Chapter 212
Chapter 212: As I Wished
"Cleared...? —Oh no."
-Did he clear it?lol
-He got it done!!
-Really keeps setting up flags lololol
-Let's go for the desperation desperation pattern~
Redok, who muttered without thinking, hurriedly covered his mouth, but the viewers openly tried to set up flags by even chanting resurrection spells.
It wasn't with any particular grand intention, but like the raid member Gaak before, they wanted to see Redok in trouble too.
However, despite their efforts, 【Lord of Storms】 with his head lowered did not revive. There was no such thing as a desperate desperation pattern after all.
What drove the wedge in was the system message that followed.
[【Lord of Storms】 Raid Clear!]
"We cleaaaared it!"
"We really cleared it!" "It's a one-try one-kill!"
"...Phew~ I thought we were dead!"
-Congratulations on the clear (congrats
-World first clear (for real) lololol
-To clear this in one shot lolololol
-Is the viewer count for real? Looks like all the overseas RePla users gathered here too? lol
-Kyaah lol This is it lol
-First reveal raid one-try one-kill!
'Life Achievement Geuma' donated '100,000 won'!
[Congratulations on the first raid clear!]
'This Is It' donated '100,000 won'!
[Hackphysical difficulty one-try cut ssss]
'National Recognition Association President' donated '10,000 won'!
[I acknowledge it]
At the news finally confirming the raid clear, Redok, Beau-tiful Twins, and Jeong Nayeon, who had survived until the end, let out cheers.
The viewers were just as rowdy. Not just the chat, but donations averaging a hundred thousand won poured in like crazy.
With even overseas users all gathering together, reaching numbers visible in the hundreds of thousands, one could easily imagine just how tremendous the commotion was.
Although those who died first couldn't rejoice with the survivors, the dead raid members were also in an uproar, hugging each other among themselves.
In fact, the volume of cheers was even greater on their side. Out of the sixteen raid members, all but five had died and become ghosts.
Probably once time passed and they revived, they would join the survivors and cause another ruckus celebrating the raid clear.
"......"
Among those on the battlefield, the only one free from the fuss over the first reveal raid one-try one-kill was Baek Woohyun alone.
Though he was the one who revealed the raid, formed the raid party, and hard carried throughout the raid, he maintained his usual indifferent expression.
He merely shook off the bluish blood of the Otherworld Lord that had stained 「Soul Eater」.
"Woohyun! You—"
Kuuuung-!
"—come over here too, ...huh, what? Just now?"
-?
-What is it
-Is it really a desperation desperation pattern? lol
-The system declared clear, what are they doing!!
Jeong Nayeon, who had barely regained her composure and was calling Baek Woohyun, widened her eyes.
A wave that felt like her body was sinking momentarily swept past.
The others also felt it the same, so the cheers stopped in an instant. What took its place instead was silence and tension.
They made expressions of 'no way...' while glaring at the direction where 【Lord of Storms】' corpse was. Even drawing up their supernatural ability energy, ready to attack at any moment.
Baek Woohyun, who received the wave at the closest distance, also had a sharp expression. Naturally, he drew out 「Soul Eater」 which he had just been about to put into the shadows.
Kuuuung-!
"......"
""......"
While the survivors, and even those who had died and become ghosts, all watched 【Lord of Storms】' corpse with stiffened gazes, the wave extended once more.
It was a wave clear enough that they couldn't brush it off as a mistake. They could even distinctly feel the powerful force contained within it.
How could they call this a one-time burst of energy from a corpse after death?
'Fight more here? That's unreasonable!'
'Except for Hackphysical, everyone's lost their concentration. Continuing the raid in this state is impossible.'
'What do we do?' 'I don't know either!'
-This is ridiculous;;;
-This is too brain-dead
-We barely cleared it and now what lol
-If it really revives, I'm going to curse out Planet Earth
"......"
While Redok, Beau-tiful Twins, and Jeong Nayeon were gradually thinking 'Was this a forced defeat event?', Baek Woohyun alone had a completely different reaction.
He took his gaze off 【Lord of Storms】' face. Because he realized the wave of power wasn't coming from him.
In 【Lord of Storms】' corpse, there was certainly an element that existed together with him but would continue to be maintained and emit waves of power even after he died.
Namely, the hole in the dimensional barrier that Otherworld God Abrasax-Deus had pierced, the passage to the Otherworld.
Kuuuung-!
The wave of power that tensed everyone flowed out from precisely that place. Because he was closest, Baek Woohyun could feel it.
From his speculation, this seemed to be a phenomenon occurring as 【Lord of Storms】 fell and the dimensional barrier naturally sealed itself in the process.
The power of Otherworld God Abrasax-Deus used to pierce the dimensional hole was being pushed out by the barrier's restoration power and bursting out like this.
Kwaaaaaa-!
"...!"
——The moment Baek Woohyun recognized his speculation was wrong was when violet energy burst out from the hole pierced in 【Lord of Storms】.
The energy bearing the color symbolic of the Otherworld couldn't be seen as being chased out by the dimensional barrier's restoration power at all. How could such powerful force be pushed out?
Before the surging violet energy, the Storm Fortress that had lost its power was helpless. It was devoured without any resistance, painted over.
【Lord of Storms】' corpse was no different. The body that had met death was rapidly absorbed by the violet energy.
"You've defeated 【Lord of Storms】."
"You..."
-It's a doppelganger!
-Oh, was it a story?
-Phew, what a relief;
-So why did that guy come out again
Baek Woohyun's eyes narrowed as he saw Abrasax-Deus appear together with the violet energy.
