novelraw Chapter 204 : Chapter 204
Chapter 204 : Chapter 204
Chapter 204
[Can you still act like that knowing that your precious partner also didn't die?]
It was an unexpected remark.
“What...?”
Murus burst into laughter as if finding Killian's reaction amusing.
He bit his lip at that nasty attitude.
“…….”
His mind, which had achieved a serene state, wavered.
Gods are innately transcendent beings.
They are originally indifferent to the suffering of others.
‘I was also soft.’
The grudge spanning thousands of years isn't light.
It seems he unknowingly held a soft heart just because the opponent's power wasn't what it used to be.
Rumble.
Uncontrolled Haki leaked out.
[Don't be arrogant. Using your precious partner's life as collateral...]
“Right. That's how you should act.”
Asking about Edan here would only mean being dragged around.
‘Crush him.’
Killian raised his momentum.
Rumble.
The unknown space shook.
Although not yet mastered due to the body not being complete, a rank seemingly lived for hundreds of years was emitted in streams.
“It seems you peeked into my memories.”
Sssss.
Shimmer.
Crackle.
Three types of Mana mixed and dominated the space.
“Let's check how far your insight has foreseen.”
[Your arrogance remains the same, then and now.]
Divine Power dominating the space clashed with Mana.
[Does a mere human threaten a God just because his power is limited?]
Fwoosh.
After the light compressed for a moment.
Murus transformed his form.
His skin was hard and rough as if made of stone, and over it, he wore gray armor.
Two arms and legs only took a formal shape, and the body itself felt like a part of a fortress wall or a fortress.
Divine Power surged from the two holes visible as eyes.
An appearance closer to a golem than a Knight.
An object shaped like flesh was visible on his chest.
Three Hollyhearts.
Emitting Divine Power incomparable to a Chief Priest's, three were embedded in a line from top to bottom.
Gods tend to materialize in forms suitable for manifesting their Authority.
‘To think the materialization of a barrier is at best a Knight and a golem.’
Laughter leaked out at that poor imagination, but he didn't mock him.
[Only heavenly punishment awaits those who defy God.]
Arrogance shown only by those with strong conviction in themselves.
Killian deliberately didn't correct the guy's words.
“Right, that's how you should come.”
Because he intended to do the same this time.
“Shall I try cutting a God bound by prohibition?”
He recalls the memory in the Holy Nation.
The guy blocked him as a Divine Object in the form of a door.
The sword he took out then was Adamas Style (Ke).
A simple draw.
“Sal (Kill).”
Slash.
He cut the guy's barrier with a single stroke.
Creak.
Divine Power begins to fill the split part.
He doesn't wait.
He didn't allow regeneration.
Adamas Style (Ke).
A sword that cuts the frame forming the structure of the body.
The guy's frame would be the three Hollyhearts.
“Gi (Foundation).”
The three Hollyhearts were pulverized by the sword drawn from top to bottom.
Crumble.
The barrier collapsed.
Even if weakened by prohibition, it was a somewhat anticlimactic duel.
Or perhaps he had become that strong.
[Damn it. Can't I even block an attack of this level now?]
Depression was felt in Murus's voice.
[Mortals don't know what's important!]
Then suddenly, he shouted with anger.
“…….”
An appearance as if his emotions were fluctuating from earlier.
“Are you out of your mind because of the prohibition?”
[Who is!]
Murus shouted loudly.
Gods possess immense power, but they don't possess a mind befitting it.
Nevertheless, the reason they are treated as Gods is because they are beings with ‘Will’.
It seems grandiose, but it just means they are given roles they must fulfill.
‘It looked like their divinity would be damaged if they didn't execute that will.’
Although it is unknown exactly what will is assigned to each God.
What is certain is that one must not touch that.
‘That is also why Murus couldn't leave the boundary and ended up like an earthbound spirit.’
[No, God's will is not something like that.]
Murus, having insight into Killian's thoughts, spoke as if chewing and spitting out the words.
Since he won't tell me anyway, what does it matter if I think as I please?
[Damn human bastard.]
Murus's mouth became rough.
Then again.
[You cut me twice. This is not good for you either.]
He also shows a rational appearance.
It looks as if he possesses multiple personalities.
“Oh, come to think of it.”
Killian looked at the fragmented Murus.
Three Hollyhearts.
And the appearance like multiple personalities the guy showed just a moment ago.
“Were you not fluctuating, but actually had multiple personalities?”
[Foolish talk!]
A voice full of anger resonated.
[I'm losing strength.]
A depressed voice resonated.
“A fluctuating God. How awkward.”
[Watch your mouth. I can't overlook your arrogant attitude forever.]
And.
A much more rational voice than them resonated.
Once again, the boundary was visible.
[The barrier cracked due to the impact of you cutting me just now.]
He said due to that impact, some of the Grotesquery's curses crossed the boundary.
‘This is the guy.’
Murus, who carried on a conversation worthy of a conversation.
“Then what happens?”
[Nothing happens immediately.]
“…….”
[But eventually, it will become the culprit destroying the world.]
Then.
[Ugh.]
Murus made a groaning sound.
