webnovelvip Chapter 840 The Fall of the God of Drama
Chapter 840 The Fall of the God of Drama
Chapter 840 The Fall of the God of Drama
The war games of Broly and Dionysus took place on a remote island fifty nautical miles from the harbor of Melen.
The entire island was reinforced by the gods using their divine power, and the images of the war game were projected onto various parts of Orario's streets using divine power screens.
"Third time's the charm. We've lost three times already. I refuse to believe that the Hestia Familia member, who can wield divine power, can win this time. All in! I'm betting on the Demon King to lose!"
Along with the war games came the inescapable gambling industry. Some gambling adventurous men who had previously lost everything and spent months grinding in dungeons to barely pay off some of their debts were now betting everything again.
After the announcement of the war game between humans and gods was released, Orario was plunged into a strange atmosphere of revelry, which was even more lively than the previous God Moon Festival.
Even the giant urban cruise ship from the school district couldn't break the frenzied atmosphere after arriving at the harbor.
"What's going on with the people of this city?"
The students who disembarked from the school district and arrived in Orario felt somewhat bewildered.
"Captain Nina, look—"
The students of the third squad of the school district [Baldlband] pointed to the notice on the wall and shouted to the somewhat puzzled half-elf girl behind them.
"The first war game in the history of the mortal realm where mortals challenge the gods —"
Nina leaned closer and read the contents of the announcement aloud, but her expression was quite strange after she finished reading it.
"Are all the adventurers in Orario so brave that they dare to challenge even the gods?"
The girl couldn't help but complain.
"Young ladies, you must have just arrived from the outside world?"
Upon hearing this, someone nearby couldn't help but ask.
"So what if it is?"
"That's right. Our adventurers are indeed much braver than those outside, but there's only one who dares to challenge a god."
"And the Demon Lord is a legendary figure in Orario. In just eight months since his debut, he has already established a formidable reputation—"
The native residents of Orario chattered away to a group of school district students who had just arrived in Orario, introducing them to the various stories about Broly's arrival in Orario that had been compiled by others.
From a fake newbie to a tyrannical overlord, then to the man behind the team's glory, the resurrection magic master who brought life to all Orario adventurers, and finally to a demon king who sheltered heretics and single-handedly defeated countless adventurers—
Nina and a group of school district students were completely bewildered, and some even looked at the Orario natives who were still blowing nonsense with suspicion.
"What kind of look is that? Don't you believe what I'm saying?"
"How can you expect us to believe that in less than eight months, this person has gone from an unknown nobody to a terrifying being capable of challenging even the gods? This is more outrageous and exaggerated than many fairy tales!"
"Tch, this only proves that our Demon Lord of Orario is much more powerful than the ancient heroes. Besides, what I'm saying is just common knowledge."
As for the Hermes Familia, they also sell some top-secret information about the Demon Lord. I've heard from some people who bought the information that the Demon Lord saved the world twice in a row some time ago.
"Wait, the world is facing a crisis, twice in fact, how come we didn't know?"
"Of course, the crisis was nipped in the bud by the Demon King before it even appeared."
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"Are you bragging?"
"Ha, a true hero is not one who achieves great feats. A real hero should be like our Demon Lord of Orario."
"Hey, you outsiders over there, don't listen to his bragging. That guy is just a brainless demon king braggart. He even said that he was resurrected by the Demon King after falling to his death."
"I'm telling the truth."
"Why didn't you say so before?"
"Previously, the guild made me sign a confidentiality agreement, prohibiting me from revealing the matter of resurrection after death."
As they talked, the bricklayer who had been resurrected started arguing with an acquaintance.
The reason is actually quite simple: the guy he was arguing with had staked everything on Broly's defeat in this war game, so naturally he couldn't stand hearing anyone say anything good about him.
Nina and her group of school district students looked at each other, and when they realized that the man in front of them was arguing with someone and was no longer paying attention to them, they chose to leave.
