Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Chapter 501

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Translator: ZERO_SUGAR

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◈ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint ◈

Chapter 501: Episode 96: Demonic Judge of Fire (1)

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[You have entered the Final Ark!]

The moment Jeong Huiwon landed on the Ark, she found herself facing a horde of Constellations.

[You have entered the Eight-Heat Hell!]

She had no idea what was going on.

"Of all places to fall, I had to fall into hell. Did I commit that many sins in a past life?"

The only thing certain was that enemies stood before her, targeting her. Huiwon glared at the potbellied hungry ghosts surging toward her like a wave, trampling over one another's bodies.

"Uriel!"

Uriel didn't answer. Yet her blessing still resided within Huiwon. White wings sprouted from Huiwon's back, and brilliant flames engulfed her body.

[Hour of Judgement has activated!]

The moment she swung her sword, the horde of hungry ghosts before her was swept away.

[Constellations aligned with evil catch your scent.]

The hungry ghosts kept coming without end. They appeared to be monsters parasitizing the worldview of the Eight-Heat Hell.

"Huiwon-ssi!"

Lee Hyeongseong came running from somewhere and stood back-to-back with her.

"Looks like you've done plenty wrong too, Hyeongseong-ssi."

[The Demon King Ruler of the Red Mist is glaring at you.]

[The Demon King Demon of the Strange Arm reveals their hatred toward you.]

[The Constellation Hell Parasite is watching you.]

[The Constellation Flame of Muspelheim is looking at you and cultivating their Patience.]

If they fought every hungry ghost here, they would run out of Mana.

On top of that, hell's Constellations and Demon Kings were waiting for their chance.

"Behind you!"

A horde of hungry ghosts had crept up behind her and lunged with their jaws wide open. A shell flew in from somewhere and exploded among them.

"Huiwon!"

It was Lee Jihye's warship. Huiwon brightened and shouted.

"Jihye, where are the kids?"

"I think the kids landed nearby with Sangah unni and Seolhwa unni! And Uncle Pildu..."

"We don't have time to worry about that uncle too!"

Kyaaaaaaah!

The creatures of hell kept multiplying.

There were Demon Counts they had fought in the Dark Castle, as well as enemies nearly as powerful as the Demon Dukes who had once ruled the Demon Realm. All of them had become part of hell to serve as material for the next Scenario.

"An Archangel!"

"If we kill them, we can become Demon Kings too!"

Jihye opened fire on them. Every cannon on the Turtle Dragon roared, causing hell itself to shift as lava burst from the ground. Demons struck by the molten masses melted away. Still, their numbers barely decreased.

[This worldview is a territory ruled by evil.]

Even the ones they thought were dead rose again a few minutes later. Jihye cried out in disbelief.

"Admiral! Where are you? Why aren't the Constellations coming?"

Not a single Constellation answered her call. Not Uriel, not the Naval Warfare God, not even the Lee Hyeongseong of the 999th round. They had to fight with their own strength alone.

That was when sparks burst through the air.

[Baaat!]

Biyoo appeared alongside a round portal.

"Biyoo!"

Biyoo's body, once no bigger than a soccer ball, had grown so much that even if Huiwon spread her arms wide, she couldn't hold all of her.

「Every dokkaebi grows by eating fables.」

Intense sparks flew from Biyoo's tightly curled body. Soon, they tore open one side of the cabin wall.

Dudududududu!

Bullets flew from the Automatic Turrets that emerged from the opened wall.

"Is everyone alright?!"

Pildu Gong's Moving Castle was there. His [Armament Fortress], which had evolved through repeated Stigma evolutions, had become a full-scale combat fortress.

Yu Sangah, Lee Seolhwa, and the two children stood atop it.

"Unni! Ajusshi! Get up here!"

Huiwon and Hyeongseong took Seolhwa's hands and leaped onto the fortress.

Jihye's saber flashed toward the hungry ghosts rapidly climbing the fortress walls.

「In a world where no starlight shone upon them, only Kim Dokja Company's Allies shone for one another.」

"Let's begin."

