The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92. The World Tree (2)
Jesus’s black hand trembled violently as it gripped the cross.
Tears welled in his eyes, and droplets streamed ceaselessly down his cheeks.
The tears of a god formed a waterfall, transforming the Grand Canyon region into a vast sea—.
“My brother!!! F-finally you have become a god….”
Humanity’s sole deity.
The one responsible for the fate of Earth.
Jesus Christ, bearing an indescribable, immense weight—.
Whoosh!
[The Second God—Jesus.]
Wept with joy.
The weight of the cross he bore seemed to lighten.
“Ah… brother! Hmm?”
After reveling in this joy for some time.
Jesus Christ detected a sinister aura emanating from Shin Si-woo’s surroundings.
‘The Satanic Demon Tree has begun to stir.’
Jesus’s expression grew calm and composed.
He read through all the ‘intentions’ in that area and grasped the malevolent scheme.
They were seducing Japan’s Transcendent to orchestrate something wicked.
And my brother—.
‘Brother, you are testing me.’
—Shin Si-woo, who likewise sensed the stirring of the Satanic Demon’s power,
Prepared to intervene at any moment, yet took no immediate action.
Jesus harbored no resentment.
‘A god testing a god—how sublime is this act?’
Jesus rejoiced.
‘We made a promise, did we not?’
I, Jesus Christ, shall protect my brother Shin Si-woo from the Satanic Demon Tree.
My brother Shin Si-woo shall protect me, Jesus Christ, from Elon Musk.
We made such a promise.
And so I shall fulfill it.
“This is a sublime fulfillment.”
Zing———.
A cross materialized above Jesus’s black pupils.
Different from the usual one.
A cross of grotesque and hideous appearance.
Massive nails were driven haphazardly through it, and between the wooden beams of the cross were packed flesh and blood.
It was——.
[Hell]
The key to another world that Jesus possessed.
A prison that dares to confine Satans who must not even die in peace.
It is the only way to that place.
‘I shall lock the authority of the Satan Demon Tree in Hell.’
Thus Jesus’s Eye gazed upon Yuki, Japan’s Transcendent.
Jesus opened the world with a key and dragged Yuki into Hell.
There, he asked.
“I, Jesus Christ, demand to know. Did you dare attempt to save the Satan Demon Tree?”
Before long, Jesus stood before the Hell Gate.
Before it appeared a sinner.
Japan’s Transcendent, the Half-Elf Yuki.
Before the Hell Gate.
Grrrrr—.
A three-headed American Pit Bull glared at Yuki.
She was utterly terrified.
Unable to speak a word, her body trembled uncontrollably.
Jesus asked.
“You are a heretic who serves the authority of the Satan Demon Tree.”
Before crossing the Hell Gate.
Jesus granted her one chance.
With Jesus’s power, he restored her to the most lucid state of mind and demanded the truth.
“Why did a Japanese believer in me, Jesus Christ, succumb to the whispers of Satan Demon?”
Japan’s national religion is Christianity.
She too was a follower of Jesus.
“Y-Yuki did not… it was not my will!!!”
The scent of her mother fades.
Yuki grew cold and still.
‘Mother, I am sorry.’
In her heart lingered an apology to her mother, who had bestowed upon her the bloodline of a Half-Elf.
Yet a greater faith took root in her chest.
“A-men.”
Yuki is a Christian.
Japan’s national religion is Christianity.
She had been a devout believer even before her Transcendence.
“You regard that Satan Demon Tree as your mother, yet dare claim to have faith in me.”
Standing at two meters fifty tall.
Jesus approached Yuki.
Jesus seized her chin and thrust his eerie four-eyed gaze inches from her face.
In that gaze lay—.
The world.
—everything.
An immeasurable cosmos unfolds before me.
Yuki was swept away in a colossal wave that defied comprehension.
But only for a moment.
A soft whoosh—.
Jesus recedes into the distance.
Yuki returned to reality once more.
So this is why it’s called EX.
Humanity’s sole….
No, the unique one.
“It is a matter of bloodline. I, Jesus Christ, declare unto you, Yuki, that you are no sinner.”
Jesus observed Yuki.
He witnessed both her life as a human and her existence as an Elf.
In the trials of the Elves’ world, where they drew strength from the World Tree, even there Yuki was discriminated against as a Half-Elf.
Yet even that half was thus.
“The problem lies in inheriting half the blood of the Demon’s accursed tree.”
Jesus already knew of Yuki.
In the past, he had regarded the Spirit Realm as a possibility for human unification spanning worlds.
That was an era before the World Tree existed.
But now that he had witnessed that terrifying tree, what was to be done?
“So Elves are beings who grow stronger by receiving knowledge from the Demon’s accursed tree.”
Yuki trembled violently.
She recited verses from scripture.
“Only those who harbor faith deep within their hearts shall find salvation… Y-Yuki is—.”
