Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 239

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 239

Sata Wang (2)

Crackle.

『This is Volt 1, the hound has started moving. I repeat. This is Volt 1, the hound has started moving. Over.』

『Cloud 1, communication confirmed.』

Under the scorching desert sun,

Kim Min-jeong, who had been lying flat along the ridge of the sand dunes with her body hidden under camouflage netting, brought her eye to the telescope.

Just as Oh Su-heon’s reconnaissance squad had reported, she could see a series of armed forces attempting a rapid breakthrough in depth.

Each one emanated an indescribably eerie aura.

They were charging forward despite knowing that the entire area was thoroughly fortified with defensive lines from Z Team and various multinational forces.

Though they looked like moths rushing toward death, Kim Min-jeong never let her guard down.

‘Are those the so-called immortal legion that Senior Jang mentioned?’

Indeed, they felt completely different from the commonly known awakener units or hunters.

Rather than moving like well-trained soldiers, they walked like broken dolls.

How should she put it?

It was as if,

‘They’re wearing the skin of demons turned inside out…’

[The myth ‘Demon King of White Feathers’ shows strong rejection to the inferior killing intent.]

At that moment, the Great Demon King’s killing intent settled in her mana circuit awakened and showed signs of disdain toward them.

Kim Min-jeong understood in that instant.

‘They said they researched divine status to pursue transcendence, but were they actually trying to imitate U.C.O.’s functions?’

If so, it made sense why the Great Demon King’s killing intent showed such a violent reaction.

In the eyes of the great Demon King, they were nothing but mere imitators, and inferior ones at that.

In that case…

‘I’ll have to show them what a real demon king’s apostle is like.’

Kim Min-jeong confirmed the identity of those at the front of the Sama Society’s legion and brought her mouth to the radio item.

Crackle.

『This is Cloud 1, Storm 1, do you copy?』

『Of course I can hear you, hey—』

『Add unnecessary chatter and I’ll blow your head off. Respond again.』

『…Storm 1, ready and standing by.』

Eom Gi-seon was about to make a light joke but quickly corrected himself.

He was such an immature fool who couldn’t be trusted to stay focused.

With a light sigh, Kim Min-jeong’s eyes suddenly flashed.

『Detonate.』

『Order confirmed.』

At that moment,

Kwarrrrrrung!!

Suddenly, the booby traps and various explosives installed on the ground where the immortal legion was passing caused tremendous explosions,

Crackle.

『All units deploy. The objective is annihilation of the Sama Society. I repeat. All units deploy. The objective is annihilation of the Sama Society.』

『Order confirmed.』

『Order confirmed.』

Z Team simultaneously activated their various battle techniques and launched themselves onto the battlefield.

Kim Min-jeong pressed her eye close to the scope for cover support.

In the chaos created by the encirclement, she could see Seo Yun-a attempting to break through somehow.

Despair.

The former senior who was now more famous as the Demon of Anguish was placed right in the center of the crosshairs.

‘Let’s end this here, senior.’

Kim Min-jeong pulled the trigger.

[The Great Demon King’s killing intent strikes directly!]

Bang—

* * *

Whirrrr!!

The Golden Headband that appeared above Lee Hyeon’s head spun rapidly.

White heat.

It was proof that his thinking speed was accelerating to its limit.

[‘Sacred Relic: Golden Headband’ synchronizes with Yarhibol’s ember to accelerate securing control!]

[Securing. 21, 22, 23%…]

But the problem was that it wasn’t going as fast as he wanted.

Having a leash didn’t mean he could immediately secure control.

No matter how much U.C.O. had lost his divinity, he was still a divine entity.

For a mere mortal to control him would inevitably take considerable time.

Especially for Lee Hyeon, whose understanding of this was still lacking.

Kroooooh!!

Eventually, U.C.O. thrashed wildly to shake off Lee Hyeon,

『Jet! How much longer do you think it’ll take!』

The hands of Nezha, who had to prevent him from doing anything to Lee Hyeon, became even busier.

