Regardless of the number of troops one can rally, they are meaningless if they only exist on paper. Aquiroa fully realized this truth when she noticed that Sungchul didn’t even act as she called for reinforcements.
‘Could it be that this man had already eliminated all of my subordinates before arriving here?’
It was the only sound explanation for what was going on. Aquiroa’s leg gave out giving her the sensation of falling endlessly. It was utter despair. However, Aquiroa couldn’t allow herself to collapse so easily. She waved her hand vigorously and shouted in a sharp voice.
“Ahmuge! Kill him!”
Sujin melted away into the shadows, and Aquiroa’s mind began to work overtime.
‘With the wild factor of the Mythic Soul Contract with a Legend grade assassin’s blade, even that monster will not be able to act carelessly. I should make use of that time to gather my remaining spell power and what remains of Soldiers of Salvation to force him to a corner…’
Everything was planned in a moment. Sungchul then made his move. He first clobbered the Soldiers of Salvation that surrounded him with Fal Garaz.
Wham!
He didn’t even have to strike much either. The Soldiers of Salvation were turned to jelly by a single blow despite possessing a remarkable 90% value in physical resistance. They were originally believed to have their sense of fear removed, but it didn’t seem to be true. When they saw how simply and pitifully their comrades were being cut down by Sungchul, they began to tremble violently and emit a strange noise.
“Uroro… Uroro…”
It was like an eerie chorus that one might expect to hear beyond the gates of hell, and Sungchul moved like lighting and erased that chorus. Aquiroa could feel the chains of despair that she had shaken off just moment ago strangling her neck once again.
‘Ahmuge! Just what are you doing!’
A golden opportunity had arrived, but Ahmuge did not step forward. She was aware that Sungchul’s movements were fast enough to be difficult to follow with one’s eyes, but Sungchul was currently preoccupied with other opponents. It should have been more than enough for Ahmuge to have made even a single attempt from the shadows, but she did not reveal herself even when all of the Soldiers of Salvation had fallen. It was only at that moment that Aquiroa realized Ahmuge’s intentions. She swung her staff and shouted at the empty air like a crazed person.
“You damned Summoned bitch. I accepted you, a Regressor with no backing, and you betray me?”
Of course, there was no response from the shadows. It might have been that she had already long since left this place as the Mythic grade Soul Contract, Disappearance, prevented even Sungchul from guessing her location.
Once every Soldier of Salvation was slain, Sungchul approached Aquiroa. She knew that nothing could be gained from fighting him and only one option was truly left for her.
“I’ve got questions.” Sungchul spoke firmly.
“I might even let you keep your head depending on your answer.”
“Is that right?” Aquiroa gave a faint chuckle. It was a dry laughter of someone that had given up on everything.
“I have nothing to give you.”
Aquiroa’s hand reached for her mask and a dark shadow-like aura of Calamity overwhelmed her. Sungchul felt the unsettling energy and raised Fal Garaz as he leaped towards her.
The moment Fal Garaz reached her, a brief voice could be heard behind the mask.
“For the Unborn God.”
The dark shadow swallowed her completely the next moment and Fal Garaz hit nothing but her empty clothes too late.
“…”
She was gone. She had destroyed herself before he could do anything about it. Sungchul looked toward the tattered clothes on the floor and fell into thought.
‘This confirms it. Aquiroa’s group is conjuring the power of Calamity.’
It was regrettable. He managed to gain nothing from Aquiroa, but as the final enemy fell, Bertelgia broke the long silence from her pocket and said her piece.
“Ugh… so terrible. Really. Just how many did you kill today? Phew! I hope you don’t rub off on me!”
“…”
Sungchul wanted to comment that it might already be too late, but he caught the words within his throat in time. For some reason, he felt the joke would be crossing some line.
“In any case, what are you going to do now? Even that masked woman is dead.”
“I’m thinking about it.”
Unfortunately, he didn’t gain enough to offset his efforts. He thought that he might be able to seek out the surviving crew members to interrogate, but this plan’s efficacy was also in question.
As he hesitated on what to do next, the sound of a wailing woman could be heard from the darkness.
“I remember.”
It was Sujin’s voice. It could be heard just out of reach of Sungchul’s ability to track its source. Sungchul moved his head to where the sound was heard, but there was nothing but empty space. Sujin continued to change her location as she spoke.
“The faces of my companions, my friends, and my beloved, the ones killed by you who wielded the Seven Weapons of Calamity.”
“…”
Sungchul’s brow began to furrow.
“Are you trying to say that I’m wrong?” said Ahmuge.
