Free Web NovelChapter 44: you weren’t supposed to enter
The dense, vanilla-scented steam parted in lazy swirls as Min-jae pushed open the heavy marble doors of the sub-space sanctuary. He had walked down the celestial marble corridor to check the baseline energy fluctuations of the pool. According to the master console, the Nature Core signature was stabilizing at a rapid pace, but he hadn’t checked her physical synchronization metric yet.
He stepped onto the white stone ledge, his heavy black combat boots making a quiet, rhythmic sound against the stone. He hadn’t expected the other girls to leave the chamber entirely empty.
Min-jae stopped right at the edge of the descent stairs, his bottomless obsidian eyes locking onto the center of the vast white pool.
Liu Xiao was leaning back against the marble ledge, her long, silver-green hair floating wildly around her shoulders like fine liquid silk. The glowing, azure liquid starlight mana swirled gently around her exceptionally voluptuous frame. Because the water was completely translucent, running on pure liquefied starlight energy, it offered zero concealment.
The golden starlight filtering through the ceiling runes illuminated every single line of her breathtaking hourglass silhouette beneath the water. Her full, remarkably heavy breasts floated lightly near the surface, their rounded fullness shifting beautifully with the gentle ripple of the current. Her impossibly narrow, slender waist tapered down into a pair of wide, soft hips and a flawless, flat midriff that radiated an ethereal heat. Her exceptionally long, pale legs stretched out along the marble floor of the pool, glowing with a soft, pristine radiance.
"The core resonance is up by five percent," Min-jae began smoothly, his voice starting as a low baritone.
But as his eyes fully registered the sight of the beautiful, unclothed goddess floating right in front of him, his voice suddenly hitched. Min-jae, who had remained completely unbothered while facing thousands of roaring monsters and heavy corporate railguns, completely froze. A sudden, unexpected warmth rushed straight to his ears, and a faint, noticeable flush crept up his neck beneath his dark collar. He quickly shifted his gaze upward toward the ceiling runes, coughing softly into his hand to clear his throat.
"M-Min-jae?!"
Liu Xiao’s emerald-green eyes instantly snapped wide in absolute, panicked shock. She scrambled to sit up, her pouty crimson lips parting as a deep, burning crimson flush instantly covered her porcelain skin from her neck all the way to her cheeks. She instinctively tried to cover her heavy chest with her slender arms, but the movement only caused the water to ripple more, accentuating the mesmerizing curve of her wide hips and full curves.
"Y-You... you weren’t supposed to come in!" she stammered, her voice a breathless, trembling melody as she tried to sink deeper into the glowing starlight mana, her heart racing violently against her ribs. "Ji-a and Chae-yeon said... they said the room was completely locked!"
"I... I own the palace, Liu Xiao," Min-jae replied, his usual dominant tone cracking slightly as he kept his eyes firmly glued to the marble wall, his fingers awkwardly tapping against his armor’s pocket segments. The contrast between his heavy, light-absorbing god-armor and his thoroughly embarrassed expression was completely visible. "I was just... checking the console data. Your modesty parameters don’t alter the schedule. Stay in the water. The data shows your internal fractures require another twenty minutes of absolute immersion to fully lock the Flame God’s secondary pathways."
He cleared his throat again, slowly taking a step backward toward the doorway, though his eyes darted down for a split second before he looked away again, his face burning a bit deeper. "Just... relax your core. You don’t need to hide your body from the man who holds your soul contract. I’ll wait outside."
Liu Xiao looked up at his flushed face and his uncharacteristically flustered movements, the initial panic in her chest slowly melting into a profound, intoxicating wave of warmth. She let out a soft, shaky exhale, a shy, genuinely happy and amused smile touching her crimson lips as she realized this all-powerful Monarch had a completely cute, human side to him. She slowly relaxed her arms, letting her magnificent, unclothed form float openly beneath the water.
"Thank you... Min-jae," she whispered softly, her emerald eyes turning remarkably gentle.
Crack.!
the heavy white marble walls of the hot springs violently vibrated. The celestial sky ceiling above the penthouse lounge outside let out a deafening, world-ending groan as the primary digital alarm of the Battle Map cut through the air with a piercing, continuous wail.
[Critical Faction Warning! A Massive Intercontinental Breach has occurred!]
[Target: Forty Thousand Elite Shadow Legionnaires have executed a synchronized spatial drop!]
[Enemy Vanguard coordinates locked: Directly above the Celestial Palace Spire!]
The sudden emergency snapped Min-jae right back into his cold, analytical focus. The shyness vanished instantly, replaced by a dark, predatory grin as his eyes locked back onto the door. He turned away from the pool, his boots clicking sharply as he walked toward the exit. "They’re here. Finish your recovery, Liu Xiao. I have forty thousand un-invited guests to erase from the skyline."
