Overgeared

30,556—this was Grid’s remaining health value. It was fatal that Baal’s rising speed after using Blackening was directly related to his hit rate.

‘If I had been hit by the last counterattack, I would’ve immediately entered the immortality state.’

The power of Blackening, that he experienced for the first time in ages through someone else, was wonderful. It was difficult to temporarily adapt to the sharp rise in attack power and speed. He wanted to have it again.

‘It would’ve been really hard if I entered the immortal state.’

The real reason he was afraid of Baal after Blackening was used was that the health gauge was gone. The health marker had literally disappeared. This created more pressure than imagined. It was an unexpected change that could only be described as a fear that he had never experienced before. It was because he had no idea how much damage his attack did to the enemy. It confused his judgment in many ways. The end of the fight wasn’t possible without the enemy’s death, so the skill usage itself wasn’t smooth.

Therefore, he just used everything. He aimed for the timing when Braham drew attention with Meteor. He placed a mass of greed between the nine meteorites. The moment Baal was caught off guard, he swung the Falling Moon Sword.

First, he cut off both arms to weaken Baal’s defense. Then he swapped his weapon and poured out his ultimate skills. Due to that, he suffered a major rebound. Baal’s regeneration speed was faster than expected and Grid was hit by continuous counterattacks. If he hadn’t grabbed Baal’s neck with one hand, he would’ve been swept away from the shockwave, bounced far away, and missed the chance to win.

Yet somehow, he succeeded in taking Baal down. Grid confirmed that it was the correct judgment. If he had hesitated a bit and his immortality occurred before Baal died, he would’ve experienced unbearable chaos.

Could he keep fighting like this? Wouldn’t he die first? Wasn’t it better to fall back and start recovering? Etc, etc. It was highly likely he would’ve slowed down from all the questions, leading to defeat. The only reason was that he couldn’t see Baal’s health.

‘Is it Baal’s inherent power?’ Grid thought about it but soon came to the conclusion that this wasn’t the case. Baal couldn’t use his power. It was the limitation that led to him using Zik’s power, the original master of the body.

‘It makes sense to see it as a correction effect for all top-ranked beings.’

Beings who didn’t show their health from a certain phase or whose health wasn’t marked from the beginning...

It was different from the type of boss monster whose maximum health rose sharply and the figure was marked with a question mark. The gauge with question marks would return to its original form if the monster kept being hit, but there was no proper answer to the absence of the gauge itself. There was no way to know when it would die, so they could only fight to the death. The difficulty of combat was actually tens of times higher.

‘Well... I just need to be stronger.’

Let’s focus on this moment.

[The compensation is being settled.]

The achievement of killing Baal seemed to be great. He might’ve only killed the fragment of a particular ego, but the system didn’t easily give him compensation and was calculating it carefully. It felt chilly, unlike in the past where exclamation marks were displayed to express admiration and embarrassment. Still, this wasn’t surprising. The system had no personal feelings. It was normal to be businesslike.

“...Sigh.” Grid was briefly lost in thought as he looked at Zik’s body that was left behind by Baal. The wound on his face became dim as he restored his breathing. His vision returned to normal. Immediately, he leaped into the sky. Perhaps they didn’t know that Baal was dead or they simply didn’t believe it—eight of Barbatos’ subordinates were chasing after Kyle as he raced through the sky. Braham was unconscious in Kyle’s arms.

‘That person is truly...’

Braham had regained the power of a direct descendant. His species was now a complete vampire, a demonkin. Rather than recovering from the flames of the red phoenix released by Storm of the Fire God, he must’ve felt severe pain and fatigue. It was also after a few days on the battlefield, so it was clear that he wasn’t in perfect condition.

However, he was in a crisis due to helping Grid by searching for Barbatos in that state. It was a judgment that wasn’t like the Duke of Wisdom. Emotions preceded reason. Thanks to him, Grid was able to overpower Baal before his immortality occurred...

‘Don’t worry.’

“Hahat... Keok!”

he narrowed the distance to Kyle, a few of Barbatos’ subordinates, who were laughing, started screaming. It was because their neck, shoulders, arms, and legs

“Is this real?”

“Baal was killed?”

back, only to soon stop. They left afterimages as they

I see it, you are in

come here to die on

anywhere. If they

bad condition. His recovery speed in real time was fast,

think it is better to avoid them...” Kyle called out as he stood on the outside of those who surrounded Grid in an instant. His lowered eyes and quiet voice was polite and elegant. It seemed

deserves to aim for

could abide by the etiquette and prove his loyalty well, he could reign

doesn’t he want to

etiquette again. In the empire, he was still known as a haughty and overbearing person. The reason why his attitude became more polite in front of Grid was simply due to fear. He barely remembered the etiquette he had learned when serving the

overdo it...” Kyle raised his courage to speak while turning his attention to the palace where explosions were still ringing out. Mercedes and Asmophel gave a signal to flee while tying

me to run away with Braham? Leave

never

kill him, won’t my goal of participating in this

on his own. I’m happy, but I can’t believe it because it is

killing intent and greed. They saw Grid as their

should

as Kyle

by Grid and screamed unanimously. They stepped into the realm of artificial

from his position. The faces of Kyle and

he pretending to be

second ago. Kyle got goosebumps. He looked at Grid, who tested him even while postponing the crisis, and felt like Grid was the devil. If he had tricked

fine after killing

“What is this guy?!”

desperately without looking

difficult to deal with was that he showed the power to share the vision of his subordinates. Grid wanted to

Power Ejection Machine was to mix silver threads with the injected magic power. The silver threads were decomposed to particles and were preserved inside the ejection machine. It

silver threads as much as

the concentration of the silver threads were. Now even that had been sublimated into an advantage. It was thanks to the use of artificial sensations. The density of silver threads was very low. When mixed with magic power, it stretched tightly and spread out around Grid like a cobweb. In fact, it was close to pure magic power, so it couldn’t be caught by the hand. Thanks to this, it was difficult for others to realize they

was late, but Baal still

limit even more. As long as the linkage between magic power and the silver threads didn’t break, the magic power could expand as much as possible to completely erase the presence of the silver threads. If it stayed like it was, Baal would notice the artificial senses from the beginning

‘At the same time.’

expanded silver threads and shrink it as necessary to

Just like this.

“Ugh?!”

Grid was flustered. It was because his spear was caught by something invisible in the air. The face of the demon, who was pulled toward

‘What is this strength?’