Chapter 134
Chapter 134
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 134
Chapter Title: Guild Master Isn't Enough with Just the Game
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Kaisha came to understand more and more what "divinity" truly meant and how it should be handled as the fight dragged on.
It was a form of domain dominance.
An authority over who could more freely wield "neural power" within the same space.
Depending on the level of divinity, the system—or rather, the space itself—allowed higher-level beings to exert greater influence over that world.
Lenox's attacks came crashing down.
Boom! Kwakwakwa-boom!!
As Kaisha dodged the barrage and dashed across the rooftops, the buildings beneath her feet exploded chaotically.
Leaping up to the top of a building, Kaisha instinctively activated "God's Dignity," and fierce winds began to whirl around her.
Whooooosh—
At this moment, "God's Dignity" wasn't meant to threaten Lenox; it was an attempt to secure her own domain.
"......"
Lenox's eyes gleamed dangerously from afar as he watched.
Still immature.
From the way Kaisha struggled to handle the space, Lenox was convinced she was a being who had only just awakened to divinity.
And yet, she wasn't being pushed back.
Like a lotus blooming in the mud, Kaisha stubbornly maintained her own space even within Lenox's overwhelming field.
Probably due to her innate overwhelming affinity for space.
In other words, her neural power was extraordinary.
If she got just a little more accustomed to it here, she could become a major variable...
He needed to finish her quickly.
Whoosh.
"!"
Kaisha's eyes widened as Lenox suddenly appeared.
Regardless of her startled expression, black neural lightning—barely visible in the darkness of night—exploded explosively from behind her back.
Kwaaaang—!!
Lenox, who had been aiming to pierce her throat, flinched and hastily vanished.
Suddenly, Kaisha's power erupted.
She instantly teleported after Lenox, her eyes blazing as she raised her fist.
Ultra-high-density neural power compressed into her clenched gauntlet, warping space grotesquely, causing Lenox to flinch for a moment.
[Heaven-Earth Upheaval: Sky-Shattering Fist]
Whoosh—
Lenox vanished like a puff of smoke, and Kaisha's punch struck empty air. She immediately unleashed neural lightning instead of a shield.
Pajijijik!!
Lenox, who had been lunging for an opening, paused and looked up at her.
Realizing that close-range combat—compressing power and releasing it quickly before it dispersed under Lenox's spatial dominance—was more advantageous, Kaisha sheathed her sword entirely.
"You're not good at close-quarters brawling, are you?"
"I have no choice. Gods rarely fight directly."
"You grew up too delicately."
Kaisha smirked mockingly down at Lenox with a pout.
Lenox was on the ground.
Kaisha was high in the air.
It was the first reversal of positions since the two had begun fighting one-on-one.
As Kaisha exuded a fairly imperious divine dignity from the sky, Lenox's brow furrowed in displeasure.
This was his domain.
"......"
Kaisha feigned leisure and arrogance with the divine poise she had honed over a long time in Midgard.
But in truth, beneath the surface, her insides were burning up.
『0:17:23』
Because of the time limit.
She could hold out somehow, but even to her eyes, subduing Lenox—who dominated the field and could teleport—was impossible alone.
Wishing someone would give her a push, she suddenly missed Abyss, who had logged out after dying earlier.
'Should I call Kali and Hyunwoo-nim?'
As Kaisha moved to open the chat window, Lenox—who had been glaring at her with pursed lips—expanded his aura and charged in an instant.
Lenox reached for her heart but froze in surprise upon spotting the gleaming necklace of Lea.
Kaisha, who had been pulling back, didn't miss that split-second hesitation.
Thwack!
Kwa—ang!
Her sensory-enhanced fist slammed into Lenox's face.
A blazing fire dragon lunged at him but fizzled out before reaching him.
Lenox glared at Kaisha.
"......So it was you. Then that divinity must be what you gained from killing Lea."
"!"
Kaisha couldn't respond immediately, her face going blank.
Killing Lea?
It was true that her divinity came from Lea's death.
The grief and guilt she had suppressed deep in her heart during the war suddenly resurfaced.
She was sad that Lea had died.
But just like when her father died, it wasn't the time to grieve.
Reading the clear guilt from Kaisha, Lenox's eyes shifted from red to purple as he expanded his aura.
Explosive killing intent erupted.
『Warning!』
『Danger! Lenox (Abnormal Status) has shifted to 'Cold Rampage'! Non-combat attacks may be attempted!』
Lenox's eyes gleamed fiercely as he glanced at Kaisha's status window.
"Is that interference from your domain?"
"!"
She had set it to high transparency so only she could see it, but it seemed fully visible even to the rampaging Lenox.
Lenox said.
"That must be what guided you all to this world. Your desperate struggles to save yourself in my domain are pathetically touching."
Kaisha's eyes shook violently despite her efforts to steady her mind.
Lenox was crying.
Stunned, Kaisha moved her lips unconsciously, failing to notice his dominance invading her domain and gradually tightening around her throat.
The domain she had secured with her divinity was being eroded bit by bit, pulling her into the opponent's emotions.
