Chapter 367: This Body, Descends

Heavenly City District 5, a large tavern located in a back alley, the One-Eyed Giant.

This place, which would normally have been bustling with the bluff-filled shouts of mercenaries and Awakened and the sound of clinking glasses, had a heavy silence settle over it today like a house in mourning.

“……Hey. Did you hear? The Iron Covenant Guild that was on 3rd Avenue a while ago, got ground up entirely.”

A man who was sipping beer at a corner table opened his mouth with his voice lowered as much as possible.

“Yeah. I heard. The guild leader was hung in the plaza with his limbs amputated, right?”

“Just which eccentric bastards did such a thing? Is it by any chance the Demonic Cult bastards' doing?”

At those words, the scarred man sitting opposite him shuddered and shook his head.

“It's neither the Demonic Cult, nor the remnants of the Red Flag. According to rumors from the survivors, it was barely four people…… a small party, they said.”

“What? A mid-sized guild in District 5 was wiped out overnight by just that number of people?”

The scarred man gulped down dry saliva.

“I'm telling you it's true! A guy holding twin daggers and going around slicing people like pieces of paper while laughing silsil, and a woman wearing a pitch-black dress and swinging a giant scythe like a reaper. And even a woman popping out from the shadow and slitting throats. They said there was no other slaughter machine that ground up and drank people as naturally as breathing!”

“Huu…….”

“Do you know what's even scarier? It seems like there's one more guy supporting from behind, but their figure isn't seen at all and the guild executives' heads suddenly popped like watermelons peong-peong!”

Ifrin, who was the 3rd ranked sniper of District 2.

There was no way the residents of District 5 would know the fact that as she was revived as Kim Minwoo's summon, her weapon changed, and the power and stealth of her sniping were distantly inflated.

Even the complexions of those eavesdropping from the surrounding tables turned pale white.

“By any chance…… isn't it the Money Talks Guild bastards who supposedly came up from below?”

“Eh, no way. If it's the Money Talks Guild, that crazy Necromancer has to be with them. The talk of the undead legion is entirely missing from that party. It seems like a group of murderers just flowed into District 5, but…….”

At that time, another man who was listening next to them intervened.

“But, those murderer bastards suddenly haven't been seen at all for a few days, have they?”

“Right. They made such a mess that the upper districts were talking about forming a subjugation squad or whatever, so they ran away like ghosts.”

The murderers who disappeared to who knows where.

In fact, they had temporarily vacated their spots to defend the Earth where the Shadow's ark descended, but there was no way the residents of District 5 would know.

In any case, due to the massacre that happened a while ago, the public sentiment of District 5 had already pierced through the floor and was stuck in the basement.

“Hah, it's fucking desolate. Even if those bastards ran away, we don't know when they'll return…… should we rather just go back down to District 6 altogether? I haven't heard news of the murderers running wild there, but…….”

“Are you crazy? District 6 is currently that Death Lord's territory, right! If you go there, it's just full of fanatics, full of them! Huh? I heard if you don't believe in the Death Lord, they just give you a loss until you want to believe…… ugh.”

“……Then do we go up to District 4?”

“Go and see if you can. But if you were a guy who could go, would you be just drinking alcohol here?”

“Then what do you want me to do! Even the main force of the Ascender Guild, called the ruler of District 5, was entirely butchered a few days ago!”

The man, engulfed in anxiety, nervously struck the table. At that, the scarred man calmed him down and glanced around.

“Hey, hey. Calm down. Since the upper guilds here, including the Ascender Guild, were all swept away in a few days, reinforcements urgently came down from the upper districts, right.”

“From above?”

“Yeah. Starting from the personnel of the Demonic Cult dispatch team in District 1, large guild bastards whose names you'd know just by hearing them have set up camp to catch those murderers.”

The powerhouses of the upper districts.

In a situation where even the Ascender Guild, which was the absolute ruler of District 5, collapsed vainly, the intervention of the upper districts was the only lifeline for the residents trembling in anxiety.

“……Still, it makes paying taxes worthwhile. Huu.”

“Yeah, man. So don't worry too much. No matter if it's those murderer bastards, with the monsters from the upper neighborhood spread all over, would they dare reveal their appearances again? They probably ran away with their tails tucked. It'll be safe here.”

At those words, the complexion of the man trembling in anxiety relaxed if only a little.

“True, it's a relief. It would be a different story if that Death Lord who truly rules the bottom districts personally came up and made a mess, but…….”

“Eh, are you crazy? Why would that monster personally come here. The moment he comes up, it means he's going to wage an all-out war with the Seven Lords. Unless he's crazy to die alone, there's no way he'd break the treaty they made!”

No sooner had those words ended than…….

Kugugugugung―!!!

“Wh-what?!”

“Is it an earthquake?!”

Suddenly, the entire ground of District 5 began to fluctuate.

The liquor bottles placed on the shelves poured down wajangchang, and spiderweb-like cracks were drawn jjeok-jjeok on the walls of the building.

“Wh-what. What's happening outside……!”

The personnel inside the tavern freaked out and rushed outside. And as they stepped out into the plaza, they had to witness with their two eyes a terrible and overwhelming sight they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

“Uh, uuh……?”

