Chapter 573 – The Cursed Throne
‘It looks awful.’
The appearance of a descendant of a star, who can’t help but agree with Seong-il’s thoughts.
At first glance, they look like humans from a distance, but up close, they have goose-like mucous skin and octopus-like heads that give goosebumps to anyone who sees them.
‘It’s disgusting that its snout and hands are made of tentacles, and its head even swells with every breath. Damn… Do you think Cthulhu looks like that?’
The time when Seong-il was disgusted with the appearance of the offspring of the star. The temple warriors marched proudly into the clearing, singing sacred chants instead of the savage shouts typical of warriors.
‘… How can they get stuck in my ears like this when each sings a different song?’
Like the appreciation of the holy day, although each temple has a different tone, the chant does not mix with other chants thanks to divine power, and it shows a strange mystery that sticks to the listener’s ears.
『Those who believe in false gods have flocked to the temple of the true god.』
“Dare!!!”
When a colorfully dressed star offspring, apparently an Elder Spawn, uses psychic powers to reverberate through the plaza with blasphemous remarks, the crusaders, on the other hand, are outraged.
“Kill! Without leaving anything behind!』
“God looks upon us…”
And the elder spawn’s blasphemous remarks become a kind of declaration of war, and the crusaders begin to cast holy spells upon them.
『@!^$%#^*!!』
Against that attack, on the wall of the circular plaza, the children of the stars all opened their mouths and began to recite ominous prayers all at once.
As the terrible and blasphemous power spreads everywhere, Seong-il instantly feels dizzy.
“I dare to do bad things!!”
However, despite the powerful mental attack, the priests in the rear lightly snort and spread the prepared wide-area divine spells everywhere.
Then Seong-il feels that the mental confusion he has been looking for disappears in an instant.
‘It’s bloody…’
A feast of terrifying magic pouring down on both sides from a distance of only 2-30m. When the psychic attack is unaffected by the enemy, the Starspawn uses its psychic powers to unleash a terrible storm of acid, fire, and cold upon the crusaders.
“God!! Protect your warrior!!”
However, even on the battlefield that turned into hell, the crusaders did not get scared, and continued to rush forward, confidently reciting prayers without blinking an eye.
‘Wow…’
Seong-il was watching them in a daze, surprised by their spirit. Divine (or evil) light and darkness spread around the paladin, and in an instant, it begins to consume the powerful magic sown by the children of the stars.
“Ooh!!”
Perhaps feeling threatened by its terrifying majesty, the offspring of the stars open the plaza gates and begin sending brainwashed battle slaves into the battlefield. Then, the slaves brainwashed with Geas start throwing rocks prepared in advance.
“Goddess of the night curses you!!”
The Church of Malicious Hyang puts a unique and powerful curse on such slaves and immediately tries to neutralize them.
“Magic force field!! Distorted space!!”
In addition, the wizards located in the rear protect the crusaders and make their attacks smooth, using magic such as a force field to defend against the long-range attacks of battle slaves.
‘Aren’t the offspring of the stars not able to deal any damage at all?’
If you had to worry about possible betrayal by an enemy church, or if you didn’t know the size or preparedness of the enemy, you wouldn’t have been able to fire holy spells like now, but now, thanks to Kitty’s bluff, you can’t even think of betraying between churches.
In addition, since Seongil meticulously recorded the enemy’s power and handed it over to the pantheon, the crusaders and priests, who know that the power in front of them is everything, mercilessly fire divine spells as if there is no tomorrow, and try to kill the offspring of the stars.
“In the name of light!!”
“Justice!!”
And the paladin troops carrying such divine spells on their backs, holding weapons burning with divine power, rushed fiercely toward the wall that looked over 10m.
“According to the master’s order… Kill!! Kill!!”
To stop the paladin troops, slaves made up of humans and ogres desperately swing their weapons at the enemies climbing the walls.
“How dare you!!”
However, the Paladins, whose bodies have been superhumanly strengthened by the power of the gods, leap over high walls as lightly as climbing over a garden fence, and begin to cut down the battle slaves that have settled in.
‘Oh… The half guy… I guess he’s been fully recognized by the Holy Sword now?’
Among the Paladins who show monstrous performances, Ban stands out. He jumped into the middle of enemy lines with a holy sword and cut down battle slaves and offspring of the stars at random.
‘…If I hadn’t obtained Arunrabe, I might have been really sad because of the holy sword.’
The appearance of the holy sword, which shows unparalleled performance, to the extent that Seongil thinks so.
To protect its owner, the holy sword sprinkled a holy aura around Ban, perfectly defending against various magic and physical attacks.
