Swish-
The wounds Blake created and the wounds Se-woon inflicted.
The two diagonals combined, forming an X-shaped scar on Metatron’s body.
Though until just a moment ago, he had been nonchalantly enduring Se-woon’s attacks with his body.
“……Cough.”
That was no longer the case.
Even though his condition was a mess after Blake’s reversal, Metatron couldn’t withstand Se-woon’s strike at all.
Metatron coughed up blood and collapsed to his knees.
The battle ended with a single blow.
‘9th Circle magic. It’s not something to use lightly.’
However, Se-woon’s condition wasn’t great either.
Was it because he had just reached the 9th Circle and couldn’t control it yet?
He only used one spell, but his Circle felt stiff as if it were overloaded.
He had finally reached the 9th Circle, but if Metatron had withstood that blow, it would have been quite troublesome.
“How can… a human…”
The traces of Chaos Blade still burned.
The chaotic flames burned as if they wouldn’t allow the wound to heal or the pain to be forgotten.
As his life faded, Metatron muttered, losing the light in his eyes.
“You seem to despise Lucifer. But you’re no different.”
“Me… like Lucifer?”
“Arrogance. You die because of arrogance.”
What if Metatron had attacked as soon as Se-woon and Blake entered the tower?
What if he hadn’t waited for the baby angels to be harmed and joined the battle? What if he had pushed them both from the start with all his might?
Such assumptions are meaningless, but if he had, Se-woon and Blake might have lost.
Arrogance.
That sin, which could be said to be Lucifer’s symbol, ironically worked the same way for the angel who banished Lucifer from the Celestial Realm.
Perhaps, the epithet of Lucifer might have originated from the very nature of angels.
“Haha, that’s right. I lived with my eyes closed to avoid falling, but in the end, I too…”
Whoosh-
Metatron’s body burned away.
His body turned to ashes and disappeared, proving that his life was over.
The sturdy heavy armor and the burning flame greatsword all vanished with his life.
Following that….
Thud.
Something fell from the top of the tower.
A chair, no, a throne.
The tower itself, which Metatron had been guarding.
On top of it was a brilliantly shining key.
The key had white, beautiful wings as if showing off its divinity, and an angel’s ring floated above it.
Nephilim trembled, making it easy to guess its identity.
“Ars Theurgia Goetia.”
Lucifer’s goal and the starting point of the Holy-Demonic War.
Its identity was Solomon’s Key.
‘I didn’t expect to fulfill Nephilim’s request so quickly.’
To be honest, I even doubted whether Solomon’s remaining keys existed in the tower, but to find another key already was astonishing.
Se-woon thought so and walked towards the throne.
Then, a familiar voice came from behind.
“Se-woon….”
Blake forced himself to get up.
He should have fainted and been lying down for three days and nights to recover, but he regained consciousness and stood up.
His mental strength was amazing.
“That key… belongs to Lucifer.”
Even in a life-threatening situation, he was carrying out Lucifer’s orders.
Having come this far, Se-woon couldn’t help but ask.
“Why do you follow Lucifer’s orders so much?”
Blake is strong. Even if he hadn’t accepted Lucifer’s divinity, Blake would have been strong.
In response to Se-woon’s question, Blake took a difficult step forward and answered.
“Lucifer… saved me.”
“Saved?”
“He saved my life. He saved Mia’s life.”
Se-woon shook his head.
The hand of salvation extended by the Constellation in a dramatic situation.
This was the most common case of following a Constellation in the Tower.
In such a situation, if a hand is extended, the player feels indebted to the Constellation and follows them even more.
Even if the contract is unfavorable, even if it’s a bad Constellation, even if unreasonable orders are given.
In contrast, the Constellation can freely control the player they like.
Because of this, sometimes Constellations with bad personalities deliberately put players in dangerous situations and then extend a hand.
Just like what happened to Arcana before.
“Haven’t you realized? It was only to use you.”
“I know.”
“Even if you were saved, what’s the point if you have to give your life again now?”
“……Mia lived. That’s all that matters.”
“Is Mia that important?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your relationship?”
