After Ten Millennia in Hell

Chapter 397 - Could You Stop Calling Him Darling?

“The fuck?” Cha Yeon-Joo stared at Oh Kang-Woo dumbfoundedly. “Crazy son of a bitch!! Why did you plagiarize?!”

“Hm?” Kang-Woo tilted his head.

‘What’s the problem?’

Yeon-Joo put her hand on her neck as if she was getting a headache.

“God, that son of a bitch will be the end of me.”

It probably would have been better for her to do it. However, as if to say that her worries had been unfounded...

“Yeaaaahhhh!!!”

“See? They love it,” Kang-Woo said.

“The hell? Why did that raise their morale?”

Yeon-Joo stared dumbfoundedly at the angels and humans charging at the demonic beast army in a blaze of passion. They had not reacted to the battle cry, but rather the radiant golden light.

“Fuck it, I don’t care anymore.”

Yeon-Joo decided to pay it no mind and turned toward the countless demonic beasts charging their way while roaring.

Clatter!!

Chains with sharp thorns on them twisted and turned as if they were alive.

Boom!

She stomped her feet and unleashed the chains on the demonic beasts. The chains fiercely pierced the demonic beasts charging at her.

“Fucking cheater...” Yeon-Joo looked at Kang-Woo in displeasure even while killing demonic beasts.

Kang-Woo walked forward while ignoring her comment.

“Finally...”

He faced the despair that he had been waiting for all this time like a lovesick girl.

Tai Wuji unsheathed the blade strapped to his waist while staring at the monster with sunken eyes.

Tai Wuji and Oh Kang-Woo locked eyes.

“You’ve acquired Deific Essence,” said Tai Wuji in a low tone.

He could feel the Divinity mixed into the radiant golden light that the monster was emitting.

Kang-Woo smiled. “Thanks to you.”

He didn’t understand what Kang-Woo meant by that. Deific Essence was not something that could be acquired so easily thanks to someone else.

‘No.’

Tai Wuji shook his head. The monster had eaten the Constellation of Fear whole.

‘If it’s that monster... It’s more than possible.’

He could finally understand why Lucifer had been that desperate. That monster was an incomprehensible being.

‘I have to kill him here.’

If he didn’t, the monster would become a hindrance to the revival of his master, Demon God Bauli.

“Nothing will change even if you have acquired Deific Essence,” declared Tai Wuji.

Kang-Woo smirked and nodded. “I know, bro.”

He was already aware that he was no match for Tai Wuji just because he had Deific Essence now. Kang-Woo felt as if he was staring at an insurmountable wall as he looked at Tai Wuji. He felt breathless and he was trembling. Tai Wuji looked no different from a human in terms of outer appearance, but he was as overpowering as a giant dragon that covered the entire sky.

‘Yeah, this is more like it. This is exactly what I wanted to feel.’

Kang-Woo laughed as if he couldn’t be any happier. He gripped the golden sword tight and stomped on the ground.

Wham!!

He shot toward Tai Wuji like a golden arrow splitting the earth.

***

“O Almighty Gaia,” prayed Layla while clasping her hands together.

She borrowed the power of a goddess as an incarnation. A portion of Gaia’s Deific Essence seeped into her, the massive power causing a storm around her.

“Urgh,” Layla grimaced.

The more Deific Essence she borrowed, the more burden was placed on her. The great power felt as if it would cause her to burst like a balloon overfilled with air.

‘It’s not enough.’

Layla would be facing the Constellations of Evil, the elite guards of the Demon God, beings who had massacred countless gods during the era of myths. Kang-Woo had asked them to buy as much time as they could, but buying time against Constellations of Evil was extremely difficult in and of itself.

“Grant your unworthy incarnation your power.”

Whoooom.

Layla shone brightly; it was white, completely different from Kang-Woo’s light. Befitting the Deific Essence of the Goddess of Parental Love, just looking at the light was enough to warm the heart. Layla slowly turned to Lilith, the one in command of the operation.

“First,” Lilith said calmly as she looked around the battlefield. “Balrog, Si-Hun, and the two children, please take care of them.”

Boom!

A massive demonic beast twenty meters tall appeared along with an explosive sound. It was Ouroboros, an ancient demonic beast in the form of a snake. The angels’ gazes turned fierce the moment Ouroboros appeared. They emitted bloodlust at the demonic beast that had slaughtered countless angels during the attack on Sant’Angelo.

Ouroboros was not the only ancient demonic beast.

Rumble—!

The ground split as giant demonic beasts rose one by one while trampling on the demonic beasts in the area. One of them was a demonic beast covered in flames, who burned the angels that approached him to a crisp. It was Bul-Kathos, an ancient demonic beast enveloped in powerful flames that were on par with Prince Mammon’s Authority of Blaze.

“Got it,” said Balrog as he walked forward while cracking his neck.

“Will Kang-Woo praise us if we kill them all?”

“R-Really? Then I’ll k-kill them all.”

Echidna and Halcyon also stared at the ancient demonic beasts with great interest.

Kim Si-Hun, who had been staring at Kang-Woo while completely still, turned without a word.

Lilith tilted her head in wonder for a moment but turned away from Si-Hun after checking that he was charging toward the ancient demonic beasts along with Balrog and the others.

Lilith turned to Layla and Han Seol-Ah and said, “We will be facing that Constellation.”

She was pointing at the monster covered in black tentacles.

