novelbin Chapter 543
Chapter 543
[ You have defeated a Gigantes. ]
[ You have defeated a Gigantes. ]
[ You have defeated a Gigantes. ]
[ You have defeated a Gigantes. ]
......
As time passed, welcome notifications began springing up in clusters.
They were truly welcome notifications no matter how many times he saw them.
Su-ho said to Zeus,
“A fly’s going to get in your mouth.”
“H-huh? Ah, yes......”
Had he ever expected this?
He had succeeded in creating a human hero after receiving the prophecy that they had to borrow the power of a human hero, but the human hero he had imagined was one who, like other human generals, would brandish a weapon and rampage across the battlefield.
But his son displayed power beyond imagination—no, a kind of power he had never even considered.
It was then.
“Everyone gather together and combine your strength!!”
A powerful shout rang out from among the Gigantes.
At the same time, from the direction the voice came from, Kwa-rung! a great crash rang out, and countless shadow knights began being flung in all directions as though they had been yanked up like turnips and thrown away.
Seeing that, Zeus said,
“So in the end, those bastards are stepping forward.”
“You know them?”
“They are the most powerful among Grandmother’s children, the Gigantes. They’re the ones that have been giving us the greatest headache.”
Alcyoneus.
Porphyrion.
Enceladus.
Ephialtes.
Pallas.
They were among the strongest of the Gigantes Gaia had borne, and they were also the bastards causing the Olympian gods the most trouble.
“Then I’ll step in myself.”
“You?”
“I can’t keep ordering around only the soldiers under me forever, can I?”
Saying that, Su-ho rode Cheolma toward them.
Sure enough, the Gigantes, who had been driven onto the defensive by the Black Army, slowly began reforming their formation and pushing back the shadow knights under the direct command of the five bastards Zeus had mentioned.
“Okay, that’s far enough.”
At Su-ho’s appearance, the shadow knights withdrew.
Su-ho decided to call the five powerful Gigantes the Five Gigantes Brothers.
Well, they should be brothers anyway.
Alcyoneus, who seemed to be the eldest among the five brothers, said,
“What are you?”
“I’m Hercules, the human hero of prophecy.”
“Human? Do you think a mere human could stand against us, giants and children of the gods?”
“All mouth and nothing else. You can barely resist even my shadow soldiers, and you’re not embarrassed running your mouth like that?”
“Embarrassed, you say?”
At those words, Alcyoneus raised his right hand, and the earth rose up, forming one enormous spear of rough design.
“Then go ahead and die at the hands of someone embarrassing.”
As expected of giants.
Apparently they had no intention of talking any further, because they immediately charged at Su-ho.
Kwaaaaaang!!
A tremendous crash.
But the Five Gigantes Brothers failed to reach Su-ho.
Because standing between Su-ho and the Five Gigantes Brothers was the sturdy shield protecting Su-ho—Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack.
- How dare a bunch of scrubby little weaklings even try?
“A monster?”
- Who are you calling a monster! I too am of the great giant race!!
[ Shadow Divine Beast King Hollow Jack uses Fear. ]
Gwhoooooooong!!
As expected of the Shadow Divine Beast King.
The Fear surging from Jack’s entire body as though it were convulsing had enough power to shove back the Five Gigantes Brothers in one go, despite them being strong enough to keep even the Olympian gods in check.
- Stop dragging your feet and let’s wipe them out in one shot!
“That’s music to my ears!”
Jack absorbed the shadow knights and enlarged his body.
Then he pressured the Five Gigantes Brothers like mad and turned the tide of battle in an instant.
Su-ho did not stay still either.
[ Eclipse is activated. ]
[ You receive sunlight and moonlight. ]
[ The Sun and Moon Runes react. ]
[ The power of the sun and moon is activated. ]
[ You receive the Blessing of the Sun and Moon. ]
[ All stats increase by 2%. ]
[ All recovery power increases by 2%. ]
[ The fire attribute is activated. ]
[ The light attribute is activated. ]
[ The ice attribute is activated. ]
[ The dark attribute is activated. ]
He brought up Eclipse.
Then he immediately pressed a hand to the ground.
[ Corruption Sorcery is activated. ]
The moment Corruption Sorcery was activated, beginning from the spot where Su-ho had placed his hand, the land of Phlegrae blackened and rotted away in an instant like the land of the demon world.
“What is this?!”
“Why is this happening all of a sudden?!”
“Goddamn it!!”
The Gigantes began panicking badly.
They could hardly do otherwise.
They were the children of Gaia, the goddess of the earth.
Which meant they were beings more influenced by the earth than anyone else, yet he had made that very earth rot with Corruption Sorcery, so the power surrounding them was bound to weaken drastically.
[ Weaken is activated. ]
[ Seal of Pain is activated. ]
[ Enrage is activated. ]
[ Blessing of Rage is activated. ]
[ Curse of Rage is activated. ]
And that was not all. The moment Su-ho corrupted the earth, he also stacked all kinds of debuffs onto the five brothers.
- Gahahaha! Well done, Master!
Kwaang!!
Jack’s fist slammed into the five brothers.
Caught off guard by the sudden weakening effect, the five brothers, who had been fighting on equal footing, collapsed in a heap like bowling pins getting knocked over.
“Looks like it’s finally my turn.”
Only after finishing all the preliminary setup did Su-ho finally draw the Blood Sword and join the fight.
[ Enhancement is activated. ]
[ Diamond Cutter is activated. ]
[ Enhancement is applied. ]
[ The power of Diamond Cutter grows even stronger. ]
Slice!!
“Guaaaaaaagh!!”
