Chapter 189 – Reincarnator of Yeto

Squelch— Squelch—

Adam Kadmon walks across the overflowing Yeto, maintaining an expressionless face.

With each step he takes, ripples spread across the Yeto at regular intervals.

Grrrrr.

As if soothing an enraged beast, the rampaging erosion of the Yeto calms down and regains stability wherever Adam Kadmon has walked.

Just as if Henrietta’s control were still intact.

Adam Kadmon walks with his eyes closed, reading information from the Yeto he has subjugated about the events that occurred while he was asleep.

Suddenly.

But after only a few steps.

Adam Kadmon, having read a certain fact, abruptly stops walking.

“So this is why I awoke from the cycle of reincarnation—the human species of the continent itself has gone extinct.”

Until now, Adam Kadmon did not exist in reality.

He was the coalescence of all the karma accumulated by every human species that existed from the primitive era of the Arpelgia Continent to the present, gathered in the Yeto Divine Territory into a single archetype.

However, being essentially an Apostle from birth, he did not exert any significant influence on the continent, unlike Prometheus or Azathoth.

Unlike Prometheus, who created the vampire kingdom, or Azathoth, who forged the Path of the Fairies.

Adam Kadmon simply melted into the entirety of the human species, remaining in a dormant state, repeatedly experiencing the lives of individuals from beginning to end.

Though it was an experience of past records contained within karma, during the experience, Adam Kadmon’s memories and ego were sealed, and he lived solely from the perspective of the individual who had accumulated that karma.

Thus, Adam Kadmon could be called a reincarnator who had lived countless human lives.

The problem was that as the humans of Arpelgia were eroded by Henrietta’s Legion, they mutated into monsters, not humans.

What should have normally ended with death ended not with death but with the Legion’s erosion.

And the moment the last human of Arpelgia was eroded by Henrietta’s Yeto, Adam Kadmon could no longer remain asleep.

“…So they utilized the Yeto Divine Territory independently.”

No sooner had Adam Kadmon discovered the reason for the extinction of humans in Arpelgia than his eyebrows twitched slightly.

Squelch.

Squelch.

Squelch.

His halted steps began to move again.

“I’m going to reclaim the karma of the humans you devoured.”

He was heading toward the deepest part of the Legion where Henrietta had coiled herself.

* * *

Hmph.

Gobhan the Sword Demon and Alpha, who were guarding Henrietta’s cocoon, simultaneously looked toward the center of the Path of the Fairies.

Though they felt no special energy or grade, they instinctively sensed an inexplicable foreboding approaching from that direction.

“Something… is coming.”

“It seems we’ll need more strength to protect Mother.”

—Awooooo!

Alpha howled.

Wolf-type monsters belonging to the Legion all responded to his call and gathered.

Wooong—!

Gobhan deployed the Stigma 《Legion Unity》.

It was a Stigma that integrated the First Awakening Skill Unification and the Second Awakening Skill Colonization.

Through it, he absorbed the Legion, which was trying to escape Henrietta’s control, under himself.

Whoosh—!

Next, he deployed the Stigma 《Wrathful Flame》 and enveloped himself in black flames.

It was a Stigma that integrated the Third Awakening Skill 《Berserk》, obtained when he was the Red Hobgoblin King, and the Fourth Awakening Skill 《Darkening》, obtained when he was the Black Ogre Lord.

The bloodlust of Berserk manifested in the form of flames, and the Demonic Qi of Darkening manifested in pitch-black color—a myth of the berserk lineage.

Of course, being of the berserk lineage, he had to burn his life force as fuel to ignite Wrathful Flame.

Ssssss—

He simultaneously deployed 《Merciless Ice and Snow》, the reversal of Wrathful Flame, extinguishing the black flames and accepting only the amplification effect of his grade.

As an added bonus, Alpha, who witnessed this process from the side, succeeded in the Synthesis of Opposites of the Silver Moon Divine Artifact and the Sun Divine Artifact.

Gooooooo!

Inside Alpha, the moon swallowed by Hati and the sun swallowed by Skoll interlock, completing the mental image of twilight.

Next, as White Sound Heavenly Ice and Black Yang Heavenly Flame achieve Synthesis of Opposites, and the lunar and solar eclipses merge into one.

The Stigma 《Ancestral Regression》 and its reversal, 《Atavism》, are simultaneously deployed, elevating the grade of the bloodline Alpha possesses.

—Grrrr.

Through this, Fenrir’s Factor is gradually manifesting.

However, he lacked sufficient karma to become Fenrir completely.

Thus, Alpha devoured the karma of the wolf-type monsters he had gathered.

Previously, he couldn’t touch them because they were part of the same Legion, but now that the monsters had escaped Henrietta’s control, he could devour them as much as he wanted.

The final Stigma 《Shikigami》, completed by integrating his unique Skills, aided him.

Shoooaaak!

Thanks to the myth, similar to Lee Hanseong’s Divine Artifact Devour God Demon Sword, fulfilling the karma requirement was quick.

