Ranker's Return

Chapter 722

Hyeonu, John Blake, and Lebron hadn’t planned this in advance. Yet together, the three of them moved to prevent the three demon kings from escaping. It was because each of them had a purpose.

‘I need to move now so I can stick a spoon in it.’ Hyeonu’s goal was solely the rewards of the demon kings. No matter whether it was experience, items, or skills, he just had to get something.

‘I need to get Alexander back to the imperial palace quickly.’ Lebron couldn’t help thinking about what he promised the emperor. It was Lebron who would be bothered if he missed taking out the demon kings. The emperor had to return to the middle world quickly in order for his plan to be put into motion.

‘They are all future troubles.’ For John Blake, each demon king was a nuisance.

It wasn’t originally the case, but they knew the whole backstory of the war now, so it would definitely be troublesome. These demon kings were those who would bite him later. Therefore, he had to borrow the emperor’s hand to deal with them. The three people with different purposes gathered to block the demon kings.

“We won’t have to kill them. There is no need to lose power. There is no need to act as long as they don’t run away,” John Blake said to Hyeonu and Lebron.

There was no need to actively battle the demon kings. Their purpose was to bind the demon kings until the emperor killed Baler.

“What?!”

“Run away? Who is running away? Are you making fun of me?”

“Do you think that human beings can block our way?”

However, this came as a clear disregard to the demon kings. If there was no sign of running away, the three humans were not to fight. John Blake’s words were clearly based on the idea that he could beat the demon kings.

“Have you already forgotten how Rubolle died? You aren’t demon kings. You are demonic creatures passing by...” John Blake just smiled at the roar of the demon kings.

A threat could only be accepted as a threat when he felt threatened. It was just like a grown-up adult didn’t feel there was mortal danger just because a puppy barked at a passing dog. They were just like this for John Blake. Without the assistance of the magic power stone, the demon kings weren’t a threat.

“If you are so confident, why don’t you come at me? I don’t think you can even beat my disciple here without the magic power stone...” John Blake kept provoking the demon kings.

Hyeonu noticed something hidden in John Blake’s words. ‘I think he wants the demon kings to come at him?’

Unlike his words about not fighting actively, John Blake continued to provoke the demon kings. It was so that they wouldn’t be able to hold back their anger and want to rush in. This was the epitome of a disagreement between his words and actions.

‘What’s wrong with him? What is this?’ Hyeonu tried to grasp John Blake’s exact intentions, but it was near impossible. He had no idea what this person was thinking. There was nothing he could use to base his guess on.

‘I’ll just let it flow.’ Hyeonu took it easy.

It didn’t matter whether he fought. In any case, it wouldn’t work just because Hyeonu wanted to control the situation. During the time when Hyeonu was blocking the demon kings, the battle between Baler and the emperor was reaching its peak. The battle was so fast that all the players saw were ruins. In addition, the range of the aftermath was now around 100 meters.

No life existed in the area spanning a hundred meters around the emperor and Baler. They had either been killed or had already fled from the aftermath of the battle.

The players fought against the demon army far away from them, but no one was interested in their hunt. The battle between the rankers and demon army was really like another country’s business.

-Let’s go to Alley Leader’s stream!

-Throw the best away!

-Go see the demon kings!

The viewers all flocked to Hyeonu’s livestream. It was where the essence of the main scenario existed.

‘What? Why is it like this?’ Hyeonu wasn’t aware of such a situation, and his eyes widened when he saw an instant increase in the number of viewers. He was surprised by the dizzying number of viewers. The number was increasing so fast that Hyeonu had to rub his eyes.

‘If it increases a bit more... That is 50 million.’

If this happened, it would be an unprecedented record—a number of viewers that no streamer had ever achieved. Of course, broadcasting competitions like Arena Week were an exception. That was more of a global event than an individual’s content.

‘There are so many viewers... I have to show something.’

Hyeonu felt uplifted by the number of viewers that kept rising endlessly. At the same time, he felt a certain sense of duty. He had to show something special to so many people. The viewers didn’t make any requests as they were just here to see the demon kings. Nevertheless, Hyeonu’s professional consciousness as a streamer was pressuring him.

‘Yes, I should do something that only I can show them.’

The burden on his mind caused Hyeonu to do something beyond courageous.

“You are talking so much. So are you going to leave or not? Did you win the throne of a demon king by arguing with your mouth?” Hyeonu mocked the three demon kings in front of him—Wokiri, Baha, and Munas.

Hyeonu couldn’t see anything else. His eyes were already obscured by the number of viewers.

Munas could no longer stand Hyeonu’s ridicule and burst out angrily, “You dare...!”

His anger was rising. If he endured it any longer, he wouldn’t die because of John Blake but of pent up resentment. It made him overcome the fear of death.

‘I will kill him even if it means dying.’ Munas strengthened his determination.

