The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 410

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Chapter 410
Chapter 410
A colorless chandelier.
So transparent, so pure glass.
No, the massive chandelier—crafted from what appeared to be crystal—looked incredibly beautiful.
And given how many chandeliers I had destroyed up until now.
The moment I climbed atop this chandelier, I could discern exactly how to destroy it.
‘Physical attack.’
If the chandeliers I had destroyed previously each carried their own elemental properties.
Then this chandelier’s weakness was singular.
Physical attack alone.
Of course, being clearly the most important chandelier, its defense would be extraordinarily high.
Well, that didn’t matter.
There were countless methods to amplify a single physical attack’s power.
[ Entering Black Flame Rampage state. ]
I activated Black Flame Rampage instantaneously.
[ Giant’s Sword ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type: Sword
Grade: Mythic
Requirement: Level 800+, Sword Mastery Lv 80+, Strength 4000+
Description: The giant’s sword discovered by the hero Beowulf in the lair where the mother of the giant Grendel dwelled, used when he slew her.
I drew forth the mythic-grade weapon.
The Giant’s Sword.
Though there was no designation as a greatsword, the blade’s size was so immense that one naturally thought of it as such.
That made sense, for this blade was literally a ‘giant’s sword.’
Even its equip requirements demanded tremendous strength attributes.
Of course, its attack power was guaranteed to match.
Gripping the massive blade high.
– I activate the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw.’
I swung it toward the rope suspending the chandelier.
Since the chandelier was so massive, it was supported not by a single rope but by multiple.
Crack!
Black Flame Rampage, a mythic-grade greatsword, and Crimson Field Blood Claw besides.
My attack, with its drastically amplified physical power, could not be withstood.
Yet even so, the ropes possessed formidable defense and durability, making it difficult for me to sever multiple at once.
As I continued severing the ropes.
“Not that! Absolutely not! Stop the intruder! That chandelier alone! The true national treasure of the Julia Kingdom, the Julia Chandelier alone must not fall!”
The Queen of Julia’s anguished scream pierced the air.
And simultaneously.
“What is this!”
“My apologies, Your Majesty!”
The Crystal Soldiers were completely freed from the illusion.
In that instant, the Crystal Soldiers obeyed the Queen’s command.
“Attack the intruder!”
“Protect the chandelier!”
The Crystal Soldiers launched their assault against me.
The knight unleashed blade strikes, the archer fired arrows, and the mage hurled crystal magic.
Honestly, none of their attacks posed a serious threat—the real problem was the Queen.
The Queen was preparing her magic.
If a boss monster’s magic struck me, I would be in grave danger.
If I wasted time here blocking the Crystal Soldiers’ attacks, the Queen’s spell would come crashing down upon me.
– I activate the 6-Circle defensive spell ‘Great Shield’.
I used magic to deflect their attacks.
For now, I was focused on physical combat—magic wasn’t necessary.
Creating and maintaining a shield through magic was simple enough.
However, even a 6-Circle defensive spell would struggle against the knight’s blade strikes or the mage’s crystal magic.
– I activate the skill ‘Jade Stone Rampart’.
Jade Stone Rampart—a mythic-grade defensive skill from the Evil God.
This wasn’t a skill limited to shields alone.
I could apply it when blocking attacks with weapons, and even while using defensive magic.
As the Great Shield, now tinted jade green, repelled their onslaught.
Snick!
I rapidly severed the chandelier’s supporting cords.
I cut through all the surrounding ropes, leaving only one.
The thick cord at the center that bore the chandelier’s full weight.
Once again, I wielded the ‘Giant’s Blade’ while channeling Crimson Night Blood Technique.
Thunk!
The cord didn’t sever.
Yet the situation wasn’t entirely dire.
The giant blade was firmly embedded in the cord.
Though I couldn’t call it favorable either.
And for good reason.
“You cannot do this! The Zulia Chandelier—our national treasure must never fall!”
The Queen’s magic was complete.
Hundreds, thousands of sharp crystal spikes materialized in the air.
Riding a tremendous gust of wind, they hurtled toward me.
Weaving through the chandelier’s gaps and around its frame, they avoided it entirely and targeted me with precision.
