The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 462

274. The Battle of Parel (6)

“You dare make a mess of the sacred Exodia.”

Yulla spoke to Karil, her face contorted with rage.

She, like the other gods, wore a robe that concealed her face, but the anger radiating from her was far more intense than when the old man had appeared earlier.

[Sanctity, my ass.]

However, Alrune remained unfazed by her intensity, scoffing as he spoke.

[If watching humans as playthings is what you call sacred, then the sight of you gods beating each other up right now is the true holy war.]

“Shut your mouth. If you, a mere spirit body, dares to spout nonsense, I will obliterate you on the spot.”

[Why are you taking it out on me? They’re the ones killing each other.]

KWAH-AH-AH-AH—!!!!

Yulla’s sharp hand blade shot out towards Alrune. But at that moment, Karil severed her wrist with the blade of Folsetia.

TAH-!!!

Karil’s blade bounced off her wrist as if striking steel.

“That’s right. You shouldn’t take it out on innocent people.”

Karil was taken aback by Yulla’s unscathed appearance despite his all-out strike, but he concealed his surprise and spoke in a low voice.

“You……!!!!”

Yulla glared at Karil, her face contorted further.

“Hold on. While it is against the rules to exert power in a dimension that is not your own, since the Exodia has begun, you using your power in your own dimension is also a violation. It could change the outcome of the Exodia.”

The woman with serpent lips, who had killed a god first, leaned against Parel with her arms crossed and addressed Yulla.

“You moronic bitch!! Do you think that’s what you should be saying right now!! You’re being played by that human, and now the gods are fighting each other! What were you thinking when you killed the sixth god!”

Yulla unleashed her anger towards the woman who had stopped her. But the woman with serpent lips instead spoke with a relaxed expression.

“What was I thinking? I did it because that’s what I intended to do from the start.”

“……What?”

“Don’t act so noble, Yulla.”

She mentioned Yulla’s name and then covered her lips with a slightly surprised expression, but the smile visible behind her hand seemed to mock Yulla.

“Well, since it’s your dimension, I suppose it’s okay to call you by your name, unlike the other gods?”

“…….”

Yulla glared at her with murderous intent, as if she wanted to kill her right away.

[Hmm. Why are the gods so reluctant to have their names spoken? Every god that has appeared so far has refused, citing that it’s not their world.]

Alrune watched the scene and spoke to Karil in his mind, unheard by others.

‘I don’t know. It’s said that the power of words has been passed down to humans since ancient times as a kind of divine power. Words contain power. Perhaps there are regulations of theirs that we don’t know about.’

[Perhaps that is the gods’ weakness.]

Karil slowly nodded.

But it was not a weakness for Yulla, who was in her own dimension. Moreover, it was not easy to find out the names of gods from other dimensions, and the most urgent task was Yulla, rather than killing them.

‘I was simply trying to kill them to prevent disaster, but in fact, even if I kill them all, if Yulla is still alive, ultimately no problem will be solved.’

[Of course. We just need to focus on our world. We are not gods, and we don’t need to worry about other dimensions.]

Karil looked at Yulla with a determined face, as if he had steeled his heart. The remaining four gods were paying attention to the two of them because of her appearance.

‘The tenth god.’

Karil once again reminded himself of the one god he had to kill no matter what and spoke.

“Greed makes humans corrupt. But that’s not something gods created. Because gods were also born with the emotion of greed.”

“……You dare deceive me.”

Karil smiled faintly at Yulla’s words.

“I didn’t deceive you. You just didn’t know. If you had known that Sekhmet’s Parel was here, you should have been suspicious. About the possibility of a Dimension Spiral [a hidden pathway or connection between dimensions] remaining.”

“If there was one, there’s no way I wouldn’t have known.”

“You didn’t know, did you?”

Karil sneered at Yulla’s answer.

“Of course, I hid it. Because a special race that is your creation but not subordinate to you possessed this power.”

“……The Demon Race.”

