Episode 633: Heaven’s Gate (1)
Grander was silent at Ludger’s words…
Ludger’s words asking her to live were just unreasonable, but they really shook her heart.
Especially when I looked at the face of that ugly disciple who was wiping away his own tears but was unable to wipe away the sadness in his eyes…
I couldn’t say I wanted to leave…
“To trample on your mother’s dreams so arbitrarily… You must truly be the most unfilial child in the world…”
“Yes, it’s okay to be an unfilial child, as long as you can live.”
“What am I supposed to do with my life? I have no purpose or dream left in life anymore.”
“It won’t be there now… Even if you suddenly find something that wasn’t there, it would be just as embarrassing… Still…”
Ludger raised his head and looked up at the night sky.
Countless stars embroidered on the sky…
It unfolded according to a certain flow and formed the Milky Way…
The inside of this cage is so stuffy, but the outside is so beautiful that I often find myself looking up without thinking.
“The world is wide… There is something beyond this place… So I guarantee that if I can get out of this cage and reach a large garden or an even wider wilderness…”
Someday, I will cross that distant sea of stars…
If only I could reach the end…
okay·
At that time, it was clear…
“I guarantee that your mother will find a new reason for living too.”
Grander opened his eyes round and then smiled softly at Ludger.
“As always, the words are clear and flowing.”
It was a pointed tone, but Grander’s voice was more subdued…
“I’m tired. I need to close my eyes for a while.”
“Yes, good night, mother.”
Although Grander looked fine on the outside, his soul had suffered significant damage due to God’s stake.
Since her soul was not completely destroyed, it will recover over time, but right now, her soul is in an unstable state, so rest was essential.
“I feel like I’m having a dream after a long time…”
“Have a nice dream. When you wake up, it will all be over.”
“okay····”
Grander mumbled a reply and closed his eyes.
Soon, the sound of even breathing rang out along with the sound of leaking liquid.
“Ather Nocturnus…”
Ludger called upon his magic beast…
Ather Nocturnus realized what Ludgar wanted and immediately gently embraced Grander’s body.
Ather Nocturnus asked his master with a look…
Can you fight properly without yourself?
Ludger chuckled at the worry of the normally greedy magic beast.
“Don’t worry…”
today·
Because I really plan to do it right…
“ha ha ha! “That’s cool!”
It was Cardinal Patrick’s laughter that broke the silence that was overwhelming the crowd at that time.
He had already reached the outside of the crater and was looking down at Ludger with an expression full of joy.
“You’re breaking down God’s stake with your own strength. Does this mean it’s his blood?”
“Cardinal Patricio Romelo…”
“It’s been a long time. I used to be so young, but now that I’ve grown up, I don’t even know who I am.”
In response to Patricio’s words as if he had been waiting for him, Ludger glanced at the surrounding troops and then asked…
“Was all of this a bait to call me?”
“Of course it was… But I didn’t expect you to go out in person like this… and that alone… I thought at least there would be other subordinates you prepared, but doesn’t this make it pointless to have gathered this many people…”
Patricio planned this whole situation…
Grander was also nothing more than a means to achieve his goal.
There’s only one thing he’s really aiming for…
Ludger Chelsea·
No, it was Heathcliff Van Bretus, another of the prosperous bloodlines.
The expression on Patricio’s face, who was laughing at Ludger to the fullest, disappeared…
“You shouldn’t be alive…”
“····”
“You were never meant to exist in the first place. An illegitimate child born unintentionally. That is you.”
Patricio shook his head·
“No, it would have been better if you had just been an illegitimate child. However, you were not just an illegitimate child, you were a created Holy Grail, a tool to contain God.”
So he wanted to kill Ludger…
He conspired with others to try to poison the baby since he was a baby, and when that didn’t work, he tried to assassinate him using other methods.
However, Ludger survived all the threats as if receiving divine protection.
In the end, they even took him to a remote place and dropped him into an old well so that no one could save him.
Who knew…
I guess the true bloodsucker who secretly visited the Holy Kingdom of Bretus found Ludger there and took it away…
So after that, we continued to send chase teams, but each time they failed.
