– Volume 15, Episode 17
367. 76th Floor, Child of New Blood (7)
Starlight rushes over the ice earth. The emperor hurriedly opens his mouth.
But now Taesan knows too. That the emperor must make a verbal declaration if he wants to enforce rules on the world.
And the time it took to make that declaration was by no means a short time for Taesan.
In an instant, dozens of magics are implemented in the world. As if destruction itself had materialized,
an explosion of power attacked the emperor.
“Keuuugh!”
The emperor roughly amplified the divinity surrounding his body.
The divinity collided with magic begins to slowly gnaw away.
“Every time you use magic in this sacred realm of Horai, you must put your hands together and pray!”
The emperor endured the magic and declared again. Dozens of magic all at once lost their power and disappeared.
However, Taesan had expected everything
.
Before the emperor finishes his declaration, as soon as he approaches the limited enemy Blink, he activates a starlight arrow. Offset the divinity surrounding the emperor with a starlight arrow and place your hand on the emperor’s body.
[You activated Branch of Despair.]
At that moment, a huge muddy stream of emotions stirred in the emperor’s head.
All sorts of negative emotions try to dominate him. Taesan activated one more skill.
[You activated a forced fall.]
The emperor’s movements noticeably slowed down. Taesan quickly moved away and put his hands together.
Damn it!
magic rushes
According to the rules, magic and black magic are manifested. It was a very slow pace, but the emperor could not aim for that gap.
“Ugh!”
The emperor contorted his face in the turbulent emotions.
“Don’t be ridiculous!”
he roared.
“I am the emperor! I am an apostle of God! Barely a muddy stream of emotions can’t stop me!”
With strong will, divinity fills up inside the emperor.
But the turbid flow of emotions does not go away.
Deep inside his head, it continued to eat away at his psyche.
The emperor gnashed his teeth.
“What! Why doesn’t it disappear!”
The Branch of Despair is a skill directly bestowed by the God of Despair.
In terms of the pure value of having evolved Seed of Despair, it was a skill that ranked high among Taesan’s skills.
His rank is not inferior to that of the emperor. Even the guides of sin couldn’t help but choose to endure the seed of despair with will.
The emperor was also unable to focus on the battle due to pain.
Taesan did not miss that opportunity.
[You have activated Acceleration.]
[You have activated Skill Acceleration.]
In an instant, you run into the emperor. Quickly kneel down and activate Leap as it is.
Kaaaang!
“Ugh!”
The emperor, barely able to block it, shouted with a distorted face.
“Declare! I belong to Lord Horai! Unless Horai-sama permits it, mental intervention is impossible for me!”
As soon as the rules were engraved,
the effect of the branches of despair disappeared.
And the rules for black magic also disappeared. Taesan quickly gathered demonic energy.
Koo Goo Goo!
Black magic is manifested continuously.
Chains bind the Emperor, and storm arrows cut through space. Black waves cover the world.
[You activated Amon’s jet-black wedge.]
Whoops!
Hit the emperor with a wedge
. The emperor’s body is pushed out by the strong shock.
The emperor gritted his teeth and declared again. Black magic loses power with discipline.
“You bastard!”
The emperor rushed at Taishan in anger.
As long as discipline was in place, it was difficult to block the emperor’s attack. That’s why Taesan didn’t intend to stop it.
[You activated the designated mark acceleration.]
Taesan’s body moved backwards in an instant
. The emperor’s pupils widened at the same speed as if he had jumped through space.
“how!”
Taesan kicks his feet.
Use designated mark acceleration to cross space in all directions. The emperor was perplexed and did not respond properly. It was a skill I had never experienced before.
After thinking hard for a while, the emperor shouted harshly.
“This is Horai-sama’s land! In order to jump in space, you must first declare a position!”
There were restrictions on space.
The Emperor rushed wildly.
[You activated the designated mark acceleration.]
And Taesan moved to the position of the mark again.
It was not to leap through space, but to move through space at high speed. There was no reason to be constrained to leap forward.
The emperor’s face contorted endlessly.
“I am! I mean, I put the rules!”
As new rules were applied,
the rules for spirits were loosened.
[You are the spirit king of the wind. Minerva was summoned.]
