– Volume 13, Chapter 13
313. The Fifth Return Earth (9)
They won.
People rejoiced and cheered. They hugged each other and celebrated their victory.
But I couldn’t just rejoice in victory forever. Their victory wasn’t perfect and there was a mountain of things to sort out.
Kim Hwi-yeon looked around with a hard face
.
The corpses of the dead were making small hills here and there.
“…let it be sorted out.”
she said quietly. People also began to collect the corpses, leaving behind the joy of victory.
Taishan also helped them.
There were so many things to do besides cleaning up the body. The number of surviving players. We had to figure out how many players in each mode survived.
Therefore, players from each country
had no choice but to have a conversation naturally.
“I…
“Um. hello.”
The Chinese players hesitantly said hello.
We’ve met face to face countless times and overcame the wave together, but this was the first time we talked.
Kim Hwi-yeon greeted them with a smile.
“yes. hello.”
The invisible walls that had built up between them began to disappear. Once
they started talking, they talked hard after that.
And there were people who didn’t like that fact very much.
“You! dare!”
Jinryong shouted harshly. The players who had been talking quietly trembled.
“I must have told you! Don’t you dare talk to people from other countries! It will contaminate you!”
Jinryong trembled.
Power poured out and wrapped around Jinryong
.
“You dare not listen to me!”
“That that…
“Jinryong-nim…
“I’ll be mercifully forgiven this time! But if you mix up your words one more time from now on, I will kill all of you!”
However, people did not bow down to Jinryong, only taking a hesitant posture at Jinryong’s cry. It just sent a troubled look.
Jinryong’s face
twisted endlessly at their attitude.
“dare!”
To not listen to himself, the great ruler!
Jinryong’s power began to boil. Even in the waves of enormous power, people’s faces turned white, but they did not follow Jinryong’s words.
People just glanced at each other.
“How dare you look away while I’m talking!”
Jinryong also followed the people and turned his gaze wildly.
There, Taesan was watching him silently.
Jinryong, who was about to punish with a burst of strength, shuddered.
There was fear in his gaze as he looked at Taishan.
“…go away!”
In the end, Jinryong couldn’t burst his strength and shouted harshly.
He lost his strength and fled.
People’s eyes toward Mount Tai became more intense.
Jinlong, who had been the ruler of China, was no longer their leader.
Jinryong was worshiped by people because of his power, and he ruled people with his power. Without power, it was a being of no value.
However, Taesan appeared to be a much stronger being than that. People no longer worshiped Jinryong.
Jinryong also felt it, but he had already lost influence and had no choice but to remain silent.
And it was twisting Jinryong slowly.
And regardless of that, time was passing.
The Chinese player, who was chosen as the temporary representative, and Kim Hwi-yeon, who was arranging the number of survivors, frowned.
“But why doesn’t the quest end’?”
“Iknow, right. The return window does not appear.”
Geum Joong-geun replied. The wave is over. Seeing that no new quests appeared after that, it meant that this was the last time.
However, the window that said to return to the labyrinth
did not appear.
“Is this the end of everything?”
“I haven’t even cleared the labyrinth yet, so there’s no way I will.”
“Then why isn’t anything coming out? It makes people anxious.”
Hwiyeon Kim grumbled. Taesan came out.
“I am resting.”
“ah. yes.”
Taesan came out and kicked.
Mount Tai ascended to heaven and earth. The Chinese players who saw him
bowed with exclamation.
Perhaps because they were originally ruled by Jinryong, their worship was stronger and deeper than that of Korean and Japanese players.
Taesan arrived at Cheonji and opened the skill window.
[Divine power]
[Proficiency level: 72%]
[Divine power. Originally, it had no meaning, but it became sacred through the gathering of many people’s beliefs. People’s beliefs
and beliefs became divine and could have a meaningful impact on the world.]
After clearing the quest, the proficiency of divine power rose sharply.
At this rate, it was to the point where I thought that I could shoot 100% within this return.
However, as soon as the mastery of divine power reached 70%, the rate of increase was drastically reduced. Originally, the higher the proficiency, the lower the rate of increase, but even taking that into account, the divine power
was abnormal.