Pallas, who had been closest, let out a scream of pain from Su-ho’s Diamond Cutter.
At that sight, the other brothers’ eyes grew as wide as saucers.
Pallas had the thickest hide among the Gigantes, yet Pallas’s arm had been cleanly lopped off as though slicing through tofu.
“Next!”
Su-ho shouted boldly.
“Wow......”
“My goodness......”
“As expected of the child of prophecy......!”
Exclamations burst out one after another.
They came from the Olympian gods.
The Olympian gods, who had been pushed onto the defensive, had suddenly been saved by the shadow knights that had appeared out of nowhere.
No, beyond being saved, things had reached the point where they did not even need to fight.
Whenever they tried to do anything, shadow knights would pop out on their own and crazily hound one of the Gigantes.
So naturally they had begun stepping back and watching the flow of battle, and it did not take them long to realize that all of this was thanks to Hercules, the hero of prophecy.
“This......”
“Doesn’t it seem like we’re going to win?”
“If we lose here, wouldn’t that be the real joke?”
They asked and answered their own questions.
Everyone nodded.
At the reaction of the gods, Zeus barked,
“What do you mean it’s over! The war still isn’t over! Aren’t any of you staying on guard?!”
“But there’s nothing for us to do.”
“Do you really think that?”
“Huh?”
“It’s coming.”
Zeus’s eyes turned grave.
It’s coming.
He could feel it.
Something with an enormous aura.
The Olympian gods did not understand Zeus’s words, but before long, they too were able to feel the waves of that tremendous power Zeus had sensed.
“W-What is this......?!”
“F-Father! What is this?”
“I’ve never felt such powerful and evil force before......!”
The Olympian gods were thrown into turmoil.
Because this power crushing down on their entire bodies was a form of evil they had never once felt since the day they were born.
Kugugugugugugu!!
The earth shook.
It felt as though an earthquake had struck.
Then the Gigantes suddenly pulled back and began letting out cries that were almost cheers.
“It’s coming!!”
“He is coming!!”
“He is coming!!”
“Everyone bow down!!”
The ecstatic shouts of the Gigantes.
On the faces of those who had had no hope just moments ago, the joy of certain victory suddenly appeared.
Thanks to that, Su-ho could tell as well.
'So it’s finally coming.'
Yeah.
Going by the flow, it was about time for it to appear.
The final act of the Gigantomachy.
At that moment—
[ A Boss Monster is appearing. ]
A system notification.
And together with it, the center of the land of Phlegrae finally split apart, and from within it, an existence of tremendous size revealed itself while pouring out a ridiculous amount of evil energy.
'It’s here.'
A body so enormous its head looked as though it might touch the sky at any moment.
On its shoulders were countless snakes with jaws spread wide like hydras, like the head of Medusa, and its legs and parts of its body had the form of serpents just like the Gigantes.
The Boss Monster’s identity was none other than Typhon, the final weapon and worst apocalypse of the Gigantomachy.
- Typhon Lv.???
There was a cute little nameplate stuck above the bastard’s head.
Yeah.
Going by the flow of the myth, it was about time for you to show up.
Still, this feels damn unpleasant.
Sure, the protagonist appears at the very end, but you’re not the protagonist, are you?
“So I’ll make sure to beat the living hell out of you.”
At that moment—
- I have come, you damned Olympian bastards!!
[ Typhon is enraged. ]
[ Typhon uses Ruler-Class Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear is not applied. ]
[ Due to the effect of Ruler-Class Fear, all buff effects on the players are removed. ]
A shout that rang out as though to tear apart the sky.
It immediately led into Ruler-Class Fear and carried enough power to make everyone on the battlefield clutch their ears shut.
Naturally, the buffs were dispelled as well.
Even the Black Army faltered for a moment and lost its form before regenerating again.
Because Jack restored it.
Jack said,
- One hell of a bastard has shown up.
“If we take down that bastard first, it looks like we can put out the urgent fire.”
- What about the Special Quest? Did it activate?
“No.”
As expected of Jack.
He checked on the Special Quest Su-ho had briefly forgotten about.
But for some reason, the Special Quest still remained stubbornly silent.
- Looks like some condition is still lacking. Don’t rush it—let’s kill that bastard first. So, who’s taking him?
“Obviously.”
[ Gigantification is activated. ]
Su-ho’s body began growing like mad.
Then, with a body grown just as monstrously huge as Typhon’s, he shouted so loudly that the entire area rang out thunderously.
“I am!”
[ Mini Fear is activated. ]
Kurururururung!!
With that shout, the whole region of Phlegrae thundered and the air vibrated.
Su-ho applied his buffs to himself once more.
[ Blessing is activated. ]
[ Paladin is activated. ]
[ Divine Aura is activated. ]
[ Mana Detection is activated. ]
[ Endurance is activated. ]
[ Enhancement is activated. ]
[ Wildsmith’s Eye is activated. ]
[ Rage Mode is activated. ]
[ Foxfire is activated. ]
This time, however, he had no weapon.
Because the Great Blood Jade did not have nearly enough blood to create a Blood Sword large enough for a self as giant as Typhon.
But that was fine.
He had beaten Hollow Jack with his bare hands—would he really need a sword for this bastard?
Typhon glared at Su-ho, who had suddenly appeared, and said,
- So you’re the human hero from the prophecy.
“Yeah, nice to meet you. So let’s hurry up and say goodbye too.”
- A mere human dares!
Gwhooooooong!!
[ Typhon uses Red Gaia. ]
At that moment, from the ground where the bastard had emerged, an enormous quantity of lava began erupting like a live volcano.