Raising Villains the Right Way Novel - Chapter 296
C296. Sin of Greed (7)
A gigantic hand falling while absorbing even the gray clouds.
Alon watched with his mouth slightly parted as that hand returned everything to nothingness.
The one who awakened Rine, who had been sealed, was Alon.
The reason was twofold.
The first: Rine’s help was absolutely indispensable to face the Sin of Greed.
What Alon discovered while attacking the Sin of Greed was that, although the form of manifestation before his eyes was different, it wielded the same power of “knowledge” as the sin he had seen in Psychedelia.
If he had Rine, who possessed knowledge on the same level as the sins, then—in addition to the abilities he already knew—she could easily perceive the information behind the power the Sin used and counterattack it.
The second reason was that Alon judged that Rine had become much stronger than before.
As far as Alon knew, in the place where Rine was enclosed existed the “Mother of Greed,” which appears only when the Sin of Greed is born, the one who “scatters ashes.”
And with just that, Alon could imagine without much difficulty what choice Rine must have made, locked away with that creature, in order to face it.
…The presence of the Mother of Greed meant, in other words, that Rine had coveted the forbidden knowledge of the Eternal Library.
That was why Alon even felt relief upon seeing the phrase written in the place where she was sealed.
Because if Rine had become a sin, she never would have been able to write something like that.
So, based on this judgment, Alon decided to request her help to eliminate the sin, and his intuition proved correct.
Rine, despite having coveted the forbidden knowledge, was intact; and, just as he had foreseen, she had become stronger.
Although… there was one point that was completely off.
‘…I never imagined she would become this strong.’
Rine was much stronger than Alon had imagined.
He never thought the increase would be this great.
With an astonished expression, Alon looked at that tower even more gigantic than the last time—
No, that enormous fist falling from the sky.
—“Rine…”
As soon as the fist returned upwards and someone’s figure came into view, Alon murmured without realizing it.
She looked just the same as before.
Her hair, resembling that of a tree, showed its color even under the gray sky.
Her green eyes shone clearly.
Alon had too many things he wanted to tell her.
He wanted to thank her, and he also wanted to reproach her.
But, above all, he felt guilt.
Alon had never experienced what it meant to live for hundreds of years.
He couldn’t even imagine it.
The world changes easily in barely ten years.
And in ten years, except for the most precious memories, almost everything sinks into the swamp of oblivion.
That was why Alon couldn’t open his mouth easily.
He couldn’t say “you have suffered a lot.”
He couldn’t say “thank you.”
He couldn’t imagine how difficult it was to endure hundreds of years in silence.
Therefore, when he remained silent, Rine approached until she was in front of him and, slightly lifting the corners of her motionless lips, said:
—“That is right, Godfather.”
—“I am Godfather’s Rine.”
She said it with a smile.
Alon opened his mouth to answer.
However—
—“But I think we will have to leave the greetings for later, Godfather.”
At her words, Alon regained his concentration and looked forward.
[…What are you?]
There was the Sin of Greed.
Regenerating her completely destroyed body, she looked at Rine with absolute incomprehension.
When the regeneration finished, the papers adhered to her wings lost their power and fell.
[What on earth are you—?]
The Sin, forcing a voice that barely came out, suddenly opened her eyes wide as if she had understood something.
And then—
[It can’t be… are you [from] that time—?]
Contrary to her normally apathetic expression, her voice sounded incredulous.
Rine smiled.
—“I am glad. You have obtained a new body, not the Agu’s one.”
[…I thought I had completely abandoned the five desires and seven emotions.]
The Sin murmured.
[But it seems that is not the case.]
In that instant—
[…I must settle that debt.]
Her body began to swell, as if it were going to burst.
The Sin of Greed that Alon had faced in Psychedelia had two phases.
The first consisted of the human form they had before their eyes.
In that phase, the Sin used various types of debuffs and magic that no one else used in Psychedelia, thanks to forbidden knowledge.
But, in the game, the first phase wasn’t difficult.
Unlike now, in the game, one faced the Sin with Eliban, a team of three strong members, and another three even more powerful ones.
Furthermore, depending on the progress, there were at least three knight orders and anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands of soldiers providing support.
That was why, when facing the Sin of Greed in the game, the important thing was to dodge or resist the debuffs and the almost instantaneous magic to overcome the first phase.
But when the numerous sheets of paper on her wings, which were the life of the Sin, disappeared and exactly five remained, then the second phase began: the Monstrous Phase.
…Just like now.
Alon frowned upon seeing the Sin’s body swell suddenly.
Her white body transformed instantly, increasing in size explosively as it took shape.
Before he could do anything, the creature adopted the form of a huge skeleton.
Alon thought:
‘What do I do?’
