Chapter 185 – Dream of the Demon God (5)

A dusty, worn ruins.

Though it was once a temple that sang of divine glory, now it was just a pile of destroyed buildings that couldn’t even show traces of the past.

But today, the magic circle of the ruins that had only traces remaining began to move again.

A moment later, with the sound of thunder echoing from the distant sky as background, a god who had been imprisoned for over a thousand years opened its eyes.

[What’s happening? What’s going on?]

The god that appeared in a faint form burst out in anger while looking at the sky before regaining its senses.

[Remnants of the demon god!]

The appearance that had been in humanoid form changed into the shape of a burning bird, and the god burst out of the ruins and shot into the sky where demonic energy could be felt.

Kwang!

The ruins collapsed from the aftermath of the god bursting out, but the god transformed into a bird of fire didn’t care about it.

Its eyes were fixed on the dragon in the distant sky spewing breath while being struck by lightning.

Next to the bird of fire flying up, various types of divine avatars such as swarms of shining butterflies and a lion running through the sky were surging into the sky.

Moreover, even fragments of gods that had turned into black masses rushed toward the dragon.

All the gods and divine fragments that had not yet perished instinctively rushed at the feeling of demonic energy.

The awakened gods could return to their original forms briefly if they used their remaining divine power, but they chose to protect this island instead.

***

In the airspace above the basin, the contaminated dragon, Black Dragon Frosty, was spewing breath at the defensive facilities.

Besides the collapsed western cliff, fire and rays shot from the eastern and northern cliffs, and various magics shot into the sky from places throughout the fields and farms.

But unfortunately, less than half of the defensive magic circles were operating, and their power had significantly decreased.

They could only buy time by turning the dragon’s attention to the defensive facilities.

The defensive facilities were destroyed one by one by the dragon’s breath, and eventually the magic shooting toward the dragon could no longer be seen.

“Still, we’re not late.”

Sun-woo who came outside let out a sigh of relief while looking at the sky where the dragon was floating.

The divine avatars rushed at the dragon just as all the defensive facilities fell silent.

“But how did you know that if the magic circles were released, the gods would immediately attack the dragon?”

Sun-woo asked the question while looking at his left arm.

A moment ago, it was the spirit of the armlet that Sun-woo was wearing on his arm that had advised him to use the gods when Sun-woo was looking for a way to attack the dragon after gaining authority over the island’s control room.

There was no other method and it seemed plausible so he followed the armlet’s words, but Sun-woo also didn’t expect it to work this well.

[It’s the result of reasonable speculation. Rather than that, it would be better to focus on the fight now. It seems the weakened gods cannot handle the demonic dragon.]

Sun-woo narrowed his eyes and glared at the armlet. It seemed it wasn’t the armlet he knew from the past.

But now, as the armlet said, he had to focus on the fight.

The gods who changed their forms into various animals and plants, clouds and swords and spears attacked the dragon, but it looked difficult to kill the dragon.

Of course, they inflicted much more damage to the dragon than the attacks from the defensive magic circles.

But the contaminated dragon was sufficiently able to kill the weakened gods.

A god in the form of a horse was sliced by the dragon’s claws and disappeared, and a god in the form of a giant spear was cut by the dragon’s teeth and perished.

And in the black breath spewed without pause, numerous avatars melted away.

Ding, ding, ding.

While the gods were disappearing, alerts kept coming from Sun-woo’s phone placed in his pocket.

It was the sound of the quest count being updated.

In front of Sun-woo stood a dirt-covered golem with its back turned. The mage riding inside had fainted, but the ego managing this facility forcibly moved the golem.

“Is the riding mage being forcibly used as a battery…”

Though it had its own power source, it was a golem that also used the mana of the riding mage.

The mage riding inside now was certainly having their mana forcibly drained.

He felt a bit sorry, but Sun-woo decided to think of it as good triumphing over evil.

Though the avatars were fighting the dragon, using the sky as a battlefield had no answer.

Sun-woo immediately jumped onto the golem’s hand.

“Throw me in the direction of the dragon!”

[Insufficient output. Cannot reach the expected distance.]

At Sun-woo’s shout, opposition from the ego managing the facility was heard from the golem.

“It’s fine. Just throw me as far as you can!”

[…Understood.]

Sun-woo didn’t withdraw his instruction, and the golem that placed Sun-woo on its hand took the stance of shot putting.

“When the dragon crashes, everyone attack!”

Sun-woo who took a stance on the golem’s hand shouted while looking down.

At his words, the Prince and Daniel who had thrown Alda and the mages who followed into the building nodded with dumbfounded expressions.

[Brace yourself. Launching!]

Gagagagang!

With the voice, the sound of metal grinding was heard from the golem’s shoulder and waist, and simultaneously the golem’s arm swung at tremendous speed.

Pang!

Sun-woo’s body shot up into the sky.

Though he wrapped ki armor on the outside and strengthened his body using [Body Enhancement], then rotated internal energy to the fullest, the pressure applied to Sun-woo’s body was considerable.

In an instant, Sun-woo shot up hundreds of meters.

As the speed gradually decreased due to air resistance, he used the movement technique of Eogi Chungso to fly his body toward the dragon again.

But even the principle of Eogi Chungso had its limits.

Leaving several dozen meters distance from the dragon, Sun-woo’s body began to sag downward.

“The distance is sufficient!”

The Cheonryun Divine Sword in Sun-woo’s hand shot toward the dragon.

Sun-woo’s goal was the distance where he could control the Cheonryun Divine Sword with Igi Eogeom.

He never intended from the start to fight in the sky against a dragon that flew freely through the sky.

The shining sword flew at tremendous speed.

