Radiant Dragon’s Otherworldly Reincarnation - Chapter 353 : Chapter 353
Chapter 353. It Is His Revenge (2)
Yupinel, the Goddess of Harmony.
Kalaron, the Incarnation of Destruction.
These two were gods famous enough that Patrick had heard about them from Ava in his bedtime stories since he was young.
They were the supreme gods at the pinnacle of all myths, who had created the world through the Creation.
Such great gods were….
“Who is it? Which bastard inputted the flood rainfall value like this here?”
“It’s world number 59,484. We decided to cause a great flood here, so isn’t it fine?”
“Look at the rainfall value. Is this a flood? It’s Armageddon.”
“…Tsk, it’s a typo.”
“Ugh, seriously, I’m going crazy. If this goes wrong, I’ll be the one getting cursed later! Me!”
Watching the two of them work….
‘What is this?’
His fantasy about gods vanished completely.
Great divinity of Creation my ass….
They just looked really busy and exhausted.
The two of them concentrated on their work with hollow eyes for a long time.
And only then….
“First, let’s deal with the business here.”
“Yes. We should.”
Rather than gods, it looked like two zombies rising from the dead.
With hollow eyes, they approached Patrick and slumped down on the opposite side.
“Uh…. So, I am Patrick Schneid….”
“Enough. Let’s cut to the chase and get to the main point.”
“……”
Well, that’s good for me, but….
Is this okay?
Regardless, Kalaron took out a white cigarette of a shape Patrick had never seen before from his bosom, lit it, took a drag, and said.
“You’re going to fight the Outer God, right?”
“…Well, yes.”
“Then you’ll need to fill up your insufficient Divine Power.”
“That is true.”
“I’ll give it to you.”
This easily?
To the puzzled Patrick, Kalaron said.
“However, there is a condition.”
I knew it.
Patrick frowned, raised his hand, and said.
“Wait, wait, let’s stop here for a moment.”
“……”
He couldn’t just go with the flow of the conversation and get swept up in the opponent’s pace.
At least he should know what’s what before doing anything.
Saying it’s a scam or whatever later won’t matter once the seal is stamped.
Would a god pull a scam?
Eh, they don’t look like such majestic beings at a glance.
So….
‘I should do as I always do.’
Having steeled his mind, Patrick smiled brightly and said.
“This feels somehow too cooperative, doesn’t it?”
“Is that a problem?”
“It’s not that it’s a problem, but….”
Patrick stared at Yupinel and Kalaron intently and continued.
“It’s suspicious.”
Then, their bodies flinched slightly.
It was a very small agitation, but Patrick’s eyes did not miss that small tremble.
At this moment, Patrick knew.
That he had hit the opponent’s weak point.
Patrick leaned back on the sofa, crossed his arms, and said in a cold voice.
“What is your purpose?”
“…How rude.”
At Patrick’s words, Kalaron answered with a cold face.
Revealing blatant anger on his face, he said.
“We offer you a chance out of pity, and you get greedy again? You humans never know satisfaction.”
“That is the good thing about humans. And….”
Patrick grinned and said.
“Looking at the Four Calamities or what you guys are doing, gods don’t seem that different from humans.”
“……”
“Or maybe you guys aren’t the flawless beings I thought you were.”
At Patrick’s words, Kalaron spoke coldly.
“I’ll say it again. Will you take the chance? Or will you give up and perish? The choice is yours.”
“So you’re testing my guts.”
“……”
“I’ve never lost at that, you know.”
“You’re choosing destruction?”
“Do you know this saying?”
“……”
“If we all perish together, it’s not really perishing.”
Having said that, Patrick stood up as if he had no regrets.
“Since it’s come to this, it can’t be helped. I’m leaving.”
And Patrick moved his steps without hesitation towards where the portal opened.
The moment Patrick walked without hesitation and his foot was about to touch the portal….
“Stop!”
It was Yupinel’s scream-like shout that stopped Patrick’s foot.
The moment he heard those words, the corner of Patrick’s mouth went up, and Kalaron put his hand to his forehead.
