[The Pope, Calistus I, is dominated by the Laurel of Creation.]
[Destroy all of Calistus’s Life Vessels. (0/5)]
[This is the true power of Baal Zebub… I will undoubtedly condemn this heresy.]
“Watch out, sister!”
Adella screamed into the void.
The world is spinning upside down. I guess it looks that way because I’m falling headfirst.
As I blinked, I saw the sun beyond sinking below the horizon. Upside down, it looks like it’s hiding above.
With a single blow, my body was lifted.
I thought I would have died in one hit if I hadn’t at least matched my health stats through minimal adventure up to Chapter 3.
[‘Nyangster Call’ donated 1,000 won!]
– It’s all over now… just over…
In the inverted world, a gigantic fly was leisurely roaming the skies.
10,000 eyes moved independently and then all looked at me at once.
“That’s seriously creepy.”
[Casting: Elasticity Coefficient Regulation]
The ground inflated like an airbag and was wrapped in a soft earthy scent.
Really, a person should live by stepping on the ground. Only pests can fly around.
My heart stopped racing like I was on a roller coaster, and I slowly lifted my body.
[Daehagwonsaengsalryeo: NoName, why on earth did you kill Daniel!]
I know.
Without the Execution Sword of Parma, I’d have to search for Calistus’s Life Vessels all over another map.
And that would significantly slow down our progress.
I held onto Skiabona, who had come this far with me.
The Pope, now a fly the size of a house, flapped its buzzing wings as it hovered in the sky.
“Are you okay, sister? Are you hurt? What were you thinking jumping into that monster? I was so startled!”
Adella suppressed her emotions and helped lift my body.
– It’s your fault, King Nyang ^^
– To find the Life Vessel, I need to move around the map!
– Please don’t be stubborn, Teacher!
– Della, I’m sorryㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
– NoName will have some kind of plan.
– It’s an aerial mob, so even if I have the Execution Sword, I can only attack when it comes down, and it’ll take forever like this, so there’s no way to clear it now.
[Everyone pay attention. Bow in awe. Welcome the deity descending upon the world!]
A gigantic wing cast a shadow over the sky. The surrounding weeds began to rot.
Crows, who flew from who knows where, caused dissonance as they swarmed around the Pope.
It’s really noisy from all sides… chirp chirp…
“Pass me a dagger, Adella.”
“Uh? Here…”
The warm handle, heated by Adella’s body, was comforting.
I gripped the dagger in reverse and concentrated all my aura in my legs.
I narrowed my eyes and began to run toward the damned fly.
Humming a children’s song I used to sing a long time ago.
“The ship that set off for the continent,
carrying the dreams of 32 passengers,
was swallowed by a fierce storm.
The ship was split in two.”
-?
-?
-?
-What?
-^?^
The Pope, or now a demon called Baal Zebub, roared.
In tune with that roar, crows transformed into swirling blades and flew in.
“The captain is an upright person.
Prioritizing women and the elderly.
The ship rose again,
and now 16 remain.”
Most of the motions were absorbed while watching Adella’s combat with the dagger.
It wasn’t difficult to deflect the randomly flying blades and accelerate even more.
It was the instant I zipped past beneath Baal Zebub.
As if to say I wouldn’t allow anyone to cross my territory, sparks rained down from the sky.
They spilled from the wings of the fly.
“On a warm day, the sails were raised.
The ship crashed into a reef and broke apart.
Captain, captain, the ship is flooding.
Who will you rescue first?”
– Let’s throw away the old folks.
└ Throwing away sounds so harsh, lol;;
– Just randomly?
– Still, isn’t it better to rescue the relatively younger ones first?
“The captain is a considerate person.
Prioritizing those who cannot swim.
The ship rose again,
and now 8 remain.”
Holding my breath against the mixed stench of burning wood, decaying corpses, and sewage, I finally reached the first location and drove the dagger into the ground.
[El (1)]
“With my binoculars, I saw the continent far away,
but the shark appeared and tore the deck apart.
Captain, captain, the ship is flooding.
Who will you rescue first?”
– Is there such a ridiculous psycho? lol;;
– Let’s cut by age again.
– Just touching it can kill, what are they talking about!
└ Last words, wow…
There was no time to hesitate.
I retrieved the dagger and sprang back up to charge toward Baal again.
The anger in it was bubbling over, causing its antennae to quiver.
“The captain is a just man.
Prioritizing those without sin in life.
The ship rose again,
and now 4 remain.”
Suddenly, my ears started ringing. My vision blurred, and the ground swayed like waves.
The waves coming from Baal’s antennae were teasing my brain.
This trick wouldn’t fool even a five-year-old.
[Writing: Reverse Laplace Transformation]
[2nd Circle Relic: Interference Cancellation]
“I could see the continent beyond the fog,
but pirates appeared and fired their cannons.
Captain, captain, the ship is flooding.
Who will you rescue first?”
– Thinking about it, why isn’t the captain getting off? lol
└ For real, it’s infuriating lol
– The captain must steer, right?
– What does it matter with a ship that’s like this?
– Could it be that he’s drawing a Magic Circle?
– NoSori, I’m so dizzy, Teacher!!!
Turning back, I inscribed runes in the pre-drawn universal (汎) magic circle.
[Las (2)]
“The captain is a brave man.
Prioritizing those who will fight alongside.
The ship rose again,
and now 2 remain.”
[Are you mocking my burden! I won’t let you go lightly!]
Baal’s six legs swept across the ground.
What seemed small while airborne turned into massive pillars when they approached.
Mud and filth rushed past chaotically, disorienting my vision.
Momentarily stuck in the ground, I nearly lost my balance, but with Adella’s help, I barely escaped.
Reaching the direction facing the sun, I engraved the third rune.
