Along with a flash of intense light, what appeared in his hand was none other than the Rulebook.
And at the object he had produced, Hwaryunju seemed momentarily startled.
That was because it looked completely different from the Rulebook they themselves had.
‘He’s made a new one.’
It was an item that could only be created by the Creathor clan, who could create anything.
Thus Hwaryunju immediately grew wary, but soon he laughed.
[Do you think making a new one now will be of any use?]
Hwaryunju already knew anyway.
Igeon’s plans were all too predictable.
Having made a new Rulebook, no doubt he intended to add some wretched clauses to suppress the gods!
Just as all the other gods had done so far!
But every previous Great Star God, every rebel faction, the Creathors, Asran, even the Primordial God had all failed.
So his eyes flashed.
[No matter what law you create, don’t forget that a way to slip out of it will always appear. Laws can be evaded in any number of ways.]
“No, you absolutely cannot slip out.”
[Are you even planning to add some rule like that?]
“What?”
[Why? Are you going to add a rule that all gods must kneel before you? Or will you toss everyone whose faith isn’t 100% into eternal prison?!]
Hwaryunju laughed, telling him to stop with the arrogance.
[Listen well. Even if you kill the gods who don’t submit to you, they will all come back to life! Even if you suppress and imprison them with laws, the circulation of power will stop, and ultimately only the cosmic order will stagnate! Either way, it’s the worst!]
No matter what trick Igeon tried, things were far too favorable for the gods.
Even if he used Indulgences to oppress the gods, the gods would continue to be born into the future.
And if that happened, gods who could evade the law would surely appear.
Why?
Because he himself was one!
[Are you not curious why, even when I pass down my power, I can still retain my memories?]
“!”
[Yes. Among the gods, variants are occasionally born. Are you going to predict every single one of those and write the laws one by one? Your Indulgences won’t last!]
The gods were that great of an existence.
[In the end, as long as the existence called gods remains, this fight will never end. Do you not understand that meaning?!]
He had meant to dampen his spirits a bit, but unexpectedly, Igeon smiled.
“Yeah. The problem is that there are god bastards like you.”
[…What?]
Igeon laughed sharply.
“Got it? If you thought this new Rulebook was limited only to
[…What??]
But if it wasn’t a Rulebook limited to the Divine Realm, then what on earth…
“The universe.”
[!]
“This is a Rulebook that will change the rules of the universe.”
[Wa… What??]
“And you bastards, all of you. I’m turning you into tools.”
Hwaryunju’s face hardened.
Because there was no way he couldn’t understand the meaning of those words.
[Tools, you say.]
Without realizing it, he looked at the Primordial God beside Igeon.
So, was he saying he’d turn all of them into weapons or tools and become their master?
Not just one or two, but all the gods?
But Hwaryunju let out a hollow laugh.
[Even if you pull that sneaky trick, I just have to abandon this body turned tool and be born again…]
Igeon cut him off.
“I told you. I’m changing the laws of the universe.”
[……??]
“I thought about it from the start, actually. Are beings like gods truly necessary for this world?”
[……!!]
Igeon had been thinking about this for a long time.
Ever since the monsters invaded Earth.
Of course, humans were able to handle the monsters by receiving the power of gods, but well.
‘The truth was, those monsters and the Star Gods were in cahoots. And the gods had used the monsters to stir human fear, and through that, to raise their faith.’
But even other gods considered such acts natural, and even condoned them.
No, they had used similar acts on their own colonies.
For their own faith.
‘In the end, gods think of humans only as tools.’
After traveling the Divine Realm, that thought had become even more certain.
If left alone, the yoke would only repeat endlessly.
Hadn’t those bastards themselves said so?
That their lifespans were long, so they could come back to invade and torment as much as they pleased.
Well, some might ask if humans could even exist without gods, but really.
‘Humans aren’t beings who rely only on the help of gods either.’
Humans were beings who could fight and move on their own as much as needed to protect themselves, and to protect their families.
In other words, as long as humans have the power to defend their bodies.
‘Gods aren’t needed.’
That’s why Igeon had come to a conclusion.
“I’ll make it into a world where the existence of gods doesn’t exist at all.”
[Are you joking!!!]
Veins bulging, Hwaryunju realized Igeon’s true goal.
That bastard, of all things, was spouting some damn nonsense.
[You meant to annihilate the gods! You young brat, spouting off with such immaturity. The existence of gods is the very force that moves the universe! And yet!]
“Even if gods disappear, your powers won’t disappear.”
[!]
“Since I’ll be putting your powers to good use as tools, there’s no need for you bastards to worry about that.”
Igeon immediately activated the power of
[Exerting the Trait of
[Exerting the Trait of
[Activating the Divinity of the Creathor]
A fierce light surged upward. Igeon’s true divinity, which had been hidden between
It was the power of the Creathors, who had even created the Divine Realm long ago.
And at that moment.
Rumble!!
The earth, no, the universe seemed to tremble greatly.
At the same time, an intense light shot up from the ground.
[Argh!!!]
Countless billions of gods were swept up in the light rising from the floor.
As if that time he’d turned Hermes or the Burning Lord, whom he had abducted as a bride, into bizarre objects through
[Recreating the beings of gods into objects]
[Recreating gods into objects using their cores]
All the gods began to transform into objects suited to their respective powers.
Just like the Primordial God.
Hwaryunju too was swept up in that power.
