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- 234: Well deserved divine punishment
“Smite these heathens, Mother Earth Mantle-sama!”
“Punish this foolish heathens, Wind God Quasar!”
What bothers me about this people is that the Gods that are coming from each of their mouths is different.
Until now, I thought that this incident was caused by the people driven out from their position in the Light Church by Yorishiro and were displeased by it. But the point that there weren’t enough people for that in this occasion came out as a point in the meeting.
It looks like there’s still more to uncover in this. But let’s leave that for later.
For now, let’s just wipe these idiots out.
That’s all I have to do right now.
“Okay.” (Haine)
I jump up top of the librarian desk I was hiding in.
A *pang* sound was made, and the ears of the idiots reacted and gathered all at once to where I am.
“Good evening, fools.” (Haine)
Even when dealing with idiots, greetings are important.
Looks like they have enough neurons to get surprised and confused.
“Who are you?! From where did you come from?!”
“Are you from the knight corps?!”
“Don’t get close to him carelessly! We don’t know what he might be hiding!”
The panic in them was clear and, just by seeing that, I could tell that the other side is made up of amateurs.
But I can’t lower my guard.
Even amateurs can kill by swinging a sword. Moreover, most of the people here are holding weapons resembling wind guns that might have been made from ethereal.
I can deduce that, instead of utilizing wind divine power like the wind guns of the Wind Church, they utilize ethereal to power itself, so anyone can utilize it.
It would be incredibly bad news if they were to continuously shoot something like that.
I may be repeating myself here, but this is a very delicate place to fight in.
They have over a hundred people as hostage and the place itself is a library that has important documents. The lives are important, but the records of the past people that are basically the materialization of the effort of many are also important.
I have to properly protect them both.
I won’t allow them to die because of these idiots.
“…I came here with a present for you people.” (Haine)
That’s why I showed myself.
If an unknown factor like me were to appear, their attention would be drawn to me, and their muzzles will also point at me.
Even if a misfire occurs, it is better if those shots are directed at me.
“You people are requesting for divine punishment, right?” (Haine)
That’s why, I will be providing it.
“I have plenty to serve.” (Haine)
At the same moment as I finish saying this, in this Goddess Space that is at the center of the Light Grand Library, right at the feet of the close to 30 terrorists, black beasts appear all at once.
“““Gyyyyyaaaa!!””””
And screams of fear were raised at the same time.
All the terrorists, without exception, were covered by something black and were unable to move.
“[Dark Matter, Set]” (Haine)
That’s dark matter.
They are small dark particles, but by having several millions to billions of them bunched up, they can act like living beings without clear form.
This time, it felt as if sentient liquid was attacking people —as if trying to devour them.
On top of that, their origin point wasn’t from me.
It looked like they had come out from below the feet of each one of the terrorists all at the same time, more specifically, their shadows.
For the ones that don’t know anything, it would look as if their very shadows are attacking them.
The trick of this is a combination of the shadow ability of Doraha and my darkness ability.
With Doraha’s shadow power, she can connect the shadows created by the objects in the surroundings to mobilize. I poured dark matter inside of this passage.
By the time I appeared in front of the terrorists, that preparation had been finished and the inside of the shadows were already filled with dark matter.
Foolish terrorists, fear your very shadows.
With that much preparation, I just had to let the dark matter gush out from inside the shadow and have it attack the terrorists -all at the same time. Like that, it would be impossible for the terrorists to fight back at all.
“Ugyaaaa!! What?! What is this!!”
“Darkness! Darkness is attacking us?!”
“Oh God, please save us!”
They were screaming while being enveloped by the darkness, trying their hardest to resist, but all of that in vain. Trying to brush away dark matter that has already stuck onto you is close to impossible. To do that, you would have to do something similar to what the Demon Lord Uriel did —rip your skin off.
“I have intentionally made the speed at which the dark matter attacks you slow.” (Haine)
Properly understand that you are being eroding and taste ultimate fear. Then, take notice of the sin you have committed, and the punishment you are receiving for it.
“This is how divine punishment truly works.” (Haine)
““““Agyaaaa!!””””
***
The library had become completely silent.
Having erased most of the divine power that allows proper life functions to operate, the terrorists lost consciousness.
“Looks like it is over.” (Haine)
Now that the inside had returned to safety, Doraha used the transmission device to contact the outside.
“Haine-sama, I have reported to the headquarters that we have taken control of the ‘Goddess Space’. The light knights have already charged in and are apprehending the lookouts one after the other.” (Doraha)
“Umu, good work.” (Haine)
I had lifted up the girl that was crying and am currently searching for her mother.
Looks like they got separated because of this incident.
“But they really lacked more backbone than I expected.” (Haine)
That worked in our favor, but what helped out the most was that the ethereal guns they have were of no use at all.
They desperately tried to resist as they were being engulfed by the dark matter, and they obviously pulled the trigger to do that, but most of the guns ended up exploding.
“Now that I think about it, Hyue said this. In order to make ethereal weapons, technique that normal scientists wouldn’t have enough is required.” (Haine)
“The utilization of ethereal weapons still has a lot of problems regarding the technological area before actually being usable. I think it would require a lot of time before we see actual use to it.” (Doraha)