Chapter 180 – Gathering

Just before the spatial intersection of the five major cities centered on White Deer Lake.

The situations in the other major cities were much more relaxed than White Deer Lake.

Unlike White Deer Lake, which had passed the critical point where a Void Lord could emerge due to being unable to stop the Hollow Specters widening the Great Rift.

Because in the other major cities, they blocked the Rift expansion attempts of the Hollow Specters, centered around at least one Transcendent Awakener of True God Rank existing in each city.

Not even a Void Lord, let alone a Void God, had emerged.

Therefore, Seo Minho’s move to connect the six spaces where Great Rifts had occurred through the Crossroads of Time and Space acted as a masterstroke.

As the spatial coordinates of the six Great Rifts overlapped, the total volume of the Rifts was limited to the size of the largest White Deer Lake Great Rift.

At the same time, even though they were superimposed on the same coordinates, the phases of the six Great Rifts were still separate, so the Void forming the Rifts did not merge into one.

As a result, the five Great Rifts, excluding the White Deer Lake Great Rift, could no longer spew out Hollow Specters.

It was as if the most expanded White Deer Lake Great Rift was blocking the other Great Rifts.

“Well done!”

Whoooosh!

Park Jincheol, who could sense the entire Earth’s atmosphere and thus was the first to grasp the spatial change, crossed over to the most critical White Deer Lake side.

The Sun Church Awakeners of Los Angeles, who had come under the influence of the Chaos Constellation, followed him.

Starting with them, Awakeners fighting in other major cities came swarming over.

“Blocking a Great Rift with a Great Rift? That’s quite an ingenious method.”

“It seems that place is the center of the battlefield. Let’s go there too.”

Gugugugugugugu!

From Shanghai, the Abyss Guild Master and Lunar Guild Master, accompanying the Polaris Guild Master who was next after Park Jincheol to perceive the spatial change, crossed over with a murderous aura.

“We must help over there! Lumen!”

“Lumen!!!”

Whoooosh!

Next, from São Paulo, the Church of Radiance Awakeners, led by the Shining Guild Master, came swarming over, radiating various lights of Miracles.

“It seems the Hollow Specters here are mostly finished now, so let’s go over there too.”

“It seems a higher existence than Hollow Specters is emerging over there, so we must be careful.”

“Our resolve was already made long ago.”

“Then I won’t bother with further nagging.”

Taaaat!

The Earth Guild Master, Center Guild Master, and Iron Guild Master, who were fighting in London, also sensed the presence of the True God Rank Void God and crossed over to support the Galaxy Guild.

“Finally, is this the last Void Lord?”

“Why are these guys, who can’t even stand a chance in a head-on fight, so good at running away? If it weren’t for the Tempest Guild Master, we might have lost them.”

“Wind is hard to catch, after all.”

Finally, the Trisara Guild Master, Tempest Guild Master, and Aurum Guild Master, who had been dealing with the Void Lord that had swallowed the fairy race, Nightmares, and Chthonians that appeared in New York, finished off the last Void Lord in New York and headed for White Deer Lake.

It was the moment when all the Awakeners under Mirinae’s command, including Park Jincheol and the Ten Great Guild Masters scattered across Earth, who could confront the Hounds of Void, gathered at White Deer Lake.

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Thud!

A third True God Rank Void God emerged.

But the Grade of a True God Rank could no longer intimidate Earth’s Awakeners.

There were already 12 Transcendent Awakeners of True God Rank gathered on the Galaxy Guild’s side.

Considering Prerogatives like Spirit Summon, Spirit Unification, and Authority Bloom, each one was a Transcendent Awakener equivalent to five True Gods.

Rather, it was the Void God side that should be intimidated.

Puhahahahak!

Indeed, the third True God Rank Void God was annihilated within seconds of emerging.

The two True God Rank Void Gods fighting Do Junwoo and An Gyeongseok had already been annihilated by the Combined Attacks of the Transcendent Awakeners.

The Quasi-Divine Grade Void Gods fighting the Yeto Legion and the Galaxy Guild, etc., were not much different.

“Ooooh! This is killing it!”

“I wondered how to fight a 10-Star Rank Void God, but there was such power!”

“With this, I can become a Highest-Rank Awakener too!”

It was thanks to the Awakeners from Los Angeles and São Paulo joining in, who had received shared abilities like Non’s Divine Artifact enhancement containing [Limitless Unfathomable], Shin Gyumin’s Wind-Thunder Doppelganger, Seo Minah’s Adaptive Evolution and Rebirth, etc., as they crossed over to White Deer Lake.

As a bonus, several High-Rank Awakeners who had gained immense Achievement by defeating Quasi-Divine Grade Void Gods were reborn as Highest-Rank Awakeners, just as the Galaxy Guild’s High-Rank Awakeners had.

Kukung! Puhahahahak!

The fourth and fifth Void Gods were annihilated by the bombardment of Authorities the moment they emerged together.

Now, it had become a Hunting Ground where even True God Rank Void Gods were hunted as soon as they appeared.

But such Void God hunting could not continue indefinitely.

