Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 313

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 313

Sons of Zeus (3)

“Y-you bastard…!!”

Ares shot up from his seat with a flushed red face.

He was furious that his honor had been tarnished in front of so many gathered brothers.

However,

[Myth ‘Prophet of the Sun’ is Revealing Presence!]

‘…What kind of eyes are those!!’

The mask was definitely Apollo’s.

A mask embedded with a golden sun.

But the eyes contained within were different from Apollo’s original warm, crinkled gaze.

These were hot like the sun.

And intense.

If the previous Apollo was like warm spring sunlight, the current Apollo was like the dry, scorching heat of desert and volcanic wastelands.

He radiated heat that seemed capable of burning everything to ash.

And,

Flash! Flash!

White lightning sparked beside those blazing eyes.

Something was there.

Ares found himself unconsciously swallowing dry saliva at this thought, his voice strained.

“Who… are you! Apollo was definitely knocked out by Heracles, wasn’t he? You’re not the Apollo I know—”

“A dog trying to act like the master just because the seat is empty.”

A dry, cold voice.

Veins bulged on Ares’ forehead.

“You insolent bastard…!”

But Ares’ outcry didn’t last long.

Whoooooosh!

Crackle!!

Once again, convection began swirling around the new Apollo—Lee Hyeon.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The entire marble temple shook. As the swirling air masses collided, lightning sparked through the gaps between them.

Golden heat poured out from behind Lee Hyeon like a rising sun.

Each stream met with the lightning, transforming into lightning bolts that began striking down.

Flash! Flash!

Rumble…!!

“…Th-thunder!?”

“No! That’s a storm…!”

“Wait! Does that even make sense! Lightning is father’s power!”

The dove faction widened their eyes at the fact that something strange was happening.

They too had noticed that this newly appeared Apollo wasn’t the Apollo they knew, and had been hesitating…

But Apollo wielding lightning and storms?

It was absurd.

“…This is.”

“Something’s going on, Hermes.”

Hermes and Hephaestus, who had been quietly observing the situation, also shot up from their seats.

[Myth ‘Ruler of the Sky’ is Revealing Presence!]

At that moment, a Snow Sapphire appeared above Lee Hyeon’s head and began spinning furiously.

Crackle!!

The streaming lightning bolts turned pure white and instantly swept past each masked individual like well-honed blades.

Boom!

No one was hurt, but it was a precise assault that cut someone’s hair, another’s hem, and someone else’s sleeve.

What followed was the collapse of the back wall and ceiling.

“…!”

“…!!”

“F-father’s lightning…!”

The brilliant white temple from moments before was nowhere to be seen.

Only ruins filled with dust and heat remained.

“…Gwiroae! It’s Gwiroae!!”

At someone’s shout, the entire assembly froze.

Gwiroae Pater.

The cause that made the Sons of Zeus wander the world trying to find any trace of him.

He was their only chance to find traces of their ‘father’ Zeus, so they had tried to obtain him by any means,

But instead he had easily repelled even the combined attack of Heracles and Perseus, displaying his full majesty and dignity,

And now he had appeared wearing Apollo’s mask.

Lee Hyeon sat on Apollo’s throne with the sun’s radiance in his left hand and heaven’s lightning in his right.

Thud!

Then he coldly uttered a single phrase.

“Kneel. You foolish ones who inherited Zeus’ blood.”

[Opening Presence!]

[An overwhelming storm of presence fills the 【Vineyard of Olympus】.]

Thoom…!!

“…!”

“…!”

“…Gah!!”

The members of the Sons of Zeus organization found themselves unconsciously hunching over from the pain that pressed down on their shoulders and squeezed their lungs.

Several of the weaker ones fell to their knees on the floor entirely.

It felt like the hands of an invisible giant were crushing them down.

‘Th-the mask is trembling…!!’

‘N-no! It feels like it’s going to break!’

‘The inheritance, could it be…!?’

[Snow Sapphire is attempting to access and bind the Astrape fragments embedded in each Prosopon!]