“Mia is… on my side.”
“Not blood-related, not lovers?”
“No. Mia is just… the only one completely on my side in the Tower.”
It’s not that I don’t understand.
If it were the old Se-woon, he wouldn’t have understood, but now Se-woon also had someone similar to what Blake was talking about.
Yoo Seo-ah and Kang Han-cheol, Elder Go Chang-seok and the twin sisters, the Diablo Guild was that kind of relationship.
That’s why there was one thing I could know.
“Didn’t you think that Mia would be sad if you died?”
“Still… she can live. If she just lives….”
“If Mia sacrifices her life to save you, Blake, can you live?”
“…….”
Blake, who had been desperately taking steps forward, stopped abruptly.
One knee bent and collapsed.
Was it because of Se-woon’s words, or was it because he had finally run out of energy?
Either way, it wouldn’t be strange. The fact that he was standing at all was amazing.
“Blake, I’m sorry, but….”
Se-woon moved again.
Towards the throne that had fallen from the top of the tower.
Towards Solomon’s second key, waiting for a new owner on the throne.
“I’ll take the key.”
Se-woon reached out his hand towards the key.
In response, the key didn’t resist, but fluttered its wings and flew towards Se-woon’s palm.
As soon as it was caught in his hand, the key emitted a bright light and disappeared, absorbed into Nephilim in Se-woon’s arms.
– ‘Ars Goetia, the Second Chapter of Lemegeton’ is absorbed into Solomon’s Small Key.
– The power contained in Solomon’s Small Key is strengthened, allowing you to use some of the key’s power.
– ‘The Art of Subjugation’ contained in Ars Goetia is activated.
– ‘The Art of Evocation’ contained in Ars Theurgia Goetia is activated.
Se-woon completely absorbed the key. After that, the tower began to collapse immediately.
Whether it was because Metatron had fallen or because the key of the throne had disappeared, the sight of the tower disappearing after completing its mission was quite magnificent.
‘I stopped it.’
No matter how I think about it, this key was the starting point of the Holy-Demonic War.
In other words, this was as good as stopping the Holy-Demonic War.
Now, all that’s left is to calmly observe the neutrality of the gods and demons, and then join forces to defeat the Outer Gods when they invade.
Although the Tower before regression was mercilessly destroyed despite the efforts of the Constellations, the Constellations in their complete state, who have not experienced the Holy-Demonic War, will be of great help in stopping the Outer Gods.
Besides, this time Se-woon is here, so he can advise on how to deal with the Outer Gods.
Even the dragon from before dealt with the Outer Gods by manipulating meteorites after listening to Se-woon’s advice, didn’t he?
The Constellations will be able to show even greater power than the dragon.
While thinking so and feeling relieved.
– Constellation, ‘Falling #!’ is %$#@ &*@_0`…….
– Constellation, ‘Fall#ing Wings’ is you$ &@$(%$$)…….
The Constellation’s message began to appear in Se-woon’s eyes. It seemed that the connection with the Constellation had been restored as the tower collapsed.
Although the letters were terribly broken, it wasn’t difficult to recognize their identity.
Constellation, Falling Wings.
‘The Demon God of Arrogance.’
It was Lucifer.
Seeing him sending messages in a hurry, it seemed he had realized that Se-woon had taken the key.
‘But he can’t take the key.’
It’s almost impossible for a Constellation to directly interfere with the Tower.
Even descending with less than 1/10 of their original power, considering the lower status of beings like Pan or Triton, is only possible for lower-level gods.
A god like Lucifer can never do such an unreasonable thing when calculating the gains and losses.
At best, it would be just creating a mental world like before.
An ordinary player would have their mind shaken by that alone and bring the key, but not Se-woon.
Before, he could barely maintain his sanity, but now that he has grown even more than then, he was confident that he wouldn’t waver even in front of Lucifer.
But.
Flash!
‘That side?’
What Lucifer did wasn’t an invitation to a mental world.
The center of the broken tower.
Red light burst out from where Blake was.
“No way.”
Blake appeared from the rubble of the tower.
