In the final moment, Seol Jihu couldn’t hear a thing.

Neither the explosive rumbling of the earth nor the final death throes of the Vampire Lord. The only thing his senses could capture was the scene of Undying Diligence’s body splitting apart little by little through the severed line.

From his violently shaking vision, he saw the giant body plunge to the ground in slow motion.

Three seconds that felt like thirty seconds passed by and Undying Diligence finally laid down on the ground.

No, he collapsed.

It was just that Seol Jihu thought he lied down because his eyes were wide open. The intense glimmer in Undying Diligence’s eyes made it seem as if he would push himself off the ground at any moment.

The instant Seol Jihu noticed the sensation lingering in his hands, Undying Diligence’s body erupted with light.

As if his body was being devoured by the light, it turned into ash and scattered from the wind blowing in the valley.

Even after killing him with his own hands, Seol Jihu stared in disbelief for a moment. It was then that he realized that his ears had gone deaf.

He was in the middle of a battlefield, surrounded on all sides by his enemies, so he found it a bit amusing that he could not hear a single thing, especially when something this momentous had happened in front of him.

“....”

...In truth, Seol Jihu knew.

Just like how the sky lit up for a short time before sunset, the moment he witnessed Undying Diligence’s death, the fire burning inside his heart instantaneously grew larger and then flickered off completely.

At the same time, before he could do anything about it, he felt something inside his body crack, and then shatter into thousands of pieces.

After his hearing was his sight.

His vision repeatedly split and overlapped into a dozen images before abruptly turning black.

Next, the pain of his muscles being torn apart erupted from his armpits, accompanied...