Main Character Hides His Strength

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The Cave Elf with the staff began to utter an indecipherable incantation.
A mysterious magical formation began to ripple out from his lips.
Sungchul didn’t know what it was when he first arrived here, but he figured it out now.

‘Is it some kind of restraint?’

Invisible shackles bound his arms and legs firmly.
Sungchul’s Soul Contract, The Eye of Truth revealed to him that the shackles were made of vengeful souls of the deceased.

‘Such vile magic.’

The sword wielding elf began to rush towards him.
It was the same tactic that had caught Odrias off guard, but this kind of method wouldn’t work on Sungchul.
God-like power coursed through his veins.
He could feel that wave of power and began to lightly move his body.

“Kwaaaaa!”

“Gyaaaaak!”

Hellish screeches and cries of agony could be heard as the restraints formed of souls that bound his four limbs began to tear.

“…?!”

The staff wielding Cave Elf suddenly froze.
Something impossible had occurred.
The sword wielding Cave Elf had been completely focused on the task of piercing Sungchul’s head and waited for the sensation of the sword digging into his chest and piercing his heart.
However, his expectations didn’t come to pass.
A blunt force lightly shook his body.

Grip.

The powerful hands of a human wrapped around his neck.
Shock and terror appeared in the Cave Elf’s ruby red eyes.
When strength passed through the hand that gripped his neck, the Cave Elf dropped his blade and used both his arms in an effort to free himself from the human’s grasp.
He tried to scratch the man with his sharp nails, but it wasn’t enough to even leave a mark on the firmly gripped hand.

Krrrt!

The Cave Elf lost consciousness along with the sound of something snapping echoing in the halls.
And after a loud impact, its body was forever destroyed.

“….”

Sungchul tossed away the Cave Elf corpse with a crushed skull and moved to face his next enemy.
The remaining Cave Elf began to wave his arms while quickly rushing to speak.

“Wait, human! I’ll tell you a method.
A blue feathered…”

Wham!

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The number of crushed heads grew to two.

“So it’s the blue feathers?”

The pieces of the puzzle fell into place.
All that was left was for Sungchul to return to the poultry farm to seek out a blue feathered Nahak.

“Hey, what are you going to do about that guy?”

Bertelgia looked toward the young Nahak that was chewing on Odrias’ corpse as she spoke.

“…”

“You’re not going to use him in one of your recipes, are you?”

“I don’t eat anything with intelligence.”

“Really…?”

“…except dragons.”

Sungchul put away Fal Garaz into his Soul Storage and headed toward the poultry farm, but as he was about to step out of the room with the gravestone, he could hear someone’s voice from another entrance.

“Miss Mimi! It’s over here-yeyo! The black square is here-yeyo!”

It was a homunculus’s voice.
Sungchul stopped in his tracks and looked over in the direction of the voice.
From the corner of a hidden entrance, an armored homunculus was leading a bloodied woman.
It was the blinded Mimi Azrael.

The woman who could no longer see in front of her moved her head as if trying to look around her surroundings and spoke,

“Ujicha.
Are you sure that the Swordmaster is dead?”

She asked with her voice thick with genuine fear.

“Yes! This Ujicha saw it himself-yeyo! Miss Mimi! The Swordmaster died to the Cave Elves with the shinies-yeyo! There is that bad guy’s corpse over there-yeyo!”

“What about the Tomb Guardians?”

“Ara? I thought I saw them enter the tomb, but now they’re all dead-yeyo.”

“Dead? The Guardians?”

“Yes.
All of their heads were caved in-yeyo.”

“How did that happen? For the Guardians to die… could it be Willie Gilford himself…?!”

She sucked in her breath and focused on her hearing.
There was only a deathly silence with no sounds of the living.

“Let’s move quickly, Ujicha.”

“I understand-yeyo!”

The homunculus led Mimi towards the altar.
Mimi reached out to feel for the altar, then when she managed to find it, she pulled out two magic staves from her Soul Storage to use as crutches to stand with all of her strength.

“Urrrrk…”

Mimi, who now stood in front of the altar, looked down towards the homunculus who should be standing beside her feet and spoke in a soft voice.

“Ujicha.
Can you give me a big hug?”

“What? Miss Mimi is going to hug me-yeyo?!”

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The homunculus spoke with a tearful voice.

“I just have one last request.”

Sungchul and Bertelgia were watching the scene quietly from a distance.

“What could they be doing?”

Bertelgia held her curiosity and asked Sungchul who was beside her.
Sungchul also had the same question.

‘What could this woman be trying to do?’

He continued to watch Mimi’s actions.
The homunculus went into her embrace.

“Take off your helmet.”

She spoke softly.

“Can I really do that-yeyo?”

When the homunculus asked carefully, she put on a magnanimous expression and nodded her head.
Soon, the homunculus took of his iron mask.
The grotesque appearance that lied within was completely exposed without any filter.
Rather than a face, it looked more like several grotesque pieces of meat had been sewn together to form the face tissue.

“Urk…”

Bertelgia couldn’t bear looking at the appearance any longer and hid behind Sungchul, but Sungchul didn’t miss a single moment of that enhanced Homunculus’ bare face.
One thing stood out as odd.
It looked fundamentally different than a normal homunculus.
Something that was hidden beyond the hideous scars, numerous boils, and charred burns.

‘It wasn’t a normal homunculus as expected.
More than that… that mouth… did she rip a beak out of its face?”

At that moment, the homunculus’ body suddenly stiffened.
A sharp dagger had been stabbed into its neck.

“Miss… Miss Mimi…?”

The homunculus stuttered like a clockwork doll as it turned its head with red blood pouring out of its neck.
Mimi pushed the homunculus down onto the altar and shoved the dagger deeper as she spoke softly.

“I’m really sorry, but there’s no other way.”

“This life was given by Miss Mimi anyways-yeyo.
It’s only right that Miss Mimi takes back what she gave-yeyo, but everything is growing so dark-yeyo.
It hurts so much-yeyo…”

“…when I get stronger, I’ll revive you guys.”

Mimi twisted the dagger embedded into its neck.
Something seemed to snap as the homunculus instantly died, and its blood began to fill the altar.

Surprise overtook Sungchul’s eyes.

‘Could that homunculus have been created with the blood of a blue-feathered Nahak?’

The ground began to tremble, and a deep rumbling that pierced the dungeon in its entirety could be heard by everyone within.
The black gravestone began to rise into the air.
Within the burial chamber, the real burial chamber of the Avian King finally revealed itself.

[All those living and dead, kneel]
[make way for the Final King, Marakia]

At the same time.
There was a relic upon the Tower of Recluse, an ancient tower revered as the most mystical and holy structure of the Other World, known as the Scripture of Calamity.
There was an all important change occurring to this relic which can only be altered by the divine will.

“What the…! Are you saying that a new clause is being added to the Scripture of Calamity?!”

The tower’s owner, the Holy Man Porpyrios, began to head towards the sacred location in which the Scripture of Calamity was held without care for his attire.
He witnessed it.
Along with the alteration of the previous seven calamities, a new calamity was being recorded on the first line simultaneously.

[The King of Feathers and Beak that devoured his own kin will spread his wings of sin once again to swallow the world in darkness.]