“You kicked it out! That’s too much!”
Minerva burst into the wind with fury. The thickness of the divinity wrapped around the emperor was getting thinner little by little.
Taishan mocked the emperor.
The emperor was obviously strong.
Even if he was innocent, he was not defeated by Taesan, and the force of discipline he had was a very selfish ability.
In fact, it was the power to fight by tying all of the opponent’s limbs together.
If you handled that well, you could have stopped most of Taesan’s actions.
But the emperor was unable to do so. He was wasting his energy because he could only use discipline very simply and could not properly grasp the power of Mount Tai.
It was because his combat experience was so lacking.
It wasn’t that strange. Even those who were said to be the strongest in the outside world were only on the 30th and 40th floors. However,
there was no way that the emperor across the border could fight on an equal footing with anyone.
Perhaps he had never fought a proper battle since becoming an apostle.
“It would have been more difficult to be the guide to sin.”
With so much experience, if they had the power of discipline, they might have really been able to defeat Taesan. Discipline was such a force.
Power is nothing if you simply have it.
How to best use that power, how to respond to opponents, how to deal with variables, etc.
Only when you learn all of them can you truly handle power.
That’s probably why the gods created a place called a labyrinth.
Power without experience is not scary at all. The emperor expelled Minerva again with a proclamation. Taking advantage of that gap, Tai San approached the emperor.
[You activated Acceleration.]
I thrust my sword hard. The emperor chose avoidance instead of just getting married.
[You have activated Penalty.]
Kwajik.
The sword’s trajectory twisted and pierced the emperor’s shoulder.
“What! What do you mean!”
the emperor shouted harshly. I couldn’t understand the power Taesan had. Ignorance soon led to bewilderment, and bewilderment slowed action.
Quadduk.
Taesan wielded his sword and expressed his strength.
[You have invoked the call of destruction
.]
The power of destruction rushes out into the world.
The emperor was frightened and wrapped himself in divinity.
Call of Doom. It is the power obtained by defeating the demon king in the world of ghosts, and is much more powerful than the embers of disaster.
Until now, I couldn’t even control it properly, but now I can touch it to some extent.
Destruction that devours everything devours the divinity surrounding the emperor. The divinity begins to diminish noticeably.
“The power of destruction! It cannot exert its power unless it is in the original world!”
The emperor barely exclaimed.
However, as a result, the restrictions on swordsmanship were released.
Taesan swung his sword roughly.
[You activated the blade of fighting spirit.]
The emperor stretched out his fist.
Whoa!
Fists and swords collide. Divinity gnaws away. The emperor widened his eyes and raised his strength.
“die!”
Kwaaang!
The deity that exploded swallows Taesan.
But Taesan was no longer there.
Taesan, who moved to the side, gathered his demonic energy. The preparations for the black magic had already been completed.
The emperor gnashed his teeth and charged. Anger clouded his mind. I was thinking of ignoring Taishan’s dark magic and attacking with the divinity wrapped around my body.
So far, Taishan’s black magic only gnawed at his divinity, but did no harm to him.
The emperor rushed toward Mount Tai.
Taesan burst into demonic energy.
[You have activated Beyond the Boundary.]
[You have activated Storm Arrow of Non-accident.]
[You have activated Forced Amplification.]
The Storm Arrow, containing the power beyond mortal speed, runs.
The Emperor instinctively noticed.
That the power contained therein could pierce through one’s divinity.
But it was too late to react. He hurriedly tried to raise his divinity even higher, but before that, an arrow broke his divinity. The arrow of the
storm
pierced the emperor’s heart.
Koo-goo-goo…
“Cool.”
The emperor vomits blood. He stared blankly at his pierced chest.
He is Horai’s apostle. Even if his heart was pierced, he could recover as long as his divinity hadn’t been consumed.
However, the heart pierced by the arrow of the storm was not recovering.
The power contained in the arrow had a higher rank than his divinity across the border.
“under.”
The emperor was possessed with a laugh. At this level, it was enough to recover if I focused on recovery over time. However
, there was no way
the opponent in front of him would just watch it .
“Is there only this?”
Retrieve the realm of transcendental beings that the emperor spread to the world.