CHWAAAAAA……!

As soon as she finished speaking, Hagane appeared as if he had been waiting. Karil, who had made a contract with him, had known of his existence from the beginning, but he didn’t bother to borrow his power.

“As expected……. My lord.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. What are you saying, having been watching the situation?”

Hagane gave a bitter smile at Karil’s answer, but soon stood side by side behind him with Su-an and Aidan.

Although he was still an insidious being whose true intentions were unknown, the presence of the Demon King was definitely more distinct than the two of them.

“Hagane. When I built this world, the Nephilim welcomed the Demon Race in a different sense, giving you perfect autonomy unlike the will of humans.”

“I know. A god is an existence dotted with light and darkness. Of course, where there is light, there must also be darkness. That is why when God created the creations, he gave the spirits the Two Wildernesses and gave the races the Nephilim and the Demon Race.”

Hagane smirked at Yulla.

“Thus, humans were placed in the middle, so aren’t they chaos in the name of autonomy?”

“You’re cunning. Do you intend to side with chaos and rebel against God, claiming that darkness is also a blessing from God!”

“A blessing from God?”

Karil scoffed at Yulla, who was shouting at Hagane.

“When I obtained the Dimension Spiral, I saw the world of the gods, albeit fragmentarily. The existence of gods born in the rift is, in fact, no different from the birth of spirit kings or humans, except for the difference in the background of dimensions.”

“The birth of humans……? Don’t talk nonsense! Are you saying that the birth of humans is the same as the birth of gods? Mere dolls created by my own hands!!”

KWADEUDEUK……!!!

The sound of Yulla clenching her fist reached Karil’s ears. Her face was so eager to kill him right away, but unlike with Alrune, she couldn’t lay a hand on Karil. Because if Karil were to die, there would be no one who could capture Parel.

Knowing that, Karil was able to provoke her, unlike in the Spirit Realm.

But it was truly a very dangerous gamble.

She couldn’t do anything to Karil right now because she couldn’t give up the divine seat, but if she were to give up the divine seat, an uncontrollable event would occur.

The end of the world beyond the end of humanity.

‘Even so, I have to do it.’

Because Yulla’s provocation was an important key in his plan.

“Didn’t you say it yourselves? The history of the gods is a history of struggle.”

Karil cleared his throat and continued speaking.

Explosions were erupting here and there, and the fierce battle of the gods continued, but to him, it was like the sound of music coming from afar, without any emotion.

“Don’t think that fighting with human’s extravagant greed is the same as our struggle. We only competed with each other for the existence of dimensions.”

Yulla was the same.

“The struggle I’m talking about means much earlier than that.”

“……What?”

“From the moment you were born in the rift, you were born in struggle. The desire to live. In the struggle for survival where that desire was condensed, you gained will, and you gods were created.”

Karil lightly tapped his temple.

“It’s the Lord’s memory, so it won’t be wrong. That’s why you are instinctively afraid. Because you know that the will that corresponds to that is the autonomous will that humans possess.”

“…….”

The serpent woman accepted Karil’s words with interest, and Yulla looked at Karil with an expression as if the lies she had been hiding had been exposed.

“So?”

“You must be resenting it. About the Lord giving humans autonomous will.”

“That you…….”

“But you’re wrong.”

Karil slowly walked towards Yulla.

“Just as you gained will on your own in the rift, we too have firmly maintained the will to look at the world from the Mythological Era to the Magic Era to the present.”

He put strength into his voice and said.

“Will is not something you gave us. It is what we found.”

“So you’re saying you’re going to stand up to God like this. As a contractor of the Master Key, you should know better than anyone what happened to the Blader [warriors who wielded immense power].”

“I know. Of course I know.”

“Knowing the results of the Spirit War, where all the Bladers gathered and I rebelled, you’re doing this kind of scheming. You may think it’s going according to your plan now, but even if you all swarm together, you won’t be able to defeat me alone!!”

