Chapter 109
Chapter 109
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 92
Chapter Title: Descent of the Outer God
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Confusion intensifies, and intensified confusion begets new confusion.
In this city where chain after chain of screams shattered the citizens' sanity, I climbed to the top of the tallest building.
Before, I'd reached the sky using 'space,' but with physical abilities on a whole different level from my human days, a bit of preparation was all it took now.
How much longer do I have to wait?
The cityscape, like something out of a hellish creation, truly signaled that time was running critically short.
"Hoo... ha..."
I took a deep breath to shake off the tension rising to my chin.
Finding someone stronger than me now wouldn't be easy, but that evil god was a 'god' in the literal sense.
Just as I couldn't beat an angel, a 'god' above angels was even more impossible.
To overcome the impossible, I'd made the descent incomplete and asked headquarters chief for help, but the anxiety wouldn't fade.
Had I ever felt this tense since coming to this world?
If I had to think... maybe when Kim Do-hyun died and I faced Park Se-jin.
"Ah... what the hell am I even thinking right now."
When the moment comes, all sorts of random thoughts flood in.
Focus. Focus.
The instant space tears open, I have to charge right in.
I engraved everything I needed to do into my mind and exhaled very slowly, but deeply.
After my lungs contracted and expanded hundreds of times, a tiny anomaly caught my eye.
Far off—precisely in the empty air between the sun and me—a black hole smaller than a 100-won coin appeared.
"It's here."
Without doubting what I'd spotted, I leaped straight toward the hole.
We were clearly over a hundred meters apart, but my leg muscles seemed more than enough to reach it.
Regardless of whether I could reach it, that tiny hole visibly grew every second, and by the time I stood right before it, it had already surpassed my height.
The mass of darkness—something that might make people on the ground mistake it for a new black planet in the sky—suddenly writhed, its center splitting horizontally wide open.
That straight line gaped apart top and bottom with a heavy roar, announcing its birth.
Just before plummeting back to the ground, I bit into the purple apple I'd grabbed from the shop.
'Upside-Down Apple.'
The moment I ate it, I fixed in place in midair.
No time limit.
It just hung there infinitely, like a single 'fruit.'
I already knew how to deal with it anyway, so for now, focus on that eyeball.
"Damn, it's been a while."
I muttered so softly no one could hear.
Less like talking to someone, more like an incantation to reawaken my resolve.
Every cell in my body bristled, signaling danger.
I felt my breathing quicken.
"Hoo..."
Fear etched into instinct lingered even after becoming a tale, it seemed.
After this long journey to destroy it, feeling afraid now that I stood before it was a shitty joke that pissed me off in the worst way.
"Ha, haha..."
Amused by my laughter, perhaps, the outer god's pupil—which had been staring down at the ground—turned toward me.
And a voice pierced directly into my brain.
Who the hell are you?
It must have seen me when I dealt with Lee Young-gil, yet it didn't recognize me.
Meaning it had zero interest in a human like Lee Young-gil.
Ah, I see.
You're the fool who killed my faithful servant and disrupted my ritual.
"You seem pretty relaxed. You need a ton of time for a full ritual too. And before that, I'll kill you."
Hahaha—!
The outer god laughed so boisterously it was grating.
Why wouldn't I be relaxed?
I am a god, ruler of you all. This world will soon be mine.
By nature, living beings can't harm the world that birthed them—just like how humans ravage nature, but it recovers over time.
It's a law of the universe, and you humans are bound to it.
So how could you pathetic creatures wound my true form?
"What're you blabbering about."
I pulled Mun Woo-seok's core from my pocket.
"This thing's getting a lot of use. Gotta buy senior a ton of meals later."
Gripped like a fist axe, the core spun along my arm and slammed into the outer god's side.
Squelch—
Black liquid, like blood, beaded on its cornea.
Hoo...
Impressive to wound my true form, but that's all it is.
If you thought that could kill me, I'd be deeply disappointed.
Especially since you're the first human to resist me.
"We'll see."
In the end, this was just buying time...
But better than doing nothing by a hundredfold.
Wait.
Who the hell made this?
Is this really a human invention?
My authority isn't working on it.
Hahaha—!
This is fun! So much fun!
If this inventor had researched just a bit more, they might've actually stopped me!
That casual tone, like nothing was wrong, grated on me.
No, actually, this was good.
Keep letting your guard down like that—but that arrogance will be your downfall.
Exactly.
From the moment Mun Woo-seok's core worked, we had plenty of time.
Let me sort my thoughts.
What I could do right now wasn't much.
More time didn't mean I wanted to chat with this idiot. Just stick to the 'plan.'
I looked up and stared straight at the bulging eyeball.
Normally, you'd give one bad news and one good news in a situation like this, but luckily, I only had good news.
Because everything except that one good piece was bad anyway.
"You've gotten a lot smaller."
Originally, its size was so immense it inspired awe, but now it barely topped ten meters in diameter—almost cute.
Beating Lee Young-gil and disrupting the descent must've had a big effect.
Maybe because of the size, the earlier tension felt ridiculous; it wasn't scary at all.
That gaze, which once mutated all life in an instant, now hit its limit against even Mun Woo-seok's core.
Could I just leave it like this? But eventually, given time, it'd complete the full descent.
I had to end it as fast as possible.
I barely stifled a burst of laughter and assumed my stance.
No matter how small, it was still a 'god.'
Horrifica had been a hastily made god with clear weaknesses, so I handled it alone back then.
But not this time.
This outer god had records from ancient times, a true myth, with no weaknesses.
Much as I hated to admit it, that was the 'law' it spoke of—impossible to escape.
"Then I guess I have to do what I can."
I drew the Fabulam from my waist.
And lightly stabbed it in.
This... is a blade that erases stories.
Interesting.
Feels like it was made to erase 'me' from the start.
"Yeah, not wrong."
Even so, do you think that'll solve anything?
You're one of the smarter bugs, so you must already know.
"Thanks for the compliment."
Sarcasm aside, it was true.
I hadn't realized it back during the history incident, but the Fabulam couldn't erase an outer god.
That's what my three years of research revealed. Simply put:
If you remove one sentence from a ten-sentence short story, it loses its coherence.
But in a hundred-sentence story?
Just one sentence would make it a bit awkward at most.
By the same logic, for an outer god woven into human history, even removing a hundred or ten thousand sentences wouldn't make much impact.
But that didn't mean the outer god was entirely right.
What if I luckily stabbed something crucial, like the first sentence?
It wouldn't die, but it'd be massively weakened.
Of course, if luck was on my side.
"But you know what?"
Hmm?
"We've stabbed you over three hundred times already."
We?
What the hell does that mean?
I have no memory of that.
"Doesn't matter. You just need to get what it implies."
Annoying as hell.
Planning twenty questions or something?
It felt ridiculous, like talking to the shop when it was less snarky.
Ah... to think I feared a guy like this.
"You've gotten ridiculously small. Smaller surface area means each slash severs a huge chunk of story."
And what that meant was simple.
"Not many possibilities left."
The moment the price reaches the angel.
This damned fate that tormented me and everyone comes to an end.