44 – Chapter 44
Isn’t it too late?
No, maybe it’s already too late.
But you can’t stop just because you’re late.
I hurriedly started climbing up the stairs carved into the wall of the joint.
The eyes still floating in the air were just looking at Adela and Ethan, but they did not show any movement.
But you don’t know when to start moving.
Now that state may be a working state.
The report I received was only a simple explanation, so I don’t know the attack method of the artificial god or the specific scale of strength.
The only thing I know is what the elder said, ‘You will be able to block most enemies.’
The moment when he barely stepped on the last step, feeling the extreme nervousness caused by those words.
-Tuk Toduk
Red blood drips into the center of the cavity.
I looked up and looked at the eyeballs that had sprouted in the air, and they were growing things similar to the optic nerves in the human eyeball.
The optic nerves that slowly grow like plants grow at the back of the eyeball.
The unpleasant and grotesque appearance gives goosebumps all over the body.
But even while doing so, his eyeballs did not take their eyes off the place where Adela and Ethan were supposed to be.
“No. 3, No. 7”
With Edan’s voice, a fireball flies along a red path toward the eye.
-Paang
However, it did not reach its destination and crashed into an invisible wall in the air and exploded.
A flame that dissipates and disappears.
However, despite the commotion, the eyeballs only stretched the optic nerve, but did not move much.
In the meantime, I ran to where Adela and Ethan were.
“You’re all right!”
“…Yes.”
It was not unwelcome.
But I can’t bear to raise my voice brightly.
“…Looks like it’s ruined.”
Ethan said that and taught the gap in the wall.
Something like red thread was running through the cracks in the wall before I knew it.
When I turn my eyes and look at the color of my eye, I can see that the optic nerves in the upper part of the eye, which were not covered, are dug into the ceiling.
“Noctua.”
When she opened her mouth slightly and made a sound, Noctua, who had been hiding, appeared from her shoulder.
She’s been hiding for a surprise attack, but it doesn’t seem like she’s going to be an opponent for a surprise attack.
“Things up there.”
I didn’t even tell him what to do with his optic nerve, but Noctua understood and flew away.
Noctua flew with sharply deformed brass wings.
But something strange happened.
A place far away from the optic nerve department.
Noctua bounced off as if there was an invisible wall.
When Noctua, who had failed in such a given mission, returned to my surroundings and was confused, not knowing what to do, something unexpected happened.
-Kreurreuk
A sound similar to that of a person who has been stabbed in the lungs right before dying.
With that sound, the eyes began to move.
Up and down once. And then take a look around.
My eyes met for a moment, but my eyes passed by as if I was looking at a different background.
But maybe it was just me, my eyes stopped when I looked at Ethan and Adela, just as they had done before.
However, this time was different.
If there was no point in staring at her bruises earlier, this time she has grown and shrunk those huge irises and she is definitely concentrating.
And the next moment,
-Papa Pak
The optic nerves protrude from the floor and walls, and are driven towards their respective destinations.
Floor to floor, wall to floor, wall to wall, ceiling to floor.
It was like a red rain falling in a space where gravity is messed up.
But there was a place where those countless lines never invaded, and it was around me.
The optic nerves that did not invade a certain range around me looked like a round barrier.
“Ugh…”
Looking at Adela as I heard moaning, I saw that the optic nerves were threaded through my left leg and right arm.
Ethan was no different.
“No, Noctua! Cut these off!”
Saying that, she took out the mace from her right finger and swung it.
Thankfully, Mace spreads the blade according to my thoughts.
But there was a problem.
If you cut it, it rises again.
If you cut it, it will rise again.
Cut, rise, cut, rise.
There is no end.
The situation is worse for Noctua.
Mace can cut, but Noctua can’t even do that.
“These… f*cking things!”
Even at the moment when they couldn’t move forward like that, Adela and Ethan’s bodies, who were swearing at each other, were gradually increasing their optic nerves one by one.
The two are becoming like marionettes hanging on a string.
An ominous feeling that maybe it’s not just the shape runs through my head.
Actually, the method used by the cult was to play with the human mind.
Just as my heart was dotted with anxiety, familiar sounds began to be heard from all directions.
