Chapter 75 – The Sun God’s Arrangement

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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The great Sun God, the arrogant Sun God.

Either one was an adequate word to call the Sun God.

The Sun God had existed since the incredibly distant past and had shared the destiny of this world.

To the Great Demons, the sun they remembered was such a being.

From the time the demons of the abyss and the underground cultivated their malice, the sun was already shining upon the world.

Dividing the present world where humans dwell from the abyss and the underground with its sunlight.

However, somewhere in their hearts, the Great Demons looked down on the Sun God.

Thinking that no matter what, he couldn’t follow demons when it came to handling tricks and artifices, that he was a fool with nothing but power.

It was like that only until the Sun God cast off his long bystander attitude and laziness.

But when the influence of the god who created stars diminished and the Sun God’s black halo rose again.

The Dream-Shedding Eye realized just how insignificantly it had treated the name of the sun.

[Cooling Breath, the foolish dragon I dropped into the underground. It is time to heat the cooling blood of your kin with the living. If it is the underground where starlight cannot reach, you can skillfully avoid the challenger’s gaze.]

This world belonged to the Sun God.

If the Sun God handed down a revelation, it was impossible to avoid it.

Except for the blue-colored young god who had settled in that small city.

It was afraid of the Sun God, but also afraid of Star Creation. Cooling Breath hesitated for a moment and rebelled against the Sun God’s instruction.

[…The god who creates stars is strong. They will die. The small numbers of my kin.]

[Then would it be fine if I harvest those insignificant lives instead?]

[The god who creates stars is foreseeing it. Our movements.]

Faced with the fiercely growling Sun God’s intimidation, the demon squirmed and looked for excuses.

It was absurd, but the Dream-Shedding Eye recalled the illusion of the enraged Sun God and couldn’t say anything.

The only fortunate thing was that Cooling Breath’s excuse worked to some extent.

[Do as you are told. If you had watched my descent, you would have known how ridiculous you things are. I will shake off the foresight of the god who creates stars.]

As soon as the words ended, a change occurred to the Sun God’s person.

The five-colored wave of light from the feathered cloak undulated and created a rainbow.

Golden sunlight was spewing out from every gap in the green obsidian-studded golden armor enveloping his whole body.

[The experience and knowledge of the god who creates stars surely belong to the defeated. Yet, he is uncharacteristic of a young god. He is a maggot-like bastard, but his power and wisdom are not comparable to the likes of you. The coping abilities he has shown so far cannot be broken through with your trivial tricks.]

The Sun God’s black halo rotated and began to scatter a dark purple halo into the world.

It was the moment the hills and small mountains surrounding the city were engulfed in black clouds.

The Sun God pointed at Cooling Breath again and commanded.

[Cooling Breath, command your monsters to approach the city through the underground. The foresight of the god who creates stars will not be directed there because he will be wary of my power covering the ground.]

[…The god who creates stars is stronger. They will be annihilated, my kin.]

[Your role is not to go and become prey, but to drop the humans he protects into the underground. Drop them into the underground, and surround and tie up the ones who are awake.]

[Drop them, to the underground?]

The capital, Abenstraum.

In the audience chamber of the palace where only gloomy shadows dwelled instead of glory, the Dream-Shedding Eye was letting out a groan.

[Dream-Shedding Eye, as long as his starlight watches, your paltry power is completely useless, but if it’s the underground, it’s different. Drag the humans who fell to the underground into your dreams and thoroughly blockade their resistance.]

The last pride the Dream-Shedding Eye kept by gritting its teeth was entirely in its tone of voice.

[Sun God, the god who creates stars is already wary of me. The ones who have fallen asleep among them can be counted on one hand.]

[Does a trace of a rotting body, who regrets abandoning its physical body after dreaming of eternal life beyond its station despite being a bug, dare to show objection to my message?]

[….]

It was a meaningless act in front of the Sun God, who knew the origins of the Great Demons.

[Serving Moon, my foolish servant seeking vain mercy with vain expectations. While the god who creates stars is tied down, gather the ones who have arrived near Salutaris into one place.]

[Great Master, what should I do if they ask for repentance?]

The maddened god couldn’t give up the hope of salvation even in this state.

While complying with the Sun God’s command, Serving Moon subtly revealed the expectation that perhaps he had a change of heart.

But the Sun God’s gaze had already turned elsewhere.

To the young god settling in a small city and helping people.

To Star Creation, who was scattering faint blue starlight from his entire body while wearing a tattered cloak.

[There is not a single person in this world who will receive my forgiveness.]

The answer that returned was firm, as always.

[I am regretting everything I have created.]

***

The moment the ground collapsed, I took action immediately.

Seeing through what this raid intended was a piece of cake.

The stars inside my flesh orbited and aligned in an orderly manner.

-Exercise of rights, Freshwater.

“Do not fall away from the light!”

I supported the collapsing ground with continuously rotating groundwater.

It was purely luck that the plaza, which was about to completely sink, even maintained its shape.

If I had been even a little late, the people nearby would have all been buried.

However, I couldn’t be relieved.

An unpleasant vibration was echoing around the groundwater.

A distinctive, bizarre sound of repeatedly gnawing and spitting out the earth was shaking the groundwater.

It was the appearance of a late-stage enemy, warning of a full-scale increase in difficulty.

“Ceciel, Anniel! If anything pops out from the cracks in the collapsed ground, cut it down indiscriminately!”

Once, the world embraced a great race that soared while spreading grand wings.

