Episode 69/Chapter 3: Absolutely Invincible (3)
TL: Tsubak
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Just like how a being that wanted to maintain the world was born between beings that wanted to destroy it, there were also humans born as beings that wanted to destroy the world. And most of them couldn't live a simple life as beings that wanted to destroy the world.
Karna was a being that wanted to destroy the world but he loved it. he wanted to get recognized by the humans living in his world and wanted to be together with them.
But he couldn't do that. It was because the instincts that were born with him rejected all of that.
The unavoidable contradiction ate up Karna a bit.
Xindu, that treated identities more precious than other things, oppressed him.
Karna couldn't get loved. Contrary to Arjuna, that got blessed by countless beings and stood on the battlefield, he had to get layers of curses covering him and stand on the battlefield.
But he didn't resent others and wasn't pessimistic about his own fate. He faced all hardships with his own strength and courage.
Karna opened his eyes. His hands were holding the weapons of Krishna and Arjuna. The feeling of the weapons he originally wouldn't have been able to hold made him realize of one truth.
Xindu got destroyed. The world he loved got swept by fiery flames and disappeared.
The human Karna got sad at that fact and at the same time felt joy as a being that wanted to destroy the world.
Karna put a sad smile at the terrible contradiction. He recited a chant and liberated the power which he got a hold of and Xindu's destruction.
What he needed was a bit of time.
Karna's gaze passed Gilgamesh and Tae Ho and headed to a high place in the sky.
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Tae Ho felt Gilgamesh charging towards him. The lion headed beast Ugallu ran at an incredible speed and caught up with Adenmaha in an instant.
Adenmaha tried to increase her speed even more but Tae Ho stopped that with the 'one that controls dragons'. He stroke Adenmaha's back and thought.
Gilgamesh and Karna.
The great hero of Dilmun and Xindu.
The biggest reason the Temple requested Tae Ho for help.
Adenmaha showed great rejection at Tae Ho's orders. She said Tae Ho that she didn't want him to fight against Gilgamesh alone.
But Tae Ho was blunt and ni the end Adenmaha could only change her mind.
'Don't get hurt.'
She was scared of telling him to not die.
Tae Ho smiled. He stroked Adenmaha's white scales once again and then looked behind him. He jumped off from her back and activated his saga.
[Myth ranked saga]
[Incarnation of the World dragon]
The wings of a dragon surged up from the back of Tae Ho. He clenched the Sword of the round table and then followed the wind and charged towards Gilgamesh.
"Uoo!"
Gilgamesh yelled. He raised the sword of the Goddess of war Ishtar after fixing his legs on the back of Ugallu.
Tae Ho ignored Ugallu that was breathing fire. He passed its flames in an instant and clashed against Gilgamesh.
Kwagang!
A sound so loud you couldn't even imagine it came out from a clash between swords exploded. At the same time Gilgamesh got shocked. Part of it was because the power behind Tae Ho's sword was overwhelming but it was also because he had grasped a truth the moment they exchanged blows as an experienced warrior.
Tae Ho's body was perfect. He surpassed Gilgamesh in physical abilities without needing his divinity.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Tae Ho's sword pushed back Gilgamesh angrily. Gilgamesh looked at him to roar and then draw the power of Enkidu. He tried to dominate Tae Ho with the monstrous power Enkidu handed over before he died.
They clashed once again. A much louder sound than before shook the ground and at that moment Ugallu screamed. It wasn't able to endure the battle taking place at its back so it started to fall to the ground and Gilgamesh jumped from its back and spread wings of light like Tae Ho. It was the wings of the God of wind Enlil.
Gilgamesh and Tae Ho kept clashing in the air. The battle then moved to the ground and a land of confrontation that not even monsters or Gods could interfere got formed.
The divinities entangled with each other, clashed and exploded.
At the same time, the swords clashed with the intent to devour the other.
It wasn't simply because their capabilities was similar.
The sword was aiming for the sword.
Tae Ho didn't attack Gilgamesh with the Sword of the round table but his sword. Even if it was the sword of a Goddess, the Goddess of that sword had already disappeared. Gilgamesh's sword couldn't endure the strongest sword of Erin that was the addition of Excalibur and all the swords of the Knights of the round table.
