The Saints and Holy City dwellers who had been summoned at Igeon’s words could not help but be shocked.
‘A Great Star God…’
‘They say he’s top-tier even among Star Gods.’
Every dimension had a master called a Star God.
After Igeon became Earth’s Star God and the angels of Eden appeared on Earth, tales of the gods had spread widely across the planet.
Humanity and the Saints had grown familiar with their existence.
But the Ennead Great Star God was clearly an external Star God with no connection to Earth whatsoever.
Everyone was visibly astonished. Igeon’s eyes flashed as he spoke.
“Why? I’m right. The existence of these new Saints is just a smokescreen.”
“…!”
No matter what, this was a Great Star God.
If such a being suddenly appeared on Earth, it would be a power strong enough to draw notice.
So to avoid Igeon’s eyes, it had artfully sneaked in under the guise of a Saint replacement.
A Saint-class, considered humanity’s peak, would at least make its excessive aura believable.
‘Whether they colluded with Eden for this, or did it without Eden knowing, I don’t know…’
“But it’s true you hid like vermin pretending to be a Saint to stab me in the back, isn’t it? Or are you all in the same gang?”
“What?!”
“You dared bring angels into my territory. Is it only natural to bring an outside god in here so you bastards can carve up my land among yourselves?”
At that merciless outburst, the summoned Saints replied with great indignation.
“Lord Igeon! We swear there is no outside god among us!”
“Oh?”
“Yes! Though we have received power from the angels, we are all sworn to serve and be loyal to Lord Igeon!”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes! So please…!”
“Then you’d all be willing to die for me, right?”
“…Excuse me?”
They had no time to even ask what he meant.
BANG!!!
“Aargh!!”
Drawing his Heavenly Judgment, Igeon ruthlessly struck down at them.
The moment that vicious weapon hit the ground, the building split apart.
CRAAACK!!
The Saints who barely dodged the attack screamed in panic. Not just them.
The subordinate Holy City dwellers who had come to mediate between the Saints and Igeon, as well as the government figures, recoiled in horror.
“Lord Igeon! Our apologies! Please calm down!”
They looked at Igeon in confusion, but he raised an eyebrow as if he didn’t understand.
“Why are you running? You said you were all prepared to swear loyalty to me.”
No! That and this are completely different!
And in the moment they were about to protest, the attack resumed.
Flash!
The Heavenly Judgment, classified as a divine artifact, roared wildly as it assaulted the Saints.
In an instant, Igeon’s blade vanished and reached a neck before anyone knew it.
At that sight, the Saints tried bravely to block.
CRACK!!!!
“Kaah!!!”
The man struck by the Heavenly Judgment flew off first.
CRACK!!! CRACK!!!
“Aargh!!”
“Agh!”
Just as mercilessly, the other Saints flew away as well.
Seeing that, the ranged-type Saints moved urgently.
“Lord Igeon is strictly a close-combat type! If we don’t get close, he can’t use his strength!”
“Get outside his range!”
“Then invisibility magic…!”
But the moment Igeon’s eyes flashed and he gripped his Judgment tightly,
even the Saints outside his range coughed up blood mercilessly and went flying.
“Kugh, kah…!”
It took only ten seconds.
Igeon’s eyes gleamed with contempt.
“Did you think being out of range meant you were safe?”
“N-No…!”
They realized. Speaking of range was meaningless against Igeon.
That wasn’t all.
“Kah!!”
The moment Igeon gave a fierce grin, all twelve Saints were sent flying at once.
Instant annihilation.
The struck Saints suffered at least fractures and organ damage, unable to get up.
“Dammit…! I could see it with my eyes!”
“You could see it? Really…?”
“Wait! Here he comes again!”
At once, the instant Igeon swung Heavenly Judgment like a flyswatter, everyone from the guards inside to all other people flew away like the wind.
The Holy City dwellers caught up in it groaned.
“Dammit, that weapon used some weird skill…!!”
“What the hell kind of skill is this….”
At that, Igeon laughed as if asking if they didn’t even know that.
“Weakened Oppression.”
“W-Weakened Oppression?!”
“Yeah. It’s a new skill that only smashes the weak.”
“?!”
“Using the data we’ve scraped together, our Sky went on a rampage and upgraded itself.”
“…!”
At the same time, Heavenly Judgment howled “gyao gyao” as if bragging.
It seemed to know it had done something wicked(?), but anyway, after all the upgrades had been made to help Lord and Na, it seemed satisfied.
