Subscriber of the Gods Chapter 444 - The End of the Dream

Flinch.

Ethan, who was in the midst of dealing with the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Apostles, suddenly felt a sense of unease.

The soldiers of the Saintess who had been moving alongside him suddenly flinched and stopped their actions.

“What’s this?”

Right now, the Saintess is preparing to treat Ethan’s Extinction.

That preparation would surely affect her control over the soldiers.

‘It’s a difficult disease, after all.’

The Saintess, too, had never experienced the original Extinction, so naturally, there could be difficulties in preparing for it.

Ethan continued to swing his sword.

With each swing, powerful energies continued to accumulate.

“It’s almost done.”

The energy was accumulating as much as the Saintess had requested.

‘The direct accumulation of the powerful gods’ power is no joke.’

The power shared by numerous gods in the city of gods was blending together inside Ethan’s body.

It might look like simply absorbing mana, but it’s not something like mana.

‘A part of godhood.’

When these gather, as the Saintess said, it becomes a power that could destroy the world.

Of course, gathering this much reaches a limit.

‘Extinction is swallowing it all.’

To think it would even swallow the power of gods, he could once again confirm the dangerous nature of Extinction.

‘It’s truly terrifying.’

He didn’t know it could absorb the power of gods infinitely without limit.

‘Now, I’ll swing once more and then return.’

It was about time for the 1st and 2nd Apostles to arrive. To avoid encountering them, he had to return at this timing.

However.

Swoosh-.

“…What’s this?”

Something strange happened to the Saintess’s soldiers who had been standing behind Ethan.

“The Saintess’s soldiers…”

They started to turn into dust and disappear.

“What… What’s happening right now?”

Could it be that they’ve reclaimed the Hill of Gods and the war has been judged as won?

No, before that, since the 1st and 2nd Apostles are the leaders, wouldn’t the war end only when they’re killed?

‘Something is going wrong.’

The disappearance of the soldiers meant that something had happened to the Saintess.

Ethan turned his body and ran towards the fortress with all his might.

Shaaak-.

But that was only for a moment. Ethan had to stop his feet at the thread-like barrier spread out before his eyes.

“You seem surprised, Ethan Whiskers.”

Ethan clicked his tongue at the voice coming from the front.

He ended up meeting those he shouldn’t encounter right now.

In front was the 1st Apostle. And behind, the 2nd Apostle had appeared at some point.

The 1st and 2nd Apostles were blocking Ethan’s front and back.

At the same time, the soldiers of the two apostles formed a circular formation.

It was a perfect encirclement.

“What were you up to? Well, this is decisive.”

The 2nd Apostle grinned and lifted his chin.

“This is our first meeting like this, isn’t it, Ethan Whiskers? Did you come to cure Extinction? But everything is too late.”

“We have to repay all the debts up until now.”

The 1st and 2nd Apostles stretched out their hands simultaneously.

It seemed they didn’t want to give Ethan any time.

Shaaaak-!

Intense waves poured out from the hands of the two apostles.

Unlike other apostles, their power was quite simple.

Kwaaaak-!

This power that the two apostles emit annihilates everything.

Ethan’s automatic defense mechanism, the earthen wall, activated.

However, the earthen wall disappeared in an instant. Ethan then tried to defend once more using energy storage.

Kwang-!

The energy storage also disappeared, and.

-Enemy of Thousands absorbs the damage!

Even Enemy of Thousands disappeared from the attack of the two apostles. In an instant, three defensive techniques were broken.

‘Intense.’

It was quite regrettable that even Enemy of Thousands disappeared, but with this, he could roughly grasp how strong they were.

‘Their style is different from the chief priest, but they’re quite strong. If I had faced them normally, I could have surely caught them.’

But now Ethan was in a situation with time constraints.

Moreover, he had absorbed a considerable amount of the gods’ energy, so his body was sluggish.

‘I’m used to fighting with weaknesses.’

As Ethan blocked the first attack without injury, the 1st and 2nd Apostles immediately prepared for the next attack.

Ethan had killed the 3rd Apostle and even killed the chief priest.

The two apostles anticipated that it wouldn’t be easy.

That’s why they had to deal with him here without fail.

“Moon Mother.”

“Moon Mother.”

They called upon their god.

Then, a blessing descended upon their heads.

A power much stronger than the wave blast they had just fired settled in their bodies.

“…”

Ethan looked at the two apostles.

He needed to focus on the fight, but he couldn’t properly concentrate.

