Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 312

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 312

Sons of Zeus (2)

The meeting dragged on.

“So….”

Lee Hyeon had already shared everything about what he experienced at 【Olympus’s Vineyard】.

The only person capable of leading the Sons of Zeus in place of Dionysus, who had disappeared with the main forces, was Apollo—namely, Lee Gun-san.

However, Lee Gun-san had failed in his attempt to impeach Dionysus and had instead fallen victim to a counterattack.

This meant it would be difficult to resolve the immediate chaos facing the Sons of Zeus.

There was Maksus, who claimed to be Rhadamanthys, but he alone would be insufficient.

“What’s the possibility of Dionysus returning to resolve the chaos?”

At Moon Su-chan’s question, Go Jin-woo firmly shook his head.

“Not anytime soon. He’s still busy fighting back and forth with the Dijiang Sect. No, he’d probably prefer the chaos to grow even worse.”

“The more the chaos grows, the more the organization members will depend on Dionysus.”

“Exactly. In the end, he’s the only one left holding the real power in the organization.”

Lee Hyeon nodded at Go Jin-woo’s words.

Though it had been only a brief encounter,

Dionysus might have been a madman drunk on insanity, but he wasn’t a fool who couldn’t distinguish right from wrong.

“Hephaestus and Hermes, who supposedly have similar status, originally dislike getting involved, so they’ll just watch from the sidelines. The only one who would reveal his ambitions is,”

“Ares.”

Lee Hyeon muttered quietly.

“That bastard will probably act the most arrogantly.”

Lee Hyeon had heard cold, one-line evaluations of the Sons of Zeus organization members from Maksus.

Among them, the assessment of Ares was particularly harsh.

—A fool who can’t distinguish between reckless courage and ambition.

Even in Greek mythology, Ares was usually portrayed as merely strong but short-sighted and brutish.

The masked figure here who inherited that legacy wasn’t much different.

‘He certainly looked at father with disdain throughout the meeting, and acted arrogantly as if he were the master.’

He had even tried to order around Lee Hyeon, who was disguised as Kairees.

If the terrified Maksus hadn’t intervened, it could have caused a major incident.

“So in the end, there are only one or two troublemakers at most?”

Hiss.

Moon Su-chan’s eyes gleamed with vertical pupils.

Dragon eyes resembling Tiamat.

“Robbing an empty house. This should be interesting.”

“It’s not robbing an empty house. It’s announcing that the master has returned.”

Lee Hyeon answered while taking three masks from his chest and placing them on the table.

One was Apollo’s mask, just inherited from Lee Gun-san.

One was the mask of Kairees, the branch leader he had eliminated in South Africa.

And the last one was Perseus’s mask.

“Originally, this organization was a legion created for hyung. So it’s right for hyung to take it.”

Lee Hyeon pushed Perseus’s mask toward Moon Su-chan.

“Perseus is the hero who cut off the snake’s head (=Medusa). If hyung, who uses similar power, wears this mask, it’ll create very interesting synergy.”

“Perseus, huh. But I don’t know how to operate this thing.”

“Did you forget who I am already?”

Hiss.

Lee Hyeon smiled lightly while floating the Snow Sapphire in midair.

“I’m the self-proclaimed Zeus’s Apostle who even acquired Apollo’s power. What’s so difficult about creating a mere persona?”

“You’re a fraud. What the… Still, it sounds plausible.”

Moon Su-chan picked up the mask. A cool sensation traveled through his fingertips.

And even cooler cynicism spread across his lips.

“There’s nothing more fitting than an executioner’s mask for cutting the throats of traitors.”

Moon Su-chan put the plaster mask on his face.

Click!

With the sound of something engaging,

Whirrrrr!

Flash!!

The Snow Sapphire spun at tremendous speed, emitting an enormous amount of light.

Pure white lightning spread out, reaching all the way to the ceiling.

[Separating part of the recovered Astrape’s divinity!]

[Adding part of Cheon Do-ggaebi’s narrative to enhance the lightning’s properties. An invisible channeling connection is established.]

Pure white lightning mixed with occasional flashes of blue-white struck down toward the mask Moon Su-chan wore.

Crackle!

[A new ‘Persona: Perseus’ is granted to the plaster mask!]

[Without Zeus’s bloodline, Perseus’s legacy is given to ‘Player: Moon Su-chan’ by Zeus’s choice.]

Whoooosh!

Instantly, the aura surrounding Moon Su-chan completely changed.

Just watching from the side created a tingling sensation on the skin.

It truly felt like an ancient mythological hero had descended to this land.

“Certainly… it is fascinating. It feels like my legacy is pushed to the background while a new legacy is added.”

