Resurrection Chapter 119 - Anyway, Seo Heesoo Doesn’t Know

Ulfheðinn moved to catch me. However, the trishula that Yaksha summoned came flying at Ulfheðinn, so his hand just brushed past me.

Soon, Yaksha, who had called forth the trishula, began to unleash a fearsome onslaught. Ulfheðinn also counterattacked with Kladenets, and a terrifyingly fierce battle ensued.

During that time, I fell endlessly downward. Perhaps thinking that I might die like this, the Golden Emperor sent a message to warn me.

—The Golden Emperor yells at you to do something.

It was a bit funny because it was a message, not the Golden Emperor speaking directly. Yells at me, not yells. It felt absurd, but thanks to it, my senses returned a little. As I fell, mixed with the debris of the building that was collapsing at an accelerating rate, I barely managed to awaken the blessing the Golden Emperor had newly given me before.

Golden feathers sprouted from my back, and my body became as light as if I had used the Feather skill. I landed instead of crashing to the ground, but I couldn’t get out of the area of the collapsing building.

Just then, the mana that had spread around the area dissipated in an instant. Imae’s wide-area magic, which had been holding the collapsing building, had ended.

KRA-KRAKOOM!

The building collapsed all at once, and a noise and dust like a volcano erupting arose. In the thick dust that covered my vision, someone snatched me by the waist.

When I momentarily lost consciousness and then regained it, thankfully, my surroundings were bright. It seemed I hadn’t been buried under the collapsed building. I felt a hand shaking me and focused my eyes.

When my vision was restored, a familiar yet unfamiliar face was looking down at me. Seeing the handsome face from the one-night stand, my lips twitched.

“No wonder, I thought your voice sounded familiar.”

At my words, Imae spoke as if complaining slightly.

“Don’t talk as if you just recognized me now. You had no idea.”

As he helped me sit up, an unseasonable rain poured down from above. It seemed they were spraying water to settle the dust and extinguish the flames.

When I turned my head, I saw a pile of concrete stacked up like a great mountain. The Grand Temple, which had been built not long ago, had completely collapsed, but thankfully, thanks to Imae buying as much time as possible, it seemed to have ended with minimal damage.

Of course, the situation wasn’t over yet.

I looked up at the sky, where the sound of thunder echoed ceaselessly. High in the sky, Yaksha and Ulfheðinn were fighting with terrifying force. The roar generated as the trishula and Kladenets clashed was like the cry of the gods.

The sight created an unexpected spectacle, but it was not the time to be sightseeing peacefully.

With Imae’s help, I got to my feet. Once I was up, I saw that my left hand had returned, perhaps because Imae had healed it in the meantime. The pain was also completely gone, so I clenched and unclenched my fist and looked around.

I was worried about how to find Lævateinn, which must have been buried under the building, but unexpectedly, Imae pointed to his feet. Realizing that he had taken care of my magic sword at the moment the building collapsed, I picked up Lævateinn and expressed my gratitude.

“Thanks.”

Soon, I took out potions that replenished HP and MP from my Dimension Pocket and drank them one after another. Then I took out a new potion, offered it to Imae, and said.

“You want to drink one too?”

“I’m fine. I’m already ready to fight.”

Seeing the reassuring Imae, I nodded and briefly explained my plan.

“When we Teleport, cast a debuff on Yaksha right away. I’ll use Offering to seal Yaksha’s movements. The rest can be left to Ulfheðinn… I mean, to Heesoo hyung.”

It might have seemed like my words were over, but my plan didn’t end there. Before Imae could nod, I hurriedly added the rest.

“You save your strength, and as soon as Yaksha is dead, debuff Heesoo hyung right away. There’s no time to explain in detail, but right now, Heesoo hyung is in a state as dangerous as Yaksha. It’s important to neutralize Heesoo hyung as well after we eliminate Yaksha.”

Imae didn’t ask any particular questions, whether he already knew something or thought there was no time. I held out my hand to him, and as soon as Imae grabbed it, I moved immediately.

“Teleport.”

Having approached the sky near where Yaksha and Ulfheðinn were clashing, I waited for a moment while Imae was casting. It wasn’t what you could call a long time, but seeing Ulfheðinn slowly being pushed into a corner made my mouth go dry on its own.

No matter how strong a transcendent being was, the one wielding that power was, in the end, a human body. Ulfheðinn was rampaging as if to devour Yaksha, revealing his anger, but he couldn’t overcome the limits of Heesoo hyung’s physical body.

