Chapter 400
Kwaaaaaaak!
The law of causality raged.
The laws that constituted the world turned into blades aimed at Chris, and a terrifying spiritual voice dug into his ears.
Ggiaaaaaaaak.
His mind went dizzy.
He could feel his soul being dyed black in real time.
‘Is he trying to encroach upon my soul with the evil energy of Gehenna?’
It was different from simply exposing one’s soul to evil energy.
His soul was being synchronized with the evil energy, and it was on the verge of being fundamentally twisted.
It was something that should be impossible by common sense, but dominating the law of causality was an authority that made any impossibility possible.
‘I won’t just take this.’
Paaat!
The authority of the Throne pushed away the law of causality that had been encroaching upon his soul.
Although he had used a trick, Chris’s current ability to manipulate the law of causality was comparable to a 9-Star (high). He defended against the Pope’s scheme without difficulty.
However, the Pope still maintained a relaxed attitude.
[Let us see how far you can go with your petty tricks.]
Paaat.
His authority unfolded once again.
“Be careful!!”
This time, it was a physical attack.
Along with the law of causality, the empty air raged, and tens of thousands of invisible blades flew at Christian.
Each one was an attack imbued with the law of causality.
“!!”
He succeeded in defending by raising his own authority to counter it, but Chris’s complexion turned faintly pale.
A similar scene continued to unfold.
The Pope launched his attacks as if toying with him one-sidedly.
Although he was barely defending, it was visible that his strength was gradually waning.
The way Chris had raised his ability was, in the end, just a trick. As time went on, his limits became clearly apparent.
[Let us end this now.]
Gooooo.
As the Pope drew up his power with all his might, the arena grew quiet.
Everyone watching swallowed their saliva.
This time, it was absolutely unstoppable.
It was a formidable energy, to the point that everyone could feel it intuitively.
However, Chris suddenly twisted the corners of his mouth.
“Well now? We’ll have to see who it is that’s finished.”
Paaaaaaaaat!!!
The surroundings were covered in darkness.
He had unfolded the Throne with all his might.
However, the form of the Throne was different from before.
A serene voice rang out.
The softly spreading voice echoed as if piercing the ears of everyone in this place.
Within the hearts of everyone, even the priests of the Mystic Demonic House, a sense of awe began to well up.
It was not simply dominating all things as an ‘authority’.
It was as if the entire world were paying homage.
It was the effect of the authority of the Throne perfectly dominating the law of causality.
Despite having used a trick, he had manifested the Throne at the level of a perfect 9-Star (high) Ruler.
It was thanks to his continuous preparations while defending.
Thanks to that.
[How dare you.]
The Pope’s expression hardened, sensing that something was amiss.
Kurururung.
The Pope’s power and the power of the Throne clashed, and the world shook as if heaven and earth were being overturned.
The source of the Pope’s power was the evil energy of Gehenna.
The evil energy encroached as if to devour the surface, and Chris’s Throne attempted to subjugate that evil energy.
A battle to determine who was the true ruler of the law of causality.
In the midst of the tense confrontation, the balance wavered.
Chris’s Throne suddenly pushed back the Pope’s power.
“Waaaah!! All hail the Demon King of Contempt!!”
Those who were watching let out cheers.
The other fights had fallen into a lull, and everyone was looking at Chris with desperate eyes.
However, the Pope let out a dark laugh.
[Foolish. This is the end.]
“!!”
Goooooooo.
The nature of the Advent of Creation that the Pope had unfolded changed.
A crushing pressure, as if a giant were pressing down, bore down on all four directions.
It was a pressure that overwhelmed the soul.
Simultaneously, countless eyeballs revealed themselves within the space of Gehenna that had encroached upon the surface.
Ghastly and gruesome gazes, that seemed as if one’s mind would crumble just by meeting them.
‘Great Beings!’
He had twisted the law of causality to manifest the great devils, who originally could not affect the surface.
Although it was not their true bodies, but only a part of their authority that had been manifested, it was absolutely unbearable.
‘He used the collapse of the law of causality, created by the clash of my Throne’s authority and his own authority, to his advantage.’
As expected of the Pope. His capabilities surpassed imagination.
However.
In the face of that desperate situation, Chris showed an incomprehensible reaction.
“I don’t know who’s the foolish one here.”
[…What?]
“Do you think that I, the great one, would not have calculated that you would pull such a trick?”
Yes, Chris had anticipated that the Pope would use a method like this.
Because he had witnessed it in his previous life.
‘I was waiting for him to summon the authority of the great devils.’
Chris turned his gaze.
“Now, Idrinne!”
Idrinne, who had been silent without any reaction until now, opened her eyes with a flash.
“Can you do it?”
“Of course. With the power of my friendship, nothing is impossible.”
It was not simply to interfere with the ritual of the altar that he had called Idrinne.
Idrinne was the joker of this operation.
The outcome of the battle would depend on whether she could do it or not.
Paaat!
The altar raged.
Idrinne had not been idle all this time.
Taking advantage of the opening while the Pope’s hands were tied fighting Chris, she had brought the control of the altar back to herself.
Why?
To use the altar according to her own will.
[You brats… what are you trying to do?]
The Pope frowned.
“You have manifested such an immense power, so it would be foolish to just stand by and watch.”
[…What?]
“I will absorb it all for you.”
As mentioned before, the principle of this altar was simple.
It was to absorb sacrifices and convert them into power.
The total amount of sacrifices that could be absorbed was infinite.