Logan’s telepathy pierced into Lee Hyeon’s mind.

Though he had transformed into a giant wolf and had been clashing with U.C.O. for only a few minutes, his entire body was already covered in deep wounds and blood.

“5 minutes! No, it’ll probably take 10 minutes!!”

『Damn, normally I think I could somehow hold my own,』

The white wolf’s head suddenly turned in another direction.

『But if that thing gets involved too, I can’t be sure what will happen.』

That was exactly when it happened.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud…!!

Suddenly the ground began to shake violently,

[The myth ‘Thunder God of the Oak Tree’ reveals his majesty!]

Kwarrrrung!!!

With tremendous thunder, an enormous lightning bolt fell upon the head of Nat, who had manifested as a Buddha statue.

Lightning far larger and more intense than the Thunder Ghost that Lee Hyeon could operate.

The copper-colored hue contrasted with Lee Hyeon’s proud blue-white color.

『Gasp…!?』

『Where are you going!!』

Nat hurriedly tried to raise the flames flowing along his forearm and send his attack in that direction, but the lightning bolt was much faster.

Fortunately, the giant wolf leaped high and intercepted the lightning bolt midway.

Kwaaaaang!!

Rumble—

The copper-colored lightning was greatly repelled backward, then soon landed on the ground and took human form.

“Well, well, there are so many welcome faces here, how nice?”

Soon a middle-aged man with the characteristic reddish-brown hair and white skin of Slavs, along with a tall frame, appeared with a fierce smile.

『…Oleg Perunov.』

“Logan, that unsightly appearance of yours is still just as ugly as ever?”

Oleg Perunov.

Gromovik, one of the Nine Heavens famous for his nickname “The Thunder Striker.”

Russia’s pride and also the head of the special nation Zarya,

until Lee Hyeon appeared, he was also the most famous awakener who handled lightning.

The fact that such a person appeared as an enemy and targeted Rudranath first meant only one thing.

『Has Russia decided to completely side with the Sima Society? Surely they’ll soon be tied to the Security Council and classified as GEO Grade 0?』

After the age of dungeons opened, there was content resolved by the major permanent member nations composing the UN.

If a Grade 0 that threatens world peace and security by recklessly using dungeon power appears, each nation has the obligation to annihilate them.

Russia was also one of the five permanent member nations.

For such a place to side with Grade 0 would inevitably create tremendous pressure.

So when voices of concern about Russia emerged from the garrison base, there were talks that they wouldn’t be able to show overt movements like before…

“Well, it hasn’t passed through the Security Council meeting yet!”

Oleg curled up the corners of his mouth.

Logan narrowed his eyes.

『Are you planning to collect all the contents related to the Immortal Project in there?』

“In the end, if you stand in the winner’s position, you can ignore whatever others say.”

『Do you think you alone can handle the three of us?』

“Of course it would be difficult by myself.”

Crack! Crackle!!

Oleg clenched his fist tightly while smiling coldly.

“But I can at least interfere with activating the leash, can’t I? It’s not like I’m here alone either.”

[The myth ‘King of Western Birds’ is approaching!]

Where Oleg’s gaze reached.

From the western sky, crows and various other birds began flocking together in groups.

A sight that sent chills just by looking at it.

But those who know, know.

There’s only one person who can create that scene.

Feng Jinghao.

The leadership of the Sima Society was approaching.

“Of course, interference is interference, but first I should deal with the traitor who planned to disobey orders and stab us in the back.”

Oleg’s fierce gaze fixed on Nat in Buddha statue form standing behind Logan.

Nat’s face hardened stiffly.

Oleg was an absolute being evaluated as the second strongest in the Nine Heavens after Mountain God Mo Jeong-gyeon.

For him, who barely occupied the lowest seat in the Nine Heavens, there had to be a considerable gap.

