Chapter 220
Ding.
[The Authority of ‘Boundary’ is unstable.]
[The Authority of ‘Boundary’ is temporarily deactivated.]
The voice of the Violet Magic Tower announcing reality.
The vision and emotions that were synchronized with Colin return to their original state.
“…….”
With recovered eyes, he saw Lokia de Styx gasping for breath.
It is an act of reading soone's mory, and furthermore, reading the mory of an already deceased person using a Divine Object as a dium.
The burden placed on the body would not be light.
“It looks like I should help.”
“Would you help ?”
Swipe.
Wiping the flowing nosebleed, he asks for help without hesitation, as if pride as a Chief Priest is not a consideration.
Killian shrugged.
It is the mont just before the end, having quickly scanned decades of Colin's life.
There was no need to waste ti with useless battles of spirit.
Sssss.
As the Hollyheart rotated, pure white Divine Power blood.
The Divine Power soon took on a gray color symbolizing the Barrier.
Tap.
Killian placed his hand on the exhausted Lokia's shoulder.
Red and gray Divine Power mixed without resistance.
“It seems you are becoming more familiar with how to handle a Hollyheart.”
“Because the power of the heart is not difficult once you know the principle.”
Whether it's a Mana Heart or a Hollyheart.
Even if it were a Dragon Heart, it wouldn't be much different.
“Soone might think you are a Chief Priest.”
Ending with a pointless joke, the two concentrated on awakening the power of the Divine Objects.
Ding.
[The Authority of ‘Boundary’ is activated.]
[The Authority of ‘Barrier’ is activated.]
[Two Authorities are synchronized.]
[Two Divine Objects resonate.]
[The Authority of ‘Boundary’ deepens.]
A priest who, albeit temporarily, held the power of ‘God’ and ‘Grotesquery’ in his body simultaneously.
[Reaching the ‘Boundary’.]
Now was the ti to confirm what he realized at the very end.
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Styx, the God of Boundary, had always been an ambiguous existence.
Doctrines morized countless tis during apprentice priest days.
[Everything keeps its place, and those who cross the boundary shall bear responsibility.]
[The boundary is a stem connecting the world, and those who try to sever the stem shall face divine will.]
[Those who guard the boundary are those who guard the world. Sacrifice is glory.]
[Eyes must always be awake. Those who cross the boundary shall surely be judged.]
[The boundary does not belong to any side. The boundary belongs to everyone.]
[Beyond the boundary, there is a new world that only those who are prepared can face.]
An ideology never doubted once until today, after becoming a formal priest.
According to the doctrine, everything in the world has a boundary, and crossing the boundary ans all species, including humans, enter the realm of evolution.
And the existence that appeared from beyond the boundary guarded by such a god.
Grotesquery .
‘Strange and weird thing.’
Why does this thought suddenly co to mind?
He accepted a fragnt of the Grotesquery.
But why does it possess consciousness?
[Everything is decided by ‘us’.]
“……!!”
As he turned his head at the voice scratching tal, there was sothing taking a humanoid form made of Radiance.
“Grotesquery.”
He called out the na of the Transcendent that swallowed his body.
[‘You’ have beco a ‘part’ of us.]
“I see.”
[‘You’ have sent a ‘part’ of us out into the world.]
“I believed it was the right choice.”
[‘Humans’ desire ‘us’.]
Curse of ‘Desire’.
[‘Humans’ plunder the power of ‘us’.]
Curse of ‘Plunder’.
[‘Humans’ want to synchronize with ‘us’.]
Curse of ‘Synchronization’.
[Therefore.]
Rip.
The corners of the Grotesquery's mouth tore open.
[‘We’ will co to understand ‘humans’.]
Curse of ‘Exploration’.
Curse.
Curse.
Curse.
Countless other curses were ntioned besides these.
Surprisingly, none of them failed to correspond to the Authority of Gods.
[‘You’ have beco a ‘part’ of ‘us’. If there is anything you want, anything will be granted.]
It was welco words.
Also, words he had heard sowhere before.
“Tell
if there is anything you want.”
The previous Emperor, Pergius Heinrich.
The man who presented a second turning point in his life.
The Sun of the Empire who seed like he would burn forever but t a futile end.
He wanted to know.
What the Emperor wanted, and what on earth he dread of by taking the two powers of mana and Divine Power.
‘Why did he try to explore the Transcendent?’
[You want ‘Truth’.]
It didn't matter if the Grotesquery impersonated the God of Truth.
He just wanted to know as a human facing death.
The boundary that the Emperor, who possessed everything but failed to reach immortality, wanted to cross.
[‘Your’ wish will be granted.]
As said.
[‘Our’ wish will also be granted.]
Colin took a step closer to the truth the world didn't tell him.
There were the White Tower Master and the Black Tower Master.
Beside them were the White Duke and the Black Duke in their younger days.
Aaaaaa-
Countless Authorities were analyzed in the White Magic Tower.
Kiaaaaa-
Countless curses were disassembled in the Black Magic Tower.
Kiiiiii-
Depending on necessity, they also mixed the Authority of Gods and the Curse of Grotesquery.
Countless people repeated dying and coming back to life.
Those crossing the wall of superhumans appeared.
They beca Sword Masters and Arch Mages.
There were those who beca semi-immortal through regeneration, and those who beca semi-undying through revival.
The experints of the White Duke and the Black Duke continued endlessly.
Along with them, wrinkles increased on the face of the once-young Emperor.
Pergius Heinrich reached a new realm at an age called old.
“…….”
At the status emitted from the Emperor's body, the White Duke and the Black Duke bowed their heads.
