The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 228

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Chapter 228
Chapter 228
Asura, the God of Destruction.
The moment he appeared, I couldn’t help but stiffen my expression.
‘Asura.’
He was an enemy on an entirely different level from the mythic-grade monsters that had appeared so far.
In fact, I wasn’t even sure if calling him a monster was appropriate.
After all, even in First, the gods were figures closer to NPCs than monsters.
Well, that’s not to say I’ve never fought a god before.
‘Just not their true form.’
An avatar—a god borrowing the form of a human, monster, or object.
Or a manifestation created by projecting or manifesting only a fraction of their power onto the earthly realm.
I had fought and won against such forms before.
But I had never directly confronted a god’s true body like this.
First didn’t even have such a system in place.
Recognizing Shiva’s presence, I immediately—
“Go!”
I urged King Arthur’s steed, Hlamrei, forward.
The reason was simple.
In First, even mythic-grade monsters easily exceeded level 800, and avatars and similar entities were mostly at the maximum level.
Then what about a god’s true form?
Even weakened like the monsters here, it could easily exceed a thousand levels.
I wasn’t reckless enough to charge headlong at such beings.
“Hiiiiiing!”
Hlamrei began to accelerate.
“Don’t you dare flee! Accept destruction—!!”
Shiva’s voice rang out behind us.
Hlamrei swiftly passed by Shiva, but he calmly wielded the weapons held in his six arms one by one.
The Axe of Destruction, Parashu, tearing through the air as it flew toward us.
The Trident of Destruction, Trishula, screaming as it hurtled down.
The Arrow of Destruction, Pashupata, shot from the Bow of Destruction, Pinaka—a bow so powerful that even humans struggle to draw its string.
I knew them all.
Mythic-grade items with a level 1,000 restriction that I had painstakingly obtained while playing First.
These were already the most powerful level 1,000 restricted mythic-grade weapons in First, and I couldn’t even imagine how devastating they would be in a god’s hands.
For that very reason—
[ Shield of the Gods, Aegis ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Shield
Grade : Mythic
Requirement : Level 1,000 or higher, Shield Mastery Lv 100 or higher
Description: The Shield of the Gods, said to have been granted by the supreme god Zeus to Athena. At its center is embedded the head of Medusa, appearing as if alive.
I drew forth the most powerful Mythic-grade shield among those I possessed.
Hllamrei galloped swiftly as befitted a Mythic-grade steed, yet could not evade the attack of a god.
Therefore, I alone had to block Shiva’s assault entirely.
– Activating skill ‘Jade Stone Bastion’.
Using the divine shield Aegis combined with the Evil God’s defensive skill, I intercepted the trident Trishula hurtling toward me.
Clang!!
“Ugh!”
Despite wielding the divine shield and activating a Mythic-grade defensive skill.
A crushing impact reverberated through my entire body via the shield.
From that collision, Hllamrei was sent flying forward with unbroken momentum, and I too was propelled along with my steed—
‘Not yet.’
Shiva’s weapons continued their relentless pursuit.
First, the Axe of Destruction, Parashu, which appeared most formidable at a glance.
– Activating the unique skill ‘Divine Protection’ from ‘Shield of the Gods, Aegis’.
I blocked it using Aegis’s first unique skill.
Or could I truly call it blocking?
The unique defensive skill manifested through a Mythic-grade weapon with a 1,000-level restriction was torn asunder by Parashu—I merely twisted the trajectory to barely evade it.
In any case, what came next was the Arrow of Destruction, Pashupata.
Toward the dozens of arrows Shiva ceaselessly unleashed.
– Activating the unique skill ‘Medusa’s Gaze’ from ‘Shield of the Gods, Aegis’.
I activated Aegis’s second unique skill.
Medusa’s Gaze.
A skill that petrifies the opponent through the effect of Medusa’s head embedded in the shield.
Naturally, even Medusa’s Gaze could not petrify Shiva himself.
Crack!
Yet it was possible to affect the incoming Arrows of Destruction, Pashupata.
The arrowheads of Pashupata began to petrify.
Since Pashupata too was a divine weapon, the petrification’s range was minimal, but that alone sufficed to destabilize the arrows’ trajectories.
Though considerably shaken, I had successfully blocked all of Shiva’s attacks.
