Chapter 196

196. Labyrinth final layer (3)

The fact that the seal of apotheosis was lifted was an unexpected benefit.

It was worth it.

For a godhead, it is a very basic knowledge to the extent that it is classified as a basic divine authority...

After all abilities were sealed by the labyrinth, he had to come down the floor without even having the basic knowledge.

Of course, deification itself was a power that could be regained at any time.

The labyrinth allowed challengers to bring their original abilities whenever they went down the hierarchy.

But I’ve never thought of getting my apotheosis back.

That would be too...

Apotheosis was a power that was close to a guild to be an ability that had to be restored after breaking through the hierarchy.

If the physical abilities were not supported, the body would burst like a balloon pricked by a needle as soon as deification was activated.

So it was of no use.

But now it’s different.

『Han Seong-yoon』

『HP – 417/450』

『MP – 207/240』

『Muscle – 111』 『Stamina – 117』

『Agility – 115』 『Magic Power – 114』

『Endurance – 113』

『Unique Attribute – Necromancy (A)』

『Inherent Authority – Skill Synthesis』

『Unique Divine Authority – Transcendence (SSS+)』

『Basic Divine Authority – Apotheosis (SS+)』

『Boss Power – Divine Power (A) Blood Heaven (C+) Warrior’s Protection (C+) Brightness Index (C-) Faith Harvest (C+)』

『Skill – See details』

There was a huge gap with the abilities seen on the first floor of the labyrinth.

Of course, compared to when I was outside, I still think it’s a long way off...

‘Since his stats have risen enough, he should be able to use Deification without difficulty.’

Now, all of his stats are over three digits, and if he receives the assistance of Shinhwa, he should be able to handle deification.

At that, I smiled softly.

‘I didn’t expect to benefit like this.’

―...I don’t think it’s something I’m going to like that much. There are people out there that you really like.

However, the slightly excited feelings did not last long and were subdued by Dam Tianyu.

―Deities whose spiritual status is so low that they don’t even look like them. Although the number is small, it is not non-existent.

Damcheonwu continued to speak in a low tone as if he was worried.

―Even though you have been deified, you have not been able to receive the incarnation. But low-class deities are different.

‘The seals must have been lifted for the deities who also have incarnations.’

-answer. So, there is no reason to be happy. From now on, some of the lesser deities will run rampant.

‘...I don’t think it’s going to be that serious.’

It’s not wrong, of course, but it was an opinion that couldn’t be said to be right blindly.

Even if you can use some basic divine powers, the gods cannot run wild.

‘Wouldn’t the deities who can’t use Apotheosis take action if it seems like each other’s camp is about to collapse?’

Powerful deities who could not be allowed the power of deification and incarnations can also use < Advent >.

So, through that, I will put pressure on the deities who can use deification as much as possible.

Whatever the case may be, there are only a handful of deities that are low enough to be allowed to be deified, so the check itself should be effective.

Therefore, I just have to look at the liver quietly in between.

―Do you really think so?

but.

―There is no need to keep an eye on the gods. If it’s a problem to deal with a high-level godhead, you can deal with a low-level godhead.

There was something overlooked.

―And a low-level deity that reveals the location in real time is right here.

that’s right...

“A number of nomination rights have been used for challenger Han Seong-yoon.”

「Challenger Han Seong-yoon’s location is open to all camps and is designated as non-stealth.」

That I am currently in a really good situation to be targeted by someone.

「The clumsy god of deterioration fixes the appearance location of the special divine power ‘incarnation’ to challenger Han Seong-yoon.」

「The clumsy god of observation fixes the appearance location of the special divine power ‘incarnation’ to the challenger Han Seong-yoon.」

「The false god of misery fixes the appearance location of the special divine power ‘incarnation’ to challenger Han Seong-yoon.」

“...”

Looking at the flashy messages, I had no choice but to realize it.

“shit....”

That there are not so many rewards that can be eaten day by day in this world.

***

My emotions quickly subsided and my thoughts accelerated.

I didn’t even think about lamenting now that unexpected situations were constantly happening.

I’m just thinking about how to get over this gobi.

Soon, I narrowed my eyes as I looked at the system message that still remained.

For now, I had at least some understanding of what this system message meant.

“...”

The incarnation is probably a special power that summons an avatar of a godhead...

Judging by the phrase that the appearance location is fixed, an avatar will be created near me immediately after use.

However, seeing that the location of the appearance was fixed and not used right away, I felt that there was another ulterior motive.

―...Are you lucky among misfortunes? You guys are looking at each other. I know that it’s a loss to send each other an incarnation first.

