Debuff Master-Chapter 1054

Chapter 1054
[Legendary: Executioner of Thousands]
[Cut down 1,000 enemies and forge yet another legend.]
[Type: Special Achievement Quest]
[Progress: 0% (0/1,000)]
[Reward: +5 Levels]
The reward was jaw-dropping.
Destroying a single altar had only given three levels as a reward, but this quest promised a staggering five levels.
‘
I have to clear this no matter what.’
Siegfried grinned from ear to ear and accepted the quest.
[Alert: You have accepted the Quest – Legendary: Executioner of Thousands!]
Siegfried spread his wings wide and soared high into the sky.
“It’s Han Tae-Sung!”
“Han Tae-Sung has appeared!”
“Don’t fight him! Just avoid him and attack the others!”
The moment Siegfried showed up, the one thousand Adventurers scattered and focused their attacks on the civilians as well as the Allied Forces.
Rather than risk getting killed by Siegfried in an instant, they devised a strategy to deal as much damage as possible to the civilians and Allied Forces.
‘
These fucking bastards.’
Siegfried found them laughable.
The black wings used by the Adventurers were, to be blunt, absolute crap. Those were quest items handed out upon joining the Holy Alliance and completing a few basic quests, such as enlisting for the war.
As such, their stats were mediocre at best.
After all, what kind of amazing gear could possibly come from clearing simple quests?
However, items providing flight capabilities were so rare that the Adventurers enlisted in droves just to get their hands on it regardless of whether it provided crappy stats or not.
On the other hand, Siegfried’s wings were the real deal. They were crafted from pure mana, divine power, and demonic power, making them one hundred percent authentic.
Since Siegfried was the Demon Lord of Greed and Betrayal, he possessed ten wings. If Siegfried’s wings were like a Ferrari, then the wings used by the Adventurers were a junker barely staying together on its way to the scrapyard.
The difference in performance was simply absurd.
What did that mean?
‘
You can run all you want, but you can’t hide from me!’
As if showing off the superiority of his wings, Siegfried flew at blistering speeds and hunted down the Adventurer one after another.
Boom!
Siegfried flew so fast that he broke the sound barrier, causing a sonic boom to thunder like an explosion in the sky.
As a result...
“
Gah!”
“Ack!”
“Ghhrk!”
The Adventurers couldn't escape from him. They were picked off one by one before they had a chance to escape.
Siegfried was like a falcon slicing through the air. Compared to him, the Adventurers were nothing more than sparrows or pigeons.
Putting aside their difference in control, the gap in the stats of their wings made the aerial fights completely one-sided.
Ironically, they would have better odds if they had just stayed on the ground.
[Alert: You have killed an enemy! (123/1,000)]
[Alert: You have killed an enemy! (124/1,000)]
[Alert: You have killed an enemy! (125/1,000)]
(omitted...)
[Alert: You have killed an enemy! (211/1,000)]
Siegfried dominated the skies by mercilessly slaughtering the Adventurers.
And that was not all...
‘
Concentrate... then swing!’
Siegfried tightly gripped his +16 Vanquisher’s Grasp in saber form and waited for an opening. As soon as the opportunity appeared, he swung his weapon without any hesitation.
Shwiiiik!
The secret technique of the Sword Emperor, Betelgeuse, cut through the night sky.
Heaven Splitting Slash!
A group of Adventurers flying together was sliced cleanly in half, and their severed bodies fell from the air. The sight was akin to the tale of a legendary swordsman who felled an entire flock of birds with a single swing of their sword.
“I’m busy, so pick them up for me! I’ll leave it to you!” Siegfried said, summoning the Three-Legged Crow for the first time in a while.
“
Caw! Cawww!”
The Three-Legged Crow, partially covered in feathers, flew around and collected the items dropped by the Adventurers. Even though some of its feathers had regrown, it still looked a bit patchy, as if it were suffering from some avian pattern baldness.
[Alert: You have obtained +11 Modern Harp!]
[Alert: You have obtained +7 Pickpocket’s Blessing!]
[Alert: You have obtained Destiny Coin!]
(omitted...)
[Alert: You have obtained +15 Black Eagle!]
Thanks to the Three-Legged Crow, Siegfried scored a huge haul of items for the first time in quite a while.
Surprisingly, he still had a lot more items he could loot even after Heaven Splitting Slash had killed roughly a hundred Adventurers in one go.
Why?
It was all because seven hundred more enemies were remaining, which meant that a major haul was coming his way.
‘
It’s farming time, baby!’
Siegfried was determined to loot every single item from the Adventurers while carrying out the quest Legendary: Executioner of Thousands. In Siegfried's eyes, these Adventurers weren't his enemies. They were prey, the kind that yielded more loot and gains than most monsters could ever provide.
***
While Siegfried was leading Ador’s civilians through the mountains to complete the Great Escape quest...
“
Aaaagh!”
“P-Please spare me! Plea—
aaack!”
“
Kyaaaah!”
A mass human sacrifice was underway in the remote border town of Angela, located on the outskirts of the Marchioni Empire.
“
Ah...
”
From the headquarters of the Guardians, Cheon Woo-Jin looked off into the distance toward Angel and let out a deep sigh.
“There’s nothing we can do to stop that...”
The reason he had given up on saving the citizens of Angela was simple. There were far too many Fallen Angels in the area, so he couldn’t even consider going in. On top of that, a large number of High-Ranking Fallen Angels were stationed there, so the odds were stacked against him, no matter how powerful he was.
‘
Just what the hell are you doing, Han Tae-Sung?’
Cheon Woo-Jin grumbled inwardly.
As he thought of Siegfried, he couldn’t help but feel the latter's absence more prominently than ever. Right now, there was only one person who could charge straight into Angela and emerge unscathed.
