Chapter 544: Celestial King, the Father and Son Reunion (7)

Chapter 544: Celestial King, the Father and Son Reunion (7)

Of course, Chang-Sun was not someone who would let Odin get what he wanted without a fight. He swung the [Dawn Spear] upward, launching a heavy Rádĭus Duskfall attack.

Boommmm!

Rrrumble―!

With an explosion, Odin’s hand was parried away.

Swooshhhhh―!

Chang-Sun thrust the sharp-edged [Dawn Spear] toward Odin’s chest, but Odin turned his torso to avoid the attack. At the same time, Odin’s cape fluttered, revealing a new spear that had been hidden within it.

‘[Gungnir]?’ Chang-Sun was reminded of the original form of the [Dawn Spear], because they looked too similar.

Rrrumblee―!

A Rádĭus bolt and a flaming lightning bolt crashed into each other, and the impact catapulted Chang-Sun and Odin away.

His face darkening, Chang-Sun regained his balance. ‘No, it’s not [Gungnir]. It’s been upgraded a lot more than [Gungnir]...’

The moment Chang-Sun focused on his [Foretelling Eye], he could see the true nature of Odin’s spear.

―Sa...

―Save me...

―No, kill... Kill me...

―Please...

It looked like [Gungnir], but it was closer to a demonic relic made by shoving countless Celestials’ souls together. Fire rose among the grudge-filled ghosts, and Chang-Sun recognized it from his faint memory.

“You burned up the <Myths> of the <Myrkheim> King and his subjects,” Chang-Sun said.

<Myrkheim> was the <Society> that had offered [Gungnir] to Odin, but they had vanished with the fall of <Asgard>. And yet, there they were now, trapped inside the new [Gungnir] after they had been set on fire to create the spear.

“Isn’t it their honor to have an opportunity to prove their loyalty by sacrificing their lives for their king?” Odin chuckled, his voice tinged with madness.

Odin sounded completely genuine. It made Chang-Sun realize that Odin was a lunatic, far from the calm, rational man he had seen until now. On the other hand, he also had the impression that Odin was finally revealing his true colors.

By freely expressing his thirst for knowledge and obsession with acquiring freedom, Odin had entered a state of ecstasy, which he symbolized[1]. The moment one’s reason and instincts aligned, one would feel elated in their very soul, becoming able to demonstrate an incredible level of concentration.

Paaah―!

Numerous runes that contained powerful gnosis appeared and danced around Odin. The ghosts clung onto those letters one after another, and the runes shone more brightly.Nêww chapters will be fully updated at novelhall.com

When Odin raised his index finger, the runes simultaneously exploded and various disasters occurred, truly demonstrating why he was a Celestial of wizardry. It was as if dozens—no, hundreds of Odins were unleashing the energy in <Nihil>, like a tsunami that was ready to crush Chang-Sun.

Kiehhhhhh―!

In response, Chang-Sun spread his wings wider than ever, tightening his grip on the [Dawn Spear]. Compared to Odin, Chang-Sun seemed to move very quietly and slowly, but his counterattack was the farthest thing from those two qualities.

As countless storms and a rain of lightning bolts struck down in <Nihil>, a scarlet light placidly spread like sunset, encapsulating the precise moment between day and night. Red usually symbolized fervor, but Chang-Sun’s sunset resembled sunlight in spring.

His sunset had one primary characteristic, which was ‘reversal’.

Flash―!

The Giant fiercely swung its ax, which was heavily infused with Rádĭus, down on Odin’s head to cleave him in half.

Swish!

Odin vanished like a shadow.

Flash!

Another fiend appeared behind the Giant and made its head explode, but the fiend was also ripped apart by an explosion that burst out from its chest. The fiend and Giant continued to kill and be killed, making it impossible to determine the victor of the fight.

Wooshhhh―!

After some time, two people walked out from a cloud of smoke as it drifted apart to either side. Of course, they were Chang-Sun and Odin.

As they stared at each other with grim expressions, Odin clicked his tongue. “Tsk. This is never going to end. ”

Similar to how Odin had found out how to close the gap between their levels and fight against Chang-Sun using his [Foretelling Eye], Chang-Sun had learned more about Odin using his own [Foretelling Eye] and used that knowledge to make his counterattacks.

Odin had believed that the light prison he created just now was the only way to defeat Chang-Sun, but the composition formula had been compromised by Chang-Sun’s [Foretelling Eye], allowing him to escape. In the end, their fight was left at a stalemate.

Their souls, ways of thinking, magic, Skills, and Authorities... Chang-Sun and Odin used the same kinds of abilities and were identical except for their fundamental self-identities. No matter how hard they fought, it was like a person’s left and right arms fighting each other.

‘I need to find another way.’ Chang-Sun concluded that the fight against Odin would otherwise persist endlessly.

That was too dangerous, because Ithaca and all Chang-Sun’s subordinates were also here right now. Chang-Sun had to defeat Odin in this battle of leaders as soon as possible to earn a victory without his side sustaining great damage, but he had no advantage over Odin now. To end this stalemate, he needed to come up with a counterattack that Odin would be unable to expect, but what could that be?

‘The golden key...’ Chang-Sun muttered.

[Peter’s Key], Chang-Sun’s pendant, crossed his mind first. Odin wished to have the key because he wanted to undo the last restriction on his Divine Class using it after acquiring the [Omniscient Eyes]. If so, a question arose.

―Is it possible to undo a Divine Class using [Peter’s Key]?

It had been thought impossible to escape from Divine Steel restriction devices, but [Peter’s Key] made it possible. After Peter traveled from Worldline to Worldline, the level of [Peter’s Key] had reached far greater heights than when Yog-Sothoth first gave it to Peter. On top of that, Peter himself was in the vicinity, so Chang-Sun thought that the key had to be a lot stronger right now.

Chang-Sun did not have anything to back up his belief, so it was possible that he merely held false hope. Nevertheless, he could instinctively feel that it was possible, so he immediately ripped [Peter’s Key] off his necklace.

“What are you doing?” Odin asked in surprise, readying his runes to stop Chang-Sun in the event that the latter was trying to break [Peter’s Key] to screw him over.

Without answering Odin, Chang-Sun inserted [Peter’s Key] into his own temple.

Click―!

Before Odin could even yell ‘what in the world are you doing’, Chang-Sun rotated [Peter’s Key], which was halfway inside his head.

Paah―!

At that moment, the scarlet light that Chang-Sun had been exuding became more vivid.

Pzzz, pzzzzz!

Unrefined Rádĭus sparks flew up everywhere. His soul had been manifesting his Spiritual Body, but it trembled, causing his Spiritual Body to fragment and recover repeatedly. <Myth> fragments displayed his <Myths> all around him.

As everything that made up ‘Universal Dawn’ was undone, Chang-Sun’s consciousness was sucked into somewhere...

1. What Odin goes through in many stories about him is considered an ‘ecstatic trance’, which goes beyond a regular state of ecstasy or a trance. ☜