Chapter 190 – Gyeok (1)

■■■■■■!!!!

A roar that shook the entire roots vibrated through the air.

Basiliora, summoned from deep within the roots of the World Tree, opened its jaws wide and roared as if to announce its descent to the world.

The ashen dust shrank back at the overwhelming momentum.

Those who had rushed in while targeting the elves had their movements frozen, crushed by the presence of the god that had descended before them.

“-!”

The moment the elves, lost for words at the series of events, simply stood with their mouths agape.

Kwagagagak!

Basiliora surged and began to deal with tens of thousands of pieces of ashen dust.

No, it was not ‘dealing’.

It was, simply, a one-sided slaughter.

Just by Basiliora moving its body and advancing forward.

Hundreds of pieces of ashen dust were crushed by its massive frame.

They turned into ‘true’ ashen dust that should have returned to the beginning and disappeared.

The ashen dust was brutally chewed in Basiliora’s mouth and spat out.

They scattered in all directions, taking the lives of other ashen dust.

Literally a one-sided massacre.

The elves were horrified by that overwhelming military force.

‘How on earth…? Mana usage should be impossible here!’

At that time, when all sorts of questions were rampant enough to overload the brain as all blood flow rushed to Lim’s head.

“Lim.”

“!”

Suddenly, it was heard.

A voice that was still steady and calm.

It was emitting thick mana from the bracelet worn on his right arm.

At the call of the Marquis, who showed no sign of hardship despite handling that ridiculous ‘god’.

“Are you okay?”

“I, I am okay.”

She answered in formal language before she knew it.

The Marquis tilted his head for a moment and said.

“Is the Gre… no, the Ash Scatterer you mentioned deep in here?”

“A, probably so.”

Soon, he asked.

“How long can you hold out?”

“…What?”

“I am asking how long you can hold out among the ashen dust.”

“If it is about five minutes, somehow.”

The moment Lim looked around with a nervous gaze and spoke.

“That much is enough.”

Alon turned around without hesitation.

“Basiliora.”

He jumped down and climbed onto Basiliora’s back.

‘I’m glad it went as expected.’

The reason Alon was able to come down below the roots even though he heard that mana could not be used.

It was because he knew that artifacts, especially ‘Salvation of the Wanderer’, could be used even in places where there was no mana.

‘In the first place, spaces where mana usage is not allowed appear in Psychedelia too. But more than that.’

While Alon recalled his experience in the game.

He was inwardly flustered.

‘…Didn’t they say mana usage was not allowed?’

Apart from escaping the crisis using an artifact.

It was because Alon could use mana.

“……Hmm.”

While feeling the mana moving so well according to his will and harboring a question for a moment.

Alon soon turned his gaze and looked around.

‘There are still many. No, did they even decrease?’

Clearly, Basiliora swept away the ashen dust gathered on this root floor from the moment it descended.

Nevertheless, the number of pieces of ashen dust was still large.

No, rather, it felt like it had increased compared to at first.

The reason Alon headed deep without hesitation to kill the ‘Ash Scatterer’ instead of running away even in such a situation.

The characteristics of the ashen dust here, no, the ‘spawn of Greed’.

It was because they were what he knew.

Alon looked down.

Unlike earlier when white ashen dust fluttered.

The ones running while creating red soot like the dead were definitely the ‘spawn of Greed’ that Alon knew.

‘Why on earth are these guys here?’

The spawn of Greed, as the name suggests, are monsters that appear together when the Sin of Greed has fully awakened.

In other words, according to Alon’s common sense.

The spawn of Greed should not have appeared here.

This meant.

It was as good as saying that the Sin of Greed had awakened.

Without time to organize his complicated head.

────!!!

The moment he raised his head at the indescribably bizarre noise hitting his eardrums.

Alon saw it.

The ‘Ash Scatterer’ that filled his vision, no, the huge insect called ‘Mother of Greed’ by the name he knew.

“Tch.”

Alon frowned without realizing it.

The Mother of Greed revealed its massive body that had been hidden among the ashen dust as if perceiving the threat as soon as Basiliora approached.

Its appearance was terrible enough to make even Alon’s unwavering face contort.

Its back was sharply protruding as if it were carrying a massive volcano.

Ashen dust was constantly being created from those holes.

Magma was also constantly flowing from its face like an active volcano.

Finally.

Alon, who confirmed the huge pincers that looked as if they could snatch even Basiliora.

‘As expected, it is the Mother of Greed.’

He was certain.

Basiliora immediately rushed to deal with the Mother of Greed, but.

■■!?

It could not bite it off and twisted its body back as it was.

Puhuaaaak!

Because of the magma that started flowing from its entire body.

Moreover, the ashen dust that were being miserably crushed by Basiliora until just a moment ago.

As soon as the Mother of Greed was attacked, they went into a frenzy and finally began to climb up Basiliora.

‘Clearly, is it impossible even with Basiliora’s body?’

However, he did not panic.

Alon knew the weaknesses of the spawn of Greed along with.

He also knew well how to handle the Mother of Greed.

The only problem was.

‘Is it mana?’

The method to kill the Mother of Greed was simple.

If he used the Ice Hand Seals he researched with Penia, the Mother of Greed in front of him would become a handful of snowflakes and scatter.

