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Clang!

The angel Abriel waved her hand.

Then, the enormous chains protecting the center of the sanctuary were cut as if they were tofu.

Kwooooom!

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There was not a single trace of hesitation.

A light and clean sound of rupture.

As if she had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

Her movements were decisive.

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She had spent countless years trapped in this place, acting as jailer all alone.

Well, it made sense.

‘It seems she was already fed up.’

There was even a strange sense of liberation in her expression.

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Rumbleeeee! accent Rumbleeeee!

But there was no time for contemplation.

The released black sphere began to twist violently.

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Space shrieked, and a wave of bloodlust swept through the place like a storm.

A roar that devoured the soul.

【Kraaaaaaah!】

The entire sanctuary distorted.

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In my current state, I wouldn’t come out of this alive.

‘He’s strong.’

My instincts set off every alarm.

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[Receive it.]

It was then.

A dazzling light burst from the tips of her fingers.

Abriel spread her wings.

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“……!”

At the same time, the mists covering the entire sanctuary, that is, the spirits, began rushing toward me.

Whoooooosh!

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Rather, it was a pleasant sensation, as if every cell in my body were awakening.

The magic running through my veins went out of control like a stampede.

But it didn’t hurt.

My body heated up.

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[All the spirits of the sanctuary follow you.]

Ding!

[The angel ‘Abriel’ has chosen you as her representative.]

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[All stats are temporarily maxed out!]

My entire body felt light as a feather.

[You have been granted the ‘Blessing of the Great Spirit.’]

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The system continued displaying messages.

When I clenched my fist, I felt such brutal power that it seemed capable of bursting the air.

Ding!

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[Mission name: Execution of the Mad God]

[A hidden mission has appeared!]

[Objective: Cooperate with the angel Abriel to eliminate the mad god ‘Tulkacha’.]

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What a crude name.

[Reward: ???]

I raised my head to observe him.

‘Tulkacha.’

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Dark red veins covering his entire body.

The black sphere broke, and a red figure emerged, crawling from within.

And the scorching heat boiling beneath his feet.

Enormous horns.

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The marble floor began melting instantly.

Crack!

That was.

It was not ordinary heat.

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【I’ll kill you… I’ll burn you all…!】

The authority of a volcano.

And a terribly deformed and violent calamity.

“Lava.”

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Tulkacha muttered in a boiling voice.

Kwooooom!

When he swung his arm, a stream of red lava shot out like a whip.

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But it was not enough.

Ssssss! action Ssssss!

Abriel blocked the attack by raising a spear of light.

The sacred light repelled the lava.

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The poisonous heat emanating from the lava was burning her white wings and turning them black.

Abriel frowned.

[Ugh……!]

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‘I’ll have to help.’

The compatibility was awful.

It was too dangerous to fight up close with the heat that monster emitted.

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I immediately placed my left hand on the ground.

If water overflows, you just have to dig a drainage channel.

The method was simple.

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“Disappear.”

The golden rune on my right hand shone intensely.

Wooooong!

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The authority of the lesser god of earthquakes, Kartal, activated.

Rumble!

The calamity I had devoured.

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A sinkhole.

The ground beneath Tulkacha, as well as around Abriel, split violently.

It was not a simple crack.

I limited the range of the authority and opened a deep, narrow hole.

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Tulkacha flinched.

Kwaaarrrr!

“……?!”

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Abriel looked at me in surprise.

The heat that was trying to cover the surface rushed into the underground depths as if swallowed by a drain.

The lava he was releasing began to gush into the crack in the ground.

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Taking advantage of the reduced heat, Abriel’s spear pierced Tulkacha’s shoulder.

She gripped her spear again.

I simply shrugged.

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The mad god let out a deafening scream.

【Kraaaaaaah!】

Stab!

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【You damned insects!】

But he did not die.

On the contrary, his eyes bulged.

Kwooooooosh!

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Black smoke shot out from his mouth.

[The mad god Tulkacha is out of control!]

[Mental contamination has begun.]

A poison that contaminated the mind.

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[The higher the percentage, the more you will lose your sanity.]

My head hurt.

[Current contamination: 15%…… 20%……]

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Even Abriel staggered.

A mental attack impossible to physically block.

My stomach felt unsettled, and my entire field of vision spun.

If this continued, we might go insane and kill each other before even fighting properly.

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— Kyaaaang!

Then.

Far from being frightened, he seemed to be drooling as if he had smelled something delicious.

Angragon, who was on my shoulder, opened his mouth wide.

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The black poison was dragged into Angragon’s mouth.

His small mouth began absorbing the surrounding air like a vacuum cleaner.

Fwoooosh!

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Fwooooosh!

Gulp.

The creature swallowed the poison.

And then.

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He had devoured the enemy’s poison, transformed it into a “Dragon Breath,” and returned it.

【Kuaaaaagh!】

When he opened his mouth as if burping, a black flame shot toward Tulkacha.

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“Good work.”

It seemed the impact of receiving his own reflected mental attack had been quite strong.

The black flames struck Tulkacha directly in the face.

The monster covered his face and began rolling across the ground.

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I stroked Angragon’s head.

The situation had improved.

The creature wagged his tail from side to side, satisfied.

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Abriel continued launching a fierce assault.

‘It’s not enough.’

The lava was falling into the sinkhole, and Angragon was blocking the poison.

But.

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The holes pierced by the spear were instantly filled with lava.

Tulkacha’s regenerative ability was monstrous.

I analyzed the situation coldly.

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And Abriel’s stamina would also eventually run out.

The duration of the blessing was limited.

