Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 544

Red Gaia.

Taken literally, it meant Red Gaia.

Since Gaia was the goddess of the earth, it likely referred to earth turned red by lava.

As the final weapon of the Gigantomachy, Typhon was a monster Gaia had devoted exceptional effort to creating.

As proof of that, Gaia had given birth to Typhon by joining her own body with Tartaros, the deepest dark abyss of the underworld.

That said, if one were to ask whether Typhon was a living being, the answer would likely be no.

Tartaros had originally been a prison-like place where the Titans were confined, but after Gaia deified the deepest abyss of the underground itself—

the being Gaia created by joining herself with it was Typhon.

That was why Typhon was closer to a god than a living creature.

No, it was a god.

A very powerful one at that.

Because Gaia was part of its existence.

'According to the myth, it was said to be a monster capable of threatening the entire universe.'

Black Hercules of his previous life had said that, in the end, he failed to win in the Gigantomachy and failed the Hero’s Destiny quest.

He had not said why.

But now that he had actually joined the Gigantomachy, Su-ho felt like he understood why he had been defeated.

It was probably because of that gigantic lump of a monster, Typhon.

'If I had come here not as my current self, but only with qualifications on the level of Hercules’s incarnation, then I probably wouldn’t have been able to defeat Typhon either, no differently from Black Hercules.'

Typhon’s power was that overwhelming.

It was releasing an aura so intense that just standing together with it made the skin all over his body prickle.

Much less the lava it had spewed out.

Chiiiiik!!

When the lava splashed onto Su-ho’s body, a fierce heat rushed over him.

The moment he felt the stinging pain, Su-ho asked Jack through thought-transmission,

- This hurts like hell. Are you guys going to be okay?

- Honestly, I don’t think we will. The damage is bigger than I expected.

- Right? Then stay back. Don’t go wasting shadows for no reason.

- Understood.

At Su-ho’s judgment, Jack immediately reverse-summoned the Black Army.

There was no need to bring out his other summons either.

Now that he had grown in size, he could not ride Cheolma, and in a situation where even the gods were barely fighting, calling out the Vampire Quartet would not be much help.

Jack asked worriedly,

- Are you okay?

- Me? Who are you worrying about? Like I’ve never had an experience like this in my life?

Surprisingly, it was not bluster. It was true.

That experience was when he had met the Blast Furnace Dragon.

Back then, the key that had brought Su-ho victory against the insanely hot Blast Furnace Dragon had been the combination of his Incarnation Body and the Blast Furnace Dragon’s Iron Scale Fragments.

'The Blast Furnace Dragon’s Iron Scale Fragments come with a fire resistance option. I’ve got two with 23% each, and the S-rank Incarnation Body gives an additional 50% fire resistance. That puts my fire resistance at a whopping 96%!'

Back then too, he had not wasted time just to fill in the remaining 4%.

And this time was no different.

Su-ho quickly equipped the Iron Scale Fragments and set his stance again.

Around then, the lava that had surged up like a live volcano filled the land of Phlegrae and turned the entire area into a lava hell.

It was a spectacular sight.

This place, whose very name already meant Burning Land, had truly become burning land because of Typhon’s lava.

When Su-ho held up rather well and remained standing, Typhon moved its monstrous facial muscles and crooked up the corners of its mouth.

- Not bad for someone of human origin. To think you can dare to stand atop my Red Gaia.

“What do you mean dare? In the end, you’re just another bastard playing beneath a scrap of system. Enough talk. Since we’re all people who know what’s what, let’s wrap this up quickly.”

- ......?

Typhon made a face as though asking what the hell that was supposed to mean.

It was the face of something that really did not know.

Ah, so you don’t know?

Well, whatever. It was a fact only I needed to know.

Su-ho immediately took a boxing stance.

And as he approached the bastard first, he activated his skills.

[ Weaken is activated. ]

[ Seal of Pain is activated. ]

[ Enrage is activated. ]

[ Blessing of Rage is activated. ]

[ Curse of Rage is activated. ]

Kwaaaaaang!!

At Su-ho’s punch, Typhon instantly tried to grab him.

But with fluid movement, Su-ho avoided Typhon’s grasp and succeeded in planting a clean direct hit into the bastard’s jaw.

Yet despite having clearly taken a blow to the jaw, Typhon still kept Su-ho’s fist pressed against it and grinned.

- Krrk, what a pathetic soft punch. Looks like your trick is nothing more than having a tough outer hide.

Is that so?

Then try enduring this too.

[ Enhancement is activated. ]

[ Point is activated. ]

Two skills.

And this time, instead of a fist, Su-ho opened his hand into a knife-hand and launched a sharp thrusting offense.

[ Hundred Strikes is activated. ]

[ Enhancement is applied. ]

[ The power of Hundred Strikes grows even stronger. ]

An additional skill activated.

It was Hundred Strikes.

The moment he set his hand like a spear and took a thrusting stance, Hundred Strikes, which responded to thrusts, activated just as expected.

Arrogant Typhon did not even dodge.

Trying to show his superiority again, it merely attempted to grab Su-ho with sluggish, almost laughable movements.

But Su-ho, who held the technical advantage, once again avoided Typhon’s grasp and sharply drove Hundred Strikes into Typhon’s chest.

Gwa-dududuk!!

A thoroughly chilling sound.

That sound rang across the entire land of Phlegrae.

Seeing it, the Gigantes frowned, while the Olympian gods unconsciously clenched their fists tight.

Su-ho was certain too.

This attack had landed properly.

But—

- You’re putting on a little show. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Amazingly, Typhon looked at Su-ho as though it could not care less about the knife-hand embedded in its chest.

Looking at Typhon, Su-ho let out a hollow laugh as well.

“Wow, this one’s kind of scary.”

- Then this will be even scarier.

Typhon grabbed Su-ho’s wrist.

Then the countless snake heads embedded in its body lunged at Su-ho’s forearm and began biting at it like mad.

[ Heat Storm is activated. ]

Fwahwahwahwahwa!!

The moment the snake heads lunged at him, Su-ho immediately pulled his hand out of Typhon’s chest and activated Heat Storm.

For a second, he had wondered what he would do if the bastard’s chest refused to let go of his hand, but fortunately nothing like that happened.

Su-ho shook off the remaining snake heads with Heat Storm the way one blows dust away with a hair dryer.

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