The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 353

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Chapter 353
Chapter 353
‘It didn’t fall.’
A massive explosion created by mobilizing all the mechanical weapons obtained from Cronion.
It was a blow I’d staked everything on, but unfortunately, it didn’t bring down the Evil God in a single strike.
Well, it doesn’t matter.
I never expected to fell the Evil God with a single attack, no matter how powerful.
Instead.
‘The attack landed properly.’
The explosive force was undeniable.
I could tell just by looking at the Evil God’s form.
The body that had been smooth as a perfectly refined steel plate was now mangled from the blast’s shockwave.
Every section where the mechanical weapons had clung was either dented, warped, or blackened with soot.
The legs, which had been easy for the ground-based mechanical weapons to climb, were damaged especially severely.
Thud!
Unable to maintain balance, the Evil God’s posture collapsed.
That alone would be a problem, but the upper section was far more critical.
The neck where Hellfire had detonated.
The neck, head, and chest are generally considered the most vital points, and since Hellfire had exploded while enveloping all of them.
There was no way those areas could remain intact.
Indeed, one shoulder was caved in, the neck was half-severed, and the jaw was completely blown away.
The adjacent areas also had their skin—or rather, steel plating—completely torn off from the blast’s impact.
Click, click, click….
I could see gears spinning inside the Evil God’s body where the steel plating that served as skin had been blown away.
Though I hadn’t brought it down in a single strike, I’d accumulated sufficient damage.
I’d lost Hellfire and all the mechanical weapons, but in this state, it was definitely manageable.
Just as I was about to charge at the Evil God again.
“Magnificent! Even I, a mere servant, felt my spirit quake before such a monster! Yet you’ve dealt such a blow in a single attack!”
A voice called out.
Along with it came knights bearing black shields stepping forward.
It was the Black Shield Knights.
But that wasn’t all.
“Hahaha! I knew you’d pull off something spectacular!”
The Red Wolf Knights, and.
“Ash Dust. Exploit the vulnerabilities in the frontline exposed by the blast.”
“Yes, Commander.”
The Ash Dust Knight Order as well.
Behind them, countless Imperial Army soldiers gained courage and moved to confront the Evil God.
But that wasn’t all.
“Hey, Mir! Are you insane?! This is crazy, seriously?!”
“Guild Master, thank you for your hard work. We’re a bit late, but we’re ready to join the battle.”
“Could you perhaps give us orders? We can begin our assault on our own, but it seems like it wouldn’t sit right with you.”
The Heukryeom Guild.
“Impressive, Mir. You always surpass my expectations by a mile.”
The Taegeuk Guild.
Beyond them, countless players from the Five Great Guilds and beyond were gaining confidence, raising their weapons toward the Evil God.
But the warm atmosphere didn’t last long.
“Aaaaaahhhhh! This cannot be! I! We! This body! To be wounded alongside that one! This is unacceptable!”
The upper half of the Evil God’s body that had been mounted on its head.
The Lord rose to his feet, eyes rolling back as he screamed.
And with that scream.
Crack.
“Huh?”
“Stop standing there dazed! Get away, now!”
“Whoa!”
“The fragments are moving!”
The fragments of the Evil God scattered in all directions by the explosion.
Those fragments began to writhe and convulse.
Before long, the fragments that had risen took on a human form.
Or could they even be called human?
Cyborgs made entirely of steel plating, or robots.
That description suited them far better.
Those creatures that had risen to their feet.
“Orders received.”
“Commencing fire.”
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!
“Arghhhh!”
They began spraying their surroundings with gunfire, guns mounted where their hands should have been.
Purple vapor was pouring from their bodies just as it had from the Evil God, and perhaps because of that.
Their combat power exceeded expectations.
The bullets were strong enough to dent the Imperial shields, and they were so hard that arrows couldn’t even scratch them, bouncing off instead.
“It seems we’ll have to handle those things.”
“We’ll take them on as well for now.”
“Kyahahaha! I don’t care about that! We’re going after the Evil God! Let’s go, Parcheon!”
The Imperial Army and players’ reactions were mixed.
Some recognized their limits and roles, attacking the cyborgs, while others charged toward the Evil God without a second thought.
Of course, I was the latter.
“I’m counting on you.”
I left those creatures to the Imperial Army and players, charging straight toward the Evil God.
As I did, I saw Parcheon Guild running alongside me, and Jeok-hwa flashed me a grin.
“How dare you wound him! I, the Lord, this very self shall never forgive such insolence!”
Did his fury intensify at that sight?
The Lord cried out in place of the Evil God, expressing his will.
At the same moment, the Evil God turned his body and raised one arm toward us.
Then.
Clang!
The Evil God’s arm began to transform.
With a cold metallic screech, the armor plates split open like a blooming flower, revealing intricate metal frameworks tangled within.
The metal frames soon became gun barrels, and hundreds of firearms formed a collective mass.
“Insane.”
“Surely not….”
“Everyone, what are you doing! Scatter!”
“Dispersal formation!”
In the moment when all of us, including myself, who had been rushing toward the Evil God, gasped in shock upon seeing his left arm.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!
Thousands of bullets erupted from the Evil God’s left arm.
Given the Evil God’s enormous size, each individual bullet was the size of a human head.
An attack that seemed more aptly described as cannon fire rather than gunfire.
For those with weak vitality—thieves, archers, mages, and the like—it was a devastating assault that could bring them to the brink of death with a single hit.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
The users who had been approaching the Evil God screamed and fled in terror.
