The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19. Oh, GOD! (1)
It was far too sacred to be called merely a sword.
A holy sanctity radiated from it, so brilliant it could illuminate the world itself.
If God existed, would He not be like this?
But―.
‘This is my sword.’
An endless power coursed through me.
[Infinite Sanctity]—the name was literal. It was truly infinite.
Through my sword and body, a distant radiance spread outward, transforming all things in the world to shine with vivid brilliance as if by miracle.
In that state, I gazed upon Jesus.
“Oh, GOD!”
Jesus’s power of perpetual translation wavered.
It meant Jesus was that shocked by the sight of my sword.
I was equally shocked.
‘The world’s strongest hunter. The sole EX-rank.’
Now I wielded the completed sword—the Ego Sword.
I had obtained omnipotent and absolute power, meaning all my abilities—including perception and cognition—had surged dramatically.
And yet―.
“You were truly a transcendent being in the truest sense.”
Jesus quickly suppressed his astonishment, and his power over language took effect.
The language of God struck against my ears.
A force that conveyed ‘meaning’ by compulsion.
“And you are a being similar to me.”
The sword could be maintained for four seconds.
Within those four seconds, divided into infinitesimal moments.
We exchanged words.
“Did you think you were the only one?”
Jesus’s purpose was to annihilate me.
Therefore, I made no effort to maintain formal speech.
Boom—.
Jesus hefted an enormous cross onto his shoulder.
The ‘Cherished Weapon of Jesus—the Cross of Judgment,’ used to beat demons to death.
He was still holding that?
It meant Jesus still regarded me as an enemy.
I had no intention of retreating either.
‘Can I kill him?’
I observed Jesus in my transcendent state.
The sword I wielded was [Second Sword, Yulia Lanestia], but my body contained the enlightenment of all swords.
I could kill anything in this world.
And yet….
‘I can’t find an opening.’
I could kill that strange creature gambling with The Saint.
But I’ve reached the conclusion that I cannot kill Jesus.
If that’s the case, ‘Plan A—killing Jesus’ is a failure.
Then I’ll have to move to ‘Plan B’.
“Jesus, return to your country.”
I stood the massive holy sword vertically.
Grasping the hilt with both hands and pressing the blade against my chest, I sought to manifest a singular power.
And thus—.
A deep resonance echoed.
I recreated with my own hands the most sacred miracle Yulia Lanestia had performed in the world of [Sword Cultivation].
One of the skills obtained from an SSS-rank random box.
[The Exalted Celestial Cradle]
A massive golden curtain unfurled, centered on the sword and my body.
The curtain spread across the entire territory of South Korea, sustained by the sacred power flowing infinitely from my flesh.
‘Plan B is to demonstrate my divine abilities.’
Originally, it was a scene depicted in [Tarot Cards].
And the Saint of Destiny, Im Ji-ah, was truly a capable being.
“Oh… to manifest a true miracle with such a massive and radiant holy sword!!!”
Jesus lowered the cross he had been carrying on his shoulder.
He made it smaller and hung it around his neck.
‘Did he understand?’
He doesn’t seem inclined to fight.
Instead….
“Oh, God!”
The tall Jesus, standing two meters fifty centimeters, approached me.
And four seconds passed.
A deep resonance sounded.
The massive greatsword vanished.
Now in my hand was the small and precious Aga Sword.
My Aga Sword, evolved into a [Holy Demon Sword] with a [Chaos] nature.
‘I can use First Form and Second Form as well.’
I calmly recalled Plan C while gazing steadily at Jesus.
As my omnipotence faded, he too withdrew his own omnipotence and moved like an ordinary person.
“That holiness. That distant divinity. Ah….”
Jesus gazed down at me with eyes intoxicated by rapture.
Though I stood at 183 centimeters, hardly a short stature, before Jesus at 250 centimeters I felt like a dwarf.
He asked.
“You tried to kill me, didn’t you?”
I was caught.