‘I’m missing something right now.’

Encountering the 1st and 2nd Apostles was a problem, but right now, the Saintess’s situation was an even bigger issue.

All the main characters had gathered on the stage.

But one uninvited guest who had slipped in was not showing their face.

Ethan thought that the problem with the Saintess might be because of that uninvited guest.

‘I didn’t think he would come directly since I sent Roditon. If things are going wrong now, it must be the doing of that uninvited guest.’

The Demon Emperor had come to this city of gods.

And that Demon Emperor was threatening the Saintess in the fortress.

This was the only thing he could imagine at the moment.

Otherwise, there’s no way tens of thousands of the Saintess’s soldiers would disappear all at once.

“Things have become too complicated.”

Ethan frowned deeply.

His head was in a mess.

If the current situation was unfolding as he had predicted, he needed to return to the fortress immediately.

‘The Saintess’s life is in danger.’

The Demon Emperor’s attack.

It’s the Demon Emperor, one of the Three Gods. Even with Roditon and the gods in the fortress, there are limits.

‘Everything in this city of gods right now is something I can’t predict. But thinking about it differently.’

Countless predictions and expectations. To those who lived relying on them, Ethan was chaos itself, impossible to predict or expect.

‘The situation is the same.’

In a way, Ethan could be seen as more advantageous.

‘What kind of power I have, how strong I am.’

And what he’s holding inside.

They don’t know anything about it.

Ethan, holding both the Frost Sword and the Thunder Sword simultaneously, changed his plan.

‘There’s still time left.’

The time limit is 5 minutes.

He had only used 2 minutes to accumulate the necessary energy, so there were still about 2 or 3 minutes left.

“I won’t need much time.”

He would deal with the 1st and 2nd Apostles within the limited time and then go to the Saintess.

Blast-!

The two apostles fired wave blasts again.

It was the maximum power wave blast with Moon Mother’s blessing.

Until now, not a single person had been able to block this attack.

“Be annihilated.”

Ethan unleashed his swordsmanship against that wave blast.

Ethan Swordsmanship 4th Form

Eternal Frost of Trust

Snow-white lightning was added to the blue-spreading cold air.

The maximum power wave blast was split in half by Ethan’s deliberately unleashed swordsmanship.

Even then, Ethan’s sword didn’t stop. As if there was still plenty of strength left, without losing momentum, it cut down the two apostles.

“!”

The 1st and 2nd Apostles stepped back greatly in shock, but they couldn’t completely avoid it.

“The power…”

“2nd Apostle!”

The 2nd Apostle, who had moved a bit slower, had his shoulder cut right through. But the 2nd Apostle was still composed. It was shocking that the maximum power wave blast was so easily broken, but anyway, Ethan Whiskers’ attack wouldn’t reach him.

“Anyway, the attack won’t work… Kuuuuuugh!”

The 2nd Apostle groaned loudly. He was deeply cut diagonally from his shoulder to his side. It was such a deep wound that if it had been just a bit deeper, he would have been split in half.

The 2nd Apostle, who fell to his knees on the spot, hurriedly sealed the wound with mana.

“Huff… Huff…”

If the wound sealing had been even a little late, he would have died on the spot.

“Damn it… Why…”

It was quite bewildering.

The 2nd Apostle had a powerful superhuman ability.

A skill to avoid all attacks.

God’s veil.

“Why didn’t God’s veil activate…?”

Ethan’s attack was certainly powerful. But even such a powerful attack is nothing if it doesn’t hit.

But his superhuman ability didn’t activate.

The 1st Apostle also looked at his side, seeing the 2nd Apostle’s wound.

Despite saying he would avoid it, he too was wounded.

Just like the 2nd Apostle, the 1st Apostle also had the superhuman ability of perfect evasion.

But Ethan’s attack broke through the perfect evasion of both apostles and hit them directly.

That wasn’t the only problem. What they had fired earlier was the maximum power wave blast.

He split that in half and still had this much power left.

Only then did all the events make sense.

Being this strong, he could thoroughly trample all the events of the meeting.

The deaths of the apostles.

The death of the 3rd Apostle, and the death of the chief priest.

“So it was you who did it.”

While the 2nd Apostle was groaning, Ethan put strength into his sword to finish off the 2nd Apostle for sure. But at the same time, the 1st Apostle moved.

A magic circle was drawn on both hands of the 1st Apostle.

Then, a wave blast similar to before was created in his hands.

