Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 405

Slaaaash!

A sensation spreading through his whole hand.

He had definitely cut.

As proof, Amaterasu also let out a wail.

- HwaaAAAAAAAA!!

Wailing like a Specter, her uniquely high voice itself became Fear and blasted at Su-ho.

[ The Sun God Amaterasu Omikami uses boss-monster-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood activates. ]

[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

The scream bursting right in front of him made his eardrums tingle even without the Fear effect applying.

'Good thing I had the Endurance skill.'

Otherwise ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) he’d be making trips to ENT.

Amaterasu, her whole body slashed, at the same time as using Fear spewed flames from all over her body like Susanoo’s Sea God Slash.

[ The Sun God Amaterasu Omikami uses Sun Slash. ]

Fwooooosh!

It was of a different stripe than the intermittently spewed flames that had filled all of Amanoiwato.

Vomited as fiercely as a dragon’s breath, it had enough firepower that, without tuned Fire Resistance, it would surely have turned Su-ho to ash in an instant.

And apart from the fire damage, the wind pressure exhaled by Sun Slash was too powerful.

Bang!

Shoved by the wind pressure of Sun Slash, Su-ho was blown far back and slammed into the wall.

It hurt.

He’d finally closed the distance with a Guiyeong Spear, only to be pushed away like this.

'Her raw offense seems several times above Susanoo’s.'

So this is what it means to be the Sun God?

Still, thanks to raising both arms to cover his face, the flame damage to sensitive areas was lessened.

In addition, with a sizzling—pshii—sound from his body, smoke puffed out, but it was bearable.

Su-ho’s Fire Resistance was a whopping 96%.

[ Heal activates. ]

[ Recovery activates. ]

Su-ho immediately used healing skills as he looked at Amaterasu.

But Amaterasu’s condition was a little strange.

'Black flames?'

[Cutting the Ring] was the upgraded skill that cut transcendent laws that ordinary slashes couldn’t—optimal for facing a divine-race monster, a transcendent being.

As proof, when he cut Susanoo or Tsukuyomi, instead of entrails or blood, only halos of light spurted out.

But when he cut Amaterasu with [Cutting the Ring], not light but black flames burst forth, and Su-ho could tell at once what that was.

'So that’s the so-called contaminated flames or whatever.'

Amaterasu was the Sun Goddess.

To contaminate such a being at the root, it wasn’t things like deadly poison or a zombie virus—it was to corrupt the sacred flames she possessed.

So Susanoo contaminated her clear mind and blackened her little sun itself.

'Susanoo told me to destroy her Sun Rune.'

The Sun Rune Susanoo spoke of could be called, simply put, Amaterasu’s core and heart.

Of course, not her real heart.

The Amaterasu before his eyes reigned as a boss monster of the divine race, but was ultimately nothing more than a true avatar.

But you couldn’t call an avatar entirely fake either.

Even an avatar had to possess a portion of the Original’s power to be classified as a divine-race monster.

In Amaterasu’s case, that was the Sun Rune.

'He said if I destroy it, I can end it in one blow without a second phase.'

When he first heard this strategy from Susanoo, his brow had furrowed.

Because it didn’t really land.

'“Destroy the Sun Rune” sounds plausible, but frankly, if I just beat her to death she’ll die anyway, won’t she?'

Then—

Whooomph!

The black flames that had come out of Amaterasu’s body soon clung to each other and slowly began to suture.

Self-healing.

No system alert popped up.

In other words, this regeneration before his eyes wasn’t some skill but a natural phenomenon like breathing.

Seeing that, Su-ho let out a dumbfounded laugh.

'So it was true.'

Susanoo had said that if he could have killed her, he would have killed Amaterasu like the other gods.

But since she was a highest-ranking god and the Sun Goddess, it was hard to kill her completely with his own power, and so he contaminated her flames.

From olden times, the orthodox way of disposing of immortal beings was to leave them neither dead nor alive.

Maybe that’s why—Su-ho felt this fight wouldn’t be easy to finish.

'If she’s already regenerating even after I slammed in the finisher combo, how relentlessly am I supposed to keep attacking?'

And that wasn’t all.

Along with the Amaterasu strategy he’d heard from Susanoo, there was one more thing Su-ho had to be careful about.

It was the method of obtaining the “Small Sea” he’d heard from Tsukuyomi.

The moment he started to say a few words, Tsukuyomi had received punishment from the system, but even so, he clearly told him how to get his hands on the Small Sea.

Which made it all the more troublesome.

The method of obtaining the Small Sea he’d heard from Tsukuyomi and the strategy for Amaterasu he’d heard from Susanoo were closely related, and at the same time demanded actions of considerable difficulty.

'Still, what can I do. I just have to pull it off somehow.'

Through Tsukuyomi, he’d learned just how attractive a being the Small Moon was.

In the midst of that, if he got his hands on the Small Sea too, how much stronger could he become?

He absolutely couldn’t give it up.

- HwaaAAAAAAAA!!

[ The Sun God Amaterasu Omikami summons Scorching Zone. ]

In that moment, intense heat surged outward centered on her, and all of Amanoiwato was wrapped in flame.

“Crazy.”

The interior of Amanoiwato wasn’t exactly narrow, but neither was it as spacious as the outside.

Yet that entire place was engulfed in Amaterasu’s flames.

Naturally, Su-ho’s gaze shifted toward the passage he’d come in through.

But with all of Amanoiwato covered in flames, he couldn’t tell where the passage was.

'Damn.'

Scorching Zone was literally a world of flames—inducing the illusion that you’d entered a fiery hell... no, into the sun itself.

'If I hadn’t tuned Fire Resistance, I’d really be in deep trouble.'

Thankfully, it was a relief.

But maybe because it wasn’t 100% resistance—

“Kh.”

Damage kept accruing steadily. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

'Even with only 4% short on resistance, it’s this much...!'

Still, it wasn’t to the point of being completely unbearable.

It was just that the breathing made difficult by the blazing flames and the eyes so parched they felt like they’d burn up were annoying.

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