Chapter 138
Chapter 138
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 138
Chapter Title: Armageddon
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――Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble
"What in the world is this...?!"
"Go-God...!!"
Everyone on the New Continent looked up at the suddenly darkened sky.
The clear blue sky grew dark—and clouds began to part one by one.
It was all so sudden.
Elves and humans alike broke out in cold sweats, utterly bewildered.
"What...? What the hell is going on...?!"
Luca, too, floundered in confusion for a moment—
But soon remembered her duty and hurried toward Erin.
"S-Saintess! Are you all right...?!"
The moment she approached Erin with a worried expression—
"...Saintess...?"
What entered Luca's view was Erin on her knees, clutching the Holy Scripture to her chest, gazing up at the sky.
Simply staring at the heavens—with tears streaming from eyes that reflected the sky.
"Ahh... Lord Igugwoden...!!!!"
The divine providence of Igugwoden, deeply etched into Saintess Erin's very core, raged wildly.
This was... an unimaginable torrent of Plain Facts, far beyond what mere creations like them could fathom.
A storm of Plain Facts itself!
The moment the New Continent truly entered Lord Igugwoden's domain!
A storm of God's overwhelming love descending upon the new continent, the elves, and all of us—
All Erin could do was kneel, gaze upon her God, and smile.
Luca approached Erin cautiously and whispered.
"Is this... really okay?"
"...Of course."
Erin wiped her tears with her sleeve, then turned her head slightly—
And with a voice as gentle as a caress for Luca's trembling, anxious eyes, she asked.
"To advance unyieldingly toward the path of evolution... you must shatter the 'world' that surrounds you."
"!!!"
"You understand, don't you, Lady Luca?"
She had no choice but to understand.
Luca—Luca Hevnisian—was a being shackled by the chains of fate.
She couldn't break those chains. But by shattering the very concept of the 'world bound by those chains'—she could press forward unbroken.
"You've heard what Lady Pibiola and the elves went through, haven't you, Lady Luca?"
"...Yes."
The story from Ophelia had been more horrific than imaginable.
Unlike their true God, Lord Igugwoden, the Dtamuk Thinking Army was rotten through and through, unworthy of the name "god."
Humans, elves—whatever heart they poured into prayers to a god, it was something they could never comprehend.
"That's why it's absolutely necessary. This continent, still tainted by the filth of the false god Dtamuk Thinking Army—"
—for rebirth, a temporary annihilation.
"!!!!"
"There's no need to fear, Luca. This annihilation is annihilation, yes—but in the end, it's one that reaches love."
Erin slowly closed her eyes, then opened them.
A few more tears trickled down her pure white cheeks.
"Once it all passes, you'll surely understand. How deeply God... how deeply Lord Igugwoden loves us."
"Saintess..."
As Luca stood guard by Erin's side—
Guarding the Empress was Ophelia's duty.
"Master..."
The woman who had received God's choice in a slightly different sense—Eirene, too, knelt right there and offered her prayers.
She couldn't perceive the situation as directly as Erin—but still, she knew.
Because—something inside her kept squealing and kicking.
Because the switch that made her aware of her femininity kept being pressed.
Lord Igugwoden.
You've come, haven't you, Lord Igugwoden?
This is all your doing... Lord Igugwoden?
'My beloved husband, my God, my Master...!!'
Even as an inexplicable storm suddenly engulfed the place, Eirene knew this was ultimately for their sake.
Otherwise, how could she explain the overwhelming flood of Plain Facts coursing through her entire body?
The sheer volume filling her body—her womb—to the brim and overflowing!
Saintess Erin, Empress Eirene.
As these two women, whom Igugwoden cherished especially, knelt before His immensely 'vast' Plain Facts—
――Hop!
"The Rabbit Lord...!"
The rabbit nestled in Ophelia's arms, who was guarding Eirene's side, leaped in an enormous arc.
Where it landed in a single bound—
"Igogodon."
—was in the arms of someone not human, but a creation of God's love.
