***

Veld was ultimately taken down by his own attack.

He had made a foolish move.

If he was more objective and patient, the situation would have been different.

But ever since he went down to the human world and ran away back to the Demonic Realm.

On top of that, since they tracked him down to the Demonic Realm to hunt him down, he wasn’t in the right mind, and as a result of the nervousness, he made a mistake.

Min Sung clearly remembered just how appalled the Dionysus Gods were when he first obtained the counter barrier ability.

That was how powerful the counter barrier was.

The ability to return any attack by an opponent no matter how powerful it was was an impressive skill.

For that reason, he was unable to use any ordinary force, and in a situation where his life was on the line, he was able to use that strength to turn things around in his favor.

That was why Min Sung knew that if Veld saved his strength and dragged out the battle, things would get more difficult.

But since Veld made a big mistake, he was able to claim his victory.

Humans, devils, and even devil gods made mistakes.

As a result of that mistake, Veld was undergoing the process of extinction with the Gungnir S still in his back.

Dark smoke was coming out of Veld’s body, and his body slowly disappeared into thin air.

While going extinct, Veld looked up at Min Sung as if it wasn’t fair.

As for Min Sung, he looked down at Veld with flat eyes.

Veld’s eyes, which contained great evil, slowly lost its energy and lost the only light he had left.

As soon as the light of his life disappeared, Veld disappeared without leaving a single trace.

All that was left was the gold Gungnir S that was stabbed through the ground.

“S-Sir.”

He heard Ho Sung Lee’s shaking voice.

When he turned around, Ho Sung Lee was standing with a devastated look on his face.

“Did you kill Veld?”

Ho Sung Lee asked, and Min Sung nodded.

“… Then how do we go back to earth?”

“…”

Silence fell between the two men on the land of the Demonic Realm.

***

Bowl rode on his shadow board and dodged all of the devils that were charging toward him.

As a result, the devils were unable to grab Bowl.

Every time that happened, the dirt on the ground exploded as if a grenade went off.

He turned the devils into the Undead, but there were many more devils than Undead devils, and the Undead devils were inevitably weaker than the average devil.

For that reason, ever since Min Sung went to the Demonic Realm, the situation grew worse.

The Undead devils were already dead, and only he and Repone remained to fight the hard battle.

Despite Repone having great attack power, there were so many devils that Repone’s mana depleted drastically.

The more mana he left, the weaker the magic barrier he set up to stop the devils from going outside became.

At this rate, the magic barrier was going to collapse.

That was what Bowl was worried about.

If the magic wall fell and devils began to flood to the outside, his master would be greatly disappointed.

Bowl wanted to stop that from happening, but no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn’t think of a way.

Bowl stared at the magic barrier.

It started to become evident that the magic barrier was becoming weaker.

The red dragon, Repone, also looked tired.

There was no end to the devils. Bowl began to feel hopeless.

Bowl felt frustrated that he wouldn’t be able to meet his master’s expectations.

He couldn’t just run away.

He had to fight… for his master.

In order to stop them once and for all.

Bowl’s eyes, which looked like a candlelight that was about to blow out, suddenly blazed back up.

His loyalty toward his master gave him motivation.

He used the dark magic that was buried deep within.

Bowl stopped running away and stopped.

The devils were charging toward him.

Bowl opened his mouth wide, and dark smoke radiated from his eyes.

At the same time, Bowl’s body began to grow bigger and bigger.

Bowl, who transformed back into his original form of when he was a lich doll, launched his offensive dark magic.

Bones rose from the ground and wrapped around the devils, and dark smoke caused for the devils’ skin to decompose, and the magic energy that flowed out of Bowl’s hands sliced through the devils’ bodies as if they were paper.

When Repone saw the great strength Bowl was exerting, Repone watched with surprised eyes.

He had no idea how Bowl could become this strong.

Repone didn’t know, but Bowl didn’t know either.

It wasn’t something that they could just attribute to stimulation because the power was much too strong.

‘How did he change so much?’

Meanwhile…

“Screechhhhhhh!”

The devils began to let out chilling screams at the same time.

The devils stopped their attacks. They grabbed their own heads and expressed their pain.

The devils screamed and crawled on the ground as if they were broken.

Meanwhile, Bowl, who was completely focused on obeying his master’s orders, used his dark magic without any forgiveness.

As a result of Bowl’s powerful dark magic, the devils, who were already in pain, began to get ripped apart.

