Chapter 90 – Fighting for God (1)

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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Preparation was needed to showcase great power.

The same was true for the great demon’s sacrificial ritual.

Of course, what they were attempting this time was called an ascension ritual, but for that very reason, it had to be even more undisturbed.

I was able to know this fact through the legacy left by Exchanging Knowledge.

-An ascension ritual is a ritual to elevate a human into a star.

-By making them unconsciously undergo a judgment that decides the fate of countless humans, one glimpses their potential.

-If the watcher deems them worthy, they are made into a star.

-That right belongs to the Sun God and the Celestial Church, but if prepared for sacrifice, other gods can also attempt it.

-However, no one would dare to disobey the Sun God.

-…Unless they were those who do not know the Sun God.

This was also the reason why the ascension ritual I underwent borrowed the form of a game.

If it had started as a nightmare or an illusion, who would have dared to stand against the Sun God?

If it were me, I would have run to a psychiatric hospital to get a prescription for drugs or sleeping pills and finished it there.

Before feeling pity for the people crushed under the Dark Light, I would have been scared out of my wits and refused the test.

So, it must have borrowed the form of a game that is easily accessible and not taken seriously.

To be honest, it feels like I was scammed…

The important thing was that the ascension ritual, the ascension test, was carried out in different forms for each case.

In my case, it was a game called [Last Comet].

If so, in what manner was the Dream-Shedding Eye trying to carry out the ascension ritual?

The answer lay in the part that it didn’t necessarily have to be actual reality.

The core was for them to ‘think’ and ‘judge’ that they were deciding the fate of numerous humans themselves.

Just as I underwent the ascension ritual through a game, the Dream-Shedding Eye was trying to carry out the ritual through an illusion.

With the Elysiums he devoured placed in the seat of the watching god.

Of course, I had no intention of sitting still and watching.

I intended to burst in with an army before that and ruin the ritual.

This was also the cornerstone to draw out the great demon cooped up in the capital.

In the first place, if even one person could infiltrate and exercise my influence, it was my victory.

If the ascension ritual was ruined while fighting a fierce melee, the opponent would not have won even if they won.

The Dream-Shedding Eye’s best course of action was to not have the ascension ritual disturbed.

To do so, they had no choice but to give up the utility of ambushes and surprise attacks and crawl out of the capital.

This prediction soon became reality.

One of the Holy Knights who was leading the way sensed thick malice and stopped.

“…I see someone on top of the city walls.”

The capital had a much more intact appearance than expected.

Though the scenery looked down from the sky was not so.

Unlike the city walls which were intact without a single scorched trace, the urban areas inside were torn and dented.

Starting from rotten bloodstains pooling in giant claw marks to the scales of armor chewed and spat out.

They were traces of desperate resistance.

With this tragedy behind them, there were beings who stood on top of the city walls.

They were succubi who had snatched the physical bodies of the living and manifested.

Unlike the people who looked up with awe, those guys glared this way with hearts full of hatred.

Among them, there was one being that particularly caught the eye.

An old man whose eyes were tightly wrapped in bandages stained red from being soaked in blood.

I noticed what his true identity was as soon as I saw him.

“Dream-Shedding Eye, you crawled out as I thought.”

The great demon growled as soon as he was called.

[God who creates stars, you too must have been a mere human just like the previous stars.]

“I wasn’t a demon.”

[It is as you say. The paranoid Sun God was wary of a new god who would threaten his status and threw me into the abyss. He snatched the light from me. So that I could never shine again…]

At that moment, I felt a bizarre sense of incongruity from the Dream-Shedding Eye.

Perhaps because the occasions to face people’s faces and converse had decreased lately, I didn’t notice it immediately.

…The lip shape moving when speaking and the words spoken were different.

It was also different from transcendental beings conveying their intentions into the head.

The Dream-Shedding Eye’s physical body was spitting out other words.

With a stiffened and awkward movement of the tongue, strugglingly.

“G, god who creates stars. G, great one…”

The moment those lips were tightly closed was then.

Crunch-.

Teeth sharply hacked the tongue flesh.

The severed tip of the tongue fell powerlessly to the floor along with bloody water.

Beyond the closed lips, from a throat like an bottomless pit, a tearing-like moan was flowing out.

At that sight, a chilly sensation climbed up my spine.

The Dream-Shedding Eye was at some point shaking his head side to side and sighing.

[…However, if one cannot shine on one’s own, one can just shine together with others. How about it, god who creates stars. Young god?]

Rustle…

The great demon personally unraveled the bandages wrapping his eyes with his own hands.

As the blood-stained bandages fell off, the pain hidden beneath was revealed.

The left eye socket that was forcibly dug out and became empty.

On the opposite side, a pupil that anyone would see as heterogeneous had taken twisted roots all over the face and was looking this way.

[This way, no one is confined in the abyss. Both my subjects and I, and the living you cherish, can walk the present world together. Is it not a much more tolerant method than heaven, which forces sacrifice on only one side?]

In a way, this side might be a proper possession.

Since it’s not that the consciousness was snatched away entirely, but the body moves at will while the consciousness is intact.

I quickly decided what answer to return to this sophistry.

“Priest King Huaxcal. The reason you couldn’t become a star is because you felt relief instead of grieving looking at the dead child.”

[…What kind of.]

