chapter 576
Chapter 152 Balance
A moment passes.
I stood up.
Mana was injected exactly nine times into the three goddesses.
“… … “He’s dead.”
Selena, who was watching, said.
The three goddesses are down and motionless. The eyes had already turned over on the fifth infusion of mana, and there had been no significant changes since then.
“I don’t know.”
I said.
“These guys said I couldn’t kill them. Even if it looks dead, it may still be alive.”
“… … Frontier, you also have a childlike side.”
What?
When I saw Selena say that, she said.
“Frondier, deep inside you thought you wouldn’t be able to survive. “I put nine worlds into mana.”
“… … greatness.”
I was speechless and scratched my cheek.
“Anyway, let’s go. “There was too much delay.”
“yes. I’m worried about Mr. Ajie’s soul… … Ugh.”
Selena suddenly made a noise of pain.
Surprised, I saw that her mana was fluctuating unsteadily.
I approached her.
“Selena. Calm your breathing. “The amplified mana needs to cool down.”
Selena swallowed my mana crystal.
What she ate was not the fake dragon heart I had made before. It is a crystal that truly contains mana.
As Selena took a deep breath, the cloth Penelope had given her continued to glow.
“You used Penelope’s cloth to manipulate mana.”
“yes… … . “I used the characteristic of pure mana.”
Penelope’s cloth has the characteristic of always returning to its original state and the object itself always flowing with pure mana.
Using this, he poured the exploding mana into Penelope’s cloth and made it controllable. The way I use fabric is different from mine.
“Even so, it was reckless. “I probably haven’t even practiced, so what should I do if I can’t handle it?”
“I told you. “I can do anything.”
Anyway, what I said.
I watched Selena catch her breath for a moment.
The effects of swallowing the mana crystal will still remain.
“It’s okay now.”
Selena said.
Your body is probably still unstable. I know this because I have used both Dragon Heart and Mana Crystal. It probably feels like a hot water balloon moving around inside your body. If you make a little mistake, it is a water balloon that will burst and hurt you.
But I couldn’t delay.
“Mr. Ajie’s soul may have already arrived in Tartarus.”
“… … Okay, let’s go.”
As she said, I had to move.
“But this situation is still strange.”
Selena looked around.
“It’s too quiet.”
This is the passage to Tartarus. But my sixth sense catches nothing.
Normally, many souls would be heading to Tartarus through this passage.
But there is no one.
But I know why.
Rather than saying that I already know, I found out about it a while ago.
“It looks like Moirai has temporarily banned the access of spirits to this place.”
“yes? Is it true?”
“huh. It’s probably because of us. “There will be a lot of chaos.”
“How did you know that, Frontier?”
“hmm. In fact, when I look into God’s eyes, I can see his past. “It’s not always possible, though.”
I realized this when I put my first mana into the Moirai on the left.
At that moment, when I met Moirai’s eyes, I saw her past.
Moirai was not a god of battle to begin with, so there were no artifacts that could be of help to me. The loom they have is not something I can use.
What I saw was Moirai giving instructions to something like a chimera to prevent souls from passing through this path.
The problem is the chimera. It was the first monster I had ever seen, but considering that this is Tartarus, it is most likely a ‘campe’.
It seems that for Moirai, it was an unacceptable problem for the soul to be injured or disappear without taking the correct path. Maybe it’s because she’s the goddess of fate.
Selena muttered in surprise.
“Looking at God’s past, Frontier is really… … .”
“Isn’t it amazing?”
“God has everything he doesn’t like.”
“… … huh. So it’s like this.”
A sigh comes out naturally. Starting with weaving, it certainly seems to me like a culmination of everything a god would hate.
‘The reason I was summoned was not only because of my soul, but also because the person I would be possessed by was ‘Frondier de Roach’.’
The weaving skill I gained when I was summoned. My own ego that does not believe in God. In addition to that, the original Frondier’s talent for interpreting ancient languages, the body inherited from the Roach family, and possibly the power to see the past of a god with a modified lineage ability.
‘Whether I admit it or not, the person I am now is a kind of weapon that humans of the past gathered together to defeat God.’
