Whoosh!
A wave of scorching heat swept through.
The apostles of the Red Dragon God gathered all their strength for a final resistance.
It was as if they had fallen into a flame prison.
A fierce blaze that would burn everything and everyone descended upon the ground. Those with weak power vanished without even a scream.
Hunters burned black, turning to ash and disappearing.
Yoo Seolha quietly chanted an incantation amidst the intense heat. Together with the mages of the Golden Tower and the Guardian mages, she recited a spell.
Whoosh!
Snow descended to save those trapped in the flame prison. A cold chill spread in all directions along with a powerful gust.
Where the snowstorm passed, the heat was erased.
“Phew… I can finally breathe.”
“I’m parched. Anyone got water?”
“Everyone focus. It’s not over yet. Don’t let your guard down until it’s completely finished.”
Those who had regained some leeway encouraged each other, gave orders, and moved toward the remaining Red Dragon God.
Crack!
Rumble!
Boom!
The flame prison created by the Red Dragon God burned everything, while the ice storm conjured by the mages froze it all.
At the boundary where the two clashed, the hunters, having regained their composure, fought the apostles.
As the stubbornly resisting apostles of the Red Dragon God dwindled one by one, victory was quickly decided.
As quickly as it blazed up.
The fire went out just as fast.
At the start of the battle, the Red Dragon God’s supreme apostle unleashed a powerful spell close to a finishing move, but the Guardians stepped forward and blocked the attack.
In truth, the outcome had been decided from that moment.
After that, the Red Dragon God’s apostles could no longer exert their full strength.
“Is it over?”
Ropenheim’s voice cracked as if his breath was being choked off. Yoo Seolha nodded.
“It seems so.”
“Hah. I could really use some ice water.”
“Me too.”
As the general commander, Yoo Seolha wrapped up the Dimensional War.
She sent a message of victory to the hunters.
She reactivated the dimensional gate leading back to Earth. One by one, the hunters passed through the gate and returned to their original world.
Yoo Seolha, the last to remain, checked for any traps or survivors left by the Red Dragon God.
After confirming with her own eyes that there was no problem, she returned to Earth.
And in Yoo Seolha’s eyes, an incredible sight was unfolding.
Flash!
Boom! Rumble!
Lightning struck from a clear sky, and mana raged. Sparks flew, and thunder roared, pounding the ears.
That wasn’t all.
A faint, continuous tremor spread across the ground, growing stronger with each passing moment.
Along with it, a fierce wind blew.
An anomaly.
Yoo Seolha’s eyes flashed as she used her Authority. Then she found a clue about the anomaly.
Three cracks had appeared in Korea.
From each crack flowed mana of wind, earth, and lightning attributes. The cracks were worsening in real time.
There were few who could do something like this.
“…Are they invading from over there?”
Yoo Seolha moved to the Golden Tower and received a report on the current situation.
When had this phenomenon started?
How long until the dimensional gates opened?
“It seems the gates will open in about an hour.”
“That’s tight. Inform the whole world immediately. Civilians are to evacuate to shelters, and hunters are to prepare for battle.”
“Understood.”
The Golden Tower’s wide-area loudspeaker broadcasted this fact to the entire world.
Since the message was only visible to hunters.
They also sent a warning to civilians using the wide-area loudspeaker. Mages from the Golden Tower were dispatched to ensure a swift evacuation.
They had to make as many people as possible take shelter within the hour.
Yoo Seolha immediately moved to where the Dragon Lair was and informed them.
“Prepare yourselves. The enemies are coming.”
“We just got back. Tch, what rude bastards.”
“What else is there to do but fight?”
“If they’re coming from three places at once… does that mean if we win this battle, it’s over?”
Even though they knew it wouldn’t be an easy fight, no one showed fear.
The most trustworthy ones.
All the Guardians here had lost their homeland to the Seven Dragon Gods.
Their desire for revenge outweighed their fear of death.
“Please take care of it.”
Yoo Seolha bowed to them and returned to Earth.
As the anomaly grew worse, buildings began to collapse.
Skyscrapers fell in the powerful earthquake.
The wind raged, tossing buildings into the air.
The lightning strikes falling from the sky were all controlled by the Spirit King of Lightning, preventing damage.
“…Hoo.”
She had done everything she could to prepare, but she wasn’t sure they could win.
It wasn’t a one-on-one fight; it was three against one.
Moreover, the enemy included three supreme apostles at the demi-god level. This wasn’t a surprise attack—they were deliberately crossing over to this place.
To turn the situation around, they needed something.
Yoo Seolha bit her lip and racked her brain.
Nothing suitable came to mind.
No solution other than giving it their all.
Boom!
At that moment, a tremendous roar burst out, and one of the dimensional gates opened. It connected far earlier than expected.
However.
What came through the gate were the apostles of the Wind Dragon God.
Apostles wearing green cloaks landed on the buildings, carried by the wind, and took their positions.
“…Wipe them all out!”
“We’ll erase this world from all dimensions.”
“Let’s go!”
Hundreds of thousands of apostles moved at once. As they did, Yoo Seolha pulled up her mana.
She activated the magic circles and sacred relics she had set up in advance.
Bang!
Crash!
A massive magic circle appeared in the sky and attacked the Wind Dragon God’s apostles.
The apostles’ heads exploded.
