Chapter 836

Chapter 836

For a brief moment, the entire world was plunged into silence. Minhyuk had injured Nerva Sephiroth. For the Luvien Empire, Nerva Sephiroth was far more valuable than the sky and the land in their hearts. For the people of the Beyond the Heavens Empire, he was the Battle God’s Sword, an absolute existence that reigned the world, and pushed them to the brink of their deaths.

Drip— drip, drip—!

”Keuaaaaaaaack!” Nerva screamed, blood dripping through the gaps in his hand that covered his left eye.

“Aaack! Uwaaaaaaaack! Keuaaaaaaack!”

It was a pain that he had never felt before in his life.

“Your— Your Majesty!!!”

“Your Majesty!!!”

Don, the commander of the Sword of the Gods, hurriedly rushed forward and blocked Nerva from the enemies. He looked warily at Minhyuk and the other Named NPCs of the Beyond the Heavens Empire.

Don was indebted to Minhyuk due to the events when seeking Mandala before. If it was not for Minhyuk, he and the other Sword of the Gods would have already died. However, just because he was indebted to the man in front of him did not mean that he could not distinguish and separate his public and private matters.

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Glug, glug, glug—!

Knight Commander Don hurriedly pulled out a top-quality potion and poured it over the injured eyes of Emperor Nerva.

‘The injury is not healing...?’

The wound did not heal even after using such a high quality potion. Seeing this, hundreds of priests hurriedly rushed forward and sent their holy power upon Nerva. But even that could not cure Nerva’s injuries.

“What in the world have you done?” Don glared sharply at Minhyuk.

This was the power of Unhealable Injury that was attached to the Sword of Aeon.

(Unhealable Injury)

Artifact Skill

Level: None

Mana Required: 5,000

Penalty: All stats will decrease by -2.

Cooldown: 144 hours

Effects:

•It leaves players, NPCs, or monsters with injuries that cannot be healed or recovered by recovery skills, potions or any other means.

•However, in the case of players, the injuries would disappear once they are forced to logout.

Description: The greatest sword contains the power of the God of Death after he strengthened the sword using his Authority, The One that Advances.

In Athenae, the higher the Named NPCs' levels were, the more difficult it was to deal with them. The main reason for this was because of their recovery ability, which was completely different from ordinary human beings.

Due to their high recovery ability, these NPCs could quickly recover even if a sword had dug deeply into their arms. In fact, even if their arms had fallen off, they only needed the power of an outstanding priest to attach it back. Of course, such a treatment would only be possible for the emperor of the Luvien Empire.

Considering that the skill allowed Minhyuk to cause a permanent injury on such a high-leveled Named NPC, the skill was more powerful than he initially thought.

‘I can’t defeat Nerva right now.’

Minhyuk could not deny this fact. Nerva was at least equal to or more powerful than Brod. But even though he could not win against him right now, at the very least he was able to weaken him with the Unhealable Injury skill.

Nerva’s pain finally subsided. No, to be exact, his fear and terror finally came under control. Nerva had reigned as the strongest for all his life and had never felt such mind-numbing pain before. Because of that, he felt great fear.

Nerva, who covered one of his eyes tightly, glared sharply at Minhyuk, “Bastaaaaaaaaaaaard!!!”

The divinity that wrapped around Nerva’s sword earlier had already disappeared the moment a disturbance appeared in his mind. On top of that with Brod and Ben, who had already recovered from their injuries, standing on Minhyuk’s left and right respectively, he could no longer repeat such a feat.

“Your Majesty, you can’t.” Knight Commander Don hurriedly stepped forward and stopped Nerva from charging forward.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”

“Take Nerva’s head!!!”

“Kill Nerva!!!”

“Long live the Beyond the Heavens Empire!!!”

Right behind them, the large army led by Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Aaron were slaughtering the Luvien Imperial Army’s troops. However, the biggest threat to them was the fact that Brod and Spear God Ben, the existences that even the Sword of the Gods had a hard time dealing with, had now recovered.

The only reason why they were able to deal much damage to Brod and Spear God Ben before was because the Swords of the Gods had cleverly attacked them while they were exhausted. However, now that they no longer had any gap to take advantage of, there was no guarantee of victory if they attacked them right now.

Nerva was also fully aware of this fact. His breath was rough and heavy, his remaining eye turning bloodshot as he looked at Minhyuk furiously.

Then, Minhyuk opened his mouth and said, “The Luvien Empire has done something that it should not have.” He raised his sword and pointed it at Nerva as he continued, “You have attacked the Beyond the Heavens Empire without any rhyme or reason and reaped the lives of many of my people.”

Grit—

Nerva gritted his teeth. He was the emperor of the greatest empire. The number of empires kneeling at his feet were countless. He even had hundreds of kingdoms obeying his orders. Yet, a mere emperor of a newly-established empire was showing contempt in front of him? Unfortunately, Nerva was currently helpless in front of such contempt.

