Leveling With The Gods - Chapter 182
[Level Up with God Episode 182]
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Pandora trembled.
No, I was nervous.
I didn’t know why it was suddenly like this. The tremors started slowly and grew faster without end.
‘Come on?’
The fight appeared to be over.
An endlessly deep pit.
A thunderbolt with enough force to blow away several cities fell on Zeus’ head.
Zeus, who lost his thunderbolt, became weaker, while Poseidon and Hades became stronger than before.
Above all, Zeus was no longer powerless to stop Hercules.
‘But why…’
Do I feel more afraid of the helpless Zeus?
Pandora, who was curled up and shaking, finally raised her head.
The color of the clouds changed.
The sky dyed purple.
And land.
This air felt somehow familiar.
‘Box.’
A nightmare-like memory that suddenly comes to mind.
Pandora’s face turned white.
‘This is…’
The very day I opened the box Zeus handed me.
Terrible powers and all kinds of negative emotions came out of the box, and Pandora went in and out for a while.
‘It’s like the box I opened.’
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Sigh-.
Zeus, who was floating on the sea, got up.
Poseidon, who thought the fight was over, stood up with his trident in hand.
“If I had known he was that persistent, his ranking would have gone up an order of magnitude.”
These guys were all dying now.
Poseidon intended to do the final finishing himself.
‘If I kill him with my own hands, my ranking will go up a little more.’
It would take quite some time to get out of Asgard’s prison, but I could take that much time.
The power of this tower is ultimately determined by ranking.
If you kill Zeus and your ranking rises, you will eventually be able to plan for your future.
Kuuk-.
That’s why Poseidon approached Zeus.
That moment.
“for a moment.”
Hercules blocked Poseidon’s path.
Poseidon frowns.
“Still, you are the father who gave birth to me. Are you planning on being greedy for my life?”
Hercules asked back with an unpleasant expression on his face at the greed in his eyes.
“Aren’t you a brother to your uncle?”
“so? “Let’s just spare his life?”
“It’s not like that…”
Hercules read Pandora trembling in the distance and the air turning upside down.
“It’s strange.”
“Do you think it’s strange?”
“It got bigger again. “My father.”
“Is it getting bigger?”
It was something I couldn’t understand.
No matter how much he is Zeus, he has lost his thunderbolt and is in a state of complete disrepair.
If it were Zeus now, Hercules would be able to do it on his own.
‘How did it get so big?’
Zeus’s appearance as seen by Poseidon was no different from before.
Although Zeus was able to stand upright from a lying position, Zeus, who had been deprived of the thunderbolt, was still ugly and unsightly.
The greed did not go away.
Poseidon created a wave of water.
Shootaaa-.
“If you won’t-.
“Uncle!”
Poseidon rides the waves toward Zeus.
Hercules stretched out his hand towards Poseidon, but Poseidon, already riding the current, was far away.
“I have no choice but to do it.”
Stinging net-.
The tip of the trident was aimed at Zeus’ head.
The sea rose, moisture gathered at the tip of the spear, and the spear, filled with enormous water pressure, looked as if it would split Zeus’ head in half at once.
But the next moment.
Sigh-.
Poseidon, who raised his head and made eye contact with Zeus, froze in place like ice.
‘What what…’
The eyes turned purple.
Poseidon had never seen Zeus’ eyes like that before.
It wasn’t just a change in color.
Unlike the original eye, which had infinite magic potential, it was another power outside of reason.
Moment.
Poseidon seemed like a completely different being than Zeus.
A monster that swallows the entire sea.
Or like the scorching sun that returns all the seas to nothingness.
A ‘monster’ of his own literally existed before his eyes, whose very existence was his own polar opposite.
And that moment.
Cheok-.
The monster slowly opened its mouth in front of him.
Kwarung-!
Lightning fell from the sky.
It was far worse than the first one, but Poseidon came to his senses at the flash before his eyes.
An unfamiliar light appeared between Zeus and Poseidon.
“Please stay out.”
‘Kim Yu-won?’
A person fell down with lightning.
He was clearly the ape who dropped the thunderbolt at Zeus.
“This is my partner.”
gulp-.
The tension from before was gone.
Instead, Poseidon questioned Yuwon’s words.
‘I recognize your ability… but what can you do with my subject?’
Yuwon’s skills clearly surpass most rankers.
No, it’s not only about surpassing the ranker, but it’s also understandable even if you reach a high ranker.
Plus, he got the thunderbolt, so there was no doubt about his skill.
But the opponent was Zeus.
Single digit high ranker.
Now that he lost the thunderbolt, his ranking would be much lower, but it was still clear that he was in the ranks of the Three Gods.
Yuwon was not yet Zeus’ opponent.
If you engage in an all-out war, you will die in less than a few seconds.
of course.
‘We are not dealing with Zeus.’
That was a fact that Yuwon also knew.
He was not yet Zeus’ opponent.
The same applies even if the lightning was taken away.
The opponent was a high ranker with high enough stats to have a single digit ranking.
