Chapter 182 – Invincibility, Kid!! (4)
Adventurer’s Guild Basement 2nd floor. All veteran adventurers of Gold level or higher who know the existence of the casino on the first basement floor know its existence, and it is the place that adventurers fear the most after dying. There was, of course, a reason why the guild master, who wanted to turn strangers into inhabitants of this world named adventurers and protect them, made such a place.
First, carrots and sticks. Because they came from different worlds, each stranger has a lot of personality, and it is very difficult to manage them by tying them into one category. And since there is a limit to simply controlling them with a reward (carrot), fear (a whip) was absolutely necessary.
And second. If someone had to punish them for their crimes, at least they wanted to take care of it with their own hands. Rather than facing a terrible end at the hands of others, he would rather end it with his own hands… It also contained a somewhat difficult psychology.
However, today, in the punishment room on the 2nd basement level, a man who is not a member of the guild was locked up.
His name is Luke. He lived in a small world of low-ranking goddesses without a family name and not very high in rank, and was a man with combat power that was difficult to be considered exceptional by the standards of Atipia. He wielded a weapon and went on a rampage in the abandoned city of Landfill just a few hours ago, and the representative of Landfill, Armageddon Sensei, directly subdued him. The reason why he was in the basement of the Adventurer’s Guild was that the guild master, Si-Woo Jeong, had received his recruit from Landfill’s teacher.
“Landfill’s teacher seems to have thought that this guy was just a throwaway from Justia, but it doesn’t seem to me. He had several divine protections, but he didn’t seem to notice it, maybe because he didn’t have the authority… I’m really glad.”
Those who were chosen by the gods, those who borrowed their power from them in the form of authority and divine protection. Because they use the power of a god, they can feel someone using the same power as themselves. You can tell what kind of god the opponent has received power from, and whether he or she has stronger powers and blessings than himself. And in the eyes of Jung Si-woo, who was receiving quite strong authority and protection as much as he was loved by the goddess, Luke’s authority and protection were not the amount that a person who could be used as a discard word would have.
In the first place, if Luke was really a throwaway horse, the protective protection that protected his body would no longer work. Although the divine protection is activated regardless of the owner’s will, it is ultimately a power borrowed from the god, and it is the spirit of the god that maintains the divine protection. If God had given up on him, he would of course have taken that blessing back. However, even though Luke was completely defeated, the blessing that protected him still remained, which meant that Justia did not give up on him.
It was for that reason that Jung Si-woo received Luke’s new recruit from Landfill’s teacher. A rook was, in chess terms, a knight. A game horse that cannot move long distances at once like Rook or Bishop, but creates variables with irregular movements that are difficult to read. The influence that a knight’s presence can have on a chessboard is stronger than expected, so I decided to investigate what the hell she was aiming for by investigating Justia’s knight, Luke. In order to determine her course of action in dealing with Justia from now on, it was necessary to ascertain why she harbored so much hatred towards the god of chaos and his apostles.
First of all, Jeong Si-woo forcibly read the other person’s information with a combination of lucky powers and blessings, including ‘Cheonwoon’. It didn’t work for Landfill’s teacher, but it had to be taken as a very special exception. If the innate Transcendentalists, especially those ‘old gods’ who have lived for a long time, step forward directly, it is impossible to uncover that power unless they are the apostles of the same old gods. Even though Justia is an acquired transcendent with a relatively short career, her power and level are quite high, but in the end, it is nothing compared to the power of the old gods, so she was able to read the information sufficiently only with the power of Tyche, the goddess of luck, and the synergy of her divine protection. And Siwoo Jung checked Luke’s status window and was shocked.
“Where, first of all, blessings… [Overcoming adversity], The bigger the gap with the opponent, the more your fighting ability is compensated, and in case of victory, it grows significantly… What is this, isn’t this a hero-only skill? To have this. .. Was this guy a former warrior? No wait, what else is this? [Cracked bowl]… You can use the authority and blessings of two or more different transcendental beings at once? Besides, the powers… Wow, how did Landfill’s teacher beat this stranger who was a former warrior with such amazing abilities?”
Siwoo Jeong’s arrival at the place where Luke and Ragnar Armageddon were fighting was an ‘accidental luck’ encounter rather than an intentional one, so he could not confirm how Ragnar Armageddon fought. All he saw was Luke, who had already been horribly defeated, and Rag and Armageddon, who were contemplating what to do with him.
“…Ugh.”
“What, I’ve already regained consciousness…”
“Ah, aaaaa!!”
“…Why is this?”
As soon as Jeong Si-woo opened his eyes, he looked down at Luke, who suddenly let out a painful scream and had seizures, with puzzled eyes. Accessing information using the power of the goddess is a somewhat forced method, so it gives the opponent a headache to some extent, but it wouldn’t be enough to go crazy like this… At that moment, a new letter slowly appeared on Luke’s status window. Witnessed being engraved.
[Blind justice] Was added to the protection, and [Sword of Execution] And [Scale of Sin] Were added to the authority. At the same time, changes were taking place in Luke’s body, which had been complaining of pain. The crimson aura that was forcibly pulled up from his whole body first went to his head. The power of the god, burning like a flame, took the form of a hand, and covered the human eyes as if it were a blindfold, blocking the vision.
“Ah, my eyes… I can’t see, I can’t see…”
[Cover your eyes. This is to make a fair judgment without being swept away by the sight in front of you.]
And a woman’s voice was not unfamiliar to Jung Si-woo.
“Justia…?! Shit, could it be that I was the real target?”
In time, the power of the god was directed to the left hand of man, and it became a weighing scale. However, if there is a big difference from ordinary scales, the scale has no weight on either side, but is tilted to one side.
