Chapter 66

Seohan momentarily was lost for words but that was all .

The orc lord continued to move . If he wasted more time, it would only lead to more destruction .

That was why he had to make a decision .

If he was going to trust in the words of the dokkaebi in front of him and change his method of fighting .

His ego would take a hit but if they were to ask the ruler of the fire dokkaebis Arlo for cooperation, he might agree to it . However, to do this, he needed to be certain .

Was the orc lord really blind?

From his reaction, that certainly didn’t seem to be the case .

However… for some odd reason, he couldn’t just ignore this dokkaebi’s words .

There weren’t many dokkaebis who had such a large presence .

Duaxinis, who were evolved dokkaebis, were able to see the nature of a being .

They were able to differentiate between a truth and a lie to a certain degree .

‘I can’t see anything nor feel anything . Is he truly even a dokkaebi?’

However, he had never experienced someone like him before .

This guy’s nature was emptiness itself .

He was like a speck of dust that would come and disappear like the wind .

However, his presence couldn’t be compared to a speck of dust .

All the words he said seemed to be truths .

It was contradictory .

However, that was the truth .

“What’s your name?”

“Muyoung . ”

As expected, it was a name of a dokkaebi king he had never heard of .

Seohan started to move again .

He breathed heavily as his whole body moved up and down .

If that dokkaebi was telling the truth, he would be greatly recognized for his actions, while if he wasn’t, he would suffer hell for deceiving him .

“That name, I’ll remember it . ”

“You don’t have to remember it . ”

“…?”

Seohan’s eyes stiffened .

For him to remember an ice dokkaebi’s name was like infinite honor .

He was the ruler of ice dokkaebis and was a warchief currently competing for the ‘Oom’ position .

However, Muyoung spoke indifferently as if didn’t care about such things .

“From now on, I will let you know through Gaon . ”

Then, without any hesitation, he turned his back .

‘What kind of dokkaebi is he…’

He was simply being disrespectful .

From what he could remember, he was never treated this way even from the fire dokkaebis he wasn’t on good terms with .

What was more, he never thought he could experience this kind of feeling from the same type of dokkaebi .

He could feel that the dokkaebi didn’t want to be exposed .

Seohan was a bit taken back by his attitude but he clicked his tongue and shook his head .

There wasn’t enough time .

Swaaaaaaaahh .

A long spear made of ice formed above Seohan’s right hand .

‘Side . The side you say . ’

Thump!

Seohan stomped on the ground and quickly attacked the side of orc lord .

From afar, Muyoung watched the head of the orc lord soar .

The ruler of ice dokkaebis, Seohan .

Fortunately, the one to finish it off was him . He had at least saved face .

“Seohan! Seohan! Seohan!”

“A-oom! A-hoom! A-oom! A-hoom!”

The ice dokkaebis were celebrating .

The process didn’t matter, only the outcome was everything in this world .

Orc lord’s neck was slain by Seohan and it was safe to say that most of the credit belonged to Seohan .

‘It’s not the time yet to step out onto the frontlines . ’

From a step back, Muyoung observed them .

As they passed the 20th wave, there shouldn’t be any major obstacles for at least a few more waves .

And Muyoung still had more things to do .

When he decides to join the frontlines, he needed to give up this gold mine .

Even more, there was a chance for Hedley’s Kow to become suspicious of Muyoung .

Even the advice he gave Seohan was done with a bit of risk .

Currently, he didn’t give any room for doubts but if this happened continuously, it could become harmful .

‘5 candidates . ’

Of course, Muyoung wasn’t just making undead and specters .

He searched for Hedley’s Kow with his keen eyes .

And from the fire dokkaebis, he found five who were the most suspicious .

One of the candidates was a dokkaebi king who recently joined and didn’t have a tribe like Muyoung and acted differently from normal dokkaebis .

To be exact, he figured this out by carefully observing the ruler of the fire dokkaebis, Arlo but if Hedley’s Kow was here, it had to be one of those dokkaebis . Muyoung thought so himself .

“Muyoung! Listen . Seohan said that he appreciates my service . It’s probably because I fought so well on the frontlines . ”

Gaon approached Muyoung as the excitement slowly died off .

It was to boast .

“Congrats . ”

Muyoung mindlessly congratulated him .

It wasn’t bad to converse with him as he would be the one who would pass on the messages to Seohan .

As Muyoung replied, Gaon nodded his head and held his nose in the air .

“Muyoung, if you fight on the frontlines, you can also earn this kind of honor . ”

“I don’t have any greed in that sort of thing . ”

“Tsk tsk . You can only say that because you came from the remote region and don’t know the greatness of Seohan . If you continue to watch Seohan, you will naturally gain respect for him . ”

He was Seohan’s fan through and through .

It seemed like Seohan realized how Muyoung didn’t want to be noticed and took measures like this .

It was good that he was quick-witted .

Muyoung stopped paying attention to Gaon .

‘2,000 specters were made . ’

It was a steep pace . He had already made over 500 undead .

Normally, he didn’t really enjoy increasing his numbers like this .

A truly strong person could do the work of a few thousand and even a few ten thousand . It meant that it was much more effective to concentrate on just one .

However, Muyoung had the ‘Wicked Belt’ that strengthened every undead and this Endless Battlefield was a place where he could only fight with the numbers he had .

If he was to use the dead once more, then his military strength would double .

Of course, it wouldn’t be simple as his calculations but either way, he believed it wasn’t bad to focus on quantity as these situations were very rare .