Jesus is EX-rank.
A being revered as divine, transcending even Transcendents.
And I am similar to him.
“Did Jesus not attempt to kill me?”
“That crimson greatsword’s malice is genuine, yet this holiness now is equally real.”
“If we need not be enemies, we could become friends instead, couldn’t we?”
Jesus and I clashed with our respective omnipotence.
Because of that, I could understand.
Jesus is a monster beyond my imagination.
A superhuman whose victory or defeat I cannot gauge, even wielding my transcendent blade.
Unlike me, he has no time limit—a monster capable of exercising his power infinitely.
“Haha! Truly a being like myself. I think it was cuter when you spoke more casually?”
“Since we’re not enemies, there’s no need to be so formal, is there?”
I conversed with composure, yet an unease gnawed at me from within.
Regardless, I found myself unable to ignore Jesus’s words.
“I, Jesus Christ, do not die. So long as Earth’s devout believers exist, I am eternal and immortal.”
The moment I heard those words.
A tingle—.
A sensation came to me.
I instinctively came to know how to kill Jesus.
‘Something I must absolutely never do, though….’
As I harbored such thoughts, Jesus added one more thing.
“Just as you do—I too cannot die.”
Jesus had notably dark skin, even among those of African descent.
Between that pitch-black skin gleamed eyes of pristine white.
From that peculiar gaze—.
‘Jesus does not know how to kill me.’
But I do.
Remembering this small advantage, I subtly retreated two steps backward.
Jesus kept approaching me as he spoke.
But then….
A smooth motion—.
Jesus spread his long arms wide open.
This is….
That.
‘Jesus’s embrace.’
A ritual embodying Jesus’s will to love all things in the world.
This meant Jesus would treat me with goodwill.
I felt somewhat conflicted.
Hesitation washed over me.
But still—.
“Brother! My brother!!!”
The world’s strongest hunter calls me brother, and it would be absurd to hesitate any further.
Let me play along for once.
Thump!
“Oh! Brother!!!”
About one second.
I quickly escaped from Jesus’s embrace.
Chills ran down my spine.
Does the United States President Bill Johnson experience this every day?
As that thought crossed my mind—.
Hummmmm—.
A strange resonance emanated from the Aga Sword.
Golden light rippled across the jewel at the pommel, then vanished.
I wanted to investigate something, but….
“I have left my homeland unattended for far too long.”
Jesus was preparing to depart.
Considering the chaos he had caused on his journey to South Korea, it would be best if he returned to the United States as soon as possible.
I was about to bid him farewell.
I thought he would simply cleave across the Pacific and fly back to America….
“There is no need to hide before your brother.”
Jesus traced a cross in the empty air.
Crack——!!!
The air tore open, and a massive rift appeared.
Within it, a bald white middle-aged man was visible.
A very familiar face.
United States President Bill Johnson.
“…J-Jesus. Why would you display such power before a foreign national—.”
“Bill, I have concealed it with divine authority so that no one can see this.”
“B-but Shin Si-woo is watching, is he not?”
The rift in the air connected directly to the office of the United States President.
From within, the president stared at me with an expression of utter shock.
“Bill, are you insulting my brother?”
“Brother? Surely he is a Demon Worshipper—.”
“What?! Bill!!! Have you been possessed by a demon?”
I watched the exchange between Jesus and the United States President with a somewhat enlightened expression.
Jesus claimed he would cover up the matter of the demon I had summoned, basing his argument on my holiness.
I also learned what the United States President truly thought of me.
‘Ironically enough….’
He saw me as the dark mastermind behind corrupting Park Chang-seok, unleashing the Red Sea, and orchestrating the presidential assassination.
‘The timing does overlap, doesn’t it.’
I was about to offer some explanation.
But there was no need.
“That holiness is the power to control demons.”
Jesus, my brother, explained it perfectly on his own.
“Verification is―.”
Being the President of the United States, he was naturally suspicious.