It is true that the tone is a bit excessive. Because they didn’t make me.
However, it is true that by combining several conditions, I found myself among them.
To be precise, I am not a weapon myself, but I am a part of it.
I am not who I was in the previous world, nor am I ‘Frondier de Roach’. It is part of something that puts it all together.
“Mr. Frontier.”
this. I stopped to think for a moment.
I thought Selena spoke to it to wake it up.
“Frondier, your wrist… … .”
She had a more serious look on her face.
I followed Selena’s finger and held up my wrist.
‘Smartwatch… … .’
Smartwatches are starting to shine.
It wasn’t a sudden twinkle. If that were the case, I would have known right away.
The smartwatch gradually became brighter, as if waking up from a long sleep, like a firefly being born for the first time.
But there is no sign of the brightening stopping.
“… … uh.”
“Ugh, it’s dazzling.”
Selena looked away. It’s that bright. It just becomes brighter without any other changes or processes.
Is it really getting brighter here? Just when I thought about it.
Beep!
The smartwatch made a sound.
It sounds like it’s been a long time, or like it’s the first time.
Beep—! Beep—! Beep—!
It started making an extremely loud noise.
As if everything that had been quiet until now was being vomited out all at once.
Like the loudest alarm clock that rings at the end just before oversleeping.
* * *
“majesty.”
At that time, Palma, the city of Agoris.
In the palace, King Palma stood with a deep expression on his face.
The subject bowed his head deeply before him.
“Was it really right to let her go?”
“… … It wasn’t Cybel who harmed me. “No matter how incompetent I am, I don’t know that.”
“majesty. Those words… … .”
A king who calls himself incompetent.
This is more dangerous than you think. When a king tells someone about his weaknesses, it shows that he trusts him, but belittling himself doesn’t help anything.
Words appear in attitudes and actions. The reign of a king who considers himself incompetent is extremely unstable.
The subject thought for a moment and then spoke again.
“Right now, that woman named Cybel is said to be causing trouble on the shore. According to rumors, we are even hearing nonsense about confronting Poseidon.”
“… … .”
King Palma did not reply. Instead, he looked at his subjects.
He saw his most trusted servant bowing his head deeply and speaking.
“… … That woman told me “It’s time to become emperor.”
“… … ! Me, Your Highness. “Such nonsense!”
“Do you think this is nonsense too?”
“I did not mean to say that Your Highness is not qualified to be emperor.”
“Know.”
King Palma asked again with a calm expression.
“Do you think that’s nonsense? “I just want to hear your opinion.”
“… … .”
The subject remained silent for a moment.
This is what came out after deep consideration.
“It is a matter I cannot judge.”
“… … .”
“Your Majesty and your predecessors placed great importance on using the name ‘Empire’ and the title ‘Emperor.’ He encouraged his subjects, saying that it should happen someday, and sometimes he came out in front of the citizens and talked about it. We know that the name carries extraordinary weight. However, in the end, our predecessors did not call themselves emperor.”
The city of Palma in the Kingdom of Palma, and the King of Palma.
The only country of humans on this continent.
Why can’t the only country on the continent call itself an empire?
No, what great meaning is there in claiming it in the first place?
“This is incomprehensible to us.”
“yes. “Because I didn’t tell you.”
When King Palma spoke, the subject suddenly raised his head in surprise.
“… … After all, there’s something we don’t know yet.”
“Yes. This is something that only the person sitting on the throne of the king hears. Only from one king to the next. “It’s like a fairy tale that is only passed down that way.”
The subject blinked for a moment at those words, then quickly lowered his head again.
No longer interrupting conversations.
The current atmosphere is one in which King Palma is likely to tell that story to himself.
A story that one king tells only to the next king. Is there anything more secret than this?
The subject tried to hide his pounding heart and waited for the king’s next words.
There was a moment of silence.
King Palma’s slight hesitation and the time spent choosing his words combined to create a moderate pause.
“… … “A long time ago, there was a continent called Etius.”
The story of King Palma began with such a phrase:
“Etius is a different continent from us. “It is a continent to the east across the sea.”
