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Chapter 708
KUGGDDDDDD!
The gate to heaven opened by Metatron was already contaminated by distorted causality.
The heavenly legion passing through the contaminated gate transformed into outer beings' bodies, allowing them to enter the physical world directly while ignoring karma's sanctions.
PAJIJIIJIK!
As the distorted causality disrupted the balance of the physical world, a plasma storm erupted near the hole in the sky.
The heavenly legion, contaminated and transformed into outer beings, descended toward the abandoned continent through the plasma storm.
Metatron, who summoned hundreds of thousands of outer beings troops, spread dozens of pairs of tentacle wings and spoke in an eerie voice toward Zeke.
【Zeke Draker, I will destroy not only you... but all beings who follow you in the most painful way... You shall bear their suffering entirely.】
As those words finished, Metatron stretched out his hand again.
Then more than ten other holes appeared in the sky.
Inside each hole summoned by Metatron, different city landscapes were visible.
Mycenae, Atlas, Pannotia, Himonas, Giant Mountains, Cusco Kingdom, and the Eastern Muruk Empire,all places connected to Zeke were linked through these holes.
Zeke realized what Metatron was trying to do by seeing the holes connected to each continent.
"You intend to bring about Ragnarok here again?."
Metatron had already caused Ragnarok in the world before regression where Zeke didn't exist, bringing about the end.
He planned to destroy this current world by bringing Ragnarok again, starting with destroying the cities and people Zeke cherished.
As Zeke anticipated, Metatron planned to send contaminated heavenly legions through the holes connected to each continent.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
Hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers transformed into outer beings tried to disperse and march through the holes to each continent.
But then, something unexpected happened.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG!
Just as the heavenly soldiers were about to enter the holes, surprisingly powerful magic was fired from the opposite side.
It was from the hole connected to Athens, where Nirvana was located.
KUNG! KUNG! KUNG! KUNG!
Dozens of magic airships carrying magicians and automatic golems emerged from the hole connected to Athens.
Nirvana's magicians aboard the magic airships fired magical cannons at the contaminated heavenly soldiers.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG!
Powerful magical cannons were fired at the heavenly soldiers.
Then hundreds of golems loaded on the airships flew up into the sky.
KUGUGUGUGUGU!
Soon, numerous magic circles installed on the golems' bodies illuminated, creating plasma lightning that swept through the heavenly soldiers.
PAJIJIIIIJIK!
The heavenly soldiers began to retreat in the face of Nirvana's sudden attack.
Even Metatron was startled and hesitated, not expecting beings from the physical world to counterattack through the holes he created.
【What is this...?】
Master Jorge, the head of Nirvana and an archmage who achieved the ninth circle, shouted with maniacal laughter while standing on the airship deck.
"Success! It's a success!"
He had been able to complete fully combat-ready golems by receiving Hades' automaton research materials based on his complete recovery theory.
He had been preparing to open a gate to join Zeke in battle with his airships and golems when Metatron conveniently created a hole connected to the abandoned continent for them to enter through.
As Nirvana's airships pressured the heavenly soldiers from a distance, the Ark and allied fleet ships following behind also regrouped.
The allied ships blocked the holes alongside Nirvana to prevent the contaminated heavenly soldiers from entering the continents.
The Ark strengthened its defenses by firing its main cannons at the approaching external angelic beings.
Then the Black Sword Knights, Bird tribe, Beast kin, Vampires, Three-Eyed clan, and Barbarians, all armored in reinforced suits, emerged from the ships to block the swarming external angelic beings.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG!
The Black Sword Knights wearing improved Dragonslayer Hersions and the Bird tribe in Sky tribe reinforced suits led the charge, swinging swords and throwing spears at the external angelic beings.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
They were already experienced in dealing with outer being monstrosities.
The external angelic beings, corrupted by distorted causality and mindlessly charging forward, were little different from monstrosities.
The Black Sword Knights flew freely through the air, wielding enhanced aura blades against the external angelic beings flying toward the holes.
TUDUDUDUDUDUK!
External angelic beings hit by the Black Sword Knights' aura blades instantly turned to black ash and scattered.
But despite this, there were too many external angelic beings pouring out.
Even as they tried to block them somehow, at that moment, a group of angels attempted to break through their defense line and enter the hole.
Just then, a bizarre ship made of ice and bone appeared from inside the hole they were trying to enter.
KWADDDDDDEUK!
Bone arrows imbued with cold energy shot toward the approaching external angelic beings.
Two liches stood on the ship made of ice and bone.
"Master! I have arrived!"
"I have come too!"
Richmond and Bane, who had now reached the level of Lich Kings, had passed through the hole leading hundreds of ships made of ice and bone.
Their ships carried hundreds of Death Knights and countless skeleton soldiers.
This was because when Zeke absorbed not only Mephistopheles, the actual ruler of the demon realm, but also the Demon King's soul, the Overseer of the Abyss, master of all undead, decided to follow him.
As a result, he had ordered all undead summoned to the physical world to be placed under Richmond and Bane's control for support.
KADDDDEUK!
The Death Knights aboard the ships summoned ghost horses and flew into the air, charging straight at the external angelic beings.
Following them, skeleton soldiers also shot bone arrows at the external angelic beings, defending against their approach toward the hole.
As the soldiers did their part, Richmond stretched his hand upward, chanted a spell, and summoned the Tyrant Balrog who had become a dragon-type monstrosity.
KAAAAAAAK!
The summoned tyrant spewed black flames from its mouth, pushing back the external angelic beings approaching the ships.
As the Death Knights and undead continued their attacks, the external angelic beings changed direction and veered toward another hole.