“Stop whispering in the darkness and come show yourself. I won’t kill you immediately.”
“You’ve always lied.”
“What?”
“I’ve heard of it. How you’ve betrayed people and broken their trust. You might want to deny it, but you should know better what kind of person you are.”
“Don’t get full of yourself.”
A rusted short spear appeared in Sungchul’s hand. It was a Weapon of Calamity, Oom Bruuk. A wretched laughter could be heard within the darkness.
“You’ve used that accursed weapon to not only drive the people I love to death through madness, but you abandoned them in the endless abyss.”
Her voice was gradually dying away. Ahmuge’s final words were faintly carried by the wind until it became engraved into Sungchul’s memory.
“I shall never forget, and I will get my revenge..”
Oom Bruuk flew toward the direction of her voice in an instant, but it only struck air and couldn’t find its mark. Sungchul’s brow twitched.
‘Did the Soul Contract, Disappearance, not only hide the body but make the physical form disappear?’
A faint voice was heard from beyond the darkness one final time.
“I deeply curse that tool of god.”
That faintly uttered single sentence made Sungchul freeze. His hand trembled slightly.
Clatter.
And Oom Bruuk, who lost its target, fell to the floor causing a strange sound to ring within the dark cabin.
Beyond the gaping hole out the bottom of the airship, the cold night breeze produced an eerie sound as it swept in.
*
“I went around tasting all kinds of dishes for a thousand years, but such fine dining is a first for me.”
Kha’nes patted her stomach with a happy expression on her face. The dishes that had been piled on top of the table were all licked clean. There was enough food to feed thirty people, but apparently the amount was no big deal for Kha’nes. However, Sungchul didn’t look so happy despite the unexpected compliment. Sujin’s parting words as she vanished were weighing down Sungchul’s heart like a heavy boulder. Kha’nes peeked over at Sungchul through the corner of her eyes before taking an opportunity to speak.
“What are you thinking about so hard? You don’t perhaps think that the future that Returnee saw will come to fruition, do you?”
“… Not at all.”
“Then why do you look so glum despite that?”
“Don’t you fear me?”
It was a sudden question. Sungchul spat out the words himself, yet he felt slightly regretful as his question was blemished with significant discourtesy.
Kha’nes looked shocked at the question as expected, but she laughed boisterously as though she wasn’t all that bothered by it.
“Why would I fear you? You’re a human, and I’m a dragon. Why would I, a Dragon, need to fear you? In any case, it has nothing to do with us Dragons whether you become a Calamity as that woman said.”
“I see.”
He spoke briefly, but complicated emotions were passing through his eyes. Kha’nes had been the first one to remain civil toward him after he had donned the name Enemy of the World after accepting to stand against the Calamity. However, she was also an entity unrelated to the Calamity. Whether or not Sungchul is able to end the calamities or not didn’t matter to her. Sungchul felt an unfamiliar sensation at the fact that such a person had expressed friendliness with him for the first time.
“Are you upset?”
Bertelgia carefully spoke after gauging Sungchul’s expression.
“Not really, there’s nothing to be upset about.”
Sungchul spoke calmly before bringing the wine glass that was placed on the table to his lips. It was the cheap alcohol that Kha’nes had brought. His mouth was filled with a bitter and fishy flavor and his expression changed slightly.
“… and suddenly my mood is ruined.”
Kha’nes carefully looked Sungchul over with her lizard eyes before speaking again.
“You. Are you aware what the next Calamity is?”
Sungchul nodded at her question.
“Are you talking about the Calamity of War?”
“That’s right. What do you think of the third Calamity?”
The third Calamity was distinctly different than the other two. Unlike the first two Calamities which had well defined enemies, the third Calamity was described in a vague language and hence led to disagreements as to its interpretations. On the Scripture of Calamity it said,
[The faint embers left aglow in ruins in the aftermath of betrayal will swallow death and despair, and envelop the Continent whole in the flames of war. Only a single flag will be able to extinguish the flames while those wearing crowns will only move according to their calculations.]
The subject of the Calamity was not specified, but because of that, the kings and their lords viewed the third Calamity as a lesser threat compared to the others. It was reasoned that if the third Calamity was one that occurred amongst humans, then an agreement among said humans could easily resolve it. The reason that an unqualified merchant was placed at the lowest seat of the Thirteen Champions of the Continent and the World Parliament, presided over by Aquiroa, was held regularly with the power to act as the binding force that moved each nation to attend were all in preparation for this third Calamity. And as long as the Emperor of the Human Empire was giving the World Parliament his powerful backing, it was extremely unlikely that a war between Human nations could ever erupt.
