I Became the Patron of Villains (Novel) - Chapter 80 - Merfolk (2)

Chapter 80 – Merfolk (2)

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Translated by Jinmu

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Standing with lonely dignity atop the frozen blood sea, Alon let out a light sigh.

Somehow, it worked.

Looking around, what he saw was frozen ground spreading outward endlessly with the place where he stood as its center.

Of course, that endlessly spreading frozen ground was not something Alon alone could create, but something made possible only because Penia had responded to his request.

Can she do this much?

Alon marveled briefly as he watched Penia, who was freezing the surrounding sea in an instant on top of the Extreme Cold Alon had realized upon the ship, and yet only showed an expression as if the effort were slightly taxing.

Then he turned his gaze toward Tertogan, who stood on a deck soaked with pirates’ blood.

Crack. Crack.

The Tertogan who had taken human form until just a moment ago no longer existed.

What remained there was only a green egg oozing strange fluid, Tertogan’s hand above that egg, and the bizarre object resting in that hand.

But even though that was all, Alon had no choice but to harden his face.

Because he knew what that egg was.

Crack-!

The unpleasant sound reached him just as Alon raised his arm after recognizing it.

“…”

Turning his gaze, he saw the merfolk that had until now been moving beneath the water to sink the ships beginning to climb up onto the ice one by one.

Their number jumped past dozens and became hundreds in an instant.

At the moment Alon clicked his tongue lightly.

Crack-crack-!

The merfolk crawling up onto the ice were instantly smashed apart.

“Big brother!”

And Radan appeared.

Bursting up from the sea in an instant, Radan not only crushed the merfolk that had been rushing toward Alon.

“Hah-!”

He stamped down on the ice.

Crack!

Radan’s foot pierced the ice and touched the seawater beneath it.

And.

Kuwaaaaaa-!!!!!

The frozen sea turned into an ice ocean and erupted at once into a massive wave like an exploding roar, sweeping away every merfolk surging toward Alon.

“Hup-!”

As though that still was not enough, Radan immediately plunged the trident in his hand into the middle of the sea.

Rumble-!!

A huge whirlpool formed instantly.

And the merfolk that had been swept away, along with the sunken ships, began to be dragged into it.

Though they were beings more familiar with the sea than anyone else, the merfolk were pulled into such a violent current that they could not even control their bodies, and mixed with the wreckage of the sunken ships, they were crushed apart.

The whirlpool turned red in an instant.

“As expected…!”

“The boss is different…!”

Hope spread among the pirates.

“…That is truly absurd.”

“Agreed.”

“Ha. I do not even know whether we could win against him.”

And among the pirate lords too, indescribable awe spread.

To that degree, the divine might Radan had shown was difficult to believe had been achieved by a single individual.

But only for a moment.

Gurgle-!

At the clear sound, everyone’s eyes turned toward the central deck of the Blue Wolf.

The hand that had been sticking up from the green egg had vanished as though it had all been a lie.

And.

Crack. Crack-crack. Crack!

From atop that small egg.

An impossibly huge hand was bursting out.

Everyone stared blankly at the hand.

A hand covered in green scales and fluid.

Appearing in the world while blocking the sunset that had been shining on the pirates, as though snuffing out hope itself, it throbbed as if alive.

And then, that thing which called not hope but fear into the pirates.

Struck down at the whirlpool.

Kuwaaaaaang-!!

With that roar, the whirlpool that had been swallowing everything vanished in one blow.

After that, from the small egg.

It awakened.

Crack-crack-crack-!

The hand that had erased the whirlpool braced itself on one Blue Wolf ship while the other hand tore free.

The other hand emerged and seized another ship.

A giant born from that tiny egg.

It was a scene so bizarre it devoured every hope in the eyes of all present.

After the arms, a gigantic merfolk head rose from the egg and stole away hope.

A body large enough to turn ships into toys stole away awe.

And after shattering the ship that held the egg and even covering the sunset.

“Ah-”

It.

Descended.

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Its size was overwhelming.

And.

The monstrous force that came from that overwhelming size was more terrible than imagination allowed.

Kuwaaaaaang-!!

Only the upper body showed above the sea, and yet the moment one hand moved slowly and pressed down on a ship.

Water exploded upward. There was not even time for a single scream.

Without even a moment to be horrified at the ship turned to pieces.

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-gak-!

Just by sweeping that huge hand from left to right, more than ten ships were destroyed.

Terrifying strength born from overwhelming size.

And that was not all.

“You fucking-!”

The merfolk, which until just now had shown no movement as though worshipping the giant’s birth, resumed activity, and the pirates fell into panic in an instant.

What in the world is this-!

And the moment Radan too frowned as he looked at the huge giant with the sunset behind it.

“Radan.”

He heard a voice.

Alon’s voice, speaking without the slightest emotion even in this chaos.

“Leave the merfolk to me.”

And for a brief instant, Radan looked dazed.

“Understood, big brother.”

Then with that answer, he recovered the trident that had been swallowed into the sea.

After checking the merfolk climbing up all around, Alon looked toward that thing slowly raising its massive hand.

“Hoo-”

He let out a low breath and looked around at the situation.

By no generous wording could it be called good.

Even though Radan and the pirate lords were killing merfolk like mad, there was no sign the number was decreasing.

The merfolk kept climbing up and killing pirates.

And that giant hand had risen once again, ready to hurl despair onto them.

