Level 0 Master

"An ex…Extra…No, Master Sungjin…Won…Or should I say it was a glorious victory?"

One of the heroes started to talk nonsense, but other heroes around him understood: no one there was able to believe what they had just seen.

"Master Sungjin's intelligence made the Forbidden Evil powerless!" said another hero, pretending that he never cheered for Seyzo II. They were smart enough to understand which king they now had to befriend. Sungjin had just conquered all four kingdoms.

I hope no one will tell Sungjin what I've just said.

Next to the confused heroes, Sir Todam smiled and told Mr. Gunan.

"I'm glad I decided not to say anything until I found out what happened. Haha! They were stupid to rush."

"You are a man of wisdom."

Your decision? I told you to do that!

Mr. Gunan smiled, telling Sir Todam the opposite of what he was thinking.

Other extras were excited as well. They were about to give up everything, but at the last moment, Sungjin conquered.

"Oh..."

"He won!"

"Hurray!"

Eustasia was also deeply impressed.

... Yes. He didn't have any more skills left.

But Sungjin still had his left hand and the turret.

Did he consider that possibility and keep his left arm, using his right arm as bait? That's impossible.

Eustasia thought it was impossible, but there was no such thing as maybe in Sungjin's plan.

Sungjin surely considered the Forbidden Evil's maximum power and planned to use every last maneuver they had with one-hundred percent force to fight against Seyzo II.

If I commanded his team, I would have done the same until the first half but would have ended up losing due to the endless power of the Forbidden Evil.

The slight difference between her and Sungjin was his ability to bring out the best of the limited force, an ability that could be the difference between winning and losing. It was the difference between a smart general who used the perfectly-formed rules of engagement and a genius who thought one step ahead.

I'm impressed; I will congratulate your victory for now.

The massacre by Eustasia's father, the mad king, was stopped.

You're strong.

The level didn't matter. The winner was the strong one. Since he defeated everyone and took over all four kingdoms, Sungjin was now qualified to become a king of the unified kingdoms. What he could do with the Holy Nation and the Golden Nation would be a matter for later.

Eustasia could argue with nothing. As a loser, she was praising the winner.

Bye. I will leave before I see you.

It would be awkward to face Sungjin because she knew the defeat had been for everyone, and he had just destroyed her father. She couldn't congratulate him on overthrowing her father.

Unlike the excitement from Sungjin's team, a heavy air permeated the waiting room of the three kings.

"We are …Defeated…?" King Ilkandi murmured in disbelief.

"No way! This can't be true!" King Leoric was also in denial.

The countries belonged to them; there was no way Sungjin had just won, taking away both country and power from them. It was impossible that a mere extra had defeated them.

"You're right. An extra can't become a king. We can't let that happen."

Although he was the loser of the battle, Seyzo II was not dejected. His eyes were glaring with even more madness.

"But…Now…We have no other way."

King Ilkandi sat down in despair. They had just lost all their lands, and now they were prisoners. Their status was not their biggest concern; without Sungjin's mercy, they wouldn't even be allowed to live.

"There's still a way!" Seyzo II shouted out.

"What do you..."

"Whatever people say, I can't let an extra become a king! I will punish him! I believe you two would happily sacrifice yourselves for the bigger cause!"

"What are you talking about… What?!"

While they were trying to understand, Seyzo II raised the ring and shouted:

"I sacrifice myself!"

A dark stream filled up the waiting room, and before they realized it, King Ilkandi and King Leoric were swept into the stream.

Before they could even finish celebrating their victory, Sungjin and his team heard the sound of an explosion from the temple.

"What's going on?" Ereka asked nervously.

"Everyone out." Sungjin went out hoping the sound was not what he thought it was, but the worst-case scenario was waiting for him outside.

The waiting room of the purple team was gone, and a dark ocean was rapidly expanding where the room once stood. In the middle of the ocean, Seyzo II was laughing with absolute madness.

"An extra takes my kingdom away? Not going to happen! Come! My sealed evil monster, let's destroy this world!"

A black piece of meat coiled around him as if protecting him, and the black ocean kept expanding.

"What's going on?"

"What is that?"

While trying to understand the situation, the heroes and the extras got a bad feeling. There was a hole in the sky and from this dark hole, someone came down, connecting the hole to the black ocean on the ground.

The body slowly landed on the ground. It was gigantic. The body didn't have a real form but looked like a globe with a diameter of a few hundred meters; it had countless mouths, and they gave the body a bizarre wavy movement.

There was an endless number of snakes coming out from the body. The snake-shaped things had mouths all over their bodies, and it was hard to tell which part was the head and which part was the tail or body. They looked more like tentacles.

This was a strange-shaped monster that was not of this world. There were no such huge creatures, on land or in the sea; no such savageness could exist in this world.

While everyone tried to comprehend what was happening, the evil monster started eating up things, and Sungjin quickly started to command.

"Everyone get ready! Wizards and archers attack it from the distance! Knights, warriors, and assassins find your formation! Supports, get ready behind! Low levels, get into your formation, and high levels, replace the missing positions!"

His charismatic voice caught everyone's attention immediately.

"Take the wounded to the back. As soon as healed, come back to the position!"

The heroes didn't know what to do, so they followed Sungjin's command. This was also an order from the man who now owned all the territory in the four kingdoms.

"The extras, evacuate! Evacuate cities and towns nearby!"

With Sungjin's endless commands, the battle against the transcendent evil monster had started.

Count Satirus was watching and left with a big smile on his face.

