead players.

Each holding a sharp object such as a knife or a saw.

Looking at them, Hyunwoo thought.

‘The world has rejected us, so we will reject the world.’

It’s going to be a long way.

It will have to become much stronger than it is now.

But, in the end, by any means necessary… … .

‘It will open the era of the mines.’

The black pattern engraved on the back of Hyunwoo’s hand flashed.

* * *

Wild shopping district.

Youngsoo sat across from Gapseok at a table in the corner of the empty restaurant.

And then he placed his freshly amputated arm on the table.

The arm of the scapegoat.

Gap-seok said with a terrified expression.

“Is collecting limbs your hobby?”

“You’re mistaken. This is only the second time I’ve brought you a severed arm.”

“Isn’t twice enough?”

“I didn’t even cut this one.”

“Then what is it?”

“He spilled it.”

“Your arms?”

“huh.”

“Arai.”

Gap-seok looked down at his brother’s arm.

An arm that is slowly decaying.

Gapseok asked.

“So what happened?”

“That’s what I came to tell you.”

Youngsoo kept talking.

The cause of Bloody Mog, the process of finding the citadel, the battle that took place there, and even the constellations.

Gap-seok, who had been listening quietly, asked.

“So you’re saying there are real gods called constellations? Other than the fake gods the elves serve.”

“yes.”

“Tell me more about what you know about constellations.”

“That’s all we’ve talked about so far.”

“yes?”

“There’s less information about constellations than I thought. I only learned the word constellation about 45 years after I started playing the game.”

“Hmm… … .”

Gap-seok, who had been thinking for a moment, asked.

“But if an apostle blessed by the constellation is that powerful, then there’s something I don’t understand.”

“what?”

“Of course, the constellations are incredibly powerful beings. But why don’t they directly intervene in this world with their own power?”

“It’s probably one of two things. Either there’s some kind of ban in place that prevents them from interfering with the world directly, or they’re so powerful that interfering with the world directly risks destroying it.”

“Either way, there must be a constellation behind the world becoming what it is now. If we consider that the class system originated from the constellations… … .”

“Maybe so.”

“But what exactly is the purpose of those constellations?”

“well…….”

It was difficult to answer.

Because there were too few clues to make a judgment.

At that moment, Gap-seok slammed the table down as if something had occurred to him.

“what?!”

“I thought of a way to get closer to the constellations.”

“Huh? What is it?!”

“It’s a ticket. A ticket to take the previous quest.”

“Why is that… … ?”

“If classes are created by constellations, then wouldn’t the former quest zone be a space related to the constellations?”

“ah……?”

It’s just a hypothesis, but it still felt interesting.

“And Master, you have an unused ticket, right? You’ve had one since you left the game. Why don’t you try using it?”

“no.”

“why?”

Youngsoo showed it with actions rather than words.

The ticket was torn in front of Gapseok’s eyes.

Originally, I should have been sent straight to the previous quest zone, but… … .

Ting!

—-

[Warning] ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR… … .

—-

“Ugh… … !”

It was the same as before.

As soon as the warning window popped up, a strong feeling of dizziness swept over my head.

After a while, the warning window went away and the torn ticket was restored.

Attempts to approach the constellation with a ticket in this way were unsuccessful.

“… Did you see it?”

“her…….”

So the discussion returned to square one.

“Okay, anyway, what we have to do now is… … .”

“Wait a minute, I’ll go get rid of this smell.”

Shh …

Gap-seok put his heel on the severed arm on the table.

Yeongsu was speechless.

“What are you doing? On an already dead arm… … .”

“It’s because of the smell, the smell. The smell of the corpse disappears when you put on the heel. But Master, didn’t you smell?”

“Oh, I turned off my sense of smell because it smelled.”

“Ouch, really.”

An absurd sight unfolded as the rotting arm slowly regained life.

But at that time.

“uh?”

Yeongsu’s eyes widened as he looked at his brother’s severed arm.

Because a black pattern began to appear on the back of his hand.