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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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Yuma walked on the sea.
Splash─
A faint ripple rose.
After experiencing a thrill greater than forced bungee jumping and falling far enough that the massive Leviathan felt distant, Yuma reached the vicinity as quickly as possible riding Silviria.
Then he left Silviria behind and started walking on the sea.
“G-God is walking on the sea─!!”
That’s right.
He was literally walking on the sea.
One of the items in God Incrinew’s divine sac was a pair of shoes.
The shoes Yuma was wearing now.
That bastard Incrinew.
He had already used it once.
Still, he had to take comfort in the fact that he could use the ultimate skill two more times even after using it this time.
Yuma slowly opened his mouth.
“Open the way, my sea.”
The activation words for [Omnipotent Navigation] were recited.
Rumble!!
In an instant, a blue light enveloped Yuma’s entire body.
Step
He simply walked on the sea without deploying any defensive barrier.
The Mullen tribe and White night Clan’s gazes focused on Yuma who walked on the sea as naturally as if it were land.
Grrrr…
A low growl flowed from the Leviathan’s dragon head.
The Leviathan had made its own calculations.
This unknown human is dangerous.
Direct attacks using tentacles on his body are dangerous.
After all, it had directly witnessed its subordinate Sea Serpents fall to this unknown human.
The Leviathan concluded there were two ways to hunt the man before its eyes.
One, use an all-out attack that he couldn’t possibly resist when he enters sufficient range.
Two, use nature. That is, use the sea.
The Leviathan that had just blown Yuma away with its water pillar concluded that natural forces were something this human couldn’t handle.
The Leviathan decided to use the second method first.
After all, that damned human was unsettling in many ways.
Grrrr
The Leviathan’s blood-red eyes glowed.
Those were clearly the eyes of a predator.
A predator that encompassed the great sea.
That the sea would drastically change with one gesture from the Leviathan was one of the legends widely spread across this continent.
And surprisingly, that legend was very close to reality.
The Leviathan’s massive legs and tail moved simultaneously.
Crash!!!
A literal anomaly occurred in the sea.
The ocean currents twisted.
Fierce waves rushed toward Yuma as if to strike him down.
Yuma merely walked, even seeing those massive twin currents that would completely engulf his body and more than suffice to drown him.
“Lord Yuma!”
Cloney’s scream-like cry was heard.
The massive twin waves literally trying to engulf Yuma.
Rumble─
And in front of Yuma, there was even a deformedly raging whirlpool.
And in both the waves and whirlpool, black currents flowed that were clear enough to be visible to the naked eye.
The Leviathan’s massive body.
The black currents now flowing in the sea were clearly coming from large holes in the Leviathan’s body.
‘Indeed.’
This wasn’t the kind of power that could be handled with parrying.
This black smoke flowing in the sea would have the power to destroy aura.
The situation Yuma now faced was one where even a Sword Master running protective battle qi throughout their body could have their body crushed.
“Yuma…!”
Bell too sent a worried gaze with round eyes and a completely stiff face.
Rumble─!
Yuma paid no heed to their concerns.
Without hesitation, he stepped toward the twin tidal waves and the sea’s whirlpool raging like a typhoon.
Certainty.
The blue divine protection now rippling through his body gave him certainty that he could keep advancing.
Step─
He took a step.
The tidal wave did not engulf Yuma.
Swoosh───!!!
Zheng─!!
An invisible force wave crushed the tidal wave, distorting it as if pushing it outward.
Rumble!!
The whirlpool that had been fiercely coiling as if a hole had been punctured in the sea soared up in reverse as if someone had reversed a camera recording, becoming horizontal again.
Grrrr……!
The Leviathan’s massive body trembled slightly.
Aura.
The blue energy that had been rippling behind that human since earlier.
An enormous pressure was felt from that energy.
The Leviathan’s movement of the sea wasn’t just done with its massive body.
Will.
It was because it had flowed its will into the nearby sea through the black currents.
To cover that area with tidal waves.
To create a whirlpool beneath him that would sweep away everything.
Yet that demigod-level will was nullified in an instant.
The Leviathan with its red eyes glowing in its navy blue dragon head couldn’t dare understand the reason.
Only Yuma clearly knew the reason.
