Ch.142142. The Day (4)

In the moment when the Evil God of Pleasure was born amidst the pursuit of pleasure that had finally reached its peak in the Rom Empire.

The Empire—or more precisely, the entertainment district within the imperial capital, the Holy City.

All mortals who were enthusiastically enjoying the festival there suddenly felt an incredibly powerful and alluring impulse.

To offer body and soul to ‘Pleasure.’ To convert to this deity and experience pleasure. Logically speaking, these impulses made no sense whatsoever.

However, this impulse was accompanied by a mechanism that provided a direct taste of the immense pleasure that would come as its reward.

Most of these people, their reason clouded by the purple drink distributed at the festival and their resistance to pleasure suspiciously weakened, impulsively accepted an offer they would never have considered under normal circumstances.

And at the very moment they accepted the offer.

….Writhing.

The bodies of these mortals who had impulsively sold both flesh and soul began to convulse violently, like squirming worms, and started to transform.

Crack!

For about half of the mortals, their bodies and souls were used as wombs to summon the handmaidens of pleasure.

These horrific prostitutes, emerging as their physical shells split open, immediately approached the surrounding human-mortals and began to torture or violate them.

Meanwhile, the remaining mortals, those with combat abilities—their bodies transformed into horrific forms of fused plant and metal.

Purple-tinged metallic shells grew over their skin, and those whose forearms transformed into metallic weapon-like forms were considered the lucky ones.

Some grew branches from their backs, becoming human-tree abominations. Others had their arms or legs transformed into masses of branches or vines.

In severe cases, tendrils burst from every orifice. These mortals had transformed into unimaginably horrific forms by any standard.

“Ah, how beautiful….!!”

“This, this is the blessed body!!”

“Praise the endless pleasure! Worship the Goddess of Melting Pleasure!!”

Despite their bodies transforming into such grotesque forms, those whose minds had also been corrupted were instead admiring their appearances, considering themselves beautiful.

They had come to accept the process of giving and receiving pain as pleasure. Their aesthetic sense had been so distorted that they genuinely found their deformed bodies beautiful.

As these beings transformed into such horrific forms and filled the streets with their madness, admiring their own appearances.

《……..Hehe♡.》

In the moment right after her birth, when the Goddess of Melting Pleasure first gave a lascivious smile, an unbelievable wave of pleasure flooded the minds of those who had sold their souls.

“””””””””Ah, aaah…..aah…….♡.”””””””””

Most followers collapsed to the ground, lost in pleasure intense enough to melt their brains, emitting nothing but vacant, disgusting moans.

Even if you were to combine all pleasures ever experienced and amplify them thousands of times, it wouldn’t come close to the pleasure these followers were feeling now.

That’s why these followers, leaking fluids from every orifice, were lying face down on the ground, completely absorbed in their pleasure—at that very moment.

“””””””””……..??”””””””””

Suddenly, the pleasure being given to them was cut off.

Having lost in an instant the pleasure that had reached its peak and extreme, the followers writhed desperately like beasts, howling with an insane craving for pleasure.

Begging, screaming, yearning, and even resenting whoever had cut off their pleasure.

As their frenzy continued, resembling drug addicts going through withdrawal after what seemed like an endless pleasure had been severed.

“””””””””……..”””””””””

Suddenly, a disgusting yet beautiful idea occurred to them.

Killing, torturing, giving and receiving pain. If they repeated this series of actions, the Goddess of Melting Pleasure would return pleasure to them.

Though in reality this was nothing more than a delusion, these pleasure-blinded madmen were in no state to make such distinctions.

Naturally, these slaves to pleasure began to disperse in search of endless pleasure.

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At the same time.

In the nearby residential district, a green wave began to surge forward as if sweeping through.

No, to be precise, it wasn’t a wave of liquid.

It was a wave of plague-zombies—walking corpses of humans infected with the plague.

Tens of thousands of corpses that the Plague God had gathered over decades were here.

This green wave contained many different things.