The only difference was that the power of Moon Mother had become even more intense.

However, Ethan didn’t care.

Shaaak-.

The air around changed.

There was no need to care about what the 1st Apostle’s ability was.

Whatever ability he uses, he just needs to deal with it with overwhelming power before that. He had experienced this fact sufficiently when dealing with the chief priest.

“…!”

The power gathering in Ethan’s sword.

The 1st Apostle frowned at that tremendous power.

What’s inside Ethan Whiskers right now wasn’t just Extinction.

“What’s in your body right now… is it the energy of the gods? And that Extinction, it’s raging now, isn’t it?”

The source of that overwhelming power was clearly Extinction. But the fact that Extinction was raging like that meant that the inside of the body was being destroyed moment by moment.

The 1st Apostle knew very well about Extinction, so he couldn’t understand why Ethan had unleashed Extinction.

“Is that the treatment method? Did the Saintess tell you to do that?”

Ethan smiled at the 1st Apostle.

The 1st Apostle didn’t let his guard down. To be able to smile like that. It must be incredibly painful.

Is it not painful?

No, that’s not it.

“Don’t tell me, you’ve already been treated?”

If it’s the Saintess.

If it’s that Saintess, there was a possibility that she had cured Ethan’s Extinction.

“1st Apostle.”

The 2nd Apostle spread out one hand.

Whether he was treated or not doesn’t matter.

“If we kill him, it’s over.”

Something was created in his outstretched hand. Although the 2nd Apostle had received a severe injury, he could still move.

It doesn’t matter if he dies here anyway.

As the 2nd Apostle made a gesture with his eyes, the 1st Apostle dispelled the wave blast he was about to fire.

Then he drew a magic circle again. It was a magic with a longer casting time but much more powerful.

“Dice of Fate.”

The 2nd Apostle looked straight at Ethan. For a moment, a light in the shape of dice flashed in the 2nd Apostle’s eyes and disappeared.

“Target selection, Ethan Whiskers. I will roll the dice.”

Roll-.

“You cannot cut me.”

The number that came out was 6.

“Luck correction completed. The number on the dice is 6, Ethan Whiskers. I don’t know how you cut me just now, but…”

The 2nd Apostle, staggering, gathered powerful strength in his remaining hand.

Ethan didn’t care.

‘Does the effect depend on the number rolled on the dice?’

The number that just came out on the dice was 6.

The 2nd Apostle said that Ethan wouldn’t be able to land an attack.

‘Since it’s 6, it must be working at maximum capacity.’

If that’s true, then Ethan’s attack shouldn’t be able to reach the 2nd Apostle. He doesn’t know how long the activation time of that dice is, but it probably means that no matter how much he attack for at least about a minute, he won’t be able to hit.

Indeed, those two apostles had abilities that even Ethan didn’t know about.

It was a superhuman ability unknown even to Ethan, who had seen numerous superhuman abilities.

But Ethan didn’t care.

There’s nothing to do but try.

His infallibility and that Dice of Fate.

Which power is stronger.

‘There’s no time.’

Extinction, which had absorbed a lot of the gods’ energy, was lowering Ethan’s survival probability moment by moment.

-Survival probability is decreasing!

-Survival probability is decreasing!

It was difficult to move his body as usual. Even the light swordsmanship he had learned when fighting the Dawn Council’s lord couldn’t be unleashed in his current state.

But contrary to that, the firepower was maximized.

With just one attack, the 2nd Apostle was in a state of irreparable injury.

If he could land one more attack properly in this state, the 2nd Apostle would no longer be able to move.

After that, he just needs to focus on the 1st Apostle.

Ethan swung his sword.

-The effect of the Dice of Fate activates.

-You’ve been cursed.

-Extinction swallows the curse.

-The Dice of Fate ignores the effect of Extinction.

The Dice of Fate also had powerful strength. That power fought fiercely with Extinction, and among numerous curses, it was the only one to win against Extinction.

It was possible because it was not a curse that harmed Ethan, but a curse that sealed his ability to attack.

However, Ethan had one more weapon that could offset the effect of the dice.

‘infallibility.’

-The effect of infallibility is applied!

-The attack will definitely hit.

Slash-!

“!”

The 2nd Apostle, who belatedly grasped the situation, tried to somehow avoid Ethan’s attack, but it was already too late.

Speed, power. None of it was something the 2nd Apostle could handle.

Ethan’s sword cut right through the 2nd Apostle.