Chapter 301
Chapter 301
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 301
Chapter Title: Great Rift (1)
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In Adora's mind, Park Chan-woo was an immortal.
He didn't truly live forever, but no matter what adversity struck, he never fell. He was an immortal in every sense of the word.
However, he could not predict the power of Gospel's Authority.
That Authority of Arrogance was a force powerful enough to turn fiction into truth.
Moreover, even the user himself had become invincible.
"This can't be...?"
Gospel's expression refused to smooth out.
The Authority he had unleashed was now eating away at him.
And it was bringing death.
...Isn't it strange?
The target who should have died wasn't dying, and instead, he himself was dying.
For a moment, he thought it was the death unleashed by Adora, the Lord of Arrogance... but no.
It was far from that.
Adora's death had been deferred by five minutes.
If he killed Adora within those five minutes, Adora's death would evaporate along with it.
In other words...
This death came from a target other than Adora.
'Reflection?'
Was it reflected back at him?
Had the death signal he sent returned?
'No. Not even that.'
It was something entirely different.
Gospel's Authority lay in disguising falsehoods as truth.
If the opponent was alive, he could transform them into death.
But...
'...Dead?'
What was this ambiguous sensation?
It felt just like a corpse that was already dead.
You can't kill something that's already dead.
Yet from that 'dead thing', another 'death' had been delivered.
So that thing was...
'A plague of death.'
There was no difference from a plague that spread death through contagion.
It was truly a 'vector of death'.
But that should have been the end of it.
Gospel's Authority had made him invincible for five minutes.
He could postpone all incoming deaths by five minutes.
Even that 'five-minute reprieve' had been pierced.
It collided, collided again, creating massive ripples.
This meant...
'An error.'
An 'error' was occurring through Gospel's body.
It was being sliced, reattached, sliced again.
His body was convulsing wildly.
Suddenly, a leg sprouted from his arm, or flesh swelled on his body.
Unpredictable phenomena were occurring.
Gospel raised his head.
"Is what you cherish most... 'death'?"
"Immortality."
Adora answered immediately.
Death was something that could be extinguished.
But immortality was something that could not be extinguished.
Park Chan-woo was just like that.
"I absolutely promise you this. Within five minutes, no matter what happens, I will not die!"
Gospel strengthened his Authority of Arrogance.
He manifested his power to its utmost limit.
He forcibly extended his life.
No matter how powerful the 'death', it could not assail him during these five minutes.
Everything was nullified before absolute Authority.
However...
Creeeak!
His skin split open.
Flesh fell away, and bones and organs were destroyed.
Death was coming.
At an even faster speed.
It was overwhelming him.
What exactly was killing him?
Who was this target?
However... it wasn't entirely ineffective.
The Authority was forcibly postponing the death.
If he killed Adora and that 'death' within this time, it would be fine.
...A crossroads of choice.
Who to kill first.
Of course, the answer was decided.
Adora's death would come in five minutes, but it wouldn't be instant.
On the other hand, this 'death' approaching him steadily was different.
It would slice even his soul.
Therefore...
"I'll deal with you later, Lord of Arrogance!"
Gospel turned his back.
"Freeze."
Adora wouldn't just watch that happen.
Gospel's legs froze.
In response...
Krash!
Gospel severed his own legs.
Flap!
Then he spread his wings.
"Pierce."
Shoooosh!
Sharp ice spears generated from all directions.
Each one was a powerful grand magic infused with the mana of death.
With the power of Wish added, it never missed its target.
Pierce pierce pierce pierce!
The ice spears pierced Gospel's flesh countless times.
Yet Gospel poured all his effort into escaping the spot.
Even as three wings tore and half his head flew off.
Dagon shouted urgently.
"A-Adora! You must chase him quickly!"
"I know."
But he couldn't pursue.
Because other demon lords appeared behind him.
The Lord of Deadly Sins.
One of the great nine lords, infamous as the most tyrannical despot.
—'Error'...
He read the 'error' that occurred on the fourth night.
He couldn't help but read it, even if he didn't want to.
Because that error originated from his vassal, 'Gospel of Arrogance'.
Something was killing Arrogance's Gospel.
A death that surpassed Authority, creeping in slowly.
But it clashed with the invincible Authority, amplifying the shockwaves.
To such an extent that...
—Are you aiming for me?
The amplified 'death' was reaching out even toward the Lord of Deadly Sins.
Wasn't it astonishing?
From an entirely different Abyss, a distance one might call a completely different dimension.
Yet it sought the endpoint connected to his vassal.
