Chapter 335
Chapter 335
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 335
>Chapter Title: The Great Circulation
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The sorcery unleashed by Irizard instead allowed Kang Seol and Jamad to awaken to an unprecedented power known as multi-origin circulation.
The prediction that achieving origin circulation would be the key to the next realm proved spot on.
Whooooosh...
Their origins rotated fiercely now, unhindered by any obstruction.
Vast sorcery erupted from the Night Raven's body like roaring flames.
"Bron!"
Pop-!
Bron hurriedly repelled Irizard's power and retreated from his position, sensing the immense energy from behind.
Kwaaaaaang-!
Night Raven took his place.
Szzzzzzzz...
Right after the clash, Irizard's ice melted slightly. It was due to the power emanating from Night Raven's body.
- .....
The momentary clash of power served as the signal, reigniting the tense battle.
Zzaaak-!
[Bron uses Waterfall Sorcery: Surge.]
[The power of waves lashes at the target.]
Chwaaaaa-!
Waves flew toward Irizard like sharpened blades.
Kkigigigik-!
The wave caught in Irizard's hand crumbled effortlessly. But the wave had fulfilled its role just by buying time.
Paaang-!
- Ugh....
Paaaaang-!
Night Raven's movements were incomprehensibly faster compared to before.
Irizard staggered back repeatedly, unable to withstand the assault.
At a glance, Kang Seol's side held the advantage, but Irizard had reliable factors on his end too.
"Urk, Jamad!"
Bron freezing over.
"Damn it."
Pop-!
Night Raven leaped back to make contact with Bron.
Craaack...
They returned to normal, but if things continued like this, Kang Seol's side would grow increasingly disadvantaged over time.
'Thanks to the circulation, the freezing speed is similar to the start... but we'll hit a limit eventually. And... that strange sensation again just now....'
In the instant their bodies touched for thawing, another shiver arrived.
Kang Seol still didn't know what this sensation was.
Bron panted as he spoke.
"Haa... haa... The origin recovery speed can't keep up with the battle."
"...This isn't good."
Simply prolonging the fight wouldn't turn their disadvantage into an advantage.
- How foolish.
"...What?"
Irizard mocked them.
Fwooooooom...
Irizard's power extended in all directions, turning the entire corridor transparent.
The outside became visible.
"Smash their heads!"
"Kraaaaa!"
"Huff... huff...."
The scenery and sounds from outside transmitted here.
- Do you feel nothing?
Bron responded to the conversation while waiting for his origin power to recharge.
"Fierce, about that much."
- A fight that could have been avoided.
"......"
- All of it is artificial suffering born from your struggles. The result of rejecting the Origin God's supremacy over you, of refusing to be ruled.
"You're saying this hardship is something we brought upon ourselves?"
- Indeed. Do you deny it?
Bron scratched his chin and replied.
"No, since we started it, it's something we brought on ourselves. I won't deny that."
- Then....
"But we won't accept it in the end. The Origin God oppresses and possesses us. I, Bron, have never in my life...."
Smirk...
"Blindly obeyed anyone's words."
"Kukuku... Same here."
Even in this dire situation, Jamad chimed in with a laugh.
"Origin God, I ask you: after serving you for so long, if we now refuse your dominion, can you accept that?"
- Beasts may defy, but they cannot articulate thought. I will punish your sins severely and pull every fang. But mistakes are the fate of the naive, so bow your heads once more...
"I see. As expected...."
The two trolls grinned like demons.
"We reject it all."
- Death is all that awaits.
"Yeah, that too."
Jamad and Bron said this right in front of Irizard.
"What do you think?"
"I want to smash that face."
"Same here."
- Your feeble intellect dooms your future to blood.
Whoooosh...
Irizard's body floated lightly into the air.
[Irizard uses Blizzard.]
[A blizzard rages over a wide area.]
- Die like that.
Whirrrrr...
A vicious blizzard whipped through the fortress interior.
"Kruuuuh...."
"Kukuku... To fight to the end like this—what luck."
Night Raven froze once more.
Thud...
Bron placed his hand on him, restoring his senses again.
Craaack...
"We can't give up like... this...."
Zzaaak!
[Earth Sorcery: Mud Turtle is used.]
[A shell of mud is donned.]
[All damage is taken by the shell instead, reducing damage by 50% at the cost of 20% reduced movement speed.]
Jamad donned a mud shell alongside Bron.
"Haa... haa... A bit better."
"We need to think of something...."
"Kukuku... Nothing comes to mind."
Bron said with a despairing expression.
"It's the lack of absolute power."
Jamad shook his head.
"He's not absolute either. He's already expended a lot of power. Didn't you notice his form has changed?"
"His form... changed... You're right!"
Bron recalled how Irizard's body had melted slightly from the clash with Jamad.
