Luring Operation
It had been a while since Iponia began to understand human language.
However, just because it heard and understood my order didn’t necessarily an that it would obey .
Even though I was the one that saved, brought, and fed it when it was about to starve to death, ‘Cat’ started pretending not to hear my words at so point.
At first glance, it would look as if he was acting disrespectfully, but I noticed the instinctive fear released faintly in between the patterns of its behavior.
‘It was sensing the curse inside and was afraid!’
For Iponia, which was yet to fully beco an adult, it feared becoming overwheld by the curse.
But that had been turned into a thing of the past.
In one of the most recent attempts, there was a scene where it tried to fight back to a certain extent instead of only running away.
It had already gotten a lot closer to the target maturity.
And with the help of ‘Rom,’ it reached that goal montarily.
Its posture was majestic.
I tried to release the curse in front of Iponia.
The blue Mana in the core moved in a complicated fashion.
The purpose was to provoke [rcadius’ Seed] and bring it out.
Not long after that, the red Mana, which wasn’t originally mine, reacted and wriggled.
… Screech!
The wriggling red force radiated out.
The curse in my heart that failed to take over my mind because of [The Successor’s Eyes]…
It’s ti to end its long-term parasitization.
“eeeeow!”
Blue waves spread out from the wide-open eyes of Iponia, sending out an attack aid at my heart.
That was the step needed to separate the nucleated skill and weaken it before consumption.
Screeeeech!
An eerie scream reverberated through the mind.
-[The Successor’s Eyes (Rank: EX)] has resisted against [rcadius’ Seed (Rank: SSS)]!
“…!”
I watched the fight between the two.
The seed inflated its body while it was still attached to my heart. Struggling, it wrapped and stretched out its red figure all over the place.
When I saw it, I recalled the end of the seed in the hearts of Park Chang-Hee, Han-Seol, and Seo Gyu-Cheol.
My curse ate up all the other seeds as rcadius intended.
However, as ti went by, it ended up in the sa situation as well.
The wild-running vigor began to decline noticeably.
‘Yes, finally!’
The awaited mont had arrived.
The curse couldn’t hold out, forcing it to jump out of the body!
The fully visible punk looked similar to the other hosts, but the size was significantly incomparable.
I realized it once again.
Just because it’s the seed didn’t an that they were all the sa.
And those that it ate up until that point were the fake seeds to play the role of ‘feed’…
‘What was inside was the real seed for the reproduction of the species!’
It was chilling and disgusting.
Would I have turned to another rcadius the mont it fully dominated my mind and blood?
“eeeeow!”
Cat jumped up toward the red sphere moving limply in the air.
It exhibited quick and sharp movents that I had never seen before.
On the spot where the white and black flash struck down…
Screeeech!
The curse struggled in agony.
However, Iponia didn’t get pushed back and bit down on it without hesitation.
It wasn’t a static and peaceful scene like when absorbing skill cards.
Dissimilar to skill cards, which gently turned into a Mana pattern, curses… were like creatures made of Mana, if I had to describe them.
The seed, whose primal instinct was to resist the opponent, beca sluggish as claws and fangs tore it apart.
Screeech!
Screech!
Crush!
Crack!
At long last…
Cat ate up all the red Mana without leaving a single fragnt.
There wasn’t even a trace of the seed in front of it.
A genuine cheer broke out from the bottom of my heart.
“Good job!”
After a wild hunt, Cat looked extrely satisfied with a full stomach.
But would he be as satisfied as I was?
The curse that I bore within my heart for nearly a year had finally disappeared.
I had the sa feeling as a sore tooth finally falling out.
‘I can’t afford to take ti!’
I didn’t have ti to remain sentintal like that.
“I don’t know how you’re going to throw it up after you’ve digested it. It’s the first ti I’ve ever fed you a unique skill.”
Honestly, I couldn’t imagine it properly.
“Anyway, that’s sothing we’ll find out later. Go back ho for now.”
