Chapter 496 – War (11)
Craxus, he was the complete opposite of Camaran.
Unlike Kama, whose race and powers were unknown, this guy was famous among them, so it was only natural.
Even though the method was different for each person, whether it was human sacrifice, a shitty method, or they took a break from the original dimension, they all had one reason to be famous among those who were demigods… Transcendental.
It was because he was that strong.
As strong as he was, his powers were also known.
He had no choice but to be strong in the first place.
In the original world, he was considered a god of revenge and revenge.
A being who was a god from the beginning, born as an ‘incarnation’ of revenge and revenge.
The original god was Craxus.
However, it would no longer be appropriate to call Craxus a god.
Originally, gods… In particular, in the case of gods who were born as gods in the first place, they face the same fate as the dimension in which they were born.
When the dimension collapses, it collapses.
If we prosper, we prosper together.
Then, in a world that has already been ruined.
Even more so, what would happen to the god who was handed over only a ‘part’ of the world and fell into a remote dimension?
What about the God who has no believers, no small symbols, nothing left?
There were several answers.
Gods, too, were bound to change, either by being forgotten and disappearing, or by taking on another form, or by being lucky enough to gain a new believer or territory and be reborn as a god with a different domain.
Craxus, among others, was the one who changed for the worse.
And so, in the form of a new god.
The power of Craxus, who was reborn as a being also called the God of Plague or the God of Disaster, was strong.
The twisted power of the god of revenge and vengeance had the characteristic of becoming stronger the more ‘karma’ the opponent possessed.
In my opinion, they were just lovely wives.
There was a lot of work that wives had accumulated over countless years.
In both good and bad ways.
And the God of Disaster was usually a being who only did what he wanted in the bad direction.
『Ugh…!』
Lilith, who had never been pushed back before, was pushed out of power.
『Release…! I tell you by tying one, one, one, one together three times…』
Even Hoaran’s magic spells, which he made by making hand signs and even reciting incantations, could not bind even a single moment of Craxus.
『Pour it out!』
It didn’t even flinch from the rain of spears and arrows from the golden warriors.
The power of Craxus.
The power of equality was that powerful.
The stronger the opponent’s karma, the stronger it becomes.
It was like that regardless of whether it was karma accumulated from good deeds or karma accumulated from evil deeds.
The power to become stronger by just interpreting it the way you want it.
Craxus was a ‘god’ who twisted providence, stood at the forefront of irrationality, and was one level above the transcendent.
However, in the end, he is a fallen god.
In the end, he was the one who was allowed to maintain his existence as a ‘disaster god’, and was on the verge of being ruined, forgotten, and disappearing.
It may seem invincible, but it is not invincible.
I knew that because I saw it.
『Ugh, okay…!』
As Lilith clutched her left arm with her right arm, she was competing with her own strength.
Hoaran’s magic was emblazoning the air, making an effort to stop Craxus, who was invisible to me.
The warriors under Carmina were laying waste to this precious land.
Right.
It’s all an illusion.
It was just a hallucination.
A powerful illusion that appears to be invincible, but is only disguised as ‘invincibility’.
That was the reality of the power of the god of revenge and vengeance that had fallen.
And, in that hallucination, I saw the ‘real’ Craxus.
Even Lilith, a transcendent species like me who was born strong and almost immune to the mental world, was swallowed up by her own karma and captured by the power of Craxus.
I wasn’t.
Unlike those women who see ‘hallucinations’ because they are weighed down by their own karma.
So, unlike those women who block attacks on themselves, cast spells in the air, and shoot arrows and spears.
Even though I had a bit of a headache and had some auditory hallucinations, I was able to move normally.
I was able to see the real Craxus just fine.
Even though I beat up some people in the past, I never killed them or anything.
The karma I had accumulated was relatively small, and thanks to this, the power of Craxus, a fallen god who showed illusions through ‘karma’ and had only that much power, was only half effective.
『You’re unlucky too, aren’t you.』
If it weren’t for me, the wives would have escaped the hallucination on their own… They could have committed a fatal attack before they woke up from the hallucination.
But, he couldn’t do that.
Because I, who was half-impervious to that guy’s power, blocked my way so I couldn’t do that.
That’s why I was like a semi-natural enemy to him.
When I was less stubborn, the reason I tried to attack it alone was also because of its power.
In the end, it happened like this.
In the end, this guy was the one I had to catch.
『Come in, you fucking bastard.』
『ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!』
I threw a dragonic punch at the guy who was attacking me.
Hit, beat, and tore.
I, too, was hit, dented, and torn by his power.