In addition, the one swinging that sword was the master of Erin and the king of Camelot Tae Ho. The glory of Erin was accompanying the Sword of the round table.
Several more clashes took place and Gilgamesh' hands and feet got out of joint. His sword finally broke.
The divinity of Ishtar exploded along the fragments of the sword but Tae Ho and Gilgamesh focused on a different thing. Gilgamesh moved his hands to his waist to try to pull out a new sword however he could. Tae Ho retrieved the Sword of the round table which he swung with all his strength to destroy the sword of Gilgamesh.
The two of them were fast. Gilgamesh grabbed a new sword and the moment he was about to pull it the Sword of the round table slashed the chest of Gilgamesh.
Red blood filled the air. Gilgamesh groaned while stepping back as he got his chest cut deeply. He couldn't endure it in the end and kneeled up in place. He also let go of the new sword he had barely pulled.
But Gilgamesh didn't despair. He pressed the wound in his chest with his hand and looked up at Tae Ho and smiled while dripping cold sweat. He looked at the sky beyond Tae Ho's head.
"It's over now."
Buying time that is.
Two suns shone in Gilgamesh' eyes.
One was the sun of the Temple and the other one was the black sun of Karna that surged up in the battlefield.
Karna, that had absorbed the destroyed power of Xindu and awoke as the black sun of God, surpassed the level of a great hero and reached another boundary. He was an invincible being while the black sun was lighting the battlefield.
Tae Ho raised his head and looked at the sky. He looked at Karna that was standing confidently while having the black sun behind him.
It was certainly a huge power. It was good to say that the current Karna was invincible.
Karna raised the weapon of the Gods Astra in the sky. The weapon became Karnastra as Karna inserted his divinity in it after having awakened as the God of the black sun.
Juh Palgye breathed heavily and looked at that. He then sensed once again. The moment that strength is released completely the entire battlefield would get destroyed. Karnastra was a weapon that had that much power.
The entire battlefield stopped once again. Everyone fighting in the Golden palace looked at Karna but nobody could open their mouths at the nasty silence.
Kaldea, that was rising up while using her sword as a staff, collapsed once again. The Shinsoos of the Temple trembled and even the forces of Dilmun and Xindu that belonged to the same side as Karna trembled in fear.
The power of the black sun continued to get charged on Karnastra. Karna's gaze, located high in the sky, headed to Tae Ho.
Tae Ho looked back at him. He looked up and ordered Adenmaha and Echidna. He also gave the same order to Rolo and Drakon Ismenios.
Stay on hold. Don't fear. Just watch.
Right at that moment Gilgamesh turned his gaze. He looked at Tae Ho instead of Karna and the smile in his face disappeared.
Gilgamesh had used all his strength in that battle.
But that wasn't the same for Tae Ho. The only thing that had appeared in the back of Tae Ho's hand was the sentence of Erin.
A new sentence appeared at Tae Ho's left hand. It was the sentence of Asgard that formed a pair with the sentence of Erin.
Tae Ho's divinity got amplified at a scary rate. The gazes that were concentrated solely on Karna started to disperse towards Tae Ho and at that moment the white wings of light in Tae Ho's back flashed.
Tae Ho spread the wings of the World Dragon and surged up. Karna raised Karnastra hurriedly and tried to prepare against Tae Ho's attack but it was a meaningless thing. Tae Ho even passed Karna and charged towards the sun.
It was a foolish thing. That black sun was despair itself. The more you approached it, you would only get devoured by the power of the black sun.
But Karna could feel his hands trembling. An uneasy premonition that couldn't be expressed tightened his chest. He opened his mouth but no sound came out.
Right at that moment Gilgamesh yelled in shock.
"Stop him!"
What Tae Ho was about to do.
It was something that couldn't happen. An impossible thing. But Gilgamesh ended up yelling like that. He could only do that.
Tae Ho extended his left hand. He clenched his left fist and mumbled while everyone in the battlefield was looking at him and the despair like yell of Gilgamesh reached the sky.
"Astelone."
Dragon sword.
The pure white sword that brought up the real power of Kalsted.
Tae Ho continued to fly up. Karna tried to chase after Tae Ho. An overwhelming strength surged up from the black sun like waves and charged towards Tae Ho. It was meant to sweep him away.
