Chapter 851 – Mythology Academy
Fortunately, it seemed like the ally was blocking well, and Seong-il, who sighed in relief, raised Arunlabe again and swung his sword at Tala, taunting him.
『Could it is just this?』
At Seong-il’s words, Tala smiles darkly and then lightly refutes Seong-il. After shouting like that, Tala takes out a turquoise crystal with ominous power from her arms and shows it to Seong-il.
“Ego. Taste the power of a meteorite.』
As soon as Tala’s cry ends, a powerful wave begins to flow from beneath her. Paradoxically, the strong shock emitted by the invisible, intangible wave first exploded on the Tala believers who were closest, and thanks to this, the believers who were caught by the surprise attack had their heads and torsos shattered like a watermelon exploding, and were instantly covered in blood. He changes and dies instantly.
『Khahaha!! You’ve screwed me up and brought in elite troops and wise men from both continents, but now they’re all finished?』
As a powerful wave sweeps across the frozen continent and destroys everything living, Tala shouts out in joy and bursts into laughter.
“Good! Good! Now that all the key people who were suppressing the discord between the two continents have died, the embers of war will begin to burn between the two continents again! This is going to be fun! It’s all thanks to you! Thank you!』
In order to break Seong-il’s spirit, Tala constantly talks and gets on Seong-il’s nerves. However, despite Tala’s ridicule, Seongil does not blink an eye and focuses on defending against the wave while firmly maintaining Arunlabe’s sanctuary power and territory.
『Do you think that will work? Since you are already a being that transcends humans both physically and mentally, you may be able to survive with the power of such realms and sacred objects, but ordinary humans…』
While Tala is constantly muttering to get on Seongil’s nerves, the psionic wave of the meteorite’s power passes by and the fog of war clears.
And the incredible scenery unfolds before Tala’s eyes. Despite the fact that not only the wise men of the Mythology Academy continent, but also the general troops, who were within the territorial shield spread by Seong-il and his alter ego, were hit directly by the meteorite’s wave baptism, Tala sees the shocking sight of not a single dead person. That’s not enough, some of them are even able to withstand the wave and still maintain their defensive magic.
『You… How?』
When Seong-il blocks Tala’s secret move, he shows an uncharacteristically embarrassed look and asks Seong-il about the situation.
“Did I seem like such a fool that I didn’t even consider that you would break your promise and stab me in the back?”
Seong-il predicted in advance that Tala would find fault and break the oath he had sworn. Therefore, instead of naively believing Tala’s oath, he asked the doctors of the Pocket Girls world who were familiar with the power of meteorites to mass produce the ‘wavelength protection potion’ that they had worked so hard to create.
‘Originally, we were going to fight immediately before the Creator’s doll was restored, but… There were only so many people…’
Creating the highest quality wavelength protection potion for tens of thousands of people was not easy, even with the Poke Girls doctors and the Gaia system. Therefore, Seong-il had no choice but to sacrifice about a month to secure the potion.
Seong-il, who needed time to produce the potion, gave up his impatience and handed over the evergreen bracelets he had originally intended to use to the two deans, showing off a plan to lend them so that they could travel to each continent to spread the crisis and gather troops.
‘Thanks to you, it was really hard on my body… But I’m still happy with the results.’
While the two deans were frantically using the teleportation bracelet and the one-time ring made by Yuna to wander around each country and persuade the leaders of each country, Seongil gave up on the teleportation technology he was supposed to use and did everything in his power to create the ‘Eternal Land of Ice and Snow. ‘ And repeated flying.
Based on Seong-il’s sacrifice, the two deans desperately attempted to hold talks with several countries, and when the dean contacted Seong-il to turn off the cooldown after the meeting, Seong-il returned to the Inner Plane to rest and use the cooldown. I repeated spinning and waiting for the potion to be produced.
At the end of that painful time, when a satisfactory result finally arrives before his eyes, Seong-il feels the hardships he has gone through melting away like snow.
