Chapter 921 – Ruler of the Game
“You bastard. I’m so happy to meet you!”
Seong-il raises Arunlabe while facing the apostle of the Transcendental Church with red eyes. And at the appearance of such a holy day, the apostle of the Transcendental Church silently glares at him and begins to raise his holy relic.
“You arrogant bug.”
In response to Seongil’s attack, Sado raises a strange staff brimming with evil energy and begins to swing it. The apostle’s staff, which has eyes, nose, and mouth embedded in various parts of the staff, is filled with great power, regardless of its strangeness, and can easily stand up to Arunrabe of Seongil.
‘There isn’t much time left. So, do your best…!!’
In fact, Seongil is determined to use up all his remaining strength. He even started pouring it on Arunlabe, burning the prenatal Jingi. Perhaps reading the owner’s intentions, Arunlabe in the form of a great sword fiercely burns brilliant blue flames and pressures the apostle of the Transcendental Church.
“How dare you! You lowly bug!”
Although Seongil’s offensive was so fierce that it was beyond imagination, the apostle was not embarrassed and began to pour out his psionic energy into the staff-shaped holy relic while swearing. Then, the holy object’s mouth opens wide and begins to swallow its energy.
Rumbling…!
When two cosmic relics collide, an unimaginable shock wave flows from the space centered around the two. The force was so powerful that the shock wave broke through the strong defenses surrounding Seongil and Sado and even inflicted damage on the bodies of the two divine beings.
Wow…!!
A powerful shock wave hits both sides. Among the items worn on a daily basis, ordinary items are the first to be hit and destroyed. In particular, the mask covering the apostle’s face begins to be destroyed in an instant, perhaps because it appears to have been a simple accessory worn to highlight majesty rather than a sacred artifact.
“…!!”
And Seong-il, who saw the other side of the mask, was greatly shocked, even though they were in the midst of an intense battle. And without realizing it, Seong-il unravels the mask of deception that was covering his face.
“You… You…!?”
“!!!”
Surprisingly, Sado is surprised to see that Seong-il has a face that looks exactly like him, and even during the fierce battle, he speaks to Seong-il in a stammering tone.
‘This guy… Why does he look the same as me…?!’
Not exactly the unsightly appearance of the past. It resembled his appearance after he had become flawlessly beautiful, but whatever the reason, it was a shocking situation, so Seong-il stopped attacking in the middle of a fierce battle and took a step back.
Wow…!!
The moment when two people figure out each other’s identities. A powerful wave of causality begins to spread around the two people. And for some reason, the fates of the two beings naturally begin to intermingle, and some memories begin to flow to each other.
“… You guy! After stopping time here, you went to another world. To be exact, you grew your power by crossing different causal lines of the destroyed world!!”
‘A destroyed world?’
The apostle realizes how Seongil has deceived him and the church, and roars at Seongil. Seong-il, who heard the beast’s roar, is confused after hearing unexpected information. Meanwhile, additional information flows in to Seong-il, and through it, Seong-il realizes what kind of crazy thing the apostle has done and is astonished.
“In fact, you are…”
“Shut up, you dirty devil’s henchman!”
When Seong-il, who realized the truth through a fragment of memory flowing from Sado, tried to recite the man’s evil deeds, Sado, touched by disgust, shouted at Seong-il in an angry tone. In addition, he realizes that he can no longer prevent the advent of ‘it’ by hiding causality, so he uses the last resort.
“… Come! Stone of truth!”
Sado takes advantage of Seong-il’s momentary shock at seeing the truth, opens the door to his dimension, and summons the black meteorite that is building a powerful barrier in the North Pole to his dimension.
“Apostle! If you move it!!”
“They are like foolish people who have eyes but cannot see, and ears but cannot hear!!”
However, through the memory of Seongil, the apostle of the Transcendental Church realized that he could no longer stop the AI’s pursuit with the black meteorite’s dimensional crossing power, so he used the meteorite after yelling at the bishops who tried to stop him.
“… Ha! You’re breaking the barrier even before the dimensional movement begins?”
Bringing the black meteorite from the North Pole meant that the final barrier preventing the AI’s pursuit had disappeared, so Seong-il laughs at the apostle’s foolish behavior.
“Barriers have no meaning anymore, you foolish bastard.”
“…?!”
Even though Seong-il read his memories, he didn’t seem to realize that it didn’t matter whether there was a barrier or not, so Sado looked at him with a puzzled expression and laughed.
