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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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White light spread out from the ground where Yuma stood.
Yuma’s divine domain, [Life and Death Domain], spread out widely.
Yuma confirmed his two enemies.
Above the head of [God of Precarious Maces] Morg, who until just moments before had countless hammers floating above the heads of humans and beast-people of the Zeparos Kingdom, a massive sword shape floated gently.
Morg, who had the appearance of a yeti, twisted the corners of his mouth.
“This is work I’ve been doing for a very long time, but it doesn’t feel very good to be on the receiving end.”
Morg lowered his head to look at Yuma.
Whoosh…!
The god who discharged flames from his entire body, [ God of Blazing Destruction] Agnethe, continuously spewed red flames from his mouth.
“So you’re the vermin who dares to block the gods who invaded the middle realm from returning to the divine realm.”
The flames Agnethe discharged from his entire body became stronger and denser.
“Divine domain declaration.”
Agnethe stomped the ground forcefully.
Swoooosh──
Suddenly, massive wings spread out behind Agnethe’s back.
The massive wings had countless flame feathers positioned on them.
As Agnethe walked forward, what had simply appeared to be feathers transformed into literal birds and spread out widely.
The countless feathers became literally infinitely many birds, densely covering the sky.
Countless birds diving down from the sky toward the ground.
Agnethe’s divine domain [Ten Thousand Phenomena Burning Birds] belonged to the unusual case of simultaneously serving the roles of summoning familiars and functioning as a divine domain.
Ten thousand of Agnethe’s familiar fire birds rushed toward Yuma’s party.
‘I’ll kill you.’
He couldn’t kill that war god Yuma.
This was because he had already confirmed through sending one of his familiar fire birds that gods who were clearly stronger than himself were dying to that bastard with his ridiculously ignorant divine nature.
It was clear that death was waiting.
‘If this body must die─’
He intended to take everyone except that war god as companions on the journey to death.
Whooooosh!
So he scattered fire birds endlessly.
Screeeeech! Whooooosh!
Yuma’s party and the beast-people opened their mouths wide as they watched the fire birds densely covering the sky to the point where not even a single point of blue sky was visible.
Trembling trembling trembling…
A young beast clan trembled all over along with bird beaks.
It was literally like a disaster striking.
Ten thousand fire birds simultaneously entered the territory of Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground.
That was the moment.
Bang!
As soon as they touched the divine domain [Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground] that spread out widely in white, the fire birds burst into clusters of light and exploded in mid-air.
A chain reaction of explosions.
Kwa─boomboomboomboomboomboom!! Kwaboomboomboomboom! Kwaaaaaang!!
When all the fire birds that had rushed forward with the momentum to annihilate everything exploded, the kingdom’s members and beast-people focused their attention on Yuma, who stood proudly in the center of the white circle.
“…Without even moving a finger. Just with divine power alone, he completely massacred nearly ten thousand god familiars like that.”
Kregel, the tribal chief of the beast-people [Eger] tribe, widened his eyes in admiration.
The divine power contained in Yuma’s divine domain ‘Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground’ had completely neutralized the fire birds.
Kwaboomboomboomboom! Kwaboomboom!
The fire birds disappeared in mid-air, and black ash fell messily to the ground.
“That, that crazy…!”
Agnethe ground his teeth while watching the red birds crumble without even being able to approach Yuma’s party.
The scene of nearly ten thousand fire birds being annihilated in an instant was truly spectacular.
Agnethe’s divine domain [Ten Thousand Phenomena Burning Birds] was one where the divine domain itself became the summoning of [familiars].
However, the divine domain Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground that Yuma had just activated had the power to partially divine domains of gods with lower divine nature than Yuma’s divine nature.
Since they were fire birds belonging to Agnethe’s divine domain Ten Thousand Phenomena Burning Birds before being familiars, 90% of them were oxidized just by entering the territory of Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground.
Whooooosh─!
While emitting light more intense than the flames surrounding his entire body.
Since Yuma also understood all the additional effects of Life and Death Decisive Battle Ground, he had somewhat expected that the fire birds would be destroyed.
Of course, he hadn’t expected them all to die without leaving even a single one behind like now.
Yuma took one more step forward.
[Ten Thousand Phenomena Burning Birds] had been rendered utterly powerless, but the flames rising from Agnethe’s entire body showed no signs of subsiding.
Rather, they blazed even more intensely.
“I still cannot accept it.”
Massive flame masses formed in both of Agnethe’s hands.
“The very fact that you, a human, became a god.”
Agnethe brought both hands together.
He hurled the massive sun he had created toward Yuma.
It was far from a loss of reason.
It was an extremely emotional judgment that was somewhat close to desperation.
That bastard.
The anger he felt toward the one called Yuma who had been human in the past and was now a god.
He poured out that anger.
With an extremely human-like way of thinking, he threw that massive sun to kill Yuma.
Rumblrumblrumblrumbl!
The sun trampled the ground as it advanced forward.
The earth cracked open.
Yuma raised Balmung.
White divine power swirled around Balmung.