Moreover, the persistence of Oleg and the Russian intelligence agency was notoriously infamous worldwide, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to consider him a dead man.

『You, you, do you think the Supernatural Surveillance Bureau… the home country will just stand by and watch this!!』

Despite Nat’s resistance, Oleg only sneered.

“If they don’t just stand by and watch? What can they do after you’re dead?”

『…!?』

“Besides, surely you don’t think that my plan to eliminate you is simply Russia’s idea alone?”

『…!!』

“Rudranath, Arvind Dixit. You, who can’t even handle this little mission properly and are just playing watchdog, were just expelled from the ‘gathering.'”

Nat’s complexion turned pale.

‘Expelled from the gathering…? Then, that means even the Supernatural Surveillance Bureau…!’

“Now then, shall we start again?”

Crack.

As Oleg clenched his fist tightly, static electricity and sparks continuously jumped up over his white body.

Crackle!!

Copper-colored lightning began spreading in all directions along with thunder clouds,

『…That place you call the ‘gathering,’ the dark side of the moon, the more I think about it, the more absurd it becomes. Treating the Nine Heavens as mere consumer goods? What exactly do you think top rankers are?』

Logan frowned and growled.

“Ha! Did that traitor behind you even tell you the name? There should have been plenty of restrictions, but you cleverly avoided them,”

『The more I look, the more I dislike it. But rather, this worked out well. Thanks to this, I can shake off the last remaining guilt.』

Oleg frowned. Logan’s composure was completely incomprehensible to him.

However,

Whoooosh!!

[‘Dungeon: Agribol’s Moonlight Garden’ is opening!]

“…!?”

He suddenly frowned at the system message that filled the entire sky.

An anomaly that occurred completely unexpectedly.

‘Dungeon? Wait, especially if it’s Moonlight Garden, that’s definitely from the Temple of Bel…!’

It was a dungeon name that Oleg was also familiar with.

Palmyra Ruins.

It was one of the most famous among dozens of dungeons discovered in the Temple of Bel.

The problem wasn’t just that.

[‘Dungeon: Malakbel’s Territory’ is opening!]

[‘Dungeon: Azizu’s Night Scene’ is opening!]

[‘Dungeon: Samin’s Earth’ is…]

…

[All 26 dungeons enshrined in the Temple of Bel are opening!]

“…!!!”

Following the dungeon messages that stuck on densely,

the vast blue sky suddenly began generating distortion zones as if covered with glass crystals.

Simultaneously, a tremendous amount of magic storm swirling like a tempest.

“…You guys, don’t tell me!!”

『I was worried we might be a little late. Fortunately, we made it on time.』

“Do you even know what you’ve just done!!”

Unlike when he appeared confidently, Oleg shouted with a pale face.

The dungeons of the Temple of Bel were all temple-type dungeons containing myths.

And most of them had been long-term unsolved cases for decades because their mission difficulties were all mixed up.

But to think they opened all of them!

The problem was that when so many dungeons opened, the anomalies would naturally grow uncontrollably.

It wasn’t a simple ‘1+1=2’ level of addition. The power of dungeons increased exponentially as they overlapped.

[26 dungeon areas overlap with each other, causing massive distortion.]

[The distortions collide with each other, causing spatial collapse. Dungeon Break is triggered!]

[A Great Rift has occurred.]

“…!!!”

Great Rift.

A disaster even worse than a Dungeon Break had occurred….

Moreover, if temple-type dungeons collided to create a Great Rift, what kind of events would unfold?

Perhaps something even more dangerous than the South African Republic incident or U.C.O.’s divine awakening might occur.

However,

『I know. That we’ve made a complete mess of things.』

Logan’s wolf snout twisted to one side.

『But let me return the words you just said back to you. In the end, if we stand in the winner’s position, we can ignore whatever others babble about, can’t we?』

“…!!”

Only then did Oleg realize.

These people had planned this operation from the very beginning with the intention of setting a trap.

