## Chapter 1657 – 1657. God’S Atlantis
Ziiiiiiiiing.
The pitch-black sky splits in half, and a mandala of hell spreads, covering the entire sky.
The sky shone brilliantly. More dazzling than any jewel, each pattern in the sky represented hell and demons. The mandala of hell seemed to stretch endlessly, as if it covered the entire sky.
-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
-What is this!
-It’s horrible! Horrible!
-Just obliterate us!
The 701,910 souls I offered to the King of the Demonic Heavens are sucked into the sky. These souls will be reduced to mere toys of the demons in that hell, suffering before being absorbed and annihilated.
‘I can feel what each pattern of the mandala means.’
It’s knowledge I don’t possess, yet I know it.
This knowledge isn’t mine. It comes from the King of the Demonic Heavens, who is descending upon my body.
The King of the Demonic Heavens was now descending upon me. From the tips of my toes to the ends of my hair. The feeling of having control over everything taken away was, to put it mildly, not pleasant.
The only saving grace was knowing that this sensation wouldn’t last long.
‘At most a few minutes. I can endure that much.’
Regardless of the unpleasantness, it wasn’t often that a god directly descended into a physical body, so I focused my mind. There might be something to gain from this.
The tip of my finger twitched.
It wasn’t me moving.
My hand gradually rose, and the mandala of hell covering the sky reacted accordingly. When my hand was fully raised, the mandala of hell flew towards me. The thing that had covered the sky was compressed into a small form and covered my body.
I felt the King of the Demonic Heavens fully residing within me.
“Hmm? You haven’t lost your mind? Impressive.”
I spoke. Or rather, the King of the Demonic Heavens spoke through my mouth and voice.
“Watch closely. This will be a good experience for you too.”
Every time the King of the Demonic Heavens exhaled, demonic energy surged. It was endless, making it feel distant.
「Meaningless death stares at you.」
“King of the Free Heavens, is that human worth moving your precious feet for? That human is nothing more than a loach stirring up chaos in the world. It would be right to take care of him here.”
Osiris’s voice resonated deeply. This world was heeding his words. This was Osiris’s hell.
The King of the Demonic Heavens lowered his gaze, looking at Osiris standing on the gray desert. I felt momentarily overwhelmed. The level of a god seen through the eyes of a god was beyond imagination. If I were an ordinary human, just seeing a fraction of that essence would have driven me mad.
“That’s what makes this human interesting.”
“Are you pursuing shallow pleasure, disregarding the safety of the world? Disappointing, King of the Free Heavens.”
“I’m the one who’s disappointed. If you’re going to call yourself a god of hell, act more like one. The safety of the dead? The order of the underworld? It’s all nonsense! What kind of god of hell works for the dead?”
“How far are you going to disappoint yourself, King of the Free Heavens! The cycle of life and death is the foundation of this world! If you are truly a god of hell, you must respect and protect this order!”
“Wrong. A god should not respect life and death, but dominate them.”
Osiris frowned. As if reacting to that, the world trembled.
The King of the Demonic Heavens laughed, looking at the hell that was hostile to him. As if he was going crazy with how much he was enjoying this situation. In fact, he was having a lot of fun right now. Since this body was mine, I could feel his emotions directly.
“For ten million years, the world has merged and expanded. Many gods have appeared. Among them, there were quite a few gods who called themselves rulers of hell. Osiris, you who were once the ruler of the earth. Prove to me that you are qualified to rule hell.”
“You’re crossing the line. Very well. I shall punish the famous origin of demons with my own hands.”
Osiris’s power spread like a wave in all directions. Gray sandstorms swirled, and hundreds of thousands of mummies screamed and reached out their arms towards me.
The rotten arms wrapped in old bandages endlessly stretched out, trying to grab my clothes.
“Are you suggesting we play with toys? I don’t mind joining in.”
The King of the Demonic Heavens chuckled and waved his hand. The mandala that wrapped around his body shone, and demons from the other world poured out. The hideous demons rushed at the mummies of the earth and began to fight.
It was too vulgar to call it a battle of gods.
Leaving aside the King of the Demonic Heavens, who was enjoying himself, Osiris was just standing still, staring intently at the King of the Demonic Heavens.
“It seems you have a question.”
The King of the Demonic Heavens said.
“Two gods have descended upon Atlantis. This is not normally allowed.”
“Ah, I played a little trick on the system when I descended. It won’t be able to interfere for a while. Well, I can’t do anything about the onlookers.”
The King of the Demonic Heavens raised his head.
I could feel countless gazes. Countless.
“The price will not be small. Are you saying you’re paying that price just for that human? I cannot understand you.”
“That human is interesting. Perhaps he’s a human who will never appear again. And the calculation of cause and effect is already over. Given the nature of the system I’ve observed so far, it will end with a reprimand.”
