Chapter 853

EP.853 Part 3 Chapter 27 Squid Game

The battle had ended.

Through the Ground Zero of “Wide-Area Neutralization,” we obliterated all enemies, and every Gaianazi lost their fighting spirit, collapsing instantly.

Crackle.

“Aaaah!”

The Blue Wind Sect poured flamethrowers onto the heads of the Gaianazis.

But these weren’t red flames—they were blue flames that precisely incinerated the hair, eyebrows, and magic power of the Gaianazis.

With the power to burn even the roots, anyone in the Gaia Kingdom who collaborated with the Gaianazis will now live bald as a squid without hair, making it impossible for them to hide their identities unless they wear wigs.

Cruel? Maybe. But not unjust.

The Gaianazis did nothing different from the Nazis, except their targets shifted from Jews to children. They were essentially Neo-Nazis reborn.

Now was the time to solve the mystery of how Nazis existed in Tera.

While I dealt with the regular soldiers of the Blue Wind Sect, I summoned the high priestess of the Gaianazis for a private meeting.

“…”

Her magical power as a priestess had vanished entirely. With her connection to the Earth Goddess severed, she was now just an ordinary priest.

Even though the conduit remained open, no more power flowed through it. Without water flowing downstream, the lower reservoir would inevitably dry up.

Thus, this high priestess was now powerless.

“Name.”

“…Hope Hydra.”

“…”

How could someone’s name be Hope Hydra?

But I didn’t dwell on it. She looked strikingly similar to Ji Ryun’s Hydra, and “Hope” wasn’t particularly unusual.

Someone once said, flipping Adolf gives you Hope.

Adolf Hope

“Why did you try to turn all the children into Sun Icheols?”

“Sun Icheol?”

“Why did you attempt to shrink everyone down so small?”

“…That is… the way humanity must survive in this land.”

A glint of madness appeared in Hope Hydra’s eyes.

“Humans must evolve. To move forward, to achieve progress, we must preserve only the most superior forms—”

“Bullshit.”

I extended my hand toward Hope Hydra and grabbed her by the neck.

“Cu, cough…?!”

My arm transformed into a monster-like form, barely able to wrap around her short neck.

But she was panicking, fearing her hair might catch fire from the flames emanating from my gauntlet.

“Why? You made the kids like that, but are you scared of going bald yourself?”

“That…!”

“I know someone who lived their whole life fearing they’d never grow past 140cm. They got bullied for it, leaving behind deep trauma.”

This was Kim Nori’s revenge.

“To arbitrarily impose limits on others’ lives and call it ‘progress,’ I’ll destroy this kingdom.”

“What? St-st-op…!”

“It’s not up to me whether or not to stop.”

The spark of revolution had already ignited.

“With the regular army defeated, it’s obvious where the愤怒 of the populace will head.”

I pointed at Hope Hydra while gripping her neck.

Behind the Blue Wind Sect, countless crowds approached, each wielding makeshift weapons like plows. Most were under 140cm tall, some even reaching 160cm.

They were hybrids.

Not pure-blooded like the ones cherished in the Gaia Kingdom, but born from parents of different attributes, excluded from the kingdom’s average height due to being too tall.

“Maybe the high priestess should have listened better to the Earth Goddess. Don’t you think?”

“The Earth Goddess—”

“Didn’t say anything, did she? All this was your own interpretation, judging and acting as you pleased. You discriminated against hybrids and tried to preserve only the pure-bloods in the name of divine will.”

I gripped her neck again.

“Who taught you this method?”

“W-what…?”

“There must be someone who taught you this. Speak! Who is it?”

“T-that…!”

The priestess kicked me in the stomach.

KAAANG!

“Aaack?!”

“Useless.”

Before her foot could reach me, I conjured armor to protect myself. Her kick only twisted her toes painfully against the hard surface.

Whoever told her it was okay to attack people recklessly?

“Speak. Who taught you this method?”

“Guh, guh…!”

She began struggling, gripping my wrist.

No matter how hard she tried to break free, I needed answers from her as an Earthling.

“From gas attacks to eradicating hybrids—it wasn’t something you came up with alone, right?”

“…”

Hope Hydra refused to speak.

It seemed she had no intention of opening her mouth, forcing me to take measures to prevent her from doing anything rash.

“No choice.”

I had wanted to avoid using this, but…

BOOM!

I stomped the ground.

As soon as I activated the earth step technique, a massive pillar shot upward from below.