Knowing that not only the Sima Society but also ‘The Gathering’ would mobilize on a large scale to recover U.C.O. and the project documents,

They had prepared this incredibly dangerous trap from the start to target them.

A trap that might even put themselves in danger….

“Just who are you! You couldn’t have devised such a dangerous operation…!”

Whoooosh!

Oleg started shouting angrily but was suddenly swept away by a magic storm and thrown into some unknown Distortion Zone.

『Who else could it be? How could stuffy old fogeys like us come up with something like this? Of course it was our hero.』

Logan was also swept into the Distortion Zone,

Grrrrrumble…!!

[The Great Rift engulfs the battlefield!]

The surrounding world became completely isolated from the outside world.

U.C.O., the flock of birds flying this way, none could escape from that storm.

But the places where they each fell were all different.

Just as Lee Hyeon had originally intended.

* * *

[You are trapped in the subspace of the Great Rift!]

In a world where both sky and earth had collapsed like broken mirrors due to the Great Rift,

Bull Demon King returned to his true form and gazed at the sky.

『Finally,』

The opportunity his Chosen One had promised to create.

At first he had doubted whether it would really be possible, but now he knew for certain.

His Chosen One

was a very special human.

『This moment has arrived…!!』

[The soldiers of 【Heaven】 are considerably flustered by the sudden Great Rift.]

[The Jade Emperor frowns.]

Bull Demon King looked at the sky and sneered coldly.

『How long will you remain in such an arrogant state?』

[The Jade Emperor grips the armrest of his jade throne tightly.]

『Good. If you won’t come down… I have no choice but to forcibly drag you down…!』

Bull Demon King twisted his lips coldly and reached his hand toward the sky. Then he clenched his fist as if grasping the void.

Crack.

Something was caught in his hand.

And….

Craaaaaack!!

Riiiiip!

With a tremendously loud, terrible sound as if the world itself might collapse,

The curtain covering the sky was completely torn away like cloth ripped by a blade…!

[The soldiers of 【Heaven】 are flustered.]

[The soldiers of 【Heaven】 scream at Bull Demon King’s unexpected power. They scream at him to stop doing useless things.]

[Part of causality is forcibly twisted!]

Meteors fell in groups. Even the sun crashing into the ground created a bizarre phenomenon.

Bang! Bang! Crash crash bang!!

Rumble-

[Thunder God was forcibly brought down!]

[Nezha lands on the ground with difficulty!]

[General Irang frowns and raises his head!]

[Grand Duke Pungdo barely maintains his posture while glaring at the culprit!]

…

[The soldiers of 【Heaven】 are caught by strong Grip Strength and forcibly pour down to the ground!]

[They are all shocked by Bull Demon King’s ridiculous power that forcibly manifested the gods of 【Heaven】!]

In a place filled with dust clouds. The gods who had barely completed their manifestation on the ground all had to look at Bull Demon King with faces soaked in shock.

Thump! Thump!

“This is impossible…!”

“He definitely shouldn’t have recovered his rank yet… but this much?”

“As expected, the first beast is different…!!”

“All troops, form ranks! Prepare to face him!!”

But whether they were shocked or not, Bull Demon King’s gaze was fixed on only one place.

『We finally meet, Jade Emperor. That pathetic appearance suits you perfectly and looks good on you.』

Someone slowly rose from where the sun had fallen.

A man equipped with a crown and imperial robes.

[The Jade Emperor raises his head with blazing eyes.]

The Jade Emperor glared at Bull Demon King with a stern expression, covered in dust.

“Bull Demon King…! How dare you!!”

『How dare? Those words can only be spoken by me.』

Bull Demon King opened his Honyaosan wide and gripped Pangu tightly.

『Today, this place will become your grave, Jade Emperor.』

Crash!!

Screeeech-

Like a bull charging into a bullring,

the Bull Demon King roughly galloped across the dungeon.

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