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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 336: Episode 63: End of a Myth (2)

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Yu Junghyeok charged boldly toward Poseidon's colossal form, which even fabled-grade Constellations cautiously avoided.

Dionysus asked.

[You don't mean that crazy bastard, do you?]

I activated [Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint]. Junghyeok's thoughts poured into my head.

「The only opportunity is now, while the Plausibility Compatibility Assessment is underway.」

「Poseidon is a Mythical-grade Constellation. There is almost no way to subdue him through Stage Transformation.」

「The only useful thing is probably this branch.」

I studied the branch in Junghyeok's hand.

[The Constellation Advocate of Justice and Wisdom startles!]

It appeared to be a constellation artifact stolen from the goddess Athena.

Strictly speaking, it was hard to even call it a constellation artifact.

[Athena's Olive Branch]

Poseidon was terrifying because, despite living for so long, he had almost no fables of defeat.

Still, there was one time Poseidon had lost. It was during a contest with the goddess Athena.

Yu Sangah had told me about it once.

"A long time ago, Poseidon and Athena competed over a city. The people decided that the god who gave them the more beneficial gift would become the city's guardian. Poseidon struck a rock with his trident and caused seawater to spring forth, while Athena grew an olive tree that bore abundant fruit."

"Seawater must've been common, so Athena won?"

"Yes. Athena won the contest and became the guardian deity, and the city was named Athens. Ah, I'm sorry. I've talked too much, haven't I? Dokja-ssi probably already knew all this..."

Of course I didn't. I wasn't as knowledgeable about mythology as Yu Sangah.

But it seemed that damn Junghyeok knew that fable.

「Even a tiny blow will do. If I can leave even a scratch.」

An olive branch.

If that counted as a fable of defeat, then it counted. Maybe stabbing Poseidon with the branch would at least make him spit out a little seawater.

[The Constellation Advocate of Justice and Wisdom warns that it won't be nearly enough!]

Still, Junghyeok's choice wasn't entirely hard to understand.

If the Scenario was going to be forcibly ended by the Plausibility Compatibility Assessment anyway, it wouldn't be bad to hurt Poseidon a little before it ended.

If he was lucky, he might even gain fables like 「One Who Slightly Altered the Boundary of the Sea」 or 「One Who Opposed the Master of the Great Sea」.

That was only if he was lucky, though.

I prepared to leap in if something happened.

Then Dionysus grabbed my shoulder.

[Don't go. You'll die.]

"What?"

Dionysus's expression hardened. Then...

[The Plausibility Compatibility Assessment has ended!]

[It has been determined that there are no issues with the Plausibility of this Scenario.]

I blankly stared at the system messages floating in the air.

Indirect Messages from the Constellations poured in one after another.

[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband questions the Administration Bureau's decision!]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon curses!]

[Many Constellations doubt the Administration Bureau's decision!]

Anyone would have been shocked.

It was impossible. A Mythical-grade Constellation had appeared in a Scenario in the sixties, yet there were no issues with its Plausibility?

Rumbleee!

A massive trident was gripped in Poseidon's slowly raised hand.

The constellation artifact Triaina.

It was a spear that drew the boundary of the sea, a terrifying weapon that turned everything touched by its blade into sea foam.

"Yu Junghyeok!"

I had only just escaped the barrier when I shouted, but Junghyeok was already right in front of Poseidon.

Even Junghyeok would die instantly if he took that blow.

I shook off Dionysus and activated [Way of the Wind]. But Junghyeok was too far away, and Triaina's blade was too close.

Sparks of Plausibility flashed through the air like lightning. The recoil naturally pushed Junghyeok's figure backward.

A gentle scent of spring spread alongside a black aura.

Someone was standing in front of Poseidon.

[Poseidon, why are you interfering in a fight between children?]

A graceful goddess stood where the sparks had vanished.

She hid half her face behind a folding fan and wore a black silk cape over her entire body. Her face was unfamiliar, so I didn't recognize her at first.

Dionysus screamed.

[Why is that old lady over there?!]

A radiance that could bloom only in the deepest underworld blocked Poseidon's spear.

[Persephone.]

The cold sea wind shook her clothes as if the entire ocean were enraged. Persephone glanced at me and smiled.

I was grateful, but my feelings were complicated.

Why had Persephone appeared? I thought the underworld wouldn't intervene directly in this...

Could she be here to take part of the Great Fable? If she did that, things would get incredibly complicated.

[Persephone, why do you stand before me?]

[I came to tell you to stop here. Look, you've gone too far. All of Your Majesty's people are terrified.]

Countless living creatures trembled on the sea Persephone pointed to. Aquatic creatures had died with their bellies turned upward just from facing his Status. Even giant beast species above Tier 2, including terrified krakens, held their breath without moving.

[The Constellation Guardian of Chaste Moonlight laments the deaths of innocent creatures!]

[The Constellation Goddess of Love and Beauty restrains the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea.]

[The Constellation Mistress of the Hearth and Mercy tries to stop the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea.]

Even the Constellations who had stubbornly remained neutral stepped in to restrain Poseidon.

Persephone continued.

[This isn't a stage for a Mythical-grade Constellation like you. Please leave the children's fight to the children.]

[This is no longer a problem between children.]

[It's not?]

[My son was attacked.]

