Chapter 822 – Mythology Academy
『Ho… This visitor is quite clever, isn’t he? I like it.』
Tala whispers in an evil and cunning voice as she looks at her holy day. The guy finds the sight very interesting as his holy day seems to be truly unaffected by his shouts.
『If you’re mortal, you won’t be able to withstand our shouts? How did you do it?』
In the past, Seong-il would have been nervous about the evil Tala’s whispers and tried to ignore or block his questions, but now Seong-il has become so strong that he can no longer be called a mortal. Therefore, rather than showing his fear, he looks at Tala and answers her in a voice full of ridicule.
“Mortal? Phew… How dare a lowly god like you call me mortal? You’re like a stupid god who doesn’t even know what’s on his head.”
Hehe… It’s fun to mock. It’s been a long time since a mortal spoke such nonsense to me. Furthermore, it’s even more interesting because what you said was sincere?』
Since playing with the hearts of mortals was her joy and goal in life, Tala, rather than being offended by Seong-il’s harsh words, appears to be filled with joy and fighting spirit.
‘I don’t think it’s a trick…? Still, I need to check just in case.’
Seongil blocks the intensive whisperings of evil spirits towards him with the power of the absolute mental barrier given to him by the game master, and calmly observes to see if they really can’t move.
“Kuh…!!”
“Hmm…?”
While Seong-il was observing Ruhob, the outermost district, from afar, the deans’ groans were heard again. When Seong-il turns his head, he sees the deans looking in pain as expected.
‘It seems like the closer I get, the stronger the stimulation becomes.’
Despite no longer making direct eye contact, when the two deans appear to be having a hard time, Seong-il extends the power of his domain to protect their minds.
“Whew… Whew…”
Sensitivity, time, telekinesis, etc. As complex forces gather together to block external stimulation, the two deans sweat and are relieved to finally be free from the harsh whispers of the gods.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes. Is this the realm that Seongil-gun is playing in? It’s amazing. He can create balance by releasing so much power at the same time…”
“It’s not as good as me, but I’m sure the dean will be able to do it in the future.”
Seongil’s complex area that can be used by using the right force at the right time using the perfect synergy of sensitivity and nanomachines. Therefore, an ordinary superpower would not be able to develop an area where so many powers are mixed together. If I had done that, my brain would have burned out.
However, since Dean Anila now has the computational assistance ability of nanomachines, Seong-il judged that if she trained enough, she would be able to expand to the level of the minor grade version, if not as much as him.
『I’m not yet familiar with how to use nanomachines, so please stay in my area for now.』
Holy days are for evil spirits. In particular, Seong-il believes that Naigle, who wields the power of plague, can manipulate the machines inside his body, so he secretly communicates with the deans through nanomachines to prevent them from hearing the conversation.
『I think they really can’t move towards us. So, come observe with me.』
Nod.
The two deans nod with nervous expressions when Seong-il says that he will boldly approach an evil spirit. Originally, they would have uttered a rejection of Seong-il’s radical opinion, but now they seemed unable to utter a word of rejection because they were only holding on to the ankles of Seong-il, whom they had worked so hard to invite.
『First, let’s look at Luhop, the one with madness and hatred who is located on the outermost side of the three evil gods.』
Seong-il begins to fly towards Ruhob, whom he judges to be an evil spirit worth dealing with.
‘It was said that he was good at causing extreme emotional turmoil in the souls of mortals, turning them into fighting monsters.’
Seong-il feels that Luhop is the most worthy opponent for him, as he possesses the absolute mental barrier of a game master and powerful domain power.
‘As expected… It’s okay.’
In fact, Seong-il’s choice is not particularly wrong, and he succeeds in approaching the ominous red tentacle colony made up of Luhop’s essence without much risk.
『Kill it!! Kill each other!! Seek each other’s blood!!』
Luhop lets out a powerful shout at any insolent mortal who dares approach him. However, Seong-il ignores the guy’s cries with a calm expression and projects his feelings to Luhop.
Wiggle…!!
