Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 217
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God of Water (2)
“Si Siselasi……”
muttered the knight commander, who was completely injured. Dallen scratched his chin and looked at the priestess.
[The body of a priest who was branded heretic and executed was discovered.]
[The body of a high-ranking priest who resisted the Pantheon was found.]
[The body of a Knight of Dawn who disobeyed the doctrine was discovered.]
The previous episode flickered above her head. traces of
Dallen was aware of those notification windows even before the battle began.
And that was also the reason why he took the time to reveal himself as a threat in front of the incapacitated knight commander.
Making a deal with her here was a better choice than having to fight later near the labyrinth city.
“…Dallen. Be careful. That priestess is no longer an ordinary priest. “It is the incarnation of Sisella, the main deity of the pantheon.”
“I know.”
This is a world where gods are real.
A world where not only evil gods seek to devour the continent, but also gods who fight against those evil gods.
The god of war served by the Holy Knights was like that, and the fighting spirit of the northerners was also known to have torn apart demons, killed them, and ascended to heaven.
Dallen was not the type of person who felt rejected by faith itself.
In the first place, weren’t the number of people on Earth who believed in the existence of God greater than those who did not?
If only a priest’s prayer could heal torn wounds right before your eyes, and a paladin would slice and slay demons with the power of God.
Rather, it is natural that those who do not believe in God are considered to have no common sense.
‘But the pantheon is an exception.’
The national religious pantheon of the Southern Empire.
A religion that names everything that exists as God and says that there is a way to salvation for all gods.
Even when receiving nomination requests through Siena, Dallan had refused all requests from the Pantheon.
It wasn’t because I didn’t like the faith or doctrine itself. Rather, it was a more fundamental reason.
‘Hypocrites who pretend to be on the side of humanity but want to run towards the end more than anyone else.’
Or rather, he would be closer to a traitor than a hypocrite.
Considering its origins, it would be a waste to even call it betrayal since they existed from the beginning to stab humanity in the back.
The good news was that they were not as difficult opponents as the evil gods who were the protagonists of the apocalypse.
Although it is a huge pantheon centered around the seven main gods, if you look at each of them individually, it is safe to say that there is no entity comparable to the true form of the evil god.
[However, Dallon is not someone you can take lightly. Unlike evil gods, the incarnations of all gods are not that much different from their original bodies. Although I have not ascended to the status of a god, my breath may not be very effective due to the nature of the situation.]
A warning from the red spear that resonates softly in the heart. Dallen nodded.
What the ancient dragon said was not wrong. The other person is a clear demi-god being, and this side has barely taken one step toward that threshold.
In a way, it is similar to when fighting Xun’s incarnation.
The problem is that, unlike back then when the Tsarina sacrificed herself, now it is virtually a one-on-one fight.
Even if you project your power, you will probably have to take damage.
Even so, it was a win-win situation as Sisella’s status was lower than that of Xun’s incarnation.
“Old man. “Take the merchant and Tommy and step back.”
“It will be difficult for you to deal with it alone.”
A look of concern that can be felt even without looking back. Instead of answering, Dallon lightly swung his sword.
The head of the knight commander who was sitting down was cut off and fell to the floor. The body of a knight slowly collapses. Dallen said, shaking off the blood.
“Don’t worry. “It will be over soon.”
“…I understand.”
The sight of the group behind them quickly moves away. Dallen did not take his eyes off the priestess until there was no sign of them at all.
The priestess, who had the power and personality of Sisella, also seemed to have no intention of stopping the party’s movements.
It was just floating in the air at a height about the height of a person, just staring at Dallen.
[Lordlessness is reaching its end.]
The priestess tugged at the corner of her mouth as if it was laughable.
[It was right to summarily dispose of the heretic as quickly as possible, but I changed my mind.]
“…….”
[Looking at your attitude, I don’t think we should end this easily. I will make you think that hell would be better.]
An extremely base provocation for the lord of a vast empire.
Instead of reacting, Dallon took a deep breath.
The midnight air was humid. The thick salt smell made my nose tingle.
As I adjusted my grip on the holy sword a little, my grip became cold. Pure white cold flowing down the sword body.
Dallen lifted his sword, feeling its coldness. He said.
“Even though he’s not a real god, he still has the form he needs.”
[…What?]
“Is it really still a secret? That you and your pantheon are the agents of the evil god.”
Crackling.
A distorted face. A dull noise leaking out between the lips.
[How on earth did you…?]
Looking at the reaction, it seemed like it was still a secret. It was funny.
It’s a holy war, and how long were you planning on playing the role of an all-encompassing god who protects humanity after creating such a mess?
[No correction. You will be erased from this place right now. Go to hell to suffer.]
“You have no sense of humor. “The believers will suffer.”
[Stop!]
The priestess lets out an angry voice. Divine power swirled around her.
Two hands stretched upward, flapping wide sleeves.
Beyond that, the night sky began to split in two.