"Captain, shall we find a hotel to stay in next?"
They were students from the school district, and while the school district was staying in the port of Mellen, they took leave to come down and check on the situation in Orario, the world capital.
They are about to graduate, and graduation means facing the issue of employment. Most students in the school district will choose to work in Orario, the world capital, either by joining a guild as a guild employee or by choosing to join a familia and become one of the adventurers of Orario.
"I'm going to go find my sister first."
"Captain Nina, are you planning to join a guild?"
"No, I chose the combat course because I didn't intend to become a guild employee. I want to become an adventurer in Orario, but I don't know which familia to join."
My sister is a guild employee, and she has a lot of contact with adventurers' familias, so I want to ask her about the Orario familia.
"I see. But Captain Nina, how about we join the Hestia Familia?"
The students in Badrband's third squad asked, as they were considered well-known problem students in their grade within the district.
Each of them had a high number of credits in the combat department, but they were also proud and arrogant, eager to make a name for themselves in Orario in the future.
Upon entering the city, hearing the story of the Demon King naturally piqued interest in the Demon King's kin.
"Joining a clan should be a serious matter. You should come with me to find out more about my sister before making a decision."
"I think Captain Nina is right. Even if we want to join the Hestia Familia, we don't know if they'll even want us."
A group of thirteen- or fourteen-year-old students made a decision and headed towards the guild headquarters in a grand procession. Since today was the day of the war game, many adventurers in Orario did not go to the dungeon, as no one wanted to miss this battle between humans and gods.
Eina sat behind the front desk, staring blankly at the divine power screen that also appeared in the guild, just as the war game was about to begin.
Broly had won all the previous war games, but this time was different; he would be facing a god who could wield divine power.
Even though Broly had confidently told her beforehand that he was certain of victory, Eina was still somewhat worried.
"Eina, Eina————"
"Miscia, what's wrong?"
"I know you're worried about Broly, but you don't need to be this distracted."
Misia sighed and pointed to a group of students in school district uniforms following behind her.
"Your sister is here to see you."
"Uh, my sister?"
Following her friend's pointing finger, Eina quickly spotted a half-elf girl among the students who resembled her mother, with long, emerald-green hair and no outward signs of mixed race.
Despite a six-year age gap and attending a different school district, Eina never met her younger sister after her birth, but the sisters exchanged many letters.
"Ah, you're Nina, right? You've come to Orario? Why didn't you contact me beforehand?"
Nina watched as her older sister approached with enthusiasm, a woman who seemed both unfamiliar and somewhat familiar. She felt that the other woman's behavior was not quite what she had imagined.
The person you imagine should be a perfect and outstanding individual, someone you should learn from and emulate since childhood.
I wrote you a letter a week ago.
"Well----"
Upon hearing this, Eina looked somewhat embarrassed. After the Six Rings spell incident, there were many things to deal with at the guild, and she had worked overtime quite a bit. In addition, she learned that Broly wanted to engage in a war game with Dionysus, the mastermind behind the scenes, so all her attention was focused on this matter. Her sister's letter was probably stuck in the mailbox at home.
"Sorry, Nina, my sister has been quite busy lately and may not have noticed your letter."
[You're probably busy worrying about others. That guy named Broly should be the very skilled new adventurer that my sister mentioned in her letters before, the one she's taking care of.]
"It's nothing, sister, I just wanted to ask you about something—"
"Ah, Nina, wait a moment about your business. The war game is about to start, let's watch the war game first."
The elven girl's words were interrupted, and Nina looked at her older sister, whose eyes were fixed on the divine power screen, speechless.
However, the other members of the guild had similar reactions, and even her teammates had the same reaction.
Clearly, the hype surrounding the war between humans and gods in Orario has reached its peak. When the god Ganesha announced the start of the war game, countless people stopped what they were doing and stared at the divine power screen, wondering whether the Demon King could fight against the god, or whether he might be killed by the god in an instant.
