Even after Helena’s declaration, the Lord of Narak still tried to summon more prisoners.

Because massive energies were all tangled together and filling every direction, the summoning itself was not difficult.

Only, at that moment when both celestial energy and the energy of Narak were overflowing—

Helena snapped her fingers.

Then, an abyssal energy unlike anything that had appeared until now revealed itself.

When an Abyss even deeper than Narak, darker than Narak, manifested, the Lord of Narak’s pupils shook violently.

“......Th-this is.”

The mouth of the Lord of Narak, who hadn’t spoken a single word until now, finally opened.

Helena gave him a small smile.

As the abyssal energy appeared, it became the Abyss itself and gulped down all the energies in the surroundings.

When it swallowed not only the celestial energy and the energy of Narak, but even all the natural energies that had originally been here—

There was no energy left at all in this place, and Helena looked at the Lord of Narak.

Feeling the abyssal energy and his pupils trembling, the Lord of Narak asked Helena,

“C-could it be.”

“Mm, that ‘could it be’ is right.”

As all the energies fused into one, Helena smiled faintly and began to handle the abyssal energy.

The Abyss, which had taken all the celestial energy, the energy of Narak, and even the natural energies and fused them into one, digested them as they were and continued to bulk itself up.

Seeing what could be called the very foundation of all black magic being controlled, the Lord of Narak shuddered.

The Abyss was another dimension, neither Hell nor the Demon Realm.

Yet as much as it was called the basis of all black magic, the demons of the Demon Realm and the devils of Hell alike all grow up looking to the Abyss.

The dimension more advanced than Hell and the Demon Realm was precisely the Abyss.

At the sight of Helena controlling that Abyss, the Lord of Narak swallowed hard as he recalled the Helena of the past.

This was something that should not be possible.

How could Helena—no, that woman assumed to be Helena’s clone—control the Abyss?

Heaven already made no sense, but since Helena had brought celestial power from Heaven in the past, he could let that slide.

However, it was impossible to wield the Abyss while possessing celestials.

If the celestials could be called the source of divinity in which Heaven and Paradise believed, then the Abyss was the origin of black magic in which the Demon Realm and Hell believed.

But one could not hold both at the same time.

Just as blazing ice could not exist.

“Th-this is impossible.”

But it had already happened, and Helena was wielding both.

The Lord of the Celestials, and the Lord of the Abyss.

Helena had become the lord who ruled over the two things that formed the basis of everything.

And the Lord of Narak was able to realize it.

There was only one reason why all of this was possible.

“A-are you truly Mother?”

It could only be possible if she were not some clone, but the very original she whom he feared without end.

Even if Helena’s current level might be weaker than back then, as long as she contained those two energies, there could be no doubt.

It meant that the soul was Helena.

When the Lord of Narak said that, Helena answered in a sing-song tone,

“That’s why I told you, it’s me.”

At Helena’s words, the Lord of Narak shuddered as if all the blood drained from his body.

He realized what he had done.

But it was already far too late.

Helena watched that Lord of Narak with a smile, but her eyes were cold.

The expression she always wore when she was angry.

The Lord of Narak, Murakan, saw that gaze and understood.

She was real.

If she weren’t the real one, there was no way she could have that look in her eyes.

The last gaze he had seen before being sealed by Helena.

And so the Lord of Narak quickly set his mind racing.

‘There’s no way I can win.’

Her level is lower, and she isn’t the original body?

So what?

That is not some clone that only holds memories, but her soul itself, possessing all of her memories.

He had to flee from here.

Somehow, he tried to bare his energy and escape from this place.

But Helena looked at that Lord of Narak and said,

“You’re not actually entertaining the hope that you can run away, are you?”

“.......”

As he felt the strength draining from his whole body and looked at Helena—

Helena split the Abyss, which had swallowed all energies and made them her own, cleanly in half.

And the Lord of Narak could do nothing but watch it.

As the Abyss and the celestials mixed, white and black began to blend together.

Like a taiji diagram, they swirled and mingled with each other, and while they did, Helena smiled slightly and said,

“Secret Art 『Chaos』.”

With those words, the celestials and the Abyss, which should not be able to mix, fused into one and exploded.

Both light and darkness, and both darkness and shadow—that subtle, mysterious something that was neither light nor darkness, something from before the birth of the world, burst out and took everything away.

In that chaos where one could not distinguish sky from ground, only Helena remained fully suspended there, looking at the Lord of Narak, whose limbs and entire body had been separated and were drifting through the air.

Her former child, whose body had been dismantled because he could not withstand Chaos.

Yet Helena’s eyes remained cold.

A child she had considered her own and tended with care, but who had ultimately only given her disappointment.

A child who had dropped people into Narak just to satisfy his own selfish desires.

That made him all the more unforgivable.