Even if a war did occur, fleets of airships that could cover the skies would quickly put an end to it. Sungchul had at one point been part of the ruling inner circle of the world government and knew this very well, so he never gave the third Calamity much thought.
“That Calamity will be resolved without much difficulty.” He replied assuredly.
“Is that right?”
“I don’t want to praise the sovereign forces of this world, but they did manage to produce an answer to that part.”
Images of the past flashed before Sungchul’s eyes like pictures. His time as the Head General of the Empire, the time when he traveled to various nations wearing a tightly fitting suit that felt uncomfortable and tried to persuade the kings and lords, were a bitch so to speak, but it wasn’t without a silver lining. There was a being who brought a sliver of hope to his previously desolate heart.
Although Aquiroa, the masked hag, had swiftly swallowed the fruits of his labor, but Sungchul believed that to be a rather good thing. It lead to the formation of the World Parliament which brought them some immunity to the third Calamity.
“Do you really believe that?”
But, Kha’nes seemed to have a different opinion to Sungchul.
“Humans are foolish to an unimaginable degree. They are all the same regardless of what they look like or what they wear. Regardless of how wise one is, they are bound to commit sins when faced with temptation.
“That is when I step in.”
Sungchul said as such and tossed the rest of the cheap alcohol down his gullet. Kha’nes made a strange smile as though she had something to say, but then covered her lips with her hand.
‘My lips are itching, but I better stop here.’
Instead, she brought up another topic. She pulled out two magic tomes from her possessions.
“I’ve heard from the book girl. You’ve got 6 Soul Gems, but only mastered a single school of magic?”
When Kha’nes held out the magic tomes, Bertelgia flew out readily and bit down onto the books to retrieve them for Sungchul.
“They might be some worthless tomes of a lower grade, but they should be of some use. You won’t be restricted by Magical Fingerprints either.”
Sungchul checked the contents of each book immediately after receiving them.
Series of Magic that even an Ogre can Learn: Fly
Let’s Make Our Own Formation! Introduction to Incantation Formation
They were truly tomes for common magic as Kha’nes had said, but the utility of these common magic could not be ignored. A faint smile formed on Sungchul’s lips.
*
At that same moment, at the frontier of the eastern region of the Human Empire. A fleet of airships composed of hundreds of ships filled the cloudy sky. On the other hand, Eckheart’s Colossi Unit 3 that boasted a gigantic size rivaling that of mountains, stood side by side upon a ruined city.
At the center of the fleet of airships, there was a burly man wearing a golden armor and helmet standing with his sword in the ground. His name was William Quinton Marlboro. The Emperor of the greatest nation of this continent, the Human Empire. Standing across from him was a sorry-looking man with a distinctly smaller frame, wearing rags with a piece of cloth covering his face like a thief, but his name didn’t have any less value than that of the Emperor himself.
“Are you Ga Xi Ong of the Seven Heroes?”
When the Emperor tossed out a question with a dignified voice, the smaller man nodded while pulling out the abnormally large blade slung across his back.
“Kikiki… a Summoned with no background dares to call himself the Emperor of this land… the world is truly done for!”
The blade cast a dark cloud akin to shadows of death as it let out a strange cry. The commander and the soldiers that lined up behind the Emperor were startled and immediately drew their swords, but the Emperor who stood before the blade didn’t seem to falter.
“Hoh? Looks like you’ve got enough balls to call yourself an Emperor.”
Ga Xi Ong glared at the Emperor with his twisted and bloodshot eye before sheathing the great blade casting the dark cloud.
“Then, shall we get started? Kukuku… what are your conditions?”
Thank you!
They should rename this novel to foreshadowing
“The main story leaves alot of foreshadowing”
Thanks for the chapter. Also if your group of translators and editors are having so many issues maybe it would be better for to take about a year or maybe a few months as a break to fix all of your personal life issues. I wouldn’t mind if that happens just maybe keep us updated and promise your not stopping just putting a temporary haitius
Or just all get cancer and die. A new group will pick this up anyway
Wow what the hell? No wonder this was dropped. “A nEw grOuP will picK this up ANYWAYS!!!”
Thank you for the chapter!!
Thank you for the chapter!
Seems MC has way too much faith in the World Government’s ability to avoid World War.
World War is inevitable that the Wandering King is even conjuring the Calamity for some purposes. Might even reach to the human nations and instigate war in all fronts.
Thanks for the chapter.
Thank you for the chapter!
Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
Ogre can fly?!
