625
Chapter 625
ROAAAAAR!
A horrific sound shook the souls of everyone present, including Zeke.
‘UGH.'
Even Zeke, with his Constellation rank, was significantly affected by that sound.
Below, Manna and Ivan were struggling to maintain their barrier.
Zeke sent down Innocent to protect them safely.
'Was I too hasty in breaking the seal?'
Being composed of Karma Data, he thought he'd have the advantage with his Kabbalah System.
However, unlike his expectations, Arthur Draker seemed thoroughly prepared.
'Must prevent the Demon King's resurrection at all costs.'
Zeke tried to approach Baron while piercing through the fierce shockwaves with his sword.
But suddenly, an even more powerful force arose and pushed Zeke back.
"UGH!"
RUMBLE!
The gate's hole opened wide again and extended a tentacle like a tongue toward the bookshelf's hole.
Then a black form rippled in the bookshelf's hole and began reacting to the tentacle that surged from the monstrous gate's hole.
TSSSSSS!
Suddenly, a black beam shot straight from the bookshelf's hole toward the gate.
WHIRRRRR!
The monstrous gate opened its mouth wide to receive the black beam.
TSSSSSS!
'That's?'
Zeke realized the black beam shot from the bookshelf's hole was a type of Karma Data.
Baron planned to resurrect the Demon King's soul that was sealed as Karma Data in the Great Sage's archive using that gate and Harvey Draker's corrupted body.
Though only half the soul was sealed here, even a tiny fraction of the Demon King's soul awakening could greatly impact the material world's balance.
'Must stop it.'
Zeke swung his sword to block the black beam shooting toward the gate.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
He tried blocking the Karma Data transmission with radiant lightning, but such physical attacks were ineffective.
'Then...'
But first, he needed to physically block that hole.
Zeke shouted to Nigel beside him.
"Master! Please block that hole!"
Nigel nodded at Zeke's words and drew her sword while grabbing Nabu's nape.
"Nabu, move over there!"
"EEK! Alright! Hold tight!"
Nabu immediately controlled the flying carpet toward the bookshelf's hole.
Meanwhile, changes began occurring in the monstrous gate that had absorbed the black beam.
THUD!
Small protrusions formed on top of the gate before holes appeared there.
The holes twitched like they were breathing and spat something out.
SLITHER!
Black organic matter began flowing out.
But rather than falling to the floor, these substances merged together to form a shape and seeped into the floating monster angel's body.
Seeing this, Zeke furrowed his brow and drew Leviathan.
Then he activated Leviathan's unique authority,'Chaos Energy'.
WOOOONG!
The power of Chaos Energy that nullifies Constellation authority spread in all directions.
Baron raised both hands toward Zeke in response.
RUMBLE!
Black energy tinted Baron's hands as he countered the Chaos Energy.
TSSSSSS!
Simultaneously, as black matter continued seeping into the monster angel's body, his appearance gradually changed.
From wearing horrific monstrous armor, he transformed into a knight wearing armor made of black crystals.
Zeke launched a sword strike imbued with Chaos Energy toward this.
RUMBLE!
The sword strike infused with Chaos Energy flew toward the gate and monster angel.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The sword strike plunged downward creating powerful shockwaves.
WOOOONG!
As vibrations rang out, a translucent membrane formed in front of the monster angel.
It was a barrier created by Baron and the monster mages.
RUMBLE!
Strong shockwaves spread around as the barrier collided with Zeke's sword strike.
Zeke felt Baron's distorted causality power pushing back his Chaos Energy.
'Then...'
Realizing Chaos Energy wasn't working, rather than panicking, Zeke gripped Ascalon in his other hand and gathered energy.
Since Chaos Energy wasn't completely ineffective, he couldn't release its power. However, as he couldn't use other authorities while using Chaos Energy, Zeke drew upon pure sword power alone.
The power of Infinite Sword Technique at its peak concentrated in Zeke's sword.
WOOOONG!
Ascalon let out a powerful sword cry.
'Focus the mind into one.'
Zeke recalled the teachings of Sethon Draker, who had given him enlightenment about the mind sword.
At that time, Zeke was not yet ready, so he could only understand the basic principles of the Mind Sword without fully grasping its deeper meaning.
But now, after continuous growth, Zeke could understand what Sethon had tried to convey.
'The sword and I are one.'
The oldest maxim that had been engraved in his mind since he first held a sword.
Only now, having transcended human limitations, did he recall that maxim again.
WOOOOOONG!
Ascalon let out a long cry as if responding to Zeke's will.
Zeke pointed Ascalon at Baron while holding Leviathan, which was emitting chaos energy, in his other hand.
Then he slowly brought the sword down from top to bottom.
His sword split the world in half.
Infinite Sword Technique Final Form
Mind Sword Technique
One Sword
A single strike of the sword.
This was the final form of the Infinite Sword Technique that Zeke unleashed.
Zeke's extremely slow One Sword was aimed directly at Baron.
Baron ignored Zeke's sword strike and focused on defending the Demon Angel with distorted causality.
But then something completely unexpected happened.
"COUGH!"
Black blood flowed from Baron's mouth.
"HACK!"
Black blood continuously streamed from Baron's nose, eyes, and mouth.
He looked at Zeke with an expression of disbelief.
"H-how is this possible…?"
Zeke's One Sword was the final stage of the sword of the mind that he had realized.
The ultimate of ultimates of pure sword essence that even distorted causality could not handle.
That's why even Baron couldn't block it.
