Chapter 138 – 36. Inheritance of Heaven (3)
“······Here is?”
After the light emitted from the Emperor of Heaven’s remaining thoughts had gone, when I opened my eyes, the scenery around me had changed dramatically.
Blinking my eyelids, I slowly looked around. I waved my arms from side to side and tried to stir my feet randomly.
It was a strange feeling.
To walk on clouds.
[It is an ancient world.]
The old man’s deep voice rang in my head. The ghost was nowhere to be found. Iris tilted her head slightly and put on a puzzled expression.
[See below.]
The ground beneath my feet was far away. However, it was not a problem for the holders of the [Heaven] Attribute. We strengthened our eyesight with the Cheonan, which concentrated elemental mana in the eyeball. Then, as the land zoomed in sharply, it came right in front of my eyes in an instant.
The expression that people look like ants came to mind.
There were countless people huddled together and working hard. However, their appearance was very different from the scenery of the ecliptic. It was like a completely different world.
“Primitive man?”
The men hunted the beasts with weapons tied to long wooden poles with pointed stones. The women gathered colorful berries from nearby bushes. All of their clothes are sloppily made of tough grass and leather.
He cut down a thick tree and used it as a pole and covered the ceiling with wide leaves to avoid the wind and rain. Ten of these houses were grouped together to form small tribes.
It was a landscape that can only be seen in the Paleolithic or Neolithic parts of Earth history textbooks.
In the ‘History of Empire’ class, just like the name of the lecture, it only deals with imperial history, so I didn’t know about it.
I thought that this world wasn’t too different from Earth in ancient times.
Suddenly the sky turned red.
Noel was not.
“Keeeeeg
With a terrifying scream, a black monster the size of a hut raided the village.
It didn’t take long to massacre everyone there.
“······.”
Primitive top predators were not humans.
[Those monsters are beings that have invaded from the outer world called ‘Magic Realm’. Unfortunately, since mankind was uncivilized at the time, they began to cover the ground rapidly in a world without predators.]
In a word, it is a foreign species. It seemed like I had read somewhere in a textbook that even in Korea, the destruction of the ecosystem due to the introduction of alien species is a serious environmental problem.
[Therefore, the Heavenly God sent the Heavenly Emperor to the earth.]
On that day, the top of the highest mountain, the center of the continent, was flooded with brilliant sky blue.
A pillar of sky-blue light fell vertically from a huge hole in the middle of the sky.
The monsters who witnessed this ran madly in fear regardless of the distance, the mountain beasts bowed their heads toward the direction in which the absolute being came down, and humans began to hold ancestral rites toward the sky from that day on.
On the day the Heavenly Emperor descended, the history of the disorganized continent was completely changed.
He was the world’s first and strongest attribute awakener,
His appearance was the first historical cataclysm.
[The Heavenly Emperor was a fence that protected humans and a purifying flame that eradicated monsters from the continent. Humans began to gather under the protection of the Heavenly Emperor.]
Tribes scattered across the continent moved toward the same place. Tribes merged into villages, and villages grew into cities. It was a great gathering of mankind, and a change that occurred with the existence of just one person.
Humanity, whose survival rate has increased significantly, has diversified energy that was only devoted to food, clothing, shelter and safety into various fields. They now cooked, designed clothes, built walls, and crafted swords, shields, and arrows. It was the birth of civilization and culture.
As time in the virtual world passed quickly, I was able to observe these aspects more clearly.
Heaven. Under him, people built the first state.
‘It’s amazing.’
His achievements do not end with the modifier ‘first’.
First property. Awakener. Cataclysm. Religion. Country. Civilization.
The scenery on the ground seen from the sky changed explosively every time I blinked. The realm of humans is constantly expanding. The corpses of monsters piled up like a mountain, and black blood flowed like a river.
The Emperor of Heaven was the ruler of the world in name and reality.
‘He’s also my father-in-law.’
I glanced at Iris’ face. How is she feeling now Wouldn’t her father’s feat be more proud than anyone else?
However, Iris’ atmosphere was the exact opposite of what I expected.
Her serpentine pupils glared at the ground.
It looked like he wanted to destroy the people under his feet right away.
[However, the limit soon came.]
The body of the heavenly emperor was one, but as the country grew larger, the circumference of the border to prevent the invasion of monsters became longer. To help him, one of the heavenly limbs, the Celestial Dragon, came down from the sky, but the root cause of the problem could not be solved.