Because Gospel's Authority had originally been granted by him, the Lord of Deadly Sins.
This was a common sense alteration that defied logic.
Not nullifying Gospel's Authority itself.
But trying to eliminate the origin point of the Authority.
It was nonsensical.
It was like tracing a tree's leaves to find the 'original seed' that no longer existed.
The seed of Arrogance he had already given to Gospel had blossomed in an entirely different way.
—'Absolute, death'.
He knew what that was.
It was the price for tampering with predetermined absolute death.
But that 'death' had also been imposed by someone.
Even that death had an original seed.
However, peering into that causality was too dangerous.
It would surely deal a fatal blow to him as well.
It might even transfer the 'absolute death' to him.
That death was riding on the Authority of Arrogance toward him.
It would soon approach and infect him.
There was only one way to sever it.
—I shall destroy your name and Authority, Gospel.
Nullify Gospel's Authority.
Erase the name of Arrogance.
Now, Gospel was no longer his vassal.
No longer one of the Seven Deadly Demons, just an ordinary demon lord.
However...
—...It doesn't stop?
Yet the 'absolute death' did not stop.
It still rushed toward him.
Hah.
Even after eliminating the original seed, the 'progenitor' itself, it still sought him.
This death didn't seem to be ordinary death at all.
'The end has come.'
Indeed, was that so?
The finale of the curtain.
An apocalypse that even surpassed destruction.
But such a thing could not exist.
If it did exist...
—A 'Great Error' has appeared.
It could only be a Great Error.
Something that absolutely should not exist in this world had emerged.
The Lord of Deadly Sins raised his spear.
This was a weapon that could hunt outer gods and was the natural predator of errors.
A treasured tool usable only by the 'Great Lords'.
The reason they reigned over the Abyss.
And then, the Lord of Deadly Sins...
Whoosh!
Threw the spear toward the 'fourth night'.
The Demon King of Karmic Flames sensed it immediately.
...Something tremendous was approaching.
At a speed beyond imagination.
From that distant Abyss, flying precisely toward his 'night'.
"Lord of Deadly Sins...?"
The Demon King of Karmic Flames widened his eyes.
He realized what was coming.
The Lord of Deadly Sins had thrown his spear.
The spear of the Abyss that returned all to nothingness!
"Why...?"
The Demon King of Karmic Flames sensed it instinctively.
He could not block it.
He could not survive.
Everything in this place, within the 'fourth night',
Would evaporate in an instant.
Because the Great Lord willed it.
A mere Demon King could not defy the will of the great nine lords.
But...
The Demon King of Karmic Flames served the Lord of Deadly Sins.
Then why had he thrown a spear to destroy his own Abyss?
"N-No, this can't... Why would you do this to me...!"
The Demon King of Karmic Flames' expression hardened.
At that moment...
Boom!
The spear pierced the 'fourth night'.
In an instant, all barriers evaporated.
The walls dividing the Abyss vanished.
Soon, the 'Demon King of Karmic Flames' was revealed.
His massive body began to collapse.
The night shattered, the moon crumbled, and the world fell apart.
He couldn't even scream.
The Demon King of Karmic Flames evaporated just like that.
Afterward, everything swirled together in a vortex.
Rumble rumble rumble!
The true sound of the end.
The Abyss.
...One world was coming to an end.
This was the might of an absolute being that could not be resisted.
The great nine lords could erase worlds if they so desired.
"F-Forgive me! I accept my punishment!"
The Lord of Arrogance, Gospel, cried out.
His master was enraged.
He could not tolerate his failure.
But it was fine.
He could accept death any number of times.
Even if they took his name and reclaimed the Authority of Arrogance.
"You alone, you alone, I will definitely kill you myself!"
Gospel crawled along the ground.
By now, all his wings had vanished.
His body was dying even faster.
Yet he hadn't died yet.
This was because the 'death' approaching him was directed toward the 'Lord of Deadly Sins'.
On the contrary, by staying alive, Gospel had become the 'vector'.
Unaware of this, Gospel crawled madly...
And finally reached Park Chan-woo.
Gospel gathered all his mana.
"Die with me."
Kaboom!
He exploded.
However, Gospel's body did not disintegrate upon detonation.
It scattered into powder, yes...
But those particles suddenly gathered in the air.
Whirrr!
A 'warp' made of powder formed.
"W-What?!"
"Kaaak!"
"Save me!"
That 'warp' sucked in everything around it.
The demons.
And even Park Chan-woo.
Even the 'spear' thrown by the 'Lord of Deadly Sins'.
In that instant...
A single message appeared to all 'existences' in the Abyss.