[The Pope, Callistus I is ruled by the Laurel of Creation.]
[Find all of Callistus’ life vessels and destroy them. (0/5)]
[This is Baal’s true power… I will undoubtedly condemn heresy.]
“Older sister, be careful!”
Adella screamed into the air.
The world turns upside down. Perhaps it’s because I’m falling headfirst that it looks that way.
As I blinked, I saw the sun beyond sinking below the horizon. Since it’s upside down, it looks like it’s hiding above.
With a single blow, my body was launched.
I thought that if I hadn’t gathered the bare minimum of vital energy and adjusted my stamina stats by the third part, I would have died in one hit.
[‘Njangsterol’ has donated 1,000 won!]
– It’s all over now… It’s the end…
In this inverted world, a giant fly was leisurely strolling across the sky.
Ten thousand eyes moved individually before staring at me all at once.
“Creepy, really.”
[Casting: Elasticity Coefficient Adjustment]
The ground puffed up like an airbag and enveloped me in a soft earthy scent.
Indeed, people should live by stepping on the ground. Flying around is what pests do.
As the heart-stopping sensation, reminiscent of riding a roller coaster, faded, I slowly raised my body.
[Graduate Student Save: No Name, why did you kill Daniel!]
I know.
Without the execution sword of the judge, I would have to search for Callistus’ life vessels across different maps.
And I also knew that it would significantly slow down the progress of the strategy.
I clenched the Skiabona that had accompanied me this far.
The pope had turned into a fly the size of a house, flapping his buzzing wings as he hovered in the sky.
“Are you okay, older sister? Are you hurt? What were you thinking jumping at that monster? You scared me!”
Adella suppressed her emotions and helped me up.
– It’s your fault, King Nya ^^
– I need to move around the map to find the life vessels!
– Please don’t be stubborn, teacher.
– Delia, I’m sorry T_T
– There must be a reason, I trust No Name.
– The aerial mob can only attack when it comes down to the ground even with the execution sword, and it takes time, so this will absolutely not work now.
[Everyone pay attention. Stand in awe. Welcome the god that shall descend upon the world!]
Gigantic wings covered the sky. The surrounding weeds began to rot away.
Crows, whose origins I could not discern, created dissonance as they circled the pope all at once.
It’s really noisy… chattering from all around…
“Adella, just hand me a dagger.”
“Uh? Here…”
The handle warmed by Adella’s body temperature felt nice.
I gripped the dagger in reverse and concentrated all my aura into my legs.
With my eyes wide open, I started to run toward the cursed fly.
Humming a nursery rhyme I used to sing often.
“A ship that set out into the deep sea to find the continent.
Carrying the dreams of 32 passengers.
When a fierce storm swallowed the bow,
The ship broke in two.”
-?
-?
-?
-What is it?
-^?^
The pope, or now referred to as Baal, roared.
In response to that roar, crows transformed into swirling blades and flew toward me.
“The captain is an upright person.
Prioritizing women and the elderly.
The ship floated back up again,
And now 16 remain.”
The dagger had absorbed most of Adella’s movements as it watched her fight.
I easily deflected the randomly flying blades and increased my speed further.
It was the moment I zoomed past Baal’s underside.
As if to say that it wouldn’t allow me to cross its territory, sparks poured down from the sky.
These were spewed forth from the fly’s wings.
“Hoist the sails on a warm day.
The ship crashed into a reef and was wrecked.
Captain, captain, the ship is taking on water.
Who will you save first?”
– I’ll brush off the old men.
└ “I’ll brush them off, it sounds rather harsh, haha!”
– Just randomly?
– Isn’t it better to save the relatively younger ones first?
“The captain is a considerate person.
Prioritizing those who can’t swim.
The ship floated back up again,
And now 8 remain.”
The stench of burning wood, decaying corpses, and sewage mixed in a malodorous miasma as I finally reached my first position and drove the dagger into the ground.
[El(1)]
“Through the telescope, the continent could be seen in the distance.
But a shark appeared and tore the deck apart.
Captain, captain, the ship is taking on water.
Who will you save first?”
– Is there really such a ridiculous situation? Hahaha!
– Let’s cut according to age order again.
– It’s instant death just to graze them, what nonsense are you talking about!
└ Last words, oh no!
There was no time to hesitate.
I retrieved the dagger, sprang back up, and charged toward Baal again.
That beast, honestly enraged by my mockery, began to tremble its antennae.
“The captain is a righteous person.
Prioritizing the innocent.
The ship floated back up again,
And now 4 remain.”
In an instant, my ears rang. My vision blurred, and the ground undulated like waves.
The wave emanating from Baal’s antennae played with my brain.
No five-year-old child would fall for such tricks.
[Script: Reverse Laplace Transformation]
[2nd Circle: Countering Interference]
“The continent could be seen beyond the fog,
But pirates appeared and fired cannons.
Captain, captain, the ship is taking on water.
Who will you save first?”
– Now that I think about it, why isn’t the captain going down? Hahaha!
└ That’s infuriating, haha!
– Maybe the captain has to steer?
– What does the captain have to do with such a mess on the ship?
– Is he drawing a magic circle or something?
– I’m feeling really dizzy, teacher!!!
I turned toward the opposite side and inscribed runes on the pre-drawn universal magic circle.
[Las(2)]
“The captain is a brave person.
Prioritizing those who will fight alongside him.
The ship floated back up again,
And now 2 remain.”
[Are you mocking the cargo? I won’t let you off gently!]
Baал’s six legs swept the ground.
What seemed small while in the air actually resembled the massive columns of the temple when it came crashing down in front of me.
Mud and filth rushed past me, blurring my vision.
For a moment, I nearly lost my balance as my foot got caught on the suddenly collapsing ground, but I barely escaped with Adella’s help.
