chapter 153
153. The War God (2)
Yuma looked at the sky road and instinctively recognized it.
This is a path that you can take.
Yuma said while petting the griffon Ethan.
“I’ll be back soon, so you wait too.”
The probability of not being able to reach the sky and falling back to the ground.
It’s not like there was no chance of that happening.
It was also true that when that moment came, there was faith that Ethan would instinctively notice and accept it.
Phew-
I set both feet on the road to heaven.
Fortunately, nothing came of it that would have required Ethan to be rushed again.
grasp…
Hwaruk-
Yuma and Bell, with divine powers covering their entire bodies, settled into the sky path.
flow.
Yuma felt an invisible energy sweeping over Bell and himself.
The energy surged upwards, as if it was pushing Bell and Yuma upwards, who were emitting divine power.
Belle used the divine power that enveloped her body like a flame without any trouble.
Now, the number of times Yuma has been granted divine powers is gradually increasing, and he is almost finished adapting.
Yuma felt like he was riding an escalator in the real world.
“Whoaaa!”
As they reached the end of the skyway, the speed increased even more steeply, and Bell’s bangs swept back like a lion’s mane.
Two people soared through the blue sky and clouds.
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Hwaaak!
fist.
Seiabern was clearly aware of the unidentified attack rushing in from the front.
This was definitely a fist. But it was a very vicious fist.
Oh my god!
The space was warped, twisted, and bent with circular, eddying waves.
Seiabern, a blind elf who had reached half-body, felt a deep sense of helplessness for the first time in a long time.
Seiabern barely managed to avoid the fist of an unidentified god and managed to regain his balance by stabbing his sword into the ground.
Duke, the white-haired god, <God of Steel and War Clouds> looked at the dark elf demigod Melek lying before him.
Melek’s whole body trembled. His upper body was completely shattered. Pain was creeping up his lower body as well.
“Ughhh….”
From his mouth flowed shallow, pitiful groans that he had not uttered for years and had even forgotten about.
thud-
Melek barely managed to raise his upper body and stared at the being approaching him.
“What on earth are you?”
Melek, apart from the shadow of death hanging over him, had a personality that could not stand curiosity.
“You… aren’t just any god, you’re a strange, tangled, bizarre god.”
At Melek’s words, the Duke’s expression with gray hair crumpled.
“A bug. A being that is barely half-sized. How dare you speak as if you could see through my body, a god?”
The Duke looked at Melek with a very angry face.
For a moment, Duke’s face became distorted and blurry. A face that was not Duke’s suddenly appeared on the right side of Duke’s face.
The Duke’s mouth opened wide.
“Kuaaah! You fucking b*stards! This isn’t your bodies! This is the Duke’s flesh─!”
Human-like and monstrous shapes appeared and disappeared repeatedly throughout Duke’s body.
It seemed as if the other selves inside Duke’s body were struggling to devour his current self.
Duke’s vicious and obese body grew even larger.
Kwaaah!
Red steel was created on both hands.
The Duke swung his spear horizontally, his eyes glowing red.
A bright red crescent moon covered the sky above the Heavenly Continent.
That red crescent moon was an attack beyond what common sense could understand.
The blind elf inspector Seiabern slashed the red crescent moon with both eyes closed.
Kiiiiiing!
Sparks flew from the blue flames created by the friction.
Seiabern’s two feet slid on the ground.
Red currents of air surged from Duke’s entire body and spread out in all directions. Seiabern raised his right hand forward. A golden shield curtain spread out in front of Seiabern’s palm.
Seiabern, who barely managed to block the red thorns with his shield, jumped backwards, sweating profusely.
“You little rats.”
The Duke’s cracked voice continued.
“You’ve become so arrogant since you played with me.”
The Duke slammed his fist into the ground, his voice filled with anger.
New Declaration of Independence.
<Red Steel>.
A red landscape spread out on the ground. Red steel began to cover the land of the <Sky Continent>.
Kugugugugugugugugu!
What effects does red steel have?
Those who reached the level of the demigod could immediately see what effect the power had.
Movement of the whole body.
The radius of action was significantly restricted. I also felt the magical power flowing through my body decreasing.
“Become a sacrifice.”
The Duke’s feet were made of ferocious steel, and they struck the ground hard.
Shards of brick flew into the air in thick clouds.
“God of War, a sacrifice that will perfect the power to kill that b*stard…!”
