Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 138

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 138

Operation ‘Crevasse’ (8)

 

 

 

A blizzard struck just as lightning energy and killing intent were about to collide.

Artyom raised his head with a coldly hardened expression.

“What is the meaning of this, Captain? This is not what we agreed upon, is it?”

The legion of death he had summoned while consuming considerable magic power was all freezing solid.

However,

Crack crack crack!!

The response came in a different form.

Ice spikes suddenly erupted from the ice sheet that had formed on the ground.

Thunk thunk thunk thunk!

The ice spikes pierced through the abdomens of the undead without exception.

Crackle crackle crackle—

And frost rapidly spreading from the wound sites.

Their joints froze, slowing their movements. They were instantly covered in ice.

Even the undead that avoided the attacks fared no better.

Ice spikes sprouted from every spot they stepped on, ultimately turning them all into skewered victims.

 

[All functions of the myth ‘Burning Hands’ have been suspended!]

 

The time it took to neutralize the legion that had boasted such fierce momentum just moments ago was merely a few breaths.

“Xu Changyouuuuu!”

Artyom’s face was now contorted like a malevolent demon.

It was the first intense reaction he had shown since revealing his initial appearance.

Right then,

Crack crack crack!

The frozen ground rose high as Xu Changyou landed on top of it.

Thud!

His white suit somehow matched very well with the ice sheet.

A color that contrasted with the black military combat uniform Lee Hyeon wore.

“Do you have something to say?”

A dry, emotionless tone.

His slightly twisted lips seemed to mock Artyom.

“Why are you not keeping your promise!”

“Promise?”

Xu Changyou tilted his head as if he had no idea what he meant.

“You…!”

“Ah, to hand over Lee Hyeon’s custody,”

Just as he was about to continue with a sneer,

Rumble rumble rumble!!

Thunder so tremendous it seemed like it would tear their eardrums apart shook the battlefield.

It was so powerful that the ice spikes that had frozen the undead legion crumbled,

and the lightning derived from it was equally terrifying.

A pillar of light shooting straight up raced along the ground toward where Xu Changyou stood.

It was a Fury Strike that Lee Hyeon had swung with all his might.

“Oh my.”

Thud!

Xu Changyou leaped high into the sky.

The iceberg where he had been standing instantly collapsed and disappeared without leaving even ash.

The tremendous heat had melted it away.

Scorching heat that shattered the bitter cold.

The lightning bolt didn’t stop there.

Flash! Flash! Flash!!

Rumble rumble rumble—

Lee Hyeon wildly struck his axe into the air.

No emotion could be felt from his deeply sunken face.

Only the single-minded determination to kill Xu Changyou here and now.

 

[The Snow Queen’s narrative urges you not to be so angry!]

[The Snow Queen’s narrative advises that you need to stay calm at times like this. She warns that when your enemy is right before your eyes, you should keep your emotions cold and composed.]

 

‘I’m not angry.’

 

[The Snow Queen’s narrative asks what this trembling unconscious world is then.]

 

‘Really. I’ve never been angry.’

Lee Hyeon’s eyes glowed eerily.

‘Rather, I’m enjoying this.’

Flash!!

Lightning sparks flew from both his eyes.

Eye light shining in various colors.

“Because I can finally end this age-old grudge.”

The Snow Queen finally realized Lee Hyeon’s true feelings.

Lee Hyeon was simply pouring all his will into a single determination.

He was cold about everything.

Perhaps even more so than herself, who ruled the world of ice.

 

[The Snow Queen silently begins rapidly unsealing her magic power to replenish the overheated mana circuits!]

 

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—

Meanwhile, Xu Changyou dodged far too well in midair.

He showed a flying-like appearance by stepping on stairs made of rapidly frozen water vapor throughout the air.

Whirrrrr!

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage erupts!]

 

He even threw his axe to completely trap the bastard.

The chain followed behind it.

Clatter clatter clatter—

“Hey, you’re not giving me any chance to attack at all? Look, we did meet on Ulleungdo, but this is our first direct face-to-face in 4 years, so couldn’t you at least greet me warmly? Huh?”

“……”

Of course, there was no answer.

As if he didn’t even feel it was worth responding.

He pulled on the Ruyi Chain gripped in his hand.

The Ruyi Chain that had been tracing a long trajectory through the sky combined with Taotie’s Fangs in mid-air.

Clank! Clank!

The hideous fangs of an enraged beast were born.

 

[Connected to the Ruyi Chain!]