However.
“Kahahaha! How exhilarating!!”
Shiva’s weapons returned to his hands like boomerangs.
Immediately, he spun his body and hurled the weapons anew, drawing back Pinaka to fire Pashupata.
My situation, meanwhile, had become dire.
Hllamrei, having sustained severe damage, was unsummoned, and Aegis too had turned grey and deactivated.
Therefore, I immediately.
[ Anbar’s Spring Flute ]
( Untradeable )
Type: Mount
Rarity: Mythic
Requirements: Level 1,000 or higher, Riding Skill Lv 100
Description: The words of Lugh, the God of Light, who can run across the sea as swiftly as a spring breeze—a warm spring pipe capable of summoning Anbar, the divine steed.
Piiiiiii—!
I blew the divine steed’s pipe I had been saving.
“Hiiiiing!”
Anbar, the steed of Lugh the God of Light, appeared instantly.
The moment I mounted it.
“Charge toward that star! As fast as you can!”
I commanded it to gallop.
In that instant.
Clatter—!
Anbar began charging at an incredible speed.
I had thought Flammray’s speed was fast, but it couldn’t compare to the velocity of Anbar, a mythic-grade divine steed at level 1,000.
Even so, a god of Shiva’s caliber would be able to continue attacking.
‘It’s the same as with mythic-grade monsters. I don’t know how strong Shiva originally was, but at best he’s been weakened to an incarnation-grade level.’
Fortunately, like mythic-grade monsters, Shiva too was in a weakened state.
If that were the case, I could escape.
As expected, Anbar galloped faster than the wind, pulling away from Shiva.
Shiva’s attacks could no longer catch up to me.
But.
“How dare you attempt to pass through this place in such a wretched form.”
Just as with Cerberus, Shiva’s appearance was merely the beginning.
Anubis, the God of Death bearing the form of a black jackal’s head, sent a veil of death toward me.
“Freeze!”
Then Skadi, the Goddess of Winter, unleashed a blizzard to obstruct my movement.
“You cannot pass beyond this point.”
Heimdall, the guardian of Bifrost the rainbow bridge, directly blocked my path.
The further I advanced toward the star, the greater the number of gods, and the higher their divine rank.
Accordingly, I had long since abandoned any thought of fighting them and winning.
“Faster!”
“Hiiiiing!”
I focused on escape.
Anbar was incredibly fast, but as a mythic-grade divine steed at level 1,000, it was not something I at level 300 could maintain for long.
Its duration was not very long.
Yet, even that brief duration proved insufficient.
“Behold the beauty of my arrows!”
The level of gods appearing grew even higher, and Apollo, the Sun God called one of the Twelve Olympians, made his entrance.
As he drew the bowstring of Argyrotoxos, his silver bow.
Whoosh—.
An arrow streaked down like sunlight itself.
Thwack!
“Neeeigh!”
It pierced through Anbar.
The arrow’s velocity was so tremendous that I had no opportunity to block it.
Left with no choice.
[ Pegasus Wing Whistle ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Mount
Grade : Mythic
Restriction : Level 1,000 or higher, Riding Skill Lv 100
Description : A wing whistle capable of summoning Pegasus, a winged horse born from the blood of Poseidon, god of the Sea.
I summoned the next mount.
Pegasus soared high into the heavens, its pristine wings fluttering majestically.
“Neeeigh!”
As Pegasus flew through the sky, it moved with three-dimensional grace, evading the gods’ attacks with increasing dexterity.
But my opponents were gods.
Even Pegasus could not deflect every assault, so I too desperately warded off the divine onslaught.
[ Rending Shield, Linotoros ]
The shield of Ares, god of war.
A grotesque shield with rotating razor teeth, tearing through thick thornvines.
[ Vishnu’s Judgment, Sudarshana ]
The weapon of Vishnu, god of time.
A chakram said to have annihilated armies and shot down aerial fortresses in a single throw.
I hurled that disc of light to intercept the gods’ attacks.
‘There are too many.’
Until now, I had played Second while carefully rationing my Mythic-grade items.
Since Mythic-grade items didn’t match my level, their cooldowns were excruciatingly long after each use.
Even Astrappe, the very first Mythic weapon I ever wielded, still hasn’t come off cooldown, hasn’t it?
