chapter 60
60 – Saint (3)
The sky was dark.
Because acrid ashes covered the sky.
It was hot around.
This is because lava covered the land, which seemed to melt everything just by touching it.
When I opened my eyes and came out, the world I saw was hell itself.
What the hell happened to make this scenery unfold?
The worry was not long.
Quaang!!!
I turned my gaze towards the sound.
The noise of battle was echoing far away from the temple.
That place was creating a scene that was more horrifying than the scenery of the temple I was looking at.
Thunder roared from the ash-covered sky, and lightning struck.
Huge ice fangs of unfathomable size had risen high into the sky.
The lava was gushing up as if it were going to attack those ice fangs.
The scene of a natural disaster. The screams resounding there were heard all the way here.
The battlefield must have been in turmoil.
There was no more time to delay.
I moved my body.
The power of the gods moves according to my will.
Now I can control the power of the gods according to my will without Aether’s help.
Aether is me, and I was Aether.
Set the coordinates.
I checked if there were obstacles in the distance from where I am to the battlefield.
As a result of checking, there were no obstacles.
It was an optimal condition to use magic.
“The Path of Light.”
A blinding flash stretched out from my body.
The light stretched out and illuminated the sky above where the battle was taking place.
My body flew along the path of light.
It took less than a second for me to fly from the unknown temple to the battlefield.
Arriving at the battlefield, I looked down at the battlefield from the sky.
Abigyuhwan.
The battlefield was brutal.
The lava that gushed through the ground burned and killed all enemies and allies alike.
The corpses of those soldiers were covered with ashes that fell from the sky.
There were not many people who moved alive in such a brutal battlefield.
The miraculously surviving soldiers fled to survive.
There was no commander to stop it.
Because they have either already fled or disappeared in the ashes.
It was not difficult to find the culprit behind this situation.
Kung- Kung-
I could see a crocodile that was a little smaller than the castle wall protecting Kamael, the capital of the kingdom.
Every time the crocodile rolled its foot, the ground shook around the crocodile and lava gushed out.
Flutter- Flutter-
The sound of flapping wings can be clearly heard even from a distance.
Every time the crow, the size of a crocodile, flapped its wings, ash dust covered the sky and covered the ground.
Monster.
Just two monsters created the current map of hell.
I saw people struggling against those monsters.
A girl with red hair. A swordsman with dark hair. A swordsman with fluttering white hair.
They stepped on the snow.
“Who are they?”
[The red-haired lady is a member of the academy where the apostle is attending…….]
“Please explain roughly, not in detail. Because things are not good.”
I didn’t have time to listen to the goddess’ long explanation.
Even in the midst of this, a life-and-death battle was going on.
[The apostle’s colleagues.]
A colleague.
A colleague…….
No matter how much I looked at them, I couldn’t remember them.
It was something I wasn’t used to trying to think of them as colleagues.
Nevertheless, I tried to adapt.
Because that’s the way to find me.
“What are the guys they are dealing with?”
[Agares and Bassago. They are the servants of the demon king Baal.]
When the name Demon King came up, it reminded me of the guy I dealt with the other day.
“Is it stronger than the Eight Evil Dragons?”
[It’s not that much, but don’t be careless. Still, they are dukes of the demon realm.]
“Let’s do that.”
They haven’t noticed my appearance yet.
The two of them seemed preoccupied with fighting my colleagues.
Now was the perfect moment for a surprise attack.
I raised the power of a god to the fullest.
My hair started to turn white.
I didn’t even spend the time of light, but my body couldn’t stand the power of the gods and started to change.
Now that I have become one with the goddess, I was no different than a half-god.
That’s why the body couldn’t stand it because of the overflowing power even if the god’s power was raised even a little.
“It’s a problem even if you have too much power.”
But I didn’t care.
So far, it was tolerable.
The power of the god raised up was gathered at one point and gathered again.
It wasn’t light magic.
