VS Episode 59 Chapter 5
Episode 59/Chapter 5: God of conquest (5)
TL: Tsubak
ED:
Hermes blinked with a dumbfounded face. That was the same for Prometheus and it wasn’t that different for Adenmaha.
“What?”
“Freya is prettier.”
He said that once again and a roar was heard from a distance. An overwhelming rage swelled up like an explosion along the pink divinity.
It was Aphrodite’s rage.
She was sure to have heard Tae Ho.
‘Crazy bastard.’
Cuchulainn spoke briefly with a flood of emotions. He thought he was the God of cheating but it seemed like he was a God of provocations.
But Tae Ho’s provocations hadn’t ended yet. He swelled up his dark blue divinity to stop the pink divinity that was flowing towards them and then raised up Adenmaha that was in the floor.
“Certainly. Adenmaha is prettier than Freynim.”
“Eh?”
Adenmaha let out a strange sound again. Hermes and Prometheus looked at Adenmaha and Tae Ho while blinking and Tae Ho nodded.
“Adenmaha is prettier than Freynim.”
Adenmaha’s face got dyed in red. No, her neck also turned completely red.
Originally she should have laughed like a fool like usual but it was different this time. Adenmaha bit her lips and didn’t know what to do.
‘Hey you crazy bastard! How can you make your ally fall in confusion!’
But Tae Ho didn’t mind that either. He spoke with a sincere voice that anyone could discern it wasn’t a lie.
“But that’s the truth.”
That was right. Men were blind in their own causes. The power of love was still great.
Freya was above Aphrodite and Adenmaha was above her once again. Honestly speaking, Aphrodite was quite beautiful but it was impossible to compare her to Idun or Heda.
‘This bastard is for real.’
It was when Cuchulainn was speaking in an absurd tone. Aphrodite’s aura, that had stayed silent for a while as if to listen to Tae Ho’s words, erupted once again. The roar that could be said to be rage itself was heard from a far place and shook the entire palace.
Even if that wasn’t the case, Aphrodite had strong pride in her looks. And that pride had become stronger as she turned into a being that wanted to destroy the world.
But Tae Ho had crushed her pride. He didn’t even fend against her seduction but also counter used it and then said that she was inferior to the Goddess of beauty of Asgard and after that he even said that she was inferior to some Valkyrie that appeared from somewhere.
Aphrodite couldn’t endure that. Her head turned white out of rage and she couldn’t think of anything.
It was a perfect provocation.
‘But that’s true.’
Tae Ho mumbled inwardly and acted quickly. They didn’t have the time to keep talking like this. They had to get out of the palace of Aphrodite the fastest they could.
Tae Ho first looked at Hephaestus with his ‘eyes of the dragon’. It was impossible for him to walk alone as all of his tendons had been cut off.
“Hermes!”
Hermes flinched at Tae Ho’s sharp yell but then shook his head. It was impossible to use a magic circle inside the palace of Aphrodite just like he had told him before they departed.
Tae Ho swung his sword and crushed the aura of Aphrodite and at the same time swung his hand and floated several runes he had prepared beforehand.
They had infiltrated silently but that wouldn’t be the same when they got out. They had been exposed anyways so they only thought of the shortest path.
Tae Ho overlapped nine runes and looked at a distance with his ‘eyes of the dragon’. He activated the rune magic at a point in the ceiling.
A strong pillar of light that was like a dragon breath extended from Tae Ho’s hands. It destroyed everything in its path and opened up a new path.
“Run!”
Tae Ho yelled and embraced Adenmaha. Prometheus carried Hephaestus and Hermes grabbed that Prometheus while cursing.
“Talaria!”
Hermes yelled. He surged up to the sky with his winged shoes and Tae Ho got ahead of that Hermes. He kicked the air in consecution and got out of the palace in an instant.
[I won’t let you go!]
Aphrodite yelled with the voice of the Gods. She told them her objective through her divine power filled with rage.
She wasn’t a fool and knew of a good method to break this situation.
And that wasn’t different for Tae Ho. He knew what Aphrodite was thinking about and that’s why he acted without even breathing.
