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Chapter 709
'Master Kaisir?'
Zeke couldn't help but be surprised by the sudden message from Hero King Kaisir.
While he was too shocked to react, more messages appeared before his eyes.
[The Hero King expresses his intention.]
[The Hero King tells the Transcendent God he's being stupid.]
[The Hero King scolds him about when he's going to use the Fairy King's Tears and Chronos’s treasury.]
Zeke recalled the items stored in his inventory at Kaisir's words.
'What if I use the Fairy King's Tears and Chronos’s treasury together?'
Only then did Zeke realize why Kaisir was sending him these messages.
Looking at the hundreds of corrupted constellations lined up before Metatron, he took out the Fairy King's Tears and Chronos’s treasury key from his inventory.
Using Chronos’s treasury would make it possible to summon heroes from the past through a medium.
Zeke turned his gaze to the Fairy King's Tears that could summon the Fairy King and the Chronos’s treasury key, and began infusing them with the power of the mind sword.
UWUWUWUWUNG!
The brilliant power of the Primordial Light dwelled in the Fairy King's Tears and Chronos’s treasury, making them emit power stronger than their original potency.
[The power of the Mind sword strengthens the Fairy King's Tears and Chronos’s treasury.]
[The enhanced Fairy King's Tears creates a passage connecting the phenomenal world and the fairy realm.]
[The enhanced Chronos’s treasury summons spirits related to the Fairy King.]
A massive passage transcending dimensions formed in front of Zeke.
As unusual power concentrated, Metatron ordered the corrupted celestial constellations to stop it.
【Crush him immediately!】
The constellations who received Metatron's order rushed toward Zeke with horrific screams.
They revealed tentacles stretching in all directions and sharp teeth, emitting corrupted divinity.
KAAAAAAAK!
The constellations, having gained power stronger than their original divinity due to distorted causality, were each already like disasters.
Although hundreds of such constellations were charging, Zeke remained completely still, focusing on maintaining the passage connected to the fairy realm.
KAAAAAAAK!
The constellations leading the charge tried to unleash powers imbued with corrupted divinity toward the concentrating Zeke.
But then a massive barrier appeared, blocking the corrupted constellation's power extending toward Zeke.
Guardian Innocent, wearing a black mask while holding a staff, was protecting Zeke.
Being a shadow avatar made from the soul of a great sage, the barrier he created was solid.
But the constellations paid no heed and unleashed their powers even more strongly against Innocent's barrier.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
The powers of the constellations, transformed by twisted causality, were in an enhanced state, possessing power beyond imagination.
Eventually, cracks quickly formed in Innocent's barrier.
PAJIJIJIJIK!
Loud plasma currents sparked from the cracking barrier.
Black smoke imbued with corrupted divinity was eating away at the barrier.
Soon as the barrier broke helplessly, the black smoke emitted by the constellations tried to envelop Zeke.
But then a massive storm arose.
KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWA!
The black smoke emitted by the constellations was swept away by the storm, and simultaneously something flew toward the constellations.
Elemental Sword
Gold Force Field
Anti-Gravity Sword
A sword imbued with powerful gravitational force suddenly appeared and cut down the constellations in one stroke.
PUHEEEEEEEK!
The sword imbued with gravitational force didn't stop with one strike. Each time the sword passed, the organic bodies of the constellations exploded with loud noises.
KAAAAAAAK!
The constellations roared toward the unidentified being rapidly destroying their physical forms.
At one moment, the being moving rapidly among the hundreds of constellations stopped, held up the sword, and slowly chanted.
Elemental Sword
Fire Force Field
White Flame Dance
Hundreds of streams of white flames sprouted from his sword and extended toward the constellations.
The purest flames that could annihilate even souls burned the corrupted bodies of the constellations.
KUAAAAAAAAAK!
KURURURURUK!
KAAAAAAAK!
The celestial constellations that had abandoned their original divinity due to twisted causality and transformed into corrupted outsider bodies were engulfed in pure white flames and scattered into ashes.
The sword-wielder gradually revealed himself amid the white flames.
A handsome man with fairy-like features, waving brilliant sky-blue hair.
Despite his delicate appearance, he was recorded in legend as the most battle-hardened one who achieved the greatest feats in history Hero King Kaisir.
He had directly descended to the phenomenal world.
Kaisir opened his mouth toward the burning constellations, twisting the wrist holding his sword.
"You damn bastards, you look disgustingly ugly."
Though not recorded in history, the Hero King had quite a foul mouth.
He raised his sword imbued with white flames again and shouted toward the celestial constellations retreating behind him.
“You celestial pieces of shit! I already hated your guts, so this works out just fine! Let’s have a good old-fashioned slaughter today!”
Kaisir, along with his hysterical laughter, wrapped himself in storm and white flames and charged toward the constellations like a tempest.
BOOM!
The pure white flames carried by the storm instantly incinerated the polluted flesh of the constellations.
The celestial constellations, each equivalent to a calamity, turned to ash and scattered away, unable to properly block the Hero King.
If they had descended to the physical realm while maintaining their original divinity, even Kaisir wouldn't have been able to overwhelm them so one-sidedly.
But they were celestial constellations who chose the flesh of corrupted outer beings, abandoning their divinity. To them, the power of the purest elements was their nemesis.
Thanks to this, Kaisir could face hundreds of celestial constellations alone.
Metatron was inevitably displeased, witnessing the sudden appearance of the Hero King and his overwhelming might.
Just as he was trying to eliminate the impurity Zeke and summon Ragnarok once again, troublemakers kept popping up.
Metatron began to think that he might truly be unable to accomplish his purpose like this.
[Zeke Draker….the divine plan cannot be disrupted by the likes of you.]
He decided to unleash the final power he had been reserving until the end.
