Chapter 918 – Ruler of the Game
“That’s their stronghold!”
A powerful alter ego like a demigod. Help from characters you meet in the game world and the powerful G.E.C.R Corps. And, based on the power of the Ark, the dome where the headquarters of the Transcendental Church is curled up finally begins to appear in the eyes of Seong-il, who is advancing, destroying the defense lines of the Transcendental Church one by one.
『Apostate, do you think anything will change just because you struggle!!』
A cry using psionics that I haven’t heard in a long time. ‘Archbishop’, the second-in-command of the Transcendental Church, who had to awaken from dimensional hibernation in an unstable state due to Seong-il’s great counterattack, leads his troops to greet Seong-il.
『Isn’t their main force actually not finished hibernating yet?』
Otherwise, there would be no reason for the Archbishop, who was in poor condition after a fierce battle a while ago, to reappear here, so Dana makes a reasonable guess that the Transcendental Church’s dimensional hibernation may not have actually ended yet.
“I agree.”
In fact, many of the troops led by the Archbishop were Transcendentalists who took over human bodies and created a new species, but for some reason, they seemed a bit more sluggish and uncomfortable than the Ysthians, whose bodies were composed of psionic energy.
“Or they may not have been able to properly adapt to their new body.”
『No matter what, it can be said to be good news for us.』
“Yes.”
While hitting the rock with an egg, Seongil smiled for the first time in a long time because he could see it as good news that the rock might be made of mud that had not yet hardened.
“Come! Astral!”
When Seong-il realizes that this is the only time he might be able to save his life when the Transcendental Church is unable to exert its full power, he boldly takes out one of his trump cards that he has been saving for so long.
『Astral, the god of magic and knowledge, is summoned. The summoning time is one day.』
At the call of the Holy Day, a mid-level god of the Cursed Throne World and a powerful god who rules magic descends into this world. As if that were not enough, Seong-il absorbs the dungeon core energy and uses the restored causality to descend upon the Earth Mother, the actual ruler of Eden, to fight the enemy.
‘I pour out everything except my trump card!’
Seong-il tries to save his cards by sending a lot of moderately powerful summons towards the elites of the Transcendence Church, while saving a few cards that could change not only the outcome of the battlefield but also his fate.
Lassal, the great devil from the dungeon world. An apostle of the Shinigami encountered in the doll world. Masters of the martial arts world. Seongil even summoned the blood god. When the transcendental strongmen he met while traveling around various worlds were put into a tight space, enormous damage began to occur as if the great desert was coming to an end.
“Dana. Can you pour all the resources of the Ark into opening the gap?”
“It’s possible! Thanks to the powerful beasts summoned by my master, I have more power.』
Upon hearing Seong-il’s request, Dana immediately launches a devastating attack on the Transcendence Church by pouring out all the cards he has prepared. Even the elites of the Transcendence Church cannot easily be suppressed by the enormous mechanical weapons and powerful gods that pour down from the ark.
『Master! I’ll take a picture of the coordinates! There is going to be a crack there!』
“Dana. I’ll go alone from here. You…”
『Although it was a short time, it was an honor to serve you.』
The nanomachine colony that makes up Dana’s mind begins to escape Seongil’s body and enter the Ark’s control tower. Of course, even though there were still a huge number of nanomachines in Seong-il’s body, it was difficult to maintain her artificial intelligence, and Seong-il was bitter as he realized that today was the time for him to part ways with her.
『Hehe! Don’t be too disappointed! As time passes, the nanomachines in the master’s body will create a new ‘Dana’. The separation is only temporary?』
“Haha. If you’re still alive by then.”
『Because the master always wins! You will definitely survive!』
With that said, Dayna activates her Ark’s powerful dimensional travel device, temporarily teleporting her holy day to the walls of the destroyed dome.
“Finally…!!”
Gritting his teeth, Seong-il flies through the gap in the destroyed dome and enters the headquarters of the Transcendental Church that he had longed for.
“…!!”
As you enter the dome, the interior scene changes drastically. A new world appears, looking like a huge, cold metal machine empire. Suddenly, with the appearance of a dimension separate from the outside world, Seong-il realizes that the dome built by the Transcendental Church is a kind of giant dungeon.
‘I see…!! When I asked how to store billions of people… It was like this!’
