Chapter 53: Under the Name of the Evil God (5)

< 53: Under the Name of the Evil God (5) >

<Fanatic> has died.

The amount of karma gained from faith is reduced.

Even at this moment, messages kept popping up that my followers were dying.

I moved the screen to find where the problem was happening.

***

Eutania. Estasia. Evan. And Roan.

As I switched the screen from one to another, I quickly realized where the trouble was happening.

The headquarters of the Order, located at the entrance of the mountain range.

There, a battle was raging between the Order and another faction.

“Filthy royal dogs! As long as I live, you will never set foot in this place!”

From the building where the Order’s followers were lying dead or wounded, Roan shouted with his [Magic Sword: Ednos] in his hand.

In front of him, there were characters wearing uniformed outfits.

Were they hit by Roan’s magic?

About half of the uniformed characters were incapacitated.

He must have used his magic several times already.

“Are you Roan Hebriss?”

“Yes. I am Roan Hebriss, the archbishop of the Order.”

“Didn’t you fire your magic eight times already? You don’t have much mana left, do you? It would be better for you to give up and surrender peacefully.”

The man who seemed to be the leader of the uniformed characters said, pointing his sword at Roan.

He was right.

The [Magic Sword: Ednos] that Roan had could store up to 10 spells.

If he had already used eight of them, he would only have two left.

On the other hand, the uniformed characters still had half of their forces left.

But Roan was still blocking the entrance, holding his ground.

“The great one is watching over us. I will overcome this ordeal and protect his will!”

“As expected of the Order’s followers, they are all insane.”

“Come at me if you don’t value your lives!”

That’s when I understood the situation.

While I was away, the uniformed characters had attacked the Order.

The Order was currently without any apostles.

If another faction attacked them, the only one who could fight back properly was Roan.

I sighed at the tangled mess that had happened.

I had been too focused on expanding my territory, and neglected to defend my base.

“This is not a simple idle game. It’s a game that requires defense as well.”

The monsters that periodically came to Eutania had headed for the Order instead of the apostles this time.

I thought I could just leave the characters alone, but it turned out that if I neglected them too much, they would be wiped out.

I had not considered the increasing difficulty of the game.

I couldn’t watch the game 24 hours a day, but I should have at least brought enough forces to defend it.

I felt a deep anger boiling in my heart as I saw the invaders who killed the Order’s followers.

“How dare they touch my precious karma suppliers?”

The Order’s followers were precious characters who provided me with stable karma.

They sometimes offered useless items, but they regularly donated through the altar.

They killed such precious followers.

It was an unforgivable act.

I looked at the character who was running towards Roan with his sword drawn.

It was time to make him pay for defying a human as a mere AI.

“You are dead.”

Stab.

***

I touch the skill icon and move the target to Roan.

The skill that I activate by pressing the icon is <Barrier>.

It is to protect Roan and his followers from the enemy’s attack.

The moment the character who quickly closed in on Roan swings his sword.

I touch the target and cast the <Barrier> spell.

You used <Barrier>.

A translucent barrier appeared, separating Roan and the opposing character.

It was so big that it could be mistaken for a boundary rather than a barrier.

Clang! Clang!

The leader character swung his sword at the barrier that blocked his way several times.

But the barrier that I had created did not break by his sword.

The character showed a surprised expression in his speech bubble as he saw the barrier in front of him.

“You were hiding such magic!”

“Oh, great one!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll break it soon and send you to your great one’s side.”

He was a character who kept scratching my nerves.

Was it right to give him a normal death?

No matter how much I thought about it, I felt that I couldn’t completely vent my anger with just that.

Annoyed by his appearance, I touched one of the skills at the bottom of the screen.

I chose a moderately powerful magic among the skills that I had.

You used <Lightning>.

Crack!

A lightning bolt fell from above the leader character’s head with a thunderous sound.

Clang. Clang. Clang!

Maybe it was because he was an elite monster that appeared after a long time.

He tried to block the falling lightning with his sword.

But it didn’t matter if he blocked this attack or not.

The reason why I used the lightning magic was to break his defense from the beginning.

“Go ahead and try to block it. I’ll keep shooting.”

Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.

I move my finger and keep pressing the skill button.

It was a skill chain that I had learned from my long playing experience.