The Celestial Emperor and the Celestial Dragon mated to increase the number of [Heaven] Attributes and laid an egg the size of a person. It was the birth of Iris. There was no love in the process. There was only the divine purpose of adding even a small force to defeat the Demon World.
“…I never thought it would have been like this. Well, if there was love, I wouldn’t have done that… Why didn’t I know…”
Iris muttered grimly, looking down at her parents’ bland sex.
Either that or not, the remaining thoughts of the emperor continued the narration.
[In order to save the world, a more transcendent intervention was required. Thus, the Celestial Emperor and the Celestial Dragon made a decision.]
They headed for the moon that was the closest distance to the divine realm in the sky.
In order for the sky itself, the heavenly god, to intervene in the underworld, it was necessary to pay a price appropriate for it. The Celestial Emperor and the Celestial Dragon built a temple to worship the sky on top of the blue moon and sacrificed themselves.
It was exactly 300 years since the Emperor of Heaven descended to earth.
It was the second cataclysm of the continent.
[As expected, the power of the heavenly gods was great.]
The landscape on the ground changed radically again. Outside the realm of humanity, black monsters that were still crowded floated up into the sky. As if gravity worked in reverse, they were sucked one by one into the intrusion hole of the demon realm stuck in the air.
Like this, it would have been nice if all the monsters returned to their original world and everyone lived happily thanks to the heavenly intervention. If so, the red moon would not have existed until today.
[However, the offering was insufficient.]
Like a giant vacuum cleaner, the power that sucked in the monsters weakened little by little and disappeared at some point. The hole in the demon realm was not closed. Most of the monsters were held in the air, but some remained on the ground.
[The Celestial Emperor and the Celestial Dragon did not sacrifice eggs.]
In the middle of the empty Temple of the Moon, a large egg that had not yet hatched was shaking little by little.
[So, I, the remaining thoughts of the Celestial Emperor and the administrator of the Temple of the Moon, gave the egg the contract of heaven. To uphold the will of the Heavenly Emperor to save the world.]
One, the duty to maintain the Pandemonium Seal.
One, the duty to protect the Temple of the Moon.
One, the duty to bear the blood of Heaven.
Shit, shit…
A small dragon broke the shell of the egg world and came out. Regardless of the species of creature, babies have always been cute. A small lizard that trembles its light blue scales and shakes off liquid.
Half-human, half-dragon Iris.
As soon as she was born into this world, she was bound to a coercive contract without knowing anything about it.
Kkaddeuk·······.
Hearing an unusual sound, I looked to the side and saw that Iris was sharpening her teeth. Her eyes were more terrifying than anything I’d ever seen.
Because of that contract, Iris was left alone on her remote moon for thousands of years. In the overwhelming years that she dared not imagine, she was hit by a dreary and lonely life, and her heart was gradually worn out.
She said that even if she lived, she wasn’t living.
In the end, Iris acted like a machine that simply made the minimum necessary movements. It was an infinite repetition of a routine where she opened her eyes very briefly, took care of only what she needed to do, and immediately went to sleep for a long time. It was practically dead.
Her impoverished life continued until I awakened the [Heaven] Attribute.
Iris silently held my hand. I interlaced her fingers with her. Her desperate feelings were conveyed to me through her palms.
Iris was her only salvation. I had done her a favor that she could never repay in her entire life. When I confirmed this with my own two eyes, I burst out laughing.
‘It’s good…’
No matter how beautiful, charming, and strong Iris was on the outside, on the inside she was nothing short of a psychopath.
It is easy to seduce women who are naturally mentally tough.
Iris had been seduced by me from the start.
She never betrays or distances me.
This truth is so pleasing and satisfying.
[Celestial Dragon, Iris. And Cheonin Cheonren Jung Ji-hu. Now it’s your turn to do your heavenly duty.]
A voice in my head interrupted my appreciation. I slightly frowned.
[After stopping. I will pass on the legacy of the Heavenly Empire to you. Afterwards, immediately mate with Iris and give birth to a child with the [Heaven] Attribute, fulfilling the duty of inheriting Heavenly blood. Afterwards, Jeong Ji-hoo and Iris sacrificed themselves to summon the great power of the heavenly gods to the ground again. This time, we are going to erase the Demon World from this world.]
······What is this bastard talking about now?
I’ll give you strength, so tell me to die for the world?
[Can you?]
The ghost hastened my answer.
