Chapter 259
I Am the Holy Ruler
{You cannot… No, you should not be here.}
Arthur sighed calmly, a faint, mocking smile appearing on his face.
{I have heard that a thousand times, and I agree with you.}
{But what can we do? Here I am.}
{So… let us end this whole matter, don't you agree?}
The giant stone statue began grinding its teeth together with terrifying force as it stared at Arthur with a gaze filled with pure rage.
Then it raised its head and let out a roar with absolute might.
The scream was like a hurricane.
Every human in the area fell to the ground, bleeding in pain, their eardrums shattered by the sheer force of the sound.
Except one…
Arthur.
He remained standing in place, as steady as a mountain that knew no collapse.
He looked at the giant with contempt and said calmly:
{You call that a scream?}
Then he turned behind him and quickly said firmly:
"Cover your ears immediately!"
He turned his gaze back to the statue, a smile of murderous ecstasy appearing on his lips.
He raised his head.
He calmly opened his mouth…
Then screamed.
His scream was different.
A pure, destructive sound, as though it were the roar of a celestial being.
The sky shook.
The earth trembled.
And the sound waves transformed into an invisible flood that swept through the area.
The giant stone entity cracked apart completely, forced backward under the pressure of Arthur's scream.
{Now.}
Arthur stopped screaming and shot toward the giant like an arrow, raising his hand with the intention of delivering a killing blow—
But at that moment…
Three stone statues stood before him, blocking his path.
{Karang.}
Arthur spoke only his name.
"My king."
{Eradicate them.}
With the command, terrifying demonic energy exploded around Karang's body.
His aura pressed down with unbelievable force, and his true transformation began.
When Karang had previously fought alongside Arthur, he had entered a second, incomplete form, for he had still been weak…
He had only just been born.
But now—
There were no longer any restrictions.
A thunderous, suffocating aura flooded the area, as though announcing the birth of a catastrophe.
Karang's horns descended toward his eyes once again, but this time they were colored a dark blood-red.
His body turned a pale, dead color, while his hands became crimson red.
All of his facial features disappeared, leaving behind only a terrifying demonic shadow.
"My king… allow me."
{You have my permission.}
Arthur snapped his finger.
Nearly two hundred and fifty demonic soldiers appeared behind him.
"Now, army."
"Listen to my command… and eradicate the enemy."
Karang shouted as he raised his hands toward the world, and his soldiers answered with a roar that shook the heavens and earth.
They all charged toward the statues, with Karang at the forefront of the attack.
Arthur smiled excitedly and charged toward the giant statue as well.
With a single strike of his hand—
He slapped it across the face and smashed it into the ground with indescribable force.
Arthur looked back and saw his soldiers, led by Karang, destroying all the statues without the slightest resistance.
{This is your end, bastard.}
He raised his hand toward the sky, Soul Slayer in his grasp.
The sword howled.
It wailed with a spine-chilling sound, as though it were the screams of thousands of tormented souls.
{No… impossible…}
{You are not the King…}
{You will not do this…}
{You are not the King… you are not the King…}
The statue's body began to crumble as it screamed the same words without stopping.
"I am not the King… yes."
Arthur spoke in a low, calm voice as he looked at the fallen statue.
Then he smiled with murderous calmness.
{But… I am the Holy Ruler.}
{If you kill me… the System will disappear.}
Arthur froze in place for a moment.
He stared at the statue intently.
"So my suspicions were correct…"
"You have a System."
{I am the Architect of the System, you bastard!}
"Then…"
{If you kill me, the System will collapse and disappear,}
{and Sung will once again become a weak Hunter of the lowest rank,}
{trash just as he was before.}
Arthur looked at him coldly.
"No… what I mean is…"
"Do you think I care?"
{What?!}
"Yes, Sung is my friend."
"You could even consider him my brother."
"But killing you… means the salvation of the world to me."
"And even if his System disappears, he will not become weak."
{???}
"For two reasons."
"First, Sung said that he would drain the System."
"And Sung is a man who keeps his word."
"That means your authority over the System… no longer exists."
The Architect of the System tried to breach the System and modify it—
But to no avail.
What Arthur had said was correct.
The System had become entirely Sung's property.
"From the expression on your face… I can see that I was right."
"Second…"
"Even if the System disappeared and Sung returned to being weak…"
"Do you know who I am?"
{What nonsense are you spouting, human?}
Arthur slowly approached.
He bent down and whispered into the Architect of the System's ear in an extremely low voice…
No one else could hear him.
The statue froze.
{No… impossible…}
{Who are you?}
{Just… who are you?!}
"It doesn't matter."
"What matters is…"
Arthur raised his right hand and pressed the air with unbelievable force—
Then completely crushed the Architect of the System's head.
"Who am I?"
"Are you an idiot?"
"Didn't I tell you?"
"I am the Holy Ruler… Arthur Narin."
"Damn… why are enemies always this stupid?"
Arthur calmly sighed, then sat atop the stone corpse, quietly smoking as he looked at Sung, who was submerged in the dream.
Then he felt a purple dark energy surrounding Sung's body.
That power merged with the light within his heart.
"So… are you done sleeping, bastard?"
"Arthur… you're here?"
"Next time, when you go on a raid, tell your guild leader first, you blockhead."
Arthur scolded him in a playful tone.
Then he moved to help the rest of the Hunters affected by the battle.
Arthur and Sung looked back.
This was where their journey had begun.
This was where Sung had set out and reached everything he had achieved now.
And this was where Arthur's journey in this world had begun.
Arthur looked at the scattered stones everywhere—
The bodies of the statues that Karang had destroyed.
He smiled calmly.
Then everyone safely left the raid, without any casualties.
And all of that…
Was thanks to Arthur's intervention.
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