Chapter 260. <Seal the Dragon(龍封) (3) >
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Translator: Seven
6.
Wait, let’s talk about the last [enemy] humanity fought in the Tower.
7.
This is a story from before I regressed.
Befitting the title Flame Emperor, Yoo Soo-ha was good at burning everything.
-Hahaha! Haha!
If being good at burning things was his ability, then being good at burning people was his evil doing, and finally, being good at burning the world was his cruelty.
And it was also everyone else’s misfortune.
-This, being a god feels pretty good!
Possessing a prominent member of the elf race, he led the rest of the race. They burned whatever they stumbled upon. Burned the people they encountered on the street. They even burned the world around them.
Hellfire Army(業火軍).
That was what Yoo Soo-ha liked to call the elves that followed him. Anything that entered their field of view was burned, and they were like a wildfire that fell upon the continent.
-Burn it!
If Yoo Soo-ha ordered,
-In your name! In your name! In your name! (TL: Not exactly… but I can’t think of a good English equivalent.)
The elves chanted.
The voices of the elves were ferocious and sharp. And wicked.
-In the name of the Supreme Being!!
Primitive worship.
-Fire God, we offer you this sacrifice! Please accept it!
Human sacrifice.
-Burn it!
-Cleanse the world!
-Only we are the chosen ones of the Fire God! The only ones that are worthy!
A spirit of elitism.
-The reason you are weak and hungry is because you are of lowly birth!
-How dare such low level scum step into the holy flames!
Contempt and discrimination.
-The reason they are so strong, that their level is so high, is because they stole it from us!
-Priest, no, former priest! Look! This is the proof that you are no longer favored by the Fire God!
Hatred and lust for power.
-Right, well done. This is what people live for.
-Love? Friendship? Commitment? Fuck that. Don’t depend on that kind of fantasy. How can people love people?!
-Now, kids! You are the real humanity! Let’s unify this entire continent just like this! Do you understand?!
The elves saluted.
-In your name! In your name! In your name!
Yoo Soo-ha set fire to the world.
And in order to guide the fire, he purchased the items [Person Possession] and [Spiritual Descent] whenever the right timing came.(*:Item descriptions below)
-Why are you doing a head aching task like farming? Are you pushovers?
-Farming isn’t easy to do, either. To farm, you need to make farming equipment, in order to make farming equipment, you need to research farming equipment, in order to do research, you need researchers, in order to sponsor researchers, you need money, in order to raise money, you need a market, in order to have a market, you need a village, in order to have a village, you need a ruler. This ruler is responsible for getting the village, market, money, researchers, engineers, and farmers, and it’s only after half a year or a year after that barely any grain can be obtained. Uh.(TL: My brain…)
Yoo Soo-ha snorted.
-You guys, are you pushovers?
The elves snarled.
-We are not pushovers!
-No! We are not pushovers!
-We are [The Blazing Cross] who strongly supports the oracle of the Fire God, not pushovers!
It was as if lava, not blood, flood through their bodies.
All of the elves’ natural physical and intellectual abilities were poured into slaughter. Elves, who were born with the ability to sense aura, were powerful killing machines. Using their superior brains, these killing machines pondered the most efficient ways to dismember their enemies, and how to rise to higher positions.
Fanatics who worshiped a god called the Flame Emperor.
That was what the elves of this era were.
-Men. Only those carrying a head in each hand are not pushovers.
Standing on the platform, the Flame Emperor released aura from his right hand.
Crackle!
The snail head that was being held there was burned in an instant and the ashes scattered.
-There is no need to farm! If you are hungry, eat the grain harvested by others. Kill the centipede chicken* they carefully raised and throw a party!(*:Yes, ‘지네닭-centipede chicken’)
-You don’t even need a village. If you kill all the people who lived in a village, wouldn’t it then become a luxury hotel just for you? You could leave a few villagers alive to tend to you, and stay in the hotel to rest for a week or two. Eat the food and meat that the villagers bring for you. Isn’t that heaven? Huh?
-After two weeks, you can kill the villagers that brought food for you. Kill them all. How about it? Wouldn’t that make you feel better? After taking a good rest for 15 days, you would no longer feel stressed and you would feel energized again, wouldn’t you? That’s it. Babies, that’s it.
-Let’s go find another hotel!
The elves roared.
-In your name! In your name! In your name!
-In the name of the Fire God!!
-In your name!
In the places where the Hellfire Army blazed, there was nothing left. The painstaking year long farming was burned down, and the cows that were carefully reared in the barns were burnt and roasted. Everything that the people who once lived there had built step by step while thinking about tomorrow, the next year, and the future, collapsed into ashes overnight.
All that was left was an unbearable reality. Every time they plundered a village, they would intentionally leave five or six people alive, but they always spared them only after breaking their hands, legs or spines. The surviving villagers could only look dumbfoundedly— at the past that had disappeared and the future that was broken, and the corpses that were piled up on the edge of the village. They say it all.
After the Hellfire Army left, ropes were silently hung on the trees that lined the road. The survivors hung themselves there.
The tyrant who burned the world, the Flame Emperor.
Yoo Soo-ha.
But when he passed through the 39th Floor, he encountered a crisis, and when he reached the 40th Floor, he faced an unprecedented danger.
