I'm the Only Totem in Another World - Chapter 176

Chapter 176: Karon’s Coronation （1）

Karon stood before the giant crouching in the heart of the Imperial Palace. Above the giant’s head, a massive black hole, called a dimensional gate, floated like an angel’s halo.

This being, in the form of a beautiful woman with three pairs of wings, is the Evil God Shamishur. It is the one who opened the dimensional gate and summoned the demons.

Karon slowly examined her.

Her transparent skin, sparkling like a diamond and appearing solid, and her completely black, unfocused eyes, created a strange sense of divinity.

Karon’s body, made by mixing the bodies of demons, was also large, but compared to the Evil God’s massive body, which easily exceeded 50 meters, it was like a baby in front of its mother.

“Hmm.”

Karon looked at the red aura surrounding her head. It was the divinity he had released to completely control her soul, but it still hadn’t penetrated the Evil God’s interior.

He had succeeded in obtaining the authority to command the demons, but he had failed to completely subjugate her soul.

“What do you want, Shamishur?”

The Evil God hadn’t shown any particular movement even when Karon was devastating the Capital. At first, he thought she was focusing on maintaining the dimensional gate stably, but it was something different.

“Never mind. I’ll find out myself.”

Crack!

Karon, surrounding his body with the red divinity, plunged his right arm into the Evil God’s leg. The diamond-like skin cracked slightly, and his right arm went in.

Karon poured his divinity into it. It was to penetrate the Evil God’s soul, or more precisely, her mental world, and completely break her spirit.

This was the ability that Karon had learned, or more precisely, the traditional soul-stealing method of the Outer Gods, called the Watchers.

Now that he had become a collection of many souls, he would be stronger than them.

Karon poured his divinity into the Evil God.

No, it was the moment he tried to pour it in. Suddenly, his vision shook, and he blacked out.

Did she launch a mental attack first? Or did she invite him into her mental world?

“…!”

When he opened his eyes again, a completely black world unfolded. It was the Evil God’s mental world.

He felt a strange sensation and examined his body. His body had been newly reconstructed. It was the body he had when he was the Priest of the Autumn Leaves Tribe and a father of three children.

“You’re doing something useless. Do you think you can defeat me in the mental world, you who have fallen to the level of a mortal?”

Karon moved confidently. Whatever it was, he had entered the mental world. That meant he had succeeded in his purpose.

Karon was a being with divinity. He could use his abilities even within another person’s mental world.

Karon’s body split, dividing into two. The two that were divided then increased to four, then eight.

It was an ability that only Karon, a collection of many souls, could use. With several beings possessing abilities equal to his own, he would be able to defeat any enemy that appeared in this world.

It was called the Fluid Clone Technique, or rather, the Karon Clone Technique.

After walking for some time, the surroundings suddenly brightened.

“This is…!”

The original Karon widened his eyes. The changed location was the Autumn Leaves Tribe.

“Oh, Karon-nim!”

“Priest Karon, what brings you here?”

“Look at this! I caught a wild boar all by myself!”

The tribe members approached Karon, ignoring the clones around him.

“You’re doing trivial things.”

Karon, frowning, ignored the tribe members and passed by.

They were all fake. They were people who had died long ago. They were nothing more than beings created by the Evil God to stimulate his guilt and longing.

“Stop this and show yourself.”

Whoosh━!

As soon as Karon finished speaking, flames shot up.

“Barbarians! Kill them all!”

“Death to the heretics!”

Armed knights and Inquisitors of the Goddess Religion, chanting spells, stormed in.

To recreate the hell of that day.

“Pr, Priest-nim! Save us!”

“Gabun!”

The tribe members were unilaterally slaughtered. The blood they shed formed puddles.

“Is this boring game over now? Are you so desperate to mock humans?”

Karon asked, trying to maintain a straight face.

“Dad!”

Of course, it wasn’t over. His three children, who had died long ago, came to him.

“…!”

Karon’s eyes wavered. He had expected it. He had expected it, but its destructive power was beyond his expectations.

“We have to run! There are too many of them!”

“There’s a cave over there! Come on!”

The children pulled on the original Karon’s arm.

“It’s pointless.”

He tried to shake off their hands and walk, but.

“Th, They’re shooting arrows! Aaagh!”

When one of the children was hit by an arrow, Karon unconsciously turned his head. It was at that moment.

━ Pointless? Is it really?

With a woman’s eerie voice, Karon’s clones all turned their heads towards him at once. With expressionless faces, making them even more frightening.

‘…She took control? When?’

Karon didn’t panic and shot his divinity towards the clones. Unable to use even Karon’s power, the clones collapsed helplessly.

Upon checking, the other souls had returned to his own soul. She must have used a strange ability to return the souls and then create new clones.

━ I’ve been watching you since you invaded the Capital.

The clones rose again, their bodies grotesquely deformed. Their faces were still Karon’s. They rushed towards his children, not him.

“D, Dad!”

The monsters with Karon’s faces bit the children. They were trying to eat them like starving beasts.

As if trying to reenact something that had happened in the past.

Karon recalled his painful past.

