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Chapter 253

Chapter 253

?Mom!! Mommy!!?

?Is there a cop anywhere? A Hunter? Somebody help!?

A few more videos appeared. These were from different GodTubers, but the content was the same.

Monsters were attacking and killing people, and more monsters appeared from the corpses. The dead bodies were engulfed in violet flames and disappeared.

?This is a sacrificial ritual, Master!?

“A sacrificial ritual? Are you sure?”

?Yes, Master. They are sacrificing people. Look!?

They looked at a video that looked like it was taken from a satellite. The entire city was illuminated by an enormous, unholy-looking magic circle made of violet flames.

‘What the hell is going on…’

Ji-Cheok was furious.

‘I’m busting my ass off trying to save the world, and over there they’re sacrificing entire cities to a God! This is why I hate group projects. One person can ruin everything for the entire group.’

“Where is that happening?”

?That is Malaga, Spain, a port city that thrives on import and export.?

People were disappearing, killed by monsters that Ji-Cheok could not recognize. Ominous flames emanated corrupt magic, and instead of corpses piling up, the monsters continued to multiply in the darkness.

‘Who’s responsible for this? What kind of sick bastard would do such a thing? How selfish do they need to be to do something like this?’

?I have no idea, Master. Seeing as they are slaughtering innocent people like it is nothing, it must be some kind of underground society.?

‘... I’m sure they’re desperate. They know they can’t move on to the next world if the end of the Tutorial keeps being delayed.’

“Let’s go there right now.”

‘Alright… those secret societies, those God followers. They are the assholes who would abandon Earth to save themselves.’

Ji-Cheok thought about how this could be what the Korean independence fighters felt when they were fighting against the pro-Japanese collaborators. It was a bitter realization.

?It seems to be a ritual to sacrifice the lives of the humans on Earth in order to move to another world.?

‘Yeah. it looks like it.’

Still furious, Ji-Cheok crossed through space.

? ? ?

“Oh… Oh… Ascension… The road to ascension is not far…”

He was wearing the skin of an otherworldly race of snakes. From a distance, it looked a lot like something that someone would see at a furry convention.

Visually, this was really not a far-fetched description. However, for him, dressing up as a snake was not just a hobby he did because he liked snakes.

“Great World-Devouring Serpent, I have prepared a feast for you. Devour them all and grant me the grace of ascension!”

In the Spanish port city of Malaga, on the roof of the largest and tallest building, he presided over an ominous ritual at the center of a magic circle formed by thirteen people who were wearing robes. The circle burned with violet flames, and the robed men standing at the thirteen points on the circle were constantly chanting and pouring mana into the magic circle.

Around this building, the entire city of Malaga was interconnected by this great magic circle. Those who died within it were sacrificed by the violet flames, and they would enter the belly of the deity known as the [World_devouring_serpent], body and soul!

Then, a change suddenly occurred in his body. The snakeskin clung to him, and his body changed from human to something that looked like a snake. His legs stuck together and turned into a tail, and his upper body swelled up.

He now looked like the mythical creature called Naga! His lower body was a snake’s tail, and though his upper body was still humanoid, it was larger and covered in scales. This was not a simple transformation spell. He had actually shed his human form and transformed into a new race.

“Hahahahahahaha! I am closer to ascension! I will become Nagaraja and will be on my way to eternal immortality!”

The king of the Naga, Nagaraja, was said to possess divine powers. Using the power of the [World_devouring_serpent], this man sought to ascend and become the Nagaraja. Of course, it was not easy. In order to ascend, he had to sacrifice the citizens of Malaga!

Just when he was laughing in triumph, he spotted something out of the corner of his eye.

Flash!

Something slammed into him.

Flying at supersonic speed, the object blasted straight through his protective magic shield and pierced through the fresh demihuman as well. It also destroyed the building he was standing on, and only stopped a good few meters into the ground.

Boom!

Rumble!

The entire building collapsed. It was a terrifying scene of destruction, but no one cared because the entire city was already in ruins.

“Keuk…”

From the wreckage emerged a Naga. Jose Mendoza—Spanish tycoon, powerful Archmage, and an apostle of the [World_devouring_serpent]—staggered to his feet, or rather, his tail.

His tail was half gone and he was missing an arm. One of his eyes was bleeding from a ruptured socket, and his face was a mask of pain and anger.

“Wow~ I didn’t expect you to survive~”

“Shaaa. How dare you disturb the ritual! Who in the—Um Ji-Cheok?”

Ji-Cheok was floating in the air. A fennec was wrapped around his neck, and his hands were in his pockets. He started to speak while in this arrogant posture.

“I guess you know who I am.”

“You! Why are you interfering with my work?!”

In a fit of rage, Jose Mendoza telekinetically pulled his fallen arm from the rubble and reattached it to the shoulder The cells sizzled with mana, and an instant later, it was reattached. Unfortunately, there was no sign of his tail, so he had to regenerate it from scratch, but seeing how fast that was going, it was clear that the tail would grow back in about a minute.

