The Swordsman Genius Returnee Even Swallows Immortality

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Thanks to Habell, it was possible to break through the Dark Zone easily.

Behind Habell were Habell’s party, of course, as well as other climbers who had been trailing after them.

Those who had been captivated by the dawn’s light had begun to follow them.

They, too, had suffered terribly in the darkness.

So they had been unconsciously drawn to the light and followed it.

“Are you okay?”

Pelevan asked, glaring back.

They didn’t stick too close, knowing that they were being shameless.

However, judging by the fact that they were following persistently, it was clear that they would follow them to the final floor.

“Do you think guys who can’t climb the ranks on their own would be a problem for me?”

Habell answered apathetically.

“That’s true.”

Pelevan laughed softly.

Just as he said, they couldn’t do anything but follow.

They were like moths drawn to a flame.

“You can only climb the tower to the level you are capable of, and then you can move on to the next one.”

Dante agreed with him.

He swallowed the feeling that he might be included in that group.

“If you two don’t mind, then it’s fine.”

Pelevan followed the two’s words obediently.

It wasn’t his place to intervene.

As proof of this, the three who were following them were also silent.

To be exact, it would be more accurate to say that they were still mesmerized by Habell’s dawn.

A long time passed like that.

Finally, Habell and everyone else reached the final floor of the 5th rank.

It had taken them three days just to get this far.

It was such an unprecedented record in the history of the Tower that those who had not witnessed it firsthand would have called it a lie.

Meanwhile, Habell had been checking Matt’s transcendence status.

[Transcendence of ‘Matt’ in 5 hours, 21 minutes, and 43 seconds.]

There was still some time left.

‘I hope it coincides with clearing the hierarchy.’

That way, he would know exactly what happened after transcendence.

In the meantime, was it because Habell had yet to activate Dawn?

After a long time, everyone seemed to be having trouble adjusting to the darkness that filled their surroundings.

Habell began to walk through the darkness.

“There are followers around their master to protect them.”

Habell spoke, looking far into the distant darkness.

“I’ll leave them to you.”

“Yes.”

Dante answered, his eyes glaring.

He had grown even more since the Mad Dog incident and was now quite reliable.

Habell left it to Dante and stomped on the ground.

“There it is.”

And the moment those words were finished, Habell dashed into the darkness.

Pitch-black darkness.

The darkness that seemed to stretch on endlessly was familiar to Habell.

It must have been because of the darkness that had manifested in his body.

Unlike the previous floor, he left everyone behind this time and ran at full speed.

Because of that, the darkness Habell passed through was blown away by the wind.

‘As expected, my running speed has become much faster than before.’

This must have been largely due to the increased agility.

The moment he broke through the floor at an incredible speed.

Habell’s steps finally began to slow.

It felt refreshing to have run at full speed after such a long time.

Habell stopped and looked down.

What met his eyes was a dizzying cliff.

A place reminiscent of a bottomless pit.

Darkness was crawling out from beneath it.

Thud―.

A rolling stone fell for a long time.

However, no sound was heard.

That meant that this cliff was incredibly deep.

“He made me climb all this way, and now it’s the bottom of a cliff.”

Habell muttered to himself and stood at the edge of the cliff.

Normally, he would have looked for a way to get across the cliff.

However, Habell could feel a clear presence at the bottom of the cliff.

The real master is here.

So that’s why I paid a visit.

Havel began to step down the cliff vertically.

Darkness surged up along with the wind blowing from below.

The darkness felt as if it were trying to push him down.

‘Are you scared?’

Havel didn’t hide his aura.

So the aura gushing out of him right now was enough to suppress the darkness.

The other side had clearly recognized him.

Yet it was reacting as if it wanted to push him back instead.

It was clear that the ominous beings he had met so far had no concept of fear.

But this one was different.

It showed the emotional behavior of fear, like a human.

‘So, is this a being I can communicate with? Or not?’

Interest flickered in Havel’s eyes.

