Leveling Up Alone

Chapter 458 - Wake Up, Queen (8)

Han-Yeol felt so anxious, but Stewart was just looking around, admiring his surroundings.

He then raised his right arm and looked at his watch.

“Hmm, it’s about time.”

“Huh, for what?”

Whoosh!

Even before Stewart could answer Han-Yeol, a strong gust of wind started to blow, and several purple and golden magic circles appeared on the ground.

Grit!

[Damn it!]

Iloa clenched her teeth and expressed a negative emotion for the first time because the beings that emerged from the magic circles were three angels and three demons.

It was a combination of angels and demons, and they were considered to be sworn enemies.

There was a reason why they were together. Three thousand years ago, when Kubera, the God of Dimensions and Balance, suddenly disappeared, all the dimensions that had existed in a balanced parallel went wild. They started to grow and were destroyed through war.

Then suddenly, dimensional predators known as destructive dragons started to devour the dimensions one by one, destroying the ecosystems and threatening the very existence of the dimensional universe. Afterward, several higher dimensions formed an alliance called the Transdimensional Space Association to protect newly awakened dimensions like Earth and give them the ability to sustain themselves.

However, they couldn’t do much more than that. When they first formed the association, they were very helpful. They sent troops to protect individual dimensions and also granted them skills. The problem was that the more direct help the dimensions received, the darker things became and the faster and stronger the dragons’ attacks became.

Everything took a turn when dragons that only the strongest members of the Transdimensional Space Association could deal with started to appear in the first dimension. The dimensions were destroyed instantly, and the Transdimensional Space Association realized that they should only provide the minimum amount of help to the dimensions. This was the lesson that they learned after the dragons destroyed five dimensions and fifty billion people. The Transdimensional Space Association called this incident the Dimensional Rampage.

The responses of the angels and demons emerging from the magic circles, especially the demons, resembled a blast furnace.

[You little rat! So this is where you’ve been hiding!]

[We’ve been looking for you all this time!]

[Now, why don’t you shut up and let us capture you!]

Out of the three demons and three angels who emerged from the magic circles, the three demons were very loud. The other three angels were as expressionless as Iloa Freiel and only stared at her silently.

The Dimensional Rampage was a massive event of interdimensional space proportions that occurred after the disappearance of Kubera, the God of Dimensions and Balance.

So, the Transdimensional Space Association made a special request to the heavens and the demon world to join the search for Kubera.

However, the heavens and the demon world, which were supposed to be neutral between dimensions, could not directly intervene in this matter. They said they would be happy to capture the angels who worshipped Kubera.

Normally, neither the heavens nor the demon world should interfere in such matters. Demons were fiercely individualistic and only did things that they wanted to do, and while the angels were considered pacifists, they were actually just too lazy to get involved.

The problem was that the absence of the god named Kubera had disrupted the balance of dimensions, which then affected the heavens and the demon world quite a bit. It was because Kubera was the God of Dimensions and Balance, and the heavens and the demon world were two of those many dimensions. The absence of the dimensional god upset that balance, and the destructive dragon started to spread its influence, affecting the heavens and the demon world slowly. Although that influence was still small, there was no telling when it would grow.

[There’s nowhere to hide anymore, Iloa Freiel. Surrender.]

[I don’t want to hurt you.]

The angels who had been on her side in the past politely invited her to surrender, unlike the harsh demons.

However, those six demons and angels seemed to be completely invisible to Freiel.

[Han-Yeol, I'll be watching you, and next time I’ll make sure to get rid of you.]

Their threats didn’t faze her. Instead, she just said what she wanted to say and disregarded them as if they weren’t there.

[Ha, next time? Do you think we’re going to let you go?]

Pakk!

The three demons had prepared thoroughly for this moment.

Of course, since they had traveled through a normal method, their powers had been nerfed due to the absolute rules of the dimension. But in preparation for this, they had each equipped themselves with power-boosting treasures.

These treasures were so precious that no one in the demon world or even the heavens would dare touch them unless they were an archangel or demon lord. So as long as they had these, they wouldn’t lose to this virtue angel even if she exerted a hundred percent of her strength.

[I’ll deal with you guys later since I’m busy right now.]

[Where are you going?]

Pshhh! Pop!

With a sudden explosion, there was a flash of blinding light.

[Agh!]

The three demons who had been glaring at Freiel with their eyes wide open to attack were forced to close their eyes due to the divine light, which caused them immense pain. The rest of the angels behind them, as well as Han-Yeol’s group, also experienced this.

