The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 Novel

Chapter 323

In the flames of the Thousand Dragon's Thunderbolt.

"...You."

Longinus, trapped in the white flames, glared at Sung JiHan, who was approaching with fierce eyes.

Although he had been hit by the unexpected counterattack and his spear of divine punishment was blocked, the armor of blood that had disappeared was gradually being restored, perhaps due to the significant difference in power between him and Sung JiHan.

"I need to use the annihilation code quickly."

Sung JiHan accelerated even more and approached Longinus.

When the distance between them reached a close range,

Longinus' armor had mostly recovered its appearance.

And...

"This time will be different!"

Sssss...

Even in the flames, blood oozed from all directions, creating blood spears.

Perhaps it was because the spear had been thrown and guided towards Longinus.

This time, instead of throwing the spear, Longinus tightly held it in his hand.

In that state, smoke quickly rose from the tip of the blood spear.

[Target code, partial match]

[Annihilation code activated]

The code from earlier came to mind again.

"Longinus."

However, Sung JiHan, who had anticipated this from the moment he saw the spear, summoned Enkidu next to him.

The chains entwined, revealing a giant steel golem.

The spear that Longinus was holding moved towards Enkidu on its own, as if it had a mind of its own.

If he hadn't held it tightly in his hand, the blood spear would have already flown away.

"Yiik...! Enkidu. How annoying!"

Longinus tightly held the moving spear and aimed the tip at Sung JiHan again.

Perhaps because it was firmly in his grasp, the blood spear no longer hesitated.

[Seat of Authority level reduced to 772]

When he was refining his formation, Sung JiHan also received a message.

"It's been 10 minutes."

Once he reached level 772, Sung JiHan could become the Seat of Authority.

In fact, there was still some leeway in this level itself.

"The mask is the problem."

After about 10 minutes, the pressure of the void that pushed against him from the mask became increasingly burdensome.

Although there was no exact numerical value indicating when he would be bound by the will of the void.

Sung JiHan instinctively realized that if he continued to use it for more than 10 minutes here, he would be consumed by the void.

As much as it amplified his power, the backlash from the mask was equally severe.

"If the message appears one more time, I have to take off the mask."

Sung JiHan independently set the effective time of the mask to 15 minutes.

In that case, there was almost no time left.

Sung JiHan rushed towards the place where Longinus was holding the spear himself.

"You're coming on your own...!"

Longinus aimed the tip of the spear with a wicked smile, but...

[Warning! Player 'Sung JiHan' is under the concentrated management of the BattleNet.]

[Cease hostile actions towards the Seat of Authority candidate.]

Crackle. Crackle...!

Both of them received warning messages from the BattleNet, and a white current flashed through Longinus' body, momentarily freezing his movements.

"After 10 minutes, the BattleNet management is activated."

"Kuk...!"

Even while being engulfed in the white current, Longinus tried to move his body with superhuman strength.

One.

"Did I tell you to upgrade your business?"

Hmm.

Before that, Sung JiHan approached Longinus.

"Look."

Whoosh!

At the tip of Sung JiHan's finger, a red flame blossomed.

At first glance, it was no different from Fire and Big, but inside it contained a mixture of Sung JiHan's abilities, including the power of stat modification.

"This is what I upgraded."

As he moved his finger.

Chiing...!

Above Longinus' blood armor.

[Annihilation]

A single character was engraved.

Saaa...

Then, the armor of blood disappeared in an instant.

"This..."

Longinus felt the disappearing vitality and tried to resist it somehow.

But the annihilation code possessed absolute power.

Saaa...

The flesh disappeared in an instant.

At first, the chest disappeared.

Then, the arms and legs holding the spear.

And further.

"The spear...!"

Longinus' blood spear disappeared as if it had never existed.

What remained for him was only his head.

With trembling eyes, Longinus looked at where his body used to be.

"...This, is this what you upgraded my business to?"

"Yes."

"It certainly has an effect. The foundation that kept me alive, my vitality is disappearing... What I couldn't get rid of no matter what is disappearing like this. Finally... am I dying?"

Rather than frustration, Longinus' voice was filled with anticipation.

Upon hearing that, Sung JiHan slightly raised his head.

"Did you want to die?"

"Yes. I didn't expect to die so quickly... But with the power of the upgraded divine assassination, even dying has meaning."

It was natural for Sung JiHan, as the Apostle of the God of Slaughter, to annihilate Longinus.

If he were to be defeated by him and annihilate himself, it would fulfill Longinus' original wish for "self-death."

"Now... it's done."

After witnessing the disappearance of the blood spear, Longinus no longer had any intention to fight Sung JiHan.

Although it was an embarrassing thing for him as a candidate for the Apostle to be defeated so quickly, he thought that everything was now meaningless when the death he had longed for finally came.

And...

Hmm...

As his neck and jaw began to disappear, Longinus weakly laughed.

"...I lost."

With those words.

Longinus' head completely disappeared.

* * *

"...Did he die? The Apostle at this level, already? He lost to a candidate for the Apostle?"

The Shadow Queen, seeing her opponent disappear before her eyes, was dumbfounded.

Even though her opponent's core attack was blocked by the Steel Giant and his movements stopped due to the warning message from the BattleNet.

Still, the turning point of the battle came too quickly.

Especially.

