Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 318

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 318

Sons of Zeus (8)

“….”

Dionysus fell silent for a moment.

Unlike the blood vessels bulging as if ready to burst in his neck, his voice was extremely low and subdued.

“Where did they all go?”

He had noticed that the opponent wearing Apollo’s mask was not the Lee Gun-san he knew.

But despite his angry outburst, all that greeted him was the silence of the empty meeting hall.

Even the shadows crouching in every dark corner held their breath, not daring to answer.

No, rather than that,

‘…What is this chill…!’

‘Wh-where did everyone go?’

‘That person is definitely…!’

‘White lightning? Could it be!?’

“Guile Pater!! How are you here!”

Some of the followers who had been trailing behind Dionysus recognized Lee Hyeon and trembled.

Clearly only Lee Hyeon sat alone on the jade throne.

Yet there was an overwhelming pressure as if a massive mountain range was looking down at them.

And the strange sense of unease from the fact that no one else was there sent chills down their spines.

But Heracles, who had already suffered humiliation at Lee Hyeon’s hands once before, could not contain his rage.

His thunderous roar echoed resoundingly through the temple.

Behind the mask, Lee Hyeon’s eyes curved coldly.

“Didn’t I tell you? I did some cleaning. Why? Does it feel too quiet and strange?”

“You…!”

Just as Heracles gripped his blood-soaked club tightly and was about to step forward, Dionysus reached out to stop him.

“Don’t interfere.”

“Brother, but that bastard is!”

“I said don’t interfere. That one is mine.”

Heracles flinched at the purple madness flickering in Dionysus’s mask.

Those eyes that gripped his heart.

“…Ah, understood.”

“I’ll compensate you later for your brother’s concession.”

Dionysus thanked Heracles who ultimately backed down, then stepped forward.

A subtle purple radiance swirled around him.

“I’ll ask again. Where did my brothers go? Right now I’m not in the mood to play games with the likes of you.”

[The myth ‘Vineyard That Calls Madness’ reveals intense emotions!]

Kwaaaaang!

Crack-crack-

As if responding to Dionysus’s madness, the marble floor he stood on split like a spider web.

The entire Olympus Vineyards resonated with their master’s emotions and screamed in unison.

His divine status had grown incomparably massive compared to before.

It wasn’t simply that he had become stronger.

An alien, ominous, nauseating aura.

A stench vibrated as if wine had been mixed with putrid corpse water.

‘Is it because he went to see the beings of the outer sea? His madness feels more severe. His thoughts have also become muddied.’

But Lee Hyeon didn’t even blink an eye as he rested his chin on the jade throne.

Snort.

He only let out a laugh.

“You seem angry.”

“Insolent…!”

Dionysus’s pupils trembled.

“But you have no right to be angry, Dionysus.”

Lee Hyeon’s finger tapped the armrest of the jade throne.

“You’re the one who sold off the sons that father spent his lifetime gathering. Where did you sell them?”

“What?”

“Those puppets standing behind you. Are they your brothers? Or… are they bait to fatten your belly?”

Lee Hyeon’s gaze swept over the brothers standing behind Dionysus, whose eyes were gradually losing their vitality.

Heracles and numerous other sons of Zeus.

[‘Sacred Relic: Noeancheongjeong’ analyzes their condition.]

“Tsk! Though they imitated the name of a god, they’ve really gone too far. Chosen One, that’s the phenomenon called (submission).”

‘Submission? What is that?’

Lee Hyeon frowned at the unfamiliar term.

But his expression immediately hardened at Sha Wujing’s explanation.

“Beyond being influenced, their karma and narrative have completely become part of the outer sea. If this continues, they can no longer be called human—they’ll just become puppets.”

‘…Disgusting.’

Lee Hyeon’s eyes narrowed.

The bastard who claimed to be for his brothers had thrown his brothers as food to monsters and left only empty shells?

‘Convergence point.’

He recalled what Lee Gun-san had said while pointing at that guy.

