I Became the Patron of Villains

80. Merman (2)

Alon, standing nobly on the frozen sea of blood, let out a light sigh.

‘Did it work out somehow.’

As he looked around, what he saw was the permafrost endlessly expanding from where Alon stood.

Of course, the permafrost that was constantly being created was not due to Alon, but because Fenia had granted his request.

‘……Can it be done to this extent?’

For a moment, he was slightly amazed as he watched Fenia, who, while freezing the surrounding sea in an instant over the extreme cold Alon had created on the ship, only showed a slightly strained expression.

Alon turned his gaze to Tertogan, who was standing on the blood-soaked deck of the pirates.

Creak- Creak-!

Tertogan, who had taken on a human form until just a moment ago, no longer existed.

What was visible there was a green egg exuding strange fluids and Tertogan’s hand over it.

And only the bizarre object that existed on that hand.

However, even in such a situation, Alon couldn’t help but harden his face.

Because he knew the identity of that egg.

Crunch-!

As he recognized it and raised his arm, an unpleasant sound was heard.

“…….”

When he turned his gaze, he saw the merfolk, who had been moving below the surface to sink the ship, now crawling onto the ice one by one.

In an instant, their numbers grew from dozens to hundreds.

At that moment, Alon clicked his tongue lightly.

Crunch-!

The merfolk crawling onto the ice were instantly crushed.

“Brother!”

Ladan appeared.

Ladan, who had surged from the sea in an instant, not only crushed the merfolk who were about to leap at Alon.

“Hoo-!”

He stepped on the ice.

Crack!

Ladan’s foot pierced through the ice and touched the seawater.

And then.

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Rumble-!!!!!

The frozen sea turned into an icy sea, and like a massive explosion, a huge wave swept away all the merfolk rushing towards Alon.

“Gasp-!”

As if it wasn’t the end, Radan immediately thrust the spear he was holding into the middle of the sea.

Kugugugugug-!!

In an instant, a massive whirlpool formed.

The swept-away merfolk and sunken ships began to be sucked into it.

Even those who were more familiar with the sea than anyone else were unable to control their bodies and were sucked into the tremendous current, mixed with the debris of the sunken ships, and the whirlpool quickly turned red.

“Wow, as expected…!”

“The boss is different…!”

Hope began to spread among the pirates.

“…This is really unbelievable.”

“Indeed.”

“Ha, I don’t know if we can win this time.”

An indescribable awe spread among the pirate lords.

The divine power that Radan displayed was hard to believe that a single individual could achieve.

But only for a moment.

Gururuk-!

At the clear sound, everyone’s gaze turned to the central deck of the Blue Wolf.

The hand of Tertogan, which had been rising above the green egg, had disappeared as if it were a lie.

And then.

Kudduk- Kudududuk- Kudduk!!!

From the small egg,

an unbelievably gigantic hand was emerging.

Everyone stared blankly at the hand.

A hand covered in green scales and bodily fluids.

As if to extinguish hope, it blocked the light of the setting sun that was shining on the pirates, and it pulsed as if it were alive.

Thus, what brought fear instead of hope to the pirates,

struck down the whirlpool.

Kwaaang-!!

With a roar, the whirlpool that had been sucking everything in at once disappeared.

And then from the small egg,

it awakened.

Crack-!

The hand that had dispelled the vortex stepped on one of the sea wolves’ ships, while the other hand emerged,

The other hand emerged and grabbed another ship.

The giant that emerged from that tiny egg.

It was a sight that gnawed at the hope of everyone present, while simultaneously being eerily chilling.

The massive head of the merman emerging from the egg after its arms stole hope.

Its body, large enough to turn ships into mere toys, stole awe.

It shattered the ship that held the egg, and even obscured the sunset, stealing light.

“Ah-“

It.

Descended.

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Its size was overwhelming.

Also.

The immense power emanating from that overwhelming size was unimaginably dreadful.

Boom-!!

Its hand, which showed only its upper body above the sea, moved slowly and pressed down on the ship.

A burst of spray, not a single scream.

Without even a moment to be shocked by the shattered ship.

Crash-!

Just by sweeping its massive hand from left to right, more than ten ships were smashed.

The chilling immense power emanating from its overwhelming size.

That was not all.

“Damn it-!”

The mermen, who had shown no movement as if worshipping the birth of the giant until just a moment ago, resumed their activities, and the pirates fell into panic in an instant.

‘What on earth is this-!’

Ladan also frowned as he looked at the giant, who stood with the sunset at its back.

“Ladan.”

He heard a voice.

Even in this chaotic situation, Alon’s voice spoke without any emotion, indifferently.

“Take care of the mermen.”

And then, with a momentary blank expression, Radan replied.

“Understood, brother.”

With his answer, he retrieved the trident that had been sucked into the sea.

Alon, after confirming the mermen rising from all directions, looked at the massive hand slowly lifting.

“Hoo-“

Alon let out a low sigh as he surveyed the surrounding situation.

The situation could not be described as good, even as a pleasantry.

Despite Radan and the pirate lords killing the mermen like madmen, their numbers showed no sign of decreasing.

The mermen continuously rose, killing the pirates.

The massive hand was once again raised towards the sky, ready to spew despair upon the pirates.

Yet Alon did not consider defeat, even in this dire situation.

Rather, he felt relieved, thinking that the current situation was not the worst.

That was because the thing before his eyes was not an Outer God.

