Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 320

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 320

Sons of Zeus (10)

With the world covered in flesh behind him, Lee Hyeon was barely catching his breath.

“Haa…! Haa…!”

The dungeon giants had appeared to help, but it wasn’t over yet.

The hole that Dionysus had suddenly torn open by taking his own life was only blocked with lightning chains.

It was merely a temporary seal.

‘Crazy bastard.’

The more he thought about Dionysus, the more irritated he became.

A madman who sacrificed his brothers and stabbed his own neck.

But at the end of all those acts, what he wanted was only one thing.

Father.

Lee Gun-san.

‘…He’s crazy, but.’

The look in Dionysus’s eyes at the last moment.

That wasn’t madness.

It was desperation.

Lee Hyeon felt around for the Underworld God’s tongue in his chest.

The warmth still remaining in the dark red stone.

That bastard’s bloodlust. That bastard’s longing. That bastard’s filial piety.

‘His filial piety alone… must have been real. Even though it was nothing but unfilial conduct to his father.’

No father would want to extend his life by selling his child’s life.

Briefly. Dryly. He acknowledged only that and put away his emotions.

He couldn’t let himself be dragged in any further.

* * *

Kwaaaaak!!

The giant’s axe split the chunk of flesh vertically.

The purple tentacles writhed as if screaming, then went limp.

“Ha! This jelly lump is supposed to be a god! What the hell kind of place is the Outer Sea!?”

Hela’s voice tore across the battlefield.

The queen of the dungeon giants, covered in tentacle fluids and rotting flesh, glared with bulging eyes.

Her gaze was murderous.

“Let’s gooooo!”

“Kill them all!!”

“Today we’ll trample those things!”

In contrast, the giant warrior corps cheerfully fell in a line out of the gate, dealing with the tentacles.

They seemed to be enjoying their first look at the world in a long time.

Kugung! Kugung! Kugung!

Axes split flesh.

Shields crushed tentacles.

The giants’ grip strength squeezed and burst the blood vessels of the purple flesh like crushing bones.

“Push forward! Don’t worry about the ribs! Cut it all out!!”

At Hela’s command, the giants’ thunderous war cries rang out.

A retreat route opened between them.

[‘Sacred Relic: Somersault Cloud’ is activated!]

The Somersault Cloud flashed beneath his feet and Lee Hyeon’s body soared up.

‘At least I’ve gained distance from that thing with this. Then I’ve bought enough time to escape,’

“Wait…!”

Just then, someone interrupted Lee Hyeon’s thoughts.

“…Hyung?”

Moon Su-chan was getting up from the ground.

Pale complexion. Blood trickling down from his temple.

He had definitely been knocked unconscious, but it seemed he had regained consciousness.

Lee Hyeon’s expression hardened.

“No. Hyung, you shouldn’t push yourself right now. The mental contamination from the Outer Sea is probably more serious than you think.”

「That’s right, Su-chan. Don’t overdo it. Leave it to us for now and rest.」

Yukimihiro also appeared from the shadows and urgently warned him.

However,

“No. I’m fine.”

Moon Su-chan stood up on his feet.

He staggered but somehow endured without breaking.

“…I know too. My brain feels like it’s turning inside out.”

Cracks were spreading across Perseus’s mask. Thin fissures.

“But if we bow down to those bastards here, what would that make us? Right?”

The hand holding up Harpe was trembling, but his eyes behind the mask were slightly smiling.

“Haa!”

“Fine. Handle it yourself. Handle it. But if you get in the way, I’ll knock you out immediately, so handle it yourself.”

“When that happens, I’ll serve you as president for life.”

“Ah shit, that’s really tempting though.”

Pfft.

Lee Hyeon chuckled lightly and struck the ground with the Astrape staff he was holding.

“Let’s go.”

Kung!!

Pazizik-

The snow sapphire at the top of the Astrape staff flashed.

[‘Magic: Eagle’s Nest’ opens new coordinates!]

[Coordinate update complete.]

[Destination: Guam.]

Paaaaat!

Behind Lee Hyeon, a spatial rift of the same size as when he had poured out the dungeon giants opened.

What could be seen was,

“…Guam? I heard it became a lawless zone. I didn’t know it would be to that extent.”

