Chapter 909 – Antarctica
“If it weren’t for you!! I wouldn’t have had to wake up from dimensional hibernation in an unstable state!! Thanks to you, me and the high priests woke up in this body in a perfect state. I’ll make you pay for that…! !”
The Archbishop, who took time to complete the barrier through conversation, begins to radiate great power towards Seong-il while emitting vicious psionic energy.
‘Damn…’
A powerful force felt from all directions. At best, the mighty power radiated by fifteen bishops and hundreds of administrators dwarfs even Seong-il, who has recently been confident in his abilities.
‘Isn’t the bishop a high-ranking man of only about 50 people within the Transcendental Church? Just by looking at it, it looks like there are over 15…’
Although he said that he caused trouble by saving the world, the period of rioting lasted less than a week. Nevertheless, Seong-il is embarrassed when the Transcendental Church takes measures to wake up the core members of the Church, effectively forcing them into ‘martyrdom’.
‘But it seems like ‘Ascension Day’ really isn’t that far away.’
Seong-il uses his territory to withstand the power of the relic that is constricting him, and examines the surrounding bishops. The appearance of a human who clearly was a powerful S-class hunter in his lifetime.
“Come on. Let’s have some fun, you bastards.”
Seong-il feels a tremendous sense of crisis because of the dozens of ancient relics on display. However, despite this, instead of falling into frustration, Seong-il burns his fighting spirit and tries to give them a blow.
“Come!”
With the death of Seongil, numerous alter egos fill the surroundings. As soon as the hundred clones, each with the same power as Seongil, appear, they each summon a suitable weapon and begin rushing in all directions.
‘Even if I die today…! With my sacrifice, the rest of humanity can be saved!’
As he reverses all the attacks of the Transcendental Church in Antarctica, paradoxically, the Hunters of Eden, who are conducting raids on major cities around the world, are now safe. Therefore, even if he loses his life today, Seong-il decides to fight until the end so that they can rescue even just one more person.
“Indeed! The Apostle is wise! There was a reason to deploy many bishops, even if it was unreasonable. As expected, someone like me would abandon the will of a great man…”
The Archbishop of the Transcendental Church plants a strange tree covered in eyeballs in the air and appears to praise the Apostle like a fanatic even while pressuring Holy Days.
“Praise! The great will of ascension!!”
Even the remaining bishops and administrators show the same situation. It was a ridiculous situation, but regardless, the power of the artifacts they used was no joke, so Seong-il was constantly under strong pressure.
Dozens of beads that look like small universes are floating in the air, trying to warp the dimension and seal Seong-il’s alter ego in another dimension, or evil cries come out from a staff with a grotesque snout, shaking Seong-il’s inner strength. A situation where these evil relics are lined up in a row in the hall.
In fact, more than half of the artifacts were dimension-related, so let alone using the inner plane, Seongil and his clones were not able to use summoning or short-distance teleportation at all.
“Damn it!!”
Although he roared with excitement, Seong-il feels his blood drying up as the fanatics’ holy relics emit all kinds of evil power and pressure him and his clone. The power of the realm he was so confident in was being corroded by dozens of holy relics with different powers, and Seongil’s alter ego was being destroyed little by dividing dimensions and space.
‘Is it really the end?’
Seong-il feels helpless as everything he prepared was so easily defeated. He also feels again how powerful the enemy he was trying to fight is.
“Gather together!”
Holy days have already become like this. He holds on for even one minute longer, crowds his alter egos so that the hunters can rescue as many people as possible, and spreads a powerful domain around him.
“Hold on? Don’t you know that the power of holy things grows stronger over time?”
An archbishop who laughs at such holy days. Unlike usual, due to the Antarctic confrontation system, he was able to escape from the AI’s pursuit even if he freely used the holy relics, so even though he was able to quickly kill Seong-il, he uses a tactic of slowly pressuring him and stopping him to death in order to cause him pain.
‘I’m going crazy.’
As the clones that had settled in around him and helped him hold on to the territory began to disappear one by one, Seong-il felt his blood drying up and gritted his teeth.
‘I would like to rush towards the meteorite, but…’
Seong-il wanted to rush into the meteorite and hit Arunrabe with the intention of self-destructing, but the problem is that the bishops of the Transcendental Church are blocking the meteorite’s path, so Seong-il can’t even do the same.
