Ch.152152. The Final Day

The God of the Desert, Set.

A being who was an object of reverence in Egypt.

He was also called the god of storms, chaos, and foreigners.

Depending on the culture, he was sometimes called the great demon Baal or the great monster Typhon, but his image was always the same.

The Beast of Chaos.

KWAAANG!

When the monster swung its front paws, the old city of Jerusalem filled with screams.

Eagle’s wings, a snake’s lower body, and a dog’s head placed atop a human torso.

Kathy searched the internet for information about Typhon while running away.

<Typhon breathes fire from its head, and only weapons made of steel can wound its skin. Its wings create storms, and everywhere its snake lower body passes turns into a sand swamp.>

Looking at the monster’s form symbolizing sky, sea, and land, Kathy let out a sigh.

“I never imagined something more violent than Behemoth would appear.”

Kathy grumbled as she flew between buildings using red threads like a certain comic book spider-man, avoiding the monster’s attacks.

“Does it mean my red threads are useless because it lacks intelligence~”

The red threads that show the future to opponents.

It’s a specialized precognition ability that makes those who can see the future make bad moves due to their own overconfidence.

Incidentally, the threads can be woven thickly for restraint and wire action, but this is their true essence.

In that sense, against the Beast of Chaos that had thrown away intelligence and was rampaging on instinct, the red threads had terribly poor compatibility.

“Haah… Maybe I should have said I’d handle the others.”

She grumbled while glancing at her companions’ battles.

First, she saw Sunwoo fighting Beelzebub.

Watching him get covered in smoking green fluid while grinding up swarms of flies, she shook her head.

“Rejected.”

Next was Sunhwa.

Sunhwa was engaged in such an intense sword battle that Kathy couldn’t even consider intervening.

She was confident she’d be separated into upper and lower halves within 50 seconds if she tried to get between them.

Therefore, rejected.

“Then what about Sonia…”

Perhaps Sonia would be better suited to face Set.

After all, she had the party’s strongest firepower.

Kathy had a faint hope that Sonia could turn that mindlessly rampaging beast in the city into a honeycomb.

But Kathy had to change her mind.

BOOM!

Looking up at the sky, she saw the bombardment of two beings with spread wings covering Jerusalem’s sky.

Baal bombing toward the ground and Sonia intercepting.

Witnessing such overwhelming firepower that was hard to believe came from individuals, Kathy didn’t even dare to intervene.

“Haah… I guess I’ll just handle this one.”

Amon, Sonia, and even Sunhwa—

Somehow her companions were transcending humanity while she remained quite ordinary, she lamented.

“Oops.”

She stopped her thoughts and ducked her head to avoid a tail aiming for her head.

Then, sensing it was about to breathe fire, she extended her threads to create distance.

WHOOSH!

A waterfall-like flame poured down where she had been.

“That was dangerous~”

She consoled herself that while she couldn’t induce thoughts from a mindless beast, she could read its actions.

“Hmm~ Won’t you try thinking a bit?”

Kathy easily avoided the beast’s attack and gestured. A spear flew toward the beast’s eye.

But the beast covered its eye with an eyelid to protect it from the spear.

Kathy stopped the spear in front of the eyelid and pulled it back toward herself.

“What a shame~”

Her voice didn’t sound regretful at all.

Kathy’s composure continued afterward.

Though Set had transformed into a rampaging beast, its developed hearing could still catch her voice well.

Rage welled up at the sight of her being so casual against him, but he suppressed his reason with that anger and attacked her.

‘I can’t think.’

Despite appearances, he was a being called the God of the Desert.

Of course he had precognition, and besides that, he could transform into numerous animals and create storms.

He didn’t think of himself as simply a rampaging beast. He was a beast of calamity that destroyed everything under thorough reason.

But while facing Kathy, he had to degenerate into a beast without reason.

The more he tried to look into the future and devise complex strategies, the more her web entangled him.

He thought the only way to deal with her was to rely on his physical abilities and push forward brutally.

In fact, from Kathy’s perspective, that approach was more difficult to counter.

Eventually, the battle continued without any effective hits between the two.

Then, due to Kathy’s mistake, she allowed an effective hit for the first time.

“Kheuk-!”

Her composure disappeared as she was blown far away by the storm created by the wings.

Though she managed to absorb the impact with her threads, the injury was by no means light.

She knelt, clutching her side.

“I’m really not cut out for tightrope walking like Amon.”

She grumbled while watching the approaching monster.

Set walking between Jerusalem’s buildings in a way reminiscent of a monster movie.

With a deep sigh, Kathy imbued her threads with her thoughts.

“Now.”

BOOM!

With a ground-shaking roar, piles of claymore mines exploded on both sides of Set.

Steel balls scattered, gouging his flesh.

[?!]

Set regained his reason in surprise at the unexpected situation.

[A trap?]

By abandoning reason to fight, he had failed to anticipate such an obvious trap.

Kathy raised the corner of her mouth toward the confused beast.

“Why should I fight alone?”

She quietly showed her phone.

Her companions giving thumbs up behind the monster’s head.

Kathy was never a fair player to begin with.

She was someone who would use any means necessary to face such a monster with her ‘weak and ordinary’ female body.

Naturally, Set, who had only expected an honorable duel, was dumbfounded.

[Cowardly-]

“In human society full of scheming, connections are power too.”

BOOM!

An anti-tank shell hit Set’s temple directly.

“Clean hit~”

Kathy whistled as she watched Set getting ganged up on.

