Chapter 454 – Hero, Demon King, Goddess (9)
‘…Seeing you face to face like this, I understand.’
Baek Soso expressed his respect to Orphelia in his heart.
When I first heard the story, Orphelia was a character that could only be described as foolish.
When the demi-humans oppress humans with their strong bodies, they talk as if the law of the fittest is the truth, but when the demi-humans become weak due to technological advancement, they ask the goddess to intervene… It’s truly childish behavior.
However, the current Orphelia did not show anything like that at all.
The throne changed Orphelia.
Baek So-so had also reigned for a while, so he knew very well how heavy the throne was.
Orphelia, who had borne that weight alone for hundreds of years, was worthy of being called the ‘Emperor.’
‘The West said that Orphelia was in charge of her battle, but…’
Did you say that Tristia’s enchantment is in charge of strategy, Berlioz’s River God is in charge of tactics, and Orphelia’s Thunder Dragon Flower is in charge of battle?
‘…It’s different.’
Bai Xiaoxiao was sure.
It may have been so 300 years ago, but now Orphelia was stronger than her other two disciples.
Orphelia had the power to use her body alone as a strategy beyond combat and tactics.
‘Is that why she avoided humans so much?’
At this moment, Baek Soso was able to understand why Orphelia had so thoroughly avoided meeting humans.
Her great power inevitably causes fear, and fear paralyzes reason.
Even if Orphelia did not threaten humans, humans would certainly have considered Orphelia a threat.
The best way to avoid this situation is to not meet in the first place.
─────Flash!
At that time, Orphelia’s expression, who was talking to the master, momentarily distorted and she rushed towards him.
Kwaaaaang!
No, to tell the truth, Orphelia’s movements were not even reflected in her eyes.
What Soso confirmed was that Orphelia swung her fist and Eugene barely caught it.
“Ah..Ahhh!!! Fu…Please release me! We have to stop it! If this continues, Eugene will die!”
Soso spoke to Gates, who was talking intently while his body was stiff.
“…What do you think is stronger, a candle or a stream?”
“Suddenly, what kind of absurd nonsense is that? “Now is not the time for Zen questions!”
“It’s a simple question, isn’t it? Stream and candles. “Which do you think is stronger?”
“Ugh!! It’s a stream!! “Please release me now!!”
“And what about streams and volcanoes?”
“What are you talking about?”
“…What about volcanoes and the ocean? What about the sea and the sun? Which do you think is stronger?”
“Don’t say anything strange! Of course, the bigger one is stronger! Ah! Take a look! Eugene is in danger!”
─Bang! ─Bang! ─Bang!
As Gates said, the Lord of the West was clearly being beaten unilaterally by the Emperor, but Soso did not feel the slightest feeling of anxiety or nervousness.
It is definitely not because my love for Eugene has cooled.
For Eugene, Soso was willing to give up his life before anyone else.
So how can Soso remain calm in this situation?
The answer was simple.
This was because Soso did not feel that the current situation, where the West was being unilaterally beaten by the Emperor, was dangerous at all.
‘…The bigger one is stronger.’
As the saying goes, power is only relative.
Power is always destroyed by a stronger power.
However, Soso knew of a being who broke that absolute law.
Crumbling! Bang!
It was Eugene.
Shortly after giving birth to her first child, Eugene gathered her wives together and told them all the secrets she had been hiding.
The secret also contained the story of Eugene’s return and the two years of disappearance that were never mentioned.
‘I told the West that Jong-Eon is a power that humans are not allowed to possess.’
At first, I was taken by the idea that the meaning of the words was that the Lord’s 11 golden years overlapped in one place, surpassing human limitations… But no matter how I calculated it, it was strange.
Even if the ants had hundreds or thousands of times the strength of ordinary ants, would they be able to defeat the dragon?
Impossible.
Even if it were a dead dragon, ants wouldn’t be able to penetrate even a single dragon’s scales.
It may be profane to say this, but the gap between the Lord of the West and the end of the world could be said to be the gap between an ant and a dragon.
A fight between one person and ‘Apocalypse’, which has the power to destroy the world.
It is clear who will win.
Even if all 11 lives were added to you, it was normal for you to not be able to defeat ‘Jong-Eon’.
But the West won.
He returned victorious to our side.
In order to interpret this incomprehensible phenomenon, Soso entered into a long study with Lucia and Liana, keeping it secret from Eugene.
So that if a danger that threatens her family comes someday, I can be by her side, not behind Eugene.
However, despite repeated research and review and verification of numerous possibilities, it was impossible for the West to overcome ‘Jonggeon’.
…Then how did the West win?
In a situation where the impossible became a reality, we had one conclusion.
The moment Seobang-sama embodied his 11th regression, didn’t he gain something that gave him no choice but to win?
