Creature Abandoned by God – 1

“Cough, cough!”

As soon as I regained consciousness, the first thing I did was cough. My entire mouth was parched. I moved my tongue to roughly sweep my cheeks and gums, then got up.

‘So this is why I fainted and then woke up.’

It was a very informative moment, as I could understand why the protagonist, dragged into the abyss in the game, would faint and then wake up. There wasn’t a single part of my body that didn’t ache.

The shadow wrapping around me and pulling me in absolutely did not mean it gently embraced me. It was more like it violently grabbed my body and threw me to the ground.

The surroundings were completely dark. Up, down, front, back. Every place my eyes reached was stained black. If it weren’t for the abyss spread beneath my feet, I would have certainly lost my sense of direction.

The floor, just by looking at it, made me feel terrible; it was full of the abyss, looking like black mud. Bare ground didn’t exist anywhere. The only substances forming the space were the abyss and shadows.

At least it was fortunate that it didn’t block rolls like the lowest level of the Rune Dungeon.

‘The rune… it must be working properly, right? Because I’m still alive and not dead.’

I fiddled with the back of my left hand. The reason the ‘Rest in the Abyss’ rune was essential for the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle was precisely because of this space, encroached upon by the abyss and shadows.

When opening the barrier gate to fight the boss, if one is not wearing the rune, the moment they are engulfed by shadows, the player character dies instantly with a crunching sound of all their bones being crushed.

Furthermore, if one enters here with the rune equipped and then unequipped it, similarly, the player character is engulfed by shadows and dies instantly, and their corpse sinks into the abyss beneath their feet.

Either way, the fact that the character dies instantly without the rune was the same. It was another reason that raised the difficulty of the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle.

ㅡCome.

From somewhere, I heard a faint voice calling me.

The owner of that voice was none other than the final boss of the DLC, the Creature Abandoned by God. Since this was its territory, it would have immediately noticed that someone had entered.

*Shing*, I drew my blood-stained sword. The passage was straight. As I slowly stepped forward, the shadows and abyss squirmed and gathered, filling the space I had just passed through.

‘It would have been great if I could go straight to the boss room, but…’

Unfortunately, that wasn’t possible. If you walk along the passage for a bit, a trash mob appears and blocks the player. That guy absolutely had to be defeated to proceed.

*Squirm*, as soon as my thought ended, the passage directly ahead was blocked by shadows rising from the floor. It was a signal to prepare for battle.

I pressed the shadow wall that filled the passage firmly with my hand. It was a wall with immense elasticity, like rubber. As soon as I pressed and released my hand, it bounced back as if in defiance, regaining its original form.

Soon after, I heard something rising from behind me. I turned around.

An abyssal monster with a grotesque appearance was slowly approaching me. In vanilla, there’s no shadow wall, so you can just run away, but in Dark Mode, that’s not possible. I absolutely had to fight.

ㅡ*Splat!*

Of course, it wasn’t a problem for me at all. It wasn’t a particularly difficult foe anyway.

As the abyssal monster’s body fell backward, *Splat*, it scattered into the shadows as if water was spreading everywhere. As the monster died, the shadow wall blocking the passage crumbled down.

‘That’s still there, too.’

On the other side of the passage, I saw an old statue standing idly by itself. It was the same kind that was in the basement of the Rune Dungeon, a statue for saving checkpoints. I passed it by without even glancing at it.

Because it’s a trap, of course.

If you ignorantly sit in front of it, the statue transforms into an abyssal monster and devours the player. The damage itself is ordinary, but for me right now, it was as good as an instant kill.

Every single person who enters here for the first time is lured by that statue and gets devoured once before starting. It was a structure where first-time players couldn’t help but fall for it.

What’s even more frustrating is that after devouring the player, it just runs away, so you can’t even kill it. Moreover, throughout the entirety of BraDk 4, this was the only section that used a statue as a trap.

After walking a reasonable distance, when I looked back at where the statue had been, it had disappeared at some point. *Tsk*, I clicked my tongue once and moved my feet.

‘It must be below here.’

It was a short distance to the real entrance of the boss room. I had arrived in front of a cliff that stretched steeply downwards. Now, if I jump from here, it’s a direct path to the boss room.