In fact, the fact that there was a crisis in the first place was a mystery.
After all, the Hellfire Army had already exterminated many races a long time ago. They tore the snail race apart. Nailed the oni race, beheaded the human race, burned the mermaid race, and imprisoned the vampire race.(*:All of these end in ‘to death’.)
Where, or who, would dare to put the Fire God in danger?
-Ugor.
There was only one race.
For thousands of years, during that long period when the continent fell into hell and suffered, they were the only children to escape [extinction].
-Well well well, if it isn’t the crazy elf bastards.
The goblin race.
Their world was cruel. In the ever burning inferno, only the strong could survive. Fortunately, they had guts. They desperately persisted and sowed seeds, and among those seeds, some of them grew into warriors.
These were the enemies that Yoo Soo-ha faced on the 40th floor. The goblin race.
-What the hell, you guys. How did you survive the 38th Floor… no, even if I said that, NPCs wouldn’t be able to understand. Uh. Right. How did you survive the Energy Dragon that Dwells in the Deep Sea or whatever it’s called?
-We survived.
-It’s amazing. Do you want to know how?
-The dozen or so of us knew how to use aura. This dozen or so clung to the Energy Dragon and absorbed as much aura as the time allowed.
-Hoh. In that case…
-That’s right.
Thud.
Fourteen goblins took a step forward.
-We are the last of the goblin race in this world.
-…
-Not only did we survive despite all of our kin dying, but we also became much stronger than ever before.
Ha, Yoo Soo-ha let out a short laugh.
-A cannon fodder race with only 14 members left! I’m so speechless. Come, you beggar bastards. I’ll comfortably take you guys to see your million compatriots today!
But.
On that day, Yoo Soo-ha’s subjugation quest was not completed.
Instead, Yoo Soo-ha had no choice but to back down and admit that he was unprepared to deal with the [enemies this time].
Normally, he would have easily won if he brought out his Hellfire Army and let them rage against them.
But for some reason… on the 39th Floor, Yoo Soo-ha had completely lost the faith of the elves.
Not only did he lose it, but he also became the enemy of all elves.
-Dammit.
Yoo Soo-ha had no companions. There were rumors circulating about a romantic relationship with the Saintess, but after thinking about it, it was probably just gossip being spread by irresponsible media.
Even the elf race, who could be called his subordinates, had turned their backs on him.
The term ‘completely alone’, could be used for Yoo Soo-ha.
-You fight like a bunch of cowards. C’mon! Fuckers. I’ll prepare and come back! Got it?!
[Withdraw from the 40th Floor stage.]
[Failed to complete the quest!]
[Please try again next time.]
And so, the Flame Emperor, who had been forcibly attacking the Tower anytime, and anywhere, stopped for a while.
It wasn’t that he had been defeated by the boss on the 40th Floor. He just retreated. Therefore, few people mocked this as the Flame Emperor’s [failure].
After all, the fact that from the 11th Floor to the 39th Floor, every stage had been cleared by the Flame Emperor, Yoo Soo-ha, had already created a legend of excellence.
-Breaking news.
Yoo Soo-ha wasn’t the only one that failed on the 40th Floor.
-The Black Dragon Guild attacked the 40th Floor.
-Were they trying to show the skills of the best guild this time?
-Unfortunately, they came back empty-handed.
Although they were overshadowed by Yoo Soo-ha’s reputation, she, who wielded the most power in the Tower, had set out this time to regain the honor of her guild. She took all the elites of the Black Dragon Guild and launched an attack.
[Withdraw from the 40th Floor stage.]
[Failed to complete the quest!]
[Please try again next time.]
She also failed.
They could only retreat after failing to defeat the ‘14 remaining members of the goblin race’.
The Black Dragon Master was able to kill 6 of the 14 enemies and wound 4 more. But that was the limit of the power the Black Dragon Master could squeeze out.
In the end.
-The 1st Ranked Hunter!
-The Flame Emperor single-handedly defeats a Boss once again!
The person who struck the final blow on the prey wounded by the Black Dragon Master was Yoo Soo-ha, who was only aiming for revenge.
Despite being made to retreat once, the Flame Emperor was the Flame Emperor. He was the undisputed number 1 Hunter in the rankings. 6 corpses, 4 wounded, and 4 warriors could not handle Yoo Soo-ha.
-Fuck!
-Freaking annoying, beggar bastards!
Pouring out curses, Yoo Soo-ha burned the heads of the goblins.
As a result, the last of the goblin race on this continent were slain, and another race perished.
-You…
A goblin opened his mouth. He was the last of the goblin race. His head was in Yoo Soo-ha’s grasp, but he remained expressionless as his entire body burned.
-Will be cursed.
-Huh?
-You are no god, you are a devil. You pretended to be a god and caused the elves onto the path of the devil. You burned and destroyed the world. It is all your doing. If there is a god in this world, a god who is not a devil like you…
-What are you trying to say, you monster bastard?
-Vengeance will surely fall upon you.
Fwoosh.
The goblin’s head was burned to the end of his brain. Only then did the goblin’s words come to an end. Even though his throat had been scorched, his tongue burned to ashes, and his bones melted, the last goblin used his aura to leave a final word.
-Bastard.
Yoo Soo-ha brushed the ashes off both of his hands.
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