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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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Yuma slowly opened his mouth.
“Divine Domain Proclamation.”
Transparent light covered the entire ground of the imperial palace.
Crack—
Transparent light that devoured the earth.
That light enveloped all beings in Yuma’s vicinity.
Splash…
Shallow ripples spread across the floor.
The total of 300 retainers either tilted their heads in confusion or stood still in the ripples.
The space covered by ‘Mortal Combat Zone’ approached a radius of 500 meters.
The same radius as the divine domain ‘Asura Path’ that the war god Barbatos had deployed.
‘The duration of maintaining the divine domain will probably be until my divine power is completely exhausted.’
Yuma felt the white divine power surging throughout his entire body.
‘Barbatos maintained the Asura Path until just before his death.’
The time Barbatos and he had dueled was about 20 minutes.
‘That’s sufficient.’
Yuma judged that amount of time would be enough.
Step.
Yuma took another step forward.
“You must attack me within 5 minutes.”
“What…?”
[God of Flames and Lament] Omerta’s eyes widened.
It was right after that.
Tick—
Above the heads of the four gods.
No, above the heads of the four gods and their retainers, gray pendulums appeared.
Tick—
And they continued to move.
“If you don’t attack me within 5 minutes, you will die.”
Mortal combat.
Staking life and death.
Combat zone.
A battlefield where one must fight.
The rule Yuma imposed on this divine domain was as follows:
Among the beings belonging to ‘Mortal Combat Zone,’ unless they were beings Yuma had excluded from the target, they must attack Yuma within 5 minutes.
If they didn’t, the pure power of Yuma’s divine power—that divine power would strike the opponent in the form of a sword.
Sring—
A strange sound occurred.
The gods including Omerta, and their retainers all raised their heads in unison.
Sword forms emanating a subtle chill.
Above the beings with pendulums floating over their heads, one sword form each appeared in a straight line above the pendulums.
Sring—
Over three hundred sword forms densely embroidered the sky above the Mortal Combat Zone.
The members of the Empire couldn’t take their eyes off the intense spectacle unfolding before them.
Omerta slowly opened his mouth.
“…You bastard, what kind of restriction have you imposed?”
“That’s not something you need to know.”
Yuma’s ‘Mortal Combat Zone’ was a divine domain filled with eeriness.
From the beginning, the purpose wasn’t to launch a meaningful attack through the divine domain, but rather to create a situation where, terrified by the sword forms densely covering that sky, they would have no choice but to attack him.
Parrying.
And the [Absolute Counter] manifested through that parrying.
It was a battlefield created to use that absolute counter he had always employed against the gods.
The opponent was a god.
No matter how mighty his current divine power was, there might be ways to survive being hit.
But [Absolute Counter] was different.
This power had never betrayed Yuma until now. So he pondered what would be the most certain battlefield to use [Absolute Counter].
Suspicion.
If they were gods who had witnessed the battle with war god Barbatos, they wouldn’t easily attempt to attack him now.
Even if they couldn’t figure out that the source of the attack Yuma had sent with 10 times the attack power through absolute counter lay in the attacker’s own strength, they would have noticed that he had never made the ‘first move.’
That point became grounds for the opponents not to attack Yuma first.
Ignoring those grounds, Yuma had created an environment where they had no choice but to attack him.
Since there wasn’t even time to verify whether they could manifest divine power to make physical attacks, he first laid the groundwork for [Absolute Counter], the most reliable and clear weapon, and presented the sword forms in a ‘conditional activation’ format.
And the causality of the world acknowledged the establishment of this divine domain, Mortal Combat Zone.
From causality’s perspective, this divine domain actually worked disadvantageously for Yuma, the caster.
The enemies within ‘Mortal Combat Zone’ must direct their attacks solely toward Yuma. Unconditionally, until Yuma himself died and this divine domain was destroyed.
That was the law of this divine domain.
Self-sacrifice.
Causality viewed this condition Yuma had imposed on the divine domain as noble self-sacrifice and dismissed it as a ‘restriction’ he had imposed on himself.
From Yuma’s standpoint, it was merely a condition he had imposed to cleanly kill his enemies.
