Chapter 46 – Deception

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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The Dark Light’s covering fire ended quickly.

The Black Sun did not intervene for as long as I thought. The starlight I emitted began to illuminate the surroundings again.

It seemed he considered this much to be enough. What the Black Sun left behind was entirely just one arrogant demon.

=There is only one angel at the shelter, right? Right?=

Chijijijijik…

It was the sound of the mucus the guy spat out burning the surroundings.

I couldn’t rashly pour out attacks.

If I hit her even once by mistake, she would be completely crushed and die right away.

Not me, but the opponent, that is.

Waving the hand forged from divine power and keeping her in check was the best I could do.

Sweeping Conch Shell also noticed this fact and merely smirked.

=Wouldn’t it be hard if even I joined in while the attack is going on?=

Patience, it was my turn to endure.

Apart from my soaring annoyance, the demon’s words were completely right.

Ordinary angels could not face off against a demon who ate an Elysium.

Even an old pine was a pine. If she was equal to an existence that swallowed the flesh of a god, she would not be an angel but a god.

Ceciel was doing her full share just by blocking the swarming monsters.

What Sweeping Conch Shell aimed for was exactly this dilemma.

=This is why you guys won’t do. You get into this state because you cover and coddle your burdens so much. Right?=

I debated whether I should do a demonstration of force with lightning.

However, the demon was afraid of lightning.

She only hovered around the riverside so that the moment I used Sound of a Thousand Thunders, she could immediately throw her body into the water.

If I used lightning, her intention was to dive into the water and die. Even if she didn’t die, the probability of taking severe damage was high.

If the lightning missed, she would probably immediately surrender her body to the flowing river water.

…She was targeting that and inducing it.

“I said kill evil immediately.”

I had to plant the impression that I was falling for it, unable to hold back at the consecutive provocations.

I deliberately dragged out the standoff to give the opponent certainty.

Waiting for an opportunity to definitely neutralize her!

-Punishment miracle, Sound of a Thousand Thunders

Zap!!

The electric shock was fired as I pointed at the demon with my fingertip.

Even though the demon let out a sneer as if it was ridiculous, that was.

=Try killing me, because I will kill them too! Kkyahahaha!=

She laughed merrily at the lightning streak that deliberately missed slightly.

Leaving only these words behind, Sweeping Conch Shell plummeted into the river water just like that.

Yes, the river water.

The demon volunteered to fall into the water. Just as I intended.

The stars inside my flesh became comets and started drawing long tails.

The place the comets and meteors gathered was at my fingertips.

-Exercise of rights, Freshwater

The calmly flowing river water gradually swirled.

It was a deep and violent water current to the point of scraping the riverbed forcefully.

It was impossible to swim out of that.

Because I made it so she would be torn apart just like that if she forcefully tried to get out.

Eventually, victory and defeat were decided not long after.

Ppogeureureureureu….

Heaps of air bubbles rose from the center of the whirlpool.

Then shortly after, a single large water droplet formed plumply.

While keeping Sweeping Conch Shell trapped.

=W-weren’t you unable to do anything if the Black Sun rose?=

If left alone, she would swim and escape.

I prepared a safety device so the demon couldn’t run away.

-Protection miracle, Barrier

Grabbed the water droplet with a golden barrier.

-Exercise of rights, Fog

I floated the water droplet in the air by thickly laying down Fog, a newly acquired authority.

Now she would not be able to run away.

Then it was time to bring out the words I had saved.

“Gotcha.”

Sweeping Conch Shell’s body turned stark white.

=My Lord! Was it not that he cannot use authorities under the Dark Light!=

Thump, thump, thump.

She hurriedly used all sorts of means and tried to run away, but it was useless.

The sound of clicking one’s tongue was heard from the familiar gaze.

[Foolish thing.]

One phrase told everything.

The Black Sun had completely abandoned lingering attachments to this attack. His interest was drifting away.

The Black Sun’s complacent thought that this demon would at least buy him some time.

It was a chance to accurately aim at that opening.

