One who reached the top at the age of 25.

The greatest fighter and fire mage.

The unchallenged, most powerful person in the world!

Vulcan, whose level reached 99, was known as the greatest genius in the history, and brought fear to all who opposed him.

But the level of the drunks in front of him are…

‘289, 207, 267, 229, 245… 381… What is this, this stupid world!’

A world where all of the greatest in all dimensions have gathered. Three out of five were the strongest in their world, and one of them was considered the strongest in history.

A crazy world where a wandering goblin would be above level 90.

Asgard, otherwise known as “Heaven above the heavens.”

In a world where all of the monsters of the worlds meet, Vulcan’s new adventure begins.

The frozen wasteland at the northern edge of the Rubel continent had been ruled by a powerful Lich for thirty years. The greatest wizard of the Magic empire and the most powerful frost mage in history, Frezole. When he became an Elder Lich and decided to settle in the northern region, the people trembled in terror and despair.

Some requested their kings to eradicate him.

But the people’s pleads were ignored by their kings.

Thousands of armored skeletons armed with weapons made of ice.

The seven Death Knights, surrounded by their darkly menacing aura.

And the Elder Lich who was once the greatest and most talented wizard, Frezole.

Their power was incomparable to the kingdoms who only had a standing army of ten thousand.

Naturally, no humans traveled there. Not even the bravest of adventurers or the most curious travelers would travel to those frozen lands.

It is a place that does not accept the living, for it is the land of the dead.

It had been a long time since a living human has visited.

[Main Quest – Eradicate the Elder Lich Frezole]

[Difficulty – S]

[Reward – Legendary ~ Mythical reward book 1]

Breach Frezole’s lair located at northern region of the Rubel continent, kill his minions and slay their master.

*Level requirement – Lv90(Recommended Lv97 and above)

“Hm… It’s 93 percent now, so I should hit max level at the end right?”

The black haired man mumbled, pulled out his golden knight’s sword and entered the snow covered forest.

***

BANG, BANG!

Suddenly, large explosions cascaded in the silent forest of northern Rubel continent.

The freezing temperature and frost covered lands evaporated, and in its place were hellish, burning flames.

The skeletal warriors armed with frozen swords stronger than steel lay on the floor in pieces, alongside the Death Knights as their brooding souls began to dissipate through the fractures of their armor

And the man who was the cause of it all.

Facing him was the demonic Elder Lich, casting his spells.

“Ice Hand, Ice Hand, Ice Hand, Ice Wall, Ice Dragon.”

The man’s feet, which were smoldering with heat, froze instantly and a hand made of ice sprouted from the ground and grasped one of his legs.

Two more hands appeared behind him to hold his body still, as solid walls of ice appeared to trap him within.

The only way out was to go up.

But an ice dragon that appeared out of nowhere, was already staring down at the man trapped inside.

He quickly looked around the area but the frozen hail surrounding the dragon made it seem like escaping unscathed would be difficult.

KRAAAAAAAAAK!

As if unable to wait any longer, the ice dragon roared and dove straight down towards the ground.

The man gave up on the thought of escaping through the top and gathered the fiery power in his body.

“Spirit Form.”

BAAAAANG!

In an instant, the man transformed into a fire spirit and melted his way through the ice wall. The Ice Dragon slammed into the ground

As the man raised his guard for a counter attack in the frosty mist, he could see hundreds of cone shaped missiles of ice in front of him.

Each of them flew past at dangerous speeds, and getting hit by more than one would endanger his life.

‘Quadruple casting and instant cast as well… shouldn’t this be SS, not S?’

Even as he was thinking such a useless thought, he evaded the missiles with swift, clean movements.

The Elder Lich Frezole was getting pushed back, as the man dodged his ice magic with superior agility and even had time to counterattack by releasing lightning from his blade.

‘How could a mere human… have such strength. He doesn’t even seem to be in his thirties…’

Frezoles emotion turned from surprise to fear.

In the two hundred years that he had lived, including his life spent as a human, the number of people who had been able to threaten his life could only be counted on one hand.

Ninety nine percent of his enemies lost their lives to the ice missiles, and the remaining one percent could be dealt with the Ice Dragon, Ice Hand combination.

There had been no exception.

But this man was different.

No matter what attack, what spells he used, he could not change the calm look on the man’s face.

Even facing the endless wave of spells, the man was so relaxed and the Lich began to feel he was the one being cornered.

The Lich admitted.

Frezole was feeling fear.

‘But… I won’t accept defeat so easily.’