But Tae Ho didn't stop. He released a bigger power with the sentences of Erin and Asgard. He didn't only stop at pushing away the power of the black sun and dispersed it completely. In addition, he flew higher and reached a higher place than the black sun.
Tae Ho gathered his hands in that place. The Sword of the round table in his right hand and Astelon that was in his left hand shone in golden and white and then got mixed in one place and became a huge sword of light. The sentences of Erin and Asgard released a brighter light.
Gilgamesh extended his hand towards the sky.
Karna also threw Karnastra hurriedly towards the black sun. Thee black sun fired off the amplified Karnastra towards Tae Ho.
Tae Ho saw that.
Adenmaha screamed. Echidna laughed and Rolo and Drakon Ismenios roared.
Nidhogg, that was pressing down Tiamat, also yelled.
["Tae Ho master!"]
The flashing Sword of the sun.
It surged up like a pillar of light and Tae Ho brandished it.
Karna screamed. Gilgamesh opened his eyes roundly and thought of a verse of a mythology unconsciously.
That was a sword that split the ancient world and separated the sky from the ground.
It was the Sword of creation that notified the start of the world.
It wasn't identical. It couldn't be the same in the first place but he could only think of that.
The huge sword of light dispersed the power of Karnastra. It didn't stop there and charged towards the black sun. There was nothing in this land that could stop the sword that had cut down the night in Olympus.
Tae Ho roared and showed them.
Surpassing a legend, surpassing a myth.
The peak boundary he could reach solely because he was the master!
[World's creation ranked saga]
[Sword of creation]
The light split the darkness.
And destroyed the black sun.
< Episode 69 - Absolutely Invincible (3) > End
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Episode 69/Chapter 4: Absolutely Invincible (4)
TL: Tsubak
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The sky crumbled.
It was a shock that made you feel that.
The black sun that had risen proudly got split in two and the broken sun couldn't maintain its existence by itself anymore. It got swept by black flames and it started to scatter. The rain of black flames pouring down from the sky was the end of the sun.
Karna saw that. He staggered and then vomited blood.
The world shook the moment the black sun got destroyed. It wasn't a comparative expression. It literally happened. The Sword of creation had that much power behind it.
In addition, the black sun was a manifested representation of Karna's divinity. The destruction of the black sun meant the destruction of Karna's divinity.
Karna felt severe pain in his chest and raised his head. The master of Erin that had split the black sun with the Sword of creation was looking down at him.
Light emanated once again from his hands.
The Sword of the round table appeared in Tae Ho's right hand and the Dragon sword Astelone in his left one.
Karna sensed. The last attack had also exhausted the master of Asgard. That was an obvious thing. He had used a sword that split the world so he would have spent a considerable amount of strength.
But Karna also understood that Tae Ho's breathing was recovering at a fast rate. It should be one of the two. That he had an incredible recovery rate or that his stamina was so vast you couldn't see the end of it.
It didn't matter whatever it was. The important thing was the things that would happen after that.
Karna raised the bow of Arjuna, Gandiva. The bow that originally belonged to the commander of the beings that wanted to destroy the world and the ancient God of Xindu, Shiva, passed the hands of Agni and then entered Arjuna's hands. And right at this moment, Karna was litting up the last flames from his hands.
Karna knocked the bowstring and at that moment a peculiar sound of Gandiva rang.
Tae Ho moved. He charged towards the flame arrow and swung the Sword of the round table and Astelone. He destroyed the flame arrow and advanced.
Karna also saw that. He stood still in place and continued to fire arrows. Blood flowed from Karna's lips and flame arrows poured on Tae Ho.
Each one of them was strong. But the power behind the Sword of the round table and Astelone could easily stop the flames of Agni. Tae Ho's didn't miss a single arrow.
Only a few seconds.
Or perhaps fewer than that.
Dozens of arrows were fired and dozens of arrows got destroyed.
Karna let go of Gandiva. He grabbed the air to face Tae Ho that would arrive in front of him in a few breaths.
Vasavi Shakti.
The spear of the God of Thunder Indra.
It also was a weapon with a lot of history behind it. Long ago, when Karna was still active as a human hero.
Indra tried to take the golden armor and earrings of the God of Sun Surya, that gave an immortal strength to Karna to help his son Arjuna.
