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Choi Han and the paladin were locked in a clash, but it quickly broke.
Kwaang!
The paladin retreated, taking the opportunity to wield his sword. Choi Han also had to step back.
“…….”
The paladin looked at his hands. He felt a tingling in his palms, something he hadn’t experienced in a long time.
‘He hasn’t fully mastered his unique energy yet.’
If until now there had only been a seed, now that seed was moving, about to sprout. That is to say, nothing had bloomed yet. Despite that—
‘This level of power!’
The highest-ranking paladin couldn’t predict what it would be, what unique energy would result from that power containing despair and hope, two contradictory concepts.
‘It’s peculiar.’
A unique energy trying to be born not from the existing despair and hope, but from something else. And a unique energy requiring such a long time to refine. It seemed to him that something special might emerge, beyond reaching the multicolored level.
Uuu—uuu---
The highest-ranking paladin’s face hardened, and denser gray smoke than before emanated from his sword. It was difficult to discern the shape the clouds were creating. That was the paladin’s identity.
“Come.”
At the highest-ranking paladin’s words, Choi Han, with subtle energy, attacked again. In his expression, there was no fear of death, only the enemy, on whom he fixed his gaze.
‘There’s still a lot left.’
Even at that moment, Choi Han’s mind became colder.
‘It will be difficult to win.’
With his current power, it would be difficult for him to defeat the paladin. So he would resist to the maximum.
‘And it’s an opportunity.’
Choi Han believed that while facing this paladin, he could better understand his own unique energy, an opportunity to strengthen himself.
‘But don’t think about that.’
Choi Han now knew what was important. That’s why he opened his mouth.
“Fall back!”
He told Clopeh, who was trying to help him. If he continued fighting, he would be severely injured, or he might even die at the hands of the highest-ranking paladin. He couldn’t allow that.
‘Yes.’
No one could allow anyone else to be injured.
Uuu—uuu---
The dark aura vibrated and began to moan, like the lament of a ferocious beast, or even more, like that of a dragon.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!
Choi Han and the paladin clashed again. Choi Han shouted:
“This guy!”
Anger gripped his face.
Malicious smile. The highest-ranking paladin smiled.
“You mustn’t forget your role.”
The paladin’s two hands, enveloped in gray smoke, blocked Choi Han’s sword. The two swords headed towards—
“Clopeh! Human!”
—Clopeh and Cale.
“If you take away the ground where the seed can bloom, in the end, it will collapse.”
Choi Han would strengthen himself by fighting the paladin, so to stop him, he had to destroy his determination. That method was easier and simpler.
“!”
For a moment, Choi Han couldn’t say anything. One sword headed towards Clopeh, and another towards Cale. Despair was reflected on his face as he tried to arrive late, but—
“I’m here!”
Raon appeared. In the Henituse mansion battle, Raon had been the one who had always supported everyone, from behind or from the side.
Uuu—uuu--
Two black shields appeared in front of Clopeh and Cale.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!
The gray sword clashed against the shields. Raon’s shield was about to break, but he quickly created another. If it broke, one just had to keep creating and resisting. If the shield broke, the person inside mustn’t be injured. The young dragon knew that.
“Ah!”
But Raon widened his eyes in surprise. There was something he hadn’t noticed.
“This is bad!”
Choi Han felt the same.
“Cale-nim!”
He called out unintentionally, and Cale, who was standing idly, turned his head. A sword seemed to be flying towards him, but it wasn’t.
“You’re cunning.”
The instant Cale said that—
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!
A resounding roar. The shield, still covered in gray, appeared and blocked the sword.
“Kuaak, krrr-”
The shield protected the Pope. The sword had flown to kill him.
“What are you?”
At Choi Han’s question, the highest-ranking paladin smiled.
“Didn’t I say? Saving the Pope.”
He sheathed his swords, extending his arms, and headed towards Cale and Choi Han.
Kuung!
It was different from before. The gray smoke emanating from around him. Someone whose beginning of life was beside Chaos, the strongest in the sect, comparable to a multicolored-level Wanderer. Smiling, he said:
“Death is salvation. Leaving this place and going to the world of Chaos.”
The highest-ranking paladin. He was a fanatic of the God of Chaos, with faith surpassing even Clopeh’s.
“…This is—”
Despair was reflected on Choi Han’s face.
“The highest-ranking paladin is strange! You can’t touch our human, our family!”
Raon shouted, displaying his determination.
-Sniff, sniff.
Cale, meanwhile, had a strange expression. For a while now, he had been paying attention to something.
-Sniff, sniff! He doesn’t even have pockets!
The Sound of the Wind was searching for the Sacred Object. She was having a hard time finding ‘Chaos in the Wind.’
