Chapter 101
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 101
Chapter Title: Black Curtain Appears
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Ra-Djehuty's fist, charged with power, slammed into Urben's solar plexus.
Crunch.
A crack formed in his sternum, and Urben stabbed Ra-Djehuty's shoulder with the bone of his broken arm.
"Ra—Djehuty—!"
Urben screamed at the top of his lungs amid Ra-Djehuty's aura.
"Why did you, the almighty one, abandon my father and mother—!"
= ......
Ra-Djehuty yanked the bone from his shoulder and smashed his fist into Urben's jaw with his other hand.
Undaunted, Urben countered with a headbutt using the narrow forehead typical of his bird-like head.
"Why did you stay silent when my dear friend and his family fell among wolves disguised as humans—!"
Urben kept shouting.
"Why did you stand by and watch as my family was chased by those wolves until I crawled back up from the pit of death—!"
His elbow sank into Ra-Djehuty's beak.
Flesh against flesh.
Their pure close-quarters brawl raged on.
The twentieth blow.
Ra-Djehuty's fist crashed into his skull.
Crunch.
The skull let out an ominous crack.
The next punch targeted his right ribs.
It pierced through the already mangled ribs and reached his spine.
Unable to withstand the impacts any longer, Urben's body bent backward.
Boom.
His body collapsed with a thud.
Even the cries of Ra-Djehuty's name stopped coming from his mouth.
In the silence, Ra-Djehuty spoke.
= I was not omnipotent.
He looked down at Urben, who could no longer move.
= I could not protect you all.
= I, along with my comrades, once lost in the great war to defend Rajehaputum.
= I am a loser. And I accepted it.
"Hah."
Dust puffed from Urben's parched throat.
"You piece of trash. Then why did you climb all the way up here?"
= Yet the reason I came here...
Ra-Djehuty's sturdy knee slowly touched the ground.
He stroked Urben's cracked skull with his hand.
= Is at least to grant peace to those who seek me.
[Skill 'Purification' is cast.]
[Death God Urben's strong lingering thoughts begin to dissipate.]
Amid the seeping light, Urben murmured.
"I knew it. I knew you couldn't do anything. That you're bound to this place Babel, just like the dead."
"Still, I needed someone to accept my sorrow. My hatred. My prayers.
Someone to take on the sacrifices from my foolishness. My sins and faults."
= ...I see.
Urben's fading pupils looked into Ra-Djehuty's eyes.
"Pretend you're omnipotent. Otherwise, there's no one to take responsibility for anyone's mistakes."
= Is that so? So that's how it was.
Ra-Djehuty steadied his voice once more.
= Then, I am omnipotent.
An emotion filled the hawk's shining eyes.
= All that has befallen you is the fault of I, Ra-Djehuty, your omnipotent lord god.
"Yeah, that's right. You damned lord god of ours."
His jawbone clattered as he chuckled.
The lich's hand drew an ankh cross on the floor.
Rajehaputum, the symbol of the gods.
"To you. I pray for the peace of my family and neighbors. Knowing that Anubis and the ferryman you sent will watch over even my journey to the afterlife..."
The faint light in his pupils vanished.
['Death God Urben' has been annihilated.
- The Death God Cult's conspiracy, 'Death God Revival Plan,' has collapsed.
- The Death God's vessel and master of Necropolis, 'Necromancer King Yusuf Tendurka,' has died.
- The master position of the unique city Necropolis becomes vacant.
- 'Death God Urben's Skull (SS-)' has dropped as an item.]
[You've achieved the miraculous feat 'Annihilation of Death God Urben.']
[Achievement completion rate 100%!
As a reward, 10 yellow coins are granted.
As a reward, 'Skill Coinbook of the Evil God (U.S+)' is granted.
As a reward, 'Whip of Radiant Bone (U.S+)' is granted.]
Urben crumbled, leaving only a small skull behind.
Gazing wistfully at his remains, Ra-Djehuty said.
= You kept your promise to me.
He looked up at the gaping hole in the ceiling.
Blue sky, and beyond it, the wall of the upper floors.
= I shall keep my promise to you as well. Let us climb to the top of this place.
For my people to resent me, I must at least possess a fragment of omnipotence.
The giant's chest.
Where Ju Gonghyeok resided began to shine brightly.
