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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR
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Chapter 334: Episode 62: Gods' Natural Enemy (5)
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Jeong Huiwon gave off a pure white Status as she pointed the Sword of Judgement at Athena.
Athena spoke.
[Uriel. I hadn't heard that Eden was coming.]
[I'm not participating on behalf of Eden.]
[Then?]
[I'm only helping my Incarnation.]
Uriel continued.
[Athena. Stop here. Olympus has gotten plenty out of this already, hasn't it? How long are you going to keep milking Gigantomachia?]
[Milking it? That's harsh, Uriel. We're only trying to remind people of the fable of rewarding good and punishing evil. Good triumphs, and evil is defeated. There's nothing wrong with emphasizing that again and again.]
[Rewarding good and punishing evil...]
[The more good fables there are, the more good Scenarios the Constellations will consume. The Star Stream will become cleaner as a result.]
For that moment, even Uriel's eyes wavered.
The world would become better if people carried out many good fables and good Scenarios.
There had certainly been a time when she believed that.
[So has the Star Stream gotten better? Have the Constellations come to enjoy good fables?]
[It isn't enough yet. But someday...]
Flutter.
The angel's wings moved.
[Athena, you were usually on the side of the weak.]
Uriel looked down at the giants fighting below. More precisely, she was looking at the smallest giant among them, the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint.
[I'll ask you, Advocate of Justice and Wisdom.]
As Uriel's tone changed, Athena's expression grew stern.
[Is that giant evil?]
Athena looked down at the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint.
She knocked back the charging heroes, while the sword aura of [Sky-Splitting Meteor Shower], which shattered the sky, tore the Constellations apart.
The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint was small, but strong. Perhaps she was stronger than any giant that had grown lazy in Tartarus.
Still, she hadn't been strong from the beginning.
「Get lost! Get the hell away from me, you unlucky bitch!」
「You cursed bitch! Our whole family was ruined because of you!」
「She's got giant blood. I heard eating that bitch's heart gives you the strength of a tiger.」
All the persecution the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint had suffered became fables and poured into Athena's eyes.
Hardships she had been forced to bear simply because she had been born a giant, or because she looked different from others.
Athena bit her lip.
[All giants are dangerous. Their nature is violent, and they could bring about another terrible Calamity.]
[A Calamity? Dangerous to whom?]
Athena gripped her spear tightly.
Yet her eyes avoided Uriel's gaze.
[Humans, of course...]
[Humans? Since when did Olympus care about humans?]
[Uriel! You'd do well to watch what you say...]
[Athena, you know it too.]
Athena's half-open mouth closed. Uriel continued.
[The rewarding good and punishing evil you're trying to create is fake. It's a fake myth that arbitrarily decides what is evil, judges it, and becomes good.]
Athena's brows trembled.
[What does it matter if it's fake? Even if it is fake...]
[Have you forgotten? Scenarios of rewarding good and punishing evil started disappearing because fakes were running rampant.]
Uriel's voice shook, as if recalling the time of the Demon Hunt.
[There is no good or evil in this Scenario. There is only our desire to watch a story.]
When Uriel looked up at the sky, a divine radiance shone down.
[I... don't want to watch stories like this anymore.]
Archangel Uriel stared at the Star Stream.
[Now, I want to see real evil destroyed.]
Athena's eyes widened. Her voice trembled as she spoke.
[Those kinds of fables disappeared long ago.]
[No, they didn't.]
Uriel smiled brightly as she looked at me.
[That's why I came here.]
The Sword of Judgement and Athena's spear pointed at each other.
[Then there is no more room for compromise.]
The Archangel of Eden and the goddess of Olympus clashed.
Athena's fierce assault gave off a Status beyond Plausibility. Huiwon seemed to be pushed back at first, but the situation soon became evenly matched when Junghyeok joined the battle.
As long as Uriel's synchronization rate continued, it wouldn't be impossible to hold Athena down.
[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband is delighted by the bloody battle between Constellations!]
[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon hopes they will both die while fighting!]
[Constellations of the Absolute Evil alignment cheer at the clash with Constellations of the absolute good alignment!]
An enormous amount of viewing fees poured in through Biyoo's channel.
Biyoo trembled slightly.
[Baat...]
I looked toward the other side of the sky.
Now the problem was that red bastard flying this way.
A massive Seat rode toward us in a chariot with the red sun at his back.
The Omnipotent Sun, Apollo.
Just as the myths said, he had an incredibly handsome face even from a distance.
At that level, he could slap Junghyeok across the face once... no, twice.
[The Constellation Omnipotent Sun expresses intense fury toward you!]
As one of Olympus's twelve Seats, he was too much for me to fight alone. The Colossus Pluto was broken, and I had overexerted myself earlier, leaving my body in bad shape. If I took one or two direct hits from the sunlight that bastard fired, my Incarnation body would turn to ash.
Still, I wasn't particularly worried. I wasn't the one who would handle the Omnipotent Sun.
Something like a locomotive horn sounded in the distance. The sound of train wheels racing along the tracks. Once, I had feared that sound more than anything.
[The Constellation Omnipotent Sun is flustered.]
If Olympus had twelve Seats, Veda had eight Lokapalas. And the Lokapala who appeared was a Constellation I knew very well.
[Surya, why are you here...!]
Booooom!
The solar chariot and solar train collided, causing a blinding explosion.
Perhaps because he had taken Plausibility into consideration, Surya's train wasn't as large as it had been before, but it was still big enough to wreck Apollo's chariot.
[Surya! Should I take this as Veda's will?]
[It has nothing to do with Veda. I left not long ago.]
Surya smiled.
[I came here only to decide who is the greatest sun god.]
