When the Pope Becomes Competent - Chapter 187



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187. Super regenerative ability
2024.05.05.

After informing that the palace barrier had been lifted, Yan first cut off contact with Luciana and her party.

There was nothing more to explain to Luciana and her party.

They would already know what they had to do after the palace barrier was lifted.

‘… … Now, my work is all done.’

Yan glanced at the palace barrier item he had just destroyed.

He almost failed to destroy it.

Fortunately, the barrier item was hidden in a place that was easier to find than he thought.

Furthermore, the soldiers guarding the item were of low rank, so they were very lucky that they did not see Yan using the invisibility item.

Thanks to this series of lucky coincidences, Yan was able to destroy the barrier item hidden underground and lift the palace barrier.

However, he could not rest easy yet.

‘From now on, it is important.’

Even if the palace barrier had disappeared, the solid walls and troops protecting the palace still remained.

After joining forces with the giants to destroy the walls, and then taking on the palace soldiers, he would be able to completely occupy the palace.

And most importantly… … .

‘The Apostle must safely seal Romun.’

Everything depended on whether Nickelus could seal Romun or not.

Even if he were to occupy the palace, if he were to lose Romun, the culprit of everything, everything would go down the drain.

Then Romun would form forces again, and later take revenge on Yan, who had betrayed him.

“… … .”

Yan clenched his fists to overcome the ominousness and fear that suddenly surged up inside him.

* * *

He couldn’t even count how many times he spun around in the air.

Swept up in the tornado Romun had created with his skill, he could do nothing but spin around in the air.

‘First, I have to get out of this damn tornado, but there’s no way… … .’

I couldn’t think of a way out.

What on earth could I do in a situation where I was being blown around by the wind like a dandelion seed?

At that moment, a golden opportunity came to me.

Kwakwang!

A loud noise of something breaking was heard from afar.

As soon as I heard that loud noise, I was able to figure out the situation.

‘The barrier has been lifted! The barrier has been lifted and the giants are destroying the wall… … !’

As if my prediction was right, the palace soldiers started honking their warning bells loudly and shouting.

“Th-It’s the giants!!”

“Defend the wall!!”

“Don’t fall back!!”

It seemed like Romun sensed the commotion as well.

As he became emotionally agitated, his skills briefly faltered, and I took that opportunity to spread my wings. I

flew up while flapping my wings against the wind with all my might, and was able to escape the tornado.

‘That’s it… … !’

As soon as I escaped the tornado, I landed on the ground and rushed towards Romun.

After that, I unfolded the fourth form of the Moonlight Sword Technique, Quiet Waxing Moon, and slashed Romun’s body several times.

Crunch.

I could clearly feel the flesh being cut from the tip of the sword.

The scales surrounding the dragon’s skin were so hard that I couldn’t cut deeply, but that was enough.

My sword energy, which had taken in magic power and had a disorderly nature, had a special effect attached to it.

“Hmm?”

Romun looked puzzled as the part I had cut shallowly began to slowly decay.

He asked me as he looked at my decaying arm.

“You had this kind of talent?”

“Yes. It was thanks to taking in magic power. It was really hard when I took in magic power—”

After saying that, I swung my sword at Romun’s half-rotted arm.

Normally, it would have left no scratches due to the hard scales, but because the decay was progressing, his arm was easily cut off.

I pointed to the bastard’s severed arm with a nod and reattached the severed waist of his horse.

“Looking at it now, it was worth all the hard work.”

Looking at the bastard’s severed arm, I had a feeling of victory. I

had lost the dimensional prison item, but if I continued fighting like this, I could render him incapacitated.

After that, I could retrieve the prison item, or seal Romun using another sealing item or skill.

So I had a feeling of victory, but Romun looked strangely calm.

I soon learned the reason after listening to the bastard.

“There are many reasons why the Dragon Clan became an object of fear.”

“What?”

The guy showed me his severed arm.

The severed arm twitched strangely, then quickly began to regenerate.

After about 3 seconds, Romun’s arm had become completely normal as if nothing had happened.

The corruption that had been progressing had also been cured.

Romun continued to speak, showing me his arm that had become completely normal.

“This amazing regenerative ability is one of the reasons. Thanks to their great power and this regenerative ability, the dragon tribe could become a target of fear like a natural disaster.”

“… … .”

“Even if you cut them until only a very small piece remains, the dragon tribe will continue to regenerate. They can regenerate even if only a piece of flesh the size of a pinky finger remains.”

If what he said was true, the dragon tribe must have been nearly immortal.

Romun, who was possessed by the dragon tribe’s corpse, could also be considered nearly immortal.

It must have been a hopeless situation, but I decided not to despair.

There was always a hole to pop up.

“Really? Then let’s cut it off until only the size of a little finger remains.”

I said that and took a stance.

