Chapter 24
-SHHRRRRRRRR….
A horrific sound that seemed to scratch at his ears.Amidst this disturbing noise, as the ground boiled with life, he barely managed to steady his body, which felt as if it could collapse at any moment.
{Ugh… Ugh…}
The war god, Anumaeshi, wore a face filled with pain.
The proud figure he had just exhibited, charging confidently toward his enemy in Ornate Armor, was now Gone.
Parts of his Armor had melted away, and one arm hung in tatters like a Rag.
The situation had flipped; the ambusher had become the one to receive a lethal counterattack.
Had he not narrowly evaded the enemy’s strike by a last-minute instinct, he would have been finished in an instant.
‘What the hell… what is this creature? Is this what an angel is supposed to be?…’
For the first time since becoming a God of war, he began to feel a pain he had never experienced before.
Even when he had hunted Lower-Tier Gods or Dragons, he had never sustained such injuries.
How could such a lowly being as an angel do this to him?
However, despite the overwhelming confusion and questions,
Anumaeshi soon ceased to ponder.
{I concede…}
In this situation, he had no choice but to accept it.
The being before him was stronger than he had anticipated…
{You’re quite strong.}
And to defeat this being, he realized he would have to pour every ounce of power he could muster from this flawed body.
-CRACKLE! CRACKLING…
Divine energy began to surge from his grasp on the sword.
A power that was on a completely different level started to gather there.
At the same time, Anumaeshi’s body began to slowly rise into the air.
In the atmosphere filled with a sense that something unusual was about to happen, a deep smile began to form on his lips.
*
‘Incredible… That War God…’
Watching the scene unfolding before her,
Solomon felt a shiver run through her entire body.
She had heard of the Seraphim’s strength, but this was the first time she witnessed it firsthand.
The sight of him completely overpowering the infamous Anumaeshi filled her heart with profound emotion.
Hiding as best she could in the bushes, she watched silently, aware that getting too close might cause trouble.
From a distance, she cheered for the Seraphim’s victory in her heart.
Then,
“! Huh?”
The atmosphere suddenly began to shift.
She couldn’t precisely tell what was happening, but a chilling sensation was very different from before.
Solomon’s heart sank with a feeling of dread.
“What… what is this? Wh-what on earth is happening…”
Even for an ordinary human, Anumaeshi was exuding a strange and ominous presence.
Her gaze slowly turned toward him, who was rising into the air.
The War God, with a deep smile on his lips, exuded an unsettling sense of danger despite being in a clearly unfavourable situation.
At that moment.
-THWACK!!
{Ugh!}
His face twisted in sudden pain.
It felt as if something solid had struck his abdomen, causing Anumaeshi’s body to bend momentarily.
{You… you creature… do you even know the basic etiquette of combat? Ugh!}
[There’s no such thing.]
With that final word, the invisible force began to strike him again, just as before.
His lips burst, he was hit in the abdomen, his shins scraped, and a blow landed on his face.
Even Solomon, watching from a distance, felt a twinge of sympathy at the brutal beating he was receiving.
However, despite being mercilessly battered,
Anumaeshi gathered Divine Energy into the sword he held and resolutely ascended into the sky.
Finally, he reached a height even above the Seraphim.
Simultaneously, an immense divine power began to surge from the sword in his hand,
followed by a heavy silence.
In that moment where one second felt like hours,
a single piece of information flickered through Solomon’s mind.
It was about the worst atrocity Anumaeshi had committed in the past.
He had erased the capital of an enemy nation in a single strike.
Exactly what kind of magic he had used and how he had accomplished such a feat remains unknown even now.
The only clue available was the testimony of an old man who barely clung to life at the site of the destruction.
‘It was divided. It was divided! The sky! The earth!’
While she couldn’t know for sure, the tale indicated that something terrifying was about to happen.
And in that moment, Solomon realized that the ‘destruction’ of that time might be about to be recreated.
“No… no! Seraphim…!”
Solomon shouted in urgency.
But even before her cry finished, the second hand moved.
With the voice of a god, he proclaimed,
{In the beginning, there was chaos. From the severance of that chaos, the above and below were divided. Above is called the sky. Below is known as the earth. Now, I seek to recreate that moment of upheaval.}
With a Grand Declaration, the Sword Swung.