“In medieval times maybe, but in modern society, a huge body is just a huge target.”

In ancient times when steel was rare, Typhon, or Set, might have been a terrifyingly fearsome monster.

But in the modern era with abundant armor-piercing rounds and bombs, his thick skin meant nothing.

Unless he could detonate a massive EMP or had abnormally superior regeneration like Behemoth, he would just get beaten up.

“I’ll take my payment for the ribs I gave up.”

It was worth sacrificing her ribs to lure him to the place that would become Set’s grave.

Of course, Set didn’t just take it passively.

He breathed fire, raised sand storms, and turned the surrounding area into sand swamps.

But even that was within Kathy’s calculations.

“Torso. Block the breath.”

“Hen. Make platforms over the sand swamp.”

“Vans. I think you’ve been spotted. Get out of there.”

“Vox. When the storm ends soon, bomb the wings first.”

You only play your joker card when you can finish decisively.

Following that logic, she had her companions wait until she fully understood Set’s abilities.

And when Set’s attention was focused on her companions—

“Now.”

Her spear pierced through the monster’s eye.

– Kyaang! Kyaeng!

The monster howled in pain with a dog’s cry.

Her companions continued their attacks on the monster without concern.

Meanwhile, Kathy occasionally threw spears targeting vital points while pondering.

‘This is strange.’

A giant monster was rampaging in the capital, but what was the government doing?

They couldn’t have thought that Kathy, who had no connection to them, would stop it…

‘What are they doing?’

No matter how messed up the world was, there was no reason to leave a giant monster rampaging in the city.

While wondering, she kept her eyes on Set in front of her.

The monster briefly regained reason and tried to respond to her companions, but,

“Are you sure about that?”

Instead, the red threads made his actions lead to bad moves.

Set breathed fire where he foresaw a sniper would hide.

But that was a false future shown by Kathy.

And as the price for his wrong prediction, his remaining eye was sniped.

KRAAAK!

The beast that lost both eyes went berserk.

Regardless, the party continued sniping and bombing from a safe distance.

Soon the beast fell to the ground with no part of its body unscathed.

“Phew… it’s over.”

Despite wounds that exposed bones all over its body, Set still twitched with tenacious vitality.

Kathy, clutching her ribs, climbed onto Set’s head as he was unable to resist.

She placed dynamite on top and waved her hand at Set who couldn’t open his eyes.

“Bye bye.”

BOOM!

Even the most vicious monster couldn’t withstand dynamite installed on its crown.

The headless body went limp and hardened like stone.

“This could become a tourist attraction, huh?”

Kathy shared her thoughts while looking at the beast she had defeated.

And so the battle between Set and Kathy ended with Kathy’s victory.

Set VS Kathy.

Kathy wins—

“Escape from the building!”

Before she could savor her victory, she urgently called out to her companions.

The moment Set fell and Sunhwa eliminated the demon Baal, the worst future unfolded in her previously obscured precognition.

As if this was destiny, a determined future that allowed no divergence.

“No!!”

A missile hit the building where her companions were waiting and exploded.

Kathy rushed desperately toward the building where her companions had been.

Everyone’s condition was critical.

Thanks to Torso’s shield they were still breathing, but their injuries would certainly be fatal if they weren’t taken to a hospital immediately.

Right after, as if not giving Kathy time to think, flames rose from Jerusalem’s military.

Seeing flames rising not only from the military but from various government buildings, she let out a sigh.

“We’ve been tricked…!”

Baal was bait. She should have noticed something was wrong.

When the other demons didn’t show themselves, she thought it was Baal’s arrogance.

But that was Kathy’s miscalculation.

“They considered the government more dangerous than us…!”

No matter how strong the four of them including Kathy were, in terms of threat level, they couldn’t compare to a modern military.

Therefore, Baal’s primary target wasn’t the four guarding the sarcophagus.

While Baal diverted the attention of the four, his ‘joker’ was euthanizing the military and intelligence agencies.

And the entity that had neutralized the government began to show its true intentions, as if now was the perfect time.

“The city is turning into a dungeon…!”

Though she had never seen this phenomenon before, she felt she could guess its cause.

“The Saint of Sin!”

Kathy hurriedly began searching for the figure who appeared to be the Saint.

Due to her ability requiring eye contact to see the future, she needed to find the Saint who hadn’t yet revealed herself.

While she was urgently searching for the Saint, Sonia landed beside Kathy.

Sonia spread her wings and quickly healed the companions’ wounds.

Kathy called out to Sonia.

“What about Baal?!”

“I don’t know! He escaped!”

At first Sonia thought he was targeting the sarcophagus, but there was no trace of Baal near it.

So she had returned to heal her companions as an urgent measure.

“What’s happening now?”

Though Sonia didn’t know the details, she seemed to have sensed that the city was changing.

Kathy explained the situation to her.

“It was a diversion! They bought time for the Saint to properly resurrect.”

Kathy and her group weren’t the only ones protecting someone.

“Don’t even hope for support from the government or military. From here on, we have to solve this ourselves.”

Hearing Kathy say this, Sonia let out a shallow laugh.

“When have we ever received help?”

“That’s true.”

Only after her companions were barely able to maintain their lives did Kathy regain her composure and begin strategizing.

“First, we need to find the Saint of Sin…”

Before she could finish speaking, a woman with blood-red wings appeared in the distant sky that had turned black.

Beside the woman, Baal, who had been fighting Sonia, was bowing his head respectfully to her.

Seeing this, Kathy twisted her lips.

“Found her.”