Chapter 879 – Reunion
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.
『Surely there must be bishops stationed there to stop other apostates? Why is one more person breaking in?』
Obviously, in order to stop the remaining six of the seven bishops who betrayed the Tribal and Transcendence Church, the church has also deployed six corresponding bishops, but when the power of another apostate knocks on the wall, the bishop looks embarrassed and does not understand. .
『No way… You!! Wasn’t he an apostate!?』
Otherwise, there would have been no way for another traitor from the Ark to have the strength to knock on his barrier, so the bishop realizes the truth and asks Seong-il with an expression of genuine shock. Although the guy’s puzzled expression was really refreshing, Seong-il wanted to deceive the Transcendence Church as much as possible and throw them into confusion. Instead of expressing his approval, he gave a false answer with a secret smile.
“You idiot. Why do you think our guardian of reason would do something like this? He really lacks imagination. Try to use his brain a little more. Don’t ask such ridiculous questions.”
『This guy…!!』
Fortunately or unfortunately, when the bishop answered indirectly that the being in front of him was not a human but one of the leaders of the apostates, the bishop gritted his teeth, showing that it had been a long time since he had received a blow.
『I will kill you!!』
The bishop of the Transcendental Church stops pressuring holy days to prevent the powerful waves from breaking down the outer wall and focuses on protecting the causal barrier from anyone breaking down the outer wall. Seong-il smiles wryly as the pressure on him has decreased significantly.
“How dare you turn a blind eye to me?”
After spitting out mocking words at the bishop, Seong-il changes Arunlabe into the shape of a sword again and quickly rushes toward the outer wall.
『Dare!!』
As soon as two of the holy relics are used to defend against external apostates, the rat in front of him shows himself jumping out of the barrier, and the bishop feels the psionic energy surging backwards and swears harshly at Seong-il. However, the guy only shows his anger at Seongil’s actions and cannot find a way to stop him, so he just grits his teeth.
『If you break the barrier, you won’t be safe either, right?』
The bishop secretly threatens Seong-il not to break the barrier because the ‘demons’ will chase him after he breaks down the barrier due to the strong causal wave emitted by the holy relic.
“If I don’t break it, I’m going to get kicked by you?”
『How dare you! Are you trying to drive all your fellow countrymen to their deaths because of personal grudges?』
Seong-il feels deep disgust at the sight of the bishop, who regards other races as nothing more than insects, but seems to truly care for his fellow aliens.
“If you’re worried about the safety of your race, why don’t you stop using the sacred object and seal it instead of threatening me? How dare you make such a trivial threat!”
After scolding the bishop, Seong-il repeatedly rushes to the wall with his self-immolation even faster than before. The bishop, who saw this, violently sprayed blood-red psionic energy around the area with anger and shouted at Seong-il.
『Are you coming? If that’s the case, I’ll definitely rip you to death before the barrier breaks down!』
“You were planning on doing that from the beginning anyway, right?”
Seong-il, making a sarcastic comment to the bishop who threatens him, stops rushing and takes a defensive stance again. Thanks to his agile defensive posture, the bishop used as many as five holy relics to pressure Seong-il, but only succeeded in eating away his defense shield little by little and was unable to inflict fatal wounds.
『If only I had time, you would have died by my hands!!』
“Yes. But~ I don’t have time, right? I’m screwed, right?”
『Ignom!!』
The bishop, in response to Seong-il’s sarcastic remarks that continue to irritate him to the end, takes out additional holy objects and begins to throw them at Seong-il. The evil power flowing out from the seven tentacles’ snouts was clearly a threatening attack to Seong-il, but Seong-il could instinctively feel that this attack would not last long.
『The psionic waves of the being called Bishop are gradually becoming rougher. It looks like he is probably making his final struggle.』
“That’s what I think.”
The bishop’s condition is noticeably worsening due to his excessive use of holy relics to try to subdue Holy Il before the external barrier was broken. Therefore, rather than hastily making a life-or-death decision with the guy, Seong-il calmly waits for the barrier to break from the outside and endures with a comfortable mind.
