The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 457

274. The Battle of Pharell (1)

“Kuh, Kahahahahahaha!!!!!”

The woman with the serpent’s lips burst into laughter as she looked at the round table, clutching her stomach and wiping her eyes.

Whether she was crying from laughter or gesturing to provoke the gods around her, it was clear that the other gods wouldn’t take kindly to her behavior.

“Pharell can only be destroyed by the power of a god. I was honestly surprised when that Aegis destroyed the tower at first, but that was only possible because it was a divine object imbued with Yula’s power… It was within a certain acceptable range.”

She looked at Yula and said,

“Of course, I wouldn’t have given an object imbued with my power to my own creation.”

It wasn’t just directed at Yula. She spoke as if to show off to the gods who had mocked her for causing Hekt’s disaster.

“But that doesn’t mean the rules have been broken. Not only Yula, but there are also gods who have given wisdom to their creations. Divine objects are like proof of that.”

The old man spoke as if to refute her words.

“Humans are the same. In some dimensions, science is advanced, and in others, magic is advanced. That’s why in some dimensions, there are humans who fly through the sky with magic, while in others, lumps of metal fly through the sky without using magic. We gave them wisdom to see their potential.”

However, the serpent-lipped woman sneered despite the old man’s rebuttal.

“And then they were devoured. By that potential.”

“By whom?”

“Who else? I’m talking about the Lord, the one called the highest god. He’s the one who first created the Blader system, isn’t he? We just selected outstanding beings from his world like him to create Bladers.”

The old man couldn’t hide his displeasure at her cold reaction to the Lord.

“Of course, there were restrictions. The fifteenth selected from among the special powers called Master Keys. Without that, they can’t stand against God.”

“That’s not a restriction. It was the Lord’s way of giving opportunities to his creations. Unlike us, who were born from the primordial cracks when dimensions were created, our creations sometimes surpass their own limits.”

“Free will.”

Yula spoke as if answering the old man’s words.

“Yes, free will. The only virtue given to humans as a possibility.”

“It’s not a virtue, it’s a sin. The arrogant creations eventually rebelled and even killed the Lord. There was no need to give them such a thing in the first place, nor to create Bladers. What potential… The Lord just created the Knights of God to show off his superiority in strength.”

The serpent-lipped woman looked at Yula and laughed in a low voice.

“But what was the result? He never thought that it would become a sword to bind himself. Even the omniscient and omnipotent Lord.”

The gods sitting around the round table seemed to stiffen slightly at her words that they were omniscient and omnipotent. Even though it was a modifier that was taken for granted, they couldn’t hide their discomfort.

“That’s not important. When the primordial power called dimensional force was shattered when the Lord died, cracks were created, and we who were born from them were all imperfect, but we were able to have that power. But countless battles took place to seize the power, and as a result, some died and some were born.”

The old man looked at the serpent-lipped woman with a stern face and said,

“Humans now have that power. That power is naturally a fragment of the Lord. Of course, Yula, you will be held responsible for this… But first, we must think about collecting that fragment again.”

He clicked his tongue at the gods around him as if they were pathetic. That appearance was also very human-like, so it was extremely unpleasant.

“Well. The Lord’s death gave us an opportunity. That human is not a pleasant being, but he looks like a new fragment to me now.”

The serpent-lipped woman said.

“Opportunity.”

Thump-

She rose from the round table.

The sound of a chair being dragged back was heard.

“What are you doing?”

“Why are you asking when you know? Rapi……”

The serpent-lipped woman, who had been cackling, looked at the man and bit her lip slightly as if she had made a mistake.

“I almost made a mistake because I was so excited. In another’s dimension, we are just nameless gods. That is the rule.”

She placed her hand on the magic mirror in the center of the round table.

“…What are you doing?”

“What else? Didn’t you hear what he said? I’m going down to bid for victory.”

“Are you saying you’re going to manifest in the human realm now? You should know that appearing in a place other than the dimension you control is a violation of the rules?”

“Always talking about those damn rules. Think about the free will that humans have. You’re not just wearing your head for show, are you?”

“……You!!!!”

The old man slammed the round table and stood up as if he was angry.

“Before the rules, we, the polytheistic gods under the Lord, have a duty to collect the Dimension Spirals, which are fragments of God.”

The man, who had been folding his arms, stood up as if he had been waiting for the serpent-lipped woman’s words.

“If that’s the reason, then I can’t help it.”

“You’re a snake with a black heart, not befitting your size.”

She sneered as she looked at the man.

“Well, I don’t hate it.”

* * *

“……Foolish woman. That’s why the creations she makes are just ignorant things without intelligence.”

The old man clicked his tongue as he looked at the magic mirror.

The serpent-lipped woman and the man who appeared in front of Karil were visible inside.

“Even if they have the Dimension Spiral, they are human. What are they going to do by sticking to humans?”

“Aren’t you going to go?”

“Of course. A god being played by humans is ridiculous, let alone plausible.”