A fixed event that triggers tsunamis from the outer sea.

“You call them brothers yet use them in such a way?”

“…What would a bastard like you know? You don’t even know what sacrifices I made for father.”

Crackle!

Purple energy sparked like lightning from Dionysus’s hand.

The power of the outer sea imitating Zeus’s mythology contained in fragments of Astrape.

“I’m not interested in what sacrifices you made.”

Lee Hyeon continued coldly.

“But I know very well the price you’ll have to pay.”

“What?”

“Because you’re going to pay it starting now.”

Lee Hyeon snapped his fingers.

At that signal,

[Snow Sapphire transforms into Astrape Staff!]

Centered on the gem formed in midair, oak tree trunks gathered together to become a single staff that was grasped in Lee Hyeon’s hand.

Thump!

The moment he struck it down,

Crackle!

Rummmmmble-

―ᛏ.

[Magic erupts!]

Lightning bolts erupted from the pure white lightning and crossed the meeting hall.

“Hah! Do you think the same trick you’ve already used will work again!”

Heracles snorted and struck the lightning with his club. His wrist stung, but it was bearable enough.

The other brothers scattered in all directions.

But they never thought that would be their fatal mistake.

Something leaped down from the collapsed ceiling.

“…!!”

The moment Dionysus hurriedly raised his head,

[Warning! A massive force is intruding!]

Swooosh-

A silver flash landing through the gaps in the falling debris.

A precise trajectory falling toward someone.

The target wasn’t Dionysus.

It was his advisor right beside him, the only one maintaining his composure while analyzing the situation. It was Minos.

“Dodge, Minos!!”

Dionysus screamed, but it was already too late.

Slice!

With a chilling cutting sound, Minos’s head shot up into the air.

In the last moment before losing consciousness, Minos watched his body crash down below.

‘How… when?’

He had definitely not let his guard down.

He had even deployed all kinds of detection magic under the assumption that the enemy would use stealth and explosive magic?

But the opponent had far surpassed even the level of such detection magic.

An assassin who appeared without any presence or killing intent, as if he had been there from the beginning.

‘This is… impossible…’

Minos’s vision blurred.

‘I should be… sitting on the throne… Using that madman… I should…!’

The end of ambition was futile.

Instead of the jade throne he had dreamed of, he met his end with his head rolling on the cold floor.

Thud!

The man who landed on the floor wore a white mask.

Perseus’s mask.

But the aura emanating through the gaps of that mask was on a completely different level from the previous Perseus.

“How dare you! Not content with imitating our glorious brother Perseus, you even harm Minos?”

Heracles attacked Moon Su-chan in full rage.

Whooom!

Heracles’s club that could even crush mountains.

But Moon Su-chan didn’t dodge.

Instead, he dove into his embrace and gripped Harpe’s handle in reverse.

“Move aside.”

And,

Kwaang!

[‘Sacred Relic: Tiamat’s Claw’ roars!]

With a single light sword strike, the massive Heracles was sent flying backward.

“…Guh!”

Heracles, who finally stopped only after breaking several marble pillars, let out a beast-like groan as if he couldn’t understand what happened.

He seemed unable to believe the fact that he had been overpowered in strength.

But that wasn’t the end.

“Die!”

“How dare you defile our temple!!”

Minos’s death and Heracles’s defeat.

The brothers who had been drunk on victory just moments before sobered up and drew their weapons in unison, but,

“How troublesome.”

Flash-

Swooosh!

Moon Su-chan’s figure disappeared.

A series of consecutive attacks followed.

Thwack!

Crack!

Slice-

“Kyaaah!”

“What, what is this!”

They were sent flying like autumn leaves or rolled on the floor with broken limbs.

It wasn’t simple brute force. Perfect combat technique that used the opponent’s strength against them and struck only vital points precisely.

The [eyes] shining with vertical pupils even guided the path to exploit the enemies.

“Aaaaah!! I won’t forgive you! You bastaaard!”

