The Game of the Greatest Black Mage
Chapter 184

Chapter 184

At the time Seonghyun was thoroughly toying with Laktera.

As the Golden Knights, escorted by the Black Knights and White Knights, invaded the castle.

Many of Basilica's soldiers blocked their path.

However, not a single one could even slow the Golden Knights down.

The steps of Commander Lumina of the Golden Knights, who led the charge, were bolder and faster than anything else, and nothing could stop her.

As she leisurely headed towards Basilica's castle, her steps suddenly came to a halt.

“How dare you invade Basilica, not knowing your place.”

“Hohoho, I wonder who it is that truly doesn't know their place.”

The one who had stopped the steps of the golden lioness beastkin, Lumina, was none other than a black snake beastkin boasting ink-black scales.

It was the king, the absolute ruler of Basilica.

But for some reason?

The black snake beastkin, that fellow, trembled as he looked at Lumina standing before him.

He was certainly the absolute ruler in Basilica.

But in front of Lumina, he could not project his aura.

“……H-How……”

He definitely knew her.

The young lioness from long ago, back when he was not yet king.

To think she had become this strong.

He could not have imagined it.

Could it be that while Basilica was having internal conflicts, undermining each other's strength.

Ninyaru had been reigned by an absolute monarch for a long time, growing everyone's strength?

At that thought, the black king of Basilica trembled in fear.

There was no way he would lose to someone who was not even the king of Ninyaru.

Believing so, he tried to project his aura.

Lumina opened her mouth, filled with anger.

“Let's stop with the pointless chatter. It was a grave miscalculation to think you were the only one who grew stronger. We were just leaving you alone because it was a hassle, but how dare you challenge us.”

At Lumina's words, which sounded like an angry growl, the black king subtly stepped back.

He had thought he could win as long as it was not Karnyao, the absolute ruler of Ninyaru.

If this was the extent of Ninyaru's power, then even if they had invaded and attacked.

They might not have been able to annihilate all the cat merchants.

But the current situation was even worse.

The city walls had already collapsed, and the Golden Knights were running rampant inside Basilica.

Most importantly.

‘I'm afraid?’

A mere commander of the Golden Knights.

Is overpowering my aura?

He could not believe it.

But he could not deny the reality before his eyes.

“……For a mere female, you seem to have grown strong.”

“Hoho, it seems you still haven't grasped the situation. In that case, it can't be helped.”

Lumina said so and drew her weapon, a sword.

The black king of Basilica also began to bulk up his body, trying to use his full power from the start.

The damage within Basilica would surely be great, but.

If he could not defeat Lumina now, he felt the sense of crisis that he himself could die, and with extreme vigilance, he directed his full power towards Lumina.

And so, a battle that did not match the level of this region unfolded within Basilica.

6.

As the darkness from Seonghyun's sword lifted.

All of Laktera's five senses returned.

And he wore a bewildered expression at the sight that unfolded before his eyes.

How on earth did nothing get caught?

In the midst of the incomprehensible scene, he realized that he too had taken considerable damage.

And in that moment.

His eyes met with Seonghyun, who was holding a grimoire filled with the energy of destruction in the far distance.

-Aww, this is the first time I've ever felt bad for a mob…….

-I know, right? lol.

-Wow, he's using it here.

At the sight of Seonghyun using an extraordinary aura, Laktera's eyes widened and he tried to escape from that spot, but his pupils wavered as he saw the webs filled with poison.

He had shot them out himself, but in his current state, it would be difficult to escape easily.

If he hurried, he would be the one to get caught.

So, he chose to defend rather than evade.

Laktera did not know what skill Seonghyun would use on him, but.

He tried to defend himself by spewing out hard spider threads and creating a cocoon.

Right on time, just before the magic circle unfolded from Seonghyun's fingertips.

The cocoon was created, and after that, the magic circle unfolded from Seonghyun's fingertips.

The magic circle looked like multiple mechanical devices, like several interlocking cogwheels, and in that moment, the magic circles turned, and the giant magic circle rotated.

And in that instant.

A lost magic, so powerful it was considered taboo long ago, unfolded upon the world.

[Erasure Laser]

A beam that allows no defense whatsoever.

A beam that erases all things was fired.

It pierced Laktera's cocoon, and a fist-sized hole appeared in Laktera's side.

KWAAAAAA—!!!

“Keul-keok!”

Laktera, vomiting blood, was pushed back with the beam, his eyes wide open, and the cocoon surrounding him was spattered with various spiderwebs and poison.

As the cocoon melted away, Laktera emerged from that spot, protecting his side.

Taking that chance, Drakhanos, Baltar, Leonik, and Barpur rushed in, aiming for Laktera.

In that moment.

His eight eyes dilated, and he shouted.

“I will devour you all.”

Although his emotions were suppressed, so his voice did not sound excited.

A definite chill could be felt.

Soon, a cracking sound came from his body.

And he transformed.

[The Hidden Raid Boss, 『The Legion Commander of Basilica, Laktera』, is transforming.]

[The Hidden Raid Boss, 『The Legion Commander of Basilica, Laktera』, is entering Phase 2.]

Warning

-The raid boss becomes extremely powerful in Phase 2.

-Please be careful.

With that warning message, Laktera became enormous.

He now looked closer to a monster than a beastkin.

A body larger than the Labyrinth Spider, Tallonpia.

At the sight of the creature, with a massive frame that could be called a calamity and poison hairs bristling all over its body, the eyes of Seonghyun and his familiars narrowed.

But in a way, it was fine.

Since he had gotten bigger, it would be easier to hit him.

Seonghyun prepared several AoE skills to use against the creature.

No, he tried to prepare them.

However, as if the creature had noticed, it pointed all the poison hairs on its body towards the sky.