The second phase of the Sin is practically its desperate final attempt.
The Sin, turned into a huge monstrous skeleton, creates dozens of arms that cast all the magic she had used up to that moment.
In other words, the difficulty increases absurdly compared to the first phase.
And, to make matters even worse, this Sin still had dozens of lives remaining, yet she still went directly to the Monstrous Phase.
Just as Alon’s frown deepened more and more—
“!”
The enormous hand fell from the sky again.
A mechanical hand descending like a gigantic tower, ready to crush the Sin.
——______-!!!
The hand fell, devouring everything around it, tearing even the air, and crushed the Sin’s body once again.
Numerous lives detached abruptly from the Sin’s gigantic wings. It even seemed that perhaps, with just that, they could finish her off.
But unfortunately—
Alon’s hope was not fulfilled.
When the hand descended again—
Uuuuuuuung—!
A huge magic circle appeared in the air and stopped the fallen hand.
Crack!
The magic circle began to break.
However—
Before it broke completely, dozens of hands, regenerated immediately as if they were those of a Senju, began to move in unison forming seals.
—Uuuuuuuung—!!!!
Dozens of magic circles began to appear above the Sin’s head.
And then—
“!”
Two of the hands that were “not busy” formed seals simultaneously.
Alon, reacting by instinct, embraced Rine and used his Lightning God form to get out of there.
Kwoooooo—!!!
When the green light devoured everything, Alon saw it.
The western zone of Fildegrin turned into a complete wasteland.
Just seeing it made a shiver run down his spine.
Even if most of the magic was being used to block the mechanical hand, Pluton…
That level of destruction had been caused by a spell generated with only two seals.
—“Godfather.”
Lost in his thoughts, Alon lowered his gaze toward Rine’s voice and met her eyes.
—“Can I ask you for something for a moment?”
A short phrase.
But Alon understood her meaning and nodded.
A huge magic circle appeared beneath Rine’s feet.
And her golden eyes, previously hidden, began to shine radiantly.
Alon, moving toward her again, saw the Sin forming new seals.
—“Blackie.”
[Nyaa—]
Taking Blackie out of his chest and putting him on his shoulder—
—“Shadow Awakening—”
He recited the phrases again.
Eyes covered Alon’s body once more, and a gigantic eye appeared in his halo.
—“Reverse Heaven.”
As soon as he pronounced those words, a galaxy began to form in the gray sky.
Alon saw it and felt it instinctively.
‘There isn’t much time left.’
From the moment he decided to buy time for Rine, he used his divinity to recover his body, but even so, the time limit hadn’t reset.
—“Haa…”
Without losing a single instant, he began to control the galaxies.
Crunching sounds rang out and red fissures appeared.
The Sin had snatched that control from him before, but now it didn’t matter.
The Sin didn’t have time to snatch his magical authority.
Crack—!
The fissures expanded instantly, enclosing the magic spheres. With his index and middle fingers extended, Alon fired them.
But not toward the Sin’s body—
Kwoooom—!!
But toward the hands that were forming seals.
The magic spheres, fired like lightning bolts, fell upon the hands performing the seals.
At the same time, the magic circle holding the mechanical hand began to collapse, and the seals directed at Rine changed shape.
But only for an instant.
—“Kh…!”
Alon reached his limit.
His mind was blaring alarms.
Every second maintaining the ritual meant a point of no return.
As if demonstrating it, the magic circle regained firmness.
The Sin’s free hands formed seals, and a green light was fired.
So fast that Alon couldn’t react.
However, instead of blocking the magic, he instinctively redirected all the magic spheres toward the green light.
Kwooooooom—!!!
A blinding explosion enveloped him.
—“Ah.”
And in that instant, Alon understood two things.
The first: he had managed to block the magic.
The second:
—“Khah—!”
His Reverse Heaven technique could no longer be maintained.
He spat out black blood and looked forward with clouded vision.
He had blocked the attack.
But…
Uuuuung—!
The Sin had neutralized him effortlessly and was preparing the next attack.
—“Ha…”
Alon let out a hollow laugh, incredulous.
And, gritting his teeth, he tried to activate the technique again.
Then—
Crack.
Everything… stopped.
The mechanical hand that was falling stopped.
The magic circle blocking it stopped.
The magic directed toward Alon and Rine stopped.
The elves contemplating the scene.
Penia, who had started running while casting to save Alon.
Magrina, who was watching with anxiety.
Everyone stopped.
Instead…
Everyone directed their gaze to one point.
And they contemplated—
In the distance.
In the gray sky, a huge crack appeared, similar to an abyss capable of devouring everything.
And from inside it—
—“The Created God.”
A voice.
—“Pluton.”
A gigantic figure.
—“Full deployment.”
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