1060 Episode 66. The Wolf That Swallowed a God (8)
As if mocking Odin's declaration, 1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk brandished the 'Black Heavenly Demon Sword'. The moment the regressor's sword, completed after endless training, touched the god's neck, Odin's single eye emitted light.
「 He is the one who slew the primordial giant. 」
The surrounding space distorted, and Yoo Joonghyuk's slash vanished somewhere. I was astonished by that astonishing authority.
「 He occupied the first void alongside his brothers and opened myth with the giant's corpse. 」
Even if others didn't know, I alone knew what that authority was.
[Giant Story, 'Ginnungagap' begins its storytelling.]
Ginnungagap. The primordial authority that <Asgard> once used to slay me and the 'Demon King of Salvation'. Odin was manifesting that powerful force single-handedly right now.
Yoo Joonghyuk didn't care that his slash vanished and continued to pour out attacks.
[It is useless. 'Outer God searching for the Oldest Dream'!]
Every time a slash flew in, the void space of 'Ginnungagap' repeatedly opened and closed. A power that neutralized all of 1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk's terrifying slashes.
I knew Odin was a strong Constellation. I experienced him in the 40th round, read about him in the main story, and even witnessed his battle against the Great Sage Equal to Heaven before my eyes. But the moment I saw the Odin before my eyes, I thought I still didn't know enough about him.
「 Only he would understand the beginning and end of a myth. 」
He was the existence who killed Ymir, the master of <Asgard>'s Great Void—'Ginnungagap', and became a god himself. An unusual aura wavered in both his hands dealing with Ginnungagap's void dimension.
Tzztzztzztzz!
Stories of black and white were dwelling in both of Odin's hands. The right hand resembling pitch-black darkness, and the left hand resembling pure white light. His hands grasping the void were the very power that set him apart from other 'Myth-grade Constellations'.
「 Odin's right hand—'Primordial Will' Vili. 」
I sensed the tremendous power of stories dwelling in those hands.
「 Odin's left hand—'Sanctifier of Order' Vé. 」
The power of those two stars was also the source that put Odin on the throne of <Asgard>.
「 For he devoured his brothers and claimed to be the master of the Great Void. 」
The trinity of Will, Order, and Wisdom. Before the dignity of Odin exercising a status equivalent to combining three 'Myth-grade Constellations' alone, I forgot to even breathe and immersed myself in the battlefield.
Goosebumps wouldn't stop on my spine. There were two reasons. One was purely because I was amazed by Odin's status, and second was—
"Did even a guy that powerful run away from 'Snow White'?"
Listening to 41st round Yoo Joonghyuk's voice, I nodded. The enemy we had to fight in the future was a monster that even that Myth-grade Constellation trembled in fear of. And another monster who did not fear such an Odin was before our eyes right now.
【A crude story.】
1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk. Closing the distance with [Red Phoenix Shunpo] brought to its limit, he began launching slashes from a much closer distance than before. Odin busily moved both hands to suck the slashes into the void dimension.
However, as if Yoo Joonghyuk didn't care about such trivial matters, he began swinging his sword at an even faster speed. Just as Odin's relaxed expression was gradually distorting at the sequence of slashes that sped up to the point of distorting space-time, Yoo Joonghyuk's sword stance changed.
Meteor Slash.
The trajectory of death that no star could escape flew toward Odin's neck. But Odin unraveled his story as if expecting even that.
「 For he stood before endless destruction and did not stop his obsession with infinite knowledge and martial power. 」
His single eye seeing the future was reading the trajectory of Meteor Slash.
Sgagaak!
A strike narrowly avoided. But the attack did not end there.
Meteor Slash 2-Consecutive Strike.
The slashes that cut down even Myth-grade Constellations doubled to two. Odin blew a long whistle toward the flying slashes. Then, a flock of crows covering the sky appeared from somewhere.
Kaaaaaak!
The crows soon melted like black paint and poured down to the ground. The black paint erased the entire surrounding landscape and devoured even Meteor Slash. In that metaphysical landscape, Odin burst out with a truth-word.
[This is my stage! Whoever you are, you cannot beat me here—]
Meteor Slash 3-Consecutive Strike.
When a slash several times larger than before raged, bewilderment appeared on Odin's expression as well. Was it burdensome to gradually block the attacks? He avoided the first slash and barely blocked the second, but the third slash brushed his shoulder. Yoo Joonghyuk did not miss that gap.
Meteor Slash 4-Consecutive Strike.
Odin's single eye trembled violently. He hurriedly waved both hands to summon a giant void dimension. As the void dimension absorbing even starlight swirled like a black hole, 1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk's slashes flying fiercely all disappeared beyond 'Ginnungagap'. Since Ginnungagap was a 'dimension before records', slashes entering it had no choice but to lose power and disintegrate.
However, Yoo Joonghyuk did not stop his attack even while knowing that fact. And an unbelievable thing happened.
Meteor Slash 5-Consecutive Strike.
The moment five trajectories were sucked into the void dimension, a crack occurred in the entrance of 'Ginnungagap' for the first time.
[What—]
The void dimension absorbing the slashes was in agony.
「 There is no tragedy that Ginnungagap cannot digest. 」
The regressor's history of turning back time several times. The slash imbued with that story was advancing while breaking even the void.
[Nonsense!]
Odin's status violently fluctuated. He squeezed out all the status he possessed and forcibly opened the second void dimension.
「 The second void dimension—'Niflheim'. 」
The world of cold ice and darkness opened, swallowing 1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk's slashes once again. But even so, Yoo Joonghyuk's sword did not stop.
Meteor Slash 6-Consecutive Strike.
[Stop!]
Meteor Slash 7-Consecutive Strike.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Finally, the threshold of Niflheim shattered, and a blood-red light spurted from Odin's chest. The blood of a god dyed the battlefield red.
[You... monster-like regressor!]
Odin stumbled backward. The master of <Asgard>, the Myth-grade Constellation who claimed to be the strongest alongside Zeus, was being pushed back.
「 Because he is the regressor who saw the end twice. 」
1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk did not give Odin time to catch his breath. His 'Black Heavenly Demon Sword' moved again.
Breaking the Sky Sword Lightning.
Pure white lightning surged from the blade, wrapping around the entire battlefield. It was a lightning strike far more powerful than 41st round Yoo Joonghyuk's Breaking the Sky Sword Lightning.
[Gungnir!]
In a crisis of life and death, Odin summoned his ultimate weapon. The spear that never missed its target, the divine spear of <Asgard>—Gungnir.
Kwa-gugugugugu!
The collision between the divine spear Gungnir and Breaking the Sky Sword Lightning shook the entire scenario. The sky split, and the earth cracked open. Probability aftermath raged like a hurricane, tearing apart the surrounding space-time.
And amidst that blinding light, two existences collided endlessly.
「 This was the prelude to 'Ragnarok'. 」
I watched that scene with breathless awe. A clash between a Myth-grade Constellation and a Regressor who saw two conclusions. It was a battle that transcended human imagination.
And then, the moment the light finally began to fade—
「 A single figure stood tall amidst the settling dust. 」
It was 1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk.
His 'Black Heavenly Demon Sword' was dripping with god's blood, and before him lay Odin, his body covered in severe wounds, his divine spear Gungnir snapped in half.
[To think... I would lose here...]
Odin's single eye gradually lost its light.
「 The master of <Asgard> had fallen. 」
【...One down.】
1,865th round Yoo Joonghyuk muttered coldly, turning his gaze toward us.