The open-air viewing deck of the 100th floor was a scene of pure, unadulterated cosmic cataclysm. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
The sky over Seoul was entirely black, replaced by three massive, concentric dark void gates that were spinning like giant iron gears. Charging down from the rifts like a literal ocean of black steel were forty thousand Level 52 Shadow Legionnaires, their heavy iron pikes crackling with corrosive void electricity as they formed a massive, descending wall of flesh and iron designed to pull the entire skyscraper down into the dirt. Leading the vanguard from the front was Grand Duke Vorgan, his nine-foot war plates bleeding cold shadow ink as he raised his heavy executioner’s blade.
"Erase the core! Pull down the palace!" Vorgan’s voice boomed across the clouds.
Min-jae stepped out onto the obsidian-alloy viewing platform, his hands casually stuffed inside his god-armor’s pockets. Behind his back, his six flawless, sss-rank queens stood in a perfect, unyielding vanguard line, their weapons humming with maximum combat readiness.
"Ye-rin, drop the external shields completely," Min-jae commanded flatly.
"Shields dropping now, Monarch," Major General Shin Ye-rin executed instantly, her steel-gray eyes flashing with a ruthless tactical satisfaction.
"Are they insane? They dropped their own defensive wall!" Lady Lilith hissed from the demon backline, a cruel smile breaking across her face. "All units, execute maximum strike! Vaporize them!.
Forty thousand heavy iron pikes and high-tier void spells converged on Min-jae’s single, stationary frame simultaneously, lighting up the dark metropolis in a terrifying strobe light of raw, world-ending destruction. The sheer mass of the incoming cataclysm strike was enough to shake the very foundation of the peninsula.
Min-jae didn’t pull his sub-divine claymore. He stood perfectly still, offering the descending army an empty, eerie smile as the storm of forty thousand blades hit his bare chest plate.
The moment the mass-collision made contact, his sss-rank god-armor trait, Absolute Sovereignty, detonated with a planet-shattering roar beneath his skin.
[Ding! Received 1,500,000 points of High-Tier Abyssal Damage from 40,000 Legionnaires.]
[SSS-Rank Faction Grid Active: ’Vajra Ward’ converts 1.5 Million Magic Damage into Physical Impact... Successful.]
[SSS-Rank Talent Active: ’Eternal Vajra Deity Body’ triggered! Total Damage Negated. Health Pool: 100/100.]
[God-Armor Trait Active: ’Absolute Sovereignty’ triggers 200% True Damage solar amplification!]
[Reflecting 3,000,000 points of True Damage permanently imbued with ’Solar Fracture’!]
Supernova.!
A catastrophic, blinding white-hot counter-blast erupted from Min-jae’s skin, turning the entire night sky of Seoul into a burning, brilliant solar storm. The 3,000,000 points of True Damage traveled instantly in reverse along the forty thousand trajectories, treating the demon army’s heavy war plates, deep abyssal defensive shields, and level-based damage metrics like thin air.
What followed was an instantaneous, global molecular erasure.
The forty thousand elite shadow legionnaires didn’t even have time to utter a gasp. The moment their weapons touched Min-jae, their entire massive, descending wall of iron and flesh violently disintegrated from the inside out into a clean, blinding cloud of white experience particles. Grand Duke Vorgan and Lady Lilith let out a combined, blood-curdling mechanical shriek as their s-rank life cores were instantly vaporized into ash by the Solar Fracture trait, which burned away their underlying mana pools in a single microsecond.
The forty-thousand-man planetary invasion fleet was completely, flawlessly dismantled in less than three seconds without scratching a single window of the palace.
Voom.!
Han Chae-won ran out to the edge of the platform, her face flushed with a fanatical, absolute exhilaration as she raised her small hands toward the sky. "The universe’s treasury has been broken, boss! Global Spatial Devour!"
A colossal, sweeping wave of purple spatial energy rippled outward from her body, vacuuming up the millions of gold coins, forty thousand iron pikes, five hundred legendary skill books, and two massive Grand Duke Core Fragments floating over the skyline straight into her infinite stasis storage, leaving the entire atmosphere pristine and spotless.
Min-jae stood amidst the cascading golden experience notifications, his clothes completely clean, his hands remaining casually inside his armor’s pockets as his interface updated with an unstoppable river of data.
[Ding! Your team has achieved a World-First Absolute Clearing of a 40,000 Demon Vanguard Fleet!]
[Gained 120,000 EXP! You have leveled up! You are now Level 15!]
[Global Announcement Triggered: Player ’Min-jae’ has permanently established absolute sovereignty over the Earth Sector! The Gates to the Core Universe are now fully open!]
Min-jae looked up at the clearing sky, where the golden starlight path was now shining with an intense, unyielding brilliance, leading straight into the upper realms of the ancient gods. He turned toward his six stunning, highly evolved queens, his lips curving into a cold, dark, and ruthless expression that promised nothing but total multiversal dominance.
"The cleanup is finished," Min-jae murmured, his voice a low thunderclap that echoed across the universe. "Prepare the Dread-Mechs. It’s time to go up and take the rest of their thrones."
