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Please Stop The Pope - Chapter 14
7.
Kwazizik-!
“I can’t see the end. Fuck, Min-Soo, how long do we have to hold out!”
“Just a little longer, just a little longer. We’re still in it.”
“How much longer? I’m sure the guilds are jockeying for the gate like motherfuckers, and the Ministry of Ability Management is stuck in the middle of it, so who’s going to break through those undead bastards and save us?”
“I’m sure someone will.”
“I mean who!”
“A miracle.”
Fuuk-!
Gu Min-Soo forced a smile at Yoo Jae-sung’s words and cut off the zombie’s head with his sword.
Then he looked at Yoo Jae-sung, his colleague and brother who had been with him for three years, and asked.
“Have you located the necromancer yet?”
The undead type of this Chaos Gate had a characteristic that set it apart from other Chaos Gates.
It had a defined gate core, and that was the Necromancer.
The Necromancer, the commander of the undead army.
There are many different types of Necromancers.
From Chimeras, the most barbaric form, to Death Knights with their powerful PvP abilities, to Lichs with their terrifying black magic.
While each type of Necromancer requires a different strategy, there is essentially only one answer to closing Chaosgate.
Eliminate the Necromancer.
If you take out the Necromancer, the core of the Chaos Gate, the Undying Army will collapse.
That’s why Gu Min-Soo had sent the youngest member of the team, who had the ability to navigate, on a search operation ten minutes ago.
“The youngest hasn’t come back yet. I don’t know if he’s coming back or not.”
“……hmm.”
It looked like the youngest hadn’t returned yet.
Hearing Yoo Jae-sung’s answer, Gu Min-Soo bit his lip and looked straight ahead.
It had already been fifteen minutes since the sudden gate was created.
So far, there were mainly low-level undead like skeletons and zombies, so it was possible to defend the first floor of the hospital where the dungeon had formed.
Add to that the fact that many of the players around the area had joined the hospital, and the situation was bearable.
However, Gu Min-Soo knew that this balance wouldn’t last long.
“Sooner or later, the mid-level undead will appear, and the moment a single Durahan appears, it will be…….
The Undying Army is fueled by the souls of its victims.
That was why the undead-type Chaos Gates that spawned in rural areas, where the population density was much lower, were easily defeated.
But this is Seoul, a densely populated city.
The number of victims would grow exponentially as time went on, and the army of immortals that absorbed their souls would evolve at a rapid pace.
‘We’ll have to kill them.
Ironically, this was Seoul.
It was where many A-list Hunters were based, even 70% of South Korea’s S-list Hunters.
No matter how late it was, it would be resolved in the next couple hours.
Except.
‘But everyone here would be dead.’
By then, there will be no living creatures here.
“Whoa.”
He didn’t where it all went wrong.
From the Abyssal Dungeon a mere two days ago, to this sudden Chaos Gate.
Things that had never happened to him in his five years as a player, all happened within the span of two days.
Could it really be a coincidence?
By the time Gu Min-Soo’s thoughts reached that point.
“Player K. Get to the roof, get to the roof!”
The man who had been tasked with scouting the surrounding area from the rooftop urgently called out to Gu Min-Soo.
The man’s face was white and his voice was trembling.
Gu Min-Soo followed the man to the rooftop without a word.
It was there that he realized why the youngest person he had sent out to scout hadn’t returned.
“That’s…….”
[An unfathomable horror is coming towards you].
[Lich Lachias, follower of Pride, reveals himself!]
[You have discovered the core of the Chaos Gate!]
A supreme undead who instills fear in the minds of all living creatures around him, elevating all undead by his mere presence.
Lich.
A terrible scourge whose mere existence is considered the worst of its kind, alongside the Death Knights.
It was among countless other undead, but none could deny that it was a Lich.
“……That’s it.”
“Hmph.”
Despair spread quickly as everyone on the rooftop fell silent.
Gu Min-Soo tried to somehow recall the figure as he faced the silent aura that the Lich emitted, but he was quickly forced to give up.
That was force majeure.
A Hunter who hadn’t even reached the S rank wouldn’t dare to stand a chance.
“What can I do?”
But I’m not willing to stand still and die.
A miracle will surely happen.
Just like two days ago, when the goddess’ miracle came.
Gu Min-Soo put down the sword in his hand for a moment and clasped his hands together.
He had never prayed in his life, but for some reason, he felt that if he didn’t pray now, he would never have another chance.
He wasn’t sure what to say or how to say it, so he just quietly recited the first words that came to mind.
“Have pity on the people in this place.”
Pow!
What a coincidence.
As he mumbled his prayer, an unexplainable light began to spread across the darkness of the night sky.
“That’s…….”
“Ah.”
Gu Min-Soo couldn’t speak anymore as he stared at its brilliance.
Then, in his ears, he heard a now-familiar voice.
-The prayer, I could hear it clearly. You’ve done well, brother. You saved these people, brother.
Kaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
A miracle had answered his prayer.
8.
In many ways, he was lucky.
Mr. Minsoo’s timely prayer allowed us to locate him immediately.
[The <Dimensional System: Earth> system is conducting a Causality Fit check on the power you have demonstrated!]
[The <Chaos Gate> created through an unknown path in the current area has greatly disrupted the causality rate, and the system expects you to correct it].
[Causality compliance screening result: No problem].
The <Causality> issue that I was worried about was resolved without much thought.
I closed the system message window that popped up in front of me and stared silently ahead.
“It was you.”
