He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 54

I Became the Unrivaled Crazy Emperor – Episode 54

I Became the Unrivaled Crazy Emperor 54

“A divinity, so that statue breaking was about that.”

“Pardon? What do you mean?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

Aiteban tilted his head, puzzled, but I brushed it off since explaining it to someone else wouldn’t make it any clearer.

[You currently possess the divinity as ‘Shadow’.]

[The divinity of Shadow is still at a ‘meager’ level.]

[You can use divinity to enhance or specialize the power of divine spells or authorities.]

Instead, I began to figure out how to use divinity through the status window.

It was unfamiliar, but after figuring out the general usage, I decided to try using something simple as a test.

[Enhance ‘Blessing of Vitality Restoration’ with divinity.]

[Understanding of restoration-type divine spells is too low, but the penalty is compensated by divinity.]

[The consumption of divine power is significantly reduced, and the power is slightly increased.]

[Consumes 1,500 divine power.]

I used a simple restoration divine spell on the people.

White light of divine power enveloped them, completely restoring their energy, which had been exhausted from overwork.

Normally, the favor of Lustra of Purification would still be low, resulting in a large penalty, but obtaining divinity seemed to compensate for it considerably.

“Huh? M-my pain suddenly disappeared.”

“The Holy Knight has blessed us!”

“Thank you, Holy Knight!”

The divinity was still meager, so the power wasn’t that great, but I could roughly grasp the feeling.

“Was that… divine magic? Were you a knight affiliated with the temple?”

“Not really, but let’s just say it’s similar. More importantly, they’ve regained their strength, so we need to attack quickly.”

I had killed most of them, but some goblins must have escaped from the outpost.

If we delay, they will surely call for reinforcements from elsewhere, so we must neutralize the other outposts one by one before that happens.

Jack and Aiteban both agreed, so we hurried towards the nearby outpost.

“Don’t be afraid, charge! We just need to hold out and draw attention!”

“Trust the heroes!”

The rescued people’s equipment was by no means good.

It was slightly less crude because they made it themselves rather than goblins, but since it was made with goblin standards, the size was too small for humans to use.

They couldn’t even think of wearing armor, so they had to rely on shields and small swords or spears that barely covered their bodies.

“Kek! Shoot the humans!”

“Human slaves! How dare you! Let’s kill them all!”

The goblins began shooting arrows from behind the wooden fence.

As the arrow barrage intensified, fear crept into the eyes of the running people.

“I’ll take care of the arrows!”

At that moment, Aiteban began to cast magic.

The magic power extending from the mana ring in his heart engraved a magic circuit on his body, completing the spell.

His appearance revealed the unique mystery of magic in this world.

Whoosh!

Bang!

“Kueeeek!”

“T-the arrows are coming back at us!”

Aiteban’s telekinetic spell scattered the goblins’ arrow barrage or even returned them to the goblins.

Thanks to that, the people could safely rush to the goblins’ faces without being hit by arrows.

Of course, there was no way they, with almost no combat experience, could fight properly.

“My turn!”

Ziiiiii- Kwaaaang!

Just before they clashed, I, who had rushed to the front, swung my sword filled with explosive aura.

As the aura scattered towards the goblins on the sword’s wind, it exploded, and the goblins fell into great chaos as they were torn apart by the explosion.

“Now’s the time!”

“Die, you bastards!”

“This is revenge for my wife!”

Seeing the enemy’s defenses crumble, the militia shouted and ran.

Their morale was good, but their posture when wielding swords or spears was clumsy.

However, since they mostly stabbed the backs of the goblins who were almost collapsing or running around chaotically due to me and the mercenaries, it was enough for them to fill the numbers.

Clang!

-Kiaaaaaak!

[You have eliminated another statue of Gobomein.]

[You have succeeded in stealing a portion of Gobomein’s divinity connected to the statue.]

[Divinity has slightly increased. Divinity is still in a ‘slightly meager’ state.]

“I got another one.”

Soon, we captured another outpost and destroyed another statue of Gobomein.

This time, when I absorbed the dark red energy that evaporated with a ghostly scream, my divinity increased.

“I’m getting stronger thanks to that Gobomein guy. I wonder if he’s extremely angry?”

He’s having his power stolen out of nowhere.

Well, of course, I wasn’t sorry at all. Far from being sorry, I was going to squeeze him dry.

[The respect of those who witnessed your performance has increased.]

[*Those who have gained respect or worship can become followers or believers. If you acquire followers and believers, you can periodically acquire divine power.]

“The people we rescued this time have also joined us. They are all armed, and we have replenished our arrows. Of course, they are goblin weapons.”

“Keep pushing relentlessly. We must not allow them any time.”

At the same time, the people’s strength gradually increased.

Of course, even if the number increased, it would be embarrassing to call them militia, but as the battle continued, some of them gained combat experience.

[Cast Blessing of Intermediate Strength Enhancement.]

[Enhanced the blessing using divinity.]

[Understanding of judgment and punishment systems is low, but divinity has largely nullified the penalty.]

[The effect of the blessing has greatly increased.]

“Die!”

Crack!

“I’m overflowing with power! The Emperor’s warrior has blessed me!”

“Worship the hero!”

