Chapter 244 – Tyrant of the Sea

#244.

“Whoa… Shall we try?”

Since there is an immortal god, there is no need for a long time to recover. However, even if we join in this state now, we may be able to win.

In the virtual battle, he won by using Overdrive, but Naga, parasitic on the survivant, acted as a variable. The one who showed all sorts of abilities with amplified attribute affinity was a tough opponent.

So. Another number is required. It is time to use methods that have been established only in theory.

The sooner you decide, the better. I immediately moved the aura. Rotate the aura along a certain path.

1 wheel, 2 wheels. The movement accelerates as soon as it turns three times. It sucked up the vitality scattered throughout the body with a spinning power so fast that it could not be followed.

The energy that has grown so huge gives the whole body a sense of omnipotence. The Mana Lord could not stand him and was damaged, but in exchange for him, the body was activated beyond its limits.

Feeling him, I sat up and closed my eyes. First sight, then hearing. In that way, in turn, all senses were closed.

I only opened my senses and felt an aura swirling through my body. One way I’ve been thinking of for a long time. What if I could move my overdrive a little bit at will? It was a wild idea, but now I can see the way little by little.

Of course, it doesn’t make any sense if it’s just that. But that wasn’t what I was aiming for.

The level I have reached now is 8 stars. Nine-stars lead to the intangible state, and there are two essential gateways to reach it.

This was the case with the opening of the middle and upper divisions. All mana roads must pass through to achieve the minimum condition to reach 9 stars.

There are two ways to do that.

One is to get enlightenment and hope for it to open naturally, and the other is to forcefully break and connect.

The former takes a very long time, and the latter has a 99.999% chance of dying. The aura will regurgitate him, pouring his blood all over his body and dying in terrible agony.

But…

‘It doesn’t matter to me.’

Dying once to raise the level wasn’t such a big demerit to me. Of course, that didn’t mean that dying was nothing, but things weren’t going well right now.

“Whoa…”

I took one last deep breath, catching my breath, and immediately focused on my aura. As expected, it’s so fast that I can’t keep up with it properly.

At this rate, it would be impossible to even apply the brakes for a moment, let alone move as intended. I tried to cheat, but was blocked from the start.

If this happens… I have no choice but to play tricks of tricks. I immediately focused on the Taegeuk.

‘It diverges and converges.’

I still can’t understand the phrase, but I remembered the effect. A skill capable of compressing mana without limit. Then, what about the case of an aura that runs out of control due to overdrive?

I tried it right away.

Concentrating on the body, the Danjeon itself was designated as a space. Just as he had concentrated his mana on his hands so far, he focused it on his body this time.

I gently seduced the guy on the back of the spinning aura and brought it to the danteon. Just like that, little by little, the energy in the Danjeon was compressed. The energy that had accumulated little by little, called Taesan by gathering dust, attracted more and more as it grew.

Before long, most of the auras gathered in Danjeon. But that didn’t mean they were docile. It ferociously bites the surroundings and rampages, but by some principle, it cannot escape and wanders within the designated space.

When I saw it, I felt sad. It’s impossible to forcefully hold a guy who longs for freedom like that. I was merciful and drilled a hole in one place.

The thickest wall connecting the lower half and middle half. Passage not yet open. As soon as we made our way there, they jumped out like bullets.

The destructive power of the compressed energy of all my auras and vitality is beyond imagination. Perhaps even the breath that Susipent fired earlier won’t be able to fight. That guy hit the wall with all his might.

If you want to smash a solid wall, you have to do this much. My prediction was correct. One problem, though, is that I underestimated my strength too much.

Aura and vitality. The condensed energy of all of that easily destroyed the road to the middle battle.

No, it didn’t stop there, it passed through the heart and ran all the way to the top. The guys who broke down the wall blocking the middle and upper battles exploded in their heads.

I didn’t really have my head cracked, but they roamed around in my brain like a third-generation fucking dog, causing terrible pain.

The pain that can’t even let out a handful of screams. My mind went white and I couldn’t think of anything.

Even in the consciousness that was being bleached clean, I struggled hard not to lose my mind. If you fall asleep now, you never know when you will wake up. I didn’t know how long it would last, so I had no choice but to grit my teeth and hold on.

A ray of pleasure rose from the pain that seemed to last forever. A sense of liberation and achievement to get out of the stuffy shell and go to a higher place. This change from the cellular level should indeed be called evolution.

The bones all over his body were crushed, and his muscles grew stronger, like air escaping from a balloon. The skin wrinkled and flowed like melting ice cream in the summer.

A chain of pain and pleasure. Contradictory sensations took turns overrunning me to the point where I wondered if I might become a masochist at this rate.

The aura that swept through the mana load all over his body nestled in his bones, muscles, and skin. As if replacing broken parts with new ones, it digs between the cracked bones and swells the muscles again. The skin also radiated stronger vitality than ever before, as if it had wrinkled at some point.

The Aura, which energized the whole body like that, eventually split into lower, middle, and upper ranks and formed a coil.

The pain disappeared as if it had been washed at some point. Only a feeling of omnipotence, as if he could do anything, filled his body.