[Saga: Master of frost]
Adenmaha transformed into a white frost dragon and at the same time Tae Ho clenched the summoning rocks and called the names of Nidhogg, Rolo and Ismenios quickly. It wasn’t to call them, that were causing a mess outside the palace.
Counter summon.
He summoned them back to the city of Echidna, that had become Tae Ho’s base like the residence of Idun.
Hermes and Prometheus got on Adenmaha’s back. Hephaestus opened his mouth with difficulty. It seemed like he wanted to say something.
But they didn’t have time to listen to him. Tae Ho swung his sword filled with his dark blue divinity towards the three people.
Hermes and Prometheus fainted at the same time. Hephaestus opened his eyes widely at the sudden attack but it was impossible to resist. He could only faint like the other two people.
This took place in only a few seconds.
Tae Ho took a breath again. He fixed the three people that fainted in Adenmaha’s back with rune magic and then raised his head.
The pink divinity stretched like a tentacle and was about to attack Adenmaha. Not only that, but the winged humans that were fighting against Nidhogg also headed towards Tae Ho. There were kids and teens mixed in them and it seemed like he was looking at a beautiful group of angels.
[Saga: The one that conquers dragons]
Adenmaha flinched and then spread her wings. Tae Ho grabbed Gallatin and Arondight and danced in his swordsmanship at Adenmaha’s back. His dark blue divinity became a sword aura and cut down the pink tentacles.
“Fly up!”
Adenmahaa replied. The white frost dragon started to ascend and Aphrodite released her power. She used the worst card Tae Ho was expecting.
A seduction not directed to Tae Ho.
Tae Ho could endure her seduction but that wasn’t the case for the others. Actually, Hermes had been half enchanted just by having Aphrodite release her aura.
That was the reason Tae Ho sent back Nidhogg and the others and also knocked out Hermes and Prometheus.
Aphrodite hadn’t made a surprise attack when they invaded but the situation was different now. She concentrated her power on the only one that remained in Tae Ho’s group.
Adenmaha.
The one that had to stay because she had to carry Hermes, etc. And the only one he couldn’t knock out.
A pink divinity that was close to being red covered Adenmaha. Aphrodite’s seduction didn’t differentiate between sexes and races.
Listen to me.
Love me.
Obey me.
Aphrodite’s enchanted voice reached Adenmaha. She ordered her to fold her wings and land down.
But Adenmaha didn’t do that. She still continued to fly regardless of Aphrodite’s enchant.
It wasn’t because her seduction didn’t work or she had a power to endure her seduction like Tae Ho.
“Adenmaha is pretty, nice, cute.”
Tae Ho was also saying words to Adenmaha diligently. He enchanted her faster than Aphrodite.
[Bragi’s rune]
[Saga: The one that conquers dragons]
[Saga: The one that rode on a Goddess]
[Tae Ho’s Valkyrie]
He had used everything he could. He didn’t have to be picky on his methods to win against Aphrodite’s seduction.
And he accomplished something. Adenmaha didn’t get seduced by Aphrodite. She was still flying with all her strength.
‘She’s going to die!’
But Cuchulainn yelled loudly. It was because Adenmaha’s state wasn’t good.
“Huaang.”
It seemed like Adenmaha’s body was turning red even though she was a white dragon.
Adenmaha let out a weird moan and tried hard to endure it. Endure herself from fainting away because of the embarrassment, etc. and not because of the seduction from both parties.
“Adenmaha is great. Wonderful. Really lovely.”
“Hkugh.”
She stumbled at that moment but gritted her teeth and endured it. A war of wanting to stop listening and wanting to keep listening happened inside her head.
Tae Ho whispered towards her. He transmitted his feelings and words that got amplified by Bragi’s words directly towards her through the ‘one that conquers dragons’.
Adenmaha staggered and barely flew up while panting. But whatever the case the flight was still a flight and they were getting farther from Aphrodite’s palace.
Tae Ho didn’t stop whispering to her and looked back at the palace.
The number of angels chasing after them had greatly decreased thanks to him having attacked while Adenmaha flew narrowly. Tae Ho looked at a distant place instead of continuing to attack them.
He could know Aphrodite’s location even without having to use his ‘eyes of the dragon’. This was because her divinity was too strong.
