He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 55

I Became the Unrivaled Crazy Emperor – Chapter 55

The fog created by Gobomaine wasn’t natural; it didn’t just obscure vision.

It used magical power to not only blind but also disorient, making people wander in circles.

-Awoo-oo-!

However, Silver, transformed into a familiar [a magical animal companion] and with his silver fur shining even more brilliantly, unleashed a magic-infused roar, disrupting the spell woven into the nearby fog.

-Woof! Woof!

“That way! Everyone, advance in that direction!”

When Silver located the direction of the last remaining statue, I immediately led the people toward it.

We continued using roars to dispel the fog’s magic, and soon, we saw the heavily fortified stronghold of that bastard.

“This is the last one! If we destroy that, we can return alive! Don’t stop, everyone!”

Jack, instead of me, motivated the militia, drawing his bow and successively sniping the goblin archers between the palisades [a defensive wall made of pointed stakes].

Following this, the mercenary adventurers provided covering fire, and the goblin archers beyond the palisades were quickly taken down.

“Now’s the time! Charge!”

“Waaaaaah!”

Subsequently, the militia launched their assault, and Aitbahn set fire with magic, allowing them to defeat the ordinary goblins.

-Gwoooo!

“It’s a Giant Gobo! Everyone, fall back!”

However, as befitting their last stronghold, there was more than just ordinary goblins.

More than ten Giant Gobos, enlarged and enhanced goblin individuals, appeared, and the militia, unable to deal with them, had no choice but to scatter to avoid their clubs.

Shoo-ah-ah-ah-

“Ugh, I, I can’t move my legs!”

“It’s a curse! The shaman cast a curse!”

However, a black aura imbued with curses seized the militiamen who were trying to escape.

Just as the Giant Gobos were about to bring down their clubs on the immobilized militiamen…

Thwack!

-Gwaaaak?

“S, Shadow-nim!”

Fortunately, I arrived in time with high-speed movement and severed the Giant Gobo’s arm.

I immediately chopped the creature into pieces with a sword imbued with vivid aura, preventing regeneration.

[You have consumed an Enhancement Potion, overloading your Mana Heart.]

[Current Mana Heart output: 254%]

[Your Mana Heart is in a state of slight overload. Prolonged overload may cause side effects.]

“That’s the third one.”

Since this would be the last battle in this subspace, I used the potion I had been saving.

I only have 1.5 doses left, but it was a battle worth using it for.

“Kek! You bastards! Protect me!”

Even after defeating the Giant Gobos, the curse that had struck the militiamen remained.

So, I targeted the goblin shaman next, but the goblin shaman quickly hid behind other goblins and tried to flee.

“It’s no use.”

Swish, swish, swish!

“Kuaak! I, I can’t block it!”

“Too fast!”

Slicing through the obstructing goblins with lightning-fast swordsmanship, I closed the distance with him.

“Keeeek! Eat this!”

However, despite the one-sided slaughter, the goblins literally threw themselves to block me, and the goblin shaman managed to gain a single opportunity to counterattack.

A black curse shot out from the shaman’s skull staff and rapidly approached me.

It was too late to avoid it, but at that moment, I felt a strange sensation that I could cut through it.

Slash!

“I cut it!”

And I actually cut through the black aura.

Whoooo-

The curse dissipated, leaving behind a final, eerie wail.

This was similar to when I had cut Gobomaine’s statue.

Come to think of it, I had already cut through the intangible power of ‘divinity’ when I cut that statue.

“An unexpected gain? Anyway, die!”

“Kueeeek!”

Slash!

I immediately slashed the defenseless goblin shaman, along with his skull staff.

When the shaman died, the curse on the militiamen was lifted, and I was about to target another enemy.

“Kluk, klululuk-”

“Hmm?”

Kwaaaang!

But then, the body of the goblin shaman, whom I thought I had killed, swelled up as if twisting and suddenly exploded.

Fortunately, sensing the danger, I had created distance and was already out of the explosion’s range.

“Khehehe… You dare to oppose me? A mere human.”

Beyond the smoke of the explosion, someone appeared who, despite being a goblin, was almost as tall as a human.

It was the spitting image of Gobomaine, whom I had glimpsed in the fog earlier, showing a certain level of intelligence for a goblin.

“Human, you say… Don’t you know yet?”

“What are you talking about?”

He doesn’t seem to know that I stole his divinity.

“Well, whatever. Die.”

I pretended to answer leisurely, but then I suddenly rushed toward him with high-speed movement and cleaved his body in half.

Contrary to his bluster, he was easily bisected, almost anticlimactically.

“Hehehe… Do you think you can kill me with that?”

But even though I had just killed Gobomaine, another Gobomaine appeared from beyond the fog.

“I am the great god of green sorcery.”

“Your paltry power cannot defeat me.”

“Struggle in vain and die in despair.”

And there were not just one or two, but multiple, no, an ever-increasing number of Gobomaines.

“Ha, so you’re calling yourself a god.”

I thought he was a bit easy to deal with since he was a goblin god, but it seems he’s not that weak.

“Go, my children! Kill those arrogant humans!”

-Kwaaaak!

And he wasn’t just using the ability to create clones.

When Gobomaine appeared directly, the goblins became even more aggressive, as if they had fallen into a frenzy.

Slash!

“Khuk- Kehehe, it’s useless…”

“This one’s a fake too.”

