By the time Yuma has arrived otlefield. He saw many human corpses that had been fttened or had been separated into several pieces after being thrown away from the battlefield.

  Amidst the soldier’s formation, he saw Gratian who still wore clothing made out of animal skins.

  He is currently only standihay meters away from Lacius.

  Seeing the massive tentacle that kept on fttening the soldiers or throwing them away, Yuma immediately uood that Gratian was the enemy he o fight this time. The so-called demon king Cedric has always mentioned.

  He charged tratian while getting ready to uhe the sword in his hand.

  When Yuma had already reached less than teers away from Gratian, he had entered Gratian’s attack range, and the tentacle that had been busy fttening the surrounding soldiers immediately took a sharp turn and shot toward Yuma.

  Yuma had long since prepared for that attad quickly enveloped his sword in fmes and sshed it tratian’s tentacle. With that attack, Gratian’s tentacle got heavily damaged to the point some of it has been severed.

  “This is quite troublesome.” Gratian frowned and the mist surrounding his tentacle gathered toward it and healed it. Then, he slightly squatted before pg heavy for his leg and dashed at high speed toward Yuma.

  When he is a few meters away from Yuma. Gratian’s right arm exploded and turned into five thiacles that shot toward Yuma from various angles.

  Yuma successfully cut two of them and blocked two of the tentacles targeting his chest and head by pg his sword vertically to guard them. But, he couldn’t do anything to the tentacle that had targeted his hips and torn a rge k of his flesh.

  “Arggh!!” While screaming in pain, Yuma summoned a burst of fmes and burhe two tentacles he blocked before retreating while limping away.

  Lacius saw it and anded a nearby blessed t Yuma tranny Maude.

  Gratian tried to stop that blessed. But, Lacius quickly moved and summoned several earth walls that deyed Gratian’s chase.

  Seeing catg up with Yuma seems to be impossible, Gratian looked at Lacius and ched his fists in anger. While he has been fighting against Yuma, Lacius has beereating and has reached a siderable distance from him.

  Gratian paused as he looked at Lacius who had stood far away and asked several random questions. “How does being a king feel? Do you feel satisfa? Is the power to trol and be respected by many people satisfying? Hoeople have you killed with that power? Have you turned into the person you hated the most?”

  With every word from Gratian, Lacius felt a sense of disgust toward himself. That sense of disgust even slightly turned into self hate and gave him a fleeting thought of doing suicide.

  Feeling something wrong, Lacius silently ched his hand so hard that some of his nails began to cut through his palm.

  He also tinuously recalled every single family and friend who had died from Gratian and densed his hatred to Gratian instead.

  Even though Lacius had been in a massive mental battle, he kept his poker face which made Gratian feel his attack had failed. Seeing no reply from Lacius, Gratia bored and dashed toward his location.

  The surrounding soldiers and blessed tried to block his adva to no avail. The most they could do is slightly dey Gratian’s advanbsp;

  Occasionally, Lacius would lock Gratian’s leg with the surroundih while the soldiers and blessed tried their best to damage him.

  Soon, Gratian arrived near Lacius and began his attack.

  A bit further away from Lacius and Gratian’s battle. Yuma saw Lacius being targeted by Gratian and quickly ran towards them even though his leg hadn’t been fully healed by granny Maude.

  When he is only a few meters away from Gratian, Yuma activates the Fire Ssh stored ihe [Fire Sword] and prepares to ssh at Gratian.

  Gratian saw Yuma trying to attack him and trolled his right hand that had turned into tentacles to block Yuma’s advance. But different from before, his tentacle easily got burned by the fme ing from Yuma’s sword.

  When he felt something was wrong with it, Yuma had already arrived near Gratian and immediately sshed at him.

  The moment the [Fire Sword] sshed through Gratian. The fmes in it exploded and caused his body to get charred and exploded into several pieces.

  Although Gratian has exploded into many tiny pieces, his voice still be heard in the surrounding area. “I thought with this newfound power, I could take my revenge easily against the world that disrespected my effort and the god that turned a blio all I’ve given to this world.”