He rambled on about needing various verification procedures, but all of the President’s concerns were settled with a single statement from Jesus.
“Aha! Bill, Shin Si-woo is my brother. A brother of God. That means he too is a god!”
How dare a mere human attempt to test a god?
At Jesus’s rebuke, Bill lowered his head and murmured ‘A―men’.
I seized the moment of silence to speak.
“You’re right, brother.”
“Bro, brother?”
“You’re a senior Hunter, so brother is correct.”
I explained the truth about the Demon Worshippers to the American President as well.
The world would be increasingly consumed by the Abyss—Black Gates—and become far more brutal.
The Demon Worshippers were accelerating this process.
And this was only the beginning.
“Black Gates have appeared in America too. The Demon Worshippers dare to act even in America, under Jesus’s protection….”
Only then did President Bill dispel his doubts about me.
“Oh, Bill! We must open the Night of Judgment at once.”
Jesus was fired up as well.
‘I absolutely must stay on good terms with America.’
Things were going far better than expected.
The world’s strongest nation, America, had grown even more powerful since the Gate crisis.
‘There are over ten publicly known Transcendents alone.’
There were even wild rumors that they captured otherworlders for research and cultivated Transcendents through [Mystery].
In any case, we concluded our conversation by promising such close cooperation.
“Brother! Let’s see each other again!”
Jesus flashed a brilliant smile.
“Take care on your way, brother!”
—Ep. 08 Oh, GOD! (1)
South Korean Presidential Office.
“Shin Si-woo, what on earth are you….”
Seol-ah’s father stared at me with eyes wide in shock.
The President beside him, and even Seol-ah sitting next to me, had their eyes wide open in astonishment.
【Oh, God! Shin Si-woo is the second god to appear in the world. In the name of Jesus Christ, I testify to this.】
Jesus held an official press conference for the first time in quite a while.
【Those who desecrate or insult the holiness of my brother Shin Si-woo are sinners no different from demons―.】
Jesus vouched for me even as he added biblical verses to his speech.
Honestly, it wasn’t a bad thing.
I glanced sideways and saw everyone’s lips moving silently.
It was clear that Jesus’s announcement had shocked them all profoundly.
“Huh… Adding biblical verses? What kind of insane thing is that―.”
After a long pause, Chief Prosecutor Kang Mu-jin sighed.
Just then, the speaker on the screen changed.
Bill Johnson, President of the United States.
【Since the Gate Incident, our United States has severed all alliances for the sake of our own interests. However―.】
After the Gate Incident, the seas and sky routes were sealed off.
It had been less than three years since we used mystical portals to resume tourism.
The current Earth was a world where nations spied on each other through WorldNet, yet no one stood together.
And yet….
【Shin Si-woo, the brother of Jesus, the world’s first god and America’s rightful guardian deity. Is not the South Korea where he lives also a brother nation to our United States?】
And so, I declare.
【The United States proclaims itself a brother nation and ally of South Korea.】
The world’s mightiest power, the United States.
Its president had declared an alliance with South Korea using me as the reason.
Yes, a declaration.
“When did the contact arrive?”
I asked President Lee Seok-hyun.
“It wasn’t contact—it was a notification. That’s why we called you here for this meeting.”
The president still looked as though he couldn’t believe America’s alliance declaration.
Chief Kang Mu-jin and President Lee Seok-hyun began discussing various matters and worrying about the future global situation.
“How did you end up here, sister?”
“I’m your dedicated handler, aren’t I? I got promoted two ranks and transferred directly to the Transcendent Affairs Division.”
It was a form of assignment.
President Bill Johnson to Jesus.
President Lee Seok-hyun and Chief Kang Mu-jin to the Patriot.
Beings tasked with coaxing and soothing the world’s supreme powerhouse—a Transcendent whose mind had truly gone awry.
As an Awakener Management Agency official myself, I understood well enough.
“But I’m perfectly fine?”