It looked like clouds from the sky being bound to the sword.
Balmung and the massive sun collided.
Clang.
Dust spread out in concentric circles.
The sun’s trajectory twisted.
The sun whose trajectory had been distorted began to move in reverse.
Sizzlesizzlesizzlesizzle!
Becoming a black sun that devoured even the same flames.
The sun struck Agnethe.
Sizzle…!
The ground burning due to the heat.
Agnethe extended his right hand to make the flames of the black sun his own.
Whoooosh…
Agnethe raised the corners of his mouth in a grin at the abundant energy flowing into him through his right hand that touched the black sun.
“You foolish human… Indeed, is it because you weren’t born as a god from the beginning that you’re so ignorant!”
Power surged.
With this power. He would absorb that black sun that bastard had shot again and overcome this crisis situation.
Agnethe made that resolution as he continued to support the black sun with his right hand.
“Krrk… What is this…!”
He was devoured by the black sun.
His right hand.
“Kraaaaaaah!”
And his arm.
The black flames that devoured his arm instantly devoured even his body.
Agnethe’s body couldn’t handle the capacity of the permeating flames.
In the end, he was conversely devoured by the black sun.
[God of Blazing Destruction], Agnethe was annihilated like that.
[God of Precarious Iron Maces], Morg was standing at a distance.
This was because he had used his teleportation authority early to survive the black sun.
Morg fell into deep thought as he watched Yuma approaching him.
In Morg’s head, the voice of a god other than himself was flowing.
It wasn’t flowing now, but was a recollection of what had happened two days ago.
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Morg was leaning his massive body against a giant desk as a chair, lost in thought.
“….”
A way to overcome the current situation of being trapped in the middle realm and unable to return to the divine realm.
He had to find that method.
Something appeared before such Morg.
It was a blurry form, but it was definitely something that hadn’t been there just moments before.
Morg slowly opened his mouth.
“Elitnes?”
“Indeed, Morg. You have quite good perception.”
The form that had only been blurry became clear enough to be called semi-transparent.
Gods of the Supreme God realm who transcended hierarchy.
The Eight Evil Gods.
Among those Eight Evil Gods, it was Elitnes, the [God of Void] with the strongest influence.
Morg glared at Elitnes.
There was no way he had actually descended.
“You merely sent a phantom.”
“Right, there’s no way I would descend directly. There’s no reason for that yet.”
Morg, who had the appearance of a yeti, twitched his thick eyebrows.
If other gods had said such things, he would have thought they were spouting nonsense, afraid of dying to the war god Yuma and not wanting to come down, but the [Void] before his eyes wasn’t the type to put on such useless pretenses.
Morg opened his mouth.
“What did you come to say?”
“I’m thinking of making one request of you.”
“A request?”
“Right, a request. As you know, Agnethe is a guy with a fiery personality like his abilities, so there’s a possibility he’ll be unable to overcome his own inferiority complex and charge recklessly, only to die to the war god Yuma.”
“That’s why I’m talking to you. Morg.”
“Tell me the main point.”
“Stall for time, with your life on the line.”
“…What did you say?”
“You’re going to die. Morg. You’ll probably die at the hands of that bastard Yuma.”
Feeling that Elitnes still had more to say, Morg decided to quietly continue listening.
“Your dying is your dying. Somehow, keep the war god Yuma. Keep that bastard’s feet bound to the Yeigel continent where you currently are for a long time. You should be able to do it.”
“You’ll understand what I mean. Morg.”
Elitnes’s words continued.
“If you stall for about a week, I’ll kill that war god for you.”
“Die like a god. Morg.”
“If you do that, after I kill the war god, this world will remember you.”
Words from [Void] that others wouldn’t understand the meaning of.
However, the party involved, [God of Precarious Iron Maces], knew well what Void was talking about.
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Morg, who had suppressed the recollection that had been replaying in his head, focused his attention forward again.
The war god Yuma was slowly approaching.
His companions were behind him.
Morg began calculating thoroughly in his head.
‘Judging by the divine power felt from the body… that blue-haired swordswoman is the war god’s apostle. And that blonde woman is a saint. I exclude them.’
What he was about to perform was a curse.
‘The war god, that bastard simply destroyeded my divine domain, Confession of Sins… He probably can bestow blessings of mental barriers on his followers.’
Morg was a god who used mental-type abilities.
To such a god, Yuma’s existence was no different from a natural enemy.
However, there was one method to definitely make the curse hit.
A way to pierce through all the mental barriers that Yuma had granted with blessings.
He slowly raised his left hand.
‘Those two should be adequate.’
He designated the targets.
The curse was chanted.
The medium for casting the curse was not divine power or magic power.
‘I offer this Morg’s soul.’
A noble soul.
It was a curse activated by offering that very soul as a sacrifice.
No matter how strong the mental barriers of a high divine nature were.
The probability of blocking a curse for which a god had offered his soul was low.
Swooooooosh─
“War god.”
Two chains extended from Morg’s palm.
“Fall into very long despair.”
Toward two targets.
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