Ch.65Ep.65 Waterway vs. Chaos

“Hmm!”

Niarlathothep desperately deflected Poseidon’s attack with a frustrated expression.

Triaina should have been shattered, but beyond just using it well…

He felt that the woman who had been rotting in Yog-Sothoth’s prison for a long time seemed to have grown stronger.

“You think something’s strange, don’t you? You’re thinking she should normally be weaker, right?”

“…Honestly, it’s a bit surprising. With this much power, there was no reason for her to be captured so helplessly, was there?”

“Of course not. If I had wanted to, I could have escaped no matter what they did.”

CLANG!

Poseidon smiled as she pushed back the encroaching chaos with Triaina.

Being defeated by Yog-Sothoth and imprisoned?

It was all according to Poseidon’s intentions.

“I was getting a bit tired of the folks in my neighborhood.”

“Hmm? So Olympus wasn’t to your liking.”

“The current ideology doesn’t suit me. Rather, things were better when that bastard father of mine was ruling.”

Titanomachy.

The desperate struggle of Zeus and his siblings to dethrone Cronos.

Poseidon too had stood at the forefront with Triaina, slaughtering the Titans.

But looking back, she could see it clearly.

The authority that Zeus and Hades possessed was incomparably stronger than that of Cronos.

“It’s natural to feel disillusioned, isn’t it? They’ve already created a society worse than what Cronos had.”

“So you deliberately got captured?”

“More precisely, I was buying time. I needed to see if there was any hope for Olympus.”

When the three Cyclops brothers created the three divine artifacts of Olympus, they imbued each with a unique characteristic.

Astrape with shape transformation.

It had the ability to transform into the weapon that Zeus could utilize best, matching his magical power.

Kynee with amplification.

Matching Hades’ title as the God of Death, it had the ability to amplify the death he spread.

And finally, Triaina with regeneration.

No matter how many times it broke, if Poseidon herself recovered, the weapon would recover too.

Since Poseidon never revealed Triaina’s characteristic even to her siblings…

Yog-Sothoth thought he had neutralized Poseidon just by breaking Triaina.

“Radios Magnum… he might be able to change Olympus.”

“He seems to be trying to destroy it though.”

Niarlathothep was trying to drive a wedge between Poseidon and Radios.

Although this was their first meeting.

If Poseidon didn’t return to Olympus and stayed by Radios’ side in Kadinant?

It might disrupt his plans.

‘He still can’t fully utilize the Outer Devouring power.’

If Radios could use it properly, Niarlathothep would have to flee by any means necessary.

If he didn’t want to be devoured here.

Fortunately, Radios couldn’t handle the true power of Outer Devouring yet.

That’s why Niarlathothep could leisurely face Poseidon.

He knew well that he couldn’t kill her here anyway.

Poseidon likewise didn’t charge at Niarlathothep with killing intent.

Both thought it would be a waste of power, but neither could back down.

Niarlathothep because he regretted wasting the life force of the Great Old One he had sacrificed.

Poseidon because she thought she might lose the person who emanated her father’s energy if she retreated here.

It could be called a battle of efficiency versus protection.

Rationally thinking, going all out here might seem foolish.

“You don’t want to think rationally either!”

BOOM!

The stagnant flow of battle began to change as Poseidon started to properly emit her divine power.

Because of this, Niarlathothep had to swallow a bitter taste. After all…

“Fighting here won’t benefit either of us, don’t you know that?”

“I don’t want to hear that from someone who loves fighting more than anyone!”

As Poseidon aimed Triaina at Niarlathothep.

Fierce tsunamis rose from all directions and began pouring toward Niarlathothep.

“Futile effort!”

CRASH!

He responded to the pouring tsunamis by releasing chaos from his body.

But Poseidon’s attack didn’t end there.

WHOOSH.

Spinning Triaina, she had somehow approached close range and brought down the spear tip toward Niarlathothep’s head.

“Where did you—!”

Niarlathothep created a shield of chaos to block his attack, but…

CRACK.

As expected of Triaina, known as having the highest penetration power among the three divine artifacts.

The shield shattered after barely blocking a single strike.

“Falling Water.”

“Kugh!”

SPLASH!!

An attack that seemed to have stopped.

Poseidon shot a water cannon of rapid currents from the tip of the trident.

