novelzi Chapter 138: #There’s Nothing You Can’t Cut With Muscles!
Chapter 138: #There’s Nothing You Can’t Cut With Muscles!
Chapter 138: #There’s Nothing You Can’t Cut With Muscles!
“What are you asking me to see here?”
The confident and gleeful birdhead’s expression turned to stone.
-Waaah! Long live God Yu Il-Shin! Long live Divine Beast Akdol!
-Akdol is amazing!
-Long live our Gayami nation, protected by God Yu Il-Shin and Divine Beast Akdol!
The people of the Gayami nation cheered toward Akdol who was raised high into the air by Yi-Ho.
-Kyak, kyak!
Akdol cried in embarrassment, his blue cheeks dyed with red hue.
I snickered.
Nice, well done, Yu Il-Shin and Akdol.
I was worried for a moment, but that idiot did better than I’d expected.
Tzzz—
I clenched my fists. The cheers and faith of my followers were being translated into my power, increasing my winning odds.
-N-no way! How could this be! I even sent my divine power through the Goddess... Goddess?! Answer me! What happened?!
Birdhead yelled at the top of his lungs, but there was no response at all.
-Argh! Do you not hear me?! Answer me right now, lest I punish you! Goddess Arachne!
Birdhead reached into the fire, and the scene on the fireball changed.
Sss—
However, there were no signs of Arachne nor the crocodile monsters anywhere. Only traces of flesh and broken armor littered throughout the ruins on the battlefield, without a single living being in sight.
-Worthless, insignificant creatures! To think that I trusted them! What a waste of my divine power!
Gritting his teeth, Birdhead screamed.
“Yeah, such a pity. What are you going to do, Baby Bird?”
He glared at me with burning eyes.
-You bastard! Are you looking down on me?! I’m not done yet!
He pointed toward another fireball.
-I’m sure you’ll be happy if your apostle dies!
The fireball showed the desert in Waternia, on the Forty-Second Floor of the Tower of Warriors.
-Aaargh!
Il-Ho coughed out blood while being restricted by millions of snakes. He was about to meet his end at the hands of the apostle of the Ruler of the Abyssal Swamp.
***
Hiss!
Black snakes washed over the desert like an ocean.
Wriggle!
They gathered once more, transforming into a giant snake that was about to tear the sky apart. The giant serpent that seemed to span to hundreds of meters long, the apostle of the Ruler of the abyssal Swamp, looked down at Il-Ho, sneering.
-Still not going to surrender?
“Huff! Puff!”
Instead of replying, Il-Ho kicked the ground, leaping into the air.
“Hyaaa! Muuuuscles!”
Baaam!
Il-Ho flew like a rocket, slamming his dumbbell sword onto the apostle’s head, crushing it, sending chunks of flesh onto the dry desert.
Despite being as tiny as an ant, he unleashed such a powerful blow, definitely worthy of the title warrior.
-The same move won’t work on me twice.
Hiss!
With a creepy hiss, the snake’s head regenerated once again.
Hiss!
Opening its eyes, it stared down at Il-Ho.
-We’re one! No matter how hard you try, you’ll never be able to kill us all! Unless you kill us all at once, we’re as good as an immortal!
The millions of snakes that made up the giant serpent separated and rained down on Il-Ho.
Tsss!
-W-what?!
The snakes panicked, tightening their grip on Il-Ho, but to no avail. Unable to overcome his explosively growing body, they were eventually torn apart.
-Kyaaak!
“Hyaaa!”
Baaam!
The ant-sized Il-Ho transformed into the size of an average adult thanks to Aran’s skill. In spite of that, the difference between him and the serpent apostle was still overwhelming.
Il-Ho leaped into the sky.
-You bastard! Do you think you can defeat me just because you got bigger?!
Hiss!
The snakes gathered together, forming a giant serpent once again. It went for Il-Ho, opening its mouth at him.
-I’m the First Apostle of the Ruler of the Abyssal Swamp! A mere insect is no match for me!
Il-Ho felt the serpent’s aura coming from beneath his feet.
“Dumbbell sword!” he raised his sword high into the air. “Maximum weight!”
Tzzz!
Then, his sword grew to a size incomparable to anything he had seen before.
Craaaack!
The sound of bones cracking and muscles tearing could be heard, but Il-Ho paid no heed to them. The dumbbell sword covered the sky like dark clouds.
-B-by gods! What’s that?! That’s just...!
The serpent charging at Il-Ho was startled at the sight, and quickly changed direction. They screamed and scattered for safety.
-Kieeek!
“It’s useless to run.”
Blinded by the poison, he cared not where his enemies fled. The moment he swung down his sword, he recalled how God Yu Il-Shin had executed the Demon Lord’s Heavenly Sword. Of course, he didn’t dare to compare himself to his god’s graceful and majestic swordplay. All he had were muscles—only muscles.
So, he struck the snakes with them.
“Hyaaa! Look, God Yu Il-Shin! I dedicate this attack to you!” Il-Ho cried out, slamming his dumbbell sword to the ground. “There’s nothing my muscles can’t cut through! Death Blow, Muscle Chop!”
Ruuumble! Baaam!
The snake-riddled desert splintered under the crashing dumbbell sword.
Swaaaa!
At the same time, the impact stirred the dormant water deep underneath the desert. It exploded, and the sweet rain of life rained down on the parched desert.
***
Back at the Sun God’s temple...
-God Yu Il-Shin! Are you watching me?
Il-Ho was reflected on the fireball, seen shouting toward the heavens, drenched in rain.
-I dedicate this victory to you!
Well done. This is my Il-Ho.
I watched him with content.
Tzzz—
The power from the serpent he killed seeped into me, letting me gain a little more strength.
Good, now this is worth a shot.
“How about that, Birdhead?” I sneered at the Sun God, who clenched his beak in anger. “My familiars are much better than yours.”
-Kekeke. How dare those lowly creeping creatures humiliate me, the pinnacle of all gods!
The Birdhead began transforming all of a sudden.
-I don’t need them anymore! I’m going to burn all of your worlds to the ground!
“Urk.”
I instinctively withdrew. As unprecedented heat surged from the Birdhead, he began to transform.
-Lowly God! Revel in the majesty of the true Sun God!
“Huh? This is kinda unexpected.” I stiffened at the sight of his sudden transformation.
He didn’t call himself Sun God for nothing. He was a far cry from the fire apostle I fought against during the holy war in Antrinia.
The sun was descending upon the temple in the sky.