Moon Su-chan dodged even Heracles’s attack, who was completely soaked in purple madness with his eyes rolled back, by slightly ducking his head, then struck his solar plexus with the sword’s handle to bring him to his knees again.

Then a spinning back kick.

It was like a well-sharpened blade.

Bang!!

“…!”

“…!”

“…!!”

All the brothers watching the situation were greatly shocked.

It was truly an overwhelming difference.

‘Heracles…! Even our brother who inherited the legacy of a demigod is being so overwhelmingly defeated…!’

‘Just what is that Perseus…!!’

It was natural.

Moon Su-chan could no longer be called human now.

[‘Sacred Relic: Tiamat’s Fang’ growls!]

The power of the Primordial Dragon.

Moreover,

[‘Trait: Apostle of Yukimihiro’ activates!]

[Suppressing the opponent’s divinity.]

Even the power of the monkey god who was once said to rival Son Wukong.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-

Truly a raging whirlwind.

There was no one who could withstand Moon Su-chan’s offensive.

Crash! Crash!

Kwarrrrung-

Urrrrrrr…!!

Moon Su-chan’s Harpe burst with flashes several times over.

And….

Flash!!

Overwhelming all those bastards, Harpe’s blade tip finally reached the chin of Dionysus’s mask.

Thud!!

“Kneel.”

Moon Su-chan spoke in a razor-sharp voice.

“This is the king chosen by Zeus, the ‘father’ you so desperately cried out for. And he is also one who received Apollo’s prophecy.”

[Dragonic Fear dominates the battlefield!]

“Kneel and apologize to the one who will become your new master. If you do, you might at least preserve your lives.”

“…Ha.”

Dionysus let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded.

Minos’s headless corpse rolled on the ground, and Heracles had been sent flying.

The elite guard he had painstakingly built up over several years had been devastated in an instant.

However,

“Yes. It’s you. The one ‘father’ waited for so desperately… and the one who made him wait… Gwiroae. Pater.”

Dionysus’s gaze remained firmly fixed on Lee Hyeon, not Moon Su-chan.

Father.

What he was referring to here must be Lee Gun-san, not Zeus.

He muttered through gritted teeth.

“The result of abandoning me, abandoning his brothers, even abandoning his own lifespan to wait… was merely you?”

Dionysus understood at a glance.

The reason why no matter how hard he tried, he could never catch his father’s eye.

The reason why his father always gazed longingly at some distant place.

The source of all that was sitting right there on the jade throne.

“Hahaha! Yes. If this is fate, then it’s fate indeed. I wondered what was happening when someone with the disappeared Zeus’s mythology appeared, but it connects like this? Truly… the bonds of causality are unknowable.”

Purple madness dripped from Dionysus’s eyes.

“He made such a choice just to rely on this pathetic bundle of ‘variables’? Why on earth!!”

Variables.

When that word came out, Lee Hyeon’s eyebrows twitched.

“Did you… know?”

“Ha! From your reaction, it seems you already know too? The curse that person is suffering from?”

“….”

“Then that’s even better. You’ll be able to know more clearly that his choice was wrong! Hahaha!”

Dionysus burst into maniacal laughter and suddenly pulled out a dagger-sized blade from his chest.

The [Hardened Tongue of the Underworld Deities] that had been sharpened to a point on the way here.

Moon Su-chan sensed something wrong and tried to strike the bastard’s wrist, but,

“Behold, cute usurper. While you were absorbed in playing hero, see what calamity has befallen father.”

Stab!

Dionysus stabbed deeply into his own throat.

At that moment,

Pshwaaaaak!

His throat split open and blood sprayed into the air.

Though it glowed purple like wine, the sticky viscosity made it seem nauseating as blood poured out like a fountain.

[Dionysus has performed a human sacrifice ritual, offering his own soul as tribute.]

[The call of the Outer Sea begins!]

In an instant, the entire world was dyed purple.

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