‘Agh, what kind of light is that?’

The light wasn’t just bright—it painfully stung the eyes. When used well, this could be a crowd control skill that temporarily blinded an opponent to attack, not just a skill used to escape.

When the light disappeared, Iloa Freiel was gone without a trace.

[Ahhh!]

[Iloa Freiel, damn you!]

Boom!

The furious roars of the three demons echoed throughout the ruins. The ruins shook from their tremendous roars, old buildings crumbled, the remaining monsters trembled with fear, and some of the weaker monsters even died from their hearts bursting.

[She ran away.]

[Well, that was expected. Since ancient times, none of the angels in the heavens have been able to catch angels who worship Kubera.]

[True.]

The angels had been searching for Kubera for over two thousand years now, but they didn’t have much of a reaction when they lost Freiel.

‘What the hell?’

Their telepathy was like a real conversation, echoing all around them, so Han-Yeol could hear them too.

‘How can they remain so nonchalant after failing to capture the being they were pursuing?’

Han-Yeol couldn't understand what the angels were thinking.

[Everything will happen in the God of Fate’s direction.]

[The fact that we lost Freiel here today must have been a plan from the God of Fate.]

[Of course it is.]

‘Ha, as expected.’

Han-Yeol sighed heavily as he listened to the angels’ telepathy.

It was just as Stewart had said—angels were the definition of boring, lazy, and passive. Han-Yeol could tell from their brief conversation.

‘God of Fate? Ha!’

It was funny to see the angels blaming a god without putting in any effort themselves.

‘It would make more sense for them to say that if they at least tried like the demons to rush after her and then missed!’

[Let’s go back.]

[Yeah, if we stay too long, we might damage our precious treasures.]

Shaaa...

Since they failed to capture Freiel, the angels no longer had a reason to linger in the human world. They clasped each other's hands and vanished into a puff of smoke, returning to the heavens. The angels returned, but the demons, whose instincts were not to return to the demon world once they entered the human world, reacted completely differently.

[Ugh, this won’t do. If I don’t release my anger, I’ll have to kill someone in the demon world, which is not good. I don’t have that much time on my hands. Ray Kan, Il Nus.]

[Ah, I must see blood.]

[Okay.]

The three demons exchanged glances, then entered the ruins and started a bloody massacre.

Krrrr!

[Kaaaa!]

[God Kubera!]

[Why would you bring such hardships on us?]

[Ahhh!]

For three hundred thousand years, the faithful followers and priests spent their lives underground, waiting and crying out for Kubera, but they were also brutally killed because of that Kubera. However, this was acceptable because, after a certain amount of time, they would regenerate again as faithful priests, patiently waiting for Kubera, who hadn’t returned for seventy million years. Kubera had been gone for three thousand years, and the seventy million years calculated by the mechanical creature were the result of a distortion in the time axis.

Thanks to the angry demons, Han-Yeol no longer had to risk his life to hunt down the monsters. He just followed behind them, leisurely picking up mana stones and other useful gems from the monsters’ corpses. Normally, the greedy demons would have naturally pocketed all the mana stones and corpses, but unfortunately for them, the conditions of this special summoning were that they couldn't take anything back to the demon world. For those reasons, this was the first time Han-Yeol and his group felt relaxed after being trapped in this unfamiliar space.

“So this is all over now.”

“I think so. There must be an exit at the end of this dungeon, so if we just leave through there, this will really be over.”

“Haha, this was a rewarding dungeon.”

“Yeah, it was rewarding, except it was too rewarding.”

“Haha.”

Han-Yeol found it rewarding, but he thought the extent of the reward had caused him a considerable amount of trouble.

The demons advanced quickly, killing monster after monster, and now they were so far ahead that they couldn't even be heard. Thanks to them, Han-Yeol and his group walked at a leisurely pace with the mindset that they were taking a stroll because they weren’t in a hurry anymore.

After a while, they finally reached their long-awaited exit: a huge stone chamber with a town portal that would allow them to leave this place.

[Agh...]

Surprisingly, there lay the dungeon’s supposed boss, who hadn’t died just yet. It was presumably a high priest that Han-Yeol or Tia would’ve had to face.

“The demons probably ran out of time on Earth just before they could finish. Otherwise, they wouldn't do such a ridiculous thing as sparing a living creature instead of killing it.”

As a fellow demon himself, Stewart possessed a deeper understanding of other demons' thought processes.

Han-Yeol nodded.