The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 254

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Chapter 254
Chapter 254
Belmore Territory was generally a peaceful place.
While venturing into the Swamp could be dangerous, the creatures there rarely ventured beyond its borders.
Because of this, only a minimal garrison was needed, and threats to the Territory were virtually nonexistent.
“Evacuate to the shelters immediately!”
“What? What’s happening?”
“We were told about the shelters, but what’s this sudden emergency?”
“Someone explain!”
The Guard Captains suddenly began moving the Territory’s residents.
The residents could only be bewildered.
Though the Lord had issued instructions about evacuation procedures and they had prepared essential supplies in advance, none of them had truly expected this moment to arrive.
As they were being hurried along in confusion,
“L-look at the sky!”
“Everyone, raise your eyes!”
“Good heavens!”
“What is all of that?”
An anomaly began manifesting in the heavens.
That peculiar phenomenon they had once considered merely beautiful—the silver current of air.
From that silver current, hundreds and thousands of flying monsters began pouring down.
“Move faster!”
“If you don’t wish to become bird feed, pick up the pace!”
“Hurry!”
Fortunately, because they had begun moving the moment the silver current appeared, they were able to reach the shelter quickly.
The shelter in question was the Lord’s Castle itself.
Typically, a noble Lord would refuse to admit commoners into his castle, but Lauren Belmore was different.
Rather than waste money and time, he had decided to open his own castle—located at the Territory’s center with the best accessibility—to the citizens.
Of course, he had not offered his noble chambers.
He had provided the basement, which had once served as a prison but now functioned as a storage area, and the First Floor hall.
Yet even that was sufficient.
The Lord’s Castle was sturdier than any other building in Belmore Territory, and even if a new shelter were constructed, it would be difficult to match such durability.
“What in the world is happening?”
“The Evil God, it’s the Evil God!”
“The Evil God?”
“You haven’t heard? That living calamity appearing across the Continent? It’s quite famous how places where the silver current appears are annihilated in an instant!”
“Then, are you saying that is the Evil God?”
“If that’s true, then we’re doomed as well?”
“No, surely not…”
Few believed the mention of the Evil God.
Though rumors had circulated recently about remnants of the Evil God appearing across the Continent, most dismissed them as baseless gossip.
Still, the current assault is extraordinarily threatening.
Hundreds, thousands of flying monsters.
Such creatures…
“Who are they that they’re bringing down monsters for us?”
“They say it’s Mir and his knights.”
“Now, adventurers are called Guild members, not knights.”
“Well, it’s all the same to me. In any case, we’re grateful they’re fighting on our behalf.”
Mir and his Guild members were bringing down the creatures.
Watching them battle hundreds and thousands of monsters filled me with awe.
Yet even so, with the sheer number of monsters, I couldn’t help but worry we might be overwhelmed.
– RRROOOOAAARRR!!
With that thunderous roar, the monsters lost consciousness and began plummeting from the sky.
The Territory residents gasped in shock.
We couldn’t fathom what was happening until one of them identified the source of the sound.
“I’ve heard that the Lord of Kalbera Territory, Mir, is actually a dragon.”
“A dragon? What nonsense is that?”
“It’s not nonsense. Most of the residents in Kalbera know this to be true.”
“Eh…?”
“They say Mir has been witnessed unleashing a dragon’s roar and commanding water, wind, and lightning.”
“Then he’s a sea dragon!”
“Yes. A sea dragon and a black dragon. That’s supposedly Mir’s true nature.”
The part about the roar coming from Mir was accurate.
Everything after that was merely rumor.
Yet the gossip seemed oddly plausible, and many found themselves inclined to believe it—just in case.
Then, suddenly—
“KYYYYEEEEOOOOWWW-!!”
Piercing through the silver currents above, an enormous wing became visible.
The Territory residents, who until moments before had doubted the existence of the Evil God, fell silent.
We understood instinctively.
That was the Evil God we’d heard rumors of.
The very embodiment of evil that had come to bring about the world’s destruction—the Evil God itself.
The oppressive force was so overwhelming that those who moments earlier would have collapsed foaming at the mouth now steadied themselves and turned their gaze.
A man leaping down from the Lord’s Castle, racing toward the center of the Territory.
“It will be fine. The black dragon will protect us.”
“Didn’t he develop Kalbera Territory, once on the brink of ruin, into the finest city in the Southern Region?”
“It will be fine. This time too, surely…”
Speaking while gazing upon Mir.
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“KYYYYEEEEOOOOWWW-!!”
The Silver Storm God emerged.
The more I pressed, the more the silver currents above grew larger and fiercer, becoming a silver storm worthy of the Evil God’s name as it swirled around them.
But that wasn’t all.
“Screeeech!”
“Grrrrr—.”
“Kyaaaah!”
With the help of Dragon Fear and the Guild members, we’d brought down an enormous number of flying monsters.
Yet the sheer quantity of monsters that appeared alongside the Evil God was staggering.
Looking at those monsters, a thought naturally arose.
‘I really couldn’t have done this alone.’
No matter how capable I am, my stamina isn’t infinite.
The stamina values displayed by the system can be recovered with stamina potions, but mental fatigue inevitably accumulates.
Could I possibly defeat all those monsters by myself?
No.
It’s impossible.
Without the Guild members’ help, I wouldn’t have even attempted it.
Especially if I hadn’t increased the Guild’s numbers to nearly a hundred members, there’s no way the previous handful could have managed.
