I Got an Omnipotent Angel - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101: Subjugating the Mountain Lord (2)

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"Me? Why?"

"Pardon?"

I kept a cynical attitude in response to Cha Hyeran's request.

"It, it happened during a sparring match. Of course you should return it..."

"Of course? Says who?"

Cha Hyeran's face went pale.

She must have realized I really had no intention of returning the fire snake.

Honestly, I wasn't Pastor Kim. It wasn't like I enjoyed stealing other people's things.

But the other side was North Korea.

The Communist Party had divided our nation and become the enemy of countless fallen patriots.

Kim Il Sung, you bastard!

Did they really think I'd do anything that benefited them?

No, this fire snake was a spiritual creature that would have naturally lived on Korean soil and belonged to Koreans, if not for Kim Il Sung.

So I hadn't stolen it.

I'd reclaimed it from the Communists illegally occupying North Korean land!

That was my justification, but even a justification needed strength behind it.

I had two advantages.

"None of the elders said anything. Don't winners usually get spoils from a sparring match?"

"Th, that's because they're South Koreans!"

"Right. And I'm South Korean."

"..."

When I took the fire snake, neither Lord Choi nor Venerable Unjeong had tried to stop me.

They hadn't told me to give it back, either.

That meant they were silently letting it slide, right?

"Th, the Republic will not tolerate this...!"

"Oh no, how scary~"

Most importantly, this was South Korean territory.

Who was North Korea going to complain to after getting some property taken from it in South Korea?

Were they going to run back to the Republic and whine to the Party? To Kim Jong Un?

Yeah, I could just chew them out and ignore them~

What about the Mystic Association?

Well, Pastor Park was above me. I could just ignore them.

That was my conclusion.

This was something I could eat without getting sick.

"Ghk...!"

Tears filled Cha Hyeran's eyes, and she suddenly dropped to her knees.

"P-please spare me!"

"Uh, what are you doing? Get up right now!"

I was the one thrown off when she suddenly dropped to her knees.

But Cha Hyeran clung to my pant leg and desperately pleaded.

"Th-that fire snake cost the Republic more than a little in resources to capture! If I return after losing it, I'll be sent to a reeducation camp!"

"Come on, someone as capable as you should be able to get away with a mistake like that..."

"You don't know that, do you?! Please return it!"

I really didn't know.

Would an authoritarian country like North Korea tolerate failure, no matter how capable the person was?

Wasn't it the kind of country that killed people whenever it felt like it?

"That's your problem..."

"Aren't you a Christian?! Didn't Jesus teach people to love their neighbors?!"

"Wait, how does a North Korean know that?"

"Th-that was..."

Why was she panicking now?

Cha Hyeran looked around as though she'd misspoken.

"I misspoke. Please forget it..."

"...Was it your parents?"

"...!"

Cha Hyeran's eyes widened, her pupils shaking as though an earthquake had hit them.

"Forget it!!"

Cha Hyeran ran off without looking back.

That was the last I saw of her that night.

* * *

The joint subjugation operation proceeded smoothly.

The Japanese Chang-gwi soldiers had been lying in ambush, as if they expected our full advance, but the difference in strength was simply too great.

Three of the Five Great Lineages had committed major forces, and I was contributing plenty myself.

"There's a ninja hiding in the bushes. Oh, watch out. There's a rifle squad in the fallen leaves ahead of Unit Three."

Gugu and Jjaekjjaeki flew overhead, gathering information in real time through synchronized vision.

It was like playing a strategy simulation with a map hack enabled.

"The intelligence is coming in quickly. As expected of you, Brother."

"It's not like I'm the only one who can handle familiars."

Bang Seoryeong shrugged.

"Cases like yours, where someone operates so many at once, are rare. Most can only manage three or four."

That was true.

The only familiars in the air were the few birds handled by me and the male shamans.

The Diamond Sect didn't seem capable of using familiar arts at all, and Cheonghak was the same.

Surprisingly, there weren't many people who could handle familiars in the first place. Even then, controlling three or four was usually their limit.

