Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Chapter 337

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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 337: Episode 63: End of a Myth (3)

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What?

I stared blankly toward where the message had come from.

What had it just said?

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

I hadn't misheard.

In the distance, Persephone smiled gently in my direction.

Instead of Junghyeok, who was originally meant to be named the underworld's successor, I had been chosen. I couldn't understand it. Why me?

Poseidon spoke.

[Have you gone mad? You intend to make someone without divine blood your successor?]

[Hasn't the time for clinging to outdated bloodlines passed?]

[Someone who hasn't even completed the task required to become a successor...]

[He completed the task.]

What was Persephone talking about?

I'd completed a task to become a successor?

Then a memory suddenly came to mind.

"I'll give you a task. You said you'd show me an interesting story, didn't you? If you succeed, I'll find the soul you want."

"Your task is to bring me the head of a snake."

That had happened.

The trial I underwent to reclaim Biyoo's soul, which was the soul of Shin Yuseong from the forty-first round.

Back then, I had brought Persephone the head of Yamata no Orochi as part of her task.

But that hadn't been a simple test. It had been a task to become the successor? Then since when had this queen...

[Hades! Are you serious? You want to make that insignificant Constellation your successor?]

At Poseidon's savage cry, Hades looked at me.

Come to think of it, Hades had always been favorable toward me.

Father of the Rich Night. He looked stern and frightening on the outside, but he had never once done anything that would harm me. It was strange, considering what so many characters who visited the underworld in the original story had gone through.

Persephone's gaze deepened.

"Demon King of Salvation, you should decide quickly."

Becoming the successor of the underworld meant I could borrow some of its Plausibility in every Scenario to come.

Beyond that, it meant earning the right to become the master of the underworld through Hades's Succession.

「Kim Dokja was impressed.」

If I accepted that proposal, the underworld would be able to officially join Gigantomachia. In return, it would gain a share of Gigantomachia's Great Fable.

If I refused the offer of succession, the underworld would suffer an enormous loss and sink underground once more. Its relationship with me would be completely severed.

You really are clever, Queen of the Underworld.

The underworld would gain the right to participate in Gigantomachia while I prepared to overthrow Olympus.

The only one who stood to benefit if I refused this offer was Poseidon.

What more was there to consider? This was the best way to return to Earth as quickly as possible and save my mother.

"I'll become the successor of the underworld. But I have one condition."

I quickly stated my condition. I also made it clear that I couldn't accept the position unless that condition was met.

A short while later.

[The Constellation Father of the Rich Night has accepted your condition!]

[The Constellation Demon King of Salvation has become the successor of the underworld!]

The moment I made my declaration, the Plausibility of the Star Stream shifted. Countless stars looked down at me. Some envied me, some were impressed, and some were purely delighted.

Then the King of the Underworld spoke.

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

His low voice inspired more trust than any voice I'd ever heard.

[We came here to protect the underworld's next successor.]

It was enough to make me wish I really had a father like him.

[The Star Stream has accepted the justification presented by the Father of the Rich Night.]

[The Star Stream has accepted that the Father of the Rich Night's Descent has sufficient Plausibility.]

A massive scale was moving. It was larger than any scale I had ever seen.

Two Mythical-grade Constellations stood on its pans, freely releasing their Status and destroying the entire Scenario's ecosystem.

[The Administration Bureau is constructing a wall of Plausibility to prevent the Scenario's destruction!]

Zzzzt!

[Many Constellations are focusing on the clash between the two Mythical-grade Constellations!]

[Many Constellations cry out the modifier of the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea!]

[Many Constellations cry out the modifier of the Father of the Rich Night!]

...

[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband carefully observes his rivals.]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon is excited for a real fight after so long.]

[The Constellation Secretive Plotter silently watches the situation.]

[Many Constellations praise the Demon King of Salvation for making this confrontation happen!]

[You have been sponsored 700,000 coins.]

Only then did it truly sink in. What I'd just done was an enormous event, even in this Star Stream.

Dionysus laughed hollowly.

[You really... You have no idea what you've started, do you?]

"No, I do."

Then the two Constellations moved.

A pitch-black scythe emerged from darkness that resembled a colossal mountain, while Triaina appeared amid waves rushing in like a tsunami.

The waves of their Status collided head-on, causing the surrounding sea and air to form a dust cloud reminiscent of a nuclear explosion.

Then Hades vanished.

Poseidon shouted.

[Damn it, the Kynée!]