However, the old man’s gaze towards Yula as he said those words was by no means friendly. They were the same in that they remained at the round table, but their positions were completely different.

Crack-

Yula gritted her teeth without realizing it.

Has there ever been such a humiliating thing? It was a simple and clear game that if she destroyed Pharell, she would win. But now, it wasn’t over just by destroying Pharell.

“You can go if you want. To be honest, if I had to find that human, I thought it should be you.”

“……What?”

“We are in different positions. I have to take over the continent, and you have to destroy Pharell.”

Yula frowned slightly at his words.

“Do you think you can take over the continent before destroying Pharell?”

“That’s what the gods who sent Blood and Hekt thought as well. If they weren’t confident in winning, they wouldn’t have brought disaster.”

At his words, Yula couldn’t help but wonder whether she should go down to the human realm or not.

‘Damn it.’

She was in a ridiculous situation.

Although there were Bladers who opposed her in the mythological era, she showed the greatness of God by punishing them as well. Moreover, they were a collection of outstanding beings who made up the world, including dragons and spirit kings.

But now, she was being swayed by just one human, so she was dumbfounded.

Not just one person, but all the gods who control the dimension.

“…….”

Yula looked at the magic mirror in the round table and glanced at the gods around her. She was trying to read their faces, but as if that was a signal, the gods around the round table stood up all at once.

* * *

“Yula doesn’t seem to be visible.”

Karil looked at the serpent-lipped woman who appeared first.

‘You guys, do you know who that is?’

[Well, we do not know the gods of other dimensions other than Yula, who controls this world. They have their own realm.]

[Just as there is not only one god, we are not the only spirit kings. Each dimension has not only the spirit realm but also each realm, including the human realm.]

The spirit kings replied.

[The realm can be seen as a lower structure of the dimension. Then there must be spirit kings in each dimension?]

Aln Zabiuss asked as if he was interested in their story.

[That’s right.]

[Not a very special being.]

The spirit kings could only smile bitterly at his words instead of refuting them.

“Yula probably won’t appear. It’s something that happened in her dimension. It’s a blow to her pride that her creations don’t move as she wants. Twice at that.”

“Hmm.”

Karil crossed his arms and looked at the man at her answer.

“Well, good. Then I’ll ask you one more thing. Excluding Yula, are you all the gods that exist?”

At first, two gods appeared.

But after that, eight people with their faces covered by robes appeared.

“There is one more excluding Yula.”

The man replied.

‘Twelve people.’

Karil confirmed that the number of twelve gods in the first verse of the monument and the Order in Lyseria’s lair was not wrong.

“Who is it?”

“Of course, it’s the god who caused this disaster.”

“The owner of Rice.”

Karil nodded as if he understood at the serpent-lipped woman’s answer, then pointed at her and the man.

“Then, of course, the two of you who came first are the owners of Blood and Hekt?”

“That’s right.”

Their expressions hardened as his finger pointed towards the corpses of the two fallen ones behind them.

“Relax your faces. It’s never a shameful thing to move quickly to seize an opportunity.”

“…….”

The two gods could only feel more humiliated by his attitude of treating them as if they were praising their subordinates.

But there was nothing they could do.

Karil’s words were not wrong. The two of them, who had already been deprived of the opportunity, had no choice but to rely on Karil.

“The Lord disappeared and his power was divided and scattered throughout the world. But to think that power still remains……”

The man looked at Karil.

“Maybe that was in the abandoned dimension called the Exile. He was there right before the Lord died.”

“Exile?”

“There is a world where all sinners are imprisoned, a world even God has abandoned. Well, this is the realm of the gods, so humans don’t need to know. Just as humans create trash cans to throw away trash, gods also need a place to throw away filth.”

At his words, Karil shrugged his shoulders as if he didn’t care.

“Yes, that’s your problem. What’s important to me is the survival of this world I live in.”

“That’s right.”

The serpent-lipped woman said as if it was nothing to be polite to Karil, who was a human.

“Don’t you have any pride?”

Karil asked her provocatively.

“Pharell can only be destroyed by the power of God. The fragments of the tower remaining in the palm of your hand are proof of that. As long as you have the Dimension Spiral, you are qualified to be on one side of the throne of God.”

But she answered without changing her expression.

“Of course, there is still the restriction that you must leave the human body.”

“Don’t put me on the same level as you guys.”

“But how can you make us the winners of Exodia [a reference to a powerful card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game, implying a complete victory]? I know you can destroy Pharell, but that only makes Yula the winner. To make us the winners, we have to stop the disaster that is happening now.”

It was then.

Israfil’s message was heard in Karil’s head as if he had been waiting for it.

[Reporting. Suan Hazar has just opened the divine object of the Yain with the power of the Giant Rock Lord. Aidan Hamil is taking the divine object to the battlefield.]

At that moment.

Karil smiled faintly.

“Of course. Watch. Soon, the owner of Rice will be begging in front of me like you.”