The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 355

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Chapter 355
Chapter 355
The self-destruction of mechanical weapons.
No one understood this better than I did.
After all, it was I who had seized mechanical weapons from Cronion and detonated them against the Evil God’s body.
‘The smallest Mecha Hornets could unleash explosions at the 4th Circle level.’
Medium-sized mechanical weapons like the Mecha Scorpion came next at 5th Circle.
Large mechanical weapons such as the Mecha Rhino could produce 6th Circle-level explosive magic.
And the grand prize—colossal mechanical weapons like Hellfire could detonate with a staggering 8th Circle explosive spell.
Moreover, even if I had implanted magic of that Circle level, the detonation would be far more powerful than the magic itself, since it unleashed the full force of the mechanical weapon.
But then.
‘If it were the Evil God.’
A massive mechanical city.
And if this violet mechanical city—forged from the absorption of tens of thousands of Cronion soldiers and mechanical weapons—were to detonate?
Based on my experience implanting explosive magic into mechanical weapons by power level.
Considering size alone, it would exceed 9th Circle ‘Fire Punishment’.
No—when I factored in the unique energy inherent to the Evil God, a being that could be called divine….
‘An explosion reaching 10th Circle might be possible.’
What would the destructive power of a 10th Circle explosion be?
Commonly, a 6th Circle spell is said to be powerful enough to completely devastate an entire village.
7th Circle magic can obliterate a small city, and 8th Circle magic can level a massive fortress.
9th Circle magic possesses the power to annihilate Labelt in a single strike—the greatest city on the Continent.
Then, what of the long-awaited 10th Circle magic?
10th Circle magic is known to be the domain of gods, and since I myself possessed no 10th Circle grimoire, I couldn’t know for certain.
But recalling the magic of the high-tier monsters I faced in First, I could estimate that the power of a 10th Circle explosion would be.
‘Continental in scale.’
It might be capable of obliterating an entire Continent.
Of course, this is the far edge of the Eastern Region.
Since it wouldn’t detonate at the Continent’s center, the entire Continent wouldn’t be destroyed—but the blast might reach the heart of the Continent, including Labelt.
‘Fleeing would be pointless.’
How could I possibly evade a Continental-scale explosion?
At most, within a few minutes the Evil God would detonate, and in that time, I couldn’t possibly traverse the entire Continent to escape the blast’s reach.
Therefore.
‘I must defeat it before it explodes.’
There was only one answer.
Fleeing or blocking it was impossible.
Defeating it.
That was the only way.
“Luke, can you strengthen my Black Eye?”
– I’ll try.
[ Dark Eye ]
Whoooosh!
I borrowed Luke’s power and concentrated mana to activate Luke’s dark eye.
Normally, even doing this wouldn’t let me see through the Evil God’s thick iron plating to identify any weaknesses.
‘But I can see it now.’
This time was different.
The iron plating was still thick, but the Evil God was drawing in the surrounding mana as it prepared for self-destruction.
Thanks to that, I could infer the Evil God’s vital point through the massive amount of mana being sucked into it.
That convergence point of mana would be the core of the explosion, and that would be the Evil God’s weakness.
But that location was…
‘Right there.’
The Evil God’s head.
In other words, directly beneath the Lord, who was laughing like a madman and spewing violet light from his eyes.
That section was so durable it hadn’t even been destroyed by Hellfire’s explosion.
A location perfectly suited for a vital point.
The moment I realized this.
Whoosh!
I charged toward the Evil God’s head.
Thanks to ‘Arachne’s Footsteps,’ I could run vertically up the Evil God’s body.
“Khahahaha!”
Sharp iron rods and saw blades shot out from all along my path.
I could have dodged those alone.
Boom!
But explosions were occurring as well.
The blast force was stronger than expected, forcing me to halt my advance.
However, in a situation this urgent, I couldn’t afford to wait for the explosions to stop.
[ Messenger God, Talaria ]
( Non-tradeable )
Form: Shoes
Grade: Mythic
Without hesitation, I switched to those shoes.
