When Did I Become An Artifact Dealer?!
Chapter 78 - 79: Law

Chapter 78: Chapter 79: Law

It was like a bomb detonated in the area. It didn’t create an aftershock, but the force pressing on them was intense.

The ground sank; instead of falling deep, it revealed something that had been hidden inside.

Underneath was what seemed like a temple. Large stone roots wrapped around the entire area. They pulsed deeply, like sentient snakes that could crawl at any given time.

The others had already fallen back. Even the hidden spectators summoned their shields. The tiny Virehn, who was in one of his people’s embrace, looked at the commotion and gulped.

"Was I accompanying that psycho before?" he whispered as he hid in his servant’s embrace.

This was something beyond their ability. Those powerful enough to resist didn’t bother to fight back and just focused on protecting the weaker void users behind them.

They weren’t hiding like cowards, they were confident in the hailed strongest void user.

The VRA Chairman.

Despite the overwhelming display of power shown by the God, the Chairman wasn’t fazed.

The God was shrouded in white light. Each face embedded in its body was screaming. Cail looked at those faces, and a guess crossed his mind.

Were those the people who vanished in this world? Their existence had been erased. They had become part of the God. The so-called Coreline Project.

The God looked at the ants below him. None of them were worth his attention... except for the man who dared to stand tall, looking him straight in the eye.

"Ah. A lawmaker... Interesting... I remember the taste of the lawmaker I ate before. Do you think a few words will bind me?"

The Chairman didn’t respond. His eyes looked straight at the God, whom others couldn’t even gaze at. He raised his hand. It was slow and deliberate.

On his wrist was a golden bracelet with a dangling eye in the middle.

"By decree of man’s survival... I set the Law." The eye on his bracelet glowed gold.

The air stilled. Everyone was holding their breath... even the God stopped.

The Chairman stated his first decree: "Thou shalt not exist outside judgment."

The moment he said that, a golden rune appeared midair. It slammed toward the God.

The God screamed... not in pain, but in fury. Its long hands, filled with the screams of the damned, slammed against the incoming rune.

Two forces clashed, creating a ripple of void energy. The rune showed signs of shattering. The God smiled, revealing teeth that had individual mouths growing on each one.

"Your Law has no jurisdiction over divinity!" He wasn’t something outside human judgment... he was divinity.

The Chairman braced himself for the recoil. The eye on his bracelet let out another glow.

"Then you are outside this world."

He stepped forward. "This is the world of the living. Gods shouldn’t be in this realm."

The second Law activated.

"What is outside this world... shall be erased."

The God lurched, his steps trembling as his foot began to vanish mid-stride. Half of his body vanished. The Chairman wasn’t doing well either. Blood started to drip from his mouth, and veins began to pop out from his temples. But his figure remained tall and proud, not showing a bit of weakness despite the struggle he was facing.

Sellene looked at him worriedly. "PAPA!" she screamed, but she didn’t dare walk too close for fear that she might become a burden.

Ironically, the reason she was safe now was largely due to the bracelet that Cail had given her, the same guy who pushed her father into this situation.

Five of the beads had already shattered, but fortunately, the Chairman’s void energy was also shielding her.

Hidden God: "You would sacrifice the laws of reality to bind me?" The God’s figure was flickering, but he was still anchored within reality.

"No. I would redefine them," the Chairman said. "From whatever world you came from, gods should have already been banished to the other side."

Clash.

The God looked at the Chairman and thought: If it weren’t for him being sealed and his void energy weakened, he wouldn’t have been this pathetic battling a mortal.

But... he could rest. He could return to the pit and wait for his void energy to recover. The seal was already gone. He didn’t actually need to face these people. During this battle, he would be at a disadvantage.

People were already feeling a bit relieved when they saw the God starting to get contained. It had been hectic, but they had managed to dodge such a big crisis because the strongest void user was at the rift. Thinking about what would have happened if they were the only ones there, it would have been a pure massacre.

Just as they thought everything was over, they heard a disappointed voice from the side.

"Is that all?" Cail said. He felt disappointment when he saw the God. But he guessed it wasn’t a real God, since it seemed to be Virehn’s creation. "How pathetic, Virehn. You made this God? I thought he was planning something grand after all that, but I guess I got my hopes up too high."

The people’s attention was already on the psychopath who had released the God. They saw Cail crouching down under a broken wall. Heck, he had even managed to enter their barrier to protect himself from the fight.

The God wasn’t deaf. He heard what Cail was saying. His ginormous head turned toward Cail’s direction.

"You ant. You dared call me that?"

"You’re weak enough to be beneath my notice, but you dare look down on me? Who do you think you are?" It wasn’t angry at what Cail said, what an ant says is nothing to him.

Cail looked dully at the God. He wasn’t sensing the oppression or anything. Again, fucking disappointing. Did Virehn do this deliberately to let him down? Or was Virehn honestly just lame?

Cail stood up. He leaned on the broken wall to support his body.

"Who do I think I am?" As he said that, a broken hourglass appeared in his palm. It was only half of the hourglass, but curiously enough, the sand didn’t spill out.

Infusing his void energy into the hourglass, Cail looked at the ’God.’

"Well, I’m your master now."

"Now follow my command like a good puppet. Since you’re that incompetent by yourself, let your master control you."

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