Translator: Pai_
The moment the system voice announcing that the Otherworlders had entered Saintrea rang out, the divine form of the War God that had been pressing Iron faltered.
-What?
In that moment of hesitation that came without him realizing, Iron's attack began.
“Hræsvelgr!”
Responding to Iron's call, the bird of storms created a powerful wind.
Into that storm were drawn the Phoenix's flames, the Thunderbird's lightning, and the black mana of the Two Moons.
Then, over all of it, Baepsae's divinity, which annihilates the unholy, imbued the power, gradually extinguishing the chaotic energy of the War God.
The power of the divine beasts, united as one under the coordination of Hræsvelgr, who stood as an exalted being, unleashed a might so powerful that even the War God struggled to withstand it.
Hræsvelgr's Transcendent Skill, created by drawing upon the power of other divine beasts to supplement the insufficient energy.
Meanwhile, the energy of nature began to gather in Iron’s White Sword as well.
Though he lacked the level to maintain it for long, for now, it was enough.
Kuuuung!
Formed by combining the energy of nature into the White Sword.
“Transcendent Skill - Trinity”
Centered around Hræsvelgr, all the divine beasts’ powers gathered into one.
“Transcendent Skill - Chaos Storm”
These two techniques struck the War God directly.
The moment of carelessness created by the Otherworlders’ invasion of Saintrea returned as a fatal blow to the War God.
-…….
The War God stood, bleeding all over his body.
The moment he had allowed two Transcendent Skills, the superiority he had a moment ago was completely gone.
Furthermore, even time was no longer on his side.
-A diversionary tactic...
The War God looked at Iron and emitted a murderous aura.
He had been aware of the fleet approaching via the sea.
But not the Otherworlders.
He couldn’t understand how they had invaded Saintrea, but what mattered now was that the core of the Grand System was under attack.
-So you used your head. They said you had the qualities of a commander… Seems it wasn’t just a rumor?
The War God said this while praising Iron, but Iron himself couldn’t grasp what exactly was happening.
Though he was also originally from the Otherworld, unlike those who had come over physically, he had lived his whole life in this world and thus could not receive the quests given to Otherworlders.
Perhaps because of that, he had no idea how the Otherworlders had reached Saintrea or what they were doing there.
‘I thought they were moving with the Eastern Army… but that wasn’t it.’
Thinking this, Iron gripped his sword tightly.
The system no longer treated Iron as an Otherworlder.
He had no idea how this might affect things later.
-Tweet!
“Yeah. I’ll focus.”
Shaking off distracting thoughts, Iron refocused on the battle.
Even if he worried about it now, there were no answers.
It wouldn’t be too late to worry after everything was over.
-Yes. There’s nothing as thrilling as a life-or-death battle. From now on, I swear in the name of War God Tyr to go all out.
The moment War God Tyr spoke his divine name and made the vow, the atmosphere around them changed.
With Tyr’s aura giving no thought to retreat, Iron also pushed out all his remaining power.
Objectively, Iron was at a disadvantage compared to Tyr.
Even in such a situation, with Saintrea under attack, Tyr resolved to focus solely on Iron.
From Iron’s perspective, it had become the worst-case scenario.
Moreover, it wasn’t easy to get help from the other Master Levels.
Ariel and Gaon were tied down by the Inquisitors, and Caeden Wall and Sky Renz were engaged with the Birdmen and Incarnates.
At most, the fortress cannons might help, but even they were busy targeting the Aerial Fortress.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Ugh!”
Even while fending off the attacks of the divine beasts, Tyr continued to push Iron.
Given Iron’s current level, even just blocking Tyr’s attacks was difficult.
‘How long can I hold out?’
Just as Iron was thinking this and holding out with all his strength.
[One of the holy statues of Saintrea has collapsed. A debuff has been applied to the Holy Alliance!]
With the sudden system message, Tyr’s momentum weakened.
But that wasn’t the end.
[A sacred relic of Saintrea has been destroyed. A debuff has been applied to the Holy Alliance!]
[The sacred flame of Saintrea has been torn. A debuff has been applied to the Holy Alliance!]
-Damn it…
As debuffs continued to stack one after another, Tyr visibly began to grow flustered.
“Is time… on my side?”
Iron murmured with a faint smile.
Seeing that, Tyr furrowed his brow.
The speed at which the debuffs were stacking was faster than the formation of the grand formation.
If the debuffs kept stacking at this rate, Tyr’s level would soon fall far below Iron’s.
If that happened, he would be defeated by Iron, and the front line would collapse at that very moment.
-This is troubling. I didn’t anticipate this outcome…
“That’s how war is. You never know when or where something will explode…”
-Indeed. Overcoming this too is what a hero must do. Let’s see which comes first, me losing my strength, or you dying!
With those words, Tyr straightened his stance.
In response, Iron also readied himself to face Tyr’s fierce assault.
While the two beings clashed in a bloody battle, the situations of the two Family Heads were also taking a peculiar turn.
-This… looks bad?
The God of the Hunt, Skadi, tilted her head with an odd tone in her voice.
As time passed, her level was steadily falling.
Lioner, whom she thought would die shortly after failing to hold out, was persistently hanging on, and the young man beside him, enveloped in a White Lion, was rapidly growing stronger by the moment.
Because of this, she was unable to finish off Lioner, and as the accumulated debuffs ate away at her level, the battle dragged on.
The problem was that time was no longer on her side.
And what was even more laughable was the sudden blooming of a blood-red aura.
“Grrrrrr…”
The figure who had lost his mind and was slaughtering the Inquisitors.
The being, whose entire body radiated aura and took on the form of a blood-red lion, conducting a merciless massacre, was none other than Leonhardt’s second son, Caeden.
Having transformed into a Berserker, he awakened at the brink of death and rose to Master Level.
