It was strange, the more I thought about it.
With such immense power, why didn’t the Fallen King attack the Divine Realm directly? Why try to destroy the Tower first?
His goal was to devour the gods, not the Tower.
‘He mentioned something about learning.’
Odin recalled the information he had heard from Seun.
Learning.
Learning to shake off frost after being hit by the cold, learning to harden skin to block blades after being struck by a slash.
The Outer Gods, under the Fallen King’s guidance, had been constantly learning.
It wasn’t just defense.
They had greatly improved their attacks as well, such as changing their bodies into poisonous forms to inject into enemies, or spewing themselves out in breath form to reach enemies that were hard to touch.
“Krrrrrr!”
Just look at the Outer Gods before my eyes.
They are strengthening their bodies by mobilizing everything they have learned so far.
I can’t even grasp what their hosts used to be anymore.
To them, hosts were nothing more than a medium.
It was hard to imagine how much stronger they would become if they devoured gods.
‘The proof is right there.’
Odin looked at the Outer God protecting the Fallen King right beside him.
An Outer God exuding an aura on a completely different level from the others.
Although the host was not visible, the aura alone was enough to infer that the Outer God had devoured a ‘god’.
He is not participating in the battle right now to protect the Fallen King, who is recovering, but if the Fallen King recovers and that guy joins the battle, the tide will definitely turn.
‘Is it simply for learning?’
To become stronger through learning?
No, that’s not enough.
According to Seun, the Outer Gods succeeded in devouring the gods who invaded the Tower, destroying the Tower without proper learning before the regression.
‘Wait a minute.’
Odin’s eyes sparkled.
Before Seun regressed, the Fallen King didn’t bother with the troublesome task of ‘learning’.
Because he was strong enough to devour the gods even without it.
But after Seun regressed, he somehow followed the timeline and started learning without immediately starting his work.
That means.
‘Did he feel that his power was insufficient?’
At the time, Seun was just an ordinary player.
Although he had reached the highest floor, he specialized in survival rather than combat power, which allowed him to reach the highest floor alive.
In fact, Seun didn’t know this, but the one who was really on the highest floor was the Sword Emperor, Francis Hamel, who was training on the 96th floor.
Naturally, everything Odin heard was what Seun had directly seen and heard.
His perspective was very limited.
‘Even though the gods were eaten, he wouldn’t have witnessed the battle in the Divine Realm.’
After Seun regressed.
No, even if that wasn’t the case, what if the gods had found a way to attack the Outer Gods while Seun was running away to find the Hall of Ten Thousand Evils?
At first, I thought the Fallen King followed Seun or Ella through the axis of time, but when I think about it, was there any reason for the Fallen King to do that?
Just because he missed two players, would he give up his achieved goal?
That can’t be.
The Fallen King chose regression not because of Seun and Ella.
It was simply because he had failed.
Even without the power of destruction or the power of meteorites, he abandoned the realization of his plan and turned back the axis of time for some reason.
After that, he would have built up his strength through learning to cover up his failure, and tried to achieve something by destroying the Tower.
Although it’s just a guess, it was the most meaningful guess.
The problem is, I have no idea why I was able to stop the Fallen King’s plan before the regression.
“Odin, is it not ready yet?”
“Not yet.”
“I trust you, but be aware that time is running out.”
It only took Odin a moment to make these inferences.
Only a few minutes.
However, even in those few minutes, the battlefield was busy.
“Uwoooooooo!!”
Kwaaaang!!
Thor, the god of Asgard, wielding Mjolnir [his enchanted hammer] imbued with the power of meteorites, was blowing up the Outer Gods.
“Kuaooo!”
Kwaaaaat!
The evil dragon ‘Tiamat’ and her descendants, using the power of destruction they received from Seun to the fullest, were spewing out their breath.
“I ask for your help.”
Saaaaaa-
The four guardian deities of the neutral camp, Cheongryong [Azure Dragon], Jujak [Vermilion Bird], Baekho [White Tiger], and Hyunmu [Black Tortoise], were controlling the spirits and fighting the Outer Gods.
“Those who dare to glare at the sun, kneel!”
The sun god ‘Ra’, who doesn’t have the power of meteorites, destruction, or spirits, but is helping the battle by restraining the Outer Gods with the powerful power he possesses as a god.
All the gods were fighting the Outer Gods by showing off their strengths.
