Ch.63Ep.63 Protect

“Block them!! Arghhhh!”

“There are only 2 enemies! Don’t let them get near Cthulhu at all costs!!”

“Arghhhh!”

An unstoppable force.

Radios was running at an almost unbelievable speed alongside Namgung Ihyun.

Their destination was near the center of Southlet, where massive magical energy could be felt.

That’s likely where either Hastur or Cthulhu would be.

“You’re in my way! Move!”

Swoosh!

Each time Radios swung his arm, dozens of Twilight Blades slashed through the Great Old Ones.

Though each Twilight Blade was a skill with tremendous power.

For Radios, who could now maintain the Goblin Mask for half a day.

Creating Twilight Blades was as simple as forming magic swords.

Even the Great Old Ones couldn’t withstand five blades flying at them simultaneously.

The sound of fabric being cut, death cries, and incomprehensible screams.

Radios felt uneasy but ignored it and pressed forward.

[Aren’t you going to use Subduing Dead?]

“That would be wasteful. Time attack is the priority right now.”

Namgung Ihyun asked out of pure curiosity.

Though the Great Old Ones were dying like common soldiers.

Each of them had enough skill to give the Radios from three years ago a good fight.

No matter how much he could erase their self-awareness, if he could command Great Old Ones through Subduing Dead, what a tremendous force they would be.

But Radios didn’t think it necessary to spend time using Subduing Dead.

Though he had sent 50 undead to support Elysse.

In this situation, using spells on beings that wouldn’t be much help seemed inefficient.

He could deal with them after the battle was over.

“We’ll keep moving forward. Until we see either Cthulhu or Hastur.”

[As you wish… Let me clear the path for you.]

Boom.

A fierce light gathered in Namgung Ihyun’s eyes as she observed Radios’s charge from the sky.

[Tear apart.]

Shriek!

She finally began to boil her Order on the battlefield.

Her Order was called ‘Heavenly Killing.’

It was an Order filled with the resentment of a woman driven mad by divine mockery.

Her main attack skill using the Heavenly Killing Order was Word Command.

Moreover, since becoming Radios’s undead, she had no hesitation using her Order.

Because with an infinitely regenerating undead body, an unstable Order wasn’t a concern.

[Explode. Explode. Explode. Explode. Explode. Explode. Explode.]

Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!

Namgung Ihyun kept chanting Word Commands without needing to watch her back.

“Take it easy. You’re draining all my magic power.”

[Haha! You’re constantly recovering with that weird mask anyway! Shouldn’t you welcome me fighting for you?]

“…Sigh.”

Radios shook his head watching Namgung Ihyun run wild.

After all, her actions weren’t harmful to him.

As she said, his magic power kept recovering, so her rampage wasn’t really a problem.

‘It’s a bit annoying that she can use her Order without worrying about magic power though.’

But what could he do?

Due to his own inadequacy, he didn’t have absolute command over Namgung Ihyun.

Still, it was certainly easier than clearing the path himself by firing Twilight Blades.

[If you don’t come quickly, I’ll kill them all! Kihahahahaha!]

“To think I once planned to fight someone like her…”

Watching Namgung Ihyun indiscriminately slaughter Great Old Ones as she advanced.

Radios thought it was fortunate she had been betrayed.

But that aside.

‘One massive magical presence has disappeared since earlier.’

Surely they hadn’t returned to the realm of the Outer Gods.

He couldn’t ignore that either Cthulhu or Hastur had left the battlefield.

They were beings with enough power to devastate planets.

If only one had disappeared, they might be plotting something.

“Namgung Ihyun. Wait a moment.”

[Huh? I’m having fun here. What is it?]

“You must know too. Either Cthulhu or Hastur has left.”

[So what? Do you think they’d use a pincer attack when they’re not even in crisis?]

At most, they’d be preparing an attack powerful enough to devastate the planet.

After saying this, Namgung Ihyun rushed forward again.

Radios fell into contemplation.

‘Just Ktuga’s summoning alone caused explosions across a 100km range.’

However, since Kadinant’s structure was too bizarre to apply normal measurements.

Ktuga’s explosion effectively shattered about 20% of Kadinant.

That’s not to say Kadinant is small.

The relationship between measurements and distances is inconsistent due to spatial distortion? Anyway.

‘If they’re preparing an attack even greater than Ktuga’s…’

What could they be planning?

Just as he was about to sink into thought.

[C-Captain! Something terrible is happening!]

[What is it?]

[In my precognition…!]

Suddenly Arsia’s telepathy came through, and she described what she had seen.

[W-What did you say?]

[There’s no mistake! Hastur…! He’s planning to summon a star larger than Kadinant to destroy everything!]