"Still, I knew your spiritual power was vast, Brother... but this really goes beyond imagination."

"It's grown a lot."

"A lot doesn't begin to cover it. Compared to the last time I saw you, it's grown several times over. You could serve dozens of Dragon Gods with this much spiritual power and still have plenty left."

"Oh! Are you going to get me one?"

"Do you think dinosaur bones are easy to find? The male shamans here have collected dragon bones for generations just to serve a single Dragon God."

"Then what about my King Dragon?!"

"A whole pterosaur has already been excavated, so please wait a little longer. And... that's one reason we absolutely need to capture the Mountain Lord this time."

A reason we needed to capture the Mountain Lord?

"To bind a high-ranking soul, you need an appropriate offering. The byproducts from someone like the Mountain Lord should make excellent offerings for binding the soul of a Greater Dragon."

"Uh, like this?"

I pulled my coat aside slightly.

Inside was a vest made from tail fur with a reddish sheen.

"I can feel extraordinary demonic power from it. Don't tell me..."

"I got it while sealing the Kyoto White-Faced Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox in Japan. The Tsuchimikado Clan made it into a vest for me."

"...Why are you only telling me now?"

"They said they'd make something with it, so I just left it with them."

"Hah..."

Bang Seoryeong let out a breath of disbelief.

Before coming to Taebaeksan, I received word from the Tsuchimikado Clan.

They told me they'd made equipment from the Kyoto White-Faced Golden-Furred Nine-Tailed Fox's tail fur and to come collect it.

Since moving between sanctuaries made long-distance jumps easy, I used Spatial Leap to go there in one shot and picked it up.

"It won't catch fire, and magic? They say it can negate most of the arts used by yokai."

"That's treasure-class equipment... If you'd had that, you could've bound a Greater Dragon without much trouble."

"Should I have brought it to you instead?"

"...No. If it's fur from a fox yokai, the Tsuchimikado Clan would know far better how to handle it. Just focus on capturing the Mountain Lord."

For the sake of my King Dragon, I definitely had to catch that Mountain Lord.

Little by little, the Chang-gwi were being pushed back.

The Black Lotus Society's Dragon Gods entering the fight was a huge factor. Even an army of Chang-gwi would have trouble facing the fiercest beasts in the mountains.

Animals naturally had a much greater advantage in their own habitat.

I was observing the battle across Taebaeksan through Gugu's vision when I saw something black.

We had deliberately begun the subjugation in broad daylight, yet it and its surroundings looked unusually dark.

Only after I sent Gugu lower for a closer look did its silhouette become clear.

"...Dear God."

One of the dinosaurs was pinned beneath it, its throat being torn out.

A Triceratops counted as a Greater Dragon, yet it had been pinned down with one foot and killed by a precise bite to the neck.

Calling it dead felt strange since it was a ghost, but its fading soul was immediately claimed by it.

Grrr──!

Soon, a black ghostly Triceratops stood beside it.

That was the Mountain Lord.

Did it even turn dinosaur ghosts into its Chang-gwi?

"Seoryeong──"

Then the Mountain Lord let out a thunderous roar.

The whole mountain rang with it, and an unfamiliar numbness ran through my body.

"M-my lord..."

"Kohaku? Are you okay?"

The numbness passed for me, but not for everyone else.

The flock of Gugu flying overhead fell from the sky all at once.

The fear they felt in that instant, and their desperate cries to escape, hit me even harder.

"Ghk...!"

"Th-the Dragon Gods..."

The male shamans of the Black Lotus Society suffered the most from the near-ultrasonic roar.

The Dragon Gods that had been slaughtering Japanese Chang-gwi soldiers began fleeing in every direction.

"D-don't run away, Dragon Gods!"

"Please return!!"

The Dragon Gods had slipped beyond the male shamans' control.

Every Lesser Dragon had fled without exception.

As the dragons scattered in confusion, the Mountain Lord began to move.

