The Final Boss Has Returned 46

Chapter 46

Lexus saw the face of the ‘bastard’ he wanted to chew up and spit out.

Drakan!

The face of the guy who looked like a villain, the image of the devilish guy he saw on the battlefield six years ago, was deeply engraved in Lexus’s vision.

Thump!

Lexus’s heart pounded like crazy.

Steel Monarch Drakan!

The leader of evil, whom he had faced numerous times leading the Revolutionary Army during the World Revolution, was now standing before him, transcending time.

As their eyes met, rage surged from the depths of Lexus’s chest.

“Drakaaaaaaaaaaan!”

Lexus spat out the hatred boiling within him.

The specter of six years ago, returned once more, was etched in Lexus’s eyes.

Just like back then, Drakan was holding a crimson-black sword and clad in black full-body armor, causing Lexus’s blood to boil.

The sight of the past Ard World, dominated by evil, flashed through Lexus’s mind.

Of course, Lexus knew that Eugene had personally visited and warned Drakan, and that Drakan had accepted.

However, Lexus didn’t believe Drakan’s promise.

Drakan was a cunning bastard, a wicked villain who could do anything without batting an eye for his own benefit.

Smirk.

And now, that villain was sneering at him.

Lexus, with his blood boiling, shouted at his mocking smile.

“Die!”

A single word, condensed with his hatred for Drakan!

At that signal, the Infinite Eugene Church executives began firing off their skills.

“Chain Lightning!”

“Wind Arrow!”

“Warrior’s Strike!”

Lexus smiled as he watched the spectacle of colorful skills flying towards Drakan.

Yes.

This is the end.

Drakan!

He would end the bastard’s schemes with his own hands.

Lexus’s hands trembled with the thrill of giving the nightmare of six years ago back to him.

There was only one thing that bothered him – Drakan’s face, still composed and relaxed even at this moment.

But it didn’t matter.

Soon, he would turn that smug face into a grimace!

Lexus thought so and tightened his grip on the spear in his hand.

At that very moment.

From Drakan’s mouth, a sound Lexus hadn’t expected came out.

“Summon Kraken.”

Kraken?

He hasn’t even started the Pearl Retrieval Quest yet, what’s this all of a sudden?

Just as Lexus was bewildered by Drakan’s words,

The ground glowed, and a giant tentacle began to rise from the shining floor, cutting through the water.

The skills that the Infinite Eugene Church members had fired to kill Drakan disappeared without a trace, colliding with the tentacle.

A sea monster with a massive body, its end not even visible, was slowly revealing itself in the middle of the battlefield.

“It’s the Kraken!”

“The Kraken has appeared!”

“T-This is impossible! T-The Kraken…!”

The shouts of the surrounding NPC soldiers echoed in Lexus’s ears.

Lexus’s face became expressionless.

“Really… the Kraken?”

Kraken!

The Guardian Beast of the Merfolk!

But the Kraken shouldn’t be here right now.

According to the quest explained in the video that the bastard himself uploaded, he should be able to resurrect the Kraken only after retrieving the Abyss Pearl in the basement of the palace…

As Lexus thought that far, the end of the video suddenly flashed through his mind.

‘He didn’t include the scene of accepting the quest!’

That’s right.

Drakan!

He didn’t include the scene of accepting the quest at the end of the video.

He only showed the content of the quest and ended the video.

He didn’t think it was strange at the time.

After all, other streamers often ended their videos that way.

But only after seeing the Kraken revived without the quest did Lexus realize.

That information had leaked from somewhere.

And that Drakan had set a trap to lure them in using that information!

And that he, without knowing it, was the sucker who fell for the trap Drakan had set, Lexus finally realized.

So, from the beginning, this was a fight they couldn’t win.

The moment despair clouded Lexus’s eyes.

Blue lightning rained down from the Kraken’s tentacles.

[You have been directly hit by Abyss Lightning.]

[You have been afflicted with the status effect ‘Stun’.]

[You have been afflicted with the status effect ‘Paralysis’.]

Lexus felt a tingling sensation throughout his body and lay his stiff body on the seabed.

In his vision, he saw Drakan rising, riding on the Kraken’s body.

Smirk.

Drakan looked at Lexus and signaled to his surroundings, and the Merfolk soldiers who received his signal grabbed Lexus and his party and dragged them away.

Drakan laughed as he watched.

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Kraken.

The Guardian Beast of the Merfolk!

Thanks to absorbing the power contained in the Thunderbird’s Horn, the sea monster, which now possessed the lightning attribute that didn’t exist before, rampaged in the middle of the battlefield, scattering lightning, and causing chaos in the battlefield that was gradually stabilizing.

“How is the Kraken here?”

“T-This is impossible! Why is the Kraken here?!”

The morale of the Mermaids plummeted, while the morale of the Merfolk soared.

“The Guardian Beast has arrived!”

“Kill and kill the Mermaids! We must reclaim our old land!”

All the warriors of the eight Merfolk tribes attacked the Mermaids simultaneously, and although JDG’s elite raid team was holding onto Scylla’s ankles, they hadn’t yet gained a decisive advantage in the battle.

But with the appearance of the Kraken, the delicate balance collapsed on the spot.

“Tyrant’s Command!”

And it was none other than Drakan who made the broken balance lean further towards this side.

When he used his newly acquired Legacy Skill, Tyrant’s Command, a giant symbol appeared in the air.

A black gear with a red skull engraved on it!

Iron Blood Alliance!

The symbol of the guild that ruled Ard World with fear long ago, the symbol of the tyrannical Steel Monarch, was once again revealed in the deep sea.