There was no reason to hesitate now. Gripping the blood-stained sword firmly with both hands, I jumped down.

*Splash*, as my feet touched the ground, I heard a sound as if I had stepped into a puddle. Of course, it wasn’t real water. It was merely something that the abyss had gathered and gathered until it turned into a liquid.

Here, too, I couldn’t unequip the rune. If I did, I would be sucked into the abyss forming the floor and die. It meant I had to fight as if one rune slot didn’t exist.

ㅡI feel it… that disgusting smell…

From somewhere in the boss room, a voice that shook the entire space echoed. It was the line that appeared in the first part of the cutscene, announcing the start of the Creature Abandoned by God boss battle.

*Thump*, the ground rumbled. From beyond the abyss covered in darkness, something was walking towards me.

ㅡThis smell… you are clearly that damned god’s minion.

That line about being a god’s minion was a special dialogue that only appeared if the character had raised either Faith or Divine Power stats to 10 or higher. Otherwise, it just asks if you came to die.

Well, there was no gimmick where the boss would get stronger because of this. Only the dialogue changed.

ㅡIt worked out well. If I kill you, I’ll be able to recover my power much faster.

*Bang!* That something took its last step. Even in this terrible darkness, its appearance was clearly revealed.

It was an enormous giant. To see its head, I had to crane my neck for a long time. My head didn’t even reach its knee, let alone one of its legs.

Six jagged horns sprouted from its head, and it had no less than eight eyes. Between its mouth, torn to its ears, countless densely grown teeth were visible.

Two pairs of large wings were attached to its back, and it had four arms. A grotesquely thick tail dragged on the floor between its legs.

‘It’s even more so when you see it in person.’

Whenever users cursed that guy, they would half-jokingly call it ‘an ugly orphan bastard abandoned by God’, but facing it directly like this, that remark didn’t feel like a joke at all.

ㅡDie for me. If you do so, you shall enjoy eternal rest in the abyss.

“Eternal rest, my ass.”

I chuckled and took out the divine catalyst tied to my waist. It was something I had borrowed from Selene for a moment, since a catalyst was absolutely necessary to use divine spells.

I brought the divine catalyst to the blade and focused my senses as if infusing power. Then, the catalyst began to glow brightly. It was a golden light, representing the divine power of the sun.

The weapon was imbued with the sun.

As if a river of gold was surging, overflowing divine power wrapped around the blade of the blood-stained sword. It emitted such strong light that even my right hand, gripping the hilt, was almost obscured by the light.

Among enchantments that bless weapons, it was the effect of ‘Solar Eclipse’, a divine spell with top-tier performance.

But I was perfectly fine. Not only was there no glare at all, but I could also look at it perfectly fine. Of course, that’s because it was a spell I used.

ㅡYou insignificant thing. Did you think you could kill me with such a petty trick?

It, too, similarly, received the white light mixed with golden color, on par with sunlight, head-on and showed no reaction.

Even the divine power directly wielded by the Pope couldn’t pierce the abyss, so it wasn’t particularly surprising. For a guy who’s supposedly the final boss of the DLC, if he got scared just by an enchantment motion, that would be laughable in itself.

“Well. Why do you think I can’t kill you?”

I firmly reattached the divine catalyst to my waist. With my current Divine Power stats, I couldn’t immediately reuse the enchantment as soon as it wore off.

It required some time until it could be reused.

“Of course, you won’t die in one hit. I didn’t expect that from the start. If a huge guy like you just died after a few hits, that would be even stranger.”

I aimed my blood-stained sword. The creature, too, seemed about to start the fight in earnest, gathering shadows in each of its four hands. The shadows, coalescing into one, began to form the shape of weapons.

Mace. Bludgeon. Hammer. Axe.

These were the types of weapons held in its hands. And every single one was terrifyingly massive.

Whether it was trying to threaten me, or simply showing off, it wielded weapons, each far larger than an average human, swaggeringly in the air.

“But, I have no intention of hitting you just once.”

I focused my mind and took a stance. I didn’t need to be scared by that monstrous appearance. Because the bigger the weapon, the clearer the motion is. Victory or defeat depended not on its actions, but on my concentration.

“I plan to beat you until you die.”