My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 159

#159

After the Capital Invasion (3)

Somewhere in the vast northern mountains infested with monsters.

There was someone sitting on a bear-shaped monster the size of a house, stroking its fur and frowning.

“…What situation is this?”

The leader of the Revolutionary Oath, who overthrew the Principality of Rohan and went into hiding, reflected on the information delivered to him with a serious expression.

‘A bet between a hero and an immortal king? 3 year grace period? ‘This is nonsense.’

In the end, he could not trust the information given to him and went through the verification process again.

I think there is a problem with the information network because I am busy doing things and hiding from others.

However, no matter how many times he checked, the result was the same…

The Immortal King was not focused on covering the continent with death, but was just enjoying the game for fun.

And that couldn’t have happened.

‘I was suspicious at first when he started acting strangely and not following expectations, but…’

His face frowned.

Up until then, I had thought that things would be done in a different way, but looking at the way things were going now, it seemed like the Immortal King had completely overcome the influence from the Abyss.

‘It doesn’t make sense. ‘There is no one who can overcome the abyss.’

It was a coercive force that applied to all beings in this world, and as long as the person involved was a ‘human’, it was no different from a law that would never change.

‘Could it be that the Immortal King wasn’t human when he was alive? no no. It’s not that big of a problem. Even if they were of different races, there wouldn’t be much of a difference.’

There was one question that all beings in this world did not question.

〈Why do humans serve the god?〉

Of course, denying the existence of the god or belittling his authority was not.

Just a literal question.

Each tribe had its own religion.

The elves believed in the ‘World Tree’ that rose in the middle of the Enamel Continent, and the dwarves worshiped the ‘god of fire and metal’.

The beast people had their own indigenous religions that worshiped animal gods that symbolized them, but these were ultimately merely fragments of the ‘beast gods’.

Of course, not only those tribes follow that religion.

Although it is a minority denomination right now, there are religions that have spread quite a bit among humans, such as the God of the Sea and the God of the Earth.

But in the end, their roots also came from their own tribal gods.

But why are there no human beings who can be called such tribal gods?

It was definitely a questionable thing, but not many people questioned it.

‘It’s just because it’s been that way from the beginning… everyone thinks that way.’

The Creator, the main god, was close to a gigantic concept or law that mortals could not judge.

This means that originally, it would have been normal not to interfere with the world like this and bestow divine power and blessings according to beliefs.

What I am doing now is simply taking over what someone else was doing before to prevent errors from occurring in the world.

Yes, humans definitely had a god just for them.

Now, not only from history but also from cause and effect, the main god has erased it, and not even a fragment of its existence remains.

He definitely existed in this world.

“I can’t help it. I’m sorry Baltheon, but I’ll have to take the madness with me. “Now that death is beyond our fate, we can no longer leave it to others.”

The revolutionary clicked his tongue, thinking of the large warrior who must be at work in the south right now.

In some ways, he was the friend who did the best job at Yeokcheon’s Vow, but now was not the time to look after other people’s circumstances.

He got up from the top of the bear monster he was sitting on and slowly walked towards the nearby abyss scar.

Then, a blood-red glow lit up in the eyes of the monster, which had been quiet the whole time, and with a harsh roar, it ran somewhere in the forest and disappeared.

“For the god of men.”

In-young pushes her body into scars, leaving only one soft word.

He was the only apostle of the now non-existent ‘God of Man’.

He was a revolutionary devoted to the restoration of God, who had been banished to the abyss of the trash can of the Outerica dimension.

***

The gist of what Patrick, the secretary general of the Mercenary Guild, said to Harley was simple.

‘So what I’m saying is that he will take care of everything else, so I should only worry about my reputation. So much so that it spreads evenly across the entire continent.’

I talked to him about various things, but in the end, that was the meaning.

Currently, Harley’s name is not that well known compared to her skills, so she needs to increase her reputation.

Of course, during his time as a mercenary, he had handled many missions that could be called special, and had recently made a name for himself by playing a major role in the Monster Madness incident… but

that reputation was limited to the western part of the continent and the northern part of the Tulk Kingdom.

