The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 286

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Chapter 286
Chapter 286
Vice Guild Master of Taegeuk Guild.
He rushed forward with greater urgency than ever, leading his guild members.
“We must hurry! The battle with the Evil God may have already begun!”
“Yes, sir!”
The Heukryeom Guild Master, who had vanished riding an incredibly fast sand shark from who knows where, was nowhere to be seen.
Following him was the Taegeuk Guild Master, who had sensed the danger and used a spatial technique to pursue.
No matter how I thought about it, this was no ordinary situation.
Given that my guild master had sensed such danger, battle could commence at any moment.
Or perhaps it had already begun.
As I accelerated my movement through the sands.
Rumble!
Dark clouds gathered in the sky ahead.
As the Vice Guild Master of Taegeuk, I knew.
Those dark clouds were Tae-ryeon’s sorcery.
Moreover, judging by their scale, she had used several talismans reinforced with sorcery enhancement—the kind that cost a fortune.
Now it was clear.
The battle with the Evil God had already begun.
Yet, no matter how powerful Tae-ryeon’s attack was, a single strike could not have drastically reduced the number of spirits.
If that were possible, Taegeuk Guild would have had no need to reach out to Heukryeom Guild.
The moment I crossed over the sand dune in such urgency.
“What in the world is this…?”
I found myself staring at an unbelievable sight.
The number of spirits had decreased dramatically compared to when I first faced the Blue Spirit God.
That alone?
The Blue Spirit God itself, the most crucial entity, appeared to have sustained considerable damage.
The first thing that came to mind was Tae-ryeon’s sorcery, which was currently conjuring thunder, lightning, and torrential winds.
‘That can’t be.’
Separate from my faith in Tae-ryeon, objectively speaking, sorcery could not be that powerful.
Spirits buried in the twisted desert.
Spirits crushed by wind pressure and torn to shreds.
Spirits melted like asphalt in scorching heat.
Most importantly, the wounds on the Evil God’s body proved that a powerful attack before Tae-ryeon’s sorcery had swept through them.
And there was only one person capable of such an attack before Tae-ryeon.
‘Mir, the Heukryeom Guild Master.’
There was no other possibility.
It was impossible for anyone but Mir to unleash such an attack.
Well, even if it were Mir, the situation still made no sense.
From the circumstances, it was clear that Mir had arrived first, unleashed a barrage of powerful attacks to fell the spirits, and dealt a devastating blow to the Blue Spirit God.
There’s no other way to explain this situation.
It’s far too astonishing, and frankly, bewildering.
‘This is our chance!’
The diminished spirits.
The Blue Spirit God, gravely wounded.
Seeing this, confidence surged within me.
The oppressive aura of the Blue Spirit God that had mercilessly crushed us during the first attempt faded, replaced by an overwhelming surge of confidence.
And the Vice Guild Master of Taegeuk Guild voiced that burgeoning confidence with a thunderous command.
“Raid formation, now! Everyone, establish your positions!”
With those words, the Vice Guild Master withdrew an attribute coating agent and applied it to his weapon.
“Yes, Vice Guild Master!”
The guild members likewise deployed their attribute coating agents, throwing themselves into the full-scale Evil God raid.
* * *
The moment the guild members arrived.
I no longer needed to engage the smaller spirits myself.
“Maintain raid formation!”
“The enemy will attack us with attribute-based magic! Most of their attacks have wide ranges, so we must maintain maximum distance while fighting!”
“Everyone, target only the enemies weak to your coating agent’s attribute! Attacking spirits without an advantage is pointless!”
“Repositioning! Positioning is paramount! Move to find enemies where you hold the advantage!”
Heukryeom Guild and Taegeuk Guild.
Both guilds moved far better than I’d anticipated.
We’d only coordinated once before against the Desert Worm, and the Evil God raid had begun so suddenly without prior rehearsal.
Yet their coordination was remarkably seamless.
Moreover.
“Our attacks are landing!”
“Are attribute coating agents really this effective?”
“Impossible. Commercial coating agents can’t hold a candle to this.”
“The power, the duration—I’d want to trade for this separately.”
“This creature’s weak to water attributes!”
“I’ve got it! I applied water attribute coating!”
“Perfect!”
The attribute coating agents I’d proposed were proving remarkably effective.
Our Heukryeom Guild, facing the Blue Spirit God for the first time, simply adapted to the situation.
But Taegeuk Guild was different.
They’d already fought the Blue Spirit God once and suffered a crushing defeat.
After experiencing that desperate situation where attacks barely landed on the Blue Spirit God and its subordinate spirits.
Watching spirits now cleave apart like soft tofu when their weaknesses were exploited felt like a weight lifting from their chests.
With the guild members performing so well, it was time for me to move.
‘The Blue Spirit God.’
While the guild members engaged the spirits.
To attack the true body of the Blue Spirit God.
Whoosh!
With that thought, I deactivated Black Flame and began moving my feet.
I had already expended considerable energy while in Black Flame form, but considering the battle ahead with the Blue Spirit God, I needed to conserve every ounce of strength I could.
Then.
“I’ll come with you.”
Tae-ryeon began following behind me.
And one more.
“I shall accompany you as well!”
The Sword God, Yul-ha.
She too joined us.
Tae-ryeon and Yul-ha.
There were no comrades more trustworthy to stand shoulder to shoulder with.
Our trio, formed this way.
Dash!
We broke through the spirits and began advancing toward the Blue Spirit God.
