Overgeared

Chapter 2046

‘Is that possible?’

Raphael abandoned his prejudices. He evaluated Grid without taking into account that Grid had a human origin. He obediently acknowledged the being known as the Only One God and pledged to regard him in the same way as Rebecca.

...If he hadn’t admitted this and continued to remain prideful, he would’ve been killed right away.

Nevertheless—

‘Grid might’ve surpassed the Goddess, but that’s impossible.’

Raphael couldn’t admit that Grid had transcended the Goddess.

The Goddess was the creator of this world. She was the one and only supreme being. It was fundamentally impossible for a being greater than her to be born. This was the providence of the world. How could the creator be inferior to others?

But the Refractive Dragon existed, a transparent being who was covered in mirror-like scales. It was as if the universe had created him to kill the Goddess. All of his features countered her. However, he couldn’t hurt the Goddess. All he could do was chase her.

More than anything else...

‘Even Chiyou spent over nine hours crossing this path.’

Yes, the great Martial God Chiyou was also below the Goddess. At least in terms of the total amount of magic power and divinity, the Goddess was overwhelmingly superior to Chiyou.

A long time ago, Raphael witnessed Chiyou cross this path with his own eyes. This meant that Chiyou was one of the five people who were aware of the existence of this path. This was just useless information because Asgard rejected Chiyou.

Grid just took his fourth step. The impact was huge. The path of light was unable to bear the weight of Grid’s footsteps and roared vociferously.

“No, why...?”

It was an incomprehensible phenomenon. Raphael became even more confused. Nothing made sense anymore. He witnessed the scene in front of him with his own eyes but he still wasn’t convinced.

Rumble...!!

The more Grid moved forward, the stronger the turbulence of the path became. The shaking came from the resistance that occurred every time the minerals growing along the path suppressed Grid’s magic power and divinity. The light that formed the path refracted again and again, swallowing and then spitting out Grid’s appearance.

‘Shit.’

Grid was sweating heavily. He had to squeeze every muscle in his body in order to barely take a step. He also had to bend slightly forward to lower his feet. It was hundreds of times harder than walking in water.

Grid remembered the days when he used to walk around construction sites with no physical strength. Right now, he was dizzier than when he used to spend time climbing with bricks on his back. He quickly became exhausted, both physically and mentally, even though he wasn’t performing any hard labor. He almost wanted to hit Raphael, who was talking behind him.

‘This guy is crazy.’

Grid’s jaw twitched as he gritted his teeth and squeezed out all his strength. All his teeth would’ve shattered if he had an actual human body. However, Grid’s body was resilient. He endured the pressure and kept moving.

Grid’s tenacity allowed him to make the tenth step. Just then, light surged forward like a tidal wave. Beyond the wave, tens of thousands of ores of various sizes and shapes were embedded in the bare ground of the path like landscape stones. All of them were convulsing as if they were going to jump out.

Raphael was looking at the situation contemplatively.

“W-Wait...!”

since the beginning of time by absorbing and scattering Rebecca’s light. It had been developed for a long time and gained an ability at some point—the ability to absorb and disturb magic power and divinity. This place could be used as

In other words—

“Please, stop!”

with the functions of Stardust. He immediately understood how

“Um...?”

soon as he heard Raphael’s warning, but it was already too late. The

for a long time by the Goddess’ light, but it couldn’t

“This...! This is ridiculous...!!”

Raphael was very frightened.

“As expected, this happened.”

was as if she had foreseen this situation

led to the destruction of everything. No one had gained this power before Grid. Could a mere mineral bear the power that

In the end...

“Oh my god.”

had escaped death because he hadn’t been subjected to the power of the Annihilation energy, so he was innocent

couldn’t help raising his voice. It sounded almost like he was sobbing. “Why... Why

from his eyes and his neck veins bulged. The Goddess’ only resting place was on the verge

you taking revenge for the wrongs I’ve committed in this

gave out. He flopped to the ground

to explain. “No,

Stardust, tinged with purple,

Subsequently—

Baang! Baaaaaaang!

couldn’t handle the

“A-Ahhh....”

red in front of his eyes. The Annihilation energy released by the cracked minerals dyed all of the surrounding light with

pressure on him was gone. He had no choice

Bam! Bam! Bam!

at Raphael, who was sobbing while hitting

is for the better. At least this way, we can get to our destination quickly.

“......”

for words. The reason they used this back road was to avoid Asura’s gaze. They needed the help of Stardust to suppress their magic power and divinity, so they could hide their presence. According to the original plan, they would be able to launch a complete surprise attack on Asura without giving him time to

back road was the foundation for this plan, but it collapsed. There was no way to

“Wow...

born. He was used to this. Both Grid and Noe had always been like this. Thus, Noe

how things are. What do

“Wahhhhh!”

had reacted half a second later, Grid would have caught him

is

that I have

“......”

dare to resent Grid and Noe, who were chatting happily despite committing a crime of treason against the

to

“I’m sorry,” Grid said.

"......?"

Raphael looked up at Grid, who offered an apology, an act of acknowledging one’s faults and asking for forgiveness. Usually, only the weak who wanted to survive did something like this. Raphael had been observing the