One of the 12 chief gods of Olympus.
The number two who even Zeus, the number one, couldn’t be certain of victory against.
God of the sea.
God of earthquakes.
The great ruler who ruled all the seas of this world.
[Sea God – Poseidon] was the one being that all these pointed to.
The [Footsteps of Neptunus] were an item directly imbued with divine power by Poseidon himself.
And what Yuma was using now was that item’s ultimate skill that had usage restrictions.
Divine protection directly designed by Poseidon, who was called the god among gods, a chief god.
It wasn’t a power that could be blocked by mere demigod-level authority.
Having clearly witnessed the effect of [Omnipotent Navigation], Yuma continued his steps without hesitation.
The reason the silver seahorse Silviria couldn’t approach the Leviathan was because of the black haze.
The reason other masters including the Mullen tribe warriors couldn’t easily approach it was also because of the black currents spreading in the sea within its domain.
However, Yuma could approach it.
Item advantage.
The power of overwhelming item advantage.
But to the eyes of people watching Yuma, all of this felt like Yuma’s power.
Even Cloney and Tisha who had heard that Yuma had shoes that could walk on water were confused whether this was Yuma’s power or the power of those shoes.
There wasn’t a hint of hesitation in Yuma’s gait.
And that supreme gait matched too well with the anomalous events happening around Yuma now.
The great monster of the sea grew angry.
The Leviathan’s red eyes glowed.
The Leviathan continued moving the sea to launch attacks toward Yuma.
The water currents rose up fiercely again.
They rushed like 100 spears to engulf Yuma.
However, those fierce water currents soon burst and returned to the sea.
Again countless spears, followed by a massive tidal wave.
Every form of wave that approached died.
Zheng!
The Leviathan’s brow twisted grotesquely like an evil spirit.
Behind that one was merely blue aura surrounding his back.
Yet every attack using the sea, using water, came to nothing.
Step…
Yuma took another step on the sea.
Gentle ripples rose in the waves.
The man kept walking.
On the horizon’s sea Yuma’s figure was reflected enormously on the clear blue sea.
The distance with the Leviathan gradually shortened.
Grrrr!!
The Leviathan’s massive maw twisted.
The Mullen tribe witnessed the Leviathan showing such anger for the first time.
The ruler of the seas that had killed countless of their tribesmen could do nothing before thisWar God Yuma.
“He’s completely… toying with that Leviathan.”
Awe.
No, admiration beyond awe.
“So this is a War God…!”
“Is this not… the God of the Sea.”
For the Mullen tribe to call a human the God of the Sea was close to taboo.
It was praise thrown out while casting aside tribal pride.
However, no one could rebuke the Mullen tribe warrior who muttered blankly.
Because they all had similar impressions.
Most of the Mullen tribe’s hearts had already crossed into the stage of worship beyond admiration.
The Leviathan’s will toward the sea activated again.
Rumble───!!!
An even larger whirlpool than before arrived before Yuma.
Yuma continued walking on the great sea.
Contact.
His right foot and the whirlpool.
At that moment, the water reversed.
Shedding its ferocity.
Shedding its violence.
Returning again to a peaceful horizon.
To a very calm sea.
Step
Swoosh…
At the end of gentle rippling waves.
Yuma reached right in front of the [Leviathan].
The Leviathan’s entire body trembled.
The waves began to surge again.
Fear.
The Leviathan was feeling extreme terror toward the human before its eyes who had completely nullified all its attacks.
Grooooar!!!!!
Now it had to convert this fear into rage.
The Leviathan’s dragon-like mouth opened wide.
Crash!!
Blue light gathered in the Leviathan’s mouth manifesting dozens of blue light beams cracking in the air.
Erase.
Remove this human from sight.
Must bury him at the bottom of this great sea’s abyss.
The blue light source wasn’t everything.
The sea currents writhed again.
Swoosh!!
The sea’s water currents that rose up all at once reached none other than the light source gathered before the Leviathan’s maw.
Above the massively concentrated light source that spilled intense sparks of light, countless sea currents were overlaid.
Soon, light began to flow above those sea currents too.
If this blue sphere fell on land, it would annihilate a small kingdom.
That level of destructive power was concentrated.
