Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant-Chapter 381

Sutoku Tenno trembled all over.

A success.

Dokryong’s poison is like a single drop of water in a desert to Sutoku Tenno—but gather enough dew and it’s still enough to wet a man’s throat.

And a deadly poison is famously said to kill an elephant with an amount no larger than a fingernail.

So it was only natural that Sutoku Tenno, who bore the Giant attribute, toppled.

After all, Su-ho’s Dokryong now carried a venom more potent than even the Witch’s poison.

Of course, he wasn’t dead yet.

With a body that massive, he’d simply hold out longer.

Su-ho looked down at the body of Japan’s Great Demon King, collapsed on the ground and shivering.

“Let’s end this.”

Riding Cheolma, Su-ho headed for the bastard’s heart.

Then he reversed his grip on his sword and drove it in hard toward the heart.

[ Blood Armory is activated. ]

The instant he thrust, Blood Armory triggered, and the driven blade stretched and stretched.

It became a new spear that pierced Sutoku Tenno’s heart, and then the blade swelled once more from within, ravaging Sutoku Tenno’s heart on a grand scale to make sure it was finished.

And then, at last, the trembling movement of Sutoku Tenno ceased.

[ You have slain the Great Tengu Sutoku Tenno. ]

[ Level up. ]

[ All stats +1. ]

[ You have gained 1 bonus stat. ]

[ The Gate has been cleared. ]

[ MVP of the Gate clear: “An Su-ho.” ]

[ Additional EXP awarded for MVP. ]

[ 1 bonus stat awarded for MVP. ]

[ Level up. ]

[ All stats +1. ]

[ You have gained 1 bonus stat. ]

System alerts poured down.

At last, the Gate had been cleared.

But Su-ho paid little attention to the clear itself.

It was the obvious outcome.

Instead, he waited for other system alerts—and before long, the ones he’d been waiting for began to surface.

[ You have successfully slain a boss monster with the Giant attribute. ]

[ All conditions met to unlock the second authority of the Giant Bloodline. ]

[ ① Reach Level 200. ]

[ ② Slay a boss monster with the Giant attribute once. ]

[ The second authority of the Giant Bloodline is unlocked. ]

[ Colossal Lineage (S) has been opened. ]

[ You have learned Giantification (S) from the Colossal Lineage. ]

At last, he had completed all quests related to the Giant Bloodline.

Perhaps because of that—

[ All quest conditions have been met. ]

[ You have completed a Trait Quest. ]

[ New Blood grows even stronger. ]

[ A new bloodline has been added to New Blood. ]

[ Fairy Blood (F-) has been created. ]

[ Congratulations! You are the first to obtain the bloodline of the fairies. ]

[ For achieving a great feat, the system grants you 10 bonus stats. ]

[ As a reward for completing the Trait Quest, 10 bonus stats are granted. ]

Just like with the Giant Bloodline, Su-ho also received alerts that he had completed the Trait Quest in full.

Seeing the system alerts, Su-ho let out a laugh like expelling a stale breath.

‘Finally done.’

How long had it been since he received the Trait Quest, and only now it was complete.

Su-ho reviewed the alerts.

Unlike the previous Trait Quest, this time he received 10 bonus stats as the completion reward.

Thanks to that, he’d netted a total of 20 bonus stats.

But more than the 20 bonus stats, what seized Su-ho’s eye was the new bloodline.

He narrowed his eyes at the alert.

‘Fairy bloodline—Fairy Blood, huh...’

A hollow laugh slipped out.

Truth be told, he’d been curious—whether this time as well the reward would be a new bloodline.

And not only had the reward again truly been a new bloodline—but he had never imagined that bloodline would be the lineage of fairies.

Which made sense, since among these, the only thing he had intended was Vampire Blood.

‘Dragon Blood, Giant Bloodline, and now Fairy Blood... New Blood is really living up to its name.’

What a mutt of bloodlines.

Su-ho checked the information in order.

First, the Giant Bloodline.

[ Giant Bloodline ]

# A pure bloodline said to be passed down only to the primordial giants.

# Lv.1 – Giant’s Strength: Georyeok (S)

# Lv.2 – Colossal Lineage: Giantification (S)

# Lv.3 – [ ??? ]: Locked.

└ Unlock Conditions

① Reach Level 300.

② Unknown.

# Lv.4......

At the end of the details, his gaze lingered on the third-level authority.

As expected, like the others, the first unlock condition for the third authority was reaching Level 300.

But he wasn’t particularly worried. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Even now he was already on the cusp of Level 250.

Su-ho then checked the highlight entries—Colossal Lineage and Giantification.

[ Colossal Lineage ]

# The colossal lineage handed down only among pure giants.

# One who inherits the Colossal Lineage gains limitless potential to enlarge their body beyond any other being.

[ Giantification ]

# Even if not of the giant race, one who bears the Colossal Lineage can consume their own power to become a giant for a short time.

# When Giantification triggers, the maximum size is determined by the Player’s stats; the smaller the chosen size, the longer the Giantification duration.

# When the Giantification duration ends, as recoil your body shrinks for a time equal to the duration.

‘I finally have it.’

The skill Giantification.

Literally, the power to make the Player a «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» giant.

There was a post-use drawback that the body would shrink, but such things could be offset by other means, so he didn’t consider it a major issue.