At least twice the size of a Greater Dragon, the Mountain Lord raced forward at an unbelievable speed and hunted the panicked dragons.

It crushed them, bit them apart, threw them aside, and slashed them with its claws, inflicting fatal wounds.

It was fast.

Far too fast.

How could something that big move so quickly?

Worse, the dinosaurs it killed became Chang-gwi and attacked us.

"S-Society Head! The Dragon Gods are attacking us!"

"They are no longer Dragon Gods we serve! Fight back!"

"B-but the dragons are terrified..."

"Tch!"

Bang Seoryeong clicked her tongue and pulled a doll from her robe.

As she quickly recited an incantation over it, a Tyrannosaurus was summoned.

"Ohh...!"

"The greatest among Greater Dragons...!"

The Tyrannosaurus immediately sensed the Mountain Lord and unleashed a mighty roar.

Its roar was powerful enough to wash away the force of the Mountain Lord's roar.

"W-we've regained control!"

The battlefield, which had been thrown into confusion, steadied with the Tyrannosaurus's arrival.

Grrrr...

The Mountain Lord stared at the Tyrannosaurus that had canceled out its roar.

Then it began heading south with the Chang-gwi.

Before we could even recover from the chaos, Japanese Chang-gwi soldiers charged with bayonets behind the dinosaurs.

Bang Seoryeong shouted at the sudden attack.

"Intercept them!"

The male shamans of the Black Lotus Society hurriedly pulled out talismans.

But they were too slow to respond. I shouted to Eight-Foot Sister, who had been waiting nearby.

"No allies in the line of fire. Shoot them all."

【Po!】

Eight-Foot Sister, carrying her third ammunition box, opened fire with Magdalene's Chainsaw.

The overwhelming firepower swept through the dinosaurs charging down from the front.

Magdalene's Chainsaw had already proven its effectiveness against dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs were swept away like autumn leaves.

The problem was the Black Tiger Mountain Lord.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, crash!

The Mountain Lord evaded all the bombardment pouring down on it with unbelievably nimble movements.

It moved so fast that Eight-Foot Sister couldn't turn the rotary cannons quickly enough to follow it.

Rooaar!!

The Mountain Lord finally closed in and swung its sharp claws at Eight-Foot Sister.

【Po!】

She hurriedly blocked with the rotary cannons, but Magdalene's Chainsaw was easily severed by the Mountain Lord's claws.

At the same time, the Tyrannosaurus targeted the Mountain Lord's flank, but it nimbly leaped over to our rear.

"What is with that spee──!"

Before Bang Seoryeong could react, I made two jumps.

First to Gari, who had been waiting down the mountain.

Then, together with Gari, above the Mountain Lord's head.

【...!】

The Mountain Lord threw itself aside, almost rolling away to avoid Gari and me crashing down from above.

Thud!

It dodged that?

It really did have an animal's instincts.

A brief standoff followed.

Bang Seoryeong's Tyrannosaurus.

Eight-Foot Sister and Gari in Chariot Mode.

The three monsters surrounded the Mountain Lord.

Just as Gari was about to fire a treasured sword and spear from its mouth, the Mountain Lord fled without even looking back.

"What?!"

My surprise lasted only a moment. Gari immediately began chasing after the fleeing Mountain Lord.

I had turned off Auns's authority over fire because I was worried about a forest fire, but Gari in Chariot Mode had enough raw force to plow through a mountain.

Crash! Craaack!

No matter how many old trees stood in its way, it tore through the forest with overwhelming force.

"Aaargh!"

"S-save me!"

The Japanese Chang-gwi soldiers caught in the way were ground apart miserably.

Gari in Chariot Mode was already a disaster beyond human power to stop.

Even the Mountain Lord would be finished if it got run over by those brass-ring wheels.

But what was this bad feeling?

Why did it feel like the Mountain Lord was controlling its speed?

Crack! Craaack!

As we broke through the forest and that unease took hold, I saw talismans attached to the trees Gari had just smashed.

Berserk Talismans made by onmyoji Chang-gwi.