Moon Su-chan clenched and unclenched his hands, feeling the energy flowing through his fingertips.

“Jin-woo hyung, you use this.”

After confirming Moon Su-chan had no side effects, Lee Hyeon handed Kairees’s mask to Go Jin-woo.

“Ah shit, I was trying to completely retire from active duty and just handle money… Meeting Jang Lee Hyeon always means physical hardship, hardship.”

Go Jin-woo grumbled but brought Kairees’s mask to his face without hesitation.

“Sorry. That guy also managed information and funds.”

“You want me to scrape up everything inside the empty house and dump it all into Homerus Holdings, right? That kind of thing is a piece of cake.”

Click!

Whoooosh!

He too fully donned the mask on his face.

[A new ‘Persona: Kairees’ is granted to ‘Player: Go Jin-woo’!]

Go Jin-woo, who had unlocked Kairees’s legacy, seemed to have gained even higher status than before.

The gazes of both Moon Su-chan and Go Jin-woo now turned to Lee Hyeon.

“Then what about you?”

“I have to become the sun.”

Lee Hyeon picked up the last remaining mask, the golden mask.

“I have to finish the homework father couldn’t complete. Before Dionysus returns… the Sons of Zeus will be placed beneath our feet. And,”

The moment Lee Hyeon finished putting on the last mask,

“Furthermore, we’ll capture Dionysus and find a way to cure father’s illness.”

Lee Hyeon recalled the Cup of Resurrection that Dionysus had possessed.

With that.

He could bring new life to Lee Gun-san, whose vitality had waned.

[You have assimilated with Apollo’s legend!]

[‘Divine Authority: Prophecy of the Sun’ has been unlocked.]

[‘Divine Authority: Chariot Wheel Clockwork’ has been unlocked.]

…

Click-click-click-click-

Lee Hyeon was suddenly engulfed by auditory hallucinations of countless clock hands and springs meshing together or breaking.

It was the sound his father, who had to travel back through immeasurable time, encountered as part of daily life.

Though it was tremendous noise, that very fact awakened Lee Hyeon’s mind.

Apollo of the Sun.

The man adorned with golden and pure white radiance opened his mouth.

“Then now… we go in.”

The three minds were sucked somewhere.

It was a connection to the spiritual world.

[By Apollo’s authority, attempting to reconnect to 【Olympus’s Vineyard】!]

Whoooosh!!

* * *

‘What a complete mess, truly.’

Maksans Degremont, wearing Rhadamanthys’s mask, pressed his temple firmly with his index finger.

Right after Apollo’s impeachment of Dionysus had failed.

Normally, after the host’s withdrawal, the Spiritual Conference Hall should have closed, but it was still operating.

The dove faction, still wanting to maintain loyalty to Apollo, was pointing fingers and arguing, while the hawk faction, Dionysus’s group, was celebrating as if they owned the world, raising wine cups high.

“The old sun has set! Now the era has changed!!”

“That’s right!”

“How long will we keep depending only on Apollo! We now need a brother who will go out into the world and prove our valor!”

“When Dionysus returns from conquering the Abyss Swamp, it will be no different from meaning he is father’s successor…!”

“Those, those crazy bastards!!”

Words that would be outrageous even to the neutral faction brothers who didn’t belong to the dove faction.

What was the reason the Sons of Zeus traveled around the world?

The purpose was to find traces of their missing ‘father,’ Zeus, and somehow revive him.

Even Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Wukong was like that.

Though news had spread through word of mouth that he too had died from 【Heaven’s】 betrayal,

In the end, didn’t he achieve complete resurrection and drag the Jade Emperor down from his position?

So they believed that father Zeus could also be revived by their own hands, or they could find him if he was missing – there had to be some way.

After all, the masks they possessed also contained bits of Zeus’s divinity.

Surely Zeus was somewhere sending them his protection, waiting for his sons to come find him someday.

But suddenly the hawk faction bastards were carelessly talking about Dionysus as a second father or something.

That was clearly treasonous behavior, no different from rebellion.

Naturally, the dove faction and even the neutral factions couldn’t help but be furious, but,

‘With Apollo also fallen, it would be difficult to handle those bastards.’

The scene of Apollo, who was attempting to withdraw, suddenly being defeated by Heracles’s surprise attack had been exposed to all the brothers.

The fact that one of the two suns who once led the brothers alongside Dionysus was falling so futilely,

Completely shattered even the last remaining hope of the dove faction and neutral factions.

‘But it doesn’t look like those bastards can be stopped anyway…’

Maksans’s gaze calmly turned in another direction.