I ripped the scroll and sent Cat back to Seoul.
“…”
A very brief silence lingered around.
The scene was required to be watched by the United Nations headquarters and governnts around the world.
I waited for its arrival without letting my guard down.
Bachurka had confidence.
That rcadius would’ve had the ability to notice when the most important ‘reproduction-use seed’ was damaged.
And until the conjecture turned out to be true…
“!”
It took only five seconds.
Five seconds after sending Cat back ho.
In the sky, where there used to be nothing but clouds, a man was hovering. His eyes were focused on .
A force was applied to the hand holding the sword.
The first thing that caught my eye was the Mana in his heart.
‘… about 5 million!’
It’s approximately ten tis my Mana I had when I was being asured at Union headquarters.
When I raised my glance a little, our eyes t.
I had never seen him face to face like that before, apart from seeing him from Seo Gyu-Cheol’s mories.
His face was unfamiliar because he disguised himself as a different race and appearance from back then.
Dark skin and exotic features.
There was another distinctly different factor.
The relaxed face that I saw a few tis in Seo Gyu-Cheol’s mory was nowhere to be found.
His eyes were blazing with flas that would burn down everything in his sight.
rcadius.
The source that made Seo Jin-Wook the ‘Devil King’ in the future that Han-Seol saw.
A mysterious species that would have leisurely waited for the seed in to bloom in my current life for the sa purpose.
The mont he revealed his teeth…
The communicator connected to my ear sent out a ssage that the Union and the humans could hear simultaneously.
-rcadius in sight! Initiate attack!
Pshhhhh!
Doo-doo-doo-doom!
Bullet of light poured down like rain from the sky.
“!”
My primary role in that operation was to lure rcadius.
Even Bachurka didn’t expect to win against him alone.
From far away, rays of light that broke the sky into pieces rained down and struck.
They were fired from the Tactical Fortress, which hid in the sky a dozen kiloters away.
At the sa ti, Earth’s governnts also poured out the bombs that had been prepared.
Countless explosions continued in every direction I was looking at.
As if to batter with an invisible hamr, the air exploded in succession and violently shook.
And the most powerful damage dealer was prepared by the Union.
They couldn’t bring their most powerful weapon to Earth because it was capable of planetary destruction, but they thoroughly prepared weapons to capture a human-sized individual.
Things that looked like satellites at a glance appeared in the air and fired their laser cannons. At the sa were triggered through the equipped artifacts.
While being careful not to be caught up in the carpet bombing, I observed rcadius’s state covered by the light, debris, flas, and dust.
And I clicked my tongue.
‘Damn it!’
rcadius charged at through the storm of flas and light.
It was a dash without hesitation. It was similar to a tank.
But I had already prepared a counterattack.
I extended the sword outwardly just before I collided with him.
Boo-boom!
Rather than describing it as sword and fist clashing, a sound like a powerful bomb exploding rang out.
– To the rear! Retreat to the rear!
If we kept being intertwined like that, they would have a hard ti attacking.
Well, knowing that fact, I tried to widen the distance sohow.
It wasn’t an option to disappear completely using teleportation in that manner.
If that happened, rcadius, who had lost the target, might also flee in that way, or on the contrary, he might be able to track down, making the situation even more dangerous. I would be in a place where reinforcents hadn’t been prepared or even in a place where it would beco troubleso if the gathered Awakened were ntally controlled.
‘But will we be able to capture him alive in this way?’
Bachurka said rcadius had to be captured alive.
That was because it didn’t matter what we did, whether it was torture or sothing else entirely, for as long as the information in his head would be dug out to find out the secrets of each dinsion’s collapse in the past.
Furthermore, rcadius wasn’t the individual’s na but a species’ na.
The intention was to get as much information as possible because we didn’t know how many more beings like him were in other dinsions.
Weing!
While the earth was torn and everything around him was scattered and turned ragged, rcadius remained fine.