Indeed, a small arrowhead was lodged in Theseus's left arm, the body through which Poseidon had Descended. Persephone narrowed her eyes.

[Over something so minor? Then punish only the one who attacked Theseus. Have you found out who it was?]

[It must have been a giant.]

[You don't know that.]

[I will kill every giant.]

Even those brave Gigantes trembled in fear at his stubborn attitude.

[Insects who hid and lived in the deep underground. You will regret coming aboveground today.]

With a heavy blow from Triaina, nearby creatures scattered into foam. Persephone still didn't retreat.

I was starting to worry. Even if she was the Queen of the Underworld, it would be impossible for her to stop a Mythical-grade Constellation like Poseidon.

[Move aside. Even if you are my brother's wife, I will kill you if you do not move.]

Persephone didn't retreat even before that chilling threat. Poseidon's Triaina didn't hesitate either. Light flashed, and Athena and Apollo, who had been observing the situation from the air, flew in.

[You can't, Poseidon!]

[O Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea!]

But it was already too late.

As the waves rose, Poseidon's spear had already pierced Persephone's heart.

Yet when I looked closer, it wasn't Persephone who had stopped the spear, but a single massive hand. A hand made of darkness so dense that it gripped Poseidon's Triaina by the blade.

Crash!

A dazzling display of Plausibility, bright enough that I doubted I'd ever see one like it again.

I understood why the Administration Bureau had allowed the Plausibility Compatibility Assessment to pass.

Dionysus laughed, his lips trembling.

[Haha... At this rate, all Twelve Seats might die today.]

A vast fable of darkness spread through the air.

The darkness that had remained silent for so long was awakening.

[The Great Fable underworld overwhelms the Great Sea.]

One of Olympus's Three Highest Gods, the Father of the Rich Night.

Hades, King of the Underworld, had Descended upon Gigantomachia.

[Poseidon. You insist on turning a children's fight into a fight between adults.]

There had been several times when Mythical-grade Constellations fought in the original TWSA.

But nothing like this had happened in TWSA's Scenarios in the sixties.

If I remembered correctly, when Olympus's Poseidon and Veda's Shiva clashed in the seventy-fifth Scenario, all of North America was wiped out. There was also the time every nearby asteroid was destroyed... What else had there been?

[Stop them! We have to stop them!]

Athena, the Advocate of Justice and Wisdom, Apollo, the Omnipotent Sun, Hermes, the Master of the Sky Walk, Dionysus, the God of Wine and Ecstasy. Even the hundred-handed giant Briareus was there.

The next moment, the Status released by the collision of the two Mythical-grade Constellations sent every Constellation flying like toys.

Crash!

The fabled-grade Constellations rushing in were all slammed into the rock walls, and Briareus lost half of his remaining arms.

No one could stop the two Constellations' fight.

Junghyeok, who had been nearby, was also struck by the tremendous shock and sent flying toward me. I moved quickly and caught him.

The king of the underworld and the king of the sea.

The two Mythical-grade Constellations glared at each other. Their Status was powerful enough to shake the world through the meeting of their gazes alone.

Poseidon spoke first.

[Hades, why have you come out of the underworld? You have no justification to intervene in this matter. Even if the scales of Plausibility are balanced, you should not be here.]

When an exalted being like a Mythical-grade Constellation Descended into a lower Scenario, they needed a justification. One appropriate enough to pass the Plausibility Compatibility Assessment. In Poseidon's case, that justification was his son, Theseus.

Then what was Hades's justification?

[We have one too. We came to protect our successor.]

It was Persephone who answered.

Poseidon asked indifferently.

[Successor? You have no children.]

Unlike Zeus and Poseidon, who had countless children, Hades had none.

It wasn't because Hades and Persephone had a poor relationship, as some transmissions claimed.

[Of course we don't. We have no intention of having children whenever we please and using them as pieces in a war. My husband's brain isn't in his crotch like yours.]

Persephone continued without caring that Poseidon's expression had hardened.

[Isn't it strange to even think about having and raising children in this damn Scenario world?]

[I have no intention of attacking your twisted values. Answer my question properly. What successor could you possibly have when you have no children?]

His voice was as cold as the deep sea. Poseidon's Triaina let out a harsh cry.

[If you cannot answer properly, you and your husband will be horrifically erased in the plausibility storm.]

Persephone smiled without saying anything.

She slowly turned her head and looked in my direction. The moment I met her strange gaze, the pages of TWSA turned in my mind.

I looked down at Junghyeok, unconscious on the ground.

Could that have been it?

Suddenly, many things made sense.

The 481st round of TWSA.

Hades, who had taken a great liking to Junghyeok, had once said this.

「"I wish to make you the successor to the King of the Underworld."」

Come to think of it, the underworld had been unusually kind to Junghyeok and me, in other words, the Kim Dokja Company members. Even though there was no way that cold, indifferent couple would act like that.

If the underworld intended to make Junghyeok of this round their successor, everything made sense.

Bringing Junghyeok and me to the Constellation Banquet, inviting me to the Gourmet Association, granting my unreasonable requests, even secretly letting the Sky-Splitting Sword Saint enter Tartarus...

Though... Come to think of it, I was the one who had received more benefits.

The next moment, the darkness of the world spoke to me.

[The Constellation Father of the Rich Night wishes to make you the successor to the King of the Underworld.]

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