A city of pleasure with beautifully twinkling lights came into view. Surprise crossed Moon Su-chan’s face.

He had caught a glimpse when evacuating all of Zeus’s sons over there before Dionysus’s gang arrived,

But the fact that he could casually teleport the distance of several thousand kilometers from Korea to Guam was still amazing.

“But why Guam of all places?”

“Seoul would become a wasteland. That place is already a wasteland.”

“…That’s so like you.”

“And,”

Behind Apollo’s mask, Lee Hyeon’s eyes curved into crescents.

“That place is also my territory where I can do whatever I want.”

“Heh.”

Moon Su-chan let out a light sneer.

“Wh-what is that?”

“People?”

“A strange place and space opened up!”

Meanwhile, people who were gambling, people intoxicated by drugs, and even tourists – everyone without exception stopped walking and looked this way.

After all, a Gate had suddenly opened in the peaceful(?) skies above Guam.

Flash-

Lee Hyeon and Moon Su-chan immediately threw themselves through the space.

No, they tried to throw themselves.

If only tentacles that appeared as the ground suddenly flipped hadn’t tried to grab Lee Hyeon’s ankle.

Swish!

“…!!”

“Lee Hyeon!”

A sticky sensation. Purple killing intent.

A fragment of the Outer Sea grabbed Lee Hyeon and whispered silently.

-Won’t let go. Here together. Melt. We. We. Your. Help us hear your story. Delicious looking. Fun looking. Friend. Friend. You are a friend who should be in the same place as us. Friend.

Moon Su-chan hurriedly stepped forward to cut the tentacles, but new tentacles grew in two branches from where he cut and targeted him as well.

“…!?”

“Damn it…!!”

[Mental contamination is recurring!]

Whiiiiing-

Even trying to block it, their bodies hesitated from the wave of madness that suddenly struck the crown of their heads.

Just as the two brothers’ faces were about to harden from the approaching tentacles,

Flash!

Apollo’s mask suddenly grew hot and emitted golden light.

“…!!”

“This is…!”

The Underworld Deity’s tongue in his chest as well.

The two Sacred Relics resonated.

[Apollo’s mask is reacting!]

[The magic power remaining in Apollo’s mask resonates with the coordinates carved on the Underworld Deity’s hardened tongue!]

[Lee Gun-san’s residual magic power is detected.]

The golden light was warm.

That warmth was of a kind only the two brothers knew.

“…Father?”

It was Lee Gun-san’s magic power.

The worn and weathered residual heat that had seeped into the mask during 9,982 regressions.

It was now,

At this moment, reacting to his sons’ crisis.

[Apollo’s sunlight seeks to purify the contamination of the Outer Sea!]

The golden light burned away the tentacles like flames in an instant.

With a sound like terrible screams burning, all the approaching purple mist melted away like a lie.

Like snow melting in warm spring.

[Effect duration: 7 seconds.]

A time that was short if short, long if long.

It was enough.

Lee Hyeon and Moon Su-chan threw themselves through the spatial rift without delay.

The same thing reflected in their eyes.

The moment the golden light scattered.

Something too faint to call a form, but too clear to call an afterimage of light.

A back in military uniform.

Broad shoulders.

Short hair on the back of his head.

Lee Gun-san.

His magic power, his lingering thoughts, his spirit remaining in Apollo’s mask glanced this way with a smile, then was seen running toward the tentacles again.

* * *

Guam.

Caldera Holdings directly managed ‘Estrella’ Casino & Resort. Suite Room.

“…Gwiroae, that bastard.”

Victor Pacheco.

Boss of Caldera Holdings and arms smuggler of southern Guam.

A man in a black suit that he never took off even under the tropical southern sun hung up the phone and gritted his teeth.

“Homerus Holdings? An outsider who suddenly appeared is now even touching the ports? Black Maria and City Cartel are both wagging their tails to that bastard…!”

Bang!

He slammed the documents on the table and grumbled.

Since Gwiroae appeared in Guam, the situation had completely flipped.

City Cartel was cut in half, and Caldera Holdings also lost two weapons trading routes. Casino profits dropped by 30%.

It was all because of that bastard.

“Phew… No. No. Let’s calm down first. Once this project ends well, that guy won’t have many days left to live. Ehehe!”

