novelGlobal Chapter 548
Chapter 548
“......!”
The moment Earthquake Tsunami activated, Poseidon’s eyes widened wider than they had at anything he had seen yet.
What are you so shocked for?
I copied it from you.
But Poseidon, having no way of knowing that, could only be flustered.
A gigantic tidal wave like a tsunami crashed into the inside of the castle and swallowed up everyone, Poseidon included.
However, Earthquake Tsunami never reached them.
Because before it could touch them, it split in half and vanished as if shoved aside to either side.
Poseidon revealed himself between the parted halves of Earthquake Tsunami and asked with a furrowed brow,
“How are you able to use this technique?”
“Seriously, what’s so great about it that you’re calling it a technique? You just do it with a little know-how. I mean, all it does is make a big wave, doesn’t it?”
“What?”
What could be more infuriating than having your pride dismissed?
He had needled him on purpose.
Sometimes this kind of provocation worked better than half-baked mental attacks.
The prediction hit the mark, and Poseidon, angrier than ever, started swinging his trident.
“Then go ahead and try copying this too!!”
With a booming shout, Poseidon swung his trident, and countless waterspouts began rising throughout the flooded castle ruins.
He was a clever bastard.
At a glance, it looked like he was so enraged he was about to lash out wildly, but instead he summoned multiple waterspouts, rescued the fallen Olympian gods from earlier, and attacked the Shadow Knights.
Naturally, the Shadow Knights had already been unsummoned long ago.
Each and every one of them was a precious shadow, so there was no way he was going to let them die like dogs in a place like this.
Su-ho asked,
“So you were acting like you’d jump me any second, and in the end all you’re doing is saving your friends?”
Instead of answering, Poseidon swung his trident once more.
Then the summoned waterspouts split into four directions, and water immediately began rising with those four spread-out points as the centers.
[ Poseidon uses Sovereignty of the Deep Sea. ]
Sovereignty of the Deep Sea was an area skill that turned the entire designated range into the deep sea.
Yeah.
I would’ve been disappointed if you’d just used something like Earthquake Tsunami again.
That’d be no different from the Titanomachy, would it?
Before long, the entire designated area filled with seawater and then began changing into the deep sea.
Su-ho lifted Guiyeong Spear and hurled it high into the sky.
Thung!!
The flying Guiyeong Spear struck an invisible wall and bounced back.
Just as I thought.
If he left the sky open as an escape route, then it wouldn’t be a skill befitting a chief god.
So the method of escaping into the sky had been blocked off.
The water filled up in no time.
Su-ho immediately started diving.
Bbogeuruk!
Bubbles burst from his mouth.
Poseidon was underwater too.
But he behaved as though he were not underwater at all, and soon, wearing a triumphant expression, sent over a thought-message.
- So, what do you plan to do now?
- What do you mean, what am I going to do?
Su-ho likewise raised a hand.
Then he slashed it downward.
Kurung!
[ Lightning Bolt is activated. ]
Pajajajajajajajajat!!
A lightning bolt fell from the sky.
At the sight of it, Poseidon’s and Zeus’s eyes widened.
Because it was unmistakably Zeus’s lightning bolt.
But they were only shocked for a moment. Soon Poseidon’s eyes curved again.
Because Su-ho’s lightning bolt failed to pierce the ceiling of Poseidon’s area skill.
- You’ve got all kinds of tricks. But what does it matter, when in the end you can’t even match the tip of the real thing’s toe.
Yeah.
I deliberately forced down my True Demon and used it, and it still doesn’t work.
There was a reason for it.
Not because they were stronger than me, but because they had grown more than they had during the Titanomachy.
Time-wise, that was only natural.
In other words, I copied the techniques they had back then, so now that time has passed, their techniques have reached a level beyond what I possess, which means my copied versions don’t work on them.
Pajit!
The lightning bolt soon stopped, and when Su-ho floated up in the water, Poseidon grinned.
- Nephew, is that all the power you have? If that’s all, then you will never be able to defeat me.