“That’s the Evil God….”
“How massive is a single wing? It’s absurdly large!”
“What kind of monster is this….”
“In all my years playing this game, I’ve never even heard of a monster this size.”
“And we’re barely managing to defeat the monsters that are already here. Now that many new ones appear? And alongside the Evil God?”
“Is this even possible…?”
However, the Guild members’ morale wasn’t in good shape.
Well, we were barely managing to defeat the monsters thanks to Dragon Fear’s assistance.
But with such a massive quantity of new monsters appearing, and now this colossal Evil God revealing itself.
Their spirits were naturally shaken.
“Don’t panic!”
“Our Guild Master is not someone who wouldn’t have considered this! I’m certain they have a strategy!”
“Everyone, focus on the current situation first! We need to clear the monsters in front of us!”
The founding members, including Kang Ju-hyuk, maintained their morale by trusting in me.
But the others did not.
Only the Sword God and the first team following them seemed to keep their wits about them.
However.
‘There’s no helping it.’
I understood the Guild members’ feelings.
Besides, I’d already anticipated a situation of this magnitude.
That’s why I swung my blade even faster, pushing toward my destination.
“Kiiieeeee!”
The monsters that had lost consciousness from Dragon Fear, as well as the powerful ones that withstood it, blocked my path forward.
– Activating skill ‘Crimson Wildfire Claw’.
Scrape!
It wasn’t enough to stop me.
Even with a powerful flying-type monster infused with the Evil God’s power, I had recently reached level 360 and dramatically increased my stats.
While my level alone wasn’t particularly high, the “Balanced Development” I’d awakened granted me stats that rivaled most top-ranked players.
My blade.
Armed with equipment that dealt additional damage to flying-type monsters, an ordinary creature couldn’t withstand my strike.
As I continued running.
‘I can see it.’
My destination.
The Fountain at the center of Belmore Territory.
The heart of the colossal magic circle I’d installed and the location of the mana core needed to activate it.
The moment I arrived there.
Scrape!
“Kyaaaah—.”
I cut down all the monsters surrounding the Fountain.
– I activate the 4th Circle wind magic “Wind Wall”.
I erected a circular barrier of wind around the Fountain.
This was to prevent the monsters from interfering while I activated the colossal magic circle.
Though its duration wouldn’t be long, it would suffice.
I rushed toward the mana core positioned at the center of the Fountain.
A mana core crafted using a premium-grade magic stone.
Since all the detailed work was already complete, simply placing my hand on the mana core and channeling my mana into it was enough.
Hummmmm!
The mana core activated, and the magic circle began to unfold.
An enormous amount of mana embedded in the premium-grade magic stone spread outward in all directions.
‘Distribution channels’—the paths I’d installed along the Fountain’s flow in all directions.
The path dusted with magic stone powder accepted the mana core’s energy and glowed softly.
That light spread instantly across all of Belmore Territory, then unfurled from the Territory’s outer edges like a blanket covering the sky.
The structure of the magic circle was difficult to explain.
While its outer appearance was a simple semicircle, its interior was a complex tangle of geometric runes and patterns.
The moment the entire magic circle illuminated.
Hummmmm—.
“What, what is this?”
“Doesn’t it feel like the surroundings suddenly got cold?”
“It’s more than just cold? It’s freezing….”
“We can even see our breath?”
Within the magic circle.
In other words, the temperature throughout all of Belmore Territory began to drop.
But that wasn’t all.
Above Belmore Territory, where the Silver Storm God had revealed itself.
Above the Silver Storm God, who had spread wings vast enough to blot out the sky itself, a massive dark cloud was forming.
The Silver Storm God seemed to notice this as well, fluttering its wings in an attempt to disperse the dark cloud.
‘That won’t work.’
This was no mere natural phenomenon.
It was magic I had manifested.
As such, even the Silver Storm God could not scatter it with mere wingbeats.
The moment the wind the Silver Storm God unleashed dissipated uselessly.
Whissssh—.
A single pristine snowflake fell from the massive dark cloud.
The beautiful snowflake drifted down as if taking a leisurely stroll, falling directly above the Evil God’s head.
When the Evil God then looked up to gaze at the dark cloud.
“Kyeeeeeeeeeeee—!!”
The Evil God roared in alarm as snow began falling in quantities that threatened to overwhelm it.
A blizzard.
A single snowflake would merely scatter in the silver currents above its feathers, and even a cluster of snowflakes would only melt upon the Evil God’s plumage.
Whoooooosh—.
But as the snowflakes multiplied, their impact intensified.
Snow began accumulating atop the Evil God’s wings.
Snow seeped between the feathers, and wings that had fluttered so gracefully began to freeze solid and rigid.
The monsters supporting the Evil God from below suffered the same fate.
The feathers, wing membranes, and air sacs that the wind had been supporting.
Crackle—.
Began to freeze over in the bitter cold.
And then.
“Kyeeeeeeeeee—.”
A creature with frozen wings had no choice but to plummet.
That’s right.
The colossal magic circle I had completed after spending an entire week in Belmore Territory, carving paths with the aid of the territory’s people, scattering magic stone powder, and installing even special-grade magic stones.
Its true identity was none other than.
[ Blizzard ]
A seventh-circle ice magic that summons a blizzard accompanied by extreme cold, capable of burying an entire city—Blizzard.
That magic now began to engulf the Silver Storm God and the monsters that followed in its wake.

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