‘Well, if you really look at it, Harley’s mercenary experience has been less than a year.’

Time was also an important factor in the spread of fame.

The other mercenary king candidates, who can be considered his competitors, are all people who have steadily built up their reputation over a long period of time and have reached their current positions.

Their military power was also enough for them to be called the idols of mercenaries, and they had reached a master level, so if you look at it objectively, the difference in experience was bound to be felt to be quite large.

‘I’m confident that if I just fight directly, I’ll destroy everything!’

However, with such an ignorant method, the public sentiment that will be lost will be as much as the recognition that will be gained.

Although it was an organization that valued military power, a more sophisticated method was needed to become the head of the guild, which was not a small organization but a continental organization.

In fact, there is a long-standing tradition of breaking seals, so it was true that they were attracted to that method…

Fortunately for them, Harley had a better alternative.

Kwaaaang—!

A powerful explosion of sound and a rising pillar of black fire.

“Ugh!”

“These guys! How dare you tell me where this is!”

The Count Beoin family of the Kingdom of Sharoti, a lordly family notorious for bloodless cruelty and harsh exploitation, was engulfed in flames due to a sudden attack by an unknown group.

Thousands of undead troops were flooding in from all directions surrounding the castle.

“Hehehe! Everything is according to His will! “I will purify this world through my death!”

The dark magic that burned their own life force rose like wildfire from the bodies of those leading the attack.

Their malice, without thinking about the future, covered the territory, as if they had no intention of living from the beginning.

In fact, such attacks did not only occur here.

For some reason, the dark forces that had been hiding for a while began to raise their heads one by one at some point.

Their potential, having grown stronger by living in the shadows of the world for a long time, was absolutely formidable.

Moreover, aren’t we already in a hectic situation because of monsters?

In such a situation, those who used their own lives as tools and cunningly took advantage of the opportunity were firmly contributing to the aggravation of the damage.

Paaaat!

However, even in this situation, there were people who actively opposed the terrorist act—.

“Wow, we arrived in one go this time. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be too late.”

“You seem to be getting better at it. No matter how great a wizard he is, it would not be easy to travel such a long distance with so many people.”

“It’s not good news to hear that it was used that often. “It means that the situation is that bad.”

They were the four figures who appeared with a bright halo of light.

“Kahahaha! How long are you going to keep talking? “Then let me go first!”

“…I will go too.”

A muscular giant holding a large ax and a dark-looking middle-aged man holding a spear were the first to penetrate the enemy lines like a thunderbolt.

“Tsk! “Kill them first!”

“Demon magic doesn’t work?! “What a monster!”

“Hehehe! “Where are you running from? Come here!”

Harley, who was the first to charge in, ignored all of the opponent’s attacks with her powerful anti-magic power using dragon scales and repeatedly swung her large ax…

Sigh!

“Fuhihi! Stop dying… kek!”

“Ugh! Save me… Oh? “Did you buy it?”

The spear of the gray-haired man holding the spear quickly flew through the space and saved those in danger.

“First of all, we need to reduce the number of undead. To be able to carry out a surprise attack with such a large number, the Immortal King must have done something special.”

Ugh—! Quaaaang!

And the enormous mana that surged from Isea’s body instantly materialized a mystery and began to sweep away hundreds of undead at once.

“Tsk! Is it really foresight? “I can’t believe you came so quickly!”

Their leader, the warlock, gritted his teeth as he saw over a hundred followers and thousands of undead troops melting away like snow in real time.

I had expected them to come from the beginning and had already given up any intention of living there, but… their majesty was greater than I had imagined, so I became nervous without knowing it.

‘I guess this is my grave.’

But no matter what, I can’t die in vain like this.

Even if you die, shouldn’t you leave behind a trace of your existence in this world?

Gooooo—

He immediately burned his life force and at the same time forced the magic power of his heart to run wild and began preparing great magic that he would not have been able to use originally.

In order to dye everything in this area with death in exchange for his own soul.

“Hehehe—dirty establishment bastards. Remember it clearly! Our resistance does not end here. Death is an equal value for everyone, regardless of rank or rank! “Let’s create a world without discrimination…”

“I understand your ideology well.”