However, the Evil God’s assault was far from over.
Clang.
The Evil God’s right arm pointed toward the Battlefield.
Then, just like his left hand, it began to transform.
This time, it was not thousands of firearms.
The joints of the right arm rotated, and thick layers unfolded to form a massive barrel.
Tremendous amounts of violet energy began concentrating within the enormous barrel that had been created.
‘This is dangerous.’
I didn’t need to experience it firsthand to know.
That attack is dangerous.
If it fires at the very center of the Imperial Army that the barrel is currently aimed at, then with that single attack, thousands of Imperial soldiers would.
No, perhaps a single attack could result in tens of thousands of casualties.
What I deliberated on was not whether to block that attack or not.
‘I’ll use it.’
The moment I thought that, I dashed toward the Evil God’s right arm.
Of course, given the Evil God’s immense size, reaching his right arm through a simple leap was impossible.
– Using 5-Circle Wind Magic ‘Fly’.
A lower-tier flight magic of the 5-Circle.
Using Fly, I soared much higher into the air.
Thanks to the cooldown expiring, I could have used “Messenger God, Thalaria” or “Icarus’s Wings” as well, but it was better to save those for truly critical moments.
It felt wasteful to deploy such supreme-tier items in situations that could be handled with magic.
The moment I arrived before the Evil God’s right arm.
“Stepping before the cannon’s muzzle with your own feet—how like a moth drawn to flame! Yes, die! Be vaporized by my cannon fire, by our cannon fire, by this body’s cannon fire, by that one’s cannon fire!”
Kwaaaang!!
A barrage erupted from the right arm’s cannon muzzle.
Far more powerful than I had anticipated.
If I were struck by an attack of this magnitude, I would not emerge unscathed.
So.
“Luke.”
I swiftly drew forth the item I had been considering.
Its true identity was none other than.
[ Yata’s Mirror, Yatanokagami ]
( Non-tradeable )
Form: Tool
Grade: Mythic
Restriction: Level 1,000 or higher, Wisdom 4,000 or higher
Description: A bronze mirror known as one of the Three Sacred Treasures said to have been bestowed by the radiant sun goddess Amaterasu.
It was an enormous bronze mirror.
I moved the bronze mirror, which responded to my mana, to face the Evil God’s right arm and the incoming cannon fire.
In that instant, the barrage collided with the mirror.
An overwhelming impact reverberated through the bronze mirror.
‘Ugh….’
A mythic-grade tool with a level restriction of 1,000.
Yet even such a tool struggled to withstand this attack.
No matter that my level was insufficient to fully realize the item’s potential, this exceeded all expectations.
– Activating the skill ‘Jade Stone Fortress’.
Even after deploying a mythic-grade defensive skill, it was like this.
But I could not stop here.
With that thought, I poured mana into the bronze mirror.
The more I did, the brighter the bronze mirror shone, and through its polished surface, the Evil God’s right arm and the cannon fire drawing ever closer became increasingly vivid.
In that moment.
The instant I felt the barrage and the mirror’s power reaching equilibrium.
Whoosh!
The bronze mirror absorbed every last bit of the Evil God’s cannon fire.
The bronze mirror trembled violently from absorbing the barrage.
Having absorbed such a devastating attack, the mirror’s durability plummeted at a frenzied pace.
It seemed my level had caused the item’s performance to deteriorate accordingly.
Therefore, before the mirror’s durability was completely exhausted.
– Activating the unique skill of ‘Yata’s Mirror, Yatanokagami’, ‘Light Reflection’.
I activated Yata no Kagami’s unique skill.
And then.
Kwaaaaaaah!
Something erupted from the bronze mirror.
It was none other than the barrage the Evil God had just fired.
The Evil God’s distinctive violet light remained vivid as the projectile hurtled back.
“Noooooooo!!”
It swept away the Evil God’s right arm and the Lord perched upon its head.
The cannon barrel attached to the right arm warped and melted, rendering it completely unusable.
The Lord atop its head was charred black and appeared to have lost consciousness entirely.
Tremendous destructive power.
Had I taken such an attack head-on.
Had such an attack fallen in the midst of the Imperial Army, the cold sweat that broke across my brow spoke to just how devastating it would have been.
But.
‘This can’t be the end.’
I didn’t believe the Evil God had been defeated by this.
Satisfied with landing one more powerful blow, I immediately rushed toward the Evil God.
As expected.
Clank, clank, clank!
The violet mechanical god.
The Evil God began moving its body again with harsh metallic sounds.
Thud.
The Evil God dropped its disabled right arm to the ground.
To be precise, it severed the warped cannon barrel from below the right elbow.
Then.
Clang!
A massive saw blade erupted from the joint at the right elbow.
Whirrrrr!
This was no ordinary saw blade.
Sharp teeth spun rapidly, tearing through the air like a chainsaw.
I could feel with absolute clarity that contact with it was something to be avoided at all costs.
Such a chainsaw.
‘Danger!’
Whoosh!
It swung without hesitation.
The Evil God unleashed thousands of guns from its left arm while wielding the massive saw blade on its right, tearing through everything around it.
Though its appearance was terrifyingly grotesque, the loss of its original arrogance and its desperate assault on everything nearby made the sense of crisis the Evil God felt abundantly clear.
And so I.
“Shall we take this step by step?”
[ Entering Black Flame Rampage state. ]
Using Black Flame followed by Black Flame Rampage.
Slash!
I began to seriously assault the Evil God.

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