Talaria—the mythic-grade shoes I’d worn in the early days of Second.
The moment I put them on, my body felt light as a feather, and I could leap through the air and soar upward.
“I! This one! This body! Shall guide you all into the age of Apocalypse!”
Still, even with Talaria on, reaching the Evil God’s head wasn’t easy.
Various parts of the Evil God’s body opened, and all manner of weapons erupted from within.
Normally, I could have endured attacks of that caliber without much trouble.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!!
But this time was different.
Perhaps because the Evil God had abandoned all restraint, every bullet that came flying was far more powerful than I’d anticipated.
That being the case.
[ Black Shield, Duban ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Shield
Grade: Mythic
I drew forth the Black Shield, Duban—said to have been wielded by the hero Cú Chulainn—and flew upward while deflecting the barrage of attacks.
As befitted a Mythic-grade shield, I could block virtually any ordinary bullet.
Occasionally, something more devastating than bullets—like a grenade—would come flying and explode.
– Activating the skill ‘Jade Stone Bastion’.
I would deploy a Mythic-grade defensive skill.
– Activating the 6-Circle defensive spell ‘Great Shield’.
By combining defensive magic, I could block everything.
Propelled upward by Talaria’s power, I swiftly reached the Evil God’s head.
Using the momentum of my ascent directly,
“Kahahaha! I, this Lord, I am the very—!”
Thud!
“Ugh!”
I struck the Lord’s lower jaw upward with my shield as he dangled above the Evil God’s head, spouting nonsense.
Even fused with the Evil God, the Lord remained human at his core.
Not even a well-trained knight—merely an ordinary human.
He had endured this long thanks to his fusion with the Evil God, but the moment the shield connected with his jaw, he lost consciousness and collapsed.
Well, that hardly mattered.
The Lord was merely an irritating nuisance I’d struck in passing while ascending.
What truly mattered was the Evil God’s head—drawing in an enormous quantity of mana from all directions, preparing for self-destruction.
I had to pierce through that.
‘It looks incredibly hard.’
The Evil God’s head.
What would be called a skull in human terms—it appeared extraordinarily dense.
Even with Luke’s dark eyes enhanced, I couldn’t see through its interior at all.
Still, I couldn’t stop here.
‘One minute.’
Roughly three minutes remained.
If I couldn’t shatter the core within that timeframe, more than half the Continent would be obliterated along with the Evil God.
I wanted to draw Barissada, but it was still on cooldown from its recent use.
[ Formless Blade ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Sword
Grade: Legendary
Not Barissada, but a weapon with similar armor-piercing properties—I drew it and swung it at the Evil God’s head.
Clang!
It bounced away without even a chance.
Though not quite as good as Barysada, it was still a legendary blade with sufficiently excellent armor-piercing properties.
From the look of it, this head itself seemed to possess an ability like “Item Effect Negation.”
If that were the case, even if I could have drawn Barysada, it would have been useless.
I then attempted to use other weapons to identify weaknesses.
[ Crimson Lightning Blade ]
Even swinging an electricity-attribute sword.
– I activate the 5-Circle fire magic “Fire Cannon.”
Even unleashing fire magic.
[ War Ogre’s War Hammer ]
Crash!!
Even striking down with the colossal hammer dealt no meaningful damage.
Well, it’s not that the blows dealt no damage at all.
There were scratches, but they were literally just scratches.
Tiny scratches no deeper or wider than a pinky finger had appeared.
‘Does it have no weaknesses?’
Rare though it may be, such cases do exist.
Or perhaps the Evil God’s weakness would normally be revealed only after one additional procedure, but since the Evil God chose self-destruction, the weakness hasn’t manifested yet.
Approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds remained.
There was no time to deliberate further.
Though the situation was desperate.
‘My attacks are working.’
I remained calm and focused on the scratch on the Evil God’s head.
If my attacks weren’t connecting at all, that would be one thing, but the fact that scratches had appeared meant my attacks were getting through, however faintly.
Then.