The devils’ flesh and blood exploded in all directions.

It no longer seemed like the human world was going to come to an end.

The red dragon, Repone, who was watching for a moment, came to his senses and let out his breath.

It seemed like the situation turned around, but it lasted for only a moment.

The devils, who were in pain, began to come to their senses.

Devils continued to pour out fo the gate, and their attacks started to become more powerful.

The devils’ defense was so much stronger that Repone’s breath was nothing but a short moment that prevented the devils from approaching.

While Repone flapped his wings in shock, Bowl levitated in the air and went over to Repone and used his dark magic.

Despite Bowl’s elevated power, the army of devils began to pressure Bowl and Repone once again.

Following the next battle, Bowl had lost almost all of his magic energy, and as a result, he transformed back into a small skeleton.

The devils slowly walked toward the tired Bowl and Repone, who had lost all of his Aura and energy.

They had a feeling that this fight was about to come to an end.

***

“What do we do? We don’t know how to get back…”

Ho Sung Lee was at a loss for words.

The thought of having to stay in the Demonic Realm forever made him panic.

“Didn’t you came here knowing that was a possibility?”

Min Sung asked.

“I knew that was a possibility, but for people, prediction and accepting it as reality are two different things… Haha.”

Ho Sung Lee’s face turned pale.

“That’s why I told you to stay there. It’s not like you would be much help.”

Ho Sung Lee smirked.

“Every time you say that, I feel so determined to prove you wrong. What can I do?”

Ho Sung Lee scanned the land of the Demonic Realm with knitted brows.

Ho Sung Lee felt like his life would be over if he had to keep living here.

“Oh yeah!”

Ho Sung Lee widened his eyes and looked back at Min Sung.

“The… devils. The devils are still on earth. Do you think Bowl and Repone are okay? If you don’t go back there…”

Ho Sung Lee trailed off.

It was clear what Ho Sung Lee was trying to say.

Like he said, if he didn’t get back, the situation would get much worse.

But the reason why he still came to the Demonic Realm was to kill Veld, and Min Sung hadn’t given up on going back to the human world.

“We’ll have to find a way,” said Min Sugn while glaring at the dark ground of the Demonic Realm.

At that moment, Min Sung reacted to something.

“…?”

Min Sung stared into space with a blank face, and Ho Sung Lee watched in confusion.

Ho Sung Lee’s face became tense.

“What’s wrong?”

Ho Sung Lee asked.

“I think I found a way,” replied Min Sung in a low voice.

“You did?”

Ho Sung Lee’s face lit up for a second, but it died down immediately.

That was because Min Sung’s face looked dark.

“If you found a way, why do you look so serious?”

Min Sung smirked.

“They’re telling me to take over Veld’s position.”

“… What?”

Ho Sung Lee’s face looked shocked.

“Since Veld died, there is no longer a ruler in the Demonic Realm. If I take that place, I’ll end up inheriting the power of the Demonic Realm, which means I can also interfere in other worlds.”

“Then you can open the gate to the human world.”

Ho Sung Lee mumbled to himself before knitting his brows at Min Sung.

“But the position of the devil king…? No. I know better than anyone how much you despise this place. You can’t become the owner of a place like that.”

Ho Sung Lee bit down on his lip and continued, “I’m sure there’s another way.”

Ho Sung Lee tried to convince Min Sung.

“We can’t miss this opportunity. Bowl and Repone are waiting for us.”

“But…!”

In response to Min Sung’s silence, Ho Sung Lee bowed his head.

That was because he knew he had already made up his mind.

“Let’s go and eat,” said Min Sung while touching his air.

At that moment, dark magic energy that was floating around the Demonic Realm began to swarm toward Min Sung.

The powerful wave of the magic energy pushed Ho Sung Lee back and made him roll on the ground.

A great amount of magic energy swarmed over to Min Sung, and when Min Sung opened his eyes again.

Min Sung gave off a presence that he didn’t have before.

Ho Sung Lee stared at Min Sung blankly.

Now that he was in a position equal to the gods, surpassing that of all devils and humans, Ho Sung Lee couldn’t help but tremble.

Min Sung smiled and looked back at Ho Sung Lee.

“Let’s go back.”

Min Sung flashed his eyes and waved his hand.

Ripppppp!

The air ripped, forming a gate.

The door to the human world had opened.

Ho Sung Lee took Ssol and followed Min Sung through the gate.