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Chapter 258 - Revelation (2)
Chapter 258 - Revelation (2)
Chapter 258
“There’s no way!”
Raphael got up.
‘Good! Well done, Raphael!’
KangWoo nodded.
“That’s right. Satan himself said that he’s the Demon of Prophecy.”
He’d burst into laughter while admitting that everything that had happened had been according to his plan, and his eyes had been filled with anger and madness.
Who would try to doubt Satan was the Demon of Prophecy after seeing something like that?
“H-he isn’t… Satan… isn’t the Demon of… Prophecy,” Gaia said in a weak voice.
Kim ShiHoon grabbed her shoulder and shouted.
“Y-you’re for sure mistaken! T-to think that individual isn’t the Demon of Prophecy…!”
The big war that had happened in Russia…
Raphael suffered a critical wound in that war, and even KangWoo almost lost his life.
Even so, they hadn’t been able to catch Satan.
They hadn’t been able to beat him.
That demon, full of anger and madness, was probably hiding somewhere as he planned the world’s destruction.
‘But…’
To say at that point that Satan wasn’t the Demon of Prophecy…
“That’s…”
Kim ShiHoon lowered his head.
A huge sense of powerlessness weighed on him.
Gaia extended her hand and hugged him.
“I… I’m sorry. My child. Ah, I placed too much of a burden on your shoulders,” Gaia said in a sorrowful voice.
“B-but… Satan, that being… isn’t the Demon of Prophecy. He isn’t the one Seraphim and I saw… The Demon of Prophecy wasn’t him,” she said in a fearful voice.
After calming down, Raphael spoke.
“If Satan isn’t the Demon of Prophecy… Then who is it?!”
“I… I don’t know.”
Gaia lowered her head.
Raphael frowned.
It was the same for KangWoo and Kim ShiHoon.
“Didn’t you say you saw it before?” Kim ShiHoon asked her as if he were trying to counter her.
“It… it’s hard to explain precisely. Th-that person had a darkness that was too huge… I… I wasn’t able to get a grasp on him.”
“Then there’s a chance Satan…”
“N-no.”
She shook her head.
Gaia breathed heavily while trying to calm down.
“That person had a darkness that resembled the Abyss… it seemed bottomless.”
“…”
There was a heavy silence.
Everyone felt confused at the scale of things that were being said.
Gaia trembled.
“M-my children… b-be careful of the Demon of Prophecy… the monster of the Abyss will…”
The light surrounding Gaia started to fade.
Then, Gaia, who was sitting in the wheelchair, fell to the side.
“Ms. Gaia!”
Kim ShiHoon quickly ran toward her and grabbed her.
“Shi… Hoon…?” Gaia asked while making a pale expression.
She was trembling as if she were about to collapse at any moment.
“Wh-what happened…”
“First, take a break. I’ll explain it to you later,” Kim ShiHoon said in a low voice, holding her in his arms.
Gaia’s eyes closed.
“…”
Once again, there was a heavy silence.
Raphael grabbed his forehead as if his head hurt.
“What’s going on…?”
He seemed troubled.
“Mr. Raphael, is there any other demon you can think of?” KangWoo asked him.
“…”
Raphael remained silent and avoided looking at him.
After seeing that Raphael was avoiding looking at him on purpose, KangWoo’s eyes shone.
“So there’s a demon you can think of.”
“I cannot say it…” he said in a firm voice.
“This is something Michael is investigating, so forget about it, human.”
“…”
KangWoo was about to say something but didn’t.
He narrowed his eyes.
“Haa… What should I do now?” Raphael mumbled and sighed.
“What we have to do is the same thing we were doing until now,” KangWoo answered in a firm voice.
It didn’t matter who the Demon of Prophecy was, in the end, there was only one thing they could do…
“We must find Satan,” KangWoo said in a firm voice.
‘If we cannot find Satan, things won’t advance.’
He recalled Satan, who was surrounded by a horrible power called the Abyss.
“Even if he isn’t the Demon of Prophecy, seeing how he can control demonic energy from the Abyss, he’s definitely connected to the Demon of Prophecy.”
“Now that you say it, you’re right…”
Raphael nodded.
Although the number of hurdles they had to go through had increased, what they had to do was clear:
They had to climb the mountain and eliminate the evil in front of them.
‘To do that…’
* * *
Raphael narrowed his eyes.
He looked at Kim ShiHoon and Oh KangWoo; then he took a glimpse at his subordinates that were working inside the base.
To eliminate evil…
For light to win…
‘Whatever.’
It didn’t matter what the cost was.
“We’re going to support you as much as we can…”
KangWoo bowed.