[ Magitech Saw Blade ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Sword
Grade: Legendary
All I needed to do was persistently attack that scratch.
The weapon I drew was.
– I activate the unique skill of the “Magitech Saw Blade,” “Spinning Saw.”
Like a real chainsaw.
It was a blade whose saw teeth moved like the Evil God’s right arm that it had been wielding.
Like other magitech weapons, this too required mana stones, but as long as they weren’t supreme-grade stones, I had plenty.
I immediately inserted a high-grade mana stone into the saw blade and activated it.
Whirrrrr!
The saw blade’s teeth moved like mad.
I struck the scratch on the Evil God’s head precisely with those teeth.
And as I pushed with all my strength.
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
Fissures began to spread across its surface.
Of course, the Evil God’s skull possessed a defense that transcended imagination.
Ting!
Before long, all the teeth of the saw blade sword fell away.
No matter.
I had never expected a single saw blade sword to cleave the Evil God’s head in two.
I carelessly tossed the toothless saw blade sword aside.
[ Adamantium Long Sword ]
Clang!
[ Rough Blade Edge ]
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
[ Butcher’s Wrath ]
Crunch!
I drew a new weapon and began to swing it relentlessly.
With precise control, I concentrated every attack on the fissure.
– Activating skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
The fissure grew progressively deeper.
What had been a scratch smaller than a fingernail had now widened to the size of a palm.
The palm-sized fissure had deepened until an entire forearm could fit loosely inside.
Its defense was so formidable that the weapons I wielded shattered and broke, unable to withstand the strain.
No matter.
The weapons I had gathered in First were numerous enough that losing a few broken ones made no difference.
‘One minute.’
Time was running out.
I had to pierce through the Evil God’s skull completely within one minute and strike the core within.
Then.
Crack, crack, crack, crack!
The Evil God’s arm began to move.
Its joints, locked in place, rattled as it forced them to bend, and the Evil God wrenched its arm toward me, aiming the firearms mounted on it.
Blocking the attack would not be difficult, but time was precious.
If I spent my time defending against that assault, I would fail to shatter the skull in time.
Then.
“Kya-ha-ha-ha! You still had strength left to move?”
“Jeok-hwa.”
“I’ll handle that, so you focus on your task!”
The Guild Master of the Parcheon Guild.
Jeok-hwa leaped forward.
Whoosh!
She kicked the Evil God’s arm upward.
Thanks to that, the bullets fired from the Evil God’s arms narrowly missed me.
But that wasn’t all.
“Hahahaha! Leave the defense to me!”
“I shall handle the left arm.”
“Mir!”
“Hey, Han Mir! Just keep blocking that, right? That’s something you can handle on your own, isn’t it?”
“Guild Master! We’ll provide support as well!”
Countless warriors stepped forward to intercept the Evil God’s attacks and movements.
They surely understood the same truth I did—that we would all perish the moment the Evil God detonated.
Had they not analyzed the blast radius with precision as I had, retreating would have been the wisest choice.
Yet they did not.
Instead of fleeing, they chose to remain and continue their assault on the Evil God, lending me their strength.
For that reason.
[ The Sword That Cleaves Stone, Durandal ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Sword
Grade : Mythic
Restriction : Level 800 or higher, Sword Mastery Lv 90 or higher, Strength 3,000 or higher
Description : The blade of Roland, the foremost of Charlemagne’s Twelve Paladins, a legendary sword said to have cleaved even stone asunder.
Unimpeded by the Evil God’s interference, I drew forth this new Mythic weapon and, channeling every ounce of my power through skills and magic, brought it down with all my might toward the fissure’s end.
Crack!
At last, I succeeded in tearing open the Evil God’s outer shell that guarded its vital core.
Hummmmm!
Within, the Evil God’s nucleus—greedily devouring the ambient mana, glowing crimson, trembling as though it would rupture at any moment—lay before me.
– Activating the unique skill of ‘The Sword That Cleaves Stone, Durandal’: ‘Roland’s Oath’.
Thrust!
I drove Durandal forward.

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