Chapter 185

Chapter 185

Lee Ji-ryeong’s eyes trembled.

“Insane! You carry sand around in subspace?”

It was astonishing enough that an individual possessed such an enormous subspace, but he had never once imagined that someone would fill it with sand and carry it around.

SHAAAA!

Sand was still pouring out from Zeon’s subspace.

The sand that flowed out had already risen to their ankles.

Zeon said,

“Do you still think I can’t face them?”

“Is it really fine to expose that? There’s nothing good about people finding out you keep sand carefully hidden inside subspace.”

“They’re not opponents I can fight while keeping secrets.”

“True......”

Lee Ji-ryeong nodded.

At that instant, the Knight Commander and Trigion attacked them.

If Lee Ji-ryeong had his way, he wanted to fight Trigion, not the Knight Commander.

He wanted to subdue the stronger opponent and make his greatness known to the world, but the fact that he could not because the Knight Commander had targeted him only filled him with resentment.

“I’ll roast you black.”

Lee Ji-ryeong released white lightning at the Knight Commander.

Zeon also launched himself toward Trigion.

“Kahaha!”

Perhaps pleased with his newly acquired metallic body, Trigion burst into wild laughter and swung his fist.

At that instant, a powerfully compressed invisible shell fired from his fist.

‘Mana particle cannon?’

Zeon’s eyes widened.

The Skill Trigion had just unleashed was not Cha Jin-cheol’s Skill.

It looked exactly like the mana particle cannon the elves who had attacked Deioden long ago had used.

No one had taught him.

Through encroachment and calculation, he had created the strongest attack method that could be used with Cha Jin-cheol’s current body.

It was truly terrifying learning ability.

There was neither time nor space to dodge.

Zeon moved the sand and created a wall before him.

BOOM—!

The sand wall shattered under the mana particle cannon. But the mana particle cannon never reached Zeon.

That was because Zeon had built a second and third sand wall behind the first.

Sssss!

After blocking the mana particle cannon, Zeon floated into the air.

The drifting sand supported his body.

In that state, Zeon swung his hand.

SWISH—!

Dozens of snakes made of sand shot toward Trigion.

It was Viper, the evolved form of Sand Blaster.

Viper mercilessly tore at Trigion’s body. But Trigion laughed as if it were amusing.

“Kahaha! It doesn’t even tickle. That much cannot pierce my body of steel.”

He was extremely pleased with Cha Jin-cheol’s newly acquired body.

More precisely, the mechanical parts satisfied him.

They did not tire, and they did not hurt even when broken.

As long as parts could be supplied, they could be restored as much as he wanted, and they could even combine with other devices to become stronger.

It was a method he could never have imagined in the world he had lived in.

Trigion saw enormous potential in the mechanical body. And he was pouring out every possibility he had imagined against Zeon.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—!

Mana particle cannons fired continuously.

Zeon neutralized every attack by making walls of sand or dodging.

Instead, the Awakened nearby were struck by the mana particle cannons.

“Kraaak!”

“Aaagh!”

Screams burst out everywhere.

More than half the Awakened of the Pegasus Raid Team had already fallen to the floor.

As time passed, Trigion grew stronger, and the Pegasus Raid Team grew weaker.

‘Even if I have to overdo it, I have to bring him down here. If he gets outside, a great disaster will fall.’

Now, while it was still early after his resurrection and he was incomplete, was the chance.

If they dragged out more time and Trigion fully regained his abilities, bringing him down would become even harder.

Zeon’s fighting spirit was already burning, and Trigion poured oil onto it.

“How long will you keep doing nothing but dodging? You rat bastard!”

He was furious at Zeon, whom his mana particle cannons could not reach no matter how many times he fired.

“I’ll show you how frightening a rat bastard can be.”

Zeon raised his control to the extreme.

Wooooong!

At that instant, a strange sound flowed from the sand grains floating in the air.

Trigion sensed that the atmosphere was abnormal and frowned.

That was the instant it happened.

SHAAAA!

The sand grains began rotating at terrifying speed.

At the center of it was Trigion.

“What is this?”

Trigion did not think much of it.

After all, he believed sand could not deal any significant damage to his mechanical body.

GRIIIIIND—!

But when the exquisitely fine sand grains began scraping away his metallic body, he realized just how wrong his thinking had been.

“Krrgh! Mere sand......”

The mechanical body began turning to powder from the surface and scattering away.

There was nowhere to flee and no way to block it.

The only method was to unfold a shield, but even that was scraped away by the sand grains.

Zeon opened his mouth while maintaining the posture of unleashing Sand Blender.

“Briel!”

“Mm!”

Briel, who was nearby, answered immediately.

“Do you still have that?”

“That?”

“The thing that stiffened the mechanized Awakened earlier.”

“Ah, the special bomb? I have two more.”

“Give them to me.”

“Mm!”

Briel took two bombs that hardened lubricating oil out of her pointed hat and threw them to Zeon.

THUD! THUD!

Trigion approached Zeon with heavy footsteps.

He was closing in despite the surface of his body being ground away.

The more he did, the stronger Sand Blender became. But Trigion never stopped.

“If I kill you, this metal body can be restored in no time.”

