Chapter 428 – 428. God of Thunder (1)
“No.”
Eun-hyeon rejected Gerard’s proposal with a single stroke.
“Older brother.”
“If you can’t, then no. You know what this is.”
“I know.”
The face of Eunhyun, who was glaring at herself with a frown, was not always full of composure, but an agitated expression that was rarely seen.
“… And that using this might kill you?”
“Of course.”
“Are you asking me to make a drug that will kill you?”
“Older brother.”
Gerard lowered his voice and called Eunhyun.
“I remembered what my older brother said earlier.”
“…”
“The saying that everyone is born with a predetermined destiny.”
Nothing in the world is a coincidence.
The same goes for human life.
From birth to the moment of death, each person is assigned a certain role and lives.
In the case of Eunhyeon, she was called by the goddess and became an apostle who was given a role given by God, and someone was born with a predetermined destiny as a member of a society, a common man, and someone as a hero to save a certain world.
Twenty years ago, Gerard of the past didn’t understand Eun-hyeon’s story and just passed it over, but now, he could vaguely understand the story about the theory of fate at that time.
“My older brother thought at that time that he had definitely fulfilled his mission, and he met his death with a smile.”
“… Okay.”
“And now he has been resurrected by a call from some god.”
It also meant that Eunhyeon was needed again in this world, and that he had been given a certain role.
“What do you want to say?”
At the words of Gerard, who told the story, Eun-hyeon returned to the original story.
“Older brother. I, too, want to have the ability and strength to faithfully fulfill the role given to me. If the day when I will definitely use this orb never comes, I’m sure I’ll be happy too. But…”
Gerard clenched his fists and looked at Eun-hyeon with eyes full of determination.
“When a really necessary situation comes up, if I can’t solve the situation because I lack the strength. I really can’t stand it.”
So, Gerard wanted the power to fulfill his role perfectly.
Even if the cost of using that power would lead to a life-threatening outcome.
“Is your brother like that? As long as he can fulfill his role and mission, he is willing to accept the result, even if the price is directly related to his life.”
“…”
After hearing Gerard’s persuasion, Eunhyeon closed her eyes and thought.
The words he quoted were certainly his own words from 20 years ago.
He was always prepared for his own death because he did not value his own life and could accept death at any time.
And these words of her own were the words that Illyana hated the most at that time.
-You should take good care of your life. Why are you always like that
‘Did Illyana feel this way?’
Hearing Gerard’s request, Eunhyeon reminded her of the reason Illyana hated her own words and actions at the time.
“You always said you wanted to meet a nice girl and settle down. That… Are you giving up?”
“Haha. Honestly, it was my dream. Where do you get your life?”
Gerard shrugged her shoulders.
“Honestly, if it hadn’t happened until now… Perhaps I am destined to be a single person who has to live alone for the rest of my life.”
Eunhyeon sighed at Gerard’s words, which instantly made the atmosphere slump with his gloomy eyes and tone.
In fact, even though he was joking, Eunhyeon was able to read Gerard’s mind.
There is no way that a man who wants to meet a good woman, raise a family, raise a child and lead a happy life will wander the continent for nearly 20 years, tracking down the remnants of the empire, and eventually asking her to make a pill that will surely kill him if he eats it.
Gerard had to choose which one to prioritize: his future, where he could already lead a happy life, or the power to face the dangers that might come at any moment.
Recognizing that determination, Eunhyeon couldn’t refuse Gerard’s request.
“… Okay. I will make it for you.”
“Haha! Thank you! Older brother!”
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Paperweight!
“… Cool!”
Ray Nunn, who had been stabbed through the abdomen, vomited her blood.
She was invisible
Overwhelming and fast enough that even the sound bursts out late.
Gerard, who has gone beyond the speed of sound, tore through his body reinforcements and wears a lightning bolt that pierces his stomach, cannot be defined as a human anymore.
He is already a small god himself.
It wasn’t the weapon that penetrated it, it was Gerard’s arm.
Gerard’s body itself, clad in a thunderbolt that rips apart everything around it, including the air, was no different from a vicious weapon.
“Ugh… Eww!”
Raynan’s body trembled as an enormous amount of thunderbolt flowed from Gerard’s arm, which had penetrated his abdomen, burning everything it touched.
The power that tore through her flesh, as well as her internal organs and bones and burned them, made Ray Nann feel intense pain.
‘Can do.’
Gerard thought that he shouldn’t even be allowed to fight back against Raynan, who can handle the power of the devil.
Even while everything inside his body—bone, blood, flesh, and organs—was burned, Gerard’s mind remained intact.
The body as a human has already lost its function, and even the sensory organs that allow you to feel all five senses, including sight, have been burned by lightning for a long time.
Even though the eyeball was burned, what already replaced that sensory organ was a demonic eye formed by the magical power of the divine beast and emitting a golden thunderbolt.
Gerard was able to feel everything around him more than ever before as a human.
The scene where all the information that could be grasped with the five senses, such as the flow of air, sound, and smell, is expressed visually is very complex and mysterious that humans cannot experience.
The reason why he was able to maintain his sanity in the midst of the chaos was the irony of losing even the sense of pain, which made his mind more calm.
If Pain had been alive and well, Gerard might have gone mad and lost his sanity right away.