“… … “Not here, but another continent.”
The subject hid his pounding heart. From here, the content was already surprising.
“People at the time knew each other’s existence. Etius knew Agoris, and Agoris knew Etius. Trade was also active, and strangely enough, there were conflicts. There were fights even over a huge area called the sea. “If you are human, you are human.”
King Palma’s words were truly like a fairy tale.
The subject had never heard such a story in his life. In the past, we already knew there were other continents and there were even exchanges? How can people now not know any of this?
Then King Palma said:
“But there was a disaster.”
“… … It must have been difficult. “Etius.”
King Palma shook his head there.
“The disaster is not limited to Etius. This also happened to Agoris. “It was a terrible disaster that threatened humanity throughout the world.”
“Uh, how could that…?” … ! no way!”
“Yes, God did it.”
King Palma lowered his eyes.
“I told you. This is like a fairy tale. It’s a story from long ago. “My ancestors tried desperately to tell me this story, but so many years have passed that I can’t even relate to those feelings.”
“… … “This is really hard to believe.”
“After that disaster, Etius and Agoris began to take different paths. “It was probably around that time that communication stopped.”
“What if there is another way?”
“Etius declared to resist God.”
“… … !”
The subject swallowed his saliva. It seemed like the sound of the gulp could be heard even by King Palma.
Resist God. I feel fear even though I do not fully understand the meaning of those words.
“Etius was originally given to honor the gods. Especially Zeus. The way names were created was god-like. “This is also true of Agoris.”
“… … So now Etius… … .”
“Yes, the name has changed. They said it was Palind. Agoris, on the other hand, chose to follow the gods. “It’s like following, but it’s closer to surrendering to power.”
The subject blinked his eyes.
Even after doing something like that, is Etius, or rather Palind, okay? I don’t know anything about the situation on that continent, so I can’t even guess. Is this a continent that no longer exists?
The subject asked cautiously.
“… … “What was that disaster specifically?”
“That’s—”
thud!
At that moment, a heavy sound suddenly struck me.
Rather than being noisy, it was a heavy and huge sound.
Coo coo coo… … .
The sound that soon follows is the cry of the earth.
“earthquake?”
“Well, Your Highness! You must avoid it!”
The servant quickly grasps the situation and shouts.
However, instead of running away, King Palma went to the window and checked outside.
The sight he saw was,
Caw! Caw!
Food!
Passssss─
The sound of birds crying and flying. Flocks of birds flying, crushing the wind in the forest and trees.
It’s not just the sound.
“… … oh my god.”
The outside of the window is filled with all sorts of things.
Birds and insects fly into the sky, creating chaos everywhere,
Rats and wild animals that were hiding on the ground came out and ran quickly, passing between people’s feet.
In all directions, in all directions.
Where are they going?
No, it’s something that even the flying birds and mice don’t know.
There is no direction in running away.
“No way, no way…” … !”
King Palma’s eyes tremble.
The time that our ancestors have feared for a long time is coming.
The time I have been waiting for for a long time has come.
* * *
The battle between Poseidon and Jormungand lasted a long time.
Poseidon is the god of Olympus, but Jormungand is a monster that threatens even the god of Asgard. The powers of the two collided tightly.
At that point, Poseidon was already at a disadvantage.
Because Cybel Forte, like a mass of irregulars, is above Jormungand’s head.
“this guy!”
The Spear of Poseidon rises into the sky, followed by waves. No, it is safe to say that its scale is followed by the sea.
A spear devouring a huge snake and the bombardment of the sea.
that,
Coo coo coo-
Hung!
Under the sea, a long shadow stretches vertically across the sky.
Whoa whoa!!
Jormungandr’s tail breaks waves with its single volume.
The dividing sea, between them.
Cybel Forte Original
Aura, mana combination.
petal
White
A bursting ray of light.
The pink girl overturned the lightning, and a whip-like electric wire stretched towards Poseidon.
“How dare a human b*stard!”
Squeeze!
Destroying it all, Poseidon’s grip tightens on Cybel.