-Cheating Geek
The spaces making up the floor were being torn into small pieces.
With so many holes together, it even looked like the floor was a space full of tentacles.
And the numerous tentacles crawling out of the passage.
Inevitably, the tentacles collided with the optic nerves, and the optic nerves touched by the tentacles began to melt and disappear instead of being severed.
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Now the room has become like a temple supported by pillars made of tentacles.
“Keep it off…”
I suddenly heard a moan of pain, so I looked in that direction and saw Adela, whose left arm had been blown off by a tentacle.
“Ah, Adela!”
“Ugh… What, what is this…”
Since countless optic nerves passed through their arms, they couldn’t lift it up properly, and the two of them were drooping.
Moreover, Adela held onto her missing left shoulder and endured her pain.
My legs were trembling, and my clothes were stained red.
However, even in that state, the way he tries to grasp the situation steadily seems quite impressive.
By the way, what the hell is this all about?
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“Huh… I’m going to die…”
How many did you take out?
100? It would have taken out a lot more than that.
The big room was filled to the brim.
But she couldn’t help it.
By pinpointing and cutting out only the things that bind Adela and her Ethan, doubts are unavoidable.
So what if it covers the entire room?
I’m sure there will be feedback on Illyana’s body, but…
You could say it was a ritual raised by the church.
And isn’t it strange that there is no damage to the enemy who is bound by the cult’s ritual?
I really thought about it a lot.
Where should the target be hit?
‘Legs? No. Without even one of her legs, combat would be completely impossible… Her right arm, of course, wouldn’t work. Then…’
Then the left arm was taken away.
Actually, he also aimed at Edan’s left arm. She never thought she would stop it.
Illyana’s health and Adela’s left arm. That was the cost needed to settle the case.
However, even this was only the immediate matter.
Artificial gods are still alive and well.
Even though it’s in a state where the optic nerves can’t open properly due to the black energy.
The transparent wall surrounding the eyes also melted.
There’s nothing stopping you now.
He slightly shook the new orb that was attached to Illyana’s waist.
The old and the new that I managed to complete despite the lack of time.
It is natural that they hit various things such as impairing recognition and shielding.
But those are not the main features.
It was only made to break that artificial god.
Cult members are very creative.
If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have thought of making that god thing that way.
Heavenly and evil spirits have a mutually compatible relationship.
However, it is safe to say that it has an almost absolute defense against enemies other than that.
So the church thought.
‘Then if we have the tools of the heavenly gods, aren’t we invincible?’
That’s right… That’s right. The only weakness is an ally, but that’s invincibility, what is invincibility.
That artificial god was created in that way.
The core is a stolen celestial god’s new orb. The ones made are the kidnapped members of the Sun Church.
That’s how that invincible god was born.
As if Illyana had seen the new orb that had formed on her waist, she picked it up and started looking around.
Then, as if she realized its core function, she alternately looks at the eyes of the old and the new.
“…Thank you.”
Illyana spoke so softly.
She just moved her feet and started jumping from tentacle to tentacle.
“Little boy!”
She will take care of her own body.
Illyana ignores Adela’s shouts and continues running.
A little awkwardly, a little nervously holding the old and new with both hands.
Her artificial god continues to shoot her optic nerves as if she sensed her threat, but the protective shield made of black aura surrounding her Illyana doesn’t allow it.
The dark red fluid from her optic nerves melting continues to splash on Illyana’s face.
As she was watching her video, fearing that she might stumble and fall, Illyana finally stood in front of her eyes.
Illyana’s eyes move.
A moment to her old and new, a moment to her eyeballs looking at herself, a moment to Adela holding her arm and suffering.
Then, Illyana slowly lifted up the old and new items that she was holding with both hands.
As if in response, her old and new works.
This is what I put the most concentration on when making old and new products.
It was to squeeze as many black mists inside as possible.
It is possible for me to exhale the black mist, but the sacred object self-destructs due to the cult’s ritual?
Isn’t that impossible?
So, the black mist that is the basis of the evil god’s power contained in the new orb given to Illyana.
Things that have escaped from the old and new restraints are now spreading like mad in all directions.