Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 319
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The Broken Ranker
Devours Myths
Chapter 319
Sons of Zeus (9)
Whoooosh!
Purple light.
The entire world was dyed in purple.
No, it wasn’t just dyed.
The ground of 【Olympus Vineyards】 was writhing like pulsating flesh.
The grapevines transformed into dark red blood vessels stretching toward the sky.
Not soil, but flesh.
Not trees, but blood vessels.
The world itself was being reborn as one massive creature.
And…
“Aaaahhh!”
“D-Dionysus, what the hell is this…!”
“…Gah!!”
Dionysus’s brothers were immediately swept away by the waves of that grotesque purple flesh mass.
“N-no…!”
Some were pierced by thorn-like tentacles, while others were swept up by the flesh and became part of it.
Still others became grotesque dolls with empty eyes.
Crack, crackle—
[Warning!]
[Warning!]
…
[Area 【Olympus Vineyards】 is exposed to erosion from the Outer Sea.]
[Mental contamination will be applied to all life forms within this area.]
“…This crazy bastard, he’s committing suicide there? And using his brothers as sacrifices too?”
Lee Hyeon also hurriedly kicked the Jade Throne and jumped back widely with Moon Su-chan.
Moon Su-chan’s expression became one of disbelief.
The disaster brought about by Dionysus’s suicide.
By his common sense, the choice to sacrifice his ‘brothers’ made absolutely no sense.
Moreover, what was pouring out from the hole that crazy bastard had torn open by stabbing his own throat was something that didn’t belong to the laws of this world.
The ground beneath their feet pounded like a heartbeat.
Purple spores floated through the air, disturbing their vision. The air itself was heavy like sticky mucus.
Then Moon Su-chan, who had been striking away tentacles approaching them with Harpe, suddenly felt his head ring with a ding.
“Graaah!”
Suddenly a voice leaked from Perseus’s mask.
“Hyung?”
“Don’t come closer!!”
When Lee Hyeon turned his head in shock, Moon Su-chan hurriedly reached out to stop him.
Dark red blood vessels were already spreading over Perseus’s mask.
His body swayed.
His entire body was trembling as if convulsing.
His bloodshot eyes showed strong signs of trying to block something.
‘Erosion from the Outer Sea!!’
Lee Hyeon’s mind flashed alert.
The madness was definitely trying to torment Moon Su-chan.
“Yukimihiro! Block the erosion!!”
At Lee Hyeon’s urgent scream, Yukimihiro’s form rose from Moon Su-chan’s shadow.
「Su-chan!!」
However,
Crack, snap!
As soon as Yukimihiro’s shadow touched the purple erosion, it began to split apart.
「Grr…! This is ridiculous!!」
She struggled to push back the erosion, but the contamination from the Outer Sea devoured even divinity.
Yukimihiro’s form became bloodied in an instant.
「Now! Hurry!!」
Lee Hyeon quickly snapped his fingers before Yukimihiro could get hurt further.
Crack!
The lightning bolt that shot up precisely pierced through both sides of Moon Su-chan’s temples.
Forced neural disconnection.
Moon Su-chan’s body went limp.
Yukimihiro barely managed to catch him.
「Hah, hah…! What the hell is happening?」
“I don’t know. But one thing is certain. Dionysus has completely lost his mind.”
Yukimihiro checked Moon Su-chan’s pulse and sighed, while looking ahead with burning eyes.
His pulse was irregular but he was alive.
The penetration of mental contamination was temporarily blocked by severing neural circuits with lightning.
But Lee Hyeon knew this was only a temporary measure.
They had to escape this place quickly.
Kwaaaaang!!
The spot where Dionysus had committed suicide.
Where his corpse should have been, a hole dozens of meters in diameter had opened, and grotesque changes were progressing rapidly.
“Apol… lo…!”
“Kill him…!”
“Come with… us…!!”
“You’re also… our brother… come with us…!”
Heracles and other followers of Dionysus, covered in purple flesh, walked toward them with empty gazes.
Through their half-broken masks, the faces they had kept hidden were revealed.
Moving like zombies, they tried to capture Lee Hyeon and Moon Su-chan to make them part of themselves.
—ᛇ.
[‘Magic: Thunder Whale’ is activated!]
As new characters appeared on the amethyst of the Astrape staff in Lee Hyeon’s hand,
Roooooar!!
The lightning bolts that had been extending in all directions gathered in one place and took the form of a massive whale.
—ᚻ.
[‘Magic: White Tsunami’ is activated, turning the battlefield into a wasteland!]
Following the hail rune that activated next, the Thunder Whale swung its tail greatly and shot forward.
The heat it contained rapidly surged and completely covered 【Olympus Vineyards】.
Meanwhile, Yukimihiro was barely able to retreat much further back with Moon Su-chan.
The pure white flash completely pushed away the purple mist.
Kwadrdrdrdeuk!!
