I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 89

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Cough, cough!”

As soon as he regained consciousness, the first thing that escaped his mouth was a cough.

His entire mouth felt parched.

He roughly ran his tongue over his cheeks and gums and got up.

‘So that’s why the protagonist fainted and woke up.’

It was a very informative experience that allowed him to understand why the protagonist in the game fainted after being dragged into the abyss.

Every part of his body ached.

The shadow enveloping and pulling him in certainly didn’t mean it had gently embraced him.

It was closer to roughly seizing his body and throwing him down on the ground.

Everything around him was pitch black.

Up, down, front, back.

Everywhere his eyes could see was stained black.

If it weren’t for the abyss beneath his feet, he would have surely lost all sense of direction.

The floor was covered in an abyss that looked like black mud, enough to make one feel sick just by looking at it.

There was no bare ground anywhere.

The only substances forming the space were abyss and shadows.

At least it was fortunate that, unlike the lowest floor of the rune dungeon, rolling wasn’t blocked here.

‘The rune… is working properly, right? Since I’m still alive and not dead.’

He fiddled with the back of his left hand.

The reason why the “Rest in the Abyss” rune was essential for the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle was because of this space consumed by abyss and shadows.

When opening the barrier door to fight the boss, if not wearing the rune, the player’s character would instantly die with the sound of their bones being crushed as soon as they were enveloped by the shadows.

Also, if one entered here wearing the rune and then removed it, the player’s character would similarly be enveloped by shadows and die instantly, with the corpse sinking into the abyss below.

Either way, without the rune, the character would die immediately.

This was another factor that increased the difficulty of the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle.

—Come.

A faint voice called him from somewhere.

The owner of that voice was the final boss of the DLC, the Creature Abandoned by God.

Since this was its domain, it could surely sense immediately that someone had entered.

With a swish, he drew the blood-stained sword.

The passage was a straight line.

As he slowly stepped forward, the shadows and abyss writhed and gathered, filling in the space he had passed through.

‘It would have been nice if I could go straight to the boss room…’

Sadly, that wasn’t possible.

After walking through the passage for a while, a single mob would appear to block the player’s way.

That one had to be defeated before moving on.

Squirm.

No sooner had his thought ended than the passage right in front of him was blocked by shadows rising from the floor.

It was a signal to prepare for battle.

He pressed his hand against the shadow wall that filled the passage.

It was a wall with tremendous elasticity, like rubber.

As soon as he removed his hand after pressing it, it bounced back as if in retaliation, returning to its original shape.

Soon after, he heard something rising behind him.

He turned around.

A strangely shaped abyss monster was slowly approaching him.

In vanilla, there was no shadow wall so one could simply run away, but in the Darkest Light mod, that wasn’t possible.

He had to fight no matter what.

—Splash!

Of course, this was no problem for him at all.

It wasn’t even a particularly difficult opponent anyway.

As the abyss monster fell backwards, it scattered into the shadows with a splash, like water spreading in all directions.

As the monster died, the shadow wall blocking the passage crumbled away.

‘That’s still there too.’

He saw an old statue standing alone on the other side of the passage.

It was a checkpoint save statue, like the one that had been in the underground of the rune dungeon.

He passed by without even glancing at the statue.

Because it was a trap.

If one were to sit in front of it not knowing any better, the statue would transform into an abyss monster and devour the player.

The damage itself wasn’t extraordinary, but for him in his current state, it was practically an instant death attack.

Everyone entering this place for the first time would fall for that statue, one hundred out of a hundred times.

First-time players couldn’t help but be caught by it.

What was more infuriating was that after devouring the player, it would run away, so you couldn’t even kill it.

Moreover, this was the only place in all of Brightest Darkness 4 where a statue was used as bait.

After walking for a while, he looked back at where the statue had been, and it had disappeared at some point.

He clicked his tongue once and moved on.

‘It should be down here.’

It didn’t take long for him to reach the real entrance to the boss room.