  At the pce Gratian had exploded, a vortex appeared that swallowed the pieces of his flesh and blood. Soon, a new Gratian appeared under everyone’s view.

  Although Gratiao be fully healed just like nothing has happened. More than half of the mists surrounding him have disappeared in the process of healing himself. Yuma saw it all and muttered. “Are those mists something akin to his HP bar? Will he tiee as long as the mist exists?”

  “This makes me recall my time oh. I hought I’d do something like a boss raid in another world.” Yuma said while enveloping the sword in his hand with fire and raising it while gring at Gratian.

  Just when Gratian prepared himself for atack from Yuma. Yuma instead quickly retreated tranny Maude’s side while shouting. “Try to hold him down.”

  Lacius nodded and created a hole in the ground around Gratian while shouting. “Begin Pn bsp;

  Gratian who suddenly fell down into a hole finally pulled himself out from the hole and said. “I dislike this hole-digging trick of yours the most.”

  The moment he rose up from the hole, several massive fireballs from the blessed that had gathered around Lacius greeted him.

  After releasing those massive fireballs, the fire element blessed quickly fell down in exhaustion and got supported by the soldiers to retreat further away.

  Seeing the rain of fires, Gratiahe tentacles that came out from his arm to envelop him. Thankfully, Gratian’s defense isn’t as powerful as the ball-like struct that gave birth to him. Being attacked by several massive fireballs has caused Gratian’s body to be damaged, which forces him to absorb the mist around his body to heal himself.

  Right after Gratian finished healing himself while most of the fire around him had died down. The blessed around Lacius begaing water balls which drenched Gratian.

  Although he is fused about what they’re trying to achieve by dreng him. Gratian is unwilling to test it and quickly dashes toward Lacius’s position.

  Before he could run far away, several long lightning bolts appeared from the blessed around Lacius.

  Just like the fire element blessed from before. The blessed releasing those lightning immediately fell down from exhaustion after releasing those lightning.

  The effect of their lightning attack is quite siderable. Gratian, who was initially extremely eid dashed toward Lacius at high speed, immediately stopped as his body began to twitch while releasing a burnt smell.

  Once again, the mists around Gratian got absorbed into his body and he began to heal.

  Although the two secutive attacks that have exhausted dozens of blessed have only decreased Gratian’s mists by less than a tenth. Their goal to dey him has been achieved as Yuma has been healed aered the battle.

  The moment Yuma got fully healed, he stared at Lacius while pointing at his sword.

  Lacius uood the meaning of Yuma’s gesture and gathered several blessed with water, ice, ah power.

  Together with Lacius and several dozen blessed that’s guarded by blessed with divirength. Yuma reached tratian and prepared to ssh his [Fire Sword].

  Seeing the fmes burning on Yuma’s sword. The blessed around him began to move.

  The water element blessed summoned many balls of water and directed them tratian’s location. The moment those water balls almost reached him, Lacius created a hole and quickly buried half of Gratian’s body in it. While the other earth element blessed exhausted themself to tinuously solidify the earth and sealed half of Gratian’s body in it.

  When most of Gratian’s body and the ground around him had been drehe ice element blessed quickly directed their power toward him and encased him in ice.

  Those secutive bos are enough to stop Gratian long enough for Yuma to attack him with his Fire Ssh.

  Gratian, who had just fihawing his head a arm, saw Yuma’s Fire Ssh and smiled bitterly.

  Before Yuma’s Fire Ssh could hit Gratian whose leg has been swallowed into the earth that has been frozen by ice. Gratian shouted in a loud voice. “I am unwilling!!! I curse this nd, I curse this world. The prosperous nd I have created… everything shall return to desotion!”

  Gratian’s body began to infte as he looked at Yuma before turning to Lacius and smiling desdingly. “You too will be discarded and fotten by history.”

  Yuma felt something was wrong and infused his own power into the Fme Ssh to slightly stre. Before his ssh could hit Gratian, Gratian had already exploded and turned into a thick viscous liquid that seeped to the ground.