Heracles and the other brothers who had lost their reason were all crushed to death.
[You have recovered Minos’s legend. The fragment of Astrape is enhanced.]
[You have recovered Heracles’s legend. The fragment’s efficiency is enhanced.]
[You have recovered Aeacus’s legend. The size of the Astrape staff increases.]
…
Thud! Thud! Thuthud!
Hwaaaaa-
Each time their masks shattered one after another, the pure white radiance that the Astrape staff boasted grew even greater.
Kwakwakwakwang! Kwakwakwang!
Kwakwakwa-
[The call of the Outer Sea grows stronger!]
[The waves grow larger!]
[The flood continues to knock on the world’s door!]
…
[The magic of lightning seeks to block it!]
…
In the fierce collision between the purple mist seeking to expand further and the pure white lightning blocking it,
Hwaaak!
[Expanding Neuan Cheongjeong to maximum capacity!]
Lee Hyeon poured maximum magic power into his eyesight and looked at the hole from which the purple mist was leaking.
Inside the hole, something ominous and purple was pulsating greatly.
Thump! Thump!
Like a heart.
Moreover, the surrounding space itself was distorted.
A bizarre phenomenon where up and down twisted, distant places became close, and near places disappeared.
[Activating ‘Sacred Relic: Neuan Cheongjeong’ to capture the strange phenomenon!]
[Gingoa quickly assesses the situation.]
‘…It rejects the very laws that this world possesses.’
The call of the Outer Sea.
Something originating from the Outer Sea was trying to come this way.
And…
Paat!
Something burrowed into Lee Hyeon’s chest.
‘What is it?’
Lee Hyeon’s expression hardened as he barely managed to grab it.
“This is…?”
「Kat! Isn’t that the jewel that guy used when he committed suicide just now?」
Sha Wujing clicked his tongue as if dumbfounded.
A black jewel.
The sacred relic that Dionysus had used to stab his own neck for human sacrifice had nestled against Lee Hyeon’s chest like a beast finding its owner.
As he tried to examine what on earth was happening,
[Notice.]
A message suddenly appeared in the center of his retina.
[‘Sacred Relic: Hardened Tongue of the Underworld God’ recognizes its owner!]
‘Owner?’
[Hardened Tongue of the Underworld God]
Evidence left by the lies that some being from the Outer Sea■ ■■ spoke in the beginning. ■■■ that do not follow narrative can deceive even the laws of causality, able to deny even death.
-Type: Sacred Relic. ■■ of ‘■■’s ■’.
-Origin: ■■■■ ■■■ ■■
[This sacred relic is an item bound to a specific person.]
[According to its homing instinct, it seeks to use you as a carrier.]
[Target coordinates: Lee Gun-san (Apollo).]
‘A homing instinct with father as the coordinates…!’
He could immediately grasp what this fact meant.
Dionysus had tried to forcibly drag his father using this sacred relic as a medium.
The hole was a passage.
The sacred relic was coordinates.
And at the end of these coordinates was… father.
「Katkat! Chosen One, this seems to be?」
“Yes. It appears to be material for the [Cup of Resurrection].”
Lee Hyeon gripped the black jewel tightly until it might break.
The note on the last page of the diary Dionysus had left. There was definitely content about this there.
That guy’s sacred relic, the Cup of Resurrection called Kantaros, was made from things of the Outer Sea.
But since that guy suddenly committed suicide, he had wondered what was going on, and now he seemed to understand the reason.
‘Dionysus had intended to resurrect father from the very beginning!’
That guy had tried to sacrifice not only himself but also his comrades, the Sons of Zeus, to use as materials to resurrect Lee Gun-san.
If possible, not only his followers but other brothers as well.
The problem was that most of those materials had disappeared because of Lee Hyeon, so this time he had tried to use Lee Hyeon and Moon Su-chan together as sacrifices.
To think it was twisted filial piety trying to restore his father.
Lee Hyeon felt absurd, but also thought this wouldn’t be the end of everything.
「Katkat. A deal with the Outer Sea couldn’t end so easily… Especially if it’s a being that even devoured Zeus.」
“That guy wouldn’t have been unaware of it either. Yet he still committed such an act, which means…!”
Beyond Apollo’s mask, Lee Hyeon’s Golden Eyes of Truth widened.
“It means he has some prepared move. For now, the thing he summoned seems to have come very close.”
Thump!
Thump!
The purple abyss emitted an even more piercing radiance. It was bright enough that even Lee Hyeon felt dazzled.
And…
He felt something like a ‘gaze’ from within it.
The day he had slain the Jade Emperor. The feeling was like seeing part of the ‘Left Hand’ he had witnessed then.
So rationally, he knew well that he shouldn’t look into it,
But driven by an instinctive intuition that avoiding it might become more dangerous, he tried to look inside somehow.
At that moment.
Beyond the abyss.
Came into view.
[As Gingoa’s acceleration speed increases, time in the external world slows down!]
