Chapter 263
Chapter 263
Chapter 263
VS Abel (2)
A desolate space completely dyed in purple. A place that even immortals could never survive unscathed - the supreme sacred ground and revered inner sanctum of outer space. The temple of the 'Outer God' Shub.
But those who had set foot in this temple of Shub were among the strongest of the immortals. They were beings with the prestigious names of the Seven Great Gods and Archangels.
"Thank you for allowing us to enter the sacred ground, Shub."
Haniel of the Seven Great Gods, the God of Mercy, bowed very politely to the being before him, in a manner unbefitting his own status.
From the center of the temple, Shub, embracing a pet magical beast with a languid expression, opened her mouth.
"Hehe, you're gradually crumbling because you cannot fulfill your assigned duties."
"It must all be the will of our great Father."
Haniel nodded his head calmly.
Shub turned her head to look at the boy standing apart from the group.
"Tartian Lil... You've lost your contractor and territory and are consumed with rage."
"Shut up, lady."
"Hehe, that impudent mouth of yours remains the same."
Nug, who had been standing silently beside Shub, expelled quiet anger. But surprisingly, Shub didn't seem particularly angry at the Death King's rudeness.
Rather, the Death King glared at Shub as if even more irritated by her attitude.
"You seem quite relaxed despite your direct lineage being annihilated. Have you been buried in this place for hundreds of millions of years until all your emotions died?"
If the deities of the Pantheon had lived for tens of thousands of years, the being before them required multiplying those tens of thousands by ten thousand more to properly calculate her age.
"Hehehe, for beings like us, emotions dried up long ago."
"...The Demon God was different."
"He certainly was different. But wouldn't it be rude to compare someone special to the ordinary?"
"......"
"Stop nitpicking and think about how to survive. Berus' erosion is accelerating, so this place won't last long either."
At those words, not only the Death King but everyone else's expressions hardened.
"...Is the Outer God, who fears nothing in heaven and earth, speaking such weak words?"
"Berus' power, which shattered the Creator God's causality, has now become so mighty that it cannot be handled by the power of those belonging to this world. I too am part of this world, so I would be outnumbered against Berus."
"Then that means the only remaining hope is that brat..."
Shub nodded her head.
"That child received the Creator God's arrangement, but is the world's only irregular who escaped from His hands... A being born with a chaotic fate that even I cannot predict."
"...Is there nothing we can do?"
"We must prevent Berus from reshaping this world until that child arrives. If the laws are completely reversed, nothing we do will matter..."
"When might this reversal of the world's laws occur?"
"Probably when I am annihilated."
"......"
"Unlike Deus, who split his own body, or the Demon God who resides in another dimension entirely, I am ultimately supporting the laws of the present world to a certain degree."
"...I see."
The Death King, also being a supreme deity, immediately understood what Shub was saying.
"So now Berus will come with full force to kill you."
"Yes, he's coming right away."
"...!"
Shub's gaze turned toward the far reaches of the temple. Naturally, everyone in the hall also looked in the direction of Shub's gaze...
"...What is that?"
A massive achromatic mass of chaos appeared, smashing through the temple's entrance. The outside of the temple was an absolutely inviolable domain where approach was impossible without Shub's permission, yet that mass of chaos had invaded that domain with complete ease.
"What kind of monster is that?"
It had limbs but wasn't bipedal, crawling toward them as if creeping forward. A pure white chaotic being whose nature as a living creature was questionable.
What made that being even more terrifying was that absolute divinity could also be felt from within its chaos-formed body.
"Crawling... chaos?"
If one were to name such a being, it would probably be something like this. But Shub shook her head and said:
"No, that's Berus."
"What? That, that's Berus!"
Not only the Death King, but even the Archangels who had recently fought a life-and-death battle with Berus widened their eyes.
"Wh-what?"
"What on earth happened to make him fall to such a state?"
Their surprise didn't last long. The chaotic monster presumed to be Berus began contaminating the temple's Outer Force with something pure white and extending its power toward them.
The monster's momentum, which had been expanding its domain with the force to devour everything at once, was blocked when Shub earnestly rose from her seat.
Shub said:
"That's not a failure."
"Not a failure?"
"To use new laws, one must completely escape from existing laws."
"Then that's his appearance after escaping from the laws?"
"Since even his own essence exists under the Creator God's laws, he thought he could only become the true new god of a new world by breaking through that essence."
"...Truly frightening. Having enjoyed the position of supreme god for tens of thousands of years, it's about time he stepped down."
Now that being had truly escaped from life and death. A being impossible to handle through force.
The Death King and everyone else here realized this fact upon seeing Berus' transformed appearance.
Shub let out what might have been her first sigh in tens of thousands of years.
"This is something that must inevitably happen if beings called gods exist with personalities."
Berus, transformed into chaos, raised his upper body and looked down at Shub.
-Shub...
"...Berus."
-Submit to me... obediently...
Having become such an exceptional being that he could guarantee victory even when invading the enemy's stronghold, Berus was now on a different level.
No matter how much Shub also wielded infinite power, she would ultimately be annihilated by Berus after repeating tedious wars of attrition.
Even so, Shub did not retreat.
"That cannot be done."
The goat horns on Shub's head began emanating infinite power. This began to somewhat offset Berus' influence, which had escaped the world's laws.