Thanks for the chapter, well the world leaders were already an untrusted bucnh with the first Calamity, I won’t put my faith in them when the theme of the Calamity is betrayel, and World War.
Knowing this OtherWorld, many humans are just a bunch of sh*t.
Law and order? Yeah right, they’re all savages in there.
Thanks for the chapter~!
You all should just drop the novel entirely at this point and help another group start it up by talking to the author.
We’re all sympathetic to illnesses, but there comes a point when it’s no longer acceptable.
If you were doing this for free, that would be one thing. You’re not though. You sell them on amazon, and get donations specifically to translate.
The responsible thing to do would be to just drop the novel entirely. If there comes a time when you all can actually start translating again, then try to pick it up. All you’re doing by delaying is ruining your reputation as a group and destroying interest in the novel.
Why dont you go through all of the years of studying Korean, then Html and PHP, then on top of that building a community of staff and even a social following for the book If you are so intent on telling them off.
Your comment entirely avoids addressing every single point I raised. Just because I don’t translate myself, doesn’t mean I don’t understand common decency.
I didn’t yell or cuss them out. My argument was fairly reasonable, and this is the first time I’ve said anything on the issue after months.
This isn’t a hobby for them. It’s essentially a job, even if it’s part time. If you acted this way in any other job, you’d be fired long ago.
This is the kind of people I respect
Great chapter!
What I fail to understand is that Ahmuge comes from the future. Sure, she might be set on revenge and what not, but the reality is that in the present time he hasn’t killed the people she cares for nor is he the monster she thinks he is. I am amazed how Ahmuge tell him off when all her info is basically hearsay. It is only “I have heard of it” or “people told me of your cruelty and lies”. She is so blinded by her own emotions that she is incapable of trying to make her own unbiased judgment about him. Everyone at this point fears the Enemy of the World, when in reality it is the royalty and other countries that are betraying said world. And if she swallows all the crap that other people tell her, she will end up being the cause of the horrible future she is trying to prevent from happening. To be honest she pisses me off, so please end her character.
There is no much to understand, it’s the control of information it happens to us in reality too and is a social construction even if you are conscious that everything have another side to the story a prejudice is still formed subconsciously some are more open minded others not so much and it vary according to the subject too, plus the falsification of evidence, even tho we know of such falsifications we just can’t go thinking everything is false to that you may add the negation.. sometimes the reality is just so shocking or unbeliable that you avoid thinking of it and choose to believe what you think is more likely to be, and finally the bias you never get to know a person wholefully the person wich to you was a saint was a demon to others but if others tell you just can’t believe it you choose to believe those close to you.
Oh I forgot to mention as you may know he is “The Enemy of the world”
It’s him against the world as happened to many of those who made big discoveries in history.
The earth is round… it took a time to people to believe it and some disciveries were recognised only long years after the death of the person who discovered it
She’s a lost cause. No matter what, her mind and heart is totally controlled by her stupid emotions to things that yet to happen.
I agree with you. End her already. It doesn’t change much. She too pisses me off.
Her words over Sungchul is just making the guy on his shoulder put more weigh.
Damn it. What a bitch.
She no need Fal Gaz to whack and squash her like a bug. Let that spear Oom Bruk impale her and make her mad.
She’s not worth it to be keep alive much longer. She really pisses me off.
Can’t you hire a new translator for this. As for the one who’s sick he can come back when better, or start a new novel.
Nah they just tryna hog all donations and money since it’s a good novel. No wonder they all getting cancer and shit, karma at its finest. They won’t drop the novel so all u can do is hope they all die of cancer and move on quickly
I wish them the best and hope the novel can continue soon.
146?
146? when
Stop talking about donations people demanding sth because of a donation? Don’t go changing the meaning of the word donations don’t imply any obligation on the receiver… then me complaining about the wrong use of a word might be funny when I myself have lots of mistakes 😅
Anyway just stop talking about donations before the meaning of the word is distorted.
If what the translator receive are truly donations then demanding sth is just shameless… talking dirt is even worse that if those are truly “just donations” I am just talking about no distorting the meaning of the word and not about the situation with the translation. ( I can see some grammar nazi appearing and complaining about my own mistakes just after I post it 😂)
Well mistakes or not aside it’s more about trying to avoid people starting to have the wrong idea of having rights to demand sth because of a donation and starting to take that as natural.
That kind of attitude would suck ofc there are different situations for everything but welp I won’t go giving extra details the post is long enough.
Consulting the meaning of donation in the dictionary or remembering it should be enough xd
Patreon isn’t a donation. It’s a payment for a service. A service they’re unable and unwilling to do.
They need to drop it and let someone else take over.