In addition, even when the holy sword approaches, the various evil magics that the descendants of the stars have put on their bodies to defend themselves begin to be mercilessly pulverized.
‘It’s over.’
From a distance, priests and wizards use all kinds of powerful spells to block enemy attacks or launch powerful counterattacks, and the resulting gap is mercilessly dug by the paladins.
Seeing this, Seong-il feels that the battle has turned greatly.
‘The difference in the number of people is almost three times, but the difference in the quality of the troops is more than that… No matter how much the descendants of the flying and creeping stars, there is no answer to this offensive.’
Of course, there was a hidden number that the descendants of the stars also prepared in preparation for an all-out war with the pantheon, but thanks to the information provided by Seong-il, it was already completely destroyed before it could be used.
In the end, the Elder Spawn may have sensed that as well, and he violently shook his hideous tentacles and furiously raged.
『Those who will be cursed…!!』
A hate-filled cry that leaps from the elder spawn’s mouth. It emits powerful psionic energy in the plaza and curses everyone.
『We will definitely come back!! Under the name of the one true God!!』
In less than 30 minutes, most of the power suffered a fatal blow and started dying. Sensing defeat, the Elder Spawn turned his body and moved into a secretly installed emergency escape portal.
‘Originally, that guy would have escaped from here unconditionally.’
In actual gameplay, elder spawns were designed so that no matter what the player did, they could not be caught. Because if a player hits him above a certain level, he lets out a cursed cry and opens his portal to escape.
‘So in the game, I couldn’t eat the items that bastard dropped… But you’re saying this isn’t a normal situation right now?’
Seong-il is sure that Mansinjeon must have thoroughly found a way to prepare for his escape plan because of the strategy book he provided.
‘…I wrote it down in the strategy book for this purpose. If I don’t kill that bastard, this situation will surely recur, so I must kill the elder spawn.’
Seongil deliberately left a phrase that would raise awareness in the pantheon, leading the pantheon to find a way to kill the elder spawn overnight.
As if Seongil’s hair was not wrong, the crusaders shouted at the old wizard standing behind them as if they had waited as the elder spawn made a motion to escape.
“Magic tower master! It’s time to fulfill the promise!! Interrupt the elder spawn so it doesn’t escape!!”
“I will.”
At the priest’s cry, an elderly wizard, who had been quietly watching the battle from behind, stepped forward with leisurely steps and raised his hand.
‘Oh… That person is one of the core members of the ‘Silver Hand’, a secret society that controls the continent, and is the great mage Tyax, the representative of the Solanium Mage Tower?’
When he sees the Grand Mage, who only appeared in the game as a setting, with his own eyes, Seong-il puts on a very interesting expression.
“RoFOdiex…”
Tyax chants an incantation towards the Elder Spawn, who is about to open the summoning gate, making several hand signs at great speed.
‘Fuck… You’re a monster, right? Will that become a human body?’
The speed of the old wizard’s hands was at a level that was invisible to the eyes of ordinary people.
While Seong-il is shocked by his tremendous movement, Tyax quickly completes a high-ranking spell and blows it at the elder spawn.
“Hey!! Try my own spell!! Tyax’s ruthless destruction of space!!”
The name of an unusual spell just by hearing it. The magic power of chaos exuded by Tyax turns into a sharp magic arrow and flies towards the Elder Spawn.
『!!』
While trying to escape from this place quickly by opening the portal, the elderly wizard memorizes a unique spell he has never seen before and breaks down the installed dimension door.
“Now… This old man has done his job. I’ll leave that beast to you.”
After giving him a wry smile, Archmage Tyax immediately leaves the battlefield and goes somewhere.
And the Paladins and Crusaders rush to the Elder Spawn as if they were waiting.
“OK!! Don’t kill everyone!! Bug-like heretics!!』
Despite the destruction of the escape route, the Elder Spawn is far from fearful and, in a fit of rage, unleashes vicious psionic energy around it and wields its terrifying tentacles at the crusaders.
“Justice!! Let the light shine!!”
The appearance of Ban charging at such a guy without hesitation with a holy sword.
‘…I’ve grown tremendously in less than a month.’
Seeing him like that, Seong-il feels that Ban has grown a notch through the fight with the dragon.
『There is only one God!! The day he descended into this world!! The world will burn!!”
One arm was blown off by the merciless attack of the Crusaders, and a part of the tentacle on the face was cut off, and the elder spawn’s cry of disgusting blue blood was dripping.
Despite being mortally wounded, it continues to curse the surroundings and unleashes powerful psionic attacks with a fearless appearance.
‘Combat power kills.’
Throwing using telekinesis is basic. Embodying psionic energy and scattering acid and cold storms around, the Elder Spawn somehow tries to strike a fatal blow to the crusaders.
