Chapter 669

What was this? Why had the second restriction already been released?

It was absurd.

At this rate, we cannot keep working!

Those words rose all the way to his throat, but all he could do was bite his lips and retreat.

The second restriction was the eyes.

After the notification ended, the creature’s purple hood came off, and the glow that had been flashing beneath it finally revealed itself.

But its eyes were hollow, as though something had gouged them out.

The glow was merely filling the empty sockets.

It had no hair. Instead, long, tentacle-like strands fluttered above its head like aquatic plants.

- Hehehe, this candidate is still quite capable. To think you have already released my second restriction.

At that moment.

Swoooosh!

Its hair tentacles shot out in every direction and attacked Su-ho’s subordinates, who were in the middle of battle.

“Khuuuaang!”

“Keugh!”

“Khuung!”

Typhon, the Black Shadow Dragon, Roynan, and the others.

The hair tentacles accurately singled out and attacked only Su-ho’s subordinates.

The summons that could not withstand the damage were reverse-summoned, and their summons were canceled.

They did not target Su-ho.

It had done so deliberately.

The Giant Hunters also seized the momentum and ambushed the remaining summons.

The summons began bursting apart in an instant.

Jack, who quickly understood the situation, reverse-summoned the Shadow Knights to conserve the shadows.

- I am sorry, Master. I think we need to withdraw for now.

“I know. You did well.”

Su-ho was the only one left on the battlefield.

Below Su-ho, who floated in the air, hundreds of Giant Hunters looked up at him while growling lowly.

Deckers smiled and spoke.

- Ghehehe, now, what do you intend to do?

“What else would I do?”

There was no need for questions and answers.

If it did not work, he would keep striking until it did.

The word surrender did not exist in Su-ho’s dictionary.

He reapplied the buffs Deckers had dispelled.

[ Blood Spirit Art is activated. ]

[ Blood Demon Art is activated. ]

[ Extermination of Evil is activated. ]

Crackle-crackle-crackle!

The Twin Malice Beasts were summoned.

At the same time, Su-ho, covered in every buff, stepped through the air and charged at Deckers.

“Kaaaaaak!”

“Get lost.”

Booooom!!

The Giant Hunters rushed forward to stop Su-ho.

However, with a single word of Dragon Speech telling them to get lost, the countless Giant Hunters were sent flying far away as though they had been hit by home runs, their bodies bursting apart.

Deckers did not remain still either.

Dandurte came crashing down toward Su-ho.

Kwoooooong!!

A collision.

The enlarged Blood Sword and Dandurte collided head-on.

[ Giant blood reacts to Dandurte. ]

[ Strength is weakened. ]

“Keugh!”

Tingling pain.

His entire body ached.

The cause was the innate power of the Giant Hunters possessed by Deckers and Dandurte.

The so-called power of a natural enemy.

It was the same principle by which fairies could not defeat Fairy Hunters even after reaching Queen grade.

Deckers laughed and repeatedly brought Dandurte down.

- Kahaha! You block well! Yes, shall we see how long you can endure?

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

This time, Su-ho did not evade and deliberately knocked the attacks aside head-on.

Intense sparks flew every time the two swords collided.

Then, just as Dandurte was about to descend once again, Su-ho’s sword flashed brightly.

Slash!

The sword swung.

It drew a massive arc and cut cleanly through its target.

What had been cut was Dandurte.

- Oh?

Deckers felt the sword suddenly become lighter and raised the corner of his mouth.

Then he grabbed the split blade and forcefully crushed the separated parts back together.

Clank!

“......!”

An unexpected sound rang out.

Su-ho had clearly cut the sword precisely, yet Deckers repaired Dandurte in an instant merely by brutally forcing the split pieces back together with raw strength.

‘Does that even make sense?’

Apparently, it did.

Deckers’s expression said the same thing.

- Why? Is this your first time seeing something like this?

Dandurte swung again.

At the same time, Deckers’s hair tentacles surged toward Su-ho.

“Damn it!”

Attacks came from every direction.

Kwoong!!

The attacks converged in one place and collided, creating a massive explosion.

Had he been hit?

No.

“Neigh!”

A horse’s cry rang out through the thick cloud of dust, and Cheolma appeared.

Cheolma had saved its master in place of its master, who was still unskilled at flying.

- What dreadful tricks he has.

Jack spoke sarcastically.

He was right.

Su-ho had deliberately cut the sword instead of attacking the body that was nearly immortal, yet Deckers had repaired the sword in an absurd manner.

In the end, only a few options remained.

“It cannot be helped. We will have to use the method we used before.”

- Okay.

Because their consciousnesses were connected, Jack understood everything without Su-ho having to explain at length.

At that moment, Extermination of Evil and Blood Malice, which had been floating in the air, descended upon Deckers.

Su-ho poured an enormous amount of mana into them and scorched Deckers as though roasting him whole.

Deckers also seemed to judge that this attack was considerably powerful, and a brief delay occurred before he could counterattack.

This was the opportunity.

Darkness fell over the world.

More precisely, it was a shadow that covered only Deckers.

A massive curtain of blood.