“After that, I kept trying to get rid of it, but something bad happened in my country, so I had no choice but to put it aside.”
But I never gave up…
After the Holy Kingdom of Bretus was opened again, they dug a trap to eliminate Ludger according to the plan they had prepared so far.
“You must not exist, Heathcliff.”
“I shouldn’t exist…”
Ludger wasn’t particularly hurt by those words…
It was only a little surprising that a man named Cardinal tried to kill him.
In the first place, Ludger never considered Seonghwang or others as family.
“So, I hope you die, at least for the sake of the people who came all the way to see you and put on a joke.”
Ludger couldn’t hold back his laughter at Patricio’s words.
That’s funny…
Wasn’t it the Cardinal himself who kept this fact a secret from them and called them out at will?
Just look at the reactions of people around you.
Ludger looks puzzled as to why he appears here…
But they didn’t know what to do once they got here…
Everyone felt it instinctively…
They are afraid that Ludger is their enemy and that if they don’t kill him now, they might suffer.
“I ask you one thing…”
“Hmm? “Do you have any questions?”
“I know that the previous Emperor died and a new Emperor ascended the throne. Who did it?”
There was no need to keep that a secret, so Patricio said it was no big deal.
“Salesin van Bretus, the eldest son of His Majesty the previous generation.”
“Salesin, yes, he is the big brother to me.”
“Are you done with all your questions now?”
“Okay, but I think you need to change what you said a little bit.”
Patricio frowned, perhaps annoyed by Ludger, who was trying to make puns even in this situation.
“What does that mean all of a sudden?”
“You might think they dug this trap to kill me, but it’s the opposite…”
Ludger’s eyes turned red…
“You are the ones who die here today…”
Although he was trying to speak calmly, Ludger had been in an angry state for a while…
Everything that used the Master as bait to capture oneself and even tried to destroy the Master’s soul with the divine stake…
The cold reason that had allowed Ludger to endure until now turned into a sea of hot fire in an instant.
“You can look forward to it. I will keep my word.”
“What? Are you trying to bluff now? In front of this many troops? Or do you even have any faith in it? “Did the priest of Lemria say he would help you?”
The only helper of Ludger that Patricio could think of was Lemria.
A doll made from fragments of the saint’s power·
These are abominable things that occupy high positions in the church and interfere with oneself at every turn.
Patrick did not like these priests.
Even the fact that Ludger, who can be said to be an enemy of the church, cannot reject his words just because he is descended from a prosperous lineage…
‘It’s all because of the current fake saint…’
A fake saint created for the sake of the church’s prestige.
Originally, the failed works created in an attempt to train saints had to be discarded, but the impertinent saints took them as sisters, and this sad month came about.
‘But this is all over. I must get rid of that annoying tool and ask His Majesty Salesian to cut out the others one by one.’
All for the Holy Kingdom of Bretus…
To create a paradise just for humans…
“Okay then, everyone… get ready…”
The Holy Knights came first at Patricio’s order.
They each covered their bodies with sacred power, exercised divine protection, and recited sacred prayers.
Divine powers blooming everywhere…
However, that energy that was supposed to be benevolent was full of life…
Ludger stayed still even after seeing that…
There were no other magic spells, no evasive movements, or preparations for battle.
Just lightly…
I just muttered one word…
“Lifting the first sealing technique…”
A pitch-black hole opened above Ludger’s head.
People felt eerie at that sight…
A black hole suddenly opens above your head? It was a sight I couldn’t believe even when I saw it with my own eyes…
Moreover, what is this unprecedented energy flowing from the hole?
It was the same for Patricio, who got goosebumps on his skin from that energy.
“Lifting the second sealing technique…”
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door·
Meanwhile, Ludger’s second seal was lifted…
The hole that appeared above the head grew bigger and a halo formed around the hole.
The energy felt inside the hole has become stronger…
Beyond that, I felt countless presences inside…
People’s fear reached its peak…
Patricio, sensing something dangerous, screamed…
“Attack!”
The priests used sacred spells in response to urgent cries without the usual leisure or politeness.