The pillar, perfectly sized to contain a person, resembled a blunt pencil at its top.

To be honest, it looked ridiculous.

“If you won’t talk, I’ll have to find out myself. You’ll face trial here.”

“N-no…!!”

I opened the lid of the phallic statue and shoved Hope Hydra inside before closing it.

“Fill it.”

Glug, glug.

I channeled durability magic power into the base of the phallic statue.

Mud began rising inside like a tide, causing Hope Hydra’s eyes to tremble violently.

“What… what are you doing now…!”

“I’m fossilizing you.”

“What…?!”

“I need to show the people of Gaia that the woman who tried to make them all 3cm tall with AAA cups ended up like this.”

Glug, glug.

The mud continued to rise inside the phallic statue.

Correction, it wasn’t mud—it was plaster resembling cement.

In other words, a white, sticky substance began filling the statue from below!

“Ah, this is called taxidermy.”

While turning her into a fossil externally, I’ll preserve her internally as a specimen forever unable to move.

“I’ll craft a body that doesn’t require any human activity. Then, as a spirit.”

“St-stop…!”

I pulled out a magic stone.

It began playing sounds from the fortress where I first entered the Gaia Kingdom—sounds of children pleading for it to stop.

As soon as I shattered the magic stone, Hope Hydra fell silent. I extended my hand toward her face and released magic power.

“Be reborn as an earth spirit and serve the Gaia Kingdom. This is the last mercy the Earth Goddess grants you.”

Her position as high priestess remains intact.

Even if I trap her as a preserved specimen in the phallic statue, enduring tomatoes and eggs thrown at her throughout her life in the square, I can’t strip her of her title as priestess without proper cause.

“The people will remove you from your position themselves.”

Enraged citizens will personally rise to strip her of her title.

All the masses will gather to denounce Hope Hydra and pray to the gods for a new priestess.

“Supremacy based on pure bloodlines will no longer exist. While those who wish to remain pure-blooded may do so, they cannot force it upon others or feel inferior due to height differences. Cutting off others’ heads and feet to match 140cm will no longer happen.”

An era where everyone can live the life they desire.

This is the new wave of change, and it will surely become the future of Gaia.

“For the sake of the future, die.”

“Ugh, hahaha, hahahahaha…!”

The white, sticky plaster finally reached her waist.

Only then did Hope Hydra start banging on the walls of the phallic statue, shouting at me in a state of madness.

“I’ll watch until when your leisure lasts! As long as They exist, this Tera will end!!”

Finally, she’s saying something.

I tilted my head back and provoked Hope Hydra.

“Them or whatever, one hit of Blazing Phoenix Revival and they’re all dead when they get to me.”

“Hah! You fool! The world will perish entirely…! It’s better for Tera to fade away quietly! Rather than everyone going insane and becoming monsters, it’s better to burrow underground and live primitively!!”

Ah, so that’s how it is.

The high priestess of the Earth Goddess had sensed the dark influence looming over Tera.

And she intended to bury Gaia’s descendants underground, keeping them in a primitive state.

Because that’s the only way to escape Tera’s contamination.

“Bullshit.”

Such thinking is naive.

Tera will be contaminated entirely, including even creatures that burrow deep into the mantle.

“Don’t worry. I’ll save the world. You just enjoy eternal orgasm in there.”

“What…?”

Even if humanity retreats deep underground, the moment the seven spirits, including the Earth Goddess, become tainted, Tera will be entirely contaminated.

“Wh-what do you mean by orgasm?! What are you talking about?!”

“…”

For a priestess unaware of this, her actions could be considered her best effort…

“You dirty—”

“You’re the dirty pedo freak spouting nonsense.”

Snap.

When contamination reaches even the mantle, everything will be affected.

The plaster finally filled the phallic statue completely.

Hope Hydra’s entire body was trapped in white, sticky plaster, forever unable to escape.

Squeak.

“…”

Though I initially wanted to spare her…

Regrettable.

As I encased her in plaster, I realized the truth.

“Anal virginity is unacceptable.”

The leader of the Gaianazis, who indulged in anal quasi-shota sex with pure-blooded men, Hope the non-virgin, has been preserved.

Now, all that remains is finding remnants of Earth within the Gaia Kingdom.

No problem.

There are still plenty of collaborators left in the Gaianazi regime.

On this day,

Over a thousand collaborators of the Gaianazis were preserved inside the phallic statues.