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Chapter 278 - Calamity (4)
Chapter 278: Calamity (4)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
“The, the Deep Sea…!”
“What is this.”
It was quite a bizarre sight.
Е́.ň ům а̇
Black, sticky liquids gushed from every orifice of the human’s body, defiling the Deep Sea, while even more hateful words spilled from his lips.
“You, how dare…! So you existed after all!”
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“That’s true, but who are you?”
“I will make you suffer twice as long as I have suffered…”
He was in no state to be reasoned with.
The liquids stretching out from his hands soon took shape, becoming vaguely humanoid things that bared sharp teeth at me, the kind I knew I should never let sink into my flesh.
Ēn.ŭ m̀ä
I frowned. The power to turn inorganic matter into life.
It was a rather familiar ability. After all, I used it often myself.
‘The Authority of Creation.’
-Now I was even more certain.
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That thing was no human. It was an Outer God.
But why had it been captured by mere humans? Had an Outer God been posing as a human? After pondering for a moment, I breathed life into the surrounding seawater so I could hear the facts in more detail.
Еn̄ ûṁ a .іd̃
“How about you calm down first.”
“Shut up…..?”
He kept churning out minions without pause from the liquids spewing out of his seven orifices, but-
Unfortunately for him, the location was all wrong.
“…Im, impossi…”
Even when he strained with everything he had to produce hundreds of minions, a single flick of my finger turned the seawater into tens of thousands of Deep Sea Creatures.
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“…That thing cannot create so much life! It’s a lie!”
Seeming convinced they were fakes, he ordered his minions to attack.
As expected of lifeforms created by an Outer God, they were beyond knight-level. In speed alone they already matched Heaven’s Judgement Knights, and they possessed monstrous strength enough to easily resist the Water Pressure.
In other words.
-Crunch!
“…Kh, ugh…”
W̄ еb̄ n̄о́v̊ é l̃ Е̌ n̄ u mа̄
They were still far less refined than my Deep Sea Creatures.
After all, each and every one of my Deep Sea Creatures easily surpassed a Heaven’s Judgement Knight. In less than a few minutes, he had lost every last minion and stared at me in stunned disbelief.
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“So, who are you? Depending on your answer, I might let you live.”
“…Someday.”
Instead of giving the answer I demanded, he glared at me with eyes brimming with sheer hatred.
“I will come for you.”
W̊ e ḃ n о̇v̌е l Еñ üm̊ á
-Hssss…
In an instant, the human who had been an Outer God melted away like ice cream, leaving only a vague outline behind.
The moment I confirmed he had been completely annihilated, I withdrew the Deep Sea Creatures. Perhaps from recklessly using the Authority of Creation so much at once, my head began to ache a little.
Staggering, I leaned against something nearby and threw a question at the only one who could make sense of this situation.
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“Who the hell was that bastard? Why was an Outer God locked up pretending to be human?”
“Pollution.”
Ẅӗ b̀ n o v̀ẽ l̈ _Е nǔ m̀ а̊
Nightchase, who knew far more about Outer Gods than I did, sighed and crawled out of my pocket as soon as it was all over.
“That was a Fallen. He became an Outer God when he entered the Deep Sea.”
“…The same way I did?”
“Completely different. An Outer God took up residence in his body.”
Nightchase looked down at the ground with an uneasy expression.
“What you people call the Fallen are just fragments of a World. If the World is a forest, a Fallen is merely a branch. If the World is a mine, they’re nothing more than an ordinary chunk of ore.”
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“I know that. So what about it?”
“Whatever you all do with them is honestly none of our business. Would a forest complain over a single branch being dipped into the sea? But- as it happens, that forest is in the Deep Sea.”
“…What?”
She shrugged and replied.
“They’re all sleeping deep beneath your Deep Sea. The Outer God called Pollution sleeps there too. Then, all of a sudden, a piece of its own branch, one it wouldn’t even have noticed being snapped off, appeared in the upper layers of that Deep Sea. Naturally it would come out to take a look, right? Through that passage. And then… the source of all its misery was standing right in front of it.”
“No, hold on…”
Е̊ n̄.ùm а .íd̂
In other words, if I submerged a Fallen in the Deep Sea.
Did that mean Outer Gods would manifest, using that Fallen as a passage?
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But that made no sense. It wasn’t as if I had been sitting on my hands all this time.
“Do you know how many Fallen I’ve fought before now? Not once did an Outer God manifest.”
“Before you became a god?”
“…”
Ẃ е̂ bṅovë l̊ En̊u mа
“What you did as a human and what you just did are fundamentally different. Back then, you were only pretending to summon the Deep Sea while making others feel the same suffering you endured. Now that you’re a god, you’re summoning the actual World itself. So they feel it. And they come out to look.”
“Ha.”
Letting out a hollow laugh, I stared at the sea filled with filthy pollutants and asked, dumbfounded.
“Then how am I supposed to swallow the Fallen?”
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“You probably can’t?”
Nightchase tilted her head, yet her answer was definitive.
Е n ŭ m̀ а̄ . і d̂
“If you truly wanted to swallow the Fallen, you’d have to keep fighting Outer Gods. Think you could manage that?”
“Hmm…”
I thought back to that thing called Pollution I had just faced.
Having manifested in such a rush, it hadn’t been in its complete form- which meant that fighting one that had truly manifested could end in disaster.