A light made of divine power was shot towards Ludger.
These were powerful attacks that went beyond destroying evil and even killed living creatures by melting them with their physical force and heat.
Other people also attacked in the same way…
The hunters fired their prepared firearms, and the wizards also fired magic.
The two wizards with the title of color also fired fire magic and lightning magic, respectively.
Just before it touches Ludger’s body in the center of the crater…
Ludger’s last words echoed far beyond the crater and throughout the surrounding area.
“Lifting the third sealing ceremony, opening the heavenly gate,”
Open the Heaven’s Door
Above Ludger’s head…
The black hole, which was only 2m in diameter, expanded in an instant.
Its size has grown so large that it extends beyond Ludger and even covers the crater.
A huge black hole with a diameter of nearly 100 meters.
If the intimate energy I had felt before had only flowed through a needle hole, this time it felt as stark as if a huge castle gate had been opened wide.
-You have thereby become completely omnipotent.
Inside the hole, the gods spoke in unison…
and·
All attacks fired at Ludger from all directions were absorbed into the black hole.
The light imbued with divine power was sucked in, and so were the flames and lightning fired by the color wizard.
A scene as if 6th level dark attribute magic had been unleashed…
Although Mongmaeammyeongsoul is a 6th-rank great magic, it is nothing more than magic implemented with magical power.
But what on earth are you seeing now?
That wasn’t magic… but it wasn’t a divine spell, nor was it some kind of power that other sub-races used…
A sound began to be heard from inside the black hole…
Crackle, crackle, crackle…
It sounded like a joint being twisted, or like teeth biting into something.
The strange voice that rang in the ears made everyone in the room have goosebumps.
Would you feel this way if you encountered your biological natural enemy alone in the wild?
Although no one was weak enough to turn a blind eye after hearing this sound, it was inevitable that everyone froze, forgetting the power they had felt a moment ago.
something·
Something exists inside that black hole…
Slurp…
Something began to come out of the hole, which was nearly 100 meters in diameter…
There were not just one or two that resembled the tentacles of a mollusk.
The sight of it bouncing out of the pitch-black hole as if it were about to pour out like a waterfall was truly overwhelming.
I don’t know what was trying to squeeze out, but even that huge hole seemed infinitely inadequate compared to the size of ‘that’…
If you look closely, the tentacles sticking out are not ordinary tentacles.
It was a huge rope that looked as if it had been made by intricately weaving human bones, flesh, muscles, and organs.
It felt like my optic nerves were on fire as I saw thousands of strands of that thing sticking out through the hole.
I don’t know what that thing is, but the moment it comes out through the hole, the moment I think it’s all over…
“stop·”
The moment Ludger opened his mouth, the tentacles stopped in place as if they had never done so.
“What I will borrow this time is not in your power…”
The tentacle asked with determination at Ludger’s words.
Are you not the optimal force for the current situation?
“No… The power I’m borrowing this time is a bit different… It’s no fun if it ends too easily…”
The tentacle trembled at its tip as if it was a little dissatisfied, but it did not reject Ludger’s words.
As if time had gone backwards, the tentacles were sucked back into the black hole.
At that time when everyone was relieved at the sight, there was the only person who was not relieved…
Patricio trembled his lips.
“god? “Are we dealing with the power of God?”
“okay·”
Ludger lightly confirmed…
“No way, you! In the end, you put the god of heresy in that bowl!”
“God of heresy? Are you talking about the gods of ancient times whose existence you defined and erased?”
“You contain that heresy! You! “I originally thought it was dangerous, but it was already too late to turn back!”
Ludger sneered deeply at Patricio.
“What’s so funny?”
“Isn’t it funny? You’re talking as if I gave everything to that god.”
“So you’re saying that’s not it?”
“No, no, no…”
At that moment, a huge energy was felt at the center of the hole floating above Ludger’s head.
The moment I wondered what else would come out this time, lightning struck with a crackling sound and was sucked into Ludger’s right hand.
What was held in Rodger’s hand with a dazzling light…
It was a hammer that sparked lightning.