[Taotie’s Fangs will now absorb all of the legacy ‘Goblin Dance Formation’ and transform into a Sacred Relic.]

 

At the same time, he even took out the Golden Headband and spun it.

White heat scattered in all directions.

Whiiiiiing!!

 

[All Sacred Relics resonate. ‘Title: Successor of ■■Great■’ is replaced by legacy.]

[‘Trait: Fighting Style’ opens to its extreme!]

 

Whoooosh!

Lee Hyeon was now entering a world at the maximum level that his demonic senses could provide.

Golden Headband, Golden Eyes of Truth, Ruyi Chain.

The three great Sacred Relics of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven resonated and pulled him up to a world beyond the next level.

The entire world filled with a nine-color spectrum. All sorts of miscellaneous information was perceived, then through rapid computational processing, new flows were identified.

Following the Thunder Ghost, even the complete opening of his fighting style.

He had drawn out the maximum power he could currently unleash.

Crackle! Crackle!!

His severely overheated Mana Circuits were being consumed at an equally rapid pace.

Claaaang!!

Lee Hyeon roughly swung the Ruyi Chain to the side.

The iron chain, which began burning as cyan-white and black-gold radiance mixed together, was soon covered in flames.

It was hellfire kindled using lightning as tinder.

 

[‘Sacred Relic: Flaming Demonic Path’ spews forth flames!]

[The narrative of infuses dragon’s breath into the hellfire!]

 

The Ruyi Chain whipped through the air. The axe attached to its end swept through everything indiscriminately.

The malice of the Thunder God that seemed ready to devour everything in the world.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-

Pababat!

Xu Changyou rushed forward while hanging upside down in the sky.

Now he had no time to act leisurely like before.

If he made even the slightest mistake, he would truly be swept up in the magic storm and reduced to ashes.

Moreover, the curses spreading everywhere were chilling enough…

 

[The Mask of the Golden Arhat bestows various Curse Incantations!]

 

Since each lightning bolt contained various curses, even a graze could be fatal.

“You’re trying to kill me, not giving me any opening at all?”

Xu Changyou laughed cheerfully.

His old friend’s silent rage.

And that hostility felt more thrilling to him.

It was a long-awaited stimulus for him who had been bored by his long life in foreign lands.

Shriiiiek!

Then, this time three or four Ruyi Chains burst out from the sky.

From a completely different direction than the one Lee Hyeon was wielding.

“It doesn’t seem like you’re bending space… are you using void space? Haha. Really, you have a lot of equipment I haven’t seen before. Or were you hiding it all this time?”

But the iron chains failed to hit Xu Changyou.

Each time, the space he was standing on crumpled slightly, creating curves in the trajectory.

Space distortion.

Like attribute domination, it was one of his specialties that awakened when he became the Jade Emperor’s apostle.

Xu Changyou could move freely like this within areas he ‘declared’ as his domain.

The same went for manipulating attributes.

“Let’s see just how far your range extends.”

Whoosh-

Xu Changyou swept his hand broadly through the air.

Then hundreds of ice arrows formed along the sky and poured down.

Pew-pew-pew-pew-pew!

Kwaddeuddeuk!!

Lee Hyeon pulled the Ruyi Chain inward. Lightning bolts woven from cyan-white and black-gold radiance engaged in chaotic battle.

Then all hundreds of ice arrows created by Xu Changyou were completely shattered.

Pop-pop-pop-pop-pong-

Kurrrrrr…!!

 

[The narrative of cries out to please calm down!]

[The Mantle of Extreme Cold limits the Sacred Relic’s function to within the body to cool the overheated Mana Circuits.]

 

Bang! Bang!

The rings of light generated each time Lee Hyeon moved spread ceaselessly in all directions. Now there was no position in the base that couldn’t be seen from anywhere.

Ice powder scattering in whirlwinds. Lightning fire leaping up above it.

The sight of Lee Hyeon staring this way with his golden eyes glowing eerily,

was no longer the Jang Lee Hyeon from four years ago that existed in Xu Changyou’s memory.

Nor was it Jet.

It was something that had changed and evolved differently.

“Hahaha! Really, you’re no joke either. At this rate, it’s hard to even strike up a conversation. Should I say this is just like you too?”

Xu Changyou continued asking questions that received no answers while taking out a red gem from his inventory.

Essence of Immortality.

A crystallized form of energy created by squeezing the dead god called the Wuyong King.

“It would have been big trouble if I hadn’t prepared this in advance.”