Niarlathothep barely avoided the attack by bending his upper body backward.

But the fabric on his face was already completely scraped off.

At this point, shouldn’t he fight seriously?

“Domain Collapse!”

“..!”

RUMBLE.

First, let’s start by collapsing the domain that Poseidon had declared.

As a being who handled chaos, Niarlathothep knew the structure of formations more thoroughly than others.

Based on that, he had been analyzing Poseidon’s domain, waiting for the right moment to instantly break it.

“Outside your domain, your power will inevitably diminish!”

“Haha! This is quite a troublesome fellow!”

Poseidon’s divine power was the waterway.

She could create and control water as she wished, but…

Naturally, she performed much better when there was water in the surrounding environment.

Moving what exists is faster and stronger than creating something from nothing and then moving it.

But that doesn’t mean there’s no moisture here.

“You don’t know how terrifying water vapor can be!”

“..!”

As Poseidon thrust Triaina into the ground, the surrounding air began to condense rapidly.

At this moment, Triaina itself was emitting a negative temperature like absolute zero.

Brina and the goblins who were watching their fight jumped back in surprise.

‘The dimension… is different…’

Although Radios might have a higher quality and style of fighting.

The casual exchanges between them were on par with powerful attack skills.

Rin couldn’t help but realize once again how far away divine power was.

‘It’s far… too far…’

From the moment the two beings drew out their full power, Brina became disappointed in herself.

What does it mean to be just one step away from obtaining divine power?

When standing before beings with divine power, she only felt increasingly small.

BOOM!

Time and again, shock waves and impact sounds pierced her ears.

Brina could do nothing but grind her teeth at her own powerlessness.

It was impossible to intervene in the fight between those transcendent beings.

Nor could she help her father Kraud to completely restore Aldebaran.

Moreover.

‘That tattoo on father… it’s almost complete.’

Normally, he would have already used his divine power to restore Aldebaran.

Unfortunately, the Scythe tattoo engraved on Kraud was about to activate.

Kraud was probably resisting Cronos’s will trying to consume him while stopping Aldebaran.

In this situation, Brina deeply despaired at the fact that there was nothing she could do.

‘Damn! Damn it! Am I just this kind of being?’

What does it mean to be the greatest warrior of the goblin clan except for Kraud?

What does it mean to be the crazy woman with the infamous title of Blood Killer Ghost?

Brina came to hate herself for her own powerlessness.

‘What I can do…’

She had long given up on the idea of killing Niarlathothep.

She didn’t have flashy skills that could inflict fatal wounds on beings with orders like Radios’s divine killing bullet.

She only had methods of attack utilizing her order, Blood Mist.

Then.

‘I’ll… keep compressing the Blood Mist.’

Rather than increasing the mass, she gradually increased it by raising the density.

SCREECH.

Compressing the order little by little was literally insane.

But who was she?

She welcomed such insanity.

After all, she was the second warrior of the goblin clan who wouldn’t die unless her heart was torn out.

“Blood Mist… Compression.”

From Brina’s hands, a sticky dark red liquid reminiscent of blood rose slowly into the sky.

Then it rushed toward itself and began to devour itself greedily.

1 layer became 2 layers, 2 layers became 4 layers.

Brina continued to attempt compression while calming her trembling hands.

RUMBLE.

As the earth began to vibrate, Niarlathothep and Poseidon, who were continuing their fight, turned their heads toward the center of the vibration.

There was Brina, who had finally compressed the power of Blood Mist 128 times.

With cold sweat, she grinned at one corner of her mouth.

“Eat this!!”

“Oh no!”

BOOM!

As soon as her eyes met with Niarlathothep’s, she hurled the compressed sphere of Blood Mist at him.

Realizing that the power imbued in the compressed Blood Mist was extraordinary, Niarlathothep hurriedly tried to move away to block the attack, but…

“Aqua Prison.”

“Poseidon, you really—!”

With perfect timing, Poseidon interfered with Niarlathothep’s movement using a water prison.

As he quickly tried to break the prison and throw himself backward at the last moment.

He saw the attack looming right before his eyes and realized.

‘Too late—’

BOOM!!

Niarlathothep was hit directly by the compressed sphere of Blood Mist that came at a faster speed than expected.

Thus, Brina’s ultimate technique, later to be called Blood Explosion, came into the world.