However, as he was preparing his magic and cursing the world, his speech was unintentionally cut off… ”

Phew

!”

“There are too many useless words.”

“Oh no… there was a barrier…”

Before he knew it, Heinrich had come up next to him and was driving the holy sword deep into his heart.

Of course, as he said, there were quite a few types of defenses, but with only that level of skill, he could not block the natural enemy of black magic, “Blessing: Light Sword.”

Afterwards, the light injected through the holy sword embedded in his heart burned away the evil magic that was swirling within the warlock’s body, and in the end, he quietly turned into ashes and scattered without even being able to resist.

And after a short period of time.

“Waaa—!”

“I survived!”

There were only four of them, but it didn’t take long to eliminate thousands of enemies.

Unfortunately, when the whole situation ended, most of the lord’s family had already died in the secret attack that followed the attack.

“May the Lord’s love be with them.”

After a brief moment of silence, Heinrich pretended not to have seen the people secretly tearing down the castle and diligently treated the injured.

“Oh my, the saint saved me and even treated me like this. thank you!”

“thank you! thank you!”

“no. “Helping those in need is a duty that any follower of the Lord should do.”

“That’s the right attitude! “He is just like Saint Heinrich of the Main Church!”

“Oh, that’s a shame. “Thank you, Harley, for your hard work.”

After completing the task of imprinting the names of the people here by mobilizing the chuimsae Harley, they gathered again at Isea’s side to move to another place.

Because high-quality personnel like them could not invest a long time in one place forever.

‘By the way, it’s quite useful. I chose him because his ability and personality were at the acceptable level. … That’s the same situation.’

Heinrich glanced at Geos Kalkin, a middle-aged man with gray hair and blue eyes holding a spear, and nodded.

Geos was a strong man who voluntarily came to participate after hearing about the warrior party. There were several reasons why he was selected as a member of the warrior party.

First of all, that ability.

The fact that a pure Auror user who had not yet reached transcendence could attack beyond space meant that the secret he had learned was very special.

…to the point of being greedy.

The drama is about establishing your own system, perfecting your energy, and standing at the end of the path.

In another dimension, even if they are not used separately by so-called sword masters or flower masters, their naturally activated energy assists all abilities and the efficiency when used directly increases dramatically.

There was no way to impersonate him in the first place because the density of his energy was on a different level.

And after growing further, breaking the mold and exceeding the limits of existence was transcendence.

He divides space with a sword, causes phenomena with will alone, and even reads cause and effect naturally.

Since each person’s method of transcending is different, it could not be accurately defined in one word.

For example, Conwell, the commander of the Imperial Guard Knights, had the ability to ‘cut’ everything, even cutting the energy of the abyss like a radish.

‘In that sense, it’s a very mouth-watering technology. I guess I’ll have to persuade him somehow and then sneakily say something.’

Maybe it won’t be that difficult.

The second reason for accepting Geos was because of his personal history.

‘They say that the family was caught up in the sacrificial incident that occurred across the continent, known as the Immortal King’s act to open the abyss.’

He was a noble of the Kingdom of Lesk, but like Isea, he achieved that position solely through skill.

As a commoner and an orphan, he was very attached to his wife and children, but they ended up suffering.

In other words, his motivation for joining the warrior party was not a sense of duty, but only a desire for revenge against the Immortal King.

And Heinrich… I could not refuse him, who had lost the will to live and begged for a chance for revenge.

‘…It’s similar to me.’

Of course, revenge will definitely help.

Among the people he had just killed, there were quite a few members of the Oath of Rebellion, and it would not stop until all of the instigators of that tragedy were killed.

“Then we will move. Please do not resist the magic power.”

Ugh—!

The endlessly flowing magic of Isea surrounds them.

Eventually, they disappeared from the County of Beoin in the Kingdom of Charlotte.

For attacks on a small scale, they were able to prepare for them by paying attention with ‘foreknowledge’, and even though a group of warriors were directly involved only in large-scale invasions like this, they were busy without even a moment’s notice.

However, in proportion to that, the fame of the warrior Heinrich and his companions was gradually spreading throughout the continent.