Chapter 225
I smiled with satisfaction at Amy’s loyalty, showing my superiority even as Yu Eunha.
“Hehe. How lovely. Yes. That’s how you should be.”
“There is no way someone like you would do anything bad to Lady Baekhwa.”
Oh, what a good girl.
This is a good NTL.
I’m really curious how Jill will react later.
I sent the video, but if she really has a netorase fetish, that woman will just stay still.
“Well, if you do tell, I plan to never see you again.”
“I will never tell.”
At my words, she shook her head as if she absolutely hated that idea.
“Right. That’s all I need.”
I stroked Amy’s head.
“The problem now is eliminating the one who dyed this world in demonic energy and escaping from this world. But will it be possible?”
Hmm, right. That’s the goal.
Well, that won’t be a problem. I already have a method prepared.
As I glance around, it’s still completely covered in demonic energy.
Even if it went down just a little, an ordinary person would be poisoned by the demonic energy and die.
“Nothing is impossible for your god.”
“Pardon?”
“Now, watch.”
I pulled out my tail and slammed it into the ground.
The demonic energy of this world is deeply polluting the earth.
And with all my might, I gathered the surrounding demonic energy.
Rumble.
“Are you gathering all the demonic energy with your tail?”
I am swallowing the demonic energy of this world through my tail.
Yum yum!
“To a god, demonic energy is no different from energy.”
“But what if something goes wrong with your body…”
There is no such thing as something going wrong for Yongyong-i.
Rather, this demonic energy is something I’ve kept since long ago. I’m just getting it back.
This world isn’t even connected to another world that has demonic energy, yet my demonic energy has swollen to a strange degree.
Once I harvest all this demonic energy, the entity that spread my demonic energy will be revealed.
The entity that multiplied my demonic energy so much was probably born from my demonic energy.
I just need to catch it.
“Huh? Yu Eunha, you.”
“What is it?”
“You look like you’ve gotten prettier…”
Mari stared at me intently.
Seeing her smirk while looking me up and down, I think it would be better to do my establishing hierarchy again.
But what did she just say? I’ve gotten prettier?
“Are you saying I wasn’t pretty before?”
I’m disappointed.
“No, not that, it just feels like there’s a big difference in your aura.”
My aura definitely has… I can feel it myself, too.
“Oho.”
“Actually, it looks like your breasts have gotten a bit bigger too.”
There definitely seems to be a bit more voluNation.
“Oh, now that you mention it.”
“Maybe Virgin Mutants get prettier the more demonic energy they consume?”
Since it’s official dragon lore, isn’t there a possibility of that?
“Uh, Lady Baekhwa, there’s something strange flying over there!”
Amy looked at the sky with an anxious expression.
“What’s wrong?”
“Kkyaaaaah!”
A scream echoed from the sky.
“Lady Baekhwa. It’s a giant dragon!”
“Huh? Oh?”
In the direction Amy pointed, something giant could be seen.
A giant thing was floating buoyantly in the sky.
The bastard flying in that sky made eye contact with me.
I know about that entity.
“That is.”
To think I would see that here.
As for who that is.
“A. Aži Dahaka. Why is Aži Dahaka here?”
Mari answered instead, so there’s no need for me to explain.
Right. That is Aži Dahaka. The Evil Dragon, Aži Dahaka.
It’s a dragon the size of several buildings.
Its body isn’t exactly thick for an Evil Dragon, but even if it doesn’t look like much, as the saying goes, the smallest peppers are often the spiciest.
It is capable of transformation into a human, and Aži Dahaka’s flames spew hellfire that burns anything and everything.
And it corrupts people, so, seducing and devouring them in the form of a human.
Yes, it’s me from my glory days.
Mari was trembling, and Elise also had an anxious expression.
Mari probably hadn’t seen it in person. But at Elise’s soul, she would have seen the past nation directly.
“Elise Mama. Are you scared?”
“With the dragon that dyed the whole world in blood along with the Great Cataclysm right in front of my eyes, o-of course I’m scared. Even for me, something like that is…”
This is the first time I’ve seen her show such weakness since she became a mutant.
Even in the war, Elise had always led the mutants splendidly.
If someone like her is astonished and terrified, it shows just how I used to be.
So I need to show her the nation of today.
“No, are you scared of me?”
“Huh?”
It wasn’t just Elise. I had to ask Mari too.
“What about you, Mari? Are you scared of me?”
“N-No.”
Right. That’s enough. Then what about Amy?
“Amy?”
“A-No. Why would I be scared of Lady Baekhwa…”
In Amy’s case, she doesn’t seem to know what the situation is, though she seems to know Aži Dahaka.
First, I need to do something about the frightened Mari and Elise.
“Then what are you so scared of? Aži Dahaka is me.”
“”Ah.””
Mari and Elise showed surprised reactions, as if they had momentarily forgotten.
They also know about my existence.
“Uh. Then.”
Which idiots say that thing is a fake.
How dare a mere knockoff threaten my heroines?
“That’s a fake. It’s obvious that the demonic energy merged into one here and took the shape of Aži Dahaka, which you could call the past nation.”
“But why is something like that here? This isn’t even earth?”
I suppose it’s better to tell them this much too.
“Actually, the one who destroyed this place was the past nation.”
“Ah.”
The Pet/Bitches are repeatedly surprised by new facts!