Layla frowned as she saw Proserpine’s hideous looks. “... Is she a Constellation of Evil?”

“Yes,” replied Lilith. She glared at Proserpine and bit her nails anxiously. “How dare a bitch with no gloss on her tentacles whatsoever...”

Not only that, but she only had eight eyes. Lilith couldn’t believe that Proserpine dared to proclaim herself as the Goddess of Succubuses.

‘Unforgivable.’

Her looks probably were good enough back in the era of myths but were nothing now.

“Grannies past their prime should know their place,” Lilith muttered.

“What did you say?” Proserpine narrowed her eyes sharply, having heard Lilith. Her tentacles squirmed fiercely. “I’m past my prime?”

“Far past, I would add. You look easily above a few dozen millennia old.”

Hohoho, Lilith giggled while covering her mouth.

Since Proserpine had been active since the era of myths, she was indeed older than a few dozen millennia old.

“Hmph, age isn’t everything in beauty, you know?” Proserpine argued.

“My, but being young is better for sure. Wouldn’t you agree, granny?”

“You arrogant bitch...” Proserpine’s eyes widened in fury.

She could endure anything else, but as the Goddess of Succubuses, she could not stand her beauty being mocked.

“Now, Seol-Ah. You can’t lose Kang-Woo to a granny like that, can you?” Lilith asked.

Seol-Ah nodded, her eyes filled with bloodlust.

Proserpine feigned laughter in exasperation. “Hah. I guess I should deal with you all before I capture my darling’s heart.”

To make the monster hers, she needed to purge the parasites clinging to him first. Proserpine extended her tentacles while glaring at Lilith and Seol-Ah.

“I’m not sure what’s happening, but...” Layla slurred.

She enveloped her hands with white light. She could at least tell that the darling Proserpine was referring to was Kang-Woo, and that she was trying to take him away from Seol-Ah and Lilith.

She frowned in displeasure. “NTR lovers must be exterminated.”

Bam!

Layla extended her arms forward and shot a giant ball of light at Proserpine.

“Hmph,” Proserpine snorted as if it were nothing.

Although she was not specialized in combat, she was not so weak that she would lose to a mere incarnation with borrowed Deific Essence. However...

“Blessing of the Celestial Goddess,” Seol-Ah chanted.

“What?!”

Proserpine had not expected Seol-Ah to be an unexpected variable. Twelve wings sprouted from Seol-Ah’s back. Once she imbued her power into Layla, her half-baked Deific Essence gained its full form. The powers of Celestial Goddess Seraph and Gaia combined.

Rumble—!!

The light was bright enough to blind the eyes. An intense wave of heat set everything in the area ablaze.

“Kyaaaaahhh!” Proserpine screamed as her tentacles were burned by the intense heat.

She had expected Gaia’s incarnation, but could not have imagined a human who possessed Celestial Goddess Seraph’s power to join the battle.

‘H-How?!’

Proserpine’s mind stormed with fear and rage. There was no way that she would ever forget the cursed Celestial Goddess Seraph. She had spent hundreds of millennia sealed in a pitch-black space due to Seraph sealing the Constellations of Evil at the cost of her Divinity.

“Kurgh!” Proserpine grunted and turned her head.

She was about to ask Tai Wuji for assistance, but he did not seem to have the leeway to do so since he had begun his battle against the monster of the Demonic Sea.

‘I-I have to run.’

Proserpine bit her lip anxiously. There was also the Constellation of Nightmares, but that brat was not specialized in combat either. She needed to hide somewhere until Tai Wuji disposed of the monster. She turned around without hesitation.

“Where do you think you’re going?” Layla said as she chased after Proserpine.

Behind her was also Han Seol-Ah with twelve wings. Proserpine grimaced aggressively.

***

“Argh, urgh...” Proserpine groaned as she blocked pus from spewing out of her severed tentacles. “Shit, shit, shit!”

She cursed as she stomped her feet.

‘Crazy bitches.’

Gaia’s incarnation and the human with Seraph’s power had stuck to her to no end. There had been chances for her to run away a few times, but Lilith had blocked those chances before Proserpine could use them.

“Haaa,” Proserpine sighed.

She had no choice but to unleash the Demon God’s Deific Essence. It had been highly risky, but she had successfully managed to incapacitate Gaia’s incarnation and successfully run away.

“Urgh,” Proserpine groaned and collapsed on the spot. She had escaped to the mountains quite a distance away from the valley. “This place should be safe.”

Proserpine hugged herself as she trembled. She could barely move due to the side effects of unleashing the Demon God’s Deific Essence.

‘I’ll stay here until Tai Wuji wipes them all out.’

Even if she were to stay out of the battle, Tai Wuji was there. However strong the monster of the Demonic Sea was or how large the army of angels and humans was...

‘Tai Wuji will win.’

He was so powerful that his defeat was not even imaginable.

Proserpine muttered in disappointment while hiding herself between two rocks, “But I prefer that my darling doesn’t die.”

Just then...

“Could you stop calling Kang-Woo your darling?”

“What?!” Proserpine quickly turned to the source of the voice.

There, a woman with twelve wings was looking down at her.

“You see, Kang-Woo...” The woman walked forward while glaring at Proserpine with lifeless eyes. “... Can only be touched, cared for, embraced, hugged, patted, fed, teased, kissed, and loved by me. He’s mine.”

The twelve pure-white wings flickered black.