Poseidon had the constellation artifact Triaina, while Hades had the golden helm Kynée. It was a constellation artifact made by Olympus's three Cyclops brothers, a helm that could conceal its wearer's existence from every gaze in the world the moment it was worn.

[You still fight like a coward, little brother!]

[You still intend to claim the version of the myth that says you're the older brother.]

Whenever the wind brushed past, pale sea mist swept through the area, and schools of fish that died in Poseidon's place scattered as bloody foam.

Enraged, Poseidon thrust Triaina in every direction where Hades might have been. A storm of waves swallowed the darkness, only for the darkness to shatter through those waves again.

A single battle with the pride of myths at stake.

It was a duel between Mythical-grade Constellations, neither willing to retreat.

[The Great Fable Underworld continues its story!]

[The Great Fable Ruler of the Great Sea continues its story!]

As the Great Fables that formed their main strength collided, even the entrance to the coastal cave Dionysus had desperately been protecting was placed in danger.

Rumble!

From the birth of myths to the present, fables accumulated over immeasurable years crashed together. Some sentences vanished in that collision, while others were born. The living fables of Poseidon and Hades were being newly written here and now.

I watched the scene as if I were reading a passage from a novel.

「At the place where night and sea met, a new wave was rolling in.」

A sight I had never seen even in TWSA.

「It was so beautiful.」

The battle itself was a breathtaking spectacle. It was thrilling, even awe-inspiring.

I drew my sword.

Dionysus asked in surprise.

[What are you doing?]

"You aren't just going to watch, are you?"

If those two kept fighting, every being here would be wiped out by the aftermath. The shares of Gigantomachia's Great Fable would also be redistributed around their influence.

Besides, even if the battle was even now, the stage was the sea. It was obvious which side the god of victory would favor.

"We need to help Hades. Let's go whale hunting."

[Didn't you see Athena disappear beyond the horizon? If someone like you gets caught up in that, you'll fly past the horizon and out of this Star Stream.]

"That's because we're trying to catch the father whale. What if we catch the calf instead?"

Theseus stood where I pointed. Greece's great hero, serving as the vessel for Poseidon's Descent, was surrounded by a barrier of waves as fables poured from him.

「Stop...」

「Please, stop now...」

Dionysus grimaced.

[You want to subdue Theseus and send Poseidon back?]

"It's cowardly, but it's the best option we have right now."

[This isn't about being cowardly. Do you think that fish old man will let you? Even a fabled-grade Constellation would have trouble breaking through that wave barrier.]

"That would be true if we fought with only one fable. But I won't be the only one carrying the torch."

Dionysus's expression changed.

[Don't tell me... You want to make a holy flame? Gather fables and break through that fish old man's barrier?]

"Something like that."

A holy flame.

A fire created when countless beings gathered their strength and burned their fables.

Dionysus asked.

[Who will carry that fire? You?]

"I should put on some fireproof clothing first."

I looked toward Colossus Pluto, sprawled near the coastal cave. Pluto had been completely ruined in his fight against Ares.

I took the Old House Toad out of my pocket.

The toad sang.

─Ribbit, give old house, get new house.

"I'll give you two old things. In return, make this one new again."

─O-kay.

The Old House Toad's true ability wasn't simply exchanging an old item for a new one. As long as it had a Sacrifice, it possessed the unique power to replace a broken item with an identical new item.

There was a reason Anna Croft had wanted the toad at the auction.

I fed the toad the low-grade constellation artifact I had gained from the recent battle, along with Pluto's massive body. The toad opened its mouth impossibly wide and slowly devoured Pluto's giant body.

A moment later, it spat Pluto back out with a loud belch.

[Whoa, what? I'm alive?]

Pluto, now only around two meters tall, popped out covered in sticky fluid. Pluto was completely intact, without a single scratch.

Dionysus seemed somewhat surprised, but his expression remained dark.

[How are you going to make a holy flame? Do you think the other Twelve Seats will help you? Besides, a holy flame needs to borrow the power of the sun...]

I knew that too. But that was a problem for later. Right now, something else was more urgent.

With a rustling sound, someone rose beside Dionysus.

His eyes shone with a terrifying glare the instant he stood.

"You're awake?"

"Where's Poseidon?"

Junghyeok frowned, holding his head as though he had a headache.

Fortunately, he didn't seem badly hurt.

"Fighting over there."

"His opponent is Hades?"

Junghyeok grasped the situation in an instant.

A great war between Mythical-grade Constellations. Plausibility trembling uneasily.

He was probably thinking the same thing I was.