As Sangah used the power of the [Lotus Pedestal] to restrain the enemies' movements, Jihye and Pildu kept firing. The Chimera Dragon perched at the fortress's tip fired Breath at the Constellations approaching through the air. Huiwon's sword strikes poured down on the enemies clawing their way through the chaos. Hyeongseong's [Steel Transformation] protected the group's skin, while Seolhwa healed Hyeongseong after he was hurt protecting them.

「That combination had been conceived by one person long ago.」

Among them was a boy who hadn't appeared in the original work.

"Aaaaaaaaaah!"

[The Wall that Divides Good and Evil is exerting its power!]

[The Constellation Ruler of the Bottomless Pit has summoned their servants!]

Pitch-black locusts swarmed in and covered hell's sky. They clung to the Incarnation bodies of demons resurrected from death and began devouring them.

[Aaaaaaaaaah!]

The demons screamed from the agony of being eaten every time their skin regenerated.

Hope returned to Huiwon's eyes as the hungry ghosts gradually dwindled. The tide of battle, which had been overwhelmingly against them, was slowly turning. Destroying the Eight-Heat Hell would be impossible, but they could at least buy time.

The problem was the Constellations that still hadn't intervened in the battle.

Then, the stars that occupied hell's sky all began moving somewhere at once. The Constellations that had broken through the inner walls of the Eight-Heat Hell were all leaving through the breach.

As the Constellations' light disappeared, the balance of the entire worldview collapsed. The hungry ghosts could no longer regenerate and sank into hell's abyss.

Only then, with a moment to breathe, did the group look at one another.

"What happened?"

Seolhwa asked, but no one could answer. One thing was clear. Something incredible was happening somewhere, enough to make those stars lose interest in this place.

Everyone looked toward Pildu. He grumbled under his breath and began driving the [Armament Fortress].

"Alright, so stop rushing me."

Kim Dokja Company began following the stars as well. Constellations emerging from every corner of the Final Ark moved toward a single cabin as though being sucked into a black hole. It was the first time they had seen so many stars moving at once.

Huiwon, Hyeongseong, and Sangah... None of them could look away from the overwhelming sight, as though every star in the sky were pouring down.

It was beautiful and thrilling.

And sad.

When they suddenly came to their senses, the group realized that all those stars were swirling around a single star.

Through the cracks in the shattered inner walls, they could see the cabin beyond.

Shindansu, which had torn open the sky.

Kim Dokja's stars were fighting around that tree.

[Hold them back! This is our Hwangsanbeol!]

They were the Constellations of the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Yushin, who had lost an arm, shouted as Gyebaek swung his massive ring-bladed sword at the Constellations. The Bald Army General crushed enemies with his cudgel, while the One-stroke Scholar strengthened the Constellations' Status with the brush he scrawled through the air.

Joseon's Greatest Sorcerer, transformed into a gigantic tiger, faced Mitra's turtle. Lady of the Sleeping Brocade, having summoned all her Hwarang, held back Emperor's forces.

There were Constellations Huiwon had never seen before as well. One star sat at the tree's center with their eyes closed.

The fable of Shindansu surged around them.

[The Constellation Immortal King Wanggeom is gathering the Plausibility of the Creator Gods!]

They appeared to be one of the Creator Gods of the Korean Peninsula.

The Creator Gods' blessing protected Kim Dokja and the Constellations of the Korean Peninsula.

"Admiral?"

There were Constellations fighting aboard turtle ships, too.

A seascape surged forth through Stage Transformation. Jihye's Patron was there.

[This reminds me of that day at Noryang. It is an honor to fight alongside you, Junkyung.]

[The feeling is mutual.]

Cheok Junkyung's growling sword collided with Thor's hammer. Yet even the two of them couldn't hold back Asgard's army. There were simply too many.

[The Constellation Flame of Muspelheim has summoned their greatsword!]

Soon, Constellations from the same hell Huiwon had come from joined the battle.

No matter how outstanding Cheok Junkyung and Yi Sun-sin were, they couldn't stop all of them.

Shindansu flashed, and something began forming at the tips of its branches. Among the lights falling like fruit were people the group knew well.

"Grandmasters!"

White Pure Star Energy and sky-splitting sword strikes colored the battlefield. Jang Hayoung and the Transcendents of Murim raced across the battlefield beside them.