An ominous wave began to ripple from Metatron's body, connected to the old beings.
RUMBLE!
Zeke noticed signs that Metatron was attempting something different from before.
To stop Metatron, he summoned all his guardians.
Lilith, Innocent, Caligula, Brontos, Ashvin, and even the shadow incarnations he created from the constellations he had absorbed were all summoned.
RUMBLE!
Even Hera of the Abyss, the beast of the apocalypse, and the ancient dragon Tiamat revealed themselves.
Zeke issued a command to those lined up around him.
"Shadow incarnations, cover me."
Immediately after finishing his words, Zeke raised Excalibur and charged toward Metatron, with the guardians and divine beasts following behind him.
BOOM!
The corrupted ancient being connected to Metatron swelled, and from within, strange looking amorphous outer beings burst out.
Dozens of outer beings with constellation-level power created by old beings flew over to block Zeke's path.
BOOM!
In response, the guardians stepped forward and attacked the outer beings.
The guardians, strengthened by Zeke's divinity to possess constellation-level power, were not at all inferior to the outer beings created by old beings.
Especially remarkable were the powers of Rachel, the beast of the apocalypse, and Tiamat.
Hera poured out abyssal flames in all directions, while Tiamat exhaled abyssal darkness.
The outer beings, swept up in the powerful attacks of Hera and Tiamat, hesitated before inevitably receiving the guardians' attacks head-on.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The flesh of the outer beings exploded under the guardians' fierce attacks.
However, the outer beings created with the power of old beings didn't easily perish.
From what appeared to be destroyed remains, they began to regenerate, soon returning to their original state.
The regenerated outer beings charged at the guardians again, but the result was not much different.
They merely repeated the cycle of destruction and regeneration.
While the apocalyptic beasts and guardians were dealing with the outer beings created by old beings, Zeke flew directly toward Metatron.
The closer he got to Metatron, the more clearly he could feel the power of the waves spreading in all directions.
At first unable to grasp this power, Zeke realized its identity as he drew closer.
'This is... a unique domain?'
All constellations possessed their own unique domains.
Zeke had thought Metatron's unique domain was the celestial realm itself, but it seemed there was a separate unique domain.
In this tense situation, if Metatron summoned his unique domain, the tide of battle could quickly turn.
'I must prevent him from fully summoning his unique domain somehow.'
Zeke flew faster toward Metatron, breaking through the waves.
Soon he approached Metatron, who was merged with the ancient being.
As soon as Zeke judged he had reached the domain, he didn't hesitate to launch his sword strike toward Metatron.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Zeke's sword strike, imbued with divinity, flew toward the concentrating Metatron.
But once again, the ancient being connected to him extended its tentacles to block Zeke's attack.
And at that moment, the corrupted old beings transmitted their will to Zeke.
—We need.
—A new world where we can exist.
—Drifting through dimensions is lonely.
—It is a terrible thing.
The corrupted old beings, who tore through dimensions from a vanished world to appear here, were trying to take root in this physical realm through Metatron.
Zeke pointed Excalibur toward these corrupted old beings.
"This place is not permitted to you. Forgotten beings."
At Zeke's words, the corrupted old beings struggled and let out a roaring sound.
—We will be here!
—We don't want to be forgotten!
—We want to continue existing!
The forgotten beings who roared hurled thousands of tentacles toward Zeke.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The tentacles wrapped around Zeke's body, trying to absorb his divinity.
But Zeke wouldn't leave those tentacles alone.
Soul Technique
Triple Spell
Will of Great Annihilation
As the Triple Spell containing divinity activated, the enormous will of Great Annihilation unfolded through Excalibur.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Light containing the will of Great Annihilation spread out.
The tentacles trying to wrap around Zeke all turned to ash and scattered the moment they touched the light.
Simultaneously, the corrupted old beings struggling not to be forgotten began to perish in agony when exposed to the light of Great Annihilation.
—No!
—We want to.
—Exist here.
—We don't want to disappear!
Though they struggled and screamed, the old beings were swept away by the light of Great Annihilation and faded into nothingness.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
While all the old beings disappeared, Metatron, who had been connected to them, still stood there motionless.
The waves emanating from Metatron's body had ceased.
Zeke approached Metatron slowly, sword in hand.
Surprisingly, Metatron's body began to crack and gradually crumble.
'What is this?'
As Metatron's crumbling body scattered, Zeke felt the space around him undergoing a dramatic change.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Soon, an unfamiliar city began to rise over the devastated, abandoned continent.
Ordinary unique domains typically summoned an isolated dimensional system to encroach upon an area.
But now Metatron was directly summoning his unique domain itself into the physical world.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
The fully formed city revealed its grandeur.
At that moment, Metatron, who rose above the city spreading his luminous wings, looked at Zeke and said:
[Zeke Draker, now that you've stepped onto my 'stage,' you have no hope left.]
It was a fully restored Metatron, having recovered his original divinity rather than the corrupted flesh that had thrown itself into the distorted causality.
Zeke recalled the word 'stage' that he mentioned.
‘So that means… his Domain is…’
At that moment, a message appeared before Zeke's eyes.
[You have recognized Metatron's unique domain ‘Deus Ex Machina’.]
A Domain where any problem that exists within the stage can be justified and resolved through its scripted direction.
Metatron must have planned this from the beginning, throwing himself into distorted causality and summoning the corrupted old beings.
Because in the domain of ‘Deus Ex Machina’, everything could be reversed.
As the master of this stage and the god of machinery, Metatron stretched out his hand toward Zeke.
[Now this tragedy ends, and a new stage will unfold.]
With those words, Metatron snapped his fingers.
Simultaneously, Zeke collapsed and disappeared from the stage Metatron had created.