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Chapter 15 - chapter 14 - island battle

Scene 1 — The Island battle

Jeju Island is ruined from training.

Cracked earth.

Mana storms.

Frozen craters.

Burned forests.

Collapsed rifts.

The strongest hunters in the world stand exhausted but proud.

They survived the Hollow Death's training.

They survived Liam's blade.

They survived Baruka's blizzard.

They survived Brute's rampage.

They survived Secretary's grey flame.

They think the worst is over.

They are wrong.

Because the sky…

stops.

Not darkens.

Not shakes.

Not cracks.

It stops.

Clouds freeze mid‑swirl.

Wind freezes mid‑gust.

Waves freeze mid‑crash.

The world becomes silent.

Jinyoung's eyes narrow.

> "This isn't a gate."

Liam kneels instantly.

Baruka's frost aura collapses.

Brute growls in fear.

Secretary's runes flicker.

Jun Ho whispers:

> "A Monarch is coming."

Jinyoung shakes his head.

> "No.

Two."

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Scene 2 — Querasha, Monarch of Plague

The first tear opens.

Not like a rift —

like rotting flesh being pulled apart.

A green‑black fog spills out.

The ground beneath it melts.

Mana decays.

Space erodes.

Light bends.

Then she steps through.

Querasha

Monarch of Plague

Queen of Insects

Concept of erosion, poison, dimensional rot

Her body is a shifting mass of:

- Rot

- Venom

- Insect wings

Every step she takes dissolves reality.

S‑Ranks collapse instantly.

SS‑Ranks choke.

Nation‑Level Hunters feel their mana destabilize.

Querasha's voice is a whisper of disease.

> "Hollow One…

you killed Kalaktus.

You killed Harold.

You are becoming… inconvenient."

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Scene 3 — Rakan, Monarch of Fang

The second tear doesn't open.

It explodes.

A roar erupts — primal, ancient, hungry.

The shockwave flattens mountains.

Then he emerges.

Rakan

Monarch of Fang

King of Beasts

Concept of predator instinct, devour of worlds

He is enormous — a living calamity:

- Bone armor

- Muscles like mountains

- Fangs glowing with mana

- Eyes that see prey in everything

His aura is pure predation.

Hunters collapse.

Tobi drops to one knee.

Joshua's heartbeat spikes.

Jun's sword trembles.

Shin's lightning flickers.

Oliver's mana collapses.

Andrea's killing intent is swallowed whole.

Rakan grins.

> "Weak prey.

Delicious prey."

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Scene 4 — The bargain chip

Querasha and Rakan stand side by side.

Two disasters.

Two concepts.

Two ends of the world.

Querasha:

> "We came to confirm the rumors."

Rakan:

> "That the Hollow One is awakening."

Querasha:

> "That he is becoming… something forbidden."

Rakan:

> "That he is becoming a threat."

They both look at Jinyoung.

Querasha:

> "We will kill you now—"

Rakan:

> "—before you become a true Monarch."

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Scene 5 — Humanity Stands

Jinyoung steps forward.

But before he can speak—

Michael (USA) steps beside him.

> "We're not running."

Jun (China) draws his blade.

> "We trained for this."

Tobi (Nigeria) cracks his knuckles.

> "Let's see if Monarchs bleed."

Shin (Japan) ignites lightning.

> "We stand with him."

Joshua (USA) slams his fist into the ground.

> "We hold the line."

Oliver (UK) raises a mana barrier.

> "We fight."

Andrea (Italy) nocks an arrow.

> "We kill."

For the first time in history—

Humanity stands united.

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Scene 6 — The Battle Begins

Querasha spreads plague.

Rakan charges like a living meteor.

Hunters scatter.

Undead clash with Monarch‑tier beasts.

Jinyoung meets both Monarchs head‑on.

The island shakes.

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Scene. 7 — Querasha vs the Mages

Querasha unleashes dimensional rot.

Emily stabilizes mana.

Hannah freezes plague.

Aurora redirects toxins.

Taekyoo Han burns rot with flame.

Secretary amplifies their spells.

Querasha hisses.

> "Annoying insects."

She summons a swarm of dimensional locusts.

The mages fight for their lives.

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Scene 8 — Rakan vs the Fighters

Rakan charges.

Michael and Tom clash with him.

Jun slices his arm.

Tobi tackles him head‑on.

Noah and Jonas restrain his legs.

Francisco pierces his hide.

Andrea fires arrows into his joints.

Joshua tanks a direct hit.

Rakan laughs.

> "Good.

Prey with teeth."

He releases Predator Instinct.

Half the hunters collapse.

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Scene 9 — The Undead vs the Monarchs

Liam clashes with Rakan — sword vs fang.