Scorching sunlight colored the air.
Surya and Apollo's battle began.
Arrows carrying Apollo's power of light decorated the sky like a waterfall, while Surya's [Third Eye] disrupted their trajectories.
Myth clashed against myth.
Surya should be more than enough to handle Apollo.
I examined the rest of the battlefield.
“Dokja-ssi! I really like this new shield!”
Holding Heracles' shield, Hyeongseong charged across the battlefield, toppling heroes and Colossi, while Suyeong carefully managed her Mana resources as she took down the mass-produced Heracles units one by one.
As 「Stage Transformation」 began to collapse, the tide of battle gradually turned in our favor.
The energized Gigantes pushed the heroes back, while Gilyeong and Yuseong controlled the Chimera Dragon and turned the beach into a sea of fire with its Breath.
Jihye continuously fired naval cannons at the approaching mass-produced Heracles. Raising Jihye's Mana stat in preparation for this day had paid off greatly.
[A new myth is predicted to appear in Gigantomachia!]
Kim Dokja Company's myth was being recorded in real time.
Everyone was fighting well, and nothing had gone wrong.
「Even so, Kim Dokja felt strangely uneasy.」
It was a very small premonition. Like one subtle gear had been fitted incorrectly.
Nothing was wrong, no matter how calmly I checked. Uriel and Surya had joined the battle on time, and Junghyeok had safely stopped Earth's crisis before returning.
Then why?
「In truth, Kim Dokja knew the reason.」
It wasn't there.
「No matter where he looked.」
The being I was looking for wasn't there.
Athena, Jason, Apollo, Achilles...
Seats and heroes famous within Olympus were everywhere, but none of them was Olympus's leader.
If the Scenario's details were correct, there had to be one more leader apart from Ares.
And the Scenario would only end once I killed him.
Maybe Hephaestus, the Volcano's Blacksmith who hadn't appeared yet, was the final leader. Yet neither the original nor the revised version had ever had Hephaestus directly participate in Gigantomachia.
Then who the hell was Olympus's remaining leader?
「At that moment, one hero caught Kim Dokja's eye.」
[Stop! You must stop!]
I looked at the hero.
His eyes were full of mystery, and his muscular body had been beautifully sculpted. The Status radiating from him was the same one I had always felt from Sangah.
The Hero of the Labyrinth, Theseus.
[This fight has no meaning!]
Theseus was trying to stop the battle.
[We have to stop here! Neither giants nor Seats need to fight! This does Olympus no good at all! Athena! Apollo! You all know that, don't you!]
I had no idea what was going on. Theseus had never appeared in any previous Gigantomachia and committed such an absurd act.
It wasn't impossible, given his nature, but...
[Please! Stop! At this rate, Olympus will...]
Then, at that very moment, a red arrow appeared above Theseus's head. It was the arrow declaring him Olympus's leader.
Theseus grabbed his head and began to cry out in pain.
[Th-this... No, you can't. You can't, Father!]
Tzzzzzzzt!
Something was wrong.
* * *
Dionysus, who had been sitting on a sofa in the Administration Bureau and watching the Scenario, abruptly stood up. A box of popcorn rolled across the floor.
Just as the startled Bihyeong opened his mouth to say something, Dionysus shouted.
[Damn it! Why is that bastard Theseus there!]
As if he were the Dokkaebi King himself.
[Prepare a Plausibility Compatibility Assessment right now. Otherwise, everyone in that Scenario is going to die!]
Then an explosion erupted on the screen.
* * *
I had no idea what had happened.
A constant ringing flooded my ears, and my vision turned completely white.
That was all I remembered.
Caught in the explosion, I had been thrown through towering waves and rocky cliffs, crashing into a cave in a cliffside.
[Your Status has been severely damaged.]
[Your Incarnation body has been severely damaged. Urgent treatment is required!]
I used Pressure Point on my injuries and stopped the fables from leaking out before staggering to my feet and looking outside the coastal cave.
The battlefield surged like a sea of blood. Foam that occasionally rolled in touched my feet, while the fishy sea wind moistened my lips. And...
No one was visible on the battlefield.
Not Yuseong and Gilyeong, who had been flying through the sky on the dragon.
Not Jihye, who had commanded the Ghost Fleet.
Not Seolhwa, who had been fighting desperately, or Hyeongseong, who had protected our allies with his shield.
“Yuseong! Gilyeong!”
Even Junghyeok, who had been fighting Athena in the sky, and Suyeong, who had been slaughtering the mass-produced Heracles, were gone. Even Uriel and Surya were nowhere to be seen.
“Han Suyeong! Yu Junghyeok!”
My shouts echoed hollowly through the cave as the sea wind swept inside.
My heart dropped.
What the hell had happened?
Then, a moment later, something massive rose within the hazy sea mist.
A being that possessed a Status beyond human comprehension.
The moment I faced it, I thought:
That was a god.
As though every Constellation I had seen until now was fake, a being that could only be called a god had descended there.
[I am the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea.]
The great hero of Olympus, the mythical father of Theseus.
The constellation's declaration alone shook my heart and made blood pour from my body. This was the first time it had happened since I encountered an Outer God long ago. My fingertips trembled violently.
Why had Poseidon descended?
This couldn't happen.
In no round until now had Poseidon ever intervened in Gigantomachia. If a Mythical-grade Constellation like him intervened, not only would Olympus's Plausibility and Status be greatly damaged, the entire Scenario would be blown away.
Yet he had appeared here.
How... What was he thinking?
My hands continued to shake.
Bzzzzz.
A moment later, I realized that trembling wasn't coming from me.
The smartphone I had unconsciously clenched in my hand was vibrating.
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