Chapter 476 – Transcendental Species (1)
Even though I was abandoned when I was a baby and grew up without knowing my mother’s face, I knew very well what parents in a typical family do for their children, except for special cases like me.
A being who can do anything for his child.
That was the ideal parent I dreamed of, and the parent I never had.
And, the one who could do anything for me was an orphaned baby who had to do it on his own because he had no parents.
That was the life that I, Han Jo Kang, lived.
But that was the life that Kang Han-jo and I lived.
My children.
This was not the life that the women I loved and the children that would be born between them would live.
I made a promise while holding my child, whom Liliana gave birth to, in my arms.
Even if I didn’t have parents like that, I want to be that kind of parent for my children.
Let’s become someone who can do anything for these children.
Therefore.
『Shaaaaah!』
A huge snake man with a screaming sound.
The queen of Naga, Apophis, walks out while being sprayed with poison.
Cheeeeek…!
Cheonho’s armor that came into contact with the poison melted in an instant, and the poison seeped underneath.
I’ve been thinking about it lately, and I thought it was too easy to get through.
It was strengthened over and over again, and even though it was my holy relic with name and color, it was often pierced, torn, and broken, but this time it even melted.
Of course, I always faced worthy opponents.
It would be a bit too much to say why it happens so often when it was worth it.
The opponent in front of him is also a demi-god.
I felt like it was a bit too much to ask a holy relic of a demigod to block the poison imbued with power.
So, no more relying on tools.
This time, I decided to do it with my body.
Cheesy…
After melting and eating all of the internal organs of Docheol, one of the four deadly evils, my body has developed a tolerance that is invulnerable to white poison, if not all poison, but when Apophis’ venom touches my body, my flesh melts along with a sour smell.
I felt the divinity of Apophis penetrating through the melting flesh, the power of a demi-god invading my domain.
Seeing how it instantly melted the scales under the armor of the Heavenly Tiger and corroded all of its muscles and nerves, I thought it might be something like ‘the power to melt anything.’
To put it nicely, it’s about the power of corrosion.
But it was okay.
Even though I said they were half-believers.
I wasn’t really saying that that bitch and I were demigods.
The other person is not a ‘demigod’ in the true sense of the word, but one who has his own number of believers like me, and whose religious faith has soared through the sky thanks to a ‘miracle’ that happened, and whose divinity has also increased… He is an artificially created demigod.
Not only this year, but even the angry swallowed by me, and the fedo skeleton that I gave me.
The children I had.
As I was trying to take responsibility and take care of them, I needed to go through various procedures, so I built an orphanage in my name next to my house and made the elf children my children.
Demigods created by ‘offering’ countless such children.
From the moment he was born, he was chosen and raised as a sacrifice, and was eventually eaten…
Because he was so young, he preyed on children who had disappeared without even leaving behind a common thought, and then wrapped them around his body as if he were a god, so he was a fake.
Something like that.
Even if a divinity made of something like that penetrated my body, I would not be fucked.
Heal heal…
New flesh sprouts and fills up faster than the flesh that melts due to Apophis’ venom and power.
The life force filled with divinity flowing within me made this possible.
They say it is a poison that corrodes anything.
It would have been enough to just play it faster than that.
『Shaaa…?!』
“Speak in common, you motherfucker.”
Don’t use the words that only people use.
Some races.
I can’t understand a word of what they are saying because I am a Naga, one of the races that speaks a language that cannot be interpreted even in ‘Avalon’, an ideological barrier that surrounds the entire Earth.
Well, even if I figured it out, it wouldn’t change anything.
He must have said something like, “How on earth is it okay?”
『Kishaaa…!』
The poison didn’t work, so this time the tail flew out as if it was swinging.
It was a tail strike with such force that even an ogre, famous for its strong body, would be cut in half and die if hit.
It was slow.
Compared to Xiao’s fists and Lilith’s kicks, they were too slow.
This could have been easily avoided even without foresight.
It would have been more of a hassle if I had run away, but I was glad.
I wrap my hand around the tail that flies towards me.
The tail, which had great power, lost its power drastically as it was wrapped around and spinning.
I learned Taijiquan for self-defense from Xiao because he taught me not to get hit anywhere.
This is also a martial art that Xiao modified himself, so it would be a bit unfair to call it Taijiquan.
If I had to name it, I guess I should call it Heavenly Demon Taijiquan.
Well, it’s a name anyway.
By reducing my power, I grabbed Apophis’ tail, which was now nothing more than a tail held out to me.
Very tight.
『Shaaaaah?!』
“Does it hurt?”
The tail that was grabbed was cut by the werehoney bee’s poisonous claws, and the bones were caught, so it was painful.
So, it would be like twisting your body and screaming.
“But the children I ate would have suffered even more.”
The way they became demigods through sacrifice was by sacrificing children.
The most common method.
Through human sacrifice, they developed their divinity by eating the fear and despair that children experienced through death.
Therefore, those children died while going through the most painful and despairing experiences.
Without even knowing why he had to die and suffer like this, without knowing who he should blame.
So he died in despair, unable to leave behind even the most common thoughts.
“That’s your sign.”
The divinity bloomed.
My power responded to my will.
Wow…
The karma of cruelly killing those children.
The karma I heard about to darken my child’s bright future.
It hasn’t happened yet, but I pulled the tail I was holding on to in hopes of receiving the karma I was planning to receive.