But even in this worst situation, Alon did not think of defeat.

Rather, he felt relief, thinking that the present situation was not the true worst.

Because that thing before him was not the Outer God.

More precisely, it was a byproduct.

Kalak-Kul, the Outer God capable of seeing through all things simply by opening the Eye of Truth, and of drowning all beings regardless of whether water was present, began the disaster the moment it descended.

But the thing before his eyes now, Gal-Gik, was not the Outer God.

It was only a byproduct carrying the reincarnation egg of the Outer God and serving as its guard until Kalak-Kul descended.

At this stage, if he could simply deal with it, the Outer God’s descent could still be prevented.

So Alon.

Opened his mouth without hesitation.

“Array of Thunder-”

Because the conditions had been met.

Crackle-!

Blue sparks burst out and began to run across the frozen blood sea.

“Decomposition.”

At his words, the sparks instantly became tiny particles and spread in all directions.

Those blue particles, shining within the darkness covering the sunset.

“Fusion.”

At the next phrase, they began to be absorbed into Alon’s wavering body.

And with that, Alon’s figure began glowing blue.

By the time that happened, Gal-Gik, which had already raised its hand to smash dozens of ships.

Made a bizarre roar impossible to understand and swung its hand down over Alon’s head as though trying to remove an instinctive threat.

Rumble-!!!

A gigantic sound of rushing air, as though pressing down the whole sea.

“Universal Flux.”

But even in that situation, Alon raised his index and middle fingers and formed a seal.

“Raijin Form.”

The moment he spoke the final phrase.

Crackle-!!!

He became lightning.

Tss-!

And shot only forward.

Kuwaaaaaang-!!!

The ice sea where Alon had just been standing shattered like an explosion.

And he shot toward Gal-Gik.

The gaping hollow in Gal-Gik’s heart.

Seeing that, Alon instinctively realized.

That simply shooting forward like this would not be enough to pierce Gal-Gik’s outer shell.

And yet the reason he could still move forward without hesitation was.

Because of the Contract Token of the Blindfolded, one of the relics appraised this time.

Its effect was a relic that could conceal one single promised restriction.

With it, Alon cast off the restriction that had long weakened his magic.

The restriction on twisting the laws of the world when using magic against Ultultus, the great god of duels.

And there was one more reason.

He himself had grasped how to use Raijin Form.

The blue lightning that had shot toward Gal-Gik changed shape away from the form of a human.

Taking the tip of his charge as the center of the mana arrangement, he twisted and crushed his own body, now mana itself, and formed a shape.

Thus the spiral Alon created, unmistakable to any eye.

Crackle-crackle-!!!

Dyed blue the world darkened by Gal-Gik and shot forth as though dividing the world itself.

Tss-!

And with that small sound.

Blue sparks.

Covered the world.

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It was after the blue sparks covering the world vanished.

The huge hole in Gal-Gik’s heart.

And Count Palladio, visible through that enormous hole, filled everyone’s sight.

“…Hah.”

So all of them had no choice but to lose their words and stare only at one man.

And Alon, standing atop a broken ship under everyone’s gaze.

Stop staring and save me…!

Was, in reality, in considerable danger.

Because the deck beneath Alon was slowly sinking.

It was not obvious at a glance, but the deck under his feet was gradually slipping beneath the water.

The reason Alon remained silent on the collapsing deck was Raijin Form itself.

I was definitely more used to it than last time.

Unlike before, this time he had not made a major mistake.

Thanks to repeated study and experimentation, he had refined Raijin Form to a certain degree.

Because of that, aside from a few tiny wounds between his arms and legs, he was fine.

The problem was mana.

To think that even just moving the arrangement in Raijin Form would consume mana this absurdly.

He had guessed as much from his research, but the mana consumption of Raijin Form was truly unreasonable.

The first time he had used it in Colony, his mana had emptied out, but he had still been able to walk around.

Now, however, simply changing the mana arrangement had caused bodily stiffness, one of the symptoms of mana depletion.

That was why, even as the deck sank, he could not say a word or move and was simply going down with the ship.

I cannot swim!

So just as Alon screamed soundlessly while not even able to move his lips.

Kuwaaang-!

From the sea that had been calm just moments earlier, green scales burst upward.

Crunch-!

And before anyone could react, they seized Radan’s body and dragged him straight down beneath the sea.

Alon lost even the leisure to think again.

To those watching, it looked as though Alon saw Radan being dragged away before his eyes and immediately threw himself from the deck into the sea.

…In truth, all that had happened was that the green scales smashed the deck where he was standing.

Thanks to that, once Alon fell into the sea, he frowned.

Fortunately, the bodily stiffness caused by mana depletion was slowly easing, so it looked like he would be able to reach the surface before he suffocated.

But the problem was not that.

The problem was the giant eye now visible in his sight.

Kalak-Kul?!

Alon was horrified.

Though above the water the sky was still that of sunset and had not yet fully darkened, below the sea it was dark as though he had entered the Deep Sea itself.

And there, in that darkness, was the giant eye.

It was the same eye he had seen so many times in the game, the eye that drowned anyone who met its gaze.

It should not have descended yet-!

He was thrown into confusion.

As far as he knew, the moment Gal-Gik died, the Outer God’s manifestation should have failed.

And yet now the Outer God had descended.

It had descended perfectly well and was looking at him.

From below.

From that Deep Sea where nothing could be seen.

Silent and solemn.