He had arrived at the edge of a cliff that dropped straight down.

Now, if he jumped down from here, he would go directly to the boss room.

There was no reason to hesitate at this point.

Gripping the blood-stained sword firmly with both hands, he jumped down.

Splash.

As his feet touched the bottom, it sounded like he was stepping into a puddle.

Of course, it wasn’t real water.

It was just something that had turned liquid-like after the abyss had gathered.

He couldn’t remove the rune here either.

If he did, he would be sucked down into the abyss forming the floor and die.

It meant he had to fight as if one rune slot was unavailable.

From somewhere in the boss room, a voice that shook the entire space echoed.

It was the dialogue that appeared at the beginning of the cutscene signaling the start of the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle.

Thud.

The ground shook.

Something was walking towards him from beyond the abyss covered in darkness.

That talk about being a lackey of god was special dialogue that only appeared if the character had raised either their Faith or Sacred Power stat to 10 or above.

Otherwise, it would just normally ask if you had come to die.

Well, it was not like the boss got stronger or anything because of this.

It just changed the dialogue.

Boom!

That something took its final step.

Even in this terrible darkness, its form was clearly visible.

It had an enormous figure.

He had to crane his neck considerably to see its head.

His own head didn’t even reach its knee, let alone one of its legs.

Six sharp horns protruded from its head, and it had no less than eight eyes.

Countless densely packed teeth were visible between its mouth, which was split up to its ears.

Two pairs of large wings were attached to its back, and it had four arms.

An abnormally thick tail dragged on the ground between its legs.

‘It looks even worse in person.’

Whenever users cursed at this thing, they would half-jokingly say it was an “ugly orphan abandoned by god,” but facing it directly like this, those words didn’t feel like a joke at all.

“What eternal rest.”

He chuckled and pulled out the sacred catalyst tied to his waist.

It was something he had borrowed briefly from Selene.

After all, a catalyst was absolutely necessary to use holy spells.

He brought the sacred catalyst to the blade, concentrating his senses as if infusing it with power.

The catalyst began to shine brightly.

It was a golden light representing the sacred power of the sun.

The sun dwelled in the weapon.

Like a golden river overflowing, the surging sacred power enveloped the blade of the blood-stained sword.

The light was so strong that it even obscured his right hand gripping the handle.

This was the effect of “Solar Eclipse,” a holy spell with top-tier performance among weapon blessing enchantments, but he was unaffected.

Not only was there no dazzling effect at all, but he could also look at it perfectly fine.

Of course, that was because it was a spell he had used himself.

The creature also showed no reaction to receiving the golden-white light that was practically equivalent to sunlight head-on.

It wasn’t particularly surprising, given that even the sacred power directly exerted by the Pope couldn’t penetrate the abyss.

It would have been funny in its own way if the supposed final boss of the DLC was intimidated just by an enchantment motion.

“Well. Why do you think you can’t be killed?”

He firmly reattached the sacred catalyst to his waist.

With his current Sacred Power stat, he couldn’t use the enchantment again immediately after it wore off.

It would take some time before he could use it again.

“Of course, you won’t die in one hit. I didn’t expect that from the start. It would be more strange if a big guy like you just dropped dead after taking a few hits.”

He pointed the blood-stained sword art the creature.

The creature also seemed ready to start the fight in earnest, gathering shadows in each of its four hands.

The gathered shadows began to form the shapes of weapons.

Flail. Bludgeon. Hammer. Axe.

These were the types of weapons grasped in the creature’s hands, and they were all terrifyingly huge.

Whether to intimidate him or simply to show off, the creature swung the weapons, each far larger than an average human, through the air with a domineering attitude.

“But, I don’t plan on hitting you just once.”

He focused his mind and took his stance.

There was no need to be intimidated by that overwhelming appearance.

The larger the weapons, the more clearly their motions could be seen.

The outcome depended not on the creature’s actions, but on his own concentration.

“I intend to beat you until you die.”

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