Chapter 95: Electrifying Vengeance! (2)

Iron already had an overwhelming affinity with birds so when God’s blessing, which gave him a more powerful divine power, was added to the mix, he was able to completely blow away the Sea God’s influence that bound and brainwashed the thunderbird. He even went so far as to go underground and made sure that there wasn't any interference with his reconnection with the thunderbird.

The moment Iron got reconnected with the thunderbird, the thunderbird’s body which had been slumbering after being brainwashed woke up. Of course, the thunderbird still had a contaminated chain that restrained its body since they had only been able to connect for a short while but it was nigh impossible to restrain such a powerful thunderbird with those chains alone. 

―Kiruuuk!

The man wielding the bone staff frowned when he saw the thunderbird soar to the sky and resisted the chains that the Sea God used to bind it with its powerful lightning. This was because the stronger the thunderbird resisted, the weaker the connection with the Sea God would become. 

“It’s almost done… We’re almost there!” 

The dark blue-haired man glared furiously at Iron. Even if he was a divine beast contractor he was still just a human. He thought that he would never be able to tame the thunderbird that was brainwashed by the Sea God. But his thoughts were shattered. 

They already had the perfect dimensional gate, the brainwashed thunderbird and the humans that would be sacrificed. Everything was in place. They were almost there. They had also caused chaos in the Eastern Command and were now killing the troops of the main fleet one by one. They only needed a bit more time to send the sacrifices to the dimensional gate and summon down the Sea God. It was the thing that they wanted to achieve the most.

But… a mere human ruined their plans.

“You bastard!” 

Carl Gustav sent an attack towards the man who wanted to rush furiously at Iron. But the man was able to parry Gustav’s powerful shock wave and tried to attack Iron once again. However, Lintel was there to send another attack to stop him. 

“Uwaaaaaaaaah!” 

The dark blue-haired man screamed at the Ghosts who kept on interfering. 

The man’s scream was so desperate and ear-piercing that everyone couldn’t help but take a step back and cover their ears.

The man’s desperate scream echoed all over Ghost Island as tears of blood flowed down on his face.

“You bastards are worse than the demons! I will give my life just to drag you all down to the abyss! I will make sure to do that!” 

A tsunami formed at the coast of Ghost Island at the man’s scream. But before it could hit the island, something unbelievable happened. The dimensional gate suddenly rose to the sky. 

As the dimensional gate rose above Ghost Island, the completely corrupted Sea Orb that was hidden inside the island also appeared. The Sea Orb began to affect the sea with a burst of energy. It was as if it was answering to the man’s desperate screams.

The seawater that turned into a huge tsunami flocked to the dimensional gate as it sucked the huge amount of seawater. Then, it spewed out the water once again. However, it was no longer ordinary seawater. The dimensional gate had transformed it into contaminated black water before merging it together. The shape that the black water took on looked just like a mermaid. It had a lower half that was similar to a fish with a huge trident on one hand.

― The Sea God has appeared and has violated the rules set by the Gods. Calculating the price.

(……)

― The incomplete summoning had reduced the price.

― The contaminated mana, the void insects and the dimensional fish are calculated to be sacrifices.

― The final calculated price is the dimensional gate. However! The more blood offerings there are, the lower the price would be.

It was not only the other-worlders but all of the people present on Ghost Island who had heard the notifications.

The eyes of both humans and mermaids began to shift and turn as soon as they heard these notifications. They clearly knew that they had to kill their opponents. And the same was true for the newly descended Sea God as he tried to smash his huge black hand on Ghost Island.

“Thunderbird!” 

Iron hurriedly called out to the thunderbird when the giant hand of black water tried to attack them. The thunderbird that was covered with lightning immediately flew towards Iron.

―Kiruuuuk!

They fell into a world of their own the moment Iron touched the beak of the gigantic thunderbird. 

When he first saw Baepsae…

When he formally signed a contract with Two Moons…

When he synchronized with Phoenix…

The same thing that he experienced before had once again appeared in front of Iron’s eyes. And the same was true for the thunderbird.

They began to learn and understand each other as their thoughts and feelings flowed in their heads. And finally, their divine powers got connected. This resulted in the crumbling of the Sea God’s chains. Since Thunderbird’s new owner had appeared, all the restrictions that the Sea God had placed on it had lost their power.

― You have signed a contract with a legendary class divine beast. You only have the mythical class space for your remaining allowed contractual space.

― You can no longer sign a contract with a divine beast that’s equivalent to or less than a phantom species.

Although the two notifications rang loudly in Iron’s ears, he pushed them aside. This was not important right now. 