“You wanna know why I interrupted you?”

Ji-Cheok had a mocking expression on his face, as if looking at something ridiculous, but that expression immediately shifted to absolute rage.

“You’ve been sacrificing innocent people to your will, and YOU have the audacity to ask ME why I’m interfering?!”

“Ha! It’s none of your business! This is my land, and you have no rights to—Ugh!”

Clang!?

Jose Mendoza’s throat was cut as he spoke. Blood gushed out, and pain distorted his face.

“Your skin is stronger than I expected.”

“... Ho… how did you…”

“It’s called Mind Sword. Not that you would know what that is.”

Ji-Cheok pulled his hand out of his pocket. At the same time, dozens of powerful attacks flew at him from all directions. The attacks were unleashed by the power of the [World_devouring_serpent] that Jose summoned.

Most of them were in the form of flaming arrows or spears, and it was only a matter of moments before the sky was engulfed in flames. However, Ji-Cheok drew his dual swords and swung them with terrifying speed. The Sword Qi that stretched out from them split the flames apart and extinguished them instantly.

Clang! Clang!

Jose hastily created a shield, but the shield burst into flames from Ji-Cheok’s sword strike!

Boom!

The shield shattered, and before Jose could react, dozens of Sword Qi blades were already on their way to him.

“ARGH!!”

Both of his arms were cut off, and his entire body was covered in blood. Normally, he would have died instantly, but that was not the case now. His transformation into Naga had given him a powerful life force.

He shot out a beam of Demonic Light from his eyes, but it too was cut apart by Ji-Cheok’s sword and instantly extinguished.

“Huff. Huff.”

Ji-Cheok stepped in front of the panting Jose.

“You… You little… Curses on you… Curs—”

Slash!

His head detached from his body and floated into the sky. As his windpipe was severed, he could not speak anymore

Ji-Cheok reached for the severed head. Just then, however, the head self-ignited and turned to ash almost instantly!

Crack.

The freshly decapitated Jose's abdomen gaped open to reveal his entrails, and then it started to wriggle, morphing into something that looked like the mouth of a giant snake.

The God had descended!

[Young God, why are you meddling with my affairs?]

“Are you the [World_devouring_serpent]?”

[Yes, I am.]

“Well then, why the fuck do you care that I stuck my nose into your business!” Ji-Cheok snapped. “Listen here, you little shit. I’m the one who is trying his best to protect the human race on this planet. Do you think I am going to let you guys run amok?”

The sight of the dead bodies of innocent people and children had made him lose even the last sliver of patience. It was a horrific sight that would have made a normal person faint, but Ji-Cheok’s superhuman mental strength kept him going.

[You fool. You are not even the God of the human race, are you?]

“I’m doing this because I’m human. You got a problem with that?”

[Keu-keu-keuk. So because you are of human origin, you want to protect humans? I wonder if you will still be able to do so in ten thousand years.]

Ji-Cheok did not even flinch when the [World_devouring_serpent] talked about the future after ten thousand years.

“So what? Whether I’m still around in ten thousand tears or not, it’s none of your business.”

[Very well… I will watch over you.]

[[World_devouring_serpent] has subscribed to your channel!]

[You have received 5,000 Likes.]

? ? ?

‘Why the hell would this crazy snake subscribe to my channel?’

Ji-Cheok sighed loudly and looked to his side. The Spanish city was burning.

The purple flames were gone, and so were the monsters. However, in the meantime, the entire city had become a mess of collapsed buildings, gas explosions, and random fires. There was smoke everywhere, and it was the very picture of chaos.

?Still, you did a good job, Master. If you had not come here faster, the entire city would have been sacrificed.?

“Yeah, I guess it could have been a lot worse. But I still need to think about this.”

?You are saying that even if we put up a dimensional barrier, there might be some evil bastards working from the inside to open dungeons and summon Gods… right??

“That’s exactly right. It’s a fucked up situation.”

He had not expected that there would be so many scumbags in this world who did not mind killing hundreds of thousands or even millions of people just to get their own way…

‘I would like to single them out and kill them all, but I don’t have that kind of power right now.’

“Let’s just go back.”

?Are you not going to tell the Spanish government??

“I don’t think I want to explain to the government what I did here. Let’s just have Ji-Han tell them who the culprit is, and let them take care of the rest.”

?Understood, Master.?

With that, he turned to leave the city.

“Help me… Someone, please… Is anyone there…?”

Ji-Cheok suddenly heard a voice.

“Wait, Cheok-Liang. I’ve changed my mind. Let’s livestream this. And alert the Spanish government. We have to save people before we go back.”

There were still survivors in this city. The thought of saving them took priority over everything else.

‘I can’t believe I didn’t think of that…’

They immediately moved to save the survivors.