  Gratian’s self-explosion made Yuma’s attack miss and only caused the soil underh to explode and charred bck.

  Yuma’s Basic System s immediately appears and the amount of Exp written in it tinuously increases until he leveled up to the upper level 2 before stopping.

  With Gratian’s death. Ihe Divine Space, Cedric received a notification from the System.

  [gratutions on killing the demon king in your world! You’ve gained 1 GP.]

  [As the demon king has beeed, most of the NE in your world has been purified. The rate of NE iion has greatly decreased. The ce of the demon king to appear in the near future has beely decreased. Your world’s resistao ive Energy has also slightly increased.]

  Cedric saw the System’s gratutions and smiled.

  He grabbed the [Diviervention: Word] ahe good o Yuma and Lacius.

  [Good job. The demon king has beeed.]

  Reading the happy message Cedrit, Yuma felt a sense of loss. ‘Maybe It’s truly time for me to retire and start a farm somewhere in the world? Or should I begin expl the world and start another adventure?’

  Many thoughts pass through Yuma’s head. The only thing he hasn’t thought of is to return back to Earth. Because except for some games and modern tris. There is nothing he missed oh. He even doubts his trashy brother, his only family member, has realized he actually went missing.

  While the surrounding soldiers cheered. Yuma fell into a trand silently observed the charred ground. His expression suddenly turned serious as he shouted. “Wait a moment! The charred earth is expanding!”

  Just like a trigger, the dark can to expand toward the surrounding soil at an increasingly faster speed.

  Everyone quickly retreated and fled in fear from the weird se.

  With the pce where Gratian has just died as the ter. The earth in a several hundred meter radius darkened until finally slowing down.

  Above the dark earth, every pnt began to die off or distort before finally dying. Many worms left the soil in a hurry before they twitched and died. The blood and flesh of dead soldiers began to rot and turn into some dark mist like miasma. Other than the soldier’s corpses, faint miasma also spread out from the ground and caused the soldiers who actally ihem to feel weakened.

  In the Divine Space, Cedric who has just celebrated the successful battle against the demon king saw a sudden warning from the System.

  [Warning! A cursed nd has appeared in your world.]

  Cedric’s smile froze on his face as he asked, “What the hell is it this time?”

  [Before your demon king died, it used most of the remaining NE in its body to curse the nd in your world. Please purify it as soon as possible, otherwise, it will tio corrupt the surrounding nd and turn it into a haven for NE ied creatures. O reaches a certain size, it might even give birth to another demon king level existence.]

  “Argggghhh!” Cedric screamed to release his pent up emotion.

  He has been fighting against time and spending a lot of GP to finally kill the demon king. Yet, another problem has somehoeared.

  He took several deep breaths to calm himself and asked, “How do I purify those cursed nd? Do I o spend GP and purchase some items?”

  [Items that could purify the nd indeed existed. But, they were quite expensive. So, the System reended you to purify it with your own effort instead.]

  [You may purify the cursed nd by geing positive emotion from people in the area surrounding the cursed nd. You also suppress and purify the cursed nd by sending people who have wholeheartedly practiced virtues like temperance, kindness, patience, or other virtues into the cursed nd. Those kinds of people will gather some sort of virtue energy that purify the curse caused by ive Energy.]

  Cedric read the first message and quickly shouted. “Who are you?! Where is the System I know? There is no way it wouldn’t reeo purchase things in the shop!”

  He only read the System’s seessage after he finished shouting.

  The System heard his shout and seemed to get speechless as it replied with several ellipses.

  [...]

  [Has you gone bonkers from stress? Of course, the System wouldn’t reend expeems to a poor wretch like you. Otherwise, you will go bankrupt and die.]

  Cedric just rolled his eyes.

  Annouhree secutive battle ses make me feels tired. I hope there won’t be any more battle ses in the near future. By the way, don't fet to gimme fav, rating, and review.

  thank you ~?(?′?ε?｀~? ?)