Baruka freezes Querasha's plague.

Brute tackles Monarch‑tier beasts.

Secretary counters dimensional rot with Hollow runes.

Querasha snarls.

> "These undead…

they carry the Hollow's scent."

Rakan grins.

> "Then they die first."

He crushes Brute's arm.

Querasha melts Baruka's wings.

The undead roar in pain — but keep fighting.

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Scene 10 — Jinyoung Unleashes Hollow Death

Jinyoung steps forward.

White mist erupts.

The ground freezes.

The air cracks.

Reality bends.

Querasha recoils.

Rakan's grin fades.

Jinyoung:

> "You came for me.

Good."

He clashes with both Monarchs at once.

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Scene 11 — The Turning Point

Querasha poisons the air.

Rakan crushes mountains.

Jinyoung fights both, but even he begins to strain.

Querasha:

> "You are incomplete."

Rakan:

> "You are not a Monarch."

They strike together.

Jinyoung is thrown back, bleeding Hollow ichor.

Hunters panic.

Liam roars.

Baruka charges.

Joshua shields the S‑Ranks.

Jun and Shin rush forward.

Jinyoung raises his hand.

> "Stay back."

His aura spikes.

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Scene 12 — The Temperature Drops

Everything stops.

Wind.

Sound.

Mana.

Light.

A single snowflake falls.

It doesn't melt.

It doesn't drift.

It hangs in the air.

Liam whispers:

> "No…

Not him."

The air freezes.

The world freezes.

A man steps out of the stillness.

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Scene 13 — Silad, Monarch of Frost

He doesn't roar.

He doesn't glow.

He doesn't radiate power.

He simply exists.

And existence itself freezes around him.

Silad

Monarch of Frost

Concept of absolute stillness, absolute zero, the end of all motion

His frost can:

- Freeze mana

- Freeze death energy

- Freeze time

- Freeze the soul

- Freeze matter to the atomic level

He looks at Jinyoung.

> "You killed two Monarchs.

You are growing too quickly."

Jinyoung raises his sword.

Silad lifts a finger.

The sword freezes.

The air freezes.

Jinyoung freezes.

Not physically —

his mana freezes.

Hollow Death stops flowing.

For the first time, Jinyoung feels fear.

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Scene. 14 — The One‑Sided Execution

Jinyoung attacks.

Silad freezes the attack.

Jinyoung teleports.

Silad freezes time for 0.3 seconds.

Jinyoung releases Hollow Death.

Silad freezes death energy.

Hunters rush forward.

Silad freezes their souls.

They collapse instantly.

Liam charges.

Silad touches his chest —

Liam's armor shatters into frost dust.

Baruka unleashes frost.

Silad's frost devours it.

Brute roars.

Silad freezes his heart for one second —

enough to drop him.

Secretary casts runes.

Silad freezes the runes mid‑air.

Silad walks toward Jinyoung.

> "You are incomplete."

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Scene 15 — The Death of the Hollow One

Jinyoung breaks free for a moment.

He releases everything.

Hollow Death erupts.

Silad smiles softly.

> "Beautiful.

But fragile."

He places his hand on Jinyoung's chest.

Absolute Zero.

Jinyoung's mana freezes.

His Hollow Death freezes.

His heartbeat freezes.

His soul freezes.

A crack spreads across his body.

Jinyoung collapses.

Dead.

Silad whispers:

> "Die.

And become what you were meant to be."

He disappears.

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Scene 16 — The Cocoon of Duality

Jinyoung's corpse rises.

White mist pours out.

Black mist pours out.

Bones crack.

Skin dissolves.

Mana collapses.

Authority rewrites itself.

A cocoon forms.

Half white/grey.

Half black/purple.

Liam crawls back, broken.

> "Master…?"

Baruka kneels.

> "He is… evolving."

Joshua stares.

> "He's… not dead?"

Jun whispers:

> "No.

He's becoming something else."

The cocoon pulses.

BOOM.

BOOM.

BOOM.

Each pulse shakes the island.

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Scene 17 — The Birth of the Monarch of Duality

The cocoon cracks.

Light spills out.

Not white.

Not black.

Both.

A voice echoes across the world.

> "I… am reborn."

The cocoon explodes.

Jinyoung steps out.

His right side glows white/grey — erasure.

His left side glows black/purple — devouring.

His aura bends reality in two directions.

His presence makes Monarchs kneel instinctively.

He is:

Jinyoung

Monarch of Duality

The end that erases.

The end that devours.

Two deaths.

One being.

Silad feels it from across the continent.

And for the first time…

Silad feels fear one he only felt from two person yogaroth and anthony.

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