『Die!! It means die!!』
It was unclear who was coming from the outside to launch such a crazy attack, but Seong-il joined forces with Jinshin’s clone, who was now the only two left, and desperately tried to stop the guy’s attack.
Kwaaaaang…!!
That was the time when Holy Day lasted quite a long time. The blood-colored curtain blocking the surroundings breaks down, and the distorted rules gradually begin to return to normal.
“No!! No!!!!!』
As the bishop’s barrier begins to break, he screams and quickly attempts to retrieve the holy relics into the black void. However, due to a reckless attempt to stop the output while already overusing, the bishop is absurdly struck by the holy relic, suffering serious damage and failing to seal the holy relic.
‘What kind of guy came here to make you so flustered?’
Since there is no way for a bishop-level person to do such a foolish thing unless a very threatening entity appears, Seong-il shows curiosity and caution at the same time about the entity that broke the barrier.
‘It would be nice if there was someone who could resolve the situation through dialogue…’
Since they had been here for nearly two hours, it was highly likely that the hunters had made considerable progress in their mission, but Seong-il wanted to prolong the time a little longer so that they could return to Eden more safely.
『Fanatic Tichilac! Be sure to condemn you today and release the dimensional barrier!』
‘… Dimensional barrier?’
Seong-il breaks the red barrier and a psionic creature with a similar appearance to the bishop appears and hears the line spoken and wonders what it is.
『Illax! You are the leader of traitors! Are you crawling out here without any fear? Do you want to die?』
『Haha… Do you think we don’t know that everyone in the clan has fallen into dimensional hibernation except for the seven bishops and archbishops who will stop us? In the meantime, you are such a fool for showing such a gap. Isn’t that right?』
Surprisingly, Seong-il realizes that the strange creature that appeared beyond the red barrier is Illax, one of the leaders of the Guardians of Reason, whom he had met on the ark in the past.
『What foolishness… Hmm?』
While Illax is mocking Tichilac, he naturally looks at Seongil and realizes his existence. A masked human figure defending the power of a holy object based on the power of a powerful realm. For some reason, when he sees that monster, he feels that it is familiar from somewhere.
『You…?』
“Die, fanatic!”
Seong-il had a lot of conversations with the bishop and Ilax, and he didn’t want the book he had spouted to be disorganized. Therefore, instead of answering Illax’s question, he created a crack in the dimension with the power of space and then swung Arunlabe at the bishop who had been cursed by the powerful holy relic.
『Kwaaaaa!!』
Normally, he would have been able to defend against attacks with his powerful realm and the power of holy objects, but now his body is in a state of complete disrepair due to excessive use of sacred objects. Because of this, the bishop is fatally wounded in the chest by Seong-il’s attack.
『…』
And as his political opponent is being killed by an unknown human right before his eyes, Illax just stares at the scene blankly for a moment, unable to understand the truly unrealistic current situation.
『Just wait and see! Next time…!!』
A bishop who cannot regenerate his wounds due to being affected by Arunlabe’s power of destruction. The guy glares at Seongil and Illax with eyes full of resentment and then tries to escape from this place using dimensional travel.
『… Do you think of me as a scarecrow or a fool? Tichilac?』
Illax looks astonished at Bishop Tichilac’s actions and uses the sacred relics he brought to seal the dimension around Tichilac.
『If… If you do something like this! The ‘devils’ will come! Are you sane?』
『Of course I’m doing it because it’s okay. This is not a corrupted ‘holy relic’, but one of the few remaining uncorrupted ‘guardian relics’ from ancient times. Although it is not as strong as the corrupted holy relic, it has the advantage of being okay for temporary use.』
『Ah… No!!』
I don’t know what the difference is between a corrupted relic and a guardian relic, but what is certain is that the relic used by Illax can be used comfortably for a very short period of time. Therefore, Seong-il does not miss the opportunity given by Illax and plunges Arunlabe into the bishop’s torso again.
『Quaaaaa!!』