‘She’s not chasing after us. It seems like she is certainly a God.’
Cuchulainn spoke with relief and regret.
Aphrodite was really strong inside of Cyprus, and especially inside her palace.
Tae Ho had overcome Aphrodite’s seduction once but he wasn’t confident of doing it a second time.
Fighting against Aphrodite inside Cyprus when his mental defense runes had been destroyed was like putting on a leash himself to become her slave.
But that was only when he fought inside of Cyprus, and inside her palace.
The reason Tae Ho provoked Aphrodite was partly because it was his true feelings and to drag her out of Cyprus.
Tae Ho was confident on being able to overcome her seduction if they were outside her sacred force.
But Aphrodite wasn’t a fool just like Cuchulainn had said. She didn’t cross the last line even though she was greatly enraged.
She also knew that it was suicide to fight against Tae Ho without the power of seduction.
‘But whatever the case, we accomplished our objective.’
They succeeded on rescuing Hephaestus. He was in a state that was no different from a corpse but they had Idun’s golden apples. He would be able to recover somehow.
“Uh….are, are we not there yet?”
Adenmaha barely managed to squeeze out her voice and asked. She was just concentrating on flying so she didn’t know how far away they were from Cyprus or if Aphrodite was still attacking them.
‘Well, it should be fine now.’
Their enemy had given up on chasing them.
Tae Ho also thought like that. He touched Adenmaha’s scales softly and said.
“It’s fine now. It seems like they gave up chasing after us.”
Adenmaha let out a sigh of relief. It was because she was right before the point of fainting.
She stumbled a bit because her nervousness faded away but it only lasted a moment. She regained her composure back and inhaled a few times and then called Tae Ho shyly.
“But master.”
“Yes?”
“Um… you know. What you said before.”
“What?”
He had said a truck of words to her while they were escaping. Adenmaha let out a groaning sound as Tae Ho asked back but then managed to speak once again.
“I, am I really prettier than Freynim?”
Tae Ho laughed back unconsciously at her question filled with embarrassment and shy expectation. He touched Adenmaha’s scales again and said.
“It’s true. In my eyes, Adenmaha is much prettier than mere beings like Aphrodite or Freynim.”
That was true. It wasn’t to provoke Aphrodite.
“Hhph!”
But it was then. Adenmaha let out a weird sound again and stumbled but she couldn’t fly up again. She started to crash down.
‘You crazy bastard! She fainted!’
“I, I didn’t use the rune?!”
‘You won’t get satisfied if you don’t hit the final blow?! Huh?!’
Cuchulainn despaired and Tae Ho activated his saga hurriedly with a pale face.
And only Adenmaha found peace in the middle of this chaos. She started to crash down while putting a happy smile.
< Episode 59 – God of conquest (5) > End
VS Episode 59 Chapter 6
Episode 59/Chapter 5: God of conquest (5)
TL: Tsubak
ED:
‘Speaking the results, you did get out alive.’
“We were lucky.”
After a few hours since they returned from Cyprus to the polis.
Tae Ho agreed to Cuchulainn’s words and nodded.
The place Adenmaha crashed at wasn’t the ground but the sea. They were lucky that Cyprus was in an island, if they were on plain land something dangerous could have happened.
‘You somehow managed with Adenmaha, but you also had to take care of Hephaestus, etc.’
He would have been able to somehow save Hephaestus, but it would have been impossible with Prometheus and Hermes.
But it was at that moment.
Hermes misunderstood Tae Ho’s answer to Cuchulainn as if he was talking alone and answered while frowning.
“That’s not true master of Asgard. The sea is the territory of Poseidon so we could have fallen in a greater danger.”
Poseidon was the leader of all the Gods and nymphs that had their origins in the sea. Not knowing was one thing but there would have certainly be witnesses of Tae Ho’s group having fallen to the sea.
Poseidon didn’t employ his influence near the esa of Cyprus because he recognized Aphrodite’s territory but if it was any other place they would have been surrounded by Poseidon’s forces and a battle would have occurred.
Hermes explained the general situation to Tae Ho and nodded slowly.
