Silence.
Yunhee's lifeless body lay in his arms.
Her blood still warm against his chest.
Ash drifted where laughter once lived.
The immortals hovered overhead, emotionless.
> "Subject contained. Prepare extraction."
But… they were wrong.
---
The Seal Broke.
No—
It didn't break.
It melted.
As if it realized the horror it had tried to suppress…
and chose to die instead.
Cracks crawled up the chains of starlight.
Symbols written in divine law withered.
Then—
> BOOM.
The heavens screamed.
The earth tore open.
The clouds blackened into smoke.
The stars above blinked out.
And in the center of it all…
> Kang Woo rose.
---
400 Years of Sealed Power…
Everything he had cultivated.
Everything he had endured.
Every soul-crushing moment of restraint.
He let it go.
He let it all go.
---
The immortals saw it.
Not golden core.
Not nascent soul.
Not ascension.
> Something else.
> Something older than realms.
Darker than heaven.
Purer than immortality.
A force that shouldn't exist — yet did.
> The Wrath of the True Demon.
---
Slaughter
The first immortal didn't even blink before his body was vaporized.
The second tried to fly.
His wings were ripped apart mid-sky.
The third screamed.
He was silenced by a single glare.
The Immortal Emperor himself descended—
> "You dare—!"
> "No," Kang Woo said. "You dared."
And with one hand—
He crushed him into a crater that swallowed a mountain range.
---
The World Burns
Sect after sect… vanished.
Great clans burned.
Immortal gates turned to smoke.
Sacred temples collapsed like sand.
No one was spared.
Not the righteous.
Not the wicked.
Not the neutral.
The world begged.
Kneeling.
Crying.
Praying.
Kang Woo walked through it all — silent, tear-stained, merciless.
> "You wanted a demon," he whispered.
> "Then choke on what you created."
---
No One Remembers How Long It Lasted
One day.
One year.
Ten? A thousand?
Time didn't matter anymore.
Only fire.
Only grief.
Only Kang Woo.
---
And when it was done…
When there were no more screams.
No more swords.
No more heavens to hate—
He stood alone, on a scorched, lifeless earth.
The winds blew across ash plains.
And he whispered to the sky:
> "Never again."
Then he vanished.