It was just a mass of pure power condensed into a single point.
A glowing mass gathered at the fingertips.
I aimed it at a black crow flying in the sky.
And fired.
The condensed mass of light flew away at high speed leaving a trail of light.
Soon it passed right through the crow’s forehead without an inch of error.
A place where the trail of light passed.
There was a huge hole between the crow’s forehead.
The crow stopped flapping its wings.
The crow stopped beating its wings and could no longer float in the sky.
Thump!
As a huge crow fell, ash was scattered.
As time passed, the ash settled and covered the top of the fallen crow. Even at that moment, the crow did not even flinch.
It was dead.
“Bassago!”
Agares, the demonic duke in the shape of a crocodile, shouted.
Looking at him like that, I went down to the ground.
I don’t know what kind of expression the crocodile makes when it’s startled, but he said to the guy who seemed to be astonished.
“That crow must have been Bassago.”
“Who are you!”
The pupil that was torn vertically was glaring at me.
“It’s Derian.”
“Did you do that?”
“If so, what do you plan to do?”
“I’ll chew and eat it myself.”
Agares’ mouth was wide open.
The inside of Agareth’s mouth, where countless teeth grew, was disgusting.
Hate came.
At the same time, my body moved.
“It’s disgusting. Shut your mouth.”
I lightly jumped up and hit him on the nose.
It was a light blow, but it contained the power of a god.
Boom!!!
The gaping mouth of the guy was easily closed by my fist.
The guy who was hit by my fist fell to the ground with a shock.
“Quaaa”
The bastard’s scream rang out.
“Noisy.”
Summoned and dropped a sword of light over the screaming creature’s head.
Kwajik-
The screamer’s mouth was pierced by the sword of light and pinned to the ground.
“It’s a little quieter now.”
He’s not dead yet.
I had to put an end to it.
Once again, the power of the gods was gathered and condensed.
Gathering power.
The crocodile at that moment. No, Agareth opened his mouth.
“Keuuu, who the hell are you?”
“It’s amazing that you can talk in that condition.”
“Answer the question, human!”
“Human…… I don’t know if I can call myself a human right now.”
“What are you talking about!”
“You don’t need to know. Just die.”
All powers gathered.
He pointed his finger at his forehead.
And that was the moment I was about to shoot it.
Koo-gu-goo-gu-goo!!!
The guy said.
“Bastard!!! Do you think I will die this easily! I don’t know how a human can have such power, but I’ll definitely kill you here today.”
The ground shook greatly.
I lost my balance due to that wind, and my attack ended up passing through his arm instead of between his eyebrows.
Ignoring the pain of having his arm pierced, he began to do something.
Its size started to decrease.
Innumerable things like tentacles began to come out of the body that had shrunk in size.
They pierced the dead soldiers’ bodies again and again.
A grotesque scene.
Due to its tentacles, all the corpses on the battlefield gathered around him.
Among them was the body of Vassago, the Demon Duke I just killed.
“What are you trying to do?”
[They are offering sacrifices.]
“What are you talking about?”
[It means to offer oneself as a sacrifice to become a stronger being. Not only myself, but all the corpses on this battlefield as sacrifices.]
“That’s not good.”
Right now, this guy was no threat to me at all.
By the way, he and another duke. And I didn’t know what the monster would be like by sacrificing all the corpses on the battlefield.
I had to stop it.
I raised my strength even more.
His hair turned even whiter, and even the remaining black eyes began to turn golden.
Without stopping, he reached out and fired a mass of power at it.
My powers collided with him.
Quaaang!!!
A loud impact sound.
A thick layer of ash arose.
Did he really die from this blow?
As the ash slowly settled, its silhouette began to emerge.
“Kwalala la la la la!!!”
A hideous monster with crow’s wings attached to the body of a crocodile, and eyes rolling all over its body.
It was roaring.
The gnome’s evolution was successful.
It seems that reason has disappeared.
“Nothing works.”