‘Yes. I know. The greatness of God.’

Karil looked at her even more sharply at Yulla’s cry.

‘If it’s difficult to kill her alone…….’

Karil sharply surveyed his surroundings.

The first god and the third god were still fighting.

‘I need to balance it out.’

POOK-!!!

Karil’s sword was lodged in the back of the fifth god.

“Keuk……! Keheok!!”

A groan erupted.

Unlike Yulla, he was impaled by Folsetia’s sword.

“…….”

The giant first god looked at Karil with a hardened face as the fifth god, who had been fighting fiercely until just now, fell into his arms.

At first, he seemed surprised that the fifth god had been defeated so easily by Karil’s attack, but soon he let out a low sigh after seeing the Dimension Spiral floating on his arm.

“I’m sure it was said that only the victor would have a chance. To interfere in my fight. Are you breaking the rules you set yourself?”

“The match is already over. You know that too. That the fifth god’s abilities, your opponent, are far inferior to yours.”

Karil said, cutting off the fifth god’s neck with Folsetia’s sword.

“Just as those who wield swords and those who practice magic are divided among humans, it seems that you gods are also divided into those who are suitable for combat and those who are not. The fifth and sixth gods were never your opponents from the beginning.”

“You have a good eye.”

The first god, the master of blood, said with a calm expression. He glanced at the fifth god’s corpse for a moment, but he didn’t seem to feel any sadness.

[The fact that the attack that didn’t work on Yulla worked on this guy means that this god is not suitable for combat, or that he has a special ability that only gods in their own dimension possess.]

Alrune said quietly.

[You can’t judge by appearance alone, but I don’t think Yulla is a god of combat. In that case, we need to be careful of the latter.]

Karil nodded at his words.

Ironically, the masters of disasters such as epidemics or plagues, which are greater disasters from the human perspective, showed a weak appearance in the gods’ own battles.

“As promised, I will give you another chance. But if Yulla, the master of the dimension, is there, victory is impossible no matter how much you fly and kick.”

“Are you saying to kill Yulla this time? Really……. How dare a human use gods like this.”

“If you don’t want to, you can side with her. But she will sit on the divine seat for a longer time than the Lord. There may never be another war to decide the divine seat for you.”

“…….”

“If you want to sit in that seat, in the end, it’s just rebellion. Is it easier to fight her who has ascended to the divine seat, or is it easier to kill her when you are in the same position as a god as you are now.”

Karil slowly raised his sword.

“The choice is yours.”

“……You leave me speechless.”

The man looked at him and shook his head without realizing it, and the serpent-lipped woman wore a strange smile.

“From now on, it won’t be according to your will.”

At that moment, Yulla growled at Karil. At the same time, the remaining four gods gathered behind her.

“This was your real purpose. To make us fight Yulla.”

It was then.

The old man who killed the fourth god said, planting his staff on the ground.

“You cunning bastard.”

Before they knew it, Karil had Parel in the middle, and three gods behind him were facing off against five gods, including Yulla.

“Unlike them, we are gods who have no chance……. I have no choice but to follow your words, even if I don’t like it.”

“Even if you are gods of battle, in the end, it’s three gods and one human. Is it even possible to fight me, the master of the dimension, and the remaining four gods.”

[As expected.]

Alrune nodded as if he knew the reason for Yulla’s characteristics, which the attack had not reached a moment ago.

“Thanks to you guys fighting each other, I was able to buy enough time.”

Karil took a step forward from the midst of the gods.

KOONG! KOONG! KOONG!!!

At that moment, the golems that had been placed around began to rise slowly.

“The master of the dimension……. You seem to have forgotten one thing.”

At the same time, countless drakes visible in the distant sky were flapping their wings and flying.

“RAISE THE FLAG!!!”

A shout from someone.

Over the countless soldiers running so hard that the dust was rising in the distance, a huge blue flag began to flutter.

WAH-AH-AH-AH-AH—!!