Hahaha! Seyzo II has finally gone crazy enough to make his final move, all thanks to the stupid extra.

Sungjin did a great job to corner Seyzo II, and that, in turn, brought on this catastrophe.

Sungjin's victory was an ideal plot. The king's madness didn't stop with managing or feeding the monster. Seyzo II sacrificed two kings' lives and his soul to bring the monster to this world. It was impossible to manage beast, since it was a next-level evil monster, even among the outer beings.

When Seyzo II's existence is exhausted, it will disappear as well, but that will give enough time to destroy many things.

The ally of the four kingdoms would be destroyed, maybe even disappear from the map.

I hope only half would disappear.

So that his master would have something to conquer.

But if everything is destroyed that also means I followed his order.

Sungjin invited every hero from all four kingdoms to participate in this clash. Since it was a fight against an evil monster outside of the battlefield, there was no limit to how many heroes could participate in the fight.

I was prepared, but I hoped this wouldn't happen.

Sungjin was a genius, but there were still a lot of things he didn't know. Although he didn't want this to happen, it was in his nature to be prepared for different possibilities.

"Mjolnir!"

Thor's hammer was activated.

Thunder roared, and its power heated the air; the ground received the flow of power. Jenna's skill was the best from Sungjin's team for a wide-range destructive power, and she was not alone; other wizards started to activate their skills.

Phoenix flew, and chunks of ice dropped. The ground cracked, and a strong wind started to swirl. Other heroes were also activating their skills and made their swords shine and their spears roar.

But...

It was useless. Although many of them were heroes and used their ultimate skills, most of them were low level. Every attack worked as it was supposed to, but the monster had abnormal regenerative power. It was doing more than regenerating, something beyond words.

Gulp. Gulp.

The damage of the evil recovered in a heartbeat. The dark body grew without stopping. A new mouth with sharp teeth regenerated. The speed of its regeneration was beyond the rule of nature.

Before the heroes could reactivate their skills, the body was fully recovered. When they cut one head off, two heads spurted back. When they cut off two heads, four heads spurted back. Every attack was a valid one, but the regenerating power of the monster canceled every attack.

The fear started to overrule everyone. Sungjin had to admit it was a risky situation.

So this is my final challenge: to unify the four kingdoms.

It wasn't that Sungjin hadn't thought of this possibility, the problem was that although prepared, the fight was not going well. Looking at Seyzo II's power, it was expected some evil monster like this would appear if the mad king decided to go crazy.

Seyzo II was a level-seven hero, not an awakened hero of level seven, and Sungjin knew there was a clear limit to the power that Seyzo II could bring. That was the rule of this world and with that calculation, Sungjin defeated him on the battlefield.

But now, it was a fight outside of the battlefield, and he had brought all the heroes there to get ready. Sunjin was using all his intelligence, but he was facing an absolute power that he couldn't fight against.

How can I be victorious in this situation?

In this desperately dangerous position, Sungjin's brain started working in full capacity.

With madness, Seyzo II's voice came from the monster:

"Ah hahaha. Hahaha. The throne is mine. I will kill all the traitors! I invited this creature to punish you!"

His obsession and power on the throne had already overruled him with madness, and his desire was endless, just like the evil monster endlessly regenerating itself and eating up everything around it, hence the name Infinite Greed.­

"Now, Infinite Greed! Punish them!"

Even a hero who was a son of the god of wine couldn't kill it, so the evil monster had to be sealed. Hydra was an evil monster that regenerated its head endlessly. The mythology said it had nine heads. Nine was the biggest number among single-digit numbers, so it was not an actual number but a way to express the infinity. It was an embodiment of desire.

It would keep killing, eating, and swallowing, but the hunger wouldn't stop. The endless desire would go crazy without end.

"It's all mine! If you stand against me, I will kill you all! Eat you all!"

Seyzo II, who brought the forbidden power to the world, became one with Hydra and murmured.

The army against the evil monster struggled. Considering the evil monster was not one monster but an endless army regenerating itself, maybe Sungjin's army was doing well.

Is this the power of the Forbidden Evil?

Sungjin calculated there was no way they could win, not with any combination of possibilities; and he knew if they dragged on like this, they would be the first to be exhausted. But he didn't step back, so other heroes wouldn't retreat.

He could…run away now...

Sungjin had a portal stone, and if he didn't want to look like he was retreating, he could simply pretend that he wasn't by saying, "Keep fighting; I will command you from behind," and then run away. If he did that, the heroes could run away as well.

The evil monster that Seyzo II brought into this world was the self-destructive type. After time, the evil monster would disappear but not before it destroyed countless towns and cities.

A lot of the extras would die, but the remaining land and people would still belong to Sungjin. With heroes alive, the military force would still be there. He would lose a bit of wealth, but the gods already granted the crest of lands to him. Why was he trying to stop it with his life? How long would he fight this battle?

Sunjing already knew what the other heroes were thinking, but that didn't stop him from fighting. The black tentacles attacked him, and he cut the tentacles with his shining holy sword. The corrosive saliva splattered and burned his skin. Other heroes would have protected themselves, but Sungjin couldn't. His body was covered with wounds, and his clothes were shredded.

Fighting on the frontline, he was in the greatest danger but didn't order to retreat or to try to save himself. Maybe he was not the strongest, but his presence was.

He was the pillar of this instantly-formed army and kept them together to fight against the monster. But there was a limit to that as well. The army couldn't fight against the monster any longer.

The winner was already decided, even before they started in a fight between an infinite evil monster and mortal human army.