They sell books on Amazon. They have a patreon. Are you retarded?
Oh, shit. It’s been a month.
Oh shit. Guess who cares! Cancer does.
It’s now October.
Any recent news on what happen to the team? I’m getting kinda worried
I dont think this novel will ever be continued to be translated … greedy people
They finally all got cancer and on the death bed but they won’t give up hogging the novel so another group can pick it up.
Greedy fuckwits.
Any group can pick this up now, they’ve dragged on long enough. Let’s advertise this on Wuxia so everyone knows it’s no longer being translated by active group.
That’s actually a great idea
What the fuck are you guys doing!! Have some response for your fans! Keep us updated at least once a month. I know it’s hard times but c’mon over 2 months and you are acting like mutes. It isn’t that difficult to drop a line of 4-5 words.
First time reading. I said this on an earlier chapter too, but I’m almost certain that the real cause of the calamity that would wipe out everything is caused by Ahmuge/Sujin, Aquiroa, and/or the wandering king. I say this first because, as far as I can tell, that calamity board is only full of possibilities (which is why the avian king disappeared). The fact that, despite their “best” efforts, that war possibility is still there, it could simply be that by making it into a war to destroy the “enemy of the world”, they simply screwed up and created their own calamity that couldn’t be stopped. From how Sujin put it, his name was vilified by all the most disgusting people there (likely including Aquiroa, who is shown trying to create the th god using some calamitous power that would likely destroy the world).
Who’s to say that the board itself is truthful, either. The gods in thus world seem to be quite the vindictive bunch, and in the future they might have started messing with them for fun by changing the board to fit an impossible task. Or it may have been screwed from the beginning. Who knows?
Two months and still no update.
Go fuck yourselves! Useless scumbag oppatranslation. Retards
I know you guys said you were sick, but you’ve been dragging this on for long enough already. I’m not saying to push yourselves and continue translating, but instead give this novel to another group. The fact that you haven’t already after 2 months makes it seem like you’re hogging the novel because of your patreon. Just let it go already. Or at least spend 2 minutes to update it us about what you’ll do, because right now you’re just making yourselves seem greedy and unreliable.
Still, thank you for all the hard work you’ve done for the previous chapters. It’s just time to move on.
Jesus the comment section is really getting hostile now lol
IKR some comments have been really toxic in here.
TIS NOW NOVEMBER
HOW IS EVERYONE RIGHT NOW? GREAT? RESTLESS BECAUSE THE GROUP JUST DISAPPEARED WITHOUT NO UPDATES FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS?
YEAH SAME I TOO AM FEELING GREAT
Really good work guys. You really done keeping this out of bay from others that should continue being translated even not from yours doing. BRAVO *clap * *clap* *clap*
RESPONSE AT LEAST TO YOUR READERS!
Hearing them not replying must mean his mom definitely died of cancer. He prob sorting the funeral and stuff so let’s give it another month and then fuck it I’m out if they still don’t reply.
Why the delays? If a employees has so much going on put them on leave and get someone new to take over. That’s all. And your other projects are dead as well, so what’s going on?
Thank you for the work done translating and publishing to a free site. I enjoyed reading the kindle book and I was happy to find the continuation online. I realize that life gets in the way and some projects get dropped for any number of reasons. While it was disappointing to have it end this way, I am not going to resort to insults, threats, or general troll posting as a way to vent. I will just say, I hope you are doing well. If you aren’t then I hope things turn around for you soon.
If you can not continue this project please give out an update saying so and consider letting others pick up the project that became a burden you had to put down.
Mother fuckers!!!! Take my money then fuck off doing nothing. Not even saying anything! Fuck you!!!!!!!
so its been almost 4 months since any posts/messages from the Translators, anyone know if another group or person is willing to pick up the translating process for us? if someone can’t do their job, they get fired in the real world and then someone else gets hired to fill that spot, simple as that. the wait is killing me though.
Dude ate you on something? ? Cause they just realesed two chapters a couple days ago.
@Paps apologies, the main hyperlink i have bookmarked to MCHHS doesnt list any new chapters, only up to 145 currently, yet on the home page itself, it does list 146 & 147, i assumed that it wasnt up to date.
This is probably the first chapter that really annoyed me. (This series has done a great job of avoiding stupid stuff like this so far, unlike many other seriers I have read.)
He overhears Ahmuge expressing her desire to kill him, while also learning that she (probably) has the ability to be a threat to him.
Despite that, instead of going in for the kill instantly, he slowly walks in and starts talkning, letting her escape.
I feel like this is against how he has acted so far…