However, Blake was already unconscious. He was barely clinging to a lifeline like a thread.
Even so, Blake stood up so naturally and turned towards Se-woon.
“I allowed you to accompany me because I thought you could shorten the time to find the key, but you really stole the key.”
He had Blake’s body, but his identity was different.
Lucifer.
He possessed Blake’s body.
‘But he’s not in a complete state.’
Originally, possession is a state where the player’s and the Constellation’s power and spirit are fused.
For example, Se-woon’s state when he possessed Leviathan or Beelzebub before was true possession.
“You’re unbearably presumptuous. You refused to answer until the end and followed me here, so you must have coveted the key.”
However, Lucifer’s current state was not like that.
Even though the pressure as a Constellation weighed on his shoulders, it didn’t seem like Lucifer’s power had come down.
Only his consciousness was possessed.
In this state, Se-woon couldn’t lose.
“But you know.”
The corners of Blake’s lips turned up.
Se-woon instinctively felt a chill as he watched that smile.
“Did you think I wouldn’t have foreseen this situation and allowed you?”
Wings stretched out from Blake’s back.
However, it wasn’t the red wings that Blake had shown so far.
Pure white wings symbolizing angels and jet-black wings symbolizing demons.
The two wings were proving that the one talking to Se-woon now was not Blake, but the Demon God of Arrogance, Lucifer.
“Originally, the divinity injected into this guy was only divinity, but after you joined, I planted one more.”
“……What is it?”
“To put it simply, it’s an invitation.”
“An invitation?”
“No, the expression ‘invitation’ doesn’t suit. My invitation doesn’t require your consent.”
His wings fluttered greatly.
White and black feathers scattered everywhere, densely obscuring the view.
It wasn’t an attack.
It was literally an invitation.
Because of those feathers, the space between Se-woon and Blake, no, Se-woon and Lucifer, was leaving the Tower.
Tap!
As soon as Se-woon realized that, he kicked off the floor.
– Through inner energy, the first form of the Destruction Dark Sword, Shattering Heaven, is enhanced.
I don’t know the principle, but this was also a kind of barrier made of Lucifer’s divinity.
Thinking so, he swung his sword with the intention of cutting the barrier.
The power of destruction should be able to easily cut through a barrier made of divinity.
But.
“Why…….”
The barrier was not cut.
Like trying to catch feathers but being pushed further away by the wind, when Se-woon swung his sword, the feathers were not cut but only pushed back once by the trajectory of the sword.
– The Vault of Greed has been opened.
[ Destruction Wind ]
– A wide-area magic that summons a wind of destruction that cuts everything and blows everything away.
But Se-woon didn’t give up and spun his Circle tightly.
The Circle was already overloaded with just the magic he used to defeat Metatron, Chaos Blade, but this was no time to complain.
He created a wind of destruction with the intention of blowing away all the feathers.
“It’s useless. Unless you are a Constellation equal to me, you cannot escape my invitation with magic.”
It was useless. Even the 9th Circle magic, Destruction Wind, couldn’t stop Lucifer’s ‘invitation’.
Knowing that magic didn’t work, Se-woon constantly tried to escape the wall of feathers.
He rushed forward with the power of destruction around his body, and he also used magic of other attributes.
But even so, the barrier was not broken.
“And, it seems you have one more interesting thing.”
Lucifer pointed his finger and pointed to Se-woon’s chest.
Then, Solomon’s Small Key, Nephilim, emitted light and trembled. It was desperately refusing to be pulled by Lucifer’s gravity.
“To think you had the first key. With this, there’s no need to listen to the opinions of the others. Really, I hit the jackpot.”
The wall of feathers covered all sides.
Se-woon, who had reached a high level by reaching the 9th Circle and obtained ‘qualification’, could know.
Passing through a long passage, he was finally reaching the place where Lucifer was relieved.
At that time.
– Constellation, ‘Crow Bowing its Head’ frowns as it looks at the shining key in your arms.
Another Constellation watching Se-woon.
Mamon’s message appeared in front of Se-woon’s eyes.
Chapter 612