What the God of thunder Indra used was a pledge from Karna. He approached Karna as a Brahman and requested the golden armor and earrings from him as Karna had made a pledge to not reject a request from a Brahman that was at the top rank and when Karna got to hear of Indra's intentions from his father Surya he requested a weapon instead of his armor and earring.
Due to this the king of Gods Indra received a blow but he ended up giving the great spear Vasavi Shakti that could even kill Gods to Karna.
The memory passed his head like a flashback. Karna put a smile that you couldn't know the meaning of and glared in front of him. He contained all his strength in Vasavi Shakti and threw it towards Tae Ho that was destroying all the flame arrows and charging towards him.
Indrastra.
Ironically, that thing didn't shine in white. The flashing spear of the thunder God received the power of the black sun of Karna and harbored black darkness in it.
A moment.
The moment Tae Ho faced Vasavi Shakti he could feel the power that was held behind the black spear. That power didn't fall behind to the lightning of Zeus Astrape at all.
Because of that Tae Ho dropped both of his weapons. The sentences of Erin and Asgard shone at the same time and the two swords clashed with Vasavi Shakti one step ahead. Light and darkness got entangled and exploded and at that moment Tae Ho gripped the air. He took out a spear of death that could face the great spear that could even kill Gods.
They clashed.
Death against death. Light against darkness. Tae Ho's and Karna's divinity.
The world shook once again. The sky and the ground rang and finally the light destroyed the darkness. Vasavi Shakti lost its strength in front of Gae Bolg's thrust. It got destroyed just like the black sun and released darkness.
Black flames surged up along an explosion. Karna looked at the swelling darkness. And then looked at Tae Ho rushing at him while spreading his two swords like wings, like a streak of light passing through the darkness.
Karna didn't close his eyes and the spear of death pierced his chest.
Karna looked at Tae Ho and Tae Ho looked him back.
Karna opened his lips dyed with blood. He now contained the last of his divinity in his lips.
It was to inflict him the last curse. No, actually it wasn't that. Tae Ho could know that and because of that he didn't stop Karna from speaking.
Karna smiled. The unlucky hero that loved the world but was born as a being that wanted to destroy the world blessed the protector of Asgard.
"May you be able to protect your own world."
To not face the same end like Xindu.
To not submit in the end.
Karna's blessing got transmitted to Tae Ho. Tae Ho received Karna's power and Karna whispered a few more words to Tae Ho. It was his last request.
Karna couldn't hear Tae Ho's answer. It was because death came to find him as soon as he finished speaking his last words.
The God of the black sun became darkness but didn't scatter. It became a bright light and extinguished.
Tae Ho put back Gae Bolg. The Sword of the round table and Astelone flew by their own and stopped Gilgamesh' sword rushing at Tae Ho.
Kwagang!
The huge sound proved how great the power behind Gilgamesh' sword was. What Gilgamesh was holding was the Sword of Uruk. It didn't have his divinity in it like the Sword of Ishtar but it was the Sword of his country- his world that he wanted to protect until the end but he couldn't.
Gilgamesh was a king. He had lost his country, citizens and everything he had to protect but regardless of that he was still a king.
And Tae Ho knew.
What he was obsessed at. Why Karna made that request at the end. Why was he facing him so desperately.
It wasn't only because he had turned into a being that wanted to destroy the world from someone that wanted to maintain it. He still had something left to protect.
Tae Ho couldn't know what that was. Whether it was his lover, his kid, or someone else. Perhaps it may not be a person.
He was now a being that wanted to destroy the world. He belonged to the Kingdom of fire as a being that wanted to destroy the world and he also knew well that the final objective of the Kingdom of fire was the destruction of the worlds.
But regardless of that he was participating in the battle that would lead to destruction to try to protect the last thing at least for one more second. Although he understood that destruction would come faster the more he participated in it.
It was a terrible contradiction. The reason he was filled with anguish when he had turned into a being that wanted to destroy the world would be right because of that contradiction.
Just how did this happen? It may be because the one that had turned him lacked comparing to Nyx. It could also be simply because Gilgamesh' will was strong. There were several possible cases.
But that wasn't the important thing right now. Tae Ho remembered Karna's last request. He clashed against Gilgamesh once again.