Frezole began channeling all of his remaining dark mana in his vessel and began casting.

It was his first time controlling ice missiles and casting two high rank spells, but he had no other option.

He could feel his body beginning to break from using his mana beyond his limit, but the spell finished before it broke apart.

His trump card with everything on the line.

The skeleton dragon appeared behind the man.

A blue flame burned in Frezole’s eye socket.

‘If even this doesn’t work… Kuku, I’ll accept it, and pass on to eternal sleep.’

The skeleton dragon charged at the man who was swinging his golden sword.

But the man turned his body naturally as if he was expecting it.

As he was looking at the skull dragon without any tension, Frezole’s second spell activated just in front of him.

BAAAAAAAANG!

The bone explosion spell sent the fragments of the skeleton dragon’s body flying towards the man.

***

[Level up!]

[Congratulations! You have achieved level 99.]

[Limited access – Asgard’s Seal has been released.]

[Main quest – Eradicate the Elder Lich Frezole has been completed!]

[Please choose your reward.]

“Kuuaaah! I’m done!”

At the centre of the smoldering land, Vulcan, armed with a golden knight’s sword and red leather armor shouted out loud.

Normally he wouldn’t hesitate to ignore everything other than the quest reward, or review his battle, but not this time.

‘Level 99… max level… I’ve done all the quests and did everything I can. I knew the Seal would release if I hit level 99!’

Vulcan smiled with a sense of accomplishment.

He was teleported into an unknown world called the Rubel continent when he was twenty, and suffered through all kinds of hardship.

Instead of a normal university life, he had been forced to hold a sword and deal with constant messages and voices in his head as if he had gone insane.

The ‘guide system’ which you would only see in a VR game, forced quests upon him which seemed like it was leading him to certain death. Along the way, he even experienced his first life-threatening situation and his first murder…

His lonely, five-year-long adventure flashed through his mind like a slideshow.

In a way the time had gone by in the blink of an eye, but the fact that he could no longer remember his parents or his sister’s face, nor his memories of his home was proof that it was definitely not a short amount of time.

He had endured it all for such a long time.

No matter how hard the adventure was, he hadn’t given up and took his steps one by one. Now only one final step remained.

Right now Vulcan, looked like a hero from the legends.

His entire body was hardened with muscle and the confidence and pressure coming from his body was emanated to his surroundings.

There was no remaining trace of a newbie who once trembled in terror while fighting a single goblin or orc.

Equipped with legendary and mythical armaments on his entire body, the max level hero awaited his ending.

‘It’s over. After this last quest… I can go back. Back to the peaceful days, back home.’

Vulcan sheathed his blade of pure lightning and looked at his quest window.

There was no need to search through it. All of the completed quests had been removed and the ones on the list were [Main Quest – Eradicate the Elder Lich Frezole] for the reward and [The Final Quest – Enter Asgard] which had just been unsealed.

After this was completed, everything would go back to its original place.

Vulcan closed all of the notification messages in his view and left the quest reward and skill windows open. He focused on the skill list especially.

[Passive skill list]

*Combat Mastery – S

*Weapon Mastery – S

*Defense Mastery – S

*Evasion Mastery – A – S(Rank up)

…

Fire mastery A – S(Rank up)

Lightning Mastery S

Cold Mastery B

Necromancy Mastery C

Vulcan’s lips turned into a smile when he saw that his ‘Evasion Mastery’ had improved, which had never happened despite all of the previous grindings he did to raise it.

Dodging all of Frezole’s modified ice missiles one by one must have had a large effect on it. He almost allowed Frezole an opportunity due to length of the battle but the reward was worth it.

‘Instant cast of Skull Dragon and Bone Explosion combination… He wasn’t a level 99 boss for nothing.’

There were other improvements, Fire Mastery had improved from A to S.

‘Perhaps it’s because I destroyed the Cold Magic with Fire Magic. Hm.’

This was also a great result.

With the difficulty of the last quest in mystery, the S-rank Fire Mastery would prove useful.

After looking through all of his masteries on the chart, he looked at his quest rewards with greed.

It was the first time he had done so, but he had wanted to save the best for last this time, which was difficult.

‘Now… What will come out from it.’

The last 2 S-difficulty quest rewards hadn’t disappointed him.

The trials he went through at level 80 to receive the mythical weapon, the ‘Pure Lightning Blade’ and the skill ‘Indestructible’ that he received at level 95 for killing the orc great chieftain had increased his stats drastically.

His whole mind was filled with excitement.

