Chapter 42 – 4th Passage of the Legend: Fierce Duel with The Thunder God (1st part)
“DOORRYAAAAA!!”
“He?”
A strange warcry resounded in the God’s Realm that blows away the serious atmosphere of duel that had been heated up to the climax point. Even Renya returns an idiotic reply towards it.
Renya who thought that Alberg would attack by using lightings and it will come from either up ahead or straight ahead is surprised because he himself comes in charging at him.
He charges ahead with his fist glowed brightly from being charged with lighting.
Alberg attacks with a big swing towards him. Renya, naturally as a war god, easily evades it and attempt to do counterattack in that instant ---- but he suddenly feels a bad premonition and gives up trying to counter back and take a back step with all his might.
Alberg whose attacks missed his opponent just keep on pushing his fist into the ground without any hesitation. And when his fist connects with the ground, a loud explosion erupts blowing up all the stone and sand in its radius.
No, it’s not just stone and sand that is blown up by the explosion. It was the ground itself that is blown up and created a big crater in the center of the explosion. That horrible disaster was just like a scene when a large bolts of lightning strikes the ground and gouges a large hole where it falls.
If Renya decided to continue on with his counterattack, a scene where he got blown away by that explosion can be easily imagined. Just thinking about that possibility made a line of cold sweat appears in Renya’s forehead.
“Huumu, Seems like you managed to detect how powerful my lightning fist is and choose to retreat without any hesitation. Seems like your sensing ability is also quite high leveled”
That skill name is simple but the destructive power is not something to laugh at.
Alberg who is in the center of the explosion appears to be unhurt from the explosion. It seems like he himself is not affected by his own skill. This fact makes the difficulty level to deal with that skill leap up by many more levels.
Judging that Alberg is more of a melee fighter from only his appearance might be a bad move. There is still much unknown factor about him to decide. But Renya thinks that he is in disadvantage if he challenged him in a close ranged battle so he picks up a few divine armaments that are superior when it comes to long range attacks. He can easily just connect to his world and select the divine armaments that he wants to use even without any preparation but if he prepares it beforehand, switching between divine armaments could mitigates the time needed to do that by a few milliseconds and a few milliseconds in battle might be the cause of one defeat so Renya doesn’t dare to slack even for a bit.
“But! If you choose to use long range attacks because of my first strike then ---- You are still too naïve greenhorn!”
The God’s Realm sky is already covered by thick dark cloud and suddenly a bolt of lightning strike down from the heaven. But strangely that lightning bolt didn’t aim for Renya, for some unknown reason, it comes straight towards Alberg instead! And when that lightning is about to hit Alberg ---- he bounce off the lighting with his fist.
Aiming straight to Renya.
“Whaaa!?”
The lightning that had it course turned abruptly from vertical to horizontal flash forward in a squirming pattern to Renya like a dragon trying to shoot through him. But because it moves in a straight line, Renya was able to barely evade it in just time. But that attack just now is just too surprising that even Renya get baffled by it and makes him unable to hide his astonishment.
“Why such the roundabout way!?”
“Why? Because I can’t drop it anywhere I like that’s why!”
Didn’t this Thunder God just say his own weakness out loud just now?
Everyone gathered in this place naturally gathers their gaze at one person. And that person is Martina.
Under this much pressure, Martina at last opens up her heavy mouth.
“Thunder God Alberg is widely known as a merciless god who execute his divine judgment by using his lightning bolt. And to make things worse…… he didn’t only punish the sinner, but he also punishes those around the sinner. But in actuality ---- that is only a fabricated interpretation that actually hides his fatal weakness”
“Teacher…… I have this feeling of not wanting to hear the rest of this story though……”
“Brenda, never avert your gaze from the reality that is present in front of your eyes. Well, everyone seems to realize it already. Yes, that’s right. He is someone whose name sung in an exaggerated way as the God of Thunder but in reality he is just a nuisance god that couldn’t even control his lighting to hit the place he aims”
“Then…… don’t tell me”
“That’s right. That guy would keep on sending in lightning until it hits the sinner that is going to be punished. And as the result, let’s just say that the land around the sinner will also become a scorched ground”
It was often said that reality is even harsher than fiction but this inside story is unexpectedly outrageously cruel.
“Why did this god was entrusted with lightning in the first place!? Let me see the one who is responsible for this!”
“FUHAHAHAHA! The creator god who bring forth me to this world is already gone!”
“This is not a laughing matter! Dammit. Just when I thought I would have a good fight after a while… What I expect to be a battle with a similar combat type god was actually a battle with some oddball… I did expect some unexpected but this is just too far off!”
