Chapter 546 – Cognition
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Gregory was still looking at the bird’s eye view of the Devil’s Castle.
A yellow dot and a black dot moving in the basement of the Demon King’s Castle met.
And the black dot began to swell greatly.
“Has it started?”
A bitter smile appears on Gregory’s lips.
Zephyria’s military does not know exactly how and why dimensional rifts occur.
All I knew was that the monster crawling out of it seemed to come from another dimension.
The dimensional rift was a strange phenomenon that only occurred in Panthera, which appeared after Terra won the war against Zephyria.
Because it was a phenomenon that did not occur in Zephyria, it could only be studied indirectly.
Still, Zephyria’s outstanding brains figured out that the energy flowing from dimensional cracks was quite similar to dark magic, and figured out a way to generate it artificially.
However, the Zephyria army was avoiding creating a dimensional rift in Panthera.
First, a considerable amount of energy resources are involved.
And the monster that crawled out of the dimensional rift was impossible to control.
… Actually, it was a minor problem.
The biggest problem was Terra.
Terra’s highest priority alert is not Zephyria.
It was a dimensional rift.
Of course, if you create a dimensional rift, it means you will receive Terra’s attention.
Terra was merciless against Panthera’s dimensional rift. She shows such a sensitive attitude that she has personally dealt with it.
No matter how powerful an avatar Pantera created, it could not handle Terra, who was called the god of Pantera.
It was obvious that if she even showed the slightest hint of trying to create a dimensional rift, she would be immediately disposed of.
That’s not the only problem.
The effects of dimensional rifts are not simply limited to Panthera. We discovered that the more dimensional rifts are created, the thinner the dimensional wall becomes, and that this also affects Zephyria.
If you force a dimensional rift to occur in Pantera, the risk of a dimensional rift eventually occurring in Zephyria also increases.
Zephyria has never had a dimensional rift yet.
Seeing that even Terra, the god of Pantera, was struggling with the dimensional rift, it must have been quite a problem.
The fact that they are paying enough attention to completely put Zephiria’s secret medicine on the back burner means that it is a serious phenomenon.
What if such a phenomenon was occurring in Zephiria?
Zephyria may not have even thought about conquering Panthera.
‘Nevertheless, the fact that they were allowed to open the dimensional rift means that this mission is very important.’
It was also possible because I knew Terra didn’t pay attention to this place.
Dimensional cracks have different levels of risk depending on their size.
I don’t know what will come out, but considering the resources invested so far, there will be a monster that even Gregory can’t easily see.
It was an adventure even for Gregory to release such a monster into the basement of the Demon Castle.
I had no choice as I had to release a monster that couldn’t distinguish between friend and foe.
Gregory, ironically, believed in the Terra Church subjugation team.
The belief that one can deal with the monster that crawls out from within the dimensional rift.
And no matter which side wins, the winner will not be safe.
At that time, he just needs to finish cleanly.
The black light is getting bigger.
The light of the yellow dot was barely visible.
That meant that a monster as powerful as that came out of the dimensional rift.
“… Was there no need to bring in ghouls?”
If the situation was too one-sided, Gregory could also find himself in a difficult situation.
Gregory, who sensed that it was time to move, got up from the throne.
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The battlefield was literally a mess, not only because of the snake-headed corroders, but also because of the flocking of ghouls.
The strong members of the Demon King’s subjugation team, including the Holy Knights, deal with the corrosive body.
The knights of the Kingdom of Laun stopped the ghouls flooding into the common entrance.
Members of the Mongoose Knights were also included in it and were dealing with the ghouls.
With such many ghouls pouring in, it wasn’t that there weren’t some that were flowing towards the paladins.
The attack of the snake-headed erosion body did not discriminate between enemies and allies.
-Deuddeeudeuk!
The body of the erosion body stirs the cavity.
Every time the huge fuselage moved, the cavity shook as the ghouls literally crushed it.
Should I say that it is amazing that the community did not collapse even in that uproar?
Even though the snake-headed corroders were hard at work crushing the ghouls, the ghouls rushed towards the punitive force in annoyance.