The civilized people who had destroyed his tribe and set fire to the mountain, and himself, holding the cold bodies of his three children in a cave and shedding tears.

He couldn’t move until the fire that had been burning the mountain for two days died out, but he couldn’t go far. The foot of the mountain was filled with the Imperial Army’s camp. It was a number he couldn’t possibly defeat alone.

He hid in the cave again and waited for days, and eventually, hunger came. The fruits and animals were all burnt black and inedible.

…There were three pieces of cold meat in the cave. He had no choice.

To take revenge, he had to survive.

No matter what, he had to survive.

“Shamishur!”

Karon shot his divinity, killing all the monsters.

The red divinity extending from Karon’s body took over and shattered the space. But the real beginning was now.

“Dad! Dad!”

“Help us!”

“Save us!”

Karon’s children appeared from between the shattered spaces. There were so many children that he couldn’t count them.

The children all rushed towards Karon at once. No, they poured down like a waterfall.

Grit!

Karon, gritting his teeth, wordlessly shot his divinity, knocking them down. But there were too many of them. The children kept appearing from the shattered spaces.

“The fire was too hot!”

“The place where I was hit by the arrow hurt so much!”

“Dad, why did you eat us?”

Every word was piercing Karon’s heart.

“I had no choice…I had no choice. I…I had to live…!”

Karon, overwhelmed by the sight, rambled. The children, gaining momentum, swarmed like locusts and covered him.

“Liar! You were just looking for someone to blame! It wasn’t for us!”

“Because you couldn’t blame yourself! So you decided to blame the gods!”

“How many people have you sacrificed for that petty revenge? How many children have you killed?!”

“You know it! The monster that really needs to disappear is you!”

The voices of the children, burying Karon and continuing their attack, echoed like ripples.

Before long, the red monster’s hand appeared, piercing through the children.

“Yes! I did it! I ate my children!”

It was Karon.

“And I swore! I will, I will definitely kill all the gods!

Did you think I would cry and beg for forgiveness from my children? Now? After coming this far?!”

Karon’s voice gradually rose.

“How much do you think I prayed to Gabun, to the Loa? I offered all kinds of precious things as tribute and prayed for their well-being!

Even though there was never a single response…I believed that someday, someday they would definitely answer! I lived my life doing my best to fulfill my duty! The reward for that wait was the destruction of my tribe and the death of my children!

How, how could this happen? Why did I have to suffer like this? Why did my children have to die? Why did you have to take everything from me? Why, why!”

It was a scream close to a wail. Naturally, there was no answer.

“…You ruthless monsters wouldn’t understand.”

Karon spread his wings and flew up.

“I will no longer cry, nor pray. I will not beg for mercy.”

He gathered his divinity in his hands.

“I don’t care what sacrifices follow. I! Will break this cycle! And end your farce!

I am the end of the gods, the end of myth!”

He shot his divinity in all directions, crushing all his enemies.

“Pant, Pant, Pant, Pant.”

A space filled with the corpses of the monsters that imitated his children. Karon’s heavy breathing echoed.

━ Good.

The Evil God spoke again.

The shattered space was reconstructed. At some point, the space had transformed into a bizarre and distorted cosmic landscape.

Karon surveyed the situation from atop a temple floating alone in space.

━ Now I know who you are.

A gigantic, transcendental being standing in front of the temple looked down at Karon. It conveyed some information to him.

It was a time when the separation between the spiritual world and the material world was ambiguous.

It, having traveled through the distant universe, arrived when this world, this planet, was born, and poured out its blood to create the sea and shed its flesh to create the land.

One of the first gods, called the Ancient Gods, now vanished into history.

━ I am the fulfiller. The one who receives offerings and provides rewards in return.

The creator god worshipped by the first humans on this planet. That was Shamishur.

“You…are tired.”

She had briefly dreamed of standing in the heavens again with the help of the idol, but it was a fleeting dream. Her hatred for humanity and the God of Games was also momentary.

She was tired in the face of endless pain and eons of time. She longed for an end.

━ Do you want my power? Take it.

Shamishur extended a giant hand towards Karon.

━ Take it and reach the heavens. Kill them all.

“…!”

━ Kill and kill, and someday, even the hateful Ishtania! End it with your own hands!

The moment Shamishur’s hand touched Karon’s body, the cosmic landscape momentarily went dark.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back on the ground in his first body. In the body of Karon, the Priest of the Autumn Leaves Tribe.

“Did I succeed?”

He had also succeeded in taking control of the Evil God’s soul and body. Unlike before, the soul was empty of its contents, but it hadn’t disappeared.

If only he were given a little more time, he would be able to skillfully wield the Evil God’s power.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

At that moment, the Evil God’s abdomen split open, and a group of human corpses fell out. They were the corpses of the possessed.

Karon searched through the memories remaining in the Evil God’s soul and body, and found out that the Evil God had made the Dark Cloud Demon bring the bodies of the possessed.

“George Raid.”

That was what they were called.

“Rise.”

Karon reached out to them.

“Groan…”

Soon after, the George Raid rose with glowing red eyes.

“To me, to you…the opportunity has returned.”

They followed behind Karon, shuffling along. In a form much different from before.