And toward the panicking Hwaryunju, Igeon smiled murderously.
“Hwaryunju. You bastards definitely said something like that, didn’t you?”
[!]
“Then I’ll make it happen in reverse.”
Igeon swung his hand.
[You bastard…!!!]
Glaring, Hwaryunju immediately tried to use
But Igeon, as if he had no intention of holding back either, quickly drew
Whoosh!
At last, the red flames and black flames clashed.
The intense power of
Splat!!!
The sword of
Crack!!!
At the same time, his power mercilessly shattered
[A fledgling dares…!]
But at that moment, Hwaryunju suddenly vomited blood.
It was because of another sword piercing his body.
It was not
It was not the Sky Void’s Judgment either.
It was none other than
[……!!]
Igeon, having transformed the Primordial God’s weapon into a sword, had stabbed him with it.
And Hwaryunju, stabbed by the power of the very Primordial God he had killed, glared with wide eyes.
[…You bastard!]
But Hwaryunju, gritting his teeth, grabbed the blade piercing his stomach and sneered.
[Even if you turn all the gods that exist now into tools, do you really think it will end with that? Gods are beings who are endlessly born anew, as long as there are worshippers with hearts, with hopes, with those who remember them.]
Gods were entities eternally inherited and continually born!
He was saying that no matter how much you exterminate them, it would never end.
But Igeon raised the corner of his mouth.
“Didn’t you hear me just now? I said I’m changing the cosmic order itself, moron.”
That was effectively the same as creating a whole new system.
“Even if I disappear from this world, and even if you lot are born again after that. It’s a method to make sure you can never lay a finger on us.”
[What?]
“Surely you didn’t think I’d turn you bastards alone into tools, did you?”
[……!!!]
No sooner had the words left his mouth than Igeon summoned
The divinity of
And when Igeon used his power of creation, the light directed itself at the two of them as well.
At the same time, a startling event occurred.
[Creating
[Will you bestow a name upon them?]
“Cradle.”
[……!!]
At the same time, Igeon smiled ferociously.
“From now on, all gods who try to kill me will first be thrown into
No sooner had he spoken than
And
Rumble!!
Along with it, all gods hostile to Igeon screamed as they were dragged in.
[No! Wait!!!]
Now that Igeon had reached the level of a Great Star God,
Having turned into divine instruments like the Primordial God, they could not disobey their parent’s command and were swept into
Boom!!
Igeon looked at the panicking Hwaryunju and said,
“As the parent who created the objects, I’m adding a rule for all the objects.”
[!]
At the same time, the cosmic Rulebook in Igeon’s hand gleamed.
No doubt a rule changing the order of the universe was being added.
“First.
[……!]
In a word, from now on, all those with divinity would be born entirely as tools through
Whether nameless lesser divinities or renowned greater ones, without distinction of rank.
He was remaking the very system of the universe into that.
It might be impossible, but Igeon now possessed all the power of the Primordial Gods except for
Besides, originally
Since they embodied life and death combined into
Because
And the gods being ground to bits in
Igeon spoke.
“I’ll make it clear: once turned into tools, you’ll have power, but you won’t be gods.”
[……!]
“All of you as tools will be used as the power of humans.”
The extinction of the existence called gods.
“All tools exist for humans and life.”
[…You bastard!!!]
With bloodshot eyes, Hwaryunju suddenly recalled an old memory.
A conversation with the Primordial God.
-What? You’re telling me to cherish humans?
-Yes. You may not believe it, but we are beings created by humans. At the same time, without them, we cannot exist as beings.
-I absolutely cannot listen to this. Stop talking nonsense. Do you understand? It is because gods exist that humans exist!
The Primordial God, said to have first appeared in the world alongside the universe.
He had heard rumors that even that god’s birth was due to the earnest wish and faith of a small child.
But that fact didn’t matter in the least.
That noble gods should be toyed with by the tricks of a mere speck like him…!
Hwaryunju’s veins bulged as he reached out his hand, but Igeon, as a Great Star God, was no pushover either.
“As Igeon, as a Creathor, this is the first and last thing I create.”
[Do you think you can bear the karma of annihilating the gods, you bastard?! Not even an SSS-grade Indulgence can cover this, you son of a bitch!!]
“Well, technically I’m not killing them, so it ends with SSS-grade.”
No sooner had the words fallen than
By that powerful force, Hwaryunju, now turned into a tool, was also sucked into the Cradle.
Given that he was already being turned into a human due to the rule change, he might have been just slightly short on power.
And all the subordinate gods following him also screamed as they were dragged into Chaos.
[Aaarrrgh!!!]
It was a terrifying power.
A death impossible to escape, a power with no end in sight.
In the end, as he was sucked in, Hwaryunju glared at Igeon’s eyes and fumed.
‘Yes. The problem was letting that bastard into the Divine Realm from the start.’
A prophecy had once descended upon the Divine Realm.
The prophecy-line gods, and among them the Burning Lord, had also sneered and spoken.
-The goddesses say the future of the Divine Realm is looking unclear. They say a calamity might come that could wipe out all gods. Well, it’s probably nonsense. Since the great Hwaryunju is here.
But it seemed that prophecy had been roughly correct.
A calamity god that brings disaster to the Divine Realm.
A calamity that would eliminate all gods.
‘Damn it.’
That was exactly that bastard.
(Continued in the next episode)