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The new house Karina and Cynthia moved into.

There, each of the four dragons was having a busy time.

Gardening, cleaning the house, and patrolling the neighborhood.

While working hard today for the Westerlund family, the senior Balaur Wyvern thought.

“How did I end up like this?”

He had no regrets about joining Yujin Kang.

Now that Diablo is dead, the king of dragons is actually him, and dragons aren’t ashamed to go under the strong.

The problem was with what they were doing now.

“As a member of the proud Balaur, even commanding the battlefield would not be enough…”

Dressing neatly in a suit and sorting out the household account book, he lamented his current situation.

And the bigger problem is that, surprisingly, this job is fun.

He was experiencing a deep and profound inner conflict as he saw himself feeling proud of a clean house and a tidy garden…

Wyvern, no…’Kim Yong’, who was given the name by Kang Yu-jin, stood up like that.

“Hey. These guys.”

“Yes brother!”

At his call, three dragons dressed in the same suit rushed to him.

From the right, they were ‘Kim Il-ho’, ‘Kim I-ho’, and ‘Kim Sam-ho’.

“The big lady is coming. Get ready.”

“Yes! Brother Kim Yong!”

Still, the captain among the four was Kim Yong, as if it was a senior in his own way.

He felt proud of the thought that Kang Yu-jin recognized his position and led his men.

Eventually, Karina appeared from the special warp gate prepared in the house, and the lined up bowed politely.

It was a perfect 90 degree angle, as if measured with a protractor.

“Welcome, big lady!”

“Eug. I can’t do this.”

She hated it, but threw the bag she was holding at Kim Yong.

“I heard that Prince Eugene was hospitalized… what happened?”

“I think he got into a fight with Balthazar and came close to killing him.”

“Tteuk…”

Isn’t Baltazar the king of the ghosts?

To fight such an existence and come to the brink of killing it…

Will the prepared Shinigami go beyond the dragons and conquer the ghosts?

What is the end of his power…

Kim Yong and his three subordinates trembled in deep, deep fear…

“Come to think of it, hasn’t the eldest lady met Eugene-dono many times on the battlefields of Earth?”

“Me? Well… I haven’t seen that many, but I’ve had a lot of impressive experiences.”

“Oh oh···.”

In an instant, four dragons rushed in.

For the Balaur, the story of the ‘preparing god of death’ drew attention like a horror movie.

“Can you tell me what you’ve experienced? We’ve only watched it once or twice from a distance…”

“Well, you guys probably do.”

They are upper and middle class. If he had met Kang Yoo-jin often, he would have been destined to die.

Rather, it should be said that it is a very lucky case that he survived seeing Kang Yu-jin without a top-notch ticket.

“I have a lot to say, but…”

There is only one thing that comes to mind right now.

Because one of Kang Yu-jin’s most heinous abilities is already devouring the ghosts.

“Have you ever heard of ‘thought infection’?”

They shook their heads.

“What is that?”

“This is… it’s like some kind of contagious disease that spreads through the sympathetic nervous system.”

This ability is spread through communication, centered on a single host.

If infected with this, he is eroded by a powerful ‘thought’ planted by Yujin Kang, gradually loses his reason and blindly follows only that thought.

Of course, that one idea is ‘the annihilation of the demonic beast’.

From that moment on, the infected go mad to kill the monsters, and if they get hit by them, the infection occurs again and the infection spreads exponentially.

“It’s some kind of zombie virus.”

Kim Yong couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

“You mean that… is it really possible?”

“Yes. I saw it myself.”

Karina recalled the chapter of the abyss that she had seen on Earth.

The moment when many dragons were infected and it was like a living hell where they killed and killed each other.

Diablo somehow managed to solve it later, but at that time, more than 30% of his own kind died.

Recalling even the despair and fear of the time, she trembled all over.

“And it seems that he spread that technology to the ghosts now.”

“Ghosts…Could it be Baltazar?”