A huge demonic presence that I had sensed as soon as I entered the area.
A top-tier undead, looking down at the ground from behind skeletons and zombies enhanced with vile magick, escorted by eight Durahans.
The Lich.
His eyes flashed as he looked at me.
And after a moment.
A ghastly voice began to echo in my ears.
“You possess a troublesome power.”
A bizarre voice that seemed to echo in my head.
Actually, it’s hard to call it a voice at all. The Lich have no vocal apparatus; they communicate by resonating their magic.
“But it is too late; this land will soon be a sacrifice to the Great Pride. No light can illuminate his darkness.”
“I’m impressed,” I said, “that no one knew about this until now. You’re right.”
I walked forward, one corner of my mouth twitching upward at the sound of his voice.
Soon, the undead that filled the street in front of the hospital began to swarm toward me.
“I don’t know where you borrowed your divine power from, but it’s not enough to overcome my legions. I will personally desecrate your corpse. And I will place you at the vanguard of my legions.”
The ground around the Chaos Gate was already imbued with my divine power.
I saw with my own eyes that the lesser undead were being annihilated as I came this way.
However, the undead at a distance seemed to be largely unaffected.
In other words, this was the Lich’s home base, different from the outlying areas.
If I’d been any later, the people in that hospital would have been wiped out by these things.
So thank God.
“Well, that saves me a lot of trouble.”
I don’t have to go looking for it.
[Active skill <Divine Invulnerability> information is now perfectly synchronized!]
[Divine Invulnerability]
Type: Active
Description: Destroys all magic within a certain radius.
The holy power that emanated from my body consumed
thousands of undead in an instant.
“…….
Magic are a requirement of the undead. An undead that loses its magic can no longer exist as an undead.
Pasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Where the waves of light spread, there was no screaming of zombies, no vicious howling of ghouls.
Only black ash stirred there.
I walked silently through it.
Even the Durahans escorting Richie was not immune to an undead’s fate.
Pasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-
They crumbled to dust without a struggle, and in the end, only the Lich was left standing in the ashes.
The Lich that had stared down at me so arrogantly earlier was no more.
Having lost thousands of troops in an instant, the Lich immediately began to rage.
“Our destiny must be fulfilled. We can’t afford to be toyed with by a mere slave of a god.”
The evil curse that flowed from his body quickly engulfed the surroundings.
Of all the necromantic creatures, only the Lich can use this evil ability.
An advanced form of black magic that taints everything around it with a curse and creates a place for the dead.
Necropolis.
[Causality in the area is severely warped!]
Kaddaddaddadd-!
The Lich’s curse stretched out, gnawing at the light.
The blood-stained asphalt, the sparsely lit buildings.
As soon as the powerful curse touched them, they warped grotesquely, and soon the undead rose from them once more.
The Lich spoke to me with the terrible curse still enveloping him.
“The incompetent god you worship will not save you from death.”
I could only stifle a giggle at the grim tone of the Lich’s voice, and he immediately turned his vile curse upon me.
“Die.”
The curse, born of the Lich’s terrible magic, rained down on me.
A curse so powerful, so insidious, that it could turn the living into an army of the dead in an instant.
But the curse.
Hiss-.
It vanished without a trace in the light around me.
“I let you live because I was curious to hear what you had to say, but you shouldn’t be shitting on someone else’s property like that. You’re not potty trained. Didn’t your master train you?”
『Neeeeeeee-”
“Now get down from there. You’re hurting my neck.”
I flicked my fingers lightly as I said that, and soon Richie, who was looking down at me from the sky, fell to the asphalt floor in a heap.
Black ash dripped from his body instead of blood.
I grabbed it by the throat with my right hand and slowly lifted it up.
“Kaaaaaah!”
The Lich screamed as the holy power flowed through my arm and into his body.
The undead were supposed to feel no pain, but that was only physical pain.
There was no escaping the pain of a soul on fire.
“Our destiny was not…… this…….”
“Destiny is a word for the living, not for corpses like you.”
“My curse will eat the land even after I die. This place will soon be a city of the dead, bringing despair to your kind……”
He’s right.
Once the Necropolis has been unfolded, the land is consumed by death.
A barren place where nothing can live, a cursed land that turns all living things into the undead.
If left unchecked, it would be as he said, a hell on earth that would constantly produce the undead.
But there was no way I was going to stand idly by and watch it happen.
There was one skill that was perfect for this situation.
It was a skill I hadn’t used often, not even in Eden, but this time I had no choice.
There was only one reason I hadn’t used it often in Eden.
It was dizzyingly flashy, and far too creepy for me. But there was no other skill like it in this situation.
I turned to the men in white robes who had been watching me from afar for some time now.
It was the Baek Myung Church.
“You’ve learned enough, right?”
『……Yes, it was you, the one who wiped out the vanguard, the one who dared to interfere with the Great One’s plans…….』
“Ah, sorry. I wasn’t talking to you this time.”
The Lich screamed as his body was shredded by the endless divine power, and I spoke in a low voice to the group of people in white robes.
“You can look forward to this, because it’s going to get really interesting.”
And a moment later.
[Information from the active skill <Wings of Purification> syncs].
[Causality temporarily suppresses your power].
[Purifies the magic in the area around you].
Eight wings, pure white and enormous, stretched out from my body.
The wings spread with me as the center, extending endlessly outward.
And the citizens, drawn by those wings, began to walk out from between the buildings.
I looked at them and muttered in a bitter tone.
“I don’t know anymore.”
And so my dramatic showcase had begun.