『On earth… How? Even I couldn’t easily handle the power of the meteorite. Defending that power? Those scum that aren’t even you? And… I have been in control of meteorites for the past thousands of years?』
Tala had never lost possession of a meteorite for a long time, so she knew very well how dangerous and difficult to control meteorites were.
When he sees Seong-il, who has never handled a meteorite for thousands of years, defend against its power so efficiently and elaborately, Tala eventually takes off his mask and is shocked.
“A frog in the well.”
Seong-il lightly laughs at Tala. Although humanity and the Gaia system in the Pocket Girls world are nothing more than bugs compared to Tala, they are beings who have struggled for survival by analyzing meteorites and waves for hundreds of years. Therefore, simply looking at the understanding of meteorites, they had no choice but to be higher than Tala, who only tried to extract and use the power of meteorites.
Moreover, since Tala also had most of her power tied up in her own dimension, Seong-il laughs at Tala’s arrogant reaction.
『A frog in a well…』
Tala’s expression hardens at Seong-il’s meaningful line and looks worried about a moment. However, as soon as a considerable number of the wise men of the world of Mythology began to stand up from their seats, he raised his sacred relic, a black spear, and shouted to Seong-il.
“Good. Good. I took a big hit. Then let’s begin the second round.』
Tala, who briefly declared war on Seong-il, moves to the cliff created by a powerful wave a while ago and jumps off. Originally, it would have been a holy day when he would have tried to chase down Tala and put Arunlabe on his back, but instead of hastily chasing him, he approaches the Mythology Academy faculty and checks on their well-being.
“Are you okay?”
“It’s okay. The wavelength protection potion and mechanical defense you gave me were quite effective.”
Quite a few strong people were hit directly by the wave and suffered retirement-level damage, but fortunately, thanks to the potion, their lives were not in danger. Therefore, Seong-il and his party neglected the situation during the golden time. Instead of chasing Tala to prevent the problem from getting worse, they quickly took care of the battlefield and attempted to reorganize.
“If you plant a branch of the World Tree on the ground and let it grow for about an hour, you will create a powerful town portal that can last for about half a day. For now, let’s use it to focus on bringing back all the patients.”
It was obvious that leaving the wounded in the desolate snowy field would only be a burden, so Seong-il recommended that many of the elite troops be evacuated to a safe place.
“We will help you.”
However, six faculty members and two deans belonging to the Athenaeum Order held out until the end. And several faculty members approach the masked Seong-il and say that they will help him until the end to punish Tala. Even elite troops from each continent say they want to help after hearing the story.
“Hmm…”
Seong-il feels momentarily shaken by the chaos caused by the death of the elites that Tala mentioned. However, because the original faculty insisted so strongly, he accepted their request as if he had no choice.
“What level of troops are available?”
“The available troops are approximately 1/4. About half have been clearly retired, and the remaining 1/4 must take care of them, so there is nothing we can do.”
“That’s a lot.”
In fact, since the Baptism of the Meteorite was powerful to begin with, Seong-il had no complaints even if only about 1/10th of the troops remained. However, when there were more troops left than he expected, Seong-il was not at all disappointed by the two deans’ explanations, and instead seemed to like them.
“Prepare your camp!”
Quickly reorganizing the remaining ones, the generals from each continent lead an army of psychics and wizards in an orderly manner and begin to float down the cliff following Seong-il and his faculty. And then a mysterious sight appeared before their eyes.
“This is…”
A huge ruin that seems to be made of transparent ice appears in front of Seong-il and his group. The interior, which is so beautiful and mysterious that it is hard to believe that it is a ruin worshiping an evil god, amazes the expedition team, including Seong-il.
“… It’s not ice, is it?”
Surprisingly, Professor Han realizes that what looks like cold ice is actually crystal. The expedition team was surprised by those words and soon after investigating the surroundings, they were surprised to realize that the huge underground ruins were all made of crystal.