Baron, having taken severe damage to his soul from One Sword, couldn't properly maintain his power.
Moreover, what appeared to be a small scratch from One Sword gradually grew larger, creating countless cracks in Baron's soul.
WOOOONG!
The gate and barrier that were being maintained with Baron as the axis began to collapse.
"ARRRRRGH!"
Finally, Baron spat blood from all seven holes and screamed like a madman.
But this wasn't the end.
RUMBLE!
Behind him, Nigel could be seen unleashing soul technique toward the hole in the library.
"HAAAAAH!"
Nigel swung her sword at the library's hole, raising a double spell with all her might.
CRASH!
The sword strike imbued with soul technique power slashed at the library's hole.
Though it seemed to shake for a moment as if taking damage, the black light was still flowing into the Demon Angel through the gate.
Seeing this, Zeke clenched his teeth and furrowed his brow.
'In this case, there's only one way.'
Zeke withdrew the chaos energy and revealed his divine power.
RUMBLE!
The power of the constellation burst forth from Zeke's entire body.
Seeing Zeke raise his divine power, Baron sensed something ominous and shouted while spitting blood.
"Stop him!"
At Baron's command, the demon mages turned their daggers toward Zeke.
WOOOOOOOOO!
As strange sounds echoed from the daggers they were holding, an eerie energy surged.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!
The eerie energies rose up and created translucent spirit bodies.
SCREEEEEECH!
The moment they appeared, the wraiths flew toward Zeke while letting out horrible ghostly wails.
But then.
RAT! TAT! TAT! TAT! TAT!
Ivan, who was being protected by Innocent, jumped into the air and fired his cursed crossbow at the wraiths summoned by the demon mages.
SCREEEEEECH!
The wraiths hit by the curse imbued arrows screamed and their translucent forms scattered like mist.
However, that mist made of eerie energy soon gathered again to form the shapes of wraiths.
Then Ivan, standing in the air on the barrier created by Manna, took out several arrowheads from his chest.
He firmly gripped the arrowheads in his hand and chanted a curse spell.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
A purple aura flickered from the arrowheads imbued with powerful curse energy.
Ivan threw the arrowheads straight at the wraiths.
The arrowheads emitting purple aura penetrated the translucent bodies of the wraiths according to Ivan's will.
WOOOOOONG!
And soon the vibrating arrowheads created a hexagram, and purple lights flowed out and connected with each other.
The wraiths were trapped inside the completed hexagram and couldn't escape, fixed in place.
SCREEEEEECH!
The wraiths wailed ghostly screams and tried desperately to escape, but Ivan's curse trap was even more effective against bodiless wraiths, so they couldn't break free.
That's when Guardian Innocent appeared behind Ivan.
WOOOOOONG!
Innocent aimed his staff, which was rippling with light, at the wraiths trapped in the hexagram.
Then amazingly, the wraiths began to be sucked into Innocent's staff that he was aiming.
SCREEEEEECH!
The wraiths let out terrible ghostly wails and tried to escape, but they couldn't break free from the suction power flowing from Innocent's staff.
HISS! HISS! HISS! HISS!
Finally, the wraiths made of eerie energy scattered back into mist form and completely flowed into Innocent's staff.
Then some of the demon mages who had summoned the wraiths collapsed to the ground with trembling hands holding their daggers.
Neither Baron nor the demon mages chanting spells could properly maintain the barrier anymore.
Then the black light flowing from the library's hole began to gradually dissipate.
Reading the situation, Zeke flew quickly toward that spot.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Zeke, his whole body wrapped in shadows, charged straight toward the black light flowing into the demon form's gate.
Then he extended his shadows to envelop the black light and began absorbing the karma data contained within.
HISS! HISS!
Large amounts of karma data began flowing into Zeke's Kabbalah system through the shadows.
At that moment, a voice echoed in Zeke's ears.
[You, who are worthy. Accept me.]
He could feel the Demon King's voice that corroded souls digging into his mind.
Zeke focused on absorbing the karma data while trying hard to reject that voice.
But then, a message appeared before Zeke's eyes.
[Corrupted karma data detected.]
[Absorbing corrupted karma data may affect the user's soul.]
[Strongly recommend stopping this action.]
[If absorption of corrupted karma data continues, a forced stop command will be executed by the Kabbalah system.]
A warning appeared saying that the system itself would forcibly stop the absorption if he continued absorbing corrupted data against the user Zeke's will.
But Zeke didn't stop absorbing karma data with his shadows despite the system's warning.
Instead, Zeke gave a different command to the system.
'System, use karma points to purify the corrupted karma data.'
Just like he had normalized distorted causality using karma points, he tried to restore the corrupted karma data using points as well.
[Accept me completely. I shall grant you the power to rule the world.]
As Zeke tried hard to reject the voice imbued with powerful force, another system message appeared before his eyes.
[Corrupted karma data remains highly dangerous even after restoration is executed.]
[Strongly recommend stopping this action.]
Zeke commanded purification again despite the system's warning.
In the end, since Zeke was the system's user, it could not refuse.
[Restoring corrupted karma data.]
HISS! HISS! HISS!
The corrupted karma data Zeke absorbed began transferring into the system, converted into complete data by consuming karma points.
Though the system warned it still wouldn't be safe after purification, there was no choice.
It was an improvisation to prevent the Demon King's karma data from flowing into the Demon Angel.
But this action by Zeke produced a completely unexpected result.
[Part of the corrupted karma data is being restored.]
[The memories of 'Jiemens Apollion' recorded in the karma data are being transferred to the user.]