“Do you have no guts at all?”
“Do you think this is the time to play hard to get? If this goes wrong, all of us will….”
“Alright. Alright, so stop it.”
Looking at the two fighting, Patrick smiled and said.
“Now, shall I ask again?”
“……”
“Is there some inside story?”
“Actually….”
At Patrick’s question, Yupinel sighed and told the truth.
To start with the conclusion….
These two were in a desperate situation.
When the Outer God invaded this world.
Yupinel and Kalaron hurriedly joined forces to fight back, but they were on the verge of defeat.
In fact, in terms of divine rank itself, they were above the Heavenly Demon, not below.
However, the problem was that there was a difference in the direction of that divine rank.
Yupinel and Kalaron.
They were fundamentally divine ranks specialized in creation.
Although there was a difference between good and evil, they were basically divine ranks that created retainers who followed them and promoted the development of the world.
In comparison, the Heavenly Demon was a thorough combat-type divine rank.
He was a divine rank who directly inflicted trials on this world with his own power and led destruction.
In human terms, a civil official or a military official?
There was such a difference.
Naturally, the two fragile(?) civil officials were busy getting thoroughly beaten by the Heavenly Demon.
They hurriedly created powerful combat-type creations called dragons to fight back, but they were barely holding on.
Eventually, lacking strength, the two had to borrow power from another world.
As a result, they barely succeeded in sealing the Outer God, but they could not annihilate him.
No, to be precise, they couldn’t.
“In the first place, if we recklessly annihilated a divine rank from a different dimension with different boundaries, we don’t know what kind of punishment we would face.”
Ah, that must be tough.
Listening to Yupinel’s complaints, Patrick realized that being a god wasn’t easy either.
Anyway, the Heavenly Demon was sealed.
The problem was that the seal of a divine rank could never last forever, and someday the seal would be broken.
And when that time comes….
“We will be destroyed.”
“There is nowhere else to borrow more power.”
“Even if they lend us power, we’ll die buried under the work they dump on us in return.”
“Any more than this is absolutely impossible.”
Ah, so that’s why they were overworked.
They were taking on someone else’s work.
He felt he understood why they were handling work with such immense annoyance earlier.
And Kalaron continued.
“In the midst of that, the sealed Heavenly Demon proposed a deal to us.”
“A deal?”
“That if we summon a human from his world and send him as his adversary, he would leave our world.”
“…Wait, don’t tell me?”
“It wasn’t us who called you. It was the Outer God.”
“Haaaa?”
You’ve got to be kidding me.
No, the Heavenly Demon called me? Why?
Yupinel told him the reason right away.
“It seems the Heavenly Demon steadily observed his original world even while sealed.”
“Haaaa….”
“And in the midst of that, it seems he took note of your exploits.”
“No, so? What does he want to do by calling me?”
“He said he wants to duel.”
“A dueeeel?”
“In the first place, his desire is simple. To test his martial arts against a warrior of equal level. In the words used in your world….”
“Competitiveness?”
“It is also called that.”
“He called me just for that?”
“That’s right.”
These guys, I’ve been putting up with them, but….
Just as Patrick was about to go crazy and rampage, Yupinel hastily said.
“That doesn’t mean we interfered with your life in that world. Your death there has nothing to do with us.”
“……”
“We just brought your soul after you died and had you born in our world with your memories of your past life intact.”
“……”
“And let me be clear, this isn’t easy either. Carrying memories into the next life through reincarnation is normally a privilege among privileges.”
“Grrrk….”
Right.
Honestly, there is a point to that.
What would have happened if Patrick had been born into the Baron Schneider family without his memories of his past life?
‘It might have been hard just to live day by day, getting hit by monsters in the Great Forest….’
Living the next life again with memories of a past life was definitely a great privilege.
“But you didn’t do that for my benefit, did you?”
“……”
“……”
That’s true.
Looking at Yupinel and Kalaron avoiding his gaze, Patrick said with veins popping on his forehead.
“Did I ask you to do this? Huh?”
“No, but still, we are gods, isn’t it a bit much to question us so rudely?”
