Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 504

'Cronos!'

At the name Cronos, Su-ho’s eyes widened.

If it was Cronos, then among the twelve Titans born between Uranus, god of the sky, and Gaia, goddess of the earth, he was the youngest—and an even more famous fact was that he was the father of that famous god Zeus.

'Why is this man suddenly here?'

And he says he wants to lend me power?

When Su-ho reacted in surprise, Seolmundae Halmang smiled and said,

- Cronos, the youngest looks like he’s too shocked. How about you stop scaring him and come down now?

- All right.

After answering Seolmundae Halmang’s request, Cronos shrank his body.

Then, like Seolmundae Halmang, he reduced until he matched Su-ho’s eye level, and he held a hand out to Su-ho in greeting.

- Nice to meet you. My name is Cronos. I am one of the First Giants from Greece.

“Ah, yes, nice to meet you. I’m An Su-ho.”

As Su-ho quickly took his hand, Cronos narrowed his eyes and began to examine Su-ho closely.

- Hmm.......

- What is it?

- No, it’s just that you’re a bit smaller than I expected.

- Smaller?

At the word smaller, Seolmundae Halmang looked at Su-ho.

Then she burst into laughter.

- Haha! Cronos, if you set every man’s standard to you, there’ll be more people in this world who aren’t small!

- Then of course I should be the standard. When you say a giant man—especially if «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» he’s a First Giant—shouldn’t he at least possess a body worthy of his reputation? But this guy.......

Cronos swept Su-ho with a dissatisfied look.

- He doesn’t have generous muscles like me, and he doesn’t even have a beard. This guy—are you sure he’s a man?

Haha, yes, I am.

Should I pull my pants down for you?

But instead of saying that, Su-ho gave an awkward smile and said,

“Of course I am. I’m not really into beards and hulking muscles. By the way, I heard you really wanted to meet me—is that true?”

- Yes. Even if the others don’t, at least I have very important business with you.

“What business?”

At the word business, Cronos lifted his hand.

Then he pointed straight at Su-ho with his index finger and said,

- You. Go right now and fight those goddamn Olympus bastards.

“Excuse me?”

- You heard me. Don’t tell me you don’t know my myth?

“No, it’s not that I don’t know it. If anything, I know most of it, but.......”

The story of Cronos.

How could he not know?

It was so famous that even if you didn’t study world mythology for Gates, most people who had even a little interest in mythology would know it.

Things like the fact that he was the son born between Uranus and Gaia, and the father of Zeus, and that he was the one who caused that famous Titanomachy.

Knowing that kind of narrative, being told all of a sudden to fight the Olympus bastards could only be bewildering.

When Su-ho trailed off, Cronos frowned.

- You know it, and? So what? Don’t tell me you’re not confident.

“I am confident.”

- You’re confident?

At Su-ho’s answer without hesitation, Cronos lifted the corner of his mouth.

Yeah.

To put it bluntly, he was confident.

But there were conditions attached to that.

'If the Olympian gods are the same grade as me, I’m confident.'

On the way here, Su-ho had indirectly encountered some of the Olympian gods.

He’d also more or less experienced what kind of power they had, and so if he had to fight them as they were now, of course he had no confidence he’d win.

They were Olympian gods, people who radiated overwhelming pressure just by existing, and they held the status of Transcendents.

But would the muscle mass in front of him have told him to fight the Olympian gods without knowing that?

Since he knew that, Su-ho had answered confidently on purpose.

This place was a kind of testing ground he’d been invited to for upgrading his bloodline trait.

'Seolmundae Halmang said it too. That I should gain complete giant power through continuous tests. In that sense, Cronos is highly likely to be an examiner giving me new power.'

There was no reason to look bad in front of an examiner like that.

A good interview was, after all, matching the interviewer’s tastes.

Su-ho said,

“Yes. If they’re under the same conditions as me, then of course I’m confident I can win. However, I don’t know if you’re aware, but I’ve already indirectly encountered some of the Olympian gods, and I know well what kind of position they hold in the system. But I don’t think you’d be unaware of that, and I also don’t think you’d assign me a reckless task. That’s why I answered that I’m confident.”

When Su-ho answered crisply, Cronos made an odd expression. Then he slowly began to smile.

Seolmundae Halmang was the same.

- Wow, our youngest. You’re a lot sharper than I thought?

- Keh-heh-heh, seriously. I thought you’d hesitate because you look so scrawny, but even without muscles, you’ve got a full core.

......I’m pretty muscular, though?

Su-ho asked,

“Then what exactly is this test of fighting the Olympian gods?”

- Keh-heh-heh, it’s a bit less fun when you come in knowing it’s a test. Well, but it’s something you’ll run into sooner or later, so there’s no reason to hide it. Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times—go and experience it yourself.

Still smiling, Cronos snapped his fingers.

A wormhole appeared in front of him, and Cronos immediately lifted Su-ho up with a heave.

“Uh— I’ll just go in myself.”

- It’s fine. This is my special service.

Su-ho was thrown into the wormhole.

Flash!

With the throw, his vision flickered.

By the time his sight came back, what struck Su-ho’s senses first was none other than the sound of battle that felt like it would tear his eardrums apart.

“Kill them!!”

“Don’t let a single one of them live!!”

“Kill them!!”

“Waaaaaah!!”

Boooom!!

Kwaaaang!!

Kurrurururung!!

Shouts and screams.

And between them, intermittent crashes that filled the gaps.

When his vision fully returned, what Su-ho saw was none other than the scene of a blood-splattered battlefield.

'Where is this...... no way?'

The moment questions surged about where this was, Su-ho remembered what Cronos had said.

- Go and fight those Olympus bastards.

Then this was a place where a fight against the Olympian gods was happening, and the one leading it was Cronos, so there was only one most likely possibility.

'Titanomachy?'

The great war where the gods under Zeus, based on Mount Olympus, and the Titan gods under Cronos, based on Mount Othrys, fought over supremacy of the world.

Before Gigantomachy, there was Titanomachy.

The result was Cronos’s side losing.

And sure enough, this was Mount Othrys, where Titanomachy was raging at its height.

That was when it happened.

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