He made the poison hairs stand on end and fired them.

SHUSHUSHUSHUSHUSHUSHUSHU—!!!

As the poison hairs shot up into the sky.

There were so many that the sky was momentarily dyed purplish-black.

Discovering this, Seonghyun called for Nocturnium.

“Nocturnium.”

“At your command.”

At Seonghyun's call, Nocturnium immediately raised the surrounding earth to create a defensive wall.

A defensive wall that enveloped all the familiars and Seonghyun.

But as if that were not enough, Serphina wrapped it in wind to make the defensive wall even sturdier, and Helena also used both heavenly and abyssal energy to fortify the wall even further.

PWABUBUBUBUBUBUK!!!

Despite that, the poison hairs pierced the defensive wall.

Feeling this, Seonghyun himself also used countless skills.

A black sun rose in the sky, and as that black sun radiated black flames and darkness upon the land, Soldiers of the Black Sun were born from within it.

From the sky, jet-black thorns rained down towards the giant Laktera, and between them, blood swords steeped in crimson poison could be seen.

HWAAAAAAA!!!

HWAREUREREUREU!!!

PEOBEOBEOBEOBEOBEONG!!!

PUKPUKPUKPUKPUKPUKPUK!!!

As the blood swords impaled Laktera's body, they immediately exploded.

The black thorns also pierced his body and bloomed like flowers, swallowing the surroundings in darkness. In addition, countless Soldiers of the Black Sun were created and were hacking away at the creature's body.

But even against such an onslaught, the creature stood firm and endured it, and rather, used all its strength to spew poison at the defensive wall where Seonghyun was gathered, trying to break through.

Seonghyun did not end it there either and even used Whisper of the Void, which grew stronger the more darkness it consumed.

A black snake appeared, growing in size by eating the Soldiers of the Black Sun, and soon became as large as Laktera, fiercely biting into the side of the creature's head.

But the creature's will did not weaken in the slightest.

Rather, it tried to break down Seonghyun's defensive wall by any means necessary.

However.

“Our Seonghyun is doing his best, so I have to do my best too. Hnnngh!!!”

Helena said so and unleashed skills using the power of heaven and the abyss upon Laktera.

Although there was a wall, Seonghyun, who was aware of the situation outside, smiled.

Also, it would be difficult if things continued like this.

Seonghyun unleashed the Blood Plague along with a swirl of blood.

The blood poison that had burrowed into the creature's body exploded all at once, tearing apart its internal organs.

“Keuk.”

A groan full of pain burst out.

And Laktera was able to realize it in that moment.

‘In this body, I'm at a greater disadvantage.’

It would be difficult to break Seonghyun's defensive wall with his remaining strength.

So, it would be much better to return to his beastkin form and attack him.

Just as Seonghyun and Helena's skills were about to pour down again.

Laktera transformed back into his beastkin form, making his body small and dodging all the attacks.

Seeing this, Seonghyun and Helena calmly removed the defensive wall and mobilized all their familiars against the charging Laktera.

The first to move was, of course, the fastest, Anemor.

Anemor, moving with lightning, plunged a bolt of lightning towards Laktera's heart and shot upwards.

PZZZZZZZZT—!!!

He was too fast to catch for a moment and allowed the lightning strike.

But it could not be helped.

Right now, Laktera's target was Seonghyun.

That was why he tried to charge forward, ignoring the other attacks as much as possible, but.

The interference from the familiars was too intense.

It was to the point where he could not possibly break through the familiars by himself.

-Wow, they're really solid.

-I know, right? ;;;;

-To get to the Demon King, you have to get through those familiars... it's impossible.

-Even if you get through, the Demon King himself is strong in swordsmanship.

-He's completely flawless ;;;

The viewers were also watching in admiration.

There was simply no way for Laktera to break through alone.

At that moment of struggling in despair.

Hope approached Laktera.

None other than.

“Are you alright?”

“I'll help you.”

Sibren and Nuartein.

With these two!

The situation changes.

Was it because he was so desperate?

In that moment, Laktera forgot about the White Knights and the Black Knights.

The question of whether these two had dealt with both those knight orders to get here did not even arise, only the thought that he now had a way out.

He opened his mouth.

“If you take care of the other familiars, I will kill the caster.”

“Hmmm.”

“Mm.”

The two grunted at Laktera's words.

Is there some kind of problem?

The moment Laktera was about to look at the two with a look of incomprehension.

Shunk! Shuk!

Four daggers were stabbed into Laktera's neck.

“……???”

As Laktera looked at the two with a look of genuine disbelief.

He could see the two of them emitting an aura of darkness and teal.

“That would be troublesome.”

“To think you would try to deal with our master, how irreverent.”

“Y-You guys!?”

Seeing that, his eight eyes trembled violently.

These two were the traitors?

As he opened his eyes wide as if wronged by the unbelievable sight.

The viewers, too, could not help but express their shock at the situation.

-Wow, that's just too much lololol.

-Crazy lolol, they were the Demon King's subordinates too?

-LMAO look at his face, he looks so wronged.

-LMAO I'm never messing with the Demon King.

-Wow, what a truly vicious bastard.

-Because he's the Demon King. (nods.)

-Don't say bad things like 'the one who got tricked is stupid' nonono, anyone would get tricked by this for real lolol.

Along with the cheers of the viewers.

“You cowardly and vile bastards!!! FUCK!!!”

The high praise burst out.

And after holding on for several more minutes, Laktera finally fell.

“Phew, that wasn't easy.”

Watching it, Seonghyun said a word.

-Lmfao after toying with him he says 'that wasn't easy'.

-Seriously lololol I'm dying lololol.

-Is this for real lololol.

-So pitiful for real lolol.

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