The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 289

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Chapter 289
Chapter 289
‘Despair of Wind… No, did he modify the formula to amplify its power to match the Desert?’
Watching the approaching whirlwind of sand, I couldn’t help but marvel.
I trusted the Knight Commander, but I never expected him to unleash magic of such magnitude.
I had anticipated the silver ‘Despair of Wind’ I’d seen before, but this far exceeded my expectations.
With magic of that caliber, I could deal far more damage to the Blue Spirit God than I had anticipated.
But then.
“Shiel… Narua?”
The Blue Spirit God’s reaction was strange.
The Blue Spirit God was essentially a living magical disaster born from magic itself.
I could tell from the moment I arrived—it had been savoring the Morae-kal Tribe’s barrier.
Yet its reaction now was peculiar.
It seemed to be backing away slowly, as if gripped by fear.
Others might not understand, but I could interpret the ancient runes it used, so I was certain.
It was trying to escape.
And I couldn’t allow that.
“Luke.”
– Yes, Master.
“Retrieve the shackles for me. The best ones you have.”
– Understood.
I drew the shackles from Luke’s inventory.
[ Prometheus’s Shackles ]
( Non-tradeable )
Type: Tool
Grade: Mythic
Requirement: Level 1,000 or higher
Description: The shackles and chains used to bind the prophet Prometheus to Caucasus Rock Mountain as punishment for stealing the primordial flame.
There were no Mythic-grade weapons with a 1,000-level requirement.
But Mythic-grade tools with that requirement still existed.
This was one of them.
No matter how much of an Evil God it was, Mythic-grade shackles with a 1,000-level requirement could restrain its movements.
– Activating skill ‘Silver Bird Soul Chase’.
I used the throwing skill and hurled the shackles.
Clang!
The shackles bound the Blue Spirit God’s body.
Yet even this didn’t make it surrender.
It thrashed violently, desperate to escape.
I tried to hold on, but even with my strength, I couldn’t completely restrain the Blue Spirit God’s movements.
But then.
“We’ll help you!”
“Mir, I’m here!”
“Mir!”
Familiar voices reached my ears.
“Kang Ju-hyuk?”
Turning my head, I saw guild members including Kang Ju-hyuk lined up behind me, gripping the chains.
The other shackled chains were the same.
Members of both the Black Flame and Taegeuk Guilds pulled the chains with all their might, restraining the Blue Spirit God from moving.
With hundreds of renowned users from Second simultaneously pulling on mythic-grade chains, even the Blue Spirit God couldn’t move its body.
Above all, the Blue Spirit God was an Evil God composed of magic.
Compared to other Evil Gods, its physical abilities were inferior, making it even more immobilized.
“Aish, Raha…! Raha! Raha! Raha…!!”
Unable to move its body, the wind of despair crashed right before me.
The Blue Spirit God tried to deny reality in response.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!
The sand vortex precisely engulfed the Blue Spirit God.
“Ga, Seira—!”
The Blue Spirit God’s screams began echoing from within the sand vortex.
The more it struggled, the more violently the chains thrashed.
“Pull!”
“Don’t let go!”
“Pull harder!!”
No one released the chains.
Even as their health drained rapidly and subordinate spirits of the Evil God attacked from the sides, they never let go of the chains.
In the meantime.
“Seira—!!!”
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!
Within the sand vortex.
The Blue Spirit God’s health was being depleted at an incredible rate.
The interior of the vortex was like a blender.
The foundational magic alone—the Wind of Despair—was incredibly threatening.
Combined with the desert’s heat and sand grains that gouged at wounds, the suffering was inevitable.
In such circumstances, the Blue Spirit God tried desperately to absorb the magic and reduce damage.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, crack—!!
With its mana shell shattered, even enduring was difficult.
The speed at which wounds worsened exceeded the speed at which it absorbed mana.
Absorbing mana required mental fortitude to sustain.