If I had to name it, it would be something like ‘Crystal Storm’.
Crack!
The defensive magic I had deployed.
The Great Shield was sliced apart like tissue paper.
That alone made it abundantly clear how threatening that magic was.
While blocking the crystal magic first would have been reasonable, I chose instead to sever the cord completely before it could strike me.
The next spell the Queen of Julia was preparing after the crystal storm filled me with unease.
“Hnngh!”
Crack, crack, crack!
As I poured strength into the giant blade, the thick cord began to fray and sever bit by bit.
A cord woven from hundreds of steel fibers twisted together.
I could feel each individual steel fiber snapping one by one.
Thud, thud, thud!
The incoming crystal thorns—I relied on the defensive power of the Purple Mechanical God’s Dominion to endure them.
I heightened my defense by applying Jade Stone Fortress directly to the armor itself.
And beyond that.
– I’ll do my best to block them.
“I’m counting on you, Luke!”
I trusted in Luke’s dragon scales.
Indeed, Luke’s dragon scales were blocking the crystal thorns splendidly.
Though it wasn’t perfect—the scales made of Black Flame were gradually being worn away.
Trusting in my armor and Luke’s strength, I withdrew the giant blade and then.
Whoosh!
I pushed the power of Black Flame Rampage to its maximum.
– I activate the skill Crimson Claw.
I swung toward the cord once more.
The massive blade reached precisely the halfway-severed section.
As a result, before Luke’s reverse scales were completely worn away and the crystal thorns pierced through me.
Crack!
I was able to completely sever the chandelier.
“Kyaaaaaaagh!”
The Queen of Julia’s scream echoed once more.
Thanks to that, the next spell she had been preparing was cancelled.
Along with it, the chandelier fell.
I quickly leaped and grasped the upper portion of the cord attached to the ceiling, hanging from it, and the chandelier that had radiated overwhelming pressure.
Crash!!
Fell directly onto the Queen of Julia’s head.
Honestly, I hadn’t anticipated this far.
I had only expected that as it shattered like the other chandeliers, the physical immunity of both the Crystal Soldiers and the Queen of Julia would vanish.
But the chandelier crushed not only the Queen of Julia but also all the Crystal Soldiers clustered around her.
Since their physical immunity disappeared at the exact moment it fell, every last one of them took the impact without fail.
Was that all?
Those who had been standing outside the chandelier’s fall radius were pierced by its shattered fragments and collapsed to the ground.
It didn’t seem like coincidence—this appeared to be the chandelier’s mechanism.
Still.
‘This can’t possibly be the end.’
I didn’t let my guard down.
I hadn’t expected the chandelier’s fall to deal such devastating damage, but the moment it dropped, I hung from the rope and activated the magic I’d prepared.
– Activating 7th Circle Fire Magic ‘Flare’.
Normally, I would use Fire Storm, a wide-area spell.
But thanks to the chandelier, the Queen of Julia and all the Crystal Soldiers were now piled and crushed beneath it.
In this situation, Flare would be far more powerful.
Roooaaarrr!
Scorching flames erupted forth.
The blue-tinged flames, reinforced by the Blue Soul Spirit—which had become a passive skill without my intention—burned even hotter as they began consuming the chandelier, the Queen of Julia, and the Crystal Soldiers.
“Kyaaaaaahhhhh!”
“Protect the Queen!”
“We must protect the Queen!”
“Your Majesty!”
The flames obscured what was happening below.
But from the sounds alone, I could roughly infer the situation.
The Crystal Soldiers were surrounding the Queen of Julia, positioning themselves as living shields.
However, withstanding 7th Circle Fire Magic without fire immunity was absurd.
Even from what I could faintly see through the flames below.
Sizzle.
“Your Majesty….”
“Your Majesty alone….”
“Protect….”
The massive chandelier and the Crystal Soldiers alike were glowing red-hot, melting and dripping away.
As expected, they had only survived my attack because of the chandelier.
As they resisted the attack well, I continued pouring mana from the red crystal to sustain the flames, attempting to deal damage to the Queen of Julia.
“Kyaaaaaahhhhh!”
