Colossus Hunter

- I'm not a ghost. Call me Monkey King.

It was the first sound I heard when I regained my mind.

As I turned my head, the body of the Emperor was staring down at me.

“How does it work? ”

The spirit of the Monkey King was in me. That body is an empty can, to say the least. There is nothing inside. It's normal not to move, but now it's moving willingly.

- I don't know, when I woke up, I was able to move.

“Looks like this is a thousand horses' nest. ”

- Well, it's not perfect. No muscle tone, no transformation, so it's no different than a hemisphere.

The tone is quite stubborn. It was a hundred and twenty degrees different from the previous aggressive atmosphere.

I still ripped my head off and asked.

“If we can move, we don't have to go back. ”

- There are still a lot of restrictions. I would have crushed you in less than three seconds if I had the strength of my prime period.

“That's amazing. ”

I answered with a soulless voice and looked around.

He said that in order to break the trials, he had to find the ‘key’ that Emperor Heaven Castle has.

And if you look across the room at the giant black stone, it's probably the key to the body of the heavenly host. I lifted up that rock with that enormous power.

“How long have I been asleep? ”

- Six hours on a human scale.

“4 days · · · · · · · · would not be easy. ”

It's been 11 days. There were only 4 days left of the 15 days promised with K'Tuga.

There are still four out of the twelve trials, so to make a simple calculation, you have to break at least one in a day.

It is difficult to see the progress so far.

I looked at the body of the Emperor Castle for a moment. Can we compare it to the Heavenly Horse? It's not enough to silence K'Tuga.

‘This one won't stand still. ’

The Monkey King hasn't given up all his refinements yet. If you hand over the body here to K'Tuga, she might self-destruct.

Saying you have to break the rest of the trials.

- Are you giving up?

“Do I look like a quitter to you? ”

- He was foolish enough.

I smiled.

He's been evaluating me with that look all along.

And the ratings were accurate.

I won't give up. After so many trials, I finally have the heart to say, "If you can't avoid, let's enjoy."

It's not normal in many ways.

I shook my head, and I turned to him.

“So, are you ready for your journey? ”

* * * * *

Hero's Grave.

Hero's trials.

The name that I hated and hated so much has challenged me face to face.

What heroes are in the first place.

‘Sacrificer. The One Who Lives by Sacrifice. ’

That was the name that ran the end of irrationality.

It was a name that could never appear under duress, under duress, or under normal circumstances.

In that sense, the villain is better. Because they don't force each other to sacrifice. Rather, the difference between the distribution of profits and the certainty was that the so-called 'villains’ were often rational.

That's why I decided not to be a hero.

But now, I was being tested by a hero.

“Creepy Castle. Why did you kill me? ”

“Why did you drive me to my death? I trusted you.”

You hear the voices of the dead.

They were innocent people I had killed by necessity.

Or another hero who stepped in front of death because of me.

“Why did you survive? You have sacrificed us to become the 'ultimate hero'. The world is doomed to destruction because the man who will not become your vessel has become your hero! ”

Uriel Diablo. 499 heroes have fallen to kill him. I should have died then, too, but I survived by accident and was able to put a sword through Uriel Diablo's chest.

“Son, why didn't you come a little earlier? ”

“I wouldn't be dead if I didn't sing songs about having shoes. ”

I remembered.

My parents died because of my birthday.

To buy a birthday present, I drove out to buy a pair of those shoes and never came back.

If I hadn't told you I wanted to have soccer shoes, your parents wouldn't have died.

Is that why?

You mean the price.

Even after returning, the timing was wrong. I couldn't save my parents, and it was as if a god had told me that "a set future cannot be changed."

‘I have sinned a lot. ’

I knew it myself. The sin I committed is too much to call a hero.

So I wanted to save the world.

Maybe it was a choice I made to wash away my sins.

The dead were talking to me.

“You can't settle anywhere. It is your destiny to continue to kill and die. You run restlessly, but you have nowhere to rest. ”

I wasn't wrong.

A place to settle down. I had no place like that.

I always had to move and kill my enemies. I had no memory of staying in the same place for a long time to hide from the dangers of terrorism.

Even after the regression, it didn't change much.

The chilly body, the strong flesh of Uriel Diablo, I always felt like I was walking the Thorn Field.

If one dies, the other dies. Such tension. The pressure of not being where I am. If they say they didn't exist, it's a lie.

“I'm not gonna be a hero. ”

Denial. You don't listen to the dead.

It didn't matter what they said about heroism. I didn't want to carry that weight again.

It's just...