Helena lifted the severed head of the Lord of Narak, who had not been able to leave behind even a last word.

Then—

Using the power of the Abyss, she concentrated all the energy the Lord of Narak had left into his head.

If she recovered it as it was, she could inherit all of the Lord of Narak’s power.

However.

“This is a present for Seong.”

So saying, Helena turned to the room right next door.

She watched the Lord of Destruction fighting the backup team.

He, too, was no different from a child of Helena’s past.

A child born with the Authority of Destruction, who had slaughtered the innocent, and whom she had taken in to teach how to suppress his instincts—only for him to go astray in the end, be hanged, and be sealed by her.

Barian.

He had been such a truly pitiful and unfortunate child.

But in the end he had fallen into corruption by her own hand.

So, like Murakan, she had no intention of forgiving him.

Above all, now that she had met Seong—

‘It’s time to settle the past.’

In the past, Helena had possessed the level and power to do as she pleased.

Now she did not.

For Seong’s sake as well, there was a need to bring closure to the past.

It was as she was watching intently like that—

That the Lord of Destruction tried a dirty trick, so Helena had appeared and helped.

“Guh-heok!”

As his neck was severed at last and rolled across the floor—

Helena smiled faintly and, just as she had with the Lord of Narak, sealed the power of Destruction into his head.

Likewise, if one obtained this, one could become the Lord of Destruction.

Anyway, one way or another, after settling the problem like this, Helena was about to slip away unnoticed.

But just then—

-rly lololololol

-Barely won lololol

-He actually wins this lolol

-This is seriously insane.

-whoaaa how do you even win this?

Right when the viewers were all in awe, asking how he had actually won—

Mihael shouted toward the many viewers.

“Ahhhh! Reinforcements have arrived!!! We were only able to win because the Demon King’s vassal arrived!!!”

“Hmm?”

Hearing what Mihael said, Helena looked at him with apparent amusement.

And when Helena, feeling something like the gaze of a different world, watched for a moment—

Mihael did not stop and went on.

“Ah, then, with the Lord of Destruction fallen! Shall we check the contribution rankings now? The last part was so fast that we still don’t know who dealt the finishing blow!!!”

At Mihael’s words, the viewers’ chat flooded in.

-No but did the Demon King’s vassal seriously solo the Lord of Narak??????

-How is that even possible????????

-No like shouldn’t they be interviewing the one who beat the Lord of Narak before the Lord of Destruction?

-fr for real how did the vassal solo that?????????

-Seriously how??????

-So you’re telling me one Demon King’s vassal is stronger than the entire backup team??????

-Does that even make sense????

-Is this really the Demon King’s idea of balance?

-What is this for real????

-???????????

They all had no choice but to be that bewildered.

At first they had been happy about the victory, but when they thought about it, ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) they could not help but wonder how Helena had been able to win by herself.

So everyone was curious.

Mihael was about to announce the contribution rankings, then suddenly thought that might be good too, so he cautiously turned his head.

Only—

“......Ssshh, how am I supposed to ask?”

He looked back at the camera with a thoroughly frightened expression and asked again.

Helena, who had soloed the Lord of Narak.

Of course he could not help but be a little scared.

She was so beautiful and alluring in appearance—

But the atmosphere she gave off was just too frightening, wasn’t it.

It felt just like when he first faced the Lord of Narak, the Lord of Destruction, and the Lord of Despair.

Since she really was a lord, that sense wasn’t wrong.

-lolololololololol

-lolololol scared?

-lololol she is terrifying lololol

-A vassal who soloed a lord boss? Yeah, that’s terrifying.

-lolol fr how do you even ask that.

-You ask and then you get deleted, right?

-High school memories ON!

-I feel like Hael-ham would’ve been on the perpetrator side, not the victim side......

While those kinds of comments were going back and forth—

Mihael and Helena’s eyes met, just slightly.

Then Helena, thinking that since this was something Seong was doing, there was no harm in it, gave a little smile and asked Mihael,

“Is there something you want to ask?”

When she kindly said that—

Mihael spoke up with a look like he had struck gold.

“Ah yes! Of course! You’re the Demon King—no, Seong’s vassal, correct?”

“Mm, you can call me Helena.”

“Oho, even your name is beautiful!!!”

“Ahaha! You’re a kid who knows a thing or two, aren’t you?”

“Heh heh heh! Thank you for the compliment!”

With the two of them talking like that, the viewers couldn’t help but laugh as well.

Who would’ve thought they’d actually get an interview.

However—

-????But do vassals normally have intelligence like that?

-Some of them do, but ones with NPC-level higher intelligence like that are rare, right?

-That’s insane;;;

-Exactly.

-Hurry up and ask how she beat it!!!

As everyone got excited now that the interview was happening—Mihael likewise began the interview.