Because the Mother of Greed was excessively vulnerable to water.

However, the problem was the overall situation.

The Ice Hand Seals can only exert their power if the entire space where the enemy is located falls within Alon’s range.

Because Alon’s mana can be easily destroyed from the outside, even if not from the inside.

And, this space.

It was far too vast to be dominated by Alon’s mana.

It meant it was difficult to use the Ice Hand Seals.

But it was okay nonetheless.

Because Alon had ‘another’ way to kill the mother of the swarm.

“Kkamangi.”

[Kkyu]

As soon as Alon, who let out a sigh, called.

Kkamangi, who had not come out of the pocket on his chest until now, climbed onto Alon’s shoulder in an instant.

And.

Alon, who built a mana link with Kkamangi without hesitation.

“Shadow Wood (影木).”

He muttered quietly.

At the same time, Kkamangi’s tail flowed along Alon’s arms and legs and soon sank into the shadow.

Dirook!

Soon, red eyes began to appear all over Kkamangi’s body.

The shadow that started spreading across Alon’s body and to Basiliora’s frame in an instant.

Watching that, Alon formed a hand seal.

Tuduk!

The shadows that were about to shoot out stopped all at once.

Tuduk! Tudududuk!!

Timed with the four shadow hands appearing behind Alon’s back.

The shadows began to be layered over Basiliora all at once.

In fact, this was a magic that started from just a chance discovery.

After using magic while maintaining the link with Kkamangi so it never breaks, following Kailus’s words.

It was a magic he began to research after discovering that Kkamangi changed its form under the influence of Alon’s seals.

Therefore, it was neither perfect nor complete.

He found only four seals corresponding to Kkamangi, not six.

But even that much was okay.

Because even that much was enough to defeat the Mother of Greed in front of him.

When the first Shadow Seal formed a hand seal, the shadow that started from Kkamangi covered Basiliora’s body.

When the second Shadow Seal formed a seal, the shadow covering Basiliora’s body changed its form all at once as if it were a huge iron armor.

Soon, the moment the third Shadow Seal formed a seal.

The mana structure that had changed like iron armor moved again, and the molecular structure was changed layer by layer.

And.

“Basiliora.”

At Alon’s call, Basiliora once again entwined the Mother of Greed, which was spewing magma in all directions.

The Mother of Greed, spewing even more magma in a frenzy.

However, Basiliora’s frame, covered by the shadow iron armor that was already several layers thick.

Suffered only minor damage even from the magma the Mother of Greed was scattering with all its might.

Finally, the moment the fourth Shadow Seal formed a seal.

The dark armor covering Basiliora wriggled.

And.

Shadow Seal (影印).

Thorn Tree (棘).

Black thorns grew all over the body of the Mother of Greed.

The chilling black thorns.

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────────!!!!!

A chilling scream erupted from the mouth of the Ash Scatterer.

With that.

The massive body collapsed.

Koogugoogoogoo!

Just with that, the entire World Tree vibrated as if it would collapse, threatening lives.

“……”

Nevertheless, the eyes of the elves remained fixed on one side.

Right where the massive body of the Mother of Greed was collapsing.

They could not say anything.

Even among them, the eyes of Lim, the elf who had been active as a Pagade for the longest time, were wider than ever.

Because she knew.

Even if all the Pagade gathered and rushed in.

No, even if all the Dark Leaves currently joined here rushed in.

That ‘that’ was a terrible being that could never be dealt with.

Therefore, Lim stared blankly.

At the gray powder scattering in all directions as the massive body fell to the floor.

At the ashen dust disappearing along with it.

And.

Fluttering a coat like a black shadow.

He was standing on top of the head of the massive god.

In these roots where no one except the great ones could use mana.

That man, who used mana as if it were nothing.

‘He is the First Elf.’

Suddenly, the Queen’s voice brushed past her ears.

The words that called a mere human the First Elf.

It was so absurd that she had never once sincerely believed it until now.

But at this moment.

“……Ah.”

Lim let out an exclamation without realizing it.

Like a sage who gained enlightenment after seeing the dawn, her eyes were already filling with awe.

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Meanwhile.

[Kkyu!]

“Good job. You adjusted it properly this time.”

[Kkyuu-kkyuu]

Kkamangi was rubbing its cheek hard against Alon’s cheek.

Alon, who was praising it, turned his gaze and watched the scene where the Mother of Greed disappeared into ashen dust along with numerous spawn.

The situation was settled, but the question was not resolved.

‘Why on earth is the Mother of Greed here?’

The Mother of Greed should not have been here.

Because that meant the ‘Sin of Greed’ was trapped here.

When his head was getting complicated.

[There is something over there.]

Alon moved his gaze following Basiliora’s resonant voice.

He discovered a mirror placed in the center of the deep place where the Mother of Greed had been located.

A very old mirror, about the size of a door.

Alon, who got down from Basiliora’s back and stood in front of the mirror.

“!”

Soon he recognized someone standing inside the mirror.

It was not Alon’s own appearance.

But if looked at closely, it was very similar to him somewhere.

Wearing a very worn-out coat.

The face was blurry as if it could not be seen because its Gyeok was too low, similar to the dragonkin.

[First.]

[The technique is Reverse Heaven (逆天).]