[Connection rate: 15, 16, 17%… 51%…]

Tremble tremble tremble…

As the plaster masks began trembling as if they would shatter at any moment, the organization members’ faces turned pale.

They could instinctively sense that the inheritance that had been empowering them all this time was not only being bound, but was in danger of being stolen.

And rightfully so, since their opponent was an apostle chosen by Zeus.

To them, who had nothing but the divine bloodline they inherited, he was an existence in an unreachably high position!

This was exactly why Lee Hyeon had thought he needed to strike the vineyard with a blitzkrieg before Dionysus returned.

He had to quickly seize control of the organization before that bastard came to his senses.

‘In terms of attributes, the advantage lies with whoever holds Zeus’s myth.’

For reasons unknown, Lee Hyeon currently possessed the most fragments of Astrape.

If that was the case, the attribute advantage naturally belonged to him.

Thud! Thud!

“Please, forgive us!”

“Please! Please, at least let us keep our masks…!”

The quick-thinking masked figures rapidly knelt down and bowed their heads.

‘I don’t know how he did it, but,’

‘Apollo must have pledged loyalty to Gwiroae…!’

‘If Apollo, who values being father’s child above all else, voluntarily returned his mask, we’ll be stripped of ours soon too!’

‘Even if we’re looking for an opportunity, we should wait for the next one… Wh-what is this!?’

Unlike the dove faction who gave up relatively quickly, several neutral faction members took a submissive stance, hoping to wait out the storm,

[Lightning marks are carved into the inheritance of the ‘son’ who pledged loyalty!]

Flash!

Suddenly, lightning marks appeared on the surrenderers’ masks with white flashes.

[Lightning marks are symbols of promises made between father and son. If promises with the father are broken, the inheritance may be reclaimed.]

[Compulsory force is granted to the lightning marks.]

“…!?”

“C-compulsory force…”

The surrenderers could instinctively feel it.

As long as these lightning marks existed, they could no longer defy Lee Hyeon’s commands.

It was essentially like putting a leash around their own necks.

Conversely, the Maenads and high-level inheritance holders like Hermes and Hephaestus who were watching had their faces harden.

The same thought crossed all their minds.

—If we don’t accept the lightning marks, what exactly does he plan to do?

“You’re just father’s lackey, yet you dare try to climb above our heads!!”

Ares in particular couldn’t contain his indignation, his eyes bloodshot with rage.

Bang!!

Screech—

Ares violently kicked off the ground.

A massive spiritual great sword was summoned in his hands as he shot forward like a cannonball.

His weapon symbolizing war.

It was strong enough to rival a High Ranker’s power,

but Lee Hyeon didn’t even think of rising from the jade throne.

He merely watched with arrogant eyes resting his chin on his hand, looking at him like a clown.

Simply,

the moment he lightly raised his right hand,

[A new external accessor attempts to intrude!]

[Access approved according to Apollo’s permission.]

Rumble!

A new lightning bolt fell between Ares and Lee Hyeon.

Crimson lightning that seemed to burn.

Cutting through the hot air, a harpe with a curved blade like a sickle appeared.

Perseus’s mask. It was Moon Su-chan.

Flash!

Moon Su-chan’s sword strike was extremely simple.

A horizontal blow filled with magic power.

Even though the harpe in his hand originally belonged to Ares according to the inheritance,

Slash—

The blade not only shattered Ares’s great sword but also made a large horizontal cut across his torso.

“…Huh?”

Just as Ares, slow to grasp the situation, tried to look at his broken sword with a dazed expression,

Moon Su-chan indifferently swung the harpe upward once more.

Swoosh!!

Ares’s head flew up into the air, still wearing his mask.

“Ares!!”

“Th-that…!”

Horror flashed in the eyes of the brothers watching the situation.

Who was Ares!

As befitting his name as the god of war, he was a warrior with military prowess counted among the best in the organization.

Who could have known that his head would be severed in just two exchanges.

Even Ares himself seemed unable to foresee his defeat, his eyes wide open.

Thunk!

Roll roll…

Ares’s head rolled carelessly on the floor.