“It can’t be done with simple faith.”
[If you reach 100%, you will probably be able to achieve complete divinity, but it is impossible with only tens of thousands of ordinary faith. Is it one of the ways to escape mortality?]
Taesan, who closed the skill window, looked down at the heavens and earth.
Countless lives coming to his senses.
There was also a Jinryong with immortal powers.
“What to do with that guy?”
immortal slave. Jinlong, who was the ruler of China.
Since the beginning of the wave, the no-combat rule has long since disappeared. He could kill Jinryong at any time.
But it didn’t. Although Jinlong was a powerful and oppressive ruler, he was still the ruler of China. Taesan left Jinryong alone because killing him carelessly could lead to even greater confusion.
Of course, Jinryong lost people’s trust and faith. No player would protest against
Taesan killing him .
But even so, Taishan couldn’t kill Jinryong.
“If I touch you, will you try to kill me?”
[I guess so.]
Jinryong belonged to an immortal.
Because the immortal wanted something, he enslaved Jin-ryong. If Taishan touched Jinryong, there was a high possibility that the immortals would turn against him.
[A beast that longs for life is a unique immortal among immortals. I neither desire transcendence nor envy potential mortals.
I just want to satisfy my hunger.]
The ghost continued.
[I don’t think they’re aiming for you that much, but… if there’s someone who gets in the way of their desire, even a transcendental person will try to bite them off.]
Hungry and starving beasts have no interest in anything other than to satisfy their own hunger.
The immortal would not have any interest in the conflict between the gods and the gods.
There is no need to turn immortals into enemies
. That’s why Taishan didn’t kill Jinryong.
And the quest isn’t over yet.
Kosin was clearly aiming for something.
Now was the time to wait for Gosin to make a move.
Everyone cried out Taesan’s name.
Jinryong’s existence was completely forgotten by people. Once revered by all Chinese, he was literally abandoned.
Jinryong looked at the people with a hard face.
Even though you are right next to them, they don’t even pay attention to you.
‘dare.’
Who has kept them all this time, these ungrateful things!
Emotions swirl. The people around them shudder and spread their distance. Only then did they notice Jinryong’s existence and hesitantly retreat.
“Ah…
there is no faith or faith in their faces. It was as if he just wanted to avoid himself.
The wrathful Jinryong tried to devour them.
However, Jinryong had no choice but to leave without a word.
It was scary. Taesan’s power made him look like a bug. It was almost as clear as seeing what would happen if he carelessly touched them
.
In the end, Jinryong, unable to do anything, trudged back to his place in the sky.
no one worships himself
He wanted to kill everyone, but Taesan’s presence prevented it.
Feeling helpless, Jinryong clenched his fists roughly
.
It shouldn’t be like this. This is wrong.
He had to be worshiped by people. People had to follow him.
“Wrong. This.”
A gloomy voice rang out.
Mixed forces begin to eat away at his brain.
A skill obtained by contracting with a beast that longs for life. predation of life. The effect is to bring the power he has by killing a life.
Even if the power is beyond what the user can accept.
Jinryong’s power is not that great. However, he has continued to accept power beyond his acceptable range by using life stealing.
The mixed forces that were not united had been destroying his mind for a long time.
Jinryong had been enduring that distorted spirit with only one worship of the people.
But now their worship is gone
.
Jinryong went completely mad.
he grinned.
“It’s not over yet.”
Jinryong jumped up. He stormed out of the tent and howled toward the sky.
“Great God! My master is the great beast that devours all things!”
he cried with bloodshot eyes.
“Please give me greater power! Please allow me to be your servant
!”
it’s called
The cry of the slaves of those who escaped mortality calling their master, the only one allowed.
Jinryong exhaled harshly.
“In return, I will offer all players in China!”
They do not worship themselves.
They were no longer the objects he had to protect.
If so, he will have no complaints even if he offers them. It is the life he saved in the first place .
He said he would use it for himself, but who would dare say anything?
The sky opens with twisted thoughts.
The great one begins to exercise his presence at the call of the slave. People under heaven and earth also turn their eyes to the creepy sensation.
