The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 209

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Chapter 209
Chapter 209
When I played First.
I had quite a struggle conquering that White Aquatic Deity.
And for good reason—its health pool was so absurdly high that no matter how much I attacked, its vitality wouldn’t diminish.
Even worse, whenever I managed to whittle down its health below a certain threshold, it would dive into the Deep Sea to fully recover before returning, which was absolutely maddening.
After conquering that creature dozens of times, I discovered its weakness: its ‘hearts’.
‘When I first saw them, I had no idea what they were.’
They weren’t shaped like actual hearts, despite the name.
More like tumorous growths scattered throughout the White Aquatic Deity’s body.
However, since all of them pulsed and throbbed like hearts, I simply called them that.
And the location of that first heart was precisely.
“There.”
“There?”
“Wait, are you referring to that?”
“That’s the Evil God’s weakness?”
Its palate.
The center of the palate I was pointing at.
There, something swollen like a tumor pulsed with a faint glow.
As if sensing that its weakness had been exposed.
“Its tongue!”
“What? Is it eavesdropping on us?”
“Does it have eyes inside its mouth or something?”
Its tongue moved to shield the heart.
Still, at least I’d revealed the location.
“Kang Ju-hyuk, you burst that open.”
“Me? But the tongue is blocking it—how am I supposed to burst it?”
“Just crawl through the gaps in the tongue.”
“Ugh! What do you take me for…!”
“You’re the only one who can do this. Only you can drive your claws into the tongue and crawl to reach the heart on the palate.”
“Heh, true, only me, right? Okay, just trust me!”
I sent Kang Ju-hyuk in first.
Even if it tried to block with its tongue, someone of Kang Ju-hyuk’s caliber should be able to burst through.
Next.
“The rest of you will enter the throat with me. Kang Ju-hyuk, once you burst that open, come inside.”
“Got it!”
“Yes, Guild Master!”
I entered the White Aquatic Deity’s throat alongside the Guild members.
Since its tongue was raised to shield the heart, we could easily slip through the gaps and enter the throat.
The moment we entered through the throat, what I felt was.
“Is this the throat?”
“Rather than a throat, it’s more like… a passage?”
“Just as the Guild Master said, it really does resemble a Dungeon.”
It had the form of a throat.
No matter how massive the White Water Deity was, as a living creature, traversing its interior—including the throat—should have been difficult under normal circumstances.
Yet upon entering the throat, I discovered it had been fashioned like an actual corridor rather than the constricted passage I’d expected.
Of course, the walls and floor were composed of flesh, so the squishy sensation beneath my feet was deeply unpleasant.
“Everyone, stay alert as you follow.”
“Understood!”
We then sprinted through the throat’s passage.
I hoped we could destroy the heart entirely without incident, but unfortunately, the White Water Deity’s interior was far from empty.
“Chirp-chirp.”
“Chirp-chirp-chirp—.”
“Ugh, what are those things? They’re absolutely grotesque.”
“They are parasites that infest the White Water Deity’s body.”
“Parasites? Could they be whale roundworms or something like that?”
Parasites.
Worms that bore an uncanny resemblance to real-world whale roundworms.
The difference, however, was striking.
“They seem far too large for that, though…?”
Their size.
Measured in meters rather than centimeters.
Thick as serpents, and displaying unmistakable hostility toward us—hardly the behavior of ordinary parasites.
That’s right.
These creatures were precisely—
“Guardian soldiers that protect the White Water Deity’s interior, if you will.”
Monsters that would relentlessly obstruct our path forward.
As I’d explained them to be worms, their weakness mirrored that of the monsters beneath the Black Insect God.
[ Flame Demon’s Claw ]
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Form : Sword
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Description : A blade forged from the claw of a demon born in the scorching hellfire. The sound of malevolent spirits seems to echo from the sword’s edge.
Flame.
The moment I drew the fire-aspected blade, I charged toward the creatures and swung with all my might.
Ordinarily, these beasts possessed tough flesh and were troublesome to engage.
Whoosh!
“Chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp—.”
But they were still just worms, after all.
They are weak to flame attacks.
Each time I swung my sword, the parasites burned away and retreated from me.
There were too many to face alone, but that no longer mattered.
“Let’s help the Guild Master!”
“Flame attacks are their weakness! If you can use attribute attacks, strike with fire as much as possible!”
I was no longer alone.
Together with my Guild members, I cut down the parasites and pressed forward relentlessly.
That’s when we encountered a fork in the path.
There was no need to choose just one route.
The White Water Deity’s heart existed in every direction anyway.
To destroy all of the White Water Deity’s hearts, I would eventually need to venture down every branching path.
Therefore.
“From now on, we’ll split up one person at a time.”
“What? But…”
“I’ll assign each of you to a path suited to your level, so you should be able to clear it alone. Let’s start with Lagia.”
“Yes, understood!”
To shorten the time needed for conquest.
I sent my Guild members down each branching path one by one.
Of course, I wasn’t sending them out recklessly.
Drawing on my memories of conquering the White Water Deity at First, I was assigning Guild members to each path based on its difficulty level.
For passages that required no real combat, just long distances, I sent my weakest member.
For areas with high combat difficulty, I sent two strong members.
After sending them out in this manner.