Even if they lacked intelligence, dragons filled the world showing off their beautiful figures.

And there was a dragon that gained intelligence first among all creatures, and that dragon cherished its kin who hadn’t gained intelligence yet and wanted to raise them to godhood.

By using the power of the abyss and the underground, which it thought was greater than the sun.

The arrogance of the dragon, who was captivated by the power of the abyss and the underground itself and turned its back on the sun, paid the price.

Its boasted scales were all scraped off and its magnificent wings were torn away.

Its whiskers were plucked, its claws broken, and even its legs were cut off, saying it couldn’t even be allowed to dare walk.

The Sun God’s anger didn’t stop there.

Banishing the dragons to the realm of the underground, the Sun God even placed the curse of cold blood on them.

A punishment where the moment all their blood cooled, they would be trapped in bodies uglier than earthworms and crushed to death.

The final fate of the great dragons, who perhaps might have filled the world instead of humans, was… the ‘Fallen Dragon’.

Grrrrrrrrr.

Hearing the sound of countless sprouting teeth gnawing the earth, the people who looked back soon screamed.

“Uwaaaaaah!”

“W-What is that!”

It was natural for people to flee in a panic.

Behind the people fleeing while stepping on the crumbling ground, there was a milky-white shape wriggling and surging up.

…A Fallen Dragon was not the kind of dragon you commonly think of.

It was a giant blood-sucking species that lived by sucking the bodily fluids of living creatures to overcome the curse of cold blood.

Even putting it nicely, it was a scaleless snake, and usually a Mongolian Death Worm in a form mixing a lamprey and an earthworm.

Here, a dragon was an earthworm that opened its lamprey-like mouth and chewed people alive like gum before spitting them out.

I wondered if they might not know, but Ceciel and Anniel seemed to have encountered them before and quickly saw through their true identity.

“Ugh, I don’t like dragons.”

“Ceciel-nim!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll finish them in one strike so their fluids don’t splash on us!”

And as soon as she finished speaking, light flashed.

Flash-.

The moment an infinitely thin, bright yellow solid line was drawn, the body of the scaleless snake also began to split.

There was bound to be a limit to the opaque pink fluid forcefully filling the split gap.

Grrrrrr.

Above the wriggling dragon torn in half, Ceciel swung her sword and made a disgusted expression.

“Ugh.”

On the other hand, Anniel continued a tougher fight than Ceciel.

If Ceciel swung a longsword in a single breath, Anniel was an angel who pierced with a long spear.

Grrrrrr…

Against the Fallen Dragon’s bizarre roar, Anniel plunged her spear into its mouth, gritting her teeth as she stirred it around.

Her target was the roof of the mouth where the dragon’s skull was.

Every time she stirred with the tip of the spear, cold fluids poured out, but Anniel didn’t care and let out a spirited yell.

“Haaaaaaaah!!!”

Eventually, with a loud *crack*, the skull split open and the match was decided.

Like swinging a skewer, Anniel pulled the dragon out of the ground in one stroke with her spear and then-.

“In the name of the Godfather of Stars, I sever the foul life of the underground!”

-She thrusted it in with all her might one more time and completely ended its life.

Even after that, Ceciel and Anniel showed unexpectedly good fights.

Every time the Fallen Dragons wriggled like earthworms and burst through the ground, they were hunted down.

To the point where I, who expected the angels to look helpless, was actually flustered.

Just what in the world was going on?

I was planning to help them if they were pushed back while fighting…

“W-What. They’re no big deal.”

“The angels are slashing them in chunks!”

“Sheesh, only their looks are gross.”

It was an overwhelming sight to the extent that even the fleeing people stopped in their tracks and watched the fight.

When Ceciel flew in a flash and delivered a slash, they were torn to death as they were, and when Anniel thrust her spear and stirred, they let out a scream full of pain and collapsed.

It was to the point where the thought mindlessly popped up: was the Sun God’s purpose different from what I thought?

He definitely intended to drop the people into the underground where starlight couldn’t reach.

Wasn’t he trying to use the power of the Dream-Shedding Eye?

Considering the wickedness the Sun God had shown, this wasn’t a raid that would end with just this much…!

“Everyone run! Move!”

A different reaction was being felt from the underground.

It wasn’t the pitch-black, squishy sensation characteristic of demons.

A power resembling a cluster of light bursting out into the surroundings!

“Uh, uh…”

“It’s collapsing again! Move!”

As soon as people awkwardly backed away, a loud roar filled the surroundings.

Ruuuumble.

The ground I had barely supported collapsed again.

It was because the groundwater supporting the plaza was noticeably decreasing.

Something in the underground ravenously sucking in the groundwater I had gathered.

There was only one answer I could come up with here.

-The demon that devoured the Elysium is in the underground.

***

[This is the reason I bestowed the Elysium of the Extending Root to Cooling Breath.]

[I found it and ate it. There was no help from you.]

[Even if it is an infinitely shabby star, it is a star I created. If I had not permitted it, would it be possible for the likes of you to violate the flesh of a god? Do you still not know that every single Elysium you have taken is an arrangement I prepared?]

[….]

The pandemonium occurring in the small city.

It was a meticulously designed offensive, completely different from before when the demons blindly pushed forward.

That mighty Star Creation was put on the defensive and in a desperate situation.

The Dream-Shedding Eye felt a chill at the illusion shown by the Sun God, and at the thoroughness of his wicked trickery, and harbored a doubt.

-Why was the Sun God’s trickery this outstanding?