What mattered was that with Giantification alone, he would be able to handle giant-type monsters far more easily in the future.

‘Maybe not on Sutoku Tenno’s level from the start—but at least I won’t have to grind around on Cheolma hammering in stakes everywhere anymore.’

That alone was something.

Satisfied, Su-ho finished checking the info and then moved on to examine Fairy Blood.

[ Fairy Blood ]

# The bloodline of the race called fairies.

# Sealed.

# To lift the seal, you need the Bloodstone of the Fairy Queen.

As expected, an F- rank was sealed.

That had been the case with the Giant Bloodline too, so that was fine—but the issue lay in the unlock condition.

‘If it’s the Fairy Queen’s Bloodstone...’

There are more fairies than one might think.

Like elves being divided into dark elves, wood elves, and so many other kinds.

Even so, under the current circumstances, it was a very finicky requirement.

Because the fairy races were only revealed to the world in the mid-stage of the Great Upheaval.

‘Much less a Queen—that’s a leader-class among the fairies...’

Nothing to be done.

This one he’d simply have to unlock over time.

Being finicky didn’t mean he’d turn it down.

Around then—

Fwooooosh!

Sutoku Tenno’s corpse began to shine.

Though he had been dead for quite a while, only now was the Giant attribute beginning to release.

As the Giant attribute withdrew, the flesh of his body evaporated away.

Sutoku Tenno had been a vengeful spirit to begin with, so there would be no corpse left.

Naturally, there was no shadow either.

A bit of a shame.

‘A shadow on Sutoku Tenno’s level would’ve made great feed for Guiyeong.’

But what can’t be done can’t be done.

Instead, he waited for the loot that would remain in its place—and as soon as the massive body had fully evaporated away, Su-ho finally obtained the bastard’s loot.

What remained where Sutoku Tenno vanished was none other than a mirror.

With a pleased look, Su-ho picked it up.

A bronze mirror... also called “Paljigyeong” or “Yata’s Mirror,” this was Yata no Kagami, the last of Japan’s Three Sacred Treasures.

‘At last—I’ve got Yata no Kagami.’

With this, he had secured all three of Japan’s Sacred Treasures.

Su-ho checked the details of the last treasure, Yata no Kagami.

[ Yata no Kagami ]

# A sacred mirror forged of bronze.

# A treasure obtainable only by slaying a wicked great yokai.

# In Japan, it is one of the Three Sacred Treasures; when all three gather and become one, the path to Takamagahara opens.

Seeing the info, Su-ho nodded.

Takamagahara is, in Japan, the so-called heavenly realm where the gods dwell.

In other words, Yata no Kagami is a key to the divine realm.

At that moment, an exit portal surfaced before Su-ho’s eyes, but he paid it no mind.

From the outset, one of his reasons for coming here was to gather the Three Sacred Treasures and head to Takamagahara.

Accordingly, Su-ho pulled from his inventory the remaining treasures—Kusanagi no Tsurugi and Yasakani no Magatama.

All three sacred treasures, one in each hand.

No change.

Naturally.

The path to Takamagahara opens not when the Three Sacred Treasures are merely gathered, but when they “become one.”

For the first time in a while, Su-ho activated a Combination formula.

If it were up to him, he’d have liked to use the Synthesis skill, but he couldn’t.

He had temporarily erased Intermediate Synthesis to copy other skills into the Great Blood Orb.

[ Low-Grade Combination is activated. ]

With the Combination, the characteristic jar appeared.

Su-ho placed the Three Sacred Treasures into the jar.

[ You have placed Yata no Kagami into the Combination Jar. ]

[ You have placed Kusanagi no Tsurugi into the Combination Jar. ]

[ You have placed Yasakani no Magatama into the Combination Jar. ]

[ Beginning combination. ]

[ Combining...... ]

[ Huh? The jar’s condition?! ]

[ Congratulations! An extremely rare treasure has been born from a Low-Grade Combination! ]

[ You have obtained Stone Fragment of Takamagahara (S). ]

[ For achieving a great feat, the system grants you 10 bonus stats. ]

The combination result: success.

Of course it succeeded.

The correct answer was spelled out plainly in the item description to begin with—this would have worked even with the lowest Combination.

Su-ho then checked the details of the Stone Fragment of Takamagahara.

[ Stone Fragment of Takamagahara ]

# A stone fragment that enables transport to Takamagahara, the heavenly realm created when Japan’s Three Sacred Treasures become one.

# Only those who are qualified may use it.

A simple description.

But compared to the simplicity, the content and options it contained were anything but simple.

‘To think I’d be able to head to Takamagahara already.’

As the name implies, Takamagahara is the heavenly realm where Japan’s gods live.

Meaning, it’s not a mere shift in place—it’s a dimensional transfer within the system’s framework.

Transfers at that scale were experiences one encountered only in the late stages after the Great Upheaval.

Of course, while the unit is “dimensional transfer,” in practice what a Player experiences is something on the order of a standard Gate challenge.

Prepared, Su-ho immediately infused mana into the Stone Fragment of Takamagahara.

[ Using the Stone Fragment of Takamagahara. ]

Fwoooooosh!

With the item’s use, light burst forth.

The path to the heavenly realm would open any moment now.

So he thought, waiting for the transfer—

Tuk—

Suddenly, the light vanished.

And a spare little alert popped up before Su-ho’s eyes.

[ You cannot use this right now. ]