The reality behind such grand myth was such a joke just like that of a comedy movie. Renya can’t help but get bewildered by that fact.
But then again, Alberg way of fighting is too simple that it is not even worth a praise but it was because of its simplicity itself that his technique doesn’t have any flaw which make it a hard nut to crack.
If he challenges him close ranged then his terrifying thunder fist will come visit which is disadvantageous for him. But then again if he tries to attack him from afar, this time thunder will come flying. And the thing with him unable to control where the lightning fall in a meaning is also dangerous.
On that note, it seems that he can control it if he want the lightning to hit himself but ---- other than that one lightning, it means that the other lightning is unrelated with Alberg will. Where the lightning will strike, not even the god who reigns over it knows. And such random attack devoid of killing intent is very hard to foresee, much less dodge.
Alberg bounce the lightning with his fist and let it fly horizontally, and the rest of the lightning normally come striking from up above.
It was a real thunder crossfire hell. If he focus too much on the lightning that Alberg throws at him, then the lightning from above might strike him in his escape path when avoiding. This kind of situation will surely happen a lot in this battle.
“Come on come on! Where’s your spirit from the start of the battle gone to? My lightning can still go up a few notches that this you know!”
And Alberg too, is in a state of excitement because he gets to fight again with an opponent that is hard to deal with after a long while at last. The number of falling thunder is beyond normal. Everywhere inside Renya’s line of sight is filled with lightning striking the ground.
What an extravagant way to splurge divine power.
(The way he fight is straight idiot but…… anyway I have to build my own momentum first……!)
For that purpose, Renya mainly uses ranged attacks to deal with Alberg but no matter how much he perfected his battle style, summoning divine armaments still have a very short time lag. But as he face Alberg who casually keep on shooting lightning towards him, he had to concentrate on the attack that come from up front and still have to be wary about the lightning that may come down and strike him from up above. Under this kind of situation, standing still means instant defeat.
He even can’t find any gap that he can use to even summon his divine armaments which is only a simple action normally. Alberg showers him with waves of attacks that make him unable to summon his divine armament much less using it.
The barrages of attacks that come from many angle surround him tightly. He feels like being inside a bullet hell shooting game from his previous life and wants to scream out loud protesting about it but, the craving to win feeling inside him still burn strongly inside his heart.
First I have to get out from my opponent rhythm then get him in my own pace!
And like answering to his burning passion, his divine armaments finally manifest in his left hand.
“Wha!”
“The music I play is a gun ensemble, the mark that I etch upon is a gun wound. Dance freely my magic bullet! The Undeceivable Shooter’s Magic Gun 「Tathlum」!”
The divine armament has a silver colored gun barrel and uses a 9mm caliber. It design is just the same as the beretta automatic pistol that exist in Renya’s previous life. But even if it outer design is the same, that item is definitely not just a normal pistol.
It can be seen in the gun barrel body that there are some unknown letter etched on it. Those letters actually doesn’t have any meaning. For the divine armaments ability it was being inputted by Renya when he made the divine weapon. But he felt that the design is too simple so he asked Floria to add magic insignia like pattern to it. That was a piece development story of this divine armament.
Well, let’s set aside that trivia that doesn’t have any connection with the divine armament ability.
This divine armament has a special action of ‘using’ it by pulling its trigger that is different from the other divine armaments. Well, it was a gun after all so it feature is the same of that a normal gun which operates with that action. For Renya, a divine armament real worth isn’t just from its raw power.
Especially for guns that is mainly used for shooting at long range, he pursuit a higher level of user-friendliness from the divine armaments.
He wants a gun with unlimited ammo.
He wants a gun with zero recoil.
He wants a gun with high rapid fire rate.
He wants a gun with that can hit its target even without the user aiming for it.
Originally, a gun isn’t something that is easy to use. It was after all a lump of steel, it was heavy just like a sword or a spear. With a half assed power, much less aiming, even holding it would become an ordeal.
That’s why, Renya thinks that a gun that doesn’t have such kind of limit would become a very strong weapon. In fact, Tathlum is a divine armament that is born from his wish for a fantasy like gun that definitely would excel a real gun. And the only one who knows about this trivia is only Floria.
And with that reason, Tathlum in reality is just a fantasy dreamed of by Renya that takes a shape but its firepower isn’t just a fantasy imagination at all.
Even though it was a divine armament that is made just to fulfill Renya’s ideals, Tathlum light bullets, with its loud firing sound that was intentionally made like that, isn’t inferior in the slightest or it might even be superior when compared to the lightning that Albert shots out.
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