Steel horns sprouted from the Duke’s entire body.
It seemed to be a side effect that occurred because the power that had entered the body was not yet fully under control.
The Duke took another step forward, still frowning like a demon.
Phew!
“Kuaaah!”
It was the scream of the half-god dark elf Melek. Melek’s upper body was completely impaled by the Duke’s foot.
Melek’s life force was absorbed by the black claw attached to the back of Duke’s right foot. The dark elf Melek’s black body was flattened on the floor.
Melek, who had been training in the room until a few hours ago, died like that.
A being who had already reached half-life died so easily.
One of the three gods who have fully set foot on the demigod continent of this land.
Kirjev, the demigod of the Join tribe, looked at Seiabern, the elf demigod.
“You’ll have to work pretty hard to survive, Elf.”
Wedge!
Kirev dodged Duke’s successive attacks by a hair, his blue feathers fluttering.
Feathers flew messily into the air.
Seiabern kicked the ground endlessly with his eyes closed.
The mind’s eye served as a starting point for recognizing all the calamities that spread out in thousands of forms.
The moment the two demigods caught the Duke’s attention.
Someone dashed behind Duke.
Phew!
beast of prey.
Although she had not yet reached the level of a demigod, she was definitely a lycanthrope who surpassed the level of a Grand Master.
The gray female lycanthrope literally extended her right hand with the intention of killing the Duke.
The ultimate fist that he had created alone over a hundred years struck the Duke’s head.
The Duke’s long hair, whiter than his white skin, swayed violently.
‘It reached.’
It was a moment when a faint smile of confidence appeared on Kesylvia’s lips.
Crunch!
“under…!”
That smile could not help but quickly turn into a hollow laugh.
Because his right arm was spinning and rising into the air.
Kesylvia felt the wall between herself and the Duke diminish as a result of what had just happened.
I immediately gave up and threw my body backwards.
“I almost fell for it…!”
The right arm was cut off very cleanly.
Kesylvia concentrated the blue energy and gushed out like a fountain, cutting across the cross-section of the shoulder wound.
“Now, I’m starting to get bored.”
Duke was determined to properly activate his new power, <Red Steel>.
The purpose was to annihilate the four strong men still alive and breathing on the Heavenly Continent in one breath.
The entire <Sky Continent> was covered in red.
On the dry land, red steel thorns bloomed endlessly.
The power of Duke’s new god, <Red Steel>, which was not a single god but a mixture of five gods and recreated, was beyond imagination.
Red steel erupted endlessly from the ground in the shape of sharp lances, targeting the survivors as if they were individually conscious beings.
The damage was immediate.
“Ugh!”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Clem, one of the ancient races, the Sun Tribe and the last survivor of that race, was unable to avoid the waves of red steel and was oxidized.
Dark elf Melem dies.
Clem is dead.
Now, there were only three remaining residents of the <Sky Continent>.
The blind elf, Seiabern, still thought with his eyes closed.
‘Are you dying?’
Kagagagagagagang!
His mind was quite calm, considering he was expecting death. Seiabern continued to strike the red steel with the two swords he held in each hand.
The Join tribe Kirjev and the lycanthrope Kesilvia were also struggling to survive.
All three had countless wounds on their bodies.
Death was chasing me right under my chin.
That moment when even using those words would not have been lacking at all.
Phew!
A strong wind blew.
“Eww!”
And then suddenly a woman’s scream echoed from the sky.
It was Bell’s scream.
Next to him was Yuma, floating calmly in the sky as if he had done it several times before.
Yuma looked down at the Sky Continent from the sky as if he was floating.
To be exact, he was looking at Duke, the <God of Steel and War Cloud>.
[Lv.894]
‘… 894?’
It was something that could not help but be questionable.
Because <The Eight Evil Gods> did not exist in this middle world at the time.
The name of the god that appeared on the map list was definitely <The God of Steel and War Clouds>.
And at that time, the b*stard’s rank was marked as 2nd rank.
But now, he had a higher level than Barbatos, who was at level 792.
“What the…Yuma.”
Duke and Yuma’s eyes met.
Yuma soon put aside his doubts about Duke’s level.
“New Declaration of Independence.”
It was something that could have ended with killing him.
“It’s a life-or-death battle.”
thud.
A pure white ripple began to form in the world of <Red Steel>.