LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 254
Chapter
“Feel what ‘sh*t’ is, will you?”
At those words, the Lords of Hell felt an inexplicable chill.
They could sense an air of ‘sincerity’ from his voice and demeanor.
“You seem to be under a big misconception.”
At that moment, Edgar said something ominous.
They were under a misconception?
As the Grand Dukes glared at Edgar with tense faces, he continued.
“You thought you could lure me out by poisoning the water you fools? Thinking that killing me outside the barrier would solve everything?”
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“But, no? That’s wrong. I simply came out prepared. Ready to annihilate you. It wasn’t you who called me here; I’ve come packed with all the preparation to smash you down.”
At Edgar’s provocation, Nergal transformed into Behemoth and growled.
Karaan’s flames roared fiercely, and Izazel’s sinister magic began to rise.
The leader of the Grand Dukes, Melfirn, clenched his right hand into a sword and declared,
【”You’re just posturing at thirteen. Those meaningless words won’t change anything.”】
Melfirn said, glancing at Izazel.
His body was gradually recovering.
Once Izazel fully healed, they would overwhelm the enemy four against one and seal him.
“Heh. Posturing?”
At that moment, Edgar’s Doom Buster shrugged his shoulders.
Then he killed time, preparing to deliver his next line.
In truth, Edgar needed time to recover, having taken quite a significant hit from Melfirn’s spear.
In other words, both were in a state of ‘oh sh*t, I got hit. Time out.’
“After burning hundreds of rounds for this day, I’m posturing?”
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However, Edgar wasn’t merely buying time with empty words.
He had truly prepared a lot for this day.
He wanted to showcase just a bit of how hard he had worked like a dog for this day.
-Paah!
Thus, Edgar summoned a hologram before the eyes of the Grand Dukes.
Melfirn checked Izazel’s condition.
He still needed more time to recover.
Edgar opened his mouth.
“Fundamentally, I’m an engineer. I’m also a scientist and a spellcaster. I’ve never shied away from any experiment to explain the phenomena of this world.”
In a way, Edgar could be called a true mad scientist.
That was to say, unable to accept mana, he solved the issue by dissecting a Blue Dragon to examine its organs.
Moreover, he developed phosphorus projectiles to repel the demonic invasions.
He even developed nuclear weapons to completely destroy Lilith’s army.
Edgar Fix was a mad scientist who would abandon any sense of ethics if it meant preventing the destruction of this world.
“So recently, I’ve begun experimenting with your temper, because all the minions spawned from you use ‘magic.'”
Thus, Edgar had conducted all sorts of experiments to understand the weaknesses of demons.
Until now, he had refrained from making any disclosures to protect his image, but he could brief the Lords of Hell anytime.
About the ‘sh*t testing’ he had conducted.
-Paah!
And just like that, the hologram transitioned to the next scene.
And that scene was something that would stagger even the Lords of Hell.
Various demons and monsters were being subjected to horrific torture as they became Edgar’s test subjects.
“Yeah, I really screwed the pooch.”
The mystery of the human body. No, the mystery of the monstrous body unfolded before the Grand Dukes.
The demons were subjected to all sorts of experiments, letting out desperate screams.
It was a cruel experiment designed to find out the weaknesses of demons and effectively kill them.
【This demon bastard…】
It was horrifying.
Just describing the hellscape before him was enough to make one feel nauseous; the intensity of the experiments was unimaginably brutal.
Edgar twisted his lips into a smirk.
“Thanks to that, I’ve figured it out. Your weakness.”
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“Magic. If I cut off your source of power, the magic you rely on, you demons will be nothing.”
In this world, humans used ‘mana,’ while demons used ‘magic.’
And just as mana was the source of all spells, magic was the source of all sorcery employed by demons.
In other words, if one could cut off magic, the combat power of demons would plummet.
【That’s impossible.】
However, mana resides in the atmosphere.