Because the enemy that could be called his final goal had appeared boldly before him.
However, unlike him who burned with the will to cut him down right away, the creature seemed to have no intention of fighting yet.
Standing within the violet energy to prevent attacks on himself, the creature spoke toward Baek Woohyun.
"Truly excellent. This is the result I desired."
"......"
Baek Woohyun remained silent without answering, but Abrasax-Deus continued speaking as if it didn't matter.
"With this, the hole in the dimensional barrier becomes eternal and the Otherworld will be completely connected to Earth."
"......"
"There's no need to be too disappointed. Even if you had failed to defeat him, the result would have been the same."
—"This is purely fate ordained by the Creator."
The words Abrasax-Deus said during the Storm Fortress creation flashed through Baek Woohyun's mind.
Words he had just kept in his head because he'd been busy dealing with various postponed matters, and even knowing them, he couldn't respond.
Finally abandoning his silence, he threw out a question in a chillingly subdued voice.
"...If connecting to the Otherworld would be the same either way, what do you mean by 'desired'?"
"I too was hoping 【Lord of Storms】 would be defeated."
"Why?"
Otherworld Lords occupied the middle of the Otherworld hierarchy connecting Otherworld Noble-Otherworld Lord-Otherworld God, so they were essentially like Abrasax-Deus's hands and feet.
Look at before he obtained his doppelganger body. Weren't all the tricks he pulled at the research facility coming through the Otherworld Lords?
Why would Abrasax-Deus hope for such an existence to be defeated?
"Because the Otherworld Lords are not my creations."
"But they followed your orders."
"That's only because I'm performing the role of Otherworld God. The Otherworld Lords created by the Creator are set to obey the Otherworld God. And."
Abrasax-Deus's violet eyes gleamed.
The wing-shaped pattern contained within them too.
It was a gaze containing even stronger power than before.
"The Otherworld Lords are also shackles that restrain the Otherworld God. As long as the Otherworld Lord holds firm, the Otherworld God cannot ascend to the stage."
"......"
"At most, they can only interfere using such false bodies. Do you understand why I hoped 【Lord of Storms】 would be defeated?"
Abrasax-Deus was an existence who rebelled against Creator Isaac to find complete freedom.
Such a being couldn't welcome the Otherworld Lords—the shackles binding him, moreover created by Creator Isaac himself!
Baek Woohyun also realized why an existence like an Otherworld Lord disparaged and scattered himself as a Tempest-L specimen, why he pierced the dimensional hole in his own body.
【Lord of Storms】 had been dealt with by the commander who restrained him.
"...The conversation has grown long."
Suuu-
Abrasax-Deus, still surrounded by Otherworld energy surging up with intense force, gestured.
The Otherworld space created by devouring the Storm Fortress and 【Lord of Storms】' corpse moved willingly as their world's god desired.
He pushed out the entire space where Baek Woohyun was, sending it to where the other surviving raid members were.
Redok, Jeong Nayeon, and Beau-tiful Twins, who had been in a silent state without story participation rights, were startled by Baek Woohyun's appearance beside them.
"...!"
'This is.'
Baek Woohyun, who had been separated from Abrasax-Deus without even being able to resist, widened his eyes.
As they say, you see as much as you know, and to him, how overwhelmingly powerful the authority Abrasax-Deus just wielded was completely visible.
He wondered if even he from when he was a Transcendent 'over there' could barely resist. Even that seemed extremely difficult.
'So he's a god for a reason.'
Baek Woohyun, grinding his teeth, decided that once this ended, he'd pressure Isaac to present a plan for dealing with Abrasax-Deus.
He too needed to receive power enough to at least resist, or needed to cut down the power that creature possessed. Shouldn't Isaac, who gave that creature such power, take responsibility?
If he dared spout something like "It's still a secret," he'd gladly smack that bastard's head.
"What I have to say is the same as before. Creator's Apostle."
"'Come to a completely new world'?"
"Indeed. See you then."
Shuaaaak-!
As Abrasax-Deus spread both hands wide, Baek Woohyun and the raid members were thrown outside from the Otherworld space.
The raid members who had existed in ghost state were also revived as they were thrown together, suddenly swelling to sixteen people.
Thrown without any consideration, forced to roll on the ground—though of course, Baek Woohyun was excluded—they clicked their tongues and got up.
"Ow."
"The way of kicking us out is too rough!"
"Forced silence is overkill!"
-Like throwing out trash lol
-Ah I was concentrating on the story though
-Honestly if you didn't understand what they were saying, upvote lol
-Just watch the story summary video Chloe posts later~
"Well, anyway."
After grumbling for a bit.
Finally realizing they had perfectly completed the raid, smiles spread across the raid members' faces again.
Even that Otherworld God Abrasax-whatever publicly declared his subordinate 【Lord of Storms】 had died, so there was no need to worry anymore.
Redok, who had served as raid leader, looked around, then soon shouted in a loud voice.
"Everyone, congratulations on clearing the raid!"
"Waaaaah!" "Congratulations!" "A one-try one-kill!"
"Ah, I'm so disappointed I was the first death." "I'm sorry for saying nonsense and dying!"
-The sound is exploding lol
-It's really noisy with sixteen people lololol
-To even achieve the one-try one-kill achievement ㄷㄷ
-Even in the raid, Hackphysical was Hackphysical...
"Haha, congratulations."
While responding to the raid members' congratulations, Baek Woohyun's eyes occasionally gleamed sharply.
Because he now knew he had finally opened the path.
The path to capture Abrasax-Deus.