Because of his sudden rise as a new Master, the battle formation was shattered.
Skadi wanted to quickly finish off Lioner and Aiden and aid the Holy Alliance forces, but the situation didn’t allow for that.
The same went for Terrion’s side.
Terrion, barely holding out with the help of David Fieldran and Sierra, suddenly faced a change in situation when Raphael Sigurd, the sub-head of the Sigurd Family, awakened. As debuffs stacked, the tide turned, and he escaped crisis.
With most of the Holy Alliance's power focused on Iron’s location, the forces deployed to the two Family Heads’ fronts were relatively weak.
Since they were holding back with the power of the descended gods and incarnates, any drop in their level was fatal.
-This is the worst.
One of the gods who descended upon the continent through an incarnate vessel shook his head at the worst-case scenario.
And the same sentiment ran through the other gods as well.
They were now in a situation where they had to hope the humans would slow their attacks until the formation was completed.
But judging from the eyes of the humans before them, that possibility was close to zero.
The human army, with hawk-like eyes measuring the power of the incarnates, was only waiting for the right angle to push in at once.
Seeing that, the gods instinctively knew this battle would not be easy.
The fight of the Holy Alliance holding back the Imperial Army was difficult, but the rear was not safe either.
“S-Stop them!”
“T-The navy has collapsed. Just defending from the island isn’t going to cut it!”
The Holy Alliance’s navy had collapsed.
The navy, once built by absorbing the Royal Navy that had been the strongest in the western continent, had been completely destroyed by the Empire’s Eastern Army.
The might of the Eastern Army, attacking through aerial ships and massive warships, was overwhelming.
If Saintrea had at least mounted a proper response, they might have held out a bit longer, but even that was difficult.
Because Saintrea had also fallen into chaos due to the Otherworlders, the main culprits in weakening their level.
In the end, the Empire’s Eastern Army entered the port of Saintrea, and that was when the disaster began.
[Sub Quest Created! Destroy the sacred relics in Saintrea! The more relics you destroy, the more debuffs are applied to the Holy Alliance!]
The moment the Eastern Army stepped into Saintrea, the Sub Quest was generated.
Upon hearing that, the Eastern Commander immediately opened communications to all commanders.
“From this moment on, our army will focus on destroying the sacred relics.”
-Yes, sir!
“Move out!”
At the Eastern Commander’s order, all commanders bowed their heads in response and began moving without delay.
As troops disembarked from the ships, they spread throughout Saintrea.
It seemed the Otherworlders had already swept through the area once, as many of Saintrea’s important buildings were already destroyed.
Even more absurd was the fact that the Holy Alliance forces had no time to deal with the Eastern Army's invasion because they were too preoccupied with chasing down the Otherworlders.
“This is easy.”
“Seriously.”
The soldiers of the Eastern Army, who had braced themselves for fierce combat, stared at Saintrea with dumbfounded expressions.
But soon, they began to move quickly.
Seeing their comrades scouring the exposed streets of Saintrea, desperately searching for sacred relics, they picked up their pace as if unwilling to fall behind.
They had heard that destroying sacred relics would not only stack debuffs on the Holy Alliance but also grant personal rewards.
In the current Imperial Army, personal connections and social status had almost disappeared, and positions were earned solely through power, merit, and achievements. The more relics they destroyed, the faster their promotions would come.
“That one’s mine!”
“Get lost! I saw it first!”
As Eastern Army soldiers scrambled through Saintrea in a frenzy to find relics, the Otherworlders who had arrived earlier began regrouping for their next objective.
Having roamed all over Saintrea to complete personal quests, they were now preparing to join forces for one massive quest.
“Looks like everyone who came over here has gathered.”
“It’s the final one, after all.”
At Harry Williams' words, Rovanov looked toward the heart of Saintrea and spoke.
Just as she said, their mission here was reaching its conclusion.
[Last Quest: Prevent the Complete Descent of the God.]
-Your mission has reached its end. Stop the complete descent of the external god.
-Rewards will be given based on contributions. (Individual)
-Quest progress will affect the barrier of your original world! (Global)
-Completing the quest will allow you to return to your original world! (Global)
The final quest in this place.
Because it was the quest that would allow them to return to their original world, Otherworlders from all over the continent had gathered.
The reason they had crossed over to this world.
It was to stop the corrupted monsters that had entered their original world. And the more quests they completed here, the more the barrier between worlds was strengthened, weakening the gates through which corrupted monsters came.
And now, through the final quest, they could reinforce the barrier and return home.
That was why most of the Otherworlders gave up on personal greed.
Those who had families on Earth.
Those who had things to protect on Earth.
Those who had crossed over with the great cause of defending Earth.
All of them gathered in Saintrea and moved toward completing the final quest.
They destroyed the statues scattered throughout Saintrea and took down the strongholds that formed the structure of the formation.
However, those were just the outer structures. None of the actual core statues had yet been destroyed.
The three statues that formed the foundation for the descent of the Absolute God from the Mythical Era.
An old man in the form of a mage.
An old man in the form of a warrior holding a spear.
An old man in the form of a sage holding a book.
They had to destroy these three statues.
“That one?”
“Yeah.”
“But the defenses are thick.”
“Still have to break through.”
To Hikardu’s words, Al-Assad responded with a frown.
The statue was protected by countless paladins and priests.
In front of the statue shaped like an old man holding a book stood many paladins.
And the same target was being attacked by Kim Jung-tae, who was considered the strongest among the Otherworlders, and Jaime beside him.
“So we just smash that damned thing, and we can go home?”
“Yeah.”
At Jaime’s words, Kim Jung-tae ground his teeth while looking toward the temple where the massive white statue stood.
An old man holding a giant spear.
In front of the temple built around him was a massive sphere of violet mana.
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