It was worth it.

‘They must know that the incarnation that appeared later gains the position of a fisherman.’

If the first incarnation gets tired from fighting me, the next incarnation will have an advantage.

It was a time when I thought that it was fortunate that I bought time for him.

Creepy....

“Fixing the location of the appearance.... On the subject of insignificant miscellaneous gods, you dare to do nonsensical tricks to Han Seong-yoon...”

Before I knew it, Arya was chewing on her fingernails with her eyes darkened.

Even to the extent that a life that cannot be hidden from her body is blooming little by little.

―...I don’t know why he’s doing that again. In any case, the apostles are all bitter bastards.

Seeing this, Damcheonwu muttered as if he was fed up, and then continued.

―It seems that a lot of miscellaneous gods have been twisted. This level should be enough for you to deal with.

Surprisingly, Dam Chun-wu did not view the current situation so badly.

– clumsy clumsy false. Those who have such modifiers attached to their names are miscellaneous gods among miscellaneous gods. So if you don’t rush in unison, there’s nothing to worry about.

surely.

I had never seen such an insignificant adjective attached to Shinmyeong.

‘All the divinities I’ve seen so far have only brief divinity traits like Proof or Darkness.’

Even the lowest deity did not deviate from this regularity.

However, the fact that they are wearing such low-quality adjectives must be proof that they are really low-level.

In addition to this, the situation is not as unfavorable as I thought, seeing as they do not rush at each other in concert, but aim for the fisherman’s geography and check it.

“...”

However, it is not known how long this situation will persist.

Is it supposed to be a kind of pre-storm state?

Even in a situation where the gods notice each other, I was sure that this would not last long.

and....

“...Seongyoon Han. The ghosts seem to be moving now. Challengers are coming this way.”

Indeed, as if she wasn’t wrong, she could hear the bad news from Arya.

―Is it really inducing the challengers belonging to their camp to consume their strength...

It was pretty obvious what the evil spirits were aiming for.

By having them engage in a battle of attrition, they would take away a lot of my strength and send out each other’s incarnations after that.

I smiled at him.

“It’s a war of attrition...”

To be honest, the strategy itself chosen by the gods was fine.

If the prey is exhausted, the advantage of the latecomer aiming for the fisherman’s geography will be greatly reduced.

They can create a situation where they can attack each other at any time.

But that’s only when it’s assumed to be the normal case.

“If the clumsy god of deterioration drains challenger Han Seong-yoon’s strength, he will take care of the rest himself, so don’t worry.”

“All right....”

Regvik pressed his lips together tightly, finished his words, and moved on again.

He couldn’t help it.

Because he is a prospective apostle who serves God and has not been given the right to decide.

Legvik, unable to do anything, tried to reassure himself.

‘...Okay. After all, all you have to do is tire the enemy God is aiming for. I should be able to do that no matter how tired I am.’

The clumsy god of heat boasted that he would directly manifest himself as an incarnation.

So, he thought, all he had to do was follow the path God led and tire the enemy at the end.

Then the god himself will appear incarnate, slay the enemy, and allow him to go downstairs.

But that belief didn’t last long.

That would be too...

“What...!”

It was because of a high-level flash that Legvik couldn’t even fathom suddenly from the front.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Regvik screamed with his eyes wide open at the dark red flash that reminded him of starlight.

“This crazy!?”

In an unimaginably unexpected wide-area period, he immediately activated his authority.

「The special power, ‘The Shroud of Deterioration that Brings Weed’ is activated.」

“All external attacks that touch the veil are greatly deteriorated.”

The special power bestowed upon him by the clumsy god of deterioration protects the challengers who form the same camp.

Kwagwagwagwagwa—!

The dark red holy light that seemed to crush even the earth collided with the curtain of deterioration made of power.

At that moment, the holy light staggered and at the same time lowered the intensity of the light...

That’s all.

Kwajangchang!

Subsequently, the curtain of deterioration shattered terribly and a dark red holy light swept around.

Quaaaaaa!

Of course, the Holy Light had deteriorated more than before and was able to withstand it well enough...

「A total of 17 challengers belonging to the < Degradation > camp died.」

This is a level that even a prospective apostle like Legvik can endure.

“Quaaaaa! damn rain! The eyes do not see the eyes! Hey healer! No healers!?”

Most of the challengers were either dead or mortally wounded.

“...ha ha ha. Is this all a dream? yes? Can’t this make sense?”

Even with a very serious blow to the psyche.

and....

“...”

Legvik could see the culprit behind the situation through the terrain opened up by the starlight.