With endless sand-wind blades approaching, concentration was impossible.
Yet the Blue Spirit God was no ordinary foe.
It desperately absorbed mana to shorten the duration of the spell.
Whoooosh—.
The sand vortex gradually subsided.
The wind scattered, and the sand settled.
The scorching heat that had blazed within the whirlwind dissipated as well.
Yet the form of the Evil God revealed before us was—
“G-good heavens….”
In crude terms, it had been reduced to tatters.
There was not a single unblemished spot across its body.
Its flank was deeply gashed, its arm torn asunder, and its legs hung in shreds.
Though its carapace had fallen away, the wondrous majesty it had displayed afterward had vanished without a trace.
The problem was—
“El Rodia… Ksal-a Meira Branos.”
Even so—
The Blue Spirit God had not yet fallen.
The shackles I had hurled, true to their nature as a tool bound by a 1,000-level restriction, had already exhausted their duration and deactivated, fading away.
Freed once more, the Blue Spirit God began to rise with its wounded body.
“Aishu Raha… Bearen Doelna.”
Reduced to such a state, yet it showed no intention of surrender.
But that sentiment was equally mine.
“This is the end.”
“We will fell the Evil God with our own hands!”
“Look at its condition! There is not much left!”
“We—with these very hands—can bring down the Evil God!”
“Ooooooh!”
Everyone present roared with thunderous acclaim.
Though the Evil God—Second’s greatest adversary—stood directly before us, the morale of all seemed ready to pierce the heavens.
Perhaps it was thanks to the battered and broken appearance of the Blue Spirit God.
Outwardly diminished though it appeared, the Blue Spirit God was fundamentally a magical calamity incarnate, so considerable power surely remained within it.
Yet I chose not to voice such concerns.
Instead—
“Let us advance.”
“Uoooooh!”
I charged forward at the vanguard toward the Blue Spirit God.
I intercepted the furious onslaught the Blue Spirit God unleashed from the front, and my guild members surged forward behind me.
After that came assault.
Attack, attack, and more attacks.
A fierce battle.
That it retained such power even in such a state was utterly absurd.
“Sanariell… Weyros Ardin.”
The strategy remained unchanged.
I block the core patterns of this creature, and for the patterns I cannot block, I inform my guild members so they can evade them.
I attack its weaknesses and identify the attribute of those weaknesses.
How much time had passed like this?
“Huff, huff….”
Ragged breathing echoes from guild members scattered throughout the battlefield.
We’ve reached our limit.
The Blue Spirit God, its body battered and broken, had endured far longer than I anticipated.
Because of that, our stamina was already approaching its breaking point.
And I had been waiting for this very moment.
[ I activate Black Flame Transformation. ]
[ I borrow the power of the Black Flame Dragon, Lucknir Desperate Ignoxtan. ]
I unleashed the Black Flame Transformation I had been carefully conserving until now.
With the reduction in spirit count and the use of Dragon Fear, the duration of Black Flame Transformation had been significantly shortened.
Precisely because of that, I had to bring down this creature within that brief window.
Whoosh!
I had no intention of acting alone.
Given the circumstances.
“Tae-ryeon, would you block its attacks?”
“Leave it to me.”
“Yul-ha, I need you to draw its attention.”
“Got it!”
I borrow the strength of my allies.
Boom!
Tae-ryeon counters the mana storm unleashed by the Blue Spirit God with a barrier of her own.
In that opening, Yul-ha moves swiftly, attacking the Evil God’s legs to draw its gaze.
As the Evil God’s attention turns toward Yul-ha, I hide myself within the mana storm and charge forward.
Whoosh!
I leap toward the blind spot of the Blue Spirit God.
I had already exploited all of its weaknesses.
There were no remaining weak points.
Rather, from the moment its carapace was stripped away, the entire body of the Evil God had become nothing but a weakness.
If I had to specify a weakness attribute.
‘Water.’