‘To be precise, it’s a byproduct.’

Just by opening the eyes of truth, one could see through all things.

The Outer God Kalak-Kul, with its fraudulent ability to drown all beings regardless of the presence of water, would bring calamity the moment it descended.

However, the thing before his eyes, ‘Gal-Gik,’ was not an Outer God.

It was merely a byproduct and guardian holding the reincarnation egg of the Outer God, meant to protect it until Kalak-Kul’s descent.

At this moment, dealing with it would prevent the Outer God’s descent.

Alon, without hesitation, opened his mouth.

“Array of Thunder-“

The conditions were met.

Crackle-!

Blue sparks began to flow along the frozen sea of blood.

“Disassemble.”

At his words, the sparks instantly turned into tiny particles and spread in all directions.

In the dark gloom that covered the sunset, the glowing blue particles.

“Melt.”

In the next moment, it began to be absorbed into Alon’s dizzyingly swaying body.

Along with it, Alon’s new form began to glow blue.

At that point, Gal-Gik, who had already raised his hand to smash dozens of ships,

■■■■■■■■-!

With an unknown strange roar, he tried to strike down Alon’s head as if to eliminate an instinctive threat.

Guguguguguguk-!!!

A massive tearing sound as if crushing the entire sea.

“Transmigration of All Things.”

Even in such a situation, Alon raised his index and middle fingers to form a seal.

“Thunder God Form.”

The moment he uttered the final phrase.

Pajijik-!!!

He became lightning.

Chut-!

He shoots forward only.

Kwaaang-!!!

The ice sea where Alon had just stood shattered as if an explosion had erupted, and so, it shot towards Gal-Gik.

The hollow heart of Gal-Gik.

Seeing that, he instinctively realized.

That just shooting forward like this would not penetrate Gal-Gik’s outer shell.

However, the reason he could move forward without hesitation was.

Thanks to the ‘Contract Token of the Blind One,’ one of the relics appraised by the Arbiter this time.

Its effect was a relic that could obscure a single restriction he had promised.

With that, Alon freed himself from the restriction that had been weakening his magic.

When facing the great duel god Ultultus with magic.

A restriction that could twist the laws of the world.

And there was one more reason.

He had realized how to use the Thunder God Form.

The blue lightning that shot towards Gal-Gik changed its shape from a human form.

Focusing the array of magic at the endpoint of the shot, twisting and crushing his own body, which had become magic itself, to create a form.

Thus, the spiral that Alon created, clear to anyone who saw it-

Bzzzzzt-!!!

Turning the world darkened by Gal-Gik into a blue hue, it shot out as if segmenting the world itself.

Tsst-!

With a small noise.

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■-!!!!!

Blue sparks covered the world.

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It was after the blue sparks that covered the world had disappeared.

The massive hole in Gal-Gik’s heart.

And the Count Palatio visible through that massive hole filled everyone’s sight.

“……Huh.”

Thus, they all lost their words and could only stare at one person.

And Alon, standing on the broken ship, receiving everyone’s gaze.

‘Don’t just stand there, save me……!’

It was a situation filled with a sense of crisis.

The deck Alon was standing on was slowly sinking.

Although it wasn’t very noticeable, the deck he was standing on was gradually sinking below the water.

The reason Alon was silent on the collapsing deck was because of the Thunder God Form he used.

‘It should have been more familiar than last time.’

Unlike last time, he didn’t make a big mistake this time.

Thanks to repeated exploration and research, he had honed the Thunder God Form to some extent.

Thanks to that, except for the very small wounds between his arms and legs, he was fine.

The problem was the mana.

‘In the Thunder God Form, just moving the array consumes an absurd amount of mana.’

Although he had some idea through exploration, the mana consumption of the Thunder God Form was truly absurd.

When he first used the Thunder God Form in the colony, his mana was completely drained, but he could still walk around normally.

But now, just changing the arrangement of mana caused one of the symptoms of mana depletion, physical rigidity, to appear.

Because of that, he couldn’t move or say a word even as the deck was sinking, and he was sinking with the ship.

‘I can’t swim!’

At the moment when Alon couldn’t even open his mouth and let out a silent scream.

Boom-!

From the once calm sea, green scales emerged.

Crunch-!

Without giving him a chance to react, the scales grabbed Radan’s body and dragged him into the depths of the sea.

Alon lost the chance to think again.

Seeing Radan being dragged away before his eyes, Alon threw himself from the deck into the sea.

At least, that’s how it appeared to the pirates.

…In reality, it was just the green scales that had struck the deck where he stood.

Thanks to that, Alon, who had fallen into the sea, frowned.

Fortunately, the physical stiffness caused by mana depletion was gradually easing, so it seemed he could reach the surface before suffocating.

But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was the giant eye now visible in his sight.

‘Kalak-Kul?!’

Alon was horrified.

Even though it was still twilight outside the sea, it was as dark as if he had entered the deep sea.

And in the darkness, a giant eye was visible.

It was the same ‘eye’ he had seen many times in the game, the one that drowned all who met its gaze.

‘Surely the incarnation shouldn’t have happened-!’

He was confused.

As far as he knew, the incarnation of the foreign god shouldn’t have occurred the moment he killed Gal-Gik.

Yet, the foreign god had descended.

It had descended intact and was watching him.

From below.

In the deep sea where nothing could be seen.

Silently and majestically.