Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 394

[ You have slain Yamata no Orochi. ]

[ Your level has increased. ]

[ All stats have increased by 1. ]

[ You have obtained 1 bonus stat. ]

He leveled up.

Even with a 10-level gap, it must have given decent experience.

It didn’t leave anything behind.

If anything, it left the whole area dyed red with its blood.

Thanks to that, even the island that had been strikingly white had turned crimson.

Su-ho was still astride the Iron Horse.

He now knew well that that island wasn’t a foothold but a kind of trap.

“Is that it?”

That would be too underwhelming.

Right then—

Kugugugu!

The sky darkened and began to groan as if ready to unleash wind and rain any second.

Whhhoooosh!

A raging gale.

And at the same time, the alert he wanted to see rose up.

[ A boss monster is appearing. ]

KWA-AAAANG!! SHWAAAAA!!

With the notice of the boss’s appearance, a colossal bolt of lightning filled the entire sky, and at the same time, a mad storm began to pour.

Krrng! Krrrng! Flash!

Lightning struck again.

It crashed down upon the sea, and the recoil of its physical force sent a massive column of water surging upward.

Yet the waterspout, which should have fallen under gravity, did not drop. Instead it stood upright like a footstool, holding its shape.

Chuaaa!

On the wave, the water dented inward, forming the shape of a person.

Sitting stone-still on the Iron Horse, Su-ho fixed his gaze on it.

And at last, he saw.

A being formed with sea foam.

It was none other than the master of this place—the Low and Furious Sea—“Sea God Susanoo no Mikoto.”

- Sea God Susanoo no Mikoto Lv.???

Susanoo, for short.

This was his first time seeing him in person.

He wore a neat, traditional Japanese garb of mingled blue and black. The hair Su-ho had expected to be wild was, unexpectedly, long and slicked back neatly.

Susanoo’s eyes were closed, but he slowly opened them.

And those eyes were filled, ghostlike, with violet light.

Susanoo raised his head and looked at Su-ho.

Then his voice rang through Su-ho’s mind.

- An interesting one has come.

The voice echoed in his head like receiving Sound Transmission.

With a crooked grin, Su-ho replied the same way.

- What’s so interesting?

A Sound Transmission of no less than S-rank.

Perhaps for that reason—

Receiving a reply in a similar manner, Susanoo let out a short laugh.

- Ha! You’re no ordinary one. However human you seem, to deliver will to me like this.

- That’s what skills are for. So—if I drop you, is that the end?

- Hahaha! What an adorably impudent creature. Indeed, if you’re human, you ought to have reckless courage—even if you don’t know it’s mere bravado.

Good grief... first time we’ve met and you’re already that arrogant?

Su-ho answered at once.

- I’ll take that as a yes.

Finishing his reply, Su-ho immediately summoned the Guiyeong Spear and hurled it at him.

[ Throwing Spear activated. ]

Shyaaaaa!

The Guiyeong Spear shot forth.

Seeing that, Susanoo twisted his lips and thrust out a hand.

The surrounding waters twined like vines, shaping into several spears that rushed the Guiyeong Spear.

“Guiyeong!”

Flash!

At Su-ho’s shout, the flying Guiyeong Spear shifted into Guiyeong, slipped past all of Susanoo’s razor waves, and succeeded in lunging at him.

Crunch!

Brave Guiyeong sank its teeth into the arrogant sea god’s shoulder.

At once, the Guiyeong Spear’s signature effects triggered.

[ Shadow Pierce activated. ]

[ Shadow Shackles activated. ]

[ Shadow Bleed activated. ]

A clean bite.

Yet Susanoo didn’t show pain; he merely raised his index finger with contemptuous ease and flicked to the side. An unseen hand seemed to seize Guiyeong and fling it far away.

Like skipping a stone, Guiyeong skittered over the surface.

Before it tumbled any further, Su-ho activated Guiyeong—the recall option of the Guiyeong Spear—and brought it back into his arms.

“Good work.”

At his praise, Guiyeong burrowed into Su-ho’s chest, then perched on his shoulder.

In the meantime, Susanoo dispelled the Shadow Shackles and Bleed effects.

“Monster or not, a god is still a god.”

Strictly speaking, he’d be classified as “divine race.”

A very troublesome opponent.

Judging from what he’d seen, his main force was a kind of telekinesis. The Second Cataclysm had only just begun, and already he had to face something at this level.

“But it can’t be helped.”

He wasn’t going to dodge just because it was hard.

Retreating was even less of an option.

Su-ho immediately began slashing at him.

[ Heat-Transmuting Blade activated. ]

He swung, like a flurry of cuts, and Su-ho’s sword waves wrapped themselves in a blanket of flame attribute, raining down madly toward Susanoo.

As the barrage fell, Susanoo put his index and middle fingers together and drew a line from top to bottom.

A massive wall of waves surged up and blocked the flaming rain.

Puh-puh-puh-POOM!

Deafening blasts.

Pinned behind that overwhelming wall, the Heat-Transmuting Blade volley ended with underwhelming damage.

Susanoo smirked.

- If that’s all you’ve got, I’m sorely disappointed.

He snapped his fingers.

[ Sea God Susanoo no Mikoto uses Song of the Angry Sea. ]

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