"You didn't announce your plan to destroy Orario to the public. Instead, you challenged me and started this war game because you wanted to measure the gap between yourself and the gods—"
To protect Philvis, the truth behind the start of this war game was kept secret. Only the gods knew what was going on, but those below the gods were completely unaware.
The official reason given was that Broly, the Demon King, felt he was too strong and had no more rivals, so he wanted to find a god to challenge.
"Heh, Philweis didn't fall for the wrong person. It's just a pity that this war game is destined to end with your arrogant challenge to the gods and your violation of their majesty, as your final fate—"
Broly and Dionysus's privately agreed-upon conditions for the war game were not approved. The Orario gods were pessimistic about his ability to defeat gods wielding divine power and would not allow such terrifying strength to fail, lest he defect to Dionysus's side and potentially launch an unstoppable plan to destroy Orario.
. . . .
Therefore, after the gods discussed and compromised at the Council of Gods, the outcome of this war game would not involve his conversion.
Even if Dionysus wins, he will only be exiled from Orario. The reason why this god of wine agreed to this war game is that he wants to completely eliminate Broly in the war game.
With Broly around, Orario can never be destroyed; destruction is only possible when the opponent dies.
Even though he was expelled from the country and would be targeted by the guild in the future, he still had the opportunity to go back underground to develop his clan's power and secretly plot a new conspiracy to overthrow Orario.
"Divine Thunder, summon it!"
Therefore, after Ganesha announced the start of the war game, Dionysus showed no mercy and directly used his divine power to make the sky over the entire island covered with dark clouds.
A deep blue lightning dragon roamed among the dark clouds, its booming sound resounding throughout the heavens and earth. In the next instant, as if it were free, lightning bombarded the entire island.
"Ah, is this the power of the gods?!"
Orario's audience gaped in disbelief. Just when countless people thought that Broly, the Demon Lord, would be killed outright, countless white lights lit up in the sky on the other side of the island. These were magic runes composed of sacred characters.
The next instant, countless arrows of light shot towards the oncoming lightning as if they were free.
"That's... Arcana?!"
At the meeting place of the gods, the gods who were watching the battle all looked at Artemis next to Hestia, and they all recognized that it was the arrow of the moon goddess.
On the divine screen, one side was filled with terrifying lightning, and the other side was filled with endless white light arrows. The two collided, and the entire island's terrain was submerged and annihilated at a visible speed.
When the arrows and lightning subsided, the island, stretching for over ten kilometers, transformed into a flat plain.
"Artemis's arrows, Hephaestus's divine bow—these two divinely crafted weapons, are they your trump cards for devouring me?"
Gazing at each other from a great distance, Dionysus suddenly waved his hand, and a shield of lightning rose up in front of him.
The next second, a thick arrow from the moon goddess struck the thick lightning shield. Had it been raised even slightly later, Dionysus might have been pierced through.
With his arrow ineffective, Broly began running towards Dionysus, his super-weighted training state still intact.
Of course, it wasn't that he didn't want to bring Dionysus the deepest despair, but he discovered that the war game couldn't stop a god from committing suicide.
Broly worried that if he displayed too much power, Dionysus would lose all hope of victory and might simply flee in despair.
[A god capable of wielding divine power has a combat strength of around nine thousand, while my combat strength under extreme training conditions is currently just over six thousand. The difference of one-third should make that guy mistakenly believe he can defeat me.]
From a bird's-eye view, Broly charges at Dionysus at high speed, dodging lightning bolts from the sky from time to time, and only when there is no way to avoid them will he shoot Luna's Arrow to counter the attack.
As he approached Dionysus, Broly dropped his longbow, cast Riveria's protective magic on himself, and, wielding the Luna Arrow which could be used as a spear, slashed at Dionysus.
As he had said before, this god of wine was not good at fighting. Although his attack gave Broly the feeling that he had more than 9,000 combat power, in close combat, his fighting skills were not only not bad, but they were even worse than some low-level adventurers. He could only have such combat power by relying on his divine power.