In fact, Victor had been secretly proceeding with various matters recently.

One was to immediately eliminate the disgusting Homerus Holdings bastards’ business sites,

And the other was to immediately kill Gwiroae when he returned to rescue such business sites.

There were already tremendously many people inside Guam who had complaints about Guile Pater.

No matter how much Ramon Marquez of the slaughterhouse tried to mediate as a proxy,

To Guam’s existing residents, especially the ‘Blue Ribbon’s 21 companies’ known to rule Guam, he was nothing more than an outlaw disturbing the island’s peaceful order.

“Recently he’s been so scared of something that he barely shows his face.”

Even recently, when he’s been busy clashing with the Sons of Zeus, he barely shows himself in Guam.

So,

Residents came to make various speculations.

―No matter how great Gwiroae is, does he have the capacity to face the Sons of Zeus after City Cartel?

―Isn’t Homerus Holdings’ recent rapid expansion just bluffing?

―Maybe Gwiroae died somewhere. Or got seriously injured.

The conclusion reached at the end of such reasoning was only one.

―Even if Gwiroae returns, we can catch him sufficiently.

Thanks to that, several rulers of Hagatna began to unite under Victor Pacheco’s command.

Now, if plans were to unfold sequentially in various places soon, Homerus Holdings would no longer be able to withstand the territorial pressure and would have to be driven out.

‘Of course, without being able to leave even a single sock behind. Hehehe!’

And if Gwiroae’s shameless head were to roll, those lowlifes from Tumon Street and Dededo Slums who had recently started arrogantly raising their heads would also come to their senses.

Thinking this way, it felt like ten years of pent-up frustration had melted away all at once.

With the thought of having a glass of wine, he opened his most precious and cherished bottle.

Pop!

A wine easily worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Originally a precious item recovered from an old shipwreck, wasn’t it?

What he had purchased at an auction to satisfy his collecting desire could finally be opened today.

Just as he was about to enjoy a glass while savoring the aroma,

Crash!!

…Suddenly the ceiling collapsed.

“…Huh?”

Dust swirling in the air.

The wine he had just poured full into his glass was also ruined.

Since the situation had unfolded without any chance to react, Pacheco blankly looked back and forth between the ceiling and below.

A pure white figure who had come down through the suite room’s ceiling.

He was even wearing a mask on his face.

It was Gwiroae.

Next to him stood what appeared to be a swordsman guard.

“Oh my. Did we interrupt your private relaxation time?”

As expected, it was someone wearing a ridiculous cosplay-like mask.

‘Here? Why are you suddenly appearing? No, more than that, isn’t the guy next to you affiliated with the Sons of Zeus? Weren’t you two enemies? Why are you together?’

Did I see something wrong?

Victor suspected from the sudden appearance that perhaps his secret project had been discovered and this guy had come to assassinate him, but,

“Paterrr!”

“We have to go together! Court Magician!”

Behind Gwiroae, something was pouring down continuously from the sky.

Giants.

Warriors with massive frames over 3 meters tall, like those you’d only see in dungeons, were attempting to land one after another while holding axes.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five…

“…!?”

Moreover, between the giants, purple-colored tentacles were somehow trying to chase after them.

Dionysus’ Thought-Form had followed the giants and flowed into this world.

“Ugh, uwaah! No! Don’t come!”

Whether it was the dungeon giants or the strange tentacles, he couldn’t understand what they were.

Victor Pacheco belatedly screamed at the thought that Gwiroae would mess up his business establishment.

“Sorry about that. I’ll compensate you later if I get the chance.”

But that was something he couldn’t help. Only Moon Su-chan’s brief apology scattered emptily.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!!

The building shook every time the dungeon giants fell in succession.

The chandelier fell. Slot machines toppled over.

Kyaaaah! From below, screams could be heard from people who had been enjoying the casino during this sudden emergency situation.

Then, the moment a purple tentacle struck the casino building,

Crashhhh!

The Estrella Casino completely collapsed.

“Uwaaahhhhh!! Gwiroaeeee! You crazy bastarddddd!!”

Pacheco’s scream cut across Guam’s night sky.

But Lee Hyeon’s group had already completely left the casino building.

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