Chapter 187 (2/2)
“Here, this way!”
Following the guidance of the field commander, I flew once again toward the black hole.
‘…What is this?’
I wasn’t met with a dark cave, like the instance with Igras-Sho, or a blank space like Aden’s cage.
I could consider it much more unexpected than the rest.
Swoosh!
Slap! Swoosh!
I stood on the wide stretch of a beach whose end I couldn’t see.
The color of the surroundings was very different from what I saw on Earth.
The sandy seaside I was stepping on was filled with black sand that was so fine it looked like ashes or soil, and the waves that repeatedly invaded and retreated while licking the wet ground were leaving red bubbles.
The sea, which extended to the horizon, was dyed a deep crimson.
It was almost as if someone’s lost blood.
Weeing!
I sensed a spreading reaction in the back of my hand.
‘This time, it’s “Rom.”‘
The energy left by the god of life was coursing through my body.
It was rushing me.
‘Was it said that what the god of life lost were “offsprings”?’
When Igras-Sho fought a war of nerves, he mocked the god of life and said the following.
– Yes, the magic of now has lost its completeness. However, it’s better than ‘life,’ which has lost its offsprings and lost its ability to reproduce. At least the chances are available for me!
Swoosh!
Slap!
As I was looking at the sea surface pushing up to my feet, I heard the whisper of the god from afar.
It wasn’t precise language, but I could vaguely understand what it was urging me to do.
‘I didn’t give my soul, and I didn’t pray just now. I can’t believe it can still directly talk to me.’
Then the blunt meaning answered me.
Two of the gods had already recovered their missing fragments. As a result, the influence of exiled gods on the material world by resonating with each other had increased.
Then Rom, the god of life, told me the identity of what I was witnessing.
If we turned that ocean into a concept that the Terrans knew…
‘Primordial Sea.’
The origin of life.
It was the sea that became the source of all living things.
Gurgle!
There was also a sign of the god of mind’s involvement there. It was the Grotesquely twisted divine power.
As if it had noticed the intruder, the land swept away by the waves swelled up unpleasantly. The red foam soon became flesh and bones and grew into a monster.
In an instant, the coastline was filled with creatures.
None of them was normal in appearance. They seemed to be a mixture of races with conditions that could be called life in the universe. The mere sight of them made me feel nauseous.
I swung the sword at them, rushing in.
Swoosh!
Swish!
The bombardment fell wherever my will desired.
That time, however, it wasn’t the rain of sword energy. It was made out of swords itself.
Countless blades appeared from one end of the invisible coastline to the other, creating a storm. A thunderous sound clapped as the monsters were crushed into blood clumps. The golden flame that followed them burned away at their targets.
After massacring my opponents for a bit of time, I came to a realization.
‘This isn’t going to end.’
There were far more enemies, and they were faster in proliferating than the fragments of Aden.
Furthermore, the deity was whispering through the seal of the back of my hand that what I was doing wasn’t the right way.
‘Then?’
The god directed my gaze toward the red sea.
‘In there?’
Rom put meaning into my mind.
That the Primordial Sea was his lost “offspring.”
Something was hidden under its waters, perhaps part of the arrangement left by the god of the mind, that was said to have contaminated the entirety of it.
It’s constantly conceiving lives that weren’t normal. By the looks of it, they all seemed like incomplete life forms.
And the god requested for me to get rid of what was lurking at the bottom of the sea, return its descendants to normal, then guide them back to it.
‘It’s in that ocean? But I can’t jump inside just because…!’
In that situation, once the wave rose, the remaining handful of gurgling bubbles grew into a monster.
What would it be like in the water if it were like that outside the water?
The moment I dipped my body into it, I was as good as entering the enemy’s mouth.
‘I mean, I can’t dry out the sea….’
The moment I mumbled inwardly at the thought of failure…
‘?’
‘Wait a minute.’
An idea flashed through my head.
‘Can’t I dry the ocean? Why not?’
A plan quickly materialized in my head.
Of course, I shouldn’t evaporate the whole thing. Instead, what if I only induced the position that the god informed me about to reveal its floor?
‘Let’s do it!’
I continued to use the power of Aden to slaughter the monsters.
Monsters that managed to stand up and walk along the coastline repeatedly broke down into molecules before taking a few steps.
At the same time, I borrowed the power of another god.
‘God of magic!’
When I conjured even more divine power, a white star bloomed on the sea.
It was merely a small flash at first, but it gradually became larger, soon distorting the space.
The heat it was emitting was so terrible that no one existing in the realm, living or nonliving, could handle it.
[Supernova (Rank: EX)]!
The light element spell returned to the world by the god that regained her leg exploded.
Boosh!
The red sea started to boil.
The liquid jumped wild and melted into a blur, and then even the steam burned.
The sea surface was pushed flat as if a giant had pressed it with a round foot, and eventually, the floor was revealed.
Screeeeech!
Clinging on closely to the ground was a monster created by the cohesion of divine power.
The tentacle-shaped creature, which was polluting the seawater by spraying the holy water of a fallen, was full of traces left by the god of the mind.
The red sea that was protecting the body evaporated, and the hellish heat and radiation struck it from right on top of it.
The monster struggled nonstop.
Screech!
With a shriek of death-
Boosh!
It burst into flames.