[Myth ranked saga]
[He doesn't get tired even after fighting for a hundred days and nights]
He had already spent a lot of strength but he didn't get exhausted. he was able to move like usual while he was breathing even if spent all his health, stamina, magic power and divinity.
Because of that Gilgamesh couldn't win. He was too exhausted already. He hadn't been able to recover at all from the attack inflicted by Tae Ho.
The two swords and spear danced. Uruk's swords didn't break but it ended up leaving the hands of Gilgamesh.
Uruk's sword rolled the ground and Gae Bolg pierced Gilgamesh' shoulder. The Sword of the round table and Astelone pierced Gilgamesh' thigh and slashed his back.
Gilgamesh couldn't endure it anymore.
But he didn't collapse either. He hung in with his two legs and glared at Tae Ho.
Tae Ho dropped Gae Bolg. He placed his hand on the chest of Gilgamesh that had no strength to lift a finger.
A strong rune magic got executed from Tae Ho's hands.
Fall asleep.
Until everything ends.
This was Karna's last request. This was the last thing Karna could do for Gilgamesh as he had stood on the front lines of Xindu and destroyed Dilmun.
Gilgamesh tried to resist at first but then he noticed the power of Karna contained in Tae Ho's rune magic. He opened his eyes widely and then gritted his teeth. He mumbled something towards Karna that had already become light and disappeared and then took in Tae Ho's' rune magic.
Gilgamesh' body froze. The Great hero of Dilmun turned into a rock. The pillars that surged up from the ground became one with that Gilgamesh and formed a big rock.
Tae Ho put his hand away. He had used a lot of strength so he took out a golden apple from the air and took a biet.
War cries were ringing on the entire battlefield. They were being yelled by the warriors of the Golden palace and the martial artists that had witnessed the defeat of Karna and Gilgamesh.
The 11 beasts, that were like clones for Tiamat, got captured by the Shinsoos of the Temple and couldn't move freely. The battle in the Golden palace was flowing favorably for the Temple.
Tae Ho bit the golden apple once again and then noticed a pair of eyes looking at him.
For Asgard and the nine realms.
Kaldea hit her chest from far away and said.
Tae Ho also hit his chest for her, that was smiling brightly even though she had been covered in blood. They spoke out loud although they were far with each other and they weren't able to hear them. It wasn't heard for the other but they contained words that would certainly be transmitted.
"For Asgard and the nine realms."
War cries bursted out once again. The warriors of Valhalla roared and pushed back the Kingdom of fire.
Tae Ho looked at a distant place. He looked at the remaining 11 beasts and saw Sigurd fighting against Jormungand far away. He saw the back of Nidhogg pressing down Tiamat and thought.
Everything had an order.
He had defeated Karna and Gilgamesh so now came the 11 beasts. After that was Jormungand and the last one was Tiamat.
While the anvil was enduring, he would swing the hammer to crush the head of the enemies.
It was similar to the basic strategy Odin had set up to face the Kingdom of fire. Tae Ho's role was to defeat the remaining enemies and change the flow of the battle while Sigurd and Nidhogg were holding down Jormungand and Tiamat.
The finished eating the golden apple. He mumbled the name of Idun and Heda and then retrieved Gae Bolg and clenched the Sword of the round table and Astelone.
Most of the 11 beasts, the clones of Tiamat, were of a dragon race.
There was nothing to speak about Jormungand and Tiamat being dragons themselves.
Tae Ho kicked the ground and surged up. He looked back at the achievements Kalsted had raised as someone that could execute the power of the World dragon Yggdrasil. He activated another saga as the dragon knight that had defeated countless evil dragons.
[Myth ranked saga]
[The end of dragons]
A natural enemy of dragons that surpassed Sigurd.
A dragon exterminating another dragon.
Adenmaha and Echidna flinched at the dragon killing aura that surged up with the intent to cover the entire battlefield. Rolo and Drakon Ismenios got surprised and turned to look at Tae Ho and Nidhogg let out a low scream from far away.
Even his allies were like this.
Tae Ho's enemies, the 11 beasts, trembled in fear. Jormungand and Tiamat froze, although for a moment, and let out a groan.
'Let's go in a cool way.'
Cuchulainn said and Tae Ho smiled. The charged towards the 11 beasts.
< Episode 69 - Absolutely Invincible (4) > End
TL note: Thanks for reading~