"My task is complete."
Set paid no attention to Osiris's actions.
"Goodbye, son of the fool."
"I hope his power will satisfy you."
The Desert God gave a cunning smile, and his entire form turned into black sand, disappearing in front of Rin and Osiris, leaving behind only one sentence.
"I have fulfilled your request. What happens next has nothing to do with me."
Additionally, the jar containing Osiris's "little brother" was left behind where Set vanished.
"This guy..."
Rin heard Diablo and White's voices in his mind, asking if he wanted to retrieve the escaping Set.
"No, forget it."
"If he wants to leave, let him."
Rin released Magic Power to form a barrier, blocking the death aura surging from Osiris.
As for Set's departure, Rin didn't mind.
He had fulfilled his promise by helping Rin summon Osiris.
So Rin wouldn't go back on his word or play games like, "I let you go, but my Subordinate God didn't."
"Set!!!"
"Hey, stop yelling."
Rin summoned Lucifer's Sword of Dawn and casually tore apart the storm of death summoned by Osiris, revealing his figure standing on the obelisk steps.
"Set is gone."
"Your opponent now is me."
Having arrived in a new world, becoming a Campione, and gaining new power,
Rin hadn't yet had a proper chance to enjoy the convenience brought by Authority.
Just right. Osiris wasn't too strong and could serve as the final test in Rin's Authority trial — actual combat.
"Has Set fallen so low?"
Osiris didn't take Rin seriously.
"To think he would invite the son of the fool to oppose me?"
"Are all Heretic Gods cast from the same mold?"
"You always say such things."
Rin leaped, landing directly on the obelisk steps. His body turned into lightning and appeared before Osiris in an instant.
"What?!"
Rin's speed exceeded Osiris's expectations.
Although the Lord of the Egyptian Underworld instinctively raised his Ankh to block,
the Ankh, as a symbol of ritual and kingship, was not a weapon.
Clashing with Lucifer's Sword of Dawn, the result could only be its shattering.
"Don't be so arrogant, son of the fool!!"
Osiris drew an ancient tin staff from beneath his dark cloak, radiating a heavy aura of death.
At this moment, Osiris shed his regal posture, becoming a warrior engaged in close combat with Rin.
"Too slow."
Crack!
Blue lightning flashed. Rin activated Zeus's Thunderbolt, entering a super-speed domain like that of the Flash.
In Rin's vision, everything around him slowed to a crawl.
"What?!"
Rin charged again, disarming Osiris of his staff. His eyes filled with horror.
Because the golden Sword of Dawn was already only a breath away from his throat.
Swish!
However, just as Rin thrust the Sword of Dawn to behead him—
The golden holy sword hit only empty air, and Osiris's body, which should have been struck, dissipated into black mist.
"Hmm?"
Rin didn't feel any solid impact. He looked around in surprise but couldn't locate Osiris.
"Son of the fool, you seem to underestimate me, the King of the Underworld."
Osiris's hoarse voice came from all directions, echoing from the platform at the top of the obelisk.
Rumble~
Shadows spread outward from the base of the obelisk, rapidly engulfing the surrounding desert.
In the next moment, countless corpses, skeletons, mummies, ghosts, spirits, and specters surged from the shadows covering the sands.
Their numbers were so vast and dense that they completely swallowed the desert in all directions Rin could see.
"Whoa... is this the prototype of Marquis Voban's Cage of the Servants of Death?"
"Does it have to be this exaggerated?"
Rin had imagined the power of Marquis Voban's Authority, but seeing Osiris unleash it firsthand, he began to seriously doubt whether the version Voban had inherited still possessed this level of might.
"Statistics complete."
"Centered on your location, within a 50-kilometer radius, there are approximately 4.8 million undead in total."
"Close to five million."
Rin didn't take these undead seriously.
Even the strongest among them—skeletal divine beasts and Pharaohs—were only at the level of top-tier knights.
But the sheer number was indeed impressive.
"Over a hundred top-tier combat units."
"Nearly ten thousand undead of Great Knight level."
"And millions of undead comparable to ordinary Sorcerers."
Rin had to admit, Osiris's wave-style summon was indeed noteworthy.
"Well then..."
"This is just right to test the Authority I usurped from Poseidon."
Rin lowered the Sword of Dawn slightly. His body surged with Magic Power as he began chanting.
"Roar, great sea! Howl, fierce wind!"
"Thunder, sing for me! Sun and moon, fear my might!"
"Raise giant waves! Tear apart the ocean!
With this strike that pierces heaven and earth, make the gods retreat!"
At that moment, with Rin's chant, an enormous golden trident descended slowly from the dark sky, as if it connected heaven and earth, falling upon the desert filled with death and spirits.
In an instant, the ground shattered and the desert collapsed.
A terrifying force, as if carrying millions of tons of seawater, descended from the sky.
However—!
This wasn't a metaphor or exaggeration.
When the golden trident landed, a hundred-meter-high tsunami erupted from the point of impact, raising monstrous waves that swallowed every undead creature crawling from the Underworld.
Not only that, the tsunami, infused with vast Magic Power, directly extinguished the ghostly flames within the undead.
For a time, the entire desert turned into an ocean of bones.
From the sky, it looked as if the entire desert had turned into a massive water basin, its center torn by a bottomless chasm,
with massive torrents of seawater dragging countless undead into the abyss.
"Is this Poseidon's power...?"
Rin's [Atlantis Authority] could not only summon and command storms and tsunamis, but also cause earthquakes and tear open the earth itself.
And its most powerful feature was the ability to summon seawater from thin air—
and then, in the form of a divine trident, drop it from the sky...
(To be continued.)
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