Broly wielded the Luna Arrow and slashed wildly at the guy. Although he was also being countered by the lightning armor surrounding the guy, he didn't care much.
If Broly hadn't been afraid that Dionysus might commit suicide and escape if he saw no hope of victory, he could have used his micro-management magic to intercept all of the lightning armor's counterattacks.
Indeed, Broly was putting on a show of evenly matched strength, inflicting as much pain as possible on Dionysus while also depleting the man's divine power.
The divine power of a god is not inexhaustible; it will eventually run out. Once it is exhausted, it will be difficult for the opponent to commit suicide.
Of course, in the super-loaded training state, in terms of pure numerical values, Broly is not as good as Dionysus, who can use divine power to amplify his body. However, with the dragon talisman added, even ten Dionysus would not be able to match his endurance.
What he needs to do now is to slowly boil Dionysus, the frog, in water, gradually leading him into a dead end without him noticing.
The result of this idea was that, in front of countless viewers of the war game in Orario, an extremely exciting battle between mortals and gods took place.
Of course, nobody knew that Dionysus, who seemed to have the upper hand, was actually a complete novice in combat.
Broly, who appears to be at a disadvantage and only manages to hold his own against the gods by recklessly trading blows, is actually putting on an act.
"The Drunkenness of Dionysus!"
However, Dionysus was, after all, a god, and he used some unexpected tricks, similar to the seductive methods of the goddess of beauty, which belonged to the divine power of the god of wine and could put people into a state of drunken intoxication.
Broly felt a sudden heaviness in his head, a feeling of wanting to drift off to sleep. The next moment, he realized what was happening and immediately gave himself a set of extremely painful finger techniques to stop the drunken state through pain.
In pain, Broly rushed forward and delivered a painful finger strike to Dionysus, who seemed somewhat surprised that he hadn't fallen.
The two, one man and one madman, fought from day to night, from grand scenes of destroying an island to small-scale street brawls.
After Dionysus collapsed, battered and bruised, as if he had exhausted all his divine power, Broly dared not let his guard down, but also pretended to collapse due to exhaustion.
After a while, Broly pretended to struggle to his feet, and slowly moved toward Dionysus, looking as if he were dragging his tired steps.
"Finally, do you have any last words?"
Broly asked the gods on earth.
"This kind of desperate struggle for survival truly moves me!"
Without fear or apprehension, Dionysus, bruised and battered and looking utterly disheveled, actually appeared to be enjoying himself.
This guy's twisted personality is real. He didn't show any discrimination just because he was experiencing pain and struggling on the brink of death; he genuinely enjoyed the tragedy, even though he was the protagonist of the tragedy.
This situation displeased Broly. He had gone through so much pain and injury to cooperate with the performance, not to see the other party enjoying himself, but to see regret and fear, and then to bring the other party a desperate death while begging for mercy.
"Are these your last words?"
Broly crouched down, placed his hand on Dionysus's heart, and began to devour the life of the god.
"No, that's not my last wish. My last wish is that you apologize to that child, Phil Weiss, for me."
"Um?
'
"Although I took advantage of her for my own selfish desires, I still really like that child. Her pain, her struggles, and her inner turmoil are all things I love."
Of course, I also know that my love for the child in the lower realm is very twisted, so in the last moment of my life, I want to apologize to her.
"Broly, Philvies is now in your care. I hope your love won't cause her pain."
Dionysus's figure became illusory. Broly looked at this twisted god with mixed feelings, but did not hold back and devoured him completely.
Meanwhile, the Demon King Crystal Core within him, having already evolved to its limit after devouring the god Dionysus, has taken another leap forward.
[You devoured a native god and received the gift from the M12 world dungeon to the god-killer. Your Demon King Crystal Core evolved into a Demon God Crystal Core. You can create labyrinth environment modules inside the Crystal Palace and mark them as your own divine realm. When you die, you will be reborn in your own divine realm.]