[Lift up the scales and weigh your sins. There is no one without sin in the world, so the scale will definitely tip one way or the other.]
What kind of bullshit is that Jeong Si-woo endured the urge to come out of his mouth for the first time in a long time, and prepared for a sudden battle by drawing on the power and protection of Tyche, the goddess of luck. Eventually, a group of scarlet light gathered in the right hand opposite to the human who was caught in the invisible hand of the god, and it became a golden sword.
[Raise your sword and execute the sentence on the criminal. Do not be afraid to wield your sword, as your sword will only cut the guilty and will not injure the innocent.]
Jeong Si-woo sincerely wanted to refute Justia’s sophistry.
People understand and judge something through what they see and hear. But if you cover your eyes, you can only rely on the information you can get through your ears, so you don’t have the jaw to make a truly fair judgement. And that tilted scale in my left hand. As a scale is an object for weighing, it must be leveled if it is empty. However, there is no way you can properly measure the weight of something on a scale that can only tilt in one direction.
Crucially, that knife. That they only cut innocent people? And that’s because, when talking about scales a moment ago, you said ‘there is no one without sin in the world’? Rather than assuming that the sword has the ability to cut only those who are really guilty, it would be more reasonable to say that the sword is so powerful that it is being tricked so that the person handling it will not hesitate to make a mistake.
“It’s crazy and crazy. I don’t know if it’s an apostle level, but I’m not used to an incarnation level…”
Those who borrow the power of the gods are divided into five groups.
A believer who cannot handle power, but can feel it.
A priest who manipulates power, albeit feebly, and informs the followers of God’s will.
A bishop who skillfully wields power and teaches priests.
An apostle who receives considerable power and blessings from the gods, and uses them solely for the will of the gods.
And above it. An incarnation that uses her own body as a vessel and contains at least a part of the existence of a god within it.
Currently, Luke’s body was the embodiment of the goddess of justice. That body belongs to Luke, but the one who handles it is the goddess of justice.
[You child buried under the width of a stupid woman’s skirt, did you really think I didn’t know that you were seeing potential in the apostle of the old god? I ordered those who followed my will to confine it with difficulty, but you dared not know the subject and brought it out of the world again. So I sent this guy to deal with you myself. And you dragged this human into the most cramped and secret space in order to appease the apostle of evil spirits as your ally and to understand my true intentions. I didn’t even know it was a trap I arranged.]
The goddess of justice knew from the beginning.
Jung Si-woo showed interest in the power of Ragnar Armageddon to achieve his purpose.
In order to attract him as an ally, he made a poor excuse and took him out for a moment when the surveillance was neglected.
And to the extent that she actively seeks to interrogate those who appear to be her apostles, in order to exclude the goddess who interferes too much with this world in order to achieve her own ends.
[No matter how smart you are, can a single-faced mortal dare to fathom the will of the sky? There is no that stupid woman to save you now, and this time she will completely pluck that evil spirit from her roots. And in the holy war that is about to take place, you must be the vanguard to lead my great army. And in order to get her own child back, that stupid woman will have no choice but to help me in the battle against the evil spirits.]
In a word, after making her half-corpse, he would use her own authority to make her a puppet. Just like Luke now. Jeong Si-woo sighed and shook his head.
“You seem to be misunderstanding something big?”
[What are you talking about?]
“I can’t believe I didn’t think I came all this way relying only on the luck of the goddess, did I?”
A powerful force gathered around Siwoo Jeong.
“Success always requires luck. However, not everyone succeeds just because of luck.
Ten circular magic circles appeared behind his back.
It is the source and root of Jung Si-woo’s strength. And the technology that got him here.
“Bond Summon – 10 Years.”
Ten magic circles emitted light, and five arms and five people appeared.
[This…?]
While the incarnation of Justia is puzzled by the existence of the five people who suddenly appeared, Si-woo Jeong summoned the five weapons he had just summoned with his magic… Automatic Technical Shield, Holy Sword X-Caliber, Bow that Drops the Sky, Helmet of the Underworld, Undead armor was equipped one by one. Each of those weapons is a Noble Phantasm that is not at all inferior to the [Sword of Judgment] Possessed by the incarnation of Justia, and is not at all short of the authority of a god. In order to have that one item, in the past, tens of thousands of people in other worlds had to bleed.
Recognizing the true value of the weapons, Justia’s incarnation bit her lip. Just as they diverted their attention and freed the messenger of the evil spirit from prison, this time they diverted Lady Luck’s attention to a plan to defeat and retrieve her most cherished human and make her a puppet. Eun… Unfortunately, the combat power of the person in question was such that even in the present state of incarnation, it was difficult to dare to guarantee victory.
“Summon ties. Those who promised to fight alongside me in the future due to my actions, and the Noble Phantasms I passed through. It’s my own unique magic to summon. Of course, if you clearly decide which one to summon, the casting speed and magic consumption are too high, so which companions and weapons will be summoned are completely random… You know, who I love You, Justia, know if you’re receiving it, right?”
For a man loved by the Goddess of Luck, a skill that is strongly influenced by luck is not just a gamble with a low success rate, but a convenient means to call out what he needs on his own without thinking about it.
Even the ones he summoned were all unusual.
From the red horse-riding general Liobong, the flame vampire Ptuga, the indomitable samurai Yamada, the sniper Craig with 100 shots, and the battle saint Darc.
Five fates from different worlds, each with sufficiently excellent fighting power as individuals, responded to his call and appeared here.
“Landfill’s teacher, he was right.”
[What…? Could it be that the apostle of the evil god predicted my movements!]
“No. He told me this.”
Jeong Si-woo put a smile on his lips as he held the holy sword and bottle he had once used to save his world with both hands.
“Luke. Any plan involving that stranger will fail no matter what. That’s right.”