“Please count on us.”
“We’ll succeed for sure!”
After dispatching my Guild members to the final branching path.
I was left alone once more.
Even trusting my Guild members, the battle ahead would be quite difficult, but soon Kang Ju-hyuk would arrive to help.
With that faith.
“Luke, let’s go.”
– Yes, Master.
I took the final path.
The widest passage, and I began to sprint forward.
Originally at First, I had tried to conquer all the branching paths alone, which often led to time delays and failed conquests.
Now, thanks to my Guild members’ assistance, I could save considerable time.
Now only one thing remained.
‘I wonder if things are going well outside.’
Until I destroyed the White Water Deity’s final heart, whether the ships outside could properly restrain the White Water Deity.
That was the crux of this conquest.
* * *
At that moment.
Outside.
“Everyone, focus!”
“Hold tight!”
“Pull! We must pull!”
“We have to keep the Evil God immobilized!”
“Fire the cannons! We don’t even need to deal damage! Use the recoil to keep the lines taut!”
They were doing everything in their power to restrain the White Water Deity.
Moving the ships, continuously firing harpoons and cannons.
By any means necessary, they kept the harpoons and ropes embedded in the White Water Deity pulled taut, dealing whatever damage they could to drain its vitality.
Thanks to their efforts, they had succeeded in letting Mir and his companions inside.
But relief was short-lived.
“Uuuuoooooo—!!”
Rumble rumble rumble!
“What, what is this!”
“It’s thrashing!”
The White Water Deity began to thrash with a force entirely different from before.
Twisting its body to create tidal waves, shooting geysers, letting out monstrous shrieks.
The power was so immense that all the ships with harpoons embedded in the White Water Deity were shaking violently.
Witnessing this, the sailors could be certain.
“The lord has succeeded!”
“Baron Mir is executing the operation successfully!”
Within the body of the White Water Deity.
Mir was attacking its vital points exactly as planned.
Because of this.
“Fire! Shoot anything! It cannot escape into the water!”
“Baron Mir is inside it! We cannot afford to lose it!”
“Protect the lord!!”
The sailors moved their ships with even greater desperation.
Outer walls crumbled, were torn apart, water poured in—none of it mattered.
They continuously brought harpoons and ropes from the hold and fired them at the White Water Deity.
A determination to hold the White Water Deity fast, even if this ship were dragged down and sunk.
Was it thanks to that determination?
“Uuuuoooooo—!!!”
The White Water Deity groaned in agony as its heart was torn apart, yet it could not sink into the depths.
* * *
Rumble!
The corridor trembles.
This means the body of the White Water Deity is shaking.
Though it had been trembling slightly until now, the fact that the White Water Deity’s body was shaking this violently without water seeping inside meant.
‘Everyone’s doing their part well, it seems.’
Everyone was faithfully fulfilling their respective roles.
Since Kang Ju-hyuk and the Guild members were brilliantly rupturing the White Water Deity’s hearts, the White Water Deity was thrashing about like this.
And the fact that water still wasn’t seeping into its body meant the ships were holding the White Water Deity in place magnificently.
That left me with one task.
Scritch!
“Ssshhhhhhh—.”
I severed the parasites dwelling within its body.
Thud!
And ruptured the hearts embedded at every critical point within.
The heart embedded with the ‘Flame Demon’s Claw’ exploded in a burst of flames.
The ground trembled immediately, and judging by the intensifying vibrations, more than half of the hearts must have already ruptured.
Then, one remained.
Thump, thump, thump—.
In the deepest reaches of the White Water Deity’s body.
Not the false heart clinging to the walls and ceiling like a tumor and pulsing away, but the true heart of the White Water Deity—it was time to rupture it.
“I’ve arrived.”
I had reached the heart chamber of the White Water Deity.
What lay before me was a heart of tremendous size.
A heart nearly the size of a house was pumping blood throughout the White Water Deity’s body via the aorta.
Two entities stood before that heart, blocking my path.
The first was.
‘The pericardium.’
The membrane enveloping the heart.
That pericardium was a defensive barrier impossible to breach with ordinary attacks.
However, the pericardium before me was already torn more than halfway through.
The reason was simple—the condition for destroying that pericardium was rupturing the false hearts scattered throughout the White Water Deity’s body.
Soon, the pericardium would tear completely, and I would be able to strike the true heart.
And the second was.
“Chiiiirrrrip—.”
The parasites resembling whale roundworms that I had observed thus far.
Of course, since they were guarding the true heart, they were far from ordinary.
“Chirp—.”
“Ssshhhhh.”
“Chiiiirrrrrrip—.”
Hundreds upon hundreds of parasites intertwined, forming a collective entity.
They were the guardian sentinels protecting the true heart of the White Water Deity.
Certainly formidable monsters, but.
“Faster than I expected.”
A smile spread unbidden across my face as I faced them.
Come to think of it, the same held true back at First.
Whether it was a powerful monster or not, the difficulty lay in reaching this place, not in striking down the creature itself.
“You favored fire attributes too, didn’t you?”
Screech!
“Churrrrr… screech?”
Flame Demon’s claws.
As I drew forth not only that, but a flame weapon effective against the creature and approached, it instinctively writhed and retreated backward.

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