Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 548

“......!”

The moment Earthquake Tsunami activated, Poseidon’s eyes widened wider than they had at anything he had seen yet.

What are you so shocked for?

I copied it from you.

But Poseidon, having no way of knowing that, could only be flustered.

A gigantic tidal wave like a tsunami crashed into the inside of the castle and swallowed up everyone, Poseidon included.

However, Earthquake Tsunami never reached them.

Because before it could touch them, it split in half and vanished as if shoved aside to either side.

Poseidon revealed himself between the parted halves of Earthquake Tsunami and asked with a furrowed brow,

“How are you able to use this technique?”

“Seriously, what’s so great about it that you’re calling it a technique? You just do it with a little know-how. I mean, all it does is make a big wave, doesn’t it?”

“What?”

What could be more infuriating than having your pride dismissed?

He had needled him on purpose.

Sometimes this kind of provocation worked better than half-baked mental attacks.

The prediction hit the mark, and Poseidon, angrier than ever, started swinging his trident.

“Then go ahead and try copying this too!!”

With a booming shout, Poseidon swung his trident, and countless waterspouts began rising throughout the flooded castle ruins.

He was a clever bastard.

At a glance, it looked like he was so enraged he was about to lash out wildly, but instead he summoned multiple waterspouts, rescued the fallen Olympian gods from earlier, and attacked the Shadow Knights.

Naturally, the Shadow Knights had already been unsummoned long ago.

Each and every one of them was a precious shadow, so there was no way he was going to let them die like dogs in a place like this.

Su-ho asked,

“So you were acting like you’d jump me any second, and in the end all you’re doing is saving your friends?”

Instead of answering, Poseidon swung his trident once more.

Then the summoned waterspouts split into four directions, and water immediately began rising with those four spread-out points as the centers.

[ Poseidon uses Sovereignty of the Deep Sea. ]

Sovereignty of the Deep Sea was an area skill that turned the entire designated range into the deep sea.

Yeah.

I would’ve been disappointed if you’d just used something like Earthquake Tsunami again.

That’d be no different from the Titanomachy, would it?

Before long, the entire designated area filled with seawater and then began changing into the deep sea.

Su-ho lifted Guiyeong Spear and hurled it high into the sky.

Thung!!

The flying Guiyeong Spear struck an invisible wall and bounced back.

Just as I thought.

If he left the sky open as an escape route, then it wouldn’t be a skill befitting a chief god.

So the method of escaping into the sky had been blocked off.

The water filled up in no time.

Su-ho immediately started diving.

Bbogeuruk!

Bubbles burst from his mouth.

Poseidon was underwater too.

But he behaved as though he were not underwater at all, and soon, wearing a triumphant expression, sent over a thought-message.

- So, what do you plan to do now?

- What do you mean, what am I going to do?

Su-ho likewise raised a hand.

Then he slashed it downward.

Kurung!

[ Lightning Bolt is activated. ]

Pajajajajajajajajat!!

A lightning bolt fell from the sky.

At the sight of it, Poseidon’s and Zeus’s eyes widened.

Because it was unmistakably Zeus’s lightning bolt.

But they were only shocked for a moment. Soon Poseidon’s eyes curved again.

Because Su-ho’s lightning bolt failed to pierce the ceiling of Poseidon’s area skill.

- You’ve got all kinds of tricks. But what does it matter, when in the end you can’t even match the tip of the real thing’s toe.

Yeah.

I deliberately forced down my True Demon and used it, and it still doesn’t work.

There was a reason for it.

Not because they were stronger than me, but because they had grown more than they had during the Titanomachy.

Time-wise, that was only natural.

In other words, I copied the techniques they had back then, so now that time has passed, their techniques have reached a level beyond what I possess, which means my copied versions don’t work on them.

Pajit!

The lightning bolt soon stopped, and when Su-ho floated up in the water, Poseidon grinned.

- Nephew, is that all the power you have? If that’s all, then you will never be able to defeat me.

He spread both hands wide and put on an even more arrogant expression.

- Especially when you’re inside my sea. Why, if nothing else, why don’t you try bringing out those precious shadow soldiers of yours?

Wow.

That smug look really makes me want to beat the shit out of you.

Someone once said this.

If you want to fix bad manners, you drag them out on a rainy day and beat them properly with a laundry bat.

Forget the rain, we’re underwater already, so all I need is the laundry bat.

The corner of Su-ho’s mouth twisted.

- Come on, how can you use an ox-cleaving blade to kill a chicken? 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

- What?

- My shadow soldiers are a little too valuable for that. But don’t worry. I just thought of a better way than that thing from earlier.

With that, Su-ho raised a hand and activated a skill.

[ Black-Tar Abyss is activated. ]

The skill Su-ho activated was none other than Black-Tar Abyss.

Black-Tar Abyss was Paracondia’s ultimate move, the signature technique it had unlocked upon entering Phase 2.

The moment Black-Tar Abyss activated, black energy began pouring out in all directions with Su-ho at the center.

It quickly seized control of Poseidon’s Sovereignty of the Deep Sea.

It even swallowed up the surging waterspouts, so from outside it resembled an enormous black square imprisoning a sealed gate.

Poseidon and Su-ho were inside it.

Su-ho smiled and sent a thought-message.

- Well?

- What kind of remnant is this...!

At that moment.

Bburuk!

Bubbles burst from Poseidon’s mouth.

Poseidon, god of the sea, was not only the master of the sea but the master of all water.

So underwater, he could breathe like a fish and was unaffected by water pressure.

In truth, even if that hadn’t been the case, he was a god, so it wouldn’t have affected him.

But the moment he put strength into sending a thought-message, his breathing abruptly choked off, and at the same time it felt as if his whole body were being crushed.

Poseidon, god of the sea, had fallen into water and become unable to breathe.

‘What the hell is this!’

Poseidon’s eyes widened.

He couldn’t understand the situation he was in.

And what was with the fact that he couldn’t even see in front of him?

But none of this was some illusion. It was real.

Because what was occupying the inside of the square he had made was not his Sovereignty of the Deep Sea, but Black Water, the highest-pressure form among Pressurized Water.

Su-ho smiled.

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