“True God Rank Void Gods are already starting to come out two at a time.”

“That means someday, a number of Void Gods that cannot be handled by the forces here alone will emerge.”

For now, it was two, but as True God Rank Void Gods die, the Rift grows.

Kukung! Puhahahahak!

Kukukung! Puhahahahak!

Kukukukung! Puhahahahak!

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As the hunting continued, more and more True God Rank Void Gods burst out from the Great Rift.

Just as when Hollow Specters emerged, the difficulty was endlessly rising.

And the scale of that rise was also gradually increasing.

Simply maintaining the status quo could not keep up.

There were also limits to Promotion through the Achievement of Void Gods.

That wasn’t the only problem.

“I’ve finally reached 10-Star… Gurgle!”

“Cough! Why are you attacking me suddenly?”

The moment Baek Woohyeon, who had risen to Highest-Rank Awakener while blocking this Void Wave, reached 10-Star.

His Existence Reversal twisted, and he suddenly attacked a nearby Galaxy Guild member.

It was because the Reversal, which should have been reversed in the original direction, had transformed towards the Hounds of Void side.

“Could it be… because of the Achievement accumulated from the Hounds of Void?”

“All Highest-Rank Awakeners, withdraw from the front lines!”

While the Polaris Guild Master guessed the cause of the transformation, Park Jincheol pulled back the Highest-Rank Awakeners on the battlefield to prevent a recurrence of the same situation.

To a distance where the Achievement of Void Gods would not be shared.

Meanwhile, Baek Woohyeon, who had just reached Transcendence with the transformed Reversal, was dealt with by Seo Minah.

Clunk!

“Polarity Reversal. 《Devolution Elimination》.”

It was the ability reversed from Henrietta’s Stigma Adaptive Evolution, reverting his change to before his 10-Star Awakening.

Originally, the completed Divinity of 10-Star should resist such changes, but since he had already been incorporated under the yoke of [Yeto Graveyard of All Life] and undergone Rebirth and evolution, intervention was possible.

Of course, with just one Myth, the Awakening itself could not be invalidated.

“Reversal, 《Fallen Angel Genealogy Tree》. 《Clay Earth Molting》.”

The Fallen Angel Genealogy Tree, reversed from the Mythological Genealogy Tree, flipped the direction of evolution from ascent to descent.

And Clay Earth Molting, reversed from Clay Earth Erosion, separated the Achievement itself that was the catalyst for his 10-Star Awakening.

It was a similar principle to Adam Kadmon absorbing Human Karma, just not absorbed.

Srrr.

As he fell back to Highest-Rank Awakener, Baek Woohyeon’s Existence Reversal was invalidated.

“Wh-what did I do…?”

Having regained his senses, he remembered all the changes he experienced during the Reversal, so he bowed his head deeply and hastily retreated outside the battlefield like the other Highest-Rank Awakeners.

If he stayed on the battlefield, the same thing might happen again.

“…Sorry about earlier.”

“It wasn’t on purpose, was it?”

As Baek Woohyeon apologized to the comrade he attacked.

The minds of those remaining on the battlefield were complicated.

True God Rank Void Gods were being handled by Park Jincheol, the Ten Great Guild Masters, Do Junwoo, An Gyeongseok, etc.

While Quasi-Divine Grade Void Gods and Void Lords were being handled mainly by the Highest-Rank Awakeners, now that all the main force Highest-Rank Awakeners had left.

How to fill their absence was a concern.

“Ah… how about this?”

The one who provided the answer was again Seo Minah.

She judged that aggressively utilizing Clay Earth Molting would be effective against the Hounds of Void.

“Reversal, 《Graveyard of All Life》.”

The Cradle of All Life, where all life is born, is reversed into a graveyard where all life is buried.

Wobble wobble wobble wobble—

Clay Earth, similar to black mud, stretched out in dozens of tentacle-like branches and swallowed the Hounds of Void.

Subsequently, the Achievement constituting the enemies swallowed by the Clay Earth was separated by the reversed Stigmas like Clay Earth Molting and Devolution Elimination.

After all, the form achieved from the Void Lord stage onwards is not formed by the Hounds of Void but is the Starlight Record and Achievement stolen from others.

The Graveyard of All Life, which separates Achievement, was fatal to Void Lords.

Crumbling crumbling.

Void Lords crumbling as their Starlight dried up.

Thanks to that, the remaining ones only had to worry about Quasi-Divine Grade Void Gods.

The problem was that as the battle continued, High-Rank Awakeners accumulated Achievement, became Highest-Rank Awakeners, and withdrew from the battle, so eventually, only the Galaxy Guild members who had contracted with Divine Spirits remained.

Of course, they too had similarly risen to Highest-Rank Awakener.

“I… give up the Transcendent Star.”

Kim Yul, who had continued fighting even after reaching 9-Star, extinguished the Mark of Transcendence the moment he Awakened to 10-Star, lowering his Grade back to 8-Star.

The gap created by falling two Grades was supplemented by awakening a new Stigma’s Reversal.

“Reversal, 《Despair: Dispel》.”