The mask happened to split in half, revealing the face of an ordinary-looking South American man.

And,

Hiss—

Pure white crystals appeared over the broken plaster mask and were completely absorbed into the Snow Sapphire.

“…”

“…”

‘…The inheritance…!’

‘Has been reclaimed…’

The recovery of Astrape fragments.

The brothers couldn’t know exactly what it was, but they could tell it was something that threatened their lives.

“I have returned after completing the mission.”

“Well done.”

“I merely follow father’s commands.”

Moon Su-chan lightly wiped the blood from the harpe and silently stood to the right of the jade throne where Lee Hyeon sat.

On the left stood Go Jin-woo wearing Kairees’s mask, who had completed his manifestation at some point.

“…”

“…”

“…”

In the coldly flowing silence.

No one could easily open their mouth.

“Dionysus has lost his way.”

Lee Hyeon surveyed the frozen audience with cold eyes behind his mask.

Then he made eye contact with Maksus, who stood stiffly in the corner.

“Moreover, the ruffian who follows him even went so far as to cowardly stab the ‘eldest brother’ who shared masks with you, awakened your bloodlines, and taught you who you were.”

“…”

“…”

“….”

“So, Apollo, fearing that something terrible would happen if he continued to leave his brothers in Dionysus’s care, came to me with a burning heart and pleaded. To save you all. To reclaim you from madness.”

“….”

“….”

“….”

Each word that Lee Hyeon uttered struck their ears with the intensity of thunder from the heavens.

It meant that his proud legacy of Zeus, no, the narrative of Cheon Do-ggaebi that sought to surpass even that, was strangling their very breath.

Thump thump thump!

“I consider you heretics who distort Zeus’s will and manipulate it to your own tastes, and originally would have sought to eradicate you….”

As Lee Hyeon drew out his words, the pupils of several masked figures trembled greatly.

“But since you carry Zeus’s blood, and since Apollo made such an earnest plea, I wish to give you one final chance.”

The gazes of several masked figures turned toward Hermes and Hephaestus. With Ares dead, the choices of these senior members would greatly influence the outcome.

Lee Hyeon flicked his index finger.

Moon Su-chan stepped forward, raising the blade of Harpe.

“I’ll return Ares’s words exactly as he said them. Anyone with complaints, step forward now. Your brother here will kindly cut off your head.”

Of course, no one stepped forward.

‘Perseus definitely died to Gwiroae…! This has been confirmed through multiple investigations.’

‘But if they found a new replacement and made him Perseus,’

‘It means that like Apollo, Gwiroae also has the authority to pass on legacies to others…!’

‘Damn…. That means he could just reclaim the legacies too!’

‘But if we pledge loyalty, our legacies will be completely bound.’

‘What on earth should we do…!’

Gulp!

The sound of someone swallowing dry saliva filled the silence.

“So, what will you do?”

Lee Hyeon’s low voice rumbled like thunder ready to unleash a torrent of lightning.

At that moment,

Step step!

Hermes slowly approached the Jade Throne and knelt on one knee.

Though his attitude was as relaxed as usual, his eyes couldn’t completely hide his tension.

“I couldn’t pledge loyalty to a fellow brother, but if it’s to a father, that’s a different story.”

“….”

“To the father’s representative, I, Hermes, pay my respects.”

The moment Hermes bowed his head slightly and pledged his loyalty,

Flash!

Lightning marks appeared on his mask as well.

And then as Hephaestus quietly knelt, the other brothers followed suit, kneeling and bowing their heads one after another.

“We pledge our loyalty!”

“To, to the father’s representative, our loyalty…!”

“Please, at least our legacies…!!”

Those who couldn’t join the tide and were out of sync were the ones who had shown deep loyalty to the Hawk Faction.

“Perseus.”

“W, wait…!”

With Lee Hyeon’s low voice, Moon Su-chan moved like the wind.

Swoosh-

They tried to surrender belatedly,

But before that, the Executioner’s blade fell like a guillotine.

Swooooosh!!

A bloody wind swept through.

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