“I'm just a tough little gangster. ”

I made myself stronger.

I'm a gangster. I always live my life with my back around my neck.

Even before and after the regression, I would rather have a bad egg name.

Heroes are not heroes.

He was the hero who confessed his mistake and tried to wash away his sins.

Also, heroes are not perfect.

The hero who did not lose himself after suffering exhaustive trials and reflected.

Quite the contrary.

“Do you want me to be frustrated? Do you want me to give up because of despair? Too bad. I don't regret the past. ”

I stepped on the heads of the dead.

Their deaths give me another chance.

And without their death, I would never have come back.

Sometimes, gangsters save the world.

However, there was one gate that could not be easily passed.

If there was one thing I regret, it was their death. If you came back a little sooner, if you didn't want soccer shoes on your birthday, then · · · · · ·.

“· · · · · · I'll see you when it's all over. ”

I lowered my head briefly and moved forward. I didn't look back.

I felt like I had to. The moment I looked back, I felt like I could never get out of the past again.

Then I walked out the door, and the body of the Emperor was waiting for me with my arms folded.

- What's a gangster?

“That's what you say when you talk about guys like you. ”

- That's a very positive word.

I shrugged.

After the Monkey King joined the crucible, the speed at which the Crucible broke has increased.

So he finally broke the 11th trial.

[Trial Completed.]

[Here comes the twelfth trial.]

[I've been invited to the Queen Eater's Dinner.]]

* * * * *

There was a commotion of 'Great Stars’ and a few more days passed.

“What is the cause? ”

“If the ‘veil’ has not been peeled off but there is once more such commotion · · · · ·. ”

“Has the ‘Great Star' already gained its will? If so, whose influence? ”

Busily, the blacks roam around the Great Star looking for a cause.

Looking at them, the "Duke" with the big golden crown swept his chin.

“Is Hresbelg not answering? ”

“I knocked on the door of the 'Wigdrasil’, but it didn't open. ”

He said in a tone that he felt sorry for a black man who had fallen prostrate in front of the duc.

The duc blubbered and grilled.

The Great Star has not yet been half-filled. Despite his recent improvements in hunting the Falcon and his pack, Doom is still lacking.

If it moves unfinished, the Great Star will crumble. If I do, I won't be able to make it. This plan to kill Needhog and attract the ‘true gods’ of nothingness required a ‘Great Star’.

The duc looks up at the great star.

“It's unstable. It's moving like it's attracted to something. ”

“Perhaps · · · · · · · who found the lost ‘body’? Soul and body pull each other. The capital · · · · · · · of the spirit of the 'he’ who became the mother of a great star has awakened. ”

“The flesh of Hercules? Arthur. It must be isolated somewhere in the dimension. And even if someone finds the body, there is no chance that he will wake up. ”

I only took the sacred. The spirit of Hercules is gone. Even if he were to seek the flesh, his soul could not awaken again.

“Then why? · · · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”

“Dammit, if I'd known that, I would have acted on it! ”

The duc lets out a loud roar.

He was also a stuffy one.

I had no idea what the Great Star was responding to.

“I can't help it. We need to start a war.”

“Daemon-Lord's war? ”

“We must complete the Great Star in a hurry. We don't want to be unstable. ”

“Are you going to push Doom? ”

“No. We are still ‘neutral’. What we need to do is expand the rift faster. In addition, let's open a full auction. ”

The final battlefield, Earth.

The only way to get there is fast.

To do that, you must sprinkle everything you have prepared. When the real war begins, we need to release the quantities we were trying to solve immediately.

But it's better than losing a great star.

Plus...

Cough.

Kuaaaaang!

Black lightning strikes across the abyss.

It is not a common lightning bolt.

‘Her dreams are changing. ’

Hresbelg loves her as much as his life, Latatosk. Everything happens and disappears from her dreams.

And that black lightning, it was a single piece of evidence to show that her psychology was changing.

Did someone intervene in her dream? But Hresbelg won't tolerate it. ’

Everything is falling apart.

The only thing is, if you don't move fast, you might miss out on all the times.

The duc bit his lip. They were not relaxed either.

* * * * *

The queen's crow was not what I had in mind.

I thought it would look as horrible as the other anglers, but the queen crow in front of me was creating a very mysterious atmosphere.

“Nice to meet you. Second time. ”

“A second meeting? ”

I got the impression. I've never seen a woman like her before.

The woman closes her eyes and wears the same clothes made of butterfly wings.

It was also big enough to reach the sky.

She answered my question with a quiet smile.

“My name is Kronos. It's the dawn of time. ”

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