“Kaaak! So what? Looking at what you’re doing, it’s nothing special.”
“How can you say such things?”
“No, to put it bluntly, an enemy invaded your territory, but you were too weak to handle it. Isn’t that right?”
“No, that’s….”
“On top of that, you borrowed military funds from around you to somehow win, but now you’re in a situation where it’s hard to even pay the interest on that?”
“……”
“Even the enemy you defeated like that wasn’t completely finished off, so now you’re groveling, isn’t that your situation right now? Yes? Or no?”
“……”
“……”
The two Creator Gods felt hurt.
Why?
Because it was all true.
Patrick sighed deeply, brought his hands to his face for a dry wash, and said.
“Why is my life specialized in cleaning up after others? Why on earth?”
[Consider it your fate.]
“Shut up!”
Having shouted, Patrick sighed deeply.
Yes.
What’s the use of complaining?
In the end, he has to do what needs to be done.
“So, if I don’t fight the Heavenly Demon, he won’t leave this world.”
“That was the promise between him and us.”
“Tsk, making promises among yourselves without the consent of the person involved….”
“……”
“Phew…. So, for me to fight the Heavenly Demon on equal footing, you have to give me a divine rank anyway, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then why attach conditions?”
“Hmm, actually this condition is not only for us, but also a condition that might tempt you.”
“Me?”
“If you defeat the Outer God….”
Listening to Kalaron’s continuing words, Patrick’s expression gradually hardened.
Usually, Patrick would interrupt in between the opponent’s words, but at this moment, he just quietly listened to what Kalaron had to say.
And a long time later….
“Those words…. are true, right?”
“Of course.”
“Right. Then it’s settled.”
Patrick stood up from his seat and said.
“First, hand over the Divine Power. I’ll take care of the rest, okay?”
“Our situation isn’t good either, so we can’t give you much power. It will be barely enough to fight the Outer God, but….”
“Above all, the divine rank bestowed upon you, who have not ascended to the divine rank, is consumable, so you must not use it recklessly.”
Patrick nodded and received the divine rank bestowed by Yupinel and Kalaron.
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
Thus, Patrick received the divine rank from Kalaron and Yupinel and returned to the original world.
What he saw when he returned were the Four Calamities who were completely exhausted after using up all their remaining Divine Power, and the residents of Pavera eagerly waiting for his return.
And Patrick said to Persona.
“Let’s go. It’s the decisive battle with the Outer God.”
***
Turning back time to the present.
Patrick’s twin swords become sharp lines cutting through space, attacking the enemy.
Even if it were a 7-star martial artist, the attack Patrick was wielding now was of a speed too sharp to respond to.
But….
“Magnificent. Indeed, worthy of being called Radiant Dragon.”
The opponent was a figure indispensable when discussing the best in history.
One of the Four Great Grandmasters, the Heavenly Demon.
He leisurely dodged all of Patrick’s attacks and instead extended his hand.
“Try receiving mine as well.”
[ Heavenly Demon Divine Art: Heavenly Demon Thousand Hands ]
Instantly, the Heavenly Demon’s hands drew countless palm shadows and pounced on Patrick.
At the Heavenly Demon’s attacks coming in different forms and trajectories, Patrick hastily switched his attacking sword to defense to respond.
Pung! Pung-pung! Puuuung!
“Kugh….”
He can block it.
He can block it, but….
‘Damn it, if it were a normal sword, it would have broken long ago.’
Every time he blocked an attack, he felt a tremendous impact that made his wrists tingle.
And above all, every time Patrick exchanged offense and defense with the Heavenly Demon, the Divine Power inside Patrick was being drained rapidly.
The basis for Patrick being able to exchange offense and defense similarly with the Heavenly Demon right now was thanks to this Divine Power.
If this Divine Power ran out, Patrick’s attacks wouldn’t work on the Heavenly Demon, and Patrick wouldn’t be able to block the Heavenly Demon’s attacks.
If that happened, the match would be as good as over.
‘I have to settle the match before that….’
It seemed it wouldn’t be easy.
