Volume 4 - CH 49.1

Act 4-49.1: Song of Ruin III(Side: Ares)

――Celestial Palace, Goeting Room, Ares Palace

The angels in Goeting Room, located in Ares palace, paced around quickly, gathering as much information as possible. To be exact, it wasn’t just in Goeting room. The entire Ares palace has descended into chaos.

It began when they received the notice about Rotten King, the worst of the evil gods sealed in Lemuria, the world under Ares’ management, was resurrected, that news sent the entire Ares palace into a state of turmoil.

Rotten King was a god with a distorted divinity. And an extremely powerful one on top of that. Not even cardinal Pandora or hero Mashiro, who received a direct blessing from Ares, could ever hope to defeat him. Rotten King was almost immortal. One had to spent so much power to kill him once and for all. Not even Ares could completely kill Rotten King in the past, thus, he had no choice but to seal the latter.

Now that the seal had been undone, war against Rotten King was unavoidable. Rotten King’s immortal army was truly powerful. Ares army definitely wouldn’t leave unscathed in a war against the immortal army.

「How’s the situation of the Rotten King’s immortal army?」

Currently, he might be trying to swallow the area around Babel. That guy was a really troublesome foe since he had the ability to make undead put under his curse to follow his order. Something unspeakable would happen in the human world if left as is.

「T-That is…」

The angel subordinate spoke with baffled look on their face.

「What’s happend?」

Ares asked, frowning

「The Rotten King’s immortal army has been annihilated. Any trace him has vanished.」

The angel spoke total bs that no one would believe.

「Hah? What did you say just now?」

Ares couldn’t help but question,

「A while after being enveloped by dome-shaped black mist, the Rotten King and his immortal army, even the Rotten King’s Palace has vanished without trace, leaving only a huge empty lot behind.」

Naturally, the angel had no choice but to continue his report with bewildered look on their face.

「That’s impossible, that palace was made by Hermes you now!」

Yes. That palace was made by none other than Hermes, a powerful god, and Ares’ long time friend. Not even the Rotten King could destroy that palace. Thus, he concluded that someone had cleared the condition to unseal the Rotten King.

「That’s true. Not even a blade of grass left in the place where the palace used to be.」

「IMPOSSIBLE!」

「Please take a look yourself.」

The angel displayed the scenery of Area 5 of 【Death Metropolis of Flower】located in Babel, the world of Lemuria.

「No… Way…」

The picture displayed was a literal circular-shaped empty vacant lot with none of ruin left. The only thing left in that lonely picture was a huge wooden table located right in the center of the vacant lot.

「What in the world is happening here?」

Ares was asking himself alas, he couldn’t find plausible answer for that question. The only thing he understood was the fact that there used to be a palace at that place. It was a sealing facility created by Hermes and no one in celestial world can even left a scratch on it. It was even more impossible for those from lower world. In short, someone, or something had annihilated the palace who known for its toughness along with the Rotten King. But still, being from lower world supposed to be incapable of such feat――

When Ares was pondering like that――

「Corinth-sama is asking for audience.」

A gatekeeper goes into Goeting room in hurry and kneeling in front of Ares immediately.

「We’re facing emergency situation right now, how about later?」

Ares couldn’t help but reply with slightly vexed voice.

Did this angel even understand what kind of emergency we face right now? The world under my management, Lemuria, has fell into unprecedented danger right at this very moment!

「I tried that too, but――」

When the gatekeeper was about to finish their report,

「S-Sorry, Corinth-sama! We’re in the state of emergen――」

Voices of several gatekeepers trying to stop Corinth could be heard from the other side of the gate.

The door opened forcefully, and a tall and muscular blonde-haired man with a neat cut entered the Goeting room.

He was the mid-rank angel, Corinth. His main job was coordinating with the central church. To be exact, he was the one responsible for the revelation of the human race’s gift in the form of an oracle or giving orders to observe every individual who awakened a highly-dangerous gift in the lower world. But, he was reprimanded due to excessively intolerable acts he committed, such as giving cruel orders to the central church for a specific gift holder.

Thus, Ares thought that the reason for Corinth to come this time was to raise an objection in regard to that.

And though Corinth’s action tended to be over the top nowadays, he never forgot to show proper respect to god.

「Corinth, we’re busy right now. If you came to protest, return late――」

「Kougiiiiiiiiii??」

Corinth suddenly raised a mechanical laugh before Ares could finish his remark,

「What are you laughing for?」

Despite of Ares asking with a frown, Corinth just raised a mechanical laugh. The other angels murmured among themselves upon seeing that strange state.

And then, when he finally stopped laughing, he unwrapped the bundle of clothes he carried under his right-arm.

「!?」

The content was the bald head of a human priest.

『Beelzebub debu~♪ Beelzebub debu~~♪

Buubuu, buubuu, babubabu♬』

The eyes of the bald priest suddenly opened wide and sang a strange song as Corinth started to perform a strange dance.

――CREAK! CREAK! RIIP!

The sound of Corinth’s snapped bones and split flesh resounded in Goeting room.

Though the people in that room were dumbfounded for a while upon seeing such bizarre scene,

「CORINTH, STOP THIS MADNESS IMMEDIATELY! ALL OF YOU, STOP CORINTH!!」

Ares snapped immediately and ordered Corinth to stop. Though the angels also tried to pin him down but got blown away as a result. Thus, the dance of death continued on.

『Beelzebub debu~♪ Beelzebub debu~~♪ Bubudebabudebu~♩

Stinkiest amongst the stinky maggots, the King of Fly♬, His name is, Beelzebub♫』

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Mia Campanella…