On the other hand, Yaksha, who was in Shin Lion’s body and had recovered his trishula, looked relaxed even against a transcendent being. He was using the vengeful spirits swarming around him like explosives and slowly chipping away at Ulfheðinn’s HP. If this keeps up and Ulfheðinn enters a berserk state, it’ll be an instant until he blacks out.

The moment I turned back to Imae to hurry him, the activation word flowed from his lips, and a powerful debuff was cast over the area. I could see the vengeful spirits that Yaksha commanded being pushed back and his mortal ground greatly weakened. Seeing the divine general’s horn he was wearing on his head emit a strange light as if resisting the debuff, I decided to make it my target.

“Blink!”

Leaving Imae behind, I moved a short distance, to a range where the mortal ground was still exerting its influence. There, I raised Lævateinn and performed the Offering again.

Lævateinn, which had sweetly drunk my blood, awakened, and I threw myself right in front of Yaksha. Yaksha bared his teeth at the sight of me and aimed his trishula at me, but Ulfheðinn interfered. Seizing that opportunity, I struck Yaksha’s divine general’s horn with Lævateinn.

With a clang sound, it broke in two and fell to the ground below. As the item protecting Yaksha shattered, the effect of the debuff inflicted on him became even more powerful.

I kept my body afloat with the golden feathers and fully unleashed the swordsmanship dwelling in Lævateinn. A dazzling sword technique, impossible with my own skills, pierced various parts of Yaksha’s body.

Ulfheðinn also joined the attack. Yaksha somehow managed to block the fierce onslaught pouring in from both sides, but as time passed, he was getting hit by more attacks than he could block with his trishula.

Watching for an opportunity, the moment Lævateinn and the trishula clashed head-on and got tangled, I pulled a little trick.

“Freeze!”

It was only for an instant that the cold energy froze the trishula. It would have been impossible without the support of the Archmage Imae’s powerful debuff.

Of course, Freeze itself wasn’t such a great magic, and the trishula itself had magic resistance, so the effect quickly disappeared. But what I wanted was just an instant of an opening anyway. There was no way Ulfheðinn would miss that chance.

KACHANG!

Taking advantage of the moment the trishula faltered, Kladenets dug into Yaksha’s solar plexus. The powerful benefit bestowed by the Dragon Slayer title blocked Kladenets’ attack.

But it seemed as if Min Gongchan had foreseen a situation like this. Had he said it had swallowed the lives of over ten billion people? The tip of Kladenets, said to be able to pierce even a dragon’s scales, turned red as if it had been heated in a fire, and then slowly began to dig into Yaksha’s flesh. Eventually, it pierced through completely.

PUUUK!

The long tip of Kladenets pierced through Yaksha’s solar plexus and came out his back. Yaksha froze like a doll whose movements had been temporarily stopped. Then, his body trembled violently, and he coughed up blood from his mouth.

“Keoheok.”

His expression contorted with pain, and his lips twitched. I realized what he was trying to do.

“It’s Advent!”

Ulfheðinn tried to end his life before Yaksha could perform Advent, but the miracle of the descent was faster. A brilliant light burst from Yaksha’s entire body.

“Ugh!”

Due to the impact, Ulfheðinn and I were sent flying in opposite directions.

After spinning around in the air for a while and barely managing to stop, Yaksha’s form was shining as if it were glowing. It was so bright that I couldn’t even look at him properly, but something was strange.

As far as I knew, Yaksha’s main god was the guide of the underworld, Charon. If the god of death had descended, the power of the spirits Yaksha had drawn in should have become even stronger. But instead, the spirits scattered in terror and could no longer be found.

Could it be that the one there isn’t Yaksha’s main god, but Shin Lion’s main god?

I couldn’t wonder for long. A lament, close to a wail, flowing from Yaksha’s mouth interrupted my thoughts.

「I shall now release my apostle from his suffering!」

A cry full of frustration and despair. I instinctively knew what was about to happen. If Shin Lion’s ultimate skill, Oblation, went off here, it would cause tremendous damage.

Last time, it ended with just the Eeicheong Training Center area collapsing because Yaksha had just awakened in Shin Lion’s body and all his abilities were greatly weakened by Min Gongchan’s bloodsucking. But it’s different now. If a transcendent being directly descends and unleashes that power, it might produce a force comparable to when they defeated Leviathan.

Then the entire city of Yongin would be blown away.

There was no time to think about the consequences. Thoughts like it was impossible for me to stop it with my power, or that I should at least try to survive, didn’t even occur to me. When I finished casting as fast as lightning, a flash like a star exploding shot up from Yaksha’s—or more accurately, Shin Lion’s—entire body.

I shouted the activation word, but it seemed too late. My vision was surrounded by a light that was no different from darkness, and a shock so great that I couldn’t feel any pain swept over me.