─What if that’s what you saw right before the ‘end’ disappeared?
─What if that was what kept your spirit from collapsing while suffering for a long time, close to eternity?
It may sound ridiculous, but this is the only way I can explain it.
Unchanging, absolute strength.
The power to win without fail, regardless of whether the opponent is God, time, fate, or anything else.
We call it “Absoluteness」It was named.
And we agreed not to reveal this fact to the West.
The goddess said that the West has already attained godhood, but he is trying not to acknowledge it for fear of becoming distant from us.
If “Absoluteness” Is added to this, the suffering of the West will become more severe.
“Soso! Come to your senses! Look over there! Eugene is not being hit one-sidedly! Please release me quickly! “I will pray to the Emperor the Terrible!”
“The Minister… Is quite noisy.”
Soso, seeing Eugene getting hit, slightly stuck out his lower lip.
I have no doubt about the West’s victory.
But watching the man you love get beaten can never be a good feeling.
However, there was one reason why Soso did not interfere.
Because it’s probably Eugene’s plan for me too.
***
“What do you know!”
Quang!
Orphelia screamed, her fist approaching heavily.
“The goddess has abandoned me! Abandon this land! “They abandoned their people!!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Orphelia’s movements are not visible.
The moment I felt her coming, Orphelia was already punching me behind me.
“But how dare you speak of a goddess in my kingdom!!”
I dare say that the fact that I cannot see her movements means that Orphelia is not moving in a normal way right now.
Swoowook—!
As soon as she struck out her fist, a nail came flying from the other side of her, aiming for her carotid artery.
I said, taking a half step back.
“It’s an illusion. The Goddess never abandoned anyone. “You, this land, and the people.”
“Shut up!! “Someone who doesn’t know anything shouldn’t talk nonsense!!!”
Crrrr!!!
As if in response to Orphelia’s feelings, lightning strikes from the sky.
An attack too broad to avoid.
I let out a small sigh as I grabbed the falling lightning with my magical hands.
“…I understand now.”
This wasn’t something I could convince.
I came all the way here because I was momentarily distracted by the request from my lovely wives, but even if I tried to solve it, the pain would never go away.
Because this was a story between the goddess and Orphelia.
“Let’s meet the goddess first and talk.”
“I would have told you to shut up!!!”
─Quarrrr!!
It appeared behind Orphelia, out of sight once again.
I still couldn’t follow Orphelia’s movements, but after being attacked several times, I was able to get a general idea of her principles.
‘…Making the body magical.’
I thought it was a technology that couldn’t be used by humans, but the current movement speed couldn’t have been achieved without magic.
‘Are you going to instantaneously magicalize the body and disintegrate it… After that, you will re-condense the magic power of the lightning in the atmosphere and make it materialize?’
This is crazy technology.
‘Kangshin’ is also a fairly dangerous technology, but it cannot be compared to ‘magicalization’.
Because it was a technique that carried the risk of being unable to reconstruct the body from magic forever if one were to lose focus even for a moment.
Of course, it is true that it is a technology that has as much power as its disadvantages.
Being able to disassemble and reconstruct the body means that you can always maintain the best condition while using electric power, and as long as you control magical power, the limitations of space disappear.
‘…I’ll give it a try.’
This means that since I figured out that it’s not impossible, I can also use it.
‘It’s impossible to use lightning right now, but…’
The magical power of lightning is not a very familiar magical power, so it is impossible, but if it is a ‘shadow’…
─Woah!
The moment you use magicalization, your ego is split into countless pieces, and all the shadows in the capital feel like they belong to you.
At this moment, a shadow appeared and I became the shadow.
‘Find it.’
The self, divided countless times, dispersed to find the gaze of the goddess who was watching with ‘contemplation’.
Of course, if the goddess is on the Internet right now, I won’t be able to find her… But the goddess I know is not the kind of person who will let me go and spend her time on the Internet.
‘Rather, they are probably trying to somehow find out the situation here.’
As expected, it wasn’t long before we discovered numerous tentacle-like strands stretching out near the Allied capital.
‘…You couldn’t enter the capital because of Orphelia’s magic.’
Tentacles fidgeting with the flow of magic power throbbing in the capital.
When she stretched out her shadow and grabbed the end of the tentacle, the goddess seemed to be startled and withdrew the tentacle.
‘Stay calm!’
No matter how much she is, she cannot exercise magical power from the capital of the Allied Powers to the Aslan Empire.
There is only one person in this world who can do that.
All she can do is watch, but she is the only goddess who can ‘contemplate’ beyond dimensions.
‘If you use that…’
I closed my eyes for a moment and opened them, surrendering myself to the flow of magical energy created by the tentacles.
—Aaaaah!
I emerged from the shadow of the goddess.
