Chapter 305
Chapter 305
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 305
Chapter Title: Great Rift (5)
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It was astonishing.
The 'Lord's Spear' that had flowed into the Great Rift was now gripped by the Outer God.
A weapon that was essentially the dedicated armament of the 'Lord of Great Sins'.
This defied all common sense and concepts of the Abyss.
'Is it possible because it's an Outer God?'
However, the 'Great Rift' existed beyond the Abyss's common sense.
Of course, an Outer God within the Great Rift could wield the 'Lord's Spear'.
And even further.
"Did you want to eat me?"
It wasn't targeting his divine beast, but Sepiro himself.
This was a first for him.
The very idea that someone saw him as 'prey'.
Wasn't that the case?
From the moment he was born, he had been exceptional.
Among all dragons, he was already regarded as an off-spec existence.
When he became a god under the dragons' protection, he had no equals.
Everyone revered and feared him.
Outer Gods?
The ones that had appeared so far weren't much different.
If anything, they showed even greater signs of fearing him.
Instinctively recognizing Sepiro as their 'natural predator'.
But not this one.
It saw him not as a predator, but as 'prey'.
How ridiculous and amusing!
"Hah."
Sepiro let out a sigh.
It was like a tug-of-war, but the problem was that he wasn't in his true body right now.
Even drawing as much power as possible from his transcendent dragon true body, two-tenths was the limit.
One-tenth was being used to bind the demon gods, so he had to engage in this tug-of-war with the Outer God using the remaining one-tenth of his mana.
He couldn't carelessly manifest his true body either.
There were certain constraints and conditions.
First, to bring out his true body, this 'avatar' had to be extinguished.
But letting it die so easily went against Sepiro's pride.
Instead...
"This should be fun."
He would surpass his limits.
Victory in this tug-of-war using only the mana he could wield.
The key was 'efficiency'.
If he refined his mana to the utmost, refined it again and again infinitely, drawing a billionfold reaction from a single unit of mana.
Even an unfathomable gap could be bridged.
The Outer God wasn't at full power anyway.
The Lord's Spear didn't truly belong to it.
Grin!
"Let's give it a try. Of course, victory will be mine."
The Lord of Great Sins silently gazed into the 'Fourth Night'.
The Great Lords had yet to declare their stance.
They would move after the 'Great Rift' opened.
Before then, the Lord of Great Sins had to reclaim his 'spear'.
If he got caught, things could get a bit troublesome.
—Sepiro...
The demon gods who followed him were being suppressed by Sepiro.
It wasn't strange, considering the guy had slain ten sovereigns.
Even if the Abyss expanded and the demons grew stronger.
Sepiro had grown even more.
Sepiro was a monster that never stopped.
From birth, he was a different breed, his mana shaking the entire Abyss.
When Sepiro was born, the 'Great Lords' all sensed his existence.
They held heated debates about his survival.
Some wanted to kidnap him secretly, others to kill him, and many favored leaving him be.
'We should have erased him then.'
Because they didn't, he became an uncontrollable monster.
Even now, the Lord of Great Sins couldn't easily touch Sepiro.
Not without risking annihilation like the Lord of the Void.
To fully eradicate him, at least two or three of the 'Nine Great Lords' would be needed.
......What to do.
The Lord of Great Sins pondered briefly.
The 'death' approaching him had halted.
It was trapped in that Great Rift.
The remnants of death lingered with the 'spear'.
Sepiro hadn't noticed yet, it seemed.
—We can forge a new spear.
It would take time, but a spear could be remade.
Using the 'Outer Gods' hiding in the Abyss.
Or wait until the next Great Rift.
The Lord of Great Sins reached a conclusion.
Abandon the spear.
That was the surest way to cover his mistake.
If it became known that 'death' had corrupted him through the Gospel, his honor as a Great Lord would plummet.
The Lord of Great Sins spoke toward Sepiro.
—Vanish into the Great Rift with my spear.
It was just an avatar, but it drew power from the true body.
If it got sucked into the Great Rift, the true body would stay quiet for a while.
It would take time to create a new avatar.
Shlrk!
The pulling force grew stronger.
Sepiro's body began to be dragged bit by bit toward the 'Great Rift'.
"......?"
Sepiro tilted his head.
They had been locked in fierce battle.
Nothing had changed, yet suddenly he was being pushed back.
Something had intervened.
And that was probably...
"Lord of Great Sins. You've abandoned your spear?"
Hah.
It was astonishing.
To think a Great Lord would discard his own weapon.
Even forging a new one would take considerable time.