[Ra-Djehuty accepts Hunter Ju Gonghyeok as a true comrade.
- Hunter Ju Gonghyeok deeply understands Ra-Djehuty.
- Ra-Djehuty will stay with Ju Gonghyeok until the end as his comrade.
- Ra-Djehuty's level changes from 67 to MAX.]
[Avatar 'Ra-Djehuty (SS)' Lv. MAX]
[Ju Gonghyeok's skill 'Forced Awakening (U.SSS)' activates!]
[Ju Gonghyeok's skill promotes new power in Ra-Djehuty.
- You have drawn out Ra-Djehuty's performance to the limit.
- You have discovered Ra-Djehuty's hidden potential through ancient experience.
- The title 'New Sun God' is created for Ra-Djehuty.]
[Avatar 'Ra-Djehuty (SS)' evolves into 'New Sun God (νέα Θεού Ήλιου) Ra-Djehuty' !]
[Ra-Djehuty (SS)'s rank rises to SSS.]
[4th Ability – 'Black Spot Explosion' is created.]
[You've achieved the feat 'Avatar SSS Evolution' !]
[As a reward, 1 red coin is granted.]
It felt incredibly long.
But all of this was messages that flashed by in an instant.
"We won?"
A resolver muttered as he watched Urben's crumbling remains.
"We won! Our giant won!"
"Great! These bastards won't come back to life now!"
On the opposite side of the frenzied cheers.
The cultists stood dumbfounded.
"Lord Urben..."
"The Death God... is gone."
Into the chests of the stunned cultists.
The resolvers' blades plunged.
"Kill them! Take them out while they're dazed!"
Under the captains' commands, the subordinate resolvers moved with glee.
"Hoo."
In a place detached from that scene, Ju Gonghyeok let out a sigh.
Ra-Djehuty's 'Godification' had ended.
"He jumped."
He quickly sorted through the rewards.
Setting aside the Whip of Radiant Bone and the Death God's skillbook.
What caught his eye were the yellow coin and the red coin.
Yellow coins dropped from floors 54 to 71.
'Having it in hand now is basically like snagging high-floor items from floor 60 ahead of time.
And the red coin? That's from floor 80 onward anyway.'
Rainbow order: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet.
The red coin, taking the foremost position, was the rarest aside from black and white.
Even after floor 80, orange coins dropped, and red coins only from boss monsters or quests.
'I can head to the floor 20 comic shop and convert the yellow coin for a ton of blue coins.
The red coin should be enough for a decent avatar purchase.'
Having finished his calculations, Ju Gonghyeok covered his mouth.
[Drawing on the Vampire Duke's authority.]
[Blood Manipulation (S-) – Intracorporeal blood generation]
His mouth swelled as if about to burst.
"Cough! Keheuk!"
He clutched his knee and vomited a massive amount of blood.
It looked extremely painful.
"Captain Ju!"
"Are you alright?"
Gonghyeok wiped the blood from his lips with his pale face.
But soon blood flowed from his nose and eyes.
A gesture that looked anything but fine.
The resolvers approached in worry.
At that moment, Ju Gonghyeok swapped avatars.
[Replacing avatar 'Ra-Djehuty (SSS)' with 'Great Sage Equaling Heaven (SS)'.]
Maintaining the darkness covering his eyes.
He swapped to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven avatar.
Then immediately activated 'Art of Cloning.'
[Great Sage Equaling Heaven (SS) 1st Ability 'Art of Cloning' activates!]
[1 clone created! Mana split 99%!]
1,200 meters in the sky.
A black shadow appeared right below Necropolis.
[Progenitor Bloodline (SS----) 1st Ability 'Dark Veil' used]
Flutter.
A murderer wearing a fierce hound mask spread demonic wings and angelic wings simultaneously.
"Let's go."
= My body's been itching since earlier. Let's go all out, bro!
[Great Sage Equaling Heaven (SS) 2nd Ability ‘Art of Muscle-Circling Cloud’ activates!]
[‘Art of Muscle-Circling Cloud’ 2nd Form - Full-body manifestation! Acceleration greatly increased!]
[Great Sage Equaling Heaven (SS) 3rd Ability ‘18,000-Piculs Ruyi Jingu Bang’ activates]
['Ju Gonghyeok-X' mass increased 600 times!]