[I want to talk. There is no need to delay time with useless provocations. The more you do, the more you lose.]
The debris cut off turned into light and disappeared.
He swung the sword enough.
If they were to talk, it should be done when the guy is rational.
Anyway, he was the one who gained the upper hand by cutting the guy.
“What about the remark that Edan didn't die?”
[A human who achieved the rank of transcendence, albeit incomplete. The rank of such guys doesn't collapse easily.]
Incomplete rank of transcendence.
The rank of transcendence must refer to what grew while cutting the Monster Lord, and incomplete must be because he had to fight the Grotesquery without time to refine the rank Edan obtained.
Because cutting the Grotesquery immediately was more urgent for him than his own growth.
“Is he... really alive?”
Killian's voice trembled involuntarily.
It's been 200 years.
Even if it's a fact, it was hard to believe easily.
[Since he hasn't been extinguished, it's hard to consider him dead.]
Just as they aren't extinguished just because they lack a body, he said Edan was also in such a state.
“Where?”
[Didn't you see it too?]
There was a sword where he turned his head following Murus's gaze.
“Adamas...?”
[Edan Eurasia is in there. Instead of you, who were released from the seal.]
***
His head throbbed.
He was released from the seal, but he ended up hearing that his friend, who said he would release him from the seal, was trapped in the sword instead.
[That is no longer the blade you were trapped in. It is an object engraved with hundreds of curses.]
Hundreds of curses accepted by Edan and himself immediately after cutting the Grotesquery.
He said it contains things each comparable to a God's Authority.
“Then, the ‘boundary’ and the ‘barrier’ are...”
[Barriers blocking the Grotesquery's curses from flowing to this side and that side. To express it in your language, it would be about a double locking device.]
Who on earth.
Who moved the original body here?
‘Don't tell me these guys...’
Murus, reading such thoughts, spoke stiffly.
[Is that important?]
“…….”
[What's important would be why.]
He asked why.
[I express my gratitude to you and Edan Eurasia. You saved this world.]
As if he represents this world.
Murus expressed his gratitude calmly.
He couldn't help but ask.
“What lies beyond there that you are so obsessed with?”
[Abyss. That is all I can say.]
He mentioned the prohibition.
It's not important.
What is important is that Edan is in the original body.
That the current him can take the original body before his eyes.
“I have to take Edan.”
[Disallowed.]
“I don't care about your permission.”
The serene state of mind hardened by reaching the 8th star is disturbed.
[Even if the curses sealed with difficulty might spread to the world if done wrong?]
“…….”
[Who can stop the existence blocked by the combined power of a 9-star Knight and a Magic Sword imitating God's Authority?]
“I...”
[At best 8-star. The current you are too early to bear Edan Eurasia's karma.]
He didn't want to admit it, but it was true.
“You said someone is trying to revive the Grotesquery. Is it the Emperor?”
[Don't expect all answers from me.]
Damn prohibition.
Killian swallowed a curse and calmly organized his mind.
He knows getting answers won't happen even if he cuts Murus again here.
Also that he lost the initiative he wanted.
It all happened since Edan was mentioned.
The guy must have noticed that he was shaken, and he wasn't a God to miss that.
[Can't be helped. Since I can't perform my karma without you either.]
Rational Murus.
[I am the God of Barriers.]
He continued the explanation.
[Accept me. Then you will be able to connect with the sword, at least temporarily.]
Accepting a God.
The meaning is one.
“Are you telling me to refine a Hollyheart?”
An artificial heart that allows one to exert Divine Power.
Right side of the heart.
It is generally created where the Mana Heart is located.
However, he has never seen or heard of anyone having both a Mana Heart and a Hollyheart, except for Hazard.
Able to accept Divine Power as well as Mana.
He has also accepted Evil Energy and the Grotesquery's Radiance.
Who with a human body could show such divine power as now?
[Didn't I say it. That body is special.]
“…….”
[God-Slayer in the past life, atheist in the present life. Also, I know well enough that you haven't given up the dream of god-slaying.]
He speaks as if looking inside.
“You speak as if killing other Gods is nothing to you.”
[That is for them to solve. I am just faithful to the task given to me.]
An appearance calmly wanting to complete his mission.
It was far from what Killian knew.
Having already cut the guy twice, he had thought enough.
“I accept.”
[It won't be difficult. Since the power of other guys is already flowing in your body.]
“Silvana?”
[Would it be only Silvana?]
“Who else?”
[Do you intend to keep delaying time? The more you do, the more you lose.]
He said the curses escaping would increase every time a curse escapes.
Evasion he has now become accustomed to.
‘That would be trouble.’
Killian sat cross-legged.
[The location to refine the Hollyheart is here.]
As the cluster of light settled, pain arose in the left chest.
Further left than where the heart is.
The intention to affect the heart by refining a Hollyheart was obvious.
Since he decided to do it, he should refine it in a perfect form.
He focused completely.
Fwoosh.
The feeling of light condensing.
The affected heart wriggles.
How many hours passed?
Whoooooosh.
[Faster than expected.]
Like Murus's calm reaction, fragments of the Hollyheart began to take shape.
It was about twenty hours after meeting him.