But at Igeon’s words, the beaten Saints, and the Holy City dwellers who suddenly got slightly caught up, shouted in resentment.
“No, normally…! You avoid attacking the weak and only attack the strong!”
“And more to the point, all the Saints got beaten and flew away, so what’s the point….”
However, they soon couldn’t finish their words.
Out of the twelve gathered, only one.
The new Saint of Cancer was standing there with a frown.
An utterly beautiful woman.
At that sight, the fallen Saints couldn’t believe their eyes.
“That person…! She was definitely next to me and got hit too?”
“Why is she perfectly fine? How….”
Then Igeon raised the corner of his mouth as he looked at her.
“I told you. Weakened Oppression.”
“!”
As if finally found, Igeon glared fiercely at the woman.
“You like playing human in a place like this, you bastard? Even pretending to be a woman. What’s your taste?”
The moment his words fell, the human trembled.
Thud!
An overwhelming pressure.
Instantly, the woman’s expression changed.
[Tch, it’s nothing special. I merely came to inspect the land that will become the battlefield of the gods beforehand.]
Battlefield of the gods?
Igeon looked at the Great Star God with disdain.
Eden brings its angels, the Valhalla bastards try to plant some strange tree, and an Ennead Great Star God comes to supervise?
‘Well, I knew they were all on the same side.’
From the beginning, didn’t the Ennead Great Star God use Set to try and empty Earth for themselves?
It was undoubtedly to devour Earth.
‘The reason Earth ends up in that wretched state in the future must be because of these bastards.’
But for now, that wasn’t important.
[Warning. The Star God is directly descending.]
[Warning. Earth is being destroyed by that power.]
[Synchronization rate 40%]
...
[Synchronization rate 40.2%]
[Earth’s lifespan is decreasing]
“!”
That damn Star God wasn’t a clone; it was outright descending directly to Earth.
‘A Star God turns into a nuisance entity on land outside the divine realm.’
Because it entirely destroys the colony’s environment.
Therefore, Star Gods must not leave the divine realm.
That’s why Star Gods created clones or proxies (Saints) for indirect descent when visiting colonies.
Igeon had made a ring that allowed him full control of his power, so he could freely set foot on colony lands without causing harm.
Of course, using his strength was no problem either.
‘Because I revised the rules with the Temporary Rulebook.’
Thus, Igeon could stick around Earth and the colonies despite being a Star God.
But what he could do with the Temporary Rulebook was merely to adjust.
In other words, if he fully unleashed his power, it would be meaningless.
That’s why even now, he hadn’t released more than 50% of his power.
And there was no way the Ennead Great Star God didn’t know that.
As expected.
Bang!
“!”
Now seemingly with no intention of hiding its power, the Great Star God smiled while raising its synchronization rate haphazardly.
[From the start, I don’t like you. Did you not take away every last one who were once my children?]
Igeon let out a hollow laugh.
After all, the Star Gods of Taurus and Pisces were Star Gods of the Ennead side.
Igeon wiggled his fingers as if it didn’t matter.
“I’ll fight you, so come outside. You bastard.”
[And why should I?]
“What?”
[In any case, just by staying still and staying right here, this place will be destroyed.]
The Ennead Great Star God smiled coldly.
Perhaps due to the rising synchronization rate, its power was considerably overwhelming.
And as if it had aimed for this situation, the Great Star God said,
[Now, choose. Snake God.]
“What?”
[If you give up your sovereignty over Earth, I’ll also leave this place.]
“!”
[If you don’t give it up, I intend to stay here in this state, but…]
At those words, Igeon’s subordinate gods stirred within the shadows.
[Do not be deceived! It must be a bluff!]
[Indeed. High-ranking gods like us are granted both freedom and immense power! But with that comes equally heavy responsibility!]
[As part of that, a Star God deliberately squatting on a colony is a grave offense against the rules of the divine realm!]
[Even for a Great Star God—no, precisely because it is a Great Star God, it would incur an even heavier punishment and bear karmic retribution!]
All gods feared karmic retribution. Even more so for a Great Star God with much to lose!
[It is clearly a bluff, so you must not accept such a deal!]
But the Ennead Great Star God raised the corner of its lips.
[Karmic retribution? Who cares. Because such rules simply do not apply to me.]
[……?!]
For a moment they wondered what it meant, but Igeon soon realized the reason.
[It is the power of the Fate Goddesses who govern the rules.]