The Kiiying
apostle’s power itself was concentrated in one fist.
All the regulations that restricted Taishan were also lifted.
The power to use in such a driven situation.
That is the emperor’s trump card.
Just block that attack and it’s all over.
There was no need to save now. Taishan grabbed the sword.
fault.
the emperor leaps He wields a fist that crushes everything.
Taesan also raises a sword in front of him.
The sword is dyed black.
And the place is covered with gold.
As a result, gray is formed.
Kaaaang!
The apostle’s power and boundaries collide. The mixed gray powers
open their mouths wildly and consume the apostle’s power.
“What is this?”
The emperor was astonished. As an apostle, he recognized the gray power.
That was a power beyond mortality.
no. maybe more than that.
Thoughts didn’t work. The gray exploded and engulfed his entire body.
* *
“I lost.”
The emperor, whose whole body was crushed, admitted defeat. There was no great anger or despair on his face.
“To return to Horai like this… I need to meet him and apologize.”
An apostle is a being who has dedicated his soul to God. Death is not the end for them. It was just about abandoning the body and returning.
The Emperor’s soul is released from the dead body.
“Ohhh…
the sky is opening.
A mighty presence appeared. The power I felt was very cold and did not feel warmth.
That is the god of discipline. Horai.
“My God…
the emperor casts a hazy gaze on Horai.
Horai silently sends a poem to the emperor.
The light in his gaze was very harsh.
“Are you a city god?”
The emperor was perplexed. Horai’s gaze was never favorable.
The emperor, who felt fear for a moment, tried to run away, but there was nowhere to run.
“Ah ah ah ah ah!”
The power forcibly consumes the emperor’s soul. There was no consideration, warmth, or mercy. It was crushed like a tool that had run out of usefulness.
The emperor disappeared with a scream.
[Your Spirituality Ascension has been activated.]
The Spirituality Ascension system window appeared. Taishan slowly summoned the remaining divinity and restored his body.
“It is over now.”
” ah.”
The child trembled startled.
The emperor controlled the child not to be harmed even during the battle. As a result, even in the ruins, the child
did not have a single wound.
Taesan said to the child.
“There is no curse that bothers you anymore.”
The curse is from the emperor.
Now the child was simply a normal child with blue blood.
The child blankly looked at Mount Tai. I haven’t felt it yet.
“…Everyone around me is dead.”
The child’s family was killed by the Emperor.
“The world will still hate me.”
The child was still a child cursed by the world. Perhaps the reason why the temple was destroyed and the emperor disappeared was because of the child’s curse, and they could persecute him even more.
“I am still a cursed child. That didn’t change. But…
the child looked at Taesan.
Taesan
fought the emperor for his own sake. It was for himself, not for anyone else.
“Still… I will live in the world.”
Trials will come to him in the future, but he lives for Taesan’s sake.
That was the choice the child made in the end.
Taesan nodded.
“If that is your choice.”
At the same time, Taesan’s body disappeared.
As the quest ended,
they moved to the labyrinth.
“Taesan?”
After looking at the place for a while, the child moved slowly.
You will suffer and suffer, but you will live in the world. the child has decided
But there was a problem.
what will you live for
It had no purpose.
He wanted a normal life, but that was no longer possible. And now he was no longer hoping for normalcy.
A place passed through the child’s mind after thinking for a while.
“Did you say labyrinth?”
Ai and Taesan talked a lot while walking around.
Among them, there was a story about a labyrinth.
A place where strong warriors from all over the world gather. A place where you can become strong if you can survive.
It is said that Mount Tai is descending there.
“…perhaps.”
The child has determined the goal of living. With a steady step, the child moved forward.
[It’s over.]
“…it would have been nice if you could wait a little longer.”
[Don’t you think that ending is okay?]
The God of Choice’s voice was full of satisfaction as he smiled.
[The child will live a life in the future. You will make countless choices in front of them… and eventually you will come here. It’ll be a fun time.]
Maria chuckled.
[You’ve been very, very good. You showed me everything I wanted to see.]
So, I’ll reward you accordingly.
Maria waved her fingertips along with those words.
The mighty power crystallized and began to materialize in Taesan’s hand.
Level up with skill