She wished to live.
Just as Mother—the Earth Goddess—had done.
“—I am no heretic!”
Jesus was moved by her earnest faith.
Jesus extended his hand.
«The Holy Grail»
A golden chalice materialized in the empty air.
The Holy Grail containing wine crafted by humanity’s unique being with his own hands—a poisoned chalice.
“Yuki, I shall repent.”
Without the slightest hesitation, Yuki received the Holy Grail.
She moved to drink.
“No, it is not yours.”
Jesus stopped Yuki.
The Holy Grail had another purpose.
‘The Elves may yet appear at any moment.’
And yet Shin Si-woo had kept the Demon’s accursed tree alive.
There was surely some reason behind it—.
“Feed that Holy Grail to the Satanic Demon Tree. Then I, Jesus Christ, shall acknowledge your purity.”
* * *
A piercing hum echoed through the air.
The Imperial City of the Ruzbella Empire.
Within it, the most solemn Central Imperial Palace.
Before my eyes, a cross materialized, cleaving through dimensions themselves.
‘Shin Si-woo….’
Humanity’s sole deity, Shin Si-woo.
I had entrusted Yuki, the half-elf, to him, believing in our covenant.
As expected of a senior god, he kept his promise with unwavering resolve.
Shin Si-woo dragged Yuki directly into Hell.
And so I could witness it.
A glimpse of Jesus’s true nature.
‘It’s vast beyond measure.’
Upon becoming a [God], I felt the waves of faith washing over me.
A cool, crystalline stream finding me gradually, like water lapping at my feet.
If mine felt like this, how immense must his be?
The being worshipped by the vast majority of humanity.
I could feel the weight of it acutely.
He was——.
“Still humanity’s strongest, I see.”
Despite how powerful I had become.
He remained a monster I couldn’t even dare challenge without the [Sword].
Anyone could discern the magnitude of Shin Si-woo’s faith.
Just by the view counts on Shorts alone—reaching billions—he was a being that monopolized the world’s faith itself.
Regardless of quality, in sheer ‘quantity’ alone, he was overwhelmingly comparable to the Sword Raising World.
That’s why Shin Si-woo could wield his divine power even within this Imperial Palace, where [Imperial Authority] dwelled.
“Brother, we are true brothers in the deepest sense. The only….”
Jesus approached me with open arms, radiating benevolence.
Yet it seemed he could no longer read my thoughts, for he showed no awareness of my concerns and anxieties.
“Brother!!!”
The tall figure of Jesus drew ever closer.
I trembled slightly and retreated backward.
Unlike before, Shin Si-woo stepped back without forcing an embrace upon me.
A gesture of respect toward me as a god.
Yet….
A sharp hum pierced the air.
Shin Si-woo slashed through empty space and summoned something.
Then a grotesque monster with three heads materialized.
Shin Si-woo embraced that creature.
Looking closer, it was a dog.
Like Cerberus from Greek and Roman mythology.
Woof woof!!!
But it looked terrifyingly ferocious.
At first glance, it appeared monstrous.
“Max. My companion dog. My only family,” Jesus explained briefly about his family.
Jesus had given a terse explanation of his family.
An American Pit Bull.
A pitiful bloodline subjected to excessive genetic modification by human greed.
So he had used divine authority privately to fuse three pit bull brothers into one, or so the tale went….
“That terrifying sword of yours spoke of people—something similar to Demons.”
“I see.”
Iris’s people are Demons.
She has always insisted on this.
In other words, that pit bull also falls within the realm of ‘insistence.’
In such cases, the answer is to simply accept it.
“You have a remarkable family.”
“Brother!!! You recognize it?”
“Of course.”
“Max is more trustworthy than most people. It’s our secret, but Max’s duty is to guard the Hell Gate.”
Max, guardian of the Hell Gate.
The sense of mission given to a three-headed American Pit Bull far exceeded my imagination.
‘Trump, Epstein….’
Thinking of the people trapped in Hell made my head spin.
America’s madmen, all awakened in a deranged state.
Before they could grow as Hunters, Jesus had cast them all into Hell.
Including Trump, who had transcended.
“Is Yuki there as well?”
“She is….”
Jesus glanced at me cautiously before speaking carefully.
I was greatly surprised by his explanation.
“You mean feeding a poisoned Holy Grail to the World Tree is acceptable?”
Jesus, who manufactures poisoned Holy Grails.
Indeed, humanity’s first god approaches things differently.
The question is whether such methods would work on the World Tree….
“The World Tree—”
I recalled my memories of the World Tree.
That terrifying tree was—.
Immune to all poisons—toxins have no effect.
Absolute stillness—brainwashing and mental attacks are ineffective.
The World Tree absolutely dominates the concept of Elves as its highest priority.