“To pay for that sin, destroy all of the Luvien Imperial Army troops in this place!”

The hearts of the people thumped loudly as they watched over two million soldiers of the Luvien Imperial Army flee.

[Right. Please do that. Please kill every single one of those bastards. Do not leave a single one of them behind!]

[Kill Nerva, Food God!]

[Our Lord, Food God! We believe in youuuuu!]

In Athenae, a place where the NPCs had now taken center stage, a single player, the Food God, had taken a stand. With his appearance, hope started to sprout in the hearts of the players once again.

However, the Luvien Imperial Army laughed at them.

“You? Destroy us? You have to be capable of doing something like that.”

“If His Majesty was not injured then we would not be retreating.”

They continued to laugh. Even if they retreated from the fight against the Beyond the Heavens Empire, it did not mean that they were scared. They were just stepping back to ensure that their emperor was not hurt and to reorganize themselves.

The Imperial Army thought that Sun Wukong and the coalition of players that came at them were nothing as long as the Swords of the Gods stepped forward.

“Retreat as fast as you can! It would be better if you spread out! Make sure to come back alive in the Luvien Empire!!!”

“...?!”

Knight Commander Don, who was helping His Majesty Nerva, had shouted. The soldiers could not understand his reaction.

‘Why is Commander Don acting like that?’

‘But we have obviously overpowered Brod, Spear God Ben, and all of the Beyond the Heavens earlier?’

‘No— no way...?!’

They all looked back and wondered about the changes happening in the enemy army. What was different from before? Was it the appearance of the Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal and another army? However, they believed that their current numbers were more than enough to pierce through the enemy’s defenses. So, what else has changed?

‘Emperor Minhyuk’s appearance?’

That was all but Knight Commander Don had told them to run as fast as they could.

“What is the matter with you?”

Only one person had appeared, so they could not understand the reaction of Knight Commander Don.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang—

Slash, slash, slash, slash, slash, slash—!

At that moment, a loud and violent explosion erupted amidst the ranks of the retreating Luvien Imperial Army. When they looked back, they saw Brod, Spear God Ben, Sword of the Gods Luo, Great Demon Elpis, and the rest of the Beyond the Heavens Empire charging forward and wiping soldiers away with vicious and devilish expressions on their faces.

“Hi— hiiiiiiiiiik?!”

“What— what the hell?!!”

In just an instant, more than 30,000 of the Luvien Imperial Army disappeared from their joint attacks. Only then did the soldiers of the Luvien Imperial Army recall something.

‘Food God Minhyuk is someone that can make the best buffed dishes!’

Minhyuk had used Everyone’s Happiness while they were busy retreating. He had also fed a total of ten people with the legendary dishes that he had prepared in advance. The ten people that he selected to feed those dishes included Brod, Ben, Elpis, Luo, Alexander, and Golden Mage Ali. Now, they had become 1.3x stronger than before.

“Haa.. haa... Quick! Go faster!!!”

“Run faster!!!”

The speed at which the Luvien Imperial Army retreated started becoming faster. Following Don’s orders, the soldiers scattered around. Unfortunately, even when they did so, Sword of the Gods Luo, Informant Abel and Asura Ascar chased after them and swiftly cut them down. At that point, they realized that running away scattered around like that made it harder for them to counter the enemies.

“Hi— hiiiiiiiik!” Hanson, an ordinary soldier, screeched in terror when he looked around him.

The almost 2.5 million troops of the Luvien Imperial Army had disappeared in just over two hours. He could also see Knight Commander Don running with the unconscious Emperor Nerva on his back.

“Sir— Sir, did you give us that order because you knew that the Food God could create extraordinary buffed dishes and can make our enemies stronger?!”

Hanson was just a soldier. In fact, he did not know where he got the courage to ask their commander such a question. But even so, he still asked.

However, Knight Commander Don gulped dryly, his head shaking in answer. “...That’s not it.”

Hanson felt thrilled. Knight Commander Don answered his question! But then, he saw Knight Commander Don look back with a frightened look on his face. And someone was standing right where Don was looking.

“It’s because I’m afraid of him.”

Hanson turned to look back. He saw the Beyond the Heavens’ Emperor standing in front of the retreating army. Then, something strange happened.

Creak— Tick, tick, tick, tick—

A person suddenly appeared in front of the enemy emperor. His body was being supported with thin and transparent lines that looked similar to the lines used in fishing. The person’s body twisted and creaked, just like a puppet made out of wood.

Clack, clack, clack—

Not long after, the wrong body parts finally aligned and fitted together. None of the soldiers of the Beyond the Heavens Empire or the Luvien Empire knew the identity of the puppet. However, that was not the case for the soldiers of Edea. They clearly recognized who it was.

“En— Envoy Viel?”

That was right. The one that appeared in front of Minhyuk was none other than Envoy Viel, who had become a wooden puppet.