I reached the direction toward the sun and inscribed the third rune.
[Maven(3)]
“The continent could be seen right in front,
But lightning struck, shattering the ship.
Captain, captain, the ship is taking on water.
Who will you save first?”
– The captain is really a piece of shit in this one.
– In the end, only 2 out of 32 survived? Including the captain, that’s 3?
– The ending is still unknown.
What I was about to do was inscribing runes on the universal magic circle.
When suppressing the erosion of sloth or facing a massive foe like now, it required a magic circle of appropriate size.
Especially, the crafting method based on Arabesque showed better efficiency the larger it was, so I put the utmost effort into creating it.
[Samatra(13)]
The amplification factors of unowned magic, 1, 2, 3, and 13.
Even if it was the worst, it would be sufficient to reach at least the 3rd amplification factor.
Finishing the inscription of all the runes, I returned to the center of the Colosseum and exhaled harshly.
Even though it’s a game, overexerting myself like this seemed to rapidly build up exhaustion.
“The captain is a kind person.
Prioritizing the expectant mother with a child.
The ship floated back up again,
And now 1 remains.”
Mana was injected into the magic circle, which had a diameter of 50m.
All the mana in the air was being sucked into the runes of the magic circle.
It seemed to gather so forcefully that it even started to scrape up all the mana within my body.
The wind blew through my hair, and Adella’s skirt fluttered.
The magic circle, which had emitted an excessive amount of light, suddenly went dark,
[Universal Casting: The Knot of Arabesque – Earth]
Kwagagagagak!
With a blinding flash, geometric chains emerged from the ground and wrapped around Baal’s torso.
The length of the chains seemed endless, as the magic circle greedily consumed mana to generate knots until the whole body was bound.
The knot of Arabesque, also known as the executioner’s knot, is a useful spell used against beings like Baal who play tricks on life.
After blocking all lifelines, it forcibly bestows life and flesh to the shell and then takes its life back.
Regardless of how much lifespan remains, it’s incredibly convenient as long as I bring down the main body.
“The Utopian ship arrived at the continent.
The captain and woman disembarked from the deck.
Cannibals appeared and took them away.
Before dying, the woman cried out,
The captain is a truly terrible person.
Among those you abandoned, there was my husband.
The ship never floated again.
And now, no one remains.”
– The ending, oh wow!
– They all died.
– T_T
– What are you going to do with the captain?
– For real, haha.
As the magic enveloped the devil’s body, I directed my gaze toward the chat window.
“The captain met a miserable end while trying to save as many people as possible. What lesson can we learn from this?”
– Let’s not be foolish, shall we?
– Still, he seems like a handy guy for repairing the ship.
– A price to pay for misandry?
└ Misandry, haha!
└ Isn’t it true? He saved only women at the beginning.
– Sailing is indeed a dangerous endeavor, teacher.
“It seems like a rational criterion, but ultimately, the result is catastrophe. Even if that was the best choice… would the outcome have been different if they hadn’t abandoned everyone from the start? Probably not. So what’s the point of my story?”
I grip the handle of the Skiabona that I had carelessly shoved into the ground.
I had to exert a bit of strength in my arm to pull it out completely from the rocky surface.
The tip of the blade was directed at the mummified fly. I was clear on what to do from now on.
“The captain should never have set sail on a stormy day from the start. Right? Everyone? Those unprepared or powerless have no right to make moral choices.”
If the captain thought he remained moral until the end, he truly could not have been more foolish.
People are shortsighted beings who do not discern right from wrong based on past actions.
Daniel was no different.
Those who fiercely charge forward, solely in pursuit of survival, do not even recognize their mistakes.
The excuse of “I couldn’t help it” is incredibly convenient.
That is evil, and the ordinariness that evil possesses.
In the real world, it is perhaps the ordinary people leading normal lives that more accurately portray behaviors befitting what we consider “evil,” rather than a pope who takes pleasure in murder.
And the reason why I condemned him was not that I am particularly morally superior.
[Minor Casting(0.2x): Unique Magic – Esteria Ryu Style II – Schadenfreude]
The difference between him and me is that.
“I am strong enough without your execution sword.”
[Replication: Alphonse’s Shippo]
[Casting: Unique Magic – Asterile’s Ring]
The blueprints containing his unique magic unfurled in the library of my mind.
I had not expected it to be a sword technique derived from the Pauli exclusion principle, starting with the application of electronic degeneracy pressure.
Had Alphonse been in a magic tower during his past life, I would have wanted him as an apprentice.
“Triviki is a god…I am invincible…”
The moment I resolved to swiftly defeat the fly before my mouth could babble more nonsense.
“So don’t doubt me, you filthy creatures…!”
Ah, this is so embarrassing. I hurriedly covered my mouth and turned off the camera voice.
The six legs writhing outside the knots of Arabesque resembled an insect trapped in a spider’s web.
I inflicted a jolt that could drop even the Demon Lord by concentrating all my weight onto Baal’s body.
*
The swirling brain clouds reached above Baal’s head.
A dark cloud that snatched light from all things rained down blue flashes.
Five bolts of lightning pierced through the colossal fly’s head and body.
At that instant, the knot of Arabesque emitted a brilliant light, tightening its grip even more.
Baal’s flesh grotesquely twisted as it was suppressed and squeezed between the knots.
As it reached the limit of contraction, a crack appeared in the gigantic cocoon.
Paaaan!
With a thunderous boom that seemed to tear through the eardrums, the massive body of the fly disintegrated into particles, and the sound announcing the boss clear echoed throughout the world.
[Part 3: The Collapsing Tower of Babel END]
[Part 4: $#%%&#%@^]
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[▶ Exiting the World of Arselia.]
