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◈ Leveling with the Gods

[Translator – Gurum]

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Chapter 177

“Take Poseidon with you.”

The day Hades first met YuWon. After the talk in regards to recruiting Hercules, YuWon started to explain the big picture of this war.

“That guy is in Asgard’s prison right now.”

“I know.”

“You’re saying this while you know?”

“Try proposing a deal. Say that he’s required to defeat Zeus. Asgard also does not want Zeus to remain.”

He wasn’t wrong.

Thinking of the things that Olympus had done to destroy the relationship between Asgard and the Giants, it was natural that Asgard would be keeping a check on Olympus.

It was just that rather than try and fight outright, they were waiting for an internal meltdown by them.

“When you free Poseidon, the animosity between the Three Main Gods would be increased, and the fight between Zeus and Poseidon would happen. There’s no reason for Asgard to not allow this.”

“What if they think that we’re trying to regroup and attack them instead?”

“After they confirm that Hercules has betrayed Olympus, they won’t even be able to think of that possibility.”

Hades could do nothing but nod.

If the internal conflict of Olympus really did get worse, and a situation where Poseidon was needed arised, there would be a chance that Asgard would free Poseidon.

“For that, firstly, we need to recruit Hercules.”

“I know that.”

“Are you confident?”

“I am.”

They were such firm replies that it would be embarrassing to even doubt him. After talking with YuWon, Hades had to erase the plans he made and needed to draw up a new one.

No matter what plans he drew up before, they couldn’t compare to the beauty of recruiting both Hercules and Poseidon against Zeus.

‘It was a gamble, but in the end……’

Hades couldn’t believe his current situation.

‘It really ended up like this.’

A battle between Hercules and the army of Zeus below, and a battle between two of the Three Main Gods and Zeus was happening above.

And all this,

Yes.

All of this……

‘A stage made by that guy.’

How could he say this—

It gave him goosebumps.

Hercules, him, Poseidon, and even Zeus in front of him right now. As if they were all his chess pieces, they moved orderly into the right spots.

‘I’m past the point of doubt.’

From the point YuWon succeeded in recruiting Hercules, Hades had decided to trust YuWon and had come all the way here.

Right now, this battle was held in his hand.

‘What is the end to this big picture?’

Rumble—!

Shwoooooo, Crash—!

Lighting and water clashed in the sky in front of his eyes.

“What are you doing! Aren’t you going to help!”

At Poseidon's shouting, Hades started to move again.

* * *

Hades.

One of the Three Main Gods of Olympus, and the high-ranker ranked 61st.

Poseidon.

Titled the God of the Sea and the high-ranker ranked 72nd.

Both of these people were the highest of high-rankers both within rank 100.

They could each face an entire guild alone with their own strengths, and they could face hundreds of rankers as well.

However, their opponent was someone with a much higher rank than them.

Rumble—!

“Kugh!”

Bang—!

Poseidon’s body was pinned to the ground.

His entire body was filled with electric burns, and he was bleeding all over. Poseidon hurriedly regained his posture and moved his Trident.

Shwooooosh—

The huge wave that flowed in the air followed the edge of his spear.

In this world overflowing with moisture, Poseidon had condensed that into a single form. Hundreds of spears made of water were fired at Zeus aimed by the tip of his spear.

Bzzt, Crackle—!

A wall of lighting created in front of Zeus blocked them all. Seeing this, Poseidon wiped the blood on his mouth and muttered in annoyance.

“Bastard.”

“You and I are a bad matchup, Elder brother. Don’t you know this?”

Not too long ago, Poseidon had lost to Zeus in a fight, and was imprisoned in Asgard.

Even in that fight, Poseidon was able to confirm the absolute difference in strength.

The unreachable sky.

From the start, Poseidon’s water attribute mana and Zeus’s lighting attribute were not a good matchup.

“Then……”

Shwooo—

A palm appeared in front of Zeus’s face.

“How about me?”

Clench—

Another of the Three Main Gods with a higher rank than Poseidon, Hades’s hand grabbed Zeus’s neck.

Poseidon smirked. The attack just then was to buy time to create this situation.

Shwooo—

Dark attribute mana covered Zeus’s head. His skin would melt, and his bones would crumble.

The battle had ended. That was what the two people thought.

However,

“Your plan was good……”

Grab—

Zeus grabbed Hades’s wrist that was grabbing his neck.

“But as expected, it didn’t reach me.”

“......!”

Rumble—!

A Lighting Bolt fell from the sky.

To dodge this, Hades once again hid his body into the darkness, but he was an instant too late.

“Keuk……”

Hades also fell to the ground like Poseidon. He looked shocked as he fell to his knees by the crash.

‘It didn’t work.’

The only wound that appeared on Zeus’s head was just a small scratch.

That was the outcome of the combined strategy of Poseidon and him.

In contrast, they had both been hit by Lightning Bolt and had fallen to the ground.

“Looks like you’ve both been neglecting your training.”

Zeus’s body floated down.