“Anyways, the power of Aphrodite is overwhelming. Her power of seduction still worked even after we got quite far away from Cyprus.”
“Mm.”
Tae Ho held his silence and Hermes trembled as if he was scared because he didn’t know what happened.
What Hermes knew was that Adenmaha fainted while struggling fiercely against Aphrodite’s seduction.
“We did became wet rats but i’m glad everyone is safe.”
Hermes smiled brightly. He was one of the most beautiful youths even in Olympus, so it was really beautiful to see his bright smile.
But Tae Ho felt a big psychological pain at that.
‘Why, do you feel struck? Huh?’
Because Tae Ho was the one that had made Adenmaha faint not Aphrodite.
But Tae Ho overcame his psychological pain and put a smile.
“Right. I’m really glad.”
‘You now scam others without even licking your lips.’
Hermes put a bright smile again as he didn’t know anything while Cuchulainn criticized him.
And a few minutes later.
Tae Ho finished speaking with Hermes and then went to the place Hephaestus was being healed.
There were quite a lot of clinics in the polis of Apollo, that was the father of Asclepius, the God of medicine.
Tae Ho had requested one of them to heal Hephaestus in that place.
When they got lead by an attendant and entered quite deeply they saw Hephaestus lying on a big altar and Adenmaha healing him with mystical magic.
‘She’s quite concentrated.’
Adenmaha was focused on composing mystical magic while sweating. It seemed like she didn’t even notice that Tae Ho had entered the room.
Because of that, Tae Ho got filled with playfulness and approached Adenmaha without any presence. He whispered in her ear while she was still composing mystical magic.
“Adenmaha.”
“Hue?”
Adenmaha let out a strange sound and shrank her shoulders. It was a it different to having been surprised.
Adenmaha had been like this since they returned. She turned her head when she was about to make eye contact with Tae Ho and there were more cases that she shrank her shoulders and didn’t know how to act.
‘It seems like it will last for some time.’
While Cuchulainn clicked his tongue, Tae Ho cleared his throat because he became embarrassed and changed the subject.
“Um….how is Hephaestus?”
“Whew- Hari, Whew- Hari.”
But what came out of Adenmaha’s mouth was a weird breathing.
‘It’s a breathing technique of Erin. It’s effective on calming yourself.’
Cuchulainn clicked his tongue again.
Tae Ho turned his eyes away for Adenmaha and Adenmaha, that was inhaling and exhaling with a red face, barely managed to calm herself.
Adenmaha closed her eyes and placed her hands on her cheeks in the end and she let out a sigh and started to explain.
“He didn’t recover immediately because he was in a really bad condition but….I think that I will be able to recover him somehow. Hestinim is also helping although she went to rest for a bit.”
Hephaestus was in a really miserable state.
All of his bones got crushed and his tendons cut down, and his skin was burnt with fire and slashed with a knife so there wasn’t anywhere that was sane.
His injuries were already serious but they rot down and ooze started to flow down.
If Hephaestus hadn’t been a God, he would have already died more than a hundred times with these injuries.
But fortunately there was still hope like Adenmaha had said. Hephaestus’ state had become much better from when they first found it perhaps because they fed him a golden apple of Idun and kept healing him with mystical magic.
Tae Ho looked at Hephaestus with regretful eyes and then looked at Adenmaha and asked.
“Don’t you have to rest Adenmaha?”
He had seen with his ‘eyes of the dragon’ that Adenmaha had healed Hephaestus all night. In addition she also participated in the expedition to rescue Hephaestus. She had only been healing him since she woke up so Tae Ho could only worry about her.
Honestly speaking he felt that Adenmaha needed to rest more than Hestia.
Adenmaha worried once again at Tae Ho’s worry and then turned her head around and answered humbly after suppressing her desire.
“I’m fine.”
“Your body will get bad like that.”
‘It looks like you are making it worse for her.’
Each gentle words Tae Ho said was making her flinch.
But it seemed like it was thanks to not having used his rune that Adenmaha didn’t fait at his words and was starting to gain some resistance towards it. Adenmaha regained calmness once again by inhaling some air and spoke while focusing on Hephaestus.
“I’m fine. This is important and…..I want to restore him.”