‘To be honest I don’t need any changes to my equipment. A skill… a Fire or Lightning skill. One with a lot of utility… Please!’

Vulcan looked at his reward.

[Mythical Skill – The Burning Hell]

[Level Requirement : 99Lv]

Turns the area around the caster into scorched earth. Enemies within the AoE take damage over time, and the caster’s Fire skill damage increases by 20%. When in flame spirit transformation, the spirit may travel to any place within the scorched earth. 60 second duration.

Vulcan smiled.

***

‘This is perfect. Perfect condition, perfect equipment, potions fully stacked. There’s nothing more I can do.’

At the western end of the Rubel continent, there was a cave on an uninhabited island.

Vulcan stood at its entrance, outfitted with his legendary equipment.

Within the cave was a darkness deeper than an abyss.

A normal man would quake with fear just looking into it, afraid of the unknown threats that could be lurking within.

However, Vulcan’s face seemed as if he had made a decision.

Truth be told, Vulcan had long contemplated about going through with the quest ‘Enter Asgard’.

The term ‘Final Quest’ suggested that the difficulty would be far beyond what he had faced before, and the fact that no details about the quest had been shown made it even more difficult to make a decision.

But he decided not to think about it anymore.

He had done everything he could.

In order to be prepared for everything not only had he leveled up, but he had also invested a lot of time into basic combat mastery and gathered skills that synergized with each other.

His items could not get any better, either. He also prided himself on his vast combat experience.

Vulcan was the undisputed, most powerful man in the world.

Waiting any further would not be caution, but hesitation and cowardice.

Vulcan scratched his head, his hair had been cut short like a mercenary’s. Some of his hair dropped along with his unrest.

“This is the end, bloody Rubel continent.”

The footsteps that echoed in the cave went farther into the distance, and darkness swallowed him whole. And then, as if nothing had happened, the cave erased its own existence from the world.

He was unsure how many days he had been walking. More than ten times it seemed he had been going up and down the harsh terrain. It made Vulcan feel uneasy that not a single monster had appeared, let alone an exit. Too many times had he been sharpening his mind which became dull with despair and agony. Stray thoughts began to poison him.

‘Looks like there aren’t any mobs here.’

‘No… What if it was their plan to make me sloppy and ambush me in the dark?’

‘No no… if that as their plan, they would’ve done that a long a go. I should just take it easy.’

‘It’s been over a week since I’ve been walking, where’s the exit?’

‘Wish I could see something else but these rocks…’

‘What if I need to walk like this for an eternity…’

‘Don’t tell me this is all there is to it.’

‘Would I be able to… go back home?’

‘My family… I miss them…’

‘……’

With time, restlessness and stray thoughts swept away like a leaf in a tide.

A month has passed walking in silence. Darkness and gloom overtook Vulcan without him realizing.

Vision became blurred and the auditory system began to fail. Then the ability to smell, and later, to touch.

All five senses were extinguished and darkness overcame like plague. He could not feel anything. The sense of walking was already long gone.

Vulcan kept moving like a machine programmed to walk. His dull senses were just enough to pick up the sounds coming from the SYSTEM transceiver.

[You have cleared all NORMAL difficulty quests]

[You are now entering the Asgard territory – Difficulty: HELL]

[Act 1. Beloong city]

Darkness was lifted and the dazzling light awoke every cell in Vulcan’s body.

The strongest goblin of all time (TLN: This line randomly came up here)

The vast grassland was the first thing he saw after coming to his senses. The reflection from grass of the meadow revitalized Vulcan who had been in the dark for so long. But he also had some questions unanswered.

‘I thought there would be a boss monster or an ancient dungeon at the end of all this…’

But in front of him, was only a quiet, peaceful landscape. Something Vulcan had not been expecting.

With a bit of a thought, Vulcan opened up his quest window, but there were no other quests including [The final quest – enter Asgard].

It appeared to him that he must have finished the quest without realizing, or he was already on the Asgard continent itself.

‘No way. Couldn’t they have given somewhat of a reward after clearing a quest named as flashy as the final quest?’

Vulcan decided to wait a bit longer just in case he got a late message from his transceiver. But all he got in return was the feeling of void and a cool breeze coming from the end of the meadow.

Vulcan could not wait any longer and decided to start moving. His eyes traced on a dirt road which crossed the grassland from where he was sitting. The road was wide enough for two horse carriages to travel at once.

‘It’s obvious that I should follow this road’

Often inconvenient quests like this would appear.