‘If I find this, I can escape!’
He had already hit the Pope enough. Choi Jung Soo and Sui Khan weren’t doing well, so he just had to deal with the highest-ranking paladin who injured the leader and escape from there. There was no need to fight the highest-ranking paladin. So he would first try to find the Sacred Object.
-Sniff, sniff.
She couldn’t find it.
-Sniff, sniff. It’s definitely here.
The Pope said he had it. But she couldn’t find it, when suddenly—
-Sniff… oh.
The Sound of the Wind let out a cry of surprise.
-I’ve found ‘Chaos in the Wind.’
It was when the highest-ranking paladin’s sword flew towards the Pope. When he deployed his shield to block the sword, Cale found the answer. He looked at the Pope, still trembling, enveloped in a reddish-gold lightning bolt.
-The Sacred Object reacted a moment ago.
The Sound of the Wind told him.
-It’s in the Pope’s heart.
She wasn’t referring to a pocket near the heart. The Sacred Object was in the heart. The location the Sound of the Wind precisely indicated. Cale, seeing the Pope trembling in pain and the highest-ranking paladin’s fanatic behavior, reached a conclusion.
“Hey.”
He whispered to the trembling Pope.
“Chaos in the Wind. Are there several ways to activate that Sacred Object?”
The Pope’s eyes turned to Cale. Cale softly said:
“One of them is to pierce your heart? No, is it for you to die?”
The instant he said that, Cale perceived the emotion, the subtle emotion, on the Pope’s face.
“Surprised?”
The Pope was surprised. As if he had been hit right on the mark. Cale sighed at the emotion the Pope couldn’t hide amidst the pain.
‘If it’s in the heart, how do I get it?’
He was starting to get a headache. Upon realizing one more fact, his head filled with confusion.
If the Pope’s heart was pierced, if the Pope died, the gray disease would spread to the Demon Kingdom.
‘This is complicated.’
Cale paused as he continued thinking.
“……!”
His gaze quickly turned to the window. Outside the window, beyond the walls of Moraka Castle, was the forest. Yes, it was coming from there.
-Cale!
Super Rock warned him.
Kuuung---
The ground vibrated.
-Cale, something’s coming!
The Dominating Aura urgently reacted. Cale also felt something approaching.
The forest surrounding Moraka Castle. From there, approaching closer and closer. An immense energy, a presence, was approaching.
‘What is it?’
It was similar to the energy emanating from the highest-ranking paladin when he used all his power. No.
‘It’s more intense.’
Cale’s heart began to pound again. It was an instinctive intuition of danger.
-Hmm.
And suddenly, the Sky Eating Water groaned.
-It’s water.
The instant she said that, the highest-ranking paladin sighed.
“The Third Emperor has arrived.”
Ah. Cale sighed.
The Third Emperor.
One of the Three Emperors of the Wanderers from the hunter family of the Five Colored Blood Family.
One of the three who possessed multicolored-level unique energy. They had arrived.
And it was said that his unique energy took the form of a water dragon.
‘Wow.’
Cale suddenly got a headache. Things were getting complicated.
‘How did he appear now?’
He had anticipated that the Third Emperor would come to the Demon Kingdom to find Choi Jung Gun.
But how had they arrived so quickly? And Choi Jung Gun wasn’t there. Only Cale’s group was.
Of course, Cale had been wreaking havoc in the Demon Kingdom to draw the Wanderers’ attention to that place, not New World. And while the attention was there, he planned to solve the Transparent Blood Family problem on the Third Planet and use the decreased attention in New World to find the location of the ‘Absolute God.’
But now, suddenly, although Cale hadn’t been acting openly in the Demon Kingdom…
He had just used his power, and he had appeared, the situation was strange.
‘Ah.’
But soon, he had an idea.
‘The Demon King.’
The Demon King, the hunters, and the God of Chaos’ sect.
The three were connected.
It was highly likely that the Third Emperor had appeared there due to the information exchange between those alliances.
‘This is bad.’
A disaster. He planned to incite the three to confront each other.
If he was wrong, Cale’s group might suffer.
‘Should I escape?’
But would there be a chance to escape?
Even using Raon’s teleportation, could he resist the highest-ranking paladin?
And what about the Sacred Object in that guy’s heart, the Pope?
Besides hitting the Pope, hadn’t he done anything truly effective?
-Cale.
Cale’s face was contorting.
-Sniff, sniff.
The Sound of the Wind softly said:
-There’s a ball-shaped energy in the heart. It’ll probably activate if it explodes.
In fact, her words were barely audible.
