CH 190

/Warning! The top-level Slayers, Numbered, are slaughtering users!/

/Numbered 27. Sirius!/

/Gathering users! 7 seconds before forced movement commences!/

As soon as the text message popped up, a magic circle appeared next to Merlin. Of course, the warp magic circle was to transfer Merlin to a different location.

‘I see…’

Other users or mages may have simply thought that the magic circle was a mechanism to transfer one to a different location, but Merlin, who could read and interpret magic, understood how the magic circle operated and what special properties it contained. This understanding allowed Merlin to garner some information about the DIO developers and operators’ intent.

‘The reason they’re using users… I think I have a rough idea now.’

However, this wasn’t what was important right at this moment. The surrounding space was starting to bend and warp.

***

A completely black space. The building, made of an unknown metal, was black without any decoration.

“The signal from Madness has been cut off.”

“Very… fast. What happened?”

The giant, who had been stationary like a large stone statue, opened his eyes. Caesar, called the Lord of the Abyss, was the sixth child of the Empress. With powers equal to that of a transcendent, Caesar was one of the Union’s most wanted terrorists; Caesar was also the one who worked to expand the Grotesque’s influence.

“We lost contact, so we don’t have the exact information, but it seems that the Noblesse have revived the system that produced human gods in the past. From the data we have, we suspect that one of those humans have killed Madness.”

Of course, this conclusion was wrong. The reason why the top-level Slayers, Numbered, went missing was because Merlin blew up the dimension destination point that the Slayer was warping to. However, the universe was vast and expansive, so it was impossible to perfectly collect all the information, even for a transcendent being. There was no way for them to know that Madness hadn’t even seen his opponent’s face, as Madness became something like a lost child within the dimensional rift space.

Merlin thought; Why did DIO’s operators nurture users rather than stepping forward themselves? With their strength, they wouldn’t need user, right?

However, the universe was vast and expansive, so in most cases, even a Grand Master or archmage wouldn’t leave their local galaxy during their entire life. Even the ancient dragons and divine beings who possessed powerful magic powers could only completely control their local surroundings.

Although Earth’s current galaxy was only 100,000 light-years across, the largest galaxies were over 10 million light-years across, and there were hundreds of billions of such galaxies in the universe.

Humans believed that divine beings could cover the entire universe, but in fact, the universe was too wide for even divine beings. Considering that there were the lower and upper dimensions, as well as the five major dimensions, the breadth of the universe was unbearably vast, making it virtually impossible to completely manage, even for the Union, a collection of numerous species led by mighty transcendents.

“That’s a substantial loss. Numbered take a long time to develop.”

“But we can’t exactly quit right now. This is a matter of our stature and reputation, so we should at least send a warning.”

At the words of his subordinate, the air around Caesar rumbled and shook. The intense power of his emotions influenced the physical world.

“This is really… annoying. It makes me want to jump in.”

“But this happened in the Halon Galaxy. We have to travel 46 million light-years to get there, so it’s not a distance that even we, I mean, because it’s us we can traverse that distance, but it can’t be done as soon as we’d like.”

“Hmm.”

This was the main problem. Transcendent beings were all powerful existences to those under them, but in the end, these transcendents only had one body. Anyone could use warp, but the greater the distance one had to warp to, the higher the risk and difficulty.

In addition, there was a problem of spiritual capacity.

If one was told to bring a ballpoint pen from the USA to Korea, it wouldn’t take too long, as one could get on a plane and take the ballpoint pen. However, the Statue of Liberty was not something that anyone could carry, and it’s not something that can be carried onto a plane, so something large like the Statue of Liberty required enormous construction work, transport operations, and a long time to properly transport.

Likewise, the larger the spiritual capacity of the existence being warped, the more difficult it was to perform the warp. At short distances, it was possible to warp without much issue, but if the distance was light-year units, warping was dangerous, but more importantly, it took a lot of time to prepare beforehand.

“What would you like to do?”

“It can’t be helped. Who’s left?”

“Sirius.”

“Good. Grant Sirius authorization to use Armageddon.”

“Yes, my lord.”

As soon as the order was executed, a black wave was launched from the black planet. It was the beginning of a variable that the Union never expected.

***

“Yo~! Nice to see such human trash.”

What came out of the door was a creature with a human-like appearance. The only difference was that the creature had two 1-meter-long horns on its forehead, and the creature reached three meters in height.

“Uh, this… doesn’t feel like it’ll end well.”