Amid the energy storm, an item was caught with a light flashing from his hand.
As soon as it was revealed, my eyes naturally recognized it.
[Similar Dinsion Generator (Rank: EX)]
-Item Description: Creates a separate temporal and spatially separated temporary dinsion within the normal dinsion. Consus Mana Core in proportion to maintenance ti and area.
It was the sa item that the Albanos audit team used to suppress .
I didn’t wait for the artifact to be activated.
I could do things there that the reinforcents who were shooting from a distance couldn’t do.
I activated an item as fast as I could.
[Sealing Fla (Rank: System)]
– Item description: Seals all items within the range of contact and applies absolute power to prevent their function from being perford. (One-ti use item)
Gold fla cut through the sky and hit rcadius directly!
He then threw the sealed item right away without any change in facial expression.
The mont he charged at once again-
Bang!
Around , small tal spheres appeared.
[Resistance Field (Rank: EX)]
– Item description: Decelerates all types of energy externally approaching the subject of protection, distorting the force to another reality and changing its phase.
It was one of the items provided by the Union.
The small sphere revolved around , creating an invisible mbrane, and outstandingly prevented rcadius’s attack.
His face distorted.
“… Okay, I’ll have to admit.”
He spoke for the first ti.
However, unlike the rage he had been showing so far, his tone cald down a bit.
He seed to have put his anger under control and regained his reason.
It was an undesirable change for us.
– Retreat! Retreat! You’re too close!
The mont he collided with the protective barrier wrapped around my body, I stopped for a mont, and because the two of us were so close, the attack was abruptly put to a halt as well.
– Create more distance!
Amid the transmissions pouring in, he mumbled with a strange smile.
“Yeah, I underestimated you too much.”
The next mont.
His body shone brightly.
Boosh!
The atmosphere blazed and burned.
He leaked his words as if to murmur.
“Let’s resu after changing the environnt first.”
At that mont, there was a huge explosion around his body, and a flash that consud everything radiated.
A violent light that would tear up the cornea.
Violent vibrations and shocks followed it.
‘K-argh!’
The [Resistance Field] around my body was barely able to sustain the attack.
That could also block the Union’s remote weapons and the Tactical Fortress as well.
What would probably be completely destroyed would be the unmanned bases and artillery units set up by humans.
‘This wouldn’t be enough, though?’
Soon after I thought so, I finally realized his purpose.
He didn’t an to hurt the hecklers around first.
Despite the heated air and plasma, his eyes were fixed only on .
The attack was ant to draw out a gap from .
From the beginning until that mont, he was only after .
In rcadius’s heart, Mana shook in a strange form.
That’s…
‘Space transfer!’
Paht!
At the next mont, the scenery around changed.
“Now, shall we start all over again?”
‘This place is…!’
It was an unknown space.
A dry wilderness where only the horizon was visible.
But the color of the sky was a little strange.
“Don’t panic.”
An inorganic gaze was staring at from a short distance.
“Things were a bit ssed up. I just moved you to a quiet place to get the thing back to where it belongs.”
His lips curved into a gentle smile.
At that mont…
“K-eup!”
Blood rose from the deity’s seal carved on the back of my hand and the holy scar that Igras-Sho had engraved before.
‘How co? The four gods… have already agreed not to repel each other.’
The question turned into an unpleasant conviction.
‘!’
Clearly, magic, life, and sword had reached such an agreent explicitly.
Luck, who intervened late, implicitly agreed, and although ti did not join because it did not have enough strength left, it would have made a similar choice.
Then, what about the case of a god that didn’t belong there?
Drip!
Blood flowed from the back of my hand like a waterfall.
And-
Driiiiip!
As he stared at , rcadius’s forehead also revealed a clear seal.
The divine mark, which was pouring blood, was familiar to as I had already seen and kept in mind.
I groaned through my clenched teeth.
It was the identity of a god.
“… Mind!”
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