The Fruit of Myth (2)
“Hmm, I was thinking something like this might happen, so I tried to rush in and destroy everything at once···.”
The Chairman, the head of the Pantheon Council of Twelve, stroked his mustache roughly and sighed deeply.
Having survived and been through all kinds of hardships, he knew full well that when people are cornered, they do not care about the consequences.
So, I deliberately took my time and prepared thoroughly to finish the work without leaving any gaps…
“Chairman! The remnants of the evil spirit have begun to expand again!”
“The introduction work for the citizens nearby hasn’t been completed yet. If we continue like this….”
“Alas, who on earth could cause such a terrible disaster!”
Even he could not have imagined a situation like this.
How could you possibly summon the shadow of a god from another world to this Earth?
How on earth could you possibly have guessed that such a transfer was possible?
‘Phew, but there’s no time to just worry.’
Now everyone is in confusion due to the sudden turn of events.
In the current situation where even one hand is not enough, he, as one of the best priests in the Pantheon, could not just give orders from behind.
A cool divine power flowed from the body of the chairman who opened his eyes slightly.
Saaaaah—
The power of a god that freezes all things in the world and stops everything.
Compared to when it was used in another world, its power was reduced to less than half, but given the nature of divine power, which is positioned above other energies, it was by no means a power that could be ignored.
Wiggle wiggle—
But even that power was not enough to suppress the shadow of that evil god.
An amorphous mass that struggles violently against the divine force that is strangling it.
Its tentacles stretched out from around it, which had already grown to the size of a large mountain, sweeping in all directions and devouring everything it touched.
“Big.”
“Ugh, what the heck!”
It was the same even though not only the chairman, but also other members of the steering committee and prominent clergy from each denomination joined in.
The only thing that could be done was to temporarily restrain the disaster from rapidly expanding.
‘···The compatibility is the worst.’
It was not that the priests lacked the power of the gods they had borrowed or their own abilities.
Unlike them, who have to forcibly bring the power of a god that exists beyond the dimension to Earth and manifest it.
The problem was that the shadow of that evil spirit itself contained the glory of a god.
‘I guess that’s what they call the difference in status. Most of the coercive power that this side has gathered is being ignored. It’s somehow maintained thanks to the combined power of the majority, but…’
Even that was only a stopgap measure, as it fell short of the imperfect divinity that the being contained within.
For now, the limit was to minimize sacrifices and hold out until support arrived.
‘Even if we get that much support, it’ll be hard to get rid of it. But for now, that’s the only way. If we can just buy some time, we can put our heads together and find a way to send it back.’
It was not unreasonable for the chairman to think that way.
However, there was one thing he missed as he had only calculated his usual power in the sudden situation.
“Huh! Th, that’s…?”
“From the sky···!”
The fact was that there was another being in this place that was beyond his common sense.
Hwaaaaak—!
spurt.
A fierce gale and a blinding flash of light occurred simultaneously.
With a sharp anticipation that makes your body tingle.
Most people unconsciously closed their eyes and avoided eye contact, but those who kept their eyes on him until the end, thanks to their extensive practical experience, were able to clearly witness the change that occurred at that moment.
———!
A giant sword of light fell from the sky.
To instantly pierce through and scatter the dark purple shapes writhing on the ground.
“······!”
The chairman, who was watching the clash of two divine forces that occurred at that moment, opened his eyes wide.
And he wasn’t the only one who reacted so strongly.
“This is ridiculous… What did I just see?”
“Equal? No matter how imperfectly you call it, you are still the shadow of God?”
Leaving their surprise behind, the platinum glow and the crimson smoke continued to clash violently, biting each other.
A tentacle as big as a house stretched out from inside the smoke and was cut down by a sword that was like a flash of light, and immediately afterwards, the fog that spewed out swallowed up its enemies and the surrounding land.
Kwakwakwakwang—!
Such attacks occur dozens of times per second.
It was such a transcendent fight that it made me question whether it was really happening in the real world.
Thanks to the sacred veil spread by the priests, the aftermath did not spread too much. If it weren’t for that, the surrounding area would have already been devastated.
‘Oops!’
The chairman, who had been staring blankly for a moment, suddenly came to his senses.
No matter how you look at it, isn’t this situation the moment of opportunity that we have been longing for?
I couldn’t just watch and let it pass by like this.
“Everyone, wake up!”
He reorganized his position again, comforting the priests who were barely able to catch their breath.
Even in the midst of all this, he glanced at the battlefield of myth with eyes filled with admiration that he could not hide at all.