And the last sight of Irizard: his lower body mangled like a ghost.
"Yeah, in the end, he's an imperfect being too. If we can draw out massive power and land a decisive blow."
"...Can we? Time is short."
"That is...."
Kang Seol answered in his stead.
"There's one thing I need to confirm."
"Confirm?"
"Yeah. Earlier...."
The sensation that Jamad and Bron had glossed over amid focusing on the battle.
When Kang Seol shared his thoughts based on that sensation, their reactions were unanimous.
"That's insane."
"A horrific idea to overcome this horrific situation."
Kang Seol nodded.
"We circulate. Bigger."
"Yeah, circulating Bron's origin and mine together—can't even leave last words."
Kang Seol judged that this sensation upon collision was the start of circulation.
Perhaps, the start of an even greater circulation.
But it was tantamount to suicide.
Like the mad idea of swapping someone else's blood with your own and circulating it through the veins.
"Wanna do it?"
"Let's."
"We do it."
"Signal...?"
"No need. You know."
Soon, the shell shattered.
Craaack...
Kwaaaaaang!
As Night Raven froze from the chill at the same time, Bron struck the frozen Night Raven's hand.
Thwack-!
In that instant, Bron's origin power flowed into the thawing Night Raven's body, and similarly, Jamad's origin power flowed into Bron's body.
Origin power exchange.
In other words, an impossible act.
"Kraaaaa!"
"Kraaaaaah!"
Chrrrrrrlk!
The chains entwined on their forearms connected Night Raven's left arm and Bron's right arm.
[Origin power surges wildly.]
"Kraaaah!"
Jamad's scream.
Kang Seol couldn't share the pain of the origin Jamad felt.
Instead, there was still work to do.
"Pull it off, Jamad."
Kang Seol fully seized control of Night Raven. Irizard flew right up to his face.
[Irizard uses Rift.]
[The selected area collapses.]
Kwajajajajak-!
A massive shock from the ground Night Raven stood on to the fortress.
The Origin God wielded power suited for armies over individuals.
'Maybe that's why he's still holding out.'
Whirrrrrr-!
Kang Seol escaped the collapse with nimble movements and rushed toward Bron without hesitation.
It was a race against time—no room for error.
"Kraaa...."
Craaaack...
Kang Seol struck the palm of the freezing Bron mid-stride.
In this moment, another origin power exchange occurred.
"Kraaaah!"
"Kruuuuu...."
- Entertaining.
Fwoom-!
Kang Seol reached for Irizard's jaw, but it didn't connect.
And soon, he would freeze too.
Kang Seol resorted to a trick, shoving Irizard away and yanking the chain hard.
Paaaang-!
Bron, staggering from pain, was pulled along.
Puck-!
Craaack...
Bron collided with the frozen Night Raven simultaneously.
Thanks to that, Night Raven regained vitality once more.
Bron and Jamad were enduring tremendous agony now, but Kang Seol wasn't faring much better.
Nearly divine battle instincts, plus exceptional talent propelling him toward the answer.
Irizard recognized his extraordinary nature.
- You... what are....
Paaaang-!
- Urk....
Irizard reeled back from a punch to the chest.
Incredibly, Kang Seol was mounting an offensive against him.
With one arm bound by the chain to Bron, without Jamad's aid.
- Admirable effort, but a battle you cannot win.
Whoooosh...
Irizard's hand extended toward Bron. Kang Seol's senses warned him. Sensing what the corrupted Origin God intended for Bron, Kang Seol swiftly blocked his path.
- Useless.
This was an invisible power.
One humans could scarcely fathom.
Craaaack...
But.
- ...You blocked it?
The power poured onto Bron was the mental torment from the spirit domain awakened in Watara's ruins.
This vicious energy had burrowed into Bron's mind to shatter his weakened spirit.
And now, it was sealed by Kang Seol.
- How could a human....
"Haa... haa...."
Kang Seol was single-handedly sealing off the army-like Irizard. He was buying time.
Realizing he couldn't easily breach Kang Seol, Irizard grew intrigued instead.
- What are you waiting for?
Kang Seol answered with weary eyes.
"Circulation."
Kuuuuum...
"Jamad!"
"Bron!"
Jamad and Bron were now wandering on the brink of death.
Not surprisingly—after exchanging origin powers, they couldn't stand unscathed.
This place was where their origins resided.
Jamad's original origin, plus Bron's.
A gigantic waterwheel filled their vision.
"It's freezing."
Irizard's power and the surging origin power were freezing the waterwheel too. If it stopped rotating like this, they would all die.
Jamad and Bron hurriedly tried to shatter the ice on the waterwheel.
"Haa... haa...."
"Ugh...."
Their conditions were poor.
Kang Seol seemed to be gradually being pushed back.
"...Jamad."
"What's up."
Craack...