“Yeah. Seeing it made a fuss?”

If you look at the urgent message sent to Yujin Kang, the situation on the battlefield will indeed be a crucible of chaos.

She wished for a small repose for the ghosts who would suffer from the pandemic of mental illness.

“I always say this, but… Kang Yu-jin is a god.”

“Yes. Mind control is invincible.”

Feeling sincere relief at having switched to Yujin Kang coin, they offered a small prayer for their new king.

“And you guys have something to call soon, so get ready.”

“You mean Prince Eugene?”

“yes.”

“I will prepare!”

“Yes. Get out.”

Kang Yoo-jin is looking for him, is he finally trying to acknowledge his value?

For some reason, a big smile appeared on their faces that filled their hearts.

The four bowed their heads and left their seats for Karina.

Before long, Kim Yong-eun, thinking about what to do today, took a wallet and a note and left the house.

It was time to go grocery shopping.

*

Meanwhile, Helios’ administration.

In this busy and noisy place where daily life is, an untimely silence fell and everyone kept their mouths shut.

All eyes were focused on the central screen in the administrative office, where the current frontline situation was relayed.

-As you can see, there is a strange phenomenon where the ghosts are attacking each other…

-To investigate this mysterious phenomenon, the cause of which has not yet been identified, the military…

It wasn’t just about arguing, it was really bloody to see them running to kill each other.

“Why are they suddenly doing that?”

“Perhaps the fight with Balthazar last time…”

gossip gossip-

There were whispering voices from all directions.

At that time, when everyone was showing mixed reactions, Kang Yoo-jin entered the administrative office.

“I heard you called.”

“Ah, Professor Yujin Kang!”

Roshua greeted him brightly.

“I’m sorry. You still need to rest…”

“I’m healed now. Why did you call me?”

“that···.”

“That one! You did that!?”

Skadi, who ran in quickly, cut off Roshua’s words and entered.

Thanks to this, all eyes in the administrative office were focused on this direction, but Yujin Kang answered without blinking an eye.

“Yes. I did.”

buzzing-

While everyone’s eyes widened, he continued.

“It is the effect of ‘Thought Infection’, one of the uses of mind control.”

A mental attack that takes one monster as a host and infects them at random by taking root in the sympathetic nervous system.

Infected monsters are eroded by the idea of ‘killing monsters’ and indiscriminately attack their own people, and those connected to the same sympathetic nervous system cause secondary and tertiary infections just by touching them.

The power of the infection that spread like that in one wave was what created the now violent battle.

“Is that even possible?”

Skadi’s eyes sparkled.

Now, she was more curious than surprised by Kang Yoo-jin’s eccentricity.

“With more research on the sympathetic nervous system, we can do even more. This is medicine.”

“Wow…”

However, Kang Yu-jin added that it would not cause as much damage as he thought.

Although he used Balthazar as a trigger, he was a corps commander in the first place. It is an entity with an ego that has reached the level of a boss, so infection does not work.

In addition, since he will be able to manage the entire sympathetic nervous system, it will be possible to create a ‘vaccine’ against the ‘virus’ called parasite infection.

Then it’s a matter of time.

Sooner or later, the vaccine will be patched into the nervous system, and the Ghost Clan will be free from infection.

In fact, since Diablo had overcome the infection like that, there was no reason why he couldn’t be called Baltazar.

“I don’t know how fast Baltazar will respond, but at least a month’s worth of time will be earned. The number of ghosts gives you a bonus.”

For the time being, there will be fewer monsters targeting the human camp, including Helios.

They’d be exhausted just by dealing with the infection.

“We just need to recover the front line that has been pushed back and hasten the opening of special lectures.”

“Umm… then that means Baltazar won’t die.”

“Yes. But it’s okay.”

In response to Roshua’s sigh, Yujin Kang spoke with her usual honest voice.

“Then I will kill him.”

“Five···.”

I will kill the boss.

If someone else had said it, they would have snorted, but when Yujin Kang said it, the meaning was different.