[Angelic Wings, Demonic Wings simultaneous acceleration!]
[Sephirot 4th Stage Acceleration applied!]
[High-Speed Flight (S+)! Breaking the sound barrier!]
In a straight line from Necropolis.
A 48-ton projectile plummeted toward the Company underground sector.
Right in front of the blood-vomiting Ju Gonghyeok.
Another Ju Gonghyeok landed at supersonic speed.
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No sound could be heard.
An immense impact visible to the eye simply overwhelmed the resolvers.
A human meteor exceeding 50 tons and 2,000 km/h in speed.
The entire underground sector rippled like a wave.
"Urk, ah, ah!"
Indiscriminate against beasts and humans.
Their bodies floated up from the shock transmitted by the undulating floor.
Rumble—
The 112-7 sector where they stood.
Along with eight surrounding sectors, it collapsed simultaneously.
"It's collapsing! Hold on tight!"
"Brace for the fall!"
The collapsing debris and resolvers plummeted into sector 113.
Boom!
The empty sector 113 turned into ruins in an instant.
"Squeeee! Squeak!"
"Everyone up! Form ranks!"
Beasts and hunters rose from the rubble of rock.
Any hunter with decent endurance wouldn't die from a fall like this.
As long as they weren't directly crushed by house-sized boulders, that is.
"But what the hell just appeared!"
"Where's Captain Ju? Captain Ju's in danger!"
As the billowing dust cleared.
The kneeling Ju Gonghyeok and the murderer in the fierce hound mask came into view.
"I'll take the Necromancer King's remains."
Urben's skull was in the murderer's hand.
"Who the hell is that guy!"
"Look at the mask! It's 'X'! The hound demon, Outer Mer Ashk!"
"Wasn't that guy a rookie who just came up from floor 5?"
"No, he wiped out Special Forces 0 and 20 guys on floor 10!"
In the chaos, Jeong Hyeondo's hand moved.
[Grand Divine Step (A-) final ability 'Earth Contraction Technique' activates!]
[Teleporting Ju Gonghyeok with the warp mark to your side!]
Jeong Hyeondo hoisted the combat-incapable Ju Gonghyeok onto his shoulder.
"Ju Gonghyeok's exhausted! Snap out of it! The Necromancer King's dead, and they don't have many left! Just push through!"
Even with X's appearance, the situation hadn't changed.
Now 20,000 against 8,000. Overwhelming numerical disadvantage.
Their leader, the Necromancer King, was dead, and morale had hit rock bottom.
"All units, form ranks and prepare to attack!"
"Armed monks, assemble here!"
"Wolves, stay hidden and engage in guerrilla warfare!"
Hunter alliance commands echoed from all directions.
The cultists huddled inward, cowed.
It was clear they'd be surrounded and annihilated in an hour or two.
"Who said so?"
He pulled out the 'Tower of the Dead (S-)' coin from the 'Death God's Skill Coinbook.'
Then he stroked Urben's skull.
[Death God Urben's skill, 'Tower of the Dead,' is cast.]
[Urben's Skull (SS) responds to its unique skill, providing support!]
[Skill activation rate 338%! Casting height 1,600m!]
Rumble!
The ground split, and a towering spire shot straight up into the sky.
Boom!
The Tower of the Dead finally pierced the underside of Necropolis floating in the sky.
Ju Gonghyeok gestured frantically.
"Hey! Hurry! Get on quick! In 10 minutes, the scary unique city bastards will swarm into Company! No time!"
Some cultists hesitated at the sudden turn.
But the beasts and undead with strong survival instincts were different.
"Woooo!"
"Squeeee! I'm going home!"
Beasts swarmed up the central Tower of the Dead.
"What, what is that!"
"Push hard, and collapse the tower too..."
Whirr—
[Corroder Kochzion 『FULL Road』]
- Ammo 18 rounds
- Maximum performance
- 18-round burst
Boom—! Boom boom boom—!
The Kochzion in X's left hand spewed flames.
"Whew~"
He blew the smoke from the barrel and spoke.
"Necropolis folks, hop on the Tower of the Dead escalator quick."
Dozens of corpses shattered by the sudden gunfire.
X—no, Ju Gonghyeok—aimed the barrel at the shocked crowd.
"Amusement park's closing time. You've had your fun, right? Get lost."