Even if an Elf becomes a Demon, that Demon prioritizes the World Tree’s commands with such overwhelming dominion that resistance is futile.
“How does the Holy Grail function?”
“Through the exercise of miracles.”
Miracles….
Holy Empress Yulia Lanestia.
She had attempted to ‘conquer’ the World Tree through faith alone.
Even confining it within the [Chamber of Truth] and inflicting the anguish of loss upon it across eons proved ineffective.
Even the pressure of a great god’s power cannot break through.
The World Tree is—.
“A hermaphroditic monstrosity that feels no loss whatsoever.”
“Jesus….”
Jesus exhales a sigh regarding the World Tree.
Then he asks.
“How did you possibly overcome that demonic tree, brother?”
One must employ an even more potent method.
“I altered the very concept itself.”
Regarding it as a single meal and devouring it completely, or perceiving it as mere scrap metal and transforming it into ‘material’.
Or judging it as a mere ‘scarecrow’ for training and annihilating its existence entirely.
When encountering a corrupted tree like Yulia did, one can declare it [heretical] and obliterate it.
At this point, even Jesus seemed curious.
“Why do you keep such a grotesque thing alive?”
Having it absorb North Korea’s contamination is merely an excuse.
The truth is….
I harbor a singular fear.
“The World Tree is an absolute existence—a bizarre monstrosity.”
“An absolute existence, you say?”
In any world, the World Tree exists.
Already, several World Trees have been sighted on Earth within locations called [Gates].
“If there are so many World Trees, then what becomes of humanity….”
Jesus’s eyes widened in shock.
More startled than when he first heard of the Demon Worshippers.
I offered him reassurance.
“The true one is singular. And that true one is the World Tree I myself planted.”
“Your proof?”
“Memory.”
The World Tree’s memory spans across eons of time.
An existence that absolutely remembers everything of itself and prioritizes its own survival above all else in any world.
That is why I fear it.
The World Tree that absolutely exists.
If I kill the World Tree in its current weakened state—.
“A World Tree bearing all its memories might resurrect in another world or dimension.”
I laid bare my fear.
Its very source, distilled into a single sentence.
“Imagine, for instance, if creatures like those from China obtained the World Tree.”
“Good God—.”
Jesus traced the sign of the cross, squeezing his eyes shut.
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‘Brother’s potential….’
Jesus, having returned to the Church.
He smiled with profound joy as he observed Shin Si-woo’s growth.
Shin Si-woo, who had transcended while harboring something absolute, was advancing at an overwhelming pace that defied comparison.
Faster than Jesus’s own golden age.
“I can see the end now.”
Jesus murmured, gazing toward the distant heavens—the cosmos itself.
Jesus, who had wrought more miracles than any human in existence.
Which meant he was the being who had accumulated the greatest rewards from the world and grown strongest.
The reason he had left that British Doctor alone was precisely because Jesus could manage him whenever he wished.
And yet….
“World, what is it that you desire?”
Jesus gazed upon his corrupted status window and asked.
[The Sole Divine—Jesus]
All levels and numerical values had vanished.
The skills and abilities he possessed had been integrated into divine authority.
Even Quests and Tower information had been completely erased from his status window.
What appeared in the [Shop] window was nothing but mass-produced cross memorabilia.
And yet—.
“Is it that Brother can walk a path humanity cannot tread?”
Jesus gazed at his status window and asked.
Whoosh!
[The Sole Divine—Jesus.]
The same words repeated.
Jesus recalled the time he had once vanquished the world’s [calamity].
【Announcement: The Sole Divine of Humanity, Jesus, has resolved the chaos of South Africa.】
【The world is moved by Jesus’s great deed. Offer praise to humanity’s Sole Divine, savior of the world.】
The catastrophe that had halved South Africa’s population.
Jesus had slain that calamity.
Since then, he had dealt with countless disasters—Canada’s undead crisis, the dark tempest of the Bermuda Triangle, and more.
Thus he had ascended to the rank of ‘god’—.
“World, what exactly are you hiding?”
Jesus realized it as he looked upon Shin Si-woo.
We humanity, blessed with the World Tree’s protection.
Remain infinitely fragile and weak.
‘Shin Si-woo’s dream….’
Jesus, being divine, knows.
He intends to manifest all those terrifying Swords into this world.
Six—or so he claimed, yet even a single descent upon Earth would shatter the planet, such were these dreadful abominations.
And yet the World permits this.
Rather, it seeks to accelerate it.
That is what terrifies me most.
“World… I, Jesus Christ, command you—answer me.”
There was no response.
However—.
“Gasp!!!”
Jesus’s eyes widened.
He had read the World’s will.
I have seen it.
I have felt it.
I have understood it.
Flash!
[A photograph of Earth viewed from space.]
A dark star surrounded by dimensional walls—Earth.
And….
[Elon Musk: Alone, all of humanity save myself is contained within my gaze.]

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