I Got an Omnipotent Angel - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49: Second Kings

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The rotary barrels only turned slowly for a moment.

Whiiiiirrrr...

At first, it was a low mechanical hum.

Then the sound of metal parts locking together swelled into a roar, followed by a shriek fierce enough to grind up the air itself.

Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwang!!

Overwhelming firepower, 20mm autocannon shells.

The brass ammunition belt piled in the ammo backpack was sucked in without pause.

Rrrrrrrrrrt!

A storm erupted.

Orange flames shot several meters from the end of the rotary barrels, and hundreds of bullets became a single stream of light that swept across the battlefield.

The leading pack of raptors didn't even have time to scream.

Armor-piercing rounds punched through their bodies, scattering scales and flesh through the air.

The medium-sized carnivorous dinosaurs behind them had their thick muscles and bones torn apart like paper.

Cars struck by the penetrating rounds flipped over one after another, while concrete planters exploded into dust and debris.

A dinosaur horde hundreds strong crumbled beneath the devastating barrage of autocannon fire.

Even so, the curtain of bullets didn't stop.

Before the surviving creatures could turn around, the next rounds poured into them.

The battlefield had already filled with metallic blasts instead of roars, and shell casings raining down like a downpour were proof that a natural disaster had struck.

Clang! Clang!

Scalding brass covered the asphalt.

【Devouuuur!!】

The ammunition belt kept feeding in,

the flames kept blasting out,

and my money kept burning up with them.

Faster than shoveling it into a shredder.

"......"

Yohan's face went pale as he watched the scene.

"N-no!"

His voice was swallowed by the explosions.

"Stop! Cut it out!!"

【Devour! Devour!!】

But the Eight-Foot-Tall Ghost didn't take her finger off the trigger.

Her master's command had been extermination.

Search and destroy. Search and destroy!!

Kill everything in sight! Everything visible must be killed dead!

"Stoooooop!!"

But it couldn't stop.

His orders couldn't reach her through the blasts, and his money kept disappearing right in front of him.

Of course, the dinosaurs were falling like leaves in an autumn wind.

Watching them, Yohan felt his chest tighten.

The rulers who had roamed the Earth tens of millions of years ago.

Creatures who had miraculously returned to the modern age were vanishing without a trace into metal and fire in only a few seconds.

The biggest problem was that his money was disappearing with them.

* * *

The battle was over.

A massive dinosaur horde had rushed at us, but it had been swept away by an overwhelming wave of violence.

Still, even the greatest victory casts the shadow of sacrifice...

"Yohan, here's the bill for the ammunition we used in that battle."

"......"

"I left out the labor costs for blessing the bullets since it's your first time. You can do it yourself or outsource it."

We'd lost a lot in that fight.

Far too much...

【Devour! Devouuur~!】

Eight-Foot Sister held up Magdalene's Chainsaw like she was thrilled.

"Sis, you shot really well."

【Devour! Devour! Devour!】

She'd shot way too well.

She shot so well... my bank account had melted away.

That gun was getting sealed away from now on. Sealed away.

"As expected of an Eight-Foot-Tall Ghost. What incredible core strength. Your Eight-Foot-Tall Ghost is probably the only one who can fire that monster dual-wielded."

"But why does it have to be twin machine guns?"

"What a foolish question."

Pastor Go grinned and held up two fingers.

"Two guns means twice the firepower!"

Can somebody stop this man? Why did he keep making monster guns he couldn't even fire himself?

"Um... how much did it cost to make that?"

"Do you want to know?"

"...No. I think not knowing would be better for my mental health."

"Good thinking. Pastor Park will kill me when he gets back."

No, why did he go that far to make it?

Sure, he said he'd make one to repay us for saving his life, but he didn't have to make a BFG.

"Um... Evangelist Lee, Elder Shin... and Deacon Kim and Deacon Lee were exorcists too."

I looked at the exorcists from our church whom Pastor Go had brought along.

They'd always seemed like kind religious people, but they were actually exorcists who sprayed machine-gun fire.

That was a little shocking.

"Wow, Yohan became an exorcist."

"You never know where life will take you. And he's got a natural spiritual scent too."

"Could our church be getting a second Pastor Kim?"

The church members had a completely different mood from when they were brutally massacring dinosaurs.

As we finished our emotional reunion, Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva approached us.

"Whew, thank you for your assistance. Thanks to you, we handled this easily."

"Not at all. We did it all for our Yohan."

Pastor Go casually pulled me close by the shoulder.

Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva saw that and asked me,

"Hmm... are you affiliated with Gangnam Holy Temple Church, young master?"

"I'm not, but..."

"Then I can repay this favor to you, young master."

"Ugh... it was the same with Pastor Kim. Honestly."

The two seemed to be having some sort of standoff, but that wasn't what I cared about.

"More importantly, where's Kyoryong Bodhisattva, the one behind this mess?"

"I ordered them to bring that person out."

Just as she said, Kyoryong Bodhisattva was soon dragged out of the prison.

"Gasp!"

Kyoryong Bodhisattva was rendered speechless by the horrific scene before her.

Dozens of corpses.

They'd been torn apart so horribly that they were unrecognizable, but their clothes made it clear.

They were all the practitioners and bodhisattvas who had followed her.