-It’s only in the heart. It hasn’t become one with the heart. I think it can be separated from the Pope’s heart.
While the Sound of the Wind spoke.
Kuuung-
A great vibration was approaching.
The Third Emperor was arriving.
Faster and faster.
As if to sweep away everything.
But.
-…The heart?
Someone, not Cale, reacted to the mention of the heart.
-…The energy contained in the heart…?
Cale paused.
‘…The Crybaby?’
The Vitality of the Heart.
The Crybaby reacted to the mention of the heart.
-I’m hungry.
The Glutton Priestess said she was hungry.
‘What?’
A gleam appeared in Cale’s eyes. It seemed an answer had occurred to him.
Taking the energy from the heart without killing the Pope,
“…I think it’s possible.”
At that moment, the Crybaby said in a slightly excited tone:
-Cale! I, I can finally strengthen myself too?
Eh?
Cale was startled. He had never thought of that.
-I, I also want to take a magic potion. I, I also want to eat something delicious, I also want to get stronger…!
The elder said very carefully.
-…Can I have it?
Eh?
-Sister.
The Crybaby said to the Glutton Priestess.
-Can’t you eat that energy in the heart?
Hmm.
Cale was standing idly. For now, that question was within Cale’s plan.
‘This-’
Things seemed like they would develop strangely.
-I can eat it.
The Glutton Priestess said in a hungry tone.
-It’s possible because the Chaos is now in the shield.
The Glutton also taught how to do it.
-If you insert the shield into the Pope’s Chaos and attract it, I think the energy in the heart will be drawn here. Then, until you remove the Chaos from the shield, you can contain that energy in the shield.
Oh.
Storing it in the shield?
Cale was thinking about his own containment ability, but…
The Glutton suggested a simpler method.
-I think if I attract it, those mouths will vomit the energy from the heart.
The Glutton was calm.
-Because those mouths were scared when they saw me eat.
Oh.
Cale was impressed. The Glutton was starting to look cool.
And Cheapskate reacted to the Glutton’s words.
-This way, Cale will have all the God of Chaos’ Sacred Objects! He stole everything in the primordial sacred land! He collected the swords! He collected the broken things! Ja, ja, ja!
Ah.
Now that he thought about it.
Is it true?
It seems he will end up stealing all the Sacred Objects of the God of Chaos’ sect.
‘…Can I keep everything?’
Could he do it?
-He, sister, let’s store that in the shield, and if it seems alright, let’s eat it. Yes? I also want to get stronger!
The Crybaby temporarily ignored his words.
Kuuung-
As the Third Emperor approached.
The first thing was to change the situation in Cale’s favor.
“…….”
Cale’s gaze turned to the Pope.
The Pope began to feel a strange fear at Cale’s gaze, which was fixed on him, as if he were seeing treasure.
While groaning in pain, he felt a bad feeling at Cale’s strange gaze.
The Chaos Sword in Cale’s chest began to vibrate. Not only had the Pope been absorbing and emitting Chaos.
Of course, now,
[Chaos Sword (Rank: Legendary)]
[The original Chaos has disappeared, only immense attributeless divine power remains.]
Only immense attributeless divine power remained.
And although it served Cale as its owner…
우우웅- 우웅-
It began to covet something delicious.
-No, I’ll keep that!
The Crybaby forcefully said, and Cale’s head began to ache.
“Silence.”
At his words, the ancient powers and Sacred Objects fell silent.
And the gazes of the others turned to Cale. In fact, the gazes inevitably turned to Cale, who had the Pope’s neck in his grasp. Especially in an urgent situation where the Three Emperors had appeared, allies would naturally look to their leader, and enemies would have to observe how the enemy leader would react.
That was the moment…
“Hey.”
Cale, without realizing that all eyes were on him, opened his mouth.
He said to the Pope:
“Try releasing a lot of Chaos.”
“…eh?”
Although the Pope was still suffering, enveloped in reddish-gold lightning, Cale calmly said what he had to say.
“Release Chaos and use it against me.”
Enough to embed it in the shield.
“As much as possible. Like before, with waves.”
The Pope’s pupils trembled. He couldn’t help it. Because the enemy who had his neck in his grasp suddenly asked him to attack with all his might.
When his eyes truly filled with Chaos…
“Why don’t you do it?”
Cale looked at him sternly, and the Pope, without realizing it, began to release Chaos.
“Heh.”
And Cale smiled at the sight of that.
The enemies’ faces paled.
But Cale could only laugh.
Either way…
‘For now, I’ll completely loot the God of Chaos’ sect.’
Cale’s heart pounded at the thought that he might obtain all the important Sacred Objects of the God of Chaos, and possibly ruin the God of Chaos.
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