The Japanese Constellations, who were monsters of fable, charged at them. Tengu holding feather fans, Kappa rising from the water, and servants of Yamata no Orochi were among them.

[You're nothing more than Incarnations...!]

Fruit continued falling from Shindansu without end.

Beings they had met in the sixth Scenario appeared through the blue-white lightning that colored the battlefield.

"For Kim Dogeza!"

They were the small people of peace land. Those who had fought alongside them against the Calamity were now descending onto this battlefield to help Kim Dokja Company.

[The small constellation of a small planet has drawn their ultimate weapon, the Dragon Needle.]

Every time the Constellations' swords moved, the small people died.

"Ah... Aah..."

No one in the group could speak at the horrific sight inside the cabin.

They could only look toward the battlefield's center, at the brightest star halfway up a mountain of star corpses.

「Kim Dokja stood silent atop the shattered ‘Absolute Throne.’」

Yu Junghyeok, Han Suyeong, and Anna Croft were fighting there. Coughing up blood, gathering fables, and using every bit of wit they possessed, they faced the Constellations.

The sky was changing violently amid the collision of worldviews.

Odin of Asgard, Osiris of Papyrus, Shiva of Veda, Nuwa of Emperor... Constellations from nebulae whose names they didn't even know had joined the battle. The sky overflowed with blinding light.

What obscured light wasn't darkness, but another light.

In that suffocatingly bright world, the group felt as though they themselves were being denied.

The Constellations' starlight told them that the history they had built meant nothing.

[The Great Fable Spring of the Demon Realm begins its story!]

Huiwon knew it too.

Even if everyone in the group joined the battle, they couldn't stop those Constellations.

[The Great Fable Holy Flame That Devoured Myth begins its story!]

They needed a stronger fable. A fable that could make every one of those dazzling stars fall. Power that could destroy all those constellations.

But Huiwon didn't possess such power. Even [God Slaying] and [hellfire inferno] wouldn't be enough.

[The Constellation Demonic Judge of Fire is watching her Incarnation.]

Huiwon looked up at the sky. Her Patron, who had remained silent until now, was there.

She loved her Patron dearly. That was why there were things she didn't want to ask of her carelessly.

"Kim Dokja..."

Even so, Huiwon spoke.

"Please save him, Uriel."

Her Patron answered.

[Alright.]

Scorching flames covered the ground around her. Huiwon could feel Uriel standing right behind her. With those noble eyes of hers, Uriel must have been seeing the same world.

All at once, Huiwon became afraid.

「What if Uriel dies here?」

Uriel was a fabled-grade Constellation. No matter how strong she was, she couldn't defeat Mythical-grade Constellations.

Then a delicate hand touched Huiwon's shoulder.

[Don't worry, Huiwon. I'll find a way.]

Uriel's back as she stepped forward was smaller than Huiwon's. Huiwon couldn't take her eyes off it.

[The fable The Oldest Good begins its story!]

White wings spread from the Archangel's back and covered the world as Uriel's constellation's declaration rang out.

[Eden.]

Huiwon felt something stirring inside her. Something like a fragment was writhing. A heavy shard that had slept within her ever since the Great war of Angels and Demons.

[The Wall that Divides Good and Evil has regained its true power!]

Tstststst!

The next moment, angels began appearing around them one by one. Tens, then hundreds, and soon more than a thousand low-grade and mid-grade angels.

There were familiar faces among them. Archangel Gabriel. There were even spirits of Archangels they had thought died in the Great war of Angels and Demons.

[Uriel.]

Raphael, the Protector of Youth and Travel.

The angel who had always looked upon the world with sleepy eyes slowly knelt with every other angel.

[Will you inherit Eden?]

Uriel didn't answer. Instead, she looked back at her Incarnation. A faint smile appeared on the noble Archangel's face.

Huiwon shouted, but her voice didn't reach her.

The moment Uriel nodded, Raphael declared.

[Uriel, you are now our Great Good.]

The flames of a distant sun covered Uriel's entire body.

Radiant platinum-white plate armor.

As on the day she had cut down countless Demon Kings' heads and reigned as the demons' terror, every bit of Uriel's Status manifested.

Eden's strongest star.