Craaack...
The waterwheel's freezing accelerated.
Bron's complexion darkened accordingly.
"Failure?"
"You can still spout nonsense, so it doesn't seem like failure."
"Kukuku... I'm serious."
"Serious?"
"Yeah. By now, Kang Seol's probably fallen to Irizard. The freezing speed increased."
"......"
Craack...
Craaack...
They desperately shattered the ice, but breaking all the ice on such a massive waterwheel with just two was impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
The word etched itself.
But right then.
Swoosh...
"Need a hand?"
A group had silently appeared beside them.
"You guys...."
Jamad's brothers from Pointy Rock Mountain.
And beside them, a troll engulfed in flames—Magra of Super Heat—glaring at him peevishly.
"You just had to come all the way here. What immense desire."
"...Old man."
And beside him, the one shattering ice.
"Ungus."
Ungus of Black Thunder smiled faintly at Jamad.
"Look at the size of that origin. You've gorged yourself plenty, Jamad. Now you plan to drag even my barely revived child into death?"
Now Branca too.
All had appeared, surrounding Jamad.
"What do you want?"
When Jamad asked, one retorted.
"You still think you can free us?"
The answer was all too easy for Jamad.
"Shut up and fix this."
"Crazy bastard."
"Crazy? Maybe."
Jamad harbored no regrets for the path behind.
"So hurry and join in. I don't have time."
"Kahaha! Still the same, Jamad."
"I've got places to be."
"For what?"
Jamad paused his hands and answered.
"I'll stuff all the Origin Gods in coffins and become free."
Back turned, Jamad peeled ice from the waterwheel's linkages.
The watching sorcerers closed their eyes and said.
"Truly, unchanged."
"Hasn't changed a bit."
Fwoooooom...
Like an illusion, their souls began to fade.
Szzzz...
Heat swirled around the waterwheel.
"...No way."
Bron quickly leaped off the waterwheel and rolled on the ground.
Flames erupted from his and Jamad's waterwheels.
Szzzzzzzz!
Roooarrrrr...
The waterwheels, having melted all ice, began to move slowly.
Clunk...
Kkigigik...
Kkigigigigik...
Soon, origin filled the space.
* * *
"Haa... haa...."
- It's over.
Puhwaak...
Kang Seol spat blood as he glared at Irizard.
As mentioned earlier, Irizard wasn't unscathed either, having continuously depleted his power.
But he couldn't reach him.
If this was the limit, so be it.
- Why resist so fiercely? It will remain an unsolved mystery even after I grant you death.
"Kukuku... If we'd known that from the start, things wouldn't have come to this, right?"
Irizard replied indifferently to Kang Seol.
- True, perhaps.
Step...
Step...
Irizard approached Night Raven.
His intent was unclear, but likely to finish it.
Kang Seol had no intention of offering his neck meekly.
He forcibly straightened his stance, awaiting Irizard's next move.
"...What."
- .....
Kang Seol's eyes widened as he muttered.
"What... this power...."
Bron's head, slumped to one side, lifted.
An unfamiliar glint swirled in his eyes. And the same glint flowed from Night Raven.
Whoooooooosh...
[The Great Circulation is achieved.]
[A great step forward! Jamad steps into the Supreme Realm!]
[A meteor shower pours down! Enlightenment arrives after the battle ends.]
[Enlightenment! Jamad awakens a new ability.]
[Jamad awakens Grand Sorcery.]
......
[A great step forward! Bron steps into the Supreme Realm!]
......
Following Jamad, Bron too.
What was this Great Circulation that so transformed their auras?
Jamad answered the question after awakening.
"Ahh... how... "
Bron laughed.
"satisfying this power is."
The power emanating from them was on another level from when they first clashed with Irizard.
- .....
As Kang Seol's group predicted, Irizard had continuously expended power. Against the current group, victory wasn't assured.
Paaaat-!
Irizard's power exploded upward.
Kwaaaaaaaaang-!
His power shattered the ceiling.
He tried to fly toward the gaping hole.
Jamad and Bron gathered in one spot and murmured.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Their sorceries resonated.
Drrrrrrrr...
Drrrrr...
Immense force assailed the entire ground.
Jamad formed a peculiar hand shape and dragged it from below upward.
Kwajijijijijik-!
[Jamad uses Grand Sorcery: Sorcerer's Hand.]
Bron responded by creating an opposing hand of water currents.
[Bron uses Grand Sorcery: Sorcerer's Hand.]
Their hands not only widened the ceiling further but lingered beside the ascending Irizard.
- Wh-what... what is this!
"Sorcerers...."
Jamad and Bron clashed their free hands, unbound by chains.
Zzaaaaaak-!
"Command curses."
Accordingly, the gigantic hands of sorcery clamped Irizard between them and collided.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaang-!