If communication was possible, he would stick to the same method he used with the ominous sorcerer.

‘If it’s not possible.’

The interrogation process would simply be omitted.

Dawn began to flow out of Havel’s sword.

“Let’s see if you can escape even when the darkness disappears.”

Soon, Havel swung his sword.

Hwaak!

The dawn spread out beneath the cliff, devouring the darkness.

The abyss filled with darkness became nothing more than a cliff in broad daylight as the dawn spread.

Just as the dawn had spread quite a distance.

Thud!

The dawn scattered in an instant as it reached a certain point.

Havel’s eyebrows twitched at the sight.

Below the cliff, there was something huge and pitch black.

It was as if the Milky Way was wrapped around its body.

It had countless shining stars.

Its size was hard to estimate.

Perhaps because of that, the darkness made him unconsciously imagine the universe.

At the bottom of the abyss.

The enormous filling it.

The 5th-rank pearl.

The universe.

That was the moment it revealed its form.

Havel twisted his sword in front of its immense size.

The way it had swallowed his dawn just now.

It seemed to be devouring light.

“We’re not compatible.”

Samramanasang looked completely unaffected by the dawn.

A hollow laugh formed on Habell’s lips at the sight.

Who would have thought there would be a wicked beast that could devour the dawn?

And Samramanasang realized that fact.

He began to move in earnest.

He attacked, realizing that he had an advantage in compatibility.

They say wicked beasts of the 5th rank and above have intelligence.

How sly, just like a human.

But Habell just laughed in the face of such a disadvantageous situation.

“If you can devour light.”

The dawn began to rise again on Habell’s sword.

“I wonder what will happen if I beat you until that darkness is filled with light.”

I will keep the dawn blooming until the dawn in the depths of the abyss never ends.

* * *

Below the abyss.

The outpouring light shot up to the sky and then disappeared repeatedly.

In the center of it all was none other than Habell.

He ran between the sky and the cliff, swinging his sword over and over again.

Every time, the pitch-black darkness that flew toward him was torn apart.

But the darkness will not stop.

As if, on the contrary, asking them to give them more light.

Like a flock of hungry baby birds, they chased after him.

“You’re really pushing the limits of greed.”

As if they couldn’t bear the hunger.

The darkness wanted to devour Habell’s dawn.

But Habell did not stop the dawn.

As if telling them to eat until they were full.

He continued to pour out the dawn without stopping for a moment.

Boom, bang, crash!

The darkness that flew in shattered the outer wall of the cliff, causing a commotion.

As Habell jumped through the dust, the darkness beneath his feet followed.

The darkness was growing.

As the light grows stronger, so does the darkness.

As if to prove it, the darkness continued to grow stronger.

Boom, boom, boom!

The size of Samramanasang, who had swallowed it the previous morning, was even larger than before.

He had grown so big that he could now fill the abyss.

No wonder his figure could now be seen even from the top of the cliff.

Giggle, giggle, giggle.

From the Myriad of Manifestations came a strange sound.

Habell realized that it was the Myriad of Manifestations’ laughter.

The bastard was laughing at him.

“Oh, you’re laughing?”

Kikikiki-.

In that moment, the Myriad of Manifestations’ body rose up, filling the abyss.

Habell was lifted up along with it, soaring towards the cliff.

In an instant, Habell flipped in the air and landed on the ground.

Then, a part of the Myriad of Manifestations’ body emerged from the cliff.

Could there be a darkness darker than darkness?

The Myriad of Manifestations appeared as an even darker darkness than the darkness that filled the dark zone.

Kuung, kuung!

At that moment, the Myriad of Manifestations’ giant legs emerged from the cliff and touched the ground.

The dozens of legs made him look like a giant centipede crawling on the ground.

It lifted its massive body, revealing stars shining within it.

At the same time, a giant mouth appeared under its belly.

Kikikiki-.

The laughter from earlier had come from that mouth.