With that strike, the god declared,
{Bow down. <To this high place (Enūma Eliš)>!}
A tremendous wave of destructive light erupted along with the swirling red energy.
Within the unstoppable wave of power was a force that could not even be compared to what the Seraphim had emitted just moments ago.
Pure and brutal destructive power that seemed capable of tearing heaven and earth apart.
As the massive storm swept through, Solomon felt an overwhelming fear and clung tightly to a nearby tree to avoid being swept away.
However, in that moment, her thoughts were not on her own safety.
What she truly worried about was…
“This… this can’t be… Seraphim…!”
The strike was far beyond what a human could withstand, even disregarding the fact that it was directed at the Seraphim.
Feeling a genuine despair at that realization, overwhelmed by fear and guilt for having dragged that being into this, tears began to well in Solomon’s eyes.
Then.
[et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum (I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven)]
“! Huh?”
A small voice reached her ears.
Even amidst the still raging storm,
that voice, though small, pierced her heart with clarity,
bringing with it a glimmer of hope.
Solomon struggled to lift her head against the raging storm.
In that instant, a scene began to unfold before her.
[Et quodcumque ligaveris super terram (Whatever you bind on earth)]
It was…
Something bound like golden chains, unable to move forward.
[Erit ligatum in caelis et (It will be bound in heaven.)]
The cataclysm of Destruction that split heaven and earth.
[<The Keys of Heaven>]
-Click!
The sharp sound of metal rang out as the incantation ended.
With that sound, which seemed to signify something being securely locked,
the storm that had shaken everything around vanished as if it were a lie.
Before the Seraphim, the terrifying power of destruction that had been writhing…
“How… how could…”
{Wh-what have you done!?}
The voice that interrupted the words flowing out of her without her realizing it.
Solomon’s gaze naturally turned toward him.
The god, expressing his confusion, was clearly visible even from a distance.
It was directed at Anumaeshi.
*
The divine power that manifested the Cataclysm of Heaven and Earth.
Even for a god, recreating it exactly was impossible.
Yet, Anumaeshi held an immense pride in this power. It was the ability that made him the god of war, the force that instilled unresistable fear in the mortals who opposed him.
Before this absolute power capable of destroying everything, no one dared to resist.
However, in this moment, Anumash’s pride was utterly shattered.
The strongest power he possessed, the force that could erase even a God, had lost all Effect and Vanished.
It was unthinkable.
It was unacceptable.
The absolute power of destruction had disappeared so hopelessly.
And it had been effortlessly thwarted by the angels he had always looked down upon.
How could this even make sense?
Seeing it with his own eyes, he couldn’t believe the current situation…
The confusion and shock it brought him
transformed into a feeling of fear,
the realization that ‘This Being is Overwhelmingly Stronger than Him.’
{What… what is this…}
For the first time since becoming the God of War, he felt such an emotion.
His whole body began to tremble, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead, just like a human’s, in this situation.
{You… you… what are you!?}
Anumaeshi found himself unconsciously stepping back in the face of that enormous presence.
However.
{Gah!}
A sudden pain struck at the nape of his neck.
Though he had become oddly accustomed to such sensations from being beaten so much,
the ‘fear’ that this moment brought him was anything but familiar.
{Guh! Th-this… Gah!!!}
The relentless beating resumed,
an overwhelming assault from invisible hands that showed no mercy whatsoever.
And in that chaos, Anumaeshi finally noticed.
The countless red eyes that were staring at him at that moment.
The same crimson flashes as before were now not just one but countless eyes radiating light simultaneously.
[Genimina Viperarum (Offspring of Vipers.)]
What it signified was clear…
[Quomodo Fugietis a Iudicio Gehennae (How will you escape the judgment of hell?)]
{!? Ah… no! Gah! S-stop!!!}
-CRACK!!!
The divine power of destruction extending from countless eyes.
Those countless red beams began to pour forth, aimed at only one person.
With an unmistakable intent to kill.
“Married woman NTR, Golden Sun? Of course, I have no choice but to kill him.”
*금태양” (Golden Sun) is a term that refers to a type of character commonly seen in certain genres of Korean media*
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