It was a natural thing.
He was not the only one who felt such awe in this place.
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Heinrich’s time accelerated to its limit.
In the midst of everything around us becoming infinitely slow.
He cut down one of the tentacles that was reaching out at an incredible speed with his holy sword, as if he didn’t care about the passage of time.
———!
The angelic heart that beat ceaselessly within his chest continued to supply strength to his entire body.
Having his own energy-generating organ, he was different from other priests who had to receive divine power from a god in another dimension to exercise his power.
Faster, more efficient, stronger.
An endless blast of light spread across the area, slicing through the fog that was eyeing us.
A splendid grandeur that is literally overwhelming.
But his true feelings weren’t that good.
‘This is never ending.’
How many times has he swung his sword since the first blow that fell from the sky and pierced the shadow of the evil god?
I poured all my energy into the attack from the beginning in order to finish it as quickly as possible, but it seemed too greedy to hope to eliminate the Shadow of God with just one attack.
It was a situation where I had to console myself with the fact that I had blown away a significant portion of the guy’s smoke that had been inflated to the max.
But this fog was merely a manifestation of the phenomenon.
In order to finish it off for sure, we need to deal with the core first···.
For some reason, even though I had my senses turned up to the max, used a lot of wide-area attacks, and completely destroyed the smoke, I didn’t see any significant progress.
———!
At that moment, a few strands of energy, which had come without a trace, clung to his body like spider webs.
Then, in the blink of an eye, a thread multiplies and wraps itself around his body.
There was no way to resist the approach that deceived not only his transcendent senses but also the world’s causality and providence.
[“Ahahaha! You fool! How dare you resist the power of a god with a mortal body! I will make you a servant of the great Lord Luceni!”]
Unlike here, it seemed that the fog wasn’t blocking the view, and Joker’s laughter could be heard from somewhere.
The initial attack, as well as the subsequent linked attacks, were all aimed at him, but judging by his still lively voice, it seemed like they had no effect.
‘···The power of God. I see. Somehow, my attacks didn’t seem to work properly. Was it all because of this?’
Heinrich’s eyes sank coldly.
I could roughly guess what kind of power it was.
That would be the case, because immediately after he was exposed to this energy, his head began to spin around in an incredibly chaotic manner.
‘The power to change perception… Is it towards lies and deception? It is indeed a power worthy of an evil god.’
This would have distorted the surrounding laws and deflected his attacks.
Heinrich, who holds the seed of divinity, was not of such low rank that he could not completely nullify it, but even with that much, there were endless things he could do.
Haven’t you succeeded in reaching him like this even now?
‘The conclusion he came up with after wielding such great power was to capture me and brainwash me. He really is a guy with less imagination than I thought.’
Well, it’s more a question of ability than imagination.
Heinrich, who was about to immediately pull up his strength to break free of the restraints, hesitated.
And after pondering something for a moment, he soon gave up resisting and completely withdrew his strength from his body.
‘Maybe this.’
Right now, the ‘Shadow of God’ did not contain even a bit of the will of the divinity known as Lucien.
Wielding this power is entirely up to the Joker, who summoned it.
However, it was impossible for a human who had not yet sprouted the seed of divinity to fully control the power of the gods.
[“It seems you’ve given up now. I thought about it carefully. Even God will take special care of someone like you. Just return to Lady Ruseni’s arms…”]
A voice was heard in his ears, but he did not answer.
Because there was no need to do that.
‘I could hold out as long as I wanted. But then I’d just be wasting time and gaining nothing.’
If we continue like this, it will inevitably lead to a global war.
In the end, the fact that he will win will remain unchanged, but if he does, the basis for inviting the shadow of that evil spirit to this Earth will be completely exhausted.
Unfortunately.
‘That can’t be. It’s a power that can even summon the shadow of a foreign god to Earth. It’s a chance to swallow up everything that the Bancheonhoe has been preparing for over twenty years. Why give it up?’
To do that, it was necessary to first make the opponent let his guard down.
Heinrich did not reject the power that touched his perception.
Even as the “Great Mind” was shaken and his perception distorted by the power of God, he focused on only one thing.
‘It’s okay. As long as you control it so that it doesn’t flow back…’
After all, he was just a terminal.
As long as it doesn’t flow back to the entity that oversees everything beyond the object called oneself—.
“Hahaha! That’s it! I didn’t think it would really work! Now you are the sword of the Luceni sect…”
—Because I didn’t really care about distorted perceptions.
