The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 255

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Chapter 255
Chapter 255
The moment the Silver Storm God revealed itself.
“How are we supposed to bring that down…?”
“That’s an Evil God?”
“No wonder the Major Guilds couldn’t even lay a hand on it….”
The Black Flame Guild members could only gasp in horror.
Facing thousands of flying monsters alone was already terrifying enough.
But confronting the Evil God’s true form, it seemed utterly impossible to defeat it.
Yul-ha and Kang Ju-hyuk, along with each team’s leaders, were doing their best to bolster morale, but even that wasn’t enough to fully restore their spirits.
Then, in that moment.
Whoooosh—
Snow began to fall across the Belmore Territory.
Everyone wondered where this sudden snow had come from.
“Mir, you bastard! I knew I could count on you!”
“As expected of our Guild Master!”
“So that’s why you came ahead—to prepare this!”
Thanks to Vice Guild Master Kang Ju-hyuk and the team leaders, they quickly realized the true nature of the snow.
This snow itself was Mir’s magic.
But the scale of the magic was absolutely staggering.
“Magic that covers the entire Belmore Territory?”
“Is that even possible?”
“Even with the help of magic circles and mana stones, a range this vast? And to install a magic circle of this magnitude, how much labor and how many mana stones would be needed…?”
Dark clouds covering the entire Belmore Territory.
And the amount of snow falling from those clouds was tremendous.
The word “blizzard” came to mind naturally.
No, this magic appeared far more powerful than any natural blizzard.
Even so, it wasn’t a devastating attack like thunder and lightning, nor was it a cutting wind—just ordinary snow. One wondered how much damage it could actually inflict on the Evil God and the monsters.
“Kyuuuuuuu—!”
“They’re falling!”
The monsters, unable to bear the weight of accumulated snow on their bodies, began plummeting to the ground.
The moment the accumulated snow froze and they crashed, the monsters’ wings shattered along with the ice.
All those countless monsters.
Were being continuously brought down by those delicate snowflakes, shattering like glass.
“The Evil God’s altitude is dropping!”
“Its movements have become much slower!”
“Look at all that snow piling up on those wings! No wonder!”
“So that was the plan!”
The Evil God was no exception.
With its wings spread so wide, snow began accumulating on them, and the sheer volume of accumulated snow was truly immense.
The silver currents shielded the Evil God, yet they could not block all these countless attacks.
As time passed and snow accumulated, with each slower wingbeat, the currents grew weaker.
And the faster the snow piled up, the more pronounced this effect became.
Even as the Silver Storm God thrashed and flapped its wings desperately, its altitude continued to drop steadily.
At that moment.
“That magic won’t last forever! We must finish this before it ends!”
“Attack!”
“Drink every potion we’ve been given and pour everything we have into this!”
“Boss monster raid formation!”
“Clear out all the minions, then unleash everything on the Evil God!”
“We can do this!”
“Help the Guild Master bring down the Evil God! We can become conquerors of the Second main scenario Quest too!”
Kang Ju-hyuk and the team leaders rallied everyone’s spirits.
“Uooooooh!”
The Guild members’ shattered morale surged back to life.
No—their spirits soared higher than ever before as they raised their weapons once more.
And then, with an intensity they’d never mustered in all their time playing Second, they began attacking the monsters with everything they had.
* * *
I successfully activated a massive magical circle imbued with 7th Circle ice magic—Blizzard.
The spell manifested flawlessly, and monsters began plummeting from the sky as the blizzard engulfed them.
‘Good.’
Using 7th Circle magic at my current level should have been impossible.
Yet I succeeded because I possessed the 7th Circle grimoire ‘Blizzard’ obtained during my time in First.
Combined with an enormous quantity of mana stones—including special-grade ones—and the countless Guards and Territory residents who assisted in constructing the massive magical circle.
Without their help, I could never have manifested 7th Circle magic.
But why specifically ‘Blizzard’?
The answer was simple.
‘The Silver Storm God’s weakness is precisely the cold attribute.’
From my experience in First, I had already identified the Silver Storm God’s weakness.
One might typically assume flying monsters are weak to lightning, but this creature—called the ‘Storm God’—possesses immunity to water, wind, and lightning.
The monsters accompanying it share the same resistance.
Since they bear the Silver Storm God’s power, every single one of them is vulnerable to cold.
Therefore, ‘Blizzard’ was the only high-circle magic that would prove most effective against it.
Now that the Evil God’s altitude had dropped, I needed to launch a full assault.
‘Ranged weapons won’t work.’
Ranged weapons proved ineffective against the Silver Storm God.
The silver currents surrounding it diminished the damage from projectile attacks.
To properly engage it, I would need to mount its wings directly.
Even with the reduced altitude, it remained too high to reach with a simple jump.
“Luke, the wings.”
– Yes, Master.
[ Icarus’s Wings ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Wings
Grade: Mythic
Requirement: Level 700 or higher
Description: Wax wings crafted by Icarus and Daedalus within the Cretan Labyrinth. Only those prepared to melt beneath the sun’s gaze shall ever reach it.
It didn’t matter.
Among the items I’d gathered during my time in First, there existed several that granted the ability to fly.
