Chapter 453 – To Heaven (4)

Celestial abyss.
The more I went inside with the guidance of the gods, the stronger I could feel the spirit of the main god.

The energy of the main spirit felt from afar, even though it was this far away, he was exuding that much energy, so I don’t think he’s going to win.

‘Do not be ridiculous.’

Dojin shook her head and denied the idea. Are you strong enough to be unbeatable? If they did, they would have come down and wiped themselves out.

God is not absolutely invincible. He is the wounded strongest, and he is an existence that can be defeated enough if he is now.

Exuding momentum from afar is also bravado. An animal’s natural instinct to hide that it is injured.

‘Either way to earn time… If you get scared and step back, it’s really over.’

The road to defeat is ahead. Only in front
Only those who walk forward can defeat the main god.

* * *

—Ratio omnia vincit

“…… This?”

Dojin frowned at the letters written on the top of the huge door. He couldn’t read You should know what is written.

Even Syax and Raize couldn’t read what these letters were written on.

While the party was in trouble, Aram, who had been carefully looking at the letters, carefully opened his mouth.

“I… Dojin? This sounds like Latin… ?”
“…… Latin?”
“Yes. I can’t read it though. Maybe.”

Do-jin couldn’t help but tilt his head at the fact that the ancient Roman runes were written here.

Although the appearances of the 12 gods and the appearances of the gods with human characteristics made them feel like ancient Greek and Roman gods— are they really the gods of ancient Greek and Roman mythology?

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Earth’s characters to be written here, but seeing that even one of the 12 gods, Cyax or Yggdrasil, couldn’t read it, I could only say that the guess was wrong.

‘What the hell….’

Do-jin, who was examining the letters carefully, confirmed that the answer would not come out even if he kept rolling his head, and then he slammed the door and went inside.

When Dojin went inside, the other party followed him. Inside the door, a building with a very familiar appearance was waiting for them.

“…… Sphinx?”
[This is a place to test your wisdom. Guess the problem human.]

The giant cat resembling a sphinx said that and looked down at Dojin and the others. Dojin calmly listened to what Sphinx said, then just recklessly swung his sword.

The sword that cuts through everything passes through Sphinx’s body and disappears over the wall. Seeing this, Dojin slightly frowned.

[No interference here. In order to pass this place, you have no choice but to solve the problem or kill me.]

And, as we just saw, the Sphinx is not interfered with. That meant he had no means to kill him.

Do-jin sighed and looked back at the party. He had a class president, an elder of the Mage Tower, and a god of magic who studied a little, so he decided that there was no way he would lose in a game of wrestling with wisdom.

“Good night. Let’s go to a game of wisdom.”
[First problem…… ]

While the sphinx opened its huge mouth and recited the problem, the party started whispering to each other about the situation.

“What kind of bullshit is this…… ?”
“Well. Looking at it earlier, the attack didn’t work at all, but this could be a conceptual space created by the main god. The only way is to follow the Sphinx’s words…….”
“Problem, are you confident to hit it? I don’t know because I didn’t learn.”
“Don’t worry, if it’s not a question without an answer, you can get it right pretty easily.”

[—What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?]

Like a riddle posed by a monster with the face of a sphinx, the problem was familiar to Earthlings. Even Dojin knew about it, so it must have been a natural step for Aram to confidently raise his hand.

“Answer, human!”
[—The correct answer is ‘nothing like that.’]
“…… Uh huh?”
[It’s wrong, so it’s a penalty.]

The next moment, the energy felt from the Sphinx grew stronger. I couldn’t understand right away what it meant to be stronger on the subject of punishment. He didn’t even give me room to understand.

Sphinx immediately prepared the next issue.

[Always there, but not always there, I can’t meet my sister, but sometimes it devours or devours my sister?]

“I am correct. Nothing like that…… ?”

[Wrong. The correct answer is ‘sun’.]

Again, the power of the Sphinx increases. This time more than before. Only then did Dojin’s party realize what Sphinx was aiming for.

