Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 1



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1. Return of the Heavenly Horse

Hundred thousand mountains.

The headquarters of the Cheonmasingyo sect, where all kinds of demons exist.

A peak that doesn’t even have a name.

The view from there was so beautiful that it made you feel like you were in a paradise.

“… … ”

And, a man quietly looking at the scenery.

At first glance, he seemed like an ordinary man, but any demon from the Heavenly Demon Sect would hit his head on the floor so hard that blood would flow from his forehead if he saw him.

He is the master of all the mines in existence in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, Cheonma.

A being who stands above all others, is praised as the strongest heavenly horse of all time, and is the one who led the Demonic Cult to unification of the martial arts world.

He was the one who was said to be a god who had surpassed the peak of the devil and descended to the present world.

He was quietly looking at the scenery without saying anything.

No, not exactly a landscape, but a translucent window spread out in front of him.

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Human]

[Characteristic: None]

Underneath his information, there were various statuses such as level, strength, stamina, magic power, agility, etc., but that was not what Hyunseong was looking at.

His gaze is fixed on the letters written at the very bottom.

※The Awakening System will not function properly if it is out of system scope.

“Is the A/S level true?”

Hyunseong looked at the letters in front of him, sighed softly, and muttered.

The text floating in the system window had not changed one bit in the nearly 30 years he had spent since falling into the world of martial arts.

‘I want to see the face of a system administrator and see what kind of guy he is.’

The error was left unattended for 30 years.

Although he was now called Cheonma, Hyeonseong was not originally a person living in this martial arts world, but a human living in the Republic of Korea in the 21st century.

As soon as I awakened as an Awakened One, I was suddenly summoned to the martial arts world.

‘I was out of my mind back then.’

It’s bound to be confusing, having been summoned to an unknown place and not knowing how to get back.

To make matters worse, the system wasn’t even functioning properly, so we had to use all our might to survive.

30 years had passed since he had lived in the world of martial arts, and Hyeonseong was able to rise to the position of Cheonma and the best in the world.

From the mouth of such a wise man

“Sigh, I want to go home.”

A tone of speech came out that seemed to have no trace of the dignity of a heavenly horse.

But so what?

Because no one could complain no matter what he said.

“That noise again?”

Except for one guy.

A man’s voice is heard from behind.

This was Ma Cheon-gang, known as the right arm of Cheonma and the second most powerful person in the Cheonma Sect, holding the position of vice-leader.

“What the hell. Are you dissatisfied?”

“There is also water.”

“How come that fucking dad joke doesn’t work?”

“Hehehe, then should we try a children’s joke?”

“Oh, you should stop talking nonsense. And don’t use formal language when there are only two of you. It gives me goosebumps to hear you use formal language.”

Hyunseong made a gesture of rubbing his arm.

Ma Cheon-gang, who saw that, smiled and opened his mouth.

“When I see you piercing my body, which is impenetrable, with your feet, don’t you think I have some talent for yin?”

“It’s a bumper crop.”

If other demonic cult members had seen this sight, they would have foamed at the mouth and fainted.

The leader, Cheonma, is a god-like being who descended from the Cheonma Sect.

In particular, Hyeonseong, who was called the strongest Cheonma of all time, was not a god-like being, but a god himself.

Even if he was a vice-religious leader, he was not someone you could speak of carelessly.

However, the two talked like old friends, as if they didn’t care about such trivial things.

“If you look at martial arts novels, the Heavenly Demon’s subordinates are either super cool or loyal like dogs, but why are you like this?”

“Are you by any chance curious?”

“Oh my god, shit. This is so annoying.”

“Haha, I still have a long way to go compared to the cult leader.”

The two bickered as usual.

Then, Ma Cheon-gang asked Hyeon-seong as if something had occurred to him.

“Come to think of it, I heard rumors that you are preparing to return to the divine realm. What are those?”

“What is it? I’m just looking for a way back. I tore through some of the Magnolia guys and found a way that seems plausible.”

“No, why are you torturing these poor kids?”

“If you want to be naughty, you should be a demon. I unified the martial arts world for you, and you can’t do that?”

“Okay, you eat the best.”

“Yeah, he’s already the best.”

“Oh my, even if I can’t speak, I won’t hate you. So, is what I found this time possible?”

“I don’t know either. I have to try to find out.”

He shrugged and muttered.

Ma Cheon-gang shook his head as if he couldn’t understand such a situation.

“No, I don’t understand why you want to go back. You’re a Heavenly Demon. You know what that means, right? The Demonic Cult has unified the martial arts world, so now you’re basically an emperor. No, what’s an emperor? You’re called a god.”

“I don’t care whether you’re an emperor or a god. When I’m gone, you can have it.”

“And what’s more, the system or something is having an error, so you’re not even getting older?”

“What’s the point of immortality? I’m already bored like this.”

“What are you going to do when you go back?”

The reason Hyunseong wanted to go back wasn’t particularly grand.

Because it was so boring here.

For modern people who are accustomed to all kinds of stimulation, this place was extremely boring.

When the Central Plains conquest was in full swing, there was at least some stimulation felt in the battle, but now that the world had been unified, there was no such fool baring his teeth at him.

“If this continues, I think I’ll really get bored. I’m not going to be refreshed, so I’ll just sit there blankly staring at the scenery.”

“Is the place you came to that fun? To the point where you even leave behind a seat called Cheonma?”

“At least it’s not as boring as it is here.”

“I don’t understand.”

“If you don’t experience it, you won’t understand it.”

How much fun is it to waste your life watching YouTube videos?

