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Episode 182: Gates of the Phantom Beast

"Ma, wait!! Temei and others, you think you can imitate me like this for free!!"

Good release Gabriel toward the backs of the lower angels. But they never stopped, and disappeared straight across the door. The usual Gabriel would have executed him immediately, but there's nothing Gabriel can do about it now.

"Damn...... but...!!"

Gabriel, left alone, eats up his teeth and proceeds to crawl through the floor.

"Kiel... Mika... WHERE!! Just help me!! You're going to... abandon my people ah!!"

Squeeze all your strength. Gabri screams, but no reply. Kiel and Micah had not yet returned, and Gabri was the only angel in this castle now.

"Damn... dude always this guy...!!"

Still, Gabri moves on to the back of the castle. It wasn't like I had any hope of being helpful ahead of me, but I couldn't enjoy being jittery without doing anything. Gabriel was driven by a bottomless fear that he would be extinguished once again, even though he had risen to the world because of it.

Eventually Gabri's fingertips hit something stiff. When I looked up, there was a big pot there. It is a 'pot of souls' with roughly 500 human souls enclosed. Seeing that pot, humiliation springs up again from inside Gabriel.

Why the hell has this happened? Gabri's ambition was to revive the phantom beast by sacrificing a thousand human souls, to master all things with his power, and to reign as ruler of the world.

But how about reality? The death of Seal prevented the human soul from being collected, and the resurrection of the phantom beast had to be abandoned. Besides, I am desperate once and exposed to this unusual appearance.

"King... if only he hadn't...!!"

Yes. It was all the king who buried Seal and drove Gabri to death. This would not have happened without the king. Gabriel was no longer in his mind, such as his ambition to become the ruler of the world, but his revenge on the king had become his ultimate purpose.

"Ho ho ho. Sounds like you hate Mr. Euto."

I accidentally had one voice. When Gabri turned to the voice, there was a masked man leaning against the wall gently.

"Ah? Who is it, Temei...?

"Oops. With that said, you've never talked like this before. I'm not as good as a name."

I don't know who it is, but I also understood Gabriel intuitively that he wasn't on his side.

"Get lost. I don't have time for Temei..."

"You should be careful how you speak. I'm the one who brought you back."

"... what?

An eye-catching gabri. The masked man - Elitra - quietly walks over to the 'pot of souls'.

"Is this the 'pot of souls' that sealed the souls of people? Sacrifice a thousand souls to revive the phantom beast, and with its power destroy the reigning king. I guess that's the plan of the seven-star angel. But from what I've seen, your soul only gathers about 500. This will not bring the Phantom Beast back to life."

"... it's none of Temei's business. Answer me more than that, why am I in this state? If it was really Temei who brought me back...!!"

"Yeah, I did use the resuscitation spell to bring you back to life. But there is no such thing as a spell that revives the world in complete condition. There's bound to be some disadvantage there."

Gabri recalls the efficacy of his [death riot]. Surely those resurrected by that spell have the disadvantage of only staying in the world for fifteen minutes, besides losing themselves.

"... so you're saying that I'm like this because of the disadvantages of the resuscitation spell Temei used?

"Discover. The spell I used was [helpless resuscitation]. And the downside to that is -- well, you can see that by looking at your status."

Encouraged by Elitra, Gabri checked his status.

Gabri LV1

HP1/1

MP1/1

ATK1/1

DFE 1/1

AGI1/1

HIT1/1

"Become...!!"

Not too stunned, Gabri goes blank in his head for a moment. Significantly elevated status by taking in Raphae's soul, all those numbers were "1".

This is the disadvantage of Elitra's [helpless resuscitation]. It's natural that this doesn't have enough power to get Gabriel up, or that he can't activate the spell. Gabriel the boulder is also more powerless than the baby when this happens.

"But I don't mourn. I'll make sure you get what you want."

……!?

There is only one hope for Gabriel right now, only revenge against the King. What the hell does Elitra mean to make that happen?

"Aside from that, could you tell me where the Gate of the Phantom Beast is?

"... Phantom Beast Gate, you say?

"I know it's somewhere in" The Sanctuary of the Sky, "but somehow this place is huge. Sounds like it's quicker to ask you than to bother looking."

Gabriel remembers how he revived himself just to hear it out.

"Come on, tell me quickly. Of course you know the Seven Stars Angel, don't you?

"... Ha. I'm going to teach Temei that.

Eritra released a knife from her nostalgia so as to block Gabriel's words. It pierces Gabriel's face on the slippery floor.

"Your HP is only 1. HP runs out with just a little damage. You don't want to go back to the afterlife again, do you?

"...... Huh!!"

Gabriel bites at humiliation. But it was clear that defying Elitra meant death. It seemed better to be dead no longer, but if Elitra's words about fulfilling Gabriel's wishes were true, you can't die here.

But even if the location of the Gate of the Phantom Beast is known, we cannot release the Phantom Beast more than the number of souls dedicated to sacrifice is insufficient. What exactly is Elitra's purpose?

Listening to the location of the 'Gate of Phantom Beasts' from Gabri, Eritra gently lifts the 'pot of souls' weighing hundreds of kilograms with her right hand when [dimensional coupling] is activated to generate a giant black vortex. He then cluttered Gabri's arm with his left hand and threw himself into the vortex.

Dozens of seconds later. At the end of the swirl, there was a purple gate that emitted a colorful aura. The air is heavy enough to make you breathless, and there is doth black smoke spreading around the door. The only space covered in darkness in the 'sanctuary of the sky' full of holy light, where the gates of the phantom beast existed.