Chapter 877 – Sinister Presence
Rumbling…!!
However, as if trying to destroy Seongil’s expectations, an ominous energy begins to radiate along with a roar from the sky. A situation where destructive energy even tears the sky above LA, creating a psionic storm.
‘This scene…?’
Seong-il sees a psionic storm, and she feels something familiar somewhere. Dana’s words hit his ears.
『It is the same scene that the master saw in Miss Lee Ah-hyun’s dream in the past.』
“…!!”
Seong-il, who heard Dana’s words, was teaching A-hyeon in the past. She recalls having manipulated her dreams. A bizarre being that randomly kills humans around it with a powerful psionic storm.
『Are you the guy who has been massacring the martyrs of our church recently?』
A huge concentration of energy that appeared before Seongil’s eyes. Something amorphous, overflowing with blue energy, gives the viewer the creeps as only visible organs exist.
“Isn’t it? Why do you have that illusion?”
『What?』
When the monster in front of him suddenly sticks out his flippers, ‘Bishop’ Tichilac, who appeared at the call of martyrs, frowns and glares at Seong-il.
“Bishop! The time power he uses. And even the disguise. Is he the same guy who caused the ruckus a little while ago… Gasp!!”
While a manager is trying to explain Seong-il’s unexpected behavior to a strange creature called Bishop, Seong-il uses the power of space to stab the manager in the back of the head with a spear made of triple fusion, as if waiting for the man’s guard. Br〉
“Then it’s true, isn’t it? You idiots?”
After killing a manager who behaved foolishly by piercing his head with an intangible spear, Seong-il glares at the strange being called the bishop and sarcastically says.
『Insolent bastard!!』
‘Bishop’, who is made up of powerful psionic energy, shouts at Seong-il, spewing out waves of rage in all directions at Seong-il’s actions. And as if to follow the monster’s will, the surrounding environment begins to transform into a vicious one.
‘He’s a dangerous guy…!’
Seong-il was able to sense that the bishop was an unimaginably dangerous being by analyzing the bloody psionic energy it gave off.
‘But Eden’s main force is still in operation to escape from him…’
Tens of thousands of hunters who sortied from Eden under the command of an S-class hunter are currently raiding the western United States simultaneously. Hunters who rescue people in the field or assassinate alien hounds can escape without much damage when Seongil orders a retreat, but the problem is with hunters who attack dungeons.
Since they were operating in a dungeon dimension that was momentarily isolated from the reality dimension, an unfortunate incident could have occurred in which they could not hear Seongil’s retreat order or were unable to retreat even after hearing the command.
‘And this opportunity is truly as precious as gold that will never come again.’
Now that a high-ranking leader has appeared to block his attack, Seong-il once again feels strongly that he can no longer toy with the Transcendental Church as easily as before. Therefore, instead of turning his back on the powerful enemy in front of him and running away, he decides to trust his own skills and engage in a grapple with the enemy.
‘Trust me.’
With that thought in mind, Seong-il abandons the playful and easy-going attitude he had shown before and begins to push all the internal energy in his body to its limit with a serious expression.
Then, a shock wave spread violently from around him. The momentum was so fierce that even the managers who had been fighting with Seong-il for a while looked shocked upon seeing Seong-il’s true skills.
“What?!”
“The joke is over, you fanatics.”
Seong-il no longer hides his skills and begins to spread his territory around him with a ferocious force. The power of the triple realm, which is a balanced mixture of the powers of sensitivity, space, and telekinesis, quickly spreads around Seong-il and begins to change the surrounding physical laws to suit Seong-il’s will.
『That power…?』
Seeing Seong-il’s territory spreading wildly, the bishop of the Transcendent Church must have felt something as well. Instead of pouring out his anger, he glared at Seong-il with cold eyes and began to unleash his powerful domain.
『You… Are you an apostate? Under! They acted hypocritically by rejecting the ‘new’ shell we presented. In the end, you guys made the same choice as us?』
The bishop, who mocked Seong-il like that, opens a space crack around him and pulls out the head of ‘something’ that emits vicious power from there.