Vulcan thought of using his skills to transport himself faster, but decided not to. It was better to conserve his stamina although he will arrive much later.

Vulcan leisurely took his first steps along the dirt road.

“FUCK!!!”

Two hours of walking had passed until Vulc

an came across a sign and shouted.

‘200km till Beloong city’

Although he knew that there was a city somewhere he knows he could go, Vulcan felt uneasy. The letters on the sign plate were something he had never seen before.

Despite the fact the transceiver could translate most of the foreign languages, it had its limits of only being able to comprehend the exact meaning behind it. It did not give Vulcan the ability learn the language entirely.

‘Well this language is definitely not from Earth, nor is it from Rubel. HA! I guess this means I’m not back to Earth yet. Damn it.’

‘What if I came back to Earth and this is in fact somewhere on Earth, not Rubel?’ – Thought Vulcan whilst walking along the dirt road in hopes of coming back home.

He soon gave up on the hopes of returning to Earth. But it was bitter to face the reality.

“Ha….”

Vulcan sighed.

There was not a single thing that was easy; from the beginning when he first arrived, and until now.

Vulcan shook away the melancholy. On the bright side, he had found a way to a new city. That itself was a huge advance.

If he used the lightning spirit form, it would not even take thirty minutes to get to the Beloong city. He had no reason to save his stamina.

It had already been two hours since he had last seen a monster.

“Spirit form.”

As he chanted the word, Vulcans flesh and bones dissolved into the air and thunderbolts took its place instead. Soon after, a completed spirit form shaped like Vulcan had appeared.

“I should get going then.”

Excitement ran through his body in the thoughts of speeding through the meadow.

It was then; a small monster appeared at the corner of Vulcan’s eye.

A monster appearing to be an orc, or a goblin was confidently approaching him with a weapon in hand.

“Man, I was so tensed up and alert since I came here. And the first thing I see are some trash mobs? You’ve got to be kidding me.”

Vulcan smirked and flashed towards the monster.

What had appeared to be a small dot, gradually became larger as he approached it.

As soon as the monster was within range, Vulcan threw a Lightning Spear and continued speeding his way to Beloong city without slowing down.

Then suddenly, the monster that was just hit by the Lightning Spear blocked his path.

Vulcan felt confused.

‘He didn’t die after that? A mere trash mob?’

Vulcan carefully examined the monster.

“Krrr… Krrrrak.”

It was a goblin.

“….”

It has got to be a goblin. It was a lot bigger than an ordinary goblin. However judging by the appearances – large ears, hooked nose, green skin; it was definitely a goblin.

Vulcan stood lost in words.

Average level of goblins are 10.

There are often goblins that rich level 25 through special mutation or being of a boss class. But even for them, it was impossible to withstand the Lightning Spear from a level 99.

The monster did not appear to have taken any damages. Instead, it was radiating a murderous intent.

‘What the **** is that.’

“Maybe it’s not a goblin?” thought Vulcan as he inspected through his transceiver.

[Goblin Mukushu the Wanderer]

[90 Lv]

“…”

The second strongest foe ever battled.

The most powerful and ferocious monster following the 97 level boss monster: The Elder Lich Frezol.

The monster that was showing a superior, vicious aura was not an ancient mythril golem, nor a high rank demon, nor an enormous monster.

It was just… a single goblin.

To be frank, Vulcan had let down his guard.

There have been times when monsters were either easy or harder to defeat in relation to its level.

However, it was only due to a minor difference in skills, not because the monster was showing a wrong level.

Goblins were an easy prey even for Vulcan at level 5, who had relatively good combat skills and intelligence.

Upon reaching level 30, they were treated as if they were mere pebbles on the ground because they did not provide much experience.

Therefore, it was hard to think that a mere ‘pebble’ was radiating a killer intent, swinging his falchion faster than a high-class Death Knight.

There was nothing unnatural about being surprised.

KINNNGG!! GAAAAKINGGGGG!!!

The Goblin Mukushu was swinging his falchion faster than an ordinary eye can catch. His stance and swinging style was that of an amateur; however the raw strength and speed was a master class. It seemed he had a strong will to crush anything that comes across his path.

An aura that only comes from an ancient high general of a civilization which kept its place for thousands of years… Vulcan felt uneasy.

‘A sword… won’t be enough.’

Vulcan acknowledged the enemy.

The monster in front of his eyes was a level 90 top-ranked monster, not an ordinary goblin. There was no embarrassment in bringing out everything he had.