“I went because I wanted to, so don’t worry too much about it!”
That’s what Seol-ah, my sister, said.
Since she was happy about it, there was no reason to object, so I nodded calmly.
Yet I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.
“Sister, are you perhaps angry?”
“No.”
Then why did she have that look in her eyes?
【We will share this glorious moment! The scene of Jesus and Shin Si-woo embracing! With this, our South Korea has become a brother nation to America. Regarding this….】
I gazed at the news screen floating in the air.
It seemed like my sister was watching it too.
On the screen, Jesus was being shown in close-up, embracing me.
Watching that, my sister murmured.
“It feels strange… you’re changing so rapidly all of a sudden.”
I had indeed changed a great deal in such a short span of time.
Moreover, the fact that I was dealing with Jesus must have left my sister bewildered.
“I never imagined I’d come face to face with a living Jesus.”
The name of Jesus, humanity’s strongest, carried such weight and gravity.
Despite his bizarre appearance.
“Jesus is human, after all.”
We are Transcendents, but the essence within us is undoubtedly human.
Just as I am.
Of course, Jesus is a god walking among us.
Yet the moment I touched him, I came to understand his human side.
“Jesus is an immortal being, isn’t he? He saved humanity by dying infinitely while bound to the cross for days.”
The Necropolis.
The sky of death, and the burning desert.
Jesus had resolved more than one world-class catastrophe.
I simply nodded calmly.
“That’s true.”
Though I wouldn’t tell my sister this.
Jesus, revered as an immortal and unique god.
By my estimation, with over 99% certainty.
‘Dies when his believers disappear.’
He is a mortal being.
Why do I keep thinking of ways to kill him?
‘I’m not entirely sure, but—’
For some reason, I had an ominous premonition that I would inevitably become enemies with Jesus.
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—The world’s second god has descended upon South Korea!!!
The WorldNet community was in constant celebration.
—Damn, the Achievements are insane.
—Became a Transcendent and immediately hung out with Jesus.
—That’s why America is begging Korea to be allies!
Though there was some exaggeration.
Everything the citizens said was accurate.
Even the Patriot couldn’t control the international situation, yet Shin Si-woo had created this new dynamic simply by appearing.
Naturally, it was astounding.
—Why isn’t the Patriot showing up?
—He would be overjoyed to witness this glory.
Patriot lives for South Korea with such genuine devotion that it’s fair to say he cherishes this nation above all else.
Shin Si-woo, the Transcendent who stands as brothers-in-arms with Jesus.
If Patriot saw him, he might weep tears of overwhelming emotion.
—He summoned a sacred dome that envelops all of Seoul in one sweep, no cap.
—If Si-woo defends the homeland and Patriot goes on the offensive, does Japan get annexed?
—Is Japan getting merged with us?
It was the brightest atmosphere in recent times.
Seizing this opportunity, Japan—which had been watching for any opening—made a surprise announcement.
And they did it by putting forward Yuki, an SSS-rank Transcendent.
Yuki transcended humanity by becoming one with a spirit.
She is half-elf, half-East Asian.
One of the world’s most beautiful women.
【Japan welcomes the world’s second GOD, Shin Si-woo! Let’s enjoy the scenery of Mount Fuji’s lava region and have a pleasant conversation!】
She sent a message to Shin Si-woo with a shy smile.
—Damn, just from the video and tone of voice, it sounds like “let’s grab coffee together!” but the location is absolutely insane.
—They’re trying to dump the Mount Fuji Lava Gate on us.
The Korean people immediately protested.
Don’t you dare try to push your garbage onto us!!!
That was their intention.
But then….
【I’ll stop by soon.】
Defying everyone’s expectations, Shin Si-woo gave an official response that he would visit Japan.
—Why on earth?
The world doesn’t know.
In truth, Shin Si-woo is the one who has been desperate to go to Japan.
If he goes to Japan, he can obtain the scabbard of the Aga Sword.

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