Edgar Fix’s words were akin to claiming he would manipulate the air at will.
“Is that so?”
Yet, ‘magic’ was different.
Magic is a substance born from polluted mana, reprocessed in special organ systems of demons that is exuded throughout their bodies.
So if one could merely understand how mana flows into magic, it could be exploited in reverse.
“I thought so too. It would have been impossible without Charlotte’s help.”
Charlotte, the eldest daughter of the Verdian family, born with the unique trait of ‘Natural Creation.’
With Charlotte’s assistance, Edgar was able to unravel the principles of magic.
Charlotte had now become the master of the polluted forest, having made a pact with the corrupted World Tree, allowing her to command the Forest of Death at will.
Thus, the joint efforts of chemistry and engineering led to the miraculous phenomenon known as ‘magic reflux.’
As Edgar finished explaining up to that point, the expressions on the Grand Dukes’ faces resembled those of scared children.
It was an unfamiliar feeling for them.
The sensation of ‘fear.’
-Kiing…
And just like that, the chemicals for the manifestation of ‘magic reflux’ began to set on the arms of the Doom Buster.
By then, Izazel’s body had completely healed, but the Lords of Hell, including Melfirn, could not smile.
They realized they too would not emerge from this battle unscathed.
【Hado-yun.】
At that moment, Melfirn lowered his sword and called Edgar’s true name.
With a distant gaze, he spoke.
【Why are you going this far?】
“······.”
【You were our father. You granted us the power of creation when all we instinctively spread was death.】
“······.”
【Thanks to you, we could become who we are. The desires that clashed incessantly gained flesh, allowing us to take our current forms.】
“······.”
【Didn’t you rejoice when you found bodies for us? I still can’t forget the joy of those days! The days when the land and blue sky emerged, when life sparked in the great nature, and the glorious days when we built civilizations upon it!】
Edgar bitterly curved his lips upwards.
He too had enjoyed those times.
Back then, the Grand Dukes were not twisted demons but beautiful humans.
The fallen Empire of the Continent was also an ideal nation that Edgar and the Grand Dukes had together established.
【We trusted you. We truly believed in you; that’s why we shared our powers with you and your friends. But you betrayed us.】
Edgar quietly closed his eyes.
He recalled the past they referred to as ‘betrayal.’
“No. That was not betrayal.”
But Edgar had never betrayed them.
He had only wanted to protect his world.
“I merely prevented you from running amok. It was just me guiding you onto the right path like always. You were the ones who rejected my teachings.”
The Lords of Hell had once followed Edgar like a father.
However, before they were the Six Demon Lords of the Six Thrones, they were the six saints ruling the old empire, and prior to that, they had been energy forms filled with destruction.
And that energy form had, for some unknown reason, eventually inhabited the server run by Edgar and his team.
Edgar recalled that time.
-What the hell is this…?
Edgar, who was the director of the largest AI research institute in the country at that time.
However, he could only be surprised by the sudden phenomenon.
Having just turned off the lights in the lab at the end of the day, dozens of monitors lit up on their own, and the mouse wheel spun wildly as various programs executed and shut down chaotically.
-What the hell is this…?
Edgar hastily sat down at one of the computers.
He checked to see if the computer was turned on.
To his disbelief, the computer wasn’t even powered on.
Yet, the monitors lit up spontaneously, causing a bizarre phenomenon where the mouse wheel spun chaotically.
-Paah!
Then, finally, a notepad opened.
And it began spitting out garbled text like ‘쨣꿇Eifg%&^#@랃ㄱ러럇긓^&.’
The speed was so fast that Edgar felt a chill run down his spine.
What was more chilling was that the same phenomenon was occurring on dozens of monitors.
-Flashing!
But at that moment, all the monitors in the research lab turned off and on simultaneously, and this time, Korean was typed.
And on the notepad displayed on dozens of monitors, the same word was repeated relentlessly.
[Let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out let me out]