“The thought that you yourself would not die, the complacency of believing you could become a star just by being a king. All those words and actions of putting forward things for yourself as if they were for others and shifting responsibility.”

The Dream-Shedding Eye has a complex about the fact that he couldn’t become a god.

I accurately aim for this part and thrust in to shake his judgment.

“The abyss or the underground is perfect for you rather than heaven. You found your way well according to your aptitude, so I don’t know why you regret it so much.”

[Do not provoke me, god who creates stars! You are just the same as that arrogant Sun God!]

“Same?”

[You must be afraid of being snatched of your status as the last god. Humans need a king of humans. The path of me becoming a god is the path for everyone! You too are just disturbing my ascension to preserve your status as the last god!]

With these words, all standoff ended.

It was a conversation that took place assuming a fight from the beginning.

While each side was buying time while reading each other’s expressions, their respective armies were not just sitting still either.

The succubi who snatched the physical bodies of survivors had already hidden their bodies in the shadows where starlight couldn’t reach.

The people I led also began to prepare for the assault by clustering in groups under the command of the Holy Knights.

“Gather under the starlight!”

“Do not move away from the protection of the stars, those guys will assault by snatching you using tentacles!”

The outcries shouted by the Holy Knights who already had actual combat experience.

The Dream-Shedding Eye heard those outcries and raised his arm high.

[I am the God-King. The last god who will forge the esoteric secrets of heaven and the Pantheon with these hands!]

The meat roots covering the innocent person’s face began to rampage.

The pupil stuck to the living person was covered with golden blood vessels and was emitting light.

[Cross over and deliver the punishment-filled divine word, Sound of a Thousand Thunders!]

-Punishment Miracle, Sound of a Thousand Thunders

An electric shock in a familiar form appeared.

This time, wrapped around another being’s body instead of my arm.

The snakes of electric shock, hissing and sticking out their tongues, were aiming for the people with venomous glares.

Leaving the consciousness of the living and snatching the physical body to use divine power.

It was an idea befitting a demon who always tries to evade set rules.

The source of that power would probably be the Elysium of the god he devoured.

However.

“You try to beat a heavenly being with a miracle of heaven?”

I didn’t even need to use a miracle to block it.

Just before the lightning flying towards this side split, I flew to its side in a single breath.

As if snatching a snake just like that, I grabbed the end part and lifted it up.

Zzzzzzzzt-!

A normal person would have been charred black as soon as they touched it, but in the first place, I am the being that fires this lightning.

Naturally, the method to suppress the flailing lightning was also simple.

With the grip strength that creates stars…

Crunch-.

…I grab the lightning and crush it.

As a post-treatment, I threw the scraps far away to prevent any possible damage.

If this were all, the great demon would have been finished.

Of course, they aren’t that easy.

Beings like demons do not act arrogantly even in a life-or-death struggle for survival.

He wasn’t a crazy guy enough to charge in believing in just one miracle.

Since the Dream-Shedding Eye would have the god’s flesh he devoured, the Elysium.

I brushed off the crushed lightning scraps and glared at the capital’s city walls in the distance.

“Show your Elysium. If you claim to be a god, you must reveal that authority.”

[You are arrogant, young god captivated by envy!]

The Dream-Shedding Eye’s physical body was becoming white.

Every blood vessel under the skin was emitting light, rewriting the laws of the world.

And the place where the spreading light reached was a completely unexpected place.

Thump-.

The whole world vibrates.

It’s a rough movement enough to mistake it for an earthquake occurring.

However, the shaking was occurring in the sky, not the earth.

The starlights that were clearly illuminating the ground were shaking dizzily.

The stars that had to keep their places were being pushed back little by little.

At the ominous omen, agitated voices were heard among the people who were quietly keeping their places.

“Th, the stars are setting…”

“It’s the Black Sun! The Black Sun is rising!”

“The Herald Star hasn’t risen yet?!”

Actually, it was similar to just before the Black Sun rose.

However, the familiar gaze was not felt.

The Sun God had not yet overcome the aftereffects from the excessive price, Sun Expulsion.

This time it wasn’t the Black Sun.

“The Seated Night.”

It was the authority possessed by the Divine Name of Night that I had been searching for so much.

The problem did not end with this.

[Those who cannot draw out loyalty try to coax with rewards, but a true king is different. The authority of a god belongs solely to the god!]

Whooooooosh-.

The Dream-Shedding Eye standing on top of the city walls spewed out intense light like a lighthouse several times.

And every time the light spread into the world, a cataclysm followed.

Crack, crackle, rrrumb-le.

The ground covered with soft soil began to split as if parched by drought.

In between, an bottomless pit as dark as the starless night sky was waiting for victims.

And the moment people let out screams in front of the rift in the geological strata separating at once.

“Ugh, ack! Th, what is this again!”

“It’s an assault! An assault from the ground!”

In the blink of an eye, thorny vines that had grown tied up people’s ankles tightly.

I noticed immediately whose authorities these were.

Splitting Earth, Seated Night, Crouching Vine.

No wonder Elysiums didn’t appear when he devoured three and cooped up.

Fortunately, if just counting the number of usurped authorities, this side was also no pushover.

“Now it feels like a god-like fight.”

-Exercise of Rights, Surging River.

-Exercise of Rights, Accumulating Deception.

-Exercise of Rights, Slithering Fog.

Rather than an ignorant slugging match, this was more fun.