Overgeared

A disaster created by hundreds of thousands of explosions in total—the viewers witnessed the baptism of rays that were like heavy rain or a typhoon, and predicted the destruction of the allied forces. There were quite a few people who closed their eyes, blocked their ears, or changed the channel because they didn't have the courage to face the devastation that was about to unfold. They took deep breaths for a long time before belatedly opening their eyes. Then they turned the channel back.

"Hup..." They breathed in.

They resented the camera's perspective as it skimmed through the battlefield. Destroyed land, weapons buried in dirt, blood that formed lakes, the pieces of flesh that had lost their owners... The devastation on the battlefield was even more terrible than expected. It seemed to mark the beginning of the apocalypse.

Raim of the general store, Paulson at the blacksmith, the lord who was bad-tempered but always took care of them...

They were sad and afraid that everything they accumulated over the years in Satisfy would disappear. Satisfy in the future would be completely different from the past Satisfy and it didn't seem fun at all. Their colleagues who wanted to go on an adventure to a more famous place and who were motivated to raise their level would gradually leave Satisfy...

"...Uh?" The people who were depressed while thinking about different relationships and reasons...

They were looking at the screen with sad expressions when they belatedly noticed the music flowing from the broadcast. Was there an orchestra on the battlefield?

The moment they thought that this was nonsensical, the screen moved. It slowly and broadly expanded their horizons along with the majestic music. It lightly passed by the devastated battlefield and illuminated unexpected beings. Contrary to expectations, the allied soldiers were still alive. They were all looking up at the sky. They had jubilant expressions on their faces as they cheered with a momentum great enough to swallow up the music.

"......!"

The viewers gradually noticed. Most of the traces decorating the devastation of the battlefield belonged to the demonic creatures. The camera followed the soldiers' gaze and soared upward to show someone's back. The dim light spread around him was the color of sunset. It was the sun that lit up the black sky distorted by demonic energy.

"Cra...zy..."

It was thrilling and delightful. People realized the reason why heroes existed.

***

'Move slowly.'

The temporarily flustered Grid soon calmed down. He confirmed that Baal's laughter had stopped. He knew that excessive tension could become poison, thus he relaxed his body and mind.

'To what level is he?'

Grid had fought Baal's ego fragment previously, but this wasn't enough to use as a reference. Baal had possessed Agnus at that time, while the current Baal was in Zik's body. It was incomparable. Zik was a concept that was superior to a yangban. He was a real half-god. He was building up worthy achievements and worship to become a god.

'First of all, measure it through speed.'

Grid had lived a busy life over the past few days. He accumulated golden experience through the spar with Biban and witnessing the battle between Zeratul and Hayate. Thanks to this, he grasped his level properly. He could almost certainly reach the speed of sound, but it was difficult starting from supersonic speed.

Even if he maximized his transcendent senses, there were often cases where he was 'unable to respond even if he knew.' While he recognized the attack, he couldn't avoid it. He had to rely entirely on his intuition. If Baal's speed broke through the 'normal' speed of sound like Zeratul, it meant Grid's odds of winning were lower.

too highly. No matter how strong, he thought it would be Biban-grade. Considering that Baal was the direct lineage of the absolute god (Yatan), it could be said that he was on the same

demon. Baal might've been born at the same time as Zeratul, but it was unlikely he was on the same level as Zeratul, who steadily built up his status through human faith. The number one archangel that hadn't been seen yet—they were the antithesis

even his main body and this is

be mixed together, but it was different from pure hell.

odds of winning

a judgment he made in an instant. Meanwhile,

from their past encounter in hell. "You are playing a proper role compared to the days when you stayed as

different. It was Chepardea who caused the war. He had to kill Grid, take everything away from Grid, and lower his status. Baal just

so Baal's tone was completely different from when he was in hell. It was

conversation wasn't long. Baal headed straight to Grid and attacked

to his killing moves and debuffs. The variables

types of debuffs. Grid resisted many of them, but he was still affected by a few. His level of transcendence decreased by several stages, his Skin of Transcendence and

his weaknesses being exposed and the decreased concentration. The sealed titles were those mostly obtained in the early and mid stages. The titles obtained by becoming a god or those that had a direct or indirect influence to becoming a god were still intact. Perhaps it was because it was a malice presumed to belong

was due to Baal's fist that stretched out like a light. Grid took a step back to avoid it, but it touched his chin. He suffered 15,000 damage. It wasn't a

for thousands of years be easily destroyed? It was Grid's judgment that Baal's ego fragment would be destroyed first before the flesh was completely broken. He trusted the conclusion based on solid evidence, Satisfy's characteristics,

'I have Sehee.'

in his armor. Grid was hit by the counterattack. He responded with a three fusion sword dance. However, Grid's sword couldn't reach Baal and it soared upward instead. It was because it lost its trajectory after Grid's wrist was hit by Baal's foot. Grid's move that caused this loss was giving up his chest. His body

Grid in speed because it moved along the

'This jerk.'

Looking back at the action of Baal's fist

he tried to avoid Pinnacle. It was because the chain of shockwaves caused by Blood Flow Wave

shoulder, the soaring blood took the form of a blade. It was a combo completed with Blood

combined with the Enlightenment Sword to maximize the power of the next attack. The ensuing sword dance was Transcended Linked Kill

late was delivered to the ground in a dizzying manner. People were mesmerized by the sight of the shockwaves and colorful skill effects colliding, fragmenting and

They emphasized their expertise by looking back at the situation that occurred a second ago, but hundreds

developed physical body and expressed his willpower to subdue Storm of

in the midst of the movement for Transcended Linked Kill Wave Pinnacle when he coughed up blood. Baal's palm dug into the gap in Grid's armor, opened up Grid's belly, and tore

and hemostatic agents. Then he was wary of Baal, who stood blankly without following up with

'Does he have schizophrenia?'

alternated between using Shunpo and a sword dance, and using Shunpo and the Undefeated King's Swordsmanship, with no time difference in between them, to attack Baal from all directions. It was

was cut, and fought

a warning for the son of a bitch who was

ignored the warning. Grid's body was hit by a magic bullet that suddenly appeared and he flew far away. The impact seemed

vampires, and was vigilant of his surroundings, was in preparation

the God Hands and his subordinates couldn't read the

to us." Braham glanced at Mercedes, Asmophel, and Kyle before disappearing. He