Fluttering!
The moment I equipped Icarus’s Wings, they fluttered as though they’d become part of my very body, lifting me skyward.
In that state, I soared toward the Evil God.
Those experiencing Icarus’s Wings for the first time typically struggle with their unintuitive controls, but I’d already grown accustomed to the wing mechanics during my First days.
I wielded the wings with perfect freedom as I closed the distance to the Evil God.
Slash!
I cleaved through the monsters blocking my path.
Until now, it had been manageable, but as I drew closer to the Evil God, the difficulty began to escalate.
The Evil God had finally noticed my presence.
“Kiiiieeeeee-!!”
Our eyes met, and the Evil God released a piercing cry, flapping its wings.
Though the wingbeats were dulled by accumulated snow, the silver currents they generated were anything but sluggish.
Whoosh!
The silver current transformed into wind blades hurtling toward me.
An attack reminiscent of the third-circle wind spell, Wind Cutter.
The problem was that these blades were incomparably more powerful than Wind Cutter.
Whoooosh!
And their number was absolutely staggering.
I swiftly evaded dozens of silver currents descending simultaneously.
I could only manage this because I’d grown familiar with the wings’ mechanics.
Had it been otherwise, I would never have escaped such an onslaught.
However.
“Kiiiieeeeee-!!”
The Evil God’s assault didn’t end with a single volley.
Wave after wave of wind blades pressed forward.
Clang!
Now with no space left to dodge, I began deflecting the currents with my blade.
[ Celestial Barrier ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Shield
Grade: Epic
I drew out my shield and blocked the attack.
Yet as the distance between me and the Evil God narrowed, the density of attacks became so overwhelming that I couldn’t defend against every single one.
Crunch!
One of Icarus’s wings was severed.
– I apologize, Master.
– If only I still had my wings…
Luke’s apology reached me out of nowhere.
It seemed that among Luke’s body parts scattered across the Continent, wings existed as well.
If I could find them, I’d gain flight capabilities through the Black Flame transformation.
Even in the midst of battle, I found myself desperately wanting to locate Luke’s body parts as quickly as possible.
Regardless, that aside.
Right now, to avoid falling.
To evade the successive silver blades hurtling toward me.
[ Griffin’s Wind Whistle ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Mount
Grade: Epic
I blew the mount whistle I’d prepared in advance.
“Screeeeeee!”
A griffin appeared.
It was among the higher-ranked flying mounts available.
The griffin seemed momentarily flustered when it materialized directly into the path of the incoming silver wind blades.
But the instant I mounted it, it regained its composure and executed aerial acrobatics to evade the blades.
Moreover, since I no longer needed to worry about my wings, defending against the Evil God’s attacks became considerably easier.
“Shrieeeeeeeek!!”
The moment I approached the Evil God’s face.
With the Evil God’s roar, the silver currents surged wildly.
It wasn’t called the Silver Storm God for nothing.
The silver currents it wielded transformed into a colossal tempest that came crashing down.
The fact that even this powerful griffin could advance no further said everything.
Still, it was fortunate that as a high-level, high-grade mount, it wasn’t being pushed back by the Evil God’s tempest.
‘This won’t work.’
Though only a brief moment had passed, I reached my conclusion swiftly.
Simply relying on the griffin alone wouldn’t resolve this.
With that thought.
[ Sky Jumper ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Shoes
Grade: Epic
I told Luke to switch my shoes, and the moment I put them on.
Whoosh!
I kicked off from the Griffin’s body and leaped forward.
The Griffin was immediately unsummoned, but it had done its job perfectly.
It carried me right to the Evil God’s face and served as my launching platform.
The Sky Jumper shoes I’d equipped—divine-tier footwear—granted an extraordinary boost to my jumping power.
– Activating the skill ‘White Fish Swimming’.
Combined with the power of a mythic-rank movement skill.
Burst!
With incredible force, I pierced through the Silver Storm God’s tempest in a single bound.
‘The damage was severe.’
My condition after breaking through the silver storm was already in tatters.
Well, even though it was called a storm, it was composed of those wind blades I’d seen before mixed together into a vortex.
I’d boldly charged through it bare-bodied, so this was inevitable.
I could only endure because I’d equipped myself with superior armor.
Even that armor had exhausted its durability just from piercing through the silver storm, now hanging in tatters.
And so I arrived at.
‘The Silver Storm God’s back.’
Upon the Evil God’s snow-covered form.
The Evil God was so immense that its snow-laden back felt less like the back of a living creature and more like standing atop a snow-covered mountain.
“Kiiiiieeeeeee-!!”
The Evil God’s roar—as if outraged that something dared climb onto its back—and the swirling silver winds were the only proof that I truly stood upon the Evil God’s back.
Faced with such overwhelming magnitude, vertigo threatened to overtake me.
‘It’s not as large as I expected.’
As I thought.
The Evil God still hadn’t fully recovered its power.
Despite appearing this colossal, it was smaller than it had been during the First.
Moreover, I’d succeeded in the critical strategy for defeating it—’mounting its back’.
Now that I’d climbed onto the creature’s back, the next strategy was obvious.
‘Should I break its wings?’
Bringing it crashing to the ground.

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