Chapter 289. Celestial Time Realm (5)
The analysis is complete now.
While Arjuna and the other Constellations attacked Taigong Wang...
and while Taigong Wang went on with his long explanation...
I hadn’t simply been standing there doing nothing.
I had been observing him and searching for a way to break through his invincible state.
Lucifer and I discussed countless possibilities about what kind of power Taigong Wang might possess.
We considered all kinds of scenarios...
and prepared countermeasures for each of them.
Even a situation like this, where attacks couldn’t reach Taigong Wang...
was something Lucifer and I had already discussed.
The space around Taigong Wang is distorted.
That’s why our attacks can’t reach him.
There was only one way to deal with that.
Yes.
There is a way.
Lucifer had told me before.
The power to govern space-time originally belonged only to the one absolute God.
If Taigong Wang could control space-time...
then even if he wasn’t an absolute god himself...
he had clearly reached an extremely high rank of existence.
Which means...!
I focused.
Joyeuse was in my hand.
I became conscious of the fragment of the Holy Spear and the Holy Nail embedded in its pommel.
Then...
I released the power of the Holy Grail stored inside me.
FWOooooSH!
An enormous light extended from Joyeuse.
It looked almost like a spear made entirely of light.
What incredible energy...!
The Holy Grail.
The Holy Spear.
The Holy Nail.
I had gathered the power of three major holy relics together.
If Taigong Wang was manipulating space with power approaching that of the absolute God...
then I had no choice but to oppose him by reproducing the power of the ‘Son of God’ through these three holy relics.
Of course...
if I handled that power directly with my own body...
I might not be able to withstand it.
So I had equipped [Saint’s Divine Fist], which I had borrowed from Kang Yujin.
“What is that...?!”
For the first time...
Taigong Wang’s eyes widened.
Perhaps even he had never witnessed a ‘miracle’ of this level.
“A holy relic?”
“Even so, it is useless...!”
Just as Taigong Wang said...
attacking him with this wouldn’t work.
Space itself was blocked between us.
No matter how powerful this spear of light was...
it still wouldn’t be able to reach him.
But...!
I focused even harder.
I applied everything I had learned from analyzing Taigong Wang’s ability...
and activated my true objective.
Yes.
There’s only one solution to a situation like this!
Create a barrier that nullifies everything...
just like Joo Minha’s [Disruption Barrier].
It was the same principle I had used earlier when interfering with the signal connected to the Celestial Time Realm.
Maybe Taigong Wang chose Joo Minha as his agent because he realized Joo Minha’s Awakening Skill could threaten him.
With that thought...
I threw the spear of light.
LAAAAAAAH!
It raced through the air toward Taigong Wang...
producing a sound almost like music.
"...?!"
It had no killing power.
Its purpose was only one thing.
To nullify the spatial distortion protecting Taigong Wang.
Fwoooooosh... CRACK!
A tremendous rupturing sound unlike anything I had ever heard rang out.
At the same time...
I felt something shatter.
The spatial distortion surrounding Taigong Wang had completely vanished.
“Kang Yujin!”
“HAAAAAAH!”
Taigong Wang visibly flinched.
But in his current state...
he had no way to fight Kang Yujin.
Taigong Wang wasn’t an existence specialized in combat.
Without his spatial manipulation...
he couldn’t stop Kang Yujin, a man who now possessed the highest level of martial power attainable by a human.
THOOM.
And so...
Taigong Wang couldn’t evade it.
Kang Yujin’s Awakening Skill...
an attack capable of reducing any existence to powder as long as it landed properly.
Even an absolute being was no exception.
[Shatter Everything] struck Taigong Wang directly in the chest.
“Haa... haa...”
Kang Yujin breathed heavily.
Never in his life had he poured so much energy into a single attack.
He had only thrown one punch...
yet it felt as though every ounce of strength in his body had been drained away.
“Still...”
Kang Yujin raised his head and checked the result.
The old man who had been standing before him...
Taigong Wang...
was crumbling into powder.
He hadn’t even managed a dying scream.
Demon God-class demons had survived for a while even after being struck by [Shatter Everything]...
but Taigong Wang’s physical body collapsed almost instantly.
So his body itself wasn’t particularly strong.
Kang Yujin sighed and swept back his disheveled hair.
Then he turned his head.
"..."
Among the shocked people around him...
Kim Nameless was looking at him with a smile.
Seeing that...
Kang Yujin couldn’t help smiling too.
“How was that?”
He walked lightly toward Kim Nameless.
“At this point, I can understand what you’re thinking even if you don’t explain every little thing.”
“Yeah.”
“You really are...”
Kim Nameless smiled and nodded.
“the greatest Contractor.”
“I’m genuinely proud of you.”
“And you’re the greatest Constellation.”
For some reason...
Kang Yujin felt embarrassed.
As if trying to hide it...
he raised a fist.
Kim Nameless raised his own.
Their fists bumped together...
and Kang Yujin smiled with him again.
“So Taigong Wang is down.”
“What now?”
“First, we need to inherit the authority he held.”
“Didn’t you just say you had no interest in becoming something like him?”
“Taigong Wang disappearing could have harmful effects on the various worlds.”
“We need to check that first.”
“If necessary, we’ll deal with it.”
Kim Nameless smiled.
“Taking Taigong Wang down is great and all...”
“but we’re going to be busy for a while.”
“Sounds like there’s nothing I can help with.”
“Probably not.”
“This kind of thing is something I...”