"W-what is this... what is this?!"

There were no dragon corpses.

At the moment of death, they must have become spirits and returned to the afterlife.

Still, the gouges all over the area and the endless horrible blasts that had echoed even into the prison made it easy to imagine what had happened here.

"Ma'am. Look carefully. These people died because of you."

What could power and money possibly be worth, to make someone join hands with demons and try to kill their own niece?

I really couldn't understand this world.

"What shall we do, young master?"

Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva seemed ready to leave the decision over Kyoryong Bodhisattva's fate to me.

Maybe because I'd contributed the most to this incident.

Being given the choice made me think for a moment.

"The proper way would be to report her to the Association... but that'd leave us open to retaliation, right?"

"It would be fortunate if the Association had no traitors like this, but traitors can arise anywhere."

Just as Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva said, who was to say there weren't demon worshippers in the Mystic Association too?

Sure, I could find them by that distinct rancid smell, but killing public officials based on that alone would cause problems.

Say the head of the Mystic Association turned out to be a demon worshipper.

I could kill them first, but what happened afterward?

I'd just become a murderer who killed someone without evidence.

"If we handle it here, there will be no retaliation. There is no one here to concern themselves with legal procedure. Therefore, I believe it would be safest to deal with her on the spot."

"Agreed. Demon worshippers need to be dealt with quickly. The government has too many things tangled up in it, so it can't handle things smoothly."

"Pastor, didn't Jesus say we should love our enemies?"

"I don't want to twist His words, but for ordinary people like us, certainty is best."

Anyway, I'd come to the same conclusion.

When we reached the decision to execute her, Kyoryong Bodhisattva recoiled in horror and began trembling violently.

Then she shouted as if making one last desperate struggle.

"I have seen them. Those who have consumed the darkness of this world as they waited for their time. Those who were freed into this world and operated in secret for so long are now trying to take it for themselves!"

"The demons? What's new about that?"

Wasn't that what demons did in the first place?

Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva nodded as if she agreed.

"That is not something they only began doing recently..."

"This isn't a matter of being banished to Hell by some mere exorcism! Most of the seventy-two demons have already been completely summoned into this land!"

"...!"

Pastor Go and Dragon Maiden Bodhisattva both looked shocked.

As if they'd never heard of it.

Was it true?

Most of the seventy-two demons had successfully manifested?

"They have been manifesting one by one over the last hundred years, operating in secret within this world's darkness! Do you know who I made a contract with? You must not kill me! My patron's wrath will fall upon you!"

The shocking news had left us speechless for a moment, and that made her more confident.

"If you let me go, my patron will spare your lives at least! So..."

"Ghk?!"

That was when Kyoryong Bodhisattva suddenly began clawing at her throat.

Like a madwoman, she scratched so hard it looked like she would tear her own throat apart.

"Ghk! Grrrk! L-Lord Gamigin!"

"Yohan! The corpses!"

"Young Master Gari!"

The two were shocked for one reason.

Something was rising from the traitors' corpses scattered around us, then gathering toward Kyoryong Bodhisattva.

Kyoryong Bodhisattva thrashed as though someone had forced a pipe down her throat and was pumping food into her.

Once it finally choked the life from her, Kyoryong Bodhisattva's limp body twitched and began to transform.

The change happened in an instant.

Her human hands and feet became those of a beast, her skin turned black, and her eyes glowed red.

At last, the thing in the form of a black horse spoke.

【How dare you. A thing like you thinks it can decide my judgment? Thousands of years have passed, yet you are still foolish and arrogant.】

It ground its teeth at Kyoryong Bodhisattva and released a low, furious growl.

I could tell from that presence alone.

This was a demon. A being of pure evil.

It was on an entirely different level from Decarabia.

It was only an avatar, yet I could feel that it was stronger than Decarabia.

"Black horse... the fourth-ranked of the Goetia's seventy-two demons. Gamigin, Marquis of Hell!"

The one who commands the dead.

The one who controls the souls of beasts.

A rank in the Goetia didn't necessarily mean raw strength, but Gamigin was more than enough to be called a greater demon.

A being like that had appeared before us.

Clack. Clack.

Gari stepped forward.

Gamigin glared at Gari with red eyes.

【How dare you look directly at me. You, who were not born from the breath of the One above, think you can truly stand equal to us simply because you have become a Throne?】

At that contemptuous declaration, Gari only clicked its teeth.

Clack.

Huh? Wait a second.

【I am the Marquis of Hell, Gamigin, Lord of the Dead.】

The ground shook and the wind howled.

Amid swirling clouds of graphite, Gamigin made its arrogant declaration.

Clack clack!

This was probably...

【You foolish and ignorant creatures. Your city will become a grave, your seas will overflow with blood, and your neighbors and lovers will drive knives into each other's backs...】

At that moment.

The speech stopped.

Gamigin's avatar had been covered by a shadow.

Crunch!

Yeah, that just now. That was the signal that it was going to eat.

No doubt about it.

【Wait...】

Crunch! Crunch!!

Gamigin, who was only an avatar, was devoured without even being able to resist.

Well, it wasn't like there was anything worth listening to.

Just from the beginning, it was obviously a curse, so why let it finish?

"Gari, good job! If that bastard had gotten offended and gone wild, innocent people could've gotten hurt."