However, there was one thing to note here.
What the altar could absorb was not necessarily just living, breathing sacrifices.
Any sacrifice would do, as long as it could be converted into power.
‘In other words, it is also possible to absorb the energy of those great devils as a sacrifice.’
An unbelievable story.
How could one make the energy of the great devils a sacrifice? It was something impossible according to the laws of the world.
But it was possible.
‘I just have to change the ‘definition’ established in the world’s law of causality.’
If the law of the world was that the energy of the great devils could not be made a sacrifice, then he just had to change that law.
Because that was the authority of a Ruler who dominated the law of causality.
[What…!! How is that possible?!]
The Pope, who had noticed what Chris was trying to do, cried out in astonishment.
“You can’t do it because you’re a moron, but I can.”
Gooooooooooooo!!
The heavens shook as if the great devils were enraged.
But right now, they had not manifested in their complete, true forms. They were merely casting a part of their shadows upon the world. They could not overturn the law of causality that Chris had changed.
‘The problem is Idrinne.’
Changing the energy of the great devils into a sacrifice was not the end.
Idrinne had to absorb that energy into the altar.
For her, who had not yet even perfectly become a 9-Star, it was an unreasonable role.
-I will help.
Chris sent a message, but Idrinne showed an unexpected reaction.
-No, it is alright. I can do it.
-But?
-If you help me, I will suffer great damage, won't I? I will do it.
Chris closed his mouth.
She was right.
Unlike Idrinne, who had assimilated with the altar, Chris would be directly exposed to the energy of the great devils and did not know what kind of fatal adverse effects he might receive.
-Trust me and leave it to me. I have a plan.
-…What?
-Did I not tell you? That I would definitely become your strength.
Soon after, Chris, who had been watching what Idrinne was doing, opened his eyes wide.
She had begun an unbelievable, reckless attempt.
‘She is taking the energy converted into a sacrifice into herself?’
She was trying to achieve a breakthrough at once using the energy of the great devils!
‘That’s impossible!!’
A breakthrough was not something that could be achieved simply by accepting energy.
Especially the state of 9-Star, which Idrinne was on the verge of, was even more so.
No, aside from that, there was no way she could be safe after accepting that much energy.
But there was something Chris had forgotten for a moment.
That she had been the Demon King of Bloodshed in her previous life.
It was not that she had been able to become the Demon King of Bloodshed simply because a devil had descended.
It was because her talent, which had become the vessel, was so outstanding as to be second to none, that she had been able to be reborn as the Demon King of Bloodshed.
Paat!
The energy of the great devils swirled inside Idrinne’s body.
Normally, she should have exploded into pieces, but she used her own body, which had synchronized with the altar, as if it were the altar itself.
She had made it a container to store the energy.
Idrinne calmly contemplated the energy of the great devils raging within her body and thought.
‘The great devils are beings who are the law of causality itself.’
This was what was special about the great beings of the 4th realm and above.
The beings below them manipulated or dominated the law of causality.
On the other hand, the great devils of Gehenna and the giant stars of the Celestial Realm possessed the law of causality within their very existence.
They could be said to be the pillars that constituted the world.
Therefore, their energy also contained the law of causality.
‘If I can handle this energy, I can reach 9-Star.’
She could do it.
Idrinne recalled the past.
The time when the devil had descended and manipulated her body.
It was a terrible memory, but there was something to be gained.
The way the devil had moved her body like a puppet at that time was an act of manipulating the law of causality.
The sensation of the devil moving the law of causality at that time remained vividly in her memory.
‘I have practiced countless times based on the memory of that time. I can do it.’
To be of help to Chris, she had to become a 9-Star.
With that in mind, she had attempted to handle the law of causality numerous times.
Her enlightenment was already in a state of completion.
The reason she had not been able to reach 9-Star despite that was because her vessel had not been completed.
It was a situation where her physical vessel could not keep up with her enlightenment, just as Chris had been before.
But now, using the energy of the great devils that had entered her body, it could be resolved.
She was not trying to absorb it.
She did not know how her body and soul would be contaminated if she were to absorb the energy of the great devils.
Instead.
‘I just have to temper my vessel with this energy.’
Surprisingly, it was the same idea as what Chris had done when he had absorbed Sherad before.
Paaaaaaaaat!!
The energy of the great devils tempered Idrinne’s vessel.
Idrinne did not stop at simply strengthening her vessel; she converted the energy of the great devils used for the tempering into pure power through the altar and transferred it to Chris.
As she handled the energy of the great devils, a massive lump of the law of causality, Idrinne’s achievement rose in real time.
Along with that, an enormous amount of energy was transferred to Christian.
[Wh-what…!!]
“This is the end.”
Chris aimed Andrill at the Pope.
The massive amount of energy sent by Idrinne flickered at the tip of Andrill’s blade.
The amount of energy that Andrill could contain was infinite.
It could handle it as much as it wanted, even if it were the energy of the great devils.
The Pope hastily tried to defend by manipulating the law of causality, but he did not just stand by and watch.
The authority of Chris’s Throne disrupted the Pope’s defense, and the Demon King of Silver Snow, the Demon King of Sorrow, and Nordian also combined their strength with all their remaining energy.
Of course, even with this, it was only a slight scratch, but even a faint opening was fine.
Paaaat!
Andrill flashed.
An energy as if it would split the world.
It shattered the Pope’s defense, which had already revealed an opening, and split the Pope’s body as it was.