Subscriber of the Gods Chapter 424 - Dawn Council's Lord (3)

“I shall show you the way, Ethan Whiskers. The path to move forward.”

The Dawn Council’s lord pointed at Ethan with his index finger.

Simultaneously, Ethan’s body froze in place.

It felt as if he was bound by invisible chains.

Ethan tried to break free with all his might, but to no avail.

“You are sufficient to be my vessel. However, that disgusting Moonforce power is too strong. I shall remove that power first.”

As the Dawn Council’s lord clenched his fist tightly, Ethan frowned at the feeling of his heart being squeezed.

“Moonlight Defense.”

The Dawn Council’s lord’s power, similar to telekinesis, was ultimately a type of attack. When Ethan defended with Moonlight Defense, the pressure constricting his body disappeared.

“Oh ho, it’s the power of Moonforce. But can you keep blocking it? You lowly being, you lowest of the low, abandon that power. Accept my power. Then I shall give you a chance. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

‘Something’s off.’

Ethan observed the Dawn Council’s lord closely.

‘Can Moon Mother descend so easily?’

If they could make her descend like that, it would be much faster to use that descent ability to resurrect Moon Mother.

Therefore, he could be certain.

‘Moon Mother hasn’t descended into the Dawn Council’s lord’s body.’

He had only received a part of Moon Mother’s power.

‘He’s pretending to be Moon Mother. No, it’s not an act. He truly believes it.’

“How ironic, to be both real and fake.”

Shaaak-.

Ethan glided through the already frost-filled hallway.

If that was the case, it would be even easier.

Ethan possessed the power to kill gods.

‘It’s not even a god, disposing of these remnants will be too easy.’

“Borrowing the power of a god was a bad move, Dawn Council’s Lord.”

Fenrir’s power imbued the Frost Sword.

Fenrir’s power could kill gods. Naturally, this applied to those who borrowed power from gods as well.

Ethan approached the chief priest in an instant and swung his sword at the Dawn Council’s lord. The chief priest lightly extended his index and middle fingers.

Then, a shield identical to the one that had just blocked Ethan’s attack formed in front of him.

Crack!

However, that shield broke very easily.

“!”

The Dawn Council’s lord’s eyes widened.

This shield shouldn’t have shattered so easily.

“Time to wake up from your dream.”

Ethan, having split the shield, took another step forward. Then he slashed at the Dawn Council’s lord in one swift motion. He had intended to behead him, but as the chief priest hastily retreated, he only managed to inflict a wound.

But he had definitely cut him.

As soon as he was cut, the Dawn Council’s lord began to scream.

“Ah, aaaaaaaah-!”

The power of Moon Mother that had resided in the chief priest’s body vanished.

“How… How…!”

As Moon Mother’s power disappeared, the Dawn Council’s lord fell back on his bottom and retreated.

The doll apostle, and Moon Mother’s blessing too.

Even the power of Moon Mother that had descended upon his body.

This was the true form of the Dawn Council’s lord who had lost everything.

“Now you’ve finally lost your composure.”

Ethan walked slowly towards the chief priest, who was looking up with an anxious face.

-Moonforce praises you!

“The great hypocrite you spoke of is praising me for doing well. How about you? Is the Moon Mother you’ve served for so many years praising you?”

The Dawn Council’s lord hurriedly stood up.

Then he used the transmutation magic that had first brought Ethan to this place.

Click-! Click-!

The ceiling and floor transformed, and the Dawn Council’s lord’s figure instantly disappeared.

“I’m pretty good at hide-and-seek too.”

Ethan immediately used Moonlight Tracking.

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“Huff, huff… Damn it, damn it! Damn iiiiiit-! How on earth, how did he remove Moon Mother’s power that had entered me?”

The Dawn Council’s lord’s eyes, having lost their composure, kept trembling.

Click-! Click-!

The building continued to transform, opening paths, but the end was quite dark.

“Not yet… It’s not over yet.”

It’s not over yet. It can’t end like this.

“It’s a mission that has continued for hundreds of years… To just one person, to someone like him…! I absolutely cannot end it! Whatever that power is, it doesn’t matter. I’ll crush it with an even stronger power! With an even stronger power!”

The fleeing Dawn Council’s lord opened a door.

There was a giant magic circle.

This magic circle was one that the Dawn Council’s lord had put a lot of effort into for a long time.

The Dawn Council needed souls.

Because the Dawn Council’s pursuits required numerous souls, they devoted themselves to securing those souls.

How could they gather the maximum number of souls in the best way possible?

Souls obtained simply by killing were not of good quality.

The best quality souls were those of people who died as heroes.

Therefore, the Dawn Council intentionally caused chaos here and there.

After chaos, heroes emerge, and those heroes strive to fulfill their missions.

The Dawn Council worked to make those heroes die and harvested their souls.

This magic circle was also for such a purpose.

To cause massive chaos.

It’s magic that he had put effort into for a very long time.

But the Dawn Council’s lord didn’t hesitate. What use would it be after everything was dead?

Wooong-.

As the magic circle activated, the Dawn Council’s lord immediately drew blood from his palm.

Charak-.

The Dawn Council’s lord’s blood wasn’t red.

It was bright blue.

This wasn’t a metaphor; it really was bright blue. As that bright blue blood fell onto the magic circle, the circle instantly activated.

“Open.”

Originally, along with the chaos in the North, it was planned to bring ruin to the Twelve Families nobles in the Central region.