Siegfried could charge into the town and stop the Holy Alliance from opening another Celestial Gate. Of course, he had to be in his Demon Lord of Greed and Betrayal form to do that.
‘
The operation in Ador is still ongoing. I can’t just sit around and do nothing. I should go help them and bring Han Tae-Sung over here as quickly as possible.’
Having made his decision, Cheon Woo-Jin immediately cast a warp spell and teleported to Siegfried.
If he wanted to bring him to Angela even a second sooner, then they had to finish the operation in Ador first.
***
Siegfried pushed forward with the Legendary: Executioner of Thousands quest by killing Adventurers one after another.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just then, the Adventurers exploded in mid-air as if some sort of ballistic missile had hit them.
“W-What the hell?”
Siegfried was shocked by the sight, as the Adventurers had randomly exploded in midair without getting hit by anything.
“Why are they suddenly self-destructing...?”
“Hey! Han Tae-Sung!” Cheon Woo-Jin shouted, streaking across the sky to reach Siegfried. “Hurry up and wrap things up over here! We have to go!”
“What are you doing here?!”
“They're trying to open another Celestial Gate somewhere!”
“What?!”
Siegfried was shocked at what he heard. He had just destroyed the one that was about to open in Ador, so the thought that there might be another one had not even occurred to him.
“No time to explain! Just finish up here and let’s move! No one can stop that gate from opening except for you!”
“O-Okay!”
Siegfried shouted back and sped off.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Meanwhile, Cheon Woo-Jin showed off his powers that bordered on being supernatural by making the Adventurers explode just by pointing his finger at them. He was not hitting them with anything, yet he was making them blow up.
‘
Well, he is a Grandmaster,’
Siegfried thought while watching the spectacle.
Cheon Woo-Jin’s powers were conditional, but he would often display power that exceeded even Siegfried whenever he unleashed his powers as the Quest Maker.
Wooong!
Cheon Woo-Jin channeled his mana into his fist—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Kaboom!
—and hundreds of Holy Alliance troops on the ground burst apart in the blink of an eye.
He didn't lift even a finger, but he managed to massacre countless enemies in an instant.
Of course, that was not all. Cheon Woo-Jin bombarded the swarming Holy Alliance troops with mana, making him look as if he were a battleship. His full power as a Grandmaster was on display, and it was truly overwhelming.
His might far exceeded Siegfried’s. On top of that, the battlefield was covered in Siegfried’s debuffs, and Chae Hyung-Seok had also cast his buffs on Cheon Woo-Jin.
Thus, the battle came to a swift end.
“R-Retreat! Retreat now!”
“All forces! Fall back!”
“Run for your lives!”
After witnessing the combined might of Siegfried and Cheon Woo-Jin, the Holy Alliance’s soldiers lost their will to fight.
Seeing that their troops had been demoralized, the commanding officers of the Holy Alliance concluded that they had no hope of turning the tide of the battle. Thus, they ordered their troops to stop pursuing the civilians and retreat at once.
Waaaaaah!
“We won! We really won!”
“We did it!”
Cries of victory erupted across the battlefield.
The retreat of the Holy Alliance meant that their desperate escape was a success.
There were only ten more kilometers before they reached the naval base, where the fleet was waiting to take them home safely.
[Alert: Congratulations!]
[Alert: You have completed the Quest – Legendary: Executioner of Thousands!]
[Alert: Congratulations!]
[Alert: You have completed the Quest – The Great Escape!]
Siegfried cleared two quests at once and gained a ton of levels.
[Alert: You have leveled up!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 402!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 403!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 404!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 405!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 406!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 407!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 408!]
(omitted...)
[Alert: You have reached Level 415!]
[Alert: You have reached Level 416!]
He obtained five levels from the "Legendary: Executioner of Thousands" quest reward and ten levels from "The Great Escape" quest reward.
Combined together, Siegfried obtained a whopping fifteen levels in the blink of an eye despite being over Level 400.
“Damn...” Cheon Woo-Jin grumbled, clicking his tongue. He watched as Siegfried lit up again and again with the level-up visual effect. He had never seen anyone level up so quickly, and it was even more astounding when one considered the fact that Siegfried was a Master and was over Level 400.
However, his awe lasted only for a moment, as he quickly pulled out a magic scroll from his Inventory and began scribbling something on it,
“Hey, what are you doing?” Siegfried asked.
“What do you think I’m doing? I’m making your next quest,” Cheon Woo-Jin replied.
With those words, Cheon Woo-Jin waved his hand, bringing up a notification in front of Siegfried’s eyes.
[Alert: The Quest Maker, Cheon Woo-Jin, is offering you a quest!]
When the notification disappeared, a quest window popped up in its place.
[Destroy the Celestial Gate!]
[Go to the town of Angela located on the outskirts of the Marchioni Empire and destroy the Celestial Gate to stop the descent of the Fallen Angels.]
[Type: Special Quest]
[Progress: 0% (0/1)]
[Reward: +10 Levels]
The quest reward Cheon Woo-Jin was offering Siegfried this time was a staggering ten levels. If Siegfried could clear this new quest, then he would obtain an accumulated twenty-five levels in a single day.
“There’s no way I’m going to refuse that!”
Without a second of hesitation, Siegfried accepted the quest.
[Alert: You have accepted the Quest – Destroy the Celestial Gate!]
Once he completed this quest, he would become Level 426, bringing him much closer to his target of Level 449.
“Let’s go,” Siegfried urged.
“Can you transform?” Cheon Woo-Jin asked.
“Of course,” Siegfried replied confidently without missing a beat.
Thanks to the sheer number of souls he had harvested in the last battle, he had more than enough soul energy to activate the Demon Lord’s Descent once again.