Vulcan launched towards Mukushu with his sword. Weapons clashed and with recoil, Vulcan pushed himself away from the goblin to make some distance.

“Hellfire. Hellfire.”

Two head sized meteors shrouded in inferno were molded behind Goblin Mukushu.

Vulcan started with controlling one Hellfire to attack the enemy. The fiery meteor flung on top of the goblin and began to strike down. The second meteor floating mid-air, was looking for an opportunity of a second strike, if the goblin dodges the first Hellfire.

‘As soon as you dodge the first Hellfire, I will destroy you with my second Hellfire along with the God of Thunder*!’

It would be near impossible to avoid the second Hellfire and God of Thunder after dodging the first Hellfire falling at a high velocity. It would at least injure the creature, which will make the next step easier.

Vulcan firmly grasped his sword in the prediction that he had won the fight.

However, Goblin Mukushu did not maneuver as he had predicted.

“KRRRRP!”

“BAANNGGG!!”

With savagery, Mukushu slammed the Hellfire with scorpion kick with his right leg.

Hellfire began to fly towards Vulcans chest with greater acceleration due to Mukushus pure strength.

“…!”

Vulcan quickly snapped out of astonishment and quickly pulled his Pure Lightning Blade and flung his sword to redirect the Hellfire away.

Immediately, two hatches flung across the plain and towards the ankle and the chest. Vulcan jumped high and evaded both.

Vulcan’s and Mukushu’s eyes met in mid air. Vulcan felt nervous when he began to wonder if the goblin was showing a hint of a self-satisfied smirk. Suddenly, a 10 meter sword clocked in crimson chi surged from Mukushus elbow and began to strike down.

“SPIRIT FORM!!”

He was able to dodge the sword with the thunder spirit form. Shock wave and thunder echoed to every corner of the field.

The grassland was carved where the crimson chi had run through. Two things came into the eyes; the unreal change in scenery which appeared to have been cut like butter, and the Goblin Mukushu which was bouncing on spot, pleased with his warm up.

*Smirk.*

Although a different species, Vulcan was fully able to apprehend Mukushus barbarous grin. His whole body was telling him to snap out of it and start moving.

Vulcan decided to test his new skill on the Goblin Mukushu.

“… The Inferno Abyss.”

A chunk of mana withdrew seconds after enchantment.

It was a large amount of mana for a skill that only lasts for a single minute. Spell power so great that you cannot cast it twice in a row without taking mana potions.

‘Although I can’t use it because the cooldown is two hours.’

But there was no way he needed to cast the skill twice.

Let alone a minute, just ten seconds was enough.

“KIIRRRIII? KIRRRIIIKK!!”

Flame poured out from Vulcans feet and began to incinerate everything within 500 meters in diameter.

There was not a single place that was not on fire. It was an immense heatwave that cannot be fully blocked by chi alone.

Goblin Mukushus cry echoed, expressing the unbearable pain.

“KKKIII!!!!!!!!!!! KIRIK!!! KUUU…. KKKKRRIIII!!!!”

Realising he cannot defend himself under the spell zone, he attempted to run out of the circle with vigilance towards Vulcan. Only 500 meters. With a few seconds of sprinting, he could get out.

But Vulcan would not let that happen.

“EXPLOSION!”

Detonation thundered and ripped across the battlefront like a volcanic eruption.

Mukushu attempted to dodge the Explosion, but its left shoulder was already burnt to the very bones and the cartilage. It would not be able to use his left arm with a blow like this.

“Can’t compare it to some other fire magic right? It’s a skill that concentrates all combustive elements around me. And my Inferno Abyss was a perfect medium for it.”

“KKRAWWWWWR!!”

Mukushu dashed towards Vulcan in pain and fury.

It could not escape due to Explosion spell, nor stay in place as The Inferno Abyss will burn him.

As soon as it realized that the only way to escape was to kill the caster, it charged without hesitation. The falchion in its right hand emitted a menacing aura.

However, as ready as Vulcan was, it did not intimidate him.

“Spirit form.”

Vulcans body scattered into the air and quickly forged back into a flame spirit. Mukushu was swinging his falchion with great momentum until Vulcan materialized behind the giant goblin. He was holding the Jinroi in his right hand. It was sparkling in gold under the sunlight.

Terror filled Mukushus eyes as he rotated his neck to glance at Vulcan with his weapon in hand, ready to swing. A merciless voice echoed into the distance.

“Punishment of the thunder god.”

The goblin was cleaved clean right down in the middle from the crown to the groin with a flawless swordsmanship.