Disappear.
The Leviathan wished thus.
Not knowing that this very moment was what Yuma had wanted.
Kraaaa!!!!!
The sphere was spewed toward Yuma.
Yuma intended to eliminate all variables as much as possible.
Time flowed slowly only from Yuma’s perspective.
Search for the point to make the parry.
The central point where power was clearly concentrated.
Yuma swung Balmung.
Kaang!
The sphere that soared like a blue sun, tilted diagonally on Balmung’s blade surface.
Below it, golden waves signifying a successful parry rippled.
A skill that can use [Absolute Counter] of equal attack power on up to 3 enemies including the original target of ‘Absolute Counter’.
Yuma had already determined the remaining two target points for the division.
The Sea Serpents clearly visible beyond the dispersed fog, easily numbering a thousand.
East and west.
He targeted the farthest Sea Serpent visible to the naked eye at each point on both sides.
Activation.
The soaring sphere rushed straight ahead at that angle.
And there lay the Leviathan’s jaw and upper body.
Boom!!!!!
Dark red blood literally exploded.
Gray smoke violently soared.
The jaw and upper body literally disintegrated.
There wasn’t even time to restore the body using divine power.
The red eyes immediately lost their light.
The ruler of the great sea was now just a mass of meat.
Rumble…
Massive ripples rose.
And from both sides of those ripples, mad winds shot out.
Both east and west.
Blue flashes as massive as the Leviathan’s body extended in straight lines while spewing brilliant light clusters.
That sight.
Flash──
Was so bright that all watching felt blinded for a moment.
Swoosh──────
The sea split on both extremes.
Literally. Without any exaggeration, the sea split with a crack.
Ground.
Ground made of soil and sand, jagged rocks.
The deep sea floor was clearly visible.
This deep sea had split on both sides, revealing bare earth.
The seas pushed aside into tidal waves met at one point.
If not for even this one point, it would have looked like the sea had been turned into land beyond just being split.
The Mullen king Yerukur’s mouth opened wide.
“…He split the sea.”
He split the sea east and west.
And all the forces the Leviathan had gathered between those split sections were completely annihilated.
The remaining thousand Sea Serpents.
And 3,000 evil whales called Illhveli that were weaker than the Sea Serpents but greater in number were swept away by the blue light miracle.
The forces the Leviathan had gathered all died to the blue light, leaving only dust.
Not even a bone fragment remained.
Rumble…crack!!
Disaster.
After the phenomenon that could only be described as such ended.
The split sea very slowly formed a horizon again.
“Manifestation of the War God….”
Hestia said while trembling her crimson cat ears.
And both the Mullen tribe and White night Clan found themselves unconsciously nodding at those words.
Because they had witnessed with their own eyes power at a level that could only be explained as a god manifesting.
Yuma felt a gaze.
From the Leviathan’s head floating in the sea.
From the left eye of the clearly dead Leviathan.
The status window’s notification rang in his mind.
It was as Yuma had vaguely expected.
“An evil god?”
Yuma said quietly while looking at the Leviathan’s blood-red eyes.
However, no answer came to his words.
The probability was high that it could only see.
It didn’t seem to be the same being as the one who had sent the nun he encountered on the way back when spending a day in the capital with Bell.
‘Even if they’re gods. After seeing another god die, they don’t all readily rush in, huh.’
Yuma continued speaking.
“How rude. When facing someone, it’s proper etiquette to look face to face. Evil god.”
Crack
Yuma adjusted his grip on Balmung.
“Next time, face me directly.”
And raised his sword.
“If not, I’ll consider it that you’re hiding in the divine realm out of fear.”
Slash!
Unlike the right eye, he cut down the wide open left eye.
Perhaps because it lost divine power.
Perhaps because it was an eyeball.
The red light went out in an instant.
Yuma, still standing on two feet on the sea, turned his back.
Only then did he feel the numerous gazes of awe and worship fixed on him.
Yuma spoke quietly.
“Let’s return.”
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BADASS!!¡
Weird, I thought It was Hades who Zeus wasn’t sure he could win against.
Sea god is only powerful enough to rival those two when on sea and water bodies, not on land or Olympus.
But Death God is powerful anywhere, but he rarely visits the outside world.