Bruce gulped down hard as he tightened his grip on his sword. He was a bit insensitive in terms of feeling aura and qi, as Bruce practiced in both magic and swordsmanship without specializing deeply in either, but he still sensed the enormous pressure that was conveyed throughout the surrounding area. It was not a matter of simply being strong or weak, but rather a sense of intimidation that made one’s hands and feet tremble.

“Come out! Solomon’s Key!”

With a sense of crisis, Jeros summoned his Master Weapon. Contrary to its name, Solomon’s Key was a book with a hefty thickness. Once the book appeared, Jeros activated his Master Skill.

“Pentagram! Summon Glasya Labolas! Appear before me and fight this…”

“So annoying.”

The powerful magic conjuring spell was scattered in a single blow. The attack happened so fast that Jeros couldn’t even recognize it. Lancelot reflexively grabbed his spear and groaned.

“Damn…”

Jeros’ upper body had disappeared. Blood had splattered momentarily, but soon, even that smattering of blood was scattered as golden smoke.

“Oh my god, Jeros died in one blow.”

“This is dangerous. The Slayer’s level is too high.”

Lancelot quickly joined Bruce and Ilyia. Ilyia started raising her chakra. Their fighting power was incomparable to the Slayer’s. They had to somehow maintain a defensive battle.

“Hmm? You guys are much weaker than I thought. Did I really have to come to take care of these insignificant things?”

Sirius grunted and kicked the ground. In an instant, his body blurred and disappeared.

Boom!

However, a barrier appeared around the party, and Sirius’ body bounced off of it. At the same time, darkness emanated from Bruce’s sword.

“Bind!”

Known as one of Merlin’s best masterpieces, the +10 Dark Magic Sword was a magic weapon that, like other reinforced weapons, could stack a single spell ten times and exert a huge effect.

The effect of the Dark Magic Sword was to bind the enemy through darkness qi!

Crack!

Sirius’ shadow jumped up and began to suppress its master with terrifying power. Originally, the binding spell activated quickly and had the effect of blocking an enemy’s movement, but the pressure exerted by the 10x stacked spell was truly terrifying. The pressure was enough to compress a 25-ton dump truck into a hunk of metal the size of an average adult man.

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Zing!

But before Bruce could even think about launching his next attack, the bind was shattered, and a tremendous aftershock struck Bruce’s body. He flew like a baseball hit by a bat and flew off with a whistling gust of wind; Bruce destroyed two nearby buildings before finally stopping.

“Oh. You’ve got some pretty good weapons. Have humans already developed magic skills to this extent?”

Sirius took the Dark Magic Sword that was in Bruce’s hand and inspected it. The powerful magic and magic system contained in the sword surprised even him.

“Return!”

However, the sword in Sirius’ hand disappeared after Bruce yelled out. Under the collapsed building, Bruce, who used the recall function contained in the Dark Magic Sword, walked out.

“Wow, he’s fine even after that attack. That Spirit Armor is truly good.”

“Is this really the time to say something like that?”

While still hearing a buzzing sound in his head, Bruce activated the Magic Earrings he had previously purchased from Arthur. The magic power contained in the earrings activated, and his physical condition began to visibly improve.

Woong!

Suddenly, a dimensional rift opened, and a door appeared. From the door, Ohje, Scorpion, Adol, and Hanma stepped out. They were the closest to Bruce and the others, so they had arrived first.

“Ah, I guess more of you will be appearing like this. Then, I should try and finish this off as soon as possible.”

“Damn it! Be careful everyone!”

“Huh? What…”

Boom!

In an instant, Ohje’s body flew through the air. Sirius, who had been standing at a distance, rushed in and smashed into Ohje’s body. The movement itself was simple, but the speed was too fast to register and properly put up a defense.

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“What the hell! Ohje?!”

Scorpion, who had been standing right next to Ohje, screamed. Ohje suffered a similar level of attack as the one Bruce had sustained, but unfortunately for Ohje, he didn’t have Bruce’s Spirit Armor, so Ohje died instantly from Sirius’ attack.

Bam!

“Gather together and get into formation! This bastard is at least at Level 18!”

“When is Arthur coming?!”

Adol ran forward. He changed his gear and changed his shield from the Tower Shield to a Small Shield. Since their opponent wasn’t a range-type but a speed-type attacker that moved his body directly, Adol changed his gear so that he could quickly respond to Sirius’ attack.