Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Chapter 340

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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 340: Episode 63: End of a Myth (6)

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[The character Yu Junghyeok has activated Sky-Splitting Collapse Fist Lv.???!]

[The level of this Skill cannot be displayed temporarily!]

[The Skill is being abnormally enhanced by the power of a fable!]

Theseus's right arm, destroyed by Junghyeok's [Sky-Splitting Collapse Fist], floated through the water.

Theseus looked this way with a blank expression.

I felt sorry for him, since he'd done nothing wrong. But now that Poseidon had descended into Theseus's body, destroying Theseus was the only way to drive that Mythical-grade Constellation out of the Scenario.

The next moment, sparks burst from Junghyeok's entire body.

[Some dokkaebis doubt the Plausibility of this fable!]

[The character's Incarnation body cannot bear the proficiency required for this Skill!]

As expected. Even with the talent of the 362nd round, Junghyeok's body was still from the third round. It wasn't enough to break Poseidon's barrier and destroy Theseus's Incarnation body.

[The authority of the item King Lycomedes's Leather Gloves has activated!]

There was an item that could make up for that weakness.

It was the very item I'd bought from Anna Croft.

[Due to the effect of King Lycomedes's Leather Gloves, Stage Transformation has occurred!]

King Lycomedes was known in myth as the man who killed Theseus.

Theseus's expression changed at the sight of the constellation artifact.

Even so, Theseus stepped forward without flinching. His arms spread wide, as if begging us to kill him.

[Theseus!]

Along with Poseidon's enraged declaration, Junghyeok's [Sky-Splitting Collapse Fist] exploded once more.

[The Constellation Abandoned Lover of the Labyrinth is saddened.]

Theseus looked down at the hole in his heart, then looked at Junghyeok. It almost seemed as though he was looking at me within him.

In his final moment, a relieved smile crossed Theseus's face.

[The Incarnation body of the Constellation Hero of the Labyrinth has completely dissipated.]

It was only the death of his Incarnation body, so he wouldn't be completely destroyed. Still, Theseus's true body must have suffered enough damage that he wouldn't be able to participate in Scenarios for some time.

Theseus had accepted all of that and thrown himself into this for the completion of the Scenario.

[All the leaders on Olympus's side have died!]

[The Scenario Clear Conditions have been met!]

[The contributions of individual Incarnations and Constellations are being calculated!]

……

[First-Person Protagonist's Viewpoint has been deactivated.]

I coughed up a mouthful of blood as I returned to my body.

Inside the ruined Pluto, I heard Namwoon's voice.

[Stop calling me... grasshopper man. Goodbye...]

Pluto's summoning time had ended, and it was returning to the underworld.

At the same time, an enormous underwater storm raged where Theseus's Incarnation body had disappeared. Poseidon, who had descended into Theseus's Incarnation body, was running wild. Incarnations struggling to breathe writhed amid the crashing water.

Part of Poseidon's unleashed Status rushed toward the defenseless Junghyeok. Already seriously injured and reduced to a rag after drawing on the talent of the 362nd round, there was no way Junghyeok could dodge it.

I shouted.

[Hades!]

[I understand.]

Hades appeared in midair alongside Kynêe and pulled Junghyeok into his arms.

Poseidon's spear only shattered the floor of the deep sea.

But the danger wasn't over. Cracks were rapidly spreading around Triaina, which had struck the bottom of the sea.

Whoooooosh!

The cracks soon began sucking in everything around them like a vacuum cleaner.

Unfortunately, I was included in what they were cleaning up. My critically injured Incarnation body had no strength to resist the current pulling me in.

My hand reached out helplessly as I was swept away by the rushing water, but there was no one to take it.

Or so I thought.

「Dokja-ssi!」

「You idiot!」

Seolhwa's hair fanned beautifully through the water as she swam toward me like a mermaid and grabbed my left arm, while Suyeong, who had followed her, seized my right. Having applied Pressure Point to my wounds, the two of them pulled me upward with all their strength.

I saw Suyeong's profile as she desperately swam to get us even a little farther from the crack in the deep sea.

Before long, we safely emerged above the surface.

“Pwah!”

“Kim Dokja, you crazy bastard!”

[The Main Scenario will end shortly!]

Instead of replying to Suyeong, I studied the flow of the current.

If my prediction was right, Poseidon had lost the Incarnation body he descended into and would now have no choice but to return.

[The Constellation Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea roars!]

Yet things didn't unfold as I expected.

Tzzzzzt!

Poseidon's power, which should have weakened, was growing stronger.

“Why...?”

The others seemed to have sensed that something was wrong as well.

[The Administration Bureau recommends that the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea withdraw!]

Even with the Administration Bureau's recommendation, Poseidon's Status did not disappear.

The situation was obvious.

He was acting without justification in a Scenario that had already ended.

[The Administration Bureau is preparing sanctions against the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea.]

Fortunately, the Administration Bureau appeared to be doing its job properly.

I watched the signs of Status churning beneath the sea. The question was what Poseidon would do before the sanctions truly began...

Hades and Persephone were watching us from some distance away.

[Many Constellations condemn the Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea!]

[Shut up!]

The declaration wave nearly bleached my mind white.

A tsunami-like wave rushed toward us from afar. It was hundreds of meters high.

“Damn! What is that?”

“Poseidon's gone mad!”

The Incarnations came to their senses too late and tried to flee, but it was already too late. Some, including the giants, were swept away by the first wave.

It was the overwhelming Status of the great sea, something no one could resist.

I looked at Hades, but he did not step forward.

