Chapter 466: Star, Identity Establishment (4)
Clang, clang, clang!
Clashing weapons echoed continuously through the air.
Rumble, rumble, rummmble!
Thunderclaps burst with every strike, creating sonic booms.
Boom, booom, booom!
A series of lightning bolts crashed down from the sky, creating powerful explosions. The subconscious realm became blindingly bright, devastating the area around the Past Life Castle. New valleys and cliffs emerged, and seawater from who knew where filled up cracks in the ground.
Whoooosh!
Just then, a cloud of dust that was big enough to cover the entire barren sky arose.
Rummble!
Chang-Sun leaped out from the center of the dust cloud, enveloped in <Duskfall>, the energy he had created by blending the two contrasting Divinities of supreme sacred light and <Darkness>.
Chang-Sun had already opened up the middle volume of [Prelatis Spellbook] and was in his Anathema state. Every time he took a step, he left a footstep the size of a Giants. Whenever he swung his sword, it created a deep furrow, like the strike of a Giants ax. And yet, even though most of the changes occurring around the Past Life Castle were caused by him, Chang-Sun still lacked the upper hand in this fight.
Paah!
Swooosh!
The red and blue lightning guards pursued Chang-Sun, emerging from the dust cloud he had left. Each guard was surrounded by lightning energy, exuding heat that was more intense than most stars.
Hes really.
A rascal.
I wish this attack.
Would end the fight.
The guards finished each others sentences like twins, thrusting their spears fiercely.
Rummmble!
Large pools of light burst out from each of their spearheads, unleashing superheated storms that permeated through Chang-Suns <Duskfall> barrier and made his skin sting. It was evident that each of the guards attacks was strong enough to affect a whole star system, so they had to be capable of fighting on par with most beings in the cosmos.
How can such people remain unknown? Chang-Sun wondered, quickly crossing the [Yuchang Sword] and [Tiamats Snaggletooth].
These guards were Chang-Suns past reincarnations, which meant they were also from the <Fire of Origin>. That also meant they had begun to exist before Worldline #801 was divided from the Original Worldline, and remained in the Worldline.
Beings with such long histories should have made lasting <Myths> on several Worldlines. Despite his initial lack of interest in the history of Worldlines, Chang-Sun had developed that interest and paid a lot of attention to Worldline creation after acquiring gnosis in the Changgong Library. That was why Chang-Sun was well aware of how great Bestla had been, and the lasting impact Odin had made in Worldline #801s history.
No, even if not for that, Chang-Sun had read most of his past reincarnations lives, so there was no way he would fail to remember such skilled fighters as these guards.
But there was nothing about them, Chang-Sun thought.
In contrast, the guards knew about Chang-Sun too well. His techniques, habits, usual attack routes, ways of thinking, gestures They had been watching everything about Chang-Sun until now, so they had a deep understanding of him, to the point of blocking every attack he attempted even before he executed them. The guards were already skilled to begin with, on top of being able to predict Chang-Suns attacks, making the fight even tougher. In contrast, since he knew nothing about them,Chang-Suns options for counterattacking were very limited.
Flash!
Supreme sacred light burst out from the [Yuchang Sword] while Chang-Sun unleashed <Darkness> through [Tiamats Snaggletooth]. When the two contrasting Divinities came into contact with one another, a ray of sunset-colored light emerged and transformed into a lightning bolt that dropped on the guards, delivering an overwhelming attack that was as destructive as a Giants ax strike.
Booom! Boooom!
Rummble!
However, the guards abruptly changed the course of their attacks. The red lightning guard redirected his lighting energy upward to lessen the <Duskfall> lightning bolts damage. The <Duskfall> bolt was certainly more destructive, but the guard was still able to split it apart along the border of the supreme sacred light and <Darkness> using his red lightning energy, nullifying Chang-Suns attack; his counterattack was divinely elaborate. In addition, the blue lightning guard shot down every one of the <Duskfall> bolt fragments that remained with his lightning energy.
Clang, clang, clang!
Rummmble!
Ha! Chang-Sun could not help but chuckle dumbfoundedly after witnessing what had just happened.
Whirl, tap!
The red lightning guard withdrew his spear, grinning as he said, You look very frustrated.
Hes bound to be. He knows nothing about us, the blue lightning guard chimed in.
With a shrug, the red lightning guard continued, You probably wont be able to remember anything.
We reached our current level after arriving at this place.
[Creating the last volume of Prelatis Spellbook using your Divinities Supreme Sacred Light and Darkness.]
[Creating papers using the Divinity Darkness!]
[Inscribing runes using the Divinity Supreme Sacred Light!]
Rusttle!
The creation of a new volume began in the corner of Chang-Suns mind. He began writing, slowly transcribing [Bestlas Poem] into his new volume. The process was not hard, as Chang-Sun had been engraving runes on himself using [False Belief]. He simply had to do the same thing in an imaginary book in his head.
[The first verse has been written.]
<At the beginning of time, the king was born with the blessing of all Giants>
[Writing the second verse.]
<The king has pulled out the sword pierced into a boulder for the first time in front of all Giants, ascending the throne>
[Warning! Your contemplation has accelerated too much.]
[You have immersed yourself too deeply into the inscription, entering the Mad state!]
[You have entered the Deranged state!]
[You have focused too much on your inscription, causing your mind to enter an abnormal Condition.]
[A certain level of madness can temporarily strengthen your ability to focus, but there is also a high chance that the ability will be weakened.]
[If your madness worsens, it can have bad physical effects on you.]
[Warning!]
[Warning!]
[You have reached your limit!]
[Warning!]
It felt as if Chang-Suns brain was melting, causing his heart to race frantically.
Badump, badump, badump!
Badump, badump, badump!
[Laevateinn] and [Fimbulvetr] trembled violently together. As Chang-Suns eyes turned bloodshot, veins bulged out from all over his upper body. Immersed completely in delirious focus, Chang-Sun entered a trance and united himself with the outside world, forgetting about himself completely.
[You have surmounted a limit!]
[Your abnormal psychological condition has changed.]
[You are reaching a new stage.]
Just then, an unknown mix of emotions burst out from somewhere within him, overwhelming his mind, divine power, and body. Thrilling happiness and vexatious wrath rushed over him, and Chang-Sun was guided into a new world. His madness became something more than insanity and transformed him into someone else.
Chang-Sun realized that this was his moment to reach a new level as he began to create the last volume of [Prelatis Spellbook], falling into Berserker's Fury.
[You have completed the first chapter in the last volume of Prelatis Spellbook!]
It was the moment of his souls reawakening.
[Congratulations! The door to becoming an Outer Celestial has opened, granting you the right to observe Nyx and accumulate new gnosis.]
[The first chapter Sero Dii has opened!]
A sunset-colored ray of light split the red lightning energy in half; it was <Duskfall>.
Slash!