Before the myth that even devours gods, all the wolf-type monsters were devoured, and with their karma, the Synthesis of Opposites concluded, engraining Fenrir’s Authority [Twilight Orb] onto Alpha’s Divinity.

Simultaneously, Alpha’s form completely changed into that of Fenrir.

—Kwaaaaang!

It was a perfect exchange, as having Alpha alone become a True God was a greater enhancement of combat power than gathering tens of thousands of wolf monsters with a maximum grade of 6-Star.

Meanwhile, as Alpha was reborn as Fenrir, Gobhan deployed his newly obtained Stigmas, becoming accustomed to operating his new abilities.

He simultaneously deployed the Stigma 《Demonification》, obtained when he was a Lesser Demon, and its reversal, 《Angelification》, merging Demonic Qi and Divine power into one.

He achieved balance between the Stigma 《Thousand Changes》, which bloomed when he was a Demon, and its reversal, 《Immutable》, enabling infinite form changes while maintaining his essence.

And thus, the Stigmas that achieved Synthesis of Opposites were unified around the Stigma of the myth 《Formless Sword》, the pinnacle of swordsmanship Gobhan had cultivated, and its reversal, 《Heart Sword》.

The Yin and Yang of the diverging swarm and the converging unity.

The Yin and Yang of Wrathful Flame and Merciless Ice and Snow.

The Yin and Yang achieved by the darkness of demons and the light of angels.

The Yin and Yang of ever-changing afflictions and immutable truth, etc.

As opposing concepts were compressed into a single sword, a single mnemonic phrase arose in Gobhan’s mind.

At the center of opposing dualities, achieve formlessness, and the spirit of thoughtlessness ascends to the supreme, grasping the impermanent sword.’

That is the Authority [Formless Sword].

Squelch.

Right after Gobhan fully grasped the Formless Sword, footsteps were heard at the outer edge of his sensory range.

Adam Kadmon had already approached within their perception distance.

“Alpha!”

“I felt it too!”

—Jjeeeeek!

No sooner had Alpha activated Twilight Orb toward where Adam Kadmon was.

A momentary flash gleamed from the Formless Sword gripped by Gobhan, and the light of twilight, similar to what Fenrir harbored within, swirled.

He had imbued the Formless Sword with Alpha’s Authority, Twilight Orb.

—Jjeeeeek!

The illusory forms of two wolf maws overlapped, becoming even clearer as they targeted Adam Kadmon.

Faced with the overwhelming grade and Authority of two True Gods, Adam Kadmon slightly raised his head.

“Ten Sephirot, simultaneous release.”

And he recited.

The incantation to invoke ten Great Angels corresponding to the Sephirot, achieving Spirit Overlay.

Gooooooo!

Craaack!

Dozens of wings spread behind Adam Kadmon fully unfurled, stopping the maw of the Twilight Orb that was about to snap shut.

And the ensuing Spirit Unification.

[【Tetragrammaton】.]

As Adam Kadmon, having invoked the former Radiance Apostle Tetragrammaton, flapped his wings.

Crash!

With the sound of shattering glass, the overlapped illusory form of Twilight Orb shattered.

[The Great Demon King of Swords and the Divine Beast that devours gods…]

His gaze, which could even pierce the heavens, swept over Gobhan and Alpha, then turned toward Henrietta’s cocoon behind them.

[The one who arbitrarily used the Yeto Divine Territory is there.]

“Don’t touch Mother.”

—Grrrrr!

Realizing Adam Kadmon’s target was Henrietta, Gobhan and Alpha widened their eyes threateningly.

But the threat of two True Gods was merely laughable to Adam Kadmon, an Apostle.

[How amusing. You interfere with my humans, and I cannot touch the perpetrator? With just two True Gods? Try to stop me if you can.]

Whooosh!

Light erupted centered on Adam Kadmon.

He was an enemy even Lycan, who had invoked Infinity and become the Moon Shadow Apostle, could not defeat.

Before him, even two True Gods could only be described as ‘just’.

Chwa chwa chwa chwa chwa chwa chwa chwa!

Rather, the fact that they could hold out even for a moment was remarkable.

It was thanks to Gobhan, Alpha, and the remaining Legion as a whole forming a kind of Trinity, elevating their grade to Quasi-Apostle Rank.

And because they held out even briefly, they could attempt resistance.

“Formless Sword—Sephirot.”

If the opponent’s Authority is an Authority that invokes an Apostle, beyond standard specifications, then we can also use that Authority.

Thus, Gobhan imbued the Formless Sword with Adam Kadmon’s Sephirot and immediately activated it.

Ten Great Angels corresponding to the Sephirot invoked themselves upon Gobhan.

[My Authority…?]

Although the same Great Angels were already invoked upon Adam Kadmon, the Great Angels invoked via Sephirot are a kind of projection and can be invoked upon both sides.

Soon, as the opponent had done, he integrated and manifested the Ten Sephirot, summoning Tetragrammaton as well.

Uuuuung!

Unlike when the Great Angels were invoked, the power of Tetragrammaton invoked upon Adam Kadmon was halved.