As my finger moved fast, messages popped up one after another at the bottom of the screen.

You used <Lightning>.

You used <Lightning>.

You used <Lightning>.

The agent exclaimed as he looked at Roan.

He was a crazy follower of an evil god, but Roan was a great magician with impressive skills.

Of course, while he was admiring him, his sword was still moving to break the barrier.

There was no defense that could withstand an attack with aura.

If he kept swinging his sword, the barrier would eventually collapse.

“O great one!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll break it soon and send you to the side of that great one.”

He threatened to kill Roan, who was calling out to the evil god, and swung his sword with force.

No. He was about to swing it.

The agent felt something and quickly retreated as he was about to swing his sword.

A massive amount of magic was leaking out from the sky where he had been standing.

The magic of lightning, which had been scattered like a mirage, soon began to form a shape.

“What is this...?”

It wasn’t Roan’s magic.

Rather, it was much more powerful and dense than his magic.

The agent raised his sword as he watched the magic forming in the air.

It was a dangerous magic. If he allowed a direct hit, he wouldn’t survive.

Clang!

The agent swung his sword with aura at the lightning that fell toward him.

‘It’s heavy.’

He felt a heavy sensation in his hand that parried the lightning.

He could parry it a few times, but he wasn’t confident that he could handle such an attack continuously.

He was lucky that only one lightning bolt had fallen for him.

He checked the sensation in his hand after parrying the lightning.

Clang! Clang!

Another lightning bolt started to fall from the sky above his head.

‘...Is it coming again?’

The agent swung his sword at the lightning again.

But this attack was strange.

As soon as he parried the lightning with his sword, another lightning bolt fell down.

Clang! Clang!

He also parried the next lightning bolt, but then another lightning bolt fell from the sky.

Clang! Bang! Clang! Bang! Bang!

He kept parrying the lightning that fell without stopping.

At first, he could see and parry it, but at some point, he had to rely on his intuition to parry it.

He couldn’t keep up with the increasing frequency of the attacks.

He barely parried the lightning that fell from the sky dozens of times.

As he maintained the flow and swung his sword, he failed to parry the lightning.

“Cough! Ugh...!”

Clang!

The sharp lightning tore through his body.

The agent who was hit by the lightning tried not to let go of his sword, but another lightning bolt fell from the sky.

Clang! Clang!

His body started to convulse as he was hit by the lightning.

He was an agent with high resistance to magic, but even that resistance couldn’t completely suppress the damage from the lightning.

“Ugh... Ugh...”

Thud.

His hand, which held the sword, lost all its strength.

His electrocuted hand refused to hold the sword any longer.

Along with that, his legs also lost their strength.

His legs refused to walk, and his body fell backward.

Thud.

His eyes looked at the empty sky as he fell to the ground.

‘Who... used magic?’

No matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t find any magician around him who could use magic against him.

Even Roan, the archbishop, didn’t show any sign of using magic.

Yet, powerful magic kept falling from the sky.

As an agent who knew well about magicians, he couldn’t understand this phenomenon.

Of course, he didn’t need much time to understand the reason.

Right after the lightning that fell on his head ended.

A huge presence revealed itself to him beyond that.

“...Ah.”

An overwhelming presence.

It was a gigantic aura that couldn’t be thought of as a human’s.

A being that couldn’t be properly seen by the eyes of a mere creature.

Such a being was moving in front of him now.

He felt like his breath stopped by the massive presence that crushed his body.

The only thing he could do as he faced the alien being was to let out a groan from his mouth.

“...Ah.”

He understood why Roan called him a great one.

He was a being that couldn’t be measured by human eyes.

A being that was great by itself, and deserved reverence by its birth alone.

There was only one name that the world called such a being.

God.

The evil god of another dimension was moving to punish him.

“...Aah.”

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

His heart started to beat wildly as he saw the god’s figure approaching him.

He couldn’t resist.

And he couldn’t defy.

He was the rule of the world, the truth, and the order.

He had insulted the great god as a mere human, and now it was time to pay the price.

He felt more and more pressure as the god grew larger in his sight. He closed his eyes.

He felt tremendous pain throughout his body.

“Ah... Aah... Aaah... Aaaah——!”

A scream burst out of his mouth along with the pressure that hit his whole body.

The time of pain continued until he lost consciousness.