Water attribute.
This was not the weakness of the Blue Spirit God that I remembered from First.
The reason its weakness attribute had become water was because of the terrain here.
The Desert.
Since it was composed entirely of mana itself, the mana forming its body could not help but merge with the surrounding mana.
Because the Desert possessed scorching heat, its body also carried that heat and developed a weakness to water.
In that sense, I had to finish this creature with a water-attribute weapon.
No matter how weakened that creature had become, to finish it off.
‘I need a Mythic-grade weapon.’
A Mythic-grade weapon.
Specifically, I need a Mythic-grade weapon with a 1,000 level restriction.
I had exhausted all my 1,000 level Mythic-grade equipment to conquer the Awakening Quest, but now I had one way to ease that concern.
“Luke, Trident. Are you ready?”
– Of course, Master.
Poseidon’s Trident, Trident.
Not long after I began Second.
When I heard the command to hunt the Evil God, it was the weapon I used to defeat the Black Worm God in the first ruined temple I sought out.
A weapon I used to defeat the Black Worm God, beyond my level, beyond my means.
The cooldown for Trident, which had been so long, had just ended.
[ Poseidon’s Trident, Trident ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Spear
Grade : Mythic
The shaft of Trident, which I grasped for the first time in ages, felt quite unfamiliar.
But I adapted quickly.
Simply rotating it a few times as I aimed toward the Evil God’s neck, it fit snugly in my hand like a weapon I’d always wielded.
Toward that Trident.
– Using 5-Circle Water Magic ‘Aqua Cannon’.
The Aqua Cannon, a 5-Circle magic I had installed on the ship before, and.
– Using 5-Circle Water Magic ‘Aqua Field’.
A terrain-altering magic that generates vast quantities of water and transforms my surroundings into a sea, Aqua Field.
A 5-Circle magic I learned anew after surpassing level 400.
These two water-attribute magics resonate with Trident, which could be called the most powerful among water-attribute weapons, unleashing violent torrents of water.
– Using skill ‘Black Insect Flash’.
And finally, using a Mythic-grade piercing skill as well.
Thunk!
The moment Trident embedded itself in the Blue Spirit God’s neck.
– Using the unique skill of ‘Poseidon’s Trident, Trident’, ‘Wrath of the Sea’.
Trident’s unique skill activated.
Whoooooosh!
From the spearhead of Trident embedded within the Blue Spirit God’s neck, waves.
No, a tidal wave surged forth.
The tidal wave churned through the Blue Spirit God’s body, and unsatisfied with that, it burst outward.
Even the water that burst outward could not be taken lightly.
The surging water coiled around the Evil God’s body like several serpents.
‘Now this is more like Trident.’
The power of Trident when I faced the Black Worm God was not even one-tenth of its true strength.
Even now, I couldn’t match its original power, but through Black Flame transformation, magic, and mythic-grade attack skills, I managed to approach a fraction of that devastating force.
“Gah, Seira—! Kryshal, Luenas—!!”
As I heard the anguished cries of the Blue Spirit God in agony.
I drew forth once more.
The mythic-grade weapon I had wielded against the Black Worm God.
[ Thor’s Hammer, Mjolnir ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Hammer
Grade: Mythic
This too was the weapon I had used to strike down the Black Worm God.
But I, who now wielded this hammer, had grown dozens, hundreds of times stronger than I was then.
And that power flowed entirely into my attack.
I infused it with lightning magic including Crimson Blood Tide, the power of Black Flame transformation, and everything else I could muster.
Every ounce of strength at my disposal.
– Activating the unique skill of ‘Thor’s Hammer, Mjolnir’: ‘Thor’s Lightning’.
Driving the hammer down as if driving a nail.
I swung it toward Triaina, lodged in the Evil God’s nape.
Kraaaaaaash!
“Sher Banil Aronduein….”
I concluded my battle with the Blue Spirit God.

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