The Queen of Julia’s scream became a shockwave that dispersed outward, blocking my Flare magic.
I tried pushing more mana into Flare, but the Queen of Julia’s scream spread too rapidly for a contest of strength.
The shockwave that came crashing down in an instant extinguished even the embers pouring from my hands, forcing me to momentarily cease my mana control.
Immediately after.
When I opened my eyes, blinded by the shockwave, what I saw was.
“How dare you harm the treasures of Julia Kingdom. The shining jewels, the glittering chandeliers, the beautiful body of this Queen…!”
The Queen of Julia looked completely different from before.
The Queen I’d first seen was merely composed of crystal, resembling what I’d observed during the First era.
But not anymore.
‘How grotesque.’
The melted chandelier and Crystal Soldiers.
The liquefied crystal congealed together, finally taking on the form of a creature that truly deserved the name “monster.”
Her face had melted away into something grotesque and unsettling.
An enormous mass of crystal had liquefied and clung to her body in bizarre formations, swelling her frame to monstrous proportions.
Where her hands should have been, a sword and spear had formed from the molten crystal.
This must be the Queen of Julia’s second phase.
“Mir! Let me do something—”
“Just keep evading as you have been.”
“Yes!”
Perhaps sensing my concern at her appearance.
Maniac had paused and called out to me, so I sent her back to safety.
Then.
“I cannot lose the Zulia Kingdom again!”
The Queen of Julia launched herself directly at me.
My position was where the largest chandelier had hung.
The highest point of the ceiling.
‘Her physical abilities have increased.’
Judging by the Queen of Julia’s leap, reaching me seemed effortless for her.
I abandoned my strategy of holding position and casting spells, and instead.
With a snap.
I released the rope from my hand, falling toward the descending Queen of Julia while.
[ Ignis Blade ]
– Activating skill ‘Crimson Talon.’
I swung it down at her, channeling the force of gravity.
Crack!
Now that her elemental immunity had vanished.
The Queen of Julia, with her crystal body, was vulnerable to fire attributes.
Yet.
“We are the Jeweled Kingdom that has overcome even annihilation! The Zulia Kingdom!”
She raised her crystal sword to block my attack.
The crystal blade was so unyielding that even my strike infused with her weakness element barely cut halfway through.
And the severed portions were regenerating rapidly.
Then.
Thrust!
Her other hand, wielding the crystal spear, drove toward me.
I released the Ignis Blade lodged in the crystal sword and barely evaded the spear.
Immediately, I drew a new weapon and counterattacked.
Combat suspended in midair.
The Queen of Julia and I exchanged dozens of blows before we plummeted to the ground.
“Never!”
Even after crashing to the ground, I continued exchanging blows at a frenzied pace.
And in that moment, I understood.
‘My enhanced physical abilities and the crystal magic I now wielded so naturally.’
The boss monster of the Crystal Palace.
The Queen of Julia’s true power.
What I’d witnessed at first was merely a shadow of her strength.
The Queen before me now felt more formidable than any boss monster I’d encountered in Second.
Well, I suppose.
If it were the Lava Imoogi, the elemental difference might allow for an even match.
Regardless.
“There’s no special gimmick, is there?”
I’d finished deciphering the Queen’s attack pattern.
In the first phase, the unfamiliar mechanics of the chandeliers and Crystal Soldiers had thrown me off slightly.
But not now.
The Queen before me was a pure combatant.
No special mechanics were apparent.
Even so, by any measure of ability, she remained far stronger than I was.
“Then this should be simple.”
An enemy powerful but without gimmicks?
Facing such an opponent was hardly difficult.
The boss monsters that had truly challenged me were those laden with complex mechanics that demanded intricate strategies.
Especially.
“Let’s finish this quickly.”
[ Ruin’s Flame, Lævateinn ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Sword
Grade: Mythic
Restriction: Level 1,000 or higher, Strength 2,000 or higher, Vitality 2,000 or higher
Description: The flaming demonic sword wielded by Surtr, the giant of fire said to exist for the burning of the world, which set ablaze the World Tree Yggdrasil.
Such an enemy could only crumble pathetically before a foe of far greater strength.

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