“Are you provoking me, saying that I have no limits?”

As if in response, the Myriad of Manifestations’ body began to writhe.

At that moment, dark bullets shot out in all directions from the Myriad of Manifestations’ body.

Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!

Wherever the dark bullets touched, they turned into darkness and disappeared.

Of course, the dark bullets were aimed at Habell.

The Myriad of Manifestations craved the dawn that he possessed.

It wanted Habell to ignite the dawn again to fill its endless hunger.

Habell looked at the Myriad of Manifestations and raised his sword.

“If you want it, eat more.”

In that instant, dawn poured out of Habell once again.

The Myriad of Manifestations greedily devoured the dawn as if it were starving.

Its body grew larger and larger as it did so.

Soon, it was large enough to reach the ceiling of the hierarchy.

The Myriad of Manifestations had grown to an absurd size.

So much so that all the climbers who had entered the 59th floor could feel its presence.

They were in an uproar.

They said that some ridiculous calamity had appeared on the 59th floor.

They had climbed to the 5th hierarchy.

Even they knew how dangerous the Myriad of Manifestations’ presence was.

While the 59th floor was in chaos.

Habell quietly looked up at the Myriad of Manifestations.

Pshhhick.

Samraman sang let out a sound from his wide-open mouth.

A sound that carried an immense amount of agony.

It was a sense of satisfaction that he had never felt before.

However, Samraman sang continued to devour Habels dawn.

At that moment, at the center of his body.

A white sphere gradually began to appear in the place where the starlight had been filling.

The sphere was so blindingly bright that it swallowed the surrounding starlight.

Without realizing it, Samraman sang had completely enveloped Habels in darkness.

It was so that he wouldn’t lose even a bit of the light pouring out of him.

Even in that darkness, Habels remained unchanged.

With the same expression as before, he poured out the dawn while holding his sword.

And accordingly, the sphere of light inside Samraman sang’s body began to grow larger.

The size of the sphere grew rapidly once it was ignited.

Before he knew it, light began to leak out from Samraman sang’s entire body.

The amount of light began to exceed the amount of darkness he possessed.

Samraman sang was bewildered when he belatedly realized that the light was overflowing from his body.

However, Samraman sang could not stop devouring the light.

“Sometimes, intelligence amplifies the size of desire.”

Habels said, looking at Samraman sang like that.

“Do you know why countless humans repeat the same mistakes after being defeated by desire?”

In the dawn that still continued.

A desolate smile hung on Habels’ lips.

“It’s because of the intelligence that can imagine the joy that desire will bring.”

Therefore, those with intelligence repeatedly collapsed under the weight of their own desires.

Samraman sang was the same.

If he devoured Habels’ light, he could fill his stomach and grow larger.

Samraman sang, who had to live his entire life at the bottom of the abyss.

He didn’t have the ability to endure his current desires.

So he continued to devour the dawn.

Even just before his body was completely swallowed by the light.

Before Samraman sang, he had grown so large that he reached the sky.

Habels was raising his sword.

“I see. It seems like we can’t communicate.”

Samraman sang sensed danger.

However, his body was filled with light and he couldn’t move.

He couldn’t bear the weight of his own body.

In front of the slumped Samraman sang, Habels aimed the dawn.

Only then did Samraman sang’s darkness avoid the light.

“Then there’s no point in stalling for time.”

Habel’s two eyes shine brightly.

Gigigigik.

Samraman sang moved his body.

He was trying to escape to the Abyss now.

However, Habel had no intention of letting him.

Habel pointed his sword at Samraman sang, who was fleeing to the Abyss.

“I would have eaten well if you had treated me, do it.”

At that moment, a ray of dawn shot out from the tip of Habel’s sword.

Boom!

The dawn pierced through the darkness of Samraman sang and permeated inside.

Gigik, gigigigigigik!

Samraman sang’s body bubbled.

And that was the end.

Kwaang!

With a loud explosion, Samraman sang was blown to pieces.