The reason was obvious. Hades was thinking exactly the same thing I was.

Like a father and son counting stars, we both looked up at the sky.

「Even if you have no interest in Olympus, you can't just stand by and watch this time.」

[The Administration Bureau grants Plausibility to someone.]

The next moment, the sky changed color. Light flashed across the blue sky, so intense that it numbed even sight and hearing.

It was light that made the world seem to disappear.

Only later did I realize that it had been an enormous bolt of lightning.

Lightning that tore through the waves. A strike powerful enough to split the sea in two and burn black even the ground at the bottom of the deep sea.

Poseidon's final roar, like a dying scream, echoed out.

Guaaaaaah...!

[The Constellation Spear That Draws the Boundary of the Sea has left the Scenario.]

It was an unbelievable sight.

Yet it had truly happened.

[The Constellation Seat of Lightning looks down on Olympus.]

It was a Status that even the Twelve Seats could not dare face.

The moment the Indirect Message appeared, every god of Olympus froze in place.

Even the arrogant Dionysus, and even noble Athena and Artemis.

The gaze in the sky slowly moved, this time toward the king of the underworld.

「The underworld and the sky faced one another.」

As if that was enough conversation, Hades, wearing Kynêe, disappeared from the Scenario.

[The Constellation Father of the Rich Night has left the Scenario.]

Persephone disappeared with him and winked at me.

[We'll meet again soon, our cute son.]

Two of the Three Highest Gods had vanished in an instant, but the tension did not lessen in the slightest.

With the sound of the world's scales moving, the balance of Plausibility tipped once more.

It was now clear who the Administration Bureau had granted Plausibility to.

The king of Olympus, Zeus.

The only being in the great nebulae Olympus to reach the Final Scenario.

There could be no better Constellation than Zeus to remove Poseidon and draw reactions from the other Constellations.

In fact, Biyoo's channel was almost festive.

[The Administration Bureau's Great Dokkaebis are retrieving the Plausibility permitted to the Seat of Lightning.]

[The Administration Bureau's Great Dokkaebis recommend that the Seat of Lightning withdraw!]

But a festival was only a festival because it was brief.

If a being on Zeus's level remained in a lower Scenario for long, it would disrupt the balance of the Star Stream. It might even bring about a Calamity like Indescribable Distance again.

Zeus, however, was as arrogant as ever.

[Don't rush me. I didn't come because you bastards asked me to. I came to see my seeds.]

With those words, the sky of Olympus looked down on the Twelve Seats.

Even the Twelve Seats, who had looked down on the world, appeared tense beneath Zeus's gaze.

[And yet... they're still nothing but trash.]

At Zeus's words, the Twelve Seats collapsed as if they had suffered a tremendous shock.

Dionysus's shoulders trembled. Even though he was a fabled-grade Constellation and should have been able to offer at least some resistance, Dionysus could not resist at all.

That was what certain stories were.

They built up and accumulated over a very long time, until resistance became impossible.

The clouds in the sky cleared, and Zeus's Status grew faint. Zeus was leaving the Scenario like a farmer turning his back on barren land.

One of the Twelve Seats muttered.

[Weren't we even his children...?]

At that exact moment, a small stone flew toward the sky.

Tzzzzzt!

The stone was struck by sparks of Plausibility in midair and disappeared.

It was a stone I had thrown.

[The Constellation Seat of Lightning glares at you.]

For a moment, I felt powerful Status constricting my entire body, but I glared back at the sky. The Plausibility allowed to Zeus would end there anyway.

[The Constellation Seat of Lightning has left the Scenario.]

I turned to the Twelve Seats and said, “Why are you just standing there and listening to that?”

[What are you...]

Dionysus started to speak, looking dumbfounded, when messages poured down from the sky.

No, they weren't messages.

Dionysus, who had been about to say something, the Twelve Seats, and I all looked up at the sky Zeus had left behind.

White snow fell like stars.

It was snow unrelated to Zeus, ruler of the sky.

It was the Status of a Constellation that might have existed even before Zeus. The power of the being who ruled the first sky before Olympus was even created.

Briareus and the Gigantes, standing tall in the sea like lonely islands, howled as they watched the falling snow.

[Main Scenario #60: Gigantomachia has ended.]

[You have completed the Hidden Scenario: Overturning Myth.]

[Reward calculation has begun.]

Constellations throughout the world were watching me. Beyond the four major Constellations of my channel, there were Constellations I already knew and others I did not know well.

Dionysus said, [You won, Kim Dokja.]

The Sky-Splitting Sword Saint and the giants floated their enormous bodies like boats and carried us.

Whatever thoughts they were lost in, Junghyeok and Suyeong were each looking in different directions of the sky. Huiwon and Hyeongseong supported one another, while Seolhwa tightly clasped her hands. Jihye, holding Yuseong and Gilyeong, wiped away tears.

Perhaps they, too, were hearing their own system messages.

[You have acquired a new Great Fable!]

[You have additionally acquired three new fables!]

It had been a plan prepared over a very long time.

That was why I could clearly see what would happen next, as though reading a novel whose ending had already been decided.

[Your second Great Fable has completed its Succession!]

[The second condition of the Hidden Scenario, A Single Fable, has been completed!]

At last, the Succession I had waited for would welcome me.

[The reputation of the nebula Kim Dokja Company is becoming widely known across the Star Stream.]

The system messages celebrating our victory would echo throughout the universe.

[The Constellation Prisoner of the Golden Headband raises his Ruyi Jingu Bang!]

[The Constellation Abyssal Black Flame Dragon flutters his bandages of liberation!]