Well, Astrappe should be coming off cooldown soon, though.
In any case, that was how I used to operate.
But now I had no luxury to conserve my Mythic-grade items.
Boom-crash!
A Mythic-grade weapon with a 1,000-level restriction.
Mythic-grade shields.
Mythic-grade armor.
Even that wasn’t enough—I deployed Legendary and Epic items recklessly to block the gods’ attacks and repel their advances.
The only saving grace was Pegasus’s transcendent speed as a Mythic-grade mount.
‘I can see it.’
Where the star points to.
The destination of the Awakening Quest.
I could finally see the end of the Age of Fallen Mythology where the roster existed.
That instant.
Crack!
A crackling bolt of lightning struck down directly onto Pegasus’s wings.
Despite the high attribute resistance befitting a Mythic-tier mount, one attack completely incinerated one of Pegasus’s wings, and I wasn’t spared from the damage either.
As a result, Pegasus began to plummet.
I turned my head to look.
“Ahahaha! Come at me with confidence!”
Thor, the god of lightning, was wielding his hammer.
This lightning bolt was surely created by him as well.
Before he could throw his hammer next.
[ Sleipnir’s Rainbow Flute ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Mount
Grade : Mythic
Restriction : Level 1,000 or higher, Riding Skill Lv 100
Description : The divine steed ridden by the supreme god Odin, known as the finest among all horses in the world—a flute that summons Sleipnir, the greatest divine horse of the divine realm.
I blew the last mount flute I had been saving.
The greatest mount I had favored most in First.
A legendary divine steed capable of traversing not only the earth but also the heavens and the Underworld appeared before me.
But this alone wasn’t enough.
With Thor now present, even the divine steed’s speed wouldn’t allow me to evade all the gods’ attacks.
So.
“Luke.”
– Yes, Master.
[ Using Black Flame Transformation. ]
[ The power of ‘Black Flame Dragon, Luknir Desperato Ignockton’ is being infused into ‘Sleipnir’. ]
At this very moment.
I poured out every ounce of power I could muster.
Whoosh!
Black flames blazed across Sleipnir’s body.
Fangs and horns forged from black fire, along with bone armor, were layered upon it.
All of Luke’s stats that I had accumulated thus far flowed entirely into the mythic divine steed Sleipnir.
But this wasn’t the end.
I too blazed with black flames, arming myself with the Mythic-tier equipment I had been preserving.
Mobilizing every available means in the current situation to block the gods’ attacks, cutting off their approach.
“Let’s go!”
“Neeeeiiiigh!”
I overtook the gods.
Whoooosh!
Transcendent speed, literally.
The velocity was so tremendous that the space around us seemed to warp.
Though it was nearly impossible to track with my vision, the gods still pinpointed me and Sleipnir with precision, launching their attacks.
Sensing the danger, I acted.
Through the Black Flame bond connecting me to Sleipnir, the dragon’s maw tore open wide.
[ Dragon Fear ]
– ROOOOOOOAAAAAARRRRR!!
A dragon’s roar erupted from its throat.
Unlike at Pirate Island, I couldn’t render the enemies unconscious, but the roar was enough to momentarily paralyze the gods.
Sleipnir surged forward, exploiting that fleeting window.
The instant the paralysis from Dragon Fear wore off, the gods of the Age of Fallen Mythology locked onto me once more.
And for them, I had prepared a gift.
[ Pearl of the White Leviathan ]
A Mythic-grade item obtained from defeating the White Water Deity—the Pearl of the White Leviathan.
With proper refinement, it could be crafted into Mythic-grade equipment, but I had enchanted it with an explosion spell in preparation for the Awakening Quest.
If I didn’t use it, I could simply dispel the enchantment and repurpose it later.
It pained me to squander such a Mythic-grade treasure as a one-time bomb, but hunting Evil Gods would yield more Mythic items eventually.
Rather than clinging to a single Mythic item now, detonating the Pearl of the White Leviathan to complete the Awakening Quest would let me acquire far more Mythic items at a faster pace going forward.
I was certain of it.
The Pearl of the White Leviathan, responding to my mana, detonated at the center of the gods pursuing me.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A colossal explosion erupted, unleashing a torrent of raw force across the heavens.

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