“I thought you were acting impulsively… Was this also part of your plan? Truly, I cannot understand. It’s like setting yourself on fire for a moment of pleasure. Is becoming a moth your hobby?”
“Haha. You sound similar to Yama. The gods of the underworld are all the same. You boring thing, pleasure is the ultimate desire.”
“I cannot understand. Nor do I wish to.”
A wind blew from Osiris’s feet.
It wasn’t an ordinary wind. I could tell through the King of the Demonic Heavens’ gaze and senses. I could feel another divine power in that wind. Two divine powers were mixing and becoming one. I had no trouble guessing the identity of the other divine power.
‘It’s Set’s.’
Osiris had absorbed Set. Even if Set was a subordinate god, a god was still a god.
The wind blew.
That wind, which embodied death, swept through the demons and mummies. It had no effect on the mummies, who were already dead, but it was different for the demons. As soon as they touched the wind, they died and fell onto the sand. The corpses of the demons quietly seeped into the gray desert.
The King of the Demonic Heavens didn’t care about the demons at all. To him, the demons were nothing more than toys he was tired of.
The wind of death also reached the King of the Demonic Heavens. But it couldn’t penetrate the mandala that the King of the Demonic Heavens wore.
The King of the Demonic Heavens’ gaze slowly swept across the gray desert. The bodies of the mummies that his gaze touched burst into flames. Black flames burned the mummies, leaving no ashes behind. The black flames spread rapidly. It didn’t take long for the black flames to cover the entire desert.
However, there was one place that the black flames couldn’t reach. It was around Osiris. In the burning desert, his surroundings were calm. No, it would be more accurate to say they were empty.
The King of the Demonic Heavens grinned.
“Empty death. That is your essence. Because there is nothing, it is light. Is that why you can threaten life with death? Interesting.”
“I wonder how long you will find it interesting.”
Osiris said, as if spitting out the words.
Immediately after, the gray sand around him soared with the wind. The sand swept in all directions, extinguishing the black flames and forming something.
A giant with the head of a beast.
It was Set.
Osiris had resurrected the dead Set.
Set, who had become Osiris’s avatar, reached out to me. No, to the King of the Demonic Heavens. What was absurd was that the King of the Demonic Heavens was just watching.
I was the one who was more anxious.
‘King of the Demonic Heavens! What are you doing! Move!’
The King of the Demonic Heavens blinked his eyes.
“Right. You were here. It’s been a while since I’ve stepped out like this, so I forgot about your existence for a moment.”
‘That bastard…!’
“I was wondering how to deal with him, but it might be okay to match your style.”
The King of the Demonic Heavens bent his finger joints and raised his fingernails. The light of the mandala swirled at the tips of his fingernails.
Demonic Heavenly Art (天魔神功) Demonic Heavenly Flying Claw (天魔飛爪).
He swung his fingernails at Set. Not only did he tear apart Set’s huge body, but he also left long scars on the desert.
‘……Is that the Demonic Heavenly Art?’
The scale was completely different.
It was hard to believe, but that Demonic Heavenly Flying Claw was pure Demonic Heavenly Art, without any divine power. I could tell because the King of the Demonic Heavens was using my body.
The torn Set returned to its original form. That was because its body was made of sand. Set raised his fist and swung it. The sky and earth vibrated from the impact.
Demonic Heavenly Art (天魔神功) Demonic Heavenly Monarch’s Step (天魔君臨步).
Suddenly, Set’s fist looked slow.
‘Did I unknowingly use an instant?’
No, it felt different from using an instant.
The King of the Demonic Heavens’ knowledge flowed into me. The answer was surprisingly simple. The Demonic Heavenly Monarch’s Step that the King of the Demonic Heavens had used controlled not only space but also time. In other words, it wasn’t that I had become faster, but that the world had become slower.
‘This is insane.’
The King of the Demonic Heavens’ Demonic Heavenly Art didn’t end there. He stretched out his index finger and spun it clockwise.
Demonic Heavenly Art (天魔神功) Revolving Demonic Wind (回天魔風).
The world rotated.
The sky and desert tilted, and sand flowed down. Set somehow maintained his balance and continued his attack.
But his fist never reached me. The force that rotated the world gathered on Set and swept him away.
“…Oops. Did I play too much?”
The King of the Demonic Heavens said.
It didn’t take long to understand the meaning of those words.
Osiris commanded death.
The world accepted the command and began to collapse. The problem was that he was taking the King of the Demonic Heavens with him to death.
My body was falling.
At the end of the fall, the death of the world awaited. No matter how powerful the King of the Demonic Heavens was, he wouldn’t be safe in the face of that death. That’s what I thought.
Splash!
I fell into the sea of death along with the world.
