Chapter 878 – Sinister Presence
『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.
‘I had no intention of running away anyway.’
Seong-il, who consoled himself for a moment, did not panic and ordered his clones to attack the bishop from a distance by using magic from the magic book of all things or by throwing psionic spears created by fusion of supernatural powers.
『It’s laughable. Do you think a simple transcendence attack will work on me, who is protected by a holy object? If you were an apostate, you would know very well, right? Now that the ‘veil’ has been spread, I can now use the holy relics to my heart’s content without worrying about being tracked by ‘demons’.』
‘Is the blood-red curtain created by that strange head’s wailing blocking the AI’s tracking, even if only momentarily?’
While Seong-il focuses on the self-proclaimed ‘holy relic’ and repeatedly throws powerful spears of divine death made of Arunlabe at the bishop, the bishop twists the dimension and begins to place a lot of additional items in the empty space.
‘Crazy…!!’
All kinds of things that are not ordinary at first glance. A cross with dozens of small faces shedding bloody tears. A stone statue of a howling beast that constantly emits ominous black energy. A wooden staff with countless eyes and ears, etc.
The bishop of the Transcendental Church takes out a lot of evil holy relics and begins to spread them around, enough to make Seong-il feel scared for a moment. And all kinds of evil powers emanating from there. They are soon reduced to the power of various laws and begin to launch waves of attacks on Seongil and his clones.
『Die! Apostate!』
Perhaps because Seong-il uses the triple realm and uses the cosmic holy object Arunlabe, the bishop appears to never think that Seong-il is a human being. At first, Seong-il felt quite uncomfortable about his misunderstanding. However, he does not correct the bishop’s misunderstanding because he thinks it would be more beneficial to humanity for the bishop to have unnecessary misunderstandings about him.
“Close formation!”
The bloody fog created from the cross corrodes the area where Seong-il and his clones spread out, and when a grotesque demon created by a black beast and a flesh monster created by a wooden holy object took advantage of the gap and attacked and killed several of the clones, Seong-il spread out and surrounded the bishop. Give up and focus on defense.
“Expand the territory!”
As he is on the defensive, the only thing he can believe in is a way to desperately establish a territory to block the waves of bizarre holy relics. Therefore, Seongil makes all his clones focus on defense.
‘Isn’t there a way…?’
『Rather than attacking and killing the bishop, it seems more realistic to attack the outer wall.』
“Hmm!”
Dana, who was using powerful amulets by drawing on the power of Seong-il’s upper chamber to stop the flesh monsters, bizarre beast-like demons that seem to pour out of the Holy Relics of the Transcendental Church, suggests to Seong-il that he break down the barrier instead of confronting him head-on.
‘Certainly… According to what the bishop said, without that barrier, the bishop wouldn’t be able to use the power of the relic without worrying about the AI’s causal tracking… So that would be a better method…’
Seongil will not be easy, but he feels that the method suggested by Dana is the only solution.
‘Anyway, I’m not about to make a life-or-death decision with the bishop right now.’
Seong-il, who has lost his strength due to the evil holy relic pounding the realm, swallows an elixir to regain his strength and thinks. When Seong-il tried to use another powerful holy relic to block his attack and then move to the outskirts, the bishop laughed at Seong-il and started taking out another holy relic.
『Ha, are you going to attack the wall? Do you think I’m a fool? It seems like they are trying to hold on using the mighty sacred relics of life, but how little do they think this bishop’s power is?』
With a tone full of malice, the bishop takes out a fruit, a hideous piece of rotten flesh with countless eyeballs stuck in it, and throws it into the air. Then, the eyeballs hanging on it open all at once and begin glaring at Seong-il and the clone.
“Damn it!”
As countless eyeballs look at him, Seong-il feels that the laws of physics around him are starting to constantly distort, and he bites his teeth. It felt as if the essence of all the powers he had previously learned and used was being distorted. Therefore, Seong-il grits his teeth and pulls his strength to desperately reverse the distorted power or figure out the twisted rules to maintain his territory.