The nun who embodied Plain Facts herself—Karen.
"Si-Sis...?!"
Ares looked at Karen in shock... then stumbled back in astonishment.
He had no choice.
The eyes of Karen, who always gazed at him with loving kindness, were... sparkling brilliantly.
Sparkle sparkle!
Not a poetic description of her beautiful eyes.
Literally—sparkling. Her pupils gleamed in colors no human eyes could hold.
It was as if she were—glowing.
Just like Reina Firenshia's eyes when she awakened to Plain Facts—now Karen, too.
Existing as a vessel for Plain Facts, Karen was—glowing.
"Igogodon."
"!!!!!"
In Ares's stunned vision amid the chaos—ascension.
Karen soaring toward the divine realm of the sky, which no human had ever conquered throughout history.
To be precise, Karen, eyes aglow, tightly hugged God's messenger, the rabbit, to her chest.
And at the same moment—
――Flap!
With massive wings of pure white feathers sprouting from the rabbit's sides—
It was more accurate to say the rabbit carried Karen upward.
"The Rabbit Lord...?! You really can fly?!"
Ophelia gasped in shock at the rabbit's sudden flight—
But because she had always been with it, she could at least speak.
The other humans and elves—faced with this supernatural sight, couldn't utter a word.
They simply held their breath, watching the rabbit flap its enormous wings, Karen in tow, as it ascended.
How high did it rise?
As all eyes were fixed on Karen and the rabbit floating serenely in the sky, what reached their ears was—
――Crack crack crack crack crack!
"!!!!!"
It was a sound.
The very sound Linea had heard on the Old Continent.
Looking up at the sound of something precisely splitting in two—
――The sky.
Had split in half.
Have you ever imagined a massive rift tearing through the eternally vast sky?
This surreal sight could only be described as the heavens cleaved asunder.
And from the pitch-black halves, roiling as if about to unleash storms—came light.
God's love clad in armor of light—Plain Facts.
It illuminated the glowing Karen and the winged rabbit in flight.
As if proclaiming them masters of this world.
And then—
Finally, the silent Karen cautiously parted her lips.
"Preparations complete."
"Igogodon."
The rabbit twitched its ears back and forth a few times.
It glanced around, then slowly blinked.
Reflected in its sea-like eyes—the New Continent.
The landscape of the new land beneath its feet—
—no.
To be precise— this was no longer the New Continent.
"New Continent" implied a fresh place.
But it could no longer be called new.
For as it entered Lord Igugwoden's domain, two million won worth of God's Plain Facts was about to—an nihilate this world.
Annihilation wasn't literal disappearance. What vanished was the Dtamuk Thinking Army's presence. All tangible and intangible proofs of its influence here.
Things no lifeform could detect, but a god could—all of them.
Annihilated solely for new birth.
They must vanish so that new life could bloom.
—Destroy the old, and take up the new.
That was divine command.
And God's word gained life—
"Shall we begin?"
"Igogodon."
"Then..."
No sooner had she spoken than lights of various colors emanated from Karen's body.
Light that swallowed the darkened world. Light that painted the forsaken continent in Igugwoden's hue.
All mortals beholding this scene instinctively knew.
This very moment—something beyond their lifetime's worth of sights was unfolding.
The world's history would divide into before and after this instant.
"Long live the two-million-won sponsorship."
"Long live the two-million-won sponsorship."
Karen and the rabbit, side by side—
Invoking on their lips the immense love from Lord Igugwoden's unimaginable sponsorship amount—
Finally, it manifested—
As a colossal torrent of Plain Facts upon the world—
To embrace the great being who had decided to press on, even if enlightenment never came, deeming it fine in itself.
God's messenger and an immortal existence beyond the bounds of time—the rabbit.
Quietly working its small lips—
"――Armageddon."
――Flash.
The rabbit shattered the shell enveloping the New Continent—
The 「World of Dtamuk■Thinking■」.
――KABOOOOOM!!!!!
Where ■■■■■ vanished, there was—light.