Chapter 93 – Sol Invictus

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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Keeping away from darkness was the instinct of prey.

It was to hide and escape from the predator that might be lurking beneath it.

However, beyond lives bound to a mortal destiny, the story changed among greater beings.

Shadow was merely a phenomenon possible because light could not reach it.

When the sun opened its eyes, no matter how dark the shadow, it burned and disappeared.

This law did not change even after the world was handed over to the demons.

No, even that was nothing but a delusion.

The Elysiums usurped by Dream-Shedding Eye had been resonating all at once for some time.

Drawn by a greater power, recalling the fear they faced in the days they roamed as gods, not mere flesh.

The sky returned.

The distorted starlight was devoured by the thick Dark Light.

The squirming dark purple radiance lashed at all the streams of light cast upon the world.

The half of the sky they barely controlled was no longer the demon’s.

Why did they consider themselves the masters of the world?

Dream-Shedding Eye laid down all his will to resist and knelt.

His worn clothes were stained with blood from the unfamiliar impact.

But he had to beg.

The sin of daring to raise a rebellion by arbitrarily interpreting the bystander attitude that was merely left alone out of natural arrogance and annoyance.

With the body of a clergyman who served the Celestial Church, the demon tainted by the abyss laid down all his pride and inferiority complex.

Defeat was natural.

The sin of daring not to recognize him, it was reasonable even if he paid for it for an eternity.

Dream-Shedding Eye finally ended his long wandering and returned as a priest king.

And to pay the price for his foolishness, he smashed his head onto the ground.

Thud, thud, thud.

To the point where his head was crushed from pounding it so much.

[O Sun, O Sun that shines upon the world!]

However, the Absolute was no longer benevolent, nor did he stand by.

He was one trying to complete the world by breaking it.

There was no way he would be pleased that a single dirty stain was making a fuss.

Dream-Shedding Eye felt the heat approaching him and opened his eyes wide.

[T-This is. Wait, urgh…]

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle-!

Taking over a body was the worst decision.

Because he became completely stuck feeling the burning pain.

Dream-Shedding Eye encountered that anger before the Sun God.

Everywhere the golden gauntlet studded with green obsidian touched burned completely black.

His will crumbled from the surging burning pain, and his vocal cords that should have screamed were already burning away.

Dream-Shedding Eye and that body could not even struggle.

The nerves in his limbs that should have been trembling frantically melted away completely, unable to withstand the heat.

Eventually, the moment his parched lips parted and his cut tongue wriggled.

The brilliantly colored feather cloak stood on end like hedgehog quills.

[You catch on quickly. You foolish thing.]

[…]

[However, if you faithfully carried out your assigned task, I intended to take care of a remnant like you in my own way. I could have given you more leeway before achieving my long-cherished desire. As much as the time to enjoy before completing the world… I could have granted it if you pleaded.]

Crack, crunch.

His neck bones were breaking one by one.

Instead of shattering his neck with grip strength, the angry Sun God threw him onto the floor.

Was he forgiven?

The demon’s futile hope was shattered into pieces before the ensuing kick.

[But you borrowed the body of an apostate to beg for forgiveness.]

[Ugh, urgh, uub.]

[Wielding three authorities of a god, were you pushed to a disadvantage, let alone struggling, against a newborn god on the verge of defeat?]

[Uheok, ek, ueok…]

[How dare you covet heaven when you lack both the nobility to burn yourself and the ability to do so!]

[Uuuub.]

Drip, drip, drip…

The kicking stopped after Dream-Shedding Eye vomited bloody water.

The original body, Ched, the Heresy Inquisitor of the Celestial Church, had already died, unable to withstand the pain.

There was only one reason why the Sun God did not exercise violence anymore.

Because one more hit and even Dream-Shedding Eye would die.

And the Sun God did not want the Great Demon to die right now.

[But rejoice. After reconsidering and reconsidering in every possible way, I have barely found a use for you.]

[Heueok, eok.]

The Great Demon panted while lying face down.

The Sun God approached him and began to grope his own body.

The form made of a brilliantly colored feather cloak and golden armor studded with green obsidian.

It was to tear off the blue chains tightly wrapping around him.

[Be delighted, that you can see my miracle.]

[S-Sun God. O Sun! What on earth, to me, are you doing!]

Paradoxically, the demon who had wielded overwhelming violence was weak before absolute power.

Dream-Shedding Eye, thoroughly subjugated, barely lifted his head and begged.

However, beneath the golden armor of the Sun God, the platinum-colored burning eyes had already decided.

[I will make you a star as you wished.]

[S-Star?]

[I am saying that I will grant your wish.]

With those words, the Sun God reached out to the densely standing feather cloak.

Pluck.

A five-colored feather harboring a profound hue like a rainbow was plucked out.

At that moment, Dream-Shedding Eye fully realized what was going to happen to him.

[N-No. Sun, O Sun!]

The feather filled with intentionally shaved off divinity began to burn.

Then, the blue chains binding the Sun God also vibrated.

Dream-Shedding Eye frantically squirmed at the sight.

He crawled on the ground with his knees to widen the distance even a little bit and ran away.

[No. No, this can’t be!]

But it was a meaningless cry.

Clank, clank, clank.

The blue chains surrounding the Sun God unraveled all at once.

What the chains aimed for was not the Sun God, but the plucked five-colored feather.

The Sun God silently watched the feather being tightly wrapped by the blue chains and threw it with all his might.

Towards the Great Demon who was squirming and running away on the floor.

The Sun God’s miracle manifested at that moment.

<<>>

[Uheok. Eugeurereu…]

Clank, clank, clank.

