Chapter 562 – Primordial Might (7)
《Hoo-wook, Hoo-wook… !!》
Sehe Tefi Bra was being brought to his knees with his arms grabbed by the undead.
Even though she was chained, her eyes were still glaring at Equinox, but she only looked at the half-human, half-bone, half-fried pharaoh as pitifully as if she were looking at her neighborhood dog.
〈… Did you come first? Than us?〉
As I stepped back from the door, Off Tomb clenched her fists with difficulty, as if feeling the mana she felt in her opponent.
Equinox spoke to him as he suppressed his anger while playing with a lump of divine power with one hand.
〈… What?〉
Equinox brought the mass of divine power to the flesh of the human part.
─Shuwook.
Light was absorbed by brown skin with arrow marks in the pit of the stomach. That Richie… Did they steal the power of the creation?
‘So I waited for someone to finish the ordeal. Whether it was my friends or anyone else, it was fine. A posthumous pharaoh is a being who has shed his physical shell and has become closer to a god, and a god cannot break the rules set by him.〉
When Equinox spoke indifferently, Nefertiti forcibly moved his injured shoulder and prepared to fight.
〈… Rule?〉
… Sehe Tefibra couldn’t hide because we came here, so she’s been captured like this? At that time, Sehetefibra spoke as if to squeeze strength from her dying body. Sehe Tefibra’s words were blocked by the bones of her hands as they squeezed her throat. It was because Equinox grabbed her by the neck without paying attention. Equinox said expressionlessly. 〈Cheuk, kuk… !〉 ‘Gravity cannot prevent the death of a beloved bird from a fall. No matter how much the waves love the fisherman, they can’t make the storm stop only where his boat is. Even the arrows that were shot can’t recognize the master’s daughter and stop it.〉 Hard… !!
Equinox said calmly, strangling the young pharaoh with a grip that would not be strange even if the neck bones were broken unless it was a spiritual body.
“That must be the dilemma of being a god. The embodiment of necessity and order. The Absolute, bound by the limits of causality. Poor creators who can’t go against fate, who seem free like the wind in a world they’ve created, and who can’t break the rules after all.〉
I thought of Odin, who was destroyed by Ragnarok.
Could it be that since the gods were born, they had the same powerful power as the laws of the world, and on the contrary, couldn’t escape from the inevitable order of fate?
It’s like a thick tree that is normally stronger than anything else, but can’t overcome the strong wind and is uprooted.
Equinox stamped his staff into the ground with his humanoid left hand.
Sehe Tefibra roared hoarsely, resisting the undead snapping his arms behind him. ‘That is proof of your foolishness. Ancient Pharaoh.〉 But Equinox only showed contempt in reply. 〈Death is eternal sleep, and eternal sleep is a dream. Niflheim is also a world created by the gods of the underworld by materializing their dreams.〉 Equinox let go of his stranglehold and spoke to us instead of Sehe Tefi Bra. 〈… Wait, ‘them’?〉 Equinox smiled at Gil Dart’s question, half-opening his eyes. ─Suddenly. A sixth vision unfolded behind Equinox’s back as he said that. The magic circle amplified its size with moonlight-like light at its apex, drawing geometric patterns on the floating back of Equinox. 〈Pharaoh’s power of creation is far less than Osiris’. That’s why I hunted down the pharaohs who built the pyramids in Niflheim, and I have obtained their power many times.” The six stars continued to overlap, increasing in size as if wrapping a shell. The number stopped at 11. If what Equinox said is true, there are a total of 66 Powers of Creation that are the apex of that sixth planet. That was all, the power of a god stolen from another pharaoh.
– Knock. With god-like power on his back, Equinox snapped his finger bones.
〈──Then, shall we show you a simple demonstration?〉
The undead controlled by Equinox threw Sehetefibra at us. I snatched her little body and jumped back.
It was then.
─Thump!!
With one gesture from Equinox, the pyramid collapsed.