The Tetragrammaton invoked upon Gobhan also possessed only half of its original power.

It seems that since the Tetragrammaton manifested via Sephirot draws power from the same past Brilliance Constellation, not a projection, its power disperses as the number of invocation targets increases.

[“Do you still think we can’t stop you?”]

[Yes.]

Nevertheless, Adam Kadmon still held a Half-Step advantage over Gobhan.

But Gobhan judged that with this level of gap, even if he couldn’t defeat the opponent, it was enough to hold out until Henrietta awoke.

[“Let me show you that thought is wrong.”]

He loads the usage authority of the [Radiance] Authority possessed by Tetragrammaton onto the Formless Sword, elevating the grade of the Authority.

[“Radiance Formless Sword.”]

The Formless Sword, its capacity expanded enough to maintain the Sephirot for invoking Tetragrammaton while also containing a new Authority, turns pure white.

As he manifests the Radiance Formless Sword, opposite to the Sword Demon’s Darkness Formless Sword after becoming a Dark Apostle, the Sword Demon’s epithet is reversed.

Sword Saint Gobhan.

[You utilize the Radiance Authority you just obtained in such a way? You have the right to speak arrogantly.]

Adam Kadmon twisted his mouth in displeasure as he saw one of the Seven Virtues, the pinnacle of growth-type miracles, contained within the Radiance Formless Sword.

[Diligence: Industria] was assisting the changes occurring inside Henrietta’s cocoon.

Guuuung—!

A change that should have taken at least several more hours, no matter how fast, ended in an instant, and a True God Rank wave spread centered on the cocoon.

Immediately after, the Yeto across all of Arpelgia, which had escaped Henrietta’s control and continued erosion in a rampage state, stabilized in an instant.

It meant Henrietta’s Yeto was once again controlled by its awakened master.

Jjeeek.

The cocoon splits.

The appearance of Henrietta, who evolved into Gaia, was not much different from when she was human.

Nor was her lower body a snake like Echidna’s.

The continent’s land itself took on the concept of the snake, while Henrietta herself retained a complete human form.

“You protected me as I asked? Thank you. Leave the rest to me.”

With a grin, Henrietta, expressing gratitude to the children who protected her, emerged from the cocoon.

While deploying the four Stigma Reversals she realized through Seo Minah toward Adam Kadmon.

Clay Earth Molting, Fallen Angel Genealogy Tree, Devolution Elimination, Graveyard of All Life.

Severing the connection with the Yeto Divine Territory, causing the Great Angels composing Tetragrammaton to fall.

The tentacles of Yeto, guiding the human species, devolved to the level of an inferior species subject to elimination, toward the graveyard where all life sleeps, wrap around Adam Kadmon.

Of course, it was difficult to inflict effective damage on an opponent who was a Half-Step beyond an Apostle with just this.

Hesitation.

Still, she could create a slight opening.

Utilizing that created instant, Henrietta embraced Gobhan and Alpha, their swarm, and even the invoked Tetragrammaton into her [Yeto All Life Palace].

“Ah. This should do it.”

Thanks to the Brilliance Constellation connected through Tetragrammaton, she also realized the reversal of the final Stigma.

Clay Earth Reincarnation reversal, 《Rebirth in Paradise》.

As the final piece, sending the opponent to nirvana in the paradise of the Radiance Divine Territory, opposite to the Yeto Divine Territory that values karma, is added,

Uuuuung!

A tremendous gravitational force arose between Adam Kadmon and the Radiance Divine Territory.

Though it wasn’t enough to affect Tetragrammaton or Adam Kadmon.

It was sufficient gravitational force to ascend the karma of humans that existed throughout history, which created Adam Kadmon, to the Radiance Divine Territory.

Paaaat!

A tremendous pillar of light connecting to the heavens erupted from Adam Kadmon.

It is the visualized scene of the flow of human karma he accumulated through reincarnation, leaving Yeto and heading toward the paradise pure land.

[Ah… Truly comfortable.]

Psssss—

Adam Kadmon, though he had the power to block such a flow, simply could not.

As the archetype of humans, he could not ignore the desire of humans wishing to head toward paradise.

Eventually, as all the karma composing him ascended, Adam Kadmon, who could no longer exist in Arpelgia, disappeared.

But this did not mean his annihilation.

If it did, the existence of Adam Kadmon, who would invade in the future Great War with Earth, would contradict causality.

“You are a reincarnator who covets Yeto, so if humans exist, you will appear again someday.”

Adam Kadmon, the archetype of humans, does not disappear as long as humans remain.

And the definition of humans tends to change with the times.

Now that the karma, which signified past humans remaining in the Yeto Divine Territory, has all headed toward paradise, Henrietta could newly define humans.

Wobble wobble—

As she gives new birth to beings who were past humans through the Yeto All Life Palace, Henrietta declares.

“From now on, you will become the humans of Arpelgia.”

By defining a part of the Legion under her control as humans, she seized the qualification to dominate Adam Kadmon, who would appear someday.