Shub, who had always exuded boredom with a languid expression, now glared at Berus with a cold smile.
"I must have my revenge for my children."
***
BAAAAANG!
With a heavy roar, Rudian's body was flung backward. He didn't know how many times this had happened.
However, Abel seemed intent on practicing his determination to kill by any means necessary, earnestly wielding his Genesis Energy to drive Rudian back.
"...Guh!"
"You still have the leisure to groan, I see."
FLASH!
The Azure Dragon Rending Strike burst forth from Abel's hand once again.
'That can't be blocked by ordinary methods...'
The Azure Dragon Rending Strike that Chapter 4 Abel deployed already possessed power equivalent to divine authority. It couldn't be blocked by overlapping several 9th Class spells.
However, the method for current Rudian to block that was quite simple. He just needed to use his completed divinity with his imagination to create a barrier.
BAAAANG!
Abel's Azure Dragon Rending Strike, unlike before, began to be blocked and split by Rudian's barrier.
Even though his attack was blocked, Abel slightly raised one corner of his mouth as if finding it interesting.
"...Hmph, you've finally come to your senses."
Having blocked Abel's Azure Dragon Rending Strike, Rudian felt the divinity coursing through his entire body and deeply reflected.
'I've been greatly mistaken until now.'
Despite completing his divinity, he had foolishly done the stupid thing of reverting to the lower law of magic because he didn't know how to use it. And this wasn't even against an inferior being, but right in front of someone clearly superior to himself!
It was tantamount to strangling his own neck with his own power.
"I have already gathered all the power of the Seven-Colored World. Even without the Seven-Colored World as an amplifier, the divinity I gathered and ascended with that power differs in quality from other gods' divinity."
Abel's Genesis Energy was the same. In the original work, Abel had also collected the Seven-Colored Worlds one by one and combined their power to complete his Genesis Energy.
Since Rudian was the same, when similar types of power clashed, how could it be impossible to block?
'However, I haven't yet completed a power like Abel's Genesis Energy.'
Therefore, the current battle could be said to be the process of completing that power. Of course, with the footnote that it came with a life-threatening gamble.
Rudian's sword clashed with Abel's sword once again. Unlike being pathetically overwhelmed by Abel at first, he was now fighting on equal terms with Abel wielding his Genesis Energy.
'Rather, this is normal now.'
The Administrator left a brief impression while watching Rudian and Abel clash fiercely.
'The intruder's technical capability is overwhelming, but that guy has sufficient divinity to fill that gap.'
By the standards of the martial world where the Administrator had once existed, it could be said to be exactly like a fight between the orthodox and demonic paths.
'Deus' assistance wasn't entirely a bad thing. Even if unintended, it resulted in late blooming.'
The Administrator's eyes sharpened as he watched the two clash.
"Soon, the balance will break."
And surprisingly, it was Rudian who broke that balance first. The longer the fight continued, the more exchanges they had, the more tremendous growth Rudian achieved, gradually completing his own realm.
"...Grrk!"
When his power was repelled, Abel couldn't hide his disbelief. Just moments ago, he had been the one mocking whether there was leisure to groan, but in just a few hours, the situation had completely reversed.
And Abel's Genesis Energy, which had been radiating brilliant golden light, was now completely split by the silver light flowing from Rudian's entire body.
"......"
"What is the name of that power?"
Genesis Energy with chaotic properties would devour other chaos when encountering it. If it met power too difficult to devour, it would struggle to the end and cause mutual annihilation.
'But how could only my Genesis Energy disappear?'
However, the silver power flowing from Rudian's entire body was a new type of authority that completely ignored existing laws.
Rudian briefly pondered what to name his completed authority. But that contemplation wasn't long.
"Reduction Technique."
"...A good name."
WHOOOOOSH!
At that moment, the golden Genesis Energy emanating from Abel's entire body began changing to a viscous gray.
"...!"
"I'm still technically lacking, but... your overall capability has surpassed the 'original' me."
"...Thanks for the compliment."
"So now I can go all out too."
"...!"
"Though it's not power I gained with my own strength."
From Abel's self-deprecating smile, Rudian recognized that this power was the characteristic trait of the Avatar of destruction bestowed by Berus.
'...Can I do it?'
This power called Reduction Technique that Rudian had completed was ultimately a power completed to counter opposing laws. The problem was that the power Abel was displaying as his full strength showed an amplification rate of a completely different dimension than before.
Just then...
"It's about time to intervene."
"...?"
As gray power burst from Abel, the dreary field began changing even more gloomily under its influence.
The Administrator, who landed beside Rudian, said in a cheerful voice:
"You now have the 'chance' to challenge me and survive. Congratulations."
"...You're saying this at this moment?"
"Because anything beyond this is unrelated to your growth."
"......"
Even so, the Administrator's intervention was clearly strange. The Administrator was supposed to maintain a neutral position, not be Rudian's ally.
But before he could guess the reason...
"Take this."
"...What is this?"
The Administrator handed Rudian something in orb form.
"Originally, even if you obtained it, you wouldn't have been able to use it... but since you've achieved the minimum usage condition of 'divine status,' it should be possible now."
"...!"
As soon as Rudian received the orb the Administrator handed him, he immediately recognized its identity. The final terminal of Adi that he had never seen in substance.
6th Generation Combat Artificial Intelligence, Shambhala. That had now come into Rudian's hands.