At Lee Si-woo’s shout, Choi Woo-hee, who was watching the battle with Nergal from afar, tilted his head.
‘Nergal… A spy?’
She also knew that Nerkal had a personality that favored betrayal.
But no matter what, I couldn’t imagine betraying the demon god inside the gate where the demon god resided.
In other words, I thought this was Lee Si-woo’s ploy.
‘It’s a ploy to shake me up.’
She wasn’t the type of person to fall for a trick like this.
Choi Woo-hee aimed his gun at Lee Si-woo, who had come out separately.
Just by looking at it, it was clear that this guy was the leader of a group of humans.
It seemed like if I just dealt with that guy, I could take down those humans very easily.
‘Quick.’
Lee Si-woo, perhaps conscious of the sniping attack, moved forward while swaying from side to side.
Choi Woo-hee did not follow the inconsistent movements with his eyes.
‘If the calculation doesn’t work out anyway… … ‘I hit it with my senses.’
Taang-!
Crash.
The moment the bullet was fired, Choi Woo-hee quickly reloaded and pulled the trigger again without even looking at whether Lee Si-woo was hit or not.
Taang!
Watching the shells ricocheting from the sniper rifle once again, Woohee Choi fired a third bullet, this time activating the silencer.
Tung-!
Three sniping shots.
I deliberately silenced the sound at the end.
Even if you dodge the first two shots, you will not be able to dodge the third and final bullet.
With that thought in mind, Choi Woo-hee moved his gaze towards the place where the bullet flew.
***
I tried psychological warfare, but it didn’t work at all.
No, I should say it worked.
As soon as the sniper heard my cries, he started shooting.
Taang-!
As soon as I heard the first bullet, I turned around.
I moved my body steadily to avoid the bullets flying towards my head.
But that was a defeat.
Taang!
‘Predicted shot?’
A bullet flew into the space I was moving into.
I narrowly avoided the second bullet by maximizing my ‘speed’ and heard a subtle sound in my ears.
If you haven’t heard it before, you might have missed it.
It was a gunshot fired with a silencer attached.
‘So this time it’s a silent bullet?’
Shuuuk!
There was no sound, but the sound of the wind cutting through the air resistance was clearly audible to my ears.
I predicted the trajectory of the bullet through that sound and launched myself into the air.
As I watched the bullets pass by in an instant back to where I was, I grabbed the gutter knife while floating in the air and threw it at Nergal.
I couldn’t just stand there helplessly being attacked by the sniper, so while he was distracted by me, I planned to kill Nergal.
“Huh!”
Ban Hye-jin, who was dealing with Nergal, saw the Godter knife I threw and swung the sword at Nergal at the same time.
Nergal, who was embarrassed by Ban Hye-jin’s sudden attack, did not see me throw the Godter knife, and Nergal, who was blocking Ban Hye-jin’s attack, was unable to block the Godter knife I threw.
“Gagging.”
As I saw the gutter knife stuck in Nergal’s heart, I rushed towards where the bullet came from.
A sniper appears. He had a lot of things he wanted to ask the guy.
“Come out!!”
I need to check if you are my mother.
I blew the wind and checked where the sniper was, and Woohee Choi appeared there.
9.
“Uh, mother… … .”
I never thought it would be possible, but I never thought my mother would actually be my enemy.
“Are you a mother?”
“What is that… … .”
My friends looked perplexed when they heard me mumbling after dealing with Nergal.
I quickly rushed to catch my mother, but Choi Woo-hee disappeared without realizing it.
Then the hwaneye glowed.
The hwan-eye, which saw everything, caught the movement of the mother, who had disappeared through invisibility.
“I can’t run away anymore.”
I had to find out why my mother, who had gone out to look for my father, was here.
Additionally, I wanted to ask whether my mother, who was a non-awakened person, was able to move like an awakened person.
To do that, I first had to make my mother incapable of fighting.
Pot-!
The wind blew, and with Yoo Ah-ram’s talent ‘Swift’ once again planted in my legs, I headed straight towards my moving mother.
The mother, realizing that her location had been discovered, shot herself on the spot.
A strike without a single hesitation.
It was not the way he treated his son.
Taang-!
After dodging the bullets fired by my mother, I was able to identify the demonic energy pulsating throughout her body.
‘I’m being manipulated… … .’
It was not controlled by a single demon.
The only person who could control humans in such detail was God.
Then, I understood that my mother was being manipulated here.
The demon god, Azathoth. He is manipulating her mother.
“… How dare her mother… … .”
He said he didn’t want to mess with the family.
I thought I should burn away the magical power of Azathoth, the demon god who was manipulating my mother.
When the mind woke up, Hwaryeong appeared.
“Come to your senses, mother.”
Choi Woo-hee, who even missed the turning blow, fell into a defenseless state for a moment, and I wasn’t about to miss him.
I kicked away the sniper rifle that my mother was holding and burned the demonic energy surrounding my mother with the flames of Hwaryeong.
Grumble!
As the black magic energy began to burn up in flames, Woohee Choi’s eyes began to slowly close.
