The Mage Who Devours Disasters - Chapter 118
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Chapter 118.
The Creator of the Eight-Faced Fortress.
Fortunately, the mastermind who sought to summon the evil deity failed to perceive my true intention.
Shortly after Episode 6 began, their summoning circle—meant to engulf all of Tokyo—shattered pathetically.
Instead.
The reverse-formation array I had pre-inscribed activated with ferocious intensity.
Arrows of curse rebounded toward the eight avatars at the nexus of its power.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
“Save me…!”
Inside the hotel room.
I pressed my right palm against the core of Izanagi’s mirror—the ‘heart’ of the reverse-formation array.
The death throes of those entities flowing across the mirror’s surface resonated vividly through my hand.
Whoooooosh!
The golden rune inscribed on my right palm gaped wide open.
Golden melodies radiated outward in all directions, ravenously devouring the divine essence and mana of the eight avatars channeled through the reverse-formation array.
But.
‘This isn’t my true intention.’
I hadn’t endured all this suffering merely to lick the husks of avatars.
My real objective lay beyond them.
‘The source of the eight avatars.’
The divine essence of the true deities coiled within the Tower of Gods.
To draw them through the reverse-formation array’s passage and absorb them entirely into my right hand.
Theoretically, it was possible.
Using the avatars’ bodies as sacrificial offerings, I could forcibly drag the divine essence of the true bodies connected to them into the range of my predation.
But I couldn’t be certain how it would unfold in actual combat.
‘Please don’t rebound.’
My fingertips trembled.
Tremendous pressure surged backward through my wrist.
And yet.
“…It works.”
The corners of my mouth twisted upward.
It works.
Precisely shattering the avatars’ shells, the divine essence beyond them separated, and the authority of ‘the devourer of calamities’ detonated explosively.
As clear evidence of this.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Golden messages cascaded before my eyes like a waterfall.
[Calamity has devoured ‘the Lesser Deity of Corruption’.]
[Divine essence absorbed.]
[Authority ‘Swamp of Corruption’ acquired.]
[Calamity has devoured ‘the Lesser Deity of Virulent Toxin’.]
[Acquired Authority: ‘Virulent Toxin Dispersal’.]
[Calamity has consumed the ‘Lesser Parasitic Deity’.]
[Acquired Authority: ‘Parasitic Infection’.]
….
Eight messages erupted in rapid succession.
The true bodies of eight lesser deities from the Tower of Gods were dragged down through my Reverse Ascension pathway and devoured whole.
“Hah.”
I exhaled roughly, wiping the sweat from my brow.
I methodically reviewed the authorities I had consumed.
Decay, virulent toxin, parasitism, plague, enfeeblement….
“All from the Biological Faction.”
Without exception, they were all insidious authorities that gnawed at life itself—epidemics, curses, toxins.
It was certain now.
The master of the Heavenly Assembly.
The true identity of the one called Number One.
‘One of the Twelve Sovereigns, an entity at the apex of curses.’
Undoubtedly the Curse Deity.
So that creature had manipulated lesser deities from the same Biological Faction as itself, using them as mere extensions of its will.
I summoned my status window into the empty space before me.
“Authority Combiner.”
Though they were authorities of lesser deities, eight of them had arrived simultaneously.
The Authority Combiner could elevate an authority’s rank exponentially.
Eight should easily produce one of Ancient grade.
Moreover.
‘Since all these authorities belong to the same Biological Faction, their compatibility is beyond question.’
When I had previously combined four lesser authorities, I obtained the Legendary-grade ‘Calamity Descending from All Sides’.
This time, I had double that—eight.
Without hesitation, I dumped all eight authorities into the Combiner’s cauldron.
[Will you combine 8 lesser authorities?]
“Combine them.”
Uuuuuuuung!
The cauldron began roiling pitch-black.
Toxins and curses fused together, unleashing explosive synergy.
Ding!
[Combination complete!]
[A new authority has been born!]
[Authority rank has been recalibrated.]
[Reached ‘Ancient’ grade.]
[Authority Name: Plague of Calamity]
Ancient grade.
It was as expected.
But the real test begins now.
After all, I possessed yet another ancient power from the Biological Faction.
The divine artifact of the Plague Deity—obtained by burning 13 million Nectar at the Secret Auction.
The power I gained after devouring it.
‘Black Plague.’
With trembling hands, I opened the power combination interface once more.
[Checking available powers for combination.]
[1. Black Plague (Ancient)]
[2. Calamity Plague Zone (Ancient)]
Both ancient-grade.
Moreover, perfectly aligned attributes of plague and disease.
[Analyzing compatibility between the two powers.]
[Warning: Combination compatibility is exceptional!]
[Disease and decay achieve perfect synergy.]
“Combine them.”
The cauldron erupted the moment the command left my lips.
This time, crimson smoke surged forth, and space itself trembled.
Ding!
[Combination complete!]
[A new power has been born!]
[The power’s grade transcends its limits.]
[It reaches the ‘Primordial’ grade!]
[Power Name: Lord of the Putrid Sea]
“…Primordial.”
An exclamation escaped my lips unbidden.