‘I could probably dominate over half of Asura Path . ’

Murloc king Murdudun was leading 2,000 specters and was trying to conquer Asura Path .

Conquest rate 22%!

And every time the conquest rate increased, something changed inside Muyoung .

He couldn’t be certain what that was but he felt like he would know when it reached a certain point .

“Honestly, think about it . It would be too late to regret it when Seohan gets the Oom’s position, Muyoung . ”

As Muyoung didn’t show much interest, Gaon gave him a small advice before he leaving .

It was because the next wave had started .

‘It’s not too late to move after I become certain who the Hedley’s Kow is . ’

The moment he joined the frontlines, his opportunity to look around would disappear .

Muyoung quietly watched the 5 candidates as he moved .

The situation changed .

To be exact, you could say Seohan accepted Muyoung’s advice .

After cutting off the orc lord’s head, Seohan’s influence became stronger and due to this, he was able to leave a monster alive to delay the start of the next wave .

The fire dokkaebis ground their teeth .

However, the difference between them shortened as time passed .

Seohan was getting exhausted and on the other hand, Arlo wasn’t .

‘The rate of contribution . ’

Both duaxinis only cared about the rate of contribution .

The one with the higher rate of contribution would be able to take the position of Oom .

With that in mind, Muyoung’s current rate of contribution was very close to 0% .

‘The rate of contribution is meaningless in the lower waves . ’

However, Muyoung didn’t care .

There were cases where one large contribution in a higher level was better than contributions for 10 low levels .

Therefore, it was time to grow his strength and wait for an opportunity for now .

And when they were faced with the 25th wave, a small change occurred for Muyoung .

As he got closer to 50%, the shape of his pupils changed as they became redder .

At first, he didn’t know .

However, he happened to look at his reflection through a sword of one of the corpses and saw this change .

That he was changing .

And that Asura Path was in the center of that change .

Then, Murdudun’s soul popped out from inside Muyoung’s body .

Unlike before, he was wearing a long golden armor and a helmet .

-Even though I’m almighty, there is a limit in conquering with these lousy specters . To win against the one with two horns, there is no answer by just increasing the numbers!

“Who is the one with two horns?”

-He’s the one who reigns Asura Path . He has a similar appearance to you but slightly different . He is stronger than you and darker . For some reason, he is currently sealed but he’s been reacting as I’ve continued to conquer .

Muyoung knitted his brows .

The one that reigned over Asura Path had the same appearance as him .

The fact that he had two horns was different but he was sealed .

“Then you can’t conquer any further?”

However, he was about to hit 50% .

Muyoung’s instincts cried out . That if he was to fill the rest of the 2%, a real change will occur .

Murdudun pondered for a moment before he shook his head .

-I think a bit more is possible . However, you shouldn’t be greedy . There is a chance you will lose even the parts I’ve conquered when that guy awakens . Now, we need stronger specters than to increase in numbers .

Murdudun was clear on what he wanted to say .

That even if he was to increase the number of dokkaebi specters, they had reached their limit .

Muyoung was convinced .

And…

The world flipped around .

The position of the dead and the living had changed .

The living didn’t care but the dead were all looking at Muyoung .

The ones who were here from the past .

Not just dokkaebis but he could even see the preexisting dead souls .

There were also duaxinis like Seohan and Arlo .

Ancestors . The ones who died here without being able to become the Oom .

‘So it was like this . ’

The Eye of Asura looked at the world of the dead .

It allowed him to stand on the boundary .

However, the strong existences above duaxinis ignored Muyoung .

‘It seems like it’s because my specter creating ability is low . ’

If he could collect the preexisting souls, he no longer had a reason to collect the dokkaebis .

However, to take control of all these existences, he needed a stronger specter creating ability .

If he could control strong spirits, he could add them to Asura Path and use them for many things as well .

For instance… Muyoung held a minotaur’s soul in one hand .

Like this .

‘Only one is possible right now . ’

He couldn’t overlap multiple spirits . However, there was definite room for improvement .

Muyoung smiled in satisfaction .

As expected, this place was a gold mine for Muyoung .

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Thump! Thump!

The dokkaebis could only be petrified by the appearance of the green giants .

Coming this far, about half of the dokkaebis had died . But, the mood wasn’t bad .

However, the tension doubled when the ogres appeared .

Ogres were high-rank monsters .

They were a bit below the fire tars but when simply looking at their destructiveness, they were above the fire tars .

They were the worst enemies for the dokkaebis .

It was the same for duaxinis .

Seohan was completely exhausted and Arlo was at his limit fighting just one or two ogres .

Even if they were to push with their numbers, they couldn’t hold back all 30 ogres .

“Kwaaah!”

“Aaaaaack!”

Thump! Crash!

Few tens of dokkabis’ lives died every time the ogres moved .

They showed that much overwhelming power .

All the dokkaebis clenched their teeth .

It was the same for Seohan .

Seohan’s entire body was covered in blood . He was barely able to hold back an ogre but he didn’t know how long he would last .

‘If it’s like this…’

Seohan made a hopeless expression as he pushed his disjointed shoulder back into the socket .

If he died now, contributions and everything became meaningless .

Just like that, the ruler of the fire dokkaebis, Arlo would win .

“Move . ”

It was when Seohan was getting ready to fight back .

Before he realized, Muyoung stood beside him .

However, Seohan couldn’t treat Muyoung as he did in the past .

‘What the?’

Seohan’s eyes widened .

Behind Muyoung, few thousands of black specters showed their faces .

It was like a dark storm .