Adenmaha originally liked to treat others. It would have been different if she hadn’t participated at all, but now that she did participate she felt like she wanted to lessen Hephaestus’ pain.
Tae Ho felt moved at Adenmaha’s sincere voice. She wanted to praise her for looking like a maiden.
But fortunately, he had Cuchulainn at his side.
‘Stop. Don’t deal the final hit.’
Tae Ho calmed himself at the warning that came from experience. He retrieved the magic power from Bragi’s rune, that he was about to activate unconsciously, and then encouraged Adenmaha with sweet words.
“Thank you.”
He placed his hand on her shoulder and Adenmaha flinched and smacked her lips a few times but then lowered her head and said.
“Um, then……”
“Yes?”
“Later….re, reward.”
Adenmaha spoke shyly but firmly.
Tae Ho opened his eyes roundly at the sudden request but then smiled brightly and nodded.
“Yes, whatever Adenmaha wishes.”
“W, whatever….”
Adenmaha stuttered with a red face. Her eyes shook because of who knows what she was imagining.
‘Uh….isn’t the woman that says that she will listen to any wish and the man gets excited saying whatever!?’
Cuchulainn’s question ended in him talking alone. Tae Ho smiled bitterly and patted Adenmaha’s shoulder.
“Anyways, I will leave it to you.”
“Yes, master should also rest.”
Adenmaha turned to look at Tae Ho and put a smile and Tae Ho nodded unconsciously.
‘Adenmaha is certainly prettier than APhrodite or Freynim.’
‘Do it inwardly, inwardly. Adenmaha’s life is already close to 0.’
Tae Ho listened to Cuchulainn’s advice and then patted Adenmaha’s shoulders once again and left the clinic.
&
The next morning.
Prometheus recovered completely with a night’s sleep and came to find Tae Ho.
“Master of Asgard. Thank you for having rescued Hephaestus.”
“I also want to thank you. We have been able to rescue Hephaestus thanks to you.”
A dense smile was drawn in Prometheus’ face as Tae Ho smiled softly. Only a few days had passed since they met but he really liked Tae Ho.
Because of that, Prometheus chose his words and spoke after checking Tae Ho’s look.
“Main God, I have heard from Hermes. You said that you possess several weapons of other worlds right?”
“Yes, that’s right. Do you want to take a look at them?”
Tae Ho also liked to see the keyboard and mouses the other pro gamers had.
It was obvious for Prometheus, that was once a blacksmith God, to show interest in weapons of other worlds.
But Prometheus shook his head. Tae Ho’s proposal itself was really charming but there was another reason he asked that.
“I’m interested in it of course as a master. I will be really grateful if you give me the opportunity at a later time but…there’s another reason why I brought up that story. It seems like i’m lacking on my explanation.”
“Please speak.”
Tae Ho fixed his posture to prepare himself to listen and Prometheus started to explain with a small smile.
“The reason I said that we needed to obtain a weapon made by Hephaestus to defeat Poseidon isn’t because I looked down on your weapons. It’s not that I know all of the weapons you possess but….I heard from Hermes that you have weapons of the knights of the round table such as Gallatin and Arondight.”
Prometheus stopped talking and looked at Tae Ho as if confirming what he had said. He continued to explain again when Tae Ho nodded lightly.
“It’s not that I know all of the weapons of the knights of the round table but I still had the opportunity to study some of the weapons in the past. They didn’t fall behind to the weapons of Olympus at all. The weapons of the knights of the round table should be luxuries even in Olympus.”
‘Well, that’s true. Weapons like Excalibur and Gae Bolg are strong weapons that it should be hard to find a pair even in Olympus.’
Cuchulainn wasn’t saying this one sidedly just because he was from Erin.
Excalibur and Gae Bolg were actually weapons that could represent a world and Tae Ho had proved this in the battle in Asgard.
The weapons that dealt the final blow on the Magician king and the World wolf were Excalibur and Gae Bolg respectively.
“What Hephaestus will make will be a weapon to defeat Poseidon. A weapon that is strong against the God of sea.”
“Yes, I understood it like that since the beginning. The opponent is a God that has a peculiar divinity so I think we will be able to aim for the strengths and weaknesses of that divinity. Just like how monsters that spit out fire are weak against frost.”
