Chapter 372 – Seething Calm

As planned, as soon as I left the Great Forest, I immediately used a teleport and headed to the southeast of the continent. In order to find the seal of seething silence.

And Iona’s anxiety was right.

… In a slightly odd way.

“The cliff you can see past here is the entrance. It looks like an empty stone, but in fact it is a cave with an entrance hidden by the power of concealment…”

“Ah! Are you talking about that, sir?”

“… What. Why didn’t you hide it?”

The Seal of Seething Silence had been blown at random, so it was stuck deep beneath the cliff.

That’s what made the followers dig a cave.

Although this is a remote place, it is not completely deserted, so it must have been hidden from anyone suspicious of the sudden cave?

Anyway, since it was less painful, I put my doubts aside for a while and went inside.

Stairs leading up. Even the slope was steep, so it was a moment to focus on the bottom.

“Everyone stop. There’s a trap right in front of you that pours poison mist from the ceiling. The Power of Concealment is also applied here, so it is colorless and odorless, but the effect remains the same, so drink the antidote first. After that…”

“You? You mean this foul-smelling green smoke, right?”

“Right, right?”

Why do you see this Isn’t it a trap in which believers suddenly rush in from the front and rear while you’re flustered by the deadly poison while you’re not paying attention?

It was absurd, but the poison was not hidden, and there was no attack by the cultists. Did it really become a dog hair because it was so hairy?

No. Still, there is a seething silence. Even this can be a device to catch us off guard.

… However, similar situations have continued since then.

“Everyone stop. This entrance itself is a trap. After the long stairs, I was very nervous at the thought of entering the base, and when I saw the empty room and collapsed, the door suddenly closed and monsters rushed in from all directions!”

“The door is already closed, sir.”

“Det?”

When I was playing H&A, the trap I almost hit with a shotgun was completely blocked.

“After passing through the side door, you will find a room full of complete darkness. Torches and light magic are useless, and the five senses are limited, so we have to put our hands on each other’s shoulders before entering.”

“Light!”

Faaat-

“What. Light magic works, but Yandel students?”

“Dedet?”

Keeping party members apart from each other… The troublesome but effective authority had long since lost its power.

“The next one looks like a normal room, but in fact, the illusion was applied here as well, right? You can only find the right path if you follow where I am stepping.”

“Um… Junior? It’s a maze here, but it’s just an openly maze? I don’t know what was originally in this, but now it’s empty, so if you just break it, it will break?”

“…”

It’s not surprising anymore.

I just beat the pitfall that once forced me to test my memorization ability and went down deeper.

“This is the end. This is more like a treasure hunt than a trap. I thought it would be difficult to deal with at this level of intrusion, so I focused on hiding the location of the seal as much as possible…”

“Brother! Look here! Hitting the suspicious floor opened the way to the basement!”

“… I bet it is. It doesn’t seem like the powers apply to this room either.”

Should I like this or not?

A powerful opponent who has fucked me over and over and over again. Even with the overwhelming advantage of knowing the future, a tricky evil god that could never be caught off guard.

That’s the seething silence I think. Because he had power beyond simple military force, he tried to destroy his power as quickly as possible.

However, looking at the seal now, it seems that I overdosed it. The final dagger that was really squeezed and squeezed must have been the advent of ugly prosperity.

The downfall of a formidable enemy is both joyful and complex… It was such a strange feeling.

“Well, whatever it is, it’s time to end the past bad relationship.”

A seething silence lies just below.

***

The first thing I noticed was a thick stench.

“What is this… ?”

The cavity, which originally had nothing to do with it, was covered with such a nasty smell that I couldn’t even imagine what it smelled like.

Click.

Even as soon as you step on one foot, you can feel the lukewarm yet sticky liquid. The moment I want to look into this carefully.

Iona, who quickly recognized it, frowned at her and said.

“This. It smells like blood.”

“… Yes?”

“It’s not just the smell of blood, it’s the smell of rotting corpses soaked in blood. It’s a smell that can only be smelled in an abandoned battlefield or a fallen vampire’s castle.”

Why am I here? Didn’t ask the question. Because I had a guess. So instead of answering, I cast magic.

“Light.”

Perhaps to live up to the name of the seething silence, the dark cavity without any special lighting becomes bright like midday.

It’s also because the light was cast with such a strong output… It is also said that even this place is not a region of boiling silence.

The appearance of Gong Yoo, who simply revealed his bare face, was as expected.

The corpses of cultists and monsters filled the large room. The blood of various races was entwined into one, rising to the level of the ankles, and slowly decaying.

Like their slowly crumbling master.

“… Human sacrifice, brother.”
“That’s quite large too, husband.”

“Looks like it. Everyone, just in case, be vigilant.”

The affirmation of Helena and Solari, who are experts in this field. In preparation for an unexpected situation, each of them raised their magic and divine power and entered slowly.

… But this time nothing happened. The only thing that made me feel bad was the stinging smell in my nose and the texture of the rotting blood clinging to my ankles.

By the time that silence becomes uncomfortable again. In the cavity where everything was dyed dark red, I saw a lump of white crystal floating alone.

