Accidentally Becoming a Great Prophet?!

Crack. Crunch.

“So, you came to try and catch me, is that it?”

A simple attack that seemed to just press down with magic power.

However, that magic power was truly enormous, so even such a simple action becomes an overwhelming attack, but… the opponent was Wi Jin-taek.

The current strongest superhuman in Korea, one of the Sea Kings.

One of the monsters rumored to not lose to anyone except an EX-rank if there’s a large amount of water nearby.

Thud!

Therefore, Wi Jin-taek stood in front of Icardi Marduk, who had introduced himself as the leader of the Hoecheon Church, again, going against the enormous magic power head-on.

“I admit it. You’re a strong one. But you chose the wrong place to fight.”

Crack! Crackle!!

As if to show Wi Jin-taek’s anger at the sudden attack, the enormous special glass containing a massive amount of water in the aquarium easily cracked like paper, and the tens of thousands of tons of seawater inside began to flow towards Wi Jin-taek.

And Wi Jin-taek assimilated with that massive seawater, gradually increasing his size.

What appeared then was a blue dragon hundreds of meters long, made of water.

And a huge disc floating in the sky, created by drawing in water from nearby seas and rivers.

[I’ll make you regret that leisurely attitude as you die. Damn cult!!]

This half-mad dragon form was the reason he was called the Four Seas Dragon King and the source of his power that allowed him to have the title of Sea King.

His strength is truly enormous, enough to make the humidity rise sharply and cause dark clouds due to his anger.

“I wonder about that. They say Sea Kings don’t lose unless it’s an EX-rank if there’s enough water, but isn’t that exaggerated?”

Isn’t that a saying befitting those who are evaluated as undisputed peaks even among the numerous S-ranks who are said to be half-stepping into the wall, like Dahongryeonji (大紅蓮池), Yeomcheonha (炎千河), Red Rabbit, Mahapadma?

With a smile conveying such a meaning, Marduk looked up at Wi Jin-taek, still not losing his composure.

At this, Wi Jin-taek expressed his anger with his gaze and shouted while transforming his arm into a huge hammer the size of a small mountain.

His body was made of water which is easy to transform, and he was continuously drawing in moisture from the surroundings, and Wi Jin-taek’s magic power made it not just big in size, so its power would be beyond imagination.

[Are you saying you’re on the same level as those guys? You should be arrogant in moderation…!!]

Grrrk! Grrrrk!!

[……!?]

However, that strike didn’t reach Marduk.

A huge hand that suddenly sprang up blocked it.

A giant hand created by the ruined aquarium instantly twisting.

[What the hell is this…!!]

“Arrogant? How could that be? This is just natural confidence. I succeeded in reaching even higher than those guys, you know.”

Marduk, now smiling as if somewhat distorted, unleashed massive magic power in streams as if he had gained some certainty, no longer hiding it and throwing off his robe.

Warm golden hair and deep blue eyes, and a face with a gentle but somehow dry and twisted-looking smile and a somewhat thin body were revealed, and Wi Jin-taek’s arm that had increased in size burst.

[Kuh…!]

Of course, given the form, he hadn’t completely lost it, but even that was enough for Wi Jin-taek to realize the gap between himself and the superhuman in front of him.

‘Could it be… a transcendent who has crossed the wall…? But something feels alien…!’

However, there was no time for long thoughts.

Keeeeeeㅡ

[What is this now…!]

A feeling of the air pressing down with malice.

It happened because the eerie magic power of the cult leader in front of him had completely put the area under his control.

Although it was strange somewhere, at this point, he couldn’t help but acknowledge it.

That the cult leader in front of him was a new EX-rank transcendent…!!

[What bad luck today. To suddenly meet such a monster…!!]

“Well, you don’t seem to be the person I was looking for… but I was planning to deal with everyone anyway, so it doesn’t matter. And if I kill you, wouldn’t it be quite impressive for my debut?”

[You’re talking nonsense… Hey, cult leader. Let me ask you one thing. You said you’re the leader of Hoecheon or Hoejeon or whatever, what’s your goal?]

However, it wasn’t his style to give up without properly resisting, so Wi Jin-taek tried to buy time continuously while asking questions.

And Marduk responded to the question with a smile, knowing such intentions.

“Ah, my goal… That’s a good question. There’s a possibility that you might understand and follow if you hear it, right? Alright. I’ll tell you! The goal of our Hoecheon Church!”

Marduk spread his arms wide and opened his mouth as if to expound something grandly.

“The current era has become distorted by the appearance of superhumans! Monsters that have appeared and a broken world! Especially the existence of high-ranking superhumans is no different from chaos itself! Useless pest-like existences that only ruin the world by wielding tremendous power!!”

