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Chapter 608
Nabu read the text from his open book at the roaring monster.
"Oh black roaring beast! May chains bind you and a shining spear pierce your throat!"
As a High Table member who had faced monsters for centuries, Nabu was familiar with finding relevant passages.
When Nabu's word command activated, chains made of light emerged from the floor and wrapped around the beast-like monster.
CLANK!
The chains bound the monster's ten extended necks, restricting its movement, while a glowing spear formed in the air.
The spear pierced through the monster's body.
THUD!
The monster let out a long painful scream after being impaled by the light spear.
Then Ivan, who was beside them, raised his hand and drew rune letters in the air.
WOONG!
The rune letters he drew vibrated and brass rose vines shot out from within.
CRUNCH!
The thorny brass vines grew slowly and wrapped around the monster's body.
The monster was caught, its necks bound by light chains, body pierced by the spear, and entangled in solid brass vines leaving it unable to move.
When the monster tried to move, the brass vines constricted even tighter.
ROAAAR!
The monster thrashed about struggling.
But unable to break free from its bindings, it opened its mouth wide and spewed black mist.
HISS!
The black mist filled the surroundings and rose into the air, creating an ominous dark cloud.
Soon sticky black rain began falling from the dark cloud.
SIZZLE!
Everything touched by the black rain melted with smoke.
The brass vines binding the monster also slowly dissolved from the highly acidic rain.
Simultaneously, the monster's body surface rippled as tentacles burst out.
ROAAAR!
The tentacles suddenly revealed sharp teeth and rushed toward where Lilith, Nabu and Ivan were.
CLANG!
But they couldn't advance further, blocked by Manna's barrier.
Then the tentacles opened their mouths wide and spat viscous liquid at the translucent barrier.
SIZZLE!
As the black acid rain mixed with the liquid spat by the tentacles, the barrier began gradually melting.
Nabu clenched his teeth and raised his book again.
"Let these thick raindrops blocking our path cease and let divine light shine forth! May that light become arrows to pierce the hearts of our enemies!"
WOONG!
Following Nabu's word command, the black rain from the dark cloud slowly began to stop.
And strong light leaked through the dark clouds.
Soon that light took form and poured down as arrows.
However, the light arrows scattered in all directions, unable to find their proper target.
Seeing this, Nabu realized.
"Ah! Damn, that thing has no heart!"
Handling word commands wasn't easy.
Even a slight deviation in the phenomenon could produce completely unexpected results, so the passages had to be chosen carefully.
BOOM!
As the light arrows scattered and fell everywhere, the lowered tentacles tried to break the barrier again.
While Nabu gathered strength to read another passage, Ivan attacked the tentacles with cursed arrows from his crossbow using his one remaining arm, but this only delayed the attack briefly.
After assessing the situation, Nabu turned around and shouted at Zeke who had his palm on the floor.
"Zeke! They're pushing in more! Whatever you're doing, you need to hurry!"
Unlike his calm exterior, the hidden world Zeke was seeing was extremely turbulent.
CRACKLE!
Red electricity sparked everywhere from Zeke's power corroding Baron's barrier circuit.
While disrupting Baron's barrier ritual, Zeke conversely sent blood eye power surging through the circuit to attack him.
Baron was struggling and putting up defensive walls everywhere to block Zeke's corrosion.
After continuous effort, his barrier circuit had almost reached the door, but Zeke's corrosion stopped it at the threshold.
Baron glared at Zeke with a frown.
Baron's voice echoed in Zeke's mind.
[Zeke Draker, do you mean to interfere with God's great work?]
Ignoring Baron's words, Zeke continued using the Kabbalah system to inject blood eye power into the circuit.
The powerful blood eye power flowed backwards through the circuit, reaching Baron's feet.
Just as the red energy was about to touch Baron's feet.
CRACKLE!
The defensive wall Baron had set up activated and defended against the blood eye power.
But Zeke didn't stop and tried to bypass to infiltrate Baron's mind.
Baron's voice echoed again.
[It's futile. Even if you enter my mind, there is nothing you can find out.]
Zeke smirked hearing Baron's words.
—That's for me to judge.
After sending his thoughts to Baron via telepathy, Zeke placed both hands on the floor.
CRACKLE!
Even stronger blood eye power corroded Baron's circuit through the mandala.
The bypassing blood eye power split into several streams to simultaneously attack Baron's defensive walls.
Baron had no choice but to withdraw the circuit he had spread to breach the door.
Baron, who lost his chance at success, glared at Zeke through clenched teeth.
"Zeke Drakerrrr!"
CRACKLE!
A storm of magical power exploded beyond the hidden world into reality.
RUMBLE!
Baron's fury was intense as his magic power meant for breaching the door was diverted to blocking Zeke's blood eye, causing all his carefully laid circuits to be blocked.
CRACKLE!
When Baron's defensive wall, strengthened by concentrated magic from withdrawing the circuit, pushed back Zeke's blood eye, red currents flowed everywhere creating a magical storm.
CRACKLE!
Baron began moving with a frown within the magical storm.
He glared at Zeke and said, "You dare interfere with God's great work."
Zeke removed his hands from the mandala and smirked.