“Master? Maybe that…”

“Huh. It is the seal of seething silence.”

It exudes a divine atmosphere that is not suitable for evil spirits, but… That’s what a seal is originally.

Since it is imprisoned using the power of opposites, the appearance is bound to be holy.

By the way, seeing that nothing has happened even after coming this far, are they really in a dying state? Really?

It was the point at which only one step was left until Sujeong tilted her head inwardly.

-… Did you come all the way here?

“Aren’t you dumb?”

While answering roughly, I first took out Mistiltein and brought it to the crystal.

Then, a faint green light shone over Mistiltein, which had been like an ordinary tree branch until now, and began to wriggle around and wrap the crystal.

A bizarre sight that seems to be either restraining or rooting.

-This… Right. Was the sealing completed with this? Absorb divine power and continuously weaken it… Classic, but always in a great way.

“For a case like you who lost most of your followers, it would be tantamount to a death sentence.”

– Hehe. You’re right. The amount of loss is greater than the amount of recovery, so in the end, even the godhood will be lost. Is it. You guys go beyond banishing me from this world, they’re trying to annihilate me altogether.

“If you did something to die, you must die. Like an ugly flourish.”

-She expected it, but did she also disappear? Unfortunately, she doesn’t have eyes to watch the last moment. Can you tell me what kind of end she met?

“You will experience it for yourself.”

– Why don’t you tell me not to do that? Don’t hand over my relics

“Fuck you.”

-If so, what about the plans of other evil spirits? I’m involved in most of the operations, so I’m able to see through them.

“…”

That’s what I know But this time, he didn’t bother to answer. Because the way he kept trying to talk was strangely suspicious.

Even at this moment, Mistiltein is pulsating and sucking the divine power of the seething stillness, but I do not intend to be vigilant. Have you been hurt too many times?

However, the seething silence snorted as if he had even noticed my thoughts.

-Under. I’m done with my business, so I’ll pretend I didn’t hear. If you’re smart, it’s a smart choice.

The crystals, which were now more than half covered in mistletoe, vibrated and resounded through the entire cavity.

The guy who had been giggling for a long time suddenly stopped laughing and continued talking in a low voice.

– Well, that’s it. It’s not fun when there’s no answer, but it’s okay if I talk to myself. Unfortunately for you guys, you won’t be able to keep my mouth shut until you break this seal.

Then he continued talking to himself about us, who really had no response.

-Let’s see. As you might have noticed at this point, we weren’t originally evil gods. The deity and deity were completely different names.

-You. A young Shin-ah with a fancy name called Righteous Gwangmyeong. How long do you think this glory will last?

-It doesn’t necessarily mean that we have to fall to the heavens to reverse the divinity. It’s just me right now. Although he has lost his original name, he clearly remembers that he was served as a god of wisdom, not a god of scheming as he is now.

– So was the ugly flourish. She was originally a goddess of beauty and love. Cloudy Unity was the god of fertility, narrow-minded usurpation was the god of justice like you, and reckless roar was the god of war.

-Ah, you’re probably the most familiar with the bent slack. Originally, he was the god of the sea called the surging blue.

– Just in case, I don’t know about the lofty reign. He fell from heaven long before me.

-Anyway, back to the main topic. Righteous light, you young thing. How long do you think you can be a god?

-Just as a child becomes independent of its parents, one day people will leave the bosom of God. Do you know what the end of a god who has become so obsolete is?

– One of the two. Calmly accept the end of your usefulness, let go of your godhood, and return to your original flow.

-Did you reject extinction and persevere tenaciously, accept the degenerated faith and fall into heaven?

-You’ll find out soon. The moment will come when the priests who sang love will be treated as mere prostitutes, and those who worshiped wisdom will be considered profiteers.

-No matter how bright the sunlight is, it is only a phenomenon in the end, and justice and rules will become a matter of course that does not need to be sacred from some point on.

-It is said that those who have received our teaching will drive us out. And they’ll say that this is pure

– Actually, that’s not wrong. In a way, it can be said that it is the growth of the entire human species.

-Above all, this is actually happening somewhere in the universe at this moment, and there are quite a few gods who understand this and have disappeared while blessing the children’s future.

-But. But that’s it! I couldn’t accept! We couldn’t accept!

-Isn’t that the same as just throwing away words? What will happen to the love and devotion I poured out all this time?

-Even if I am like that, why do my followers have to spend such a harsh time?

– I couldn’t admit it. I became an evil god because I could not acknowledge the providence of the world, the absolute flow that could not be disobeyed, that drove the transcendent to extinction.

– Other demons must be in a similar situation. Someone to reverse and kill the being who forced their fate, someone just to survive, and someone to prove that they are not wrong.

-But what… Everything is too young to understand a story like this. This world is still young, humans are young, and even the gods are young.

– It’s only natural that the young and brave don’t listen to the old man, so it can’t be helped. So let’s change the subject for a moment.

-My antagonist. Variable that ruined the old gods’ longing. He is the child the world calls Yandel Lindelheit.

The seething silence, which had been talking nonstop until now, closed its mouth for a moment and continued speaking one beat late.

-Have you peeked into the future?