My second Primordial-grade power, following the ‘Living Primordial Flame’!
The Putrid Sea.
A sea of decay and corruption.
Its lord—the very name reeked of annihilation.
But to understand its true nature, I would need to manifest Rag and test it myself.
What was certain was that my combat strength had leaped to an entirely new dimension.
I was basking in that satisfaction when—
“…?”
The view beyond the window seemed wrong.
Tokyo City Center remained a battlefield.
With the Eight-Faced Fortress destroyed, the Heavenly Assembly’s plan to summon their evil deity had failed.
But.
Episode 6 had already begun.
And the summoning of the Eight-Faced Fortress had not entirely failed.
Only the evil deity he had been attempting to summon was excluded.
With eight avatars consumed, something would inevitably be summoned.
But then.
“What is that…?”
I narrowed my eyes.
Through the pitch-black storm clouds blanketing Tokyo’s sky, something emerged.
A giant.
An absolutely colossal figure.
Even Tokyo’s towering skyscrapers barely reached its waist.
“A Frost Giant?”
I furrowed my brow.
Frost Giants were notorious even in Asgard.
Each one possessed grotesquely abnormal physical abilities and magical power—true monsters.
Ding!
A crimson warning window materialized before my eyes.
[Great Calamity: Jotun descends upon this realm.]
“Ha.”
A hollow laugh escaped my lips.
Jotun.
A Frost Giant of the highest order.
Not merely some oversized brute, but the most formidable among its kind—a ferocious entity wielding the magic of glacial ice.
The genuine original Jotun had appeared, incomparable to Cryos’s legions of Frost Giants.
‘This battle would prove far from simple.’
If that creature roamed freely through Tokyo City Center, the entire metropolis would plunge into an ice age within minutes.
But then.
At that very moment.
A deafening rumble tore through the air.
At the heart of the Eight-Faced Fortress.
Right where I had inscribed the reverse formation—the space warped grotesquely.
Soon the dimensional fabric split open, a chasm spreading wide.
“…?!”
From the gaping rift, a maw of incomprehensible magnitude burst forth.
A mouth yawning open like a ravenous demon.
That colossal jaw.
Seized the Jotun’s upper body as it prepared to trample Tokyo.
A thunderous crunch! A sickening tear!
…It tore the creature apart in a single bite.
-A horrific death cry!
The Jotun thrashed and convulsed in agony, but resistance proved futile.
The dark maw chewed the creature whole and dragged it beyond the Dimensional Gap.
Crack. The sound of bones shattering reverberated across all of Tokyo.
I stood frozen, staring at the spectacle unfolding before me.
I couldn’t help but be bewildered.
A proper summoning of an evil deity had clearly failed.
At most, an evil deity weaker than Jotun should have been summoned—that was the natural outcome.
So how did such a monstrosity emerge?
‘Surely not.’
My mind raced.
The master of the Heavenly Assembly. Number One.
Was this the Curse Deity’s doing?
It seemed that when his plan failed, he forcibly dragged forth something far more powerful.
But how?
There shouldn’t be enough life force to serve as a medium for the summoning.
Then a possibility struck me.
‘What if the Curse Deity sacrificed his own avatar?’
A chill ran down my spine.
If my suspicion was correct, Number One was one of the Twelve Sovereigns.
This avatar was painstakingly crafted by him.
Naturally, the density of divine power and life force contained within it would far exceed the combined lives of every citizen in Tokyo.
No matter how I thought about it, there was no other explanation.
He had torn open the Dimensional Gate by force, using even his own avatar as kindling.
That insane obsession had summoned an evil deity that could devour Jotun in a single bite.
My ominous premonition was not wrong.
Ding!
[Warning! A new calamitous beast descends.]
[Gua, the Mother of Gu Poison, has been summoned.]
[Level: 120]
[Grade: Annihilation]
“….”
The moment I saw that name.
I couldn’t help but stiffen.
Gu poison.
Insects confined in a narrow jar, forced to devour one another until only the final survivor remains—the ultimate toxin and curse.
It was known as the most malevolent curse.
And he had summoned Gua, the very source and mother of that curse.
‘To summon such a thing.’
I clenched my teeth.
This exceeded the range of evil deities that the Eight-Faced Fortress could summon.
The real problem was the existence of Gua herself.
Dusksini, who appeared in Korea during Episode 5, was adorable in comparison to Gua.
At the very least, Dusksini was not an evil deity.
She had clear weaknesses—losing her power when daylight broke.
She fed on fear and terror.
But Gua was an evil deity.
A being forged entirely from malice, driven by an instinctive hunger to drain the life from everything around her.
In short.
“…Are you insane?”
The Curse Deity was undoubtedly mad.
And her intentions were unmistakable.
To transform Tokyo—no, all of Japan—into hell itself.
But then.
“…!”
SCREEEECH!
A rift tore open once more at the heart of the Eight-Faced Fortress.
And then.
-CRUNCH!
It devoured Gua.
Ding!
[Warning! A new calamity-class monstrosity has descended.]
[The Apocalypse Worshipper has been summoned.]
[Level: 150]
[Grade: Ultimate Destruction]
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