Iron stared at Thunderbird as he sympathized with its thirst for revenge. 

“Shall we have our revenge?” 

―Kirruuuuk!

Iron gently stroked Thunderbird’s beak as he smiled and whispered words of agreement with it. Thunderbird’s huge eyes blinked at him before it soared to the skies.

“Captain!” 

After confirming that Thunderbird safely flew to the sky, Iron hurriedly called Gustav. Gustav turned to look at Iron while fighting against their enemies. 

“Please protect me from now on!” 

Gustav nodded lightly at Iron’s cry. 

The Ghosts that heard Iron’s cry immediately surrounded him in a defensive formation. The knights also formed a tight defensive circle that wouldn’t let even a dust in. Even the rangers and the soldiers surrounded Iron and formed another layer of defensive circle.

When he saw this, Iron stabbed his sword on the ground and slowly closed his eyes.

“Fight as much as you want. I will give you all the divine power that you need down to the very last drop.” 

Iron did his best to increase the synchronization with his four divine beasts. As soon as his words fell, the bodies of his divine beasts shone brightly. 

Phoenix cried long and loud as the flames that covered its body turned blue. The flames that it spewed out began to burn Thulhupus’ tentacles into ashes. For Thulhupus, who wasn’t summoned completely, it was difficult to fight against Phoenix at its full power. 

Two Moons also began to exert its full strength. Owl’s eyes turned golden and silver, an image that was extremely similar to the bright moonlight that lit up the night sky, as beams of light swept all over Ghost Island.

What was surprising was the fact that the light did not harm the humans despite killing their enemies relentlessly. It even helped increase the humans’ affinity with mana. It seemed like Two Moons was showing its overwhelming majesty worthy of its title, Black Forest Guardian.

Baepsae also did not lose out as it showed its tremendous power. Divine power emanated from its small body and spread all over Ghost Island. Its power purified everything on its path while revitalizing and healing the humans. Baepsae’s power boosted the humans’ determination and gave them an indomitable will.

The void insects and dimensional fish that roamed Ghost Island fell down one by one with the overwhelming majesty of the three divine beasts that signed a contract with Iron.

Seeing the situation, the Sea God formed from the enormous amounts of black water created hundreds of thousands of water spears that attacked the three divine beasts and the humans on the island.

That was when Thunderbird, Iron’s newly contracted divine beast, exerted its full strength.

Dark clouds appeared on the once clear skies as tornadoes and whirlpools appeared from the sea and sucked up all of the attacks created by the Sea God. Thunderbird roared loudly as lightning spears flew down from the sky and attacked the Sea God. The incompletely summoned Sea God could not fight against Thunderbird, who was at its full power. 

Thunderbird was another phantom species that firmly stood side by side with Phoenix. It showed its overwhelming strength as it created storms and lightning that struck Ghost Island one after the other. Its power was something that was extremely similar to a natural catastrophe.

“That’s a phantom…” 

A soldier couldn’t help but mutter blankly as he watched Phoenix and Thunderbird express their full strength. Since the void insects and dimensional fish crumbled one after the other from Baepsae’s light, the soldiers, who fought less and less, couldn’t help but stare blankly at the sky. 

This was the divine beasts’ battle that only appeared in the legends. 

And although Two Moons did not enter the phantom class, it still had a ridiculous strength that could sweep through the entire Ghost Island. They could now see why Two Moons was known as the Black Forest’s master and why a corps-level power that included a master couldn’t guarantee their life if they entered Black Forest. 

But what was surprising was the fact that there was only one contractor for all of these powerful divine beasts. 

The fight between the divine beasts, the Sea God and Thulhupus was so unrealistic. Even Two Moons was showing an unrealistic combat power as it fought against the huge black whale while sweeping away the void insects and dimensional fish along the way. If this fight continued on, it seemed like they would be able to destroy all of the beings from the dimensional gate. 

However, things wouldn’t be that easy. 

Stagger!

Iron staggered and knelt down on the spot. 

“Thunder!” 

When Iron hurriedly called out to Thunderbird, the rest of the divine beasts read his thoughts and stepped down as they reduced the strength that they were exhibiting. Then, all of the divine power in Iron’s body was poured towards Thunderbird which made it possible to showcase his full strength. 

―Kiiiiwooooo!

A huge lightning bolt that looked like a frightening spear pierced through the Sea God’s body made of black water as soon as Thunderbird cried out. The contaminated black water was immediately purified as it turned back into seawater that flowed back to sea. 