Into deep sorrow.
"......I,"
Didn't kill Lea.
Even as reason protested, the forcibly resonating emotions dragged at her consciousness. Suddenly, scenes from a funeral home and words she had heard then flashed through her mind.
'Not even crying when her father died—she's so mature.'
'Must not have been close to her birth father.'
'Of course. What kind of bloodline is that?'
'She takes after her mom.'
'The chairman will adore her right away.'
Strangers she had never met flooded in.
Dressed impeccably in expensive clothes, they approached Ga-hyun with overly friendly faces.
With kind voices, they praised her and bestowed some qualification upon her.
'So rational. Just like the chairman.'
'You're our bloodline.'
That was how Ga-hyun had her right to grieve freely at her father's death stripped away, forcibly granted something incomprehensible instead.
That was why she could never form deep bonds with her maternal family.
Those arrogant kin had been so viciously eager to erase her father from her life that they even tried to wipe away her grief over losing him.
Ah, really.
She wanted to kill them all.
『Warning!』
『Lenox (Abnormal Status) is rampaging! Synchronizing with low-frequency emotions!』
A surge of emotion.
Kaisha's feelings became vividly clear, and Lenox's purple eyes gleamed darkly as he spoke to her in a deceptively tender voice.
"Kaisha. Now you understand my pain too."
"......Yeah."
"Don't block me anymore."
Lenox extended his hand toward her like a predator tempting its prey.
『Warning!』
『Warning!』
『Warning!』
As if refusing to let her glance at the warning windows, Lenox approached slowly, locking eyes obsessively with an affectionate, beautiful face.
Like a venomous spider cautiously closing in to seize and rip out her throat.
He was devastatingly beautiful.
With his dreamlike face right before her, Kaisha's reason blurred, and the words that had swirled in her throat spilled out.
"I...... didn't kill Lea......"
The moment Lenox hesitated.
Kwaaaang—!!!
White neural lightning scorched the darkness, narrowly grazing Lenox. Then, pitch-black spears rained down like arrows on their location.
Kukwakwakwakwa-boom!!
The spears, which had been full-sized at first, shrank dramatically as they plunged down.
"Why are they that size? Thought they were throwing stars."
"......"
Ignoring Gilgamesh's snark—he had run into Dart on the way and arrived together—Dart dashed forward and leaped into the air.
He immediately attacked Lenox.
[Abyss Net]
[Black Lightning Thrilling with Madness]
After hammering Lenox with dark-attribute mage skills that were hard to see in the night, Dart glanced at Kaisha, who had escaped his machinations.
Mental skills presumed, a field that weakened neural power to the point of scattering even mana, and swift teleports.
Dart grasped the situation instantly.
'No wonder she was struggling.'
Seeing it firsthand, this was an opponent impossible to solo.
Kaisha had survived only because she was Kaisha.
Spotting Dart, Kaisha shook her head as if snapping out of a drunken stupor and greeted him.
"Hey, Dart—"
As Kaisha, freshly freed from Lenox's mental attack, suddenly plummeted, a startled Dart urgently reached out.
But it wasn't Dart who caught and lifted her—it was Gilgamesh.
"Up you go."
Kaisha wrapped her arm tightly around Gilgamesh's shoulder to steady herself and shook her head again.
"Ugh, dizzy. How'd you know to come?"
"Kali called. Said Abyss died. Where's Hellcannon, the one you had tagging along for support? He dead too?"
"Reverse-summoned him after seeing Abyss and Queen get one-shot. If you hadn't come, I'd be next to Hellcannon right now."
"What? Queen was here?"
Queen was practically Europe's top player.
Queen wouldn't come alone, so that meant the European alliance he led had been here until just moments ago.
Kaisha said.
"There was a whole swarm, but they're all dead. I was soloing, got caught in some mental technique, and was flailing around."
"Tch. Looked like you were enchanted from afar."
Gilgamesh clicked his tongue.
Even from a distance, her stillness had seemed off somehow.
That's why, when he ran into Dart on the way, Gilgamesh had him blast white lightning skills at max speed upon arrival.
Gilgamesh followed Kaisha's gaze, zooming in on the man exuding final-boss aura in the distant sky with his telescope skill, then jolted in surprise.
"Whoa! Look at that face quality! No wonder you got enchanted, Kaisha!"
"......"
Not exactly, but...
Kaisha wanted to protest but held back, feeling a slight pang of guilt.
On second thought, while enthralled by that low-frequency emotion or whatever, his unnecessarily handsome face had made it even harder to move.
Gilgamesh and Kaisha's casual shoulder-clasp, and the final boss's pointless handsomeness.
Dart, quietly furrowing his brow at the irritating scene, suddenly vanished—then swung his sword at Lenox and unleashed a barrage of magic.
Boom! Kwaboom!
Pajijik,
Kwakwakwakwa-boom—!!
True to a hunter specialized in neural lightning, a sudden fireworks festival erupted on-site.
Kaisha and Gilgamesh's eyes widened at Dart's abrupt teleport and damage burst, glancing at each other.