The inner hem of the giraffe that Gerard swallowed was a double-edged sword that brought immense power and swallowed his life at the same time.
‘Probably about 3 seconds.’
Gerard, who had already lost all his senses and could not even feel pain, calmly calculated how long his life could be maintained.
He burns his life so he can have super powers that can rip demons apart, but he is only able to exert those powers for three seconds.
It seemed like he was going to laugh at himself because of how heinous and unreasonable the exchange was, but Gerard, who was covered in lightning, couldn’t help but laugh anymore.
All Gerard can do is figure out how to make the most of the five seconds he has left.
‘It will end like this.’
Eventually, Gerard’s arm lifted up and split Raynan’s upper body in half.
Starting with a penetrating wound in her abdomen and along her arm protruding to her left shoulder blade, the wounds on her halved torso were grievous.
The cross section of the wound, which seemed to have been roughly torn, was full of black scorched marks.
In addition, there was no room for bleeding in the wound as even the blood was burned due to the lightning.
The thunderbolt, which spread throughout her body in an instant, was slowly eating away at Raynan’s body in less than a second.
‘Everything that can be written in two seconds.’
Gerard swung his other hand around and grabbed Ray Nann’s right shoulder and arm and ripped them apart.
The process of hitting his face as hard as he could with his fists and beating his upper body, which had been ripped off and turned into rags, making it even more disfigured was so fast that it was invisible to the naked eye.
Then Gerard lifted his arm and reached into the air at him.
The energy of thunderbolt that surrounded Gerard’s body condensed on Gerard’s raised palm and slowly took shape.
It emits a flashing golden thunderbolt, and its equipped form is a single spear.
[Gerard’s Attribute Secret]
[Asterios]
The golden dagger drenched the sky in gold, as if a ferocious beast was spitting out a ferocious roar and howling.
The dagger embodies the energy of lightning as his favorite weapon.
Gerard’s hand holding the dagger of thunderbolt slashed downward, and it struck Raynan in a straight line on the head, who was unable to exhale as his respiratory system was already burned.
“… !”
Even though he couldn’t breathe, Raynan, who sensed the danger with his reddened eyes, raised his arms to counter Gerard’s dagger.
Paperweight!
Raynan, who had been helpless several times, could not block Gerard’s attacks.
Ray Nann has already lost his proper function due to Gerard’s thunderbolt tearing out all the key organs in his body and burning them.
Of course, the current situation in which body reinforcement using magic cannot be used is the same as a situation in which Raynon is infinitely disadvantaged.
Gerard’s dagger made of thunderbolt cut Gerard’s body in half without any hindrance.
– It’s annoying.
It was the demon who was watching the situation in the depths of Raynan’s body that showed an uncomfortable look at the unexpected situation.
Belphegorda.
-Why do humans have the power of divine beasts?
No matter how much they risk their lives, it is absolutely impossible for humans to use that violent force that is impossible to handle even for a few seconds.
But that man who was fighting Raynan did it.
Belphegor, who did not know that there was Eunhyeon’s intervention to mitigate the risk by refining the energy of the divine beast, did not like this situation, which he could not understand.
-… Good thing though.
If she had been an ordinary human being, Ray Nun might have already ended her life as black as charcoal.
Her organs, as well as her blood and flesh, were burned, and the reason she was able to survive was that Raynan had made a pact with Belphegor that allowed her to use some of her demonic powers.
However, that only saved him from instant death, and the fact that if he continued like this, Raynan’s entire body would be burned to death did not change.
– I can’t help it.
If Raynan died right now, it would be even more troublesome to bring her own body from the Demon Realm to this lower world.
Now that she had found a decent human to carry out her own plans, there was no guarantee that if Raynan were to die, she would be able to find a suitable human of her own again.
Anyway, as long as he had already signed a contract and handed over some of his demonic powers to Raynon, he had to save Raynon even at the cost of consuming a little more of his power.
The moment Raynan’s already corpse-like body was split in half and was about to collapse onto the floor.
Dark red mana rising from his whole body covered Raynon’s whole body, which was no different from a corpse.
Paperweight!
The thunderbolt energy still remaining in Raynan’s body collided with the demonic power transferred by Belphegor.
At the same time, after 2 seconds, the energy of thunderbolt began to dissipate in Gerard’s body, where the myth of thunder had been resolved, and he returned to his human form, but Gerard’s body, which had already been burned, was as good as dead.
The blood in his whole body was burned, his heart stopped functioning, and the magic power of the Kirin, the power source that moved his body, gradually faded.
In the two seconds created by burning his life and gaining absolute power, Gerard overpowered Ray Nann.
But that didn’t lead to victory.
Raynan’s body, which has already lost its human function, is demonized little by little, and dark red magic begins to attach to the severed parts.
He won the fight against Raynan, but lost the fight against the devil.
-This is… ?
At that time, Belphegor felt the existence of a force in the sky interfering with his own power that was demonizing Raynan’s body.
-… Feather?
Pure white feathers falling from the sky.
Each and every one of those feathers is the remnant of a being that possesses high-quality divinity and is no different from the nemesis of all demons, including Belphegor.
Belphegor was shocked.
-Why… Why are the remnants of the goddess here!?