“Congratulations on ascending to 9-star.”
“Everyone in the world will co to know the great karma Your Majesty has achieved.”
The Emperor just clenched and unclench his hands without a word.
Rumble.
Blue mana condensed in his hand.
The mana took the form of a longsword.
“……!!”
“……!!”
Before the two mages could make any movent.
Slash.
Swinging like the wind, he cut the Black Duke's neck.
Thrust.
Thrusting like flowing water, he pierced the White Duke's heart.
“…….”
The Emperor let go of the sword he was holding.
His gaze touched the distorting empty air.
“Even reaching 9-star is not perfect.”
Whoosh.
The mana surrounding his grip disappeared.
“Also, with a body that has reached its limit, I cannot hold onto the current status for long. Isn't that right?”
The Emperor's gaze turned to the two Tower Masters who had regained their original forms before anyone knew.
“Prepare a body for reincarnation.”
“We serve the undying sun.”
“May the blessing of immortality and the moon be with you.”
The two Tower Masters withdrew.
The eyes of the Emperor sitting on the throne stared into the empty air again.
“The day to cross the boundary is not far. Isn't that right, ‘--’.”
A priest set foot in the Imperial Palace.
A priest who seed lost in deep thought.
The priest asked why it was him.
“Because it is the Temple of Boundary.”
Saying so, the Emperor looked at the priest with eyes looking at prey.
The priest said sothing, but the Emperor only rose from the throne he was sitting on.
Grab.
He grabbed the arm of the flustered priest.
Divine Power and mana clashed, causing sparks to fly.
Even if his status was unstable, the Emperor is a 9-star knight.
It was just one Divine Object.
If he decided to, crushing the priest's Hollyheart was nothing.
But what the Emperor wanted was not the priest's life.
Sssss.
Using the Divine Power he had consud so far, the Emperor synchronized with the priest's Divine Power.
The mont they were synchronized, a single formula was engraved on the priest's body.
A formula so secretive that unless one was a mana user who ascended to 9-star, they wouldn't detect the strangeness.
By engraving the formula, the Emperor broke down the boundary of Divine Power settled inside the body and rged it into one.
The priest in front of his eyes would never know.
That at this mont, he beca an existence breaking down boundaries.
That no matter what curse the priest gets involved with in the future, all curses will hover around the Emperor.
Those will be researched by the Black Magic Tower and beco clues for perfect immortality.
The priest will beco an excellent catalyst for birthing the body of a Transcendent.
Although the current status is not perfect, this too will be resolved in the next body.
Formulas engraved all over the continent will make one human reborn as a god.
An Arch Mage who accepted the Authority of God.
A Sword Master who accepted the Curse of Grotesquery.
The competition between the two princes was reaching its final stage.
Around the sa ti, the Emperor's life was also heading towards the end.
The image of Killian Eurasia ca to mind.
There were two Night Walkers assisting him.
Killian Eurasia cut the Emperor.
And the formula was completed.
“Now ‘Ti’ remains.”
The Emperor, having the appearance of Crusty Heinrich, said while clenching and unclenching his two fists.
A body lacking compared to that of a knight.
Even so, just by the Emperor's soul entering it, a status reaching an 8-star knight was completed.
The fallen status will gradually recover as ti passes.
Therefore.
“I will reach true transcendence.”
‘Is that so.’
Colin let out a hollow laugh.
Just by contacting him, the Emperor obtained the Authority of Boundary.
Through the formula engraved in a brief mont, he obtained the Curse of Grotesquery.
The White Duke wouldn't have been unaware of this either.
‘As expected, was I being used?’
No.
‘I knew.’
That their research on the Authority of God and the power of Grotesquery was neither for the survival of humanity nor for developnt.
That it was to obtain greater power to maintain authority longer.
Sowhere deep in his heart, he probably knew.
He just rationalized and suppressed the rising doubts.
By rationalizing like that, he obtained considerable value.
More than being used by the Emperor, he hated the Saintess.
More than distrusting the Empire, he distrusted the Papal Office.
He wanted to revive the organization he belonged to, the Temple of Boundary.
He wanted to beco the Chief Priest of the Styx Temple and create his own paradise in the northern frontier.
Even if his humanity would not remain at the end of it.
‘I wanted to cross the boundary soday.’
Not to face the owner of the Hollyheart he refined, but to face the existence called Grotesquery that allowed him to be here.
[‘You’ want to beco a part of ‘us’.]
“That is correct.”
[‘We’ will analyze ‘you’.]
“If you wish.”
[Welco to becoming a ‘part’ of ‘us’.]
His consciousness crossed the ‘Barrier’ confronting Killian Eurasia.
Crossed the ‘Sword’ sealing the curse.
Crossed the ‘Boundary’ severing the dinsion.
The existence that was once human captured what was beyond the boundary in his eyes.
“Ah…….”
The human called Colin coveted the truth of the world.
He expressed ecstasy at the truth he confird with his own two eyes.
“This is the true…….”
The status of Transcendent that the Emperor wanted to obtain.
[Here, this is ‘us’.]
However, the ecstasy did not last long.
“This is not the place where you should be.”
[Will return.]
“Return where. Return to nothingness.”
The existence representing him was annihilated by Killian Eurasia and t its end.
The human who was Colin disappeared from the world like that.
[Did you see the mory of the ‘part’ well?]
“……!!”
[Killian Eurasia.]
“……!!”
[Lokia de Styx.]
A voice scratching tal.
[Next is you guys.]
Rang inside the heads of the two apostles synchronized with the Divine Objects.
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