The sky of District 5.

The sky of the Heavenly City, which had a blue tint, was being dyed with pitch-black darkness in real-time as if ink had been released.

The mana mixed in the atmosphere itself deteriorated into a heavy and sticky smell of death, and a suffocating pressure, as if their lungs were constricting every time they inhaled, was pressing down on the entirety of District 5.

In the middle of the largest plaza in District 5. Space distorted like a piece of paper, and someone leisurely walked out, tearing through that gap.

Peolleok―!

A pitch-black coat. A man walking out leisurely with his hands shoved in his pockets, as if taking a stroll in his own living room.

And behind that man's back, a thick shadow of death with an unfathomable end was surging like a massive tidal wave. Before that overwhelming momentum, the thousands of District 5 residents gathered in the plaza lost strength in their legs and slumped down.

A trembling voice leaked out from someone's mouth.

“Th-that coat…… that energy……!”

There was no way they wouldn't know.

The unprecedented monster who swallowed District 6 in a single breath and split the Blood Wolf Lupus, one of the Seven Lords, in two.

Even the protagonist of the rumor that a while ago, he attended the top-floor banquet in District 1 and officially had his territory and authority recognized by the other Seven Lords.

“D-Death……!”

Someone's tearing scream broke the silence of District 5.

“It's the Death Lord!”

“K-Kim Minwoo has appeared!”

A man who had already become a celebrity to the point where there was no one in the entire Heavenly City who didn't know him.

The Death Lord Kim Minwoo had taken his massive step into District 5.

[You have entered Heavenly City District 5!]

[You are a divine entity and one of the Seven Lords!]

[A massive penalty according to the divine entity's descent to a lower district must be imposed!]

[However, the special grace period of the Heavenly City Free Entry Pass (Remaining time: 1 month 21 days) is currently being applied!]

[The spatial laws and lower district penalties of District 5 are forcibly nullified!]

Kim Minwoo, who read through the system's welcome message with a nod, smirked toward the tens of thousands of crowds who were trembling like aspen trees looking at him.

“The atmosphere is quite desolate.”

Death Lord.

His majestic appearance echoed like a flare announcing the complete destruction of District 5.

His gaze headed toward the massive groups that started to surround the plaza far away.

Starting from the remnants of the Ascender Guild, which was the ruler of District 5, they were the martial artists of the Demonic Cult and the elite guild members of large guilds who were urgently dispatched from the upper districts claiming they would subjugate the murderers.

They, who originally should have reassured the residents of District 5, were also appalled and trembling like aspen trees after realizing the identity of the one who descended tearing through the empty air.

However, they were the powerhouses of the upper districts in name. The captain of the Demonic Cult dispatch team stepped forward while making an effort to calm his trembling legs.

“D-Death Lord! Why the hell are you here! Have you already forgotten the treaty with the other Seven Lords?!”

The treaty made on the condition of ruling the bottom districts.

It was a shout close to a scream that burst out because he couldn't even imagine that he would dare to crawl up to the upper districts on his own two feet and make a mess.

At those words, Kim Minwoo let out a pishik laugh.

“I never said I wouldn't come up, though?”

“……Wh-what?”

“‘The districts below are mine. It would be better to quickly leave the above empty.’ I think I clearly said that in the past…… where in here is the part where I said I wouldn't come up?”

At that moment, the tens of thousands of upper district rankers gathered in the plaza looked at Kim Minwoo with blank faces.

Isn't it obvious!

If the entire districts below were fully given as territory, it was the common sense of this field to implicitly accept it as meaning he wouldn't crawl up.

It hadn't even been a month since the treaty was made at the banquet of the Seven Lords. What kind of psychopath would have thought he would lead an army and invade before the ink even dried!

Fluster and panic.

When the rankers of the upper districts froze before the reality where common sense and rules were thoroughly destroyed, Kim Minwoo muttered chillingly while resting Hell Rhapsody on his shoulder with a ttuk.

“But, you didn't leave it empty, did you?”

The thick murderous intent contained in that single remark.

The complexions of the Demonic Cult's captain and the guild members turned pale as a blank sheet of paper.

“I-it's not too late yet! Death Lord! It seems there was a misunderstanding, but if you go down right now, we will keep it a secret from our superiors……!”

It was that moment.

Ttak―!

Kim Minwoo's finger flicked lightly.

Ureureureureung―!!!

The sky tore apart and a massive golden flame blazed. The overwhelming divine dragon Gleipnir, forged from the bones of an ancient dragon of antiquity and the bloodline of the abyss lord, descended in the sky over District 5, blocking the sun.

Seureureuk―.

Thick darkness exploded behind Kim Minwoo's back, and the four Legion Commanders, Cedric draped in blood-red dragon scales, Merhen fluttering her silver hair, Vulcan holding a whip of black flame, and Olivia wearing a blood-red dress, revealed their appearances in unison.

And the forces of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers following behind them.

Standing in the middle of the overwhelming legion of disaster, Kim Minwoo gave a low gesture with his chin toward his legion, perfectly bound under the tuning of the EX-rank authority he had just unlocked, Maestro of the Underworld.

“Clear them all out.”