The opponent, Longinus, was not at the level of a newly appointed Pope.

"At least at the level of a Pope, he would be at least Level 3-4 in terms of autonomy......"

"What level is that?"

"Among the Popes, he is in the lower-middle ranks."

The power he showed was enough to be able to carry out activities as a Pope.

But for an opponent of that level to disappear so quickly.

"What... did he do?"

"He used his abilities well."

"He's good at using the abilities of others."

Sung JiHan smirked at his words.

What fits perfectly with the words of the Shadow Queen is a wandering god.

"Let's take this off first."

Sung JiHan quickly took off his mask.

Then, the swirling emptiness energy in his body quickly subsided.

"If I had delayed the time a little longer, I would have been bound by the will of emptiness."

The effective time of the mask, which was measured to be 15 minutes.

As the time approached, the emptiness moving inside his body was not a good sign.

It's a good thing that Longinus couldn't withstand the annihilation code and disappeared.

If only a little more time had been delayed, it might have been us who lost.

But still.

"The emptiness stat has increased by 5."

"The emptiness has increased."

If it's so easy to increase the emptiness stat, I shouldn't have invested stat points in it before.

Sung JiHan thought so and checked the additional messages.

"Special achievement, 'Toppling the Pope (2).' Achievement achieved."

"Acquired 10,000 Pope's reputation."

A special achievement that was achieved when he killed the High Elf with the brain and the body.

At that time, it gave achievement points, but this time it was replaced with Pope's reputation as a reward.

"Now that the message has appeared, he's definitely dead."

Sung JiHan thought so and looked at the rewards below.

"Level has increased to 30."

"By killing the Pope as a candidate for the Pope, you can become a Pope. Will you inherit the characteristics level of the opponent Pope? The opponent's characteristic level is autonomy LV.4."

"Level up to 30 and characteristic inheritance."

Leveling up is leveling up, but what caught Sung JiHan's attention was the characteristic inheritance.

If he becomes a Pope, he can inherit the opponent's characteristic level, according to the system message.

"Normally, when a Pope dies, can you inherit the power of the dead?"

"No. Inheritance? There's no such thing."

The Shadow Queen seemed to be completely ignorant of characteristic inheritance.

"This... seems to be a function that only candidates for the Pope can have."

Then, the opportunity to inherit characteristics like this will only come during the candidate period.

Sung JiHan thought carefully.

"Autonomy Level 4 is tempting, but there is a risk in immediately becoming a Pope."

Although he won in the clash with Longinus this time.

In fact, this was a result that came with a lot of luck.

Sung JiHan, who is still lacking in power even after amplifying it several times compared to the level of a Pope.

"And there were several ways to deal with Longinus' spear, but if another god comes......"

If what came this time was not Longinus, but Dongbangsak.

Sung JiHan would have lost a long time ago.

That's how much the power gap was still significant.

Rather than inheriting it because he was blinded by the power of Monopoly LV.4, it was better for Sung JiHan to have something more as a candidate for the Holy See.

Sung JiHan made that judgment and refused the inheritance.

[Special Achievement, 'Refusal of Inheritance' achievement has been achieved.]

[Obtained 10,000 Holy See reputation.]

Included in the achievements, 10,000 points of Holy See reputation came in.

"Unexpected harvest."

Sung JiHan smiled as he saw his increasing reputation.

[Holy See reaching level 771.]

Before he knew it, five minutes had passed and the level limit had dropped by 1.

"Since Longinus is definitely dead, let's turn off the ability."

The system message announced Longinus' death, giving Sung JiHan the Holy See reputation.

Now, in case of unexpected situations, there was no need to activate the Holy See ability.

While Sung JiHan was finishing the battle like that.

Whoosh...

"......?"

From the place where Longinus disappeared, a faint flame suddenly rose.

It was a blue flame unrelated to the battle between Sung JiHan and Longinus.

It soon changed into various colors and gradually grew in size.

"What is this?"

Longinus, whom the system had judged to be dead.

There was no way he could have come back to life and lit a fire.

Sung JiHan raised his head in confusion, trying to confirm this strange flame.

But.

Swoosh.

Even when Sung JiHan reached out his hand, the flame passed through the air without substance.

While he was frowning and looking ahead.

"My dear. Aren't you going back? The Holy See is dead now."

The Shadow Queen spoke to Sung JiHan in a calm voice.

"Let's go quickly and see the players we can support. Since the roots have disappeared quite a bit this time, we can support more people."

"Hey, don't you see the blue flame?"

"Blue flame? What's that?"

"Hmm..."

The Shadow Queen, who had even informed Sung JiHan of Longinus' attacks from within his arm.

Even she couldn't see that flame?

While Sung JiHan was frowning even more.

Whaaa...

Above the blue flame, unusual characters appeared.

[Execution Ground, Restoration.]

"Execution Ground?"

And as soon as the characters disappeared.

Swoosh!

The flame stopped, and a huge red rock was created and fell straight down from the sky.

"Right below here, it's downtown Gangnam."

If that rock collided with the city, a considerable disaster would occur.

Sung JiHan quickly tried to seize the space to prevent the fall, but...

"...My soul doesn't work?!"

The rock mocked Sung JiHan's control over space.

And it fell straight to the ground.

"Tsk...!"

Sung JiHan clicked his tongue and quickly chased after the rock.