Fallen, ruined.
So, the power of this guy was all about showing ‘hallucinations’.
The ‘equivalent’ power that it originally had did not completely disappear.
As much as I hurt him, I was hurt too.
As much as he was hit, dented, and torn, I was also hit, dented, and torn.
Blah blah, blah blah…!
Cheonho’s armor was in tatters once again.
As Pasha’s holy relic was devoured, the dragon’s claws, which were a step further than the Heavenly Tiger’s armor both as a holy relic and as a weapon, became tattered.
Still, it didn’t matter.
If you didn’t have Heavenly Tiger’s armor, all you had to do was remove it with your body.
Damn it…!
When I split his chest, my chest split open.
As my fist crushed and exploded, the guy’s face crushed and exploded.
‘Equivalent’ is still ‘equivalent’ and applied equally to him.
For me, it was a shitty situation where I had to pay extra as much as I was a fan.
Well, what happened?
In the end, it was important that he got hurt too.
It was important that my attack worked on him.
It was important that its power was consumed with each attack I made.
『Grow up.』
The left arm, which was only half assimilated and conveniently able to change its shape at will, replaced the dragon’s claws and became a blade, cutting through the creature’s body.
Sigh!
My body was split as well, but it was removed by roughly piercing my flesh with scales, connecting bone to bone, and gluing them together.
No playback.
Because it doesn’t play in the first place.
As a temporary measure, I removed it again and again just to be able to move my body right away.
I did everything I could.
Burning, exploding my bones that were buried in his body.
It shoots poisonous needles, crushes, and kicks.
In the end, he kneeled and I was the one standing.
Crackling, crackling…
I looked down at the burning thing, with burns spreading over my body, as if I was burning with fire.
Decrease, decrease.
Now, I looked down at the guy who wasn’t even half way to me.
『ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡYou too will be just like me.』
I didn’t know it might be so.
The way I saw Craxus was similar… There were many similarities with me, who had turned into a rampaging giant monster.
Although it is much smaller compared to that.
At first, it felt similar to a miniature version of me turning into a giant monster.
Okay.
It was similar.
He was sad, angry, hateful, suffering, and just seemed to reject everything and want only that.
A writhing tentacle encroached on my arm.
『Didn’t you hate it too? Weren’t you suffering too? Aren’t you sad too? Aren’t you angry at the karma you were born with, the karma you were given, and everything else?』
There is a possibility in the future that I may become something similar to Craxus.
It might be as Craxus said.
『Now, leave it to me. I will take your revenge. You too will be saved.』
But then what?
『I have no interest in salvation provided by others, so do it yourself.』
What a rip-off when your heart is clenched and you have to beg for your life.
『Go and say hello to Angra and Apophis.』
Puddeudeudeudeuk!
『Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!』
Heart pulled out.
No, more precisely, tentacles clung to the core containing its divinity.
They kept clinging to me, asking me to give it back to them.
If I had intended to return it in the first place, I wouldn’t have taken it away.
Although I was good at fucking him, he was also an expert at pulling out.
I turned it around, twisted the clinging tentacles, and tore them off.
That was the end of Craxus.
“…This is beyond words.”
After the wives were attacked by Craxus, their eyes turned and they attacked them without distinction, causing them too many injuries.
When I looked back, I saw Lilith, Hoaran, and Carmina falling down.
They weren’t hurt or anything, but my eyes turned red when I saw them fall to the dirt.
However, it wasn’t because of anger, it was because blood got into my eyeballs.
I just wipe away the blood flowing from my head…
“Sigh.”
Slurp.
The wound was covered with scales.
Torn, scales and poisonous stings covered the body that was forcibly tangled and joined together here and there.
On top of that, I covered it again by restoring the divinity to the armor of the Heavenly Tiger.
With this, it won’t be noticeable.
I don’t know if I will recover completely, but in a very short period of time, I will recover to a seemingly normal state.
So.
All I had to do was not pretend to be sick.
[My child. Give me back my children.]
[What did we do wrong? Is it a sin to be born? Is it a sin that we were even born? Was that even a life you created?]
[Compatriots are dead. Because it’s a monster. What is a monster? What is a monster? They were the same too. It was just like you. They were people who loved their children and knew how to respect their parents.]
All I had to do was pretend I couldn’t hear.
[Die, die!]
[So you too, like us.]
[It will disappear. It will be forgotten.]
[It will be destroyed.]
All I had to do was pretend I couldn’t see.
Then that was enough.
Don’t fall in!
After detonating the core he had grabbed, he moved on to wake up his wife, who had fallen asleep due to exhaustion.
