Chapter 92

The door opened and energy began to spill through the crack.

Man Ma Jung.

The first door was open.

The blood that flowed from his severed hand turned black and vicious.

His skin melted downward.

From his chest to his throat, and moving to his shoulders, arms and legs, his entire body melted away, replaced by mucus.

— What is this…

Kang Hyun frowned as he watched this eerie scene.

There was a bad feeling in his throat and the thought came to him that something was going wrong. Very wrong.

‘What’s going on?’

The mucus began to form a body. Now Kang Yu looked many times scarier than Kang Hyun who’d turned into a demon.

‘How is this even possible…’

There was only one way out of this situation.

Clenching his fists, the demon caught his breath and concentrated Magi into his palms.

He created a new glove.

Once complete, he stamped his foot and sent his huge body flying towards Kang Yu.

— Ha!

His fist, coming into contact with Kang Yu’s jelly-like form, formed a large hole through his body.

Baek Kang Hyun laughed.

— Hahaha! Nothing has changed! You’re still just as easy to attack.

With just one blow, he’d practically destroyed half the man’s body.

Now, unlike the moment when Kang Yu had tried to attack him with a spear, the guy was much easier to hit.

— Hey? React somehow! — Kang Hyun yelled, a growing anxiety swelling in his chest.

— Ka… Kang Yu! — Echidna, seeing the hole in his chest, turned pale and wanted to rush to his side.

But the master’s order did not allow her to budge.

The girl bit her lip and continued to watch helplessly.

— A…h? — Her eyes widened.

Something unexpected happened.

The large hole in the guy’s chest began to close, absorbing Kang Hyun’s fist. From the black substance, something began to appear.

‘A mouth?’

A mouth with snow-white fangs appeared.

And the mouth was not alone. Dozens, hundreds of mouths with fangs began to appear all over his body.

— What in the… a-ah!

Before he could finish, an agonizing cry escaped from his lips.

The numerous mouths with sharp teeth tore off a piece of his flesh the size of several fingers from his hand.

Comparing the wound to the rest of his body, the bite was completely unnoticeable. But with more of these bites, then everything would change.

The sharp fangs, digging into the hand, easily cut through the man’s flesh and skin, tearing it in pieces.

Baek Kang Hyun hastily tried to pull his hand out of Kang Yu’s chest, but to no avail.

He shifted to concentrating Magi in his other fist and swung at the guy.

However, the same thing happened again, and his second fist was pulled into Kang Yu’s body.

The mucus, formed, flew to his eyes.

— No… Can’t… ah…ah!

When the mucus touched Kang Hyun’s face, a mouth appeared on it and bit into his eye. He screamed, his vision going white as the intense pain drove him to insanity.

— Wha… what is this?!

He’d never heard of anything like it. He could never have imagined such a thing.

Monster? Demon?

He did not know the word to describe the creature before him.

Fear of the unknown began to envelop his consciousness.

Kang Hyun kicked at the ground in anger.

— Do you think that I, Baek Kang Hyun, will lose to such a monster?

His body was shaking.

He tried to pull his fist out sharply, but it was useless. Kang Hyun made every effort yet with no success. His hands were only drawn in deeper and deeper.

The mucus continued to nibble at his flesh, carrying it to Kang Yu’s severed hand.

Focusing, he concentrated all the Magi in one place.

— Ergh… hah!

Gathering all the energy to his limbs stuck in Kang Yu’s body, he made the Magi explode.

From the shockwave, nearby sculptures flew to the sides and cars easily flew back.

Even so…

— A…a-a-ah…

It did not help him get out of the matter devouring him.

No, on the contrary: the black flesh, as if absorbing the energy, began to devour it with even greater greed.

As a result, black mucus wrapped around more of his body, and Kang Hyun’s face turned pale.

— No… no…

He saw more white fangs appearing. Now there were not hundreds, but thousands of such mouths.

All attempts at liberation were futile.

It was as if he was drowning in the depths of the ocean, trying to fight the water.

And so the mucus finally covered his entire body, devouring him from all sides. It was like being in a lake full of piranhas.

‘What’s going on?’ The question rang out in his head.

It was the voice belonging to the demon he’d summoned into his body.

— Sa… save me.

‘Are you asking me for help? What happened…’

Kang Hyun merged his consciousness with the demon’s.

Of course, by doing this, there was a higher probability of losing control over his body, but in this situation, there was simply no other way.

‘Ah-a-ahhh!’

However, nothing has changed.

Becoming one with Kang Hyun, the demon roared at the top of his lungs, his scream filling Kang Hyun’s head.

The demon, now seeing what was happening through the guy’s eyes, desperately wailed:

‘Why? Why did you contact this monster?!’

— Did you just call him a monster?

‘Oh, you fool… Idiot! I’d rather fight with the great demons: Satan or Baal!’

A cry filled with genuine despair.

He was discouraged by the agitated, terrified wails of the demon.

— What are you talking about now? How can he compare to the Seven Great Demons?

‘The Seven Demons? Compare, you say? Wake UP, man!’The demon shouted. ‘They’re long dead! Destroyed by the very monster in front of you!’

— What…?

‘He is the greatest demon, the Devourer! Stupid, how could you not know this?’

Kang Hyun began to feel the demon’s fear from their merged connection.

‘He is none other than the Devil himself!’A heartbreaking cry burst out.

Kang Hyun still didn’t understand what the demon was talking about.

The Devil.

The ruler of the Ninth Thousandth Circle of Hell.

Why would such a being be here on Earth?

‘It can’t be.’

It just doesn’t make sense.

The countless lacerations lost sensitivity, and Kang Hyun stopped feeling any pain.

All he had now was a small amount of flesh and remnants of a clouded consciousness.

The black mucus pulled together again, returning to Kang Yu and again forming something from it.

A huge mouth, able to gobble up the remains of Kang Hyun in one go, immediately swung open.

Sharp, big fangs dug into what was left of the monster, together with a sound that could scare anyone, and the mouth absorbed Baek Kang Hyun.

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