“Oooh!”
Jinryong trembles with trembling eyes. great man! The one who makes even Mount Tae look like a bug is coming!
As the warak space expands, it shows itself.
A beast’s cry could be heard beyond the shimmering darkness.
“Oh God!”
Jinryong knelt down and shouted.
“Please give me strength! Give me strength to encompass the world and trample the lowly one!”
The power of the beast beyond the darkness, which was quietly gazing at Jinryong, began to slowly approach Jinryong.
“Oh oh!”
Jinryong trembles with joy.
receive strength The power to see even Taesan as a bug!
He could feel the presence of someone on his back, who was delighted.
Jinryong smiled and turned around. Taesan was staring blankly at him.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! look! What an insignificant being! I will reach higher!”
He shouted proudly and laughed at Taishan.
However, Taishan did not send him even a single word of sympathy.
His eyes were focused exclusively on the beast beyond.
Karuk.
The beast laughed.
Power reached Jinryong. Jinryong shuddered at the great attack.
“Ohhh… I am…
I’m going to be great.
It was the moment Jinryong tried to get drunk with power.
The power that touched him
was slowly consuming him. The energy contained in that power was different from what he expected.
it was a robbery
Taesan watched him indifferently.
” also.”
There are various restrictions for those who have escaped mortality to interfere with the earth. It is difficult for a beast that longs for life to achieve the desired predation.
So enslave mortal beings.
Make a contract with a slave and hand over the power to devour life. It does not matter whether the slave
is encroached upon by its power. All the slaves had to do was to devour many lives and make the beasts full.
To a beast that longed for life, Jinryong was nothing more and nothing less.
“Wait a minute.”
Realizing that fact only then, Jinryong hurriedly tried to retreat, but the power of the beast held him firmly.
Jinryong shouted with a frightened face.
“don’t do it!”
The beast quietly devours the Jinryong.
the life he took. The power he built up while going down the labyrinth.
All of them become food for the beast and are about to disappear.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”
Jinryong cried. It can’t be like this.
He who was once the master of China itself becomes nothing.
Despair and fear overwhelm him.
When the distorted mind became even more broken and could no longer be called human.
It reaches Jinryong.
” ah?”
Even in the midst of being deprived of everything, Jin Ryong shuddered for a moment. Just pure darkness began to erode inside him.
it asked do you want power?
Jinryong couldn’t even spit out an answer.
A pure fear that even a person in the most miserable situation could not say so engulfed him.
The moment I accepted that,
it seemed that his very existence would disappear.
But he was already broken.
In a state where ego collapsed and reason did not exist, Jinryong answered the question without realizing it.
Wow!
At that moment, a huge force strikes the beast that was trying to devour Jinryong.
The beast that was thrown out roared wildly.
A roar that shakes everything and shatters the world itself attacks its power.
Quadduk.
but it gets crushed
The power of the immortal distorts and disappears as if it had no value. Along with the cry of the beast deprived of food, the beast that longed for life was driven out like that.
Seeing this, Taesan kicked his feet.
[You have activated Acceleration.]
[You have activated Skill Acceleration.]
Use all kinds of skills to charge the Jinryong. The moment Taesan’s sword was about to pierce Jinryong’s nape.
Quadduk.
A huge veil of darkness blocks Taesan’s sword. Taesan clicks his tongue and withdraws.
“I can’t either.”
“A billion billion.”
Jinryong’s whole body started twisting. Taesan raises his sword.
Jinryong was the immortal’s slave. It was already twisted and broken.
If Gosin was aiming for something, Taesan thought that it would be Jinryong, and indeed it was.
That’s why I tried to kill him by targeting the gap between the Immortal and the Gosin, but I didn’t expect that the Gosin would exercise enough power to drive out the Immortal at once.
“Oooh.”
Jinryong’s body continues to twist. There is no longer a human form to be found, and Jinryong’s ego is also invisible.
[Oh oh oh oh!]
A shout hits the world.
A system window appears towards the collapsing body.
[Starting a special quest]
[Defeat the monster.]
[A distorted thing that has become lifeless has appeared.]
Level up with skills.