Three great divine legacy inheritors who, along with Apollo and Dionysus, were counted among 【Olympus’s】 twelve chief gods.

Hermes, Hephaestus, and Ares.

In terms of legacy rank alone, they were absolutely not inferior compared to Apollo or Dionysus.

But they joined the organization too late so their voice was weak, and they were too proud to go under either of the two, so they had fallen into the neutral faction.

But they seemed to have no intention of taking anyone’s side this time either.

Hermes was busy tapping his calculator with his usual good-natured eye smile,

Hephaestus maintained an attitude of not caring who became king while tending to his weapons.

On the other hand, Ares was…

‘At this rate, they’ll self-destruct from internal strife before Dionysus returns. It wouldn’t be strange if they were completely torn apart.’

Maksans wondered whether he should leave the meeting hall right now and report this fact via hotline to Gabe, the director of Mossad.

He would do it eventually, but the timing was the key issue.

If he left his seat now, he really didn’t know how the organization might split apart.

‘Gwiroae… what the hell is he thinking? Where did he go that he’s not visible?’

Maksans sighed as he thought of the monster who had put on Kairees’s mask, finished only his business, and returned.

‘Could it be that inducing this kind of internal strife is also all within his schemes…?’

Just as Maksans unconsciously straightened his back and trembled with fear at the sudden thought,

Bang!!

With a tremendous roar, the marble round table rang as if it would split.

“…!?”

“Wh-what?”

“Are… s?”

The noise from the audience stopped for a moment.

Maksans’s gaze also quickly turned in that direction.

‘Don’t tell me, that bastard doesn’t know his place and finally…!!’

A man was rising from his seat, emanating fierce fighting spirit.

A man wearing a blood-smeared helmet over his mask.

Ares.

The god of war, and one of the organization’s top militant faction members.

“It’s too noisy for me to listen anymore. What are you all thinking so hard about? If you think about it, the answer is very close by.”

Ares swept over the audience with a rough metallic sound.

“The drunkard has left home, and the old man is on the verge of death. Isn’t it simple then?”

Ares began walking step by step with a fierce smile.

The empty head seat.

To the jade thrones of Apollo and Dionysus placed side by side.

“The strong one becomes king. Why so much talk?”

Roooar!

[The myth ‘War God of the Red Star’ opens its rank!]

“…!!”

“A-Ares, surely not!”

“That seat is not a place you can sit carelessly…!”

The pupils of the brothers who realized Ares’s intention shook greatly.

But no one could stop him due to the sinister rank he had revealed.

Hermes and Hephaestus, who could have mediated, only watched the situation with interested or indifferent faces.

Even the dove faction shut their mouths, overwhelmed by the killing intent.

It was such overwhelming force.

‘Damn!! If that bastard sits on the Jade Throne, it’ll really be the end of everything! He can’t possibly not know that it’ll all be meaningless when Dionysus returns…!’

Maksus cursed inwardly as his mind raced, wondering if he should intervene.

‘Has he just gone mad with power? Or is he calculating to at least secure Apollo’s position as second-in-command? But there’s no way that idiot could think that deeply…. Damn!!’

The mission Maksus had received was solely to ‘report on the movements of the Sons of Zeus.’

He had no authority to act recklessly.

And Ares’ rank was much higher than his own.

“From today, I am the master of this seat. Any bastard with complaints can step forward.”

Just as Ares smiled coldly and was about to place his rear on the Jade Throne,

Crackle!

The ceiling of the Meeting Hall—no, the sky itself—made a tearing sound.

[An external accessor is attempting forced entry!]

Rumble!!

With tremendous thunder, a bolt of lightning struck down in front of the Jade Throne.

“Gah!”

Before Ares could even sit on the throne, he was caught in that overwhelming storm and rolled backward disgracefully.

Where the thick dust settled.

A man appeared, scattering pure white and golden lightning.

Step!

“…What a mess.”

Quiet footsteps, contrasting with his flashy and explosive entrance.

The face revealed was certainly wearing Apollo’s mask, but had a much more imposing build and brilliant light in his eyes than the real Apollo.

Flash! Flash!

Most of all, wearing a pure white coat and overwhelming the entire Meeting Hall with presence alone—there was no one among the brothers like this….

[The authority of lightning infused with the sun dominates the Meeting Hall!]

“…!!”

“…!!”

“…!!!”

At that overwhelming authority, all the brothers pressed their lips tightly shut.

It was more like their ‘father’ Zeus’ sky rather than Apollo’s sun.

‘Gwiroae!!’

Maksus, who recognized him at a glance, burst out in exclamation and shot up from his seat.

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