“It’s a plan I’ve been working on for decades to obtain high-quality souls…”

Step-.

The Dawn Council’s lord suddenly flinched greatly at the sound of footsteps from behind.

This Dawn Temple was his ground. He had fled with determination, yet. To be caught this quickly.

“A plan of decades should have a chance of working against him.”

It needed to be at least a plan built over decades to work against that guy.

The Dawn Council’s lord didn’t find it wasteful at all to use this here.

“If only I can escape.”

At this moment, the Dawn Council’s lord’s goal was unconditional escape.

He had to escape and cross over to the Demon Empire. He needed to convey everything he had learned to the 1st and 2nd Apostles.

If he could do that, he might be able to plan for the future.

“I must warn them of the danger. That they need to reassess Ethan Whiskers. Absolutely, absolutely…”

That he must not be taken lightly.

Boom-!

The door opened, and Ethan, holding two swords, saw the Dawn Council’s lord.

Ethan grinned.

“Keep running. As long as you can.”

“That composure will strangle your neck-! You’ve made a mistake, Ethan Whiskers!”

The Dawn Council’s lord stretched out his hand, pretending to be composed. Because the power of Moon Mother that had descended had disappeared, he didn’t have the same strength as before.

Instead, he had a plan that he had prepared for decades.

Shaaaaaak-!

“You should have swung your sword at me as soon as you came in.”

Wooong-.

Black aura began to surge from the magic circle at his feet. Its appearance even looked like flames.

“Flames of hell.”

The magic circle changed into a round shape and took form. It was a giant, round door.

The door, engraved with countless unknown characters, began to open slowly with a loud noise.

Screeeech-!

As the door slowly opened, the air inside began to escape, emitting an extremely unpleasant smell.

“Open, gate of the devil realm.”

Kwang-!

When the Dawn Council’s lord clapped his hands strongly, the gate of the devil realm opened wide.

Screech-!

Caw-! Caw-!

The first to come out were crows with five eyes. Hundreds of crows full of devilic energy came out through the door, followed by hunched monsters from the devil realm pouring out.

Boom-!

What came out next were devil race beings.

“This is surprising. To think such an orthodox gate would open in the human realm.”

“To make a gate of this level, you’d need an enormous amount of pure souls, wouldn’t you?”

Demon race beings with horns on their heads walked out with surprised expressions. The devilic energy they emitted was on a completely different level from the monsters that had come out earlier.

“Are you the human who opened the gate?”

The Dawn Council’s lord didn’t answer that.

With this, the gate to the devil realm was opened.

He had created a timing to escape.

The Dawn Council’s lord, who was about to flee without considering anything else, looked at Ethan. Surely he must be flustered by this sudden situation.

However, Ethan was infinitely calm.

He was looking directly at him.

And.

Slowly, slowly, he raised the corners of his mouth into a smile.

He was mouthing without making a sound.

For a moment, chills ran down the Dawn Council’s lord’s spine.

As expected?

That he would open the gate to the devil realm? Or that he would try to escape like this?

It could be dismissed as nonsense.

But given the overwhelming performance Ethan had shown earlier, the Dawn Council’s lord thought his words were not a lie.

That’s why he turned his back with all his might. Even during that time, devils continued to pour out of the gate to the devil realm.

The ones that had come out so far were small fry, but now the nobles of the devil realm would start to appear.

Once the nobles of the devil realm came out, no matter who Ethan Whiskers was, he would inevitably be held back.

Also, there was a large city nearby.

If he left this gate to the devil realm open and went, the devils would rush to that big city, so he thought Ethan would try to stop that.

As the chief priest thought, Ethan didn’t chase after the fleeing Dawn Council’s lord. The chief priest thought his plan had succeeded.

“Human, did you open the gate? Kukukuk, whatever you wanted to open the gate for, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you desire will be fulfilled. Of course… after you die.”

A noble devil, who seemed to be about 3 meters tall, approached Ethan. With seven horns on his head, he could be considered quite a strong devil.

Screeeech-!

The noble devil swung his sharp claws at Ethan.

At the same time, Ethan snapped his fingers with a ‘click’.

Then a black circle appeared on Ethan’s head.

Despite the magic circle appearing, the noble devil paid no attention. The human before him was just one. In contrast, creatures from the devil realm would endlessly come out through this gate.

Other nobles would soon come out and smell the human realm, so it was enough to simply ignore the human’s magic.

In the first place, human magic couldn’t match up to devils.

The joy of coming to the human realm after a long time, and the boundless confidence, blinded the noble devil’s eyes.

“Call, Kethrun.”

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Translator Note:

I’m changing the demon realm to devil realm. I should be using devil realm for the first time but I hesitated since I can’t tell what the true English name for the “Demon Empire.” But I think, in this novel, either a demon and a devil is different, or “Demon Empire” is only in name only but don’t have any real demon out there. You know, it’s the same as “demonic cult” you’ve seen on murim stories. There are no ‘real’ demon there, instead they’re just ‘evil’. And also, I decided to keep using the “Demon Empire” since it’s contrasted with the “Holy Empire,” suggesting a potential good vs. evil or light vs. dark dynamic. And, I don’t remember, but I think in the next chapter, Ethan mentioned the Demon Empire territory is like has this “gloomy” vibe. (Sorry, a little bit of spoiler)

Of course, unless there would be more concrete evidence/information about “Demon Empire” being “Magic Empire,” I’ll keep using the demon empire one.

Sorry for all over the place translator note.