He spread both hands wide and put on an even more arrogant expression.
- Especially when you’re inside my sea. Why, if nothing else, why don’t you try bringing out those precious shadow soldiers of yours?
Wow.
That smug look really makes me want to beat the shit out of you.
Someone once said this.
If you want to fix bad manners, you drag them out on a rainy day and beat them properly with a laundry bat.
Forget the rain, we’re underwater already, so all I need is the laundry bat.
The corner of Su-ho’s mouth twisted.
- Come on, how can you use an ox-cleaving blade to kill a chicken?
- What?
- My shadow soldiers are a little too valuable for that. But don’t worry. I just thought of a better way than that thing from earlier.
With that, Su-ho raised a hand and activated a skill.
[ Black-Tar Abyss is activated. ]
The skill Su-ho activated was none other than Black-Tar Abyss.
Black-Tar Abyss was Paracondia’s ultimate move, the signature technique it had unlocked upon entering Phase 2.
The moment Black-Tar Abyss activated, black energy began pouring out in all directions with Su-ho at the center.
It quickly seized control of Poseidon’s Sovereignty of the Deep Sea.
It even swallowed up the surging waterspouts, so from outside it resembled an enormous black square imprisoning a sealed gate.
Poseidon and Su-ho were inside it.
Su-ho smiled and sent a thought-message.
- Well?
- What kind of remnant is this...!
At that moment.
Bburuk!
Bubbles burst from Poseidon’s mouth.
Poseidon, god of the sea, was not only the master of the sea but the master of all water.
So underwater, he could breathe like a fish and was unaffected by water pressure.
In truth, even if that hadn’t been the case, he was a god, so it wouldn’t have affected him.
But the moment he put strength into sending a thought-message, his breathing abruptly choked off, and at the same time it felt as if his whole body were being crushed.
Poseidon, god of the sea, had fallen into water and become unable to breathe.
‘What the hell is this!’
Poseidon’s eyes widened.
He couldn’t understand the situation he was in.
And what was with the fact that he couldn’t even see in front of him?
But none of this was some illusion. It was real.
Because what was occupying the inside of the square he had made was not his Sovereignty of the Deep Sea, but Black Water, the highest-pressure form among Pressurized Water.
Su-ho smiled.
‘Works great.’
Of course, unlike back when he fought Paracondia, Su-ho, the master of Black Water, could see everything clearly in front of him.
Su-ho had obtained the Black-Tar Abyss skill from Paracondia’s rune.
Naturally, he had obtained Pressurized Body along with it.
So he had been able to free up one more copy slot in Great Blood Prison, but even so, he had felt slightly disappointed.
Because compared to Girad’s rune, it felt like the components were a bit fewer.
‘It didn’t even give me bonus stats either.’
But what had disappointed him about the components was a matter of quantity, not quality.
Pressurized Body, which allowed him to move freely within Pressurized Water, and Black-Tar Abyss, which let him change an underwater battlefield in his favor, were skills far more incredible than he had expected.
Especially the Pressurized Body he obtained this time. It not only let Su-ho move freely in high-pressure water, it also allowed him to breathe like a fish.
Su-ho’s eyes shone within the Black Water.
Poseidon’s face began turning bright red from underwater suffocation, something he had never experienced in his life.
It was not simply because it was water that he could not breathe.
It was because the water was filled with Su-ho’s True Demon, so he could not breathe at all.
In the end, unable to endure it, Poseidon dispelled Sovereignty of the Deep Sea.
However.
“......!”
Poseidon’s eyes widened.
He had clearly dispelled Sovereignty of the Deep Sea, yet the Black Water was still constricting him.
Within the dark Black Water, Su-ho’s eyes curved like crescents.
- What, something not working out for you?
- What did you do?!
- You still think all this water belongs to you? I swallowed up your water a long time ago.
- What?
- It’s a fitting death. The god of the sea drowning to death in water. Well then, goodbye.