This time, I was going to unfold the fourth form of the Moonlight Sword Technique, the quiet crescent moon.

However, unlike before, I concentrated my power on my sword of judgment. Until

it became a thin and sharp blade, not a large sword that could be bent flexibly like usual.

As I concentrated my power on the sword and compressed it, I could feel that it had become much stronger than before.

I held the sword of judgment that had changed into a new form and finally unfolded the fourth form toward Romun.

Crunch.

Unlike before, the sword of judgment, which had become stronger, easily cut Romun’s body apart.

The sword swung at a fast speed.

Romun didn’t make a sound until it dug into his flesh and split his bones.

I focused on the moment when the sword passed over Romun’s body.

I didn’t take my eyes off him until his body was torn in two, then four, then eight more.

I cut him again as if I was in a trance.

Just like I said before, until his body was reduced to a piece of flesh the size of a little finger.

‘This is the end.’

I cut him again with my last blow.

After that, I immediately stepped back and examined him… the chunk of flesh I had cut off.

Because I swung my sword so fast, there wasn’t much change at first.

But after a while.

Whoa!

Blood spurted along the path my sword had swept, and his body was torn to pieces and scattered.

I had finally succeeded in tearing apart that damned tough dragon’s body.

I looked at Romun, who was now unrecognizable, and said,

“Regenerate from that state once. Show me that amazing super regeneration or something.”

There was no answer from the flesh fragments that were once Romun.

I watched the flesh and blood quietly, catching my breath from swinging my sword at superhuman speed.

There was still no sign of regeneration.

No matter how super regenerative ability you have, if you grind it to this fine a size, it still won’t be able to regenerate.

Judging that the guy was dead, I tried to release the Sword of Judgement.

Splash.

That was when the puddle of Romun’s blood began to splash and move.

The puddle that began to splash slowly gathered together and began to take the shape of a person.

‘No way… He’s regenerating even in that state…?’

I unleashed the Fourth Form again before the guy could fully regenerate and chopped up his body.

However—

‘Damn it, it’s still moving…!’

No matter how much I cut, it was useless.

The dragon’s terrible super regenerative ability was moving the blood and flesh as if trying to revive even the already chopped up body.

When I saw the flesh continuing to move even after unfolding the Fourth Form and cutting it off countless times, I was falling into despair.

The clumped together flesh of Romun became a mouth, a tongue, and lungs, and began to spit out words.

“It seems you’ve finally learned that this is useless.”

“… … .”

“I will now teach you how heavy and painful the price of challenging a god is.”

Romun let out such ominous words and activated a skill like before.

It was a skill that formed a powerful whirlwind and attacked the opponent.

However, unlike before, the whirlwinds formed around it now were different in size and number.

I shouted as I looked at the whirlwinds densely formed around it.

“What the… are you thinking of destroying the entire palace?!”

“I’ll gladly do it if I can capture you.”

He didn’t seem to care at all about the people who would get hurt or die from the collapse of the palace.

I had to stop it right away.

However, there was no way to do that, and at that moment, I heard a voice I really missed.

“Your Majesty! We’re here!”

Luciana’s silhouette was visible beyond the ruins of the almost half-collapsed villa.

It wasn’t just Luciana.

Dionique, Elodie, Rubin, Cheonggwang, Dian, Karina, and even Kalocs, who had come to help us as promised, were there.

‘You’re finally here.’

Their faces were so happy that I almost cried.

However, I couldn’t stay intoxicated by that feeling for too long.

The Romun whirlwind was forming right now. I shouted at Luciana.

“The Silent Primordial Forest!!”

As soon as she heard me, Luciana activated her own area skill, the Silent Primordial Forest.

A skill that summons the primordial forest centered around the skill caster, calming everything that enters the area in the tranquility of the forest.

As expected, the forest formed around the skill, and the fierce winds formed by Romun also calmed down.

The fiercely raging tornado soon became a light breeze and dispersed around us.

I then gave them instructions.

“Rubin, Cheonggwang! You guys, find the dimensional prison item that was blown away by the wind! The rest of you should stay here and attack that guy all at once!”

Dionik, who heard my instructions, attacked and restrained Romun, and asked me.

“What next?”

“You have to seal him in the dimensional prison item. But if you can’t find that item—”

I took a deep breath and continued.

“Then I’ll use the ‘Power of Sealing’ to seal him. He has super regenerative abilities. It’s impossible to kill him.”

If I activated the Deification skill, I could borrow Lucid Miller’s power.

The power of sealing was also one of those powers, and if we did it right, we might be able to seal Romun with it.

‘The safest way would be to use the Dimensional Prison item to send him to another dimension… … .’

There was nothing we could do since we had lost the item for now.

Hoping that Cheonggwang and Rubin would safely retrieve the item, we began to indiscriminately attack Romun.