The ones lying around him were West District Awakened.

Aside from the Awakened who had already died and had their parts taken, there were still some who were alive and intact.

He could act this way because he knew that even if his mechanical body broke, he could supply parts from them and become whole again.

Clank! Clank!

Inside Sand Blender, his arm transformed.

After a complicated process, what appeared was a long barrel.

An electric current flowed along the barrel.

What Trigion had made was a Railgun.

The strongest weapon remaining in Cha Jin-cheol’s memories was the Railgun. That was why he had shaped his arm into a Railgun.

“Die!”

THOOM!

Trigion fired the Railgun.

Zeon managed to dodge the shell by a hair’s breadth. But not everyone was as lucky as he was.

Every Awakened along the shell’s path evaporated.

They literally vanished without a trace.

“Insane!”

“Good heavens!”

The Awakened froze at the evaporation of their comrades.

THOOM! THOOM!

Even at that moment, Trigion kept firing the Railgun.

Zeon dodged every attack and threw the bombs he had received from Briel at Trigion.

BOOM—!

The bombs exploded at Trigion’s feet.

“What do you think you can do with toys like these?”

“What happens if those toys mix with sand?”

“What?”

Crackle!

The substance flowing out from the bombs mixed with the sand and seeped into Trigion’s metallic body.

The lubricating oil that made Trigion move smoothly began hardening rapidly. With sand added on top of that, his drive axes wore down or broke.

Creak! Creak!

Rupturing sounds flowed from all over Trigion’s body.

“What?”

His face turned black.

While Trigion stopped, sand endlessly infiltrated his body.

The sand flowed inside the mechanical body and completely wrecked it.

POP! POP!

In the end, the mechanical body, unable to withstand the burden, began bursting from within.

Red sand flowed out between the ruptured flesh.

The sand attacked not only the machine parts, but also the flesh through which blood flowed.

“Kuhk!”

When sand infiltrated his blood vessels, Trigion wore an agonized expression.

When Trigion fell to the ground and coughed, sand sprayed out.

“This is...... Krrgh!”

Trigion’s body trembled.

The sand Zeon controlled was attacking his inside and outside at the same time, thoroughly destroying him.

“Kraaaak!”

In the end, Trigion could not endure it and screamed.

—My king!

The Knight Commander sensed Trigion’s crisis and tried to rush over. But he was blocked by Lee Ji-ryeong and could do nothing.

“Yaaah!”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Other undead knights tried to attack Zeon, but Levin and Eloy stopped them, preventing them from even approaching.

SHATTER—!

At that instant, the arm that had transformed into a Railgun fell off.

That was because the connection area had been worn away by sand.

Clunk! Clunk!

Other parts of his body fell off one after another.

In the end, all four limbs fell away, leaving only his torso behind.

He looked at Zeon with an expression of disbelief.

“This cannot be! To think my resurrection would be stopped like this.”

“If you’re a ghost, then act like one and stay here forever. The outside world is chaotic enough even without you.”

“If I had been given enough time, our positions would have changed.”

“They still wouldn’t have changed.”

“Do you know my true strength?”

“And do you know mine?”

“Are you saying you didn’t go all out? Against me?”

“There are too many eyes watching.”

Zeon answered quietly.

At that sight, Trigion wore an expression of disbelief.

“Haha! How can a mon......ster like you exist? But do not think you can rest easy just because you killed me.”

“What do you mean?”

“Your world, Neo Seoul, is...... Heh!”

Crackle!

With a meaningful laugh, Trigion breathed his last.

Zeon looked at Trigion’s corpse with a frown.

Even in death, Trigion left a bad taste behind.

—Uaaaah! My king!

The Knight Commander convulsed when he sensed Trigion’s death.

The Knight Commander screamed and tried to run toward Trigion. But Lee Ji-ryeong did not let him pass.

Zeon confirmed from the Knight Commander’s violent reaction that Trigion was dead. Even so, his uneasiness did not disappear.

If he left Trigion like this, the West District Awakened would recover the corpse and return. If not, the Pegasus Raid Team’s Awakened might take it to Neo Seoul for research.

Leaving behind such future trouble was not Zeon’s style.

FLARE!

Trigion’s corpse caught fire.

Zeon had burned it with the authority of the Gauntlet of Extreme Heat.

Trigion’s corpse, engulfed in flame, slowly melted away.

“No!”

“The Captain......”

The West District Awakened rushed over to put out the fire, but it was useless. That was because it could not be extinguished by ordinary methods.

The West District Awakened had no choice but to watch blankly as Trigion turned to ash.

“You bastard. How dare you do that to the Captain......”

“You think you’ll be fine after this?”

They showed hostility toward Zeon. But not a single one dared to rush at him.

“You stupid bastards! Know when to stop. You saw it clearly with your own eyes, didn’t you? Your captain was encroached on by the Dungeon Boss. If you still insist on being unreasonable, I won’t stand by.”

“What kind of cripples are barking at whom?”

Eloy and Levin blocked their path.

At their murderous pressure, the West District Awakened shut their mouths and looked at Zeon.

The West District Awakened stared at Zeon with appalled expressions.

‘Sand Wraith. As long as that man exists, we may have no future.’