Chapter 495 - 495 (1/2)
Gungnir's spear tip was sharper than any other weapon Su-hyeun had seen.
Also, he didn't inject any special energy or power into the spear, yet Gungnir itself already possessed the power of azure lightning energy.
The very first thing to ”feel” the firepower of Gungnir as it left his hand was Su-hyeun's body.
Fwhoosh—!
”Kuk!”
Su-hyeun's whole body was shoved back from the sonic boom of the spear when it shot out.
At the same time, violent air currents were generated, making it difficult to see the flying spear without activating Insight.
His body staggered for a moment there.
Rumble, ka-booooom—!
A loud thunderclap went off in the direction of Gungnir's flight.
The thunderclaps exploded over and over again, but Su-hyeun didn't have any leeway to pay attention to that. He summoned the Somersault cloud to maintain his balance from the sonic boom of Gungnir.
After a brief moment of distraction, he shifted his gaze back, only to...
”What the hell—?”
For the first time in ages, Su-hyeun became utterly speechless, his jaw dropping to the ground.
Pazzzik, bzzzzz—
In the path of Gungnir's flight was a massive wide-open hole crackling with azure electricity. It was like looking at a colossal tunnel bored into a tall mountain.
Fwhooooooosh—!
”Huh?” Su-hyeun was jolted awake by the spear flying back to him and hurriedly reached out.
Gungnir, which he had thrown a moment ago, had returned to him all by itself. As if it had a functioning ego and wanted to return to its master.
”When thrown, it'll automatically return? Does this item have that kind of option?”
Since he had thrown it only once, he couldn't be sure of it yet. But to think that it was a spear with an automatic retrieval option.
With this, he no longer needed to worry about searching for it. After throwing it, he thought that searching for Gungnir would be quite a chore, so he greatly welcomed this new revelation.
”Since this is the case, spear throwing should become easier for me.”
He gripped Gungnir even harder.
In the beginning, he thought of this weapon as a bit of a white elephant.
Su-hyeun didn't know how Odin used Gungnir. If it were supposed to be swung and thrust around, then it would not be a good match for him.
The biggest reason why Su-hyeun wielded spears was to create some distance between him and his enemies and to have the means to wage powerful long-distance attacks.
In other words, his spearmanship had evolved into specializing in throwing spears.
If Gungnir's automatic retrieval option was indeed a real thing, then he found himself the perfect throwing spear.
”The azure electricity is Gungnir's power.”
Su-hyeun didn't inject any magical energy into the spear just now. In that case, the thunderclaps and the traces of the azure electrical currents had to be the power Gungnir already possessed.
It didn't even consume his magical energy like the Palm Leaf. As long as he could pick it up and throw it, he could manifest the weapon's power.
Since that's the case...
”One more time, then.”
Pa-zzzzzik—
Su-hyeun directed the golden-orange electrical currents through his hand that was gripping Gungnir.
[Thunderbolt - Gungnir]
Gungnir was enveloped in golden-orange electrical currents.
Two disparate types of lightning energy wielded by two different gods—the main god of Olympus, Zeus, and then the main god of Asgard, Odin—arced and danced around Gungnir. Despite him being the one spreading one of the currents, Su-hyeun felt the buzzing, numbing pain coming from his hand.
”One, two...”
He got into the spear-throwing posture one more time.
The Predators that witnessed Gungnir's firepower earlier urgently cried out at his new pose.
”Here it comes again!”
”We need to dodge first and—!”
Fwhoooosh—!
Paaaaaht—!
Another attack flew.
The Predators accurately struck by Gungnir got vaporized without leaving behind a single trace. Then, two disparate electrical currents spread out to the surroundings, preventing other Predators from getting closer.
A new path had been created.
”Three minutes.”
And when the promised time was up...
”Now that was a nice rest,” Sun Wukong smirked and stood up after getting back into the best condition possible.
An eyeball could be seen floating in the sky, watching all these things happen.
* * *
”That is indeed somewhat dangerous,” Osiris muttered to no one in particular, his eyes deeply closed.
His hand was currently holding a fist-sized eyeball.
The scene he saw through this eye was the figure of three gods slaughtering their way past an ocean of Predators.
”M—my liege, we did not expect someone would be capable of wielding Gungnir to that degree...”
”If it's him, then it's possible. However, I'm surprised by Odin not handing Gungnir over to his son, Thor.”
Osiris's calculation was off the mark this time.
Odin was never very good with Insight. He wasn't even that smart to begin with. Out of all the gods in existence, he was far closer to being a straightforward idiot.
Odin not being brilliant wasn't all that surprising, considering his Insight was worse than an average god's.
However, even without such a thing, he was still acknowledged as one of the Five Godly Sages because of his insanely incredible physical strength. He also possessed the mighty weapon called Gungnir. Regardless of all that, Odin's biggest weakness was always his poor Insight.
That was why Osiris calculated that Odin would hand Gungnir over to his son, Thor. However, despite his poor Insight, he still chose the most ”correct” answer in this situation.
”My liege, don't you think this will become a bit too dangerous?”
Osiris could only frown at the retainer's question.
Indeed, this was getting dangerous. This situation had to be the first time for Osiris since the universe was created and since he was crowned the king of hell.
His instincts warned him that the result would not be good if this continued.