In the game, specialized weapons appeared at times. Like a weapon that was particularly strong on a certain boss or a weapon that utilized the weakness of attributes.
“Certainly the God of battles. Yes, that’s why I said we need Hephaestus.”
Prometheus spoke with a relieved face. It seemed like he didn’t want to create useless misunderstandings between Tae Ho when he really liked him.
But it was then. Tae Ho raised a finger and said.
“I only got to think of this now….but is this place enough to be used as a smithy?”
It didn’t seem like they would use a normal smithy when they were going to make a specialized weapon that would work against the God of sea.
It wasn’t only in the game but specialized weapons also had to be in a special place in reality.
Prometheus gulped dry saliva at Tae Ho’s question and then looked at him fixedly.
“Honestly speaking, it’s lacking. That’s why I wanted to request something more from you.”
“What is it?”
“When Hephaestus wakes up, we will make the weapon to defeat Poseidon together. I would like for you to allow us to work on a special place.”
“And that special place is?”
“The core of Typhon.”
Tae Ho tilted his head and asked while frowning.
“Are you talking about the middle of the volcano?”
The huge volcano that was near the city of monsters and the base of Echidna.
It was the land where the strongest monster Typhon, that had even defeated Zeus once, was asleep but wasn’t dead nor alive.
“Yes, that place has the flames of Typhon so if we work with that fire we won’t be envious of Hephaestus’ smithy. No, it will rather be better.”
You could see challenging eyes and excitement of a master in Prometheus’ eyes. It was obvious he was excited on even using the flames of Typhon.
“I will speak to Echidna and secure the place.”
“Thank you.”
Maybe it was his feeling or it was actually like this that the smile Prometheus showed when expressed thanks was brighter than usual.
&
Time flowed again.
Two days after Tae Ho spoke about the place with Echidna through mystical magic and Siri and Bracky debated on how they should face against Poseidon’s army, etc.
When the night became deep and the stars and the moon hid, Hephaestus finally healed up completely.
Tae Ho received Adenmaha’s message from the clinic and hurriedly headed over there. When he arrived Hermes and Prometheus were already here.
Hephaestus faced Tae Ho and spoke with the tongue that had regrown. His voice was rough and unshapely but it had dense gratefulness towards Tae Ho.
Hephaestus was almost as big as Bracky but the proportion of his body and the amount of muscles he had was a mess compared to Bracky that had an almost perfect body.
If Bracky and Tae Ho were well sculpt sculptures, Hephaestus could be compared to a clay man that a child made.
His upper body was abnormally bigger and more so than his lower body and he was even limp. His face wasn’t handsome either.
But Hephaestus was still the best blacksmith of Olympus. His hands were rough but his skills were really delicate.
It seemed like Hephaestus had already heard the general story from Prometheus and Hermes that he didn’t waste time.
“Master of Asgard, can you show me the weapons you have?”
There was ambition in Hephaestus’ eyes and voice.
But it wasn’t simply because he was interested in the weapons of another world. He had to check and see what weapons Tae Ho to decide on what weapon he should make to Tae Ho and grasp what Tae Ho really needed.
Hermes and Prometheus also showed deep interest. Hermes’ was simple curiousness and Prometheus was the same reason as Hephaestus.
“It would have been good if Athena was here too.”
Because the Goddess of warfare Athena had a lot of interest in weapons.
When Hestia spoke in a low voice, Tae Ho took out the weapons in the air one by one and placed them in the altar.
He prioritized the weapons he obtained in Erin and Asgard more than the ones he used in Dark Age.
Hephaestus also observed the weapons diligently. He turned to look at Prometheus that was showing deep interest in the weapons of the knights of the round table that were gathered in one place and then the two of them exchanged glanced and nodded almost at the same time.
“I have decided.”
Hephaestus spoke heavily and looked at Tae Ho. He then gave out an answer that Tae Ho, Adenmaha and not even Cuchulainn could have imagined.
“I am going to make a scabbard.”
Not a sword but a scabbard.
That was the decision Hephaestus came to.
< Episode 59 – God of conquest (6) > End