Because he was the one who actually came close to killing Baltazar once.

As the gaze mixed with admiration and respect turned to him, Yujin Kang looked back at Skadi.

“Have you received all lecture requests?”

“Yeah~ I took it all while you were lying down~”

The application for the special purpose lecture planned by the consortium has ended.

Skadi said ‘Ahem’ and stretched out her chest as she handed over some papers.

“There are students as well as professors. Among them, there were people who gave up their professorships and signed up for classes.”

“Is that so.”

“Aren’t you a little thrilled or anything like that?”

“You have to do that to listen to my lectures.”

“·······.”

Why?

Kang Yoo-jin is cool with that line that looks like he’s unlucky.

Her voice, uttered with clear pride and confidence, had the magical power to truly shake people’s hearts.

“It would be better to select 100 people out of 300 applicants…”

“Yes? How?”

“The ‘test’ would be nice.”

The midterm exams for the second semester will be over soon, so it would be appropriate to schedule the next one.

I don’t know how much time Infection will buy me, but at least I’ll be safe until I’m ready for the test.

“Then move.”

With that word, the cluttered administrative office began to return to its usual appearance.

*

Pandemonium.

Balthazar’s temporary residence.

With Ouroboros silent by his side, Balthazar was panicking and venting his rage.

“How can this happen…!”

All the wounds from the fight with Kang Yoo-jin have been recovered.

It took less than a day to get up from the hospital bed by the grace of His Majesty, but the problem started after that.

The moment he accessed the sympathetic nervous system to manage his subordinates, an unknown force centered on him began to erode the nervous system.

He hurriedly removed the trigger attached to him, but by that time, numerous sub-objects had already been infected.

“How can you have such a terrible ability?”

“I can understand Diablo’s attitude of being wary of Yujin Kang.”

Ouroboros shook his head excitedly.

Even now, outside, sub-individuals infected with the death infection are biting each other and committing ‘fraternal violence’.

Already, 3% of the total population has been affected, and that number is growing exponentially.

“damn···.”

Fortunately, there was no additional response from Kang Yu-jin, so I was able to overcome it by making a claw spell.

Even so, Baltazar’s concerns did not diminish, but only grew.

Is this really the end?

Could there be a more heinous tactic than this?

Diablo, who knew all this, was already dead, so Balthazar’s worries grew day by day.

“Special measures are needed. If we leave Kang Yu-jin alone, he will come back to us with even bigger troubles later.”

“… then. There is only one way left.”

Balthazar nodded resolutely.

Now is not the time to choose means and methods.

“You have to shake him with the truth.”

Since ancient times, the most effective way to break down an enemy has been to cause internal strife.

Dimensional Wars, Constellations, and Earth.

the link to it all.

Balthazar’s plan would certainly be possible if he used the secrets that the Constellations would want to hide more than anything else, which he accidentally found out someday.

“I don’t know what it is, but is it such a powerful method?”

“Of course. In the first place, that’s probably why the first star loved Yujin Kang so much.”

There is no possibility that Raniakea deceived Kang Yu-jin.

However, the truth would have been hidden.

The ‘contract’ that creates the constellation throws countless ‘tasks’ and puts many worlds to the test in the process.

And the earth, the lover who died there.

If he found out that he was actually a victim of that ‘Constellation Creation’.

“He will also reconsider the existence of the Constellation.”

Kang Yoo-jin will never forgive the magic beast.

Because the hatred he had for the Witchbeast was already irretrievably deep-rooted.

However, it is possible for him to turn the Constellation into an enemy as well.

Now that the Constellations know Kang Yu-jin’s mighty power, they will have to make a choice.

Will he perish with the demon, or will he abandon the hand of Kang Yoo-jin?

And Balthazar had no doubt that the Constellations would definitely choose the latter.

“I’ll go see you again, Shinigami…”

Beside Baltazar, who smiled eerily, Ouroboros just watched him in silence.