Heinrich opened his eyes, which had been closed in a subtle sense of alienation, and slowly looked around.
A world distorted by Lucien’s power, which could only be perceived with a distorted perception, entered his eyes.
‘As expected. That’s why there was no progress.’
A separate space that does not share the outside world’s laws and cause and effect.
The sword marks scattered all over the place were definitely his own.
But even now, looking at the space expanding as the wounds healed in real time, I couldn’t imagine how much longer it would have taken if they had continued to fight.
‘Found it.’
And there.
There it was.
Jason approaches with a triumphant expression, a fist-sized sphere emitting a faint light remains embedded in Joker’s chest.
Heinrich, who had been staring blankly at it, met his gaze and smiled.
“···That was it?”
“huh?”
“It looks good.”
“···what?”
At those words, the Joker’s approaching footsteps stopped.
As if he sensed something strange, his face hardened and he immediately gathered his energy to do something—.
Phew!
There was no way something like that could be possible now.
Since the distance had narrowed to this extent, it was already very late.
“Keuk! Huh, how…? I clearly confirmed that the power was working properly…!”
“well?”
Heinrich looked at the Joker, whose heart was pierced by his own hand, with cold eyes, and slowly grabbed his hand.
A strange heat felt in my palm.
A crystal of power, of which he had no idea how it was made, slowly appeared in his hand.
“Ah, no… That’s…!”
He collapsed on the floor and desperately poured divine power into the hole in his chest, but his condition did not improve at all.
No, that wasn’t all.
As time passed, his body withered and began to disintegrate into ash from the extremities.
“Hand it over! Keuk! Quickly give me that ‘mythical fruit’…!”
The result of wielding the power of God at will with a body that was not qualified to do so.
Heinrich watched him for a moment as his body and soul perished, then turned his gaze to the crystal in his hand.
There was nothing he could do about it, not even if Hans, the immortal king, came.
As for giving it back, he didn’t have the slightest intention of doing so.
‘Who should I give this precious thing to?’
Was it called the fruit of myth?
Whatever the name, once it was in his hands, it was now his.
Even without that, I was starting to feel sorry for the losses I had incurred from fighting so far…
Quick—
Could it be that God is angry at his selfish symbol?
Suddenly, the sphere in Heinrich’s hand began to crack.
“Huh? What is this?”
I still haven’t figured out exactly what this mythical fruit is!
I hurriedly looked back at where the Joker had been, but there were only some odds and ends, including priest’s robes, scattered about.
‘No, wait. Could it be that it was due to the disappearance of the medium?’
The moment that thought crossed my mind.
The situation was taking a drastic turn before he had time to do anything.
Pachachang—!
The ‘Fruit of Myth’ shattered into pieces with a sound of something breaking.
Dazzling light burst out in all directions.
***
Outside the Pantheon.
“Hey! Look over there!”
One of the priests who was desperately building a barrier to stop the expansion of the writhing, purple fog shouted loudly.
But no one looked back at where he was.
Because the change was so clear, everyone was already looking at where the change was happening.
———!
A ray of light slowly seeps through the writhing smoke.
It swelled in the blink of an eye and spread like a spider web.
Paaaaat—!
It finally burst from within, dispersing the smoke that had been enclosing it.
An ending so absurd that it makes a mockery of the determination of those who gathered to buy time, as there was absolutely no way to do anything about it.
“Uh, what is this···?”
“Wait a minute, that’s not···.”
He was at the center of it all.
In the midst of a halo of light that shimmers and scatters.
A man standing alone, with his eyes tightly closed and his head raised towards the sky.
An unknown, heavy air lingered around him, giving off a strange sense of oppression to those who saw it.
“Henrich St. Landgard···.”
The chairman of the Pantheon, who was leading the clergy, muttered to himself without realizing it.
A silver-haired angel standing under the pouring sunlight and sparkling beads of light.
His appearance was literally no different from that of a messenger of God from a story.
What’s more, if that being is a savior who single-handedly defeated the disaster…
At that moment, the angel’s closed eyes opened.
His golden eyes, like the sun, illuminated those who looked at him.
***
Heinrich looked around blankly.
When he came to his senses, he saw a crowd of people standing around him, looking at him with awe.
“······.”
But right now he had no time left to worry about anything else.
Immediately after the mythic fruit broke and light burst out.
Because the sight I saw in that fleeting moment when time stopped still lingered in my mind.
《The dimensional inflection point has passed a certain level. You are accessing the Akasha system.》
It appeared with that one line message.
What the future of this Earth will look like.