Yes. That’s exactly it. Yongyong-i is a rare romantic who knows how to surprise her heroines at any time.
“Don’t misunderstand. Unlike earth, this place had no choice but to be destroyed. The ancients of this world tried to encroach upon the gods.”
“Encroach upon the gods?”
“You know the Akashic Record I use often? It was made here, the thing that contains all the knowledge of the world.”
At my words, the heroines and Amy made curious expressions.
“I’m purely curious, but is that a reason for this world to be destroyed? It’s just knowledge gathered in one place, isn’t it?”
Right. At first glance, it would seem so.
The problem is that it’s not just a collection of the ancients' knowledge, like the Library of Alexandria which is said to have contained all of humanity’s knowledge, but an object created with the ancients' knowledge that knows everything about the future and the past.
“It’s not just an encyclopedia with an AI that they made by gathering knowledge; the ancients themselves created a power that could access unknown entities, the very root. That is the Akashic Record.”
That was what the Akashic Record had said.
“In other words, they could find out knowledge they didn’t even know about.”
“How do you make something like that?”
At Mari’s question, I shrugged.
I don’t know that either.
That’s why it’s dangerous. The skill of the ancients is simply terrifying.
“That’s why it was dangerous. Of course, I couldn’t be certain the ancients would abuse it, but there’s no telling what bastards consumed by a thirst for knowledge might do.”
I really don’t know what the principle behind it is.
Since the old days, bastards with quick brains were always bound to go crazy.
It’s probably no different from a crazy artifact made by crazy bastards.
It’s a good thing I took possession of it. The ancients might have made something even more dangerous.
“As long as they are human, there might be villains who try to commit evil with it.”
“Right. You can’t just view the ancients as purely good.”
Hmm, now that I think about it like that.
It’s a preemptive war. A preemptive war.
“Then in other words, strictly speaking, the reason this situation happened in this world is…”
“Hmm. You could say it’s my fault.”
“Eek.”
“Why are you looking at me like that? It’s a world I wiped out before that thing even appeared anyway, so the dead kids turning into monsters is entirely the fault of the demonic energy, not my fault.”
“Ah. Yeah, r-right.”
Right. Right. Anyway, it’s not my fault. Yep.
“Then what do we do about that? Are you saying it’s a part of Lady Baekhwa?”
“Oh. You remain so calm even after knowing I am Aži Dahaka.”
Is it her adaptability? Even so, it’s Aži Dahaka. How can she be this calm?
“Because I have decided to dedicate everything to Lady Baekhwa.”
I like this kind of fanatical personality.
“Right. That attitude is good. Well, you’re partly right. If we merge… I might get quite a bit stronger.”
Or it could be the opposite.
For example, that is the demonic energy from my evil days.
If I absorb all of it, I might change.
I wonder if there’s even a need to absorb it. However, if I just leave that mighty demonic energy alone or let it explode, it could affect earth too.
“Can’t you just get rid of it?”
Hmm, I can’t do that. It’s dangerous.
“That’s difficult. If I get rid of it the wrong way, it might directly affect earth.”
Perhaps a second Great Cataclysm might occur.
Even now, I am continuously absorbing demonic energy.
Every time I absorb it, I can feel the condition of my body changing.
It feels like Yongyong-i is in the middle of transcending humanity.
I’m already not a human, but that’s what it feels like.
“Kkyaaaaah!”
“Let’s absorb all the demonic energy first.”
Dealing with that thing continues next.
No, wait. Or is that bastard releasing this demonic energy, so it can stop me?
That would make sense.
“Wait, it’s coming this way?”
It seems my guess is correct.
“Amy, hide. I’ll deal with it.”
This demonic energy is also a part of that thing. To swallow it all completely, I have to deal with that fake.
I spread my tail and flew up high.
When I saw it up close, its intimidating presence was truly no joke.
Perhaps because it’s demonic energy, it’s a black mass, but as expected, my appearance in dragon state is also a truly attractively shaped body.
This is as expected of the nation from my glory days.
Still, as long as it’s a mass of demonic energy, it’s a fake.
“Kkyeeeeek!”
“I spoke even in my dragon state!”
I slapped the fake across the cheek.
Smack! Craaash!
The fake flew in a parabola, then smashed into the ground, scattering demonic energy.
“Kkyyaaaaaaah!”
I tried to absorb it, but man, this thing is way too big.
Like I said earlier, using purification on it as is seems dangerous.
Is this not enough? It would be better to beat it up a bit more and slowly swallow it when it gets weaker, right?
“Shall I beat you up a bit more?”
Like the time I crushed Gluttony. I compressed my white flames and fired a beam.
Booooom!
The bastard, who was getting up, was hit by the White Flame Beam and smashed right back into the ground.
“Kkyaaaaaaah!”
Phew. Look at that vulgar scream.
At the very least, I don’t scream like that.
“I don’t scream like that.”
What an idiot. If you can’t imitate me, at least let out a cooler scream.
Like a moan, for instance.
You know, the cry of a female? Of course, I’m not a bestiality pervert, so even if the fake did that, I wouldn’t get turned on.
“Kkyyaaaaah!”
“Ugh. It’s really deafening.”
As expected, is its durability tough?
It’s tougher than that skeleton.
Then again, since this bastard created that skeleton, it’s only natural.
“Kkeuhaaaaaaah!”
“Why is its voice gradually changing to sound like a human?”
Right. As if it has a Phase 2.