[Mental barriers are thickening.]
0.2 seconds.
That was enough.
Infinite darkness….
Within it.
Dozens, millions of eyes,
all at once stared at Lee Hyeon.
“…!!!”
At that moment.
Lee Hyeon’s heart skipped a beat.
[Warning!]
[War…!]
…
[Error!]
[Error!]
…
[The system has entered a state where output is difficult due to unknown interference!]
[■ning! The ■■ ■■ ■■■■ ■■ ■■■ ■ ■ ■■■■.]
Chiiiiiiik-
「Chosen One!!」
Sha Wujing realized Lee Hyeon’s abnormal condition and screamed.
Lee Hyeon staggered greatly as if he had been hit hard by something.
A chill that seemed to deny his very existence crawled up his spine.
The things before his eyes were not living beings.
They weren’t something made of laws either.
Things that shouldn’t exist in this world.
‘It’s not just one…!!!’
It was different from when he faced the Jade Emperor.
Back then, it was just one person, the owner of the ‘Left Hand’.
But now there were incomparably more than back then….
He had made eye contact with all those many things beyond the abyss.
-You saw us. You saw us. Yes. Well done. That’s it. That’s right. Come to us.
-You are a dokkaebi. The one we saw before. That thing. The one the Jade Emperor wanted to see. No. That’s not right. What are you talking about. If I eat that and you eat it and we share it together.
-The dokkaebi is our friend. Ours. Closest to us. Who the hell are you anyway. Your father has so much narrative built up that it makes our mouths water. Us. You could make us perfect.
-Us. Us. Us.
-Take us to a bigger place. Beyond the outer sea. To the deep sea. Further beyond. Outside the island. So we don’t have to do such annoying things. But. You. Strangely. Why are you human yet your narrative is so complexly tangled. That’s why it makes our mouths water even more. Are you our ally. No way. Are we. Are you also us…!
Amidst the waves of countless thoughts ringing in his head,
Neuan Cheongjeong swelled up as if it would burst.
Lee Hyeon forcibly closed Neuan Cheongjeong, somehow managing to shut the [eye] that still refused to close.
Bang!!
Something exploded in one corner of his head.
Then his body staggered even more greatly once again.
[Warning! Neuan Cheongjeong has been exposed to unknown entities!]
[Jeondan Gongdeokbul’s protection activates, quickly washing away the madness of the outer sea.]
[Mental contamination level: 0.3%]
[Mental barriers are thickening further.]
[Partial immunity to the outer sea has been acquired.]
…
「Chosen One, are you alright!?」
“…I’m fine. Please don’t worry too much.”
Lee Hyeon breathed roughly. Fortunately, he hadn’t let go of the Astrape staff that was blocking the overflow of the outer sea.
Chijik! Chijik!
Chiiiiiiik-
Purple noise briefly flashed across one corner of Neuan Cheongjeong’s vision before disappearing.
An afterimage that remained like residue.
‘What the hell was that? That was… damn.’
If he was in this state, how much worse must the shock have been for Moon Su-chan, who wasn’t human.
He bit his teeth hard.
‘But thanks to that, I confirmed one thing. Those things… are indeed targeting father.’
Lee Hyeon didn’t miss what those creatures had whispered.
The words about Lee Gun-san having countless narratives built up that made their mouths water.
They even spouted strange words about making them ‘perfect’.
He pushed the fear aside.
Right now, getting out of this place came first.
“Astrape!!”
At Lee Hyeon’s shout, Snow Sapphire flashed again,
―ᚦ.
[‘Magic: Lightning Chains’ activates to block the overflow of the outer sea once more!]
[‘Magic: Eagle’s Nest’ deploys to open new coordinates.]
Pajijijik!!
The lightning chains tightly bound and somehow blocked the hole in the outer sea, but the constantly multiplying flesh not only completely destroyed even that,
but also instantly shattered the Thunder Whale that Lee Hyeon had deployed around the area.
Kwaaaaang!!
[The ‘eyes’ of the outer sea attempt to capture you in their sight!]
Amidst the countless scattering fragments of lightning. The flesh had somehow approached right in front of Lee Hyeon’s face.
Close enough to feel its breath.
But it seemed to be tightly bound by something, unable to advance any further.
-What the hell is this. What’s happening. Something that can hold me back. Can.
Leaving behind the panicked thoughts of those creatures, Lee Hyeon’s gaze turned toward the back of the flesh mass.
“…You’re late. Hela. Do you know how long I’ve been waiting?”
“Hoot! Court Mage. You were in quite the predicament, unlike yourself.”
A gate opened in the sky above the vineyard.
Below it, the giant queen Hela was laughing while gripping the tentacles.
Kwaaaaak!
“It seems I must rescue our court mage who’s in trouble! Let’s go! Warriors!!”
“Uoooooh!”
Giant warriors came streaming down through the gate, swinging their axes.
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