It felt like being in the shoes of a bug that had entered a plastic bug box and watching it break down. No, it wasn’t just the pyramids. In the blink of an eye, the layers of the pyramid were ripped off, and the open sky of the 8th layer was also cracked.
Rumble… !!
The destruction of that space did not stop in an instant.
The sky collapsed and the elven forest on the other side poured into the distorted space.
It swam up in the sky to the sand of the desert layer, isolated by space, like overturning an anthill piled up in layers by inserting a stick into it.
The pyramid world created by the power of creation was crumbling.
《Three, the world is collapsing!!》
Caught in the destruction of space, the explorers of the upper tiers fell.
The space we stood in was no exception. As the ground lifted up, Equinox and 11 magic circles loftily looking down at the ground from the center of the black hole-like sky twisted the universe.
Equinox laughed horribly and blew on him as if to blow away his powder.
─Shoot aaaaa!!
As if an explosion had exploded, the pyramid that reproduced Sehetefibra’s dream turned to sand and was swept away.
The gold-covered building materials of the pyramid and the forest of the elves mixed and flew away, and the fantasy Alfheim, which had been created by power, twisted and disappeared as if it had been drawn into the vortex of space.
Sehe Tefibra groaned over the melting elven realm, and she shivered in the cold wind of the destruction.
I couldn’t feel much of a difference from the 8th floor——but this time I was blinded by the real cold of Niflheim.
Equinox destroyed the pyramid and pulled us out of it.
〈… Nonsense.〉
─Blow up. Elizabeth lost her strength and fell, as if she had lost her fighting spirit.
“How am I supposed to fight against something like this…〉
She sat down as if she was going to collapse, and she even let out an empty laugh. There was not a single case of harm done to her own body, but she must have lost her will to face the event of a feat of a very different level.
Other than that, the party members were no different. There were big and small differences, but as if he had an intuition that he would not be able to deal with them, he could not control his body trembling and let out a rough breath.
‘No surprises. Now, Niflheim is Mujugongsan, where Osiris and Hella, who ruled the world by dividing it in half, disappeared. A world without a ruler to protest against violence is so helpless.〉
Equinox whispered as if reigning in the center of Niflheim’s sky as it rotated.
“You are like entering my dream right now. Of course… Even if you lose your life, you don’t wake up, it’s a dream where you die as it is.〉
Woo woo woo… !
As if being sucked into darkness, a huge shadow fell across the spiraling sky. It was a demon larger than a planet, as if walking from beyond the sky.
If a monster of that mass swung even a fist, it would have been enough to easily shatter a single star.
Equinox mockingly lowered his staff.
‘Let me say goodbye. I hope it was a good nightmare.〉
The demons that covered the sky pointed their hands at us with a sense of distance that made even the perspective far away, as if they were extending from the universe.
The world was completely covered with just that palm. The Devil’s Wrist was farther than the horizon. Even if the moon turned into a meteorite and fell, it would be smaller than this.
The air pushed by the approaching palm created a gust of wind. The wind pressure was so strong that it could not stand. The air around her hands, burning with frictional heat, seemed to symbolize the end of the world.
“Nord!!!!”
Tirshi embraced me even though he knew it was meaningless.
Mana like an exploding volcano gathered in her body. For a moment, the icy sun that had been shining in the sky of Niflheim seemed to be visible through the palm of my hand.
The explorers who were kicked out of the pyramids are in the midst of an unprecedented cataclysm that won’t even last.
I poured her mana into Tirshi’s back to stop what she was about to do.
And, he raised his hand.
The palm that seems to crush Niflheim touches my hand——
〈–If you’re not going to play a joke, play it realistically, you clumsy bitch.〉
─Thump! It stopped with a heavy sound.
〈──────.〉
The palm, which was larger than the continent, was already at a distance that could not be seen with the palm of the hand.
It is the exercise of authority that is isolated from the physical laws of reality.