Thanks to the Lord of Great Sins abandoning it, the Outer God could now wield the 'Lord's Spear' more easily.
Meaning its power was finally kicking in.
One-tenth of his mana wouldn't be enough.
He could forcibly draw more, but...
'I need to consume something.'
Sepiro's gaze turned to the 'divine beast'.
Then, extending his hand, he commanded.
"Become my mana."
In that instant.
Spluuurt!
The divine beast's entire body burst open.
Like a balloon popping.
Blue blood sprayed everywhere, soon coalescing into mana and being absorbed by Sepiro.
However.
'Not even a dent.'
Not satisfactory.
The divine beast's mana was still insufficient.
Sepiro looked at the ground.
Demons and humans were visible.
Roughly under a million in number.
The humans were negligible, and the demons were mere underlings who followed a single demon king at best.
Even combined, their total mana wouldn't reach half of the divine beast's.
But better than nothing.
'Wait. This is the domain of night.'
A brilliant idea flashed to supplement the lacking mana.
This was night.
And night connected to all 'Abyss' realms.
That's why there was a separate manager of the night.
But right now, the manager of night had been extinguished.
"I shall become the new manager of night."
"Shu... shut up!"
"As if we'd allow that!"
Fierce reactions.
Sepiro shook his head.
"I wasn't asking you in the first place."
Sepiro looked at the 'fake Great Rift' he had created.
Soon.
The fake Great Rift's entrance changed form.
"The moon......!"
"You've replicated the moon of night?"
"That's supposed to be magic?"
It became a moon.
Eyes filled with disbelief.
Sepiro had reached a realm even demon gods couldn't comprehend.
But recreating the 'moon' to become the 'manager of night' didn't mean he could freely manipulate the Abyss.
Messing with the wrong thing in the Abyss would draw attacks from all existences before he could recharge his mana.
Sepiro had merely created a 'passage'.
This place wasn't his goal right now.
"Black Witch. Do you not desire this 'night'?"
"......!!!"
"N-No way!"
The demon gods' eyes widened.
They hadn't expected Sepiro to summon the 'Black Witch'.
"I give you this 'night'. In return, give me the mana of the depths."
Let's change the world.
An exchange of their Abysses.
The very bottom of the Abyss, the depths.
A place that was Abyss yet not Abyss, severed from all demons and races alike.
Soon.
The moon opened its eyes.
The Black Witch opened her eyes.
Shoooo!
A curse from the depths surged from the moon.
That curse was absorbed by 'Sepiro'.
Now, the 'manager of night' was the Black Witch.
All witches could move to the 'night'.
Finally escaping the hated depths.
Before long, Sepiro had sucked in the vast curse of the depths entirely.
Something only Sepiro could do.
Converting the curse of the depths into mana.
Sepiro turned to the humans and demons to absorb the remaining mana.
"You all become my mana......"
Just as Sepiro was about to utter his dragon tongue.
Thump!
"Hm...?!"
Sepiro clutched his heart.
Suddenly, one of his hearts had gone into spasm.
'Because of the absorbed curse?'
He wondered briefly, but soon realized it wasn't.
This wasn't due to the curse or the Outer God's pull.
'There's something more. Something I haven't noticed.'
Sepiro looked at the Lord's Spear.
When the Lord of Great Sins abandoned it, something had leaked from the spear and corrupted him.
And that corruption had been amplified by the absorbed 'curse'.
"......Death?"
......He realized then.
Why the Lord of Great Sins had abandoned his spear.
Why this 'Great Rift' had opened!
Everything fell into place.
The root of it all was 'death'.
The 'curse' gnawing at one of his hearts now had caused all these anomalies.
"You want to kill me?"
Ha!
For the first time, he felt absurd.
The situation had been filled with intrigue and amusement.
But no longer.
"...This isn't fun anymore."
Sepiro's expression hardened.
He reached out to pull the spear.
No more tug-of-war.
But.
Tzzt!
Tzzzzzt!
......The spear repelled his hand.
It wouldn't budge.
Grrrrrooooaaar—!
The Outer God's voice grew louder.
Sepiro frowned.
Why hadn't he sensed this 'death'?
Soon, he arrived at another answer.
He knew where this death originated.
'You again, Archmage?'
The one who had stolen one of his hearts.
He hadn't noticed because the mana was too similar.
But he hadn't known the bastard possessed such 'absolute death'.
Well.
He'd need that much to steal a heart and remain unscathed.
"...Wait. I'll be right back."
Sepiro's body was sucked into the Great Rift.