Just as they were about to fly into the largest hole connected to the continent, a being with auspicious energy appeared from within.
UUUUUUNG!
It was a dragon from the Eastern Continent emitting a mysterious aura. It rose with its long body and breathed out toward the external angelic beings.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
External angelic beings swept up in the dragon's breath turned to ash and scattered.
Then a massive and splendid ship emerged smoothly from the hole.
A phoenix flag fluttered on that ship, and various divine beasts were protecting it.
There was only one person on the entire continent who could command dragons and dozens of divine beasts, and wave the phoenix flag, the symbol of the Muruk Empire.
Sultan Shahrazad Anatolia Shuraite, the pinnacle and ruler of the Eastern Continent, had personally led a great army here.
DUDUNG!
Following Shahrazad's flagship, thousands of Muruk Empire ships appeared.
Warriors and successors of the Muruk Empire aboard the ships shot arrows imbued with mystical arts and threw spears at the approaching external angelic beings.
PEOEOEOEOK!
External angelic beings hit by the dragon's breath, followed by spears and arrows imbued with Eastern Continent mystical arts, howled in pain and retreated.
Then the mystics aboard the ships summoned spirits and spiritual beasts to attack the external angelic beings.
Shahrazad watched this from the flagship with arms crossed, then turned her head upward.
There, Zeke was confronting Metatron.
Shahrazad slowly murmured while looking at Zeke.
"Zeke, do not worry about this place."
Shahrazad's voice, connected to Zeke through the system, was directly transmitted to him.
Zeke faced Metatron, leaving behind his comrades who were holding back hundreds of thousands of external angelic beings.
Gripping Excalibur, he glared at Metatron and said:,
"Ragnarok will not happen."
Metatron shook his head at Zeke's words.
【Wrong. The end will come, and the one bringing that end will not be me, but you, Zeke Draker.】
Zeke furrowed his brow at Metatron's words.
But there was no need to be swayed by Metatron's words anymore, so he calmly concentrated his divine power into his sword.
All he had to do was annihilate Metatron's soul and stabilize the physical world.
Just as Zeke was about to charge forward toward Metatron with his power-concentrated sword.
Suddenly, something felt strange.
'This is...?'
It felt as if the very dimension of this physical world where everyone including Zeke existed was being forcibly torn by a strong power.
And indeed, Zeke could see the dimension being torn.
JJEOJEOJEOJEOJEOK!
And through the gap in the forcibly torn dimension, something began to crawl out.
KEUREUREUREUKEUK!
They were none other than the Old Beings he had seen in the temple of the Distorted Constellation.
But these felt somewhat different from the Old Beings Zeke had seen there.
Zeke, who had completely opened the Akashic Records containing all information in the universe, could identify the nature of these Old Beings invading the dimension just by looking at them.
And these were completely different from the Old Beings Zeke had seen before.
Countless pieces of information flooded into Zeke's mind.
And only then could he understand.
What the identity of the 'distorted causality' used by those old beings and Metatron was.
"The world that disappeared after regression. Was it the karma that made up that place that created the distorted causality?"
To escape the wheel of fate, the final sage Jiemens Apollion, the Elder Dragon, and Zeke used the power of regression.
Regression was not simply turning back time.
It goes through a complex process of returning the state of karma that makes up the world back to its original state.
In that process, even the karma that had already been consumed returned to its starting point. As what existed became what had not existed, 'distorted causality' occurred.
And the only being who could perceive this distorted causality was the God of Chaos.
The God of Chaos knew this power was the only force that could kill the Creator, the Primordial Light, and tried to hide it, but Metatron discovered this fact.
After learning this, Metatron sealed the God of Chaos and then tried to handle the distorted causality to kill the Primordial God and become the new Creator God himself.
Zeke realized that by regressing again to protect his companions, he had created more distorted causality.
Thanks to this, Metatron, who had absorbed the God of Chaos and thrown his soul into that power, could become even stronger.
And Metatron used that distorted causality to manifest the old beings from the vanished dimension and summon them here.
The old beings from vanished time, breaking through dimensions, enveloped Metatron who had become an outsider.
From Metatron, who had become like the corrupted old beings, emanated a power that felt like it could tear apart the entire dimension.
Looking at Metatron, Zeke said,
"Distorted causality is merely a power that deviates from existing laws. With that alone, you cannot create the new world you speak of. Only destruction will remain."
KUGUGUGUGUGU!
Metatron, connected to the old beings through extending tentacles, looked down at Zeke.
【That no longer matters, Zeke Draker. After eliminating you as an impurity, I will create a new stage with the power dwelling within you.】
Zeke felt that all that remained in Metatron, who had thrown himself into Distorted causality, was only madness and hatred.
Meanwhile, the old beings who crossed over from vanished time and dimension injected corrupt power into Metatron, and the dimension was distorted by the distorted causality.
PAJIJIJIK!
Then the constellations that couldn't escape from the celestial realm began to descend to the physical world in corrupted forms.
When hundreds of celestial constellations lined up before Metatron, their presence was formidable.
Seeing this, Zeke furrowed his brow, gripped Excalibur tightly, and steadied his breathing.
If he couldn't stop Metatron and the celestial constellations, Ragnarok would occur again and everything would be annihilated.
'Even if I am annihilated, I will stop them and protect my precious ones.'
It was when he was steeling his resolve and stepping forward with his sword.
A message appeared before Zeke's eyes.
[The boundary between dimensions becomes vague due to distorted causality.]
[A being from beyond the dimension casts its gaze across the vague boundary.]
[The Hero King looks upon the Transcendent God.]