[……]

Wi Jin-taek almost lost concentration at the dizzying words from the start, though he had expected it.

To begin with, superhumans appeared because dungeons and monsters appeared, wasn’t the order wrong from the start? Still, it was superhumans who made the world keep turning.

And aren’t high-ranking superhumans the first to deal with dangerous dungeons when they appear? They may not do it out of great sense of justice, but who has been at the forefront of dealing with high-grade dungeons to gain honor or money?

“However, strength that deviates from reason is not easy to deal with! That’s why I stepped up! That’s why Hoecheon Church gathered! To set this distorted world right! To deal with all the high-ranking superhumans who are the center of this chaos and set order right! To overthrow even S-ranks! Even those great EX-rank transcendents! And then for me to stand at the center of the world and lead the ignorant masses!!!”

[…You’re a thoroughly crazy bastard.]

Wi Jin-taek could make a simple evaluation of the superhuman in front of him.

If you hate high-ranking superhumans, you should die after killing them all, so why are you trying to play the absolute being by yourself? He couldn’t help but be a laughable madman.

Isn’t it just his own desire, only with grandiose words? The inferiority complex hidden in between is also visible.

[Let me ask one thing. You don’t seem like a genius at all, how did you reach that level?]

“That’s because I’m a chosen individual, of course? Therefore, whether my subordinates educated people, or the enlightened themselves offered themselves to me, I just took their aspirations, wishes, and life force. Ah, of course, I did gently push their backs a little.”

Although he talks about being chosen and such, in reality, he just happened to obtain an amazing artifact by chance.

An artifact of human sacrifice that allows one to take the power of others as their own when others sacrifice their lives for them.

And after obtaining this, he escaped from his position of being just a C-rank superhuman with no particularly great abilities and continued to get stronger, and based on this, he secretly established a cult and slowly built up power to reach his current level.

He, who had always envied and envied high-ranking superhumans while only lamenting, reached his current position by manipulating people in similar situations to himself, knowingly and unknowingly, by adding his ability to intensify their dissatisfaction and emotions.

Although his original abilities and appearance have disappeared as he reached his current level, such things didn’t matter. Such remnants of a weak ordinary person… They didn’t suit him who would kill all the high-ranking superhumans who dared to look down on him and become the only being.

And Wi Jin-taek, who had read some, if not all, of the thoughts of the madman in front of him, burst into a hollow laugh.

[Ha! No wonder you seemed so terribly weak for someone who has reached the same level as those transcendents…]

The power of a superhuman only has value and shines when built up with one’s own power.

Of course, there can be help from others in between, but the most important thing is that one must do it oneself.

If Dam Han-ul’s fortune-telling gives a very detailed recipe, and customers who see this acquire the ingredients themselves, take them or gain recognition themselves and make them completely their own, that is, if they completed the dish with their own power while receiving help from others, Icardi Marduk’s method was bizarre.

Just obtaining the artifact, getting the ingredients, making the dish, picking up the spoon, opening the mouth, putting the dish in the mouth, moving the jaw to chew and swallow – all of this was not done by himself, but he reached his current position because others did it for him.

He could forcibly squeeze in with the power of the artifact, but it’s like he came in clumsily and couldn’t properly settle in.

[Let me declare, you thick-headed cult bastard. You will never be able to advance further than that and will never be able to defeat any transcendent.]

Wi Jin-taek, who had properly witnessed the power of a transcendent once, could tell.

The great Taoist Ian Ayehir Carter, who became a disaster itself while trying to overcome natural disasters with human power.

Wi Jin-taek, who had indirectly experienced that irresistible disaster that wraps flames around typhoons and engraves blades in storms, uproots mountains to recreate meteor showers, turns hail into bombs, and makes rain into sharp daggers, could tell.

That this madman could never reach any transcendent.

[I’ll prove it to you directly by inflicting even one wound on your body.]

“…My, do you know? You’ve succeeded in irritating me.”

Wi Jin-taek, knowing well that there was no future anyway, threw himself at the cult leader with all his mightㅡ

ㅡWi Jin-taek succeeded in engraving one cut on Marduk’s face before collapsing gloriously.

And just at that time.

“Well then! Now that the work is well finished, I’ll guide you through a full course Jeju Island tour refreshingly!! First, let’s go have a bowl of meat noodlesㅡeh??”

“Hmm…?”

“That’s…”

Just then, Dam Han-ul and his companions, who had returned to the city after taking out Yeondal-gi and telling her story to Gobaekrok, neatly handling the request, witnessed that magnificent battle that shook the island just with its aftereffects.

“Uh… Shall we go there first? It seems something serious has happened??”

And, they headed there, postponing their travel for now.