You can’t avoid it forever.
Fate will not look after Cybel forever.
However.
Cybel slipped through the fingers of the grasp that was trying to devour her.
Beyond Poseidon’s reaction speed, in the air with no foothold.
this is.
‘Chuck!’
Poseidon was surprised. Meanwhile, Jormungand threatened Poseidon, and Cybel climbed on Jormungand’s back again.
“Don’t do anything reckless. Cybel.”
Jormungand said:
I’m not particularly worried about Saibel, but she is very helpful when dealing with Poseidon.
It might really devour that god from head to toe.
“It’s not reckless.”
Saibel said. A faint smile. Eyes that shine.
She was in a strangely excited state.
“Sibel. I’m so excited. The opponent is Jushin. “He is the most powerful sea god.”
“know. But why?”
Cybel’s smile does not disappear.
She was feeling a fever she had never felt before in her life.
“The balance is lost.”
“balance?”
“okay. There were three equilibria. “One of them is leaning.”
Cybel raised her head and looked at the sky.
If you look at the sky from here, there is nothing to see.
However, Cybel’s eyes had precise focus and slowly moved towards somewhere.
As if I could really see something.
As if I found someone there.
“It’s Frontier.”
“what?”
“I don’t know?”
Cybel pointed to her ears.
“Now I can’t hear the sound of the gears inside me.”
“… … Cybel?”
“The sound is no longer coming from within me, but from further away.”
Jormungand cannot see Cybel’s face. Because he’s carrying Cybel on his head.
But I think I know what the face is even if I can’t see it.
Jormungand seemed to be out of his mind. It’s already a dangerous situation confronting Poseidon, but suddenly Cybel says something incomprehensible.
“listen carefully. “You will hear it too.”
“Sibel, rather than that, focus on the enemy in front of you first.”
When Jormungand spoke so far,
Ironically, the first person to feel it was Jormungand himself.
‘… … ? The sea… … .’
Jormungandr’s huge body. Its tail reaches all the way to the bottom of the deep sea.
So I got it clearly.
Coo coo coo coo!
There is an earthquake. Earthquakes become more and more massive.
“… … no… … .”
Unlike Jormungand, who is surprised, Poseidon’s face is serious.
“This is not it. “This is ridiculous.”
Poseidon shakes his head. As if he couldn’t accept this situation.
Poseidon knows the meaning of this earthquake.
You can hear the sound of wild animals, birds, and insects running away.
Flocks of birds pass by them.
The sound of crying and flapping wings disturbs my ears, and the earthquake becomes more massive.
Jormungand was puzzled by the appearance of Poseidon,
‘… … This!’
Jormungand also knew.
This isn’t an earthquake problem.
An earthquake is one of the minor consequences.
Jormungand clearly knows.
His long and huge body gives a definite feeling.
‘The depth of the water!’
Jormungand inadvertently looked down.
The level of water filling his body began to fall, gradually, very slowly, but surely.
However, if that is true, the problem becomes very serious.
This is not a lake or a river.
It’s the sea.
The water in the sea is sinking.
“Yes, the time has really come!”
Jormungand realized and shouted.
“Poseidon! You know it! “What does this mean!”
“… … Shut up… … .”
“The long scourge is finally over!”
The depth of the sea continues to decrease.
At first, it was enough for Jormungand to notice, but now it’s enough for anyone to know at a glance.
And before you know it.
“damn… … !”
Poseidon spitting out curse words.
he.
standing on the ground
The sea stopped sinking only when Poseidon’s feet were revealed.
The sea became so small.
And there is something that becomes that big.
“… … Finally.”
King Palma saw the scene.
thud.
I leaned my head against the window in front of me.
His breathing became heavy, and his eyes were shaking with anxiety and anticipation.
When the sea sinks, it means that the continent expands.
This is the original Agoris.
Agoris before the disaster.
This is Agoris before the ‘flood’, a disaster brought by God.
“The time has come to choose.”
Long ago, Palma was an empire.
This means asking for the emperor in Agoris.
To reclaim kingdoms lost by the gods.
It means that declaration.