“It’s dawn!! Bless your servant!!”
“Justice!! Purify the unclean power!!”
However, if the crusaders feel even the slightest bit of damage from such an attack, they either unleash holy spells to heal them, or nullify the spell to counter the attack.
『God…Is only…』
“Shut up and die!!
After shouting loudly at the Elder Spawn, who wriggles with his limbs severed and spits out curses, Ban raises his intensely shining holy sword and inserts the sword into his head.
『Kkeuk… Keuk…』
Surprisingly, even after being pierced through the head by the holy sword, one of the strongest weapons in the material world, the elder spawn only bites the blood bubbles and does not die.
“Die!!”
However, Ban is not at all intimidated by such a guy’s appearance and swings his holy sword several times, eventually smashing his head. Then, the life force of the elder spawn quickly faded.
‘It’s gone.’
Seong-il senses that the creature is really dead, as only the hideous tentacle fragments wriggle, and the body does not move at all.
‘The battlefield is almost cleared…’
He didn’t realize it because he was concentrating on the battle with the elder spawn, but Seong-il realized that the rest of the troops around him had also been killed by the crusaders.
‘The allies have almost no casualties?’
Maybe it’s because each and every one of them is the best, and perhaps because they’re crusaders who have great strength in wound healing, the damage to their allies seems negligible to the extent that it’s colorless to say that it’s a fierce battle.
‘Then shall we go…’
Even without looking, Seong-il knew that the Elder Spawn would have the Abyss piece, so when the battle was over, he quickly approached the Elder Spawn to retrieve the piece.
“Oh! Can you feel the energy of the pieces? I need to get them soon.”
As you approach Van, the energy of the fragment is captured by the emotion. Having seen the fragment many times before, he is certain that the evil power he feels is the fragment of the abyss.
“Here it is…!!”
Among the body parts of the Elder Spawn that were torn to pieces, the energy of the pieces felt from the belt that was stuffed around the waist.
For this reason, Seong-il uses telekinesis to float the belt in the air and tries to take out the pieces.
“Ha! Barbarian warrior!! Are you crazy!! You dare to take things from the Elder Spawn, even though you’ve been watching from behind?”
Then, as if Seongil didn’t like Seongil’s behavior, a paladin emitting an evil aura came forward and shouted at Seongil.
‘…The Paladin of struggle.’
Because of the battle with the dragon, Seong-il is now familiar with the power fragment. He senses that the Paladin who is spitting words at him serves the god of strife.
“That’s because I’ve been given a revelation to retrieve it? Get out of the way and don’t talk nonsense. It’s supposed to be dedicated to God.”
There must also be a terrifying bastard named Meow, Seong-il projects power into the sculpture and tries to bring it to himself without blinking an eye, no matter what the Paladin of Struggle says.
“Hmm… I agree with Lord Bolseric. Whether you’ve been commanded by your god or not, shouldn’t we who have participated in the crusade also have a chance to dedicate the item to our god?”
Another paladin emitting an aura as unpleasant as that of the God of War. Perhaps he seemed to be a paladin following the evil spirits allied with the god of struggle.
“Really? Then take it. Offer it to the god you believe in.”
However, Seong-il laughs at them, raises his hands and shrugs his shoulders as he steps back.
“Dare…”
The paladins are enraged at such a blasphemous act on such a holy day. However, although Seong-il was sarcastic, Seong-il seems to be willing to yield the piece, so instead of using force, he picks up the piece and tries to secure ownership.
“Kwaaaaa!!!!”
Surprisingly, however, when the paladins who believe in the evil god try to pick up the piece, they scream and grab their heads and fall on their knees in pain.
“That’s… The curse of struggle…?”
Ban is horrified to realize that the God of War is casting a curse on the Paladins who serve him.
Even, the priests who went near the sculpture were all suffering from the wrath of the god they believed in, regardless of whether they were good or evil.
Shocked by the sight, the priests alternately look at the sculpture and the holy day with shocked expressions.
“I guess your gods agree with what I have? Who’s more dissatisfied?”
“…”
Despite the sarcastic remarks made on the holy day, the priests of Malignant Town can’t even dare to pick up the pieces, perhaps because they are surprised by the strange ‘revelation’ that their god has just given them.
“It’s okay…”
Meanwhile, Seong-il casually approaches the sculpture and picks it up with one hand.
“!!!”
The priests were astonished at that appearance. Seong-il feels a strange pleasure overtake him at that gaze.
“Kyaa… Now you’ve retrieved the last piece? Honey!!”
The time when he glared at the Paladin of Struggle and openly mocked him. Seong-il feels that time in the world around him is rapidly slowing down.