Of course, it was not an easy task.
I had significantly reduced the number of spirits, and the Guild members were doing their utmost to engage them.
Yet the spirits remained numerous, and the ones the Guild members faced were only those on the periphery.
The closer we drew to the Blue Spirit God, the denser the concentration of spirits became.
Therefore.
“Luke.”
Now was the time for me to demonstrate my power.
The first thing that caught my eye was a spirit of darkness that showed not a hint of color, staining everything around it black.
Its weakness was, naturally.
[ Radiant Courage Saber ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Sword
Grade: Unique
Light attribute.
Accordingly, I drew a light-attribute weapon through Luke.
Not a Mythic-grade weapon, nor Legendary, nor Epic—but a Unique-grade weapon.
Crack!
The spirit of darkness was cleaved in half by my single strike and vanished.
It had to be.
Such spirit-type monsters showed particular vulnerability to opposing-attribute attacks, and like all spirit-type monsters, their defense and vitality were relatively low.
In contrast, my attack power had already surpassed Ranker level.
If I simply identified the opposing attribute and struck accordingly, even a weapon of modest grade could fell them in a single blow.
The problem was that the spirits possessed remarkably diverse attributes.
But that was manageable.
[ Steadfast Earth’s Great Sword ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Sword
Grade: Unique
My subspace contained hundreds, thousands of attribute weapons I’d collected since the First.
Was that all?
Unlike before, thanks to ‘Hierarchy Assimilation’—an All Master ability obtained through an awakening Quest—I could now elevate the performance of low-level items to match my own level.
As a result, the variety of items I could wield had become extraordinarily diverse.
Crack!
I slashed down the approaching lightning spirit with the earth-attribute great sword.
The spirits beside it weren’t weak to earth attributes, but they weren’t particularly resistant to them either.
– Using skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Crackle!
I pushed forward with force through the skill.
With this, all monsters with earth-attribute weaknesses nearby were eliminated, but I wasn’t satisfied with just that.
– Using skill ‘Silver Bird Soul Chase’.
I hurled the great sword at the lightning spirit preparing a powerful strike from afar.
The lightning spirit collapsed, its head pierced through by the great sword even as it remained in its attack stance.
Yet I didn’t stop, continuing to draw new weapons.
A water-attribute weapon against fire spirits.
A lightning-attribute weapon against water spirits.
A wind-attribute weapon against earth spirits.
[ Raging Wave’s Blue Spear ]
[ Battlefield’s Ash Lightning ]
[ Typhoon’s Fragment ]
….
I secured my path forward by striking precisely at the weaknesses of the spirits blocking my way.
Did Tae-ryeon follow my example?
Rather than relying on blindly powerful attacks, Tae-ryeon too began targeting the spirits’ weaknesses.
“Raging Flame.”
Whoosh!
The flames conjured by her fan consumed the plant-form spirit.
“Celestial Wind.”
A fierce gust scattered the mist spirit.
Yul-ha was doing the same.
She sprayed attribute coating onto the ‘Crowned One’s Longsword’ she’d received as a victory reward from Second Crown.
The problem was that there wasn’t just one coating.
Fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, ice, and more.
She was applying every attribute-specific coating I’d supplied through the Guild.
What was remarkable was.
A deep hum resonated.
Her blade was absorbing all the coating agents.
Normally, when a fire-attribute coating was applied, the blade would burn fiercely hot, and when an ice-attribute coating was applied, it would freeze solid.
Yet her blade showed no reaction whatsoever, no matter how many coating agents were sprayed upon it.
Instead, it simply glowed with a subtle, iridescent light—every color of the rainbow dancing across its surface.
The moment she moved with that blade and swung it at the sand spirit blocking our path ahead.
Whoooosh!
A current of water erupted from her blade.
The sand spirit, struck by the water-attribute attack—its weakness—was cleaved apart and vanished without resistance.
And the next spirit that appeared met the same fate.
Crackle!
Suddenly engulfed in flames, it was pierced by its weakness attribute and dispersed.
That’s right.
This was her blade.
No—this was one of the abilities of the ‘Crowned One’s Ego’ that had been absorbed into her blade.
The power dwelling within the blade manifesting in whatever direction was optimal for the situation.
Her blade, a fusion of the growth-type item ‘Crowned One’s Longsword’ and the ‘Crowned One’s Ego,’ had already transcended the limits of legendary-grade weapons.
It had reached mythic-grade level.
No—it was wielding power that belonged to the upper echelon even among mythic-grade weapons.
Because of that.
“I’ll increase our speed.”
“Yes!”
“Understood!”
The spirits blocking our path ahead were swept away.
And we were able to accelerate further.
As we raced swiftly across the desert.
An enormous surge of mana pressure began to emanate from ahead.
I wasn’t the only one who sensed it.
Tae-ryeon, feeling the danger, prepared ‘Diamond Body,’ her only defensive technique.
Yul-ha likewise readied herself to deploy ‘Sword Curtain’ and block any incoming attack at a moment’s notice.
I did the same.
[ Runestone Shield ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form : Shield
Grade : Epic
The moment I drew out a shield with high magical resistance to prepare for the incoming attack.
“Kashod!”
An ancient runic utterance from the Blue Spirit God echoed.
And I understood.
That cry was not merely an expression of rage—it was an incantation, a spell being cast.
As expected, that’s exactly what happened.
“It comes.”
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—!!!
The torrent of mana unleashed by the Blue Spirit God surged forward like a tidal wave.

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