An unrealistic battlefield where good gods, evil gods, and neutral gods are joining forces.
A fierce battle where the sun boils and stars collide, befitting the battle of gods.
If Odin hadn’t prepared the battlefield in advance, countless stars and creatures would have lost their lives due to the aftermath of this battle alone.
At that time, when the close battle continued.
U웅!
“Ragnarok will never be repeated.”
A rainbow flickered behind the Fallen King, who was recovering.
Naturally, this was no ordinary rainbow.
Bifrost [the rainbow bridge connecting Asgard to other realms].
The rainbow bridge that controls access to Asgard, controlled by Heimdall.
However, it was not Heimdall who appeared there.
“Heh heh, where do you want to attain enlightenment in front of me?”
Mara Papiyas, the owner of the Sixth Heaven [a Buddhist demon associated with desire and illusion].
The black energy from his body churned and turned into thousands of evil spirits.
All of them are evil spirits called Mara [demons that tempt beings away from spiritual liberation].
Originally, they are evil spirits that prevent enlightenment, but their power was not simply at the level of blocking enlightenment.
The moment they touch, even the Fallen King would not be able to repair his body.
An attack that blocks healing?
It could be said to be the opposite of the attack on the Fallen King, who constantly repairs his body using the Outer Gods.
“Block it!”
At the Fallen King’s cry, the Outer Gods soared greatly in front of him.
However, as if waiting for this moment, a new god appeared through Bifrost.
“All flows will soon be my property!”
Chwaaaa!
The sea god, Poseidon.
When he thrust his spear, the soaring Outer Gods miraculously split in half.
Just before the evil spirits escaping through the gap touched the Fallen King’s body.
Puhwat!
The Fallen King barely stretched out his recovering arm and blew up his arm himself.
At that moment, the Outer Gods stretched out in all directions and devoured all the approaching evil spirits.
“These annoying things!”
“Krrr- Woooooo!”
When the Fallen King became angry, that emotion was transferred to the Outer Gods, causing them to become even more violent.
The Outer Gods, who had been assisting the Fallen King, no longer stayed on the defense and stepped onto the battlefield.
Teong!
The Fallen King’s body suddenly exploded.
The people who ambushed the Fallen King were momentarily embarrassed.
“Did you think you could avoid our encroachment with borrowed power?”
The black liquid that had turned into thousands and tens of thousands of bubbles touched Mara Papiyas’ body.
The black liquid immediately gathered together and formed the Fallen King’s body again.
The Fallen King grabbed Mara Papiyas’ neck and pushed the Outer Gods into him, but Mara Papiyas’ lips were stretched out long.
“Heh heh heh, to keep Mara close. Foolish sentient being.”
“Kyaaaaaaak-!!”
Mara Papiyas’ body turned into an evil spirit and seeped into the Fallen King’s body.
Although he controls evil spirits, he is also an evil spirit himself. The body was just a shell.
The Fallen King, who was attacked by the spirit of non-enlightenment in an instant.
“Kuaaaaaaak!”
Screaming, he tore at his hair.
Several gods rushed in without missing the gap, but an explosion occurred from the Fallen King’s head, blocking their approach.
“Heh heh, crazy bastard. His head is like that.”
“What happened?”
“What the hell is that guy? He doesn’t have one or two egos. It was like he had stuffed all the Outer Gods here into his head. No, I think it was more than that.”
Mara Papiyas appeared from the black liquid that had popped out due to the explosion.
It seems that he blew up and removed the part he had contaminated himself.
Although he didn’t inflict a fatal blow, the gods were gradually learning how to deal with the Fallen King.
Why did that suddenly become possible?
This was thanks to the cooperation of the good and evil gods.
“Kuek!”
“Weaklings. You can’t even stop this.”
“Thank you! I’ll prepare an attack, so please block it one more time!”
“I have to stop these weaklings. If you don’t do it properly, I’ll smash your face into those guys.”
“Don’t worry!”
Although they bicker, the good and evil gods were joining forces.
Is the enemy of an enemy a friend?
As the battle against the Outer Gods dragged on, they naturally joined forces.
“Odin, why don’t you participate in the battle! At this rate, we can win without your wisdom!”
Certainly, the battlefield was turning in their favor as the good and evil gods cooperated with each other.
But even so, Odin’s worries did not end.
“No, it can’t end with this.”