“Open! Door of truth!”
After laughing lightly, the apostle projects his power onto the black meteorite and summons something of his. Then, interestingly, the black meteorite made of material begins to turn mushy and begins to transform into a bizarre portal.
“Ah…”
A dimension beyond that appears to be mediated by a black meteorite. After seeing this, Seong-il was finally able to fully understand the current situation. Meanwhile, from beyond the dimension overflowing with all kinds of evil and negative power, all kinds of twisted flesh and evil energy come out and begin to attack Seong-il.
‘The things I collected from that damn dimension…’
Seong-il realizes that the items that the members of the Transcendental Church called ‘holy relics’ were created by processing beings from beyond that twisted dimension. In addition, it is a bonus to realize why the ancient relics of the Transcendental Church were particularly distorted.
『Help.』
As Seong-il falls into crisis, Meow approaches Seong-il and tries to help him by sending a relatively weaker god of light to the twisted foreign god to baton him.
In order to respond to the terrible beings pouring out from beyond the dimension opened by the meteorite, Meow responds to the attack by ‘creating’ his minions by scattering countless universes around.
“How long can your helper remain here?”
Read causality. Also, the apostle, who read the fragments of Seong-il’s memories and understood his limitations, ridicules Seong-il.
“Isn’t that the same for you? You won’t be able to last long here, even if it’s because of the AI that wants to tear you to death.”
“This guy…!!”
While mocking Seong-il, Sado gets stabbed in a painful spot by Seong-il and growls with an angry expression. Then, as if an idea occurred to him, he smiled evilly and projected his power onto the black meteorite.
“Okay. Then how about this?”
The apostle of the Transcendental Church opens a dimensional rift toward the Inner Plane based on information obtained from Seongil’s memories. Originally, it should have never been possible. The fates of the apostle and Seong-il were extremely closely intertwined, and since he had roughly figured out the dimensional coordinates through Seong-il’s memories, he succeeded in digging a tunnel leading to the Inner Plane.
“Then I will destroy everything you want to protect!”
Since Meow is unable to kill Seong-il due to his space defense, Sado projects the power of the black meteorite onto Eden with an expression full of evil. As the evil power pouring from beyond the meteorite began to pour into Eden indefinitely, Seongil’s minions, Earth Mother Goddess and Withgrasil, tried to stop the attack by pouring out all their power to prevent the sudden attack.
“The power of truth is infinite! Do you think your insignificant god can stop the power pouring down from the dimension of truth!”
She is the Earth Mother Goddess who has grown into a major deity in her own right, and Withgrasil possesses tremendous potential to withstand the fight against foreign gods? The barrage pouring in from the twisted dimension was beyond imagination, so despite having such dazzling potential, the two appear as dangerous as lanterns in the wind.
“… Meow! Instead of protecting me, protect Eden.”
『Then you die. Unconditionally.』
Meow, who stands next to Seong-il and blocks attacks from the twisted dimension with infinite power, answers Seong-il in a calm tone. However, Seong-il, who valued Eden and his children, lover, family, and fellow countrymen living in it more than his own life, once again tells Meow to protect the place in a stern tone.
“Good. I’ll do whatever you want. I can’t protect you, but I will use all the time I have left to protect that place.』
Meowth appears to respect Seongil’s will. He spreads dazzlingly powerful power to the surroundings, then instantly moves to the dimension where Eden exists and begins spraying the Milky Way there.
Then, not only was the evil power of the meteorite that penetrated the Inner Plane quickly pushed out, but the dimension also began to quickly become disconnected. Seong-il, who watched the entire process, realizes that fortunately, thanks to Meowong’s perfect handling of the matter, Eden is not only safe, but also that the dimensional coordinates have been secretly changed to a new location, preventing re-invasion.
“Now the situation has turned around?”
Seongil still has time left to summon the God of Light, but he is overwhelmed just by stopping the ‘sealed ones’ and the bishops. Therefore, the apostle glares at Seong-il with a triumphant expression and shouts.
『Fortunately, it appears that the last of our compatriots escaped safely, just as you hoped.』
To Seong-il, who waits for his own end with a stern expression, Meow tells him that the remaining 100 million human beings have been rescued, just as he had hoped, beyond the dimensional gap that is about to close.
‘Illax kept his promise.’
Seong-il smiles bitterly upon hearing some positive news in a hopeless situation. That was when he raised Arunlabhe and was about to make his final struggle. Suddenly, an alarm rings on his smartphone.