“Sky above the sky, sky below the sky.”

Coordination among demons was not that active.

And the Black Sun was the only one who watched how I killed the Holy Mother of Stillborns.

In other words.

“If the sky cannot embrace the stars, I shall become the sky and embrace them!”

Blood-Soaked Mud and his subordinates did not know my innate miracle.

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A change occurred inside my body containing a faint universe.

The stars that were so faint they couldn’t be seen stealthily revealed their outlines.

Among them were also stars that had set below the horizon.

=…W, what.=

“Atonement Star, come to me!”

A tiny dot gradually expanded its size. The glass star, the Atonement Star, tore through my chest and popped out.

I grabbed the popped-out Atonement Star and put comets inside it.

=I-it’s day, right? The sun has risen.=

“Sentinel Star, block the demon from doing anything foolish!”

The Sentinel Star wiggled and crawled out to the exact center of my chest.

And it gathered all the light it embraced into a single point.

-Star Protection miracle, Protection of the Sentinel Star

The starlight of the Sentinel Star resembled sunlight.

Like a vermilion sunset, somewhat dim yet bright and radiant.

As such, it was fatal to the demon.

=Eut. Keuheueueu… Aaaaaaaak!=

Sweeping Conch Shell couldn’t hold back a scream.

She was dying, crushed by the starlight. Even though no wounds had appeared outwardly yet.

“Atonement Star, do not pierce her right away. You must slowly carve her away from the surface as much as possible.”

-Star Protection miracle, Trajectory of the Atonement Star

From the start, the Sentinel Star’s purpose was to tie her down.

The real attack was the Atonement Star burning stark white.

Even under the night sky where the Black Sun rose, the glass comet was full of motivation.

=The sun has risen, so why, why is a star rising!=

Sweeping Conch Shell wailed, expressing that everything in the world was unfair.

“When the sun rises and sets however it pleases, my stars should also rise and set however they please.”

There was no reason for the party getting hit to keep the rules if one side wasn’t following them.

It was also a characteristic of a roguelike game.

Patterns that were tricky to deal with?

Having tremendous attack power so it hurt no matter how sturdy your armor was?

You should not deal with nauseating enemies honestly. To defeat absurdly strong enemies, you became absurdly strong.

This was the answer given to a luck-based shitty roguelike game.

=I-I’ll die, you know? I am not a demon strong enough to.=

“No matter how weak you are, you won’t die of shock, right.”

Before I got hit, I pressed down first with overwhelming damage per second.

The method to break the Sacrificial Ritual, Reincarnation, was simple.

“You looked sturdy earlier.”

I just had to slowly kill her, so she exhausted her power on recovery.

Not one-shot damage, but killing her with terrifying damage over time was the correct answer.

Peoeok!

=Keoheok.=

Bodily fluid soared from the skin swept away by the Atonement Star.

And the moment the demon’s characteristic life force seemed to recover the wound.

=Aaaaaaak!=

The Atonement Star, returning in the meantime, swept past once more.

The Atonement Star’s orbital period was roughly a few minutes.

When no fight was happening, it slowly hovered around me.

When strong power was needed, the trajectory widened, and when facing many enemies, the orbital period decreased.

But if the goal wasn’t to kill the enemy in one blow, but to slowly gnaw them to death.

Kagagagagagagak!

=Kkeuheueu… Kkkeuheuaaaaaaak!=

The Atonement Star’s orbital period decreased to dozens, hundreds of times per second.

Kagagagak…

The milky-white snail demon was literally ground away by the Atonement Star.

It was around the time the water droplet discolored whitish.

I wondered where a burning smell was coming from, and the water droplet was vigorously bubbling.

The conch shell Sweeping Conch Shell had been carrying suddenly melted down.

It wasn’t only the conch shell that melted down.

=Aheu, what in the world. What in the world did you do to me.=

Her entire body, which the Black Sun must have recovered, began to melt.

She wailed and questioned me, but it was to the point that I was rather flustered.

“I didn’t do it.”