In that melee, I was dealing with the ghouls, and on the one hand, I was extending my consciousness to the other and watching the battle between the Holy Knights and the Corrosion.
The long, sharp claws on the hands of Khan, the wolf beast, scratch the body of the corrosive body.
Sparks flew.
Each of his fingernails was stained with the steel that knights call Auror blades, but he could not even make a scratch.
That’s not all.
Dwarf Norman’s large hammer.
The leaders of the Holy Knights and Hestia’s golden Auror Blade.
The attack of the mysterious Priscilla, who flies through the air with the spirit.
There was no damage at all to the body of the snake-head erosion body.
‘That’s an absurd amount of defense. Does that make sense?’
The Auror Blade was the ultimate in destructive power that humans could achieve.
It was like the first time I had seen an erosion body that was intact despite being attacked like that.
The good news is that that giant snake is not very agile.
It was strange.
In most of the erosion bodies I have seen so far, weight class was related to the measure of strength.
It’s only once that I’ve faced a monster that surpassed the highest level of erosion.
It was in the zombie world.
He was a fleshy monster that covered the entire city. If you say it is a similar level of erosion, it is too small.
Even if we look at it positively, it should be said that it is at a level that is at the edge of the top level.
Of course, it may be a hasty judgment to think that this is an absolute rule that applies to all erosive bodies.
I could see its long body still tightly stuck in the dimensional rift.
… Too small?
Surely?
I focused my expanded consciousness more on the erosion body.
Even though it was burdensome because there were ghouls, I thought it would be okay to receive more information.
As my mind expanded and heightened further, I absorbed more information about him into my head.
The pieces of information flowing out of the corrosive body were informing me of eerie facts.
My hair stood up.
I realized.
That snake head is not the main body.
It is not just a monster with a long body.
That’s only a small part.
The guy was now trying to open a dimensional rift and pull out his own body.
It’s a monster just as bad as the flesh-eating bodies I’ve seen in the zombie world, maybe even better.
That said, even if I were the main body lying in Zephiria’s capsule, I was someone who couldn’t be easily cleaned up.
This guy was playing with the punitive force.
Gregory can control such a monster?
If it completely escaped the dimensional rift, it was only a matter of time before the Demon King’s Castle was destroyed.
-What a mess…
The dimensional crack has become a bit larger.
The guy was trying to pull out his own body.
I looked at the Holy Knights who were dealing with the snake head.
They didn’t seem to feel anything more.
I didn’t have the spirit to do that.
Since I had no knowledge of dimensional rifts or erosion bodies, it was inevitable.
It is a dimensional rift.
Before it was too late… I had to break the dimensional rift before its main body came out.
There was no time.
“Karia! I will deal with that snake monster. Please take care of the members.”
This side, which only deals with ghouls, still had some time to spare.
“Okay, Captain.”
Karia answered with a stern face.
I quickly ran towards the dimensional rift.
A black sphere is seen swallowing the huge body of the erosion body.
The large sphere, over 10 meters long, was floating in the air, and its size was gradually increasing.
We have to eliminate the dimensional rift before that guy’s body comes out.
Attacking dimensional rifts is not difficult.
It will break if given a strong impact.
It was only a little hard, but the dimensional rift itself had no other defensive capabilities.
‘While his gaze was focused on the Holy Knights…’
Did he even know what I was thinking?
The vertically split yellow eyes of the erosion body turn towards me.
And as if it had been waiting, it opened its mouth wide and rushed towards me.
It was an incredibly fast movement compared to when dealing with a punitive force.
When we sense a crisis, our thinking instinctively accelerates.
The world flows slowly.
The Holy Knights are astonished by the erosion body that moves on a completely different level than before.
Hestia and Azaz belatedly saw that this guy was targeting me… I can also see Priscilla’s worried gaze.
And.
When I saw the eyes of the erosion body, I knew.
When I recognized him, he recognized me too.
He was looking at something more fundamental.
He also recognized that the here wasn’t real.
He realized that I was the most threatening person in this place. When I tried to break the dimensional rift, I showed my true colors.