[They are nullifying the Ennead Great Star God’s karmic retribution as if it never existed.]
It seemed the Valhalla Fate Goddesses, who had taken the original, were making a deal with the Great Star God.
Well, as the supreme authority, such actions weren’t strange.
And though it seemed he’d need to summon a certain person to fight that bastard,
‘This place won’t do.’
Adding his own already strengthening power would shatter Earth’s ecosystem.
In other words.
‘I need to relocate them first.’
Thus, Igeon sent a thought to his child, sensed from afar.
[Issue a command to Baekho.]
‘Summon the Abyss. Have it swallow that thing and send it to those bastards’ land.’
For that creature that freely traversed space, it wouldn’t be a difficult task.
Besides, hadn’t the Abyss been wanting to come to him anyway?
‘Give it my coordinates. If I call, it’ll come right….’
But right at that moment.
[It refuses this summons.]
[It says it won’t come unless you let it devour the celestial dragon.]
Igeon’s blood boiled.
This little shit?
But time was pressing, so Igeon frowned.
‘Fine! I’ll let it! I’ll let it, so tell it to come immediately!’
Giving up an arm and regenerating it later was nothing!
Then, as if his child had relayed the message, a response came at once.
[It flaunts joyfully and accepts.]
[It says it likes the stomach.]
……?
……?????
‘Stomach?’
Tilting his head, Igeon examined his torso.
Stomach probably means the upper body?
But Igeon’s face twisted as if chewing dung.
‘…If my stomach gets eaten, I don’t think it’ll regenerate….’
It might be okay, but still, to be safest, the heart area should remain.
But now wasn’t the time to weigh such things.
‘Alright! Stomach! I’ll allow it, so tell it to come!’
Along with that command, the sensation of the world shaking arose.
Rumble!
At the same time, something gigantic appeared, blotting out the sun and sky.
Flash!
People screamed at the sight, and the Ennead Great Star God gave a hollow laugh as if it was ridiculous.
[The monarch has turned into a complete dog, hasn’t he?]
At the sight of the giant whale in the sky, the Great Star God raised a hand.
Non-divine realm anyway.
It could simply annihilate this territory along with it without burden.
But the Abyss had already vanished as though expecting this.
And the place it reappeared was inside the Great Star God’s shadow!
An eerie gleam flickered within the Great Star God’s shadow.
The Great Star God, as if mocking that it knew that trick, prepared to use its divine authority.
[That habit of hiding in shadows and capturing prey.]
But at that moment.
Just as it was about to unleash flames, the Ennead Great Star God’s hand gesture stopped.
It had no choice.
[The Lord of Duat eyes the Ennead Great Star God from within the shadows.]
[Summoning the Great Star God to Duat.]
The one hiding in the Great Star God’s shadow was not the Abyss.
It was none other than Osiris, who had vanished from view at some point.
Igeon looked there in surprise as well.
Soon, the Ennead Great Star God glared with an annoyed look.
[That wretched monarch, unable to kick that hand habit, laid hands on another’s child, did he?]
In that instant, the light of summons manifested by Osiris enveloped the Great Star God.
[Summoning Great Star God]
And that was the divine authority granted to Ennead’s ruling gods!
Due to the summons of a member of the same faction, the Ennead Great Star God was sucked into Duat.
Without a doubt, the plan was to imprison the Solar God in Duat (the netherworld).
The Netherworld was a special region separate from the divine realm’s habitation, a land even Star God-class beings couldn’t easily leave.
Even the Solar God would take time to emerge once the gates of Duat closed.
[Well, it’s still nothing more than a stalling tactic though…]
A troublesome annoyance to return from.
Thus, the Ennead Great Star God raised the corner of his mouth in contempt.
It raised its power, intending to erase Osiris’s very existence.
Kill Osiris and this summoning would stop too!
But right at that moment.
CRACK!!!
“!!”
A slime that appeared from somewhere kicked the Great Star God’s head.
As the slime kicked, the Great Star God looked back in rare surprise, and ultimately, pushed, it was sucked into the summoning formation.
BANG!!!
Igeon smiled with satisfaction as he watched.
Once confined in Duat, he could ram the power of a certain person right into it.
And just as Igeon swapped to that person’s divine persona,
[I’ve certainly fulfilled your request.]
This one laughed as it vanished. At that sight, Igeon tilted his head.
For no other reason.
It said it liked the stomach.
Why didn't it take an arm?
(Continued in next episode)