In an instant, about half of the apostles lost their lives. The hunters moved toward the remaining half.
The new SS-class and SSS-class sacred relics representing Korea.
The guilds centered around them began a war against the apostles.
“Do you think a force this pathetic can stop us?”
One of the supreme apostles used a powerful spell to tear apart space.
Yoo Seolha urgently used magic to protect the hunters.
The moment she saved a hunter from death.
The dimensional gates opened, and the Guardians joined in.
The battle, which had seemed one-sided, became evenly matched again.
But even this was only temporary.
If support came from other countries and the Sky Island, capturing the Wind Dragon God’s apostles wouldn’t be that hard.
Crack!
Crack! Crack!
The remaining two dimensional gates began to form rapidly.
If those two gates opened, Earth’s forces would never be able to stop them.
‘…I have to buy as much time as possible.’
At least until they finished off the Wind Dragon God’s apostles.
Yoo Seolha approached the gates and poured all her mana into preventing them from forming.
“Hup!”
It consumed not only mana but also a tremendous amount of stamina.
Pain began to spread slowly.
She gritted her teeth.
She managed to seal the rapidly widening cracks. It was bearable, but it was hard to focus.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
A supreme apostle saw Yoo Seolha blocking the cracks and launched a spell.
Boom!
Fryra appeared in front of Yoo Seolha and used plants to block the supreme apostle’s attack.
“I’ll hold them off somehow.”
“Thank you.”
Yoo Seolha concentrated again on blocking the dimensional gates, while Fryra built a defensive line around them using plants.
Boom! Crash!
While blocking the barrage of spells, the Guardians systematically eliminated the apostles one by one.
Meanwhile, SSS-class hunters from the Sky Island and other countries joined in.
The atmosphere of the battlefield changed drastically.
Just as she thought they might actually win, the crack she had forcibly sealed tore wide open.
Space split, and the dimensional gate opened like a demon’s mouth.
From within, the apostles of the Thunder Dragon God and the Earth Dragon God poured out.
“Kahahahaha!”
The Wind Dragon God’s supreme apostle laughed loudly, and a fierce gale swept across the entire Earth, creating a storm.
“It’s over now. As of today, Gold will be erased from all dimensions.”
The supreme apostles of the Thunder Dragon God and the Earth Dragon God crossed through the gate, radiating intense energy.
They immediately began preparing spells.
Two spells that looked ominous just by sight were being prepared.
Above them, the Wind Dragon God chanted another spell.
The Guardians and the Sky Island’s Gold Dragons unleashed attacks to stop them.
Boom!
Crash!
A barrage of attacks targeted them.
But the apostles each formed a defensive line and used defensive magic circles to block the attacks.
They had already fought one war and returned.
The Guardians, hunters, and Gold Dragons couldn’t exert one hundred percent of their original strength.
In the midst of that, the Thunder Dragon God’s spell was completed.
Flash!
The world flashed white for an instant, and then something powerful fell over Korea.
Squeal!
A deafening roar that seemed to tear the ears rang out, and the shockwave spread a gale in all directions.
The power was weaker than expected.
At the center stood the Spirit King of Lightning.
He had thrown his everything into blocking the attack created by the Thunder Dragon God’s apostle.
“…Kuh-ack!”
“To think you blocked an attack made with my full sincerity. Your rank must be higher than I thought… Then can you block my second attack as well?”
Unlike the Spirit King of Lightning, who had exhausted all his power, the Thunder Dragon God’s supreme apostle was completely fine.
Whoosh!
Meanwhile, the Earth Dragon God’s supreme apostle smirked and unleashed a powerful spell that would annihilate Earth.
Yoo Seolha saw it and clenched her teeth.
She had already used up all her mana and Authority to block the cracks. She had no means to stop that attack.
“It’s truly over now!”
Just as the Earth Dragon God’s supreme apostle shouted loudly and a strong mana wave was about to spread across the ground.
Slice!
The supreme apostle’s neck was severed, and the spell being chanted was canceled. As the supreme apostle, unaware of the situation, felt confusion.
The mana backlash from the canceled spell exploded, engulfing the supreme apostle.
The Earth Dragon God’s supreme apostle and the surrounding apostles were annihilated along with him.
“Who are you?!”
The supreme apostles of the Thunder Dragon God and the Wind Dragon God looked around frantically.
Something appeared before those two.
A green glowing sword.
A sword formed from mana aimed straight for the Wind Dragon God’s neck. He desperately tried to create wind to block the attack.
But the sword cut through the wind, splitting the Wind Dragon God in two.
“Kuh-ack!”
From the tip of the sword that had split the Wind Dragon God, someone revealed themselves.
The transparent space wavered, and a human appeared.
A man with a cold, green-tinted impression.
No mana could be felt from the man. It was as if his very existence couldn’t be perceived.
Now that he had revealed himself, it was barely possible to sense him.
“Guys, let’s clean up the rest.”
At the man’s command, those who had been hiding revealed themselves.
Beastmen, vampires, elves, and so on.
None of them felt like they had any presence, like that man, but the power they displayed was overwhelming.
With their hands, the apostles that had descended on Earth were swiftly dealt with.
As Yoo Seolha watched the scene with a dumbfounded expression.
A goblin walked up to Fryra, who was beside her.
“Kid, long time no see.”
“A goblin?”
“Kuhuhu. I’ve finally returned!”