[..!]

Radios was shocked by Arsia’s words.

According to her, Hastur resided on a star in the Taurus constellation, specifically Aldebaran.

And the size of that star was extraordinary—he planned to crash it into Kadinant.

He couldn’t help but be horrified.

Radios urgently informed Kraud and Rin about Hastur’s plan.

Kraud, who had been sitting and watching until now.

“How troublesome…”

He stood up and thrust his staff into the ground.

Boom!

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake began across all of Southlet.

Great Old Ones, the newly arrived Guardian Spirits, Elysse and the undead, goblins, Radios, Arsia, Namgung Ihyun, and finally Rin.

They could all feel it.

[Playtime is over, youngsters.]

Two eyes were watching from the vast sky.

The owner of those eyes was none other than the Goblin Chieftain, Kraud.

Even Cthulhu and Hastur were not exempt from freezing at this terrifying sight.

They feared Kraud, who was deliberately releasing his Divine Order.

Now the Great Old Ones understood.

Even with millions of troops gathered, it was a meaningless number against someone with Divine Order.

‘Dweller! Are you deceiving even yourself in the end?!’

Cthulhu recalled Yog-Sothoth, his father, who had smiled arrogantly saying millions would be enough.

His words had certainly seemed sincere.

But Yog-Sothoth himself possessed Divine Order.

In fact, he was considered second only to the Blind Idiot God in terms of Divine Order.

Could he really not have known the Great Old Ones would be annihilated?

Of course not.

The Great Old Ones had merely been sacrificial pawns sent to Kadinant for Yog-Sothoth’s benefit.

‘In that case…!’

Cthulhu quickly exchanged glances with Hastur.

At that moment, all the Great Old Ones simultaneously ripped out their own hearts.

At this mad collective suicide, both Radios and even Kraud widened their eyes.

Finally, Cthulhu realized his true purpose.

Or rather, Yog-Sothoth’s purpose.

“We offer the hearts of all Great Old Ones… Come forth, Crawling Chaos.”

[..! Where do you think—!]

Kraud realized this insane ritual was meant to fulfill the conditions for summoning Nyarlathotep to Kadinant and tried to stop him.

Rumble.

[Why now of all times!]

As Aldebaran, which Hastur had desperately summoned, began falling toward Kadinant.

Kraud had no choice but to focus all his power on stopping the falling star.

[Graaaaaaah!!]

A gravity field of a different dimension enveloped his entire body.

If he miscalculated the intensity, it could trigger a supernova.

Kraud knew the Skuite tattoo on his body was growing darker, but.

‘If I don’t stop this here, everyone dies.’

Finally, he activated his Divine Order—Time.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

With the sound of turning gears, the falling Aldebaran began moving backward.

And simultaneously.

“Are you the Goblin Chieftain?”

“..!”

The Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep, descended upon Kadinant.

In an instant, he appeared before Kraud.

Kraud had been so focused on stopping the falling star that he hadn’t noticed Nyarlathotep’s approach.

“For our grand plan, you’ll have to die.”

Just as Nyarlathotep mercilessly tried to crush Kraud’s head with a knife hand.

“Stooooop!!”

Including Radios.

Namgung Ihyun, Rin, Arsia, Elysse.

And all the goblins leaped in at once to block Nyarlathotep’s attack.

“Chaos Release.”

“..!”

“Arghhhhhh!”

As he released his Divine Order like swatting annoying flies, everyone who had rushed toward him was thrown back.

“Ugh! Damn it!”

The most violent reaction came from Rin.

Even with her years of training, she was frustrated at being at such a disadvantage due to the absence of Divine Order.

Unfortunately, Nyarlathotep had shifted all his attention from Kraud to Rin.

“Beings with the potential to awaken Divine Order should be eliminated from the start, shouldn’t they?”

“..!”

Boom.

Following Nyarlathotep’s will, chaos writhed and surrounded Rin from all directions.

‘I’m… going to die…’

She couldn’t possibly resist.

That’s what it means to face a being with Divine Order.

Unless another being with Divine Order appears—

Swoosh, Crash!

Just as Rin closed her eyes tightly, accepting her fate.

Something fell with a sound, and the chaos surrounding her gradually subsided.

“Domain Declaration.”

Whoosh!

A refreshing seascape appeared before Radios and his companions.

Nyarlathotep turned his head with a cold smile toward the woman who had created this situation.

“After escaping, you fled to the path of the dead?”

“The one walking the path of the dead will be you, Nyarlathotep.”

One of the highest gods of Olympus, reminiscent of an emerald sea.

It was the arrival of Poseidon, with Triaina slung over her shoulder.