And.
『Dragonic Punch.』
With the dragon’s claws, Apophis’ chest was torn apart.
Although not as thick as my scales, the scales and muscles that seemed thick enough were torn off and pierced by the dragon’s claws, and the heart in Apophis’ chest was grabbed.
I could feel the beating of my heart in my hand.
『Ka, that, go…』
I also saw Apophis, foaming blood at the mouth and grabbing my hand that had been dug in.
Without hesitation, he pulled it out as if twisting it.
Pudduk…!
『Sigh!』
Thump, pound, pound, pound.
Even after it was pulled out, the pulsating dark red heart was visible.
A race famous for its tenacity in life even after going out.
Moreover, whatever the process was, it was the heart of a woman who had reached half a body.
Just in case, I grabbed it and popped it.
With a bang, I said,
After being squeezed by the dragon’s claws and bursting open, I shook off the piece of flesh that had become my heart and looked up at Apophis, whose eyes were beginning to lose their shine.
『Who, Guji… You, are…』
Now you’re finally speaking human language.
No, even if you go out, you are a race that is recognized as human, so is such a statement a bit racist?
No, people are different, and the bitch who ate thousands of children was treated like a human being.
They say it’s just a really big snake monster, but that’s probably true.
Anyway, as soon as our eyes met, I was so excited about the topic that I spewed out so much venom that I guess I thought of talking about it.
Since you asked, I decided to answer.
Sigh, he grabbed Apophis’ head with the dragon’s claws, slammed it into the wall, and exploded it.
Wow…!
I calmed down the divinity that had been blooming and put it away.
He spoke to Apophis, the giant naga who fell down after losing his heart and head.
“Go and ask Angra.”
But that bastard probably doesn’t know my name either.
It might still be there if I go.
But I felt like that was none of my business.
The power to control shadows.
To be honest, going back and forth between shadows, or sending various things through shadows…
Even though that range included all the shadows within one’s ‘cognition’, the ability to perceive no matter how far away was a power that seemed useful in many ways, but it was a power that I didn’t need at the moment.
It’s far from my divinity to begin with, so it’s not very efficient.
So, this side had just bloomed and I threw it away as food for my power that was not yet fully developed.
In terms of efficiency, this is equally bad, but I did it because I was of the opinion that having powers that I had no intention of using would only shake up my identity.
But something else.
Angra, the ill-fated half-spirit that I unintentionally devoured, generously gave me a lot in addition to his divinity and power.
Mainly… Information he knew during his lifetime.
Thanks to you, I found out that this kid also went through a hard time.
Even if there was a story, it did not mean that the sin would be washed away.
It is true that he suffered enough to merit sympathy, but that does not take into account everything he has done.
However, what I gained from it was very helpful.
Angra’s memories included information about hideouts that were hidden between the boundaries of dimensions, so it took days of searching to find them, even though the dragons knew the coordinates.
In other words, it was possible to go here and weed out the cubs that were hiding and preparing to cause trouble one day.
Grumbling…
The huge snake burned with a pure white flame–a fox fire mixed with the power of Ammut.
The smell of grilled chicken that had lost its flavor made me feel hungry for no reason.
…I have to ask Hoa-ran to have chicken for dinner tonight.
No, it was Xiao who was in charge this evening.
Then, chicken is out of the question, so I should just ask for grilled chicken.
With that in mind, we walked forward together, stepping on the ashes left behind by Apophis, whose bones had all burned and disappeared.
And.
I could see countless eggs.
Apophis, Queen of the Nagas.
To be exact, the former queen, Apophis.
One reason was to obey the cub who was “The person” Or what it was.
Should we say that he had an ambition to regain his usurped position and rebuild the Naga kingdom?
But the word is usurpation, the Naga races number less than 2 million.
Even he was just a bitch who was revolutionized by his own daughter while trying to instigate the hundreds of thousands of Naga tribes from Centipede’s world to take on the world government.
In the centipede world, she was just a bitch who did not want to live with the slaves or the tribes that used her as food, so she led the entire tribe and attempted suicide, saying that if that were the case, she would join them.
Anyway.
These eggs were laid by Apophis.
Fortunately, since Apophis laid the eggs alone, they are all unfertilized.
Should we say that he has carefully collected the eggs that will one day become his people if he succeeds in usurping them again?
This was also the reason why Apophis was weaker than she thought.
Usually, Nagas lay one or two eggs a year.
The reason Apophis, who was usurped after trying to run amok after the world government was established, was able to lay tens of thousands of eggs was because she used her divinity to focus on laying eggs.
The reason is… To rebuild a new kingdom.
“…I guess my child was precious.”
More than tens of thousands of eggs showed signs of having been carefully dusted and hatched.
Well, this wasn’t important.
As I went further, beyond the cavity full of eggs, I saw it.
“Crack, cluck…?”
A tentacled monster the size of a child was seen cracking open the skull of an unknown person and eating the brain pulp.
The child and body of Vergraogr, named Homunculus by the world government.
“Who, who, who, who?”
If it was that size and had the intelligence to be able to communicate to some extent, it would have been roughly the size of about 20 animals put together.
According to Angra’s memory, that was the case.
In other words, it was a no-go here too.
Well, I guess it was good.
Grumbling…!
The dragon’s claws are covered in pure white flame.
“The person who came to sterilize you.”
It was decided to disinfect the waste with fire.