“oh. There are many challengers who belong to it even though it is unexpected. It will be fine as it is.”

He was smiling as if he could do this level of tragedy casually.

Regvik even forgot to breathe and trembled at the overflowing divine power around him.

It was intuition.

「I am astonished that there is no such thing as a clumsy god of deterioration!」

that is...

“Hee hee hee...! Poetry God...!”

It is a ‘real god’ that is completely different from the god he serves.

***

I guessed, but the enemies weren’t strong enough to ask me to fight attrition.

‘Is it at the level where the holy light can be cleaned up at once?’

Even though it was at maximum output, the camp collapsed at the level of holy light that did not consume all of the divine power.

“The clumsy god of deterioration protests harshly to the manager of the labyrinth, claiming that this is unjust!”

In addition, the other party’s affairs fell into a state of panic, and a sense of satisfaction filled the whole body...

The camp clearing rewards didn’t end there.

「The authority ‘Reaping Faith’ is strongly activated.」

“You harvest the faith in you from those around you.”

「There is not enough folklore and faith to base it on.」

“The harvested faith is stored for the next myth.”

Is fear also a kind of faith?

“oh.”

harvest of faith.

Upon entering the 7th floor, the powers that had been released from the seal were automatically activated.

Perhaps, at the end of this battle, a new myth will emerge.

As the level of divine power rises, the myth integration function has also been created...

Through the myths that will be obtained later, you may be able to use the benefits of features you hadn’t even thought of.

‘I’m looking forward to it. What kind of myth will arise this time? It’s worth seeing.’

In response, I left a small expectation and soon activated another holy light in my left hand.

Since the current camp that has been dealt with is < Deterioration >, the remaining two camps also had the intention to work on it.

and....

Aaaaaaaang!

「A total of 11 challengers belonging to the < Observation > faction have died.」

「The clumsy god of observation is greatly perplexed by the unexpected situation and suspects that the labyrinth has exceeded its authority!」

Kwakwagwagwang!

“A total of 14 challengers belonging to the < Misery > camp have died.”

“The false god of misery has disbelief that this is truly a mortal being’s ability to use!”

The rest of the camps were also organized by using the holy light twice without wasting more time.

―...I didn’t know that the defense system authority could gather so many useless people.

“Iknow, right. There is no faction that blocks the Holy Light properly. Everyone is close to extinction.”

Even if there were survivors in the opposing camp, the situation was not relaxed enough to continue the battle.

In response, I immediately moved my body and absorbed the spirits scattered around me as much as possible.

It was an essential process to go through because it was to be used in the battle against the deity from now on.

“The spirit of the challenger ‘Cetiligen’ has been absorbed.”

「Skill has increased by 0.0017%.」

「I have absorbed the command of the challenger ‘New Grid’...」

「Skill has increased by 0.0041%...」

「Absorbing the spirit of the challenger ‘Coachalkan’...」

「Skill level increased by 0.0089%...」

and....

“The clumsy god of deterioration swears to cooperate with the gods in order to eliminate challenger Han Seong-yoon.”

“The god of clumsy observation swears to cooperate with the gods in order to eliminate challenger Han Seong-yoon.”

“The false god of misery swears to cooperate with the gods in order to eliminate challenger Han Seong-yoon.”

By the time the collection of spirits was all over, each of the deities popped up a message.

-...flaw. I realized now that we are not in a position to fish for each other. They must have realized that they had to work together.

The Godheads no longer considered me their prey.

「A clumsy god of deterioration activates the special divine authority ‘Incarnation’ and appears in a fixed location.」

“The god of clumsy observation activates the special divine authority ‘Incarnation’ and appears in a fixed location.”

「The false God of Misery activates the special divine authority ‘Incarnation’ and appears in a fixed location.」

To them, I became a formidable enemy that must be defeated unconditionally, even by joining forces.

oh oh oh!

“Finally, you are moving your heavy body yourself.”

Then, at the strange torrent of divinity that swirled around me, I smiled and activated my authority.

An authority with truly fraudulent powers that was allowed to be used only on this 7th floor stage.

「The divine authority ‘Apotheosis’ is activated.」

「It becomes possible to exercise divine authority according to the potential divinity.」

「The potential divinity is < transcendence > < death > < immortality > < reverse heaven >.”

next moment.

[ I’m curious. ]

My eyes sparkled with golden divinity wrapped around my whole body.

[Is it possible to obtain the command even if you kill the incarnation of God? ]

Now, I felt the end of the rewards I could get from this labyrinth approached.