-That’s pretty cool, kid.
The moment the magical energy surrounding my mother burned out, I heard someone’s voice in my head.
I shouted, intuitively realizing the owner of the voice.
“Azathoth!”
-I will let your mother go. But in return, your father… … .
The demon’s voice cut off. After confirming that the flames had consumed all the demonic energy, I picked up my fallen mother and clenched her fists.
My father was in danger.
“Siwoo!”
“are you okay?”
“No, but what about your mother?”
“Is this sniper your mother?”
I nodded to my friends’ questions.
“Everyone now knows who my father is, right? Gyeolgyesa, Lee Si-hyeon is my father. “The moment the final gate opened again, my father went missing, and my mother moved to find him.”
I also told my friends that the two of them were from a death squad.
“Wait a minute, the fact that my mother was manipulated by a demon like this… … .”
They said there was a high possibility that my father was also being manipulated.
We looked up the road leading to the final gate, the third gate.
I didn’t know that maybe the third gateway beyond was one where I had to deal with the barrier temple, Si-Hyeon Lee.
“Mother… What do we do?”
It was impossible to clear the final gate with my mother who had collapsed like this.
“Summons.”
Pow!
At that time, Ji Tae-hoon used his talent ‘Summon’ to summon several summoned animals.
“Leave your mother alone. “I will tell my summons to risk their lives to protect them.”
“Ji Tae-hoon… … ,”
I looked back at Ji Tae-hoon. Ji Tae-hoon, who lost his life instead of Yoon Mir at the final gate, took care to avoid the same thing happening, and Ji Tae-hoon has survived until now.
There is only one remaining gateway.
My goal was to see the ending with everyone, so I nodded.
I will save my mother and all my friends and take them out of the gate.
“Then, let me ask you a favor.”
Ji Tae-hoon raised his thumb at my words.
10.
[The final gate, the third gate, begins.]
We came up to the third gate and looked around.
There were no demons attacking us here, and there were no demons targeting us.
“Why is it so quiet?”
“I know.”
“It’s strange that there have been no attacks after being attacked so far.”
It was not something to be happy about because there was no attack.
Usually, we all knew very well which monsters would appear in these cases.
“This atmosphere… … .”
“I think it’s the boss room.”
“You didn’t even open the door to the boss room?”
“It’s the final gate. “It’s not surprising if something happens.”
Wow.
At that time, the surrounding air became heavy.
A light fog began to impede visibility, and a human shadow could be seen in the distance.
“Everyone, brace yourselves.”
“The boss monster of the final gate is… … .”
“I drank.”
The shadow you see over there is definitely a demon.
We were thrilled by the overwhelming magic that was clearly felt even from a distance.
Resisting the suffocating fear, we glared at it.
Jerk, jerk.
The sound of footsteps began to get closer.
“What do we do?”
“Shall we attack?”
“It is difficult to secure visibility. “If they fall, there is a risk of being destroyed individually.”
“but… … .”
As I heard the enemy getting closer, my friends began to give their opinions, and I listened to all of their opinions and spoke up.
“wait. “If that guy is a demon god, I’m the one who steps forward first.”
It was that kind of operation.
Just like when the demon god and Choi Kang fought one on one.
I also planned to fight one-on-one with the demon god.
“Yes, in order to do that, I told you to conserve your strength at first.”
I did that, but I went too crazy at the first and second hurdles.
“It can no longer be called an operation, right?”
“Let’s just tackle it together from the beginning.”
My friends were right, so I nodded slightly.
So we stared at the approaching man.
“If he is a demon, he will attack right away.”
Everyone prepared to move at my words.
And finally, he arrived right in front of me.
“Everyone worked hard to come up here.”
I looked like I couldn’t believe I heard that guy’s voice.
“Siwoo?”
Since we had decided to attack together when my order was given, everyone was waiting for my order.
Even though it was that kind of situation, I couldn’t give the order to attack.
The smoke was gradually clearing.
Then the figure of the man standing in front of us began to emerge.
“Da, you…” … .”
“How can this be…?” … .”
They looked in disbelief at the middle-aged man with a face exactly like Lee Si-woo who appeared in front of them.
“Nice to meet you, are you guys Siwoo’s friends?”
My expression hardened at the words of Lee Si-woo’s father, Lee Si-hyeon, who spoke with a bright smile.
Following the mother, the father also appeared.
However, my father was no longer my father.
In my eyes, the identity of the guy wearing my father’s mask was clearly visible.
“How dare you… … .”
“Uh-huh, Siwoo. What’s the point of saying that to your dad who you haven’t seen in a while? Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this day?”
Sigh.
I waited a really long time.
Azathoth, the demon god, worked hard for a really long time to take over Sihyeon Lee’s body and face the son of the guy who would come to clear the final gate in this way.
It was worth the effort.
Lee Si-hyeon, or rather the Demon God Azathoth, saw my distorted face and couldn’t hide the smile that naturally appeared.
It was so fun that he looked like he was going to die.
“Nice to meet you, son. “I am your father, the Gyeolgyesa, Lee Si-hyeon.”