While Deckers was distracted by the Twin Malice Beasts, Su-ho used the blood he possessed to form a curtain and create a shadow.

Around that time, Deckers swung his arms widely and ? NоvеIight ? (Original source) threw off Extermination of Evil and Blood Malice.

But by then, it was already too late.

Whooooooosh!

An enormous sound of air being torn apart came from the sky.

It was the Guiyeong Spear.

The spearhead of the Guiyeong Spear, formed from condensed shadows, had become like the blade of a guillotine.

The Guiyeong Spear fell toward Deckers, aiming precisely at his neck. By the time Deckers sensed the killing intent and raised his head, almost no distance remained between the spearhead and Deckers.

Crraaaack!

A chilling sound echoed throughout Apophis.

Nothing covered in shadow could avoid being pierced by the Guiyeong Spear.

Just as Omega had been, Deckers was also skewered in an unsightly state.

Su-ho’s attack did not end there.

He could not rest.

Unless there was some unexpected variable, the creature would recover and evolve once again.

So before that happened, he had to find the cause.

He focused his mind.

[ Extreme Strength is activated. ]

[ Soul Slash is activated. ]

What he used was Soul Slash.

The colors of the world inverted.

Rings of runes became visible, and bundles of golden light surged.

But as Su-ho examined them, his eyes widened.

‘What......!’

He was bewildered.

It was a sight he had never seen before.

What in the world was this?

The rings of runes, which should have been entangled only around specific sections, were spread evenly throughout Deckers’s entire body.

‘Recovery and evolution are not skills?’

Skills such as recovery or evolution were ultimately connected to the caster’s spell and received energy from it.

Soul Slash cut through those connections and severed the flow.

But Deckers before him was not that kind of existence.

He had simply been one unified whole from the very beginning.

Su-ho had never seen a case like this before.

At that moment, Deckers, who was still impaled, rolled his glowing eyes toward Su-ho and smiled.

- Why? Something is not working?

Feeling pressed for time, Su-ho swung his sword first.

[ Sky Slash is activated. ]

[ Sword Fusion Art is activated. ]

[ True Severing Slash is activated. ]

[ Extreme Strength is applied. ]

[ The power of True Severing Slash rises to the limit. ]

Slash!

He swung widely and cut through the creature.

If its entire body was important, then he only had to cut through all of it.

That was the only option that immediately came to mind, so he carried it out without hesitation.

But as expected, it was not the correct answer.

[ Giant Slaughterer Deckers uses Immortal Devourer. ]

[ Giant Slaughterer Deckers fully recovers. ]

The creature, split into two, immediately used Immortal Devourer and recovered, just as expected.

Deckers escaped from the Guiyeong Spear and rose like a resurrected zombie.

[ Giant Slaughterer Deckers’s third restriction is released. ]

This time, he released the third restriction and amplified his power even further.

Fwoooosh!

A refreshing light surrounded him.

The release of the third restriction.

The change occurred in his skin.

His pale, corpse-like skin had become pure white, and red lines of unknown meaning were drawn across his body.

Deckers smiled.

- Haha, it was a good attempt, but in the end, you failed.

Deckers raised a finger while sneering.

Then Su-ho’s body was trapped inside a white, translucent membrane, floated into the air, and was moved in front of Deckers.

Protection Holy Art activated, but the membrane formed over it.

The transported Su-ho met Deckers’s gaze.

Inside Deckers’s previously empty eyes, small white lights flickered like pupils.

- Child. Do you know why the position of Giant King has remained vacant for so long? It is because none of them could defeat me. And you will be no different.

Deckers continued speaking.

- You can never defeat me. As long as giant blood flows through your body, you must possess overwhelming strength and talent capable of surpassing your natural enemy if you wish to defeat me, a being composed entirely of elements that prey upon giants. But no one has ever been capable of that except the one who killed me long ago. That is why the position of Giant King has remained vacant for such a long time.

Deckers pulled Su-ho closer.

- Even so, you are the first to release as many as three of my restrictions. Until now, even those who were considered quite capable only managed to reach the second. What a shame. Had you tried just a little harder, you might have been able to catch me. Now, if you have nothing more to show me, let us bring this to an end.

Deckers clenched his fist tightly.

Then the white membrane began to crumple.

Crack!

Deckers intended to crush Su-ho to death just like that.

But Protection Holy Art protected Su-ho.

Of course, it would not last long.

Deckers, with three restrictions released, had likely become an existence no giant could dare oppose.

Through the crushing pressure, Su-ho looked at Deckers and asked.

- Then what if there is no giant blood in my body?

- Are those your final words? What a futile delusion. But to answer you nonetheless, the situation would change. My body is composed solely of things designed to kill giants.

- I see. Giant blood was the problem.

- I am glad you are satisfied with the answer. Then.

Deckers clenched his fist again.

Crush!

With that sound, the translucent membrane surrounding Su-ho turned pure white and completely crushed him.

Was it over?

The moment Deckers thought so, an enormous amount of light began pouring out from the crushed sphere.

Following the light, something began bursting out as though breaking free from an egg.

Su-ho.

No, it was a dragon.

[ Dragon Mode is activated. ]

It was Su-ho, who had activated Dragon Mode.