When a giant which was large enough to cover the entire Ghost Island turned back into seawater, it became a tsunami that almost swept away the entire island. Fortunately, Phoenix’s flames evaporated the rushing seawater. 

However, as if reaching their limits, the divine beasts all disappeared from the sky.

― God’s blessing has reached its end. Time’s up. You’re going to faint in 10 seconds. If you have anything to say, please say it quickly…

With the sound of a friendly and cheerful notification, all of the divine and sacred power in Iron’s body had disappeared.

“Please take care of things after this.”

Lintel ran quickly to help him up after hearing Iron’s words and seeing him collapse. 

“How dare you…! How dare you!”

Although the summoning was incomplete, it was still the Sea God.

How can some inferior being like him bring down the Sea God?

The dark blue-haired man was furious as the Sea God’s summoning was undone. 

“I’ll kill all of you!”

The only thing that disappeared was the Sea God. The black whale and Thulhupus still remained in Ghost Island. And even though the dimensional gate had become incomplete, it still remained standing. 

“I can do it again! I can use you as a sacrifice and do it again!”

The man mumbled to himself as he summoned thousands of undead.

The black whale hovered in the air while numerous undead filled with contaminated mana roamed the ground. And the catastrophic Thulhupus also stood still over the island. 

No matter how much of an elite the troops of the Northeast were, they would still face difficulties if they fought against these opponents with just one ship worth of troops from both the Northeastern and the Eastern Army.

Just then, something fell from the sky.

Baaaaang!

With a huge explosion, a storm blew in the air and cut off Thulhupus’ huge tentacle. The rest of its tentacles were also cut off by a huge sword and a lion. 

“How?”

The dark blue-haired man mumbled blankly when the troops from the main fleet appeared on Ghost Island. Before he knew it, all of the black fog around the island had disappeared and the polluted water, which he took pains getting contaminated, had already been cleaned up. Because of this, the power of the mermaids was weakened which in turn allowed the main troops to arrive at Ghost Island. 

“Not yet… It’s not over yet.”

With those words as a catalyst, the man’s once beautiful appearance vanished. And in his place was a monster with a hideous face and a lower body that looked like a mutated fish. It seemed like dealing with contaminated mana had made him into this hideously strong monster. However, it seemed like undoing his beautiful appearance had released the power that he had suppressed. Right now, a power that could rival a master was emitting from his body.

“You all should become the sea’s food!”

Another powerful force appeared from the side just when Carl Gustav was about to raise his sword and fight to the death. It was a blue wave that had a power that was similar to Iron’s divine power. A power that was on the extreme opposite of the black water.

“White… Whale?”

Carl Gustav mumbled blankly when he saw Evastole and Kim Jungtae, the two leaders of the White Whale guild, appear in the area. 

“I think the divine beast is gone but…”

“Then, all that’s left is the Sea Orb?”

The two men spoke as they looked at the man.

“I think he’s the head of the mermaid race… Can you handle him?”

Gustav frowned at Kim Jungtae’s question. He was speaking arrogantly as if they could handle him by themselves. 

“Why don’t you step back and let us take care of him?”

“It seems like you have a lot of injuries so you should leave him to us.”

Evastole quickly covered Kim Jungtae’s mouth as he politely spoke to Gustav. Gustav sighed and nodded lightly when he looked at Iron and his injured men. If their opponent was at the master’s level, then they would not be able to handle him anyway. 

“Then, I’ll leave it to you.”

Kim Jungtae smiled as he looked at the head of the mermaid race after receiving Gustav’s permission. 

“How dare a puny human like you be so arrogant!”

A black whale flew towards the Northeastern Army as soon as the head of the mermaid race raised his bone staff. At the same time, countless void insects, black streams of water, undead and dimensional fish flocked towards the humans. It seemed like he was determined to not let anyone leave alive. 

However, his wishful thinking was smashed to smithereens. This was because the members of the White Whale guild appeared one by one to deal with the undead and the beings from the void as the other-worlders followed and ‘attacked’ the head of the mermaid race earnestly.

The head of the mermaid race also had to struggle to fight over the control of the black water especially with Evastole’s divine power that was completely opposite to contaminated mana and Kim Jungtae’s ability for water. 

Because of the overlapping factors that did not favor the head of the mermaid race, he was on the verge of being attacked and defeated by the other-worlders without being able to express more than half of his original power. 

Meanwhile, the Northeastern Army was able to safely retreat thanks to the cover of the artillery and support units. They had successfully set up camp in the rear and moved their injured to safety as they waited. The main fleet’s units also arrived one after the other on the coast.

The war between the humans and the mermaid race in Ghost Island had finally begun in earnest.