There was a saying in Olympus. Even if everyone in Olympus was to come together, they would not be able to handle Zeus.

No.

That wasn’t just for Olympus, but many other guilds had the same opinion.

The strength a high-ranker in the single digits held was on another level.

Of course, as they were both part of the Three Main Gods with him, Poseidon and Hades didn’t acknowledge that.

‘There’s this much of a difference between us?’

He felt that he didn’t need another plan.

He had thought that he may have been able to finish this fight before Kim YuWon gets here.

No.

He needed to. This was a matter of pride as one of the Three Main Gods.

“You’re talking about training when you’ve done nothing but sitting holed up in your temple all this time?”

Poseidon shouted in anger as a vein popped on his forehead.

In truth, after the end of the Gigantomachy, Zeus had stopped all public activities for a thousand years. But for him to talk about training was illogical.

“Done nothing……”

However,

“Maybe it seemed like that.”

After hearing his words, Zeus laughed.

“But in reality, the ones who were satisfied and didn’t do anything were you.”

“What?”

“Have you ever thought of going higher?”

Higher.

Zeus was still talking not of the top of the tower, but above that. This was still the same as back then when the three brothers became rankers together.

“I will go above that.”

“If I do, then I will be able to become the true king of this tower.”

It was an enormous aspiration.

Because it would be trying to do something no one had ever done in this vast tower.

Zeus couldn’t be satisfied with just Olympus alone.

“You are already the King of Olympus. You can’t be satisfied by achieving that position?”

“There’s no difference between a life in which you don’t look up and death. Even more so inside this tower.”

Hades remembered.

This wasn’t the first time they had had this conversation. Someone wanted the peak, and someone wanted stability.

And that was the start.

Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.

The start of the crack between these three.

“This is why I despise you.”

Zeus no longer called the two people brothers.

The eye of Zeus looking at them had no tremor. He had already held onto that idea too firmly to feel something like hate or rage.

There was nothing to be angry at, nor any questions to ask. Because it had already been a long time since they had walked their different paths.

“Is the second Gigantomachy the stepping stone for that?”

Poseidon, who had planned Gigantomachy and Ragnarok with Zeus, instantly understood Zeus’s plan.

His personality was right in the middle of Zeus and Hades. Although the goal was to expand Olympus through war, he thought that maybe this was connected to what Zeus said about ‘above’ before.

“Even if I tell you, you aren’t going to believe me.”

Zeus no longer held expectations for the two.

After receiving the blessing of the System, they had become ranked, and had lived a life close to eternity.

It was impossible to convince people like that.

“The next floor, there is no such thing. A baseless proposition.”

The top of the tower no longer existed.

That was the common consensus among the rankers who had seen the top floor of the tower, and Hades also thought that.

However,

“No, there is.”

The answer didn’t come from Zeus, but from an entirely different direction.

“The top exists.”

Hades turned his head.

Zeus seemed to have noticed him for quite a long time as he was already looking in that direction.

A familiar face.

YuWon patted DanPung’s head and spoke.

“Well done.”

“Abat, ba—”

The kid answered while raising its arms. Its response was something like ‘this is nothing’ from what he could tell.

After noticing YuWon, Poseidon had a complicated expression.

“That guy……”

Was Kim YuWon.

Although it wasn’t that great of a reinforcement he definitely wasn’t a normal guy from all the stories he heard of him.

But YuWon was also the cause of Poseidon being in this situation right now.

The one who exposed the weakness of The Round Table and the one who blocked Zeus’s Lighting Bolt, it was all YuWon.

On top of that, he was the one who also stole the Stone of the Sea that Poseidon desired.

Crack—

But in any case, he was an ally right now.

It was already hard trying to fight Zeus, there was no need to create another division here.

‘For now, Zeus is first.’

Making up his mind, Poseidon contained his anger.

On the other side, for the first time since the start of the battle, Zeus’s eyes were shaking.

“The top exists……”

Zeus’s voice quivered a little. The thing he just heard didn’t sound like a simple bluff by YuWon.

“Do you know something?”

“Probably more than you.”

It wasn’t that sincere of an answer. Because Yuwon wasn’t answering while looking at Zeus in the first place.

‘Thankfully, I wasn’t late.’

The fifth Temple.

This was the same number as when Hercules went on a rampage before his return.

And this was the point in which Zeus couldn’t sit and watch Olympus be destroyed and personally acted.

As long as the person didn’t change, history wouldn’t change either. YuWon had waited for this moment.

Bzzzt, Bzzzzt—

Fierce electricity flowed through Zeus’s body. Just approaching him might burn someone to a crisp.

True to his title, he was a high-ranker who could be said to be the top 10 strongest beings within the tower.

‘I’ve finally met the monster.’

He was nervous for the first time. Thankfully, Hades and Posieidon were also here.

“It’s our first fight together.”

YuWon spoke to DanPung who was sitting on his shoulder.

“Be careful not to get a stomach ache.”

Open—

Looking at Zeus, the mouth of Predator opened inside YuWon.

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