I roamed through the rampaging goblins, cutting down the Gobomaines as they came, but as soon as I killed them, they turned back into ordinary goblin bodies.

“Even if I kill them, more just keep appearing. This is endless.”

Now I could even see one of the goblins openly transforming into Gobomaine.

Not only could I not distinguish the real from the fake, but even if I killed the fake, they could just make another one, putting me in a hopeless situation.

“Kehehe! Now do you understand? My great-”

-Krurrung!

Thwack!

“Kuaaaaak!”

“Oh ho?”

Silver, who had secretly approached Gobomaine, who was about to boast, bit his neck.

But that Gobomaine’s reaction was different, as if he wasn’t a fake.

Unlike the fakes, who were indifferent even when they died, he was truly in pain, and the movements of the other fakes, who were wreaking havoc using all sorts of spells, paused for a moment.

“Kluk! That damn dog!”

A dark red aura, exactly the same as what had come out when I broke the statue, leaked from the body of the ‘real’ Gobomaine.

As the aura drained away, the corpse also returned to its original goblin form, but the aura soon disappeared somewhere.

“So that’s how it is. Go, Silver! Keep targeting the real ones!”

-Khuheooeong!

Gobomaine hid back among the fakes, but Silver, who knew how to distinguish the real ones, could find the real ones without the slightest error.

“Eek! Block him! Stop that damn dog from chasing me!”

Of course, Gobomaine struggled to avoid being easily caught, and the frenzied goblins rushed in, using all sorts of means such as self-destruction and curses.

“Now that I know the weakness, it’s useless!”

But now that I knew what to aim for, it wasn’t difficult to brush aside such resistance.

[High-Speed Movement Output Deployed]

[Current High-Speed Movement Output: 440%]

Maximizing my instantaneous speed, I moved so fast that I was practically invisible, cutting down all the rushing enhanced goblins.

Even the Giant Gobos, who had been mobilized, were instantly chopped to pieces, and the enhanced Gobos below them couldn’t stop me.

-Kheong!

“Kueeeek!”

Silver once again bit the goblin possessed by the real Gobomaine.

Gobomaine, transformed into a red aura, tried to escape from that goblin again.

“I won’t let you escape!”

Slash!

-Kuaaaak! It hurts! It hurts!

I quickly rushed to that red aura and slashed it with a magic-infused strike.

[You have repeatedly slashed magic, perfectly mastering the sensation of cutting magic. You have acquired the ‘Magic Slash’ skill.]

I had been cutting down all the curse attacks before, and with this attack, I acquired a new skill.

Whether it was because the power increased when it was made into a skill, or because Gobomaine was just being dramatic for a god, he was in great pain.

“Then I’ll keep doing it until you die!”

There was no reason to stop just because it hurt, so I rampaged even more with Silver.

“Kheoheok!”

“Ah, it hurts! Cough…”

Every time damage occurred to Gobomaine, even the goblins under his influence began to vomit blood.

It seemed to be a rebound from the magic Gobomaine was using on them.

It was killing two birds with one stone, as the goblins would be neutralized if Gobomaine was killed.

Shwaaaak!

Swoooooooo-

T, th- this… Just you wait! It’s not over yet!

After slashing the dark red aura, presumed to be his divinity, about 25 times, he could no longer maintain his fake clones.

“No, it’s over!”

But I had already anticipated where he would go, now that he had nowhere else to go.

That was the last remaining medium that bound him to this world.

His statue.

Dada dada dat!

-Stop him! He’s trying to destroy my statue!

As I dashed out, sprinting through the goblins to destroy it, Gobomaine desperately ordered the goblins to stop me.

But the goblins, unable to be enhanced by his power, couldn’t stop me in terms of strength or speed.

No matter how many there were, they were easily ignored and jumped over, leaving them helpless.

“Be shattered!”

Kaga gagak!

Finally, the silver holy sword slashed Gobomaine’s last statue.

The statue of Gobomaine, cleanly cut by the holy sword imbued with an aura of exceptional sharpness, shed red energy as if bleeding.

-Kkuweeeeeek! T, to think I would be defeated like this…!”

“A typical last words of a third-rate villain.”

Of course, he had considerable power for someone called third-rate.

It might have been difficult to deal with him without Silver… But is he dead? Honestly, I can’t tell.

[You have repelled Gobomaine and plundered his divinity.]

[The total amount of divinity you currently possess is at the level of a ‘Low-Mid Grade God’.]

The status window also said ‘repelled,’ so I couldn’t properly confirm whether he was dead or not.

However, with this, the goblins’ plan had collapsed.

Even if Gobomaine wasn’t dead, he would have suffered a fatal blow, and the plan to strengthen him would have been greatly damaged, to say the least.

At least they wouldn’t be able to do the same thing in a short period of time.

“We won!”

“Long live Shadow-nim!”

“Did you see? He fights like a hero from legends!”

[The achievement of repelling Gobomaine has been applied as an achievement of the divinity ‘Shadow’.]

[All those who witnessed this achievement have become followers. If you choose to establish a religion, you can convert them into believers.]

As Gobomaine died and the goblins became powerless and collapsed or died, people rejoiced, overwhelmed by victory.

Amidst all this, I looked at the messages that appeared in the status window and thought.

“A god, so have I really become a god?”

It seems I’m still a lowly low-grade god, but doesn’t that mean I can become a higher god in the future?

It was a new goal given to me, the Emperor.