His Wish magic, which fulfills his own desires, is reversed, unleashing a Transcendent magic that severs the opponent’s desires, i.e., the will expressed externally.

It was a Myth that nullified the activation of magic-type abilities themselves, which cause phenomena by projecting will externally, as long as it wasn’t Authority.

“…….”

On the other hand, Seo Minho, who had been 9-Star since awakening Infinity, had already reached Half-Step Eleven-Star through the Mark of Transcendence.

Having most classically completed the Synthesis of Opposites through the dual aspects of Hyu’s Authority, which is essentially the origin of the Synthesis of Opposites progressing at 10-Star, he could ignore the transformation that happened to Baek Woohyeon.

He was in a state where he could become 11-Star anytime as long as he determined the form of his Authority.

Although he could hardly participate in the battle as he did his best to connect the six spaces where Great Rifts occurred through the Crossroads of Time and Space.

Witnessing the dozens of types of Authorities unleashed by the True God Rank Void Gods and other Transcendent Awakeners of True God Rank, and the True God-level Divine Spirits they employed, he realized what kind of Authority he would obtain.

“Ah. So this was it.”

As the woodcutter’s Identity and the white tiger’s Identity, mixed with Hyu’s abilities, opened the mountain god’s Identity.

“Authority, [Eastern Heaven’s Blissful Land].”

Just as Eastern Heavens exist inside mountains on the Arthalia Continent, an Authority that creates a Reverse World was completed.

It was not a simple Reverse World but an ability to create another world with different Laws, flow of time, and even fate.

Oooooong!

As if encompassing all the spaces connected by the Crossroads of Time and Space, a vast Eastern Heaven embraced the Great Rift area.

It essentially isolated the battlefield itself into a new Eastern Heaven, not Earth.

“Now we can stop controlling our power.”

Thanks to that, they could restrict the battlefield so that the aftermath of clashing Authorities would not sweep over Earth’s ordinary people.

Until now, whenever Transcendent Awakeners unleashed Authorities, some had to attack while others had to control their power, careful that the battle’s aftermath did not cross the Hallasan boundary.

But now, that was unnecessary.

Of course, if an Authority directly hit the boundary of Eastern Heaven’s Blissful Land, the Eastern Heaven wouldn’t hold either.

But that’s a story when the Eastern Heaven is small.

The Eastern Heaven’s Blissful Land unfolded by Seo Minho only encompassed the Hallasan area from the outside, but inside, it had a size no different from the entire solar system.

So even if they fought the Void Gods, it would take quite a while for the aftermath to reach the boundary.

Thwakwakwakwakwang!!!!

The roar that sounded whenever Authorities poured out to kill Void Gods grew even louder.

Moreover, as Hyu’s Ten Thousand Phenomena Theft was imprinted on the Laws forming Seo Minho’s Eastern Heaven’s Blissful Land, it even stole the Starlight contained within the Hounds of Void to maintain Eastern Heaven’s Blissful Land.

The speed of hunting the Hounds of Void grew even faster.

Amidst this, the Lunar Guild Master looked at Seo Minho with admiration in his gaze.

“Huh, it seems he’s only a 2-Star Vessel at most, yet he rose to True God?”

Not only the Lunar Guild Master but all the other 11-Star Transcendent Awakeners couldn’t help but be amazed looking at Seo Minho.

Since the Ten Great Guild Masters or Park Jincheol all had talent of 5-Star Vessel or above, Seo Minho was essentially the first to become a Transcendent Awakener from a 4-Star Vessel or below.

Simultaneously, their amazement also turned towards Lee Hanseong and their Constellation behind Seo Minho.

“Once again, I’m reminded of how amazing Young Hanseong and our Lord of the Throne are.”

A warm atmosphere lingered over the battle without major crisis and the unbelievable growth of their Hubae.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

But as if scolding them, an anomaly occurred in the Great Rift.

Although the spatial coordinates were superimposed, the six Great Rifts, whose phases were separate, were being pierced into one by something.

“Is that… hair?”

The bewildered voice of the Polaris Guild Master, who discerned the identity of something with an information-type Authority.

A single strand of hair from the Outer God, who was struggling with the Chaos Constellation’s True Body outside the world, secretly pierced through the dimensional barrier and connected the six Great Rifts, whose phases were separate, into one.

Jjeojeojeojeojeojek!!!

As the Void that had Possessed the six Great Rifts merged, the largest White Deer Lake Rift instantly expanded more than threefold.

The invasion of pouring Void Lords and Void Gods momentarily stopped.

But no one felt reassured seeing this.

Because everyone knew this was merely the calm before the storm.

“Be on guard. The next Void God to emerge seems to be 12-Star.”

Zzirit zzirit.

The Grade that made one’s hair stand on end just from the aura flowing from beyond the Rift clearly heralded the appearance of an Apostle Rank Void God.

Soon, from the Great Rift, twelve divine shadows revealed themselves along with a tremor that shook heaven and earth.

Gugugugugugugugu!!!!

The pinnacle of Void Gods who were Apostles of the Twelve Constellations from the world swallowed by the Outer God.

They were the Apostles of the Outer God.