The Great Demon with the feather stuck in his back became a living sacrifice just like that.

The blue chains tightly tightened, surrounding Dream-Shedding Eye with the feather stuck in him from all sides.

Disregarding Dream-Shedding Eye throwing up bloody foam.

Watching the sight, the Sun God could only click his tongue.

[If you are stupid, you should at least be tough.]

At that level, he wouldn’t last long.

The blue chains – the power of the Sun Expulsion was not a power a trivial being could handle.

He was enduring it because he was the Sun God himself.

Even the Sun God had to endure severe aftereffects if he rashly intervened.

So he tried to ignore it as much as possible.

But if the situation changed, the plan changed as well.

Finishing up, the Sun God turned around with an arrogant attitude.

Towards the Adversary, Star Creation, who brought the humans.

If there was even a one in ten thousand chance of him intervening midway, he intended to immediately put Dream-Shedding Eye forward as a shield.

Break the constraint at once, and overwhelm and annihilate the Nebula Church just like that-.

[God who makes stars, maggot of the End Times grown by devouring the remains of losers.]

However, the opponent was not an Adversary for nothing.

Those who knew nothing thought of the Sun God as a being with only power.

But those who had faced the Sun God even once said otherwise.

The Sun God’s strength did not solely lie in pure physical force and overwhelming divine power.

The god who makes stars definitely felt this fact desperately in the memories of the losers.

[Fortunately, you have acquired the minimum qualifications as an Adversary.]

Dream-Shedding Eye’s defeat was already planned.

Whoever the last god was, whoever the resisting force was, if he abandoned them, it was obvious they would act up on their own and use the authority of a god.

This was why he gave them the Settled Night.

The Dream Demons and Dream-Shedding Eye had insignificant combat power except for stealing bodies.

Even if it was a fight between demons and not the living, they would definitely be pushed to a disadvantage someday.

So if cornered, they had no choice but to use the authority of the Settled Night.

Before realizing their foolishness of willingly accepting the deal to hand over the sky to the Sun God, looking down on the Sun God!

The god made of a blue universe must have vaguely realized that fact.

Sure enough, he was merely glaring calmly, not panicking even at the Sun God’s surprise descent.

[The reason you went out of your way to give the power of the Settled Night to the Dream Demons. It was because of this.]

[Heaven is my domain. This is a reasonable transaction that everyone agreed upon, so if the Settled Night dedicates its time to me, I can descend as much as I want, whenever I want.]

The Sun God became free, albeit temporarily.

The sky split into two, and the time assigned to each other was distorted.

The world merely faced dusk under two contrasting skies: the starry night sky shaking bewilderingly and the night sky covered in dark purple radiance.

The god made of a universe full of starlight, Star Creation, asked while orbiting the stars within his flesh.

[What about the constraint that you cannot descend to the ground?]

[Do I really need to descend as the Sun to trample a single maggot?]

[Right, was the constraint that you couldn’t descend as the Sun.]

No matter who looked at it, it was a disadvantageous development for Star Creation.

However, Star Creation did not just accept the facts revealed on the surface.

The Sun God also knew that he wasn’t entirely at an advantage.

The demon squirming in pain and foaming at the mouth on the city walls.

Dream-Shedding Eye was the core of this fight.

[Eugeurereureureu.]

Without exchanging a single word, Star Creation quickly saw through the reason why this fight was possible.

In the end, he avoided the curse by shifting the Sun Expulsion to the Great Demon.

If the Great Demon, who was already dying, died, the Sun God’s bypass of the constraint would also be completely blocked.

Star Creation’s victory condition was to completely finish off Dream-Shedding Eye.

There was no way the Sun God didn’t know this fact.

[Maggot, Adversary confronting the Sun. I highly regard the tenacity and spirit that dragged me down to this place. A crawling maggot is better than losers who only ran away.]

The Sun God’s gaze was no longer directed at Star Creation.

The dark purple radiance aimed lower than Star Creation, at the people gathering as one stepping on the cracks of the split earth… humans who eventually united despite all sorts of disasters.

At that moment, Star Creation flinched.

The Sun God burst into laughter at that triviality and raised both arms high.

[Alright, I too will willingly play along with your trivial soldier game! Joyfully welcome my consideration for the Adversary!]

The Sun God’s victory condition was…

To kill all those who serve Star Creation.

The Sun God, who had been laughing for a long time, suddenly declared with a cold, serious face.

[Witness my miracle that the losers could not see, that only the Adversary can face.]

The brilliantly colored feather cloak dyed into one color.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet…

After continuously changing dazzlingly, the selected color was none other than red.

Then, the luster of the golden armor making up the Sun God also began to dye red.

A color so eerie that one might wonder if it was dyed because it soaked in blood over and over again.

Only the Sun God’s platinum-colored flames, his eyes, remained the same.

<<>>

And the moment the Black Sun cracked open and revealed blood-red letters.

Star Creation frowned and prepared his combat stance.

The Sun God’s halo, the letters shown by the greatest celestial body, was a single name.

[God of War, Sol Invictus.]

Why was his true Divine Name not known.

All those questions were resolved.

The Sun God fluttered his feather cloak and raised his red-gold gauntlet high.

[Dream Demons, on behalf of your master, the true master commands!]

The dark red radiance was already enveloping the surroundings of the Dream Demons.

[Do not spare the bodies you occupy now. Deform them to your heart’s content to confuse the enemy, and break their fighting spirit with bizarre appearances!]

The Sun God, who snatched Dream-Shedding Eye’s forces at once, glared at Star Creation with hateful eyes and shouted.

[You just need to steal a more intact body, don’t you?]