When Seong-il’s response reaches him, Luhop’s disgusting tentacles wriggle around his body and appear to refuse the response. Even quite powerful monsters, as well as demigods and administrators, cannot properly sense his emotions, but Seongil is surprised to see Luhop feeling his emotions, even if only to a limited extent.
『Insolent mortal bastard!! %$^@!!#』
Seong-il laughs at Luhop, who is throwing all kinds of curses at him, and shows his emotions like he’s going crazy, as if he’s provoking the guy even more. As expected, they only let out curses and did not make any counterattacks, so Seong-il became convinced that they were truly in a situation where they could not move.
‘What is the reason?’
The other person probably won’t be able to resist you much anyway. Seong-il expresses his feelings openly and even more persistently, exploring the depths of Luhop’s body.
‘This… Isn’t it an illusion?’
Surprisingly, Seong-il realizes that the giant tentacle planet vividly unfolding before his eyes is half an illusion. To be exact, it is a bizarre state that lies somewhere between reality and illusion. Therefore, Seong-il feels that although it may show some physical force, it will not be very fatal.
‘… Red crystal?’
When Seong-il projects his response deep into the creature’s body, he sees a red crystal the size of an adult’s head. It was tearing apart the surrounding dimension like crazy and tightly fixing it so that the dimension could not be restored.
Seong-il, who finds the sight fascinating, reacts even more to her crystal. However, unfortunately, the response that reaches the vicinity of the crystal quickly disappears as if it has reached a strong resistance.
‘I see… That crystal is the ‘essence’? And this huge mass of tentacles is a projection of consciousness created by manipulating reality with strong thoughts sprinkled from that essence.’
Seong-il realizes that the evil spirits are forcibly holding onto the dimension that is trying to return to the providence of the universe, and as a result, they too are unable to move.
『That means…』
“Yes. They can’t launch a joint attack against us. We just need to take our time and defeat them individually.』
Of course, even if they couldn’t attack together, there was a serious problem that it was not easy to recover magic power because the natural energy here was extremely thin. Therefore, if they are too relaxed and engage in a war of attrition, they will also face problems, so Seong-il does not let down his guard and decides to do his best to eliminate the guy from the beginning.
“Come out.”
As soon as Seong-il makes a calculation, he immediately summons all of his clones at once. As nearly a hundred clones with enormous power appeared at once, the evil spirits who had been persistently shouting evil shouts at Seong-il stopped cursing for a moment and looked at the clones with interest.
『Hey… You!! One of those clones seems to have divine power!! Offer the doll to me as a sacrifice. If you do so, great glory and power will come to you. And it will give you endless pleasure!!』
『Gureuk… To me… As a sacrifice… Then… Eternal life…』
As soon as they see the Creator’s doll made up of pieces of the Four Gods of Death, the evil gods’ eyes turn upside down, and they stop cursing Seong-il and try to roast him somehow.
However, Seong-il, who had no intention of doing something stupid like offering the Creator’s doll to them, completely ignored them and gave orders to the doll.
“Doll. You build a territory to protect the deans’ minds instead of me. You just need to focus on building the territory rather than fighting. Do you understand?”
“Yeah. That’s easy.”
At Seong-il’s words, the Creator’s doll quickly expands its territory as if it is no big deal and protects the two deans. Although the area was smaller than Seong-il’s, there was no problem for the two of them to work there, so the two deans followed Seong-il with relieved expressions.
“Take it.”
As if that wasn’t enough to reassure him, Seong-il even gives the doll an ethereal stone to protect their minds.
『How dare you!! Those bastards!!』
Ruhob seems to be enraged by the sight of mortals walking majestically towards him, roaring wildly and waving his tentacles at crazy speeds at the enemies that have landed on the planet.
“Hmph! What an ordinary attack!”
Dean Du Anila, who seems to have let go of his fear of evil spirits to some extent, raises his staff and unleashes a storm of intense magic, slaughtering the surrounding tentacles.
‘It’s good.’
The fighting power of the two deans is nothing short of reassuring, as long as the mental defense issue is taken care of. In addition, the tentacles are unable to cause any harm to Seong-il and his party, thanks to the split souls’ strong defense of the front and back lines for the two deans.
