Chapter 266
Two days before coming to Istirenne.
While staying in Wordsworth, Glenn had once asked Silpherinne about the body wrapped in the skill, Body Enveloped in the Unknown.
“The body enveloped in the Unknown?”
“Yeah. I obtained it after weaving the nonexistent tenth ring.
I thought you might know something about it.”
“I'm sorry. Lunatic rewards are systems created randomly by an unknown power beyond my control, so... What exactly was written?”
“It said that it puts the body into a state that transcends perception and, according to my will, manipulates the causality inflicted upon my body at a low probability.
From what was written, I suppose it could at least mean that attacks can be nullified...”
If that were all it meant, it would have been enough to simply write that it could nullify attacks according to his will.
There might have been other effects as well, but they were nothing more than guesses.
“Um, Glenn... This is just my guess.
Could it be that your body has obtained the power of the Unknown?”
“The power of the Unknown?
The one you use?”
“Yes.
When I look at the part about putting your body into a state that transcends perception and the name of the skill, doesn't it seem possible?”
Hearing Silpherinne say that, it did not sound like such an unreasonable theory.
“That actually makes sense.”
“But Glenn, isn't that a pretty simple conclusion that you should have noticed long ago?”
“Back then, I didn't know anything about the power of the Unknown or even about your existence.”
“Ah, that's true.”
Glenn tilted his head.
“But is this power of the Unknown different from divine and demonic power?
If you think about it strictly, isn't divine and demonic power also a type of unknown power?”
“That's true, but more precisely, divine and demonic power is included within the power of the Unknown.”
Silpherinne raised her eyes.
“The Unknown is an undefinable power that is not bound by the laws of the world.
It can create anything that doesn't exist, and it can become anything.”
Their eyes met.
A clear light shimmered within her beautiful silver-gray eyes, which contained a golden ring.
“A mysterious and dangerous possibility that can even transcend the laws of the world.
Your body has embraced that power, Glenn.”
“Of course, I don't even know what might happen, so even I am afraid of it and reluctant to use it.
The power of the Unknown is a force that can easily disregard even the will and perception of the person who possesses it.
But...”
Silpherinne took Glenn's hand.
A warm feeling soon spread through their joined hands.
“I don't know why, but I have a feeling that if it's you, Glenn, you can create an amazing result with that power.”
In the end, all Silpherinne had given him were a little encouragement and a little hope.
Even now, Glenn did not know whether the skill called Body Enveloped in the Unknown really granted the power of the Unknown to his body as its description suggested.
‘Still.’
“I don't know why, but I have a feeling that if it's you, Glenn, you can create the right result with only that power.”
Those words of baseless encouragement washed away the fear hidden in one corner of his heart.
Even with the red magical storm of a god that could crush everything right before his eyes, Glenn confidently stepped forward.
BOOM-
The ground collapsed across a wide area.
His body, wrapped in divine and demonic power, leaned forward, and Glenn shot ahead like an arrow.
CRACKLE-!
The red rune magic shattered and tore through his sturdy armor and clothes, but he did not even blink.
“……”
Normally, he would have divided one second into countless pieces and accelerated his thoughts as he always did.
But right now, no matter how he thought about it, the only conclusion he could reach was death.
So Glenn stopped thinking.
He simply opened his eyes wide and stared at his target in the middle of the storm.
KRRRRRRRRR-
The storm grew fiercer.
“Hoo...”
Along with it, Glenn raised his sword.
It was not an action he had thought through.
It was simply a gut feeling that told him this was what he had to do.
He pulled his beloved sword, Einheria, from his waist and swung it horizontally toward the center of the approaching storm.
SWOOSH-!
BOOOOOOM!
Overlord's Wrath, First Form.
The gray divine and demonic power followed the elegant sword trail left by Einheria and burned away the red storm rushing toward him.
However, the moment his obstructed vision cleared, red rune magic filled the empty space once again.
The divine and demonic power, which had yet to fully bloom, could not completely suppress the god's full power.
But Glenn did not waver.
He raised his sword upward and prepared for the next strike.
SHING-
The sword slowly rose.
The increasingly dense red rune magic clawed and tore at Glenn's skin beyond his armor and clothes, but he simply continued doing what had to be done.
“……!”
Then, at the same moment a flash erupted from his gray eyes, the sword fell downward.
SHAAAAA-!
BOOOOOOOOM!
Overlord's Wrath, Second Form.
The gray flash created by the following sword strike once again burned away the magical storm.
Lunicus's complete rune magic disappeared in an instant, as if the clouds had suddenly cleared.
“What...?!”
Lunicus's pupils widened.
“...Grrr! What a ridiculous trick!”
Suppressing her agitation, Lunicus began releasing magic once again.
In the end, even Glenn's two full-powered sword strikes had failed to reach her.
But—
‘That's enough.’
The sword strikes had only been a means to open a path.
ZZZT- ZZ-ZZT-
FWOOSH-!
Glenn pushed his way through the freshly released rune magic before it could become another massive storm and stretched his hand toward Lunicus.
“Huh?!”
His gauntlet, now nothing more than a rag with his fingers exposed, grabbed the goddess by the collar.
“Ha, ha...!
How dare you!
Who do you think...!!”
Her reddened eyes burned with murderous intent as she glared at Glenn.
The goddess's rage immediately transformed into red rune magic, just like her pupils, sharpening itself to tear Glenn apart.
At that moment—
“……”
Glenn stared directly at her.
......
It was silent.
Lunicus's voice.
The sound of the rune magic being sharpened.
Even the sound of his own breathing.
Nothing could be heard.
In that silence, Glenn felt an unknown energy blooming inside his body and slowly opened his lips.
“Just...”
It had been the same even when he came this far.
Right now, he could not think of anything.
He simply wanted himself, standing at the threshold of death, to survive.
He wanted all the effort he had made to reach this point while covering his entire body in wounds not to end in vain.
Carrying that simple wish as it was, he shouted at the goddess before him.
“Just stop it... YOU BASTARD!!”
At the same time, the silence shattered.
Yet there was still no sound.
All he could hear was the echo of his own voice and the sound of his opponent swallowing her breath.
“!”
Lunicus, sensing the strange change, stared at herself with a confused expression.
At that moment, enormous light exploded around Glenn and Lunicus.
KIIIIIIIIING-!
A strange sound that could not be defined.
Along with it, the exploding light spread in every direction and completely swallowed the red magical storm that had surged forward.
When Glenn regained consciousness, he was already lying on the ground.