It was the same as the moment I used Overdrive, but it was an evolution that did not have any side effects like that time. I am proof that human beings have advanced one step further.

Flash, the moment you open your eyes, all the senses that were asleep are awakened. The first sense that wakes up is sight. As soon as the clear blue sky came into my eyes, my hearing was awakened and I carried the explosion in the battlefield with my ears.

Thud! Kugoong- Kwaaang!

People’s screams. The roar of monsters and the sound of the sea raging violently. As I raised my upper body to join right there, a terrible pang of pain rushed through my whole body.

“Sir Baal… It hurts so much!”

I thought I had developed a tolerance for pain after going through so many things, but this pain now was completely different. If it was a human being, it was a level that could not be endured without spitting out double curses.

Sup─ As soon as I took a breath, the mana melted in the air was absorbed into my body. As the middle and upper level battles were opened, all abilities increased.

Mana sensitivity, mana dominance, recovery, amplification rate, etc. Among them, the first thing I felt was the incredibly wide detection range.

Originally, the range of mana detection, which should have been limited to several hundred meters, was extended to several kilometers. As soon as it was opened, all the sights of the battlefield were immediately transferred to my head.

─Quaaaaa!!

The Sea Serpent runs rampant with all kinds of fucking light, and everyone in the fleet desperately restrains him and holds on. The magicians worked out the formula in a cold sweat, and the knights, including Bianca, bought time by attracting his attention.

“I’m glad you’re still okay…”

He had wounds here and there, but he felt relieved that he was still alive. When he woke up, he thought what if everything was already over, but it didn’t seem to have been delayed that much longer than he thought. The problem is that I can’t even lift a finger right now.

“Is it because of the overdrive…”

Although it was a short time, Mana Road was in a state of great damage in the meantime. The immortal god is busy working and concentrating on her recovery, but her speed is too slow.

At this rate, it would be impossible to join the battlefield. I don’t know how long it will take for her to recover, but even after recovering, it was difficult for her to display her full potential.

However, she wasn’t particularly worried. The result of opening the middle match and the top match. I had reached 9 stars now.

There’s not much I can do, but that’s enough to take him down.

I immediately expressed my will. The will that touched the sky as the Sangdanjeon was opened was overflowing with tolerance as if to embrace the whole world. Platinum was caught in the wide mana sensor.

As I focused my will on the sword that sank to the bottom of the sea as it was blown away by the tail of the surcipent, it began to rise as if it were alive and moving on its own.

Shuung─ Platinum, which broke through the water and floated up, went up there. I stopped in the sky far above the clouds.

If you do this, even a bastard won’t be able to detect it. I gathered the aura of my whole body and focused on Platinum. The transcendent will gave birth to a sense of unity with the sword, and soon the aura wrapped around the entire sword, forming the shape of the sword body.

A pitch-black darkness enveloped the golden blade of the sword. Like a star shining in the night sky. The infinitely compressed aura, without knowing the limit, formed the shape of a huge sword.

It looked like a guillotine. It was like a judgment from God giving severe punishment.

“Avoid everyone! It’s a breath!”

Then Bianca’s urgent voice was heard. When I turned my will to that place, the whole situation became clear.

The susifent began to focus magic on the mouth again, as if it had recovered from the overload of the breath. The fleet, whose power was cut in half, couldn’t even dare to stop it.

Bianca also gritted her teeth while watching her breath. Glancing at the uninhabited island where I would be lying, I shook my eyes as if I had no regrets left.

She looked at it, and she smiled and gave the order.

Kill!

With his will, a huge sword fell down.

A pitch-black meteor cutting through the sky.

─Quah?

The Sea Serpent was about to exhale her breath when she saw a meteor falling from above and raised her head. The moment I raised my head like that. It was already positioned right above the black one.

Quadd deuk-!

The black meteor easily lodged in its mouth. It pierced his throat like a skewer, pierced his intestines one after another, and pierced his torso, as if he were cutting through the head and not feeling the slightest resistance.

—Ku, le, le, le…

Cercipent let out a low cry. As if he had an intuition of death, he wriggled his body in an attempt to make a last-ditch effort.

The Naga who lived in it was also in the same situation. The guy was split in half because he couldn’t be pierced by the sword at all. In that state, seeing the appearance of trying to do the same, he showed his will again.

‘Explode.’

Regardless of my will, Platinum vibrated violently. Great! Great! The huge sword steel surrounding Platinum cracked, and then exploded with tremendous repulsive force.

Kwaaaaang—!

The whole world shook as if an earthquake had occurred. The sword steel, large enough to skewer a gigantic monster, burst out, so you can guess its power.

Tiny fragments of aura covered the whole world, dyeing it pitch-black. In an instant, an eerie black light flashed as if the end of the world had come.

“Aigoo… I will follow you.”

Even there, I completely took the strength out of my body. Now I really can’t move any more. The Mana Road, which had been damaged before, was completely messed up due to the recent misuse.

All the danjeons are empty, giving a sense of exhaustion.

I’ll be coming to get you soon anyway, so should I close my eyes now… Just when I wanted to, a presence landed on the uninhabited island.

“Lie! Are you okay!?”

I opened my eyes at the voice and saw Bianca’s face looking down with concern.