At this moment, Munas’ body disappeared. Then he immediately reappeared in front of Hyeonu and stretched out his thick fist. It burst through the space and approached Hyeonu in a straight line while containing a heavy power.

‘Avoid it.’ Hyeonu instinctively raised his magic power and moved his feet. His figure stretched like well-melted cheese, causing Munas’ fist to only hit the afterimage.

“This little rat!” Munas watched Hyeonu avoid his attack.

Unlike his relaxed appearance, Hyeonu was sighing with relief. ‘I will be in big trouble if I get hit.’

If he had been one step late in using the Mysterious Sky Steps, Munas’ thick fist would’ve burst his head like smashing a watermelon. However, he never expressed these thoughts and instead acted more leisurely.

“You can’t even catch a rat if you are this slow. Why don’t you change your class? You should be someone who can’t even catch a rat, not a demon king,” Hyeonu ridiculed Munas a lot. The sound of his giggling flowed across the battlefield.

“You!!!” Munas shouted and rushed at Hyeonu again.

Munas was so fast that it felt like he was moving through space itself. Hyeonu’s response method was prediction; he moved his body the moment he saw or felt Munas moving. He didn’t care about the attacks of the other demon kings as their offense would be blocked by John Blake or Lebron.

Then Hyeonu split into dozens of afterimages. At the same time, he refuted the disappearance and appearance of new afterimages by appearing instead like flashing lights. As a result, Munas couldn’t put a finger on Hyeonu. “Did you only learn how to run away? Let’s see how long you can run away like that,” Munas said.

His magic power exploded, and a dark blue magic power started to spread around him.

‘I haven’t experienced it, but I think it is a long range skill...’ Hyeonu instinctively recognized the identity when he saw the dark magic power.

The dark magic power that covered the surroundings would have specific effects on a certain area, just like the Area Proclamation that Hyeonu had learned.

‘Area Proclamation.’ Hyeonu used Area Proclamation without hesitation.

There was no need to experience it with his body and then deal with it. Violet magic power flowed from Hyeonu’s body and colored the surroundings. Munas’ dark blue magic power collided with Hyeonu’s purple magic power. They bumped into each other in order to expand their territory.

‘Dragon Fear.’ Hyeonu used the item skill ‘Dragon Fear' while looking at the tangled magic powers.

It was a move to do something more before the giant buff ended. A giant dragon’s head soon appeared behind Hyeonu. The bright purple dragon opened its closed eyes and opened its mouth to roar.

“Grrrrrung.” The purple dragon’s cries covered the plains. To those who were hostile to Hyeonu, this cry was like a sign of death.

“How... That guy?” Munas muttered with a puzzled expression. He knew the identity of the purple dragon behind Hyeonu.

It was Callioraks—the strongest dragon in the history of the demon world and a destroyer that couldn’t even be compared to those in the middle and divine worlds. However, one day it stopped showing up, and the ancient people determined he was dead.

‘I thought he was dead...’

Munas knew this because he had been alive for that long. He was a demon king who had been alive longer than Baler.

‘That guy’s magic power... It is definitely the chaos attribute.’

Munas’ head cooled down as if he had been hit with cold water. His raging instincts eased, and his mind regained a sense of reason. The horror of Callioraks was that tremendous.

“What is your relationship with Callioraks?” Munas shouted at Hyeonu.

Hyeonu could see the fear in Munas.

‘Does he know Callioraks? Did Baler tell him?’ Hyeonu wondered inwardly. It didn’t seem like it.

The other two demon kings here didn’t know who Callioraks was.

“Relationship? I just know him a little bit. Why, do you want to see him? Should I call him?” Hyeonu once again bluffed here. Like Munas, Hyeonu had come to his senses.

‘In any case, I was just going to show how to run away... Let’s drag out time like this.’

It was true that Hyeonu had prevented Munas from striking so far, but that was all. He would definitely be defeated if a full-fledged battle occurred. Hyeonu’s attack power still wasn’t enough to kill a demon king.

‘I don’t know if I can do it even after I’ve achieved my fifth class advancement...’

He felt like he wouldn’t be able to kill a demon king even after reaching the fifth class advancement. By the end of today, the only demon kings would be the emperor and John Blake.

“You will call Callioraks? You? No matter this blessing, do you think I will fall for that lie?” Munas snorted like he was dumbfounded.

Callioraks, the chaos dragon, was a ridiculous monster. He wasn’t something a human could call.

‘I don’t know how I got the blessing,’ Hyeonu thought.

At this moment, he opened his mouth and said, “In fact, I am the successor to the chaos dragon... I really can call him.”

Hyeonu’s words were true. He had received such a title. However, it wasn’t true that he could call Callioraks. This mixture of truth and lies was spoken with a lot of Hyeonu’s confidence. It was like a lie with a soul of its own. At this moment, Munas’ gaze shifted to something behind Hyeonu’s back.