In fact, in every corner of the huge main dimension, there were portals that were probably used for dimensional hibernation. And the appearance of transcendental believers constantly popping out from there with dreamy expressions.
“… Throw it all away!!”
This is the battlefield outside. In other words, Seong-il, who realized that it is a completely separate space from the Earth, does not hesitate to summon an evil being.
“Come out!! Lazarus!!”
Seongil summons Lazarus, the worst and worst demon in the Cursed Throne World. According to the legend, the demon that fell after looking into the abyss could only be barely suppressed with the help of many foreign god-level beings, so Seong-il believed that if it were a demon, it would not only slaughter the transcendentalists awakening here, but also pollute the dimension itself.
『Summon Lazarus. Summoning time is two hours.』
‘… It’s true that you are stronger than Luhop and other foreign media in the world of Mythology!!’
As Lazarus’ summoning time was slightly shorter than that of the foreign gods, Seongil was able to realize that, as he expected, this powerful demon was one step ahead of the foreign gods of the world of Mythology.
『Everyone… Come to me…』
The appearance of a bizarre demon in the form of a giant single eye. Countless strange tentacles appeared from the huge moon-like eyeball, and an evil power that immediately drove the viewer into madness oozed from the eye.
“It is the enemy!! Church members!! Kill the enemies of the ascendant!!”
Despite their bodies being heavy as they had just woken up from dimensional hibernation, the tens of millions of ‘managers’ that came out of the dimension door began to shout bravely and launch psionic attacks on the giant foreign body.
『Me… Let’s become one body…』
Lazarus, who has already corrupted the inside of the dome to a bizarre level, calmly receives merciless attacks coming from all directions and chants evil mantras. In fact, the evil mantra of the demon god drives nearby transcendentalists crazy or even corrupts them and transforms them into grotesque flesh monsters.
“Drive out the unholy being!! Activate the holy relic!!”
As expected from the Transcendental Church, which has wandered for countless years, wandered through all dimensions, and has a lot of experience facing powerful beings, instead of despairing or being afraid upon seeing this absolute demon, they activated the great sacred relics of their ancestors that have been handed down since ancient times. I will try to confront Lazarus somehow by doing what he tells me to do.
“I figured it out!! He’s just a being that came here temporarily!! Activate your holy relics and fight as hard as you can!! He won’t be able to harm us!!”
Lazarus’ weakness comes out from the mouth of an administrator who appears to be a high-ranking bishop. Seong-il frowns after seeing the guy’s quick reaction.
‘Wow… Lazarus is definitely strong, but… It’s impossible to kill everyone here.’
Of course, given enough time, no matter how much the Transcendentalists poured out their holy relics, they would eventually be defeated by Lazarus and transformed into corrupted flesh, but unfortunately, the time for Lazarus to descend into reality is only two hours. Therefore, Seong-il decides to do his best to rush deeper into the headquarters of the Transcendental Church while they are trying to hold on to Lazarus.
‘I have only two goals! Create as much chaos as possible at the base and force the troops at the dimensional port in the Pacific to return to base! And we must find the ‘prophet’ of the Transcendental Church and tear him to death!!’
Even if only one of the two succeeds, Seong-il has no time left, so he grits his teeth and rushes towards the center that the Transcendentalists are desperately guarding.
Tiring!
“…?”
Seong-il gritted his teeth and desperately tried to fly toward the center until Lazarus was summoned. In the meantime, an alarm suddenly comes, and he looks at the message with a puzzled expression.
『Excellent! Today you have succeeded in sending countless Transcendentalists to the underworld! To praise this great achievement, we are raising the total number of causality points! Now the causality points are 4,000,000 points.』
And causality points are restored upon upgrade. Now, there is only about two dungeon core energy left that can be recovered, and a slight sense of relief appears on Seong-il’s nervous face.
“… Okay! Come out! God of darkness!”
『You have summoned the absolute god of darkness of the dungeon world. Summoning time is 1 hour.』
Surprisingly, despite the upgraded causality points, Seong-il is shocked when he is told that he can only summon the God of Darkness for about an hour.
『Ho… Who is this? Isn’t this my great warrior? How have you been?』
Is that why? Interestingly, unlike other summoned beasts, the God of Darkness greets Seongil in a subdued tone.