Getting help from the angels was needed to fight a strong being like Satan.
“Did you find any clues on Satan?”
“I’ve been healing my wounds and focusing on building the base, so I haven’t been able to do much. I’ll start now.”
“Now that I think about it, I heard from Ludwig that you were trying to find Lucifer. What happened with that?”
“That…”
Raphael sighed.
“It’s the same for Lucifer—he threw away his forces and went into hiding.”
“Maybe…?”
KangWoo gulped.
“Is there a chance Lucifer is the Demon of Prophecy?”
“…”
Raphael remained silent.
He seemed troubled, but after a while, he ended up shaking his head.
“It’s true that Lucifer has Divinity, but… it isn’t him. I know because I fought against him. He doesn’t have the Sea of Demonic Energy.”
“…”
He seemed confident.
There was nothing to be said because, after all, Raphael was the one who’d fought the most against Lucifer.
“Then we’re going to go back at the moment… We will inform you as soon as we get information on Satan.”
“Please.”
Raphael nodded.
Kim ShiHoon held Gaia.
“Let’s go…”
KangWoo turned away, and their steps were heavy.
* * *
BOOM-!
“FUCK!!!”
He hit the wall.
Even though he hadn’t used demonic energy, a giant hole appeared in the wall.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it!!”
Aggressive curses flowed from his mouth.
He frowned.
‘That fucking troll!!’
Thinking about Gaia made him angry.
She had poured ashes on a ready dinner table and turned the table upside down.
“Haa…” he sighed.
He remembered how she was struggling to speak.
‘That useless bastard.’
It was as if she’d defaulted after being unable to protect Earth properly. Somehow, he’d managed to organize and deal with the situation, but to think she’d bother him like that.
‘I struggled so much.’
He’d put a lot of effort into revealing Satan’s true identity.
‘But still…’
Everything had been in vain.
Thanks to the revelation of god or whatever, the tower he’d built with so much effort had collapsed almost instantly.
“The Demon of Prophecy…”
—The one who would make the world collapse.
—The one being that all gods said must be stopped.
KangWoo grabbed his hair.
‘If it wasn’t Satan, then who was it?’
There’s no way he was the Demon of Prophecy.
It was only logical—he was the Warrior of Light whom the Hero God had chosen.
Was he in a B-rank novel aiming for a cliche turn of events?
‘Yes, there’s no way.’
It didn’t matter how much he thought about it—he wasn’t the Demon of Prophecy.
There was no need to think too deeply about it, considering everything he’d done until that point.
He had been at the forefront of eliminating demons.
Why had he killed all of them as if he were a starving beast?
‘It was obviously to protect the world.’
It was to make all those tainted by evil receive the judgment of light.
Who was it that had revealed all of the evil doings of Satan and weakened the Demon Cult?
It was him.
For him to be the Demon of Prophecy…
‘Nonsense.’
There was definitely someone else—someone that had been making fun of the gods from behind and playing with the world’s destiny.
“If it isn’t even Lucifer, then who…?”
Who was the Demon of Prophecy?
He felt a huge pressure on his shoulders, and he couldn’t help but sigh.
Then…
Clack-
The door opened, and a woman with long, black hair entered.
“Is there anything wrong, KangWoo?” Lilith asked in a worried voice.
KangWoo shook his head and sat on the sofa.
After separating from Kim ShiHoon and Gaia, he’d walked toward Balrog’s house.
He’d bought and reformed an entire building to ensure Balrog could live comfortably in it.
“It’s nothing… but more than that, where’s Balrog?”
“He’s currently investigating something in the Middle East.”
“The Middle East?” KangWoo asked while tilting his head.
Lilith nodded.
“Yes. You asked me to investigate Kalgia before.”
“Ah.”
He remembered.
Kalgia… The last remaining Phase of Evil of the Demon Cult—someone who hadn’t appeared in the war.
“Did you find him?”
“There’s a place that seems likely, so I asked Balrog to investigate… I’m almost sure it’s where Kalgia is.”
KangWoo’s eyes shone.
There was no way to solve the bad news from Gaia, but this wasn’t bad news.
‘First, I must eliminate the Demon Cult.’
He could think about the Demon of Prophecy later on.
“Should I tell Balrog to bring Kalgia’s head?” Lilith asked.
“Hmm… wait.”
KangWoo fell into thought.
“Tell him just to figure out their location for the moment.”
“Are you going to kill him by yourself?”
“No.”
He shook his head.
There was something he’d come up with regarding Kalgia.
“ShiHoon is going to kill Kalgia.”
It was about time he threw a bait to the protagonist, who hadn’t been appearing recently.