And in the meantime, the self-immolations are dying one by one to observe the holy day. The bishop of the Transcendental Church watches the holy day and slowly pressures him by leisurely injecting power into the holy relic.
“Ruler! The clones you summoned as holy items are starting to die one by one. What will you do now when they all die? Without their help, it would be difficult to withstand my attack, let alone attack the wall.』
“Damn.”
Instead of being scared or panicking after hearing the bishop’s easy-going conversation, Seong-il looks at the guy and smiles wickedly.
“You idiot. I know you’re not doing this because you want to harass me or take your time, but where are you bragging? You arrogant bastard.”
Although he was unable to penetrate the mighty bishop’s defense shield and could not directly gauge its strength, Seongil could sense that the man was desperately trying to hide his burden through the psionic wave that was responsible for the bishop’s voice. .
“Do you think I don’t know that the sacred object you are using is not a lamp that grants wishes for the happiness of its owner. It is a cursed object that is powered by worthy sacrifices?”
Otherwise, there would be no need for the bishop to sacrifice the administrator, so instead of falling into a panic at the bishop’s ridicule, Seongil repeatedly advances to the outer wall, step by step, using the sacrifice of the self-immolation as fertilizer.
“If you’re having a hard time, tell me. I’ll use the blood marriage method to create a gap.”
Seong-il’s two true bodies are faithfully staying by his side and desperately helping him build his territory, instead of his half-spirit clones that are almost dead. The two clones, who have the same power as Seongil thanks to the use of the time of creation, calmly say that they will sacrifice themselves for Seongil even in the midst of difficult times.
“How many minutes are left for creation?”
“20 minutes.”
When the clone says that there are only about 20 minutes left to use the same power as himself, Seong-il grits his teeth and frowns. However, paradoxically, he has endured here for quite a long time, so I am sure that the Hunters of Eden have achieved quite a lot of harvest.
‘Fuck… Do I really have to sacrifice my self through blood marriage?’
Now, thanks to the defense area used by the clones, he was able to advance through the blood-red barrier created by the relic with difficulty, but Seong-il knew well that it would not be easy to approach the barrier if their assistance disappeared.
‘Damn…’
Until now, if Seong-il felt caught up in a crisis, he could avoid the problem by returning to the inner plane or reality. However, when his powerful defensive powers are blocked thanks to that bizarre holy object, he feels a sense of despair filling his chest for the first time in a long time.
『I think it is right to create variables through blood marriage Dafa, right?』
Dana, who was blocking the evil howl of the holy object by engraving a talisman with psionic energy at the edge of the area, also advises Seong-il that it would be a good idea to make a decision.
『You apostates have always been persistent. Boring things. Let’s stop this too!』
‘That bastard really thinks of me as the guardian of reason until the end. You idiot.’
Once again pouring his elixir into his mouth, Seong-il secretly curses at the bishop who is scratching his insides and examines the sacred object he is trying to take out.
Something strange looking like an anemone. At first glance, the object looks like the hand of an animal. If you look closely, you will see countless tentacles writhing around, making the viewer feel disgust.
『Corrupt everything!』
When the bishop throws his ugly tentacle hand at Seong-il, countless tentacles burst out from it and begin to attack Seong-il. In an instant, the tentacles that fill the area around Seongil spit out something disgusting and try to corrode the tightly packed area starting from a 10 m radius.
‘I can’t help it.’
When the Bishop of the Transcendental Church pushes him to use seven sacred relics of the Church, which clearly demand a huge price, Seong-il looks as if he has no choice and tries to have his two True God clones use the Blood Marriage method.
Wow!!!
At that time, Seong-il sacrifices himself and prepares to rush towards the blood-red barrier about 30 meters away with Arunlabe. An unimaginably powerful shock wave begins to ring outside the blood-red wall.
『What?!』
The bishop of the Transcendental Church is perplexed by the strong shock wave that spreads out of nowhere. However, unlike Seong-il, who does not understand the current situation at all. The bishop mutters in an astonished voice, perhaps guessing how this situation occurred.
