751. Upgraded World
Naro had simply been fighting off the rest of the [Heartfelt Hellspawns] when space around him began to shift. He blinked a few times, not realizing what was happening until it happened.
The world around him changed in an instant. The sky rippled, and the air stilled. The cacophonous roaring of the army of legions in the distance— the echoing of the blasts of their spells and their distant voices mixing with the chaos of the explosions— it all began to fade away. Blinking, Naro looked down toward the Enemy locked in combat with [The Queen of Diamonds].
And the [Hellprince] watched as she clapped her hands together, tugging the strands of mana in the air around all of them. And with that final pull, the space that had encapsulated them became something else.
Now Leaving [Nexeus: Netherworld]—
Naro watched as the crimson dome overhead was replaced with a clear blue sky. There were white clouds smeared across this azure canvas. It was a stark contrast compared to the normally crimson sky of the Netherworld. Like a complete reversal of what the [Hellprince] was used to seeing every waking moment of his life.
And looking down, he saw not the white peaks and valleys that normally spread out as far as he could see. Instead, he saw green knolls that rolled into an expansive forest of tall, lumbering trees. A world that was teeming with life, unlike the barren landscape of the Netherworld.
It was a strange sight for him. He had heard that such sights were normal in the Mortal Realm. However, he had never thought he’d ever see it himself. After all, he had only ever been caught by the Demon King’s forces when he was an Archdemon. So he never sent on a mission to the Mortal Realm before.
Instead, he had been trained under the watchful eyes of Safra the Lady of Glory, alongside all the other high-leveled Demons who were caught by Regnorex’s forces. It was unlike the training done at the Expanse where Demons were left there to level and grow, all the while instilling a sense of fear in them for the Demon King.
After all, higher-leveled Demons who were caught would have already had a wide berth of experiences, seeing Primeval Demons and Primordial Demons out in the wilderness. It would be difficult to convince someone like Naro to fear the Demon King.So Safra the Lady of Glory simply taught Demons like him to respect Regnorex. She would educate him on his plan to create a world where there was no suffering— teach him about how much better life would be in Regnorex’s new kingdom.
Well, she wouldn’t do it herself. One of her clones would do so.
Nevertheless, the point was to convince Naro to believe in the Demon King’s cause. Of course, considering the only option other than believing in it was death, the [Hellprince] decided to play along.
In any case, he had never been to the Mortal Realm. And he didn’t think Regnorex’s plan would work either, so he hadn’t thought he would ever be there. But right now, this place— as he swept his gaze over it… he was certain.
“This… is the Mortal Realm?”
Naro blinked a few times, before frowning. That wasn’t right. He felt the mana filling the air, and he recognized the source of its essence. It had to have belonged to the Enemy. Which meant—
“This is a pocket space.”
He surmised as he looked down towards the Enemy who was grinning, flying back away from Chordus’s transformed figure. Naro had heard that Hartia the Ruler of the Border had a Grand Skill that could create a small world. And this was similar. However, it was also… just there.
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There was nothing more to it.
“Why did you bring us here? Or actually— why did you bring me here?”
Naro asked, turning to Salvos as she flew up next to him. She just scratched the back of her head in response.
“Oops, didn’t mean to bring you here. You just got caught in the area of effect of [The World Of My Mind], I guess.”
She looked back down towards Chordus and bared her teeth.
In response, the [Queen of Diamonds] just summoned more of her [Heartfelt Hellspawns]. Dozens came into existence around her, still in their heart-shaped diamond-shells. However, right as their surfaces began to crack open, and life began for them…
Salvos smiled and faced the distant horizon.
“As for why I brought you here… well…”
She trailed off. Naro narrowed his eyes and looked in the same direction as the Enemy. At a first glance, it looked like an ordinary horizon that went as far as he could see. However, upon closer inspection, he realized that the dome encasing this world was a literal dome. That the horizon was the edge of this pocket space, and if he flew in that direction, he would eventually crash into this blue wall of magic.
However, he didn’t have the chance to even test that out himself as the edges of the dome suddenly began to twist and turn. Chunks of the blue sky started to dissolve, whilst pieces of the ground began to distort. Trees flew up into the sky, and clouds fell to the ground.
A soft chittering began to echo in the far distance, all the while Naro felt a strange shivering sensation wash over him. His breathing quickened, and he looked at the faint multitude of colors that were emerging from the horizon. Like a mass of disfigured creatures that were molded together to make a wave of distortion.
“Just what is that?”
Naro asked as his eyes widened in horror. And Salvos only grinned in response.
This was [The World Of My Mind]. A Grand Skill that allowed me to create a pocket space that I could manipulate freely to my will. However, recently, it was given an upgrade.
An upgrade that my dad might not have liked— an upgrade that was probably not exactly an upgrade in the eyes of most people who were concerned about the end of the world.
But to me, it was an upgrade. Because it gave my Grand Skill the firepower I needed to take down stronger opponents. Like right now.
I stared down at Chordus who was just looking around in confusion. Just like Naro, she had never seen the corruption before. And even if she had, she most definitely had not seen such an inundating mass of it gathered in one place like right now.
Even I had only ever seen more corruption than I had created here once before, and that was at the literal end of the world.
Except, back then, the corruption was trying to kill me. This time, the corruption was under my control.
I grinned to myself as the ground opened up beneath Chordus, melting away into a wave of corruption. It shot up, threatening to swallow her whole. But she spun around, swinging back with her sword, keeping it away.
On the other hand, her [Heartfelt Hellspawns] were simply consumed by the corruption, before they could even hatch from their diamond-eggs. Their shells cracked and collapsed as their bodies were buried underneath the wave of iridescent and distorted colors.
“Just what is that?!”
Naro exclaimed as he flew back away from me, keeping a good distance from the tendrils of corruption that were crashing down from the sky. They moved to restrain Chordus as she tried to fight back against them with her sword.
“Oh, it’s nothing. It’s just what will happen to the world if we let Regnorex follow-through with his ritual.”
I waved a hand dismissively, and Naro recoiled, barely avoiding another streak of corruption as it shot down at Chorus like lightning. The corruption bent to my will, and I molded it into weapons. The kinds which I knew. And I commanded it to destroy Chordus.
The blast of corrupted lightning struck Chordus in the chest, causing her to falter in place, stunned from the shock. And then chains of corruption shot out of the ground, holding her in place. I brought my hands together as I ordered all the corruption I could conjure up to swarm over the [Queen Of Diamonds].
It surrounded her figure from all sides, like a blanket that was threatening to suffocate her. I didn’t think a single attack of corruption was capable of defeating her, considering her levels over me. That was why I was planning on drowning her in my corruption, eroding her durable body over time, until she was dead.
I just grinned as Naro shrank back in fear. I thought this would work. It seemed like it was working. Until I heard her voice boom, echoing even amongst the chittering of my corruption.
“[Hidden Ace: Spade Of Graves].”
And my eyes grew wide at what happened next.
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