Thanks to Seun, the Fallen King’s plan to destroy the Tower first failed. But why?
No matter how I think about it, it doesn’t seem like the Fallen King will collapse like this.
Above all, the reason why the Fallen King turned back the axis of time has not yet been discovered.
Unlike before the regression, even though he knew the weaknesses of the Outer Gods in advance and prepared countermeasures, the same was true for the Fallen King.
“Kuaaaaaaak!”
The Fallen King let out a scream of pain.
The Outer Gods wriggled even more violently in response.
“If I had a little more time, if I had done a little more, I could have devoured the system!”
Flash.
Odin opened his eyes wide, which he had closed to concentrate.
It wasn’t a big soliloquy, but I clearly heard it.
System.
The reason why the Fallen King tried to destroy the Tower first.
‘The reason is…… to control the gods?’
The system was a kind of law that even the gods could not take lightly.
The reason why the gods enjoyed what was happening in the Tower but could not easily interfere was because of the system.
Although it may not be possible, what if the Fallen King devoured the system?
If he controls the gods with that power?
No matter what the gods do, the Outer Gods will eventually win.
‘And, even the opposite.’
If the system takes the side of the gods, suppresses the actions of the Outer Gods, and controls them?
Before Seun regressed, even if he didn’t know how to deal with the Outer Gods, wouldn’t he have been able to somehow stop the Outer Gods if he had the help of the system?
Odin’s eyes, which had reached that point, began to see what he had not seen until now.
No, I saw it, but I wasn’t paying attention to it.
“Heimdall! Cut off that passage right now!”
“I can’t, Lord Odin! Cutting off the passage forcibly right now is like cutting off the roots of the World Tree [Yggdrasil, a central concept in Norse cosmology]!”
“It doesn’t matter! Cut it off!”
The Fallen King’s goal is the system.
To devour the system, he must return to the Tower.
Even if the gods defeat all the Outer Gods here, if the Fallen King remains and devours the system, the game is over.
The system is the truth itself, the principle of which even Odin does not know.
The Fallen King, who has devoured the system, cannot be defeated no matter what he does.
I hadn’t noticed it until now, but the Outer Gods, who were increasing in number, were not being spewed out towards the gods.
They were trying to open a passage to return to the Tower.
And, as the battle continued, the Fallen King was also naturally moving towards the passage.
“I understand!”
Heimdall moved urgently.
To cut off the roots of the World Tree.
If such a thing were to happen, the balance of dimensions would be broken immediately, and it was unknown how long it would take to recover.
There was no way Odin wouldn’t know that.
But Heimdall believed in Odin’s wisdom and ran to cut off the passage.
Hana.
Puhk!
“I won’t let you.”
“Keuheok!”
Heimdall’s chest was pierced by black thorns.
The Fallen King, who had already moved to the front of the passage, struck out.
The appearance of being in pain and expressing anger while fighting the gods until now had disappeared like smoke.
Rather, his face was full of a bitter smile.
“Heimdall!”
“Block him!”
The gods, who realized Heimdall’s death and Odin’s will, rushed towards the Fallen King.
The power of the gods, who were running at full power without sparing their strength, was enough to destroy a star, but.
“Kureuaaaaaaaak-!!”
The Outer Gods, who had always been by the Fallen King’s side, blocked their path.
After grotesquely increasing in size, the thorns that sprouted from his entire body spewed out.
Some gods avoided it, but there were also gods who were pierced without avoiding it.
Not only did he spew out thorns, but the Outer Gods also mercilessly knocked down the approaching gods with that powerful force in a single attack.
“Stupid bastards.”
The Fallen King, who was watching this, turned his back and moved towards the passage.
The passage where the Outer Gods were no longer spewing out.
The color of the passage changed, and the road to the Tower was opened again.
It seemed to be forcibly maintained by the power of the Outer Gods, and it looked unstable.
“Wait. I’ll make you kneel on your own soon.”
“Block him-!!”
Odin shouted.
Gungnir [Odin’s spear], which he possessed, was fired, Zeus threw Astrape [his lightning bolts], and Tiamat’s breath headed towards the Fallen King.
Kwaaaaaang!!
A huge explosion reminiscent of a star’s explosion.
But when that explosion subsided.
“Ah…….”
The Fallen King, who had already disappeared, and the passage, which had been destroyed by the impact of the explosion so that no one could enter anymore, were collapsing.
Chapter 672