When he expelled True Demon and strengthened the Black Water even further, Poseidon’s body, unable to endure the increased pressure, finally crumpled.
Only after Poseidon’s aura had weakened to the point of practically vanishing did Su-ho dispel Black-Tar Abyss.
Pukwaaaaah!
Seawater burst in all directions as if a glass swimming pool had shattered and sent water spraying everywhere.
Of course, the water that sprayed out was not Black-Tar Abyss, but ordinary seawater.
Because every single drop of Black-Tar Abyss was Su-ho’s mana, so the moment it had finished its job, he cleanly extracted only Black-Tar Abyss from Sovereignty of the Deep Sea.
Thanks to that, the inside of the castle became a sea of water.
Su-ho landed lightly on the floor, then lifted his head and looked at Zeus.
- Looks like they’re all dead. How long are you planning to just stand there and watch?
- You’ve grown much stronger.
- It’s not that I got stronger. I was always strong.
A sharp retort.
Father-and-son, playing at father and son, was over now.
The father had been the one to go blind with jealousy first and try to kill the son by mobilizing his relatives, so there was no reason to keep playing along with him anymore.
Su-ho raised the Blood Sword and pointed it at Zeus.
- I dealt with the god of the sea by drowning. So what should I do with the god of the sky? The only things that come to mind right away are death by falling and fatal plunge, I guess?
- You do love to chatter.
Zeus raised Astrafe, his cherished weapon.
Kururung!
The sky cried out.
Dark clouds gathered, and it rumbled as though lightning were about to strike at any moment.
Yeah.
You’re the god of the sky and the god of lightning, so you’re going to drop lightning on me.
So Su-ho hurriedly activated his skills.
[ Weaken is activated. ]
[ Seal of Pain is activated. ]
[ Enrage is activated. ]
[ Blessing of Rage is activated. ]
[ Curse of Rage is activated. ]
A pile of debuffs.
At the same time.
[ Rage Mode is activated. ]
[ Foxfire is activated. ]
After inflating his stats too, he bent his knees, kicked off the ground, and shot up toward the sky where Zeus was.
When he stepped on empty air once more midway and increased his output, he reached Zeus’s position in an instant.
Just as Su-ho was about to thrust out with his sword, Zeus swung Astrafe as well.
At the same time, he tried to bring down a lightning bolt.
But then.
“......!”
The lightning bolt did not activate.
Because Curse of Rage had blocked the use of some skills, and lightning bolt happened to be one of the unlucky winners.
“Damn...!”
He did not get to finish speaking.
Shhk!!
Because Su-ho’s sword severed his neck.
In that instant, Zeus’s aura collapsed and his presence vanished.
The rumbling sky stopped crying too.
Zeus’s severed head and headless corpse fell from the sky.
Su-ho descended first and landed.
He did not catch the body.
A little later, the corpse and head dropped heavily in front of Su-ho.
They did not burst apart.
Even so, it was a god-tier body, so it was tough.
Su-ho silently stared at Zeus’s severed head.
It was then.
Heebeonjjeok!
Zeus’s eyes opened.
Then, glaring at Su-ho as if dumbfounded, he soon began chuckling.
“Kheuheuheu... Son, have you forgotten that gods have immortal bodies?”
Immortality.
They do not die.
It was exactly what the word meant.
Gods do not die.
They do not even age.
That was because they were gods.
Su-ho knew that too.
He knew that in Greek mythology, and for most gods in general, there was no such thing as death.
Ares and Poseidon, whom he had killed earlier, were not truly dead either.
They had merely taken damage close to death and had their auras disrupted. They would soon revive.
Because that was what gods were.
Su-ho said,
“I know. I know you’re immortal. That’s why you were on guard against me trying to become a god, right? But did you really think I fought you without knowing even that?”
“What?”
“This time, properly find out what it feels like to be imprisoned in the abyss.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Su-ho activated a skill.
[ Tartarus is activated. ]
Its name was Tartarus.
The abyssal pit beneath even the underworld, where Zeus had imprisoned the Titans.