Every time a problem is wrong, the power of the Sphinx increases. Sphinx gave unanswerable questions and increased his power his. Originally, he was in a situation where a divine being would have to punish him, but that divine being tolerated the sphinx’s behavior.

They said they couldn’t interfere with each other, but even that wouldn’t be true. If I judged that I could deal with Dojin’s party enough, I would stop making problems at that moment and stick my teeth and claws at them.

In other words, Do-jin and his party fell into what is often called a situation without an answer.

“…… Syax, can’t you pierce that?”
“An interpretation would only be possible if there was time, but—”
[The next problem. What brings the dead back to life and kills the living?]

The group took their time pretending to think about the problem. It wasn’t even that long. A minute or so had passed in silence—— the Sphinx declared with a laugh.

[Timeout.]

Again, the power of the Sphinx increased, and now it has become a Sphinx with more than twice the power it had at the beginning. When Dojin increased his strength exponentially in this way, he calculated how many more questions he would be unable to handle if he got it wrong.

If you get 3 more questions wrong, the power of the Sphinx will be 10 times that of the first one.

‘A situation where you don’t even know how many more problems are left…… ‘

It’s unlikely, but what if the Sphinx becomes infinitely stronger? Dojin realized that the word defeat was passing through his mind.

In this situation like a prepared trap, he was so helpless.

* * *

[—Wrong.]

Tenth problem.
Sphinx’s energy, which can’t even be estimated how strong it has become, has multiplied again, and after gaining hundreds of times the strength of the first one, he finally stood up as if he was ready and showed his strength in front of them.

[All prepared questions are finished. You guys don’t deserve to pass beyond this.]

“…… Did you tell me earlier? Solve the problem or defeat you.”

[Ah, it was. But is it possible? Let me tell you to despair. The total amount of power I have now obtained is—]

When you get the first question wrong, the strength increased by 10%, the next question by 20%, the next question by 40%. The strength of the Sphinx, which has been multiplied and corrected in all 10 questions…….

[100 times.]

100 times the strength he had at first. Undoubtedly, if you were a low-level person, the fact that Sphinx’s strength, which had a level of 4 or higher, increased 100 times, meant that he had become an opponent that he could not overcome.

Even a dragon could be shattered and disintegrated with the touch of a single fingertip. Do-jin spat out a laugh as if he was absurd at a realistically impossible task.

“Damn it. If you had that kind of power—you would have been the main god!”

Do-jin laughed at Sphinx’s words and flew his sword. A sword attack that cuts through everything, and even divine beings cannot stand still.

However, as if to prove the words of the Sphinx 100 times, I bumped into the flying sword. Even with swordsmanship called the power of the swordsman, it was not possible to cut through the skin of the Sphinx, which had become 100 times stronger than its original strength.

“…… What?”

Looking at the Sphinx, which seemed to have become 100 times stronger, Atanasia burst into laughter.

“Hero, you fool. Can’t you remember that the first attack didn’t work? The laws of physics and magic theory don’t work here. It is a conceptual space completely dominated by authority.”

“…… So, that guy is really 100 times stronger? Just by giving them a few nonsensical questions?”

“Okay. If you claim so, then so be it.”

Athanasius couldn’t stop laughing as if it was funny. Seeing her burst into laughter in an extreme situation where her enemy her has become 100 times stronger, and she does n’t even know if she can win, Do-jin starts to irritate her slightly.

“What is so funny?”
“Ah, isn’t it fun? If you’re looking at that frail beast that’s afraid to fight us, and can barely reveal itself until it’s 100 times stronger.”
[… ] … What?]

The Sphinx, hearing Athanasius’ words of her, approached them with a frown on her face. An adversary who is as powerful as he is gigantic, and therefore seemingly insurmountable.

However, Athanasius spoke arrogantly.

“There is nothing that leisure cannot win. There is nothing that can beat a woman. It has been so in the past and will be so in the future.”

Declaration of the Arrogant Dragon.
Soon after, Athanasius transformed into a giant dragon and began biting the sphinx’s nose.