[Mabeon (3)]
“The continent was right in front of me,
but lightning struck, and the ship shattered.
Captain, captain, the ship is flooding.
Who will you rescue first?”
– The captain is such a jerk!
– So, only 2 remain out of 32? Including the captain, there are 3?
– We don’t know the ending yet.
What I’m about to do is inscribe the runes into the universal magic circle.
To suppress the erosion of inertia or to face a gigantic enemy like now, a magic circle of appropriate size was needed.
Especially since the fabrication method based on Arabesque showed better efficiency the larger it was, I focused all my efforts into creating it.
[Samatra (13)]
Amplification factors for spatial magic: 1, 2, 3, 13.
Even if I do poorly, it should be enough to have reached the third amplification factor.
After recording all the runes and returning to the center of the Coliseum, I breathed heavily.
Even in a game, pushing myself this hard accumulated fatigue quickly.
“The captain is a good person.
Prioritizing pregnant women with children.
The ship rose again,
and now 1 remains.”
Mana flowed into the 50m diameter magic circle.
All the mana in the atmosphere was being sucked into the runes of the magic circle.
It was so insatiable that it seemed to drain all the mana from my body.
My hair fluttered in the wind, and Adella’s skirt billowed.
The magic circle, which had overly emitted light, suddenly went dark,
[Universal Casting: Arabesque Knot – Earth]
Boom!
With a brilliant flash, geometrical chains burst forth from the ground, wrapping around Baal Zebub’s body.
The length bound endlessly, as the magic circle greedily devoured mana, creating knots until Baal’s entire body was entangled.
The knot, also known as the executioner’s knot, is a useful magic against those like Baal Zebub who wield remnants that transfer life.
After cutting off all life lines, it forcibly bestows life and flesh to the shell, reclaiming its life again.
How convenient for a killing spell, as it only requires defeating the main body, regardless of how much lifespan has been left behind.
“The Utopia ship reached the continent.
The captain and the woman disembarked on the deck.
Cannibals appeared and took them away,
and before dying, the woman shouted,
‘The captain is a really bad person.
Among those you abandoned was my husband.’
The ship didn’t rise again.
And now no one is left.”
– Wow, what an ending.
– They all died.
– ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
– What are you gonna do about the captain?
– For real, lol.
As the magic enveloped the demon’s flesh, I directed my gaze to the chat window.
“The captain met a miserable end trying to save as many people as possible. What moral can we draw from this?”
– Don’t get cocky?
– But he seems like someone who can repair the ship well.
– The cost of male resentment?
└ Male resentment, lol
└ Isn’t that right? He saved only women in the beginning.
– It’s dangerous to be on a ship, Teacher.
“It seems like a reasonable standard, but ultimately the result is catastrophe. Even if that was the best choice… But would things have turned out differently if he hadn’t abandoned everyone from the start? That wouldn’t be the case either. So what is the point of my story?”
I gripped the handle of Skiabona, haphazardly shoved into the ground.
I had to put a bit of force into my arm to pull it out completely from the rock.
The tip of the blade pointed toward the mummified fly. I now knew exactly what to do.
“The captain shouldn’t have set sail on a stormy day from the beginning. Right? Everyone? Those unprepared or without strength have no right to make moral choices.”
If the captain believed he was morally justified until the end, he must have been truly foolish.
Human beings are fundamentally short-sighted, and they don’t reflect on the right or wrong of their past actions.
Daniel was no different.
Those who fiercely chase only one purpose—survival—do not even realize what they did wrong.
Just a simple excuse of ‘I couldn’t help it’ is really convenient.
That is evil, and the ordinariness that evil possesses.
In the real world, it may be the ordinary lives of people that better showcase the actions of what we consider ‘evil’ than people like the Pope, who derive pleasure from blind murder.
And the reason I sought to condemn him wasn’t because I was particularly morally superior.
[Simple Casting (0.2): Unique Magic – Estasha’s Style 2nd Form – Schadenfreude]
The difference between him and me is.
“I’m strong enough without that silly Execution Sword.”
[Clone: Alphonse Shipot]
[Casting: Unique Magic – Astell’s Ring]
The blueprint containing his unique magic unfurled in my mental library.
I wasn’t expecting it, but the sword techniques inspired by the Pauli Exclusion Principle and applied from electronic degeneracy pressure were stunning.
If Alphonse were in the Magic Tower during his past life, I would have wanted to take him as an apprentice.
“Tree Wiki is god… I am invincible…”
Just as I was about to keep blabbering, I resolved to finish off the fly.
“So don’t doubt me, you filthy things, shut up…!”
Ah, damn it, how embarrassing. I quickly covered my mouth and silenced the camera voice.
The insect flopping its six legs out of the Arabesque Knot looked like it was trapped in a spider web.
Descending upon Baal Zebub’s body, I struck with enough force to blow even the Demon Lord away.
*
The swirling storm clouds reached above Baal’s head.
From the clouds that steal light from all things, dark blue lightning struck down.
Five bolts of lightning pierced through the huge fly’s head and body.
As the Arabesque Knot suddenly emitted a glorious light, it tightened its hold on the contents even more.
Baal Zebub’s body contorted grotesquely as it was crushed between the knots.
When it reached the limit of contraction, cracks began to form in the immense cocoon.
KABOOM!
With an ear-splitting explosion, the colossal body of the fly turned into dust, and the sound announcing the boss’s defeat echoed throughout the world.
[Chapter 3: The Falling Babel Tower END]
[Chapter 4: $#%%&#%@^]
[system: Cannot find boss in the area.]
[system: Incorrect access.]
[Access denied for User NoName#3947292]
[Error Code: 75015]
[▶ Exiting World of Arseria.]