But if I couldn’t swallow Worlds, then it followed that I couldn’t even submerge them in the first place.
Even at this very moment, Void was probably gobbling up Fallen without lifting a finger and expanding his World, yet I couldn’t. All because of the strange residents in my Deep Sea.
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It was incredibly irritating. And dangerous, too.
“What am I supposed to do about…”
As I scratched my aching head, racking my brain for a solution-
I suddenly felt my World expanding.
“…?”
The pollutants before my eyes were slowly turning transparent, being absorbed into the Deep Sea.
Е̂n̆ u m à .іd
And my World grew by that much. Enough that I could tell at a glance it had expanded considerably.
At the sense of omnipotence gradually welling up within me, I tilted my head and asked.
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“What’s this? It feels like my territory just grew quite a bit.”
“You took as much as he expended. However brief it was, an Outer God dwelled in him, so it’s only natural.”
“…This much, from a manifestation as feeble as that?”
“If you truly brought down an Outer God, you’d gain hundreds of times more. It’s just a bit dangerous. You learned that much fighting Mimicry, didn’t you?”
W е̊ b̈n о̀v̈ е́l Ѐ n ům̆ а́
True enough.
The reason my World had grown this vast was that I had swallowed the colossal Outer God Mimicry whole when I awakened as an Outer God.
Even if other Outer Gods weren’t on Mimicry’s level, it seemed certain I could gain a comparably large amount.
“Don’t get any funny ideas.”
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The moment I started mulling it over, Nightchase scowled as if she knew exactly what I was thinking.
“It’s true that Outer Gods vary in strength. But provoking them and escalating things into outright battle is extremely dangerous. Even Void, whenever he fought an Outer God, spent a good three days fighting, no matter how weak his opponent was.”
Е̊_n̂ um̆а́ . і̌ d̈
“But he won every time.”
“It’s a matter of degree. Rather than struggling through three days of battle to fully absorb a single Outer God, isn’t it far faster and simpler to safely grow stronger by swallowing up entire masterless Worlds while their owners are stuck at the bottom of the Deep Sea?”
“Wouldn’t the Outer Gods at the bottom of this Deep Sea have weakened quite a bit, though?”
“They have. If you fought them, you’d win. But- it won’t be one-on-one.”
Nightchase shook her head firmly.
“To the Outer Gods down there, you are the worst enemy imaginable. They might even think they can escape by dominating you. If you go down there yourself and pick a fight, every single Outer God will join in, and even you can’t sweep them all aside with ease.”
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“Hmm…”
She had a point.
However weakened they were, an Outer God was still an Outer God. It would be like fighting a tiger just to get some meat. The losses might well outweigh the gains.
“Then what if I create a one-on-one situation?”
“…What?”
However.
Е̃.n ùm̂а̄
If there was no other way, then what remained was the only answer.
If expanding my World by swallowing Fallen was off the table in my fight against Void, then I had to swallow Outer Gods instead.
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If anything, this might even be the better approach. At the very least, rather than swallowing the mere fragments that were the Fallen, I would be absorbing the main bodies themselves: the Outer Gods.
Where there was risk, there was also return.
“What if I can create one-on-one situations with the Outer Gods, by whatever means? Could I keep winning then?”
“…”
W̄ еḃn̂ о́vѐ l Е̊ n̊u̇ m̀ а́
After hesitating a moment, Nightchase spat out, as if she didn’t much want to admit it.
“…I tried all sorts of things to escape the Deep Sea-”
“Why are you suddenly changing the subject?”
“Hear me out. The conclusion I reached is that the World called the Deep Sea is an utterly unreasonable place. It restricts everything: breathing, seeing, even moving. No World I’ve ever seen could do such a thing… It’s revolting and horrifying.”
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Even while inside the Deep Sea, Nightchase shuddered in disgust and glared at her surroundings.
“When it comes to fighting Outer Gods, the only one who could fight you as an equal inside the Deep Sea is probably Void. That much, I’m certain of.”
W̄ е́ bn̈ ȯ_v̂ е l Еn̊ ü mа̊
“That’s good enough.”
No Outer God could defeat me single-handedly in the Deep Sea.
That was what mattered most. Returning to the prison at once, I went up and found Karos leaning against a wall.
She started slightly at the sight of me suddenly surging up from a nearby puddle, then gave a light nod of greeting.
“Is your business finished?”
“Yes. Although… all the prisoners are dead. Will that be a problem?”
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“Good riddance. Some of my comrades died at their hands. If you’d like, I can take you to where the other Fallen are being held.”
Thankfully, the deaths of the Fallen didn’t seem to be much of an issue for Karos.
“How many more are there?”
“Not in underground prisons like this one, but… we should have around 200 in custody. Some more may have died, though.”
“That’s plenty. But before that, there’s somewhere I need to go for a moment.”
“?”
Еń u mа. ì d̆
Leaving the bewildered Karos behind, I stepped straight into the puddle.
The puddle I had entered led to the Empire’s Capital.
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-The former Capital, to be precise.
“Ugh. Why would you come back to a dump like this?”
The false city where Elysia existed as a Witch.
Nightchase immediately recoiled in horror and backed away, but I knocked on the door without paying her any mind.
Ѐn̈ú mа̂
“Elysia. I have a favor to ask.”
I took a moment to choose my words, then let them out.
“…Uh, could I borrow my Clone?”
A trap to lure the Outer Gods to an isolated place.
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That was what I planned to set.
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