And thanks to the blessing I gave them, they weren’t that bad at fighting.

Now, even if they fought goblins head-on, they could defeat them alone with a high probability.

Of course, the goblins were superior in number, so they still had to be satisfied with mainly holding out.

-Woowoowoowooo!

Koong!

“It’s a Giant Gobo!”

However, as we captured the outposts one by one, the goblins’ resistance was also getting stronger.

No matter how much we were conducting a blitzkrieg, they were preparing defenses by this point.

Fortunately, they focused on defending the outposts, so they didn’t all rush at once, but enhanced goblin individuals began to appear.

“He’s huge for a goblin.”

“Woowoo?”

Chwaak!

A Giant Gobo, a goblin that had grown to a considerable size, though slightly smaller than a real ogre, intruded, wielding a large wooden club at the militia.

Even when I rushed forward and jumped at him head-on, he couldn’t react quickly.

I somersaulted over his head and split his head with my sword.

“Geuwoeok!”

“Oh?”

Koong!

However, even though I had clearly cut his skull, he didn’t die and slammed his club down on me, enraged after I landed.

Fortunately, I rolled to the side as soon as I landed to avoid it, but if I hadn’t reacted with neural acceleration, even I would have been crushed.

“So, you’re quite sturdy, huh? Then how about this!”

After rolling to avoid the attack, I naturally extended a barrage of shadow blades.

Minor damage is meaningless to a guy with strong regenerative abilities.

The extended shadow blades focused on stabbing the guy’s legs, but it wasn’t fatal to him at all.

“But you can’t move, can you?”

“Geuieeeek?”

However, regeneration is not invincible or omnipotent.

Even with regenerative abilities, the injured area cannot function properly during regeneration.

The guy whose legs were covered in shadow blades like a hedgehog couldn’t avoid the strike aimed at his heart.

Pook!

“Kuaaat!”

“Next is the neck!”

Seokeok!

After stabbing his heart, I cut off his neck.

Even with strong regenerative abilities, he could never recover again with this much damage, so the Giant Gobo fell like a tree with its base cut off.

“We won again!”

“Waaaaaaa!”

This time, the goblins scattered in panic, and the militia’s morale soared.

“This is the last outpost. Now all that’s left is the central magic circle.”

“I see. It was surprisingly easy up to here.”

It was a very hasty offensive, but we were able to attack without difficulty because the goblins hadn’t set up their defenses so well.

I don’t know if it was because it hadn’t been long since they created the gate, or if they were complacent because they didn’t think they needed to set up defenses.

“If they had built a fortress, it wouldn’t have been this easy.”

“It’s difficult to build a proper fortress inside the gate. They would have had to carry stones, and even if they used slaves, it wouldn’t be easy.”

“That’s true.”

Instead of doing that, they would have just focused on security and tried to strengthen Gobomein.

But we found them amazingly well, and they didn’t expect us to break through the Demon Realm.

-Keuheong! Keuheong!

As I said that, Silver began to bark at the statue of the last remaining outpost.

He seemed to have sensed something, and soon a thick fog began to spread from Gobomein’s statue.

-You! How dare you steal my power!

And in that fog, as if projected, the figure of a certain goblin began to appear.

For a goblin, he was wearing various bejeweled ornaments as if showing off his wealth.

“Are you Gobomein?”

-That’s right! I am Gobomein, the smartest in the Green Gods’ Plain!

“The smartest? Is the smartest guy doing something like this?”

-What?

I didn’t hide my sarcasm from the goblin god, who looked more greedy than smart, adorned with things like a pearl necklace on a pig’s neck.

“It’s not like you’re holding a ritual asking to be subjugated, you’re openly kidnapping a lot of people. If it were me, I would act secretly little by little. Well, you’re just a goblin even if you’re a god, so your intelligence level is just that.”

-Y-you! How dare you speak so carelessly!

As Gobomein became enraged, black energy imbued with curses immediately tried to engulf me.

But I moved faster than that and destroyed Gobomein’s statue, which was spreading white fog.

Pakaaaang!

Hwaaaaaaaak!

But even if I destroyed it and absorbed the statue’s power, the white fog didn’t stop spreading.

Until the surroundings were completely covered in fog, effectively blocking our vision.

-Kuhahaha! You fools! Even if you destroy it, the expulsion spell cannot be stopped. Soon you will wither and die in the fog!

Gobomein left those words and disappeared with laughter.

“It’s a disaster! I can feel a powerful spell in this fog! If we don’t destroy the last statue before the spell is completed, we will be banished to a dimension in the fog forever!”

“The fog is confusing our sense of direction. We can’t tell where their main base is like this!”

Aiteban and Jack shouted urgently.

At this rate, we were in danger of being trapped inside a spell that would make us wander in the fog forever.

“It’s okay. I have a way.”

But unfortunately, I had a way to break through this fog.

[Divinity has reached the level of ‘Lower God’, allowing you to create a subordinate.]

[You can currently create one subordinate.]

[Possible creation target: Silver]

-Keong! Keong!

[Silver wants you to make him a subordinate.]

[Silver’s subordinate ability can see through the Fog of Oblivion.]

Even if I can’t see, what’s there to worry about when there’s a dog that can smell well.