“…Omerta.”
Galua looked at Omerta, who was standing still.
“I know why you’re hesitating.”
If, by any chance, that bastard appeared before their eyes in perfect condition without any wounds or fatal injuries, they should first maintain a standoff without attacking.
It was none other than Omerta who had said this.
“But in this current situation, hesitation could be poison.”
Galua looked at the sword form floating above his head, emanating white light.
“…The divine power contained in this sword isn’t something like an illusion.”
They might be able to endure it once.
But twice would be different.
The divine power contained in this sword was mighty.
That meant the divine power of Yuma standing before them was so vast that its depths couldn’t be fathomed.
“Even if we endure this sword once, there’s no guarantee we can endure it again. Omerta, you might be able to endure it about twice, but…”
Omerta was also one of the [Eight Evil Gods] who transcended hierarchy.
There was a possibility he could withstand Yuma’s divine sword form.
But the other three gods might suffer fatal wounds from the sword currently floating above.
“Isn’t it simple?”
A grating voice was heard from beside the two gods. It was [God of Revenge and Courage] Crios.
His dark red long hair fluttered densely.
“If we all proclaim divine domains and charge at him simultaneously, even that bastard won’t be able to do anything about it.”
Crios took a step toward Yuma.
And he continued speaking.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble—
As if an earthquake had occurred, the ground shook violently.
Behind Crios, a massive red mountain shot up. It was a mountain as dark red as dried, twisted blood.
The ability of ‘Mountain of Resentful True Blood’ possessed capabilities similar to the divine domain ‘Asura Path’ of the deceased war god Barbatos.
Amplification of the main god’s abilities.
If there was a clear difference from Asura Path, it was that Mountain of Resentful True Blood also applied to Crios and the red legion he summoned.
To draw out the courage to kill opponents, it also drew out the desire for revenge.
Crios’s believers who trusted him gained greater power the more they drew out their desire for revenge against enemies.
“Advance, warriors.”
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
Fifty massive monsters, each possessing demigod-level abilities, [Crimson Asuras], scattered red currents as they moved forward.
[Holy Mother of Melancholic Benevolence], Galua let out a light sigh and then spoke quietly.
Strange cracks occurred in the ground where Galua stood.
What emerged from the ground was a tremendously large scythe.
A scythe with countless vengeful spirits clinging to it.
The change wasn’t just the creation of the weapon called a scythe.
Crack! Crack!
The black giants who had emerged from their cocoons grew even larger.
[God of Shallow and Deep Armies], Yenkal proclaimed a divine domain called [Land of Abundance and Evolution].
The effect was simple and clear.
The various giant insects Yenkal had summoned evolved to be more aggressive.
“Divine Domain Proclamation.”
The last to deploy a divine domain proclamation was Omerta.
Whoosh! Crackle!
Vast flames rose from beneath Omerta’s feet.
They were crimson hellfire.
The four gods strived not to invade each other’s divine domains.
What was important was pouring all the power of these divine domains onto Yuma without invading each other’s territories.
“That human, Yuma, is definitely a god.”
Galua said as her navy blue long hair fluttered.
“We must clearly recognize that and launch a joint attack together.”
No god answered Galua’s words, but everyone properly recognized it.
That human was a being who shouldn’t be viewed within the category of humans.
Countless armies stamped their feet.
The ground shook violently.
Thump.
The fifty [Crimson Asuras], Crios’s retainers, charged forward.
Each of the twelve arms of every Crimson Asura held various types of weapons.
Over 150 giant insects, Yenkal’s retainers, charged forward, turning the ground into a wasteland.
Thump.
Over 100 black giants, Galua’s retainers, rushed forward fiercely.
A total of over 300 retainer armies.
And the four gods, their masters, rushed toward Yuma.
Countless armies were reflected in his blue eyes.
The members of the Empire watched the army of enemies surging like a massive wave and the single god facing that army.
Yuma stepped forward.
His black coat fluttered.
Crack—
The Mortal Combat Zone and the divine domains of the four gods began to clash.
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Divine motherfucking Might Has Blessed This Holy Land!