At that moment, the dragon flapped its wings strongly and its body shot up higher.

While fighting the avatars, the dragon had been watching Sun-woo fly up.

A movement sufficient to dodge if it were an ordinary sword.

But Sun-woo’s sword was not an ordinary sword.

Sun-woo’s sword bent direction toward the dragon as if alive.

And the next moment, it sliced the dragon’s left wing diagonally.

Kyaak!

The dragon’s scream shook the sky, and Sun-woo’s sword didn’t stop.

The sword that changed direction while drawing a circle in midair even cut off the opposite wing.

The dragon with both wing membranes tattered could no longer fly through the sky.

The dragon began to fall.

***

Kung!

“Kugh!”

Dust rose from one side of the farm, and sheep ran in all directions in surprise.

In the center of the dust, a deep pit had formed, and inside it Sun-woo groaned and raised his body.

Having fallen from a height of hundreds of meters without equipment, the pain was considerable even for him who had become stronger.

But there was no time to groan about pain.

He surged up and escaped the pit.

Fortunately, the place where the dragon was crashing wasn’t far from here.

And it wasn’t far from the village, so it seemed he could receive help from the group.

Sun-woo flew his body in the direction where the dragon was falling.

The battle on the ground could easily be won as expected.

The dragon that fell to the ground resisted by shooting breath, but a dragon that couldn’t fly was something Sun-woo and the group had experience dealing with.

Moreover, since even a shield called a golem was prepared, the group could deal with the dragon more easily.

Sun-woo who finally cut off the dragon’s neck looked around with an exhausted appearance.

The golem with its front half melted while blocking the breath.

Behind the golem lay an old mage who had fainted.

He was an old man who had become an ordinary person after losing all his mana with the end of the battle.

It might be better for him not to wake up like this.

And except for Yeonhwa, the other group members were sitting down here and there catching their breath.

Everyone was exhausted from the fierce battle.

Sun-woo split the fallen dragon’s chest and pulled out the contaminated dragon heart.

The murky surroundings and dragon began to return to their original appearance.

Sun-woo put the dragon heart into his inventory and then checked the quest.

[Limit Breakthrough Quest]

Receive certification from the gods.

[32 / 33]

With several gods who certified Sun-woo before disappearing and gods who perished without words, Sun-woo’s quest reached near completion stage.

“Tsk, barely short. Should I travel to other dimensions and look for gods…”

Among the gods of this dimension, he received certification from all the gods of the present world thanks to Goddess Frigg, and the gods of the past had all perished or been certified here.

“Don’t tell me the total number of remaining gods is 33?”

Sun-woo shook his head to blow away the thought that arose.

“There must be many in other dimensions. If worst comes to worst, I’ll have to visit churches, temples, or shrines. There should be one.”

It was a thought he put off until the last because it might be problematic, but if he couldn’t find them elsewhere, there was no choice.

“The reward window doesn’t seem to open even though we killed the dragon.”

“Since it’s an island hidden by the storm created by a god after all. We should be able to receive it when we go outside.”

At Daniel’s words, Sun-woo pointed to the clouds stretching far to the sky.

“But why did the contaminated dragon suddenly appear?”

“When we entered this island, the storm blocked by the gods opened briefly and the location of the demon god sleeping here seems to have been exposed. As soon as it realized this, this dragon flew straight from its lair.”

At Alda’s question, Sun-woo who checked the dragon’s memory answered.

“One of the reasons demon kings appear and ransack the world is probably to find the place where the demon god sleeps.”

Thanks to that, they could learn a hidden story, but that wasn’t the problem.

“Then, aren’t other demon kings or contaminated dragons also moving?”

At Alda’s words, the group looked at each other.

“Then that’s big trouble!”

“What should we do?”

“Can’t the gods block them?”

“It already broke through!”

While the startled group chattered noisily, Sun-woo began running toward the village.

“Come to the village! We need to finish the task the gods mentioned.”

Sun-woo who returned to the village in an instant using lightfoot immediately went down underground in the dome building.

Underground, only Yeonhwa remained guarding the control room, and Yeonhwa was now sitting down next to the magic circle looking toward the magic circle side.

The magic circle that had imprisoned the demon god was almost losing its light.

The magic circle lost its effect because all the divine power maintaining it disappeared.

Sun-woo who approached the magic circle placed his hand on it and fell into thought for a moment.

He definitely received confirmation that the demon god inside had perished, but he couldn’t help but worry about opening it carelessly.

“You can open it. The demon god is dead. No, it’s deceased.”

Words that blew away Sun-woo’s worry in one shot flowed from Yeonhwa’s mouth.

“Huh? What did I just say?”

Seeing Yeonhwa perplexed a moment later, it seemed to be words the god spat out.

Sun-woo poured mana into his hand and shouted loudly.

“Release the demon god’s seal!”

[Administrator certification confirmed. Required years confirmed, divine power extinction confirmed. Releasing defense system. You may release the seal.]

The light of the magic circle that had been glowing dimly as if about to go out all disappeared, and soon after, the form of the magic circle began to change by the magic flowing from Sun-woo’s hand.

A moment later, the space above the magic circle split open and murky wind blew out from inside.

Fortunately, the demon god seemed to have perished. Nothing appeared from inside the split space except wind.

Ding.

And a notification rang from Sun-woo’s phone.

[Limit Breakthrough Quest]

Receive certification from the gods.

[32 / 32]

Quest completed.

Sun-woo who took out his phone had a dumbfounded expression.

“Is it because the demon god is also a god?”

Roll roll.

And a small orb rolled in front of the surprised Sun-woo.

It was an orb that popped out last from inside the split space.