People who were trembling before death opened their mouths in a daze, like a person who fell out of bed while dreaming of a dog. Tirshi, who was trembling as she hugged me, her eyes grew to the size of peas, and then her neck rang.
〈… Hiccup.〉
〈… Tyrsi. Now that this is real, if you squeeze me that hard, my back will break.”
As I patted her on the back and said, Tirshi staggered back. I saw the blood slowly return to Tyrsi’s pale face, as if I had been terrified of her death, and she smiled.
〈… It’s an unsettling story, really…〉
Tirsi shed tears at the story of the dark history. I roughly shrugged my shoulders and unfolded the mandala of runes.
Whirliriririk——!!
─Thump!!!
The green light that spread under my feet pushed the devil’s palm. As if pushed from his palm wrestling, the devil fell back.
As soon as the thing that blocked the view disappeared, Equinox, which floated a magic circle, was revealed in the twisted sky. On his face, which was half and half bone and flesh, there was an air of amusement rather than displeasure.
I shook my head at the bitch who couldn’t be heard.
〈… I was surprised. Even if it’s not as much as it looks, I think I used enough mana to crush you to death.〉
“It takes a lot of effort to make a dream a reality. It seems like a thousand years wasn’t enough, so why don’t you try harder?”
Equinox responded to the provocation with a cold smile.
Anyone can dream what they want.
No matter how absurd it is, it is possible if it is in a dream.
Meeting parents who are not in this world, or having a conversation with the one-eyed god disguised as the parents.
Eating fried chicken after watching a movie with my wife in my hometown is like lying down and eating rice cakes in a dream.
‘On the outside, it was a very realistic sight. But I also learned enough tips to distinguish between dreams and reality while playing and eating with my wife in my dreams.”
I raised my finger and pointed at the giant demon.
Another world, Asgard, Niflheim—and my home planet.
All those worlds would have been created by the power of creation.
I twisted the corner of my mouth and smiled consciously.
Even while saying that, my mana was considerably drained.
I spent too much mana while blocking the previous attack.
But that was far from enough power to stop the cosmic horror-style monster that could destroy the stars.
To put it bluntly——it was only a waste to the extent of blocking the very, very powerful black mage’s black magic.
I pointed my finger gun at the demon and fired it.
─Boom!
The demon, which was bigger than the continent, disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye. Even with my eyes wide open, I couldn’t believe that this was reality.
And even after doing such a transcendent thing, the mana I consumed was a little less than when I blew away the dragon.
After all, the demon Equinox created weighed just that much.
I lowered my finger gun and pointed the spear at Equinox.
‘No matter how powerful the monster you created looks, it takes a lot of mana to transform it from dream to reality. The current battle is simply a mana fight between you and me.〉
The power of creation is the ability to project the caster’s dreams into reality.
But it takes mana. You can create huge monsters in your dreams, but summoning them in real life will only end up as a daydream if you don’t give it that much mana.
I don’t know if it’s the original Tsushima or what, but it’s one thing to believe that that crazy bitch can rule this world, and I’m befitting that sophistry.
‘With one little power, you can control the world as you please? I don’t know the world.’
Even the power of creation cannot cause a phenomenon that exceeds the caster’s ability.
It was worth it. As I have said many times, this other world is not benevolent enough to tolerate miracles that are not fair.
If Equinox wants to create a star-shattering demon, Equinox himself must have the ability to do so.
Otherwise, no matter how much you use the power of creation, it will be nothing more than a dreamlike illusion.
“And in my view, you don’t have enough charisma to call yourself a god.”
I laughed heartily at the psychopath’s bullshit.
Swung the spear The fantasy space overlaid with Equinox was smashed beyond the limits of distance and space. It was the intervention of the inner world that Equinox had overlaid on reality with the power of the runes.
─Kwajik!
The distortion of the sky that made Niflheim look like a texture has disappeared.