"This god-obsessed nonsense makes me sick. Tell me where your fake god is. In return, I'll grant you a peaceful death."
Baron frowned at Zeke's words and gripped the edge of his black glove.
"Zeke Draker, I'll make you regret moving me."
As soon as Baron removed his glove, the chamber's air changed.
'What is this?'
Zeke frowned at the alien energy from Baron's hand.
Then he realized what that power was.
'An angel's power, an Outer Being's power, and...'
The twisted causality energy that Harvey Draker had emitted.
These three powers emanated from Baron's hands.
Baron's ungloved hand was indistinct, as if wrapped in black mist.
He raised his hand and pointed at the monster made of angelic fragments bound in chains.
Black mist shot from Baron's hand toward the monster.
SWISH!
Seeing this, Zeke immediately sprang forward with his sword.
"HAAH!"
He unleashed the Great Purification power imbued in his sword toward the monster and black mist.
BOOM!
Golden sword strikes flew toward the monster.
ROAAAR!
Though the monster roared and tried resisting Zeke's attack, its tentacles melted away under Zeke's golden sword strikes, black fluid scattering everywhere.
But Zeke's attack couldn't prevent Baron's black mist from seeping into the monster's body.
As the monster's body, crumbling from the Great Purification power, merged with Baron's black mist, its form began changing.
CRUNCH!
The light chains and spear scattered, and the corroded brass vines fell away.
It transformed from amorphous flesh into a humanoid shape.
CRUNCH!
CRACK!
Two wings spread from its hunched back as it slowly rose.
Its solid black body had no facial features, as if wearing a mask.
Zeke raised his sword at the transformed black angel.
'An angel? No, not a complete one. An angelic fragment with angelic power. Closer to an artificially created Nephilim.'
Meanwhile, Baron's black mist enveloped the black angel's body, infusing it with power.
The black angel spread its wings and lifted into the air.
The mist condensed in the black angel's hands, forming black ring-shaped weapons.
Once it seemed ready, Baron commanded the black angel:
"Kill them all!"
With those words, the black angel hurled black rings at Zeke.
BOOM!
Two black rings spun toward Zeke in irregular trajectories.
Zeke charged forward and swung his sword at the black rings.
BOOM!
The golden force field from his sword deflected the fast-approaching black rings, changing their trajectory.
But the spinning black rings soon regained their path and aimed for Zeke's back.
This time Zeke unleashed a wind force field, shooting a powerful storm at the spinning black rings.
BOOM!
The storm from Zeke's sword wrapped around the angel's black rings, creating a whirlwind.
Then pitch-black darkness flowed from the black rings and began absorbing Zeke's whirlwind.
SCREECH!
The black rings, now containing the whirlwind, changed trajectory again.
This time they split in two,one flying toward Nabu and Ivan, the other toward Manna and the fallen Nigel beside her.
BOOM!
Nabu held up his book and used a word command to create a huge shield in the air against the approaching ring.
CLANG!
Fortunately, Nabu's shield deflected the ring.
Manna, protecting Nigel, also blocked the ring with a barrier.
Zeke rushed straight at the black angel while the rings targeted the High Table members.
RUMBLE!
Zeke swung his sword at the black angel while invoking Leviathan's chaos energy power.
BOOM!
The sword strike containing chaos energy that restricted constellation powers flew at the black angel.
The black angel spread its wings and flung sharp black fragments at Zeke.
SWISH!
The black fragments seemed unaffected by the chaos energy as they charged toward Zeke.
Unfazed, Zeke twisted in mid-air to dodge the fragments and charged at the black angel.
"HAAH!"
With a shout, he thrust his chaos-imbued sword into the black angel's body with full force.
Yet the black angel remained largely unaffected by Zeke's chaos energy.
'The chaos doesn't work?'
As Zeke frowned slightly, black mist flowed from where Leviathan pierced the black angel's body.
The mist touched Zeke's body and began corroding his clothes and skin.
Zeke immediately recalled Leviathan to his inventory and retreated.
Despite the brief contact, his clothes had vanished where the black mist touched, and his skin was stripped to raw flesh.
More surprisingly, the affected areas weren't regenerating.
'Even immortal body power can't regenerate it?'
This was an ability he hadn't seen in other angels.
There was clearly some secret in the black mist flowing from Baron's hand.
Then a message appeared:
[User's body has been injured by twisted causality.]
[Would you like to recover using Karma Points?]
A message appeared indicating recovery was possible using Karma Points, like when countering twisted causality.
Zeke realized the black mist in the black angel's body contained twisted causality power.
'It's almost certain that Arthur Draker can handle twisted causality.'
Zeke used Karma Points to heal his wounds.
SWISH!
His wounds healed as usual.
Baron, watching from behind, said,
"The power of black baptism cannot be healed by anything... Zeke Draker, what exactly are you?"
Zeke drew the holy sword Ascalon from his inventory and replied:
"Go to hell and ask around."
Simultaneously, light rippled around Zeke's body.
WOONG!
As the light faded, Zeke appeared transformed into an elf.
Baron couldn't help but be surprised by Zeke's sudden transformation into an elf.
Regardless of Baron's surprise, Zeke held his sword rippling with holy spirit energy and muttered lowly,
"Answer my call, Spirit of Light."