The opponent is still too much for him.
Therefore, at this moment, Yuwon clearly knew what he had to do.
‘What I have to do is…’
The purple color appeared in Zeus’ eyes.
In Yuwon’s eyes, facing it, he saw scenes that looked like despair.
This guy has no special shape.
I’ve been sick and tired of this type of outerwear.
‘It’s a tough opponent for someone who is experiencing outerwear for the first time. ‘Because everyone alive is afraid of those who deviate from common sense and perception.’
This power of Zeus was not simply large and threatening.
The essence of it was not that difficult if you look deeply into it.
The fear of being experienced for the first time. Confusion about existence beyond reason.
Zeus simply thrust a sharp bolt of electricity into the gap.
‘Was the control successful?’
If so, this is truly amazing.
In the first place, it was nothing more than a seed sown by foolish chaos in hopes of causing chaos in the tower.
Therefore, it was uncontrollable and did not exist to be controlled.
But to use that kind of power by planting it in your eyes.
Once again, I was amazed at Zeus’s abilities.
‘The ranking didn’t go up for no reason.’
Current ranking: 9th.
Later, it wasn’t just the power of the outerwear that made the ranking jump four more places to 5th place.
The reason was simple.
Zeus.
Because he himself was that strong.
‘It’s definitely much easier to catch it now than it was back then.’
Yuwon looked at Zeus without avoiding his eyes.
Poseidon must have seen something he feared the most through that just a moment ago.
And that was the most frightening thing about that power.
On the other hand.
It was a power Yuwon was familiar with.
‘It’s fake anyway.’
Outers are beings outside the tower, a collection of all worlds.
Their biggest fear is that ‘understanding’ is impossible.
It was the same for Yuwon.
They fought countless times for a really long time, but Yuwon still didn’t understand them.
but.
That doesn’t mean I’m afraid.
‘To be afraid…’
Yuwon’s experience was not easy enough to lose to something like that.
‘You are a minnow.’
Yuwon has seen even greater despair.
Frustration, foolish disaster, mired in foolish chaos…
and despair that closes the sky.
okay.
When it comes to despair, there is no entity that surpasses it.
Compared to that guy, this is just a nightmare.
A mirage-like dream that will all disappear once you wake up.
Yuwon did not avoid Zeus’ eyes but faced him.
And that moment.
Boggle-.
Yuwon, like Poseidon, was sucked into the endless abyss.
deep.
That too.
Yuwon rather relaxed about being cut off from the world.
Because of this, you can really only fight the Outer, not Zeus.
‘You made a mistake.’
Into a deep swamp.
In it, what Yuwon faced was a monster that could not be defined in one form.
Cheok-.
The mouth of a monster whose shape is difficult to guess swallows Yuwon.
It has existed to devour this world. However, that power was contained in the eyes of Zeus and was suppressed until now, unable to run wild.
How long will it be?
Running outside like this and opening my mouth to lust for something.
An unusual shape that is a mixture of all kinds of animals and monsters.
That was the despair Yuwon had hidden inside.
This unclear form.
because.
‘Because no one like you can fathom my despair.’
Jump and jump -.
Yuwon walked towards him.
The monster is inside you too.
It’s even bigger than that guy.
[‘Predator’ bares his teeth.]
Another monster begins to bare its teeth.
Autumn leaves in the shape of an egg appeared on Yuwon’s shoulder.
“Baat-.”
Maple opened her arms and greeted him.
It’s like a child reaching out for a cute animal.
And that moment.
Slurp-.
The form of despair unfolding before my eyes makes me wince.
By changing into countless forms, it threatened Yuwon.
no.
protected itself.
There was one reason.
“Abaa baa-.”
A small hand cackling and reaching for the outerwear.
But every time the hand approached, the guy took a step back and faltered.
It was exactly like a small animal trembling with fear.
‘Are you wary of this guy?’
He is afraid of this little guy on his shoulder.
The presence of autumn leaves was, of course, the polar opposite to them.
also.
The power gained through those autumn leaves was also the same.
‘It may have been like in the past….’
And the bottom of that guy.
Cheok-.
Something huge opens its mouth.
‘Now I’m a bigger predator than you.’
Kwaduk-!
[‘Predation’ begins.]
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Zeus and Yuwon stand facing each other.
Do nothing and just look at each other.
Poseidon had doubts about this strange situation.
It was only a short time, less than a minute, but I wonder what happened.
‘They said this was my opponent, but they just stood there blankly.’
Poseidon glanced at Zeus.
Eyes without focus.
It seemed like a surprise attack might work now.
I definitely had that thought in my head.
but.
When I thought about what I had seen just before, when I was thinking the same thing, I couldn’t move my body.
‘What on earth was that?’
Until that was resolved, it was difficult for Poseidon to move too hastily.
Zeus’s left eye.
I don’t know what’s hidden in those eyes, but it might be more dangerous than the lightning strike on the right.
How many minutes have passed like that?
Slurrr-.
Zeus’s eyes, which had been dyed purple, began to turn black.