Xu Changyou put the gem in his mouth.

He didn’t swallow it.

It contained too vast a magnitude for him, a mortal, to digest.

But he could use it.

There was nowhere in the world that the Jade Emperor’s Divine Authority didn’t reach.

 

[The myth ‘Ruler of All Things’ seeks to use the power of broken divinity through ‘Divine Authority: Attribute Domination’!]

 

“It’s no fun to just keep being driven back like this. Don’t you think?”

His eyes curved into crescents.

 

* * *

 

Artem Bakhodan frowned.

“……Cheongroe. How is it that those from that place are all so unlikeable without exception. Unbelievers who will fall into the abyss of despair even after death.”

The abyss of despair was the very bottom of the underworld ruled by the Great Mother Goddess. It was a hellish world where unbelievers and heretics fell after death.

Jang Lee Hyeon and Xu Changyou. These two weren’t the only ones who would fall there.

Just thinking of the unbelievers from Cheongroe that came to mind, there were easily several more.

There was one who had recently gained fame on the Middle East Front, and another who had set foot on the top floor of the Tower of Babel.

There was even that bastard who converted to the church, received ordination as a priest, and was recently promoted to cardinal, wasn’t there?

‘Na Ye-bin……. That bastard was also from Cheongroe. And from the same class as those two unbelievers.’

How could such beings emerge one after another from that narrow eastern peninsula, and from a single unit called Cheongroe at that?

Because of this, not only the Underground Church but also every group that the world called the ‘axis of evil’ was studying Cheongroe’s system.

‘The intelligence agencies of major powers and supranational forces probably aren’t any different.’

“At least it’s fortunate that we harvested one of them?”

Artem looked at Han Cheol-woo, who was already breaking through the ice thorns and melting his body.

Although he had collapsed helplessly against Lee Hyeon due to attribute hierarchy, he was definitely not someone to be ignored.

“……For now, it doesn’t look like there’s room for me to squeeze in here, so I’ll have to aim for the fisherman’s profit.”

The conflict with Xu Changyou was broken when Lee Hyeon suddenly intruded.

He had considered intruding into that fight, but it was so vicious that he couldn’t see a gap to squeeze into.

So he decided to retreat for now.

If he was lucky, he might be able to make one of those two into a faithful servant of the church.

Maybe even both of them.

 

[The myth ‘Burning Hand’ gradually recovers control over ‘Testament of Earth’.]

 

Creak creak creak-

Fortunately, control over the legion of the dead, including Han Cheol-woo, was returning to his side.

‘Since I don’t know what that cunning Xu Changyou is aiming for, I’ll hide with these things for now,’

That was exactly when it happened.

 

[The authority of the myth ‘Ruler of All Things’ steals control of ‘Testament of Earth’!]

 

“……!?”

A message suddenly appeared on his retina.

It was before Artem could even react.

Thwack!!

“Kuk!”

Suddenly Han Cheol-woo flew over quickly and thrust his hand blade into his chest.

Artem’s limbs went rigid.

He tried to squeeze his mana circuits, but cold air spread through his bloodstream to his entire body first.

It was the Curse of Extreme Cold.

Kuk. Kek.

Artem was instantly covered in frost and trembled violently.

Terrible pain as if his soul was being torn apart.

He couldn’t even speak.

Han Cheol-woo brought his mouth close to his ear and whispered.

“Are you suffering from just this? Lee Hyeon lived with this for four whole years.”

“……!!”

It was Xu Changyou’s voice.

And,

Crack crack crack-

Han Cheol-woo began to transform.

The death energy drained away and cold air took its place. His flesh was covered with solid ice armor.

He transformed to look like a medieval knight. He even wore a helmet on his head.

At that moment, Artem could understand Xu Changyou’s scheme.

‘No way! This bastard, he was aiming for this from the beginning……! No, this entire base……!!’

Artem wanted to scream asking if he was insane.

Others might point fingers at them calling them fanatics, but what Xu Changyou was trying to do now was far more insane than that.

However,

Artem saw the eyes glinting beneath the helmet and knew his shock was pointless.

Those eyes were already soaked in madness.

With that thought,

Crack!

Crash crash crash!

Artem’s body shattered into pieces like a broken mirror.

It was complete death with no hope of resurrection.

And…….

Crack crack crack!!

The legion of death that Artem had commanded began transforming all at once like Han Cheol-woo.

The dead Artem also soon became an ice knight.

Flash!!

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