At this rate, it would end up becoming a battle of attrition.

And the more time passed, the worse it would be for us.

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An attack capable of killing a god.

We needed a finishing blow.

I looked at the spirits floating in the air.

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A normal warrior would have used this power simply to strengthen their body.

Tens of thousands of spirits.

Thanks to the Blessing of the Great Spirit, they moved as if they were my own limbs.

But.

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My job is to take the available materials and turn them into the best possible masterpiece.

A mage is someone who seeks truth, who creates formulas and obtains results.

‘I am a mage.’

Crushing things with brute force is not my style.

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‘I have the materials.’

The mad mage who even refined a Philosopher’s Stone using the entire Earth as material.

I am Kim Jeongseok.

Couldn’t I control a few miserable thousand spirits?

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In other words, the best possible “fuel.”

Those creatures were masses of natural magic in its purest form.

Tens of thousands of spirits filled the air.

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A calamity capable of melting and burning everything.

His attribute was lava and fire.

The enemy was the mad god Tulkacha.

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There was something that even in his maddened state he had failed to melt.

However.

The enormous chain fragments scattered across the floor of the sanctuary.

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Even though they had been broken in half, they retained their form.

The chains that had kept the monster imprisoned for hundreds of years.

‘Sealing objects.’

A metal that did not melt even within lava.

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‘I already have the answer.’

And without hesitation, I kicked the ground.

I opened my eyes.

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My body shot forward like a projectile.

Kwoooom!

My target was the broken chain lying beside Tulkacha’s feet.

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Tap.

The instant I touched it, I felt an intense coldness.

Just as expected.

I landed on the chain.

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A rare metal with the property of rejecting and solidifying corrupted magic.

But that metal had a fatal weakness.

‘Ten Thousand Year Black Iron.’

That was why it had endured the corrupted heat of the mad god.

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Against pure magic, it melted without resistance.

“Gather.”

The spirits blessed by the Great Spirit responded to my will.

I extended my hand.

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The moment the extremely pure magic touched the metal, the Black Iron that had seemed impossible to melt began melting like hot syrup.

Thousands of spirits wrapped around the chains.

Ssssss!

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I manipulated the magic.

Like a blacksmith hammering steel.

Harder.

I shaped the material using magical formulas.

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And capable of piercing that monster’s heart.

Sharper.

The black metal transformed into liquid gathered in the air and solidified into the shape of an enormous spear.

It did not even take ten seconds.

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I gripped the shaft tightly.

A black spear over three meters long.

It was incredibly heavy.

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I compressed every muscle like a spring.

There was only one target.

I pulled my body backward.

The burning red heart beating inside the monster’s chest.

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Before Tulkacha could even react.

Fwoooosh!

The spear left my hand and tore through space.

A black flash pierced his chest.

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【Kraaaaaaaaaaaaagh!!】

Kwoooooom!

The mad god’s scream shook the sanctuary.

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I saw it.

‘Now.’

The boiling lava instantly cooled and began hardening into black.

The coldness of the Ten Thousand Year Black Iron penetrated his heart.

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‘I can devour him.’

The conditions had been fulfilled.

The golden thread extending from Tulkacha’s chest.

The thread of fate connected to the golden rune on my right hand.

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Even if his heart was sealed, the surrounding area was still a hell of extreme heat.

The problem was the distance.

The monster had weakened, and my power could now reach him.

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But I had a companion.

“Abriel!”

If I got close, I would end up becoming roasted meat.

I shouted.

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She spread her remaining wings.

“Open a path for me!”

No explanations were needed.

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Fwaaaaaaash!

【Light!】

A flash exploded from her body.

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The light advanced in a straight line, pushing aside the flames and lava blocking the path.

As if the Red Sea were splitting apart.

The authority of the “Sanctuary,” capable of physically interfering with the environment.

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【Hurry!】

She too was at her limit.

In the middle of the ocean of fire, a path appeared only for me.

Abriel shouted while coughing up blood.

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I cut through the wind and crossed the tunnel of light.

I ran.

That path would not last long.

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10 meters.

1 meter.

The heat of the flames raging on both sides burned my skin, but I did not stop.

5 meters.

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At last, I arrived in front of Tulkacha.

【Cough… how dare you……!】

The monster, writhing in pain, lowered his gaze toward me.

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I smiled.

Boom!

A heavy and brutal blow.

And drove my fist into his solar plexus.

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The predatory power that devoured the very essence of existence had activated.

Woooooong!

The golden rune on my right hand began spinning frantically.

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Craaack! canvas Crack!

Black fissures spread throughout his entire body.

From the point where my fist struck, Tulkacha’s body began to crack apart.

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Everything began to be absorbed.

The monster’s desperate scream did not last long.

【N-no…… my power……!】

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Rumbleeeee!

A massive vortex formed.

The lava, the flames, the madness.

Even his divinity.

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【Kraaaaaaaaagh!】

My right hand became a black hole that began swallowing the entire mad god.

Tulkacha’s enormous body disintegrated into particles of light.

His final scream.

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every particle was absorbed into the palm of my hand, leaving nothing behind.

Within the thick smoke,

But then.

Booom!

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A gigantic explosion erupted.

And at that instant.

My body was sent flying.

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[You have absorbed his divinity.]

[You have devoured the calamity ‘Tulkacha, the mad god’.]

Ding!

[The authority ‘Runaway Volcano’ can now be used permanently.]

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[Rolling dice (1~66).]

[Your level has increased!]

[You have completed the hidden mission!]

[Contribution: Overwhelming (99%).]

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[66! august A catastrophic reward has been granted!]