“Ugh…”
The intense feeling of helplessness I felt for the first time since I became stronger. Thanks to the strong curse spewing out from the bizarre holy relic, Seong-il, who has begun to have wounds on his body one by one, soon realizes that there are almost no clones left around him.
‘Is this the end?…!’
Before I knew it, there was only one elixir left. Seong-il gradually feels that the end is approaching for him.
“The prank is over now. I will capture you and dissect your brain to extract information. Ah! Don’t even think about committing suicide. Among the holy relics, there is one that turns time and space backwards.”
The bishop of the Transcendental Church begins pouring out cruel curses on Seong-il. He explains that he will make Seong-il neither dead nor alive, and then subject him to repeated torture.
‘Still… I held on long enough… I must have rescued people well…’
Even as Seong-il’s eyes close, he appears to remember the hunters rescuing the persecuted until the end. He seems to have reached his limit and is about to close his eyes.
Quaaaaa!!
“…!?”
Just before he tried to subdue the bug in front of him by slowly drying it to death. Suddenly, a strong shock wave begins to spread across the Antarctic barrier. The archbishop looks around with a puzzled expression at the sudden wave.
“What?!”
Kwaang!! Kwaang!! Kwaaang!!
A shock wave spreads through the barrier as if struggling. The bishop was so embarrassed by the unusual phenomenon that had never existed before that he stopped attacking the holy day for a moment and observed the abnormal phenomenon.
『You fanatics!! You have finally put an end to our breathing…!! Let’s die together while we’re like this!!』
Surprisingly, the sight of Illax and his companions crashing the ark into the Antarctic barrier, creating a huge crack. Perhaps because they felt there was no more hope due to the betrayal of their members, they seemed to be struggling in the midst of defeat and crashing the ark into the dimensional barrier.
“How dare you!! Do you think the trend will change just because you guys act like that!!”
“Anyway!! If you die this way and if you die that way!! Making this choice will at least save our dignity!! We will not be left alone!! Fanatic!!』
“You would rather take refuge in us again! We will give you a new body and forgiveness…”
『Shut up!! We will no longer give our souls to fanaticism!! Even if I lose everything!! We will not give in to you!!』
‘Is that… The ark?’
When Seong-il sees the outside of the ark instead of the inside for the first time, he instantly looks in awe. It’s an ‘ark’, as the saying goes, but the spaceship, which is as big as a huge mountain range, gave us an idea of how great a civilization the Isians must have built in the past.
“Stop that damn apostate right now!!”
For the first time today, the Archbishop appears embarrassed as Ilax and his companions try to destroy themselves by causing the Dimensional Ark, a great sacred artifact handed down from ancient times, to run away.
Haha!! It’s impossible!! This dimensional ark is one of the true sacred relics of our race handed down from ancient times! Do you think it is possible to prevent the self-destruction of the Ark with something like a holy relic from an evil outer dimension!!』
Ilax, who has lost everything due to his colleague’s betrayal, curses the Archbishop in a voice full of madness and hatred? As if taking damage from psionic attacks coming from all directions is no problem, he repeatedly attempts crazy short-distance dimensional travel near the South Pole, inflicting serious damage on the Antarctic barrier.
“Ignom!! Stop it right now!! Stop it!!”
『Let’s die together!! Together!!』
A crack that occurs when the ark repeatedly collides with the dimensional barrier and self-destructs. The Archbishop, seeing this, orders his subordinates to use the artifact to prevent the suicide attack by Illax and his associates.
“Whew… Whew…”
Thanks to this, the evil attack against him momentarily weakens, and Seongil exhales with difficulty and gets up.
“Gulp…!! Gulp…!!”
Taking advantage of the fact that the monsters of the Transcendent Church, including the Archbishop, momentarily dropped their gaze from him, Seong-il pours the last remaining elixir into his mouth. Then his body began to recover quickly
“Okay… Illax returned his gaze. I guess I should do my job too, right?”
Originally, Seong-il would have taken advantage of the time provided by Illax to escape to Eden after being stabbed in the back by one of the guardians of reason, but this time, because he was shaken by the spirit shown by Illax, Seong-il instead of running away praised Arunlabe. He starts flying like crazy towards the meteorite in Antarctica.
“No!! You bastard!!”
While Seong-il was let go for a moment, the guy rushed towards the Antarctic barrier, and the archbishop looked angry and cursed at him.
“Fuck you. Fuck you.”
Seong-il finally reaches the ‘meteorite’, ignoring the archbishop who is struggling to project the power of the relic onto him.