[Legacy Skill ‘Tyrant’s Command’ is activated.]

[The morale of allies on the battlefield is greatly increased.]

[The attack power of all allies on the battlefield is increased by 10%.]

[All stats of all allies on the battlefield are increased by 10%.]

[The morale of all enemies on the battlefield is greatly decreased.]

…….

Notification windows constantly popped up in front of Drakan!

The effect of the Legacy Skill was immediate.

“N-No. T-This is a fight we can’t win…”

“G-Goddess of the Sea! Have mercy on us!”

The formation of the Mermaids, whose morale had plummeted, collapsed, and the Merfolk took advantage of the gap to slaughter them.

Along with the sounds of weapons clashing, red blood began to spread in all directions in the water.

And it wasn’t just the Merfolk warriors who received Drakan’s buff.

JDG’s elite raid team!

They were also receiving the buff.

Ignis looked at Scylla, his whole body engulfed in flames.

[Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]

Scylla’s terrifying roar that sent shivers down his spine!

But only one of Scylla’s six heads remained.

The other five heads had already been cut off by the JDG raid team’s attacks!

Looking at Scylla’s only remaining head, Ignis smiled.

Even now, he could see the chat scrolling in real-time and the exploding donations in the corner of his vision.

Ignis looked at the grotesquely transformed Scylla and said softly.

“Inferno.”

As he activated the skill, the flames around Ignis’s entire body surged even more fiercely.

Ignis felt the orange flames engulfing his body and raised his right hand, aiming it at Scylla’s remaining head.

At that moment.

The flames that were burning around Ignis’s entire body gathered at the tip of his right hand, condensing into a single point, and then that point exploded, creating a tremendous flame that soared up like a spear blade towards Scylla.

[Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]

Scylla, with only one head left, screamed and breathed out a breath from its mouth, but the breath from its single head couldn’t completely counter Inferno, one of Ignis’s strongest offensive skills.

“Storm Arrow!”

“Lightning Vortex!”

“Light’s Judgment!”

As JDG’s High Rankers fired off their skills to support Ignis, Scylla’s breath dispersed without a trace, and their skills, including the Inferno Ignis had created, directly hit Scylla’s remaining head.

Scylla screamed as it was directly hit by Inferno, and Ignis, not missing the opportunity, commanded the raid team to launch a full-fledged attack on Scylla.

And finally.

[You have slain the Guardian Beast Scylla.]

[You have achieved the achievement ‘Outlaw of the Deep Sea’.]

Ignis smiled as he looked at the notification window that popped up in front of him.

Ignis dismissed the notification window with a wave of his hand and looked at the Kraken rampaging in the middle of the battlefield, thinking.

Drakan!

He kept his promise not to intervene in the Scylla raid.

So now, it was his turn to keep his promise to participate in the battle after the raid was over.

Ignis left the collection of loot to the raid members and kicked off the ground, cutting through the water and soaring towards the battlefield.

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The battle in the deep sea ended with my and the Merfolk’s victory, as expected.

The moment Scylla fell, the Mermaids, whose morale was already low, completely lost their will to fight.

Antaeus, the leader, general, and governor of the Mermaid army, resisted until the end but was eventually killed by Nereus.

It was a landslide victory.

Nereus, the Merfolk Prince, or rather, the Merfolk King, who had achieved his goal of annihilating the main force of the Mermaid army, triumphantly returned to Aqua Haven, where the protective barrier had been restored, and held a victory celebration.

While the Merfolk were having a joyous party in Aqua Haven, I was having a meeting with the completely disarmed Infinite Eugene Church users in the prison located beneath Kraken’s Sanctuary.

“Who are you?”

“You knew everything, yet you pretend you don’t know. Shameless acting. Well, you were always a disgusting bastard.”

Lexus, the leader of the Infinite Eugene Church users imprisoned in the cell, sneered at me in response to my words.

He was right.

I had seen through their plan from the beginning, and I used it to my advantage, setting a trap and screwing him over.

So all he could do now was sneer.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I pretended to really not know what he was talking about and continued speaking.

“Anyway, who are you and why were you with the Mermaids? And why did you try to kill me earlier?”

Every single action I was taking right now would be recorded and uploaded to the channel.

So I had to pretend to be innocent from beginning to end.

Even though some might still be suspicious, I had the justification since they were the ones who attacked me first.

Anyway, even if I pretended not to know, Lexus’s identity would be revealed by netizens sooner or later as long as the video was uploaded to the channel.

It was a game completely in my favor.

Lexus burst into laughter when he heard my question.

“Are you really asking that because you don’t know?”

Lexus’s eyes were filled with madness.

“You’re a villain! A disgusting, despicable, and vile piece of human garbage! No, you’re not even worthy of being called human, you’re just a lump of filth! Do I need any other reason to punish such evil?”

Abusive words poured out of his mouth, but I didn’t pay much attention to them.

His intentions were too obvious.

He was in a desperate situation, and the circumstances of him trying to kill me were undeniable. On top of that, his goal of killing me had failed, so he was probably trying to provoke me by hurling insults.

But I wasn’t weak enough to be shaken by such trash talk.

And I wasn’t stupid enough to fall for his obvious provocation.

I looked at Lexus and said,

“Alright. I’ve heard enough, so now I have to decide what to do with you.”

The eyes of the Infinite Eugene Church members focused on me at my words.

I looked at them and finished my sentence.

“Banishment. I banish you from this seabed to the surface. That is my judgment.”

Banishment!

Lexus’s expression hardened at the word ‘banishment’ that came out of my mouth.

I inwardly laughed as I looked at him with a visibly flustered expression.

His flustered expression confirmed that my guess about his goal was correct.