Among the plague-zombies were not only those based on humans, but also those based on rat beastmen, giant rat-based plague-zombies, and more.

This green wave, composed of corpses that were paradoxically both alive and dead, decaying and regenerating from plague infection, carrying makeshift weapons in their hands.

“Squeak squeak squeak! Forward! For-forward!!”

The green wave began to advance, guided by the plague-priests—rat beastmen priests who followed Marus Area, the Evil God of Plague and Rats.

“””Kyaa, kyaaaaaaaaaah!!”””

“M-mom───”

All living things in the path of the green wave were attacked by the plague-zombies, who devoured their flesh and entrails like hungry demons.

The wave of plague consumed all life, regardless of age or gender.

Meanwhile, the situation in the judicial and administrative district was equally chaotic.

“D-die───!!!”

“──You die instead!”

The officials there, thrown into confusion by the chaos unfolding in the Holy City, were fiercely arguing, trying to shift responsibility for the incident onto each other.

With Justitia-Astraea, the goddess who should have been mediating, merely lying collapsed on the floor, the escalating chaos finally reached the complete catastrophe that someone had intended.

Factions formed groups, killing each other in a chaotic melee. And in the midst of this. A white-haired woman—a dragon—was approaching the abandoned goddess.

Her identity, appearing almost like a half-dragon, was Hroonting—a pure-blooded white dragon and the First Apostle of Conspiracy.

“In such a pathetic state, I’m amazed you’ve held out until now.”

Approaching with clear intent to kill, yet facing a goddess who failed to grasp the situation and merely stared at Hroonting with dazed eyes.

“This is minimal mercy. Die.”

Hroonting swung her ‘divine weapon’ and beheaded the goddess who lacked even the will to resist.

Of course, killing a god physically once is insufficient to permanently destroy them.

However, death at least greatly weakens a god and damages their divinity and divine attributes enough to create vulnerabilities.

《…..Found it.》

Through that vulnerability, Magica, the Evil God of Conspiracy, was able to steal divine attributes for the exchange.

Similarly, in various areas of the Holy City, evil gods were holding their own festivals.

《I command the followers of Fear! Now—destroy the Empire.》

Horus, the Evil God of Fear who invaded the slums, absorbed his other aspect, Phobos, and then attacked other evil gods.

Burning with greedy desire, he sought to obtain parts of the divine attributes of the slum gods.

Panima, the Evil God of Despair, led his raven legion to attack the military district.

The soldiers of the legion, transformed into raven-beastmen, easily cleared the empty area as they went out to rest, but…..

《These bastards?!! How dare these damned things! Set foot here?!!》

Unable to prepare enough force to kill a god in the isolated Holy City, he suffered quite serious damage from Makius.

And like Panima’s case, most evil gods failed to obtain divine attributes.

The plague wave was repelled by the fire summoned by the goddess Bestia and the divine attributes of Juno-Shala.

Horus, who had merged with Phobos, defeated Iris and absorbed her divine attributes, but had to retreat in the face of the powerful ‘Plutos’ death.

The forces gathered by the Evil God of Misfortune [ ] were pulverized before Vulcanus’s hammer.

And the cause of this was the massive red complete barrier deployed by Ma-Duk without informing the other evil gods.

This barrier blocked everything, preventing descended gods from escaping, but without sending their apostles inside in advance, there was no way to kill the weakened gods.

Thanks to this, only two—Revenge and Conspiracy, who had already completed their communications—had prepared the forces to kill gods.

Being in a position where they had to exchange divine attributes according to their contract, Magica, the Evil God of Conspiracy, had prepared a method to kill through his apostle in advance.

And the decisive reason why Ma-Duk created this structure was precisely—

“Found you, God!!”

*Anat, Goddess of Wisdom, Strategy, Knowledge, and Invention.

《Who…..are you?》

It was to allow his apostle, the avenger Bjorn Wolfson, who had just beheaded the Emperor and hung the head at his waist, to kill the true leader of the Empire—the god.