It would have been a type of pleasure that Ma Cheon-gang, who had never experienced it before, could not understand.

“Okay, that’s fine. You’re not the type of guy who’d listen to me when I tell you to stop. So when are you planning on going?”

“I’m ready.”

“Then you should have done it at Cheonmagung instead of calling me here.”

“If you go out there and do it, the other guys will say, ‘No, that won’t work,’ and make a fuss. Why bother? I really hate being noisy.”

Besides, try declaring that you’re going to do it in front of a bunch of guys and then failing.

Where else can you find a dog as good as that?

“If I succeed? If you disappear without saying anything, what do I tell the kids?”

“Tell them that you quit your position as leader because the vice-leader was screwed over.”

“They say I fought a life-or-death battle with you to inherit the position of cult leader?”

“How many kids do you think would believe that?”

“but.”

Ma Cheon-gang nodded in agreement.

Although he was the second strongest in the Cheonma Sect, he had no confidence that he could defeat the Cheonma and Hyeonseong right in front of him.

If he fought properly, it was obvious that his head would be buried in the ground and covered in dirt before he could even split the lily.

As Hyunseong finished his preparations and began to generate internal energy, it felt as if the atmosphere around him was vibrating.

Tiring.

[Reconnected with the Awakening System.]

A translucent message window that floats above the retina along with your voice.

A longing voice that I hadn’t heard for decades due to a system error.

Hyunseong was secretly delighted.

This time, I felt good.

Because none of the experiments I’ve done so far have ever been connected to a system.

If something has changed, it is evidence that you are getting closer to success.

[There is something wrong with the Awakening system.]

[Reboot the system.]

‘Please, please!’

Having come this far, there was no room for failure.

Hyunseong stared at the translucent system window floating before his eyes with a nervous feeling.

and,

[The corresponding Awakener could not be found.]

[Emergency, due to an unknown error, the Awakener cannot be found, so the Awakener is summoned.]

“Yes! That’s it!”

Hyunseong cheered at the message that came to mind.

There was no need to ask where to summon him.

It will be about returning to where you were.

The vice-principal, who had been watching quietly from the side, opened his mouth quietly as if he had noticed that Ma Cheon-gang had succeeded.

“I was grateful in many ways.”

“? What all of a sudden?”

“No, everything from the fact that you saved me from being disposed of to the fact that you kept me by your side.”

They say the law of the jungle is survival of the fittest, but the Demonic Cult was even worse.

The vice-chairman, Ma Cheon-gang, was originally one of the demonic cult’s test subjects and was so weak that he was almost disposed of.

Just before he was about to be disposed of, it was Hyunseong who saved him.

After that, we went through several ups and downs together, and he never gave up on me first.

“Well, don’t worry about that. I did it out of necessity.”

At that time, Hyunseong also used every means at his disposal to survive.

He also saved the ones that were going to be disposed of for his own use.

Of the guys he saved at that time, Ma Cheon-gang was the last one still alive.

The vice-leader of the Cheonmasin Church, Cheonma’s right-hand man, and a comrade and friend who shared joys and sorrows with Hyeonseong.

“Go back and be nice to your little brother.”

“… … ”

Hyunseong said that the reason he wanted to go back was because he was bored, but Macheon-gang knew very well that that wasn’t the only reason.

The vice-regent of the Cheonmasingyo sect who starts banging his head on the ground.

“Hurray, hurray, hurray!”

He even dared to say that if he did this to anyone other than the emperor, he would be charged with treason, thereby showing his loyalty to the leader.

“Cheonma Shingyo Vice-Chief Ma Cheon-gang! I pray that the path you take will be as you wish!”

If it were normal, Hyunseong would have playfully told him to stop being so noisy, but he didn’t do that because he knew this was the last time.

“… Okay, take care.”

With those words, the space where Hyunseong was began to distort.

at that time,

[An error occurred during summoning.]

[Awakener Error Code 017]

[The awakened ones do not match.]

“huh?”

A system window with no meaning appears before my eyes.

It was going well, but suddenly it’s an error.

An uneasy thought crossed my mind as to whether the summoning would stop or not, but the system window kept popping up.

[The Awakened Summoning Procedure cannot be stopped. Forced Summoning will be executed.]

[However, it is expected that the Awakening system will be transformed due to forced summoning.]

[Activates forced summoning.]

‘What the hell is going on-‘

It’s done.

Before he could finish speaking, Hyeonseong disappeared.

Hyeonseong, who was called the strongest heavenly horse in history and the god of war who descended to the present world, was thus hidden from the martial arts world.

* * *

The feeling of floating in the sky disappeared, and I felt like I was standing on the ground.

His vision returned and Hyunseong looked around.

‘Where is this?’

It was a fairly large space, but it was enclosed on all sides and was like a temple.

There wasn’t a single modern building or object in sight, not even a single concrete wall.

“It’s really warm… huh?”

Warm.

Hyunseong tilted his head.

I unconsciously put my hand to my neck, but all I felt was hard, lumpy bones.

‘What the fuck is this?’

Although I was embarrassed, I opened the status window first.

Because the status window is what best tells you about your own state that you don’t even know about.

A translucent window that opens with a ringing sound.

‘What is this?’

As I was reading from the top down, the changes immediately caught my eye.

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Skeleton]

[Characteristic: None]

Hyunseong looked at his hands.

What came into view were pure white bones, devoid of blood, flesh, or even muscle.

It seemed as if he had become a monster.

That too, as a skeleton consisting of nothing but bones.

“Fuck. I’m a monster, a skeleton!!”

Warm.

Hyunseong’s silent scream echoed.