‘It’s dangerous…!!’
Surprisingly, Seong-il feels a sense of crisis from that strange ‘something’ that is worse than the feeling he got from the foreign media he encountered in the world of Mythology. On the outside, it just looked like a mummy’s head with countless strange wave-shaped cracks and strange mouths, but Seong-il was able to understand through his emotions that the object was not just an ornament.
“Today! I can finally catch that one traitor!』
After shouting like that, the bishop gestures to a group of administrators and demands something from them. Then the managers nod their heads as if they are honored.
“For the great ascension!!”
After shouting a fanatic-like line, the manager surprisingly swings the psionic blade he has formed in his hand at his fellow manager’s neck, beheading him. The act is so unexpected and shocking that Seong-il stares blankly at the scene, unable to even think of analyzing their actions.
“For transcendence!”
What’s even more disgusting is that instead of resisting the manager’s touch, the rest of the managers obediently gave up their necks. Until the moment they were decapitated and died, they looked ecstatic and were moved.
The manager, who cut off all of his fellow managers’ necks in one breath, glared at Seong-il with a malicious expression and then held the psionic blade to his own neck.
“What crazy?”
Seong-il suddenly witnesses the shocking sight of an official beheading his colleague and immediately cutting off his own head with a psionic blade, leaving his mouth open in bewilderment. As if trying to get him to come to his senses, Dana spits out a warning to Seong-il.
『It’s dangerous. A powerful curtain blocking causality is spreading around us.』
“…!!”
Seong-il, who came to his senses after Dana’s explanation, quickly looks at his surroundings, the bodies of the managers, and the ugly thing the manager took out. Horribly, what Seong-il thought was a circular wave sign widens, and a bizarre eyeball appears.
Then, a nearby disgusting mouth opens wide and begins to consume the manager’s psionic essence. In the meantime, the mouth that does not consume essence begins to sing an extremely bizarre song or spew bloody mist from its snout.
『That bloody fog is forming a curtain around us. If causality and the power of space are blocked beyond this, it becomes difficult to escape to the inner plane. We recommend that you run away.』
Dana warns Seong-il of the danger of the power emanating from the bizarre head and encourages him to escape. However, Seong-il instinctively feels that if he escapes from here, all the hunters in Eden, including Ah-hyeon, will be killed by the bishop, so he rejects her opinion.
“No. I’m not running away.”
After chanting like that, Seong-il quickly regains consciousness and receives Arunlabe, which has been transformed into a sharp spear, from his true self. He then brought great power to Arunlabe and swung it towards the manager.
Interestingly, instead of being thrown directly at the bishop, the long spear-type Arun Rabe that Seong-il wields creates a psionic spear that resembles her own image and begins to fling it at the bishop at a threatening speed.
『Ah, is that the artifact you are using? It looks amazing. It is safe to say that it is a top-class holy relic.』
The bishop is amazed when he sees Arunlabe’s attack flying towards him. The guy made a slight sarcastic comment towards Seong-il in a relaxed tone and gently waved his psionic arm to caress the hideous mummy relic.
Knock deud deuk!!
Goosebumps and noises flow from her numerous mouths. In addition, as noise is emitted, the surrounding physical laws begin to distort.
Kwaaaaang…!!
The spear of the alter ego created by Arunlabe cannot penetrate the bizarre barrier created by the twisted law and explodes with an intense roar and shock wave.
『Have you’re done all the tricks? You’re forgetting that the holy relics aren’t just for you. That’s foolish.』
The bishop utters a malicious cry toward Seong-il and then manipulates his bizarre head again. Then, the bright red psionic wall that was vaguely formed until now began to turn a dark, ominous blood color.
『Master. The surrounding space was completely blocked. It seems that escaping through the inner plane will no longer be difficult.』
Dana analyzes the data provided by Seong-il’s response and explains to Seong-il that the surrounding dimension has been completely blocked due to the powerful causal power unleashed by an unidentified artifact.