=Crushing me, with starlight…!=

The Sentinel Star’s starlight was not strong to that extent.

What in the world happened?

Did the Black Sun step forward directly while completely cutting ties with her?

It was the moment I looked around preparing for a possible attack.

[Hahahahahaha!]

A hearty laughter rang across the entire gloomy riverside.

The direction the sound was coming from was inside the water droplet.

Starlight intertwined here and there loosely within the melted flesh was twinkling.

[You fell for it, demon!]

=Y-you!=

[Are you feeling wronged? Ashamed? Do you lament yourself for feeling relieved after devouring the god of deception?]

Sweeping Conch Shell’s skin split open one by one.

Sticky bodily fluid poured out from between the starkly cracked flesh.

As if being sliced from the inside with a sword, the demon’s body rapidly began roughly being dismantled.

=Ageuk, geok, this.=

[Behold, my talent that successfully deceived even the Sun God! Hahahaha! How laughable to see you acting up thinking your body was recovered!]

Looking at the demon being ripped apart mercilessly, I realized who Sweeping Conch Shell ate.

Accumulating Deception.

He was a god who had his roots in the Armed Church, and also a sinister god who drove a dagger in at crucial moments.

It was similar to yet different from betrayal.

He moved having completely drawn up a plan from the start, and the moment the opponent arbitrarily harbored trust, he acted ruthlessly.

…It was somewhat surprising that he waited from the moment he was eaten until now.

[Do you know how much my heart pounded when I felt the scent of the heavens? I was anxious thinking it might fail!]

The loosely intertwined starlight ran around here and there, ruthlessly tearing the demon’s flesh.

Then noticing my gaze, he let out a refreshing laugh.

[And it’s too cowardly to resurrect after dying. O god who makes stars, I believe you will also agree with me.]

=Y-you, too. Should have been eaten.=

[Demon, you didn’t chew me thoroughly, did you. You should have been prepared if you ate me raw.]

Jjeojeojeojeong-.

The sound of shattering mirrors filled the surroundings.

The emotions the demon harbored told what happened.

The ingrained stench of a sewer, fear.

The demon who hadn’t cared despite being tormented so much until now finally felt fear.

“Has the Sacrificial Ritual been broken?”

Since he’s an elder and helped me, and also a senior, I asked politely.

However, the answer that came back was a denial.

Accumulating Deception proposed another possibility with a slick tone.

[That old woman was too long ago. But the contracts after the Black Sun were never fulfilled. I just deceived her into thinking the contract was fulfilled.]

=Eugeuk, geuk, s-save me.=

[And I had to deceive myself too. That the last god to be born within the Dark Light would arrive shortly…]

The voice of the dead god that had been fading became clear again.

[How does my life’s final deception look?]

“I think it would be terrible from the perspective of the one suffering it.”

To the extent I felt slightly pitiful for Sweeping Conch Shell.

Perhaps liking this answer, Accumulating Deception chuckled and laughed.

[O young god, I shall give you one last clue.]

“A clue?”

[I tipped off Turning Crossroads. To match our stories in advance for the last god. You took that friend in, didn’t you.]

Within the starlight of the Sentinel Star, the demon’s body crumbled away.

The eaten dead god was also meeting his end. It was the price for consuming all the demon’s power.

[One more in the heaviest and most shaded place. Look for a damp place.]

If I listened up to here and did not realize, I was a fool.

“Why in the world are you speaking so indirectly?”

[A taboo was placed… Hahahahahaha!]

With those words as his last, Accumulating Deception lost his lingering thoughts.

All that remained was his authority and the Elysium that had lost its ego.

The demon’s corpse had also completely and finely crumbled into golden dust by then.

Pongdang!

When I popped the water droplet, everything contained inside it moved.

Golden dust gathered to my side, and Accumulating Deception’s Elysium also approached slowly.

However, there was only one thought in my head. I found out where Blood-Soaked Mud was.

The most shaded and heaviest place in the world trapped within the Dark Light.

It was the sea.