[Drown in the vast sea. Heretic.]
He glares with his blazing blue eyes and lets out a roar. Dallen quickly looked at his waist.
Easy profit!
The moment the ax flew through space, splitting into a hundred and dozens pieces, and landed right in front of the priestess.
An enormous amount of water poured out like a waterfall from a crack in the sky, covering the main street and the surrounding forest.
Kurrrrrrrr…!
The entire world in front of my eyes was submerged under water.
***
Deep, dark water.
It is so deep that there is not a single speck of light, and even when looking through the darkness, the bottom is not visible.
Like a living creature, a stream of water pulls your ankles from below, surrounds your entire body, and tries to penetrate your nose and mouth.
The moment you allow even one drop, it is impossible to turn back.
The impact of water imbued with divine power rushing around inside the body is sure to crush even a decent superhuman’s internal organs in an instant.
“Magic armor (術式甲冑)”
“White wind armor (伯風甲)”
“Fuhu.”
Only after pushing away the water with his wind armor did Dallon let out the breath he had been holding and grabbed the holy sword with both hands.
“I get to see this damn sea again.”
[Do you know this place?]
Jeokchang asked. Dallen shook his head.
I had been affected by this ability a few times when I was fighting Sicella on the other side of the monitor.
Superhumans who couldn’t react properly because water poured all over the screen and they drowned in an instant.
The only time I survived being hit by this ability was when I was playing as a transcendental character.
However, it is unclear exactly how they overcame it because they immediately opened up the area and fought.
[This is Sissela’s sacred site.]
“Sacred site?”
[Just as mortals have a vessel called the realm and devils have a place called hell, gods also have their own world. This is the world of Sisella, a fantasy world. To be more precise, it should be said that that world has descended into reality.]
Can we roughly think of it as the opening of an area on an extremely large scale?
Then, it was easy to understand why only the transcendental characters were able to survive.
In order to fight the world, you have to summon the world.
Such were the usual battles between beings who rewrote their own laws with transcendent power.
[Call me out. Even if we can’t defeat him because we’re not compatible, we can at least take your body out.]
“There’s no need to do that. “We must leave room to support the labyrinth city.”
[Are you trying to save your strength in this situation? What’s the point if you can’t survive here…]
“No, I’m saying there’s really no need for that.”
Dallen shook his head.
“This is the first time in this episode that we have to face the main deity of the pantheon, so if we just take the time, it will be resolved on its own.”
[…What do you mean by that?]
“The current Sisela is just an event mob.”
The revelation of the Pantheon’s true colors as an enemy of humanity was one of the most fatal incidents in the entire game.
If you were to play as a priest or paladin of the pantheon, all your efforts would have been in vain.
Even if it is not such a situation, the existence of the Manshins, which becomes a crisis in the latter half of the story, cannot help but be felt as an absurdity in itself.
Therefore, when you first encounter one of the seven main gods of the pantheon, reinforcements would appear as a corresponding event.
‘Humanity’s last bastion. ‘He is the most reliable supporter who has lived in that deep place for hundreds of years.’
There was no other reason why I told Felber to leave.
Because this was not a fight that had to be won at the risk of life and death from the beginning.
It is a type of event battle where all you have to do is hold out until reinforcements arrive.
Of course, if the opponent was the main god of the pantheon, it would not be easy to take so much time.
‘Sisela, the god of rivers and seas and the guardian of water.’
After gathering his thoughts, Dallon set the holy sword upright in front of him.
Due to its nature, the flame-type techniques that Dallan frequently uses are practically sealed, but that does not mean that he provoked Sicella without any countermeasures.
Even if I were to find myself in a situation like now where I was immersed in the sea of idiots, I had been preparing for a long time how to deal with it.
The best weapon to deal with the water god was in his hands from the beginning.
It’s just that it’s a power I’ve never dealt with before, so I’ve been quietly gathering my senses.
Sigh –
I slowly take a breath and twist the sword.
The cold air that had been flowing down the sword body from before reacted to the twist and changed its texture.
Ugh…
Ripples of pure white concentric circles spreading around the holy sword.
It was not a power created by accumulating one’s own strength, nor an ability recovered by looking back on past episodes.
A miracle that the queen, who had carried the weight of the crown alone from a young age, obtained with one wish to protect her people.
A power that, despite being trampled under the feet of evil spirits, was once again revealed to the world through the will of the afterlife.
「Area Opening: Guardian of the frost above the sky」
Ice butterfly.
It all started with a blue-winged butterfly that flew out of nowhere.
A faint ray of light follows the butterfly’s delicate wings and falls overhead.
Pure white light falls like a scattering of light from far above the surface of the water.
The moment when the light that permeated through the darkness of the deep sea gathered into one ray and dwelled in the body of the holy sword.
「Hundreds of frozen soil (frozen soil)」
Damn it!
The vast area of the deep sea, with no end in sight, froze and became solid ground, supporting Dallen’s feet and beginning to rise.